skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the least fashionable prediction is just completely false. No one is using less stuff. The book he cites just notes that that less stuff is being consumed by manufacturing within the borders of the continental United States of America, while ignoring the fact that all the manufacturing for Americans has moved to other countries. It's a completely bogus argument in the book, being repurposed as a completely bogus argument on this webpage. Just pure fiction.

We are using natural resources at a rate which is constantly increasing, and the rate of increase is increasing as well.
And with devices continually on the Internet, new security threats require constant updates for many apps. "back in the old days" with effectively everything air-gapped for the most part, running the same software version for years was more viable.
A recent paper finds that The Flynn effect for fluid IQ may not generalize to all ages or ability levels: A
population-based study of 10,000 US adolescents https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2019-platt.pdf . "IQs decreased 4.9 points for those with IQ ≤ 70 (95% CI = −4.9, −4.8), but increased 3.5 points among those with IQ ≥ 130
(95% CI = 3.4, 3.6)."
That may be the case, but in practice i can go into a real,- and drop anything there.

edit: same for the Rewe's i know.
edit: err, and Kaufland.
I'm not sure I've ever seen A/B testing in web articles that wasn't a case of A being an accurate headline and B being the most outrageous thing you could possibly title it without outright lying, and B always wins.
Democracy as it is designed in America doesn’t express the will of the majority, partially it was designed that way by the Constitution and partially because of corruption of the process via voter suppression and gerrymandering.

Because the states with the smallest population have two Senators just like the most populous states and the electoral college. People in the Midwest have far more voting power federally than someone in California.

It’s been shown time and time again in American politics that people will vote against their interest as long as the politicians can scare them with whatever the boogie man of the day is.

As much as it pains me to suggest this, the only answer is more states rights and taking power and funding out of the hands of the federal government and let the free market decide by having states compete with each other about what type of state they want. Yes, I’m acutely aware of what “states rights” means in the south. My (Black) parents grew up in the segregated south. If the federal government wasn’t “subsidizing” the same states that vote against “socialism” they would have to have more economically (not politically) progressive policies.
Your implementation is missing features like capture-based substitions

// Remove repeated characters
'foobar'.replace(/(.)\1+/g, '$1')
"fobar"

and overriding behaviour with Symbol.replace
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You should look at the data and not invent some silly comparisons to error rates. Poverty is declining both in absolute and relative terms.

There is less poor people now than there was 10 years ago.

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
What kind of power is exactly being denied and to whom?

Who says what changes are needed and when?
This is nonsense. You can already do that via libraries. The choice of RPC vs local procedure calls has no effect on scaling development.

IMO the only reason to use micro-services is the one they mentioned - you can have different parts of your system running on different machines so they can be spun up independently. But I think most people aren't "web scale" enough to need that anyway.
Alright. I’m sorry for my dumb question. Let me try another one.

What’s the ideal rate then at what temperatures should change?

What is “slow enough”?
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Earth is just a ball of rock hurtling through space. Earth is going to be okay at any temperature because it doesn't even make sense for a ball of rock hurtling through space to not be okay. It's not Earth we have to worry about, it's humans.

1. We know is that there's a range of temperatures where humans have thrived for hundreds of thousands of years, and life has thrived for millions of years.

2. We also know that there's a range of temperatures where it will be too hot for humans to survive.

3. We also know that global temperature is changing from the former to the latter.

Given these three facts I don't think we need to know what the ideal temperature of the earth is to be concerned.
I broadly agree with Ridley, Pinker, et al, that material conditions, education, crime reduction, and various other aspects of life have been improving lately.

I would also agree that economic growth and energy usage aren't inherently bad; these are only problematic at our current level of technology. And we're going to need a lot more of both in order to tackle future existential problems among other things.

However one aspect of well-being which isn't always included in these treatments is that of 'mental health' or the state of our 'souls' as it used to be thought of. Both concepts are vague but they do point to something real and profoundly important. So here's an unrhetorical question: are we getting better or worse in this respect, on average? Or is it simply impossible to measure at our present inadequate level of understanding?
Yes! That's it. I only read the first few chapters because my friend loved it and I gave it to him. However I loved those first few chapters
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Or my two unemployed Facebook friends that spend every waking hour on their endless political crusade. I want to shake them and tell them: maybe your world view is tainted by your local environment. It's convenient to attack political leaders for your problems, but maybe you need to spend all that time and energy focusing on finding an income instead of adding another useless voice to the chorus.
I read the implicit claim to be that technological innovation has fairly rapidly mitigated it’s own problems.

