skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are twisting logic in a crazy way here by suggesting anyone employed in the public sector is the government. The administration of the country and those doing it are very different from somebody being a public sector worker

Am I?

The teacher, fireman, police, etc are all directly employed at the state, city, county level. Ultimately they are employed at our behest. The issue with collective bargaining is I have no alternative option. Do I trust the administrators we elect to fire bad teacher? Well they can’t because they have a union. The union will also help elect who ever will give them raises - It’s called “open bargaining”.

There are alternative approaches as you suggest. One such suggestion would be allowed tax dollars to be applied at any school of your choosing. Thus there’s a repercussion for poor teaching or school management.

Police officers would be more accountable if they could be fired for a bad job and not protected by a union, etc
Quite a bit less.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iwOZOb90fM
Seems like you're stuck on this word and not able to make it any farther. Alas, I can't wait for you.
Like having nurses and doctors idling around, just in case a pandemic appears out of nowhere?
> the common denominator seems to be an undertone of selfishness and heartlessness, people who are afraid of everyone else and want their life to not change the world be dammed, so yeah can’t really see anyone supporting this ideology to be a good person.

This seems to be a pretty close-minded view. Sure, selfishness and heartlessness could be a big motivator to vote one way. But as someone who knows Christians who voted for Trump, here are a few reasons which I'd argue aren't due to moral failings:

* Some strongly believe abortion is murder, and are worried about the number of lives thus being extinguished.

* Some believe that there is a growing anti-religious sentiment in their opposition, and they vote against that anti-religious sentiment. Every one of these friends is a strong proponent of religious pluralism.

* Many Christian voters come from less urban, less affluent areas of the country. These voters felt ignored by mainstream candidates, and Trump courted them better than most candidates in decades, actually speaking to the day-to-day issues of that constituency.

* Many Christians have different moral views than society at large. When viewing males as "the head of the household" is considered sexist and oppressive, couples that (both) opt in for such a household-model will understandably not be drawn in by progressive rhetoric castigating them for it.

Again, this isn't to paint a rosy picture saying "Bad people of group X are just as likely to vote either way". But to say that you can't see anyone supporting an ideology to be a good person under the hood is going to lead to a lot of animosity in life.
A lot of that boomer "wealth" has gone into RVs, McMansions & Harleys. What remains will be spent on medical care in the last few years of life.
If you pick up a more recent edition of the book, it includes a new preface where Hofstadter actually addresses a lot of this himself - he admits to being "embarrassed" by his claim that computers that could beat people at chess would get bored of chess and talk about poetry, although I think he's being too hard on himself.
In the past ships already got stuck on the Bitter Lake - for quite some time!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet
Forced by whom?
Without the high tides the amount of material needed to be removed would have been dramatically higher.

That’s the point and the absolute bit of luck. Without the high tides they likely wouldn’t have been able to get it unstuck as quickly. Search for slope/fill volume calculation charts - the amount of fill required to be removed as you go deeper is logarithmic, NOT linear.

It was VERY lucky they had the highest tides possible.
Anycast doesn't support percentage based load balancing unless you control all the hops between client and server, which is almost never the case if you are serving the public.

Every request that comes from the same network is going to be routed the same way. Anycast works great for regional load balancing in general, but it doesn't work for subdividing individual networks.
It's not that you are wrong, per se, because communism is indeed descended from a Christian culture and full of many Christian ideas. Overall, it functioned as a quasi-religious system.

However, the Soviets actively rooted every religion during their rule, especially Orthodox Christianity. So if we are to consider Soviet communism a form of Christianity, it's unclear how useful this actually is.
'relative difficulty' was never germane to the discussion. The point is that the system self-corrects for more efficient energy use by increasing its energy use. And its a lot of energy.
> I think a big part of the problem is that we try to map our programming language data types directly to serialized types

Much of the time, in-program data is relational with a possibly-cyclic graph describing relationships, ownership, etc. Systems that work with RDBMSes do a fine job of de/serializing data for relational stores, and ORMs are a powerful and delightful way to do this.

The problem with JSON and XML for these kinds of data is these formats are inherently non-relational. They are simple trees of data, not arbitrary graphs. In practice, e.g. in every full-stack web codebase I've ever seen, JSON blobs are hacked together e.g. by doing a makeshift front-end "join by ID" when needed — or adjusting a back-end method to perform the join and return — wait for it — a flattened JSON blob.

It seems like we need a "JSON" or "XML" where relationships are a first-class citizen. To my knowledge, the closest we've come to this is when the data broker and format are tightly coupled, e.g. with SOAP or GraphQL. Can this be achieved strictly declaratively, in a format that's better than a SQL data dump? Maybe!

