skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don’t have to conservative. They just have to be not cutting edge.

Believe there is a difference between feeling and being? “Feel assaulted” by words is now described as “being assaulted”. “Feel like a woman” is now “is a woman” through some linguistic slight of hand by a) saying gender is how you feel and b) saying when you say man/woman you mean gender, not sex.

By redefining commonly used words those who wish to change society to fit their view have managed to get tons of people to silently go along because well, that’s what the words mean now.

Very first amendment- freedom of speech. How do you get around this? Classify everything as hate speech and “verbal assault”.

Playing the victim has become so fashionable lately, everyone is trying to jump in it. Black? You can go back to the time of slaves in the when no living remembers. Woman? Women are always victims and have no agency, regardless of the facts. If you have no agency, you can’t be blamed for anything. It used to be women could blame all men for everything. Since BLM, they aren’t allowed to blame black or Hispanic men. The list goes on.

Now we are left with just white straight men who have all the power and (only) evil in the world. Except it will crumble. As people gleefully engage in activities they once protested, those pesky cell phone videos make it onto YouTube. Right now it’s a bunch of Karens. Funny how that tries to get explained away. Soon you’ll see the rise in videos of bad behavior from the other protected groups.

The real death of this I think will be when more “white saviors” try to get in on the action and do more than say stupid shit on social media to score points. They’ll start to actively engage with the people they pity. If they do it for any length of time, they’ll realize these poor suffering babies are people, like anyone else.

I’m a minority and find it amusing when we’re described in such infantile terms. Date a few of us, get involved, and suddenly “oh you guys have so much family drama!” or “why do you make such bad decisions?” Hahaha welcome to the club. Stop talking about race and start talking about decisions, poverty, etc.

Yes poverty is talked about, but only allowed if you’re not white. If you’re black, you’re poor because of racism. If you’re white, without batting an eye, you’re designated white trash.
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Okay, could you show it? In particular, while you can point to something like the g-factor, can you show that the g-factor exists? It is currently completely hypothetical that such differences exist.

For a good example of evidence, look at the Flynn effect. One way to read the effect is that people dramatically got smarter over the past century, but...how? What exactly actually changed? The biggest correlate is education, suggesting that the quality of schooling is far more important than any innate ability.

Edit: Ah, you believe in IQ. I presume that you won't simply let me win the argument just because of my high IQ, though? So IQ isn't everything. More importantly, though, note that IQ also correlates with sex and skin color, but a cursory look at the genes says that that correlation must be spurious. So indeed what we see is that IQ actually correlates with quality of education, which then goes on to correlate with both sex and skin color thanks to the sexism and racism inherent in our educational system.
It's really hard to point at studies to evaluate these types of hyped development paradigms. Some thoughts, as someone who loves static typing and microservices:

My favorite thing about static typing is that it makes code more self-documenting. The reason I love Go specifically is because if you have 10 people write the same thing in Go, it's all going to come out relatively similar and use mostly built-in packages. Any API requests are going to be self-documenting, because you have to write a struct to decode them into. Any function has clear inputs and outputs; I can hover a parameter in my IDE and know exactly what's going on. You can't just throw errors away; you always are aware of them, and any functions you write should bubble them up.

Typescript addresses this somewhat, but basically offsets that complexity with more configuration files. I like Typescript in use, but I can't stand the fact that Javascript requires configuration files, transpilers, a million dependencies. Same for Python and mypy.

Yes, I could just look at class members in a dynamic language, but there's nothing that formally verifies the shape of data. It's much more annoying to piece apart. I don't use static analyzers, but my guess is that languages like Go and Rust are the most compatible with them. Go programs are the closest thing to a declarative solution to a software problem, of any modern language IMO. As we continue experimenting with GPT-generated programs, I think we're going to see much more success with opinionated languages that have fewer features and more consistency in how finished programs look.

Microservices are also great at making large applications more maintainable, but add additional devops complexity. It's harder to keep track of what's running where and requires some sort of centralized logging for requests and runtime.
Ok, then open another one. It is a bit time consuming but at least you don't take the loss.
HN provides the same dopamine surge.
I don't see the parallel, a job guarantee is supplying jobs to people that otherwise would be at home.
> If the feeler gauge doesn’t slip in with minimal force, then that tells you the gaps is smaller than the gauge.

