skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're confused about the forum you're in. If you have a counter argument to people's arguments, all the power to you and you're more than welcome to discuss, in the hopes that we can learn something more about it. But if your argument is mere willful assertion of what is already stated, or is calling people names, kindly back off.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Normally I wouldn't want to honor your manner of discourse by responding to it, but I want to make the case that one can still discuss the contents of an argument despite emotionality;

> You turn to apathetic nihilism because your only alternative is panic. I myself have turned to opt-out nihilism—I try not to own stuff, don’t have progeny, looking to isolate on a small farm.

I personally am pretty optimistic and excited regarding the prospects of tackling this problem, because embedded in it a plethora of large scale multi-agent coordination problems we ought to solve, and we do have the capacity for it. Incidentally, I think individual level solutions don't necessarily have the strategic depth to address what is essentially a problem of scale. But if you think you're doing the right thing, more power to you, at least at your scale you couldn't harm things even if you wanted to.

> Greta seems to be on a much better track: trying to influence the people who can make the decisions that will improve the outcomes.

Does her influence look like a success to you? It doesn't to me. Maybe there is a self-fulfilling prophecy in talking down to people, or appeals to romantic emotionality, instead of bringing the best and the most rational in them. Maybe rampant consumerism and lack of higher-order thinking to maneuver climate change are sibling problems, both intimately related to the problem of stupefaction of the masses.

Maybe calling people names is part of the shame-politics that attempt to turn adults into temporary children. Hijacking our deepest fears of ostracism in the name of some ostensible "greater good", but inadvertently reducing people's agency and higher order thinking, both of which are deeply needed to steer out of the problem.
> Naked short selling is running rampant and the system is protecting these crooks who essentially resell the same shares repeatedly.

> Stock trading must inevitably take place on a blockchain: it is the only means to publicly verify accurate data. The current system with self-reported data and slap on the wrist fines is completely ridiculous.

I don’t know if blockchain tech is up to the task, but I agree in the context of non-negotiable, immutable transparency. It’s the only way we’ll ever find out just how corrupt Wall Street actually is. IMO the answer is very!
But every member has a veto. You never needed to convince 28 countries, you only needed to convince your own government to vote against. Plenty of laws stuck in limbo because one country doesn't like it - but exactly zero laws on the books that sosme country really hates.
Using Rust's stdlib isn't out of the question for the kernel, at least not the most fundamental bits of the stdlib. Rust offers a well-defined subset of its stdlib, called libcore, that is suitable for embedded work: no allocations, no OS-provided abstractions, etc. So you don't get HashMap or Vec, but you do get Option, Iterator, str (but not String, the heap equivalent), etc.
sure! lets have these people living at the absolute edge of their means take time, have the knowledge to find a good attorney, have transporation, and have the capital to pay a retainer...Meanwhile, not having access to their funds has serious immediate consequences that can (1) mean it the customer can't bring the case to fruition and/or (2) make any resolution effectively meaningless.

This is where a justice system and a law system diverge...justice without meaningful access is symbolic.
They are going to rebid this - maybe with multiple awards possible.
crypto already allows one to buy AAPL token, privately, at 3am EST, for a ~$.1-$5 tx fee.

Not bad for the 1st decade of a long story.
In the vacuum cleaner episode @ 20:34

"This is a pig, built for The Pink Floyd, by a local firm."
It should be a strict-liability crime to operate a prison in which someone dies, and not have video of the death.
>Villages in Spain and elsewhere use light wall colors, roof overhangs and narrow streets/walkways to keep paths shaded and cool.

Spain also had 12,963 excess deaths in the 2003 heatwave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave#Spain

You can absolutely have a city without air conditioning. Humans have done it for thousands of years. The well-known tradeoff is that you are going to lose some elderly people during the summer.
I read Turchin's site extensively... and I can say this is NOT what this is about.

Turchin is talking about when you have too much elite in general, not necessarily smart or educated elite, compared to spots where the elite can fit, and then what happens because of that.

This applies to any leadership role.

For example, what happens when there is only one Emperor spot, but a handful of candidates?

They murder each other.

Now, what happens when you have THOUSANDS of candidates, as China once did in the past?

Well... then you end with civil war, in China's case more than once centuries-long civil war.

Now larger scale, what about non-king nobility? Like Dukes, Counts, and so on? Again, same thing, if you have too many nobles compared to physical places for them to rule, you end with more and more wars, as the nobles without a fief start to recruit people to attempt to take a fief by force or cunning.

Turchin mention advanced university degrees as a symptom of this, in a world where nobility doesn't exist anymore properly... what would be the USA equivalent of aristocrats or king candidates?

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a non political example:

Suppose you have a military. What happens if you start to promote a ton of people to be general? If you have 10 high command spots, but 200 generals, how the 200 generals will sort out what 10 of them will rule?
Thanks for the link. Really enjoyed this take on individualism
Hermit-in-residence doesn't sound so terribly different from artist-in-residence or writer-in-residence.

