skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Irrational is a stretch from being manipulated by propaganda. Definitely not my choice of word.

I only checked your first link, and after processing that I called it. The data is from ~1991 and 2010. The link says Western Europe. I consider the Scandinavian countries Northern Europe, and the Mediterranean Southern Europe. Southern Europe and Eastern Europe (all ex Iron Curtain) are poorer than Northern Europe, Ireland, United Kingdom, Belgium (left out -- why), Austria (idem), Switzerland (idem), Sweden (idem), Finland (idem) (though last two are also Northern Europe and Scandinavia).

Then I scrolled to the bottom and saw this linked [1]. The title being: In Western European countries studied, up to eight-in-ten adults live in middle-income households; U.S. has among the highest lower- and upper-income shares and guess what the USA's middle class is 75% the size of the mentioned non-Southern European countries.

Now, I happen to know also that apart from Southern Europe all of the mentioned countries have adequate healthcare while in the USA (before Obamacare, which the two statistic metrics are about) that isn't the case.

My conclusion is indeed that the middle class in the USA is marginalized. Though not yet as severe as in a fascist country it might be heading that way.

I would like to comment on one more thing:

> This is entirely in their interest.

No, it is not, only in their short term myopic vision. A long-term interest is that you invest in your fellow civilians. It is also selfish, because you expect something in return. But it is what I call intelligent selfishness as its long-term. Much like VC, the USA is focussed on short-term gains.

Now, surely the American people must live a happy and free life, right? Not quite. If we look at the above statistics and the data from Democracy Index, Reporters Without Borders about the freedom in all of the countries we are discussing then the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, Tge Netherlands, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Ireland (ie. entire Western Europe) are far ahead in terms of freedom than the self-proclaimed Land Of The Free.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2017/04/24/middle-class-f...

PS: As for your Fox News rebuttal see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24819418
You are correct, that's what I was referencing.
"Good news!" - James May
On the contrary I think this design encourages a lot of different cultures to develop. Each instance had its own rules and etiquette, so the diversity of tone and topic across mastodon is greater than on twitter ime.
So we have Lisp where case does not (mostly) matter and Python where even whitespace matters. We have APL famil;y of languages which invented their own alphabet. In hindsight I wonder if there is any consensus or studies on which approach is the best?
I'm not sure where I heard it but I've heard that wearing earplugs for prolonged periods isn't good either. Beyond that, I don't like the feeling (even of the putty ones) after a few hours. My ears start to feel clammy and like I'm building some kind of bacteria dish inside my ear.

Ear plugs have never been enough for me. Also - if it gets too quiet then my tinnitus starts going. Thus, like OP, I use a fan. Bothers my partner but she's gotten used to it. She can't stand the part where I like having it pointed at me too (I'm not very good at regulating body temperature at night without one).
Literally nothing about this article is about censorship. (Also, I have a ~single-user instance and... follow and have followers through federation? As is the essential point of the software)
So you automated your cat! This reminds the automaticon nanny from the Ted Chiang's book.
It's interesting for localized learning... You have some local data that you want the model to incorporate, but don't want it to forget the main dataset. So you can create one of these distilled datasets and include it in a batch with the local data when you updated the model.
Maybe it's just being on Macs for the last 20 (!) years, but I greatly prefer the type treatment on macOS. Windows looks very "computery" and low-quality to me. Maybe I just don't have a critical enough eye for type. Either way, I'm glad I have the choice.

That said, I wouldn't doubt that Apple fully intends for people to buy their high DPI displays now. I wouldn't be shocked if they got "brave" again and dropped support for low DPI screens entirely (like they did for VGA). It seems to me there used to be options to control type rendering that have now been removed.
> defining privacy in a contextually relevant and concise manner is hard.

How about asking the users what privacy means to them.

Why is the concept of "consent" so hard to user-hostile devs?
This, people in this thread are talking like the defaults like they were handed down by devine beings from the ancient past. The truth is that they are often just warts from and old past that can't be removed for backwards compatibility.

My personal vim ethos: You can, and you SHOULD tailor it to yourself.
Love, Ecgburg
Bless you, so true.

And once you have a business set up then the fun starts. For extra sadism, try winding down your business!

I wonder if Europeans know US companies of much bigger dimensions are capable of keeping their own accounting and the sky is not falling. But in Romania, every month the accountant must get the paperwork, do the magical incantations (that nobody! reads). The Annual report even costs extra since it's more stuffy and it gets uploaded to the Finance Ministry so they get a chance to do nothing with it.

