skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need expertise to interpret information and you need the right kind of expertise and even the right combinations of expertise, and even knowing what the right combination of expertise is.

It is a question of intelligence, information, expertise and meta-expertise, all of those things. Privileging any of those components of sense-making is myopia of different sorts depending on what claims people are actually wanting to forward.

For instance if you want to look like a centrist while avoiding calling people dumb you say they're low-information voters, change the news, make them listen to these experts, give person X more control or say, when the news and those experts and that person all have problems of different sorts. Not one-dimensional.
Functional programming and programming with immutable objects (by choice) is definitely Lisp heritage.

What's not Lisp heritage is to have a vector or hash table to which you can add an item to get a new container, such that the original remains the same.

It's a generalization of consing an item onto a list, though.
They're free to make fools of themselves, it's not going to accomplish anything.
NYC isn't a state
Trump received the Regeneron antibody treatment. He did not shrug it off. There aren't enough such treatments for everyone who would benefit from it.
The incentives seem to align: if I were a front-line at-risk worker I'd be much more accepting of possible risk than in my present situation of staying at home all day.
Apart from handling the pandemic in the worst way possible, my country (Sweden) also had the misfortune of being one of the few countries mass-vaccinating against swine flu. This was completely unnecessary and resulted in hundreds of people getting narcolepsy. Even though this was an isolated case of a bad vaccine (Pandemrix) it affected the public opinion a lot, so I'm worried that people will be afraid to take the vaccine now.
Yeah so the question is are the AirPods Max more like an iPhone 12 or an iPhone 4?
> and when they do I bet they don't stay at the Hilton.

They stay here:

https://www.yelp.com/biz/kings-inn-seattle

Browse the photos. It's not bad, the parking is free, and the location is good, but if you can afford better, you should.
The world these days, when you have to explain yourself so much to make sure you aren't accidentally lumped in with people who really are that crazy.
No.

Already had covid, was dizzy for like a day or two and breathing was a little tougher than normal. Doubt I could get sick again or that it would be much of an inconvenience if I did.
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This is exactly the fallacy this article is challenging. It is simply not true in business reality, whatever the chalkboard fungibilities.

The difference between a positive and negative float is a structural difference that has long reaching implications. On that chalkboard, the difference between a publicly listed company and a family owned business is trivial or esoteric.. best explained by portfolio theory or somesuch. Sometimes abstractions miss the point.
> Standing might certainly a reason why Texas can’t sue Pennsylvania in this case,

It is.

> but you’ve neatly avoided addressing the underlying argument that they are making that the election rules were not changed by the legislature in these states and those actions are unconstitutional.

The reason why that is false is well-argued in some of the briefs for the defendant states in Texas just-failed lawsuit, but, in summary: State legislatures are constitutionally free to, as part of the rules they set for elections of Presidential electors, submit those same rules to the same judicial and executive constraints otherwise applicable to state law including those applicable to state elections, the defendant states (and most other states, including those suing) routinely do so and specifically have done so for the rules applicable in this case, and the rules for the elections were all handled according to state law (including the role that state law affords judicial and executive officers in its application).
I would argue that yes tech actually does just magically create wealth. Ask any one who has started a software company, any one who does wordpress or any cms websites. You build lines of codes for people and people pay you, thats the magic.
And yes you point out great it will need fund. It will need founders who know how to create wealth to fund such idea. Think if "money" was no object, what is the total monthly cost of living of everyone on the planet and then will work backwards on how much burnrate is needed to fund. etc etc..

Yes market imbalance is the reason for high pay, I am just pointing out thats the advantage tech group has and gets to execute such ideas.
My Dell Precision 5530 for work is kinda meh - by which I mean it works most of the time, but the fact that it doesn't work every time is fairly big deal at this point.

My personal ThinkPad E495 has pretty much flawless driver support.

Granted, I'm running different distros (Ubuntu on the Dell, Solus on the ThinkPad) but the fact that the Dell Precision is certified specifically for Ubuntu is pretty disappointing.
Oh wow this brings back memories. I spent many of my teenage year playing, modding and beta testing the Escape Velocity games. I learnt 3d modelling for modding using a pirated copy of lightwave (I’m not proud, but a 13 year old in New Zealand was never going to afford that - even the shareware fee for the games made my dad think)

I spent so much time on the IRC server and forums I ended up moderating the ev developers board, even on the unofficial ones after the software change drama. I used the inventive nickname ‘blackhole’ then. Teenagers. Met a lot of weird and wonderful people.

I’ve been checking on the site every so often since 2008, but it’s sad to see them go. It was a special time.
Is there any way to read Parler without creating an account?
If people are looking in smaller-town Oregon, I nearly bought a house in Pendleton and http://prodigalsonbrewery.com/ was contributing to that. They have stouts, porters, and reds on their beer menu instead of just whatever it is Cool Beer People are drinking these days, and their food is really solid pub food.

