skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SO you're justifying 1990 killings and displacement of Pandits as a revenge for 1947? From the same Wikipedia article you linked also has a similar justification then for 1947 Jamu vilence:

> the Jammu province which was contiguous to Punjab, experienced mass migration that led to violent inter-religious activity. Large numbers of Hindus and Sikhs from Rawalpindi and Sialkot started arriving since March 1947, bringing "harrowing stories of Muslim atrocities in West Punjab". According to scholar Ilyas Chattha, this provoked counter-violence on Jammu Muslims, which had "many parallels with that in Sialkot". He writes, "the Kashmiri Muslims were to pay a heavy price in September–October 1947 for the earlier violence of West Punjab."

Additionally, Pandits have been on the receiving end - once a majority of the Kashmiri population about 600 years ago. Seven times at least they've been forced to exit, countless killed or forcefully converted to Islam https://www.quora.com/What-atrocities-were-committed-on-Kash...
But despite all this, Pandits have never opted for taking arms in hands and become terrorist killing civilians.
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Pedantically, while it's true that the Apple II originally shipped with Steve Wozniak's Integer BASIC interpreter, a Microsoft BASIC implementation, Applesoft BASIC, was licensed soon after the II's release and replaced Integer BASIC in ROM on the II+ and all future models.

Also, to be fair to "graphic artists ... and the like", one of the reasons the Mac platform remained popular among graphics arts professionals through the '90s was that system-level inter-application scripting, added to the platform in 1993, was well-supported by both Apple and third-party application vendors, whereas analogous cross-application scripting in Windows was mostly limited to Microsoft Office products.
I love the Guardian - a beacon of journalistic integrity even if I don't agree with everything it says.

I love Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age is one of my youths defining books (as I suspect it is for the new owners of the ocean liner)

But one is a fictional book twenty years old, and one is a newspaper at its best reporting on real problems right now, not imagined problems in the future

Seasteading is a joke, and despite all the cool cyberpunks, we are not going to become 'phyles and tribes. Geography and demographics are still our destiny for the next few centuries.

(Amazon passed some kind of event horizon - 1.3M employees makes it bigger than almost anything out there - armies etc. The thought of being head of HR for amazon flat out terrifies me. And this means we can find any amount of abuse in Amazon if we look hard enough.)

Are there better ways for Bezos to spend all the money he got - in my view yes.

If enough people like me agree we can do this democracy thing and tax it away from him and into better places.

But the problem is not billionaires or seasteading.

The problem is sensible democratic action. The problem is regulation (the 2020s call to arms)

Write your congressman.

Edit:

Uncalled-for Advice to the Head of HR at Amazon:

Unionise and Democratise

Firstly 1.3 million - that's an insane number of employees - Walmart and Mcdonald's might just outstrip you, but I would not look to them for guidance - look at Indian Railways or the US military. At this sort of size Amazon will be a "safe place to work". Mothers will start to advise their sons to take work there because it's too big to fail. You know that's not true but you need to avoid large scale resentment - and that starts with employee welfare - and welfare starts with feeling they have support against the the man - unions.

Yes they will make life harder - but you have fine from startup to being your own government - people will expect to spend their working lives in Amazon like they do in Walmart or the DoD or railways. As such they can either be part of the decision making process and protected from abuse - or they can be abused and powerless and work less effectively for you and eventually cause so much bad press that your name is mud.

I guess you know all this - but democratising is not just unionising - I think it is coming - i think that companies are going to find it harder and harder to exist by fiat - that every decision will need to be published and publiscise
like regulators do now - and this will lead to people wanting a say or a vote on such decisions - internal company referendums as it were.

Anyway ranting too much.
I was about to dispute this because of my experience using the term widely in late 2008-2010 range but Google Trends shows you are probably more accurate on timing. I work in corp finance and BI was pushed on us early.
I'm not saying that the quote make sense in this context, because frankly it doesn't.

