skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep a copy of some very old code, from 15ish years ago, and I've peeked into it a few times in recent years when facing similar problems to what I've solved there, only to be horrified by what a pile of garbage that was. So there's also a fun element in that - seeing how far I've come. It's a good laugh.

I have a bunch of open source projects from more recent years up on Github that I look at once in a while when I'm looking for a solution for something, and they tend to be less piles of shit. BTW my biggest project open source project has been taken over by a whole team after I've left it, and I can't recognize most of the code now, that's a really weird bittersweet feeling.
True but the list of reasons that allow you to fire someone without paying unemployment is limited.

They're trying to avoid paying out unemployment by saying he failed to show up for a shift but even sans-COVID firing after one absence is abnormal.
The whole framing of this is part of why there's so much division in this country and, well, why so many people believe in conspiracy theories.

Try this:

"The marginalized, lonely, isolated, and disadvantaged are more likely to distrust established institutions, making them more likely to believe allegations of wrongdoing by those institutions even if those allegations are unfounded."
Was it? It reads about the same as the Bay Area's, possibly even a bit looser.
Do you have any evidence to back up these statements?
Is it better to be a private or public company?
> Yet unfair policing also drives racism, because it tends to perpetuate among white society an image of minority communities as hotbeds of chaos barely kept in check by a "thin blue wall".

This makes it sound as though the relative prevalence of (especially violent) crime in American minority communities as compared to white communities exists only in the white imagination. Like it's some really simple problem but for those dastardly racist whites. I'm sure that's not what you mean (it's certainly an uncharitable interpretation), so I want to disambiguate.

Of course it's much more complicated than that--there's a lot of variety in violent crime levels across different racial and ethnic communities. There are a lot of (both racist and non-racist) theories for explaining this (genes, variations in socioeconomic status, etc), but it's not just a figment of the white imagination.

One such popular and generally credible theory (or rather, set of theories) suggest that the American policing model indirectly causes violent crime in minority communities. This is probably what you're suggesting (or if your post is a motte and bailey argument, then this theory is the motte). It's a genuinely interesting line of inquiry, so we should talk about it plainly and dispense with the ambiguous language suggestive of some racist plot (and for those who do favor "racist plot" theories, then I would rather we talk about those unambiguously as well).
take a screenshot of facebook - it's a website.
Do you have any actual evidence that addicts engage in a disproportionate number of thefts and assaults?

And whether the number of thefts and assaults they engage in is all that significant.

Finally, I'm pretty sure moral compass has little to do with whether addicts engage in theft and assault.
I prefer form to follow function. Make it as pretty as you can, but not at the expense of the function.
My thoughts immediately went to data from star trek.
What's to stop an adversary from modifying the page in-transit to load malicious javascript?
We traded it for guns, religion & tax relief.
Not even stealing some data is needed. Just sharing publicly some data, may leak information that can be used against you. Bots do build profiles and will happily ingest any information you give.

If your top ten "most interesting Slate Star Codex" contains certain keywords, they will flag you in their database.

>Can you elaborate on some specific examples?

-People having sport injury from those sport performance training app. Their knowing of their data made them push-themselves past their limits.

-Little kids getting bad marks, and assuming they are just bad and not persevering. Their knowing made thing worse.

-Hypochondriacs becoming ill from the stress of all the illnesses they think they have.

-People doing weight loss badly focusing too much on the scale.

-Musk tweets :)

-People censoring themselves from knowing that having an unpopular position will cost them karma points.

As soon as you make a system self reflective, you impact it in profound ways. You generate some reinforcing feedback loops. That tend to either break the stability resulting in chaos, or tend to lock it into a specific behavior from which it's hard to escape.
What kind of drug crime are you referring to? If it entails dealing of drugs than I don't think ending the war on drugs will have a net effect. (Not that I don't think we shouldn't) Drugs are a lucrative business when made illegal, this can be seen a quick way to combat ones economic situation (created by major/historic societal imbalances). Legalize drugs and drugs would certainly not be the lucrative business, but something else criminal would take its place. IMO dealing with the economic imbalance is the priority, decriminalizing drugs only helps eliminate a portion of the chicken/egg variables.

As an aside, even with decriminalized drug usage/possession there would still be laws against illegal manufacturing, distribution and tax avoidance.
Big +1.

I would be really interested to find one, only ONE, website where React/Angular was really bringing a better experience and better final product than a standard pure JS with simple Ajax system.
Nothing stopping you from firing someone for being black, then claiming you rolled a dice, however.
Which professional published best case death estimate did we not beat? I am not aware of one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23028036
> Which is way too unstable,

ASP.NET Core 2.1 is the LTS release of ASP.NET Core 2, which was released in 2017. I fail to see how a first class framework with a LTS that was released years ago can be described with a straight face as "way too unstable".

