skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this emphasis on identity politics will be self-defeating in the long term.

Humans are inherently tribal in nature. I don’t see that ever changing. We can mitigate the issues caused by this by emphasizing that we all belong to a bigger tribe than our race/ethnicity. For example by emphasizing we are all Americans or French or even Humans, and as members of this one big tribe, we should be good to each other.

However, what we are doing is instead emphasizing tribal identity, and even setting up an adversarial relationship between racial/ethnic tribes. This breeds tribal animosity.

If you look at Martin Luther King, Jr, a lot of his appeals to white people were based on “We are all Americans, and this is not how you are supposed to be treating fellow Americans, or we are all Christians, and this is now how we are supposed to be treating fellow Christians” and appealed to shared documents and values (such as the Declaration of Independence, the Bible) etc.

Now there is less emphasis of being part of a larger tribe, less emphasis on shared documents and values.

As a person of color, I worry that the coming blowback to this will end us up in a worse place that we are now.
> Tear down an existing city and just rebuild it perfectly with infrastructure and city planning.

Lol what? We warn against big-bang software rewrites because shit always goes wrong. But you're confident rebuilding a city perfectly is no big deal?
Unless I'm misunderstanding, the host's DNA is not changed during this process. When I think of genetic engineering, I think of "changing the host's genome". What does genetic engineering mean to you?
I guess they would say that, right?
“identity politics” are older than the US, not a creation of US intelligence agencies.

I think someone got carried away by the recent mention of Gloria Steinem’s relationship to the CIA.
The same time you can trust any company: never. Representative democracy isn't perfect but at least I get a vote. How many people get to vote on workplace decisions of any consequence?
I prefaced it with "Whether you like it or not", because what you think doesn't matter, you don't get to tell people what has value and what doesn't, the market decides and there's currently a market with billions of dollars in volume across many different exchanges that decides the value. You think it's a worthless tulip? Great, go and short it.

I'm not sure what you mean by the 2nd paragraph, are you saying if all money was bitcoin, we'd only spend energy to secure that and we wouldn't do nothing else? That wouldn't make sense right? If all money was Bitcoin, there wouldn't be as much upside to it, because it will have already won, so you'd need to do other economic activities which will grow faster than that.
Thanks! Runequest would be nice
>I seem to remember that Magic Carpet was a massive hardware hog

I'm not sure about that. A quick search shows that the (on the box) requirements were 33mhz 486, which seems to have been fairly reasonable for the time.
This doesn't ring quite true, surely there would be a market for a high res service, but I don't see any marketing or advertising about that...
Java gets a bad rap from people that used it late 90's through early 2000's and got burned out by XML and design pattern heavy frameworks but its a lovely language that with a little discipline can be used to create very lean looking code.

Go is one of the HN darling languages and I work in Go everyday for work (and generally like it), but I really wish I could reach for Java most days.
You don’t become a leader in this industry by being naive. HN readers are being naive believing that TSMC really meant what they said. Anyone with a brain knows that the US wants to reduce reliance on TSMC
Yep. Plenty of controversy surrounding it, and I knew that coming in as a student. The reality is, is that I had a really good experience during the first month of the school (the "free-trial" period, where you can back out of your ISA if you want) and decided to stick with it.
Residential towers are bad but so is sprawl? For cities with large populations, is there a third way?
Moderna and Pfizer seem to be nearly bit-for-bit identical at the mRNA level, though Moderna seems to have stabilized the mRNA better to be viable at higher temperatures.

J&J appears to be slightly less effective with its one dose, but would probably be just as effective as Moderna and Pfizer (if not more) if a second dose were given. J&J simply doesn't need the second dose because 75+% is still considered extremely good.

