skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have moved so far to the right that the center of 25 years past is now seen as extremist left.

Here's an example of the center 25 years ago, something Bill Clinton said in a state of the union address:

> All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

How would this be seen today? Extremist left or extremist right?
It still amazes me that many of those shows were done live on the air, not prerecorded. Sounds effects and all.
2/3s of the increase in cost of government services can be explained by decreased productivity: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30024147.

Alon Levy has an ongoing study into US construction costs in particular, which are almost entirely focused on government funded and executed infrastructure projects: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-c...
I haven't clicked it, but my guess is that the first sentence oversimplifies in drawing its conclusion. Remove it and the comment is improved.
Isn't it the case for Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia or India [0]?

[0] https://vietreader.com/business/finance/16638-why-is-vietnam...
Running/walking/biking and reading make up a huge part of it. Cooking a meal instead of grabbing what is in the fridge. Learning to play piano/guitar.
"croc" and "wormhole-william" have the same build toolchain.
No, it's opposed by people who are numerate enough to understand that nuclear is ludicrously expensive and completely unnecessary.

I live in Scotland. In the past 20 years we've gone from around 12% electricity from renewable to around 90%. The last coal fired station closed in 2016 and we've not added any new nuclear in that time.

This is usually the point that someone handwaves that having more money and more people makes you less capable than Scotland...
In the US we generate on average 0.99lb of CO2 per kWh. The total output is 1.87b tons of CO2. Total CO2 emissions in the US were about 5.17b tons.

So about 1/3 of emissions. It’s worth doing, considering we can reasonably execute this in a decade.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183943/us-carbon-dioxide...
Are you going to offer any supporting evidence at least like the post you are rebuking? All of human history seems to suggest violence is the most available resource for achieving any sort of change.
I tell my kids their rooms are like Fibber McGey's closet and they just give me blank stares.
There is an opportunity for education that just shouldn't be assumed.

“Hey you are good with electronic devices that I had the same 20 years to understand as you, fix this other unrelated thing”

Means something very different when the users don't understand anything about the device they are using.

It isn’t about inferiority it is about understanding the baseline technical literacy and what areas should still be taught, just like they were taught to prior generations, instead of assuming there is a linear and continued proliferation of technical literacy. Its just a patch work.
Free markets tend to become positive feedback loops for those with skills or access to capital. Calling this feedback loop "unfair and corrupt" really does not necessarily follow from this fact alone. At the very least, it is not the best choice of words.
Gore Vidal pointed this out many years ago:

"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties."
> It's the one asset class where normal people are allowed to leverage themselves heavily

Which is... a good thing?
> It's unlikely that an airliner can maintain altitude on one engine, so the risk is high that once a problem occurs, things can go bad fast. Ditching 300 passengers in the open ocean guarantees fatalities.

This is a super misleading technical truth. There usually is an engine out altitude where it’s most efficient to fly on a single engine. Just like there is an altitude where it’s most efficient with both engines operating. The two don’t need to be the same.

Planes don’t automatically become ETOPS certified, every plane gets tested.

The first step is to certify the type of aircraft itself, for which it is flown on a single engine for the required time of the ETOPS rating. So ETOPS-180 means 180 minutes of flying with a single engine. Not in a simulator, with a real aircraft.

The second step is that each operator also has to become ETOPS certified. You can’t just buy an ETOPS certified jet and fly it over the atlantic. There are additional requirements for crews and mechanical staff, including more regular checks of the aircrafts.

Lastly, this is all based on statistics. So operators have to publish statistics about their fleet. If say engine outs are increasing for a specific airframe and/or operator, it’s possible that their ETOPS rating goes down or is completely suspended.
I think python has become the goto tool of working with data.
I am 3rd year CS grad. As you can expect, I have basic knowledge of C/C++, java, javascript, php, python. Like javascipt is hard, like concepts of closure, callback or even functional programming concepts like monoids, map, reduce. But the starting is easy. I don't think that learning programming is easy, but Rust needs more indepth knowledge I guess which I don't have.
interestingly, bunnie's previous take has been that fabbing your own silicon is likely less secure than using an fpga due to supply chain security

if your asic if compromised in tranist, it's a total game over. if your fpga is compromised in transit, the attacker has to have some knowledge of target bitstream

it has been argued that by making it easy for end users to rearrange the bitstream, an fpga can be more secure than an asic

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5706
Kodable is hiring a Senior Game Designer to help teach millions of kids to code
In 2009, 2010 and 2011, Obama was President and the House and Senate were both Democratic. Who was stopping Obama from closing GITMO during those three years? This was a campaign promise after all. Did DREAM'ers not exist at this time?

