skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

New York City charges its residents almost 4% tax from salaries over $50,000. It's huge money. What do the citizens get in return?

Clean streets? Nope.

Free museums? Nope. (Hello, London!)

Best in class public transportation? Good joke.

Effective homeless rehabilitation programs? Affordable healthcare for everyone? State of the art digital services for the citizens? Low crime rate? Bueller? Bueller?
"Remind me again, what made the USA any better than North Korea or any other off-the-rails criminal regime?"

... is an intellectually offensive question.

Posed in the open, by someone on an 'American' blog, in perfect safety knowing there would not remotely ever be any repercussions for posing the question.
What's the lower proportion renewable sources produced in the last 12 months (in one minute intervals)? If that is much lower than 90% you have to have some other source (or accept frequent randomish power cuts).
> The same reason why it took so long for some people to have significant Neanderthal ancestry to become accepted fact.

This is mostly because for several decades the term Neanderthal in pop culture has been used to describe someone who is brutish or dumb.

Many people want to believe that they are descended from or fashioned by the god(s) or godlike idealized humans, not from some people who trudged through a swamp and sheltered in a rock outcropping.

And now with the realization that people of Eurasian ancestry carry Neanderthal genes, you're already starting to see the same fallacy emerge in the opposite direction , where people are starting to use Neanderthal ancestry as a badge of superiority over those without it like the people of Sub-Saharan Africa.
This is just more whataboutism, and if you think that the US atrocities are excusable because of scale, you should ask the 37 million people displaced in the Middle East, and the relatives of the ~3 million dead.

Or you could also go to Vietnam and Laos, and notice the kid that gets blown up by a US mine every few days, or go notice the damage of Agent Orange, or go to the mass graves where millions lie buried.

How is that for scale?
I think the "efficiency problem" isn't solved by optimizing text input, but by eliminating unrelated time wasters so you can invest time in what matters.
I'd love for there to be an affordable way to test wild growing or even "abandoned" apples to figure out their genetics. it you can do it easily with cannabis, why not fruits and vegetables?
> there's fundamental value, and then there's "no where else to park money i don't need and don't know what to do with".

But what is irrational with parking it in equity of the highest growth and highest net income companies that can and do obviate entire business lines? What else are you supposed to do with money?

And what real estate should or shouldn’t be is unrelated to what the rational course of action is. It’s one of the essential pieces to diversify one’s personal wealth to ensure one’s security.
>This is usually the point that someone handwaves that having more money and more people makes you less capable than Scotland...

No a rebuttal on HN will usually be on the lines of something something small homogeneous population something something
Actually, the same short-term memory and muscle memory that allow you to have an "output buffer" when typing works with hand writing. You can finish writing a word, maybe even a sentence, while thinking about something else.

If you look at the paper sheet, it is because you have to check you are still on the guideline.

However I believe that at uni, I would write a whole line without looking if I needed to (that's after about a decade of fast hand writing almost 8 hours a day, 4-5 days a week, though). That those lines had a tendency to go up or down was not a problem, because making a clean copy of those notes was part of my learning strategy.
Motivation is not relevant, results are.
I am only responsible for what I state, not what others (mis)understand. AGAIN, it was in reference to the hyperbolic statement that the root comment made about being punished for just 'existing'.
I found working with relatively simple 8-bit microcontroller architectures (e.g. Atmel AVR, Microchip PIC), studying the datasheets and programming them in assembly, to be an effective and gratifying introduction to the basics of CPU architecture.
You're listing one possibly problem when this addresses dozens of issues. Removing corporate money from law making will make it was easier to address these issues in the future, with sensible legislation.
> Outdoor CO2 might be rising dramatically > dramatically rising outdoor CO2 leads to dramatically rising indoor CO2 > too high a concentration of indoor CO2 might have an impact on our cognitive abilities.

Are you really claiming there is some uncertainty whether the burning of fossil fuels will actually raise CO2 levels of the atmosphere? I have thought that the discussion is whether the rising CO2 causes global warming or not.

And if we agree that burning the fossil fuels increases CO2 in atmosphere (forget the damn global warming, we are not talking about that) Do you claim that there is no reason to believe that the indoor CO2 will also rise? I hope you understand that kind of claim to be so weird that I would expect you to elaborate a bit more why you think that would not be the case.

Finally, whether the increased CO2 actually has any effect on cognitive capabilities, that is of course the main topic in the discussion here. I have no further comments on that one.
There should be no expectation of C++ ABI compatibility. Do you want your system to be ABI compatible or do you want it to evolve? You can't have both. You have to pick one. I favor evolution.
No jury system in Thailand.

https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/advisories/overview-of-the-c...
It's all good.

