skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not the case for everyone. When I was student I did not have plenty of food and I think this scenario is very common.
Honestly, I'd be happy to see all political groups - left or right - expunged from Facebook. Politics and social media clearly do not mix, as this year has demonstrated all too brutally well.
I don't know the extent to which this is a problem (i.e., I don't want to make this into a "weak man"), but there are some legitimate reasons to be concerned with the replacement and/or minimization of traditional holidays. At least one important motive for the replacement was to create the foundation for violent revolution: "the creation of its own series of holidays all underscored Karenga's premise that 'you must have a cultural revolution before the violent revolution. The cultural revolution gives identity, purpose, and direction.'" [0]

It's easy for people to laugh at such concerns when they don't see them as plausible, but when you also have people like Dick Costolo promising shootings and a violent revolution, it's hard to know who can be trusted. When the left spends a year "mostly peacefully" killing dozens of people and burning our cities, it becomes a lot easier to believe that they might want a full revolution. Again, not to say that these concerns are necessarily justified, but that it's very difficult to know whether they are or not. If one prefers to err on the side of caution and criticize Starbucks here, I think that's a legitimate position.

(Kind of hoping that someone can give me a good way to debunk these concerns, so I'm just going to ignore any troll responses).

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=Vhgk72OGBRYC&pg=PA65#v=one...
Lately I haven’t really been too convinced about the benefits of fasting. While fasting is probably good, exercising regularly and putting a consistent stream of good nutrients into your body is still probably better at preventing all kinds of aging. Fasting is just more accessible to those who do not have access to steady source of good nutrition, and it takes no real effort beyond not eating.
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It’s always some external thing: “the algorithm”, as if that doesn’t just mean “the way we programmed it”.

Computing systems are do not act on their own. That the system did this was because it was allowed to, or more accurately, told to.
Quite literally. The only vaguely-'revolutionary' thing the SWP have done in the last 10 years is provide protest signs for movements that other, more influencial groups of people started.
Very sad. I had the privilege of taking a class from him at George Mason University, and he was (unsurprisingly) very knowledgeable.

He worked hard to enable software reuse. No one was interested in his idea of trying to monitor component use during runtime to pay developers. That was an unworkable approach, and I told him that then. But the general world of making it easy to reuse components is a reality today, via open source software and package managers.

So, a hat-tip to him and all the other pioneers who helped make the world a better place.
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Loved the Windows 95 UI. I dream of hacking Windows to restore that look. I've tried WindowBlinds but they don't go far enough to change everything.
> someone in Fresno is still going to have more in common with someone from Los Angeles than someone from Louisiana

I question this. Someone from San Francisco is likely to have much more in common with someone from Portland or even NYC or London than they would someone from Bakersfield or Shasta. You can see that in lots of different areas, from migration patterns to election results to what they do on Sunday morning to which media people consume.
> Doing the same for more than a billion ICE engines distributed all over the world is effectively impossible.

Delivering said energy to over a billion cars all over the world is pretty impossible. As things stand right now that's an entire continent (Africa) which in many places doesn't have reliable power even for basic things like keeping the hospitals running (they have to use diesel generators and the like).

But, then again, this EV-vehicle "revolution" is targeted at the Western middle-classes + China, they can afford to not care about the rest of the world as they've done until now.
I have spent my morning pleasantly reading the comments here after reading the article.

I am struck that a lot of us here start the comments with "I have been a React developer for [3, 4, 5] years"

I think this illustrates the fundamental weakness in the approach of people in the Javascrpt Frameworks world.

Billion dollar organisations build software that will cost tens of millions to develop want, or should want, more experience than that.

Javascrpit, and "Web 2.0", generally have been around long enough to meet the requirements, but this churn in frameworks is enough to make anybody with a stake in organisations shake with fear.

IMO plain old vanilla JS with a sprinkling of libraries for syntactic sugar (and they can be hand rolled - or use JQuery) is a much better proposition than all of these shiny and new stacks that keep getting deprecated.

Web front ends are a huge boon, and the settling of basic JS syntax and implementations makes some very good things possible that were not possible twenty years ago. But the whole industry is being held back by allways wanting "better", and not accepting "good".
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Nice! Though the blockchain part is new to me. Interesting they kept growing this.
That's also so they can deny refunds for cash balances — once you pay money to their company, you may never receive it back under any circumstances. That way they can 'refund' you games at any time, but not ever have to record a cash transaction to do so. This is, not coincidentally, universal among online video game and microtransaction stores, with the singular exception of Apple who does not compel all purchases through an intermediate currency balance.
It's still a little disingenuous because most performance parameters are directly related to transistor lengths, whether finfet or not. There used to be a concept of "scaling" where you could roughly estimate that going from a 40nm process to a 28nm process, for example, would save you (28/40)^2 percent power. Finfet disrupted that to some extent, but it partly held true as physical lengths actually continued to decrease with node names. By now, though, it is generally understood that state-of-the-art process node numbers doesn't mean much in that regard.

