skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm playing devils advocate here.

So you have a long term otherwise great user who contributes positively who has a strong opinion on a political issue that you don't want all over your forum for or against. People tend to flag it for you but its not controversial enough to fall in a hail of flags. Keeping it flagged fortunately takes a relatively small effort saving mod effort.

You introduce vouch for flagged stories. Now your user vouches for absolutely EVERYTHING on his side of an issue and his opposite number vouches for everything on the other side.

Content that isn't low quality and resonates with a good number of people is likely to attract votes even if its off topic and ultimately not desired on that forum and direct and constant mod effort is now required to keep it off because super upvotes now counter super down votes. Welcome to your new political forum.
My manager drove out to Yakima. While they don't enforce eligibility, I still think it's immoral to try to get a shot when you aren't eligible.
Now I want an Actually Portable Executable that runs on modern machines and the 8080 as well, perhaps with translation.
Tailscale should (indirectly) with 3rd party Google/Okta/Etc auth.
> Grid is not the successor to flexbox.

Yes, it literally is. Grid came after flexbox in W3C drafts, in W3C recommendations, in broad browser support, and in widespread use. Several years ago, flexbox was being used widely while grid support was nonexistent, and today grid is still lagging behind flexbox a little.

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-grid-1/

https://caniuse.com/?search=grid

https://caniuse.com/?search=flexbox
Having worked at a company that restructured every 6 months, that shit is so exhausting.
Yes, of course. The only excuse the world government has for not banning them is that it doesn't exist. Actual governments have no excuse for permitting advertising as it currently exists.
Since cloud servers are a bigger market than users who want to run an old copy of VisiCalc

Imagine if your VMs, which are being used to run old software, can't be used on cloud servers due to this feature absence. Virtualisation is used extensively for this purpose. The cloud providers certainly wouldn't like that.
Oh "flagging".

So the community is just toxic because its members are shitheads, and not the mods?
I don’t know how you do this, dang, but I certainly wish I had your level of chill.
Depends on the stock based compensation; some of them will be adjusted for dividends paid during vesting, and some won't.
Is this what you wish?

['10', '10', '10'].map(parseInt) === [10, NaN, 2]
> I go out of my way to try to understand what conservative punditry has to say on a given subject.

> Contrast with the GOP, whom with very few exceptions has fully signed on with Trumpism & embraced the sort of ignorant, economically illiterate and frankly insane beliefs that entails. Maybe it's survivorship bias, because anyone with a principled conservative bone in their body has already distanced themselves from the GOP over the last 4 years.

Guess you need to try harder, because you couldn't be more wrong. We are definitely watching two different movies. Also, saying Trump was right about something isn't anything close to being a MAGA people. That thinking is precisely the problem.
I stood in one of those Oakland lines myself and what I saw sickened me, so I left. I had taken a day off (long planned) and decided to check out a line around a mosque, asked an organizer what was going on, and sat myself in the line. I saw people rushing into line. Many of them called their friends or sent status updates on their phones and their friends joined them in line. Almost everyone in that line _was not_ from the neighborhood. As I saw people chit chatting about their work from home life, I started feeling a bit queasy. When the organizers started mentioning that doses might be out, people started getting angry, which made me even more disturbed. When I saw someone kick over a candle on the sidewalk that was on a person's memorial, I just had the last straw. I left. It wasn't my place to get a vaccine, I was not from this zip code.

What's funny is that friends of mine who were okay with that waited for hours and hours (up to 8 for some) to get their vaccine. I got mine 2 weeks later in my car, and was in and out within 30 minutes. The mania seemed so stupid and gross in hindsight, but I think some of my friends at least regretted it.
By saying half the market would die die you mean GDP would have been cut in half without a bailout in 2008?
It was malware back then, too.
your experience is literally in the most HCOL city in the United States.
Nope, the comment about Ikea is unrelated. Ikea is privately-owned, and my guess is that they just don't want to do online...some privately-owned companies are like that.