The difference is subtle and depends on the country, state/province, and even down to the local municipality. I'd have not idea how to correctly title this for, say, South Sudan or East Timor.
that's modern old school calcs, huang's thing has data input and an fpga, that's a new view on the topic
In some places, they slap you on the wrist with a sword.
Maybe a controversial opinion here, but;

I think note taking is seriously overrated. Sure some disciplines have things you need to know by heart, and having your own notes can help with that. But I rather use my brain power and attention to interpret and integrate what I hear during a lecture. Then use the literature if I need to refresh anything. For some people I feel that learning have been exchanged with note taking.
Read that and wondered why you would struggle with moving the cursor one character forward. Then realized that I live in Emacs and that you had meant something else;)
If you been at more than a few jobs, almost certainly you have had failures/ disasterous interviews. I certainly have.

Once I’ve gotten a job, a question coworker asked: how did some of these other people around me get through the interview process.
> And that grievance is a systemic one and therefor a responsibilty of the people should they have the intention to declare themselves as a democracy...

I believe the major issue that everyone affected likes to avoid is their profit of that behavior. Not necessarily torture itself, I don't think it helps for interrogations but may serve as a deterrent, but global power and regular war and demonstrations of strength. That gets you a lot of favorable trade deals, you get to be the world's reserve currency, and you can borrow without any limits. That's pretty good, and probably more than makes up for the insane military spending - and citizens profit from that as well.

I don't think there's a lot of motivation to be overly critical in that regard, much like most people won't be too critical of their company when they get half a million in total compensation.
The 2016 US election and me pouring endless energy into Twitter arguments with Trump supporters.

Eventually too I read a lot of History about divisive times, and it showed me a lot of tragedy, much worse than what we're experiencing now. But also bounce back from that tragedy. You learn through life (and History) that Politics is relentlessly cyclical. Those that attempt control, even well intentioned, are ultimately resisted and replaced by the next regime that tries to take control, on and on...

That's not to say I don't vote. And I think you could meaningfully participate in the Political process out of a sense of duty or service. Like actually volunteering for a cause, etc you believe in. But don't waste your precious time on Twitter on Cable News outrage cycles that’ll just make you mad with zero impact on anything

I wrote an article on this: https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2020/08/06/political-twitter-o...
Not having the whole story arc about Junaid Hussain is the main difference between the show (as seen in the transcript) and the article. I was talking about the former from the start, as it can be easily seen.

The point in the article after mentioning Dr. Strangelove uses however the same wording that I've pointed to:

"You could say the same thing about American offensive cyber operations. They have been so stealthy for so long, maybe people don't realize we have them."
When u meet someone all the time u start liking it. Our tool helps u get an average output that if u see someone for the very first time how much attractive u will find them. of course AI is not absolute but gives u some data points to u to decide. Thanks for your feedback.
I am not attempting this experiment to seem ‘more respectable’. I am doing it for myself and not for others.

It’s a double edged sword. When I swear, I also ‘see’ a lot of colour(literal colour) and my use of language becomes more creative. Because ‘swear words’ to me..because English isn’t my native language...is creative. I feel like I am employing a foreign language and it’s words as shorthand where I can pack a lot of meaning and associations in one word instead of using 3-4 sentences. I don’t know if native English speakers feel that way.

I am also wondering if using swear words as short hand is taking away my ability to explore the richness of English as a language. Or to form longer complex sentences.
But we might enter one...
litterdeer and litterdog :-( "dog litter" is already meaning something else.
This is great advice. Because while the Rust book is good, certainly can't fault it, I hate reading about programming languages. It doesn't work for me. If it does for you, great.

If not, then just write Rust. Remember: no matter how bad or non-idiomatic the code you write, it's still better than not doing it.

If you don't have a project you'd like to do, you can port something to Rust. I think a thousand lines is terrific advice. Writing Rust really helped me solidly remember many "how do i do X in rust" things. Crib liberally from other codebases. Ripgrep is perfect for getting inspired with Rust idioms, such a good codebase (obviously don't port that :D).

I'm at 15k lines now. It gets better! You'll learn to appreciate cargo and the build system. It just works. No more makefiles, pom.xml, requirements.txt. Rust-analyzer is great for IDE hints in a lot of IDEs, but easiest to set up in VSCode. If you end up shipping a CLI program/giving it to friends, you'll appreciate zero-dependency binaries (well, except some libc dep).

If all those things don't matter to you, then re-evaluate. Programming languages are a tool; nothing more and nothing less. What are you trying to achieve? Honestly, you might be better off spending your time on focussing on your career, no matter what the language. You don't say why you want to learn Rust, so I'm not going to guess. But you don't need to know Rust to be a good programmer. Rust will be there in a few years, too.
I'm okay with censoring this bit of history (the vandal's name, not the event itself) personally, but that's beside the point. This whole article is arguing against publicizing the acts of fame-seeking criminals yet repeats <OMITTED> many times proving that his strategy worked. It's an oxymoron or something.

