skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me a very frustrating thing was trying to figure out where my tax money went in California. Roads suck. Public education sucks. Tent cities everywhere. Then COVID-19 hit and you could tell, early on, that it was going to be mismanaged, similar to our tax money. So glad I bailed back in May. No Texas for me. Arkansas instead!

I think the last new tax I voted for was in 2004. Back when I was 25 and didn’t fully understand how terribly mismanaged the funds were.
Look up James Damore if you want one of the more canonical examples of this.

Essentially, "tolerance" has been redefined as a term to essentially just mean "liberalism"; whenever you hear someone suggesting that one "be tolerant", you can just mentally replace that with "be liberal". The term is leveled at folks like yourself, who are deemed intolerant and illiberal for having and trying to perpetuate a different value set.

If taken to the utmost extreme, which admittedly few people actually do, this boils down to excluding tolerance of _actually_ different beliefs and ways of life; only tolerance of different looking liberals from different backgrounds is actually included. Different cultures are tolerated as long as they're far away and out of sight and mind.

The irony of all of this is completely lost on them, of course; they don't think about it like this at all. They truly believe themselves to be tolerant, good people, even as they do this!

Most of them are actually trying to be good people, too; if they had been raised in your household they would have grown up to be good Christians, if they had been raised in India they'd be trying to be good Hindus, and so forth. They were raised under the aegis of liberalism and are doing their best to stand up for its own moral principles.

The big problem is that they're incapable of seeing that same kind of goodness in people like you, preferring to boil you down to a reductionist caricature. This same problem rears its head in Christians who don't see the goodness in others, as well; they'd do well to remove the log from their own eye, and so on.

Stepping back from this, I for one find generalized "tolerance" to be a fairly useless mechanism to espouse, anyway. Like any right-thinking person, I have my own moral code of what I believe to be right and wrong, based on philosophies ranging from Christianity to the best atheist thinkers to a variety of Eastern ideas. I'm not going to start believing an action is right when someone else does it that would be wrong if I did it - for a system of morality to make any sense and have any actual purpose it has to attempt to be objective and independent.

Importantly, it only applies to the actions of individuals, not to aggregated cultures, races, or other intersectional groups. When someone commits an immoral act, the context of their identity is only important so much that it might explain their motivations; it does not excuse their actions, unless they're perhaps someone who should not have their own power of attorney, so to speak.
It's technically a visual bug, but the content of the bug highlights the disconnect between what everyone thinks is in the T&Cs and what is actually in there. I wonder how many people would tap yes if they had a dedicated prompt to "Can we take a photo of whatever your front camera can see every time you see an ad?"
Yeah I always use something + year + month + day, otherwise how am I supposed to get it around...
It's possible for a man to have a lot of value to society, but little to none to women.
I didn’t leave voluntarily, miss a lot of things but I absolutely don’t miss this.
Yes, let's censor and ban everything you don't agree with.
> Are you suggesting it's dangerous that SSC writes good, convincing essays, despite the fact that he's not some well-known figure?

Of course not. What did I write that would suggest that?

> cult, getting convinced by their writing seems to be more about getting convinced by bad arguments than it is about attempting to consider arguments directly.

Your criterion for a ‘good’ essay was that it is convincing in the absence of knowledge of who the author is.

For someone who is persuaded, both SSC and the cult leader’s writings both meet this criterion.

How would you modify your criterion to distinguish the two?
Illegal Immigration does have an affect on blue collar jobs. You can research this yourself, btw. There is a truckload of studies.

https://www.nber.org/digest/may07/effects-immigration-africa...

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/Immigration/EffOnMinoritie...

https://www.c-span.org/video/?204714-1/illegal-immigration-a...
> but they had to know from the beginning that voluntary subtitling would never make any money.

Exactly zero of the fansubbing groups ever did it to make money. For most people, they were in it for the community, which included things like the prestige of having your name associated with a popular/successful project. The reason the fansub community was upset at CrunchyRoll was because not only did they take the content, they edited it to remove the intros and other forms of attribution to the original fansubbers.

If they had left in attribution, nobody would have cared, and CrunchyRoll would have been treated like any number of other torrent to streaming sites that existed.
Hold more if she could? Not according to this interview.

If we had not taken profits in its ride up from [$]178 to 900 or nearly 1,000, it would’ve been ... maybe over 20% of the fund,” she said. “That would not be wise portfolio management. We like to control our position sizes.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/22/ark-invest-ceo-why-weve-sold...
Surely there's a typo in the article.

