skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But things are only valuable because people think they are valuable. It's not clear to me why I should need to change my behavior because other people have changed how they view me or my property.

If I find a special rock in my back yard that someone would pay me $100,000 for - I get to keep all that money in your system I assume. But if I find a special rock in my back yard that someone would pay me $1,000,000,000 for - I don't get to keep the money, or if I want to hold onto the rock, I need to give part of the rock away?

More concretely - imagine if TSLA has crossed the threshold because of the recent rally, where now Elon "should" be forcibly divested of part of his ownership of the company. Let's say he goes from 20% to 5%.

Later, the stock crashes back down below the threshold. Does Elon get his 15% back?
> What good reason is there to leave marijuana as a controlled substance?

The 2 reasons that I can think of are:

1) currently the THC levels are very high, so it's not a soft drug

2) some users are self-medicating for psychological reasons rather than using it recreationally.

So it's worth doing updated research in 2020 before expanding its use further.
Has Deepmind ever released how many employees it has? Several thousand seems much larger than I would have thought. Please cite your source on that.
56% of billionaires build. 44% of billionaires inherit.
It's really not just a norm that office workers assume most employees will be full-time. Many aspects of labor law are set up with the assumption that full-time is the normal state of affairs and part-time work is for exceptional or temporary situations. And legally many benefits are tied to full-time status. If you are part-time and get laid off you might not be able to collect unemployment, depending how few hours you were working. Under the ACA companies only need to offer healthcare options to full-time employees.

The bigger point though is there would still be major limitations on flexibility even if Uber/Lyft was able to offer every driver the option of full or part-time. They still wouldn't be able to set their own hours, only work a few weeks here and there with no predictable schedule, sign up and start working immediately with minimal overhead, etc.
And anyone with a dissenting opinion is chased off of the site. I had to stop using it over the staggering amount of groupthink and censorship.

Didn't they champion themselves as the bastions of free speech at one point?
I can’t see it as being true because Chrome already knows what sites you visit. Bundling the fonts wouldn’t change that.
As could mobile phones, putting on make up, working a 24 hour shift at the hospital...

In fact, all the things listed above make someone a far more dangerous driver than marijuana use. Yet working extra long hours and sleep deprivation in the name of "productivity" is celebrated.
Do you have a source for Livermore designing their bridges to specifically prevent BART expansion? I'm a transit nerd and I find this to be stunning, but I Googled around and couldn't find anything corroborating that
I've argued with Yann about my field (we share a friend on facebook) and in that case, he did turn out to be technically correct.

I don't agree with your assessment of his "Reasoning".
Author has completely misunderstood UUID user case and purpose.

UUID is not cryptographically unique id. Never has been. It's for cases where nobody has bad intention.

UUID is still good for it's intended purpose. Avoid collision when generating id's for systems that have no way to coordinate.
> Google needs to make more Android-like deals in the future.

I think you'd be hardpressed to find a founder that wouldn't sell to Google for what they consider the right price if he didn't get $90M. Do you think any football players don't want to play for the Patriots, because Aaron Hernandez wasn't supported by them? People get that all bets are off with criminally poor behavior.
I understand it, but there are many ways to help.

In my case I've been diagnosed in the spectrum of autism, I know it's my problem if I get easily bored, not because I'm not checking my work email while I'm on holiday.
Yes kombucha is extremely easy, and shrooms are pretty hard (the need for sterilization of equipment and timing things)
They speak about ROI. But if one think about it a little, what is your investment? It is time, isn't it? So why every reading guide I've read talks about how to spend even more time on each book increasing investment, instead of how to read from book just the most valuable key points in no time?

To be fair, the author of this guide mentions this. One should ask himself "why I'm reading" and to choose right approach. The guide even quotes Naval Ravikant:

> As Naval Ravikant points out on the Farnam Street podcast, most books have the one point to make and it’s fine to fast-forward and skip and skim and do all these other sinful things.

But there are no information how to do it. It is just like the situation described at the beginning of this guide: we tell you that you should learn, but we don't expect us to tell you how you should learn.
I disagree with most of this (for context im a mediawiki developer. I used to work for WMF but dont anymore. My opinions are my own):

-wikitext unparsable - wikitext is a bit insane but there exists a parser called parsoid. If we couldn't parse it it would be impossible to make a visual editor

- most pages are redirects: not sure what the problem is.

-boilerplate text - there is a template system to have repeated text in only one place. Not sure what the issue is.

