skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My defiant and sarcastic reactions to accusations were often considered evidence that I'd done wrong when I was innocent."

You were rebellious. From the point of view of a common teacher, that means you are not innocent. There is actually a old common saying, when some kid got a beaten, but it later turned out to be not guilty of that ... "well, he deserved it anyway" or "well, then the beating was in advance for something he is about to do" "or some other hidden sin", instead of a apology.

Which means self fulfilling prophecy. Punishing someome for something they didn't do - and for sure there will be reasons later on for things they will have done.

There are still way too many teachers and alike, who think a childs free spirit needs to be broken first, before they can learn something useful.
I know HN is generally very pro-Stallman on this issue, but I just read the (fully linked and cited) substance[1] of his behavior for the first time.

I'm now fully on-board with his resignation. It would be impossible to be comfortable working with him, especially if you had children. There's no way his presence on any team does not drive people away and tarnish the team's reputation.

1. https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix
It’s funny that most Canadian software companies don’t even offer salaries that meet the median for a “typical home,” which sounds like a small condo for 1 or 2 people. You have to have a dual income to be able to afford the payments, taxes, insurance, and maintenance... and just get by.
The crazy thing is that this is no longer a Toronto/Vancouver thing. It is everywhere in Canada now. Every province, every small town. There is literally no escaping this bubble now and I do not believe it is related to foreign money - this one is home grown and resulting from monetary policy mismanagement. We never took our medicine after 2008 and everyone has been loading up on debt - individuals, companies, and governments. It’s madness and no one can afford altars hikes. Just wait until the bond vigilantes come and make us atone.
> We would rightly locate such a study into, say, 1840, but definitely not 2021.

You give far too little credit to 1840 and far too much to 2021.
Double commander is IMO better then TC (apart from still being buggy). It has better interface for included tools like multi rename and is cross-platform. Since all TC plugins work in it, there is no need to use TC.

I created bunch of chocolatey packages that can be used with both and 2 skins that make them look the same:

- DC: https://chocolatey.org/packages/dcc-unlit

- TC: https://chocolatey.org/packages/tcc-unlit

- DC/TC with bunch of plugins depending on what you have installed (both at the same time work too): https://chocolatey.org/packages/tcp

So, one of those two commands will make you have almost exactly the same experience with 20 or so really useful plugins all installed within minute unattended and with all components updated with single command (the TC one being commercial):

cinst doublecmd tcp
cinst totalcommander tcp

cup all # update TC/DC or any plugin/config any time

There is a micro framework included so anybody can make their own configurations in minutes or publish any type of plugin:

- https://github.com/majkinetor/au-packages/tree/master/tcp
There are definitely accents in English. They are just not written down which makes written English very confusing as nothing written has proper prononciation rules.
"Safety" is a magic abracadabra word, that is used these days to justify anything and everything someone wants to do. I don't blame the guy for quitting - sounds sinister and oppressive.
Yep, so well that after Gaddafi came 7 years of civil war and now the country is fucked. Too many people died with the result that now Libya is destroyed.
> In real estate alone, an estimated $5 billion may have been laundered last year [2018] in the province — equivalent to 4.6 per cent of all transactions by value in that period, according to one of the reports.

> In the Vancouver region, where housing prices rose more than 70 per cent in five years, “I certainly believe that money laundering played a part,” James said.

> Such a share of transactions is “sufficiently large to have an observable impact on real estate prices,” the report said.

> It estimated that dirty money pushed B.C. home prices 3.7 per cent to 7.5 per cent higher than they would be in the absence of laundering.
Suez Canal Blockage
> crypto mining is driving the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables.

Why is waste a good thing if it's renewable? It's the argument I see brought up almost every time. It feels like people are conflating renewable with a infinite energy source.
I would say this is a pretty good run-down - https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix... .
As an engineer (electrical at that), there is no point in doing any math. That thing is dangerous.

Any math to calculate resultant stress is meaningless, because we have no data on how uniformly dense the wood is.

Not to mention it looks flimsy to the point of being cartoonish.
Sorry to have scared you. I don't think pointing out the scientific illiteracy and anti-knowledge in his books is far worse than the books themselves, but YMMV.

I commented on a relevant thread in the hope of saving someone else the time wasted reading them, and if I'm honest, because I'm still salty about the money and time he stole from me.

I criticise it in the same wa as if someone was expounding homeopathy or a fruit-baswd diet for cancer, or horoscope-based hiring.

