skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find it best to argue in good faith when coming to these kinds of low-data conversations.

Nobody on here would say the same about arguments in favour of the magical power of acai berry, and I see no reason why we should treat even more extraordinary zero-data claims of a 'self taught, uncredentialled' guy who sells mushroom based supplements for a living[1] with a greater degree of deference.

There's actual research going on into psychedelics potentially benefiting people with depression or Alzheimers, but we don't need to put people explaining that mass consumption of psychoactives is a viable alternative to industrialisation and will create more Einsteins on the same pedestal

[1]https://fungi.com/pages/about-us
Reading reddit be like https://endlessdoomscroller.com/

:-)
Keyboard issues and software issues are indeed not Intel’s fault. In fact, Intel failing to make their process changes, means we have Intel to thank for Apple either speeding up their transition or for it happening it all.

The Apple build quality is second to none. That my 2013 MacBook Pro is still going strong is a testament to that. And the keyboard fiasco means they had a time when form won over function but I see them reverting to the old keyboard as function coming back into relevance.

I’m hoping for an Apple Silicon MacBook Air or something equivalent to to replace my heavy pro — but it’d be for personal use not professional given my reservations posted above and since Desktop Linux has come so far.
Perhaps. I know that a number of objectively hateful subreddits were not banned because they were hateful of people "in the majority" (whatever that means).

An archived copy of Reddit's "Account and Community Restrictions" from the time of the ban reads as such [0]:

> While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority or who promote such attacks of hate.

The question here veers into the territory of whether Reddit is a "publisher" or "platform". Their editorial decision to ban certain kinds of loosely-defined "hate" seems to clearly point to them being an editorializing publisher of content. This, in addition to their editing of user's posts criticizing their core team [1] and other such egregious acts.

There's no compelling reason for me to believe Reddit acted in good faith.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200701001008/https://www.reddi...

[1]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reddit-ceo-edits-user-comment...
Blue sky thinking: is it time to stop work taking over our lives?
You're missing out on the significant unemployment in countries like Sweden. There is significantly better free healthcare in Australia - which has an average tax rate of 23.6%.

The correlation of high taxes = better quality of life doesn't hold much strength when you consider that there are plenty of countries doing well without it, and plenty of countries with high taxes that have a poor quality of life.
I think it was Jess Phillips (I could be wrong) who, in an interview during the last election, claimed something along the lines of 'Labour are winning the social media war'.

They really have no idea how social media works.

(For non-UK, Jess Phillips is a Labour MP who went to see her party suffer one of the biggest defeats in their history)
reddit morphed from a fun place to visit to an absolute cesspool of the internet. With popularity came the idiot masses, and like locust they decimated the comments section and post so much inane content it’s no longer possible to find anything worthwhile. That in itself would be enough to bring a site like reddit down, but then the management also made two crucial mistakes: first, they redesigned the site and made it completely unusable (especially on mobile), and then they decided to push social agenda and turned the site from a neutral, user content centric, free-speech oriented site to a left-wing sjw haven, which served to further lower quality of content and comments.

So it’s not surprising at all that the same people who think they have the right to push social agenda they consider “correct”, also choose to remove the name of a “notorious” co-founder from the records. Personally I find the behavior of reddit’s management abhorrent and want nothing to do with them or anything they have a hand in.
If they want to waste taxpayer money, that'll do
A girl I fancied in school used Linux (various distributions, installing new ones to try out was a hobby of hers). I had been meaning to try it out anyhow, but being able to impress her with Linux skills was the trigger to actually get into it. Also Python; she was also into Python and so I started on learning that as well.

Took me a few months to get settled, initially using Linux Mint, but I never looked back. I actually tried going back to Windows when buying a new laptop and the latest hardware just wasn't supported at all, figuring I'd just modify and tweak it in every possible way, but it is just too cumbersome and inflexible now that I'm used to Debian.

As for the girl, the impress-her part worked well enough I think but sadly we never got together and ended up losing touch. Sometimes I wonder if she's alive: accounts on all social media are inactive since years and while she didn't seem unhappy, she was an unusual person and didn't easily fit in with society. I hope she's okay.

Knowing Linux and Python are invaluable skills for the work I do now. If I hadn't started then, I would have had to catch up later or maybe ended up in a more standard tech job, so a head start there was definitely good to get a foot in the door at places that use both extensively in pentesting.
The giant leap for humanity was not stepping on the Moon but getting to space
> Currently, there's lot of philosophical discussion on ethics, but little of solid decisions and conclusions from these discussions; all the discussion is still at the stage of increasing ambiguity and introducing hypotheses instead of increasing our knowledge about reality by eliminating and discarding most of these hypotheses.