The numbers of sets of comically bent out of shape feeler gauges I've encountered in my life demonstrates that there's a bunch of folks out there who don't understand how they're supposed to be used. As in "maybe if I just push harder this'll fit" :)
So, the second one, then.
Besides passengers the Lusitania was also officially carrying hundreds of tons of rifle ammunition and more than a thousand cases of artillery shells. Some have asserted it had even more than that, undeclared/unofficially. From wikipedia:

> Furthermore, there was a large consignment of fur, sent from Dupont de Nemours, an explosives manufacturer, and 90 tons of butter and lard destined for the Royal Navy Weapons Testing Establishment in Essex. Although it was May, this lard and butter was not refrigerated; it was insured by the special government rate but the insurance was never claimed.[111]

That may not excuse Germany for sinking it, but even so I think operating in that capacity is a far cry from being a hospital ship.
In my opinion, a big screw up at least warrants that you lose respect, at least temporarily.

They can regain respect by building new good products. Or by admitting mistakes, surely not by laying blame on the pilots.

I am less forgiving. If you want to forgive them, that's your choice.
You said "I honestly don't see why it matters", and then went on to describe why it matters... The resulting echo chambers are dominated by extreme views. If you want to belong, then you accept the orthodoxy or at least don't speak up when you do disagree - there is no room for nuance. This is a recipe for increasing polarization, inability to engage with reasonable points by the "other side", and a lack of worthwhile discussion of how to actually approach societal problems.
Regardless -- I think it's a valid reading to say the "area between" say, g(x) = x and the x-axis from -1 to 1 equals 1. Only people who are trained would say it's 0. So I don't think something like that really measures "extended problem solving and deductive thinking skills" which is a pretty lofty goal for a test.
Indian English is also spoken in surrounding countries (Nepal, Sri Lanka). Anyway, what does the international exportation of a dialect have to do with legitimacy?

Linguistically speaking, if enough people speak a dialect, then it's legitimate. And there are more fluent Indian English speakers than there are British English ones.
USA have clearly lost every war we've fought, in my parents' lifetimes. You won't hear that on the news, however. In fact I fairly doubt this comment will be warmly received.
Political submissions tend to get flagged and removed. It's partly a function of how hostile the comments are. HN doesn't want flame wars. If a submission provokes polite, thoughtful discussion, it's more likely to stay up even if the article is highly political.
There is an arrogant pretense in self-imposed naming and carving up the world into your personalized compartments.

It seems PG has now stooped to the infamous Quadrant Diagram beloved by management consultants and other superficial minds who ought to know better...

The ribbonfarm guy and Eric Weinstein also come to mind, with their look-at-me coining of petty neologisms and vacuous abbreviations. They may be smart and reflective, but their heavy-handed narcissism drowns out any underlying insights.
That second paragraph could be said about literally anything. It's a very convenient way to ignore potential problems in any solution.
> and that those are what determine people's behavior toward rules, not the specifics of the rules themselves.

Maybe abstract, theoretical sense. But adults already hold pretty concrete opinions on most rules and an aggressive person's obedience or defiance is dictated by the person's agreement. Also, humans can be opportunists and see enforcement or defiance as a means of grabbing or welding power & influence.

There's ample evidence of this in action. The police selectively enforce laws all the time. Or the neighbor that calls the city to complain that you're violating zoning by having too many cars while they, themselves have an illegal fence and refuse to deal with it. Authoritarians by nature do not like it when the rules apply to them, but love enforcing them on others.
You can check the codebase for a good insight into what spaghetti code is.
I think one of the reasons smarter folks tend to fall into manichean thinking on luck vs. talent is that, as the level of success grows, luck plays a larger and larger role. So it is an emotionally powerful fact for people competing at the higher end of the success curve.

The mistake is generalizing this proportionality across the entire society and, thus, giving too much weight to luck and not enough to merit.

Discussing luck in the case of billionaires makes a lot of sense.
Discussing luck in the case of a successful franchisee in town makes less sense.
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Two things:

1. It isn't clear that the (real) cost of essentials like food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, education is actually going down significantly.

2. Even if what you say is 100% correct, this "extraction of wealth due to inflation" seems to be a somewhat stable scenario, and certainly hasn't lead to the apocalyptic visions of collapse that inflation hawks perennially create a ruckus about. So even if you think we are living through a hyper-inflationary doomsday scenario, certainly this is a very different doomsday than what one is usually led to imagine (Zimbabwe, Wiemar Republic, Venezuela etc.). Maybe inflationary Armageddon isn't so bad after all!
There's a huge difference between guaranteeing everyone who wants a job a job, and forcing everyone in the entire country's population to work for the government while setting their salaries the same and not rewarding productivity.
I think functional reactive programming belongs on this list.

Rxjs, etc.

Angular uses typescript and rxjs excessively and, while I used to like typescript, the combo has made me reconsider.

Rxjs send like an overcomplex way to do common tasks. Has RRP caught on anywhere else? Is there a usage that doesn't suck?
Your emotion is clouding your ability to be reasonable about this. Saying that certain behavior can have treatment value does not imply that not doing that behavior was the cause.

