skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Its great that they didn't hold a grudge, but I don't see why I should be moved by it. Of course they were happy, they were finally being given what they were promised.

This is an extremely shallow take. These men emigrated to the US at a time when Filipinos were legally American nationals. They were not citizens, but were already entitled to permanent residency, and their kids were already citizens by birthright. Citizenship was purely symbolic. Why would they be happy to accept a symbolic gesture from a country that wronged them? Maybe it was what they experienced in America in the intervening 40-something years?

As an immigrant, I think many native born people often overlook what America is or what’s great about it. My mom explained to me today what she thinks is great about America. It’s that Americans will stop at a red light in an intersection at 1 am even if the streets are totally empty. America isn’t a collection of policies and programs. It’s people, connected by a culture, norms, beliefs, practices, and ideals. It’s a legal system and a political system that is more than just the outcome of that system with respect to any particular case or policy. And those things are all tremendous blessings. People who stop at red lights on empty streets at 1 am are a blessing. You really cannot understand it if you’ve never really lived without those things. I can totally see why these people who built a life in America would be happy to accept that symbolic gesture of citizenship 46 years later, even if it was long overdue.
Putin's law school thesis was "The Most Favored Nation Trading Principle in International Law." Xi's was "Tentative Study of Agricultural Marketization."

(I haven't been able to quickly find Johnson's, but then again the dynamic in the 1980's Yes, Minister was of LSE-educated politicians seconded by Oxbridge civil servants. Given a capable cabinet, one might hope a democracy could elect[1] one of their number with a median formation and still get a functional[2] government.)

That having been said, the demagogue[3] was a thing even in the ancient world.

[1] on the other hand, what might assigning executive positions at random do in terms of incentivising education? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

[2] as opposed to the conservative view of de Maistre: "Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite." (all countries get the government they deserve)

[3] as one might expect from δημαγωγός.
> Why do these posts overrule that test? Regardless of admissions, you're losing all nuance and expecting people to be perfect from day 0. Such people don't exist, and all you'll end up doing is creating more hate, divisiveness and letting in people who hide themselves better.

I guess your bar for perfection is super low, mine is not being a racist/nazi/white supremacist. I mean, I thought that was pretty low, that should just be common sense at this point, it's 2020, I honestly thought we'd grown out of this by now. Nothing has changed since 1960, not a damn thing.
I think you are right about distinct devices. I use a phone and computers owned by my employer for professional activities, and a different phone and personally owned computers for my private interests. There is, of course, uncomfortable bleeding between the two, e.g., health insurance e-mails going to my empolyee account that gets forwarded to my private e-mail account. Just part of the insanity of employer based health care.
I know the details. I think you're missing my point. I'm challenging the status quo legal interpretation of the extent to which the first amendment is applicable. I'm arguing that regardless of the exact letter of the language in the bill of rights, we are experiencing an environment whereby individuals are unable to freely express themselves without real threat to their livelihood and that it is in the interest of a functional democracy to preserve and protect such a right. I believe this is the government's concern because a) the government decides economic policy, and so we are responsible for the effects of e.g. a capitalist/private-sector-driven economy. If such a choice is having the effect of impingement of freedom of expression, it matters little whether the government paid for the institution directly or not. We subsidize private institutions as a society and we are responsible for and have power over that decision. And b) the spirit of the bill of rights is not being upheld. The whole point of the bill of rights is a realization that in order for a society built on civil liberty and freedom to thrive, there must be limits to the power any institution has to stifle said freedoms. That the law of the land must protect those freedoms for all people, full stop.

In short, I am aware of the status quo but I think interpretation is ripe for a modern revamp given trends over the last decade.
Why aren't the victims of white collar crime in these white neighborhoods out protesting in the streets about the lack of police help, if what you say is true?
The people who reneged on the promise of granting the Philippine soldiers citizenship.
speed it up 1.5x and its fine
OT: which schools have their own fab?
Not subtracting anything but wanted to mention that taxes in India are quite high. Also you can actually get paid quite well for a job in Bangalore, so it's not quite that much. It is, if after two years of work it goes into autopilot but as a full time job it might not be with it for two smart engineers in India.
Modern authority have moderated speech. Trying to ban words is insulting, reprehensible and incompetent. At some online forums it may need to be done, but that is lack of better alternatives, like better moderation systems.