I think greater use of formal methods could really help with this. Imagine if there was e.g. a Coq library containing formalisations of all the common systems of axioms, and the various conclusions that followed from them. It would make exploration so much easier.
The last 3 times I've tried to go back to tildes it seems like a massive political circlejerk where dissent is not tolerated.

Is there somewhere without politics being jammed down your throat in every thread?
> My parents' farm is on a well and septic, and a dirt road. Water purification is done with a UV filter. The infrastructure costs are almost nil.

How well would such a thing scale, though, especially in a suburban/urban setting? IIRC sceptic systems need a certain amount/type of land to drain correctly, so that wouldn't work particularly well outside of relatively rural areas. Wells might not work beyond a certain population density due to insufficient groundwater recharge rate. And dirt roads still would require maintenance, especially if you want to support nontrivial traffic levels, not to mention relatively high-speed travel.
Odeon Cinemas have been experimenting with operating as Nightingale Courts. I don't think this gives them nearly enough money to stay alive, especially seeing the poor condition of existing court buildings in the UK.

https://planetradio.co.uk/borders/local/news/jurors-at-the-m...

https://www.societyofeditors.org/soe_news/uk-trials-conducte...
> I would argue that your argument is nice in theory, nonsense in practicality.

Well, it already is encoded in law. Most countries prohibit hate speech and/or inciting violence, while most people consider that free speech is protected in those places. So it's already practical.

> Who decides what speech is hateful or violent and should be limited? You, me, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un ?

This gets coded in law and jurisprudence and gets enforced by police. Just like any other unlawful acts. Again: this is already how it works in most developed democracies.

> How easy is it to label something as hateful and ban it? Very easy.

See my other comment about pesticide. Please answer that question. Inciting hate/violence is quite easy to detect in practice.

> That's the flaw in your argument, the human element.

Please explain. I dont get it. It's all down to culture, true. But that does not prevent it from being pretty much universal.

> The revolution to create America had violent and hateful speech towards the British crown.

Yes. Which was behaving intolerant and violent in the first place!! Just like now with police brutality in the US: so much violence from them that expressing/inciting hate toward them becomes acceptable in my book.

> Private companies can do what they want, but in public sphere the parent poster was right free speech exists to enable dissent, not support the status quo.

Dissent have no need to exist when there is no oppression/violence/exploitation/marginalization. Hence dissent is the best example of "intolerance of the intolerant". Thanks.
For a different optimizing C compiler that is also small, and usable as a JIT see MIR project by Vladimir Makarov - https://github.com/vnmakarov/mir/tree/master/c2mir
I got my hands on “Computer Systems: A programmer’s perspective” and it brought together hardware, compilers and C programming language in context of Linux. That was it and I was hooked.
I'll read up on the philosophy.

But fundamentally, if not from the brain, then where else would morality originate from? God? But then if you look at every religion that claims it speaks for God, you'll find something in the proposed moral standards you'll disagree with on moral grounds. "Structure of the universe"? That's meaningless unless you point out what aspect of that structure determines morality, and I'm willing to bet it'll turn out that that aspect can be fully captured in the workings of the brain. What else is there to ground on?

As far as I know, all moral questions under all moral philosophies, no matter how convoluted, are ultimately verified by testing the conclusions against examples simple enough that you can get a gut-feeling answer for them. Every criticism of a moral philosophy I've ever seen boils down to finding an example where applying some high-level rule leads to conclusions that cannot be reconciled with the gut.
I'm not sure this is practical. You can't have wells and septics at high density, though you could probably localize certain things more than they are now.

Cities, small towns and rural locals have different costs. Rural areas maintain more kms of road per home, for example. Power/Data lines also cost more per home. Maybe these won't be necessary in the future, but they are for now. Obsolete is a strong word, still.

Like you though, the $10k price tag seems high to me. Is it really this high for the right reasons?
> So overall you will need to understand how the runtimes work and if particular pieces can be mixed and matched...

Hm... really?

I was under the impression that it was more correct to say that mixing runtimes is undefined behaviour?

It may work, but just like mutable aliasing using unsafe may not cause memory corruption; it just happens to work in the current implementation, on the current platform, on the current version of rust.

There is no guarantee it will continue to work in the future.

Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought it was a lot more complicated than just starting multiple events loops and you’re fine.
I thought these types “believed in science” yet here we are just casually stating that if we all do shrooms, the environment will be “saved”. Can’t make this stuff up.
There is still plenty of racism on reddit. Look up any thread about Indian, Chinese and Romani (Gypsy) people.

The Reddit admins only goes after racism when the target is people contemporary liberal media sympathize with.