Sorry for the rant, I'm also traumatised by living here and knowing it could be different.
Very much so, yes. My only point is that treating a poem as a recipe should not be expected to be terribly productive :)
Everybody is vulnerable to misinformation. The only "cure" is an educated population. Now, who wants that? :-)
Thanks! You're totally right.
Just trying to help, not criticize. As to correctness, if you change the tokenization to:

while (fgets(buf, 1024, fp)) {
char *c, word[1024], *w = word;
for (c = buf; *c; c++) {
*c = tolower(*c);
if (*c >= 'a' && *c <= 'z')
*w++ = *c;
else {
*w = '\0';
count(word, (size_t)(w - word));
w = word;
}
}
*w = '\0';
count(word, (size_t)(w - word));
}

and you have that `count` function skip words with len < 2 then I can match results with the other 3 (Nim, Rust, C++) versions. Also, your C version runs in just 7 ms on Tale Of Two Cities, about half the time of the PGO optimized Nim.
My own car. I had a driving license all my life but never bothered to buy one because public transport in switzerland is cheap and good enough for a single person. The situation changed now: I am not alone anymore and Corona happened. I do not plan to use public transport on regular basis in my life anymore. It is unimaginable to me how we did groceries before. Also we can save some money by buying more in bulk. It's something simple, many people have it and it's just insanely useful. I hope this will be my first and last ICE. I hope the next one in 3-7 years will be a (self driving?) compact(?) Tesla.
This exactly. You need something to pull people. Could not play and could not even find a list of games I could have played. :(
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17858445

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11099493

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7648378

2008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=180318
Really? Wow. I love mine and have recommended them to my friends. I had the V6 for, I think 5 years, got the battery replaced twice even though the warranty had expired. The entire process was super hassle free.

After that I recently got the V10. What I like about it specifically is the ease of use. I can grab it off the wall and vacuum which makes me use it many times a day.

But to each their own of course.
This is not a magazine article written by a journalist, but a press release written by MIT marketing people to hype up research from their university.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24820449 for original Peruvian coverage.
Why not assuming that you can roll it back to any previous state any time later? Temporal supports such rollbacks.
I have an option in the app's tray menu to temporarily disable the format stripping (with a timeout).
Samsung does issue firmware upgrades for these drives, perhaps they fix this.
The article advocates for this, calling it “competitive compatibility,” but noting “it’s not enough to legalize competitive compatibility, since the platforms have such an advantage in technical resources that serious competitors’ attempts to interoperate face enormous engineering challenges.”
Political news just expose the selfish nature of human being.

It is mostly a continuous attempt at manipulating people into thinking your party is good and that you should vote for this guy vs another.
It shows how corrupted and dishonest people become, the more power they get.
It's unhealthy by definition.

I disagree that the answer is ignoring the problem or tuning out politics as if it's something we can't control.
Sure, we're powerless inside the golden prison of democracy, believing the lies of the current psychopath leading the country and without a real choice.

But we need to be aware of how rotten the situation is, fight state mandated indoctrination and hope enough people over time are going to reach the understanding that the root problem is centralisation of power, not what's the name of the current buffoon in charge of spending half of your salary.

I may be reading too much into this article; this is probably just another new age attempt at getting people to ignore whatever bombshells are being dropped between candidates before the elections.
I'm fairly noobish at understanding all this stuff, but as I understand it there are severe structural issues with the existing banking system that make a completely new mechanism desirable. For example by depositing cash into traditional accounts, it is also equivalent to providing capital to traditional banks to loan from. It would therefore be difficult to supply cash to end users without also increasing the availability of credit, which may be undesirable for any number of policy reasons.
What do you think "objective" means?

The comparative approach I mentioned can be used to eliminate personal feelings about such issues - not in all cases (types might be an example), but certainly in some.

Many users of Javascript, including myself, recognize that it has many weaknesses. There's even a book that acknowledges this in its title: "Javascript: The Good Parts."

Denying this seems to be denying objective reality.

You may be confusing "objective" with "universal," thinking that I'm claiming some unsituated universal truth. But that's not the case. Any statement is only ever true within some context - the language that defines it, the semantics of the statement, the premises that it assumes.

In this case, there is a shared context that crosses programming languages, that allows us in at least some cases to draw objective conclusion about programming language features. "The bad parts" implied by Crockford's title includes many such features. We can examine them and conclude that while they might have some historical rationale, that they are not good features for a programming language to have.

In many cases this conclusion is possible because there's simply no good justification - the title of this post is an example. Having all numbers be floating point has many negative consequences and no significant positive ones - the only reason for it is historical. Such features end up having consequences, such as on the design of hardware like ARM chips. That is an objectively terrible outcome.

You can of course quibble with such a statement, based on a rigid application of a simplistic set of definitions. But you'd do better to try to understand the truth conveyed by such a statement.
What should we name ourselves?
Yep this usually works in browsers and Electron-based apps. Not a standard Windows hotkey.
> With that being said, its cool to see that MI50 is competitive against A100 in scientific compute. Both A100 and MI50 are on TSMC's 7nm node, so that is a pure architecture vs architecture competition.