JavaScript is fine by me.
Oh, one more thing. If you were in charge and your choices were "Start WW3 with tens of millions of US Casualties" or "ignore the fact that the enemy just killed 400,000 people" what the heck would you do?
Nothing special or complicated but always on a quest to improve my code. There are other dice modules out there but fancied having a go at my own
It is generator-specific. Try "Unix Makefiles" vs "Ninja" and you'll see the difference.
In a sense, the aluminum coming from Iceland is like a battery. What is a battery? A way of shifting both the location and the time-of-use of energy.

This is a bad analogy, batteries are energy storage, spending energy is not the same as storing energy.
Toronto isn't exactly a match for Sydney when it comes to climate or scenery though, and while Australian politics has its warts, the mayor of Sydney has yet to be caught on camera smoking crack.
FBI was literally created to track down crimes of an inter-state, national level issue. Such as organized crime, or other crimes that surpass state borders.

If such crimes are already documented as crimes on the federal level, then it'd only require an executive order from the President to get the FBI to start tracking that particular crime down.
Then the argument of "we will just stick the miners in Iceland where renewable energy is cheap" falls apart. If you want to mine where humans are then you need to mine with grid electricity.
TLDR;

- Write it down, put down your plan on paper, do not worry about doing it, just write.

- Keep your phones away at night & don't pick them up until you finish your first habit.

- Stick with the top 2-3 habits, don't add more.

- Instant gratification is important, keep your first habit as simple as watering plants, etc.,

- Just read a page, meditate for 5 minutes, etc., simplify your habit, so you can do it easily.

- Push yourself to the next level every few days.
Both MIT and Harvard have admitted to helping Jeffrey Epstein avoid prosecution on federal racketeering charges for the sex-trafficking of minors after they were exposed by whistle-blowers at both of these institutions.

Not sure why it would be appropriate then to exclude Stallman from serving on the Board of the FSF while allowing Rafael Reif, for example, to remain president of MIT after sending a personally signed "thank-you note" to one of the most notorious alleged sex-traffickers and convicted child-rapists in US history:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2020/01/12/after-epstei...

Nor would it be any more appropriate to allow Mr. Seth Lloyd back onto the MIT campus with just a slap on the wrist:

https://thetech.com/2021/02/25/mit-administration-epstein-op...

Or Mr. Martin "Punishment Serves No Noble Purpose" Nowak for that matter either:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/26/metro/harvard-sanctio...

This hacker news thread on Nowak is worth reading again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25442060

So why has nobody drafted petitions to cancel Rafael Reif, Benedict "Dick" Gross, Alan "Dershbag" Dershowitz, Martin Nowak, Steven Pinker, Seth Lloyd, Neri Oxman, Frank Wilczek, and all of the other pedophilia-supporting two-faced phonies that attended Edge Foundation dinners hosted by the convicted child rapist and/or visited him on "Pedophile Isle," where FBI reportedly found instruction manuals that Mr. Epstein had ordered on Amazon that describe how to create a so-called "sex slave," in addition to video tapes containing child pornography that he allegedly recorded using secret cameras that were installed throughout his various residences?

Ito resigned. Kosslyn has repeatdly resigned as he tried to run with his tail between his legs from one university to the next as soon as he started to feel the heat (thanks to some anonymous emails).

It's time to cancel the rest of them too ... and that now includes Claudine Gay at Harvard and Martin Schmidt at MIT who signed off on allowing Nowak and Lloyd to return to their respective campuses !!!
I think there's a significant difference, yes. But I don't think it comes anywhere close to accounting for all of it.

Also the house in question doubled in value in just the last number of years alone when rates were already basically zero.

Low rates are quite something. My mortgage is fixed at under 3%. As a result I'm actually discouraged from paying off my mortgage because all my index fund investments return way above that.
Finance and consulting.
Intel has one huge advantage tho, OneAPI already supports their existing CPUs and GPUs (Gen9-12 graphics), and it’s already cross platform available on Linux, MacOS and Windows this was the biggest failure of AMD no support for consumer graphics, no support for APUs which means laptops are cut out of the equation and Linux only which limits your commercial deployment to the datacenter and a handful of “nerds”.

The vast majority of CUDA applications don’t need 100’s of HPC cards to execute, consumers want their favorite video or photo editor to work, they want to be able to apply filters to their Zoom calls, students and researchers want to be able to develop and run POCs on their laptops as long as Adobe and the likes adopt OneAPI and as long as Intel will provide a backend for common ML frameworks like Pytorch and TF (which they already do) performance at that point won’t matter as much as you think.

Performance at this scale is a business question if AMD had a decent ecosystem but lacked performance they could’ve priced their cards accordingly and still captured some market share. Their problem was that they couldn’t actually release hardware in time, their shipments were tiny and they didn’t had the software to back it up.

