skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say that I need to go get a shelf from IKEA next weekend. Renting out the absolutely cheapest car (from Hertz) is 95 euro for a day. A larger one is 107 euro a day. If I wanted to for example get an automatic, that'd be 240 euro a day. 240 euros is already three months worth of insurance. And that's just for having a Ford Focus for 24 hours. And I need to drive to the airport and back in order to have the damn thing, so that's 50 minutes of driving on top of it. Hopefully they don't charge me to park there as well.

And for what purpose? So that I don't have the burden of owning a non-miniature car? I cannot fathom what the point in this exercise is. It's not like the miniature car has some immense superior qualities to it. By contrary, it seems to have an awful a lot of negatives.
Correct.

There is an option for mods to slow or accelerate the decay function of the post.

This is a practice that all content platforms use and few know about. Burying content down, or removing from feed (for Facebook/YouTube) is a soft censoring that avoids user and regulatory backlash.

I would like the platforms to be more transparent about the practice. They could display a ‘derank’ or ‘delisted’ label to all users.
Not really sure what this is trying to solve. If it's some legitimate leak of public interest then the organizations active in this space often have a tip line / encrypted drop where you can put it.

If it's something that's not of interest to many but you want to put out there for some reason then what's stopping you from uploading it to some random one click hoster and posting the link in random places on the internet?
Most JIT compilers will go after any code that shows up as hot, regardless of when it executes. If your API code is that, even a minute after startup, it should really be getting optimized…
I sometimes review PRs where people are encouraged (by other reviewers) to create new methods because there's a single line of code duplicated between two other methods. I don't think that rate of abstraction construction - and every method is another abstraction - is helpful for the health of the code, or its readability.
You had me at Raspberry. Although they are small and inexpensive, the latest version is quite powerful. I think the only hindrance might be powerful video. It has great video, but some people need (want) more.
That repentance and baptism are called for upon realising our depth of sin and need for salvation, certainly. (Notwithstanding this, per Ephesians 2:4–10 salvation is by God’s grace, not by works. Yet baptism is commanded, here and elsewhere.)

Given the context in this thread I suspect you may be seeking remark upon “the gift of the Holy Spirit”. Of that I would say that in the sense of what might commonly be known as the Holy Spirit Gifts (healing, tongues, and the like) Peter was speaking to those that were there at that time, and that it is not applicable to us. Apart from cases of intervention by the Lord, the Spirit in this sense was given only by the laying on of the Apostles’ hands (Acts 8:14–17, and refer to all other documented cases of receiving the Spirit for further support of this allegation; note that Paul is included in the number of the Apostles, despite his not being one of the Twelve; he was specially ordained as such by Jesus). As the Apostles died out, so did these Holy Spirit Gifts, as there was no one further to bestow them. Instead, by this time we had the New Testament, and so had no further need for those obviously miraculous gifts (1 Corinthians 14:22–25 is slightly related to this idea, though I find it difficult to clearly explain how, in part because Paul writes verse 22 in a way that feels kinda back to front).

All that, I say, when referring to the commonly-perceived Holy Spirit Gifts. But please do not take me to be saying that we do not have God’s Holy Spirit with us today; God is with us and sustains us with his power daily (for that is what the Holy Spirit is: the power of God, nothing more, nothing less), including in less obvious abilities we are given. If you look through the list in 1 Corinthians 12:8–10, only a few are obviously supernatural. We all have our own abilities given us by God.

If you or anyone else happen to be interested in discussing these or any other things further, email me at bible@chrismorgan.info. I am always glad to talk about the Bible!
I have little sympathy for the death toll routinely inflicted by distracted drivers of two-ton rolling fortresses upon those who leave the house without donning a tank. All those crumple zones are only helping the occupants. It's a form of violence once you start taking risk compensation into account. Personally I wouldn't mind it at all if drivers were a little more on the hook for the dangers they create.

(and why did you think a rightsized car would forego seatbelts and had restraints?)
trunk would not be a good term since it is not a trunk, it is a branch. Some of the problems with the proposed alternatives (and this applies for the other terms as well: "blocklist", "parent") is that the words are overly specific and have a meaning that could be clearly misleading, like calling one of the branches "trunk".

One of the reasons that white/black terms stuck is that they are not overly specific hence can be applied for diverse situations yet maintain the clarity of they mean.

