skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My interpretation was that you chose to group together areas with similar population density because there are important policy concerns directly related to population density. And indeed that's true: water rights, zoning, building codes, pollution and noise restrictions, and more ought to depend highly on the population density of the area, and it doesn't seem necessary or even moral for rural voters to have much say in how dense cities set those policies.

But my point is that there are plenty of other policies which don't (or shouldn't) vary based on population density, and thus grouping districts based only on population density might give very little influence to interest groups for those other policies. Civil rights are the extremely obvious example, but there are others.
I don't think the issue is whether or not people are more or less rational now than in previous era. The issue, from my view, is that people are just as irrational as they've always been, but the consensus facts of reality are suddenly up for debate.

There's a new marketplace of facts supplementing the marketplace of ideas and the combined effect is catastrophic.

When I refer to post-truth or transpostmodernism or whatever, I'm not talking about people who have arrived at different conclusions based on the same facts -- I'm talking about people who have based their conclusions on opposing, contradictory facts.
> "content got flooded with reports and our automated system took it down"

I assume this plays a role. I really like facebook meme groups, but every single one inevitably gets "zucced" because of overzealous reports by people who genuinely don't get the problem. They even moderate themselves now to avoid reports.
Linux has preload which makes applications launch faster the second time they are run. My system runs on a thumb drive and it takes 11 seconds to launch krita. The second time takes 3 seconds.
Is this a specific olive specie?

I have an olive tree in my yard, about 10 cats who live in the yard and the street, and none of them ever seemed to care about the tree or the olives.
The goal is to write a driver for Linux, this is from scratch.
"- you need to get your developers to do it the way I say"

You have a team of developers that have a collective experience of perhaps eighty years in your organisation.

Do as I say, me who just popped in and afterwards will pop out again....

That is how millions and millions of dollars are lost in this business.
Trillions used for the GND is debt but trillions sunk into tax cuts for the top 1% is just good economics.
The Analog Computer Inside Prime Minister
Might want to read up on Comrade Delta.
I don't necessarily disagree, but there's a certain irony in presenting a claim of "how things are these days" in such a matter-of-fact way. I certainly wouldn't know how to refute your statement in a sufficiently short way. Thus, is it the presentation of claims that is the issue, or is it their content? Or both? I struggle with avoiding hypocrisy when trying to pinpoint the underlying problem.
They are also mainly motivated by money, which allows us to make at least educated guesses as to what happened in matters like these
Individually, by being aware of it you can recognize it in your own statements more readily (though probably requiring deliberate attention). Then you can choose to use the form of argument or rewrite to avoid it.

When seeing it in others you may be able to present better responses, especially if you're aware of how your response might be perceived.
I can't see this connection at all. Could someone who thinks or feels this way elaborate?

Does this feeling arise because those atoms move? Or is it the self-assembling behavior? Is this the same feeling some people have when they see a door suddenly close due to the wind, as if some spirit is responsible? I remember feeling like this as a kid. But getting older, I realized that this feeling of agency behind everything is unfounded. And the feeling faded away.
It's a wrong measurement because not all workload can be "shardable". If your workload is bound to a single instance it does not really matter if it's a bit cheaper.

Not every workload are behind a loadblancer, so single core / MT / single instance performance can be important.
Or hamburger menu -> About.
Why not split the frontend and the backend apps into separate applications? That would help with the future proofing since if you wanted to switch to another javascript framework, you could do that.

EDIT: forgot an important word
Who does not want a Chevrolet Camaro
You find the prefix "Climate Change:" not objective? It is setting the context for the article. Like "COVID-19: Scientists work on a vaccine".
Europe is becoming more pro-vaccine
Facebook is absolutely dominated by the far-right, which is why left-wing groups, pages, and users are being censored en-masse. /s
There's a huge benefit to getting a specific diagnosis. Treatments for Lupus vs. MS vs. vasculitis vs. other AI diseases are very different. And many of these are life-threatening without proper treatment; lifestyle changes won't cut it.

My wife struggled with weird autoimmune symptoms that eventually progressed enough to get a diagnosis. At the time of her diagnosis, her life expectancy without treatment was 1-2 years. I empathize a lot with patients and doctors who are trying to dial-in on a mysterious illness.
I recently drove over 800 km in my Hyundai Ioniq 28 kWh EV, it only took 1 hour more than when I drive my Tesla. Most of that time was spent eating or stretching legs anyway so it is fully possible to take longer trips :)
IMO the best mice ever are the Logitech MX Revolution and MX Master series that have an electronic clutch on the wheel. It's clicky by default but if you whip it the clutch unlocks and you can traverse an entire EULA in 0.6 seconds.

