skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually "homeless" is not really current — it's 'unhoused' now.

"Undocumented" is also a bit passe, the current trend is to drop the "undocumented" part entirely, and just refer to all immigrants (legal or illegal) as "immigrants".
The GP makes the claim in such a way that implies most if not all chapter 11 bankruptcies end this way. I was facetiously asking for some evidence from other bankruptcies to support this claim.
I felt that way until setting up a new computer, then I don't bother and install Fish and move on.
> If you're going to hold yourself up as the more enlightened group, it creates a bit of an obligation to act that way. In my book at least.

I'm pretty sure this is exactly what I'm saying ;-)
Is it fine to use “AND” in a function name?
Will people be taxed for exhaling CO2?
I’m not sure of your age, but for instance, my dad, the sole breadwinner at the time, made $40k/year in 1989 when I was born, which is equivalent to $84k today. So, making $80k now and being raised on $40k/year then are the same thing if you adjust for inflation. (Furthermore, I’d argue healthcare, college, and housing are much more expensive now than they were then.)
"One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers."

Incited by "violence" (mostly property damage, some clashes with cops trying to box in and disperse non-violent protestors) - but calling for dispersal of everyone. Using the military to crush a civil rights movement
Isn’t an email necessary for a smartphone? I know apple requires one and will create it for you if you don’t have it. On Android, do you need a google account with email?
Never perform equality tests on FP numbers period - it defeats the purpose of using floating point. This is not specific to the IEEE format.
I'm averse to making a big change like stripping limited liability when there's easier and less complicated first steps: much larger fine size and executive accountability.
>> My father left home ... My mom ... left us when she found a new husband.

The horrible thing is that much worse situations are common today. The most common one I've witnessed into is "Dad left, mom is sick". The children become primary care givers to the remaining disabled parent. That basically axes higher education options. Such kids often cannot work outside the home and if they do it will be at most part time and very local. One can choose not to have children. One can decide not to commit crimes. But one cannot choose whether or not to have disabled parents/siblings that need 24/7 care. The really dark aspect is that children grow up. An unplanned child will grow and eventually not need 24/7 care. An aging disabled parent can remain at the same level need for many decades, normally progressing to greater need with time.
It's not just that it's bid up, it's that the govmnt has paternalized what sort of housing-should be legal. The housing that the poor could get back in the day is now illegal because it's "inhumane". There's regulations around square footage, fixtures, etc. Of course the "unintended consequence" is those people sleep in their cars or outside/tents, which is obviously worse than a shitty apartment that has a roof and walls. Maybe the closest thing to the old way is renting a room on Craig's list.

But limited supply is also a big problem.
I hope it fails.
It won't be long now.

https://foundation.app/osiris/low-effort-nft-1319
>For the entire length it discusses how you accumulate more wealth by not spending it, but it never discussed why you would be accumulating all that wealth.

To be fair, I believe that motivation comes from the reader, not the author.

>People want to be millionaires, not to stare at 7 digits on a webpage, but for the lifestyle it affords.

Again to be fair I believe you're projecting: you may want to be a millionaire for the lifestyle it affords, whatever that means to you. The book is a recipe on ways to retain wealth and anecdotes on how people accumulated their own. It's not a self-help guide to motivate people to become millionaires. I think it's assumed if they're reading they book they're already motivated and need to know how, not why.
Yes, one of the worst and most dangerous places to be is just outside the orthodoxy. This is not a comment about 2021; it is a historical pattern. Whether or not it's worse than being directly opposed to the orthodoxy is something I'd say changes between times and places, but there have definitely been times where its more dangerous to be just outside then full-on opposed. Those who are neither directly opposed, nor just outside, in the vast space remaining outside of those two particular points, quite often do just fine.

This is also a fractal observation, relative to the perspective of "orthodoxy" you are taking at the moment; within the directly opposed group, there is another dangerous place of just outside the opposed group's orthodoxy.

I'd contrast this with the common intuitive belief that by indicating your agreement with the orthodoxy in most other ways, you've somehow built up "credit" with which you can "afford" a deviation. I would observe that model does not match reality very often. There's a few relatively idealistic communities where that may work, but in general that is not how people work.
"Actually Portable Executable"s can boot from BIOS if that's what you're wondering.

https://justine.lol/ape.html
What type of work or activity on macOS requires sudo repeatedly enough that it needs to be automated in this way? I mainly need sudo for the occasional dmesg or for adjusting routes after activating my VPN for work.
> Nope, IBM z still has language environments

What are you talking about? When you say "IBM z", which OS are you talking about – z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE, z/TPF or z/Linux?

