skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not an economist, but I know that a deflation can be bad for the economy. People are encouraged to wait rather than spend because the price will be lower if you can hold out a little longer. This can become a positive feedback loop which is bad news for the economy.

I’m not sure what Bitcoin is really about, but it sure makes for good speculation and day trading.
>> People miss AIM

I miss how anyone with a packet sniffer could pull entire AIM messages out of the air. Just filter by port number and you could read them like a live chat window. I demonstrated this to a class while at law school. Scared the heck out of everyone who had been using it to pass answers to people when they were called on. (Failure to give a reasonable answer would impact your grade very quickly.)
> Intentional or unintentional lies to anyone would be considered fraud if we go by your ideas.

It seems you’ve misunderstood my earlier comment.

> the definition according to the law: "with intent to defraud"

Defining “fraud” with “defraud” feels a bit circular.
I completely agree with this, and often point out exactly this in HN threads: it is ok to just to a job for money.

The only thing I would adjust is that if you "just want to get paid", working at a FAANG is a great way to do that. Yes, the interviews will probably suck, and there may be politics. But places that pay less are often not any better in these ways, and worse in other ways. I tend to look at it like this: if I get a job at a place that pays half of what I make now, will I really enjoy working there twice as much as my current employer? The answer is no.

We can understand that working at one of these companies does not make you special. But these jobs are desirable for a reason. A good reason.
> The government can not and should not lift people out of poverty if those people refuse to work to better themselves.

I think everyone is deserving of not living in poverty. Even "lazy" people.
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As someone who doesn't understand either, how do online communities work?
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Stadia version of Terraria is back in production
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Is this what California, San Francisco, or New York do?
I listen to the playlists for the podcast "Flow State".

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It's incredibly easy to do something wrong and cause bugs or security issues in your app.

Or, compare string manipulation in C with any high level language like Ruby, Python, JS and the ease of use is night and day.
The wind resource in India is poor. Solar is likely the answer there, with batteries and hydrogen.
passion is not required

but caching is:

https://archive.is/3A5ku
You dislike the numbers so you literally make up numbers in response? It doesn't work that way.

Calling it lies because European counties have a middle class is crazy. Having a middle-class is an incredibly important part of mobility. Nearly 70 percent of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings. A huge portion of America's citizens are living paycheck-to-paycheck and have no way out.

Have you been to Scandinavia? No homeless. No destitute poverty. No one is defecating on the streets like they do in San Francisco. There's a big problem here and hand-waving it away because you don't want to look at it won't help.
In 21 or so of LIsp coding, I've noticed that my use of car, and cadr, cadar, caddr, and all those has been greatly increasing. I hardly ever type second instead of cadr. A cursor scan of my git history confirms it.

One reason is that second and third and such are oriented toward sequences. But sequences are often generic. In TXR Lisp, I have [x 2], so why would I ever write (third x)? It's verbose, like using Roman numerals instead of Arabic.

Now if I'm processing tree structure, I know that is made of conses. So (caddr x) makes sense.

Part of the reason it makes sense is that when we are processing tree structure, such as code syntax, we cannot just evaluate (caddr x) out of the blue. We can only do that if (cddr x) has been confirmed to be a cons cell: (consp (cddr x)). The syntax could be bad. It could contain the dotted notation in an unexpected place, or be missing required arguments.

And so this makes no stylistic sense at all:

(when (and (consp x) (consp (cdr x)) (consp (cddr x))
(third x))

We want this:

(when (and (consp x) (consp (cdr x)) (consp (cddr x))
(caddr x))

It is also easier to read and verify. We know caddr is right because it just adds an a to cddr, the last cell which was tested.

There is an impedance mismatch between validating (cddr x) and then extracting (third x), which isn't there when (caddr x) is used.

Anyway, a lot of that kind of code is avoided by pattern matching.

(when-match (@nil @nil @elem . @nil) x
elem)

That also avoids traversing the structure multiple times. Unless the compiler is clever about doing CSE between these functions, (cddr x) starts scanning at x.
What a great project. Like the MIT hackers who added opcodes when computers were discrete components.

I'm reminded of the NEC V20 which could replace the 8088 in the original IBM PC. You could pop out the 8088, pop in the V20 and get lots of interesting new opcodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V20
I love how it says "Learn more and customize" but doesn't actually let you customize anything. Just shows you dozens of links where you can supposedly "Opt out" by going to the target directly.
Thats faster than Google Slides?
That conspiracy was surprisingly widespread and the normal societal blocks didn't manage to engage early enough in the process to stop it but, in the end, we made through it alright due to societal pressures at large.

I don't know what specifically would've tipped it the other way but I think there were several large players able to extend effort that ended up not doing so simply due to a lack of need (i.e. the military in a non-show manner).
The NASA has visualizations of simulated CMEs of different strength on Youtube. Check it out here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLLq6plMjU0
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For the type of workloads a Pi is capable of, and given the low capex of setting one up, it only makes sense to pay for this if you have extremely rubbish broadband at home.
That doesn't matter though. You bought an NFT for 10k and re-sold it for 500k (and paid taxes). The IRS isn't going to come after you and now you can buy your house.
"Many people assume I am a good middle class person" is what many people consider a "privilege".
Personally, I don't focus on individual/free choices for the day-to-day at all, just policy. E.g. moralistic arguments about how people should ride bikes more are ineffective, you need actual on the ground changes in bike infrastructure to get real change for that sub-area. People trying to guilt each other constantly is just a distraction imo.