There's no TP-Link VT1600V product. They do make a VR1600V, though.
I recently released a game called Phrenemies! - Phrenemies.com . It is a totally free game to play online with your friends. It's great to play with friends over Zoom or during virtual happy hours with coworkers; all everyone needs is an internet-connected device: smartphone, laptop, tablet, or desktop. Everyone can play on their browser, no need to buy or download anything!

The gameplay is simple:

All players get the same question (ex: "What was your favorite movie as a kid?")
One player, the Phony, get's a slightly different question (ex: "What movie do you quote the most?")
After everyone answers the question, all answers are shown along with the real question
All of the players then try to choose who is the Phony, the person who answered a different question

The game supports games with as little as 3 people and up to 20 people so you can play with large groups. There are no public games, so you have to get a group of your friends together to play.

I hope you enjoy playing!
Neo-Surreal: Images isolated from 1980s BYTE magazine ads
If your goal is to have land be more efficiently used, and thus decrease housing prices by increasing supply, then yes it is.

Whether or not you think efficient land use is a good thing is up to you. The question of what taxes accomplish is separate from the question of if a policy objective is "good".
In general I agree, but there are exceptions. I was taking a night train from somewhere in Germany to Nice, France and the conductor put me on the wrong car.

I woke up somewhere in Italy. They were good about it and got me re-routed. But I ended up on this extremely slow train that was filled with high school students. Then I spent hours in the Bologna train station which I got to know extremely well ;<). It killed an entire day!
But you’re not a handgun owner, are you?! Why not? Example #1...
Solarwinds hacked by bypassing 2factor auth via duo akey (OutlookWebAccess servr
Counterpoint: Google confirmed recently that it's still planning to bring its workers back to the office regularly: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/technology/google-delays-...
Matt from the Capiche team here—Thanks, appreciate the feedback!

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That was thanks to a full "Grand Tour" alignment of the outer planets that allowed gravity slingshots at each destination. This unfortunately only lines up once every 175 years.
You might be ready to invest in my startup: https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2019/introducing-bummr/
> Furthermore, this value is decided upon after the work has been completed, and has been provided to the company. In what other industries is this the case?

Those "mail us your gold" ads on TV.
Burning Your Own PS1 Modchip Is Easy
Except buffering wasn't the problem, an OS-managed thread was.
ha :)

This was the dark ages, when people could lose phone numbers, forget birthdays and when stuck in a game - suffer without hints or cheat codes.
gaming the prescribed doses until i can legally get a thumbprint
good research!

I'm intrigued by the concept of an all beef diet, sounds too good to be true!
May I ask your opinion the below ? In your opinion, is this disinformation ? Something that should be suppressed and censored and to keep the establishment glowing ?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/election-integrity-...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/14/forensic-au...

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/12/mi-judge-approves-r...
You are literally misrepresenting things, by quoting the first sentence of the abstract

Wrong. As I said, it is at the start of the paper. It is not the first sentence. Your statement is inaccurate.

without apparently reading any of the rest

Wrong. I did read some of the rest, and in fact indicated precisely where I stopped.

or even internalizing the meaning of that sentence.

One might argue that to internalize, is to be human. That there is always bias. However, this is hardly the case here, for what is instead happening, is that you are ignoring cause and effect.

Yes, every engineering standard identifies pavement width as a safety feature, but none of them provide evidence to back this up. The few actual investigations of actual crash statistics show the opposite to be true.

The above is irrelevant. Let me explain again. You assert this:

Roads are widened and paint lines extended for driver comfort, not for safety.

Yet, how do roads get widened? Well, a process exists, and part of that process is to follow standards, and to have engineers enact those standards at the behest of, for example, governments.

The process is simple. Clear. Logical. And both your cited paper, and everything else I've read indicates this happens:

- engineers looks at standards, are trained on standards

- standards say 'wider is safer', engineers believe this standard.

- money is spent, roads are built wider, with the intention of improving safety

Yet by stating "Roads are widened ... for comfort", you claim the act of widening was predicated upon some other motive.

Yet, this is not so. Even your paper agrees it is not so.

You are confusing 'cause' and 'effect'.

As I said in my prior post, all you can argue at this point is that this is wrong. You cannot argue that people are building roads wider for comfort, for this is not their intent.

Again, when you say "Roads are widened ... for comfort", you are indicating intent. Yet the intent is clearly NOT this. You are providing no context for anything else.

I am going to be very honest here, and I will ask that you do not take this the wrong way, for you are not alone in this.

By stating "Why this is happening" as "What people intended", and by stating "What the effect is" as "Why a thing was done", you are going to immediately lose your audience, and lose any chance of getting your real point across.