The point about exec comp is what I have seen at other publicly-listed physical retailers (i.e. dead format, competitors eating their lunch but they keep opening stores because the comp committee wants EPS growth).
Grocery stores operate with razor thin margins of 2%. Pickup is more labor intensive and hastily scaled up COVID-19 pickup runs at a -5% profit. It’s better than no sales but is inherently a luxury service in a market with customers who are not willing to pay extra. Even Whole Foods had to find an exit as mainstream and discount grocers started grabbing organic market share.
Thank you! I now know what this phenomenon is called. I went through "diversity training" when I worked at a university, and was appalled at the presentation. The Kafkatrap was _exactly_ the trick used throughout the entire "Q&A". It was so insidious, bit I didn't have a name for it -- now I do.
I was so surprised at this Latinx controversy because I learned it from a Venezuelan refugee (to the US) about 8 years ago. I didn't hear it from some "woke" white person. It's wild that it turned into a big internet controversy.
Oh, so basically you don't even know what the fuck is going on?

Can some benevolent, real "Hacker" please delete this shithole website from the internet?
I don't think identity politics is really the problem. That's not synonymous with wanting representation. And BLM isn't political. It's just acknowledging that black lives matter. It becomes political when a political party makes a point of not refusing to say it.
Don't you find it suspicious that BlockFi can offer such an incredible yield?
It's hard to say you're being oppressed when bags of money are being tossed at you.
>To be fair, they’ve been paying ~ 2% dividend yield that whole time.

If you check the total return price, they're actually doing better than the s&p 500.

total return for walmart: 223% (https://ycharts.com/companies/WMT/total_return_price)

total return for S&P 500: 221% (https://ycharts.com/companies/SPY/total_return_price)
Federal Judge Lifts AR-15 Ban in California [pdf]
Yeah, I’m not gonna get particularly upset about either side doing something wrong at a time when there was a lot of confusion, lot of pressure, and frankly the correct moral decision isn’t all that clear.

But that swings both ways, and it does not speak well that 1 side was penalized so heavily for it, irrespective of whether they were in the right or wrong.

Of course, it’s even more egregious coming on the heels of a Ycombinator founder defending someone who did far far worse.
- Low liquidity on exchanges for privacy coins, meaning if you order 5m Monero it drastically increases the price

- FSPs may question and refuse to facilitate a Monero purchase due to its niche usage

- Major exchanges don't list XMR and you want as few hoops as possible to allow the victim to pay, can easily just switch your btc for XMR later, that's fairly simple on a decentralized exchange or a shady offshore one.
You still very well may be. "I was right that once." isn't hard or terribly meaningful.
The price tag will give it away for sure.
The parent comment was made specifically about HN being a bastion of free speech.

Bringing up China/Tank Man/Bing is spurious in that context.
High school is too old to learn computer science? I don't follow your logic of why it would be a good thing to convince high school kids that they shouldn't learn computer science.
That just means markets need corrections, not that there is an alternative. Exchange of goods is going to take place regardless. You can have the government control all economic activity outside the black market, but that leads to for worse outcomes which only benefits the party elite.
Maybe because it's not allowed to be discussed openly. My company has absolutely let rip on political discussions and it's been pretty healthy. Nobody doesn't want diversity. It's purely a question of what we do about it.
> 2) They've obviously carefully tuned their check out staffing so that the lines are always long. This is such a constant that it has to be intentional, and they're doing a good job of it.

They're also the only store I know of that shuts down their checkouts at closing time; if you were already in line, too bad, they'll check you out tomorrow. (Of course, a lot of their stores are 24x7)
> Their stock assortment isn’t bad compared to the competition. In fact, aside from Whole Foods on the organic/bio side of things, they measure up very well and better compared to their competition.

