skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cleaned up trash last week for a work project.

The number of plastic bags, bottles, and cups I picked up out of a nature area was amazing. Plastic bags were by far the worst. There was plastic bags in waterways, plastic bags in ditches, plastic bags in trees, just plastic everywhere.

I'd love to know if the person who wrote this article has any financial ties to the oil/plastic industry.

Side note: While I picked up litter, I thought about how I once saw disposable utensils in a grocery store that were mostly made from corn. They were biodegradable, but certainly more expensive. We (in the U.S.) already subsidize quite a bit to corn growers. Why can't we make more biodegradable plastics?
That's not how it's worked in the past[1]. I was explicitly going by CSAs instead of states to avoid some of those issues[2].

From personal experience, I'd say it's better to live in a non-nuclear[3] country, because the local economy can be directed to positive sum consumer and export goods instead of negative sum MAD. So if Colorado were to leave (with our already unlikely assumptions, yet more unlikely due to network[4] effects) I would recommend only doing so politically, allowing the US to continue with basing rights (following the model of the Rest Of The World).

and then there's the small matter of who takes responsibility for a large national debt...

[1] indeed, ever since the unpleasantries of the 1860s I believe it's US military doctrine to base people in regions other than the one they're from.

[2] specifically, I believe the US would commence hostilities well before losing Kitsap and San Diego, let alone Pearl Harbor (because as long as we're in cloud cuckoo land, I'd bet hawaiians, no matter their attitude towards the mainland or fondness for Las Vegas, would prefer being stuck with the west coast than with anyone east of Stockton, and they don't have any economic argument for complete independence.)

[3] as others in the thread have noted, there is a non-negligible chance that third parties would be willing to provide an umbrella. My democracy has managed to survive the last 500 years with a policy of "we're no threat to you unless you cross our border" and indeed we even apologised to the last country we invaded (they replied no hard feelings).

[4] with navigable waterways (and some credible way to deal with harbour mining and general naval interdiction?) money will get one through times of no food better than food will get one through times of no money. Airlifts, as Qatar has discovered, are expensive.

Edit: found GDP by CSA, population was a good proxy (but inland goes up to 25% of top 20)

https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/drilldown.cfm?reqid=70&stepnum=4...

inland CSAs
7 Dallas-Fort Worth 0,5 T
11 Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs 0,4 T
15 Denver-Aurora 0,3 T
16 Phoenix-Mesa 0,3 T
20 Charlotte-Concord 0,2 T

so top 15 CSAs with navigable access only represent about 11 T of GDP, and if they (and I doubt the following would change much if we added coastal CSA's below the top 20) went their own ways the remaining US would presumably still be globally in 2nd place, with an economy roughly double that of the japanese.
If anyone hasn't tried cwm, you should give it a shot. It comes by default on OpenBSD and there's a port for Linux. A really terrific and high quality window manager by the OpenBSD team.
Whiteness is not white people. There are absolutely people in this world with ideologies about the superiority of white people. There is a field of academia which studies these ideas, and it is called Whiteness Studies.

I would gently point out that conflating criticism of whiteness with criticism of all white people because of etymological similarity is literally a strawman. Perhaps this course has something to offer you.
Just start, cheques = good, talk = bad.
Yes, for their TaoTiao subsidiary, not TikTok.

It says right there in your link that Bytedance is legally a Cayman's Islands company.
Scientists Develop a Thing That Can Heal Broken Bones in less time
John Tierney is a right-wing hack. All of his pieces can be summarised thusly: 'Pollution is overrated. The world is a big place! Carry on with business as usual! Own the libs!'
No you don't understand. The power company can heat your home warmer than 68°F when the electricity is plentiful so that it can wait longer with heating when the electricity is scare.
I feel the whole woke culture has led to lesser mentorship opportunities for women, most senior guys I know are too afraid to mentor in this climate.
Maybe, but I'm pretty sure browsers block the clipboard functions unless they were triggered via user input. I don't know if a page load counts as a valid trigger.
Not to disagree with your overall criticism, but:

> Want to get promoted? Work on important projects for the company, build rapport and relationships in the company, build a reputation for getting things done on time with high quality and low drama. You'll either get promoted, or build a foundation upon which you can pivot into a promotion at another company.