Moderate behaviour and speech, not words and people.
This is attacking a straw man. There is no (serious) argument to "cancel" America wholesale (well, apart from the anarchists, but they'd agree with you about all those other countries too). There is a serious argument for holding America accountable for the things she has done wrong. You only hold people accountable whom you believe are actually trying to do good and whom you actually think can do better. People talk about the world's dictatorships and ongoing crimes against humanity with a tone of resignation because nobody really expects them to decide to be better; they talk about America with a tone of correction because they believe America can improve. Your parents didn't "cancel" you for each childhood mistake, but I certainly hope they asked you to demonstrate that you understood what you did wrong and asked you to make amends if possible - that's how you grow.

That's what Popehat's story is about, I think. The story is poignant specifically because America broke a promise to these soldiers - and finally acknowledged and remedied it. The author makes it clear that these soldiers had every right to be hurt, but they loved America anyway - which is very different from ignoring the mistake. The author calls it a "stain on out honor" because we have honor.

It wasn't their responsibility to criticize America for failing them - but that means it was someone else's responsibility. Part of what makes the nation great is that in 1990 people did care enough to grant then citizenship, finally.

"America! America! God mend thine every flaw! Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law!"
His internment of the Japanese should not be forgotten. It could also be argued that he empowered the Soviet Union. FDR has a mixed record in my mind. He also maintained a segregated military that Truman ultimately integrated in 1948.
There are quite a few HN mirrors out there, too

https://hacker-news-example.factor.dev/

https://hn.matthewblode.com/

https://nilaykhandelwal.com

https://innerself-hn.com/

I'm not really sure why people would do this, except perhaps some seo shenanigans?
I was just responding to the definition given. "observes data and makes decisions continuously" is not a proper expansion of "real-time".
Social media blurs the lines and it makes it hard for anyone to understand reality versus fiction. It was probably the same when mass communication took off in the first place, but it's happening again. Any particular change in language like this seems like a small thing, but it's very hard for me to tell if those changes are actually being driven by an oppressed community who thinks such changes are important, or if they're coming from meaningless social media echo chambers. Latino versus Latinx is another example I struggle with. Should we modify an entire language due to some perceived sexism? Who is actually perceiving this sexism and is it the real voice of the community?
Phewf, I was worried we might go a whole thread without mentioning how bad America was. Thanks!
You are effectively telling someone if they don’t like it leave. This is actually quite offensive in itself.
Have you looked at the kind of systems Bridgewater has? Ray Dalio and his firm doing what you're describing and more.
I’m sorry, these guys want guaranteed privacy for all their secret underground calls that they have with other CEOs so that can plot against politicians and others with impunity, and yet these same companies are actively working to remove any privacy that normal citizens have?

I don’t think I have any pity for them.
Trying to create Discourse like E-commerce app that will make it easy for people to sell anything

It will have all features that WooCommerce have but much stable and easily customisable.
It could be an incentive for political stability in those regions if they benefit from it.
This assumes everyone has an AM radio

I suspect that there are more AM radio receivers in the UK than there are DAB receivers. A couple of months ago, BBC Radio Devon was airing announcements asking for donations from people so that they could buy the poor and elderly new DAB radios because they only had AM radios. It seems to me that if a station to make it a big charity drive, there must be a reason.
I like how a 1 second pause in telemetry makes you so certain that Blue Origin is fraudulent. Anyway, what is the point of your comment on this thread anyway?
So only 72,600,000 Americans use Twitter? And that's your argument that it's insignificant?
Scale. Microsoft couldn't make a SQL VCS work. Maybe it's because they tried to use SQL Server instead of PostgreSQL, I dunno :) but IIRC the amounts of metadata involved essentially meant that they had no hope of doing git-like cloning: it was too much to clone.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders: conflating velocity with its derivative.

The (approximately) zero-G period lasts for minutes, not milliseconds, and during that time, the velocity changes by 9.8 m/s (22 MPH) every second. The velocity should not pause at 0, or any other value.
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>The issue of charging was also there with BEVs

For long distance trips, yes. But unlike with hydrogen vehicles, charging at home is an incredibly simple proposition for BEVs.
HD Radio doesn't exist in the U.K.
Does anybody remember that Optimus Maximus Keyboard? That was a disappointment.
In a disaster, local cell towers may not be operational. An AM transmitter located somewhere that is far enough away as to not be suffering from the same local issues could still be operational.
HP was one of the implementations pre-C++98 approval, but SGI also had their own, and they used to host the original documentation.

On the early days of the Web, and pre C++98, it was where most of us would read how to use the existing STL implementations.
all cars, at least stateside, have had digital radio for eons

My car is a 2015. My wife's car is 2016. Neither have digital radio, much to my disappointment.

people don't buy standalone radio receivers, and haven't in decades

Except that they do, which is why they're still available in stores. I bought one at Target just last fall for a relative who was in the hospital for an extended stay.
Gasoline is also quite flammable.
Note this is from 2013
Because it's the wrong solution. No words should be banned. Speech and behaviour need moderation, and there are no perfect hard rules. Offensive people need to be disciplined. Stop trying the easy way out that accomplishes only to limit freedom of speech.
> we had a civil war over whether states had the right to decide whether or not black people count as people.