Where I live (a decent sized metro), their stock collection beats all other retail stores in the area. They'll often have SKUs for products I can't find anywhere else. As an example, I have a spray carpet cleaner from what is likely the best selling brand in the country. When it runs out, I want to get a solution refill, not buy a whole new spray. Walmart is the only general purpose store in the city that carries it. All other stores carry just the spray version, which costs about double. Target used to be my go-to place for this kind of stuff, but even they've stopped carrying it.

Their fresh produce sucks, but for everything else, they often have good selection and quality. And with good prices. A few other examples:

- OTC Medicine/supplements: If you're trying to get one of the well known "alternative" brands (e.g. vegetarian tablets), their prices are much cheaper - perhaps half of that in any other local store.

- Perfumes: It's the same perfume as you'd get at Macy's, Nordstrom, etc, but usually at 20-50% off their prices. Reason? They source these perfumes from the Asian market. Perfume manufacturers cannot sell in Asia at the prices they charge in the US, so they sell it cheaper there (again, from all my research, it's the same perfume - not a lower quality one). So Walmart simply "imports" them back in from Asia.

I rarely shop at Wal-mart. It's not near me, and I go there only when I simply can't find what I need at another local store. It certainly has its down sides and legitimate criticisms, but I've begun to appreciate the positives to it.
The real question is this: how did a dirty cop get a Supreme Court hearing? Who paid for that?
Guess what? It can happen to you, too, if you dare criticize a celebrity CEO. I got flagged & chastised for “breaking the guidelines” over a comment that stated facts about a certain CEO whose initials are TK.

Remember when y’all kept saying there’s no free speech on Facebook or Twitter? Well, it’s worse here, because if you don’t toe that line and bend the knee, you might get your user privileges limited.

Edit: here it is. +3 points and flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26914977

Edit 2: and here's the dressing down I got:

> Regardless of how wrong or badly-behaved other people (be they HN users, celebrity CEOs, or imperialist bullies) are or you feel they are, you owe this community better if you're participating in it. Other people doing bad things is a poor non-excuse for setting this place on fire.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26938019

See? Don't criticize "celebrity CEOs," folks. You're breaking the code, and the insiders will circle the wagons if you do.

BTW, "Boober" is a direct quote said directly to a GQ reporter: https://www.gq.com/story/uber-cab-confessions
I'm no CPU designer, but I seem to remember that Intel took the crown back from AMD with the Core 2 Duo. IIRC, that involved going back to an older design and going down a different path.

If Itanium was just ahead of its time, Intel could always try again. ARM and RISC-V are getting a lot of attention these days. Mill seems to be missing the window of opportunity. 2-nm fab seems like a fantasy. Announcing the new Gadolinium processor family wouldn't be a complete cringe.

Or... maybe it really isn't the way forward.
What about the airplane given in the original example, the F-100, whose design predated the integrated circuit by something like a decade? Presumably control software improves stability, but otherwise the aircraft behaves in a predictable manner above and below Mach 1 as supersonic control software is a relatively recent addition.
With trades being commission-free these days, that benefit is negligible. Even with $10 trades (the usual price before commission free trades), and you withdrawing $20k from your retirement account annually, once a month, that works out to a drag of 0.6%. OTOH there's a very real downside to getting paid dividends (and incurring a taxable event) when your income is high (eg. making 400k bay area salary. If it was poured into the stock price instead, you could wait until you retire and get taxed on a lower marginal rate.
The top talent they hire, quit within 2 years leaving behind the terrible engineers. Last I heard, the tried to build an A/B testing infrastructure that somehow managed to count clicks backwards. They tried to build an in house cloud platform too and failed miserably.
We do. The entire security industry is built around the NIST framework.

If you want more explicit guidance, IRS Pub 1075, DoD STIGs and other guides will literally tell you exactly what to do.