Even though J&J isn't considered one of the "mRNA vaccines", it still functions similarly to the mRNA vaccines. Their adenovirus carries the mRNA, allowing it to be remain stable in your body for longer, building strong immunity from 1 dose.
We're good. RMS is a total hot button. I'm also not well informed and coming at it from curiosity, if a bit inarticulate and missing context.
What about ecological impact of fiat currency/current state capitalism? Why not compare that with ecological impact of bitcoin?
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So the solution is posting a carbon copy of the same article to HN every other day?
Agreed, this should be brought up constantly. If there’s one good thing about the internet, it’s that it is able to highlight important issues and use that attention to make changes.
> Anecdotal story: I had a bug a few weeks ago that all sorts of people thought was really dumb / obvious / shouldn't have happened. I checked... the code hadn't been changed for FIVE YEARS. Nearly every customer we had ran this code for five years. Maybe I feel that they should have had a catch for the situation that occurred, but whomever wrote it wrote code that lasted bug free for five years ... maybe they weren't dumb and they knew something I didn't?

I've seen this. Huge big O complexity but on a dataset that fits in cache? Runs fine. As soon as the dataset gets bigger, you get systematic timeouts.
I’m seeing a lot of similar concerns in the comments so I just want to post this video from Vox. They did a great job explaining this issue.

Effectiveness doesn’t really mean much between approved vaccines in the US. Please watch this video:
https://youtu.be/K3odScka55A

From what we know so far, any of the approved vaccines are excellent and no one knows for sure if one is better than the other. The only logical thing to do is get what is offered to you as soon as possible.

That being said, this is excellent news that Pfizer is protective against the SA Variant. Not trying to minimize that news, just point out that it still is better to just get whatever approved vaccine you can.
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We just raised our Seed and are very excited to bring on some key hires to take Kensho to the next level.
We, as founders, are technical enough to know what we want but not enough to do it ourselves.
The existing product features and platform are functioning, but greenfield opportunity to evolve/build/expand/replace what already exists.
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Sassy, the Audio Spreadsheet, 1.0 beta trailer
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When I mentioned my concern with the energy bitcoin uses someones response was that it is less than the banking industry. It didn't pass the sniff test but I honestly didn't know once you included all the overhead real banks have. I thought it was a interesting perspective.
Not much energy is required for a transaction, but the network of legitimate miners has to have more hash power than any attacker. Once the block reward gets tiny, the profit will come from transaction fees. So it will depend on whether the users collectively get enough benefit to pay the miners. If the attackers get more hash power, the blockchain will lose legitimacy as the source of truth and the whole thing will collapse.
I believe the argument they were making was about the electricity cost of securing it if all money was in bitcoin. At the current energy requirements (which are escalating per transaction), it would take more than the entire energy production of the world to make bitcoin the sole currency.
You're completely ignoring layer 2 and other off-chain places where you can exchange Bitcoin. For example, while a transaction on-chain might move only 1 Bitcoin, it's very much possible that that Bitcoin has changed hands millions of times in another layer.
Singling out Bitcoin for a problem inherent to all underpriced energy usage won't lead to a coherent framework for addressing GHG emissions.
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Sassy, the Audio Spreadsheet
You can be adjacent to the special interest and have a genuine, good faith interest in the discussion, and in the interest of inclusivity, should not be turned away.

Maybe you’re role is to listen more than share your own experiences, but you shouldn’t be turned away.
> Feels like this person is very frustrated with novice engineers writing buggy code and has assumed a gatekeeper role to protect the integrity of the codebases in which he holds responsibility.

I wonder what his recruitment pipeline looks like where 80% of engineers end up not being productive.

Sounds like he's hiring wrong to begin with.
Why is there even a problem? Everyone needs a thneed.
It's a fun timeline when, compared to the perceived US mainstream politics, even the french socialists seem right wing. Obviously this has to be insta-flagged, can't let the narrative fall apart.
Yeah. It's not just supply chain, it's also national security.

> I think the leadership at TSMC is being a little naive. Alternatively, they may know very well what's going on here and they are being willfully obtuse to paint as bright a picture as possible of their long-term prospects.