GITMO never closed because the US didn't find countries super willing to take in the detainees, and felt it would be "too distasteful" to let them stay in the US proper. Not a good case for violating human rights law, IMO, but to quote POTUS "it is what it is."

1993, 1994, 1995, Clinton was President and the House and Senate were both Democratic. Clinton's big immigration reform bill was the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. It's purpose was to "[strengthen] the rule of law by cracking down on illegal immigration at the border, in the workplace, and in the criminal justice system — without punishing those living in the United States legally."

Clinton created the mass-deportation machine in use today. Clinton's bill made it harder to immigrate to the US. Clinton created the 3-year and 10-year re-entry bars that continue to separate loved ones to this day. If an unlawful resident marries a US citizen, they're entitled to a green card but they can't apply for it from within the US but as the minute they leave they get a 10-year re-entry bar.

The last guy to grant amnesty to the undocumented was Reagan in 1986, and he was, last I checked, a Republican.

At some point you've gotta stop blaming the other guy.

Democrats are not the party of immigration, legal or illegal.
Sure, but you wrote "all over the world".

What culture do you come from? I have a hard time thinking that past primary school a history course is simply called "History".

Are you actually responding to the video? If so, could you explain what points you are responding to?

Or are you responding to my half-baked interpretations of YouTube comments? Because if so, it seems like a waste of your time and mine.

FWIW, "white guilt" seems more often used to silence white support of non-whites than be an accurate description.
If you are deficient, yes. If you are any vitamin or mineral dificient you should supplement.
What this article says is: it is important, here's how much.
Force yourself to not say anything until you have consciously approved of what you want to say. So instead of saying something like normal, run it through your head, and decide if you really want to vocalize it. It takes about a second.

Swearing for no good reason is one of the few things that tanks my respect for someone. The longer I go without hearing someone swear, the more I look up to them.
Show HN: TightKnit – Auto-schedule monthly virtual hangouts with extended family
Take an inspiration from countries that get proper democracy right - like Switzerland. You can have public vote on anything, just gather enough signatures and it will happen. Result will be binding to government, whatever it means.

This of course relies on population to be at least slightly smart and not dumb herd of easy to manipulate sheeps, but that's a basic premise of democracy in general.
Does this also allow you to cast arbitrary media to the Chromecast? I couldn't tell from the readme.
> What some consider 'oppression' today was the norm globally. The problem is moral realism/anti-realism, since you can't prove your moral value judgments with science they will remain subjective and thus naturally be opposed.

I'm afraid no amount of appeal to the evils of moral relativism are going to be enough to convince me that homosexuality is legal in most countries where the judgments of sharia courts are routinely enforced by the government.
The reference to William Utermohlen and his ongoing deterioration after his diagnosis with Alzheimer's is particularly poignant. He painted numerous self-portraits up to the point where apparently he could barely recognize his own face. His work is a vivid testament to the depredations that Alzheimer's inflicts upon creativity. [0] A bullet we should all hope we can dodge until an effective treatment is found.

[0] https://www.boredpanda.com/alzheimers-disease-self-portrait-...
Sorry for the late answer, but thanks!
Get yourself a Pentecostal mother-in-law, usually works.
Anyway, people who swear a lot are usually more personally trustworthy. Are you sure you want to change?
I don't understand; it seems to me try_block just simplifies

let result: Result<i32, ParseIntError> =
match ("1"::parse<int32>(), "2"::parse<int32>(), "3"::parse<int32>()) {
(Ok(x), Ok(y), Ok(z) => Ok(x + y + z),
(Err(x), _, _) => Err(x),
(_, Err(y), _) => Err(y),
(_, _, Err(z)) => Err(z),
}
...

when the err is the same in every case (or coercible), by providing access to the ? without returning the function in full

It doesn't seem to me that it enables any new capability -- just a convenience.
Why not use a randomized blur so people who like to do such things can waste time trying to figure it out when it's actually nothing but random numbers and has none of the original info?
Interest rates are very effectively controlled by the Fed and if they want to raise them, they can, anytime.
TightKnit is a fun project I made with a couple of friends, originally to schedule our video game hangouts.

