skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're getting at the part that I can expound a bit on :)

It's possible to engage with nihilism and say "I'm just going to survive pragmatically". It's related to the "state of nature" many philosophers will refer to as a pre-societal world. You can't have a society that's wholly nihilistic, but you can exist within society nihilistically in degrees, with the far end of that being the "off-grid live in a cabin in the woods" sort of disengagement. But even without going that far, it's also possible to engage with philosophical concepts and critiques without being ideologically attached to them.

Ideological attachment is what happens when you start converting all life events into phenomena relative to that ideology, and that's the thing that I see being shaken away from a fully normalized state("this is how the world is, there's no discussion to be had") to a vigorous, even violent argumentation(see: all the concepts you listed). And I can pinpoint that the shift happened almost instantly after the world achieved mass connectivity with smartphones, in the 2008-2012 period. Suddenly the US had its Marxists and anarchist voices emerge; trans rights became a major issue; and the "alt-right" took shape as well. We have a lot of visible ideologues in social media culture that will blame everything on the other ideology, where before those positions were buried by the consensus and relegated to subculture.

To me that makes it a "better" world in the sense of agency, because it's easier to examine the different positions. But it's also more fragmented as a society, more prone to bubbles of extremism. If my experience tracks, we're in a transitional state where many old attachments are being discarded while others are being taken up. (Since 2008, I went from being - to retroactively label things - a vagely cishet liberal, to a nonbinary asexual meta-anarchist, all terms I would have struggled with back then.)

My ideas on this mostly derive from Heather Marsh's philosophical writing, so you could say I am attached in that direction(it's equally true that I haven't been able to critique her work, in the sense that I literally just don't want to); her view coincides with that of the meta-anarchists(itself a newly emerging project of philosophical writings) which is why I now also use that as an identity label. I don't see myself as anti-identity, but I do see myself as anti-politics(despite having some occasional political engagement), because I accept Marsh's idea of there being both healthy attachments and unhealthy ones, and kicking my political attachment is like kicking a smoking addiction; I can try to curb it, but it often roars back to life if I look at the news.
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In the end the discussion about the speed limit is less about the environment but more about human safety as a much higher degree of accidents with high speeds end deadly.

Also from personal experience with some of the few highways in Germany without tempo limit ("most" have limits): If there is a truck going with ~80 km/h which is taken over by a bus going ~100 km/h and you take that over with 150km/h but there is nearly an accident because someone thinks it's a good idea to randomly accelerate to around 230 km/h or so on a not so empty highway you start wondering who thought that no tempo limit was a good idea.
Exactly. The biggest impact we could make is to hold China accountable. But it’s also not popular and doesn’t make people feel warm and fuzzy like banning plastic straws does.
What, I'm not him.
Check back in three years and we'll see if I have the same experience. Here's hoping not!
I believe there's some truth to this. The most successful forms of therapy teach you to stop having negative thoughts about your situation by interrogating the reality of those thoughts, and detaching from them . If you stop caring that you're feeling unhappy, are you unhappy?
I’ve gone through a similar journey myself almost exactly. However, I had to wade through a lot of crap to get to this point and this whole “trend” was one of those areas I had to go through to get to where I am now.

I agree it’s a simplified version of what the religions offer. Similar to how Stoicism and Minimalism have both gone through a resurgence in popularity and sales recently, but the stuff released recently on those topics only scratches the surface of what they actually are.

I view this “emotion trend” as something similar to those two modernised versions of the previously mentioned philosophies: a good spring board into the real thing. But without it existing I’d have never gotten to the real thing so I see it as having some value.
My own Lenovo T420 has a blue enter key.
I liked Cedric Chin's related/citing post (and series about tacit learning) found here: https://commoncog.com/blog/youtube-learn-tacit-knowledge/
But in terms of monetary subsidies - don't fossil companies still get more, in percentage points to their revenue, than green companies? This is something which can be easily redirected.
I see, thanks. I guess cards with PIN aren't very common then.
Also depends on what you assign to. If you read an if/else statement, you have to check whether both branches assign to the same value. If that’s a complex expression, that isn’t trivial.
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Why? The parent suggested to discount the tax paid abroad from the taxes to be paid in the US. It is the double-taxation prevention agreement.

Me being a cynical bastard will expect countries rallying to offer themselves to the US and reduce their cut to buy political favor.
> Most office workers do not get options

1) Plenty of people in finance, lawyers, and so on have high salary and excellent conditions. Many had highly paid jobs in the same fields 50 years ago. This is nothing close with "disrupting the traditional employer<->employee power dynamic".

2) An this point it's really difficult to assume that you are arguing in good faith.
I’ve put both my kids in preschool from about the time they turned one. I can teach my kids a lot in my own, but what I can’t give them is plenty of training interacting with other kids. They might not be able to read when they are four this way, but all those things are trivial in comparison to learn a bit later.
No it's not true. E2e emissions are still lower
This is an interesting concept, and worthy of including in the discussion, but you are presenting Border Adjustment Tax as if the results are a certainty.