Intel despite all the doom and gloom still ships more chips than AMD and NVIDIA combined if OneAPI is even remotely technically competent and from my very limited experience with it it is looking rather good Intel can offer developers a huge addressable market overnight with a single framework.
"From false premises, anything follows"

"Money too has a structure..."
- Brett Scott

Hear I'm focusing on this undefined, elusive structure that Brett keeps alluding to. Not the superficial description of paper currency or coinage. Being honest, I hardly see a difference from a superficial description of an object and the author's use of structure, but I'll ignore that for now.

What is the structure of love? Of wisdom? Of pride, anger, hatred, or even better, of value?

The reason people/economist focus on the function of money is because that's a wise thing to do given it's immaterial source. Money, is a manifestation of the idea of value.

The fact that people conceptually struggle with it is no more significant than the fact that people struggle with calculus.
They won't have access to stock options if they make a decision to unionize.

It's simple but people seem to be trying to make it seem convoluted to try to maintain confusion to make it look like they have a case to call it a threat. It's ridiculous.

The actual solution in fact is to take the burden off of employers: we need adequate UBI so people don't need to work to survive (including covered healthcare etc), therefore if a company isn't treating or paying their workers adequately for the work at hand then they can simply stop working there - and that is them taking a stand against the company; taking income is also problematic - you're penalizing work getting done, instead a VAT on production is much better method of skimming off some value created to redistribute back into society; feed some of the ROI back into society, fuel the largest cog of capitalism - consumers - via UBI - and the system, society, will thrive.
I've been reading about the impending crash for a decade now. The most that's happened is that the market in Vancouver cooled down with new mortgage rules and regulations on empty homes. However average pricing hasn't really gone down.

I bought a town house in 2015, downtown Vancouver. Within a year it went up 50%. For a bit it was even 75% at the peak of the market pre the new regulations. Depending on the time of year it hovers between those two ends. Since it's downtown I'm not worried about a crash affecting it too much. However a crash would benefit us for selling and moving further out to a detached home where prices tend to fluctuate more.

That said, again, it's been a decade of people talking about the bubble bursting but I don't see what would cause it?

* Vancouver, like San Francisco, is limited in growth by the geography of the area. So it's not like new development will lower the market prices.

* We don't have a mortgage issue like the US did for the 2008 recession. In fact mortgage practices have become even stricter.

* The distance from the distant suburbs of Vancouver to downtown is paltry compared to commute in the Bay Area or LA. There's room to grow out in that direction. The public transit system is also much better than most American places I've been to. So living further isn't as much of a burden.

Point being: yes the market sucks. But I don't see what would cause a crash? Yes it's unaffordable for many. But I don't see that as a metric for a crash either, just a metric for growth outside of the core.
Unless you left out some details, this sounds more like plain UB and buggy c++ code manifesting itself with different symptoms depending on the O level.

This has not as much to do with the loosely coupled build system complexity you have to scaffold in a c++ project, more issues in the core language itself.
Taking Rails to the next level with Hotwire
Near the end of 2020, DHH and the folks at Basecamp released three new tools that, when combined, take Rails to the next level. Collectively they are called Hotwire.
Yes. Energy spent on Bitcoin is energy not spent on something else, even in a world where everything is powered by renewable energy. We do not live in a world where everything is renewable, and renewable energy spent on Bitcoin means whatever non-renewable power is being used elsewhere instead of being eliminated. It is also a myth that renewables have no negative environmental impact: metals have to be mined/smelted/etc., chemicals of various kinds are used, and there is waste from the manufacturing processes. Ideally we would be working towards more efficient technologies that use less energy to accomplish whatever task (and for the most part we have been doing that).
From OC:

> One of my favorite things about crypto is that, every so often, your conception of what it is changes.

Yup. Money is weird.

Measurement of value, accounting of debts, commodity to be collected.

David Graeber's book Debt has a pretty good survey of our evolving, manyform, paradoxical thinking towards money and related metaphors.

As for crypto currency, I mostly agree with Mark Cuban's conclusion they're collectibles. Ergo, they're useful for escrow use cases, like exfiltrating money and swapping assets.

I'll believe crypto currencies are proper money once a government accepts them as payment for taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartalism
If your solution is troublesome in some way (discontinuous, singular), then you can't rely on methods that need it to have derivatives
Sometime, I think that "Proof of Work" is very similar to "Proof of Burn".

Usually in "Proof of Burn" you "burn" some cryptocoin sending it to an invalid address, and the blockchain has a proof that they are unrecoverable. (It was popular before someone notice that with an ICO you can have your cake and eat it too.)