But the personal views of whoever said it should not matter when evaluating it's validity.
I like this concept. It’ll be down to how you provide an interface for the non-nerd.

What I want is a single ID source which you can provide access to from multiple service providers that need certain components. I’ve just changed address and the nightmare of updating each individual service makes me want for a common framework that all bank, utility, retailers use.
> Whenever you have some instrument attacking Wall Street [...] papers come out trying to protect them. This does not mention drawbacks of the IPO the SPAC is getting rid of - the 6-7% investment banking fee, [...] the near 100% IPO pop due to which the company raises half of what it would have (amounting to a 50% fee so to say which goes into the pockets of institutional investors) amid other things.

SPACs have hefty investment banking fees, and, frequently, their own enormous pop. In the case of Nikola, the SPAC sold shares for $10 that traded up to $34 on the first day of trading, a 240% pop, and many other recent SPACs have had large pops. Every effort I've seen to evaluate the costs of SPACs has found them to be at least as expensive as IPOs. How could they not be? SPACs have to do their own IPO just to get started (with hefty fees), then they conduct a merger (with hefty fees), then there may be the sponsor promote, then there's the widely documented fact that most of the cash raised is returned to investors via redeptions, etc.

> An impartial cost-benefit analysis needs to be done which is sadly impossible for someone whose funding comes from the deep pockets of Wall Street

You literally wrote that in a comment on a paper doing an impartial cost-benefit analysis which was not funded by Wall Street.

Whatever advantages SPACs have, or may have in the future, the ones happening today are very expensive.
Perl, not VB.
Get over it. You were the one who tried to get rich and failed. Just accept that and move on. Try again if you want to. But don't blame someone else for your risky investments.
The existence of the Internet at all is an extremely successful example of something public spirited and democratic. Literally made and grown by public entities and mostly run not to privilege anyone.

The companies running on top of it not so much I agree. Imagine if Google or Apple built the Internet today and what a weird walled garden that would be. Would we even have concepts like net neutrality?
this should just become the default package manager on all linux distros.
> And of course there's the extra benefit that you would be helping the wider community, though I'm not sure how important that is to true Rationalists.

Actually, that's a net negative for me: whatever benefits the community may create some warm happy feelings (kumbaya!) that may reduce the correctness of my decision.
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I think you are mixing up society with governance.
German should really be added to that graph for it's humorous effect:

"Ich versteh nur BAHNHOF."

"Sounds like TRAIN STATION to me!"
It doesn’t take a genius to see the graphs of cost to produce batteries and solar power plummeting. In 3 years, it’ll cost more to operate existing coal power plants than it will to build a solar plant. If that trend continues for a further 3 years, electricity during the day will be given away nearly for free, making it dirt cheap to own an EV. It’s hard to compete with free for petroleum companies. It’s a bit worse than that for them because lower demand means they might lose certain economies of scale, making it even harder to compete. For example, some gas stations might close down if they lose half their customers, making it even more likely that customers will switch. And of course, after 2030 it’ll be difficult to find anyone selling an ICE car at all.

Transportation (land, sea, air) accounts for 60% of all petroleum. And land accounts for 75% of that. So around half of all consumption is going dwindle to 0 over the next 10-15 years.

The writing is on the wall for those who care to read it.
Android app dev since 10 years here - performance is absolutely fine. I have it running all the time. Granted, performance was abysmal before the accelerated Intel images, but that was many years ago.

Devs complaining about Android emulator performance usually have problems with their setup, common culprits: Not enough ram (it is a VM in the end), slow machine (eg. MacOS is bad for Android dev), broken VM acceleration (AMD was a problem for a while IIRC).
Bit of a leap from "every reason to believe" to "we know who the main worker of that specific program was"
If we're taking about 50$ noname Android phone - sure. Apple works on premium products where people expect quality. They have every right to be as serious as they are.
>Many designers and gamers on the other hand prefer glossy screens as they look more vivid.