What I think the author misses is the interplay between pessimists identifying problems and innovators creating solutions. A voice identifying a severe problem is important, but do is the own saying “we got this, let’s fix it.”
Sorry, but all those are buzzwords.

In C/C++, I can do live debugging, reverse-time debugging, edit-and-continue debugging, multi-device debugging, multi-threading debugging... We also got language servers, on the fly retesting and recompiling, all kinds of profiling... All that with free or open tools readily available, not to mention paid, proprietary ones.

In higher-level languages, fancy features are even more prevalent.

So, what are we missing exactly from Smalltalk?
As someone who is familiar with BA IT operations but not connected to B2B/C in any function I can say what a shitshow from experience. Engineering has put up a decent firewall to keep the MBAs from mucking it up. But shit rolls downhill and it’s only a matter of time.

Hopefully the Boeing fiasco is causing other engineering lead companies to refocus their priorities.
1Password actually does still offer standalone licenses, but they don’t advertise them so it’s hard to find.

If you download the app from their website (not the Mac App Store), then there’s an option in the app to buy a standalone license.

I think this points to another factor (besides the cost of running servers) in why so many apps are moving to subscriptions instead of the old purchase-outright-and-pay-for-upgrades model: the iOS and Mac app stores have never supported that model. There’s no way to offer a discount to customers that are upgrading from a previous version.
It's a very boring technique really in hindsight. I guess one is really at the top 1% when you work at a high scale company and you see techniques that question the assumptions one holds. Databases like MySQL, as you pointed out, are embracing this technique, but make the inner data indexable.

Also https://www.skeema.io/ looks like a good product that I'll have to checkout. Looks like a better product so far compared to solutions like flyway/liquibase. Full featured suite for DB migration from dev -> prod is exactly what I've been raving about. Like it is "boring" tech as in no one really wants to touch it, but it is the easiest to screw up and products like this really take it to the next level.

The responses I've seen in this post appear to be from people who've never used dynamic fields in a db and advise against it by saying it is an anti pattern. If it is an anti-pattern, bring on all the anti patterns as I'd like to not wake up at night or be pinged for slowness.
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> deadly and a consistent drag on economic growth

It seems to depend very much on where you are:

https://web.stanford.edu/~mburke/climate/map.php
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33133712 has a pretty good discussion of this question.
I’m just trying to learn here.

If we need to fix something I have learned we need to know what “broken” looks like as well as “fixed”.

What are these numbers?
There is no mandate for pop ups on any site. Blame the content providers who are doing it wrong.
Last I checked crop yields and global food production is going up, not down.
That can't possibly be true, not while Trump is president.
BBC could restrict journalists’ use of Twitter
I agree. I think we often get too focused on the small details of life and forget the big picture. And by we I mean me as well thank you for your words
How would we measure that?
I agree with the need for 'safe' social places like to be built.

But since the entire system is based upon lists and lists of email addresses, there REALLY needs to be a Ts & Cs and Privacy Policy in place here.

I'm assuming this is a one-man-band (Jayme?) behind this which I also commend, but if you don't add those things and also some background info about who's behind it (and how safe are all those email addresses) it's going to have a hard time winning trust.

(And yes, though I can kind of see where he's coming from, 'RSS' in the title title is misleading. Rather like Spotify calling a 'talkie' audio file a 'podcast'. It simply (and really) isn't.))
Literally everything about this post isn't just wrong, it's like 180 degrees away from the truth.

Far from 'outsized amount of hand-wringing over the fate of rural America' the truth is rural America has been somewhere between ignored to outright attacked for the past 50 years. 99.9% of social justice efforts have been focused on the inner-city, targeting the problems of poverty, crime, drugs, discrimination facing those group while completely ignoring the poverty, discrimination and drug abuse of rural America until we realized the rural opioid epidemic is worse today than the urban crack epidemic of the 80s.

Far from being a result of deregulation, our economy is so over-regulated that only the mega-corps with armies of staff dedicated to compliance can stay in business, pushing all the smaller competition out of the market.