If they said a heating pad could help me fix my muscle strain, does that mean they are saying that I caused a muscle strain by not using a heating pad? That's absurd of course.

They are saying that focusing on achievement of life goals (as opposed to focusing on "fixing" yourself) can have therapeutic value.
I have a seriouse question on this, I would like to understand your logic, you say:

> While racialism is not criminalized, anyone using racialist "science" to falsely claim intellectual or behavioral differences between different ethnic groups has committed a serious crime.

Would you apply this standard to Farrakhan and his teaching that the white man was created from a evil witch-doctor and thus are inherently evil and have no souls?

Second you state.

> I just plain disagree that people have the right to express racist views or endorse Nazism.

What if I said, I hate the fact that the Nazis committed genocide, but we have to admit that they where very good at executing a national vision that pulled their nation out of a depression and turned them into an industrial powerhouse in just a few short years?

I would like to get your thought on it, as the above statement is a factually true statement, but it is an endorsement that they where effective economically and politically. Would you say that I don't have the right to state an established fact due to the fact that it may have racial or ethnic implications.

What about other facts based on numerical data like the rate of absentee fathers in the black community or the statistically high prevalence of high SAT scores by Asians. Would facts be limited in your view.

I am not trying to counter, correct or mock your position, I honestly don't understand it, I don't understand the desire to limit speech due to the follow on implications and I would like to know how you mentally walk thru those questions and come to the conclusion that we as a society would be better if we just could not say some things.
I've had this happen with a graphics card.

Bought a 2070. Got a 2060 in scruffy packaging.

To add insult to injury I sent it back and doesn't seem to have arrived yet and/or covid ate it. 5 fuckin months later it's still:

>Your refund will be processed when we receive your item.
I agree with your overall point, but putting in effort accounts for much more than 1% of success in pretty much any domain I can think of.

there's a sizable chunk of middle and upper-middle class families that can afford to send their children to good schools but not to support them indefinitely. it's a big advantage to start out as one of those children, but it can fall apart at pretty much any point if the child isn't willing to put in the bare minimum effort to advance through the pipeline.
But there still is value in "schoolbook RSA."

The OP thinks we lose something if we don't have "schoolbook $NextGenCrypto."

I would disagree, because we can still use "schoolbook RSA" for its primary purpose: education on the general concept. At the high-school, or even 101 uni level, either we are teaching basic, generalizable skills, or we are providing high-level surveys of general knowledge.

The use case isn't "How do I implement and use RSA as a practitioner in the field," but rather it is "How does this thing, that seems like magic, work?"

The risk is that the simplified model gives some kind of intuition that will provide a disservice later in life, but the benefits are just the opposite. Which is why showing how even small errors even in the toy-implementation can render it insecure is also a useful tool.
Good point. But still, I think, if it really was exposed for 100 hours the photo wouldn't be as sharp.
Does an approved H1-B extension necessarily extends the i-94 date?

If not, is the only alternative to leave the country, get a new visa stamp(which is not possible till Dec 31, AFAIK) and reenter the country?
Airplanes worry about fatigue. They have to be replaced after so many years or the wings will fall off in the air. If the airplane is only a few weeks away from replacement when it fails an inspection you scrap it now, if it has years to go you replace parts.
There's a "high tech" (i.e. they mostly don't use cutting tools) machining shop nearby; their proprietary machines (designed & built in-house, never sold or leased externally, only used for contract manufacturing) are repeatable within a few µm (they offer tolerancing below 5 µm on finished parts) and move about as quick as the rapid traverse on a more standard CNC milling machine.
I prefer Not to follow COVID related news.
News is like heroin, also earns billions. Also addictive as porn, coffee, cigarettes etc.

One of the easiest way to leave that way - force yourself to create something, not consume everything.
> I see nothing wrong or nonstandard with Indian English, as a native US English speaker living in Canada myself.

I try to see it from the perspective of a non-native speaker trying to learn English.

If I know no English, and pay for teachers to teach me English, I definitely do not want to be taught Indian English.

Not because it's wrong, not because it's $whatever_adjective, but because it will sound incorrect to the majority of native English speakers that are not of Indian origin.

In a similar manner, you don't see Cockney English being taught, and you don't think of as Cockney English as "correct". It has indeed its rules, and is perfectly understandable to the speakers. I have nothing against Cockney English. That said, I wouldn't want to be taught Cockney English by professionals who claim "it is correct." It is indeed correct, but it will hurt my communication even in the most of the UK.
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I obtained PERM with L1 visa and my BSc took 4 years, so that is definitely not the problem.
I'm curious as to why you think it is unethical?