They only banned anti-black racist subreddits and users after the 2015 Charleston church shooting. They only banned anti-Semitic subreddits and users after the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. They only banned Islamophobic subreddits and users after the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings.
Ironically, other species of Dracaena are among the most cultivated indoor plants. Everybody and its dog have one at home.

I wonder if those Dracaena could have a similar effect. They have cutting finely toothed leaves so chew it or put it in the mouth does not seem a wise move in any case, (And to confound it by a Dieffenbachia would be a lethal mistake), but for external use... may work. Would be a really easy way for researchers to prove if orangutans feel any pain relief.
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Reputable enough article? There are alot of miners doing the same thing and most don’t talk about it for good reason. This allows your view of the world to continue unimpeded

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/why-bitco...

In case you can’t access bloomberg here it is over amp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/arti...

One of your other points that I choose to respond to: The energy use doesn’t scale linearly to transaction activity and is not a prerequisite to the function of a proof of work network

I think there is enough information here to alter your lecture so I’ll wait and see. The rebuttal that I predict will be based on the size is the mining operation in the article, so just assume there are bigger ones doing the same thing.
This is addressed in the article: federal programs promoting infrastructure growth provided the funds. Building new infrastructure generates lots of short-term income to a city in the form of sales tax, permit fees, etc. It's harder to plan for the ongoing maintenance for these projects.

Of course we should build less of it, but we can't unbuild what's already been built, and we can't account for city managers who aren't aware of this future problem.

If someone can solve the problem of the future being here, but being unevenly distributed...
What made me understand the power of editing was the Top Gun Recut trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekXxi9IKZSA
Mr.doob's multiuser sketchpad has the essentials as far as real-time sharing and drawing capacity. It would work very well in private mode: you could share a link to start recording a live session.

https://multiuser-sketchpad.glitch.me

https://mrdoob.com/#/125/multiuser_sketchpad
JSON lacks comments and will fail for a missing or extra comma, so it's not great for configuration written by humans.

You can use HJSON which is the json with comments. It's fully compatible with json so easy to introduce into anything that does json. https://hjson.github.io/
Is well water available at sufficient quantity and distribution for this to work? Lots of large population centers get their water from lakes or large rivers. If you disperse the population to the surrounding areas, is there enough ground water or small rivers nearby to sustain an ultra dispersed model? Or would you still need small scale infrastructure?

Similar question with dirt road - how long is the dirt road before it reaches a non-dirt road? How much traffic is on it? If you dispersed a major population center this way and still needed to deliver groceries and ship out garbage and septic, how quickly would any given segment go between needing to be regraded?

The 10k amount doesn't come about because they built a large community and infrastructure. It came because they built their large community in an unwise manner resulting in high infrastructure cost. While moving to individual or smaller communities reduces to possible scope of screwing up your planning, it doesn't reduce your ability to screw it up.
look at global temperature avgs and you'll see massive change over the entire period none of which can be sufficiently explained. Here you go: http://www.capoliticalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/...
The Bluetooth issue is the one that really bit me. For about six months I thought BT on my 2017 MBP was physically broken. I tried a half dozen fixes, updates, and workarounds but it still couldn't pair to anything. Then, magically, it started working again. Just flaky for no reason.

Also, it's ridiculous that a $2800 machine needs an ugly-as-sin $250 extra box to have decent connectivity to monitors etc. The $800 machine I'm using right now has that connectivity out of the box, in a sleeker form factor.
Not sure about Sweden, but average monthly wage in Norway is currently 47290 NOK, or 5067 USD with current exchange rates, which comes to $60804 / year.
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What I wrote does not necessitate nepotism. It doesn't have to be that those already in power actively select for their friends and relatives to join their rank. Just that if most people who become rich and powerful tend to go through a small subset of universities or networks, they all end up having a similar mindset.
I assume those not banned subs are still there and you can link them. Because whole ton of subs were banned, not just Donald and not just right wing.
Now we're getting off topic. The reality is the bike lanes in the parent are built with French money.

I dont think France has a leading role in the EU, whats the last French initiative that was carried all the way to implementation? Reforming foreign workers rules didn't work, taxing tech giants didn't work.

As for the largest trading bloc, it also comes with so many regulations that a lot of SMB can't even take advantage of it due to costs.

Anyway, my main comment was just on these "financed by the EU" signs that you see everywhere but people don't even understand what it means, its just their own money.
What's dumb about smart teevees? The essential part has one lifecycle and the smarts have another. Better have the smarts outboard so they can be replaced when they're obsolete.

