skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utah was a moderately unforgiving desert settled by members of a white church (the majority of members’ families had recently immigrated from Britain or Scandinavia).

That church also was not particularly welcoming to Black people and expressly for as slavery.

You didn’t have Black people moving there to join a pretty culty religious group, and you didn’t have slavery, so there was very little influx of diversity.
I'm pretty curious what portion of HN's audience is aware of techwear and the work of Errolson Hugh at Acronym or Taka Kasuga at Arc'teryx Veilance. I've noticed that SWE's make up a substantial portion of the techwear community, in part due to the pricing and the overlap with sci-fi/utilitarian tastes.
Are you aware it's basically a meme in vegan culture that non-vegans assume they only eat salads? The food culture part I mentioned is difficult since a lot of places don't have vegan options.

I don't eat out a lot. A 450 calorie bean burrito that I make (zero soy) has about 28 grams of protein. A wheat protein based protein shake is 25 grams of protein for 120 calories. Two shakes and 1 burrito and I'm already on 78 grams of protein off 700 calories for the day. A couple soy based coffees pushed me near 95g for 1000 calories. All 3 protein sources here have complementary amino acid profiles.
if !parse(config) then reboot.
Please, for the love of God.
I think that’s fine. The path of egress should always be outside the bathroom, no?
> But with perfect recall,

This assume an infinite hard disk (or at least big enough). And even in that case, some info can be simplified to get faster access, and keep the details in a cold storage.
Bazel is cute but doesn't solve the real problem that if one changes only a single line in a C file in general it is wasteful to recompile that file from scratch.
Brand envy? Just flag GP's sorts of comments.
I'm a developer in my early 30s, similar situation. Here are some cool gifts I would like, maybe it'll give you some ideas!

- A solar powered battery pack (so I can go camping and charge devices/etc.)
- Books! If your friend is really into a particular subject, a highly-rated book on the subject would certainly make me happy.
- Shirts. I'm a little picky with clothing in general, but I do really enjoy funny tech t-shirts.
- Home office accessories. Things like exhaustion mats for standing desks, posters to hang up, a mini fan, stuff like that.
- Food! Food is a universally great gift =)
- A zoom dinner! My family recently did this: they ordered food for us and we all ate together over zoom. Was really a nice way to catch up and have a good time.
If you can do that without stealing from others, I'll support you
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Along with a higher tolerance for risk.
Sample of cool things I found out:

- Hanabi is now the "frontier of AI research" with both FB/DeepMind working on it

- Magic the Gathering is Turing complete

- Kingdomino is NP-hard

- There is published endgame research for RISK (similar to how you have endtables in chess)

- There's a lot of interesting research on catan and monopoly. Monopoly seems to have a lot of research around teaching language-skills to kids, in particular.

- There is research on generating new maps for Ticket to Ride!

- Lots of interesting research on 2048, the mobile game.

- There is a mathematical model for Mafia.
That should work for any coalition government that has to reach consensus, NL is one such and here we definitely do not say 'we'. I think it has more to do with the frequent referenda and that even if the turnout is low people are in principle allowed to vote on all these issues.
> I guess what I'm saying is that such a program could choose to "live" in any state in its past

It could, but if an algorithm is somewhat conscius, could also probably have concurrent access to the stored information (the past), and just like us, it won't be able to make much of it after some time, there is just so much information you can generate from a given set of data.

Specially if the algorithm has a purpose, or 20.000 purposes .

At that at point the AI could choose to advance its relative point of view of the time to the current events, in order to try to add new stuff to the whole almost unvariable dataset it already has generated.

No guarantees can exist if the algorithm has no purpose at all.
Also "real bullying" through "supposed victimhood."
A tiny amount of "police" text isn't worth much of anything. There is absolutely no defensible reason to hide the agency patch and badge number of every individual officer on the ground. There is absolutely no defensible reason to tie beanbags around the faces of arrestees. There is absolutely no defensible reason for the police to put arrestees into unmarked vehicles.

There is no way of ascertaining exactly who these federal agents are. This precludes court redress and is unacceptable.
It's wasted, mostly. Add it up:

These are good students, so they enter college with AP Chemistry and AP Biology credit. Start off college with Organic Chemistry 1, then Organic Chemistry 2, then Biochemistry. That's just 1 year to take the classes actually needed to enter medical school in the USA.

Some students might even take those classes via dual enrollment (a.k.a. dual credit, early college, etc.) while still in high school.

That is 0 to 1 years needed after high school. The medical schools demand a 3-year degree (actual time) at minimum, which in the USA means a 4-year degree. Subtract as you please, and you'll get an unjustified excess of 2 to 4 years.
If you get properly fitted suit pants, they're actually quite comfortable, and in the right materials (generally wool), they're also a lot less warm than you'd think. And the jacket can be sewn to have decent freedom of movement, obviously not to gynmast type movements, but certainly not uncomfortably restricting.