How do you feel about physical stores that use video cameras? That seems like the most equivalent thing in the real world to me.
"As long as it is done peacefully and with willingness to engage in open dialogue. "

No, it absolutely does not.

You have absolutely not right to suppress other people with your ideology for anything other than a moment.

"Without it, the democracy crumbles"

This is completely false.

There is no such thing as 'peaceful' closure of public transit, it's only authoritarian, frankly.

There are exactly 0 examples of 'democracy crumbling' because protestors were not able to stop public transit and public roads.

In very certain terms - you don't have the right to close public spaces, to stop public activity with your political ideology.

It's completely illegal if 1 of you do it, it doesn't make it legal if 1000 of you do it, though you might get away with just a fine or whatever if you 'take it down' soon enough.

It's helpful to think of a cause that you don't support, or are perhaps against, even think of as 'immoral' and consider how you'd react if they shut your office down every few days.
Even though the HDD was a warehouse deal, Amazon is getting scammed in the "new and sealed" department as well.

When I bought a new NZXT AOI cooler Amazon sent me the original box with a fake seal sticker on it. The original contents were taken out and the box was filled with an old used Corsair cooler and some random electronics. Even the manual was replaced with one for a pull up bar.

Amazon could have known the sticker was fake because it was just a blank sticker without a logo and the box should be completely sealed in plastic when new.
" but that is part of the democratic game. The option is to live in an authoritarian regime."

Both of those statements a very false.
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It depends on how much the local DA wants to nail you.

It's definitely criminal behavior, some kind of theft or fraud
My wife moved here last year on a K-1 Visa and currently has her EAD while awaiting her green card which has been delayed even further than normal due to Covid-19 office closures.

She's a data scientist and has had numerous interested recruiters call her only to ask if she has a green card. When she states she has an EAD and IS awaiting her Green Card they say that's not sufficient and end the conversation. Is this legal? Seems like discrimination and is extremely frustrating for the both of us.
"This simplicity enables a relation DB to do more than any hard drive can ever afford."

That also seems debatable for the exact same reasons. I don't think this would convince anyone that needs convincing.
But when you buy from the second vendor you can just cancel the first order.

Amazon lets you cancel any time before shipment. They don't do pre-auths on the card either.
Saw this exact comparison 2-3 years ago.
The reasoning is that many studies show that people that have not worked for a while have a difficult time being hired again.

There are different ideas, but, I suppose that you could see it like a training program too.

Also, there are some supposed psychological benefits to work. And there is always something to do at the local community level, so it would not be totally unproductive work.
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Link to repo: https://github.com/nivbhaskhar/UnPuzzled
Interface created by Gradio: https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio
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I once was late for a meeting because it was "preponed" – I heard "we are ...ing the meeting" and assumed it was going be pushed to a later date.

Not even angry. It's a great word.
Still a good comparison to see the relative costs of the components involved.
Do the needful is such an awesome expression! I wish it were standard worldwide. I enjoy it a lot more than "do what's needed" or "do what you need."
I mean, Lord of the Flies is fiction.

In real life, the boys stranded on a deserted island made a pact to never quarrel, and kept that pact for a half century.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-...
I'll be taking a break now for about an hour. Anything I can't respond to today I'll respond to over the weekend. Thanks.
Is there anything we can do as a community to prevent this?
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As a Python developer I once used BioPython for rNA/DNA related data exploration and liked it. Could not figure out how I could explore this niche further due to lack of domain knowledge and a clear path.
I think you are right about the market effects, but wrong about the causes. The way I see it, it's not that the employees are willing to make the sacrifice per se, it's that there are just more job applicants total. If the supply is increased, the price will drop. It's not that people want to work for a lower wage and then make up for it in the quality of the work, it's that since the population is broader, you find more people willing to work for a lower wage. You get the less frequent edges of the Gaussian curves because you have more people. You see this in zoos, hospitals, elder care, etc.

It's not a question of society being backwards, it's just a function of market based jobs. The cause is amoral and independent of the wishes of the people in the system, though the effects very much have moral relevance.
It sure feels like an ARM based Switch Emulator should eliminate a lot of the complexity that comes with the emulation process
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Previously it was solved by wars, those who are more competent conquered those who are less. And once they became less meritocratic themselves were conquered by others.
The developer you're getting from the big IT consultancy is likely getting only 15-20% of what you're paying for him.
No,I received by 140 and waiting for it to be current.
UK English also uses plural for maths.
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Sorry, not a native speaker. What does it mean to "raffle somebody off"? (Edit: googling it says: "dispose of in a lottery", which makes me wonder: why is there such a specific verb in the English language? I have never even thought of "disposing of anything in a lottery")