That actually wasn’t why the civil war was started. It wasn’t until later in the war that emancipation was a goal. Slavery was legal in DC for the first year of the Civil War.
In most emergency situation, a receiver is enough just so you can receive information/updates. Transmitting definitely adds a larger layer of complexity. An analog radio receiver is definitely something a lot of people could jury-rigged, as it is a common science experiment for young school kids.
This has also been a constant topic amongst my family, extended family and many friends (mostly european).

My entire family (including me) and extended family immigrated here within the last 10-30 years, yet we all love living here, and have the same sentiment around people who have been born here. They were given such a great opportunity (that we all had to work for), yet most of them throw it away and have little love for the country and what it offers.

I even have family and friends on H1B/student visas who despite all thesese issues, are supporting a lot of these right-wing issues after these protests, which was a bit surprising (considering the ban on the visas)
>These laws exist to promote free thought. They punish those who seek to pry into our most private spaces and turn America into a place like East Germany.

If you're going to argue that journalists blowing the whistle on the private conversations of the ultra-rich and powerful about how to reign in journalism with the Stasi, that's a great recipe for getting people sold on the idea that privacy itself is a tool used by the powerful to escape scrutiny.

It reminds me of that bit in the Silicon valley TV show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zQpN28xa4)
Even if 100% of people get covid, most people of working age won’t know anyone else of working age who dies from it.

There’s no evidence to support your claim that unchecked spread of covid would lead to a worse economic disaster than the lockdowns, and in fact Sweden and Belarus seem to directly contradict it.
> Let the screaming masses have it

Ultimately, those "screaming masses" will vote and determine the future of this country. And by "eventually", I mean in less than 4 months.

> they'll eventually destroy themselves

Not before Election Day.

The social media groups have proven themselves to be powerful coalitions of voters, capable of coordinating mass movement and determining the future of our country.
Excellent pointsm What does GADT stand for though?
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I don't have a DAB radio and I don't know anyone who has one.
These days, even in the car my phone is my radio.
How is it even possible to avoid the same number of people getting it, regardless of lockdowns? Lockdowns will have to be lifted eventually, almost certainly before a vaccine is widely distributed, and then won’t the outbreaks just start again, assuming there’s still at least one case anywhere in the world?
Roman fish farms!

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2016/08/what-roman-ruins-rev...
So by removing the word slave, how are we to be able to correct this modern day injustice?
For a country average intelligence is the most important thing in time of crisis
You raise a good point. The way how real estate is valued is through a market where each item is looked at individually more or less, but patents are connected.

A possible solution could involve letting the patent owner itself state how valuable owning the patent is to them. They could declare a monetary number X and then do annual payments of say 0.1% of that number. They could adjust the number monthly by statement to the patent office, but would have to pay the tax on the maximum number they told to the patent office within each year. Now comes the core of the idea: the number would be public, and any entity could "free" the patent by paying that amount X to the patent office which then redirects it to the patent's owners after deducting a tax. The patent would then enter the public domain.

So company A invents something, patents it, and claims a billion dollars of value to the patent office. They have to pay a million in taxes annually. Company B thinks it could make a lot more than a billion dollars if the patent got lifted, and pays 1 billion to get rid of the patent. Company A is now 1 billion richer (minus patent freedom taxes), but now has to deal with competitors. So their next patent will have 10 billion as value number.

I'm not sure the idea is good or not, it has some problems, e.g. it might lead to patents becoming even larger than they are today so that they get lots of valuable stuff into the patent's umbrella. Patent offices might become more willing to grant patents for things as they are now a major revenue source for the government, and many patents on promising stuff will need big investors so that they can afford the taxes until the patent matures. Also companies won't be able to plan as well as they are now. Making the tax progressive will help with some of these problems, but maybe not enough and maybe not with all of them.
There just isn't so much bandwidth in AM bands to practically transmit hundred digital stations in same band as one analog. If you want to keep the same reach as analog, you need so much error correction overhead that you may as well stay with analog. Or you can add more digital transmitters but they still need more power than higher frequencies and there are multipath problems with long-range transmissions mentioned in the article.

IMO practical thing would be to add text service to analog AM broadcasts(like teletext) but with ubiquitous internet coverage, that ship has sailed.
> As a result, academic philosophy is much more politically polarized than math.