Perhaps it should be called "first" or if you feel fancy "origo" - as in the first branch created when you initialize a repository.
Maybe you are right, but we need to try something and for me this is what make sense.
For instance did you notice the effect of covid in the environment?
We need to challenge assumptions. The assumption of growth is one of them.
We need to have intrinsical objectives. The goal should not be to save the planet but to act in the best possible way to make it happen.
So you're thinking like a virtual mailing address as a service. You receive and forward people's mail. Seems interesting. Also kind of high risk for the service provider. People will use something like this to buy guns and drugs and other stuff on the black markets. But I guess they do that anyway. You would have to be prepared to deal with a lot of subpoenas to unmask the real mailing addresses. Could be a useful service though. Be sure to charge a lot for it.
Rod Serling Couldn’t Have Predicted This Twilight Zone
Please check your diction and spelling before launching into a linguistics-oriented tirade.
A possible magic solution is to load a JIT state from a previous execution and have good manual-optimization features to be like PGO. This would give JITs best of both worlds with being able to get to a strong peak performance and also not requiring manual tuning
Friedrich List[0] made exactly this point. The United States, for example, is often portrayed as the paradigmatic example of the unregulated free market, but it is actually quite protectionist (some of the measures lead to perverse economic incentives like those surrounding the corn industry) and its economic power rose precisely because it exercised protectionist measures against the emerging industrial powers of Europe like Britain and France who would have been able to crush nascent American competition. List believed that free markets make sense within a domestic economy, but that import tariffs may be legitimately imposed when it results in domestic benefits.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_List
The evil engineer's guide to patents (2012)
One of the things I wonder about transhumanism and AI is whether we even want to optimize for human values. Or, in religious terms, original sin is real. But what value set we choose to optimize for, that's the problem. And the central question of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, where it never really gets resolved either.

> even the printing press was not without side effects)

Understatement of the Year award, right here.
Joe Studwell's book "How Asia Works" explains how to do protectionism well (as how Asian tigers and others did it)

1. Land reform so that people can generate money from farming and generate financial surplus.

2. Controlled domestic finance sector protected from external competition..

3. Export oriented manufacturing where products are exposed to global competition but financing comes from domestic sources. This kind of partial protection allows capital accumulation even when products are inferior at first.

Asian countries that failed in the first step never became tigers or are still trying. Incidentally China had partial land reform that started from bottom up (illegally) but was later accepted.
I like the design of the site. It's simple and easy to follow. I would appreciate if you had more login options and examples than simply twitter. I don't see an option to edit the title or delete a debate/point. I think it would be reasonable to give people option to bury the debate or change the course within a reasonable time period.

Why debubble won't work: https://debubble.me/opi6znpcml

Social media is a net positive:
https://debubble.me/axyrntvh4e

Let's debate or debubble?
I'm working on a website that helps me to keep track of the podcasts that I'm listening to across platforms (Think Last.fm / Trakt.tv but for podcasts) by automatically importing the listening data from various podcast apps.
All other things being equal, a government that limits freedom of speech, freedom of speech, and is secretive will compare favorable to a government that does not try to hide its problems. We don’t have enough information to compare the authoritarian system with the liberal democracy.

In an uptrend comment you said:

> when the current philosopher kings are doing so well, only a minority of people on the margins of society really want to rock the boat.

There are interesting trade offs along of the spectrum of individualism and collectivism. It’s hard to talk about whether or not China has gotten that trade off right when information about the “margins of society” is suppressed.
(2) is not true. SOME people have an interest in keeping their medical info private. Others (probably most people, since healthcare expenses are tail-weighted towards people with VERY expensive medical conditions) have an interest in telling the insurance company EVERYTHING about themselves, because they know if the insurance company is allowed to set up fine-grained risk pools, they'll be in a low-risk and cheaper one.

Perfectly reasonable to argue that as a society we don't want insurance to work this way, fully information-dense. But it's not correct to argue that most insurance consumers directly economically benefit from information privacy. It's that we've decided, for society overall, that it's OK to socialize uncommon costs onto the masses.
CORRECTION: USA 2010 emissions were 5.9 million metric tonnes and dropped to 5.1 in 2019 according to: https://www.statista.com/statistics/183943/us-carbon-dioxide...
I think it is good style to combine especially strong opinions with especially strong supporting facts, proofs, evidence, or arguments.
> There is not a damn thing offensive about a combination of <color><noun>.

Do I ever have a new word for you. Have you ever heard of the term 'yellow peril'? Color coding is a remarkably easy and efficient way to encode racial stereotypes and spread propaganda.

Nowadays the association with said color is lessened (though some elements still appear among racists) but it seems rather ignorant of history to ignore the uses of color coding for racial dogwhistles.
You can, the instructions are here: https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/traceback.html

But it is noticeably slower than the default python handler
Huh. I had always assumed newegg.com was a re-boot of Egghead.
I think Google - which is at core a web company - couldn't consider mobile apps alone. By having an hardware button, apps and websites inevitably worked differently. Removing the button allowed for uniformity: everyone uses the hamburger.
Lol. I was expecting the article to be about how to clean up metal corrosion from the terminals of an ESP32 chip.
> we'll probably just assume "some offensive jokes" are actually horrible

Don't speak for others.

