skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First please into take consideration that my comment was a response to the previous comment. My points were to defend nationalism as a valid stance to hold and to justify the different treatments of humans.

Now...

> ... I am naive idealist.

The problem with naive idealism is that it is ineffective.

First, what is justice, fairness? Okay, let's say you arrive to a satisfying (to us) definition. Is it true to everyone all the time? Or simply true to everyone? I think you agree that it is not.

Why? Why does that guy over there think differently? Nurture and nature. Let us say that his inherited traits set him as neutral on the issue, why does he think differently still? Because, of nurture. What is nurture? Culture in its diverse forms. Family culture. Community culture. Etc. Do you still think culture is meaningless?

I am not against immigration. I believe in voting with your feet (going to where you think is best). I am a first generation immigrant by the way. Not a child of immigrants.

I have no hate for people of different backgrounds. You misunderstood me. I am currently taking online classes on the Chinese language and on Chinese culture. One of my best friends is Muslim. Another close friend of mine is Indian.

As citizen of a DEMOcratic country (demo comes from the greek for "the people"), I play a part in the government. Albeit in a minor way, I am part of the government. I am partly responsible for what it does. In counterpart, the government exists for me, the citizen. I take the personality and privilege to be citizen of a democratic country more and more seriously.

I did not aim to say that all immigrants are ungrateful, only that with a porous border, I end up allowing ungrateful immigrants.

> Why should it be unfair?
I did not make the world. I came to this conclusion regretfully. You do need not to sell to me the beauty of a fair world. Everyone is born to different circumstances, therefore everyone is unequal. Not only birth but culture. Last century, China once tried to eliminate the advantage of the upper class. They took their possession and gave them a status "to receive lesser treatment". It was an inherited status. After roughly 40 years, they removed that status. Then later there was a study on the descendants of the persecuted class. They were in average in a better position than the descendants of those who had receive a "to receive a better treatment" status. I leave it up to you to make your own conclusion.

There is a nation's culture, a family's culture, a religion's culture, etc. As many as there are groups you can identify with.

>Or at least, why can't we make it fairer?
You can. I intend to do it, to the extent that it is not deleterious to me.
While this is interesting, WSL2 is getting suppport for graphical applications integrated right into the Windows desktop/taskbar - so unless you absolutely must have the desktop environment, this won't be necessary anymore. Good in the short term though!
The Higgs field gives mass to particles, but if there are no particles with mass, whether it exists or not is moot, right?
I'm eager to believe you're right. Which of your favourite unions has an immutable tenet to be pro-immigration?
> rather than focus on goals, focus on systems

Maybe it's from James Clear?

> You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

> This is a quote from my new book Atomic Habits and was adapted from one of my favorite sayings by the Greek poet Archilochus: “We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”

https://twitter.com/jamesclear/status/1047643455722283009
>Do you just mean the subset of "he chose randomly and happened to draw a goat out of one of the two you did not choose"? In which case switching isn't beneficial because

Yes switching is. Switching is beneficial IF he shows you a goat out of the doors you didnt choose.
Another example is e.g. original England-made Dr Martens shoes (the China-made ones are held in poor regard, apparently). Apart from highly durable and long-lasting, for me an important factor is repairability. You can take such a shoe to a generic repair shop and replace parts if e.g. you walked on glass and it cut through the sole.

Meanwhile my SO bought some fashionable expensive sneakers that broke in the sole after a few days of wearing. SO took them back to the shop and they just gave SO another pair. That’s just sad.
That question doesn't make a whole lot of sense so I'll answer another one. Do off-chain transactions need to be mined using proof of work? No.
Startup time for Docker is about 15 seconds, compared to Linux which is immediate. You're also going to get additional slowness because Docker is running inside another VM.
He reuses a lot of his slides, the one that I have a picture of speaks about taking the boundless expansion and performing an “∞-compression” which I am taking to be a conformal rescaling of the state of the universe at infinity, but I must cede to you that this may be a misunderstanding because he also says on this slide that the Big Bang involves an “∞-expansion” and he certainly doesn't believe that the Big Bang was an infinitely long time ago. In any case what I remember beyond this was that he figured that the expansion at the end of a universe could be used to locate the “cosmic inflation” of a universe _before_ its Big Bang, in the heat death of the prior universe, and it was my impression that it was this “evolution to infinity” of the prior universe but I might be totally mistaken.
> The facts are that white collar employees that are union members have higher pay[2], better benefits, more time off, and report higher life satisfaction[3] compared to their non-union peers.

Of course they do. Because Unions drive competitiveness down, decrease efficiency, increase costs and so on. A lot of people would be very satisfied if they didn't have to work as hard and their paycheck would be pretty effortlessly guaranteed, and competition within the industry was kept in check.