I don't think this is a clear conclusion at all. Philosophy is inherently very political (all political ideas ultimately come from philosophy, after all). Philosophy is also concerned with the real world and human affairs much more than abstract math is.

It's also funny that you bring up post-modernism, a philosophical current famous and often ridiculed for being one of the most deliberately obfuscated.

I also know that a lot of the efforts of brininging mathematical thinking and abstraction in the humanities end up exactly in obscurantism: most of the field can't understand it, but it has cultural clout so they can't admit that, and it becomes a source of empty prestige, with maths literally sprinkled on studies just to access that clout. Even in medicine, math-y papers are/were often accepted unconditionally, with peer review unable to check the actual maths, but unwilling to admit their lack of mathematical culture. For an example, there was a medical article published in 1993 [0], which is a re-discovery of the trapese method of integration. This got around 100 citations.

Of course, that article is at least correct. In postmodern literary studies, there is a famous example of an intentionally meaningless, but very abstract and complex sounding article that was successfully published in one of the leading journals, despite ultimately being gibberish [1].

My utlimate point being, I don't think there is any link between obscurity of a field and its resistance to internal or external politics.

[0] http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/2/1...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
They are, right? Every book I read says so, and I don’t see a reason to dispute the claim. Are you saying they are not?
It is never simple cost per kg calculation .

Ridshare orbit depends on the primary orbit requirements, if the orbit is not favourable to your sat, correcting the orbit may not be feasible at all, given the small payload size you may not have the fuel for the correction burn

Also fitting your sat to a rideshare payload adapter could be lot more complex depending on the primary and other shares

Similarly while spaceX is cheap, there are plenty of workloads where ULA is the only option, vertical assembly , certain fairing sized , some orbits etc .
- Type of orbit you want, SpaceX rideshare is like a bus trip, it will not get you exactly to your homes door. Rocket lab in this case is like a taxi.

- Timing, perhaps you want to deliver sooner.
When reading the title my mind thought "South Africa".
Reminds me of Black Mirror Season 3e6. It's all fine until you mess up and piss off the mob.
But if your language uses lexical scoping (like nearly all of them do) then the procedure call will be incredibly hard to mock in any code that isn't prepared by taking it as an argument.

As an example I might want to test code that internally calls heap_sort but replace the heap_sort with a test double (sounds like a silly example but maybe the heap_sort calls out to a heap sorting microservice or something equally dumb.)

With the procedure call and lexical scope, that's not going to happen. With the instance method, that might happen if I pass in an array with a different heap sorting implementation.

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To be clear: I'm all for functional composition over mutation through interface methods. But it's not, primarily, about syntactic convenience. It's about immutability and referential transparency.

The example you picked is bad for another reason too: heap_sort is not a fundamental method to arrays that should be part of its core definition. So no, clearly it shouldn't be an instance method, but for different reasons!
so nostalgic
This is brilliant. I actually was pondering just the other day how it seems like people have lost the ability to forgive in the public sphere. Unfortunately, I think a lot of world leaders are setting incredibly bad examples on this front. But maybe the design of social media is just as much of a problem. There's a bit of a chicken and egg thing there. Improving social media platforms is almost certainly the easier side of that problem to address.
> At no point do you "own" the idea, because as soon as you release it into the world, it is already in the minds of many, some of which may be able to put it to better use than you, or to improve it faster than you.

When it comes to patents, even if you don't share the idea, others will come up with it independently. And the patent system is perfectly fine if you patent something then sit on the idea for 20 years and never allow it or any derived products be made or used.
Generalised algebraic data types. You might come across it as an extension to the Haskell type system -- making it even more expressive.
Event driven is only comparable if you explicitly makes the events go on a queue and allows preemption.

For languages like javascript for example people all too often write evented code with an expectation that events will be processed 'practically immediately'. They're writing evented code, but not code designed for concurrency.

To get this right, you need to actually have the code executed with actual preemptive multitasking, and test it with random substantial delays in processing of messages.
Yes, it's the only way we will get good last mile fiber rollouts.
My programming tutor at college told us not to worry about the internet, treating it as a fad

There were quite a few people and companies that thought that way. Microsoft was one of them, and thought people would forever pay it a yearly fee to subscribe to Encarta updates on CDROM.

Fox was another one. I remember when even the smallest television station in the crappiest market had a web site, none of the Fox-owned TV stations had web sites because someone in New York thought the web was a fad.

The first web site I operated was for a TV station in 1997. By 1999 we were putting our video online through a video capture card hooked up to a ReplayTV. I think the Fox O&O across town didn't get a web site until 2005 or 2006.
“We” didn’t betray anyone, unless you were in Congress in 1946.