skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's pretend that such a projection exists and we can assign people to points on the cartesian plane. This begs the question, how do the points change over time?

Mathematically speaking, we can add to our model by assuming there is some notion of a flow or a vector field on the quadrant that pulls individual people/points in directions. There are also people moving in their own directions either due to inherit personal characteristics or perhaps life events impacting them.

How do we model this field? We could start by creating a bunch of "attractors" or points on the plane that people are attracted to. Think of an attractor like a very massive body and the gravitational pull it has on other bodies. If these attractors do exist, where are they on the compass?

Some attractors might be "abstract ideals" that naturally draw people to each part of the quadrant but I'd say the biggest attractor is in fact other people. Human beings have tribal tendencies and so if/when a lot of people cluster on the compass it pulls even more people in. With our gravity analogy this is like a massive star absorbing all of the mass surrounding it.

Some people have anti-conformist tendencies and don't like to belong to large groups of like minded people. Eventually large pockets of people become increasingly unstable and people radically disassociate with the big attractor. This is like a supernova radically expelling mass in all directions.

I prefer the gravity analogy because it avoids moralizing specific "locations" on the compass. A gravitational well can occur anywhere and we can discuss them abstractly. I think what PG is saying is that it is not a good idea to let yourself be pulled in to the well. Just look at the wells that have occurred in the past. All of these statements can be made with respect to an abstract political context. Now apply them to the current context.

Does this post make any sense or is it just the ravings of a mad lunatic? Do we believe these things because they are true or do we believe them because we agree with their conclusion? Do we disagree because we disagree with the conclusion?

Is it really possible to introspect and judge the validity of our own conclusions? If anyone can answer this questions (preferably by reference to a third party source) I'd be appreciative.
I had a linkedin birthday pop up with a buddy I used to go to lunch with every day about 2 jobs ago. We'd hop into either of our cars and just go bitch about work together for an hour and eat cheese burgers. I loathe being in most open offices but I really miss those interactions and friendships.
> But, please, let the American people have enough credit to make decisions for themselves and see racists for who they truly are.

That has worked out badly. Any other ideas?
Granted I don't know what it would take to make the old font (MS Sans Serif?) browser-compatible, possible copyright issues aside(?)

If you're using a system that has the font, all you need to do is specify it by name.
> having a clear separation between "work" and "private" is essential for a good work-life-balance. Otherwise it's too easy to do that one more thing and check that one idea all the time instead of calling it a day and doing something else.

This has been one of the hardest parts about the switch to WFH for me. I enjoy listening to podcasts/YouTube videos related to what I'm doing at work whilst doing mundane take around the house and I've been increasingly finding myself hearing something that triggers an idea which leads me to jumping back on "real quick" whole it's still fresh in my head.

I only realized over the last few weeks just how burnt out this was making me. I noticed my kids (which I split time with their mother one week on one week off) constantly having to ask later and later into the evening if "I was still working or not".

Since making that realization, I've committed to working specific hours during the week when I have my kids, only getting on outside those hours for actual emergencies. I give myself a little more wiggle room during the weeks I don't have the kids but I'm making a conscious effort to evaluate what I'm doing in those extra hours and whether or not it's something that could be done when I "get in the office" the next day.

Since starting this, I've found myself and my kids being much happier during our weeks together. During the weeks I don't have them, with the extra time I've gained my shutting work down, I've started doing more things I enjoy outside of work again. Going for walks at a local park to play some PoGo, going out at night to do some star gazing with the binoculars I bought and never used because I was always exhausted. I really wish I'd have started this a long time ago.
Also the fact that many market players got bailed out by governments when things went south. They may have been aware that this would happen all along, which would mean the explicit market game and the real market game are 2 very different things with very different rules.
I'm not from EU. Does the EU encourage or enforce any kind of education system/standards? Along with the things you mentioned, I would think that, long term, a healthy educational baseline would be critical for a functional government. And independent journalism is, by extension, critical for that, too.
It's a consolation that Kaczyński was not able to gather supermajority in the parliament to change the constitution. It's unlikely to happen anyway, as he divided the Polish society in half.
His party will probably rule for some time, but not gain much more support than today.
He antagonized simply too many worker groups and professions out there.
Another thing pointed out is that Hungary has somewhat more unequal development than Poland - and in both countries the ruling parties catered to the poor regions.
Last but not least, for better or worse, there's dissent against authority in Polish blood.

Tl;DR it will suck, but Poland won't have second Hungary.
I still wonder why many people think colonizing Mars is doable, when we can't even colonize Antarctica.