I also just checked a handful of processes I have access to, and at least in these cases, the fin width doesn't scale with the technology name (e.g. 5nm and 7nm has 8nm fin width drawn in layout, and model indicates 27nm "width" per fin). This isn't much of a surprise to me, because foundries are just decreasing the number with newer generations of the tech, even if the lithography (the method by which features are etched into the silicon) hasn't significantly changed. For example, 3 generations of a single process were called 7***, then 5***, then 4***.
Exactly. This was what Facebook wanted, for whatever reasons. Unless they say otherwise.
In the debate about reintroducing wolves to Scotland the landowner wanted to fence the land and add it to one of the few "common sense" exclusions.

https://www.nathab.com/blog/bringing-wolves-back-to-scotland...
That’s really interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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I worked on some Linux apps in another life. I switched to Qt at some point. It was a breath of fresh air! Qt is very reliable and well documented. One can be very productive with it.

I think a lot of people have a bad opinion about it as they confuse it with KDE. While KDE does use Qt, the two projects are otherwise independent.

I’ve also looked inside the Qt code base a few times. It’s very tidy and quite easy to read. You can tell that their team is very experienced. I used to read their blog as well, they had a lot of good articles.

I really hope that they can continue to survive financially. Selling a mostly open source library is not very profitable.
I don't find "it could have been true!" to be a very good justification for publishing caricatures, moreover I don't think "the Trump Supporter" was a breed that existed in 2012. Not only was Trump not a conceivable candidate at the time, but even the caricatures of conservatives (never mind Christians) didn't resemble our caricature of Trump supporters.
Part of the issue is that the LEAF has tires that are terrible for anything approaching spirited driving. They are low rolling resistance round blocks of approximately cast iron and slip at the slightest provocation as a result.

(And yes, the LEAF is FWD-only.)
If you're fond of this rule and want to remember to follow it, just consider how you would write the past tense of the verb.
I don’t think they claimed that everyone has access at home. They said “the use case includes” which doesn’t exclude other possibilities.

There are many great options for charging if you choose your car wisely.

Our apartment building with six parking spaces has three Teslas and no charging on site. We do just fine.

Charging takes about 15 seconds of my day on work days. And on the occasion when I need more, it’s quick and I can grab a few minutes (like, 10 or 15) of a youtube video or Netflix while charging. Or step into a store and do an errand while charging.

In 10 minutes I can get about 100 miles of charge. I often go to our nearby Target (a store in the US) which has a supercharger right in the parking lot, and I don’t charge, even though I’m already there shopping right where the charger is. Why? No need. Already charged. It’s not that difficult.

Notice I never said this will work for everyone. But it works for some, with no assumption about having chargers at home.

>Who’s going to pay?

Sometimes you pay per kilowatt. Other times you’re charged per minute, like 3 cents a minute or so which includes parking. Other places it’s free and advertising on nearby signs subsidies for it. Or employers pay for it as a work benefit. One network (Chargepoint) covers most of this stuff.
Yeah, every parking spot could be a simple charging station. All you need is a power cable.

Reusing the land of all gas stations for other things will be a good benefit of all this. Except for San Francisco, where they all will be preserved as historical landmarks.
The big revolution in IM clients/protocol was the move to mobile. All the old protocols require a constant connection to the server to receive new messages. They were not designed with push notifications in mind.

I remember some early IM clients for the iPhone that you had to keep open to be alerted to a new message. Not fun.
Ha, I can relate. Motorcycle guy also.
Do you have one for drive train? I only see general issues there. The old model S they have in this comparison had a lot of baby issues with other stuff, but very few drive train issues.
> but in light of the BLM protests, dealing with local police departments to better surveil their own citizens is unethical.

I'm not sure that this is so clear cut. This also one of those things where it's fairly uncontroversial that the George Floyd (and all of the other comparable incidents) were unquestionably bad. But is that representative of all policing? Are police departments, as a concept, unethical? I'm not sure that this is clear cut or obvious.