Which "language environments" are you referring to? Do you mean "z/OS Language Environment"? That doesn't involve "bytecode" in the sense that OPM/EPM/ILE on OS/400 do. LE (on z/OS, z/VM and z/VSE) and ILE (on OS/400) are descendants of the same code base (and I believe that code base was even ported to OS/2 at one point), but ILE on OS/400 does some very OS/400-specific things which never happened on MVS, VM/CMS, DOS/VSE or OS/2.

You started out by saying:

> IBM mainframes still do on their classical mode, the bytecode gets AOT compiled at installation time, or when the binaries need to be refreshed due to changes on the hardware.

That is kind of true for IBM i, but just false for IBM z.

> I call all of them mainframes, instead of precise definitions, because everyone without experience has a vague idea what a mainframe is, whereas midrange systems, most likely requires a Wikipedia visit for most of the audience.

While "midrange" is a bit of an obscure IBMism, most people have heard of "minicomputer", and have the historic understanding of a "minicomputer" as something in between a microcomputer and a mainframe. I think "minicomputer" would be more accurate than "mainframe" when referring to the S/38 and its successors. Calling the later "mainframes" is just going to confuse anyone familiar with the proper IBM terminology.

I get the impression you like to make comments like "IBM did X years before this did" but they make you come across as someone opining on something they don't know a lot about, and you end up saying things which make people who know more about the topic than you do cringe.
In fairness, leftists get cancelled by leftists. insert joke about leftist infighting here
I was including Sanders and any Biden skeptic as "heretical liberals" -- no disagreement from me there.
The idea that "ideas compete and the best rise to the top" is completely utopian. Such a "free marketplace of ideas" has never existed and cannot exist, because attention is a limited resource, bias exists, and not all ideas are equally valid.

The argument exists as a cover for constant relitigating of ideas that by all rational measures have lost in the "marketplace of ideas" time and time again.

If every single astronomy journal ever released contained a segment arguing about the merits of geocentrism because a few wackos continue to demand their right to "free speech and open debate" (which in reality means: unlimited speaking time on somebody else's platform), there would be no room for new science amid all the repetitive debunking.

Some debates are settled. Geocentrism is wrong. Racism is wrong. The holocaust happened. Authoritarianism is bad. Facts exist.
If people don't like you, whether justly or unjustly, then they don't like you. Try persuading people who have a choice to work with people they dislike.

The only way to stop this is enforcement with teeth.
> Cancel culture is messaging dang and asking him to ban you.

And your claim is that this sort of thing just started happening in the last decade or two?
Which is a mess, because some parts of the world use commas as decimal commas: 3,14159etc. So we have to use semicolon for our CSVs.
Only if you apply the idea in a stupid and shortsighted way.

I advocate for doing it smartly.

It's a bit exhausting to have to point out something so obvious.
Cancel culture is mostly millennial-led. Gen Z seems to take it as the status quo, and we'll see what they do with it when they have power.
This guy seems to really have a knack for writing with himself as the focus. Maybe he'll find better fortunes outside of journalism.
Passionate people are emotionally fickle. They dont make as good hires as you think. The ups and downs in productivity, engagement and team cooperation make them unreliable over the long term. 90%+ of passionate people cant see through long term projects due to burn out or boredom. I prefer people who come in to do a job, get paid, then go out to their families or party or whatever they do that's not work. They keep themselves in check, enjoy stability and take nothing personal. Honestly, they're adults compared to the passionate kids you have to babysit. Passionate people are easy to hire because they're cheap. Dangle a carrot and they'll jump as high as you want. Adults demand stacks of money to build a tower to reach the carrot.

Source: I've subcontracted and hired folks in both tech and infrastructure.
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This, used to do this with everything back in the day.

Cameras, bicycles, furniture, you name it. The thing would right out not work or just fall apart in a few days because loose screws.