But everybody else have to pay for it . And then naive socialists who advance labor unions forget about it, and start another campaign on why can't blue collar workers afford any white collar services anymore. Why are public teachers collectively not doing great job despite second in the world spending per student. And then riot on the streets why some cops are shooting people for no good reason, after years of people reporting their abuse. (I'm not saying that unions are the only or even main reason, but they sure do contribute to the problem).
Personally, I don't think that is the primary reason adults have a hard time learning languages. Neural plasticity isn't the biggest reason either, IMO.

Rather, the biggest showstopper is that adults tend to always be busy, and fall back to their native languages to get the busy stuff done, and only end up practicing their new language during positive interactions when they have time. Which is really only a very small fraction of their life.

For example, I routinely see people in cross-cultural relationships try to learn each others' languages but fail miserably at learning when they get into disagreements and have that disagreement in English instead of the language either person is trying to learn. And thus, they don't learn. In order to truly learn a language to native fluency you need to be forced to use it for every common life situation, not just the occasional positive interactions. Children are more or less forced to be using the new language 100% of the time.
What's the reason not to ban them immediately?
Penrose provides no reason for why it would happen. He is just hypothesizing few ways it could happen so that CCC can work.

CCC requires these leaps to make it work.
It probably went like this:

Hey lets put a car behind three doors, have people choose, open one of the other two doors, then ask them to switch.

Sounds good Bob, but wait, won't the show end prematurely 1/3 of the time because you will randomly open a car?

Huh, good point. Um, let's sneak a peek before opening so we never open a car?

Sounds good Bob.
So... not a UI inspired by Seele's VC system? (https://wiki.evageeks.org/Seele)
Their stroboscopic unveil video reminds me of a slightly less polished version of the best Apple ad in recent memory, the one for the red iPhone 8:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5FIAniosZU
What? Private transoceanic flights cost much more than a business class ticket.
> This is way overstating the complicated-ness of marginal income taxes for 99.9% of people.

Only because it is a cause of 99.9% of people operating that way. The amount of tax and other paperwork involved is one of the primary reasons people don't commonly take on small side jobs (or do but don't report them). That is one of the major costs of the complexity.

> And with the use of computers and electronic databases containing individual's unique ID # (e.g. social security #) and the internet to transmit payroll information

You don't see how this is, itself, a dramatic increase in complexity? With a flat tax individuals wouldn't even need to have a unique ID.

That we might be able to dump the complexity of this on businesses instead of individuals isn't making it go away, it's just making it harder to do business because now you need complicated tax software and central databases.

Also, the individual is still doing paperwork, because how else is the employer getting their ID number?

> This is irrelevant and I don't see why anyone would have a problem with people "minimizing" taxes in the way shown as it's above board, and tax policy taxes individuals, not families.

It's clearly a violation of the spirit of a progressive tax system. If a rich person buys his nephew a car, he has to pay his own marginal tax rate on it. If he instead pays his nephew the value of the car as a salary, he pays no tax on the money and the nephew pays the lower marginal rate. And that assuming the entire thing isn't just a kickback system where the rich person ends up with use of the car anyway and they privately agree to do it that way to split the "savings" from the marginal rate arbitrage.

It's subverting the intent of the system, in a way that can't be done if they were both paying the same marginal rate and progressivity was achieved by giving everyone a large fixed starting credit (i.e. UBI).

> That kind of stuff doesn't last too long in my experience though, once people get a taste of financial independence, the individuals in a "family" start looking out for themselves first.

But it's still a dependent relationship. The nephew only continues to get the money by staying on the good side of his "employer" -- it's the same situation where the wealthy use their money to control those in their social circle, but now you're giving them a tax discount for doing it.
Tech workers should absolutely unionize it’s in our best interest.
Agree that lack of confirms is less a celery problem and more a rabbit problem. My main gripe is that it’s not documented within celery - anywhere. Not even how to enable them.

If celery is going to go to the lengths it does to abstract brokers then it should also mention required configuration for reliability.
I cannot improve on this answer, totally nailed it.

I would like to emphasize the fact that I can get a windows machine and run WSL on it, and not get a bunch of eye-rolls from my IT director.

Additionally: Linux laptops are pretty OK, but Windows power profiles and power management make battery life on a windows machine MUCH better.
I don't think you understood what I was saying.

I basically agree with everything you said about saving some people and murdering others.

But "saving less people" is a totally different situation. If I donate some money to charity, and I'm asked to donate more money, it's okay for me to say no.

So the question is whether these features fall under "saving some people and killing others" or if they fall under "saving less people".

You believe it's the former, and I believe it's the latter.

Remember that even pure safety features are imperfect and they are subject to the butterfly effect. Anything you change about a car design will cause some shift in who dies while driving that car. You have to determine if there are really two separate risk groups, one sacrificed for the other, or if it's all really one risk group.