Also, I think your logic is faulty. If no one knows <OMITTED>'s name then they can't know to be embarrassed to share it with him. If the ancients had decreed that anyone who had the same name must change their name that would have let the cat out of the bag, eh? I think it must be that the ban was on telling the name of the vandal, not on the name itself.
IMO, it comes down to having a clear, customer-facing message.

Steam has spent a decade plus saying "we're going to make PC gaming a better experience than going to a Gamestop and buying a box with a CD-ROM in it." They've delivered in many ways-- from the technical/distribution space, to shaking price expectations, to providing discoverability for indie creators, to building a community big enough that people can use their reviews as a shopping tool.

Epic came in and made some mealy-mouth comments about "we want to be a lower-margin store so devs keep more cash", but that doesn't directly mean much to the consumer. Rather than offering something inherently compelling, they have to force people into the door with exclusives, forced accounts, and selling dollar bills for 90 cents (subsidized discounts and giveaways.)

A good counterpoint is GOG. They don't match Steam point for point, but they've made a clear niche out of benefits customers can see (no-DRM, and a catalog of retro titles that would be a pain to acquire and run today)
Just to be clear here, are you saying that you're more disgusted by the idea of violent, direct action against those committing human rights atrocities?

Rather than by those committing the human rights atrocities?
It depends on the environment.
We had two "social crisis" like this in my workplace.
One was a triggered by an innocent remark about someone not seeing the wage gap between women and men in his personal circle and then mentioning there are too many variables to say a wage gap exist.

The person got massively and publicly shut down by leaders in the company who wrote lengthy messages about it and explained holding this belief wasn't acceptable in this company and rationalised the reaction with other leaders saying it was a way to send a message.
They didn't manage to get the guy fired (but they tried!) and he left after a few months of radio silence.

Sure thing, nobody else dared to say something about it but the victim got messages of support by tons of people afraid to speak up.

My opinion is that, given it's a company's private space, the company could limit freedom of speech and ban public political discussion to avoid this scenario - still, seeing people trying to force their dogma on other people was shocking.
People are much more mobile today than in the 60s. So while the top 5th may be improving, I would guess that much of that is in major cities where the cost of housing and education far exceeded income growth. It’s not just growth in income it’s growth in income relative to your local cost of living.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
I share your curiosity. I've marveled at people's diction in man-on-the-street interviews from the 30s, 40, 50s. Maybe the effect of an editorial filter or change in acculturation, or more likely co-determined by things I haven't guessed at.
> I would assume it would be printed via ANPR and then I’d guess the onus is on you to check everything you’ve ordered is correctly present and labelled.

The onus should on the company CEO. One day in jail for each mistake they make.
One of the big reasons that tech and knowledge companies outperform their book value is because of intangible assets. You can’t represent unmeasurable assets on a balance sheet (thanks intro to financial accounting, I got my tuition money’s worth I guess)

Things like future performance and intangible competitive advantages (e.g. Apple’s growing “ecosystem”) aren’t part of financial statements.

We should expect value to be low right now. Many businesses are closed or below normal operating capacity.

But in the future? These tech companies aren’t going anywhere and if anything COVID-19 is cementing their position.

I think tech companies have more elastic costs than companies with physical products and factories. The tech companies facing unfortunate circumstances (Uber, Groupon) can just cut payroll and run on a skeleton crew with few consequences. They aren’t paying rent on thousands of retail storefronts. Their cloud computing scales down. The software is already written.

Even if people are just using companies to store their money while interest rates are low, I’m not sure it matters, because there’s no good reason to sell.
Not trying to be extra cynical but it sounds like they should've just disappeared the guy after torturing him. I wonder if the people responsible aren't kicking themselves now for not doing it.

Unless there was a lot media or government attention in this case, it'd be quite easy to point the blame at some terrorist group in Afghanistan and walk away.
What's the fastest way to chill your beer?
Best name.
1) the video series on building an computer from scratch is fantastic. It's valuable information no matter where in the tech stack you wind up in (or even if you don't wind up in tech) but also having a deep knowledge of these systems will be of considerable value down the line, because we aren't training kids in hardware as much anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyznrdDSSGM&list=PLowKtXNTBy...