Some of their newer gaming mice have a half-ass version of this as well with a manual mechanical toggle.
> the salary is just the manifestation of the value the company places in the individual

My experience confirms this. The least paid jobs I had were also the most stressful.
Yes but porting to other ARM nodes isn't difficult, and if you're already using AWS you're comfortable with a fair bit of lock-in already.
The New York Times (and other outlets, I'm sure) is notorious for writing trend pieces based on the fact that two or three people the reporter knows are doing some thing. Which then often turns it into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
A nice approach I'm hoping will gain traction when discussing density across different types of logic is the "LMC" metric, as put forward by some TSMC and Stanford folks: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9063714

Improved semiconductor device density directly translates into benefits for
more advanced computing systems—
the primary driver for progress in
semiconductor technology. Thus,
we propose the use of the following
three-part number as a metric
to gauge advancement of future
semiconductor technologies: [DL,
DM , DC ], where DL is the density
of logic transistors (in #/mm2), DM
is the bit density of main memory
(currently the off-chip DRAM density,
in #/mm2), and DC is the density
of connections between the main
memory and logic (in #/mm2).
As an example, today’s leading edge
technologies that are published in
the literature [15]–[17] can be
characterized by [38M, 383M, 12K].
As another example, 3-D stacking of
multiple logic and memory dies can
increase DL, DM, and DC .
I wonder if this or fake/lab meat will have a larger impact in 10 years.
Yes, I really like that one too. Fun and enjoyable to read, but once I got to the end, I found it quite thought provoking.

It hadn't occurred to me before to think about its relevance to Scott himself; there's some interesting irony there. Particularly, I think, because I rather imagine that's the opposite of what Scott has ever intended with his writing.
How would that work with representative democracy? With direct democracy that's pretty straightfoward: one could vote with conservationists on land policies, libertarians on drug policies, progressives on welfare policies, etc. instead of having to vote for a representative who probably disagrees wildly with at least one of those views.
A study from 2014 [^1] indicated that prolonged fasting (2-5 days) caused the regeneration of immune cells and "reversed age-dependent myeloid-bias in mice". I don't have the knowledge to fully understand the implications of this, but it seems it supports reports that fasting has positive effects on aging-related brain degeneration.

I fast semi-regularly (I'm just finishing up a four-day fast), and it amazes me how often we by default reach for something (e.g. pills) to put into our bodies to solve or improve something, when sometimes the answer is to _not_ put something (i.e. food) in it (at least for a little bit). It's also a great exercise in self-control and discipline.

^1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24905167/
That too, though that's actually easier to deal with than the regulatory issues because there are technological and ToS solutions here.
No resupply, no spares - no chance.
This particular "weak man" argument was the basis for much criticism of Christian culture for a couple of years.

When I see my neighborhood adorned in coroplast signs every year reminding me that "it's okay to say Merry Christmas", it becomes believable that someone will get butt-hurt about a Starbucks cup. Then again, perhaps the weak man argument here is of those that are against saying "merry xmas".
It’s easy to think this sort of thing requires an incredibly level of knowledge but it’s often more about dedication and a little lateral thinking. You need a broad understanding of the process of putting something on screen, the ability to construct a program that does something, some way to observe the result, and the willingness to experiment.

Back in the 80s lots of kids that age wrote computer games and often found novel ways to use the hardware because even though video controllers might not be fully documented you still knew where their control registers were in memory and could just try altering the values in them.

Now, modern graphics hardware is more complex and controlled by things like command buffers and shaders, but you can apply similar ideas, and you’ve probably got easier tools for examining the state of your process. Write a program that does a simple thing and dump its state. Do a slightly different thing and compare the states. When you think you understand things either change your program and see if you’re correct or use a debugger to alter the state at runtime and see if you can change the visible result.
Direct link: https://thesciencemuseum.github.io/never-been-seen/index.htm...
Think of it as a cable subscription. When you bundle a whole bunch of articles, it’s easier to up charges due to volume and perceived value.
I feel you. I had few experiences of prolonged hyperfocus in my life, and I'm still amazed about how much I could accomplish in short time, how full of energy I was, and how happy I was then. Alas, I can't reproduce this state.

I've mentioned this on HN before and got some good ideas in replies[0], but I still can't find a formula that can bring that state back. Unfortunately, I concluded that the most plausible answer is somewhat dysfunctional and... "base", for a lack of better term - those hyperfocus achievements had a big component of impressing my peer group. They started with me telling myself or someone else, "like hell I/we can't do X, hold my beer...". Something I can't really recreate these days.

--

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24318052
> .NET wakes up every morning to have OOP pancakes OOP eggs and OOP coffee and it can't possibly allow even a hint of that beatnik functional style near it.