A more accurate summary would be: "After 50 years of regulation consolidating power in a handful of urban areas, while only providing social services and affirmative action for the urban poor, the people who live outside of those areas have suffered on both ends of the spectrum"
We also passed 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere. Best decade ever for sealing peoplekind's fate.
What you've just written could be seen as an incredible vindication of the 3 page manual, given what happened to Kodak.
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A proxy means you’re MITM your own connection (debug mode is also an issue but not as simple to take advantage of).
Just one click to the author's name reveals these titles:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/author/matt-ridley/

>The most dangerous thing about the Amazon fires is the apocalyptic rhetoric

>Ignore the global warming hysteria: hurricanes are not getting worse

>The eradication of South Georgia’s rats proves we can do anything

>Wind turbines are neither clean nor green and they provide zero global energy

>The world is getting greener. Why does no one want to know?

And my personal favorite:

>How hunting and shooting help wildlife – and not just in Africa

Bloody brilliant, let me tell you.
Are you trying to build a backtesting framework?

I've come up with a solution specifically for pandas dataframes. Not sure how similar a solution would be for your use case.
Damn OS for iOS and Android
> Maybe programmers won’t be paid like doctors anymore

Quite a few doctors would sign on the spot for that.
Seems like they should mention how the global debt crisis is going to be resolved, if everything is really so great.

The "roaring 20s" preceded the great depression. And then a world war.
Since they aren't good things they don't belong on the list.
How do we measure that?
I'm pretty happy running the software on my own, bought and paid for hardware.
The rise and fall of the claustrum epitomizes the hunt for consciousness
>What kind of power is exactly being denied and to whom?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/what-is-gerrymandering...

>Who says what changes are needed and when?

this is a completely disingenuous question (both are really) since we all here are aware of climate change abatement recommendations
We've used up our budget of CO2 we can add to the atmosphere without major consequences. Anything we add from here on out is CO2 we have to recapture and put back, or live with even more expensive consequences.

Water is more of a local problem. Desalination is getting cheaper, but any region that just drains their aquifers without transitioning to either a sustainable amount of water use or a sustainable water source will be in for a lot of pain.

Our consumption of metals is honestly fine. Most are easy to recycle, and it looks like we will figure out asteroid mining before we come close to running out of anything.

Oil will take care of itself through economics as long as we figure out how to (re)capture the released CO2.
> I like positivism.

Not disagreeing with your main point, but positivism doesn't mean what you think it does (you wanted "positivity" instead.)

noun: positivism

1. a philosophical system that holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof, and that therefore rejects metaphysics and theism.
a humanistic religious system founded on positivism.
another term for logical positivism.

2. the theory that laws are to be understood as social rules, valid because they are enacted by authority or derive logically from existing decisions, and that ideal or moral considerations (e.g., that a rule is unjust) should not limit the scope or operation of the law.
Power isn't denied, authority is.

They are denied authority on public media platforms.
That is my theory as well.

It sometimes suggests a route I don't normally take, then when I continue on the route I normally take, the ETA updates to say I will now arrive sooner.

Google Maps intentionally suggests to take longer routes.
There is an interesting phenomenon happening here on hacker news.

Optimistic comments are being voted down by the moderators (who have a high enough ranking to do so). Yet, this article has been pushed to the top by regular members.

The messages within the down-voted comments aren't breaking any of the community rules. So the down-voting is happening because of a political disagreement. The moderators are intolerant of an opposing view and rather than engage in open debate; they instead wink the things they disagree with, out of the conversation entirely.
A shop belonging to a big electronics chain registered me as a member without my consent.

After I contacted the chain about it, within a few days my information had been erased and they said the clerk did not act appropriately and they'd also contact the shop in question to make sure this is not repeated.

It's a long story, but when purchasing, the payment terminal asks "Member?". If you answer in the affirmative, apparently somehow one becomes a member. In this case, the clerk reached out from behind the counter and pressed the button on my behalf while I was busy putting my card away. The receipt had the text "member" with a membership number and so on.

In retrospect I suspected that the clerk's KPI contains the number of new members. Most people probably won't care enough to raise noise about it.

Before GDPR, and actually before the improved EU privacy laws in general, say, 20 years ago, fixing this would have likely involved navigating some sort of swamp of dark patterns with several phonecalls and tons of queueing, with a long lead time for the removal and so on.
> Yes, i think they are at this point. "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is the dominant ideology. The world's most expensive, desireable cities are also the most surveilled. This might be taken as a sign of democracies sliding into illiberalism, as has happened many times in the past.

How is that a response to my suspicion that people don't understand the risks of authoritarianism? You are just repeating that people do not object to living under surveillance, which is exactly what I said, while you are not responding at all to me pointing out that that may well be because they don't understand what is happening, rather than because they understand what is coming and are fine with it.

