skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it would result in deflation because $1,500,000,000 disappears from the economy overnight. This means that the money supply shrinks and that kicks of a deflationary cycle.
I was pretty much with you up to this point:

>Microsoft really understands that owning the end-user experience is key.

Since upgrading to Catalina, I repartitioned my Mac to have a 1GB Windows partition for games, particularly 32-bit retro stuff. Other than my locked down work VDI, this is my first experience of seriously using Windows as a desktop OS in over a decade.

OMG is this thing horrible. Gah, my heart sinks every time I boot into it. Two Start Menus? A horrible, kafka-esque maze of settings and config in half a dozen different UI interfaces, all of them ugly as sin. One of my kids used it for a few days, and now I've already got some invasive search toolbar crap I can't get rid of, and I've shared a Mac with my kids almost all their lives (17 and 16). Ads built into the OS. The user experience on Windows is as godawful as it's ever been.

They've definitely upped their game on technology, WSL2 looks really nice. Power Shell looks pretty decent. They're making interesting moves with making .NET truly cross-platform. I can see the dev argument for sure, but the user experience on Windows is as much, if not more of an inconsiderate, abusive relationship as it's ever been.
The golang one also silently drops rows.Err() on the floor.

https://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/#Rows
The Decimal class is one way if you roll your own. py-moneyed seems to be a well maintained library though I haven’t used it.

Disclaimer: I only work with currency in hobby projects.
I remember being 18 and being the 1 kid in class saying 'Going away to college and spending 30k/yr on a music degree is a bad idea'

I was right. They didn't listen. I'm bailing them out today.
How a whole society of high intelligence will behave is not necessarily comparable to how the right tail behaves in a dumb society.
As if students have a choice. Don't like the terms? Sorry, no education for you.
It wasn't abelist but I don't understand the analogy with schizophrenia.
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Not necessarily. I don't think USA has to cut a check to cancel these, I think they just have to stop asking for repayment.
Co-pilot is just lowest common denominator solutions with flashy tabbing.
> If I declare a banana to cost $1,000,000 but you can get it for the low price of $1 with a loan of $999,999 today and that loan gets canceled, does that mean someone else has to pay me the remaining sum?

In this case you are the merchant (university) and the lender, which is not the case with student debt.

Before you make the case that a student can get a gov't backed loan and attend a state university, the other $999,999 has already been disbursed to banana suppliers, equipment, leases, ect. So yes, someone else would have to pay the remaining sum.

Try again.
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You mean that the taxpayers will cover the debt
This article states that humans were likely pushed to near extinction by Neanderthals, with one figure being the at one point we were reduced to 50 individuals (??!!). How is this possible considering no Neanderthals ever lived in Africa? Were there periods where humans were also absent from that continent? Seems unlikely...
I like the solution from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Elect some random person as president of the galaxy, but don't tell him about it. Just have conversations with him to find out what he thinks about things, but don't let him know that you actually run the galaxy based on these conversations. If power corrupts, make it impossible to seek power, and don't let the person that wields it know that they have it.
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>Every single day there are people taking really stupid risks and winning due to luck. Do you feel penalised because you took less risks?

Yes, actually. If people were YOLOing away their savings on DOGE and meme stocks and the government picked up the tab, but the responsible passive investors like me got no assistance because I didn't experience any losses, I'd be pretty mad.
We still have "radiactive chernobyl pigs" running around the woods here in Sweden. Meaning that in some areas that got hit by the cloud that blew in over northern europe, wild boar dig around and down to 1986 soil levels and over time accumulate caesium or whatever it is.
Wait till we start spraying the stratosphere and everyone stops caring about emissions again. Then we'll have a gun to humanities head where we must spray or face guaranteed immediate ecological annihilation.
Hi! author here, funny to read this 11 years after! I'd be happy to provide more details. You can mail me at my username @ domain of the post.

And yes, the title was awful simonw!
Some of the comments almost seem like the author is using GPT for lots of things.
The baseline is 60% voter participation. It makes sense that a marginalized group with significantly higher barriers has a 10% reduction in participation to me!
I don't want unification so much as the ability to run full macOS off of my phone when docked to a display. It is a simple request on the face of it and Apple is about the experience and hiding complexity, so even if it is hard to implement, once the hardware is capable (and it has been for a while) this is arguably a very nice feature to have for many.
Found the Amazon astroturfer. Good try though! Cheers!
Topic discussed 8 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27617620

(The OP is from Jun 25 - about the same time, so there doesn't seem to be any significant new information in this submission).
The probability that the DOJ would investigate / prosecute this particular bias is near zero. Where I work, if you submit a bad review for an underrepresented minority you will get a call from HR asking “are you absolutely sure? You don’t think that’s too low?” (even if you also submitted good reviews for other employees of that racial group).