Good place to stop if you're passing through to Baker City :)
Excellent link, watching now. Thanks!
This is really autistic. Stop arguing semantics, this is not a linguistics forum.
If you live in a city and work at an office with a decent number of people, chances are excellent you know somebody who’s had covid.
Is this a regional thing? I ask because this seems like something I should have heard of -- my family had the 54 volume "Great Books of the Western World" on our shelves, I took two semesters of Great Books in college, frequent bookstores wherever I go, etc. -- but I can't recall ever hearing of this series before.
Isn't it Silicon Hills ?
hmm fair, I skimmed and should have read more carefully

still: (1) sounds like complexity predicts weeks? so they are estimating hours. And (2) I think if jira clones were really a tool for estimation, they'd have uncertainty scores and some kind of prediction market built in
Or said another way, the model is not reality. It is a way of reasoning about reality, approximate reality, etc. Reality is not arbitrage-able without artifacts.
The author has another article about that. They’re allowed to be the lord and ruler of A and B, but also responsible for them. A and B are the consistent bottleneck to release? Maybe B should belong to someone else. Petty despots don’t get to keep their toys.
Yes, hopefully the mRNA version! Excited to try new technology.
yeah like a UN seat etc.. what if said startup negotiates with existing entities from cost point of view..
I dont think there is room for ambiguity here. When the government calls you for your shot are you going to say: ill do what you ask of me? Or are you going to say: nah thanks/ Just let me wait a bit and then maybe? The choice in this case is pretty binary. You dont get to have your cake and eat it too.
System Python is for the system, leave it alone. Use https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv and get every Python you want in seconds for your personal use.
I was not comparing PH to cash. It was not a metaphor.

The parent of my comment has the following reasoning:

1) If a model has a fundamental flaw that allows horrible things to persist despite their effort, the whole thing should be shut down.

2) PH has a model that allows horrible things to persist despite their effort

3) Therefore, PH should shut themselves down

My cash example was a counter-example to 1). I was not saying that PH should definitely not be shutdown, but that the manner the parent came to such a conclusion was flawed.

Specifically for PH, we don't know exactly what's happening on their servers. How many illegal videos have been taken down? How many fell through the cracks? How many accounts have been banned?

That's why I suggested that PH should be challenged in court, where evidence can be presented and an informed conclusion can be made. Otherwise, you are not weighing severity against benefits; you are just weighing your intuitions.
Tech creates wealth because, say, a smartphone is more valuable than the materials from which is made.

If it is run over by a tank, it is still made of the same materials, but its value is diminished to close to zero.
I can't wait until Biden takes office and idiots everywhere have to feel like idiots when faced with the conspicuous absence of this kind of reporting.
A lack of empathy.
Texas - Famous for not having wildfires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Texas_wildfires
There has to be a good reason why psychological warfare is used, including by the United States in periods like the Vietnam War. The expectation is that statements written on paper or recited through loudspeakers or similar influence people's thoughts, which influences what actions they will take. Those actions are supposed to be beneficial to the forces scattering them from a helicopter or posting them on walls. They're trying to get you to do something regardless of what your preexisting thoughts are beforehand.

Now tear down the pieces of propaganda and burn them. Is this censorship?

I think human brains are sufficiently able to be hacked by the right information. With certain kinds of information, those people could end up causing material harm to someone who is completely uninvolved. That is the ultimate danger that I believe YouTube and the like are trying to avoid, and if true it would be an admittance of a sort that some kinds of information are dangerous to some kinds of people. The name "psychological warfare" implies that communication can be weaponized, in a sense. Certain people do not change their ways regardless of what you try to tell them.

I think the issue is centered not around people trying to have a reasoned debate, but those who have been lost to debate more or less permanently. Previously, you couldn't scatter this kind of information about on the scale were seeing today, and also recommend similar content using very effective algorithms. The more millions of people the content reaches, the more latent believers it will reach and end up converting, even if the conversion rate is a fraction of a percent. And many of these people are very vocal.

In a sense, the content takedown seems like an attempt to counteract the fact that the algorithms are too effective of a medium for misinformation. I don't think we would have seen this kind of scale with books or flyers.
Lessons Learned from My First Kickstarter Campaign
Only one you should consider the rest are junk
It's worth noting that two of the people who worked on escape velocity are creating a remastered version of sorts, called Cosmic Frontier. Search for the kickstarter and you'll find their project updates!
It is being tested in clinical trials though...
FTFY: If you reject the idea that a majority are intelligent enough to think about politics for themselves then you reject the idea that they're intelligent enough to elect a capable government.
I think I agree with everything you are saying here. I think things would be better if APIs were open and people could write their own clients in most--if not all circumstances, I just don't think open APIs would fundamentally change the influence of large companies or diminish the advantages their ecosystems have for most businesses and consumers
No, but they can still let you die after they stabilized you.
The only time Taibbi brought up government intervention in the article was to oppose it. Specifically he criticized a new bill that would "require that political ads or content produced by foreign governments be marked by disclaimers, and that companies should remove any such content appearing without disclaimers. It would also expand language in the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requiring that any content intended to influence U.S. citizens politically be reported to the Department of Justice."