2) If their interest is a bit higher in the stack (like robotics e.g.), and they don't mind getting in the weeds and asking for help in the community, I would target learning with a raspberry pi system. My preferred target is Nerves; it's a bit more bare-bones, and there aren't drivers for everything, but the community is fantastic (the elixir slack / nerves is the place to be), and it's easy to get to a point where you are dropped into an IDE and you can just code.
My guess is that it used to be cheap, but now you’re paying for somewhere with a runway that has space. Then there’s still some maintenance tasks that may or may not be included.
It happens sometimes and it stinks, but it has to be weighted in the overall context. Usually these "no standard of evidence" fines have no consequence besides a fee (since loss of freedom would be injustice) so just think of it as tax by sortition, which is fair
All this comment shows me is that some people will defend any horrible manner of things as long as it's done by 'their side'.
Learning with Texts (2020)
Author here to answer your questions about the Nanoprocessor :-)
Physically, my best advice is to take good care of your back and your teeth.

These 2 things can make a huge quality of life difference once you are past 40. I would also add your eyes, but there is not a lot you can do about that one! Almost everyone needs reading glasses by 40. Glasses suck, but you get used to it.

Psychologically, the best I can say is to forgive yourself for any stupid things you did when you were young. Try to be as kind to yourself as you would be to others. I think of this as the "inverse golden rule." Really important as you get older, because regrets and self-doubt pile up otherwise.
In Germany, https://jugendhackt.org/ is a great place to get inspiration, meet like-minded peers and learn.
One thing a lot of people fail to see or think about is the federal reserve literally propping up the stock market with cheap available cash.

This year, the federal reserve not only added over $3T (trillion) USD to the money supply, they effectively inflated the money supply infinitely by removing the reserve requirements of partner banks (who add to the money supply by creating loans on collateral given to them) completely.

I am not kidding. [0]

As of March 26th 2020, banks literally need to hold no capital in reserve to hand out loans (aka inflating the money supply).

Stock values are increasing because there is an infinite amount of money floating around and most everybody you know is blissfully unaware of that fact.

We are in uncharted waters now. The reserve requirement was always 10% I believe from the day the federal reserve opened up shop. Now it's 0%. That is insanity.

I seriously worry the US is in for a taste of hyperinflation very soon.

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
Australia is on lock-down due to covid-19. Melbourne's stage 4 lockdown only allows for a 3 mile travel limit from the home, for instance.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54045102
> To think, if he hadn't made it, I wouldn't even be here

Isn’t that the case for literally every one of our ancestors? Any one of them was one accident, disease, etc. away from not having the child that became the next link in the chain between them and me.
Or how Siri means "buttocks" in Japanese?
>Is there additional evidence that Vitamin D supplements may help or do we just know about the correlation?

Yes. COVID-19 is known to affect the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone signalling cascade. Vitamin D is also known to be involved in this signalling. That's why speculation about vitamin D is more than just statistical hokum.

There is the chance of an error, but there is also a clear indicator for an underlying mechanism here.
While I agree with you in the sentiment that they are venting to space... metaphorically speaking. A recruiter either works for themselves, as an agency, or for a company. In all three scenarios your business is only as good as your reputation since “service” is your business. I’d highly suggest taking a second look at your stance. While it takes years to build reputation, it takes minutes to destroy it.
Oh yes, my point was not that the try-blocks version was less readable. I agree that it's better and used to use it back when it was still called `do catch { }` and didn't do automatic-Ok-wrapping. I was just making the comparison fairer.
Plants sadly don’t make a significant impact to indoor co2.

I see a future indoor co2 sequestration device being incredibly popular
Meeting everyone on a new team
> By contrast, I am currently living in Germany, and I have friends who are freelancers and they had support funds in their bank accounts less than a week after the lockdown started. Also there was already legal machinery in place to avoid job losses which was put in place in 2008 and activated almost immediately.

Every tax payer got paid $1200. You're right that it took weeks to come and was inefficient, but paired with an eviction moratorium I think mitigated the impact of the delay. The PPP had issues, but I think the money did keep unemployment lower.

That said, I'm not disputing that the German model for fiscal stimulus is better: it is. But I don't think there was a huge failure of fiscal stimulus in the US.

> Why are these options mutually exclusive? You could provide direct support to tenants and also prevent evictions

Agreed, I don't think those are mutually exclusive and I don't think more fiscal support to tenants would be a bad thing at all. I thought you were suggesting doing such instead of moratoriums, which seems unjust to me.

> My concern is that if we optimize the recovery effort for increasing equity prices, but fail to address other risks, like lack of employment and the creation of housing debt, we could be setting ourselves up for failure in the medium term

I don't think we are optimizing recovery efforts for increasing equity prices. I think that in the short-term higher equity prices is a consequence of expansionary monetary policy with a goal of reducing unemployment.

I don't think we're seeing a housing debt crisis right now and the actions the Fed is currently taking are meant to reduce unemployment (which is higher than it should be right now).
In a word, synthesizers. https://teenage.engineering/products/po
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-gen...

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/1998-10/WUiS-GSRD-07...

https://theconversation.com/racism-is-real-race-is-not-a-phi...

To add a bit more weight it’s worth reading the intro to race on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)