- he goes on a rant about no search without giving much context. There is a search feature based on elastic search (older versions were based on lucene directly). In my opinion its a pretty decent search engine (especially compared to most sites that make their own search). I'm not sure what the actual complaint is.

-complaints about wikidata - this is more political than technical, however "If wikidata was a company, it would not exist anymore, and you wouldn't have heard of it." seems patently false. Wikidata is pretty popular even outside of academia, and is used quite extensively.

- category tree being a graph not a tree - that's kind of unfortunate but what exactly is the problem here. Its a problem on commons, but i've never really seen how its an issue in practise on wikipedia. Complex categorization is being taken over by wikidata anyways.

Template ecosystem is complex - it could certainly be better, but the complexity here is a trade-off allowing more flexibility and allowing the system to evolve.

Inclusionist vs deletionist: no comment

UI design: perhaps a fair point here, although i do kind of like the stability of the current design. Most of the modern web sucks imho.

Moral failure: i dont want wikipedia to fix the world. That's not its role. Its job is to document, not to partake.

Viz editor not being enabled by default: i agree, although i think it was pushed too hard in early days when there was still kinks, but its long past time now.

To be clear, i definitely dont think wikipedia is perfect, i just disagree with some of these specific criticisms.
Pay her 2 weeks and wish her luck.
I have a strong anti-IP position: Didn't want to work for pharma, lost the battle to get into academia, didn't appreciate how much academia doesn't care about your science and how much you have to play politics to get in. I was always good at programming, figured it pays well (it does). Open source feels good, even with its warts.
They aren't really unrelated as they explicitly made JavaScript syntax "look like Java" which in turn "looked like C and C++".

This also helped with their LiveConnect stuff which allowed the two to talk to each other. I think it was a huge selling point that the languages felt similar, and felt comfortable to those who already knew C and/or C++.

In those days I was doing a lot of pasting from one language to the other, and editing "int" into "var" etc. Java and JavaScript were similar in that, compared to C and C++, you just sort of forgot about pointers and pointer syntax. (even though they still sort of existed).

They sure seemed to me to be related. This is obviously most true for light use of the languages (JavaScript especially was designed for very light use)
When it comes to non-startup content, then hn is not the best choice. lobste.rs and lemmy.ml are more user friendly, and then there are plenty of other options, as can be seen in the subreddit for reddit alternatives.
Elon Musk tells friends he's planning to move to Texas
Not sure about react-rails but using Stimulus as part of StimulusRelex[1] is super interesting to me.

1. https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/
here is an easy paper about "the elements of a general theory of social change" http://home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/research/stratofc.pdf
I don't think the reactions are primarily to the title since the comments were much the same before the title changed.
these are known as system font stacks, and i've collected a bunch of them here: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy#typography
> It is democratic,

No it's not.

> It’s a democracy of the states.

The “demo-” in “democracy” means something, and it's not “the states”.

If you mean “its a majoritarian body of which the constituents are States”, that's partly true (although in some ways the Senate is nonmajoritarian), but that is, by definition, not a “democracy”.
In theory, this would be the kind of ideological thing Rand Paul would get behind. But I doubt he will, because he lacks his father's integrity: he only votes along Libertarian lines when it's inconsequential.
Good UI, bad UX.
I feel like I must not be communicating the issue properly.

Sometimes, like with with several GL calls or layout operations, you want the UI to be blocked because that is the synchronization model openGL requires. Single thread ordering is not enough. We need specific exclusive scheduling of critical sections and I don't see how this system can understand that without just as much or more work as async/await styles.

Perhaps we will get some new way to render UI out of this. I'm excited to see what the UI team comes up with once it all works. However, my pessimistic assumption is that we will simply stick with native non-premptive threading.
You can write models in F# (with CLIMutables everywhere), but then you need to put models in a separate project, then add a C# project for migrations, and finally reference both projects from your ASP.NET app.
I second this. Huge productivity boost in my reading.
I think it is very unlikely we will get to see how the individual senators vote with McConnell at the helm.
A proper conservative position would be weaker central government.

In the US both parties want a stronger central government, just with different priorities.
I picked up "round brackets", "square brackets", "curly brackets" somewhere during my (Lancashire) youth though generally I only use them now when I encounter somebody confused by parens/brackets/braces as terminology.
Tl;dr

YC looks for founders who understand users and can make what they want.

Understanding users is hard. That is why Facebook and google data collect.

Making what they want is technically challenging. That is why intelligence is required.
First, I would argue that most employees never get a meaningful offer to accept more risk if they so choose. I think it would be better if employees could choose to accept more risk in the form of profit sharing in place of salary, but it’s not typically on the table, even at a startup.