> Getting those places to upgrade to stable supported versions of the framework has always been a battle

ASP.NET Core 2 is stable since at least 2 or 3 years ago, depending on how you decide to count.

> This is why so many companies stick with their ancient COBOL systems, most modern alternatives don't offer the stability they need.

This assertion is simply wrong at so many levels. Don't confuse "why waste money maintaining working software" linesof reasoning as a sign of respect for stability.

More importantly, it's disingenuous to even think of the technical debt that keeps cobol on the map as relevant to the world of web services.
Stealing data about the users as accurately as possible requires more code than one would think.
Having spent a few years inside of Intel, it's a company paralyzed by meetings and meetings about meetings. People seem to be afraid to make any decisions so they have meetings to talk about the decisions that need to be made and then schedule more meetings to follow up. Working there felt like swimming in molasses. People who come into the company with any experience realize that it's a mess, try to change things in their area, meet resistance and after a while just give up and leave. That's probably why they mostly hire NCGs at this point.
Fascinating that Memory tracking models seem to be organized in hierarchical structures that can be represented in tree-like forms. Reminds me of Helical models discovered in the early 70's for DNA strata
How much of current drug arrests are related to addicts looking for a fix?

Spoiler alert, it's a tiny fraction.

Theft and assault should still be crimes. Usage should not be criminalized. Trafficking should be replaced with regulated commerce.
> Police are civilians.

Well the police certainly aren't (or shouldn't be) military, if that's what you mean. But there certainly should be a distinction made between the police and a random guy with a gun who thinks the black dude that just jogged by is the thief they've been looking for.
I would like to see the 4th dimension projected into 3d and not just a slide, same as you could project the 3d into 2d, by showing further objects smaller and closer objects bigger.
Does anyone have a good recommendation for resources to learn a bit about computer vision? I don't want to go too in depth, but I'd like to learn the basics.
With a standard 4G/FTTH connection that's less than one second of download time.
I agree, React/Angular front ends always seem slow and clunky to me.
> The role of government is to protect the weak from the strong

The role of government is to maintain the social order, the basic social relations w.r.t. ownership of property, particularly capital like land, production facilities, access to natural resources etc.

This means mostly protecting the interests of the strong few against the weak many. In some cases of misconduct by powerful individuals or companies - outside the bounds of the acceptable and resulting in potential jeopardy of the social order - it may protect the weak against the powerful as well.
With all due respect, that theory is divorced from reality.

In practice, police consistently abuse power with little consequence. If doubtful, review what happens with most of the cases when ethnic minorities are killed, harassed, and abused by cops over the past several decades. [ the perpetrators getting a slap on the wrist ]

A cop can shoot and kill you, say they were "afraid for their life" and walk away.

Warning, disturbing content:
(See: https://youtu.be/n1pJe_Tcdeg and many other deaths).

Police can steal your possessions under the umbrella of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_Unit... with minimal recourse.

I like to believe you when you say police are civilians, but let's call a spade a spade. They sure act above the law civilians have to follow (hint: because they are.)

> EDIT: to be clear, I am encouraging a distinction between civilians (like you, or I, or police officers) and the military who are governed by their own code of justice and held to a different standard of law and order.

The police are held to a different standard of law and order. Do you truly believe otherwise in the United States of America?
I feel like the assumption that everyone is guilty just puts everyone on par with the guilty so before proven innocent ... why bother?

It seems like the net effect would be to just provide cover for all actual offenders making them equal with everyone.
The problem is that too many of us do things with a marginal utility near 0 which are bad for the environment just to buy food, pay debts and pay landlords.

The solution is obvious. Do nothing. Just do nothing (obviously you can read, ride a bike, write poesy and so on...).

States should pay people to do nothing rather than destroying the world.
If unrestrictive compile time GC is possible, couldn't this be retrofitted into JITs for JavaScript, Java, .NET, WASM, etc.? Isn't this just another way of implementing GC?
Hey,

It depends a little bit on what you mean historical.

I am a great fan of Dan Carlin, who has a vibrant way to narrate history. His podcasts are the best but he also has books. I loved this one : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49947205-the-end-is-alwa...

I try to read a book about all major powers from a few centuries back. The last one I read was about Hamilton (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130.Alexander_Hamilton), which for non-americans is maybe less known than say lincoln.
Napoleon (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25637528-napoleon) or Churchill are other nice examples, because those are usually much more complex than history remembers them for :).

I'd love you to answer your own thread if you have suggestions, I'm searching for new ideas as well!
It could take much longer. Ping between US and EU is ~100-150ms. If TLS is an old one with 3 round trips it is a full second.
Indeed.