What’s funny is: in five years researchers looking at the data will say “oh! There’s a higher attrition rate / poor performance even though prior reviews marked them as good! THAT must be where all this systemic racism we are trying to find is!”
So you think the O&G went on a massive, expensive, coordinated disinformation for fun, and without the intention of increasing fossil fuel usage?

Why would executives put themselves at risk for nothing? Why would they spend so much money for nothing? Why lie if the lie doesn't benefit them?

The truth is that these disinformation campaigns to this day are killing our transition away from fossil fuels. They have spawned a political movement that is far more extreme than the publicly stated opinions of the fossil fuel companies.

One prime example of this disinformation campaign is repeated by you:

> let's not even get started on the ecological footprint of batteries.

This myth that batteries are somehow worse than fuel is exactly the type of disinformation that fossil fuel companies manufacture and that others spread, seemingly willingly, because of their tribal politics motivations. You don't know the footprint of batteries for electrical cars. It's certainly no worse than what we use to make the rest of a car. I've spent hours combing the web for concrete ecological impacts. The only concrete thing anybody talks about are not ecological, but social. Indigenous people in South America not getting compensated for their land. Cobalt mining from artisanal, unaccounted mines using child labor. But the ecological footprint is a tiny shadow of all the steel, copper, etc. that goes into al the rest of society.
Nuremberg trials for the O & G industry. A phrase I've seen thrown around by people who are angrier than I am. I suppose trials would be more fair than guillotines or summary executions.
> There is no "cancelling" debt. There's only forcing other people to pay.

Not really, given that in the US, the central bank could just take over those public loans, not collect on them, and likely not much would happen. They’ve already proven that during Covid with corporate bonds.

The real issue with cancelling student loans is that it doesn’t fix the tuition cost for the next generation. We need a 20-year tuition freeze.
stack overflow at its automated finest.

Or should we call it the Tesla of software?
Google's outcomes are pretty weak. I work at a large tech firm that has significantly higher percentages of employees who are black and/or hispanic compared to Google. We are at 2-3x the rates Google publicly reports. At my current company, I regularly work with Black employees, but when I worked at Google, I could go weeks, if not months, without working with a Black person.

You can tout all the sophisticated programs about conquering bias or what not, but the truth is many of these initiatives have shown little actual evidence for improving outcomes. Our company is probably doing 1/10 of what Google is doing with 2-3x the outcomes. One major difference I see between Google and us; we actually have offices in cities with high concentration of black and hispanic talent. While I was at Google, leadership pushed people towards the HQ and in fact they were shutting down offices that were in more diverse areas of America. You can tout all the sophisticated programs Google runs, but I believe that Google misses the most basic steps for how to increase diversity in their workforce.

Our metrics aren't great, but they are a significantly better than Google. We aren't a unicorn, I know of a handful of tech companies that are at the same level, and the common pattern I see is very basic steps towards hiring that Google refuses to consider. As an outsider (and an insider several years ago), my experience is that Google invests in lots of programs that give a credence of caring about diversity, while actively avoiding doing impactful things.
> Web apps on mobile are ugly, slow, and glitchy with few exceptions unless they simply display a document in which case there is no need to build an app.

So basically exactly the same as the average app then? There's more than one way to make an ugly, slow, and glitchy experience.
Communication is hard, and having to dance around the topic to be PC makes communication much harder.

Your parent was responding to this statement:

> We do have a diversity problem in tech, no doubt.

And their response - that tech is, in fact, diverse and meritocratic - is a fair response to that statement.

I think what OP meant by their statement is that there is a diversity problem _pertaining specifically to people of color_ in tech. Which is true.

I think we would all benefit by being a little generous with each other when trying to discuss these sensitive issues.
> 9 times out of 10 you probably want an RDBMS.

And the last 1 can be done (modeled) in a RDBMS when the scale/pressure/volume is low. In other words, wait until you feel the heat.
I think you are letting your imagination come up with elaborate explanations when very simple ones are available. Soviet infiltration? Come on dude. Seeking power for it's own sake is not uniquely soviet and predates any imagined university infiltration.
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On the other hand, I received free tuition at college but took out the maximum amount of subsidized Stafford loans (at the time, they were pretty close to free money) so I could have a comfier college lifestyle and only pay off the minimum each month.

I could really make out like gangbusters on this thing.
>Not really, given that in the US, the central bank could just take over those public loans, not collect on them, and likely not much would happen.