I still think the standard suit looks silly, but when well-made, it is actually designed to be worn comfortably for a whole workday.
Then "iteratively computing a fixed point by simply rerunning the formatter from scratch" is not a solution to the problem.

Actually I think you can do it iteratively by never decreasing the space occupied by an element between iterations. Of course this might yield ugly results but at least it halts with a solution.
The Rise of the MacBook Pro Serial Killers
When you break the site guidelines the way your account has been doing—by outrageously breaking the rules in comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23867312, and also by plainly using HN primarily for ideological battle,
I don't think your lengthy arguments about how HN should be moderated hold much water.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23884760. As I explained there, I've held off chastising you for much, much longer than we normally do with users who are abusing the site the way you have been. This needs to change. If you want to use HN for its intended purpose, that won't be hard—plenty of users who share your ideological views manage to do so, and I'm happy to give you any explanations that would be helpful. But if you don't want to, you need to conduct your battles elsewhere. No, this is not because we secretly side with $appalling-position. It's because it's the only way to protect the commons, and the commons has to come first. Scorched earth will do no good for anyone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> Sometimes you may work well with someone (a lawyer, say) and think him a good team player, until you realize he is making tons more than you and envy becomes a factor. Your attitude might go from positive to negative. Would salary transparency be good in that case?

It isn't me against the other lawyer. It is me AND the other lawyer against the company. Remember, the company has full vision into everyone's compensation.

I remember this one joke about a survey of drivers where over 80% (? I forget the exact number. It is a joke iirc.) of drivers rated themselves at least at "over average" or better. Similarly, I suspect a lot of employees think they are "smart negotiators". Nothing can be farther from the truth.

I had a coworker who made about USD 80k a year and he was very opposed to raising the minimum wage in New York.
He was open about why he opposed it. He thought his wages will not increase as minimum wage increased and that the increase in minimum wage will cause his rent to go up.
You may hate him but at least he is honest.

I'd eventually like all compensation information for everyone to be public but I understand that is a tough sell. I think if you support pay equity, you must support transparency within the organization.

> Lots of employees prefer not to have their exact compensation revealed.

In fact, I am pretty confident (no proof though) that many for-profit companies as well as non-profits (including Research Foundation of the City University of New York) share this information with third parties such as Equifax or Intuit (makers of TurboTax).

All this information is already out there. We are just one more data breach away from having this information leaked.
3 million dollar homes and pervasive homeless are caused by policy. Restrain the NIMBY in SLC and it wont be nearly as bad.
Because it's not true. Dixie cups are named after a line of Dolls. Prior to that, they were called "Health Kups".
Brian Kernighan: Unix, C, Awk, AMPL, and Go Programming
Is this an attempt to draw attention away from the fact that Biden seems incapable of enunciating a single coherent sentence?
ITRS Geneos for environment monitoring. I just wish they built *BSD binaries.
I would tend to agree with what you say here, with some clarifications.

The first one is that I think it's a matter of _models_. What I mean is that digging under the surface of materialism, what we'll find is pure physics, and currently physics is based on incomplete models or models based on unreachable or non-interactive constructs. Many-universes, 26 dimensions, dark energy, collapse of wave function... Placeholder ideas to make the math work. So, idealism is preaching that there could be the possibility that our current holes in knowledge and understanding might be filled with mind stuff rather than matter stuff. Sure, it might require us to flip the causality relationship between the two, but I don't see that as a fundamentally different way of guessing at what else might exist, and just as materialism has descriptive and predictive power based on abstract, unreachable constructs, so can an idealist worldview.

With regards of having to act as if materialism must be true, I would agree but it depends on at which scale we operate. Meaning, I doubt there could be any other functioning paradigm to go about our daily life and to progress practical science. But for things such as "why is there stuff instead of not" or even more tricky questions such as "what's the meaning", I'd look elsewhere.
Who is to say that a post should or shouldn't be on the site?

Isn't that why we have a downvoting and upvoting system?

Flagging should be used for illegal, dangerous, and malicious content like gore, doxxing, viruses, etc.

Flagging because you don't agree with the opinion of the content is childish, even if the content is severely incorrect.
This probably shouldn't be downvoted. It is likely true, no matter how ridiculous.
For the touchpad, only ever use this driver: https://github.com/imbushuo/mac-precision-touchpad (the Apple one is unacceptable trash...)
PPP Loan Approved for Foundation Building $42M 10k Year Clock for Jeff Bezos
Testing things is different than practicing things.

You cannot test many things. You also cannot prove many things. Look at nutrition. Determining the cause and effect of a substance on a human body is difficult.

