skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a non-sequitur. The (apocryphal, IMO) “centrist” that’s saying everything is “between the two extremes” is not the same thing as someone saying “no, there’s actually more than 2 positions”.

Your statistical example actually takes things the wrong direction. The person you are responding to is positing a distribution with more than two modes, not fewer, and by suggesting there are two your example actually is closer to the “centrist” straw man.
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This is an issue upon which thousands of philosophers and religious figures have written about over the past 3,000+ years. To answer your questions, I'd first start by realizing the possible answers are vastly more complicated than your two options. I suggest a deep study plan of the history of religion and philosophy, including all world traditions (Chinese, Japanese, Indian subcontinent, Islamic, Christian, Western, and so on.)

Personally, I am drawn, in unequal parts, to Wittgenstein/the inherent limits of language, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer's concept of the will, mysticism, and Indian (Hindu, Buddhist, Jain) concepts of the universe. If I tried to answer your question briefly (but again, I don't think it's nearly that simple), I'd say something like: concepts like "exist", "created" and "god" are all wrapped up in language and a human perspective. Logic and mathematics are patterns viewed through human observation, not things-in-themselves. The idea that the universe is explainable via the extremely limited tool of empirical science seems hopelessly naive to me.
> “As Gregor Samsa one morning from restless dreams awoke, found he himself in his bed into an enormous vermin transformed.”

You know, this actually makes sense. I think that after a couple of hundred pages, this would just seem like an easy-to-read, natural alternative word ordering.

Then, if the author started substituting German words here and there, starting with the obvious ones, then ones English words are derived from, and so on... before you know it, you'd be reading German!
Given OP’s reference to anti-union ideology being “inculcated” I was thinking Of authoritative sources. When was the last time you heard an anti union screed from a politician? (Versus anti corporate screeds?)
Cybercriminal Minds: An investigation of cryptocurrency abuses in the Dark Web [pdf]
The use of "clazz" by Java programmers always seemed like a good solution to me.
Most of the time sellers aren't required to honor sales of incorrectly listed items. You would have to check the jurisdiction that this falls under to know for sure. A lawyer could assist with this.

If they notified you of the error, refunded your money then most likely there's nothing you can do. The sale wasn't completed if you never took ownership of the domain. You have no actual loss you just didn't get what you wanted.

If you happen to be able to show that they backed out of the deal because they gained knowledge of what your intended use was then perhaps you have standing, but that's still unlikely.
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We as a concept isn’t terrible. As you mentioned, the flexibility is useful for clients. And bringing some data mining to the table could give them an edge in right sizing their lease footprint, providing the right amenities, and with pricing. But the whole mindset around this specific implementation is hot garbage.
> And indeed, that would appear to be the real moral of this story: Airplane manufacturing is no different from mortgage lending or insulin distribution or make-believe blood analyzing software—another cash cow for the one percent, bound inexorably for the slaughterhouse.

But building airplanes has a far more direct consequence to people's lives then mortgage lending and other "pie in the sky" wallstreet mumbo jumbo.

Not building a proper airplane results in preventable disasters, with a great loss of life and trust as a result.
Are suggesting Musk's invention ideas are stolen?
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> It's not the job of people who are being victimized to make their attackers into better people, and framing it as an issue of effort v laziness is putting the onus firmly on the victims.

Unfortunately it is the job of those sympathetic to a cause to support it, whether they are victimized or not.

It's not "fair" or "right", it's just a reality that causes are advanced by those who care about them. Life is tragic that way.

> Back in 2017, three bystanders tried to intercede with a guy who was screaming racial abuse at two women on public transport, and he stabbed all three intercessors, killing two of them.

If he was ready to stab this woman, it is what it is. The lunatic who did the stabbing didn't get his way for free either. May they rest in peace.

Lunatics are brave and motivated, and heroes must be brave as well. It'd be nice if heroes could be effective and strong as well, but we don't get to choose when life calls upon us.

If that seminal Klansman were a lunatic, Daryl could have died that night. Daryl's a brave man, and that is unfortunately what is called for.
One of the biggest problem with clean power i.e solar and wind is storage. Using excess power to use for carbon capture during low demand could be the way to go. If I recall correctly feeding some types of algae to cattle decreased methane production. So solar power production companies instead of selling excess power power for zero or negative can produce algae to sell as cattle feed which also decreases methane production and decreases the water required to raise cattle and its feed. As clean water is also something people are running out of.
Just a quick note, in such contexts, what is meant actually is a non-deterministic GC.
Isn't this just a quasar, but on a larger scale?
It's a requirement if you do network I/O whether you realize it or not.
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> in the Middle East.

FTFY: in the EU.