As a thought experiment, imagine we made a car that was all-around much safer, and then we let 14 year olds drive it. Well that actually happens, with mini-cars that have strict speed limits. (Usually they're legally not cars.) We could only allow normal licensed drivers to use them, and they'd be very safe! But then, purely for convenience, we let younger teenagers use them. Is that a moral abomination? Some of them are going to die. But I think it fits into the normal risk of driving, and as long as a 14 year old in one of those is safer than a normal driver in a normal car, I'm satisfied.
Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel
There's a reason I don't play any online multiplayer games on consoles. I can't stomach paying that much just to use the Internet when multiplayer is free on PC.
One other thing I haven't seen anyone tackle is to evaluate 'best' durable via first principles equations and engineering.

Ex of a fridge:

* Define the physics of how the product performs over its life: physics of door opening and effort to lift the door, compressor energy to turn on, vibration life cycles and wear, power converter wear, etc.

* Define theoretical best performance for the product for each use case in fundamental physics.

* Get performance data for real test units.

* OR if testing real units is too expensive and time consuming. Put modeled fake units in a physics simulation engine (like https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PhysicsSection.html) and stochastically seed millions of virtual units with minor differences and virtually test to failure.

This would result in a much stronger measure of 'best' durable, that then, the crowd-sourced reviews would, hopefully, reiterate.
Nicely put, I didn't realise it but I am, as you say, overcorrecting in this way myself. Interestingly I have a friend who has quietly tried to point this out to me (a counter example to the greater point) but you have explained it better.
In times of rationing, it was apparently not uncommon for grapefruit eaters to substitute added salt for the usual sugar to take some of the bitterness off.
Seems very small! How many passengers does it carry?
Not sure how this is relevant to the topic at hand. Sure, there are many features of C that are easy to laugh at but in context make a lot of sense, but the macro system is not one of them. Hart/Levin LISP had hygienic macros, just saying... And you don't even need the full generality of a compiler to have limited but still useful AST-rewriting macros, there are a ton of ways this could be implemented very cheaply in terms of both memory and cpu, none of which are rocket science.

Seriously, the fact that textual macros are terrible isn't even a controversial point. Maybe I'm too young to be a Real Programmer(tm), but this 'everything is text' idea never made sense to me.
Meritocracy starting out as leftist satire doesn't mean the concept doesn't have merit.
National Quantum Initiative
So odd! I saw the URL gray and thought it was a Rickroll, but didn't see the familiar dQw. Apparently that's from when I was looking for DX7 videos.
I recently open-sourced another Jitsi based plateform, and also implementing a custom interface.

This is more oriented toward professional meeting,
but is part of the trend of doing more that just plain video conference.
code https://github.com/retrolution/open-fishbowl and version on https://retrolution.github.io/open-fishbowl/?tableViewEnable...
I guess a problem it'd be interesting to think about is sifting false reviews from real ones.
How good are GameStop about replacing stuff under their product replacement plan?
You said it well: "he will show you a goat."

But the standard formulation just says Monte opened a door and it had a goat behind it. No explicit mention of intention.

It matters not that he happened to do. It matters that he will.
Metaprogramming in Idris [pdf]
I have a solution: connect over TLS on port 443.
Why not put Amazon affiliate links on your page to purchase the item? Mad commission
> After a bizarre incident at Steinway’s in New York in 1959, when one of the senior technicians (whom Gould disliked because of disagreements over piano regulation) greeted him with a rather too hard clap on the shoulder, Gould claimed major physical injury, cancelled all his engagements for six months and (unsuccessfully) sued Steinway’s for $300,000.

Hm... Horowitz's tuner Franz Mohr wrote a book where IIRC he claimed that Gould reacted negatively to his retouching of the action on Gould's piano, complained that he could have been injured by it, and threatened to sue him. I wonder if this is a different version of that same story (Mohr would have been a senior tech at Steinway at that time) or yet another tuner who Gould harassed.
This explanation is IMO more intuitive than the linked one.
The real fun is when someone corrects you for saying "The teacher told Tim and me" and then you give them a grammar lesson to the use of the objective case. I'll admit to a little bit of smugness when that happens.

Otherwise no, I don't correct people's grammar unless they've specifically asked me to review something.
Could you explain what problem you're trying to demonstrate here? What's the bad thing?
My observation is that you lose the ability to sound like a native speaker if you start learning the language sometime around puberty.

Haven't seen any studies on this, but it holds up well when you talk to people who came to the US at different ages.
Even a cursory glance at contemporary tech movements show that they are largely culturally progressive in nature. Anything from the TWC reveals that they fit in with the general leftist Bay Area political milieu:

https://techworkerscoalition.org

https://logicmag.io/the-making-of-the-tech-worker-movement/f...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/13/14264804/palantir-immigra...