My personal experience is that women I never had romantic relationships with pretended that I raped them to get influence or money (once as a teen, once as an adult). Talking about this openly 3 friends have told me that similar things have happened to them. But I also won't give you specifics so you'll probably assume that we deserved it.
Why would that be? I would imagine "large scale industrial farming" to be quite efficient - animals don't get a lot of space there and are optimized to turn the food they are given into as many meat calories as possible. It's horrible for the animals, but efficient.

Caring about the environment is about more than climate change, but if the target is to tackle climate change, the answer is NO meat, not local organic meat (and dairy).
Like cucumber/gherkin but for production code?
The simple rule that nobody seems to follow is to never become dependent on somebody who isn’t very nice. All the trade between the world and China is making it impossible to stand up to their policies and our own companies are censoring and punishing us now for not promoting their propaganda.

Next I expect to see massive Chinese companies buying large stakes in news and media agencies while promoting their sale to Chinese markets. Once everything is entangled enough, everything will be pro-Beijing
Australian here too, and I didn't realise how popular the AM band was until the pandemic. 6PR (3AW sister station) is where politicians were announcing things first, and rival TV & newspapers were quoting 6PR as a source. There's a huge demographic out there I didn't really know about.
It's hard to imagine being so uncontroversial in your opinions, that you could afford not to even believe cancel culture is a real thing. Thing is, eventually everyone is targeted for one reason or another as the focus shifts, and over time the focus of the day will contradict the focus of the past.
The example shows that even Jesus quoted single verses out of context. So the assertion that this didn't happen in antiquity is clearly wrong.
Castle Game Engine: Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine
The proportion of people who will change habits based upon objective statistical and extrapolated moral imperative arguments is small.

The proportion of people who will change habits based upon convenience is high.

In addition, food production and distribution systems are immensely heterogeneous. They tend to be predictable in structure based upon land use patterns (urban planning). Apartment dwellers spend less on transport and more on packaging, but don't grow much food or raise animals. With small family units, cook-for-one kitchens and duplicate appliances, waste is highest. Suburbia dwellers spend more on transport but might grow food and raise animals or at least keep chickens. Waste is also high, often due to spoilage. Villages and rural dwelling people may very well produce all their own food and may walk everywhere, with no transport. Waste is lower, since crops may be picked or animals slaughtered only when required.

Since changing people's lifestyles to a sustainable reality requires drastic lifestyle changes and is therefore untenable, I believe the key to significantly reducing resource wastage in the food distribution globally is more efficient distribution and the deduplication of resources (kitchens, appliances, grocery stores, etc.). Obviously this can be sold based on convenience, but cuts across tightly held beliefs around individualism, identity and tradition (amongst others). For various reasons such as population density, social norms, mobile payment penetration and legal and regulatory environments, I believe the future technologies in this space will be set in the world's highest density cities in Asia, and then re-exported to a lagging west.
A couple of notes.

You may not have identified the product / market fit in terms of what McKinsey or others is actually selling. It really may not be the best product / best solution you are so intent on forcing them to sell. Sometimes it literally is political cover for mgmt to do something they (or sometimes even the board) WANTS to do. There is so much secondary level stuff here in terms of politics, job skilling or deskilling etc. I was part of a $10M deal (as the user unfortunately) which was SOO horrendous I became convinced it was just to spend out a govt budget line so a bunch of folks in govt got to go to some fancy training conferences. Truly ancient tech - you had to pin older OS / IE / Java versions to use the solution (no upgrades), but the buzzword bingo slides were amazing, and the agency using them liked them (at the top) so they were selling to the right audience (not actual users).

The big mgmt co's have been very successful in moving the middle class out (focus is on creating a bunch of generally super highly paid execs, and then a bunch of "do what we tell you" workers who are generally poorly paid). So that "do what we tell you" ethos is there (and has resulted in $8B+ annual revenue!). The idea though is to lower the skill level of workers. IT / automation is now going to play a bigger and bigger part of that - so lots of additional growth opportunities for these folks.

Middle class used to include the long tenured employees with experience and some levels of delegated decision making and corresponding pay (basically managers of various forms). Mailroom to boardroom days are over.

"Production workers did not escape the whirlwind, as companies—again with help from consultants— stripped them of their residual management functions and the benefits that these sustained."

You might find this interesting.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/how-mckins...

If you really think you can outdo these consulting co's go for it, it's a ruthless horrible game (lots of nice folks burn out trying to play it).
This is true, but it's important to consider that most of the population is entirely oblivious. It's a little sad.
Dr. Richard Bartlett on Covid-19 Treatment
Wow this is amazing. I've experienced myself lucid dreaming only once, and it was amazing.