> I wonder if a system similar to Scheme's `syntax-rules` (or Rust's `macro_rules!`) for mapping the serialized data into the program's data types (and vice-versa) would be a nice mechanism.

Does `serde`[1] look like it's close to your imagined mark? I haven't tried it personally, but it looks akin to Java's `Serializable` or C#'s `ISerializable`— all reasonably elegant ways of handling the messy binding logic of serialization over arbitrary formats.

[1] https://serde.rs/
Lately I've been learning / playing poker. It feels like the perfect vehicle for what you're describing. I'm still quite new to poker so don't expect any deep insights here. You learn a little bit of the math behind when to expect what card, and what card your opponent is or isn't likely to have. Then you do battle using rationality, mostly against your own emotions.

You get into these situations where you know what the "right" move is but your emotions are firing on all cylinders. All the logical fallacies you've read about over the years (loss aversion, hot hand fallacy, etc) are suddenly extremely compelling. Even knowing that they are fallacies intellectually, it can still be difficult to make the rational decision.

And so you practice. You make the rational choice over and over in order to build an edge over you opponents. You become the house.

Doing this sort of "practice" I've noticed it paying off in places in my daily life. I sometimes find myself thinking of hard ambiguous decisions in poker terms now.

One thing that makes poker, or other games different from real life is knowing if you actually made the right call or not.

In the old poker days you used to have to guess, or talk it over with your poker friends to try to figure out if you bet too much or too little on that hand you can't stop thinking about.

The most modern poker theories and practices are around game theory. Through statistical analysis, simulations, and some ML tooling you're now effectively able to ask what the right move was for any given situation and get an objectively right answer. So if you're willing to use / pay for that software you have objective answers to those questions now.

At the highest levels online players spend many hours practicing with gto trainers to cement the "right" moves for given situations.

A problem I've noticed about trying to apply some of the lessons from poker to real life is that you don't usually get that objective feedback.

In poker sometimes you make a bet and you win, but it turns out it was a very bad bet and you got lucky.

Other times you might make a very good bet 3 times in a row, and get unlucky all 3 times.

In poker you can go back and look to find that they were all the right decision using a GTO (Game Theory Optimized) training software. Real life, not so much.

That said, these types of avenues still feel valuable to me. I really do think poker has improved my rationality and decision making skills. But like poker itself, those improvements are at the edges.
It was also suggested that masks would make people touch their faces more, back when surface transmission was believed to be more of a risk. Remember the run on surface disinfectants and those ridiculous grocery wiping videos?
Jeff Bezos shareholder letters: 1997 to 2017
The problem is CS degrees. What do you learn in a CS degree? First you learn data structures, then you learn algorithms, then maybe if there's time they burst your bubble and tell you about caches and how CPUs actually work.

What's the first data structure you learn? The linked-list, of course. So to many interviewers, focusing on linked lists is the equivalent of fizzbuzz. No one could be a computer programmer without it!
What if that level of "too many packages" is the only way the driver could avoid getting a demerit for under performance?

What if a livable wage is only possible if you quote more packages than is reasonable due to the intense pressure amazon has on the contract delivery market?
I have. And I am not saying it doesn't make sense, but the GP reasoning are probably some of the worst aspects of what it can do.

edit: but at the same time now I realize why people are attracted to it, they are desirable features wether or not they actually make sense.
The Bible's thoughts on self defense, taxation, and even "forced charity" aren't obscure - they're well known direct quotes.

https://biblehub.com/context/matthew/5-38.htm

https://biblehub.com/mark/12-17.htm
I personally dont believe being gay is a right. Just a lifestyle that society happens to tolerate. Using equality and justice to defend LGBT means any fetish or degenerate behavior that is not socially accepted can be justified as oppression.
Incentives. Do you have skin in the game? Are you building your cv and career and brand or are you building the product? Do you personally benefit more from 10% improvement due to data cleaning or 1% improvement from some fancy tweak of the model which you can hold talks on and write papers about, with math formulas etc?
There is a second channel for most of its length already. I'm sure the plans to finish the work have gotten a higher priority in the past week.
It's at the top of the page. http://mk.mgechev.com/
Sure. My general approach is to use lower TTL values (~ 5 minutes) and just accept that if people do dumb things, they just have to put up with things randomly breaking unexpected.
Presumably if google posted a list of everything they delisted it would defeat the purpose without such a list I cannot easily determine the nature of the content delisted.

The daily mail claims articles on Josef Fritzl a man who kept his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years and Tory MP Jonathan Djanogly who hired individuals to spy on fellow party members were effected but years after the complaint about them being delisted they are now findable on google again.

Google doesn't have a great history of doing the right thing with automated moderation. It's entirely likely that a script could easily deny a request to censor trivialities while covering the crimes of a pedophile without a human being in the loop.