In "Proof of Work" you "burn" a few barrels or petrol to produce electricity and then make some hash with the electricity, so if you find the correct hash it is a probabilistic proof that you burned the petrol. (You can cheat with other source of energy, like solar or wind, but they also have a cost.)
Sounds familiar and seems to come down to a shortage of housing built in desirable places all over the world. The sad thing is that even while investors are getting rich of these artificially rare commodities cities don't significantly build more and higher etc. Spreading out is a way around this, but the increased concentration of cities still seems valuable to me and most people, otherwise prices would drop, so it's not a real solution.
You're arguing theory and not what's happening in the real world. As an example, your cite says that rail has a theoretic density of 60-90 thousand an hour. But in my city we're spending several billion dollars to build a new rail line that is expected to carry 20,000 people a day.

Theory and practice are different. And in most places in the US your theory doesn't translate into practice.
Yes, because those renewables could be powering people's homes and productive equipment, or powering conventional payment systems with plenty capacity left over. It's not necessarily a deal-breaker, but plenty of crypto exists that doesn't need this much power.
A new model for faster-than-light travel that uses conventional physics
Jdk 16. It has 95% of the features of your favorite functional language (particularly the ML family) but the IDE works, the debugger works, the sort() function works, the memory allocator goes out to lunch less, etc.

Learn to write 'single file' Java with high order functions and you won't be pining away for new shiny 732.
That estimated cost calculation is wrong, or complete misunderstanding.

$400 million per hour is the estimated value of goods going trough. The value of goods don't go to zero if they can't pass the canal.

Allianz has made an actual estimate of the cost $6-10 billion per week.
Which is exactly the advantage Intel has over AMD, they aren’t locked to Linux only and they support iGPUs, ROCm is essentially an extension of the Linux display driver stack at this point and barely supports any consumer hardware and most importantly APUs.

I would really want to be able to find the people at AMD who are responsible for the ROCm roadmap and ask them WTF were they thinking...
That may happen in many companies, but I'd be very surprised if it happens with remarketing ads and Amazon? Performance-based advertising with solid experiments that appropriately consider both counterfactuals and long-term user value is one of their core strengths.
Yes, gas is its own unit paid in the native token of the blockchain.

The adjective is necessary as other EVMs are proliferating and in heavy use.

But even without that I dont think there is a distinction big enough to worry about it. There are 1 billion gwei in 1 ether, we can go from there and get the same results.
Transaction fees are not just proportional to usage. They are a price set by demand (usage) and supply (block space).

Currently Bitcoin limiting the block size to 1MB is artificially lowering supply.

Recently, Bitcoin Cash has surpassed Bitcoin in transactions per day: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-bch.ht...

Their blocks are larger, so there is more room for transactions, so miners are not so well rewarded, so they can afford to waste less electricity in total.

Of course, this reduced waste implies reduced security (instead of securing >$700k/h, it's "only" $8.5k/h - https://www.crypto51.app/).
This seems to be one specific category of lying detection (new training data with no prior training).

This article doesn't seem to discuss machine learning techniques. For example what if we could have someone talk about "nothing" for x hours for a training set, then interrogate them. That's essentially what lie detection machines do when they ask a series of baseline questions. But heart rate is the only input feature they use. We could use word frequency, spoken word speed, sentence patterns, and all the rich feature sets of ML.

For those who have watched the popularity of deception games like Among Us, Secret Hitler, Werewolf, etc, there are verbal and non-verbal cues we all use. And playing with the same players iteratively yields a lot of meta sussing.
For example: "You sound guilty because you're usually calm when you're guilty and accused of being imposter. Right now you're excitedly defending yourself"
I don't understand how that follows from the parent comment?

The comment rightfully points out that in the US people are mostly classified by their superficial looks vs their actual ethnicity.

Which leads to the situation that quite a diverse field of ethnicities and cultures are boiled down to very generalized "white/black/yellow/whatever" groups.

Case in point: The recent shooting in a Colorado grocery store was, rather quickly, tried to be framed as "white extremism" due to skin color of the perpetrator and footage of his arrest going public.

When said perpetrator is actually a Syrian who became a naturalized US citizen by the name of "Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, of Arvada", which is about the least "white" name one could come up with.

Or for another example: The Nazis are regularly evoked as an example of racism and white supremacy, when the vast majority of people killed by the Nazis were actually "white", just not the right kind of "white".

That's why in Europe racism often isn't based on color of skin, but rather on accents, ethnic looks and family names, as skin color alone is not enough to differentiate the out-group from the rest: A white British person is just as white as a white Polish person, yet that doesn't mean that the two of them will consider themselves as part of the same ethnic or cultural group.

That idea only exists in the heads of people who evoke some allegedly unified "European culture" to stipulate that Europe is "racially homogeneous" because it's only made up of "white people".
Where are you seeing the price? I don't see it on the website. Are you sure?