These tests used V100 (TSMC 12nm), not A100.
I enjoyed this schizophrenic approach to scientific enquiry.
Does anyone have experience with an IR camera keeping an eye on the stove from above, like this one?

https://newatlas.com/panperfect-infrared-cooking/56305/
+1

There's only the social safety tax which you get clubbed if you don't pay. Other than that you are on your own and will pay out of pocket for whatever thing you imagine the safety net should have provided.
Assuming that the amount they "lost" can be covered with a couple of months' profits. What thet just did, is forced every bank they work with to enforce their "right to audit". I believe that on the next contract updates, EVERY client, will make sure for the two following things:

1) right to audit (in case they don't already have one), and

2) 4h notice (or something equally small/ridiculous. The 4h is a minimum in order to ensure that names/passport numbers, photos, etc are exchanged to ensure security.

EDIT: extra point:

3) I believe (since in the banking internal audits everyone knows everyone else)(especially on the Director/CAE level), some banks will ahen coordinate their audits and give them a group visit.. I want to see GW showcasing the same bag of coins to 10 clients at the same hour..
I run my own instance and talk to thousands of people on their own instances every day. I don't think you know how this works. Its federation, like email. People with GMail accounts can communicate with Yahoo users in case you missed that...
This is a pretty unfair characterization of stoicism. I suggest you read some primary texts rather than a few blog posts on the internet.

Stoicism does not advocate for passivity at all. Just look at Marcus Aurelius, one of Rome’s greatest emperors.
> Lots of people believe this in every side of every ideological conflict, and it's easy to do so since very few people understand others' beliefs really; they just understand simplified caricatures of those beliefs.

Surely this is true. However, at the same time, many people's beliefs actually are simplified caricatures of what the doctrine they associate themselves with actually meant them to believe.
Oregon aside. This seems really concerning. Can someone explain to me this isn’t really the case?

I don’t believe anyone anymore (only like 1/2 hyperbole).
Container Networking Is Simple
As a California tax payer, I appreciate these sunshine reports. Calling them a hit piece reveals you too have some sort of bias or axe to grind.

Government work was supposed to be fairly compensated with pension and benefits, while avoiding the instability risks of the private sector. Now we are told it has all the stability plus super generous pensions and salary that would make the best workers in the private sector jealous.

It reveals the obscene corruption of our political class runs through the entire system.
I'm dead haha wiseass.

Read this: https://www.younglingfeynman.com/essays/deeplovefinal

Some sketchy stuff. My ''favorite'' is lead in gasoline. What's wrong with people...
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24817777
That's similar to Modesto prices. Comps might be 25% different, but my point is it's not a SF/Peninsula $2M starter home.
> Instead of dealing with professional community managers operating with clear rules, you are at the mercy of some random nerd running a server from his mom's basement. You can run your own instance, but then you're just talking to yourself.

~15 years ago, when blogs and forums were where most Internet discussions happened, we had that same scenario, and we now consider that at least a silver age of free speech.

(And if you went and made your own blog, it was much harder to connect with other bloggers and commenters, compared to running your own instance and tooting at other like-minded instances).

If the Fediverse grows and create something similar to that age, I will be overjoyed. I will certainly prefer it to the giant cloud conglomerates' "professional community managers", whose rules may or may not be clear but it doesn't matter when they're based on the politics and concerns of Silicon Valley instead of those of my country or my community.
So useless, that they get used daily by millions of C++ developers, and was one of the top requested features for vcpkg.

Sword fighting gets tiresome after a while, and not all businesses enjoy shipping source code anyway.
Hedgehog road deaths in UK 'as high as 335,000'
Oh, no, you don't sound critical at all. I'm making fun of myself. Thank you for actually reading it!
Can't wait to have this https://www.foxnews.com/story/saudi-killer-chip-implant-woul...
can you? :)
Any insight about who makes the batteries for those cars?
I have tried this in the past and then the answer becomes "why would you want to do A?".
Yes, spectating is bad for your well being. If you want to feel better, join a political organization that accommodates discussion, education, strategizing, and action. I recommend most socialist outfits as they take democracy seriously. Even just having a regular live discussion of the news with close friends is a good start.

Here are some good books to read:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_Un...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

- https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/democracy-incorporated-2

- https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Power
We ended up buying an organic mattress online (e.g., Avocado, My Green Mattress). It’s made a huge difference.
Switching 220v AC versus 220v DC [video]
How do you declare a $21B surplus while carrying a $1T unfounded pension liability?
Does youtube keep your watch history infinitely far back?
This is a shame to hear. I like the Socratic method and think it's the quickest way to get on the same page with someone.