Did you answer the question posed in the article: Which of the top leaders in your company get there by doing this? The only common theme seems to be "build rapport and relationships in the company".
VIEs are publicly trade (Bytedance is not) and that blogpost you linked is a decade old.
so that's worth about $10 more for a grand total of ~$63 for the trip
We do have that here too, you can apply to be an electrician (IBEW I think) and other trades and be paid on the job to learn. Unfortunately high paying jobs like IT or pharmacy you have to pay first.
In which comment did I say millions of people upsell to subscription?

A 2 yr product lifecycle would be a $240 CLV meaning you just need 12% conversion rate to break even, which you don't even care about in growth mode. $30 CPA is more than reasonable.
FYI - https://telegram.org/apps#source-code. People trust Telegram because their source code has been independently audited by security researchers.
I left London 5 years ago and rare black cab would take anything but cash back then.

And my husband has been asked for a blowjob at least twice in London.... some black cab drivers are a little bit too "friendly"...
For me - probably not. I don't mind search engines with ads, and in some cases the ads have contained what I was looking for.

Ultimately the quality of the search results is far more important to me than whether some of the results are marked as AD or not.

Not to mention that some of the sites I get the most useful answers from, contain ads (stackoverflow springs to mind).
The percentages of university graduates for an age cohort are growing yearly in Germany as well. 25.5% in 2008, 31.5 in 2018. The US is just further ahead in this trend. It has similar effects in Germany. Brace yourself, Akademikerproletariat is coming :).

https://www.datenportal.bmbf.de/portal/de/Tabelle-1.9.5.html
Do you think that people should get in tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt for the “social experience”?
Please don't redefine privacy as "we know everything about you and we're going to exploit that information for profit but won't give it to anyone else except governments whatever their purpose may be because they only ever use it for a good cause." That's not what it is.
I agree. But that isnt how the world works. It is impossible to be recognized these days without raising your hand, even a little
Probably for the reason renewable energy plants are not built there [1]: Problems of politics and stability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec
The IRS accepts payments from those living illegally in the country. Not sure how it is now iirc proving a history of paying taxes was part of a successful naturalization process.
If you could set up a perfect scheme to eliminate fake news, how would you do it?

There is a lot to think about. Would it be a committee that has authority to decide what is true, for example? Comprised of whom from where? Would there be appeals for mistakes? What would a final appeal look like? What would penalties for non-compliance look like? Could you be jailed for fake news spreading? What would prevent abuse: say, an annoyed powerful person labeling something embarrassing but true as fake news? What if, say, a scientific fact that everyone knew turned out to be wrong? How would this be different from fake news?
You need your memory checked.
Uber started in 2014 in London, as a limo service... and black cabs were still operating mostly in cash.
Better yet, run your own searx instance.
Why act so drastically? It's not an all-or-nothing proposition. You can quit social media without sacrificing the convenience of online bill-paying, as an example.
Used to watch Penal Code 100a every morning before school for a couple years to block the dread. Hufs part was legendary.
Main points:

- No one pays more than they owe, that would be ridiculous.

- A complicated tax code greatly favors large corporations and the rich since they can afford to hire experts to comb through the law.

- One party's loophole is another's incentive or tax-break. Congress voted them in, it is perfectly logical for people and businesses to make use of them.
DDG is based in the US. It doesn't matter what the company says wishes or hopes. It is by nature not private.