Imagine having to toss your car when it needs new tires.
Yeah, I have a feeling that's why I see his name so often on HN these days. The show propelled him to wider recognition.
> There's literally no reason to be happy about a mass migration to your neighborhood.

Well, there is in some places, like UK and NL and I guess other countries: they do the jobs no native person will do any more. There are tv shows of brits getting asked to pick asperges or strawberries and they give up after a day or so. Waiters, garbage collectors, fruit picker etc; you cannot pay most native dutch to do that unless they own the business.

And ofcourse we are not making enough kids in most countries, including NL so we need it.
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Mainstream name recognition isn’t particularly indicative of success. In my experience, Reddit is slowly eliminating anything that doesn’t conform to a west coast American view of the world.

Unfortunately for them, the rest of the world is coming online and has a different view of things. We’re starting to see this with India and the EU. Best case scenario for Reddit is a link aggregator for a very narrow group, unless they turn off the hyper-partisan path and return to their roots.
Ask HN: What should a software engineering Hippocratic Oath equivalent be?
If any.
It's just like all the practical uses of hemp we used to hear about.
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How does banning those reddits only after shootings prove it is about groups liberals sympatize with? I mean it shows mostly that reddit bans after shootings.
I’m amused when people post flat out lies like this. T_d was a positive sub that loved Trump. They were pretty “rah rah” about him. It drove the anti-Trump people crazy, which is why it was banned. That’s the only reason. Just go cruise the comments on /r/politics for proof. They call for actual bloodshed and for the death of Trump and his supporters every single day.

TDS is very real. It causes people such as yourself to parrot flat out lies that have no basis in reality — and you seem to actually feel good about it. It’s bizarre and I suspect history will look back on it as a mass hysteria event.
Your statement implies that arguing is something bad. Arguing is presenting arguments that attempt to show (prove) why something is true or false. It's the most important tool (convincing each other) in the progress of civilization. If you don't try to convince each other, the only alternative, in the end, is just shoot whoever you disagree with.

And it also diminishes your value as a team member. If you can't convince others, means the reasons you present are weak and nobody would be interested in listening to you and therefore there's not much reason in having you around.
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I have ADHD and have noticed that I have extreme difficulty maintaining a schedule or forming habits. Almost everything I do is the result of by moment to moment decisions. I flit from project to project as needed, and have hundreds of things going on all the time.

This inability to form habits is extreme. If something's not right in front of me I forget that it exists. I've tried to start smoking, but as soon as the pack is gone I forget to buy another. I don't shower until it starts to effect me. I don't sleep until I can't keep my eyes open. I forget to eat until my stomach hurts. I truly don't believe I can become addicted to anything. I've been tempted to try crack because I've heard that everybody gets addicted to it and I might be able to use it to create artificial motivation in myself. I tried chewing nicotine gum every time I took a shower, but I just couldn't remember to do it, and it wasn't helping enough with forming habits.

I also have memory problems and basically have to re-invent everything from scratch all the time. I'm really good at solving problems so I've been able to cover up most of my failings. One story that highlights this happened when I was taking the ACT. There was one question at the end that I had to invent calculus to solve. I had a feeling that I hadn't solved a problem like it before, but I went ahead and solved it anyway and got every question on the math section correct. My verbal skills on the other hand were just barely acceptable.

Another anecdote about lack of schedule and routine also comes from my highschool time. Between classes I'd routinely forget that I had another class to go to. I'd see someone in the hall and start talking until the bell rang. In my highschool being late 3 times was equivalent to an absence, and 7 absences was an automatic fail. Needless to say I had probably the worst GPA in history. I also did very well on tests, but could never ever remember to read my book or do my homework.

Basically, a consistent theme is I'm totally worthless until I stumble into a magical sprint where I get 2 months worth of work done overnight.

I just spent from 1:30am to about 5:00am in my car with my laptop and was able to make 6 much needed git commits as well as taking care of a bunch of other issues with my main project. The last commits were the end of August with 14 commits over just a few days.

Wow, that was a ramble, but I've been up for about 30 hours now so that's not surprising.
Also bipolar. Episodes often start with life-changing events. I highly doubt that food is to point a finger at here. My last episode was really triggered by me leaving my job and going jobless for the first time. I was eating well, fresh and self-cooked. Then during mania I could not eat a single thing. Also could not sleep. For 3 months straight.

The worst thing you can do here is to generalize.
> R has a great packaing system, and it copied Perl

I almost used Perl as an example of Python's inverse - a crappy language wrapped in a good packaging system. For its time CPAN was pretty great. All of the things today that people are likely to hold up as being better drew inspiration from it.

> which is much older than Python

Perl 1987, Python 1989. So yes it's older, but much older?