Science is aimed at proving things. Sometimes, in life, that luxury is not available.
We are, as far as we know, the first "documented" instance of the universe becoming aware of itself.
>Unfortunately, there's also bad pollution. The valley makes SLC prone to pollution and especially inversion layers in the winter and ozone in summer. You'd expect mountain air and you get that sometimes, but other times it's as bad as or worse than major cities elsewhere.

I had no idea about this, wow. What causes it? Just the fact that it's in a valley? I've been to SLC only once to visit some friends, but I guess I didn't really notice (was only driving through).
> “a woman’s place is [in] the home raising the kids”

This is something that is commonly said here but I don’t have any data on whether people believe it or not. There are, however, some structural reasons why women may stay at home to raise kids:

1) Paternity leave is generally poor. There’s no statutory minimum and in many cases men only get one or two days off. There will be a referendum soon on a two week statutory minimum but it’s facing a lot of opposition from people concerned with strain on small businesses. By contrast, women get something like 16 weeks.

2) Childcare is extremely expensive. I’m sure the price varies but it’s not uncommon to hear of people spending 2500CHF (approx $2500) per month per kid for childcare. It may not make sense for some families to pay so much for childcare just so both parents can work, especially if more than one child needs care.
At least the way I understand it, SPACs offer a trade off, not an upgrade.

The danger of an IPO (from the perspective of the company going public) is the “IPO Pop”: you offer your stock at $20, by the end of the first day it’s trading at $40, and you realize you left a bunch of money on the table.

This is a benefit to the initial investors, who make a big profit day 1.

The inverse risk is the opposite (see Lyft, Slack IPOs): you offer your stock at $20 and it ends the day trading at $10. This sounds bad for you, the company, but it’s kind of fine — you raised the money you wanted to raise. In the short term, it’s bad for your investors, who just lost a big chunk of change.

My numbers here are made up, but the important thing is the spread: an IPO could pop 5% on first day, or 100%, or -80%. The difference there is volatility, which is what you have to pay a bank for — the risk that they lose money instead of popping.

In times of increased volatility (hello 2020!), you’re gonna have to pay a lot. The bank is going to underprice your stock to try and get a bigger “pop”, which, remember, means you’re probably leaving some money on the table.

A SPAC offers a compromise. “Negotiate with us instead, and avoid the pop (or the drop) entirely!” You reduce volatility in exchange for taking a private deal and potentially leaving some money on the table. It’s trading a bigger payday for a smaller risk, which looks pretty good right now. But in times of more financial normalcy, expect more IPOs.

My understanding of SPACs vs. IPOs is based entirely on Matt Levine’s excellent Money Stuff column, btw — go check that out if you want to read stuff from someone who actually knows this stuff.
I've been on Quiver for quite a few years now — https://happenapps.com – and I am pretty satisfied. I can't say if it's been updated at all for most of that time. I just don't pay attention to it.

I'd probably switch if something great came along. I liked a lot of things about Bear but the pricing model drove me away.

I tried to just use iA Writer for plain markdown but the structure/search isn't usable.

A part of me just wants something simple as http://notational.net/
The article states quite clearly, multiple times, in multiple different ways that she encouraged and bought into this nonsense. So you have somebody who is told by their doctor they have a 50% chance to live and they, of course, turn to their social support and what does their social support do? They say "you're right, you don't need treatment. Doctors are evil and shouldn't be trusted. The thermal scans show you're healthy." When you have IRL social support for your beliefs, that's not just a bubble, that's a death cult. Do I really need to post all of the many quotes from the article showing they were complicit in all of this?
The Robot and the Baby – John McCarthy
Oh, sorry. I thought you were implying that OP was in the wrong for resubmitting a link that had been ignored previously and not changed since.
Not GTK but https://github.com/aarzilli/nucular which is a Go port of https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear
I also experience this, and the scrum master gets frustrated also. But the ways I see it, a lot of the teams chills together for smoke breaks, and those basically serve as a bunch of small informal retrospectives on a daily level. Unless a sprint went really badly and there needs to be a real discussion about it and if its a structurable problem, most retrospectives are not so useful if the team has a natural communication structure.
your answer somewhat reminded me about a current trend in advanced neurological stuff, could be some paper (I'm not googling it sorry, no time now), and a recent interview with some Ace AI guy at Facebook.

Something like this "human could be no general intelligence at all"

So we apparently are not much than some kind of pattern prediction engine, the whole societies we build is just a subproduct of some base algorithm, probably we are just bigger - talkative - ants.
The 1959 right was for local referendums only, though. The first nation wide referendum women could vote in was 1971 (and not all of them could until 1990).
That's fair, I've certainly also had problems with Vulkan drivers from other vendors. So I'm not saying it's more buggy than other GPU platforms, but it is buggy, and it is more buggy than we expect of CPU-based language toolchains and runtimes.
Very cool, although a win10 minipc would probably make far more sense for people who specifically need a tiny windows 10 computer, especially as they basically cost less than what a copy of windows 10 pro costs.