Or to be more accurate: in whichever country you reside. Because the VPN is local.
> ORMs in contrast achieve much more proximate goals — they solve a real problem and can measurably reduce the amount of code you have to write.

Why would you optimize for LOC rather than expressing the behavior you want well? In some situations sure—rapid prototyping—but that’s an odd assumption in a general case.
Look at government jobs for this example. Salaries and their limits are public record. The unions can keep them up to market rates.

Unionizing isn’t a thirst that needs to be quenched. It’s simply asking for fair compensation. That’s why the contracts are up after a certain time so everything can be negotiated again.
Early in my career when I encountered outsourcing initiatives I perceived them as management choosing cost over quality. A couple of decades later my view has changed on that mostly thanks to having worked more directly within the management structure of numerous companies (ranging from startup to ConglomCo Megasized).

In most cases those making the decision really believe they can achieve comparable results by outsourcing while also taking advantage of global wage differences and also converting the continual overhead of personnel into just-in-time overhead that only has to be taken on as needed. This is not unlike the devops trend towards using cloud-based infrastructure.

The problem is that the thinking that you achieve comparable results by outsourcing is woefully naive. In-house teams have a vested interest in understanding the business problems as well as filling in the communications gap between what is asked for vs what is actually desired as an outcome. Outsourced contracted labor does not share those same interests.
Additionally, when you outsource technical labor you MUST have the ability internally to create very good designs, specifications, and oversight/feedback mechanisms to ensure that you're getting what you wanted rather than what you asked for via sloppy communication. For those companies that have previously had internal teams and decide to transition to external resources they almost never have someone with that ability and in fact are unaware of the impedance mismatch between their asks and the results delivered by internal teams.

Outsourcing means trading the overhead of personnel costs for the overhead of a much more complex and difficult communications burden. It is extraordinarily rare that the company that opts to transition from internal to outsourced talent has the capability or even awareness of that trade, resulting in predictably poor results.
They are using a wood burning stove which will adequately heat the space. Instead of controlling for a constant temperature like a modern insulated/HVACd house, they heat as needed. Its an older approach but will work perfectly fine. The walls will have zero problem supporting the roof as it is incredibly light compared to modern US roofs.
Of the scales between freedom and security have tipped more to the security side.

In a way, I mourn the lost freedom, but on the other hand, the increasing scale and sophistication of bad actors make me want for more security. Yes, I know about old Ben's "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" but in tech there are amplifying factors that can simply overwhelm even the most staunch defender of liberty. At this point you have to give up most uses of technology that have become socially ingrained, if you want to remain secure, yet have complete freedom about your tech. A lifestyle like RMS does not seem appealing to very many people.

A "caveat emptor" argument simply does not work with tech. No one can fully examine every piece of hardware and software, and determine it's secure, or find trusted and competent sources to vouch for everything with certainty. Even then, eventually tricky issues arise in time where subtle bugs can be exploited. By the time there's something for the emptor to caveat, their data has long still been stolen and compromised.
I guess we can test that. How many USPS developers are open source mavens?

EDIT: Did I misunderstand a joke or something? Doesn't seem like I said anything particularly controversial.
Interrogation is a real thing that works. Scientology e-meter type bs is not.
I think you are oversimplifying. Everything related to health care in the US is more expensive then anywhere else, from personnell to medication and supplies, to equipment. Cost is exaggerated at every step... Unecesary tests and procedures are part of the problem, bet even necessary procedures have costs associated that are inflated.

Yes, some costs come down when insurance actually pays. But this still doesn't bring costs down to amounts that we see in Canada.

More and more no one can pay for healthcare anymore. Perhaps it will cost $3 trillion the first year but costs will drop as prices standardize and we start to see care become predictable. The alternative is prices that continue to rise with more and more bankruptcies and, eventually, more deaths due to lack of care. Even the insured cannot continue to afford these rising costs.

Wealth transfer... from where? The federal budget seems plenty big. $700 billion was transferred to banks staring in 2008, $4.6 trillion was paid out in eight years. I'd prefer a proactive solution, perhaps it will cost less in the end then our current plan to do nothing and fight what little regulation has been put in place.
Unordered would be if cons(a, b) == cons(b, a) which is not the case
Not very dry in my opinion. Good mix of explanations, information, and context.