And finally, all of these police departments are funded and run by republican forms of government (which BTW are predominately one-party democracies, just not the party that's popular to hate), that can democratically change. It's not a dictatorship. Any more than 21st century Italy is a "dictatorship" because it briefly had an authoritarian Prime Minister (Berlusconi).

> In light of Snowden's revelations, dealing with ICE to better surveil their own citizens is unethical.

Sure, and I think that it's up to the public to elect leaders that change these policies, which is possible because the US is a Federal republic, not a dictatorship. Unfortunately, in light of right-wing extremism, domestic surveillance is increasingly developing bipartisan approval. Is it unethical to serve the needs of the people even if some subset of those people don't approve of domestic surveillance? Unless it's not about doing business with dictators, it's about doing business with democracies that enact policies we don't like, but that's a different line of argument entirely, and one much less straightforwardly bad than "selling guns to dictators".
> How would that work with representative democracy?

With PR there would be a larger number of viable parties, for example in the last Dutch election, 13 parties got elected.

> instead of having to vote for a representative who probably disagrees wildly with at least one of those views

With 13 parties you'd probably be able to find one which is reasonably close to your own views.
I'm mostly tired of this take, especially by technologists.

First off: you're right. You can't compel a private company to support speech. But the entirety of political discourse happens online now. There's a clear and prevailing interest that free speech can happen online, at scale.
That's why Facebook must become a public entity.
If this is the argument being advanced, then the legislation is equivalent to passing a special tax on Google to pay for this "vital public service" (not debating the validity of this perspective). Why should Google and only Google pay this tax? If newspapers are so important, pay them right out of the public treasury.
> Simply because there are a lot more people using React than web components.

Couldn't you have said that about React vs Angular 5 years ago?

> React is a boring, stable framework at this point.

And that's why it won't be the most popular framework in 10 years time. React started off as a simple and straightforward library. The React team didn't want to stand still, so they improved it. The "improvements" are making React big, fat, bloated and complex, and failures and perf issues harder to debug
Good article just want to make one point. Approximately 72% of Americans are Christians.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/200186/five-key-findings-religi...

40% of Americans not only 40% of Christians are young earth creationists.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creati...

This means 55%, a majority, of Christians in America are young earth creationists.

To use his term which I love ignorant people who believe crazy things are the center of the category.
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This you have a source for such claims? There's enough to unpack for a PhD in anthropology.
A few of the details of the construction of this argument make me uneasy (in a roughly parallel way to the discomfort mentioned in section V). Particularly the assertion (end of section IV) that:

> Likewise, when a religious person attacks atheists who are moral relativists, or communists, or murderers, then all atheists have to band together to stop it somehow or they will have successfully poisoned people against atheism.

This seems like a bit of a major step. While I agree that "weak men" are a slippery trick to argue against a movement, I don't think that they necessitate a total defense of all aspects of the movement. Saying that atheists should defend murderers or Christians should defend the Westboro Baptist Church because they share the label of Christian is taking a good base idea and following it to false conclusions. What I took out of the argument around "weak men" was that communities need to be more self-policing rather than more broadly defensive. I was waiting for the point where Scott Alexander would say "thus Christians must declaim the Westboro Baptist Church instead of allowing themselves to be lumped under the same label." Additionally, there are parallels drawn between feminism and mens rights ideas that seem to be false-equivalencies, or at least false-parallels.

In the comments I encountered a blog post that addresses some of these uneasy feelings I had https://heartheretic.blogspot.com/2014/06/talking-about-prob...
> It’s always some external thing: “the algorithm”, as if that doesn’t just mean “the way we programmed it”.

This is true.

> Computing systems are do not act on their own.

That doesn't mean that computer systems behave the way that we intend them to behave, or even that we really fully understand our own intent!

How much of your own code have you formally verified? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification)

How much of your own code even has a precise enough purpose that the spec of what it's supposed to do is shorter than the length of the code? Such that you could even in theory formally verify that the implementation is in some sense "correct"?

For that matter.... how much of your code has a precise enough purpose that the spec of what it's supposed to do can be written down in formal language at all?

And actually... how much of your code has a precise enough purpose that the spec of what it's supposed to do can be written down in ENGLISH at all?

I don't think something like an "extremism filter" can ever be implemented in a bug-free way, because I don't think there's a precise enough definition of what "bug-free" would even mean.

The problem of people blaming bad outcomes on "the algorithm" is real, and organizations should take responsibility for misclassifications generated by code that they own and operate.

It's unhelpful to pretend like engineers and the organizations they work for have zero agency.

However, it's equally unhelpful to pretend like buggy behavior aligns with the intent of the engineer/organization.
What a stance.