It could be two things:

1. Some arrogance, "hah, this is harder than you think"

2. They're trying to discourage the competition because they know it will hurt their bottom line.

Even if they only lost 10% of their revenue, that can still hurt a lot. They could go from being a growing business to stagnating or shrinking.
Ignition Gazebo Edifice Release – Robot Simulation Platform
What makes you think bribes don't exist in India? They have lobbying too, and illegal bribes are also all too common.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
I am unreasonably excited by Loom, for two reasons:

1. I cannot wrap my head around library-based reactive systems. I have tried and tried and continue to try. But they're like some of the original Go4 design patterns: they exist to solve the language, not the problem. Loom's promise to make steam-powered linear code behave mostly like a fully-dressed reactive library system is extremely welcome.

2. Structured concurrency. Among the entries on the thick tablet of hatreds of Golang that I carry upon my heart, mystery action at a distance due to go(to) routines appears infrequently but painfully. Like so many Go features they conspire against composability and testability. Structured concurrency looks like an escape from the madness. Please let it be true.
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I disagree. I think it's a good way to illustrate the bullshit that needs to be curated from some of the armchair expert answers here on a constant basis.

People can grow thicker skin and not let a slighly snarky argument undermine a valid discussion. This isn't reddit, there's no reason for the hivemind mentality here. I come here to see discussions around the substance of the content and not ridiculous semantic disputes or someone flexing their "iamverysmart" muscle
My knowledge about networking is fairly limited, but from a consumer perspective it works really well with seamless roaming, especially compared to old wifi repeaters. The Orbi system uses a dedicated backhaul to connect the nodes. Since by parents' old house doesn't really allow installing network cables, this seemed like a good solution.

In my home, I'm using a wired backhaul, which is the prefered option if possible. My only critisism is that the Orbi Wifi 6 system is quite expensive and there probably exist cheaper options to achieve the same.
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TSMC is probably completely accurate. Their contention is that moving the supply chain would create "non-profitable capacity". However, national supplies do not need to be profitable if they are subsidized or fully funded by a state.

The state is free to, and often does, engage in non-profitable production to ensure essential domestic needs can be satisfied.

This doesn't make sense from a market perspective, but it can often make sense from a needs based perspective.
Is it in the realm of possibilities that Java will someday have runtime generics support (instead of type erasure)? It's the most frustrating aspect of the language because you can't use basic Java features like method overloading with them. Also, I don't understand how people use the `Optional
<ErasedType>`..? Is there a way to use method overloading with it? `ErasedType` could be _anything_ at runtime, doesn't sound fun. Besides all references types are already nullable/(optional)...
so what's the point?
You can also get censured by your state/local GOP. See https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/06/liz-cheney-c...
A pretty key element of the entire Cold War was US intelligence agencies pushing racial, ethnic, national, religious, and other identity politics — and pushing groups embracing them to violent extremism — as a tool against Communism and Soviet-aligned regimes.

Of course, another big part of that was the USSR doing to the same thing against western capitalism and US-aligned regimes.
My understanding is that they are hard to extract economically without destroying the environment. Also I believe more come from Brazil now anyways?
A lot of people have made connections between the office of strategic operations and the Frankfurt school of sociology.

A lot of reading material down that rabbit hole. Very interesting.
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That's the advice I've given: No equity? Chose the tech stack of the next place you want to work at and leave after 2 years.
Please see https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons

If Bitcoin were a country, on its own, it'd be ranked 27th in the world on energy consumption. Looking at the chart there it very clearly uses as much energy as several countries (say: New Zealand, Hungary, and Peru) put together.
I still think the best keyboard smartphone were my BlackBerries, and I still miss typing on a HW keyboards.
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for B2B/Enterprise, investors or board members can usually open some doors
Perl had Mojolicious which was almost as good as Rails and a lumbering beast called Catalyst which was used at the BBC.
You Can't Eat a Bitcoin
The person that asked me that question was proposing that the banking industry with all the overhead of Brick&Mortar banks was far more wasteful than bitcoin. Doesn't seem bitcoin makes B&M go away though.
Do most users block images? I doubt it (but I have no data). I'd assume that most users use web clients, and very few if any web clients block images by default.
> the vaccines provide little protection against an upper respiratory tract infection

They prevent symptomatic covid infection which includes respiratory symptoms.
We could have called them the Boris, Merkel, and Trump vaccines ...
How do you support the transfer of ownership of NFT?
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