I know what you meant. The problem is, that even now, you have not actually said it.

What you meant to say was:

"All those governments may be paying exorbitant outlays from their budgets to widen roads, and all those engineers may be insisting on wider roads for safety, but they are wrong. Instead, there is a lack of data for this, and this assertion is predicated upon a falsehood."

I am fairly sure the above is somewhat what you mean. But again, by stating it as you did? It immediately seems like you think everything is some sort of conspiracy, which engineers, municipalities, governments are in on. Purposefully, intentionally, trying to make roads less safe.

And that concept is indeed absurd.
If efforts to secede gain any traction, the disruption will be due to Texas being (once again) demoted from statehood to an occupied military district, as was done in 1867. Of course, this scenario applies to California as well.
You have to sign up for an account with canonical but it’s free for noncommercial use; it patches the running kernel.
> the government running every part of your personal life

Isn't marijuana illegal in Texas? California was one of the first states to grant its citizens that freedom.
It would be perfectly legal, for example, if a bunch of prominent Democrats got together and filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court demanding that a bunch of prominent Republicans be arrested, tried, and executed for treason. It would be thrown out immediately, for a number of good reasons. But wouldn't that be... disturbing? I don't want to live in a country where prominent political leaders ask for such things, even if they're fairly sure that they'll be told "no".
Except they did, though apparently you missed it. MIPS was the original port. Alpha was supported from NT 3.1 through Windows 2000, and only died because DEC abandoned the Alpha, not that Microsoft abandon Alpha (it was important to their 64-bit strategy). Itanium was supported from Windows 2003 to 2008R2. Support for Itanium only ended at the beginning of this year, once again because the manufacturer abandoned the chip.

I'm sure you can redefine "achieve" to exclude almost 17 years of support (for Itanium), if you're that committed to being right. Heck, x86-64 support has "only" been around for 20 years or so. Doesn't make it right.
The California budget is public information. Proposition 13 means you as a new arrival were subsidizing property owners who were there before you, and the broken initiative process means that there's billions from the general fund tied up to pay bonds for pet projects of swindlers who are clever enough to put their projects on the ballot instead of trying to get them past the legislature.
The point was that it's not about identity, it's about the majority of Hacker News consisting of people in high paying positions likely from white families which were not impoverished, which lends themselves to right wing economic views which are consistently made apparent on this website more than left wing economic views. I really do have no idea what you're going on about.
EBird Changed Birding Forever
Texas likes to pass a whole bunch of stuff that they know will be struck down by the courts. It is purely for political brownie points, there is no real expectation that these things go anywhere.

In this specific case the Texas Attorney General is being investigated by the FBI and hoping to court favor with Trump for a pardon.
I had the privilege of working for Eric at one of his startups. He had an outsized personality. He was the most gregarious person I've known. He could be very intimidating until you got to know him. He was also positive and generous, and his enthusiasm was contagious. We will miss him.
Nobody understands COM, least of all the people who invented it, if you look at functions like CoUninitialize ...
There is plenty of price competition for your bug disclosure: the Chinese, the Israelis, the Saudis, the Americans, OR directly to Apple. :-)
I would agree with you. This apparent exodus benefits Californians who enjoy California, as well as benefiting the Texans who wish Texas would change.
This might help.. https://github.com/winsw/winsw
Well, sure knowing the basics of fundamental data structures is foundational knowledge. But you were complaining about lack of hash tables, and it seems what you really had was compiler issues. That's not something unique to Fortran.
I'm late to this comment but please do not post unsubstantive flamebait like this, and especially not generational flamewar, which is one of the last things we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You'd think after your repeated failures to gain traction, you'd stop posting your fiction as fact on hn
What If You Could Do It All Over?
Having devs on level 1 support is a good way to have high turnover imo.

The support process should have a way of escalating to developers though. I've found plenty of bugs in products and had no way to get in contact with someone that would actually be interested in hearing it.
Covid-19 Changed Science Forever
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25382497
Hey! Thanks for replying with your explanation. Personally I am not sure if I can see Google’s firing of James Damore as being evidence of liberal bias given the news (feels like it’s increased trust this past year?) they also fire AI researchers and union organizers.

I think for me it seems more like Google is just very much against people speaking up about anything.

I also agree with your comments about how people think they are being tolerant while they are actually being intolerant, but from my personal experience I can’t really ascribe this to either liberals or conservatives particularly. I feel like I’ve had worse experiences with this outside of CA, and I can’t see CA as being particularly intolerant this way. I appreciate you writing back though.