After you create a group (all you need is a group name), you get a link that friends and family use to join. Every month, everyone receives a text or email asking their availability for the next week. Based on the responses, we suggest a good time to hangout.

We "say" that the service costs $5/group/month, but we're hoping to keep it free, unless there's a lot of demand and costs go up.
The toxicity of social media is that it plays into the darkness of our cognitive process and hightens tribalistic thinking. And in the article about social media, instead of recognizing this, the author chooses to use social media as a jump off point to pseudo intellectually glorify his tribe while bemoaning the oposite tribe. It's re-hashed fox/cnn with longer words. As someone who is non-affiliate to either tribe and finds the tribalism silly, the conceited sound of the article is jarring. I'm pretty sure the inspiration for South Park's smug alert episode was based on people who write this stuff.

The author talks about the good of social media as such:

> street uprising of the late spring felt like its joyous opposite—a future in which platforms were responding to and being structured by the events on the ground, rather than those events being structured by and shaped to the demands of the platforms. This was something worth our time and devotion... As people in the streets toppled statues and fought police...

And talks about the perils and evils of social media as such:

> promoting people who exist only to be explained to, people to whom the world has been created anew every morning, people for whom every settled sociological, scientific, and political argument of modernity must be rehashed, rewritten, and re-accounted, this time with their participation. These people, with their just-asking questions and vapid open letters, are dullards and bores, pettifoggers and casuists, cowards and dissemblers... That we get some kind of fulfillment from tedious debates about “free speech” and “cancel culture.” ... why not spend a few decades of it with a couple New York Times op-ed columnists, rebuilding all of Western thought from first principles?
There's another aspect to note taking under some circumstances. That is doing writeups of events, interviews, etc. (I often write for publications.)

There are a few different approaches.

1. The traditional one where you take fast handwritten notes in whatever semi-shorthand scrawl you use. If you're used to doing this you can usually capture enough close to verbatim to write a story.

2. The same thing with typing. This has a couple of advantages. It's mostly faster and I can form the core of a story pretty quickly with some cutting and pasting.

3. Record and take more limited notes (and optionally use one of the AI services to transcribe). This will typically give you the best accuracy but, because you find yourself having to refer back to the original audio and just have to deal with more material, it takes more time.
This is going to get downvoted but note taking is yak shaving. Don't waste any time thinking about optimal note taking.
I would have expected the <algorithm> header, but instead...synchronization primitives? std::chrono? I'm completely baffled about how that would be useful, but that's probably because I know very little about CUDA.
One of my favorite professors in college was my economics professor, who forbade us from using the word “fair” during lecture seminars. Even referred to it as the “F-word”. The idea was that “fairness” is subjective and ill-defined.
I've been aggressively long JETS since the crash, that investment has performed wonderfully.
I've used GraphViz to render the relationships between three layers of data structures in a system integration (system A, wire format, system B). I had to reconfigure the layout engine to sort the structures into ranks, and lock their spacing far enough apart to make room for the dozens of edges between nodes. I also used the pseudo-HTML node layout syntax, and spent some time working on styles and a color scheme.

So it wasn't automatic, but the resulting diagrams were beautiful, illustrative, and informative. Before that nobody on the team had fully acknowledged the complexity of what we were undertaking. I showed, with the help of GraphVis, both that this was a complex integration, and that it was possible to untangle the complexity.
How really to store passwords (and API tokens, which are passwords)
Great book: computer architecture a quantitative approach
We're not in an "inflationary environment."
I liked this idea so I packaged 'ding' into something you can install[1].

[1] https://github.com/alexdelorenzo/onhold
Lofty tech valuations means that the "baseline" performance expectation for many companies is rapid revenue and profit growth. Apple will need to start making 100 billion a year in profit, Tesla needs to make 20 billion a year in profit, etc (just making up numbers to illustrate the point).

The businesses can achieve solid growth, but the stock price can still lag if the growth isn't in line with expectations. Microsoft from 2000-2010 is an example of a stock price that fell even as the business kept growing year-over-year.

The Intelligent Investor did discuss book value, but the pennies on the dollar quote was for companies trading below salvage value. Book value is still an important metric, but agree that it's not nearly as useful for tech companies.

Traditional financial analysis is still useful when analyzing companies. assets - liabilities = book_value_of_equity, the income statement, the statement of cash flow, and the balance sheet should still be considered.