Isn't that just helicopter money with extra steps?
My retirement is invested into a large collection of companies, some of which own these loans. I fully expect that this will cost me. If I had instead not invested for my future and just partied hard I'd be better off.
I've never worked at Amazon, but I read that as Software Engineers are subjected to progress improvement plans as a way to legally threaten firings in order to make people work extensive hours.
This debate confuses public debt with private debt. I doubt USA is going to tell someone else they cannot collect a debt. But as a creditor, USA has the option to call a loan of its own lending forgiven. See Public Student Loan Forgiveness for precedent.
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This is straight up comedy?! Brilliant speaker.
Heart disease killed twice the people as COVID in 2020, I really doubt helping people feel okay being fat is "the right direction".

https://cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_public/journal/jama/...
I seriously considered taking a job there (I did not for personal reasons, namely not wanting to move) and would recommend looking at them to others.

I think they are poised to be a key player in the forestry and reforestation space in the next 2 decades.
and what arguments are that this process is not fair?

current approach challenges pure intellectual output,
any other way implies bias which current system strongly avoids
Think of it this way as well, Robinhood's chief regulatory officer quits and gets hired as head of the SEC. Works as head of the SEC for a few years. Their tenure at the SEC ends and they jump right back to Robinhood.

I have 0 doubt in my mind, anyone in that position wouldn't already be predisposed to believe that actions (regulations, enforcement etc) that help Robinhood (and other trading platforms) are a good thing and will work for those corporate interests because they share the same beliefs by default.

Then, once they leave the SEC, they're welcomed back with massive pay as a thank you for the job they did pushing Robinhood's agenda forward which is at odds with good governance principles.

Its like making the head of Exon the head of the govt's renewable energy initiatives. They're gonna say increasing renewable energy output isn't a worthwhile pursuit, what we really need is more oil. Let's sign a big contract over with exon, I even know the people who work there and can make it happen!

Working against society's interests in favor of the corporations
I think the salient point is that it's likely, given our imaginations, that we would've concocted stories about monstrous humanoids regardless of whether they actually existed alongside us. It shouldn't be surprising.
I can't read the article (because NYT paywall), but isn't there a second-order effect from cancelling student loans & medical debt, in that loan interest rates will suddenly jump because there's no guarantee the same won't happen again in the future?
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I don’t order much from Amazon but frequently I get a book and a USB drive or something else and it’s shipped in two boxes despite my preference for bundling into as few parcels as possible likely because of multiple warehouses
The only thing fair in life is a ball hit between first and third.
If the gov actually decided that the current situation is not sustainable and it's better for everyone to cut the losses and cover everything... why would it guarantee another loan like that the next day?

The companies themselves could be interested in that loans of course, but without the previous guarantee the risk would be too high.
I think it depends. If there's some cultural or expectations bias that is self-reinforcing to reduce the number of women who consider tech (to include their peers thinking that tech isn't cool/is nerdy/whatever), I think these programs are a fantastic way to interrupt that cycle. I don't see it as insulting to their intelligence in any way, but maybe I'm not understanding your concern properly.
You're right in principle. This is definitely the case if I ask the company to deliver a package, for a price that they name (or negotiate), and I then hand over the package and money and let them do their thing.

The issue here is that Amazon is very strictly controlling the drivers, without (directly) employing them. By gig-economy voodoo they try to have it both ways.
Yeah this is my issue with the idea too. In 20 years, you're going to have the same problem again with new borrowers unless you make some fundamental changes to college to stop predatory student loans from being given out.

To be fair, I find this thread to be a bit misguided. Everyone here is talking about canceling 100% of student loan debt but I've only ever heard suggestions where the amount of loans above 100k or above 50k are forgiven. Conceivably, those loans were never really going to be paid off so money isn't really being lost.
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Bezos truly chose the right time to retire: « Après moi le déluge »!
Tech is bad, but it gets held to a far higher standard than fossil fuel companies. It doesn't take much digging to find far worse direct human death from fossil fuel companies, instead of the second-degree human death from social networks.
Not at all. Any other medium would be a blog with RSS.

I set my email up to automatically snooze all newsletters to 8am the next day. Every morning I have a bundle. I read most of it, skip some, and then I'm done for the day.

The signal to noise ratio is pretty good, and more importantly its finite. I honestly can't imagine going back to scrolling newsfeeds or refreshing sites throughout the day.
Dude, get back to your Amazon job. This was a lazy astroturf
You're definitely not the only one, but I think it's staying around because of a real societal need. The civil rights era was a recognition that background wasn't a valid basis on which to stereotype strangers. In the intervening decades, we mostly stereotyped strangers based on how they presented themselves, with a few recognisable 'types' of people that had little variation within their clades.