> Ostensibly, democracies help to avoid fascism and complete concentration of power , but democracy itself is not enough to guarantee freedom. Democracies have voted in the world's worst fascists.

How is that a response to authoritarianism not being compatible with democracy? It's like if I said that fire is not compatible with structural integritry, and you are countering that many a structurally sound building has burned down. Yeah, they have, and I very much doubt many of them were structurally sound afterwards.
Throughoutly enjoyed it. Thanks for the good work.
https://github.com/robpike/filter
“held to account”

“$83,000”

Choose one. That’s not punishment, that’s a pat on the back.
http://www.coml.org/comlfiles/press/CoML_Beyond_Sunlight_11....
It's the path of least resistance. I used to write one blog post per day, but when I switched to a static site generator I only write one blog post per month. The difference was that before I went to my web site, then wrote the content in a plain textarea. Or sometimes I wrote it in a text editor and copy/pasted it into the text area. Now I have 1) open the CMS 2) Create a new page 3) Fill in some meta-data like title, date and description 4) Write the blog post. Before all blog post was on one long page. Now it's one blog per page. So before I was OK with writing a very short message.
Not on my PC running Chrome you haven't either
"The bottom line: Per the Washington Post, California's homeless issue is related to soaring housing costs, mental health and substance abuse issues and "legal hurdles to getting people off the streets — all issues that could complicate federal officials’ ideas to stage an intervention."

It would seem that in many cases mental health and substance abuse problems are a more significant factor. People of sound mind typically do not find themselves out on the streets long term because their rent went up.
> What’s inherently bad with differences between poor and rich people?

This is not the argument. Concern rests on the size of the gap, rather than the fact of differences. Greater inequality is associated with many negative properties, such as decreased social trust, declining mortality rates, political instability, etc.

> The poorest people in the planet today have access to more resources than the greatest king had 500 hundred years ago.

Is the new bar going to be 500 years ago?

> Are you saying you would like all of us to be equally poor?

...What?

> To me this sounds more like jealousy and virtue signaling than anything else.

Are you suggesting that a concern for mounting inequality is a form of jealousy? And to the extent that what you say about signaling is true, I'd take a whole heaping pile of "virtue signaling" over bad faith reactionary arguments to very real and very dangerous social problems.
How to cut homelessness in the world's priciest cities
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You're playing a silly game by trying to make me state there is some "ideal" way the world "should" work, since everyone here knows the world isn't designed for anything. I can just as well demand you tell me what the ideal rate of change in temperature is. Note that you can't dodge that with "whatever the rate of temperature change would be if we enacted no policies", because there's no particular reason to think that whatever that exact amount is isn't too high (or too low!).

The point is that current levels of climate emissions are much costlier and deadlier than a world where (good) policies have been enacted to decrease the flow of carbon into the atmosphere.

Just to throw it out there, though, I'd suggest a guaranteed change of 2F/century would be greeted with an instant acceptance and sigh of relief by everyone.
American democracy has it's flaws but at least it's protecting rights for free speech. I'd happily live in a state with free speech rather than some 1984 nation with slightly fair representation of votes.

Basic rights are order of magnitude more important than everything else. Good luck supporting candidates you like when you're censored.
> I thought the problem is just that it isn't proven that neural nets are sufficiently smooth.

I think this is exactly what the GP was trying to say (at least, this is what I understand from it). The continuity bit is about the (non ML) controller, not about the neural network.

Nearly all neural networks generate continuous output. They do interpolate between their learned points. The problem is that it is very hard to verify (and impossible to predict) the interpolation function, so it may cross outside of the safety area on any point.
I'm saying that we don't need to know what those numbers are to know there's a problem.

You're asking leading questions which contain a lot of presuppositions, and you're ignoring my post in which I specifically reject those presuppositions, which makes it hard for me to believe that you're just trying to learn.
We have very little understanding of the range of temperatures that are "fixed". We know for sure that at pre-industrial levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and at that temperature, the complex ecological systems of the world were more or less sustainably living.
many times slower than it is now. The answer is of little relevancy because every single plan we have for reducing this rate either doesn't reduce it enough or only barely does so.
First off, you’re wrong. “The poorest people on the planet” in no way have access to “more resources than the greatest king had 500 years ago”. It’s self-evidently nonsense.

Second, massive inequality between rich and poor is a signal that something has gone horribly wrong with the distribution of wealth generated by society. That does not mean that “all of us need to be poor”. It does indicate that the rewards of civilisation have been unevenly distributed.