skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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This was recently: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-July-2020-Twitter-spat-bet...

Also this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-...

Also: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

I think there are some great New York Times writers (Li Yuan’s articles I always like), but there’s a lot of seriously bad writing and writers.

It’s not exclusive to NYT either, Vox makes some great stuff - but they also published that “no handshakes” article mocking Silicon Valley for taking COVID seriously.

Vox repeatedly pushed the “COVID isn’t a pandemic” story. Vox doubled down on the “no handshakes” thing with Kara Swisher arguing in support of it. They still haven’t admitted being wrong.

Link: https://medium.com/@balajis/citations-for-the-recode-handsha...

If you know anyone who has a NYT piece written about them usually they’re surprised by how many things are wrong.

Of course these are just the publications that even pretend to be honest, I’m not unfairly targeting them - others unnamed are often worse.

I think their ad driven model is a corrupting influence. I also think their anti-tech company bias is related to tech companies destroying their historical business model (I think they're holding a grudge: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/07/14/the-serfs-of-facebook...).

I think it’s better to support good writers directly, I hope substack and independent blogs win.

Some suggestions:

Persuasion: https://www.persuasion.community/

Stratechery: https://stratechery.com/

Stay Tuned with Preet:
https://cafe.com/stay-tuned-podcast/

Andrew Sullivan:
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/subscribe

Sam Harris:
https://samharris.org/
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> we would have to implement extremely strict lockdowns...

if we assume that the goal is not to flatten the curve but to completely stop the virus in its tracks. Most people and countries don't have this goal.

Edit: To those downvoting, I'll just say that my statement is factual, so argue the facts. Long-term, we want a vaccine, yes. In the meantime, most people and countries are simply not willing to do what it takes to completely eliminate this virus. They think it would be nice if the virus went away, but they are not working towards that as their goal.
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I'd be immediately most comfortable working with Python (backend or maybe infrastructure), or doing embedded C/++ IoT work.

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Tradespeople can make a lot of money. I've started to do as much house repairs/installations as I can by myself after realizing it would cost hundreds of dollars for even very basic plumbing jobs.
> Linux should follow suit

Linux has been running on ARM for at least the last 15 years.
What do you consider a small droplet? The masks are tested with 0.3 micron droplets. Do you have a source?
Additionally, just because C++ "had it" doesn't mean it was done anywhere close to well.
> lack of appreciation for education

Have you ever been to a Black public school, like actually attended one as a student? I promise you the #1 problem isn't lack of appreciation for education.

>fatherless homes

Except this actually has a pretty pinpoint time when it began to cultivate and it overlaps with the War on Drugs and the stagnation of Black middle class growth in the 80s. The modern situation is accumulation of these effects, not their cause.
Long-term, the only valuable resource is attention. Content is accumulating, faster and faster due to automation, thus its value is declining.

Artists can make money with concerts so they will pay you to become part of your life. Even now, youtube is already playing entire songs as advertisement. Why should it stop there?
I still don’t understand what Microsoft is thinking. Facebook, Google, Twitter, and to some extent Apple have had to deal with content moderation headaches on their respective platforms. Especially when it comes to politics, it seems like un-winnable battle. Do nothing and you’ll get blamed for helping spread hate and propaganda. Do something and you’ll get blamed for violating free speech and censoring conservatives.

As far as I know, Microsoft has so far avoided being on that hot seat. So why, now, get involved in the shit show that is social media? I still don’t understand why Trump has a beef with TikTok specifically, but if the rumors are true that this is payback for the prank they pulled on his first political rally, isn’t this whole thing political in nature? What if TikTok users continue to mess with Trump? I can imagine Trump now set his crosshairs on Microsoft. I don’t understand why you’d willingly put yourself in the middle of a controversy to buy a company that doesn’t exactly align with your current businesses. What am I missing?
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The plural of anecdote is not data. There were obviously a mix of behaviors, and which was predominant and where is a crucial factor to control in any analysis.
I can’t find it. Might be out of luck but figured someone might now off hand
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Mathematical rigour doesn't necessarily translate to correctness. A mathematics-first approach encourages oversimplified assumptions. An example is the efficient markets hypothesis, which is the "spherical frictionless cow" of economics.
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Signal can't fix social problems. Sounds like you probably ought to cut the toxic person out of your life. Or if that's too confrontational, there's always the old, "Sorry, I just got this number, don't know who you're talking about."
Most of my issues with distributed came from poor over the wire interop. Very crappy libs that would serialize and deserialize in amazingly bad ways. Or some descriptor lang (like idl). Then God help you if you had two different CPU/compiler platforms on both sides. JSON has in many ways filled the niche that XML was doing and RPC before it. But I had to spend so much time writing glue code just so both sides could send/recv that data.
In many states you can get a legal separation before you divorce.
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I have been on the internet since the days when newsfroups ruled the earth, and it is my experience that unmoderated spaces claim to be havens for free speech, but usually end up being havens for people racing for the ethical bottom and recruiting each other into, at best, mass-trolling other sites; at worst, you’ll get people going from cosplaying nazis “for the lulz” to being actual neo-nazis.

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1.65 is not the average ratio, it's the smallest ratio among the group of countries under consideration. So, it's intentionally misleading.

Regardless, even if the average WERE 1.65, that's still a damning enough number that the meter shouldn't be all the way to the "False" side.
What do you think of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's claim that Piketty basically has his math all wrong?

https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d...