Today abstraction is no longer that of the map,
the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation
is no longer that of a territory, a referential being
or substance. It is the generation by models of a real
without origin or reality: A hyperreal[1]. The territory
no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it.
*It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory—
precession of simulacra—that engenders the territory.*

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality
Fascism is the cloak used to conceal the dagger of ethnonationalism. To quote a memorable video introducing extremist ideologies by explaining what life in those societies is like [0], "In the fascist village, the village itself looks really bad. The villagers themselves are doing pretty bad. But at least they all know they're not one of those other types of villagers." It doesn't matter whether races exist; they will invent races, and then use racism to justify hatred and oppression.

You are thinking of fascist corporatism [1], indeed a much more pointed critique of the USA's political practice than traditional fascism. But also, "traditional fascism" goes only back as far as Fascist Italy, which practiced corporatism, so perhaps all fascism is corporatist.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymg5FsruGEk

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism#Fascist_corporatis...
> JavaScript Bytes Served to Desktop Devices, by Percentile

Is this gzipped or uncompressed bytes?

Article doesn't specify, but based on the word "Served", I'd assume gzipped? As in bytes over the wire? Would love clarification.
better experience for who? For the developer it's a way better experience. For the consumer it often isn't because of inefficient bloat, but if effort is put into packaging it sensibly it can be better thanks to build pipelines/optimizations. In my experience, there's a lot of apps that would have never gotten written in the first place without the boost from React/Angular/etc. It simply takes way longer (which means also more expensive) to use "pure javascript and ajax."
agreed, it's been hard having discerning discussions about this disease. the tide has been turning though in the last few weeks as the hysteria wanes.
Before the model 3 neither did Tesla. The main difference is that Tesla motors are water cooled so can dissipate heat more easily.
No one thinks that.
A single ping to the other side of the earth takes a theoretical minimum of 133ms, and more realistically about 300ms. An SSL handshake has to exchange data twice (thrice?), so even without processing delays at all we easily get a third of a second or longer if you're far enough away.

That said, SSL is useful on read-only documents: it provides integrity. Without SSL anyone between your server and the end user can just change the page content, whether that's for misinformation, false-flag-attacks, inserting malware, scanning for censored content (which is known to happen) or for inserting ads (which also happens).
> you are handling it carelessly

From the post:

> Everything is local first, the input data is on your filesystem. If you're truly paranoid, you can even wrap it in a Docker container.

> There is still a question of whether you trust yourself at even keeping all the data on your disk, but it is out of the scope of this post.

> If you'd rather keep some code private too, it's also trivial to achieve with a private subpackage.

This seems as safe, if not safer, than the average service where a rogue employee can read/write to your data with little to no visibility.

> You are just making it easier for some people siphon other's people data even more.

The data is already being siphoned off of them -- usually through vague legal agreements and opaque security infrastructure they can't audit.

At least with this model, a user can see the whole scope of data a service is collecting and act accordingly: whether by limiting the data collection as needed or by switching to another service.
It's Facebook's own standard: "We knew we wanted Facebook.com to start up fast, respond fast, and provide a highly interactive experience.". The person you're responding to is saying they haven't met their own metrics for success based on their experience. You can't really attribute this "preference" solely to them.
Intent to Experiment: Cookie Store API – Google Groups
Oragono – A modern IRC server written in Go with IRCv3 support
What makes you think React/Angular are products to increase user experience? Of course you won't find that, they are tools for developers to streamline development and make maintenance easier. Have you worked on a platform that uses nothing but pure JS and fetch calls? I have, and there's no way to make sense of a project that has to deal with so many things.
Not the US but my daughter needed her wisdom teeth removed in hospital and since there was a co-pay involved I got a quote from him upfront.

Obviously it won't work for non-elective surgery.
I keep my social media accounts only as utilities with reddit the only exception. I've found Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, and now HN to be awesome communities of people smarter than me and actually building stuff. The world needs more people building stuff.
90% of this comment section is reddit-level "amerikkka bad". I can't believe this entire thread hasn't been culled yet.
Have you not heard of PROM?
It was a surprisingly typical PR piece. The issue is firing whistleblowers, the whole response is about working real hard and saying the truly offensive thing was a comment in the other’s article. I guess people internalize this way of presenting things when they get to this level.
It can be tough to separate useful context from editorialization. In a way it'd be nice to have a separate meta conversation thread for every post, on every platform.
Semi-related, he kind of covers it in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
> If one needs 2MB of CSS for such a website

The 2MB was for the old site. The new site loads 20% or 400KB.
Dupe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23113287
Cop killers are arrested and prosecuted in record time. The system throws the book at them and even the book is heavier when the victim is a cop (enhanced sentencing etc) even though the occurrence is rare.