It's better to compare market value vs intrinsic value. Frothy markets are when valuations start becoming increasingly detached from intrinsic value.
It’s possible to synthesize hydrocarbon and other liquid fuels using CO2 from the air, or hydrogen which has no carbon in it. If you have a closed loop with your carbon, you eliminate the problem (still have particulates, NO etc, but that’s separate)
There are actual safety and environmental concerns that I wouldn't dismiss as "claiming to be fighting for the environment".

I do agree though that even I used to be completely against nuclear power because of the unsolved waste problem. However in light of the last 25 years not having brought enough progress to prevent an environmental collapse I'm inclined to accept that now, as yet another thing we'll just have to figure out at some point.
> For applications where a single thread performance is important, you use OOO and/or speculative execution to maximize the feeding of the data.

OOO and speculative execution are very energy-intensive per unit of compute, and hard to implement securely. Even if a VLIW-ish cpu like the Mill is still ultimately bottlenecked by memory bandwidth, avoiding pretty much every known drawback of OOO is a huge deal.
Why your domain name isn't safe yet
Couldn't libcore export the current version and std re-export the aliased version with a default?

The prelude lives in and uses std, and I don't see people who want exceptions using no_std anyway.
120 k years ago on Australia? Are we talking homo erectus here, or full blown homo sapiens?
Yet, far less expensive to implement than to code around the lack of.

This is all the more reason to get it into the core.
I can't tell from this project's readme how to actually play things. It has an instruction for connecting to your chromecast...ok, and then what?

In the past I've used https://github.com/keredson/gnomecast which is a standalone simple media player that transcodes if needed and streams to my Chromecast. Thoughts on what this provides that's better?
It just shows a strong correlation regardless of other factors such as demographics. The causation of such correlation is not yet determined. Although its probably a good idea to make sure you're not deficient whether or not vitamin D has an effect
Would love to but my handwriting is awful. Don't know why.

I am often complemented on my note taking. My view is that longhand is superfluous. Try to write more briefly and to write in all caps. Use more features like bullets, outlines and spaces and a different color pen for drawings, comments, underlines, outlines, lines indicating relationships, etc. This dates back to when I was perhaps 8 I had a teacher who forced us to use a ruler to create double-underlines for all headings in a separate color. This was, in hindsight, an awesome formative influence.

About brevity, think about it like this: if a second language speaker or child can understand the gist of it, you're doing well.

I don't actually take notes very often. A few times per month at most by hand, and probably a few times per week digitally. Basically I only take notes when in creative mode (interrogating own brain, reading stimulating material, brainstorming with others) or making research notes (often market research or technology related).
OF course not. It's just ironic the Democrats themselves eliminated a rule that could have helped them now.
Is there a standardized way to measure the performance level of chatbots? I.e. how does verifying claims of ‘the best’ work?
End-to-end Speech Recognition in PyTorch trained on 50kh of speech is released
Boston Police Strike
You don't think it's in the public's interest to know that one of the two parties of our broken two party system is explicitly subverting a democratic process to get "their person" nominated? Given that getting nominated to one of the two parties is the only viable way to get elected, anything that compromises the integrity of the nomination process is frankly more important than the final voting process.

>why he went in bed with the Russians

This is unsubstantiated propaganda.
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".

as for real estate, rents should on average roughly track inflation-adjusted gdp. outsized rents should be a very temporary reward for meeting localized demand, not structural extractions of wealth for the already wealthy in a captured regulatory environment.
I was introduced to them by audio tape by my parents. Lots of the comedies, but eventually some of the dramas. Less sci-fi, but Suspense was a delight in October.
Warren Buffet has argued the opposite as long as you know what you are doing.
I mean, you can’t miss any question at the big companies. There are endless candidates who have done 1000+ problems on leetcode in the waiting.
To put a number on it, you exhale ~2.3lb of CO2 a day. You should also consider that much of a plants mass is water, so it would require a significant amount of plant matter to scrub the air.

I once did the math, and found that an algae tank can theoretically offset a person’s entire CO2 emissions but that it would require a large external tank and I was living in an apartment at the time.
Black Lives Matter.

Constrain the operational gamut of law enforcement (aka “defund the police”).

Abortion is a medical health issue and a woman’s right to choose.

I dunno, there’s plenty that will get be undue attention at a Federalist meeting, and some things I could say that would put my life on the line (remembering home invasions, fire bombings and an assassination of a surgeon involved in abortions).