Saying something is bad is not the same thing as saying something should be illegal.
I'd caution making this conclusion.

Trump was a huge driver of turnout. I don't think the republican party is quite as strong without him on the ticket.
Yes. First time where I'm the CTO of a company, and not of a nano startup doomed to fail :)
> AMP also still properly directs both ads and analytics metrics

Only if the ads and analytics are AMP supported and in the list of AMP approved vendors I think, for example: https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/optimize-...
s/almost//
They want the long-term study to continue, without giving those with a placebo the vaccine.

What are the next steps and goals?
> Why would it decrease it? It seems to me it would only increase it.

The people seeking tests were mainly two groups: people particularly concerned about COVID-- because of known exposure or COVID-specific symptoms, or people who occupationally are being tested because of surveillance.

If you water that down with people with the flu, you'd expect the positivity rate to go down: not that influenza carriers are even more likely to have COVID than those previous groups.

Influenza surveillance is showing "minimal" activity in my area, but a huge explosion in positivity rates for COVID-19 (3.3% to 5.4% in the past couple of weeks).
What was the typical tenure of a Fortune 500 CEO in the 1950s?
You might not know, but that’s been discredited since. The vaccine didn’t cause narcolepsy.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history.... and https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/history/narcoleps...
Disclosure: I live in Austin, and long ago lived in South Bay area of SV.

In general, I am skeptical that the pandemic will cause permanent changes, except insofar as it speeds up things that were happening anyway. But, in regards to an exodus from the very-highest-priced places to live, towards places where things are merely expensive, I wonder if this is going to be a lasting change. I had been seeing "SV/NYC is so expensive it's crazy, businesses will all leave if something doesn't get done" for so many years, I had more of less stopped waiting for it to actually occur. But this year, I wonder...
Yeah, I didn't grow up on a farm but went to a rural private school cuz family reasons, so I hung around on farms in Kansas a lot in the 80s and 90s.

I'd put a lot of blame on movies or tv ads, that make farming look like gardening but bigger. It sure ain't lol.
The “Expert Consensus” Also Favored Alcohol Prohibition – AIER
Show HN: Docker-M1-hack – Run Docker on your M1 MacBook
People want Youtube to be free and open...and remove things that aren't true.

They want Facebook to open its social graph so other social networks can compete...and take privacy seriously so there isn't another Cambridge Analytica.
There can be multiple factors at play. For example, future serial killers may be caught after one killing, but drug gang murders may go unsolved.
I remember how insufferable friends were after the 2016 election claiming that Trump was a Russian agent, that voting machines were hacked, that electoral college voters would revolt, etc etc. And their basis seems as similarly based as this round of butthurt conspiracy theories (eg, people making claims, no actual evidence).

I hope that Youtube makes some statement that wish they had blocked all that crap back then.

It seems like if the goal is to stop stupid stuff from YouTube, they everyone should just turn it off. Because while I think conspiracy theories of people yelling stupid stuff that is unsubstantiated about voting machines, then I think that’s as dangerous as videos of kids cyber bullying, or blowing people’s heads off in video games, etc.

I don’t think any of that stuff is truly dangerous and adults should be trusted to watch the right things. But if Youtube is saying they are trying to help democracy or whatnot, then they need to ban coke ads. Because sugar does way more harm to America than dipshits masturbatorily posting about election conspiracies.
That makes no sense. You can get torque with lower gearing, therefore, if tractors only needed torque, then even the largest tractors could get by with a tiny engine given enough gearing. The problem is, farmers need tractors to move faster than .1 MPH, so that is why they have large engines that generate serious HP.
```
package main

import (
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
)

func init() {
setupDBConnection(dbName)
}

func handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hi there, I love %s!", r.URL.Path[1:])

}

func main() {
fmt.Println("Processing your serverless request")
http.HandleFunc("/", handler)
log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil))
}

```

This code snippet is an example of "Run bootstrapping logic once, and reuse it across Min Instances".

Assuming the boostrapping logic refers to the `init()` function that connects to DB. Does Cloud Run looks for init() in a Golang app to invoke?

I cannot seem follow the code's logic and its connection with the stated purpose.