More recently someone convinced google to delist the url

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=right+to+be+forgotten

Their list of articles on abuse of the right to be forgotten for maximum irony.

Then there is Thomas Goolnik who is using RTBF to hide his efforts to hide his efforts. That is to say he is using RTBF to delist articles about him misusing the RTBF It seems the start of the chain of forgetting is Goolnik defrauding people out of a million dollars. Something that might be worth knowing if you were participating in any endeavor he was involved in.
It really, really does not. I think you should try to first go find out what the behaviours actually are. It's not just having awkward opinions or butting into conversations.

Like, https://twitter.com/grok_/status/1375049417926053894
Boskalis Peter Berdowski said it wans't a very hard job technically on Dutch television. Just the scale and impact were huge.
First impression: "Wow, this warms my heart."

Second impression: instinctively tries scrolling with trackpad _help why isn't it working_

This really made my day, thank you for sharing it.
This is true, and that's why I also try to bring up examples of times I have had blatantly sexist behavior toward me. (Which luckily, has been extremely rare.) It allows me to talk about my reaction, which has always been: let's have a personal, one-on-one chat about why I'm not okay with this. This conveys two things:

1) My "assume good faith" policy doesn't mean I'm okay with genuine harassment, and I have no problems standing up for myself.
2) I will always TELL colleagues if I'm uncomfortable and give them a chance to change their behavior before I escalate anything to HR.

But ultimately, this is something that comes down to trust. Trust in my colleagues to not take advantage of the "assume good faith" policy, and trust in me to use good sense to interpret my colleagues' behavior.

And, frankly, the modern workplace is a really hard place to cultivate trust in. But I do my best, and thus far, my efforts seem to have paid off.
No, that isn't what my comment says and it's not what I intended. Please, read what I actually wrote.
I love the design & minimalism of the website and the App.
It's good life advice to do the opposite what these people want.
I fully believe that discovering the function of sleep and of dreams will go extremely far to understanding the function of consciousness. Evolutionary psychology ("genetic epistemology") is increasingly becoming the most interesting thing I've ever read about. Particularly the work of Jean Piaget. Everyone knows plenty of animals dream, so I'm looking forward to having the time to read the actual whitepaper here!
My favorite part by far is when you click on a link you see just the plain text of the article sans distractions.

Edit: also it shows a few key news articles with related articles. This means I'm not infinitely scrolling which is nice.
I just love how all communications including official statements from freebsd.org get posted to the web as email threads. Nothing pretty, just utilitarian.
For reference for other readers:

The statx(2) system call was added in Linux 4.11, released on 2017-04-30.

The statx(3) libc wrapper was added in GNU libc 2.28, released on 2018-08-01.
Working class folks can also be middle class, they aren't mutually exclusive.
Well, I'm not inventing it. This phoronix article [1] leads to a LKML post [2]:

> Yeah that's a known problem, made worse SSD's in fact, as they are able
> to keep refaulting the last remaining file pages fast enough, so there
> is still apparent progress in reclaim and OOM doesn't kick in.

And so on. That's part of the reason there is a working effort towards creating a userspace OOM daemon. I'm grateful for that effort, since I'd rather have some apps crash than having my system unusable. However, there is an issue with the Linux kernel trashing.

I couldn't find mention of it in that thread, but it's mentioned multiple times in passing (as well as in the phoronix comments) that the system behaves worse without swap. It's also noted as one of the reproduction steps.

I agree that it's vague and subjective, but I'm pretty sure I've seen some serious discussion of the topic. There are a few sources that point in that direction [3-4], but I haven't seen anything conclusive.

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Do...

[2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/5/416

[3]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/28176

[4]: https://serverfault.com/questions/255661/linux-oom-disk-i-o-...
Problems with destroying the ship:

- A sunken super container ship in the canal, rather than a floating one. Removing the wreckage would be at least an order of magnitude more work than floating the thing away.

- Thousands of containers floating / sunk in the canal. How much damage can one of those do to the propeller of a ship?
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> That doesn't mean it's reasonable to charge me more than $1 per day for water.

This is where someone steps in and says something to the tune of "Whatever price you're willing to pay is by definition reasonable" and completely ignore the ethical/moral issues with essentially holding someone's life for ransom by charging the maximum price they can get for something they need to survive.
Except that without the supernatural part, it was a wandering, homeless religious teacher who got himself killed at an early age teaching things which got his followers killed too, and end up being pointless.

"Blessed are the meek; for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven." Except there is no kingdom of heaven, after all; and the meek are not blessed but oppressed. The supernatural stuff was there to show that the oppressive nature of the world and its cruelty was not the only thing; there was hope beyond it in the world to come, which gave the strength to believe in something absurd.