Second, the point here is that PG is misapprehending (or deliberately obfuscating) what people mean by “exploitation.”

When Marxists talk about exploitation what they mean is that employees (workers) are not paid the full value of their labor. This is usually explained away with “risk profile” by capitalists, as you did above, but most employees don’t have a choice to accept a higher risk profile in return for getting paid the full value of what they produce.
They don't drive the transmissions the way they do for flu or some forms of common cold but I've seen estimates that 5% or so of infections come from fomites. It's still worth washing your hands when you come home and take off your mask since it's easy, but it's not going to make much of a dent in the R0.

Other sort of masks actually do make a dent in R0. A cloth or surgical mask doesn't provide the level of protection a N95 mask does but they do seem to provide a protection factor of 2 or 3. Nothing you could call safe but enough to reduce the R0 of the disease very significantly if everybody used them.
Was Bitcoin created to replace currencies? Or was it created to be another one? Genuine question. Because if it’s the first, you’d have an argument, but if it’s the latter, it’s a straw man to make the claim you did.
There were just as many people all over that thread that attempted to rationalize the unusual circumstances of this death by pointing to how quickly fire can spread, why someone would be awake or in the basement or difficult to reach by firefighters at 3am with zero evidence as well.

Point is, I found it just as baffling as to why so many felt compelled to explain away the strange elements of the initial story as I would if someone said something totally outlandish with no evidence as well.
Unfortunately that’s not how it works. If republicans remain in control of the senate (Georgia runoff races in January will decide) then they control what they vote on and what they don’t. So there wouldn’t even be a vote.
Well, with ten days of vacation per year, I'd be interesting in any additional time I could take off. But if you have enough (say 25), then I as an employee don't feel that I got the short end of the stick.

It's also a matter of solidarity that those who can support those who can't. In this case, the healthier employees support the ones who are ill.
probably depends on just how far off the "wrong" structures are. I presume the tally of wrong structures will get lower as the model gets refined.
> I imagine Democrats wouldn't do this if they had control of the government.

Why not? It's already decriminalized in virtually the entire country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_U.S._j...

35 states have legalized it for medical use, and 15 have legalized it recreationally. From the map, it looks like Idaho stands alone on it being completely illegal and criminalized.
For me, nothing will replace the original GoF book:
"Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software"
It's still worth reading. But I also recommend "Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications" by Grady Booch. It's not strictly design patterns, but it's a classic that explores a lot of the fundamental concepts you'll need for DP.
> The small businesses I was forced to use previously were inefficient, slow, overcharging, had terrible customer service, exploited employees, etc.

Amazon is substantially worse on most (if not all) of those metrics.
At a personal level, a lot, if not most, billionaires never risked anything the vast majority of their employees would have to risk. They were either already rich-enough (or _very_ rich like Bezos), or from families that can support them if something fails.

At a company / systemic level, if say Musk or Bezos fail right now, their companies might be at risk and that can lead to thousands of people unemployed. But they already reaped the fruits high reward you're talking about.

And a LOT of people take the risks you're talking about, since new businesses are started everyday. But we're talking about billionaires in this context, and the current crop took a risk that the general population would consider it negligible.
The fact of the matter is, it doesn't matter what republicans do or don't do if the people who vote for them only watch Fox News and don't see this as a bad thing. Democrats can hammer all they want, the voters they need will never see the criticisms and genuinely think democrats are "as bad" or evil or something stupid
Counterpoint: no-one needs to feel any embarrassment. The advancement of human understanding is not a boxing match.

The author acknowledges as much in the preamble, "my mood lifted during the meeting due to the general excitement and quality of discussions, [...] my tribal reflexes gave way to a cooler and more rational assessment".
At this point the whole "small government" thing seems to just be a dog whistle for the Republican base that roughly translates to "if it helps people I don't like we won't fund it."
Just to add, there is a flip side to this. As a grad student who did research and TA work, I've actually discussed this with fellow grad students and professors in the past and it comes down to the following...

A professor would rather spend their time teaching students and finding the best existing book (less expensive if possible, but better quality is more important) so they can use it for teaching.