I also don't see any problems with someone probing what I'm doing. How can they help if they don't understand what I'm trying to achieve?
Very similar on my end. Active talk news radio consumer. I stopped around 2012. Like you, I’ve noticed nothing missing but am generally happier. I was so out of the loop that I was surprised to hear Trump had not only gotten the republican nomination but won the bid for president. I thought about getting back into things and watched the presidential debate. Oh lord, what a mess.
He'd dispute the "architect of the herd immunity policy" bit:

>On 28 April 2020, Tegnell was interviewed by Kim Hjelmgaard of USA Today. During the interview he "denied that herd immunity formed the central thrust of Sweden's containment plan"
I love that VT100 in the background of that image. I have a thing for video terminals.

Sadly I don't think you'd get tetris running on it very well as it only supported scrolling text
Accidental clicks are invalid clicks according to Google's own documentation[1][2].

For this to not be an accident, one would have to assume that Google actually makes more money from those invalid clicks, and that someone decided that yep, rendering ads asynchronously was a decent and legal approach at increasing advertising revenue, and requested the GMail team to implement it.

This kind of corporate misbehavior is not unheard of, but I just can't imagine it happening at Google.

It's much more likely that this is just unfortunate UX design to "improve" rendering performance without considering users on slow connections.

(I can reproduce this one just fine in desktop GMail - on the first render of the "Promotions" tab, the ads render asynchronously)

[1]: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/42995?hl=en

[2]: https://www.blog.google/products/ads/preventing-accidental-c...
Some companies list certification requirements as a plus to their job description. While I don't care much about certificate/badge - it's a good motivator to learn beyond everyday work.
Federated social media works around this just fine. Any server can ban any other server breaking its rules.

Yes, a federated system will inevitably be abused by malicious actors because of its inherent openness. But if it's closed the way it is now, then it is abused by the company that owns each platform. If I had to choose, I'd absolutely pick spam over ads, tracking, and dark patterns. Spam is at least easier to deal with and universally hated by everyone while most people don't even realize they're being tracked at all times.
I have recently been informed that Dysons are not products for the cool kids.

Love my V10 though. (And their use of psychological innovation has a warm spot in my heart.)
In this case it's clear since this is a publication of MIT and they hype up their own research of course.

But even when you're note reading a university publication/PR piece, you still see this effect. One big player like a famous lab at Stanford or MIT publishes an incremental paper that is a followup on a well known existing research direction, where several groups are working in parallel on very similar things, and then it's presented as if it was some breakthrough and the whole subfield was invented by them right now.

It's very, very hard for outsiders to recognize this and to really understand what the actual incremental step in a particular paper is. Necessarily, when explaining to laypeople, you can only scratch the surface and present the rought idea of a whole big research field, and it gets really murky what is part of the established, pre-existing research field and what is the novel contribution.

I'm sure I fall victim to this when reading outside my expertise as well, i.e. when reading about genetics stuff or quantum computing.
To achieve Y, of course.
Here's a worthwhile guide that shows a learning path, includes more skills and seems easier to comprehend
https://github.com/datastacktv/data-engineer-roadmap
Is it possible that it is learning a kalman filter indirectly ?
Kindle - had one or another model for many years, but in terms of utility to price ratio, it's still one of the highest.

Youtube Premium - I realized I was spending a ton of time on Youtube, both for education, entertainment and podcasts. Removing the annoyance of ads and not being able to just listen to a video while out walking is worth it to me.
Hey HN,

My name is Daniel & I'm the co-founder of an "unnamed" thinktank/private incubator. We're going to be building & launching a new product every 1-2 months. We have a couple of names in mind but we wanted to create a poll and let people vote for their favorite name!

p.s. Most of our products will probably be micro-SaaS services. We'll do the occasional resource tool as well.
People advocating that position usually have a very specific idea about how they want sites to be moderated, but section 230 is about not treating platforms as if they're the speaker when one of their users posts illegal speech, regardless of moderation. Of course, politically biased speech is not illegal, so it's really about punishing platforms for moderation somebody doesn't like.

A more reasonable target for a 230 carve-out would be recommendation algorithms. Those aren't merely passively hosting user-generated content, but actively selecting what they think you should see to keep you engaged with the platform. Featuring content rather than showing it ordered by some simple criterion like time should be treated as editorializing rather than moderation. If a human editor decides to feature lies I tweet about you on their "best tweets of the week" page, you may be able to sue them for libel. If twitter's algorithm shows lies I tweet about you to a large audience, you currently can't.
Whew, well, that’s good.

So the posts about how in Washington they cancel the original ballot when you go through the print process for a new one are not correct?

That seemed like too obvious a flaw!