Otherwise its just John the Baptist; a person preaching who ended up dead on the whims of the powerful.
The think the OP was also implying "lack of morals" when they said "morals".
I feel like a lot will also evaporate when Boomer retirement accounts get liquidated to pay off Millennial student loans. As a Gen-Xer I 100% believe this will happen a year after I retire.
Something about LOC and Bug Count :-)
That is not a thing.
The reason water is cheap is because it's plentiful; there's a lot of competition to supply it. But there's only one Suez canal and sailing around Africa is much worse. So you would expect Egypt to be extracting a significant portion of the value the Suez canal adds.
Initial version ready https://github.com/sofixa/awesome-museums-online, i'll keep adding museums ( from this thread and elsewhere) and sections
Are these meant to be in order? It's weird to not see `echo`/`printf` on the list, `ip` is #1, `last` and `ncdu` are in the top 10, while `grep` isn't, `uptime` is above `cd`, etc.
Whenever someone repeats the tired meme of "the compiler generates better assembly code than a human", I think of cases like this one (or the many occasions where I inspected compiler-generated assembly and it was atrocious). The rule of thumb should be "the compiler generates better assembly code than a human could within the time it takes to write high-level code and press 'Build project'", but that's not as catchy.
So what if you created a VM which runs the proxy and then you run your host traffic through the gateway on the vm? Could that work?
it's not. actually I would argue any sort of global state like this should go away.
If I was a butcher selling you a pound of meat, and "surprisingly" was shorting you 10% on a consistent basis, would you say I was just doing more aggressive marketing than my competitors?
Money is really mostly good when you had it in the past and invested it stablely.
Yes, I'm not averse to using `unsafe`, but one has to justify it on a case-by-case basis. Eg if you're doing this in a library, then keep in mind that some users are very adamant about using unsafe-free crates, so you may prefer to take the hit.
I have thought about this a bit. My take is that almost all of these blog posts are from one-off contributors and not one you'll see over and over. I kind of see it as them taking their shot as making you a recurring visitor or recurring reader of their content. I've personally never heard of Statista and don't think I ever will again, if past experience is an indicator. I don't fault them for that, although it is slightly annoying.

Though if it were me, I'd personally wait until someone was partway through the article at least before presenting a newsletter sign up. There's no way I'd sign up for a newsletter before I saw the site's content.
NASA says Earth free of asteroid risk for next 100 years
> half of your interviewees will have seen it before and half of them wont

That's just not true at all. There's a huge supply of algorithmic problems and it's easy to invent new ones, so a typical problem given in an interview will be novel to pretty much all interviewees.
> I think the implied grievance is that Tesla is systematically optimistic about the range of their cars where other automakers (Mini Cooper, Porsche, etc) make very conservative estimates

Seems like it would be a rather better article had it included facts detailing that allegation rather than just implying it.

FWIW: I don't doubt that Tesla spins their numbers, but then automakers have been cheating on mileage statistics with testing conditions for decades. Is this really so different?
And a lot of that revolves around the news departments not paying those expenses to actually go to a location and be on the ground. However, you can see and support independent journalists that still do that. There was a debate recently on HN on the value of Twitter (probably recurring), but one great thing about Twitter is that I've found direct connections to those journalists and you can see live reporting on issues in a way that mass media just doesn't do, or do well anymore.

E.g. I often read the live tweet coverage of LA City Council meetings and public Q&A.
Let's not pretend non-profits don't fall victim to the same bs. All you need to do is look at the Susan G. Komen foundation.

People willingly donate to these places so if they don't care about it why should we?
I'm not saying that Dr. Fauci wasn't lying. He was, about masks, about washing hands, about "no evidence" of virus being airborne, about length of lockdown, etc.

I'm just saying that this particular argument, about cycle count and false positives, is not one of those cases.
Probably because we hold humans to a higher standard than animals - we've all been raised to hold it until it's appropriate which is when we're inside and on a toilet. Some animals can be potty trained, it's a bit weird but good for them - most animals are just trained to not wee on the couch and outdoors is left wide open for them as they need. It's pretty socially acceptable for dogs to pee in public and, if you found it offensive, I am afraid I have some bad news for you about the miniature public outhouses they build for squirrels.
Honestly, the political tone of my generation (Gen X) as youth was resoundingly apathetic and cynical, and this was remarked on at the time. At least in North America.

The early 90s was a terrible recession where I was. It went along with the drab grunge music and the floppy fashions. There were no cranes on the skyline, and minimum wage was the deal, if you could get a job after high school at all. A pretty bleak time.

(It wasn't until the mid-90s that things picked up and then it went from all that plaid and grey and "I'd be really angry but even that is too much work" to the hayday of late 90s rave culture and total excess)

I was very politically active and radical, but I was definitely in a minority.
Oh sorry, I'm not being deliberately vague - specifically the points raised by the open letter linked to by the article.