skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now clearly, we're not quite there yet, but the rise of groups like Identity Evropa, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Rise Above Movement, Proud Boys, etc are all furthering the breakdown in political discourse and normalizing political violence. These group allegiances also act to politicize things that were previously entirely apolitical, simply through propagation.

The Internet, like the advent of pulp publishing, the cinema, and radio before it in the Weimar Republic, has enabled a fantastic amount of stimulus and incoherent messaging that can be directly, without any kind of curation, accessed directly by younger people. This easily leads to a state of "hyperreality"[^5] if you're a leftist neo-Marxist or Bezmenov's "demoralization"[^6] if you're a rightist neo-Fascist. The particular emphasis differs between the two concepts, but the fundamental point of both is that an individual can no longer determine what is actually real and what isn't (i.e. societal gaslighting[^7], which creates a sense of alienation and impotence that creates learned helplessness[^8]). This trend has really been ascendant for the last twenty years or so in youth culture.

This entire package overall creates a sense of cultural rootlessness amongst youth segments across all demographics. Note the simultaneous rise of "normie" and "cishet privilege" as insults towards majority culture in the background Internet cultural milleux by fundamentally opposing groups. The mass capitalization of culture has destroyed any sense of historical or cultural context for young people and the overall cultural and economic downturn since 2008 has also prevented their own integration into society in meaningful ways as individuals. They are plagued by impostor syndrome[^9] if they're inside groups and are plagued by fear of missing out[^10] if they're not. This psychological inferiority applies in every realm of their lives. They are buffeted from everywhere with contradictory messages. They are told by every form of media that they are inferior to an ever-shifting ideal. They are told that to exist socially as functional adults, they need to meet now-impossible cultural expectations--they need to be attractive, have lots of money, own houses, have high paying jobs, have great experiences all the time, etc.

Fight Club was really prescient in nailing that emerging pathos:

> Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
I'm also curious about all the related morphological changes that must go along with increased brain size, such as different proportions of the skull and face and wider hips on females to accommodate birth. It seems unlikely one gene can modulate all of those, let alone yield the social structures required for increased rearing time.
One thing you have to realize, is that "enterprise" architectures are as much about workforce management as they are about efficiency, or scalability, or et al.

There's a limit to how reduced data, and functions that work on data, and the transports and relationships between it all, can get. Let's call this residual mass "goo". Well, the goo has to go _somewhere_.
Irish Travellers are sometimes called gypsies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Travellers
your mom is terrible lmao
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I sorta kinda think that bad economy could actually help some startups grow.

In bad economy, businesses are looking to cut costs and optimize their processes. So do people. If you can come up with something that saves people money or hassle, the rate of adoption may be sky-high.

If we take AirBNB as an example, it helps both travellers save their money, as the lodgings are usually cheaper than classical hotels, and helps people with unused rooms make some money on them.

Ofc AirBNB evolved into a megabusiness in the meantime, and you will rarely meet your host in person, but the gist of the idea is clear.
This is quite a haunting phenomenon, really... the path integral is tossing up these wormhole things because they’re the only way it can express nonlocality sounds a lot to me like “setting up tunnels and sockets”.

The idea that by feeding a simulation of an object all the information about that object in real time causes it the simulation to somehow mirror the real item doesn’t surprise me; the reverse, namely that manipulating the simulation would also have an effect on the object being simulated, is a very different matter and collides with my intuition.
great job pivoting to posting negative stuff on Hacker news then
I got fucked by my last realtor so I got licensed - I’ll be my own agent for my next purchase.
In context it really isn't. I think it was misguided, but her entire concern was that trump would attempt to mess with absentee ballots and get the race called before they were counted. By any account, he's done both. He hasn't really succeeded, in the "popular" sphere (although he's still delaying the Biden transition from starting, which is bad for the entire country), but if the race had been a bit closer his claims of "well overturn the results on a recount" might ring truer, especially if news organizations weren't able to call the races.