The Wikipedia article describes this as theoretical with quite a bit of uncertainty, and economists are far from concensus on what the outcomes would be.

There are also definitely winners and losers in this system, so it's not so simple to say it the proposal was killed just because some big companies were against it.
Talk to a lawyer about it. I have a musician in the family who performs at venues and also likes to busk, and they pay some subscription fee for access to a library of music they're allowed to legally perform.
It's not the burning that directly leads to something better. It's more like a natural consequence caused by failing to adequately address people's need for something better; people who feel powerless in their quest for justice will treasure morsels of that justice whereever they can get it, such as direct attacks on the public institutions suppressing them.

The good that can come from it is motivation: it's more clear than ever that gradual reform is not occurring, and something has to change at a fundamental level. Enabling people to get justice civilly will sharply reduce the number of people resorting to incivility.
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Sure. That's problematic. But that's no excuse to not place blame where it should rightfully be laid, and instead place it elsewhere just because doing so is easier. There are rights at stake here.
It seems transparently slimy how Equifax tries to discourage opting-out.

Beyond the difficulty of opt-out, you have to send them more info (including your SSN, a copy of a government ID, and a proof of address that they offer can include your W-2 or paystub).

If only Equifax were even 1% as diligent about avoiding data breaches as they are at making sure no one can maliciously opt you out of them sharing this data that no one wants shared.
This country was founded on checks and balances. And currently the people who have the most control over whether we are allowed to live and how we do that have zero checks whatsoever. This needs to change.
Well no they dont need to have the same rate they just need to implement tariffs.

With tariffs one could choose to tax with prejudice. You could tax specific corporations higher or lower or specific industries (gas/coal). Or even give tax breaks to specific industries.

This move is a move towards uniformity and specifically uniformity with the USA. I dont think the USA is the model of fiscal governance that much of the world wants to emulate.
If one really cared to one could probably find the various loopholes of the powerful in this new minimum as well. However this is just investing time and effort into thinking about a bad idea.
The indexmap crate provides a hashmap that iterates in insertion order.
> scientists are throwing away 95% of their studies

My guess is that most of these are not studies on purpose. A MD or a Hospital tries a new drug that seam promising for a week/month.

If the result is good they get very happy, and try to make as many fuss as possible, that means that they publish their work in some journal.

If the result is bad they lose interest in the subject, or try to hide the wrong results under the carpet, or don't want to spend time in a paper that is very difficult to publish.

So the good results of the informal tries are published, and the bad result get lost. No conspiracy. Just people doing people things.

> one of the most promising COVID treatments during a pandemic

I don't think it's promising, but I think it's important to discuss about it and try to understand why it is necessary to get better evidence.
Classic anti-competitive behaviour.
Actually, yes I seem to remember it doing that a while ago. I think my Emacs setup has messed up somehow. Now I just get:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable k)

And then a stack trace. No option for restarts.

It works if I run from the command line though..
It is well-known since the 1980s that few places other than Venus' surface are more inimical to life as we know it. The higher athmosphere contains sulfur and acid as well, but pressure and temperature are a lot nicer, and there was hope of finding something interesting there. Now that hope is pretty much gone too.
I predict it will do about as well as Parler or Gab. Meaning: it’ll burn money from deep pockets for political motives but never make a profit unless it becomes part of some campaign grifting scheme.

No one can afford to moderate a social network that attracts a small group of people requiring a disproportionate amount of moderation.

Moderate enough and it’s both too expensive and not seen as “free speech” enough by the target audience. Moderate too little and you’ll expose yourself to legal risk and you’ll struggle to find hosting.

We have seen this before.
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The thing I can't seem to get across to you, is that you don't query a graph by specifying a join expression. Graph databases aren't built for that. So no, SQL is not "capable of querying a graph". It's capable of deriving a graph out of relational data. Two completely different things. It's a bit like confusing a restaurant's chef with the restaurant's customer. They both have a meal in common, but one is consuming what the other is producing.

And no, arbitrary join expressions are not a feature that "haunts" SQL databases, because unlike graph databases, relational databases ARE built for that, and it's one of the primary reasons SQL databases are very resilient to change in face of constantly changing ad-hoc query requirements. And it's an important feature of relational algebra that is used every day by countless applications.

SQL and GraphQL serve different purposes at different application layers. Both do precisely what they have to do. The fact they're a bit similar is not coincidental, but also they're not mutually replaceable.
no one used blockchain for this because:

1. it's slow, requires insane amount of storage, power and traffic

2. nobody wants non-transferable username for real
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Existing tax law already covers this. If you use a corp to fund personal activities that is a benefit-in-kind and subject to income tax same as if you received the money directly.
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This is not a fly.io specific question but I always wonder how in these globally distributed system, how are databases handled?

I understand you can put your application server in any location but generally there is only one storage so are these application servers doing cross region database calls?

Having only worked with single cluster setup web apps, I am always curious about this part.

Is the answer always - use a managed replicated database and send read queries to one near your location and all write queries goes to the primary instance?
The idea the Greta Thunberg has to travel to New York by sailboat is ludicrous, but because of people with your attitude, she did it. You have to work from inside the system to change it.