Meanwhile, cops are murdering people with impunity at a rate of about 10x the former.

"Police" is a subculture of anti-society though and behavior and for some reason we keep giving them guns.
That looks like 10 problems to me, if you include binary encoding issues.
Fair. :) I feel like I'm seeing this with the "lock down until vaccine/forever" viewpoint as one of the most recent examples.
If you know python, this is an excellent resource:

https://www.pyimagesearch.com/
The batterys failed end users before...
What is it that you want to win exactly? Control? The right to tell people what to do?

I’d much rather be correct, and let people make their own decisions. Otherwise this thing you call “freedom” is just empty words on a bit of paper.
In France we have a Craiglist-like website. They recently moved to ReactJS : https://www.leboncoin.fr/

The website features didn't changed in between. It's basically a pagination + a search based on radius (so DB related) + name (so DB related) + categories (so DB related).

The complete website could be build in pure HTML + CSS and a bit of JS + Ajax to refresh parts of it.

But no, it's build with ReactJS, and it takes seconds to search a simple item on it.

To compare, just try the same search on the Dutch equivalent, MarktPlaats, https://www.marktplaats.nl/. The experience is way snappier, way lighter, the features are the same, and it's just HTML + CSS + a bit of JS.

We made a mistake with React/Vue/Angular. And we should really go back and stop using those frameworks.
Buying follows is an open secret on Twitter and Instagram, and I personally had my twitch credentials stuffed to have my account follow accounts with 1 video and thousands of followers
I believe those vegetable and fruits are GMO i.e. constructed genetically to look good. Moreover quality of soil and its nutrients is not like it was before, making vegetable and fruits less nutritious [1]. In the end, until grown vegetable and fruits are grown in home, we don't have much choice.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...
Y Combinator's list of most active hiring companies on Work at a Startup
There's an easy solution: prescribe drugs to addicts. Heroin is cheap; much cheaper than crime. Switzerland and Portugal have adopted this policy.
Really? I really like it. I almost solely use Facebook to organise blood bowl matches, so it’s a lot of group chats and events, and it’s so much better than the old design.

I haven’t noticed it being slower either, it’s certainly not fast, but it’s not really something I notice either.
Really, do you think software patents have done more harm or good? Show me the vibrant ecosystem that software patents have enabled. Patents should never have been applied to software and they're a cancer on the industry.
I wonder if the lazy nature of Haskell's Attoparsec parsing library would have prevented the issue by default (without needing to set-up a limit in the parser). I think it depends on how the resulting lazy structure is used, but it might be true that the person writing the parser may not need to worry in the least about it, since evaluation and resulting memory allocation would be up to the person that uses the result from the parser because of the language's lazy-by-default nature.
It would be interesting to see how it would look with the 4D scenes properly projected instead of cross-sectioned. I mean that is how we get 3D scenes on our puny 2D displays; we don't generally do the sort of cross-sections for 3D like they show in the flat-land example except in some specialized applications. Of course cross-section is still valid method of visualization.

I don't know enough about higher dimensional graphics to be able to say if you would be able to do projection directly from 4D->2D (as our displays still are 2D), or if it is better to go 4D->3D->2D.

Bit disappointing that the video spends a lot discussing general 4D stuff and less about the dynamics part which is the actual subject.

Here is video of one of the other visualization systems referred in the paper which if I interpret it correctly does projection with depth of field https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT5YCs84jJU
* would it be possible to implement something like that in a way where dong shows don't take over? *

Having an option to mark yourself as NSFW, and to decide if you want to see NSFW cams would go a long way.
“Hive mind” as it relates to a singular species is a work of science fiction to my knowledge and barriers to such a systemic centralized existence appear to defy the laws of physics, information theory, etc.

Even the human mind in my opinion does not exist as a hive and at best described as an ecosystem that eventually experiences systemic failure.
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Every time I implement an action class, I make sure to make an empty parent class to subclass it from.

class Action(Lawsuit): ...
I think more aptly: life is a luxury here.
Dr. John Ioannidis released the result of his Serology Study in California:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGUgrEfSgaU

We've found earlier cases in the US:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/us/california-deaths-earliest...

and it was spreading in France earlier than we thought:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.106006 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23072956

We don't have the testing yet to really get good numbers/samples though. We need more random sampling antibody tests. A number of people claimed they got sick this year after leaving conferences in Las Vegas, but it's all anecdotal without wide scale efforts to just test random people for antibodies in cities in all US states.

NYC's numbers could be due to population density (amount of exposure can increase severity in some viruses, including SARS-CoV-2) and some of the increase could just be medical malpractice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhTQV5FNUE