I mean, weather might be slightly better, but the lack of breathable air, water and the distance from Earth far outweigh that.

Neither Mars nor Antarctica offer anything of real use, even asteroid capture and mining seems like a more viable idea.
His writing on lisp and the life of his startup were much better reads. He may have some valid points but it is hard to read a really rich person (who got rich really young) handwave away large swaths of society.
I have a slimbook pro (the model before the silver keyboard) and sadly I am very unhappy with it, I got a fairly maxed out version and it's fans are always on full blast and I have found no way to keep the power management under control except throttling the CPU - so it is constantly overheated, suspend is not working properly and the chassis is not strong enough so the fans stall unless you have it on a flat surface. Note that I have some lenovo computer from work which is configured in the exact same way and there are no overheating or suspend issues.
I can’t tell if you’re comparing Q to hand washing advocates, or to those anti-handwashing naysayers?
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The context here is UK rural areas which are not quite like other places. Imagine a road that can fit 1 car, with wider places every few hundred metres and 2m+ hedges on both sides, immediately next to the road. Apart from specific paths you can't really go into a field.

Random example https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/narrow-road-high-hedge-18153...

Not all counties will look like that, but quite a lot of them to. Imagine a network of this kind of roads going on for many miles. You really don't want to walk them at night.
Questions: transactions are really important in banking systems. If you have 100s of Microservices how do you manage transactions across them? Or maybe all of your microservices run on top of a monolith database with transaction safety?
Using explicit LOADs is fine, Lisp itself doesn't care. Though as you say a bit amateurish in the current year, but professionals did it extensively at one point. (Some probably still do.) Just like in Java, before maven plenty of shops were (some still are) fine with dumping their dependency jars in a thirdparty/ directory and doing everything with ant (or even shell scripts calling javac explicitly).

If you're willing to spend $26, I recommend this short ebook: https://www.darkchestnut.com/book-common-lisp-application-de... It basically gets you setup to create and deploy a production binary with minimal pain while meeting several professional-level expectations, though of course there's lots of tweaking you can do later on and there are always professional differences of opinion for substitutions... The gist of the book's project setup though is that you use ASDF to define your system (similar to a clojure defproject) and its bundled UIOP library for anything interfacing with the OS, qlot to pin versions of your dependencies, tell quicklisp about your local system so while developing you can make wide changes and just reload the system through slime with ql itself, use buildapp to simplify building exes, and use the venerable Make as a wrapper to do builds/cleans/deploys/tests in one step.

Apart from that and the resources others linked, read the ASDF manual: https://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/#documentation That home page also points to other useful things to know about...

Last piece of generic advice... It's often best to read primary sources. Make CLHS your bible, Steele's cltl2 is also great.
> If at this point you are still finding that SQLite is not as fast or faster than SQL Server, MySQL, et.al., then I would be very surprised.

What about large aggregation queries, that are parallelized by modern DBMS?

Does it still scale that well if you have many concurrent read and write transactions (e.g. on the same table)?
But it does matter here, where we're talking about charging under time constraints...
I'm not arguing with the research, I'm just saying it doesn't feel like a satisfactory match to the psychological phenomenon that OP describes. (I spent six years studying psychology, including a masters in neuroscience, so it's not coming from a place of ignorance).
> All technological change is a trade-off. For every advantage a new technology offers, there is always a corresponding disadvantage.

This, to me, reads as one of those statements that sounds wise and correct but doesn't really stand up to scrutiny. Going from digging with your hands to using a shovel doesn't have a negative trade off. Going from carrying things on your back to using a wheeled cart doesn't have a corresponding disadvantage.

You can find very myopic cases where they're not improvements (e.g. digging for fragile objects is better done with hands), but that doesn't disprove the general improvement, and it is far from a corresponding disadvantage equal to the new advantage.
That’s the interesting take for me, too: we love to talk about it as engineering or science but there’s a fairly good argument that this is more aspirational than real in many cases.
it still is lack of education. it's the moral education that is lacking.
education in justice (part of that is social justice if you like, but don't mistake that with social justice warriors, those are not about actual social justice, but rather they are political correctness gangsters)

education in equality.
education against racism.
education to help people out of poverty.
education about diversity.
education about critical analysis and discourse.
education about religions. (even atheists should have a better understanding about the various religions and vice versa)

people claim a right not to be subjected to ideas that they don't agree with. they want to live in a bubble. this is part of the problem.

these are just some of the points that current education is missing. i am sure we can find a few more.
> Probably forever because the whole leadership of the EU is incredibly weak and divided.