Did I miss anything?
Omg you're on here too! Please Andrew let me take this moment to tell you that there is a huge market of people who will absolutely throw money at you if you make a new game. look at the success of the kickstarter for cosmic frontier and that's a relatively small endeavor. If you try to make something new people will freak out.

I know it's been a long time but I hope that spark is still there. I and many others grew up playing your games and we are hungry for more.
Would be sure nice to back up those claims.
Which grammar do you consider more likely?

"I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one. In paradise, death is life."

or

"I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradise. Death is life."

Former makes more grammatical sense, but he did seem to have an odd style.
Generally speaking the affidavits that have been presented to the judges have been casually dismissed as wild conspiracy theories and never really been taken seriously. Vast majority of affidavits are not addressed at all in their findings.

E.g. the PA lawsuits, I wouldn't really classify it as dismissing it on procedural grounds.

It was moreso that the case was dismissed on overwhelmingly partisan bias grounds.

I am happy to reference posts where I go into greater detail on the facts of these judgements on which my opinion is based, if anyone is legitimately interested.
It's because MS have had their run from >10 years ago, and now act less like they used to. Certainly not zero, but certainly nowhere near the F/G/A realms of monopoly and cartel like behavior that we see today.
Boundaries are a function of respect, assertion, community support, physical barriers, and distance.

Distance and cutting off contact (restraining order if necessary) are profoundly effective boundaries.
Like many others (from reading the sister comments) I voted "NO" because I already had Covid-19, not because I don't trust the vaccination or vaccinations in general.
Recall the Media Outlets That Peddled the “Russian Disinformation” Lie -unlocked
I built this after getting my M1 MacBook Air so that I could remain productive. I hope this helps!

NOTE: Volume mounting is broken at the moment since the Docker Engine is connecting to the VM over SSH.
> Other countries don't do that.

That won't be the case for much longer.
And how long will that last? There’s no herd immunity for flu, why would we achieve one for COVID?
I am not sure how much of that is worth responding to. You obviously have a strong opinion and have been burned and appear to have pent up anger. I don't share your opinion.

I use Scala, I love it, I am looking forward very much to Scala 3, and I find help in the community when I need it. And I am not a pure FP programmer, although I like lots of the ideas of FP.

> everyone but the fanatical FP-ers have long-since moved on to other more professional/productive circles

I for one haven't and I am not a "fanatical FP-er". I bet I am not the only one.

> Scala 3 is a joke […] it's a grown into a monstrosity of complicated features that your average dev will never use

I don't think that's true at all.

> New type-system features are being added without even knowing if there's a possible use-case.

I don't know what you are referring to. From the doc, I note:

- intersection types, which are essentially a better way (commutative) of doing `A with B`

- union types, which several languages now have, including TypeScript, and which are definitely a very useful feature (in particular for Java and JavaScript interop, but there are other use cases)

- dependent and polymorphic function types, which are just an extension of what was possible before with methods

- match types and type lambdas, which I cannot comment on

> The whole thing is a mess

I obviously don't see things with the same eyes you do. I am really excited about Scala 3 and I do think it improves the language significantly, as it should.

Scala 3 also aims at solving a very real issue with previous releases of Scala, namely that there is a solid binary compatibility story, within Scala 3.x, but also between Scala 2 and Scala 3.

> the only people still around are FP'ers who don't want people using loops in the first place

I can't remember the last time I used `do-while`. But you can rewrite this trivially to a `while`, which is not going away (in fact, I think that Scalafix will do that for you automatically). In any case, community questions about things like mutability, loops, or more imperative features, typically receive answers to the effect that it's all right to use such constructs, especially in the small (like a the level of a single function). These features are part of Scala and generally accepted. They are used by the Scala standard library, and regularly acknowledged by Martin Odersky. A quick code search finds such uses in libraries such as Circe and Cats.

Regarding non-local `return`, you are also overlooking the fact that this is a frequent cause of confusion and errors. Removing this feature has little or nothing to do with FP fanaticism.

Personally, I can only encourage programmers to look into Scala. It is a fantastic language with great features. It also has an incredible JavaScript story with Scala.js, which is rock-solid. The transition to Scala 3 will be a good time for newcomers to look at the language and its community with a fresh look.
Well, they're pretending to. If you're going to be doing nothing all day, you might as well get paid for it. Especially if you're "working" from home.
There are different strains of COVID-19 with different effects.
We also don't know the differences in immunity conferred between multiple vaccine doses and having it. We've seen cases of repeat positives spaced out over more than a month. (I work on COVID-19 testing.)
`init()` is part of Golang spec: https://golang.org/ref/spec#Package_initialization
I use DDG exclusively, and also run Firefox on my Android phone and my desktop. No chrome, no google search anywhere for me.