Also Mr. Weinberg (DDG owner) who has built himself a reputation for abusing user privacy for profit (his previous company just bulk seller private information it got from unsuspecting users).
I think this is surprising levels of true. Elixir really works as an on-ramp from web to a lot of other stuff.
Cooonsiderably.
Thanks for this. I might just do that.
Ya, I can see the connection. If that's true, it's quite interesting, I'm not sure if that makes him seem better or worse.

The similarity I'd say is that I'm also emotionally detached from the situation (but intellectually attached - I perceive most people to have the opposite combo, fwiw). Differences I see are that I have no influence in the matter, and I have largely the opposite goals of Hitler.

My favorite relevant quote would probably be this one:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

"Moloch is introduced as the answer to a question – C. S. Lewis’ question in Hierarchy Of Philosophers – what does it? Earth could be fair, and all men glad and wise. Instead we have prisons, smokestacks, asylums. What sphinx of cement and aluminum breaks open their skulls and eats up their imagination?

And Ginsberg answers: Moloch does it.

There’s a passage in the Principia Discordia where Malaclypse complains to the Goddess about the evils of human society. “Everyone is hurting each other, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war.”

The Goddess answers: “What is the matter with that, if it’s what you want to do?”

Malaclypse: “But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it!”

Goddess: “Oh. Well, then stop.”

The implicit question is – if everyone hates the current system, who perpetuates it? And Ginsberg answers: “Moloch”. It’s powerful not because it’s correct – nobody literally thinks an ancient Carthaginian demon causes everything – but because thinking of the system as an agent throws into relief the degree to which the system isn’t an agent."

-------

I think this is a good estimate of what's going on. If everyone hates the system (maybe not unanimous, but likely pretty close), then instead of constantly fighting with people whose goals (as opposed to implementation preferences) are likely little different than our own, why don't we put down our weapons, come up with a mutually acceptable compromise, and make it happen?

And I think the answer to that question is: because we can't. Not that we don't want to, or "won't", but because we can't.

But it's just an armchair theory, odds are I don't have any better clue than anyone else.
> pharmacist

Only 3 years for a pharmacist?

I think Germany is the exception here, not the US.
Need for a standard Protocol for handling Change Feeds
i mean i agree -- for context, i've been in read-only mode aside from here for a bit now, but i wonder what the remaining venues for social interaction will be in our internet-dominated culture, especially post-covid.

even as i quit everything personal, it's still functionally the mode through which many of us now work. slack is social media, whether or not they or our employers would cop to that.

maybe i'm extra pessimistic, but it increasingly feels like the internet is also becoming a mandatory component of having a social life (i'm in my early 20s, grew up on this stuff, etc).

just can't shake the feeling that to recede from it could be futile, if only because it's becoming equivalent to receding from society itself. and the idea of not even having the option to is mildly uncomfortable.
I remember hearing this back in high school:

Bachelors are the new high school diploma, cause “everyone” has a diploma

Masters are the new Bachelors, cause you need one to live a comfortable lifestyle

PhDs are the new Masters, to stand out amongst the rest

Of course, I don’t agree with some of that statement, but it does hold some truths.
Hi kstenerud, The way it differentiates from video call is that it is more immersive and interactive by using AR technology. You can meet or hangout with other users as avatars (holographic in future) and interact with 3D elements that you can spawn using Augmented reality in your own physical space. For example if you want to celebrate a birthday, you can do that by joining a private room and change theme to birthday. Then you will see a 3D AR birthday cake on a table in front of you. Other users can then join that shared space as avatars and interact and communicate as you would naturally. For them they will see the cake in their own physical space. In short it’s more than a 2D video call. It is immersive and interactive call. We plan on supporting AR headsets and VR headsets in future. Check out the video here and it will make more sense https://youtu.be/9ww0tv31J0Q
or you can even try out the beta app. Https://varaxr.com/invite
I don't disagree, but the implication of it not being at least possible without tremendous effort vaguely concerns me. Just wanted to explore the hypothetical.