Keep it going. If I had an iPad or something better to write on after waking up I'd definitely use it.
It's hilarious that this unsourced made up story is near the top of this comment thread. People've gotten quite conspiratorial about big tech I guess.

Here's an actual story about Google and China:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/why-g...

Google quit China for 6 years, tried to go back, got outed again and shut down again.
Soil simulation

This is just one part of one of the sillier things I'm working on/thinking about. How can I make a real-time interactive soil simulation work, essentially a big realistic virtual sandbox.

Since this is a side project, it'll go as far as all side projects go. =)
I wrote a bit about using stylometry to identify the author of a tweet. I'm coming up with additional features to add to this model and testing it with identifying attributes about the author (political affiliation or gender).

https://medium.com/@patriarch_39868/donald-trump-detector-ec...
There are several chapters in Job with the first verse being roughly "And X replied, saying"
with the rest of the chapter being their reply. Still very much a full sentence that identifies the speaker.
I'm fairly annoyed that the list of websites blocked is not made available. Also, how do you block a specific subreddit!?
Except that every app can have its own "primary" colour, so you have to learn as many rules as you have apps, instead of one if a button would just look like a button.
True, but part of that difference comes from the “we don't need to design the language for perf, the JIT will close the gap automagically” mindset though.
This seems to be begging the question: At what point does one move to a GUI? GUIs are well suited for these tasks.
> Ramp up what exactly?

Auxiliary treatment centers, beds, ventilator production, PPE production...
One way is to drive around listening for local oscillator radiation from homes and businesses. That was historically done more for tax enforcement purposes than market research, although I've heard anecdotes about billboards equipped with receivers tuned to survey the radios in passing cars.

Of course, now that chip-scale receivers with synthesized LOs are ubiquitous, intermediate frequencies are no longer limited to 455 kHz and 10.7 MHz, or even used at all. Consequently this method is no longer of much interest, but it worked for the better part of a century.
You're fooling yourself, in a mature codebase, if you think you can modify code and not look past function boundaries.

That assertion would be more credible in a language that captures side effects in the type system, but that's not what most people use.
Why is the NY Times threatening to reveal blogger Scott Alexander’s identity?
It seems to me you are confusing code quality with style. Code quality is most certainly important. Style less so even though it should be consistent. Almost all bike shedding comments are style.
I suppose one reason is that the debt can sometimes come with a personal guarantee attached.
Real change isn't profitable, superficial signaling is. They are doing what companies do -- finding paths to increased profit (or in these sorts of cases, avoiding loss in profits caused by threat of mob).
I'm not trying to say "DPRK is communist", especially because I believe the Warsaw Pact countries considered themselves to be socialist, on the way to communism. What I am trying to say is that, of things that strike me as having been different between western and eastern europe in photographed culture, today's DPRK shows the same differences. So I'd consider it firmly in the "second world", insofar as that old cold war trichotomy makes any sense in the twenty-first century.

For instance, I consider "Девушки фабричные" to have been a soviet trope (an image search reveals factory girls existed in the west as well, but don't seem to have been so frequently propagandised) and sure enough, here they are in the DPRK, even clasically at textile machines:

https://dprktoday.com/content//photo/2020/20200309-pt17906-1...

https://dprktoday.com/content//photo/2020/20200112-pt17518-2...

(among the machines I spotted on the site is a mask-making machine. Covid is a common denominator this year.)
Sounds like some interesting approaches to measuring complexity.

I'm consistently appalled by existing tools that claim to measure code quality or programmer output. The whole industry seems set up to prey on incompetent and insecure middle management. And I say that as a middle manager.
"Supposed" to?

Git was made with the intention that commit messages look like whole emails, describing not only why the change was made but also the thought process behind it, why this particular solution was chosen instead of some other etc.

What you describe is a decent header, although most people would probably prefer "Add ability to" (not "Added ability to", this is a custom that goes way back before git).

Inline documentation, or comments, is something else entirely. That is a moving target that can describe intended usage, remote APIs, and hard to understand passages. Commit messages describes a particular changeset, at a fixed point in time.

Google it, and see that most people's ideas of a good commit message goes way beyond the header ("shortlog") line.
Slower in what way? Just on crash? I don't mind that. But I meant for programs I _don't_ typically write source for - if Python has a way to run code before every program start up it would do what I want.
"Black" people aren't black. "White" people aren't white. Having white skin is a rare disease (albinism). So why did pink people invent the term "negro"/"black" to describe Africans? And why did the pink people call themselves "white"?
I don't really think so for Java; most of it was designed prior to high-performance JIT-based VMs were a thing. In fact I think a lot of the advancements in JITs actually came out of work that went into making HotSpot fast.