Egregious failure is always driven by lack of funding and/or motivation. Other failures are usually a result of a lack of defense in depth or compensating controls that missed something.
"as a person who thinks for themselves" that what we all think.
That would be quite a wide net and quite the "fishing expedition" and why the FBI has earned itself a bad rep (in addition to things like getting people on unrelated charges like "lying" while they are free to make things up.
Almost correct- they get the curbside dropoff and never leave their car. At least, this is what the high (~5MM) net worth family I know does.
We know China has an army of net monitors. Ya gotta wonder if now a gang is poring over HN pages like this one, trying to match HN aliases to people IRL so they know to whom to deny visas. Hello there, monitors! Pls don't get me barred from future entry.
They don't ask for proof of poverty at a food bank either. And "Am I eligible here" could be seen about specifically asking about age/preconditions eligibility.

In fact, that whole conversation could have been changed trivially to picking up free food at a food bank and would not have looked out of place.

As for "if you're offered a vaccine take it", I don't think that applies to "I can go somewhere to get offered the vaccine." If there was a 4 hour wait, then it's not like they had spares lying around. If you had driven to a rural site where they have to thaw 6 doses for 3 people that would have been a different story.
>most racists are extremely poor and rural with no power

[[Citation Needed]]

The rural poor have plenty of power on both a federal level (each California House representative is responsible for 65 times as many people as each North Dakota representative; numbers are similar for Wyoming, Montana, and plenty of other rural areas) and state levels (thanks to the magic of gerrymandering.

There are all sorts of racist rich people. I grew up in a well off suburb in Michigan that was significantly more than 90% white (though adjacent to a more diverse larger city) and full of overt racism, to say nothing of the more subtle forms.
Thanks for your share
I would argue the author is not really saying "old" is "bad", but instead that we have been piling more and more craft onto the old so it has now become a significant engineering exercise to work around the idiosyncrasies of the old system every time you want to do something else.
To use your wheel analogy. It's sort of like starting with the wheel of horse cart and adding bits and pieces to that same wheel to make it somehow work as the landing gear wheel for a jumbo jet. At some point it might be a good idea to simply design a new wheel.
https://couponswa.com/stores/nordstrom-coupons/
Yes, Bonzi Buddy would pronounce "scrotum" as "scrah-tum", which was endlessly hilarious.
There's something to #6. I agree it's pronounced at Walmarts. I've observed the same lack of sensitivity when going to a Costco in a poor side of town vs a more well to do, I've used that repeated experience as an Apples to Apples comparison. The shoppers in the poorer part demonstrate poor personal spatial habits and being oblivious to blocking others or other actions that demonstrate blinders and indifference to being in the presence of other people and general shopping etiquette. Blocking products, aisles, not yielding enough space, not making eye contact when you're about to intersect paths. It's nothing super egregious and extreme but it's noticeable, and I'm sure probably measurable too if one had a body cam and documented situation A vs B over a several trips and itemized all the strange encounters.

If I'm at a Whole Foods, the sensitivity is way at the other extreme of politeness. I wonder if anyone's ever went deep on an analysis of this sort of phenomenon.
To be clear, I am by no means a market-maximalist. I'm claiming that markets are an extremely effective way to govern the production of goods and the allocation of labor, compared to their alternatives. Further, I'm claiming that any sweeping claim that "markets" as a concept are bad is uninformed and patently wrong.

With that said, we have different tools for different scenarios. In 2020, we used the "national funding, mobilization, and redistribution" tool to combat COVID and I think that was probably smart. Doing so necessarily wasted a lot of money (through graft, incompetent capital allocation, ec.). But optimal capital allocation was not the most important thing last year. We wanted safety! State intervention wins here!

With respect to other market instabilities, well, it gets complex. 2008 was a mess of government, quasi-government, and private market behaviors all in a toxic dance.

In any case, most markets most of the time absolutely do not require the government to step in. The economy is breathtakingly large. I mean, just really, truly stupendously massive. I hear "capitalism is bad" and "markets are toxic" claims a lot, but I've never heard a viable proposal that could realistically function as effectively as a predominantly market system.

Also, I'm not claiming that our current markets are perfect. Certainly they are not. It's clear that there are huge issues in a significant number of industries (hospitals, housing, and education are all suffering from cost disease).