I also mean the question narrowed down to social media, too, though. I do wonder about the future of social interaction (maybe covid has me too pessimistic).
"I mean, this is only true if you ignore the myriad ways in which C allows you to manifest memory unsafety and undefined behaviour"

Which Zig has as well in release mode.
College campuses are the closest many people get to living in a proper city center (in the spirit of Europe or Japan), as opposed to the suburbs we all flee too later in life.

At face value, you're right--but shouldn't we focus on building places people (young and old) can feel a sense of community beyond just college?
I think you need to differentiate. Some issues can't be optimized by the people facing them daily, because game theory forbids them. Issues involving coordinated action are basically unsolvable bottom up.
That’s probably because they do not care about non-US encodings.
I dearly wish entire world would run on us-ascii, it would make software so much easier... but unfortunately there are whole countries which disagree with me.
Sounds like a problem to be solved, not a problem to accept!
I definitely have taken Uber in London in 2015.

And a year before we had a luxury vehicle ride booked with Uber in London.
>That EU users most want

I have spoken to a huge range of socioeconomic classes and the people that knew what DDG was explicitly said they could not care less. Obviously my sample size is minuscule but in EU generally people are perfectly aware of the spying yet don't really care (which I disagree with but that's how it is).

This just goes to show how suspicious DDG is acting which isn't surprising considering Mr. Weinbergs previous business.
Bytedance has a CCP branch for TaoTiao, their Chinese subsidiary.
This particular feature is invented in ts, other instances of ts inventing a completely new thing are conditional types and mapped types. F# has type provider which is similar in some of its usages but different enough i dont think they're related.
I believe the US requires internships for professional jobs like nurse and pharmacist. Also professional schools are required by licensing and accreditation boards (which are composed of practitioners in the field, not teachers who never leave the ivory tower) to be extremely "hands on". E.g. engineering schools have labs where students make things. Dental schools have clinics where students can serve patients under supervision. Etc.

Also bachelor's degrees get all the attention, but there' associates degrees, two-year degrees offered both by colleges and (very cheap) junior colleges. These include a lot of "less theoretical" stuff like dental hygienist or working with other kinds of specialized technology.
> If I am at my limits for direct reports, I can start having people report to one of my reports, and my status grows. Just like multi level marketing.

Absolutely it also makes it way easier to argue that you should get a promotion when you are a manager of managers. Inflating the title's of the people under you is the quickest way to get your own title boosted.
>The Day I got Reincarnated as a Smartphone

The Anime
There is a thing called a "positive externality". The capitalist class in the United States would do good to remember this when debating the "cost" of public goods.
I use !g often because google is a bit better at finding error messages, while DDG seems to search more for individual terms within the error message
You bring up many good points, none of which I strongly disagree with.

My only point was that it's not "easy and obvious" to "buy his debt and use it as leverage to extract political gain". There are many "outs" he can take if such an event occurred.
Launched a clearly better product that everyone flocked to because it worked so much better than the competition. I'm not sure how that relates to DDG though.
> But you're basically accusing programmers back in the late 70s of having insufficient foresight to see problems that would make their decisions seem bad almost half a decade later.

The URL standard was published in 1994.

Sure, in a vacuum you could read view my comment as meaning in all time, but given that the parent comment is discussing ICANN domains and my comment was relevant to that, I think it’s a little uncharitable to do so.
> although the proper way to test it would be to write a lot of data to the drive, issue an fsync, and cut power in the middle of the operation. Rinse and repeat a (few) hundred times for each drive.

This isn't quite right. You have to ensure that the drive returned completion of a flush command to the OS before the plug was pulled, or else the NVMe spec does allow the drive to return old data after power is restored. Without confirming receipt of a completion queue entry for a flush command (or equivalent), this test as described is mainly checking whether the drive has a volatile write cache—and there are much easier ways to check that.
Adding to the list, I found this article to be one of the more approachable introduction to CRDTs in general: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221221
generating types from a swagger spec? Graphql? Or any kind of schema? Look up fsharp type providers.
Because the code still has to be actively maintained perpetually - internal APIs change over time, security risks have to be mitigated, some one (or some teams) have to have responsibility over this feature - and Google has decided it's not moving the needle enough to be worth it.
> A car is faster and cheaper.