I work at a company that amongst other things sells mid-high end monitors (mostly to photographers and graphic designers) for people who need the colours to be true (we distribute monitor-calibrators and colour systems). We also have Imacs that we look after for a customer in the office right now, and some cinema displays. We happened to be moving some stuff around recently and I was stuck by the texture differences between cinema displays and Imacs versus the lovely soft displays on say an Eizo or high end Benq.

I can only say it is all about looks rather than function for any machine with a glossy display.

I don't think my Thinkpad is as glossy as a MBP

Perhaps this thread should be titled, 'Why are Apple monitors shiny"
It's hilarious how the busybodies think they're somehow #winning, while Shell and others merely invest into whatever governments are wiling to subsidize with their insane deficit-driven spending.
While it sounds like a “good idea” mentally it seems also completely unrealistic and unpractical.

Basically what this is is writing tests for your tests. And because the input of tests is functions you need to be able to generate functions. That’s nice but it’s a pain considering the only solution proposed is “just do it manually” which is neither exhaustive nor trustworthy.

Also every single of the author’s exemple is caught by an actually good testing tool like QuickCheck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCheck
Natural disasters, wars, sanctions, might be a few differences.
Exactly. The response to my comment misses the point that what is best for the rest of us is not necessarily what is best for the poor driver...
You could always use a service not managed by Google. Spotify for example has been around for years and will not close anytime soon.
Just yesterday the story was that he was offered to own a part if he joined. What's the truth?
Hidden UI elements are beffudling the old ones
Switched to Apple chips for desktop and phone. Looks like their supply chain is still intact.

Sold my old system for around what I bought it for, so if you want to game these times are whack.
Some good info here, if you follow the links and read the footnotes: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-01-08/money-...
This is not what led to WW1. It merely failed to prevent WW1.
"Standard wikipedia formatting" being burying the lead is not a compelling defense. It's damn near misleading.

I find "an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln" to be a ridiculous introduction; it should read "an American assassin who killed President Abraham Lincoln" -- the man's profession is completely irrelevant; he is notable for this one act.

It isn't even consistently applied: Ted Kaczynski is listed as a domestic terrorist, Sirhan Sirhan is "a Palestinian Christian militant," but then Charles Guiteau is a "writer and lawyer."
A bit tangential, but for anyone looking to learn JS the main author of CodeMirror actually wrote an excellent book on it titled Eloquent JavaScript [1].

[1]: https://eloquentjavascript.net/
THIS is mind-bendingly awesome. What are the implications of this for technological advancement? Will we be getting to a point where machines are inventing new things that revolutionize life as we know it? I'm thinking about the difference in technology from now vs. 1920s. Could we be moving toward another advancement leap of such a proportion?

Just consider for a moment how far we've come. In the past, all our machines were purely mechanical---steam engines, water cranks, etc. Now we're creating machines that discover math. Amazing!
Ammann and Offutt's 'Introduction to Software Testing' [0] describes model driven test design and criteria-based testing (e.g. input domain ) as approaches to being thorough about testing.

[0] https://cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/softwaretest/
Or we could look at the internal policy discussions that took place among Soviet leadership back in the day, since now much of that is unclassified. And it turns out there was no serious threat of a large-scale conventional war in Europe initiated by the USSR - at least not since 1960s or so. If anything, the Soviets were scared that NATO would do it.
TIDAL and Deezer are both quite good.
> I would prefer if you could just dump the whole key in DNS itself, but TXT records are limited to 255 bytes.

The article you've linked also mentions CERT RRs, which include keys themselves, and there's also DANE's OPENPGPKEY [1].

Besides, each string of a TXT record is limited, but they can consist of multiple strings, so whole keys can be stored in those as well (as it's done for DKIM records, for instance).