>>with not only capital in general but the state too

Why should capital in general be a problem? Isn't it crony capitalism the actual problem? If you are very rich, that isn't usually a problem to your neighbor. But if you are very rich and can thus get away with tax evasion but your neighbor lands in jail for the same reason, isn't that when it actually becomes a problem?
I'd rather not contract COVID-19 and die as a result of an outing to a restaurant or a bar. I'm fine with what Cuomo and DeBlasio are doing.
You can't simply search for "BLM Protest". The 2020 protests are not the first BLM protests, these are just the first BLM protests that are getting global attention.

On the first row of images that appear for me, when following the sourced article, they are from the years:

2015, 2016, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020 (everyone in this picture has masks)
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Strawmanning the education systems by ranting about tree-hugging hippies who indoctrinate the children and calling taxation theft isn't critical thinking, it's living in the bizarro world that is modern American conservatism.

His views also aren't non-conformist at all, they have a deep history in US politics. Friedman, Hayek, and so on for a large time during Sowells career practically dominated public discourse. Friedman alone probably is the single most influential economist of the last few decades as far as public discourse is concerned.

And that is squarely where Sowell is situated given that he hasn't ever actually worked as an economist, but basically as a pundit. Within American conservative punditry his views are as standard as it gets.
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I created a side project called SayFyi (https://www.sayfyi.com). It's for people to post interesting audio clips and have a voice discussion. You can subscribe to communities that interests or create a channel and post your own audio clips. Voice is a medium that hasn't been explored much. I can imagine people using this for class discussions. Or to post something creative and reach out to their audience. One thing I like about voice is that you know you are talking to a real person. It takes a lot more effort for a bot to generate a voicenote, and users have to record their voice, hopefully leading to less toxic discussions. Check it out and let me know what you think.

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Isn't that overcomplicating things though? If tracing is a concern, why not use Monero instead?
For those who like me aren't familiar with the concept of "float boxing", I think this is the same thing: https://www.lexifi.com/ocaml/unboxed-floats-ocaml/

Basically if I understand correctly this removes an indirection when using floats, probably reducing the memory footprint and improving performance.
Yeah, I noticed and fixed the search.
> Does the case for C++ in 2020 still exist?

The question is the opposite: you have to prove to managers the benefit overcomes the risk of using a new language. Rust is still not nearly stable nor popular enough for many fields.

Go is a very different language with different goals and constraints, so the question does not really fit.

> Rust and Go are much simpler to learn

Go is a simple language, yes. Rust is a different beast with the same intrinsic complexity as C++.

> can do everything that C++

Not exactly true (for the moment). Rust is lacking on const generics, HKTs and other details.

> sane, simple and clean build systems/package managers

That is not a big argument for the kind of projects is used for.

And it is not true either, since nowadays there are several competing, modern package managers for C++ too (build2, Meson, Conan, modern CMake...).

> not to mention async/await concurrency

The async IO model has been available in many languages for many years, including C++. In the recent years several languages (including Rust and C++) are bringing syntax sugar to let the compiler create the state machines. But it is not the only way of doing async.
Leadership murdered young is the worst possible outcome. The criminal who committed the murder did not set out to win a political argument. The world cornered a monster, and the monster took the path of most damage to make the world ugly. Monsters survive easier in an ugly world.

If the monster murdered Ted Kennedy or Jesse Jackson instead, roles reverse.

Today, in 2020, more people suffer under worst slavery than anytime in human history. If crimes centuries ago matter, what about the much more horrible crimes of today?

Everything leaders do will be copied. Leaders attract monsters. The world works itself out better without forced leadership.

Easiest way to force leadership? Push out all the people who ask for too much. Bring in people who can be bought for cheap.

People do not work to make the world fair, or good, or even to have fun and a good time for all. People work to win, and do anything to win, because the top of the world comes down to coarse critical decisions. Stop the bleeding. Just come home. They die, you live.

Good people have little power, still very much the underdog in the world. Look closely and see warning signs of monsters at the top of the food chain. The world, powerless to stop them. Monarchists want their colonies back. Marxists laugh at suffering, believing full well they will live forever or walk the Earth again after death. Both travel far to torture Americans to death.

It's better to stay obscure and aloof. The world's evil hits you enough already if you do nothing. When it does, remind the world why it's wrong to wake sleeping monsters filled with a terrible resolve.

I am building a telescope to focus into a black hole. Look at it the right way, everything out there says your heat is not escaping your body but instead going directly into your heart, cooking you alive. After I use cosmic observation to kill, I use it to poison the world against you. Everything that could ever existed, poxed and salted against your existence.

I am not sure how to build heaven. I am convinced I built hell. Bother me again, we find out.
Your perception of Sowell is colored because he's a black intellectual? That sounds pretty damn racist.

How about not judging black people when they don't fit in the box you want to put them in?
It's not 4 months of full time work. It can be one email per day.
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Eh. It's not "hard", it's "harder".

Evaluating mail delivery services and integrating with one; going through all API handlers to check that they handle the extra "signed up but email still unconfirmed" status the right way; handlers for resending email confirmations; the password reset flow. A lot of papercuts.

Oh, and later on — having to debug email delivery issues, which always happen eventually.

This is why adding another third-party auth option is much easier than adding an email signup flow.

An alternative is the "modern" email flow where you just get a sign-in email every single time you want to login, but that's meh. I'd rather have a proper "classic" email signup flow.

All this said, I admit that email signup is one of the basic features, and we're missing it. I want to have email signup too. I just don't think it's as easy (or even /almost/ as easy) as third-party auth, and the rest is a question of priorities.
Over-Solving or Solving Problems You Don't Have
Those are valid examples, but modules are much older than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_programming#History

It really shows Stroustrup's point on how most of these programming concepts have been around for a long time.
Seems to be working very well too! GDP down 12%, who cares, 1/3 of the country missed mortgage payments, not a real problem. Teenagers making memes on a Chinese app, shut-it-down red alarm.
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