It seems like more of a framing issue, "garden hermit" feels like an eccentric ostentation, writer-in-residence feels like philanthropic patronage
Equity futures are constructed around, on settlement date, delivery of the underlying shares to long contract holders from short contract holders. They're called SSFs for short. [1]

There are cash-settled futures too, but they're usually for things that don't sit well in a brokerage account like "a NASDAQ" or crypto, for instance.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/optioninvestor/06/sing...
If things are so complex that someone can lose their money through an intricate set of rules, that's exactly the type of scummy behavior that we are talking about. It's not a matter of "whose" fault it is, but rather that a faceless group benefit from this type of behavior, and it is so complex that it is nearly impossible to avoid.

And there are no consequences.

Sometimes, it's a computer responsible for the decision.

These would not be so lightly regarded if someone had true consequences for this behavior. It turns into a complete lack of societal trust, something that people in turn are taken advantage by.
This reminds me of “A Libertarian Walks into a Bear.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-int...
Rather than "just" Open source CAD I would like to see Open Source CAD-like applications. Well, at least in my mind CAD is something kind of specific and carries a lot of design assumptions with it.

I feel there is a lot of cool stuff you can build in the space of building shapes using constraints. Like visual programming languages made to visualize mathematical relationships using geometry.
Seems like the scandals at Google affect the bottom line far more than at other companies (Amazon, Coinbase, etc.). The inability to form and push consensus points to a leadership problem in my book.
How can one decide to have a baby in 2021 being aware of these kind of events happening now or scheduled to happen rather soon?
> The notion that physical pain could be banished from most people's lives would have seemed absurd. Today most of us in the technically advanced nations take its routine absence for granted.

LOL, that's absurd. I'm working from bed (again) because of constant back pain that spikes to unbearable if I stay upright for too long.
Right, if the UT has a mistaken idea of its position, it won't find the satellites that it is looking for in orbit, and simply not work. Alternatively, if it DID find satellites, then it will know at least what cell it is in (how big are these?) regardless of the spoofed GPS fix.
I guess they are not interested; Microsoft recently shut down its Azure blockchain service[0] for example. Facebook made its own crypto coin but I am afraid that will lead to nowhere. Google and Amazon are not very interested as well so real cryptographers and real computer scientists are working on other stuff and on other problems.

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-shutting-down-its...
"the new monetization strategy" doesn't seem like a correct characterization of MEV.
> Hardly any game needs "thousands of interacting entities" though (outside of special subsystems like particle systems).

This is an example of survivorship bias. How many ambitious game concepts have collapsed under performance/architecture issues that lead to productivity-killing refactoring? Impossible to say, but no doubt many.

> Arguably, ECS makes it harder to incrementally build a game by adding features, because you need to put more effort into designing the data layout upfront.

OOP bakes these decisions into the inheritance hierarchy, which ends up being more thorny than adding a component, or migrating an existing component's schema. ECS will make it straightforward to determine which Systems will be affected when a particular Component's schema is altered.
They are if the license allows for it.
Why the downvote, i would really like to know and how it would be applied.
He is, there's plenty of small towns in Texas inspired by what you see in Germany, the author just hasn't visited them. Texas has a massive Irish, Czech and German populations and culture. Dublin, TX is one of many examples (pop. 3,654). Like pretty much all Texas small towns it has a downtown you can walk end to end within 15 minutes. One main street going through it. Local coop and most things you need. What did I miss?

Fredericksburg & New Braunfels have major German culture and German buildings from the 1800s, but they are larger cities now as they have expanded, but the downtown areas reflect what you guys want, but ya' know, connected to the world via roads.

Most of Texas small towns have co-ops, communities of 3000 give or take, and it's all walkable and drivable (usually one road going through them linking towns via backroads)

Usually they are pretty self sufficient because they are isolated, but you still need roads to connect the outer farms and other towns for supplies to reach downtown, and when you want to travel to bigger cities for larger hospitals, cinemas, family, clubs, etc. In West Texas you need it especially because good luck growing anything there.

This author is just ignoring existing culture and trying to apply direct European culture ignoring the fact that immigrants from those cultures have already merged and influenced small towns across Texas.

My advice, take a road trip through the backroads that connect Texas, you'll get a large dose of many cultures, nice people, great food, and massive highschool football games for entertainment on Friday nights.
> Benefits: 24/7, lower fees, less financial incumbent insiders front running your trades, less retail traders giving data of their every move to financial incumbent insiders, privacy.

The same can be said of monopoly money.
I just expect this would happen and so it’s one of my main reasons to keep shopping in store. We tend to shop instead of procure off a strict list.
You'd be surprised then how fast things bend and eventually break under government rule.
GCP is nearly useless for any sort of regulated work.

Privacy, compliance, and stability aren't GCP's strong suite (by 'compliance', I mean several types, but to the greatest extent, being able to count on an API you use today existing tomorrow)

Rather oddly, Microsoft has historically gotten this nearly perfect.