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7929
Curlie uses curl, so security concerns about curl are certainly not a good reason to use Curlie.
Why would feeling happy reduce the correctness of the decision? Isn't happiness the only utility that matters?
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My experience with Python has been that once you get past the initial setup (which may be tricky if you haven't figured your Python installation out yet), everything just works.

As you say, if something doesn't work due to conflicting dependencies, usually creating a virtualenv solves it. I don't bother these days, as just installing everything with --user tends to always work.
I have always found Google Maps incredibly confusing and difficult to use. Its never clear what mode you are in, how to go back or where back will take you? The confusion is compounded why I use CarPlay. Its so frustrating and dangerous. WTF!
Lot harder to concentrate when solar power is inherently distributed.
Not a lawyer, but in German labor law an agreement to hire usually already constitutes a contract that you can't just cancel - they should have probably paid a lot more to get out of this!
> Yes, if they allowed it to happen it would have bought some institutions down.

Aren't the hedges involved insured to the tune of Trillions (USD)?
Yea way too much going on here.
Agree, when the mass media and my uncle knows about it is time to cash in. Bitcoin and GME
they will be working well if they rank this word vomit at the bottom of the search results.
"What has happened is all that could happen" is surely not the best line of argument you have?
First, could you name this TV set so that others don’t make the same mistake? TV prices decreased a lot over past years (50 inch 4K units go for below $500 I think), in fact I suspect that the hardware is sponsored by ad revenue in some cases.

Second, context matters. Buying a TV is different from setting up a commenting system for your site. In one case you want to consume, in the other to be a service provider (you have a website, possibly generate profit from it, probably know what JavaScript is). Moreover, you are unlikely to be able to make your own TV, but you are much more likely to be able to set up your own commenting system if you can’t find a company to handle that responsibly.
Use pipx. It's the only thing you should install with pip (and yes you should use --user to install it).
We definitely have a lot of work to do when it comes to marketing. One key challenge is tailoring the massage to the audience. While the HN audience would understand transforming web content and understand the value in it, most support reps won't.
One thing we're working on is different landing pages for different functions. That should allow us to highlight benefits that are relevant for the audience.
I would recommend using eslint and the following rule : https://github.com/sindresorhus/eslint-plugin-unicorn/blob/m...

eslint-plugin-unicorn has a lot of great rules, some are opinionated but you don't have to use all the rules.
Relevant: some interesting insight into the inhumanity of it all
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/03/jeff-bezo...
One of the reasons might be, that the SEC mandated all filers to submit the reports in XBRL Format starting in 2009 (foreign private issuers using IFRS followed 2017). It’s called Interactive Data by SEC and requires to tag each and every value with an XML element to give it an accounting meaning. The XBRL tools have not been able at that time to convert PDF or InDesign files, so all reports look rather ugly since then. I’m head of development team that invented a PDF Tagger; we sold it like warm bread during last month, because all EU listed companies are also mandated to submit iXBRL now. Btw, the cover page always looks that ugly because it must be the „form“ template from SEC.

Here is a link to a more pretty report, also having XBRL tags: https://www.gleif.org/assets/components/xbrl-viewer/gleif-an...
I thought this was going to be about chips made of potato. What a relief.
Have you tried? There were still single-arm, paid stage 2 trials recruiting in the UK in December (I can't remember which vaccine). I would've signed-up, but I'm already on the (placebo-controlled, unpaid) J&J stage 3 trial so can't take part in another. A stage 2/3 trial is still more likely to be effective than the homebrew approach, even after accounting for the 50% chance you've been given a placebo. As for how I got onto the stage 3 trial: I signed up here in the summer, and they contacted me in November: https://www.nhs.uk/sign-up-to-be-contacted-for-research
It does seem like an amazing project, but I'm struggling to see how this has any significant implications for technological advancement.
I trust packages that comes from official repositories.

> Warning: AUR packages are user produced content. These PKGBUILDs are completely unofficial and have not been thoroughly vetted. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk.

