skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is sad that we need to make rules like "do not be a jerk", but sometime ago I was disillusioned from the idea that such rules are self-evident.

It's not about the _rule_ being non-self-evident, it's about enforcement being uneven. Most humans will tend to perceive lower negativity and rule-breaking behavior in viewpoints they agree with than in viewpoints they don't. A formal statement of rules allows a community to try to do away with this bias. A documented set of rules also allows a community to reflect on their own norms and allows them to make changes to their norms as the viewpoints of the community change.
I am using matt's own words, didn't realize that was belittling someone
I don't think that's true about SSL/TLS. SSLv2, the Netscape protocol, was a shitshow, but SSL3, its successor and the basis for TLS, has Paul Kocher's name on the RFC. The mixed MD5/SHA1 construction is apparently Kocher's doing.
I know this is another, back in my day story but I think it is relevant. Back in the early 2000's when I wasn't even 10 my parents sent me to spend a week or two with my grandparents who owned 40 acres up in the pacific northwest. The biggest adaptation for me was after breakfast Grandma told us to go outside and that we weren't allowed back in until the temperature had hit 100. It was a little bit uggh for the time, but we had a blast running around, slipping through fences, playing in the barn and a ditch.

Good times, everyone should get shipped off to 40 acres and told not to come in until the temperature hits 100 at least once in their childhood.
> moving things around in a way which doesn't preserve history is a dumb idea

I don’t disagree with you but you can’t prevent it.
But does it Save The Nature?
Your skepticism is well founded given the lack of details. I on the other hand, instantly had the opposite reaction when I first read the claim earlier today.

It stirred up memories of recent speculative manias like sports cards, D&D cards, Pogs, etc selling for ridiculous sums of money. 11 month wait times for grading of cards.

Yeezyzs and sneakers are now bonafide asset classes to many people?

Housing prices in my country were supposed to be stable or maybe even set for a correction and they are up 20-30-40% in different places.

Used Cars are not really in the speculative, but the prices behind them have led to Runs on certain new cars. I recently had an acquaintance of mine purchase a brand new Rav4 hybrid at an "insiders" price from a friend at a dealership, with the sole purpose of flipping it for a couple thousand dollars profit when he finally took possession.

These are just anecdotes, but it certainly seems like everyone is vying to participate in the get rich quick economy.
Who is to say life on a colony ship is undesirable? It could offer the best lifestyle possible and be culturally glorified.
I was a four-year old forty-five years ago. I was walking to my pre-school and back, a couple of blocks and a pretty big and busy street across daily.

The cars weren't a problem. Getting mobbed by primary school kids on my way back and getting beaten up was a problem. A bigger problem was when I told my parents the reason I was getting home later and later was because of the detours I was taking to avoid getting beaten up, and they arranged a meeting with me, the beaters-up and their parents and them -- and in the end, it was clearly my fault, I had never been beaten up, and these were all friendly kids, brought up all wholesome.

The past wasn't a better place, it just was a place where you didn't talk about being abused, no matter what.
Initiating swarms of slaughter bots could be a warcrime.
Fantastic. I love it!
I think this has cause and effect somewhat backwards.

Often mortgage rates are based on the interest rate set by the central bank ("prime"). So if inflation is rampant and the central bank increases the prime rate to try to reduce inflation, variable mortgage interest rates will also increase. In the US, however, it's possible to get 25 year fixed rate mortgages. With the prime rate being so low, these can be had for 2-3%. This is very low! If many on HN are to be believed regarding a coming inflationary crisis this kind of mortgage will be hugely advantageous to those that have one because the debt will be massively devalued by rampant inflation.
Matthias is virtually always the prickliest person in the room at academic programming languages conferences, by quite a bit.
Beautiful Racket was one of the sites that helped me learn the language/toolset, along with HTDP, by Felleisen. This is troubling, but the lack of detail and context is also troubling. I would wager most of us in the CS community have experienced personalities that deliver harsh criticism. The types of people that often don't realize how vicious their tone comes across. I also have no doubt that I on occasion have been more abrasive than I intended to. There's many in this community that are "on the spectrum", but there's an even broader spectrum that exists in programmers of people that are too in their own heads, or just not properly socially adjusted, with no medical definition. I don't wish to make excuses for bad behavior, but there's also the potential cultural differences of Felleisen being German, and the stress involved with trying to organize a convention. Even after being degraded by Felleisen, Butterick received a high rating for his teaching by Felleisen? This sounds like a stereotypically "cold" German personality and and a soft kind American personality just generating friction. I've seen it other times within my teams (without the specifically German cultural aspect); instances where one abrasive person doesn't realize how much they've affected one softer, kinder person. And instances where a sensitive person (not even overly-so) feels personally slighted by what was just a bad mood or an bad moment.