Also worth mentioning that, while I can't find the full clip of the quote anywhere, some of the reporting on it seems to imply that the question she was responding to was if Biden should concede on election night, and the answer was under no circumstances. That really strains the whole "disputing democracy" thing.
I’d guess talking about advances in physical chemistry and the ability to more closely model and understand how atoms interact?
All this hoo haa about startup ideas - Just make products that excel at every aspect of what it does and make sure there is a demand for such a product. I see people making a better soap dispenser, the hardware equivalent of what most SaaS startups are working on. You need to invent a new kind of soap that is better than anything else out there. It should take the grime off of everything from kitchen to bathroom scum. It replaces IPA, Acetone, LimeOff, EasyOff, Ivory bar, Dawn soap, and Gojo. You've got an explosive popularity just around the corner. Popularity isn't luck. It germinates from knocking people's socks off when they use your product.

I equate startup advice to those "Teach you how to become a millionaire" books you find at grocery stores. If these people really were good at making soap, they wouldn't be around giving advice. That includes my own advice in this comment ;-).
As long as no one takes a monkey home we should be okay.
It would have to be a very noisy line and probably not the average house ac - this is from what my CCNA instructor commented.

They also said that stp is a lot harder and expensive to install.
Nor do electric motors.

Rings, cylinders, valve seats, there are plenty of ICE components that wear out or coke up long before anything on a brushless electric motor will.

It makes more sense to compare batteries to tires and brakes; they're wear items. And their cost will keep dropping as their scale of manufacture increases exponentially until the economics start resembling tires too.
Darn I thought I found an Easter egg
Doesn't Ada have a sort of arbitrary computation on assignment? I think I remember that there are rules when predicates on types are checked. (Depending on the Assertion_Policy of course) I'm not sure how that works on assignment though.
> Is also a matter of performance (no wonder Java code is that slow)

Surely these would be trivially inlined?
Has anyone tried TruffleRuby in a project yet?
What the hell?!?

There is no pro-choice argument for killing the fetus here - the mother monkey is not sapient and was not consulted as to whether she wished to carry the potentially sapient baby to term or not.

This is straight up feticide.
I don’t get it. The original label-actions is <500 LoC, and that code hasn’t been touched for a year. Why does this person expect to make money from this tiny project? Open source can be weird sometimes.
With Apple, one can never quite tell if it's intentional.
As an addendum, this is also where (extended-family-level or city-wide) community-hosting comes in though unless your services are federated or have other attractors, it's difficult to attract users.
I am using both, the bulbs are equally reliable here, the Ikea bridge & app have had their problems in the past, but also work well atm.

I am moving to Deconz (Phoscon) for full flexibility though..
Travellers could also be considered gypsies. They are mainly in Ireland and England and are regarded similarly.

Part of the problem is that a nomadic lifestyle just doesn't gel with modern society so they don't integrate at all. For the same reason it's hard for these people to find work and a subset do often turn to crime.

Culturally they also have very conservative and often misogynistic views which acts as another barrier to integration.

In ways it is similar to the issues with Islamic migrants integrating into European society. It's too simplistic to just label it as racism and be done with it (not to say there isn't racism). There are real issues.
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While i do generally like Github, i find the Apple portion of the GP comment especially funny - as parts of their website is one of the worst experiences i've had on the modern web.

From memory it was mostly locked scrolling, slow page loads, awful rendered video, etc. Ironically i recently saw Google with the same problem on their new Phone product page (a few months back).

It seems Designers are being given too much freedom with completely no concern for practical implementation. No one on the dev side stands up and says "but that'll lag like mad" - they just implement the bloated slow mess to spec; and god knows performance is never in spec.

So yea, i might agree with the GP comment - i do prefer "modern" look over that of Sourcehuts.. if it worked. But as it stands, Sourcehut's UI is faster than every modern UI i deal with, and i want things that work - first and foremost. Fast.

Modern pages suffer here.
You are right. Their situation is mostly of their own doing. And of course it's exacerbated by the discrimination, but they don't have to live in mountains of trash. Also they don't let the police in their communities, neither the taxmen. It's a de-facto state within the state. The state has "left" them the way they prefer. And I am a firm believer that this is the right stance. The only other possible approach would be something like a police state, forced labor and education etc. Free healthcare and social benefits they get even now. They literally do no work and get no jobs because they have enough money to continue their happy existence. I am not being sarcastic here by saying "happy" as it's very much visible in the article. This is the ultimate failure of the well-fare state and it's only going to get worse if the well-fare continues. It's very funny how progressives chant slogans from far away, but no one dares go propose the same ideas in-person (to the Roma).