I'm sure there are professors who have been thinking of writing their own textbook and getting students to buy them ... the downside is apparently writing technical books and textbooks earns less than minimum wage, and that's if you are lucky because of the way revenue split works with textbooks. So they have to charge exorbitant rates on the textbooks to make even a little bit of money. So most professors don't bother and instead use an existing good quality textbook. Not to say there aren't others who would try to write and sell their own.
What if I do that and I come to the same conclusions I did before?
China is actually doing what you're describing with it's vaccine development. It's sort of a geopolitical power move for them, plus they don't have enough people domestically with the virus to run clinical trials anymore.

As well, there's less of a potential PR-hangup for a Chinese company if they have to grease the local wheels with some cash 'donations,' whereas Pfizer and Moderna probably wouldn't want to be caught bribing people in the context of a clinical trial (I used to work for a Chinese immunodiagnostics company that did business in the developing world. It's just how things work some places if you want to enter a market and don't have the right political connections).

It's not Africa-focused particularly, but they're running tons of clinical trials across the developing world, and will give these countries early-access that they would not otherwise have with the Western vaccines.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/global-push-covid-19...
Two from Alaska, for example.
Indeed! And even that outcome would be considered merciful from most other perspectives.

On one hand, I'm glad that people are sensitive enough to at least pretend to care about this, but on the other hand, they're completely deluded about the nature of work, and the nature of their relationship to their employer. It must come as a shock when, after spending a decade in school and moving directly from a university dorm/cafeteria to a corporate one, all of a sudden they can just ask you to leave. Maybe Google should start charging tuition.
If you are a disabled person living or working in Paris this might put you in a really bad spot. Because Paris' subway system is mostly not accessible to disabled people. (Few or no elevators / escalators in key subway stops).

I know this from personal experience when I took my two kids in strollers to Paris. Lugging the strollers up and down stairs was a nightmare.

But maybe disabled people have other options like buses so it might not be as bad as it seems initially.
There are two official parsers (original mw, and parsoid, with parsoid being much more of a "real" parser), so people did create another.
Reading these threads is really disappointing. I can in may ways already empathize with Timnit -- its exhausting seeing people who are typically bright just completely miss the point.

But if you change to a different topic like privacy then these same people really get all of this nuance that they completely seem to miss here...
It likely won’t come to a vote. Then no one has to make a hard opinion.
Nature found a way.
That unfortunately isn't the Republican platform.

We are taught that in school, but their policy doesn't line up with that.

There is a strong debate to be made Biden is more fiscally right leaning than Trump. Where Trump was big into economic intervention (higher taxes through tariffs and SALT Deduction removal, higher deficit, new government spending projects, tax credits, free money, and restricting commerce on bump stocks).
This is an amazing nugget which should be the context for any controversial discussion about "Billionaires". I have utmost respect for the former category, but I also believe that the later category should not exist (as in those people should exist but they should not have any unearned billions and all the unearned power and privileges that come with it).
Sometimes "nobody is commercializing the research" can look a lot like "nobody is doing research." In holography, for example—no civilian market demand, so even in academia, the researchers tend to retread the same ground, "forgetting" all the existing research, because there are no productized civilian applications around to remind them that X/Y/Z can already be assumed.
FWIW, I've asked a number of Uber drivers how they felt about Prop 22 and they were all overwhelmingly enthusiastic about it. On the day that it passed, one was so excited he was telling me about the big bottle of vodka he was going to drink to celebrate. He was particularly thrilled that he was now going to get health benefits while keeping his contractor status.

I mean, it's a small sample of course. But the effect size was large.
The next generation programming language – what can it do
It is a bit of a PITA to set up, but can be done without too much pain and, once sorted, it's generally good. My daily driver is a HiDPI laptop running Arch & i3 and it works nicely!
People like overly fancy modern looking apps. RIF and other open source reddit apps like Diode (available on F-Droid) basically provide the same minimal and working experience old.reddit provides.
For starters, because the concurrency story in Kotlin is also built on the structured concurrency idea.
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It's unfortunate. It shows their true colors, that they're just after virtue signaling and gaining power, so hopefully people will not listen to their lies anymore.
It shows how deluded the far left is honestly, when they think that anyone who doesn't agree with them is afraid to speak up, and not because what the far left stands for is outrageously foolish.
Hrm, when I run `./setup.py test` I run well over 90%, usually 100%, of the lines of code in my `setup.py`. Is this not coverage?
John C. Dvorak: Why I Said the iPhone Was Going to Bomb
> A proper conservative position would be weaker central government.

That would be a proper minarchist position.

“Conservative” is more about the aims of government than its size, though in an attempt to build a coalition with libertarians, American conservatives selectively use minarchist language when justifying their opposition to things that they really oppose for purpose reasons rather than government size reasons.