I had a car in the states and don't have one now in Munich. Did my values change? No, not really, I just moved somewhere where a car was much less necessary.

Now, I did still bike a fair bit in the states, but I didn't beat myself up over also driving a lot, because I recognized that the environment was not well set up for it in most places, which is how I got hit by cars twice the last year before I moved.
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exactly, Sony got pressured to migrate to Azure, even for their game streaming services

what's funny is they got the downtime, right after XBOX got his

almost like if someone was jealous and wanted them to be "equal"

but people won't like this "idea", maybe a little too much "conspiracy theory", i'll agree, my comment should get flagged, or i shouldn't have hit the "reply" button, but it's too late i guess
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> I made it and you can too. Poverty has no color. It impacts everyone. You can't tell just by looking at someone.

And yet statistics disagree with you...

Edit: Nevermind, I saw your other comment. You meant to cheer people up, not make a moral judgment.
I assume it would be a performance disaster, but transparently running the browsing process in identical VM's would probably make fingerprinting much harder. I like the idea!
> This is, from the warranty's point of view, the same as manipulating the odometer on an ICE car to make it appear to have driven fewer miles than it actually has.

No, one implies active deception. The other is "unaccounted for use case".

This is (another) example of Tesla expecting customers to not just collect data for them, but pay for the privilege - witness the replacement of the eMMC which Tesla considers a consumable despite its inaccessible location and despite the fact it is not the owner "consuming" it, but Tesla, capturing telemetry data to send to Tesla for Tesla's benefit.

I rather doubt there's anything in the Tesla Bill of Sale that obligates me to provide battery health telemetry data to Tesla for their monitoring.
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Pointing out that it was "mostly white" or "mostly American" would be accepted and considered progressive.

Pointing out that it was "mostly Jewish" would not be accepted and would be considered hate speech.
I doubt any school district has an such contract though. In fact I doubt any school district is large enough for enterprise style contracts.

I know my company has warnings about using free services - including google - for work purposes. We instead have contracts with alternate suppliers. (I can search the web with google, but that implies I'm looking for something public - I'm not allowed to upload anything company private to Drive) Sometimes the alternate is better, often worse - but always our lawyers have verified legal things that I prefer not to care about.

Even as a large company we do sometimes buy the same contract as you would as a consumer (well, assuming you actually pay to use a web site, which seems unlikely). However even then we ensure that there are strong legal language about how the terms of service can change.
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The terrifying reality of life under Myanmar’s internet shutdown
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As someone who doesn't understand what dependent types are, this seems opaque to me (and is probably equally opaque to anyone else who doesn't understand). You can do this trivially with e.g. a structure-like type. E.g. in TypeScript it'd just be `type EnvironmentVariables = { otherFlags: stuff; newFlag: whatever; }` - and then you'd just have to use `EnvironmentVariables` in both the --help and in wherever you specify your environment variables.
Also, any first responder approaching a crashed Tesla with metal tools doesn't want to face parts energized to 600v. A short in a 12v system isn't going to kill anyone.
I definitely built up the switching costs in my head based on past experience with zsh. Good defaults are easy to undervalue.
It’s also not the case that there is such a limitation.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207006

A single contact / conversation can even mix and match.
No, they don't pay anywhere near enough.
https://truecostblog.com/2009/06/02/the-hidden-trucking-indu...
The author has one anecdote about the US and India arguing over food aid, and he projects that into "population growth was not a problem".

Why fertility rates declined worldwide is the big question. Worldwide, births per female were about 5 in 1960 and about 2.4 worldwide now. That is a huge, and unexpected, trend. Japan, South Korea, and the EU are in actual decline. Nobody really expected a change that big. It's still not really understood. The usual explanations are contraceptives, more women working, etc. Lower sperm counts, maybe, but probably not.

(Not central Africa, though. There, the fertility rate is still around 4.)

India population growth - graph.[1]

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IND/india/population
My kids are getting to college age and its worth considering that MIT has 11376 students whereas google claims there are 19.6 million college students in the USA at this time. So if distributed purely randomly, in the "everyone MUST go to college" USA, something like 99.942% of kids will not be paying MIT tuition.

Another thing to consider is if you're investing $280K in the MIT brand, do they offer any bachelors degrees worth $280K other than maybe CS and pre-med?
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Lots of people want to live there. But do the people who live there (and own property there) want lots more people to live there? Not really no.

And in some cases definitely not anywhere near them.

Cities work well at a certain size and population, but the services and infrastructure never get upgraded to match big increases in population like tower blocks.

Not to mention the view from people's houses across the bay will be gone as soon as high rises are built.
If I'm happy with the status quo & I have lots of money, why would I ever stop doing everything possible to maintain it?
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I'm saying that "Objectivity" isn't the same thing as only reporting facts. It's a valid point that journalists should feel a responsibility to present their facts in a way that they believe accurately reflects the world. Out comes some extremely suspect October surprise and Greenwald doesn't want to talk about the elephant in the room, no instead he wants to talk about how worrying it is that the news organisations didn't gullibly repeat the obvious BS. It's perfectly valid for the editor to say "Hey, that's not actually the story here, that's the contrarianist hot-take"
of course the supreme court is in favor of making sure corporate ownership of the world is unchecked.