I’m about 2/3rds through it.
There's also RustPython, a Rust implementation of CPython 3.5+: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20686580

> https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython
That but without using any of the standard libraries. Even RAII can get in the way.
> when you buy software, the contract is that they'll continue allowing you to use it as long as the check clears

Have you ever actually read a proprietary software license?
Technology is also approaching from the opposite side, producing synthetic fuels from captured CO₂ or atmospheric CO₂.
What if the question itself is ill-posed? That's what Late Prof. Adolf Grunbaum argued for:
http://www.stafforini.com/existence/Grunbaum%20-%20Why%20is%...
In my career, I have used Entity Framework, Active Record, Sequelize.js and Hibernate. I haven't had a problem with any of them. Especially not with postgres and mysql. I've worked in teams of 10+ and personal projects that I've completed in a couple of days. My advice is to only use the best of ORM's. I won't use an ORM unless it's at least 5 years old.
Certain individuals may be have been more privileged, in South Africa, during Apartheid, presuming skin colour.

South Africa has not produced a thriving industrial or technological sector, though there have been individual advances in certain areas, notably medicine (heart transplants, yellow fever vaccine), and Mark Shuttleworth's Thawte, which left the country.

Musk would have been 23 at the time of the election of Nelson Mandella. Musk's youth certainly was under an Apartheid regime and would reflect the benefits of being a white male under that system. He'd already left for Canada some five years earlier, which might itself speak to your parent's observations.
It is definitely sometimes the easier route for some people when it comes to getting rich quickly without contributing much to society
Actually you're not.

I would very much prefer a stripped down version of Go used for these situations rather than throwing more C at it. The main benefits of using Go are not the garbage collection, its the tooling, the readability (and thus maintainability) of the code base, the large number of folks who are versatile in using it.
I’m not sure why but programmers like to reject entire languages instead of just rejecting the features they don’t like. A lot of stuff in C++ is entirely avoidable.

Protocol-oriented programming is extremely useful for games and I like Objective-C for that reason. (Objective-C doesn’t meet his mentioned goal of portability but this is an example where C++ could be used to gain “light” inheritance without having to opt in to the rest of the mess that C++ can be.)
Thanks for reading, your feedback, and adding your own experience to this thread!
This guy Galloway also does a podcast with Kara Swisher called Pivot which is mandatory listening. They get silly but still shit on every bad actor in tech so it's super entertaining.
> You don't fix that by giving the management lectures on morality, you fix it by reducing their ability to hide the issues that happens in their organisation so that when lines are crossed the manager can't be confident they can sweep it under the rug.

You also don't fix this by overlooking the fact that all publicly traded organizations are performing for the street, not the customer. How much can we sell them is the mantra now, more so, than ever. Instead of being the best we've decided that lobbying and paying the board/shareholders is the best for everyone. Those people just happen to be the 0.1% as well.
I didn't realise I had 2 entries in the top 20…

My attention tends to navigate towards "Show HN" posts when I'm browsing HN. There's quite a few who actually use Bulma: Divjoy, Sinous, Open-Registry, Pino…

I'm really amazed by those hacking articles, like the retro video game console [1] or sorting 2 metric tons of Lego [2]. I've also come across very useful tools that have saved me lots of trouble, like this automatic subtitle synchronizer [3] or this iTunes replacement [4].

My favourite will still be "Spot the Drowning Child" [5], so incredibly useful.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393279
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14226889
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19248723
[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16559715
[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9962185
Ever since The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track in the World, the view of NYC's unions isn't really that positive. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyre...
Purchasing power parity.
Sorry, but your answer still assumes the existence of a super-natural being (aka God) who doesn't have a causal mechanism. So - if you were to ask God, what is the reason for his existence, or the mechanism for it, what would you ponder the answer would be? Also: Einstein didn't 'ponder' the existence of the 4th dimension - he proved that it exists in a manner in which it was counter intuitive to what we thought it was. There is no 'static' concept of time - it's a relative concept, so the computational mechanics that's being used to create the universe doesn't have a 'highly parallel' processor that Newton thought it had. And from experience: the universe we live in definitely has more than 5 dimensions (there are parallel branches which don't mimic ours). My big questions to you is: what mechanism created God? How do you explain Him?
Strict typing afaik isn't really a formally defined, imo.

As you know C is statically typed and generally said to be "weakly typed" as well but you can make a strong argument that just about any language is "strong" or "weak" -ly typed based on a dozen or so characteristics. I think it makes more sense to treat it as a spectrum where some languages are "stronger" than others. Which is different than in the case of "static typing" which you either have or don't.
But the daughter who wants to marry her boyfriend has no interest in the cause of getting her parents to change their minds - she has an interest in the cause of marrying her boyfriend. It is her job to find the most effective way to do that, which might mean cutting her racist parents out of her life. It is not her job to find the kindest way to do that and put off her marriage possibly indefinitely.

It's not fair or right either. Life is tragic that way. Sometimes your kids find no need to empathize with you.
"For the last time". Right.

A quick google search shows plenty of news outlets running articles about how you should learn to code.