I don't own a car and never learned to drive. What's my upfront cost before the $53 incremental cost?

Car ownership begets car ownership.

AAA says car ownership costs $8,558 per year. I'd have a hard time spending that much on public transport.

https://www.aaa.com/autorepair/articles/what-does-it-cost-to...
Good example.

I had a friend go through naturalization. The illegal presence is dealt with separately, but the tax check is basically "Do you file taxes each year? Do you owe the IRS any money? Ok, you're good."
on-premises
I'd recommend something by Ray Bradbury -- one of my favorite short story collections of all time is his "The Illustrated Man".

Also a big fan of Asimov's "Robot Dreams".
Maybe. How?
You're on the exceptional side, not the author.. sadly.
Tolls are actually around $5.50 one way, and they're only in Chicago. You can bypass tolls by taking 41 through Chicagoland and add maybe 15 minutes to the total drive time. No tolls once you're in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
There's only two solution that come to mind

1. Give it to the highest bidders (current method)

2. Give it to the highest ranking sites

From what I see, #2 is even worse for newcomers. Do you have a different suggestion that's better?
Interesting that nobody pointed out the tooling dimension of XML's demise yet. (edit: actually there was another comment too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24623696)

You really need a high level of support in editors and other tools to make it good for humans to work with, to just showing the AST and to hide the unusably verbose surface syntax. This support didn't materialize widely enough for whatever reason.

Of course you can say that it's just a convoluted way of saying the syntax wasn't good enough - but at the time the argument was that tooling will be good enougg and will solve the issue. So it's still a good lesson about tooling.
Here’s a relevant example:
http://www.chebfun.org/examples/approx/EightShades.html

Here are the first 6 chapters of ATAP http://www.chebfun.org/ATAP/atap-first6chapters.pdf

Also cf. https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/mythspaper.pdf

* * *

I’d say the bigger point is not about whether the error is marginally better or worse with a Chebyshev series vs. CF vs. Remez, etc., but rather that any of these will usually beat the others if you add just one more coefficient.

Usually convergence speed matters more than picking a number of coefficients and then exactly optimizing to the last bit.

And as you say, running the Remez algorithm is probably waste of time if you are trying to calculate a near-optimal approximation on the fly at runtime.
>They're not even setting a new precedent with this ban.

They are though. The powers of executive order used for the ban are specifically limited to prevent any banning or stopping the information flow of any forms of media and communication.

i.e. The U.S. President can't use executive orders to circumvent the first amendment.
Gas cost isn’t a great stand in for car trip prices, as there are a plenty of other costs to drivers.

The IRS per mileage reimbursement rate is 57.5 cents per mile, putting the “real” cost to an 800 mile roundtrip around $400.

A different stand in might be the per mile rate I can get from a rental company, which is often around 20 cents a mile. That would be $160 in other costs + the $53 in gas $213.

Now, people chronically underestimate the cost of driving (and many of them are fixed costs) so the “competitiveness” of rail doesn’t really change, but IMO we shouldn’t just look at gas costs for automobile transport.
This may sound snarky or weird for this post, but I outsource email hosting and data backup. I can self-host certain things if I really wanted to, but I find it easier and cheaper to rely on other experts who match my ideals to do it. This is why I use paid services for email and online data backups. I’m quite happy to pay for these services and am grateful to the providers.
in theory but it's not always so clear, especially in software. if someone had solved this problem they would have a unicorn worth 5B right now
You seem to be saying that all that is needed to conceal weapons-targeted budgeting from you is to label it "EIF"?
“I monitor my staff with software that takes screenshots”