I'm disappointed to hear that a great Racket contributor feels wronged and slighted, especially to the point of reducing his passion for contributing to the project. But the linked post doesn't give me enough to go to my pitchfork closet either. I guess it's something to keep an eye on for other signs
>I have yet to see a single compelling argument as to why an arbitrary 2% target is superior to say just a 0% target. Macroeconomics is basically a pseudo science anyways.

Because deflation is horrible and inflation targets are just targets, it's impossible for the central bank to know exactly what will happen. If they target 0 there will be some years with deflation which destroys liquidity.
Less than meets the eye
One can have 2 jobs. I'm not saying that no docs do research, but I'm insisting that caring for people and doing research are two different jobs that have nothing in common. The fact that the two are so poorly separated in practice is damaging to both science and patients.

What people don't understand is that modern medicine is not centered around the practitioners but around precise guidelines that are both medically and legally binding. When I say that you're out of luck, it's not to spite anyone. If a competent clinician specialist examined a case and sees no way out, going to the big fish professor will not benefit you otherwise than maybe entering a study, because from a reasonable clinical pov there are really many conditions for which we can only offer support.

So sometimes, no one "can". But clinicians are not expected to use creative thinking, and that's the very best medical evolution since the past century. It's the job of researchers to read science papers and formulate the guidelines to be transmitted to clinicians. You REALLY should not be doing that all by yourself as a practitioner.
I've used Vive and rift. I now own the Quest 2 ($299). You can play any steamVR content on it without a cable using the free Air Link or the $20 Virtual Desktop. Better deal than anything else out there.
Player character looks very similar to character from the Monument Valley. I guess it is intentional.
There is some entertainment value in sitting back and watching the woke eat itself.
Licensing issues aside, it would cost _additional_ money to actually serve all that content to a global audience (shipping bytes over the internet isn't free).
Because peer pressure and because it gives them a sense of accomplishment. And because, well, kids often happen by accident.
I share the larger point but it seems like you're reading a LOT more into that comment. They didn't say anything about, say, giving up cool houses — simply a preference for passive rather than active cooling. The last part is especially relevant in cities where poorly-designed AC units dumping heat into crowded environments increases the ambient temperature and thus AC load.

While you're not always wrong to say that expending energy doesn't have to heat the planet, it's wrong in practice for the substantial percentage of the world where energy production emits greenhouse gases. Until that percentage is zero, there is a considerable amount of good which can be done by using less energy and we have enormous efficiency wins possible without any real suffering.

As a simple example, a geothermal heat pump system will require less power than a convention gas heater and AC system even if your thermostat is set to the exact same levels. A building which is designed with passive cooling (heavy earth walls, use of ground/water cooling) or windows placed to optimize for winter sun angles but not summer will require less power to maintain a comfortable temperature. As long as your power is not completely emission free, that's probably a win — and if you are trying to fit within the solar/wind/etc. power you can generate on-site the lower usage will make that easier.
Continuity is just a formal property. I'm not sure if it is "profound", that's more of an emotional response, which is very personal.

Mathematicians use words like "deep" to describe properties that are useful in many branches of math. Is continuity deep? I think what's deep is the notion of compactness and the essence of compactness is open covers and finite subcovers, so the deep idea really is about epsilons and deltas and not handwaving about "what it really means" to be continuous.

For ruminations on what things "truly mean", you are not going to find that in a math book. Perhaps a philosophy book would better scratch that itch for you. Math is self-contained and provides its own meaning in terms of the relationships between formal properties and precise answers to precise questions. Some people truly love exploring the relationships between formal properties and discovering the answers to difficult questions that reveal new logical structures. If that is not interesting enough for you, perhaps you will get more satisfaction studying a different field.
I was going to try it but they use capcha just because I'm using a VPN. Best wishes on the site though.
Lessons of History

Letters to a Young Poet

Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son

Sections of Meditations

Sections of Seneca

Bed of Procrustes
I'm not arguing with you about religion, I'm arguing about medicine.

If you choose to conflate the two, that's on you.
Poor people don't have standing debts but rather revolving ones, and so their debt scales with inflation. The rich don't have piles of cash, they buy assets instead. Inflation hoses the middle class who wants to save in cash, which is part of why the middle class is vanishing - extreme monetary inflation to counteract the ever-growing deflation inherent to technological progress.
> But why do we actually care about market fairness?

I'm having a hard time understanding why you believe this is even a question, but I'm trying...

Let me ask you a different question: should the CEO of a company who knows about a major upcoming change (positive or negative) be allowed to trade on that information? After all, based on your arguments so far "they should be rewarded for rising the the position of CEO".

Do you not see a fundamental issue with a system that guarantees unfairness? If I'm allowed to trade on insider info, and everyone else trading knows that, can you imagine the downstream consequences? e.g. every time I trade, the entire market will now react, because the very fact that I'm trading now might indicate something about the fundamentals of the stock.