It's not a dumb myth, it's dumb reporting.
The popular interpretation is that Apple arrived at most of its ideas from Xerox PARC's Alto computer through an on-site visit by Jobs:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2017/01/15/steve-jobs-...
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Bank loans are not that different from bonds, yes you are selling debt to the bank who is buying it. Debt is an asset that is bought and sold around the world just like stocks or magic cards.

Most loans are then immediately resold by your bank to some other bank, unless you're at a tiny credit union it's unlikely the bank will keep that debt asset on their books.
Would he be morally wrong to do so?

What does this say about doing business with firms of low moral standards?
> I always find this an odd thing to say... as if corporations and states have less corruption...

If there are two corrupt things, why add a third one to increase the misery?
I'm curious, which case are you referring to?
Rust performance is pretty much in terms of C/C++ performance but promises stability in regards to memory management due to the borrow checker. Rust is very impressive on its own. If you havent taken the time to research Rust because "its yet another language" you really ought to honestly.
C++ is not a superset of C. There is valid C code not compilable with C++ compiler.
Most people don't have a public perception to need to influence at all, so I don't think it's a fair comparison or criticism. I'm sure if you were a public figure you'd spend a minimum of effort to make sure you were perceived as you thought you should be.
If prices dropped so my loan was 100% or 110% of the value, I’d try to get back to a reasonable level (85% say) as quickly as possible. This would require saving more and spending less than I’d otherwise do.

Even if I have no plans on selling, you never know when you might be forced to sell (death, divorce, illness, work, ...).
Could this be solved by some sort of cuckoo hashing?
My guess is cost would be the biggest factor. Materials and construction methods in a tiny/pre-fab home are on a different level.
Everyone bases all their valuations on something that can be devalued or manipulated at will, and only isn't because "smart" people are in charge.

If anything we know that we can't rely on good governance, not just from the appalling current administration but the forty years of pro-rich economics that have exacerbated our descent into indolent oligarchy.

Therefore our currency is based in an assumption of confidence and ability of the adults in charge. Which we in w to be utterly bankrupt.

Your definition of abstract value applies to the concept of currency.

Fiat currency is an abstraction of the abstract... That relies on people's visceral sensation of the utility of money in the current moment to serve as the only tangible aspect, and substitute for any real value.

Which we know is an illusion, based on a declaration. A "Fiat".

My issues with currency are very very deep. Money exists in the modern world where billion year evosystem destruction is converted to short lived production and temporary utility .. with the imbalance of wealth it is even more vapid and shallow.. And money is the laundering mechanism along with "limited liability" to enable this mass sociopathy.

That it doesn't even represent anything in reality is the icing on the turd cake.

At least the remnants of previous empires have their idols of gold. Ours will just be bits on a flash drive.
Yeah, my point is that this isn't actually a rational way to think. That is what the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" concept is about. For the vast majority of those people, it isn't temporary at all.
And at the same time, I've heard people say "when it compiles, it works" about much weaker type systems, like Go's. It just seems to mean "this language catches more errors at compile time than the previous language I used."
Race is self-reported. So if people answer honestly, the form records their own opinion about their own race. The categories on forms have been built up over time by finding commonalities in what people report.
If anyone has read a critical piece of work on what constraints in Germany allowed unions and companies to co-evolve instead of adopt the adversarial position that characterizes the American interactions, please share.

There is something categorically different and I'm not sure how that came to be.

Edit: I'm rate limited for comments. Thank you, my dude, for the recommendation.
I back up the previous hints for Designing data intensive applications and Database internals. I would suggest also to look at Jepsen tests, https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen, and Adrian Colyer's blog, https://blog.acolyer.org/
Yeah, I was on vacation recently and didn’t have my pihole. It was also eye opening for me too.

Before my next trip I want to get a VPN configured so that when I am remote I can 1, access my home network/lab and 2. Take advantage of pihole (not to mention encrypting my traffic)
>I would argue that the mba program is basically irrelevant.

It is definitely relevant. The programs will pump students full of notions of "corporate social responsibility", right before they send them off to consulting gigs for the summer where short-termism is how you get the offer. It's a self reinforcing system. It would maybe be different if MBA programs weren't a cash cow for universities (especially universities that cater to international students), and instead were essentially apprenticeships at the companies themselves. I agree with the general sentiment of your comment, but I'm not ready to forgive the MBA programs' part in this.
Yes, every time this is mentioned someone comes up with some through-the-eye way of "how this is actually very brilliant and you are too stupid to see it".

And then another leak happens, and there they are, the gaudy PowerPoint slides, the shitty Java enterprise software, the scuffed up abominations of open source tools, none of the supposed magic is anywhere to be found.

No, I'm sure the real magic is just really well hidden!
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Yes. It is the language of Kubernetes.

And Kubernetes is the new OS.