I am also a member of a minority in Bulgaria (Turkish), but our people are nothing like the Roma - we don't live in ghettos. And although there is a lot of "historically based" hatred towards us here, I can say from experience that the (ethnic) Bulgarians are not that racist (or at least not unreasonably so). Westerners are too soft and entitled to their progressive beliefs which are going to screw them big time.
Can IT control what is allowed to be applied and what is not?

Sure can. But that's true only if these machines are part of IT's infrastructure, which is usually the case at large companies.

A lot of places are BYOD and don't have employee Macs on Active Directory.

For $20 bucks, any office or group with a spare Mac can use macOS Server to control this stuff: https://www.apple.com/macos/server/features/
Alas, if it makes my heating work the way it is supposed to then it's a price I'm willing to pay.
For LL and LR languages. Not for general CFGs. The abstract also mentions other classes, but isn't specific, probably referring to other deterministic classes of CFG.
Scientists recreated nuclear reaction that happened right after Big Bang
This is somewhat off-topic, but as someone who has worked on various speech processing and ASR projects, I'm curious to learn from people who have specific problems and applications for this technology where it can make a difference.

That is to say, what are areas where you think ASR can enable new products or make common and tedious tasks much more efficient?
Not to be funny, but our brains/skulls are already large enough to really make giving birth legitimately dangerous to mothers. Making the head even bigger would not be welcome.
https://youtu.be/3YKNr-LiblI?t=212

i guess he never heard of ebay.

patreon is just paypal donation button but they take a bigger cut and have developed a habit of terminating creators from the service for vague TOS violations

When he says that a company is worth 1 billon or 3 billon etc. , this is based on the last funding round in a very illiquid market. The collapse of wework shows that these purportedly large numbers are less impressive than they seem
I was confused as all get-out about what a "wire nut" is, turns out Marettes are not what everyone calls 'em!
Or make money by selling a service around this (A)GPL code, but provide the modified code to your users if you modified it (even better, publish the code for everyone, but that's not required by the GPL, otherwise it would not be a free software license anymore).

This is important: one can build a service around an open source project and make money without paying or asking for a specific license. People doing this still need to give the code to their users if they request it with the same rights, and will be incentivized to contribute back upstream if they need to adapt the code to provide their service because it is less costly than maintaining an ever diverging fork, which is great! Do sell commercial services around my GPL code!

A commercial license is only needed to allow building proprietary software based on the GPL code, but it is only possible to provide one if the project has no other contributors than the one selling the commercial license, or those contributors sign a CLA.
Accusations of bad faith are unhelpful, especially in a technical discussion like this.

Zoom is not malware in that as far as we know it isn’t Zoom’s intent to cause harm.

However in this instance it exhibited a behavior which many forms of malware exhibit - opening an insecure or exploitable port. It was shut down because it was behaving the way some malware behaves.

It’s a perfectly reasonable example of using these types of mechanism to mitigate a real security issue.

You can’t seriously be claiming that malware never opens ports, or that malware always does all of its harm on the first run.

Therefore the use of the distinction ‘malware’ is arbitrary and irrelevant.

The mechanism is useful to protect against vulnerabilities, regardless of whether the vulnerabilities were intentional or not.
The Christian Body Temple finds it to be religious persecution for their members (many doctors) to be forced to treat fat people. Will Alito also uphold that?

http://www.christianbodytemple.com/
The essence of economic conservatism is about preserving power for those already in power, reducing opportunity. Of course it’s dressed up as libertarian freedom but that’s just the doublespeak. For example, in a laissez-faire, libertarian education system, kids who are born into wealth get a great education, kids who are not start adulthood with lots of disadvantages, which obviously conserves the status quo, and starves an economy by reducing its potential intellectual capital without benefit to the system as a whole. American prosperity is a direct result of our unusual democratic institutions that push in the direction of economic opportunity, through laws that enforce a more even economic playing field relative to other economies around the world, but it is always being attacked by monopoly oriented interests, and the inherited wealth class. This is the primary political axis of Democrat vs Republican.

It's an argument especially relevant to the startup community because great startups disrupt the economic status quo. Take away the system that enables that and you are left with top-down/autocratic economic systems. They have their benefits, efficient use of resources, so long as it benefits the regime, but over time, since autocratic regimes are optimized to keep people in power, they can't innovate as well. The highest profile example recently, was Jack Ma's attempted IPO that got shut down because he offended Xi in a speech. Loyalty to the top trumps all.
I think that's because people are kind of forgetting what the concrete thing being discussed even is.