I agree for the most part. More specifically you're not going to write functional code in C# and feel particularly good about what comes out. F# is a different story.

Speaking from experience a .NET (C#) backend and a React frontend is perfectly viable. The key is to keep the paradigms in their respective lanes, and if you're going to write code for both, get used to switching your mindset instead of converging the tools.
Yes, I can imagine that search engine folks always thought the web would be some oracle. But if you have been using the web since its debut you know that it isn't. Search results are a list of results (links, i.e., addresses/locations of the sources), not an "answer". The oracle idea (that all searches are questions with an "answer") is only realistic to some programmers. When I go to the library and search for sources (books, journals, etc), I might have a question in mind to which I seek an answer, but at the library I am only searching for the location of the sources. I do not expect an "instant answer" from the library's search terminals. In any event, not all searches are questions. Does Google Scholar return "instant answers".

For the query you tested, I could only retrieve 101 results. Could you get more than that. If you can retrieve more than 300 results (the actual results pages with the links, not just a line about how many results were "found"), I would like to know what headers you sent. I do not think this is possible anymore.

Interesting if you believe critical thinking skills are not on the decline.
My bad, Crux is the parent of Arch. Thought it was a Gentoo derivative
I could also see it flattening due to people having more options again. The majority of the companies that are listed in the public markets are businesses that didn't have to close. Nation wide retailers, tech companies, oil and gas, all the things that were deemed essential or could be done virtually. It's the mom and pop stores and restaurants that took the brunt of the shutdown, when things are more open again those businesses will be the big winners and we might see them take some revenue from the bigger stores.
Prodict: An IDE friendly Python Dictionary with dot accesible attributes
What percentage of the world's car owning population lives in a place with a restriction like that? Few enough that it would be fine to let you keep your ICE/hybrid vehicles with almost no impact on climate is my guess.

If I had to guess, you live in Canada which is a country of extremes like what you mention.

The solution for Canada probably isn't to prohibit ICE vehicles, but to disincentivize them heavily where they make less sense. So in the areas where extreme cold and long range is the use case, provide an exemption. Out here on Vancouver Island where the longest possible route is less than 500km and a cold day is one where there's frost on my car, there's really not a great reason for me to be buying a brand new ICE car 10 years from now. Same thing for when I lived in Vancouver and drove 5,000 km per year.

My point is that a huge majority of people live in circumstances where electric cars will be fine. We shouldn't let the corner cases (living in a place with extreme cold where driving 400km to the airport is routine) dictate what the rest of the world needs to do.
People don't like paying money for things, and they especially don't like paying small amounts of money for things. People also have less money these days to spare, and an overflow of content that doesn't require them to pay.
This is how things are in Scandinavia. In Norway a lot of what other countries regard as confidential is regarded as uncontroversial public information here. For instance I can log in to the tax authority website and see how much tax someone paid or put a registration number into the roads authority website and find out who owns the vehicle.
> The SWP Facebook page regularly posts [...] against Boris Johnson’s Covid policies.

I can't find any specifics on the position they hold, but the UK is pretty much in line with the US on mask mandates and lockdowns in hotspots.
> It's really annoying because chat providers have pretty much stopped providing third party APIs

They never provided third party APIs. The work of developing a unified messaging client was in getting around the ways in which they tried to stop you from interfacing with their system, and responding quickly when their countermeasures updated.

We haven't seen a change in the behavior of chat providers; we've seen developers give up on trying.
[me say:"Oh no! This sucks."];

I loved his little book on Objective-C.
An Explanation of Quake III's “Fast Inverse Square Root” Algorithm [video]
I would think that any change to automated filtering would allow someone to see which groups would be shut down before actually shutting them down.
TLDR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_cost

The transaction costs of small transactions quickly overwhelm the value of the transaction. This gives rise to market structure included (especially) the firm and the bundling within of non-market transactions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
He was bold enough to create a DSL starting from C. Too many black bar-worthy losses lately.
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The SWP is not by any stretch of the imagination a major political party.

ETA: to quantify that a bit, in the 2010 General Election the SWP ran as part of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition. Nationally that coalition received 0.04% of votes cast. I can't find any indication that they even put up any candidates in subsequent elections.
There's an extended interview with him about Objective-C in the book "Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages":
https://amzn.to/3iEYfGh
This is the first time I've fully understood the function and why it works
Your own remark about tablets undermine your argument though. iPads and MS Surfaces have been arguably the best 'artist tablets' and they don't need to be hooked up to another computer.
"human clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine failed to establish its usefulness as treatment for COVID-19."