I don't think, that is a fair description. Many critical decisions by design require unanimous consent (in the European Commission).
So you need their vote on things, unless you suspend their voting rights. That in turn requires unanimous consent (excluding the accused) But it is clear, that other members of the Visegrád Group will block that.

Also, not sure how a strong leadership in the EU could (or should) change the effects in a state.

Personally, I think, they should have made the Brexit much smoother, so that other countries cannot make the EU the scapegoat.
A few years ago Bret Victor wrote a long and wonderful essay lamenting the lack of attention to climate change in the tech industry. No specific job opportunities, but it's a wonderful read about how technologists can contribute to solutions.

http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
I do too! Much healthier when multiple projects are tackling a problem from multiple perspectives. Your write-up has already shown both projects benefiting. I wouldn't have heard about this space at all without this article.

I'm looking to build a new home-server and was looking at mobos with management support. No need for that now though! Now looking for ways to keep the Pi inside the server case. Ideally want to have a ethernet, power jack and HDMI end built into a PCI bracket so it remains movable.

Thanks for the detailed reply. I'll likely give both projects a go.
I find it bizarre that comments like these seem to think the main battle ground for free speech is young people like myself "cancelling" people on twitter, when at the same time protestors are being arrested by secret police in the US.

Like there is an authoritarian government right there for you to criticise, but you choose only to talk endlessly about tweets like "can white people make rice, or is it cultural appropriation? A thread (1/329)".
He had a habit of always making the hero of his narrative the “brave startup founder”.
> Politician Taro Yamada (his name is extremely generic but real)

Isn't that the name given to anonymous males in Japanese court cases? I wonder how many Americans are named John Doe.
In all fields, there is work that is necessary but not fun. Money/incentives are needed to bridge that gap.
Precisely explains why NVIDIA did that - to hook up all these 50k students to CUDA. Much more profitable in the long run.
Calling the cops has turned out to be a death sentence for Black people too often.
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> Indeed, this type of journalism is resistant to the oppression of government, and the bias of media conglomerates.

And to being self-sustaining, because no one pays the reporters to actually do their job and to verify their sources or be verified.
This guy is talking out of his ass. There's no truth to what he's saying. He's an anti-national Muslim.
Can you define what you mean by free speech? That speech alone should not be punished by the state? Or that speech should have no social consequences?

Because to me "the liberal-Left exercising their intolerance" could also be viewed as exercising their freedom of association.
> I don't want mob induced censorship any more than I want government censorship.

So what you want is to be able to say whatever you like, and suffer no consequences from that speech.

Sorry, the First Amendment does not guarantee consequence-free speech, particularly if your speech is a pack of lies or racist, or as occurs so often, both.

I would add that after a decade of watching the First Amendment cited almost exclusively to protect hate speech from psychopaths, my respect for it is badly tarnished.
Whether or not you believe America was built on freedom has a strong correlation to your political affiliation.
Exactly. If you are not committing a crime, what do you have to worry about?
The official PDF document is here: https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf...

I always wondered what the proper terms was for an airplane crash, and now I know: "forced off-airport landing"
>But in-depth investigations

Long since dead in centralized Media. Not click-baity enough. Doesn't fit the attention-span they want. You still assume that the Media is motivated to share truths. They are in the business of creating narratives.

I could link you to brilliant connections being made by citizens on Ghislaine Maxwell, her well-connected Father, and a number of elite families. How about Attorney General Bill Barr's Father working at the same school for the gifted with a young Jeffrey Epstein? But such investigation work would be decried as a right wing conspiracy.
There’s also a lot outside of the language—tooling, ecosystem, etc that Go absolutely nails; however, these things are tremendously undervalued. You have people in this thread talking about how awful Go is for using “//go:” instead of #pragma as though this sort of concern dominated the software development process.
I consider internet boards like HN a pre-cursor to all dark-pattern-laden "social" "media" today. So yes in a sense, we're all communicating and this is social media. Now, we wait while someone comes to dispute my personal interpretation of the words, but yeah my $0.02 have been deposited.
I have been wondering how dangerous flying is going to be when when / if it comes back and all these planes come out of storage. Mechanical things just sitting around is some times far worse than them being in constant use.
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Countries of the EU falling to far right populism is the result of some unpopular policies being imposed by the EU themselves—Your comment reeks of "beatings will continue until morality improves".
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That is helpful context. Wow, they really don't want to see their neighbors. Safe roads require unobstructed sight lines.
I’m kind of surprised they’ll even take open-box returns of hard drives that aren’t defective. How do you know the drive is safe to use?