Then the internet happened and society fractured along personal interest, whatever one is into now there are dozens of people with the same interest online. It became impossible to distinguish people on the basis of fashion either.

But to interact with strangers, we need some way to stereotype them, and so intersectionalism has tried to fill that gap. It won't work in its current form because nobody who presumes to declare on behalf of an identity group as to what is a proper way to treat members of that identity group is actually representative of any group. But the need to stereotype strangers somehow remains, so social offerings like this will continue to be brought forward.
Sorry, people are downvoting this because it is out of the Overton window of acceptable discourse, and the fact that it happens to be true is irrelevant.
I would argue this would actually cause inflation: all of those folks who have to pay for those student loans will start buying more goods, houses and services, increasing demand, which could increase prices in turn.
Having worked on a POS system, the issue of using cents alone is if you've got something like "11% rebate" and you need to deal with fractional cents.

The arbitrary precision decimal type should be the default answer for currency until it is shown that the requirements no and at no time in the future will ever require fractional units of the smallest denomination.

As an aside, this may be constrained by the systems that the data is persisted into too... the Buffett Overflow is a real thing ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27044044 ).
> We both agreed that history will look back and see these companies being responsible for the destruction of humanity.

History is predicated on at least a rough continuity of records. If the rupture of that continuity of records is bad enough, the concept of history ceases to exist. All we're left with is hunter gathers stumbling across the ruins of ancient 'cities of the gods'.

So even the catharsis of imagining certain individuals or groups being vilified for eternity might be denied us.
No I haven't. If you think the other demos are more interesting please link to them. I'm just saying that this demo is biased and that we can't draw any conclusion from it. Actually the author has just confessed optimizing it for entertainment in a sister comment. That doesn't mean that the claim is false but it doesn't show that it is true either.
- there is far too much detailed copy above the fold
- the copy around the call to action is too vague
- there is no example of "what you have now without migadu" versus "with migadu"

in summary it makes it very hard to quickly identify the problem it solves and illustrate how migadu fixes it.

take a look at this article: https://blog.roastmylandingpage.com/landing-page-roasts/
A fun exercise for you! Next time you hear about "diversity and inclusion," sit back to consider what the company in question actually does to promote an atmosphere of inclusion. Is it a slack message about celebrating XYZ Group Week, in the midst of an atmosphere where dissent is persecuted?
Is it similar to cloud9 ide?
For Python, I prefer decimal.Decimal[1]. When you serialize, you can either convert it to a string (and then have your deserializer know the field type and automatically encode it back into a decimal) OR just agree all numeric values can only be ints or decimals. You can pass parse_float=decimal.Decimal to json.loads[2] to make this easier.

My most obnoxious and spicy programming take is that ints an decimals should be built-in and floats should require imports. I understand why though: Decimal encoding isn't anywhere near as standardized as other numeric types like integers or floating-point numbers.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html
[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html
That's not what they were doing. They were filtering out normal Liberal ideas.
> which was tested on an MIT building rooftop. The system delivered pure water that exceeded city drinking water standards, at a rate of 5.78 liters per square meter

I would be very interested to see data on this vs. sunlight and climate conditions, in what weeks/month of the year they tested it. I think its effectiveness would be highest at MIT's location from late April to end of September and considerably less in colder/overcast/less sunny weather and winter.
Student loans are almost entirely made by the government.
It’s just wild to me seeing how cancelling student debt, a proposal which is effectively targeted towards the middle class and helps the poorest Americans who don’t go to college not an inch, has become seen as a key social justice issue in the same vein as medical debt or criminal justice reform. I understand the incentives, but come on, you’d expect a bit more self awareness.
Either a fixed-point decimal (i.e. an integer with the ones representing 1/100, 1/1000, etc. of a dollar, or a ratio type if you need arbitrary precision.
This website is flagged as malware/inappropriate at my institution.
I agree that influencers are creators in the generic sense, and certainly don't mean to dismiss their creativity or skill. That being said, context is important. When creators are contrasted to influencers, the context implies that motivation is being considered.
I'm happy to pay whatever I'm paying for what you're offering. I had create two support tickets so far and both were dealt with very quickly and by an actual human which makes me trust you guys with my data even more.
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Yeah in the 1978s you could say that climate scientists were pretty sure this would happen, not fully understood yet, by the mid 80s it was certain. All of the typical objections you hear from friends or see in articles or think tank pieces are issues that were sorted out in the 1980s. ("it's the sun!, it is natural cycles!, it is happening but not because of humans!") all of that, reasonable questions in the 1970s, figured out by the mid 1980s, still tossed around today by people who think or pretend to be seriously thinking about this.
Do you have the money still?