> Markets aren't supposed to be fair, they're supposed to factor in these kind of soft skills.

What makes you believe/conclude this? Fairness in markets doesn't mean we all pay the same price, nor do "soft skills" really play into modern day stock trading.

Buying cheap strawberries is a cute analogy, but is an apples/oranges comparison, and one involves a consumable product, while the other involves buying a stake in a company based on information that's supposed to be available to everyone else interested in buying a stake in the company.

You may not believe fairness is needed, but that doesn't change that those are the rules we operate under, and most participants in the stock market would fundamentally disagree with you.
So you're suggesting that we eschew all the modern conveniences we have that help us live longer healthier lives to stop climate change?

Do me a favor and look up the average live span before the advent of electricity.

Stop presenting a false dilemma by pretending all we've gotten out of our progress is iphones and cat videos. I think you know that's not true at all.
Is it really doxxing? I made what was publicly available and it wasn't slanderous, it just invalidates my argument.
His voice sounds / sounded so uncannily like Alex Jones' (maybe just to me?) that I had a similar initial reaction, and similarly was pleasantly surprised
This reminds me of the Flash games I used to make back in the day
> No person or entity has the right to dragnet all communications.

Indeed. And the fact that this is not recognised as a fundamental human right is a serious limitation of the charter and universal declaration. And yet, it comes up regularly.
Why would I need this when I already have a full Tome of Identify with 50 charges?
Well, that might work when talking about a situation where power is about equal, but when it's someone higher up in the chain, it's going to be much much harder.
I don't think I agree with you. I can definitely see a parent filing a lawsuit for "You suspended my kid because someone punched him in the face"

(No idea if it would go anywhere in court, but when has that ever stopped someone?)
Does Air Link offer acceptable performance for low latency games (e.g. Beat Saber)?
In a cloud environment, I worry how often there is a Market for Lemons situation going on.

If I have a machine that seems not to be behaving, am I going to spend as much time doing root cause analysis as the people in this article did? Or am I going to allocate a new VM and dump the old one? I would expect over time for the permanently allocated machines to see a smaller density of bad hardware, while the pool of available machines now has a higher than average rate of hardware failures.

This is bad both for newcomers and for anyone who tries to autoscale hardware - because hardware error density now increases with request rates, instead of remaining stable.
> Even after being degraded by Felleisen, Butterick received a high rating for his teaching by Felleisen?

I believe you've misunderstood a sentence from the article. The author meant he received higher ratings than all other teachers, including Felleisen, from students, not that Felleisen himself rated the author's teaching highly.
Wait, the "wall of perp photos connected by bits of yarn" is REAL?! And here I thought I was watching way too many procedurals. Mind = blown.
I would not recommend Quest 2 for BeatSaber unless you'll be content without using any mods or custom songs. If you decide to go this route, I'd suggest deleting Wifi connection information once you get it working the way you like and only changing songs via Sidequest, because system updates have broken custom song functionality multiple times.

You may need to download a "pirated" copy of an older beatsaber version, because afaik, the most recent update broke it again.
Remember when FB bought oculus and evangelists insisted that people were overreacting?

Can we officially admit that the naysayers were right and that fb not only killed the oculus brand but perhaps even tarnished public opinion of this generation of VR?
That's the ideal, but is often not workable, for instance if you're a kid who is not good at violence, or if the dick is surrounded by people who are already determined to tolerate his dickishness. They already know.
The title should have been 'Why you should use ANTLR and not use (f)lex, yacc and bison' as if ANTLR is the only alternative.
What are some other free University courses on C?
Was very happy to stumble upon Kris Jordan's free Comp Sci 211 lectures from UNC [0] just now and curious if there are others out there?

I am trying to learn C...

I have been frustrated watching some of the more popular "learn C programming" videos on YouTube and was very pleased to discover this gem of a playlist. It looks like all of the lecture points from an entire university course broken down and compiled into a single playlist.

Just curious if anyone knows of any other great resources hiding on YouTube or elsewhere?

Thank you!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGArLWTHWRw&list=PLKUb7MEve0TjHQSKUWChAWyJPCpYMRovO&index=1
There is no convincing evidence for this argument. The Soviet Union was deeply engaged in its war against Nazi Germany until the very bitter end, and fully mobilized in that direction. Beyond that, America provided immense quantities of aid to the Soviet Union in the form of Lend-Lease, including military hardware. Some would argue that this was profoundly short-sighted given the realpolitik of Stalin's approach to the war, with an eye on what the Soviet Union would do in the conquered territories of Eastern Europe after the war (as a realization of tsarist fantasies going back a hundred years or more). But the fact is that--while every decision has various complicating factors related to political and institutional concerns--America's primary focus was on ending the war as quickly as possible with an unconditional surrender.
I also have the CV1 and am looking to upgrade. The Index has better tracking (using lighthouse) and a larger FOV than the Quest 2 but much worse resolution. If you want the inside-out tracking and higher resolution of the Quest 2 but don't want to deal with Facebook, check out the HP Reverb G2. It's pricier than the Quest 2 but still much cheaper than the Index.