20 Y later I still have the urge to take brand new things apart just to check if everything is a-ok.
"Dark age of thought" would be excessive (and is maybe a straw man). But there's plenty of people being cancelled:

https://www.afaf.org.uk/the-banned-list/
https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/who-cancel/
In the US 2002 or so everyone of my friends was on AIM
Supposed by whom? Tucker Carlson?
Healthcare and housing are two things that seem to crush those in poverty (with transportation being a distant, but important, third. On one hand you can keep a job with no house, but can't with no transportation; on the other hand, cars have gotten cheaper and more reliable pretty steadily over my lifetime).

A lot of families are a single injury to a non earner away from being bankrupt. Obviously an injury to an earner can be even worse. As TFA points out you can live in terrible conditions and maybe be a bit more financially stable, or you can live in passable conditions and be constantly short on money. Either way you are just trading one type of stress for another.
You may want to read your comment one more time, and perhaps edit it. :)
The stories are misleading about the report.

Here's a link to the actual report: https://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/surveys_and_po...

Some questions from the survey:

Q10. Do you think income differences between the rich and the poor in the U.S. today are a very serious problem, somewhat serious problem, not too serious problem, or not a problem at all?

Very serious problem 43%
Somewhat serious problem 28%
Not too serious problem 13%
Not a problem at all 15%

Q11. Do you think income differences between the rich and the middle class in the U.S. today are a very serious problem, somewhat serious problem, not too serious problem, or not a problem at all?

Very serious problem 35%
Somewhat serious problem 29%
Not too serious problem 17%
Not a problem at all 17%

The headline is pretty much the exact opposite of what the survey says, which is that the majority feel these are serious problems.

I do think the study authors deserve some blame here. Inexplicably, they chose to frame the results in this way: "fewer than half of adults across all income categories say they think income differences between the rich and the poor or between the rich and the middle-class are very serious problems in the U.S. today." The focus exclusively on "very serious problem" ignores their own categories, which also include "somewhat serious problem". When only 15% believe it's not a problem at all, why would you focus just on one narrowly worded category? Fully 85% percent admit it's a problem. That's a far cry from "don't care".
Great quote:

> The newspaper industry sensationalized the panic to prove to advertisers, and regulators, that radio management was irresponsible and not to be trusted."
I'm sure if Russia was covertly training journalists in the US to

produce an “attitudinal change in the participants,” promoting a “positive impact” on their “perception of Russia.”

and CNN was full of ex Russian FSB agents, you'd also see it as completely benign.
We can. Now is good times. Apart from the pandemic – but that's only one type of bad time; we're mostly okay as regards climate change, we don't currently have much crop blight, nuclear armageddon seems far away… and we're mostly in a position to prepare and mitigate those issues, even if we missed the boat on this particular pandemic.
Hey, Funkhauser! This is certainly a good strategy. Thanks for your feedback!
That sounds like an extremely business friendly interpretation of the regulation. Creating a separate service (the paid one) shouldn’t in any way change the circumstances for the first service (the one with ads).

What you are describing sounds like a business can simply declare “well untargeted ads doesn’t pay enough so the options are tracking ads or paid subscriptions”. The regulation shouldn’t and doesn’t let a site make that decision. It would make it completely useless!
Strongly agree. I programmed for a living and as my almost exclusive hobby for years. Then crashed and hated both. I forced myself to stop programming at home and re-invigorated my musical hobbies and I've been so much happier. I can now program for fun in moderate amounts too but I took about 6 months - a year hiatus.
This tool is amazing! Nice job, and keep up the excellent work!
You don't need to login to Google to use an Android. Only if you want to use Google Play.

Either way, you don't need to personally login with your own account. Often, whoever is setting up the phone (tech aware relative or phone store sales rep) for them will login with their account. For android phones, sometimes the people setting it up will just install customer selected apks from a usb drive; whatever version they happen to have, and when (if) those versions expire, come back to the store to update.
I strongly disagree on those metrics and I would question their coverage with the real world out there.

Rust is getting more and more prevalent and I'm saying that as a person that has barely worked in only one SV company for the last 5 years.

I'm working outside the mainstream companies and I'm still seeing Rust gathering mindshare all the time wherever I go. And I'm not even hired for Rust positions.

Anecdotal for sure, I'll agree, but your observation is no less anecdotal than mine.