Paying for climate change is not a luxury elective item. Sometimes a society has to collectively act to protect itself, even over the protestations of people who believe as you do.
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> It is a simple fact that using electric cars is no good if you get the electricity from fossil fuels.

Source? Where did you pull that from? An entire power plant dedicated to maximizing power generation efficiency is somehow equally efficient to a car engine that fits in like a cubic meter?

> And I remember reading that at least some electric cars are not reducing greenhouse emissions even if they are charged with non-fossil electricity.

I'd suggest trying to find a link for this too, because people need to be aware of it if it's true.
Or - something else happened.

The plaintiff is a radio presenter, and it's easy to Google him.

It's one thing to make a personally defamatory accusation.

It's something else to launch a high profile libel trial with alleged political overtones in a very tense and scarred part of the world with recent riots.

Clearly, we're not going to get the full details of this story.
Oh boy, I can’t wait for the detailed and nuanced discussion on gender identity and marginalized communities!
1. It's a 0.3% reduction of the German CO2 emissions so that's not really a useful point.

2. Killing 100 people also reduces CO2 emissions, doesn't make it a good idea...
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the "advanced users" setting you manually select after installation to enable the patchwork does state "required reading" which explains it. It's relatively straightforward
It is not bad as long as you own stocks, which you can exchange into material goods.

Like some of my friends can afford a decent house, but prefer renting because it gives greater flexibility (they can rent a small flat in the center of the city in a walking distance to the office and meet with friends often while they don't have children instead of investing into big house in the suburbs with empty rooms they wouldn't use).

But if you own nothing and don't save, this is bad.

The UK did a great thing last year, they increased to minimum payment to private pension (equivalent of US 401k) to 8% of salary, so even irresponsible people will have some savings at retirement age. And I think the UK should continue gradually increasing these contributions.
Yes, I also saw it used to bring around recalcitrant people (whether they were “right” or not), e.g. “it’s time for you to disagree and commit”.
…over and over again
It's not loading... I can only assume your server is hardly keeping up with the influx of traffic :D
It could certainly be taken further along these lines; I was mentioning it because of the "short read" scenario, which is... not quite an error, but can be the cause of one, as st_goliath writes above.
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I agree that using as an example the person you are talking to is permissible,
but I also agree that it is a bit preferable to instead either use a generic placeholder,
or instead of saying “If I said [X] about [someone], that would(n’t) be libel”, instead saying “If [someone] said [X] about me, that would(n’t) be libel.”
I don’t think this is obligatory though. I think that no one should feel pressured to make this change in how they phrase things, but I do think it is an improvement in phrasing.
Looks like the founders already sold $220M worth of stock:

> 2019 Tender Offer

> In August 2019, we entered into a letter agreement with certain holders of our capital stock, pursuant to which we agreed to waive certain transfer restrictions in connection with, and assist in the administration of, a tender offer that such holders proposed to commence. From August 2019 through September 2019, these holders commenced a tender offer to purchase shares of our capital stock from certain of our employee stockholders, including our Co-Founder and CEO, Vladimir Tenev, and Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer and then-co-CEO Baiju Bhatt. An aggregate of 5.4 million shares of our capital stock were tendered pursuant to the tender offer for an aggregate purchase price of $67.6 million, or $12.4827 per share.

> 2018 Secondary Sales

> On April 3, 2018, our Co-Founder and CEO, Vladimir Tenev, our Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer and then-co-CEO, Baiju Bhatt, our then-Chief Operating Officer, Nathan Rodland, and one other employee, each individually entered into common stock purchase agreements with certain other holders of our capital stock, including entities affiliated with DST Global, pursuant to which they sold shares of our common stock to the purchasing stockholders at a purchase price of $10.145 per share. In total, Mr. Bhatt sold 5,421,389 shares of common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $55.0 million; Mr. Rodland sold 295,712 shares of common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $3.0 million; and Mr. Tenev sold 5,421,389 shares of common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $55.0 million. As part of these sales, each of Mr. Bhatt and Mr. Tenev sold 739,280 shares of our common stock to entities affiliated with DST Global.

What a joke. Founders got rich beyond imagination dumping all the risk on employees.
Well said. I've heard this called "equanimity" in some mindfulness meditation books, and is one of the primary traits practicioners seek to cultivate. It's good to hear it as an original thought in original terms though.
Imagine a market of 1,000 people. If we add 5,000 who significantly under- or overvalue, or make other errors, the good being traded, is that more efficient?

In terms of economic efficiency, if that's what we mean, I would guess not: It causes the misallocation of capital to worse investments. Was the Gamestop market economically efficient?
Poor people pay a lot more taxes overall in relation to their wealth and income than the extra-rich. We have a regressive tax system.
I have faith we would absolutely do more things like have more of the giant diesel burning trucks that drive around to pick up degradable cardboard on garbage day at a net energy loss in the name of saving the climate.

We just are not good at anything in the US at this point that requires more complexity than a 280 character slogan.