Maybe if you advocated for 'no politics on facebook', it would sound better.

Social media has given voice to marginalized groups, and people seemingly fear that voice. It's something to take a look at, rather than sweep it under the rug with bans.
Oh no! Babylon 5 was pretty good in the beginning, then it became GREAT when seeds planted in past episodes paid off big time in later episodes.
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I haven't figured that out yet. Probably an electric heater of some sort.
Sure, makers should always be responsible & accountable for how a system behaves, but this seems like a textbook Hanlon's razor example
I would use it. You could probably wrap current search engines and crawl sites for <ad> tags etc. and label them as ad vs non ad from there in very basic way and them get more complicated with built-up heuristics.
MSDN has a lot of documentation, but it is not easy to use.
> How, if the client authentication key is implemented in Apple's hardware?

It isn’t.
Do you realize how cheap sea walls are? The Dutch were building them 800 years ago with medieval technology and resources.
That sounds complicated and unnecessary. I am honest with recruiters about what I make, some of them to "oh shit that's 3x what we are looking to pay" and some go "oh ok cool that's probably doable." Then you go down the road with the second set and depending on how well you interview they make you an offer you can take, negotiate or leave. So I am in a position of strictly more options than if I had a rule of not speaking to folks who didn't state a range.
This is something I didn't think about but you're absolutely right.
I need to find a solution to edit the list. In your example, if a teacher want to add something in the middle of the year or update a website, it would be useful.

If I don't want to add an authentication system, maybe with a token...
I don't know how that would invalidate the example; that still doesn't show that there were Christians who felt that way, rather that Fox believed the BuzzFeed story and leaned into it.
Why .NET still has no interface for serious, custom GCs?
Does anyone know what he died of?

Given current events, my assumption is COVID-19. But I know that I'm assuming that too often. Old people do die of other things.
Did you have blood work done to diagnose low T?

My understanding is that T levels can vary based on the time of day they're taken, so they likely need to be taken multiple times.

In any event, glad you arrived at a solution!
Well, in a capitalistic society with government oversight, you can expect the strong arm of government to lay the ban hammer on them. Participate in our society and be governed by the rules of our nation. As a capitalist fanboy I cant wait for the sanctioning to happen.
The only solution I think is to not engage. Focus on long-lived relationships with people who actually have gotten/will get to know you. Save your complex and nuanced thoughts and feelings for those people; random strangers will always see you through a cartoonized lens. When you do have micro-interactions with strangers - which, never forget, includes all public social media posts whether you want it to or not - keep things inoffensive. If someone else inflames the situation, quietly and diplomatically withdraw from it.

Beyond just being a strategy for individuals, doing this contributes in a tiny way to lowering the temperature of the whole room.
We're moving on quite a bit from the original post here, which was claiming that there was an overreaction to a position that supposedly didn't actually exist outside of this one person. I think it's pretty clear that that position does exist, which your post lines up with ;).

However, I think something significant to note here about if it's an overreaction or not is that even these cups are still traditional Christmas colors. We're a really long way away from them saying something like "it's not a holiday season at all," or "the actual holidays are some other time."

So if on one side we have a "let's be a little more inclusive of our friends celebrating different holidays" and on the other side we have "let's replace your holidays to help encourage a future violent revolution" it seems to me that they've only taken the babiest of baby steps towards the former, not the latter. (One wonders what the reaction would be if they came out with Hanukkah colored cups - lets not forget that there are non-"replacement"-motivated other holidays out there...)
On that note, what does aggressive even mean as an adjective to a predator?
What one person calls obsesssion, another calls perfectionism.
Anywhere people are, there is also politics. An argument could be made for getting rid of social media entirely, but as long as people are using social media, politics follow.
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More to the point, I'm not sitting around for 40 minutes at a charging station even once a week to get recharged (and it will be more frequent than that for many). Especially given that offices may be a less regular thing, people need ways to charge when their cars are parked wherever they're parked when they're at home. Even if they eat out a bit that's not a substitute.
Very sad, rest in peace and thank you for all your contributions.
I was thinking about Pidgin the other day when Beeper was on the front page. It seems we're back on the consolidation bandwagon for IM clients.

Which leaves me more grateful than ever that browsers have (more or less) avoided this yoyo between segmentation and consolidation that messaging clients have. It's what keeps me feeling optimistic about the web vs any kind of alternative open protocol for two-way communication like Scuttlebutt.
this guy is insufferable
Rebuilding and then moving it in place sounds pretty nice to me.