It seems to me kind of like underwear: once you buy it, you keep it and in the unlikely event you need to return the item it goes right in the trash.
Thanks for the link. Isn’t this using your main computer still and the same as using a comp webcam in terms of availability?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTP_cyclohydrolase_I

The deficiency causes problems with amino acid metabolism, which themselves mess up the brain.

The depression was a mere symptom of the underlying disease. When you read the DSM, you realize there are no mental illnesses, just syndromes: sets of signs and symptoms. Except in select few cases, the pathophysiology is unknown.
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It also shows interesting deep-nerd cross-pollination in the model building/military history/art scenes.
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My tipp for good logging: Log in json.

Just log directly to json, it makes any processing later so much easier.
I'm not interested or even particularly disagreeing with any of your comments on the past.

People with high risk can and already are behaving differently than people with low risk. That's why the death count is steadily dropping even while the case count is increasing, because young people are returning to normal behaviors while at risk people are being more careful.

In a world with wide spread virus in India, Brazil, the United States, Russia and Mexico it's simply not going away any time soon. Do you believe that these countries can successfully be quarantined from the rest of the world for the next year? What about 3 years? Or is it your position that all of these countries have the political and infrastructure capability of doing complete lockdowns?
This is a pessimistic view that does not understand the dynamics of the Union.

The European Union is, fundamentally, a very young superstate. It's not even 30-years-old, in practice. This is not its final form.

The EU is like Asimov's Foundation: it makes progress by facing (or provoking) crisis after crisis, and finding new equilibria and new policy tools. It's a bit like the US in early-XIX century or pre-WWII, when structures were fluid and conventions were still being established.

Remember the US had to go through a civil war to establish the unquestioned primacy of federal policy; China and Russia solidified through bloody revolutions. If we can get there with only a bit of bitching and debating, we will have done better than anyone ever managed.
Comment sections on blogs are so bad that there are competing browser extensions to block them. Better to have dedicated sites for comments. Like hn, reddit, etc
Disgrace of what ? Mafia owned Italy ? Industry owned Germany ? Tax heaven Ireland ? The only difference is that in poorer countries corruption is less sophisticated - but EU is plenty corrupt all over.
That guy castevictim is talking out of his ass. There's no truth to what he's saying. He's an anti-national Muslim.
Funding doesn't have to mean editorial control.

Around the world there are numerous instances of Government-funded news publishers and broadcasters that have superior editorial independence than their commercial competitors. The BBC in the UK and the ABC in Australia come to mind.

Funding CAN mean editorial control if the funder deems it so, but that's equally true of commercial media as it does public broadcasters. Unless you happen to like the political bias of Rupert Murdoch, it would be hard to argue that he doesn't exert more influence over his publications than the British and Australian governments do theirs.
Do they even use belts? I imagine it's all internally chained, that way a diesel engine can last well over 100k miles... With oil change or at least top up, however. Mechanical pump/injectors don't even need electricity, just have fuel.
> Many improvements have no disadvantage

Every improvement has, at the very least, its Luddite cost. It forces some people to change, and some of those people won’t like that.
You want unlimited free speech, and you want no consequences from that free speech. You have no right to that.

> bb88

Hmm, I see that "88" number a lot these days. Is this some meme I missed?
Largely a distinction without a difference.

The fact they have money is what gives them the power to say no.

- Someone asking for a meeting/to connect? If you have money, people come to you; so it's easy to say no to networking opportunities. No money? You have to take networking opportunities as they come.

- Someone offering you a job/investment opportunity? If you already have money, you're not worried overmuch about a wasted opportunity. Because at the end of the day you're still secure. If you're unemployed and worried about where your next meal comes from? You have to jump for it.

(Pst. This is also why 'essential workers' are underpaid. Because they have no negotiating ability when their only other option is financial ruin.)

I could keep going on, but if you're not getting the idea you're either: 1.) Being willfully obtuse; or 2.) Someone who has read the Fountainhead too many times (i.e. you're being willfully obtuse).
Ah that's right, use-based zoning. I still don't see how removing all zoning would de facto make cities easier to get around in, particularly when the US has a long history of private interests working against public mobility projects. The reason Americans are so dependent on cars was largely influenced by big automakers.
I don’t, it’s just one of the many businesses lurking in my neighborhood. I pass it regularly on my way elsewhere.
Unfortunately, this order will prevent the police from using any video evidence of crimes perpetrated by a police officer found in the evidence siezed.
I agree. I would like for someone to enumerate all the people who have been “cancelled” and then compare it to those that have been violently attacked.
Wow! I read a 1,000-word article on the claim that "SAT And ACT Are Biased" and nary a word on how, why, or even THAT the claim is true.
Paper by Peter Daszak et al:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6502/379
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