(A fully functional fanless atom x5-Z8350, 4GB ram, 64GB flash, Win10 pro x64 Mini-PC will set you back $139. A copy of Windows 10 pro x64 is $168...)

And I know, some folks might say "why not a lattepanda?" to which the response really is "because that costs three times as much". Sure, you don't get GPIO pins on a minipc, but given that you can just buy a $10 data acquisition module that connects via USB, and that you can talk to using UART... that's hardly a problem?
To your point, I would say that the machinery has a negligible impact compared to the benefits of permaculture, and if makes permaculture more productive without greater risk, then it seems good. That is, we shouldn't have some kind of Luddite purist view of permaculture - it should be practicable. Things like this help to break the stereotype that permaculture is just hippies chanting in a field that conventional agriculture proponents seem to believe and do perpetuate.
The writers at very least need to take into context the population at large. Germany is not super diverse, neither is Utah. Hence, it will feel different than LA.

Ironically, this is the 'Coastal Writers' being guilty of not respecting diversity (!) in that, not every place is like NYC or LA.

That doesn't mean Utah is off the hook for not being fair, or for concerns about systematic issues, but Utah is literally less than 2% Black. So that's a starting point.

I'm pretty empathetic to issues of unfairness or discrimination, but I lose interest when I see a ham-fisted or lack of contextual elements on the part of writers.

Someone noted that Utah has a highly educated workforce - a lot of places do, that's not enough to make a 'Valley'.

I think that such places will be great for Tier2 tech, by that I mean, tech that is an end product, not tech used by other techies.

Shopfiy in Ottawa, is an example. Ottawa has 'great schools' super B+ competent work force, the most safe and stable place in North America. But not nearly the depth needed to make a Google or MS. Wix. Survey Monkey. I can see Stripe maybe happening out of the Valley. Though I often wonder what the difference would be - maybe Shopify needed to 'start' elsewhere but if it was now a fully SF company I wonder where they would be.

But the 'centres' of social networks I think will remain in the big cosmo areas, and 'core tech' will mostly remain in the valley, other than little dots here and there, that usually get eaten up anyhow.
Or Huegelkultur
Thanks mate. I will rethink about pricing again.
I think the parent poster is poking fun at the common "libertarian"/"meritocracy" techbro-speak about why we supposedly don't need tech unions.
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Matt Levine has written a number of interesting articles about SPACs recently. In times of high volatility, they become more attractive.
I would prefer if companies would stay private much, much longer. The stock market is extremely irrational and believes almost every hype. Which makes a lot of IPOs overpriced in the first place.
But critically, the misprice is not what matters to the companies raising money. What matters to them is the amount of money they’re able to raise initially, and that can be higher in a SPAC deal. Or it could be lower! But it’s less volatile.
Looking forward to reading the book. Wondering what brings GE to the current point. I always regard it as one of the jewels of the Crown but perhaps I was wrong.
That's because bootcamp "conveniently" doesn't give Windows the same level of control that MacOS gets when it comes to running the fans. Nothing related to actual cpu utilization.
I recently set up Syncthing on my laptops and my phone. I have always edited my notes in plain text in Vim and dumbly I would email these to myself (and reply to the email) on my phone so I could access my notes when afk. But now that I have Syncthing and Markor (a markdown/text editor) on my phone, I feel like I am in note-taking bliss.
Interesting, I had to look this up but for population density[0]:

* California: #17, 251/sq mile

* Utah: #46, 36/sq mile

I sort of doubt California's population density is the decisive thing here, but I agree that Utah's performance is impressive. Especially regarding VC, it would be fascinating to know how much of the money invested in Utah is from Utahns who made it big outside of Utah. In that it might (I randomly speculate) be more like some other countries than like other parts of the USA.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...
The football match that kicked off a war
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In my experience, everyone on every team has ideas that could help improve the team. Everyone's experiences shape their perceptions of things. Getting your team to talk about those ideas is the hard part. Small teams can grow in to high trust teams, but big teams pretty much can't. It's much easier to get meaningful feedback/retrospectives from high trust teams.

I think part of the lead engineer's job is to foster trust. But garnering this feedback by asking the right questions is just as important. Even if it means asking difficult questions until answered.

If a team struggles with meaningful retrospectives, it might be because they don't see the value in them. When that's the case people can end up thinking "it's just another meeting", "just let me code". Or it might be because the trust isn't there, even though it might seem like it is. Exposing problems (of whatever nature), tends to end up involving management at some point, and I've noticed over the years that many engineers have a strange fear of management. You can't have a meaningful discussion about problems if you don't trust everyone involved, including management.
Rust shines when doing error handling. No way to ignore errors, but properly handling them often adds just a single question mark to your code. Everything stays readable and lightweight.

Of course the error handling story is still perfectible but so far it's already one of the best I know.