But no mention of whether any of the trials included both Zinc and Azithromyzin, which are frequently cited as necessary co-medications.
One of Europe's biggest disadvantages is that a larger proportion of people live in apartment blocks and the like (compared to the US, anyways), so no easy way for those people to charge their EVs over night (I'm an European living in such a building myself).
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I love Alan Watts too. In any case, I need to insert the necessary reference to recently passed John Conway's Free Will Theorem. I recommend every one to watch his 6-lecture long presentation on this, available on YouTube and underappreciated given the number of views, where he captivatingly describes his proof that, if we have free will, so do elementary particles. This is a purely mathematics- and physics-based proof which I understand is fully accepted by the scientific community, and while it, of course, does not provide an explanation of the underlying cause, it provides the best possible description obtained by scientific methodology so far.

I like to think that, somehow, Alan Watts and John Conway were digging the same tunnel, just starting from the two endpoints, and bound to meet at some point in the future. We just need a few more diggers of that stature (tall order, I know).
I get the idea, but if you can live across the street from another district while living in the same neighborhood, I don’t think it bears out.

It would also make a two-party campaign schedule impossible, so it’s unlikely to gain traction. Just wondering aloud.
Not yet, but FB's incentive structure is anti-left (they're a corporation natch) and their head of public policy is a hardcore Republican that worked for the GWB administration and energy companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Kaplan
I love the quote from him where he says "languages are mere tools for building and combining parts of software." I think a lot of new developers get hung up on Language A vs. Language B (or OS A vs. OS B), so I hope this helps them realize that the languages are just tools you have in your toolbox, and that they should be open to switching between (and learning new) languages as needed.
WordPress works the same way and it's awful. No offense. They don't see the impact of allowing user enumeration.

Security isn't about one feature. It's layered. You need to have layers because there is no such thing as guaranteed security.

Bank safes are my favorite analogy. Safes are given a time rating. "How long can this safe resist being broken into." A bank with a 15 minute safe means that it might take an attacker 15 minutes to open the safe.

A 15 minute safe is not secure. Infact it is guaranteed to be compromised past 15 minutes. How do you secure an insecure 15m safe? With a 5m guard duty. Now you have a safe to buy you 15 minutes and a guard to ensure that nobody has 15m worth of access to the safe.

You built a safe with no guard... and by allowing enumeration you're telling attackers where you put the safe. You are almost guaranteeing someone will compromise it eventually.

Security doesn't always mean that successful attacks are impossible. Oftentimes security just means you've made the cost of intrusion higher than the return on investment. If you allow enumeration you're giving the attacker an advantage.
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Yep when those rioters broke into the capital building and rummaged through nancy pelosi's office we were very close to that guy in the bearskin becoming our king.
That's irrelevant, because a private company can't be compelled to support someone else's speech against their will. If you don't like it, then take political action.

Edit: For those unaware, this is the devil's advocate take. HN has been remarkably pro-corporate censorship lately, and only a matter of weeks later its coming back to bite pro-censorship advocates.
Unless the system is actually open to inverting the power relationship, then it's just pattern matching and isn't anything more powerful than a slightly fancier way of saying "X > Y". Everything else is window dressing and post-hoc vindication.

Or to put this another way, there are people in my orbit who feel perfectly comfortable spouting "Men are the worst!" and "all men are stupid!", but would be extremely upset with you if you swapped the gender in those statements.
In addition, using void pointers harms performance as this strategy often incurs additional heap allocations, hurts memory locality and prevents compiler optimization. Personally, I avoid glib like a plague.
That's actually something I've wondered about. It seems like what you're saying may be true, but on the other hand you have cars like the White Zombie. (I know it's builder, John Wayland; he's giving me advice in my own more modest conversion.) The car started out as about a 1500 pound 70's Datsun, and with a dual-motor setup and some expensive batteries it can supposedly do 0-60 in about 1.7 seconds or so. If the Leaf is already at the point where adding more power doesn't help because you'd just spin the tires, how do cars like the White Zombie get around that?

The Leaf is front wheel drive I believe whereas the White Zombie is rear wheel drive. That probably accounts for some of it. Maybe the WZ also has a limited slip differential and some kind of high-traction tires? I don't know; drag racing is pretty far outside my area of expertise.

(Another random anecdote about the White Zombie: according to John, he always wanted to have a transmission, but they kept breaking whenever he tried to use one, so eventually he just settled on direct drive.)
This looks perfect for remote learning. Teachers typically have a bunch of resources that they want to use for the class they're teaching, and sometimes their link is going to be in printed material that the student will have to type in. This seems like a nice solution to that problem.

Currently I use bit.ly for this, but it means generating lots of links. What is helpful on bit.ly is the bookmarklet. Being able to add a link to a bundle from a bookmarklet would be quite nice if you haven't done it already.