A programing language can be thought of in the asbtract, as simply a syntax for computation and programming.

But if you go in the concrete, a programming language implementation translates language into machine code for a particular machine.

From that angle, the Cython interpreter/compiler is pretty bad at doing that. This experiment actually shows it. It is 40% slower even if all it does is orchestrates the calls between C code.

This is true of hash map as well. Python is so bad at generating efficient machine code from its own language syntax and semantics, that it would be unreasonably slow to implement hash map in Python. Why? Because Python is really slow.

In order to speed up programs written in Python, you need to write more of your program in some other faster language, such as C.

Now if you reuse a bunch of components written in fast languages, like hash map being implemented in C, well you avoid the need to write the C code yourself. But it doesn't make Python any more efficient.

In practice though, you might be able to not have to implement 90% of your application, because there exist C libraries that do most of what you already need. Thus only 10% of your application will have degraded performance due to using Python. And for that 10%, it might be Python is a great choice, because you like the language and productivity, readability and all it gives you in order to implement that 10%, and can deal with 10% of the code being slower.

But if there doesn't exist existing fast libraries you can leverage, well more and more of your program will be Python, and thus it'll get slower and slower, unless you start using C yourself and implementing your own C code libraries.

Yes, that's true of hash map as well. For example, if for any reason you needed a hash map that behaved differently than the standard one, you would most likely need to write it in C to get any performance out of it. Writing it in Python would be just too slow.

So to recap, Python is a slow language, because there are no known interpreter/compiler for it that generate fast machine code for some real machine. This is not a falsehood, but the current reality. But it turns out most applications can leverage existing C libraries for a large amount of their functionality, thus making it that you can build an app that is reasonably performant, with the only code you need to personally implement being implemented in Python.
Personally I don't believe that they destroyed fetus. And they give up of seeing end results?? C'mon...
I’m pretty sure there’s sufficiently complex cellular machinery inside a neuron to run Doom if arranged in the right way.
As the article points out the Koch's themselves, running a 100+ billion dollar empire, were quite happy buying themselves into the highest echelons of power, spreading their beliefs from the top down

Mr. Koch and his late brother David seeded the political landscape with conservative and libertarian ideas, then built an infrastructure to nurture them. Koch-aligned ventures fund more than 1,000 faculty members at more than 200 universities, helped bankroll think tanks such as the Cato Institute and the American Enterprise Institute, and supported the American Legislative Exchange Council (a nonpartisan organization of similarly minded state legislators) to write bills that were introduced and championed by Republican state lawmakers across the country.

You know what would really decentralise the country and create a bottom-up utopia? If no single entity had the resources the Kochs has. But in the world of the Kochs privately funded authoritarianism does not count.
I do not think anybody is making the _legal_ argument that consumers of publicly available software with an associated clear LICENSE file are granted any additional rights. Open Source is much more than what you are suggesting. It's like saying all there is to soccer/football is <first degree technical definition here>.

Just like most things, there is a very important and obvious people/social dimension on top of that.

It's not entirely surprising this is a problem in our industry. After all, Software Engineers are most definitely NOT known for their social skills. The emergent properties of human interactions over time is a very complicated problem.
"I’m glad the GWOT era is
coming to an end and hope we
can learn from all the
mistakes we made along the way"

I'm curious about your thoughts on the subject - what do you consider mistakes? What do you think the lessons are? Are there books or other resources that you'd recommend?
Tag title with 2002? It’s a great paper.
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Contracts can be invalidated (post-hoc) by laws, and both (contracts and laws) can be invalidated by constitutions. Such provisions (in the USA) would have been rendered unenforceable by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Speaking of real world, in your case, would the Rust version come into existence without the Python version being written in the first place?

Here's a real world example:

https://github.com/sripathikrishnan/redis-rdb-tools - python, optional C library dependency to liblzf, fully-featured, pure-python performance is decent enough when using pypy

https://github.com/badboy/rdb-rs - rust, inspired by the former, not fully-featured, abandoned, may or may not have great performance

Rust is great, but I just want to contend that the real world picture is a lot more nuanced than how you painted it.