Rust brings very real advantages to the table and seeing people rebelling against it only on principle (and not on merit) is getting increasingly baffling. Feels like an emotional rebellion versus resistance based on facts and merit.
The maintainer would reject such a PR? Even if the CI run takes from the HEAD it would still be the responsibility for the repo owner to not allow the PR to be run in the first place.
Lots of people wake up and never evaluate their life at all. People win the lottery and end up homeless with a drug addiction. If millions of dollars can't help them, do you think the government should keep writing those people checks?
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What is keeping you from opening up your own shocksites right now? I think it is more cultural zeitgeist - the generation involved with it largely grew out of it and the younger ones don't have the same sort of "culture" to reoccur in the same way.

It isn't something you would want to boast about running and would have people thinking ill of you but it doesn't really trigger outrage.
> Personally, I don't see anything in this paper that implicates Google or would be reasonable for Google to try to suppress

Can you explain why this leads you to support Google? Google still claims that the paper doesn't meet their publication standards, despite, as you say, it containing nothing that it would be reasonable for Google to suppress.

> Timnit's melodramatic and unprofessional response to normal feedback.

Keep in mind the feedback was that you cannot publish this paper, and that isn't disputed by Google.
neat, is there an open access version of this paper available?
A couple of options:

NanoPC-T4[0] is based on RK3399, with a big.LITTLE CPU (Dual-Core Cortex-A72, Quad-Core Cortex-A53) with 4GB RAM, supports NVMe and a fanless configuration.

ODROID-HC4[1] is based on Amlogic S905X3, with a Quad-Core A55 and 4GB RAM (no WiFi, only 1G Ethernet) and two SATA ports, which make it well suited for entry-level NAS.

[0] http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPC-T4

[1] https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-hc4/odroid-hc4
Thanks for this insight. Totally curious, is it easier to hire someone who's mostly motivated by the paycheck since it's easier to compete (just pay them higher) than other factors?

I'm guessing the issues with someone who's saying they want better work environment, better team, more interesting work, etc is that it's going to hard to make them perfectly happy and there's no work or team that's ideal?
You can do it while using microcode patches and software mitigations or not: it’s a hardening measure because SMT usually shares TLBs and L1s between threads.

No SMT, no sharing of TLBs and L1s (I know that writing it this way is a gross oversimplification).
Something I always liked about Nikons was the weight. Arguably a long time ago, back when a Nikon F4 was top notch, I used my dad's F4 a lot. I also used a friends Canon EOS 1, I always feared to brake the EOS 1 by touching it. The F4 could be used as a hammer, so.

No idea if this is still true today, I still like a camera I feel in my hands.

Now I want to try out a sovjet one. Once I also used a Leica, courtesy of a local camera shop that lend to my Dad, for a project in my last year of school (back in 2000). Nice piece of kit, but what really stood out were the lenses. That didn't justify the price tag, so. Stull a nice camera, a Leica.
It's pretty remarkable. Every time the writer says something like "let me back up and explain more" I understand less and less who the writer is and what happened to them (apparently they said or were accused of saying certain things in multiple unrelated situations?).
I don't think that's racist, although, personally, I do think that people holding those takes often have a myopic view of the world.

You're saying that you think that your job would be in danger if you said publicly that you thought that universities should be race-blind?
Every wrongful conviction was a result of the majority agreeing the person in question was indeed guilty.
I can't find your email on your site :(
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Boy, does the stuff about cars hit home. When I was poor I had to drive on tires so old that the steel was exposed.

The worst was when my insurance got canceled because I couldn't afford it. This led to a chain reaction of absolute dumpster-fire awfulness:

- Can't afford insurance

- Insurance gets canceled

- This automatically triggers registration getting canceled

- I can't stop going to work, and there's no public transit where I lived, so what choice do I have but to keep driving?

- Highway patrol scans my plate, notices I'm not registered, pulls me over

- Car gets impounded for not being insured, which is actually the more lenient punishment, because (as I learned that day) not having insurance is a criminal offense

- Can't afford the ticket I got for not being registered, so my license gets suspended for non-payment

So because I couldn't make an insurance payment, my registration got canceled ($), my car got impounded ($$$), and my license got suspended ($). And is any of this money going to fund public transportation? Of course not.

I did eventually get my car back, got new insurance, re-registered, and reinstated my license, at great personal expense including the time it took to go to the DMV (the nearest one of which is in the next town).

But it was another year before I could afford to replace my tires.