If you think any of these groups are going to produce something that can be turned into a nativist movement, then you don't seem to have a clear idea about the state of modern politics.
its interesting because Musk isn't trying to design a Porsche, he is trying to design low end cars, but to me that makes little sense. To me, it feels like he should go with the iphone model
In my experience, people are helpful. Sometimes, in Norway, it means folks speak English with me. Not so much now, but once I struggle, out comes English :D But it also means that folks will let me know the right words for things or help with sounds. But at other times, folks will let things slide as long as I can be understood.

I can't recommend actual language classes enough. I was in Norwegian classes for two years - immersive classes for adults, taught by native speakers, about 15 hours a week in class. All in Norwegian, from the beginning. It was so wonderful getting real-time corrections and as an added bonus, a lot of culture/civics was worked into the lessons as well, in no small part because vocabulary centered around fairly practical subjects. If I ever need to learn another language, I hope I can have something similar.
A lot of people don't have much opportunity to land a job that they love. If I could find a job I love I would hop right on that, instead I work in a warehouse for $15 an hour. I think "the norm" is closer to this than the high paying soul-sucking jobs (see: 2019 US median personal income of $36K).

Though I too am baffled by the people in highly skilled professions who willingly take jobs they hate to make more money when they could probably easily find a somewhat lower paying (but still quite decent) job that they enjoy a lot more.
What if the black hole is charged? It can't evaporate fully to photons.
I looked through several pages of that HN thread for people discussing unions in any context. I found your comment[1] and an anti-union comment by rayiner[2].

The only other comments I found were by union proponents, who celebrated the fact that with unions, it wouldn't matter if someone was an immigrant, or how many immigrants worked in the US, because unions would protect them and native citizens alike and equally[3]:

> I feel like rather than pitting immigrants against native born workers, and trying to come up with the perfect arcane rule, we should have sectoral bargaining where the workers could negotiate pay standards directly with their employers. Then it wouldn't matter where someone is from, because they'd be covered by that contract, and the government could get out of the way of the labor market.

To me, it seems like you're projecting anti-immigrant sentiments on people who are both pro-immigration and pro-union.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24704597

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24703750

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24702968
Adults have a better capacity to learn foreign languages.

It's just hard cause you have to re learn the system you know unconsciously.
That would be an interesting development! I believe that to date, Madame Curie stands alone in having won Nobel Prizes in more than one field.
They're practically useless for searching for them. Unsurprisingly trying to co-opt widely used terms tends to be ambiguous and confusing (cf. crypto <-> cryptography, cryptocurrency, and those are at least related). Perhaps the only exception in this group is "data lens", which works as a compound [1]. Guess what optics software does? No ETL, that's for sure. Optics patterns? Uh-oh. Optics development? Nuh-uh. Optics data? Turns out there are multiple companies with that name, and they're not doing ETL. Optics library? Image libraries of lenses (the kind you can touch). Optics computing? Sorry, that's a synonym of optical computing. Optics design? That's the engineering of optical systems. Optics scheme? Guess what arrangements of lenses are called... Optics programming? Aha, now the topic at hand actually manages to be in the majority of the results - barely, since four out of ten are still about that other thing humans have been at for a couple hundred years. Optics <programming language here>? Things for doing optical computations and simulations.

[1] Also follows the rule of "if you're going to name something after a common word, maybe give it a qualifier not usually used with that word to make it unique and easy to find". Examples: sphinx (doc, search), click (cli), pyramid (web framework), pacman (linux), language (programming).
Really? For a few last months of revenue versus potentially stopping an election result from being bought?
Maybe that means they're not cultist... :O
The XB-1 is a "supersonic demonstrator" carrying a crew of two (and zero passengers). It is to be followed up by the passenger-carrying "Overture" in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_XB-1
Do you have a recent example of this?
A lot of browsers already expect tls to enable specific features. I've had things break between dev and prod because of a lack of tls on the backend as well.

It's also one of those things that once you sort it out it's no longer a problem. Like "why do I need to setup all this complex stuff to manage a dependancy? Just give me your source code and let me `gcc -o binary a.c b.c ....`"

In reality once you solve a problem with an ergonomic solution and the solution improves your alignment with production and comes at no real cost it's a win/win/win.
"Yet", I think you mean looking for yet. Ideas change. "Starting up" is the most basic phrase I was used to as a teenager, dreaming of businesses. Then some SV folks reimagined the word to make it mean something super niche.

I am seeing a trend toward sustainable businesses nowadays. I am happy starting up a sustainable business, no matter what you might call it.
There are many Postgres forks out there. Maybe the solution will be to have someone from EDB step down, and add e.g. an active contributor from Amazon to the core team?