Resolution comparison between Index, Quest 2, and Reverb G2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny_OPsxHQmU

Resolution comparison between CV1, Vive, and Quest 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTaYQNghAxI
Sounds like your grandmother would be getting letters from a social worker if she were a parent today.

https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/07/06/vancouver-bus-dad-ki...
>Housing prices are kept in check when mortgages are more expensive.

Housing prices are kept in check when it is expensive to buy housing? This isn't necessarily false, but it is an obvious contradiction that highlights how complicated these issues end up being in reality.
More busy and stressful? Significantly shifted perspective? Would love to hear more.
Back in the day local kids would meet up and roam together. Now even if a kid wants to go out and explore they can't find someone to do it with. Kids used to look out for each other and develop valuable skills. Trying to teach "resilience" and "teamwork" in a class is a nonsense. These skills used to develop naturally.
Tao Te Ching.

And also 'Instant Zen' by Foyan (136 pages).
#3 was very much included in the simulation

Also, I don't think it was meant to be a fastest or even nominal case simulation. It could clearly be run with different inputs
this. But I see no attempt to do any of this work. Just "1 colony ship every 100,000 years, limited to 15 light years"
Oh, good, HN finds another crown witness confirming their believe that most of them are terrible, and that this sugar mommy relationship's dirty laundry is somehow relevant to HN, while racism or misogyny in the tech sector are regularly flagged as off-topic.
> Even after being degraded by Felleisen, Butterick received a high rating for his teaching by Felleisen?

I think you may have misread this part: "At the end, the students gave me the best eval­u­a­tion scores of all the instruc­tors—Felleisen included."
Ukrainian police arrest multiple Clop ransomware gang suspects
FWIW Bucky meant that we could eliminate poverty and starvation, not that we could supply unbounded luxuries.

The rise of non-fungible tokens shows that folks will find ways to compete for limited resources, even if they have to dream them up.
I wonder how they would explain CEO pay transparency resulting in significant pay bumps.

Individual bargaining may decrease within the company, but will make it easier for other companies to poach underpaid employees.
Ah, you're right, thank you. That does change the context a bit.
Firstly, the high rating that Butterick received for his teaching (the highest of all the instructors) was given by the students, not Matthias.

Secondly, Matthias has lived in the United States for virtually his entire adult life. Longer than probably the majority of the posters here have been alive. The issue is not one of cultural differences or a misunderstanding. Matthias behaves this way consistently, is unapologetic for it, and when pressed will explain that his "challenging behavior" (i.e. abuse) is some kind of test of your ideas, your willpower, or your capacity for success.
Ten of the best political documents – Social history
When buying power goes down, prices have to go down to compensate.
But why would they go off to a different system instead of just colonizing around their sun or even other planets close to them? If it’s their star is gonna blow why would they go any further than the nearest star?
Waymo raises $2.5B in second external funding round
Okay - you've shown us the motte, but where is the bailey?

Where does Chimamanda advocate for discrimination against trans women? Because there is nothing in your source that implies that.

Also, that is only a motte in liberal circles. Saying "I have and will continue to stand up for the rights of transgender people" is not necessarily a no-brainer moral stance for the general population.
Given that markets are supposed to be information aggregators, it would actually be fairer if insider trading was allowed. Of course, as with all things, the profit would be much less if it were.
Yes. The simple fact is that nutrition epidemiology has failed. We don't know much of anything, other than a handful of basics like avoiding loads of refined sugar and trans fats.
we have 40 years of data showing that wages _haven't_ been keeping up with inflation.
The lab leak hypothesis is plausible because accidents happen. I should know
> no open source community can afford to formally judge accusations to begin with

Some communities do have formal "moderation teams" with this responsibility.

One major advantage of this is that such a moderation team doesn't have to be reserved for egregious cases; that team can also step in when things get somewhat heated and provide lighter feedback to keep things from escalating.

> it's not legally binding

It's not intended to be. The goal of a CoC is to state community norms and serve as a point of reference to reduce relitigation of those norms. It's also to help people feel that a community cares about those norms and will actually enforce them. (This stops holding true if a community has a CoC on paper but refuses to enforce it, which unfortunately does happen sometimes. But on balance, it's a useful signal.)
Note that there's difference between price and (monthly) cost:

> After adjusting for inflation and interest rates, monthly mortgage payments are now 30% lower than they were in 1989.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/03/what-if-housing-pri...

Of course the price would effect down payment numbers.