In other words AUR is not much safer than `curl to | sh`.
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Lenovo has matte touchscreens. Thinkpad Yoga for example.
None of this is inevitable. I'm sure lots of smart people are working hard finding out how to make sure PV is still metered or the panels are leased or licensed or some other scheme to put a middleman or two between us and every watt.

Demonitization of clean energy is within the realm of physically possibly but we'll still have to fight like hell for it.
Why astronomers are interested in this mysterious signal
The grid never goes down in the western world. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get more gasoline for my generator.
In the same way as any other publishing platform. Immunity under some subjective (or poorly defined) terms is as good as no immunity at all. How can I know what will lead to wrongful death? I would need to police every piece of uploaded content for anything that I feel could reasonably lead to that.
Calling CFDs investments is a travesty. They have practically no financial purpose as compared to other instruments like options, that provide a lot of financial flexibility and can act as insurance.

Online CFD brokerages look to me like the gambling industry wanted to have a section that was branded as "investments" so they could extract that money from uninformed casuals.

I'm not one for banning things, but I really wish there was more financial literacy. Half of the stories in europe of "retail investor loses shirt" are with CFDs when the so called investor likely doesn't even know the difference between a stock and a CFD.

Moreover, because anyone in the financial industry knows this, I assume all companies offering CFDs as their core product, and making their best attempts to make it look like they're selling actual stock, are all ran by a bunch of scammers.
> I later found out that there is a massive problem with people getting anxiety and panic attacks while on escitalopram

People having issues like that with escitalopram are a small portion of the people for whom it’s a life-changing treatment for anxiety and depression. I put off getting on it for far too long because of scare stories.
Yeah, I just read about it after seeing it around for years, and it looks fantastic. I might try it, but I've never had a problem installing apps, so I don't have a pressing need.
Big Data has become a bit of a nebulous term. It’s mostly used by/for business types as a marketing buzzword in my experience.

But in principle it just means utilizing data at a scale difficult to handle for traditional tools or approaches.

So yes, the ‘big’ in BigQuery just means it works at those scales.
It is simple.
Glossy looks glorious compared to matte.
Truth is - Generally speaking, matte is good for eyes.
On average, those who buy Laptop vs those who by buy Desktop, we can see difference in IQ/Experience.

Poor IQ people go for glossy, Good IQ people go matte.
So, manufactures are forced to release more and more glossy laptops.
Certainly, Apple played a big role in pushing glossy.
Please forgive, I don't want to insult people with Laptop. I too have one glossy Laptop and two matte Desktop. It is a cruel joke for me!.
But you go to jail for using and businesses still profit for selling it.
It’s a freedom in the US because of the US Constitution and because of Supreme Court precedence. It’s reasonable to forecast that this will not change in your lifetime.

In that way I would argue these moral results, which speaks more loudly than moral actions or moral speech combined, hangs in the air like a moral odor as we discuss the disarmament of relations.
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End to End encryption chat over TLS? Maybe we go in the wrong direction
Yes, that annoys me every time I see it. One other example that is often used is `someArray.filter(Boolean)`. While that will likely never break, it absolutely could.

Thanks for writing this. It's bookmarked and will share it with my team when necessary.
coagulated cow puss --> cheese (got this one from "What The Health" documentary on Netflix)
Reading this gave me a feeling of being superior.
P2P search engine that runs on the browser, like Twitter
So if someone leaked info about a killbot program, your protest wouldn't be that it's bad, but it's likely there's other work going on that'll hopefully make such killbots irrelevant, and why weren't those documents leaked? That doesn't sound very reassuring at all.
The praise from popular press and the promotion by the authors should be put into context of what mathematicians think of it.

Two blog posts by a professor at U. Chicago, qualifying it of intellectual fraud:

https://www.galoisrepresentations.com/2019/07/17/the-ramanuj...

https://www.galoisrepresentations.com/2019/07/07/en-passant-...