If you have personal experiences with intolerance in CA being worse than other places I’d be particularly interested to hear them.
if you like to do this kind of thing this will be usefull to you:

https://quade.co/ps1-modchip-guide/mm3/
Who ever cares about the other questions?

Q12 is insane - ALL business strategy (short and long term), research AND development, marketing AND sales, AND any plans to create OR cancel any existing products, as well as all presentations to any executives!

That is insane! Why doesn't the FTC stop beating around the bush and just ask to be bribed, because there is no valid reason the FTC has to ask for any of that. It's clearly just an attempt to get inside information to do trades.
I agree, I'm arguing that the thing that leads to network success tends to also be the reason it unwinds. Facebook would not have worked if privacy prevailed, which is also the main driver impacting the unwinding of their network.
I think there has been a bit of debate among retina specialists as to whether this constitutes a new tissue or a guy looking to name an already well known existing phenomenon after himself
I love the way you think, but I suspect mastering the tyranny of the rocket equation is a lower hurdle than mastering the tyranny of small-minded governments. By the time humans are willing to commit sufficiently to colonization to send substantial amounts of supplies decades in advance of a planned colony or crewed exploration missing, nuclear or ion or quantum vacuum or Alcubierre drives will have rendered chemical propulsion and its associated problems obsolete.
Mysterious Death of the Fisherman Who Discovered the Loch Ness Monster
That’s a sick burn. Well played, sir, well played
There is also a huge regulatory burden to build in much of the bay area, which probably extends to other areas of California. Even when land is available, zoned, and purchased, builders often have a hard time actually getting the cities to sign off. Same for things like in-law units. My girlfriend's parent tried to build on in their backyard, but it turns out just getting the permitting done costs upwards of 80k, about as much as the building the unit.
That's good because I had a mangled sentence in there ("choice of product" when I meant to say "product name"). Fixed now :)

Edit: oh dear, there's also a dangling at the

(which I'll leave for amusement's sake)
Episode 1: Different Types of Candlesticks
A super-cute rat eating spaghetti more or less this way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp8VapqaCkE
Our National Debt Denial
I have upgraded between Debian releases by editing sources.list then apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade for years now: I’ve had a couple annoying issues (sysvinit->systemd gets an honorary mention here), but it’s mostly “Just Worked”.
As in much of Texas, not very good in most places. If you are central there are some options. And Prop A passed in the last election, which will expand the (single) commuter rail line that exists now (among a few other things). If it is well received, it could potentially expand beyond that. Most residents I know are hopeful but skeptical. Living along Lamar puts you in the best position to take advantage of it, and there is concomitantly a "rapid" bus line that runs regularly North / South fully along it -- I used that on occasion too.

I was fortunate to live in a community on the Commuter rail stop (in Crestview) while I worked downtown and took the train daily for a couple years -- splendid. But though it was packed, I knew nearly nobody else in person that had used it, and many did not even know it existed -- such is the small areas it served.

IMO the best (commuter) features of Austin is it has the room to grow. Unlike Houston (or Dallas, I assume), it has much less roadway infrastructure and things seem slow to build here. So, despite being in and out of this city since college (~20 years ago), I still feel unsure what the future looks like.
> Just because two pointers point to the same memory location, it does not mean they have an identical representation as an integer.

Yes, I know. That's irrelevant here for two reasons: firstly, the pointers might compare equal (which is all that matters for this argument), and secondly, once again, the comparison isn't being made between pointers, the comparison is being made between integers.

> The entire page is a longer discussion on the meaning of these quotes. You can't ignore the rest of the entire page and just quote the first part, since this is exactly what they're dissecting. Read the whole thing, and look at the links they point to.What I quoted is the conclusion they come to based on the preceding quotes (including yours). The standard is not 100% explicit on the issue (hence the discussion and requests for clarification), but many of those who've looked into the issue so far have come to the conclusion I quoted.

Yeah, no, their conclusion is wrong (and frankly I don't consider those guys a reputable source; they've said plenty of false things before, and they're prone to exaggerating the extent of undefined behaviour because they have a vested interest in portraying it as more common than it is). They claim that making equality comparisons is undefined behaviour but their only basis for that is a quote from the section on relational operators which is obviously only talking about relational operators. Read the actual standard quotations in context and there is no confusion.
Bad, but not predatory. For example most speech recognition systems I tried often produce hilarious results with my accent, but I don't feel the tech is out to get me, it is just less than useless.

On the other hand something like ad-tech feels more dangerous the better it works, to the point that I employ active countermeasures.
Redis Implementation for Cache and Database Consistency