We can (should!) take a crack at fixing the issues we have. Most of those fixes will come bottoms-up through creative-disruption, and some will come tops-down through policy and regulation.

It's important to look at these things as tools in a toolbox, not totalitarian dogma in an ideology.
Seems at odds with someone giving now and planning to give his fortune to charity

Why specifically wouldn’t it be good intentions
They’re paying a mean of $15 an hour. That’s quite different from a minimum of $15 an hour.

Walmart jobs in my fairly HCOL area still start at $12 an hour.
Of course research at some point involves the economy and therefore the economic system that happens to be dominant. Most countries have little use for Dollars by the way, preferring their own currencies.
‘Greenway Stimulus’ Could Bring Boom in Bike and Walking Trails
Glad it was "taken advantage of", racism has no place here. Disgusting that people think this is ok.
You have my gratitude for this comment. I don't take it as ad hominem at all but rather excellent challenges and realities that move the conversation forward. These are good examples of the privilege I mentioned and I appreciate them being raised.

I agree that there is a long way to go before pervasive feelings of safety will exist. You also seem right that the transition, if we choose it, will more positively be consensual and gradual. This conversation seems to be often spoken of with binary models. Further, the preference clusters are implied to be in opposition so I hoped to offer a counter to that in case it might have a positive effect over the long term.
A square mile is pretty big, especially for an artificial island. It’s 640 acres (or something like 2,400 suburban homes).

Sure it’s not the size of Japan or something, but it’s not tiny.
People, mainly in Asia, use tether where trading crypto with fiat currencies is either prohibited or very difficult, whereas it remains marginal in markets such as the United States.

I.e places with exchanges that don’t have good fiat rails for various reasons.

https://www.cryptovantage.com/news/why-is-tether-so-popular-...

I assume these people don’t stay in tether long, they just use it like a checking account when they cash in and out of positions.

I also assume that if tether went away tomorrow, people would either use another stablecoin like USDC and if all stablecoins went away, they would just trade in and out of btc.
yep, I've shifted buying such locked up things online for in store pickup. It was totally annoying to have such a drag on time buzzing someone repeatedly to come and unlock. They should actually post a notice on the locked cabinets saying, "avoid the wait, order these products online for instore pickup"
Two Nevada Men Ordered to Stop Selling Bottled Waters Linked to Hepatitis
I read it and thought somehow League of Legends was part of YC.
I also got thrown out of yc. It was after demo day. My co-founders blamed me for our initial anemic raise and threw me out. Because this was in-between demo day and official yc graduation, I'm no longer part of the yc network. I've done pretty well since then, but still it sucks to be divorced from an organization I once respected, and then loved.
What did people use to spin up servers quickly before modern DevOps?
I can't imagine installing every software needed to run your app manually on every machine or at least in professional setting.

How did people spin up new servers with exact configuration before say chef (obv docker)?

I'd imagine people wrote shell scripts and ran them which has all commands to install and configure environment, right?
I’m sorry, but, we’d be foolish to discard anything and everything that we can’t quantify due to complexity or a lack of understanding of what specifically to consider.

Does this mean we should move into decision making based on a kooks worship of a sun god? Absolutely not.

But it’s incredibly uncharitable to imply that one of the most influential anthropologists of recent history is somehow unreasonable.

We should absolutely rely on quantification where we are able, but members of this community of all people should be able to recognize that we’re still early in the iterations and in our abilities to measure all of life’s chaos and complexities accurately.

Again, i’m very much so not advocating that the itch you just had in your nose means someone is talking about you and i’m definitely not advocating that the tingle you felt run up your spine was a ghost. But we would be absolutely crazy to believe that we can accurately measure most of the complexities that are humanity’s issues.

I’m not a luddite. I firmly believe that technology and science are the best way to make decisions and carry us forward. But let’s not delude ourselves to the current limits of our abilities.

Some of our smartest people understand humans the least–and we’d be fools to forget this basic fact.
The global 1% are people with about $900k in wealth.