I'm a bit sketched out by the increasingly malicious nature of Windows (spyware, adware, etc.), and if that same mentality translates into other offerings, this may be moot in a few years, but for now, Azure+Office 365 are the preferred vendor if you're dealing with data which really needs to proper controls.

(Although I do trust Amazon over Microsoft for the technical aspects of security)
Infection rate protection of 64% is the key number because of Long Covid.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/health/covid-19-patients....

A study of 2 million people with Covid.
1/4 had symptoms 1 month and later after the initial infection.
1/5 of those were asymptomatic -- they did not know that they had Covid until they complained of health issues consistent with others who had Covid and then were tested.

Areas of the US that are not well vaccinated will be having real problems, but even those that are vaccinated will have to be very, very careful.
That argument has been raised many times many times "oh your guns won't stand a chance against military bombers and tanks" but that is logically flawed for two reasons:

1. If that were the case, then what's even the point of freedom of speech or any individual liberty either since the government can always trample them without a problem? You could use that reasoning to argue against literally anything that the government would oppose.

2. That's actually not the case as has been proven several times in history - including recently in Afghanistan as of this moment. The ground troops of Taliban haven't been able to be defeated - neither by USA (for 20 years) nor by the Soviets few decades ago.

Another example would be USA losing to Vietnam.

In a war scenario where the guns are used, both sides do not simply line up & start shooting and whoever has the biggest guns wins. Guerrillas can beat massive armies and ammo. If inferior forces couldn't defeat bigger stronger ones, then the Arabs and British would still be ruling everywhere.

As someone mentioned this in another post: "The argument is generally that a well-armed civilian populace is ungovernable without their consent. Could a modern army nuke them or firebomb them into oblivion? Sure. But then they'd be "governing" a burnt-out husk of a country and likely have become an international pariah to boot. Occupying a hostile territory while keeping the population alive and productive involves having a relatively small number of soldiers on the ground managing things and keeping people in line, and that system rapidly becomes infeasible if the locals are far more numerous and armed with semi-automatic weapons. Of course the odds of a situation like that happening are extremely low, but then again my grandparents never imagined the possibility of their country being occupied during WW2 either, so who knows what the future can bring."
I wonder what the budget comparison is to just hiring people to do it?
This seems like a win for Oracle.

What I imagine the outcome will be is dozens of “smaller” billion $ government cloud contracts totally more than the original $10B.
I've been wondering something, though: wouldn't it be possible to implement regular EC-style components on top of an ECS system?

You can't implement ECS on top of EC, but if it's possible the other way around, Godot's argument that most people won't need it would seem a bit weak — just let them use fat components on top of an ECS core, and if/when they need the performance there's still room to push it without side-stepping the whole engine.
Does anyone know why there is a giant pcb with an array of little chips on it? This is not a normal satellite dish. How does it work?
Alarm fatigue.
The answer to all of your questions is no, but this kind of discussion belongs on reddit anyways.
Whining is not illegal, if you can whine about a license change, you should.
From TFA:

> Users can trade the tokens anonymously 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from anywhere, unhindered by capital controls, “know your client” rules imposed on broker-dealers, and other frictions of the traditional financial system.

These are certainly new innovations and features, be they good or bad.
In the actual space program of the time pretty much everyone was a Ph.D. as well as a peak physical specimen.

In Star Trek's future, space travel is commonplace and there are almost certainly non-experts in starship crew roles; Ensign Redshirt, who gets killed by the planetside monster, probably doesn't have an advanced degree.
I personally feel like college institutions get way too much freedom to act as predatory as they do regarding student loans and education. So many 18 year olds are told to go to college and get a degree only to come out a 22 year old with no work skills or legitimate life experience unless they were fortunate enough to get an internship. Then they have to eventually either swallow their pride and work a garbage paying job for a while or get lucky working for somewhere that actually pays decently in wage and/or experience.

I'm currently a return student, and based off of the data my school collected for the 2019 year, the top majors were: Business Administration, Psychology, Biology, Organizational Leadership, and Nursing.

General business degrees are as worthless as english degrees. They don't teach you anything about actual business and you will not be able to just get a job. You'd have a better shot beating out external candidates applying from within at a low level position...almost every time. Psych and Bio, predominantly taken by females at my school (almost 80%). Again, another worthless field unless you go on to get a MS or Ph.D...of which none at this school do because it's a very low end state school. So there's another thing schools forget to mention about certain degrees. The next one is a general business degree for online transfer students at most schools in the area who just want to check off a "I have a Bachelors" box at application time. Then Nursing (again, predominantly women) which is actually a very hard field to pass but is basically a golden ticket to employment universally here. But that doesn't even hold a candle to those 4 ahead of it.

This base set of data shows that schools are marketing toward the undecided crowd or the people without the jaded understanding that real life can be a bitch. It doesn't care what you think should be the rules. And these schools take extreme advantage of it. Not to mention these schools get tax payer funding but have virtually no oversight as to how the school runs things. The head chair of my Comp Sci department is a guy with a Ph.D in physics! I know that's fairly normal, but it's pretty ridiculous that this guy is making decisions on us having to take an AI class over advanced database administration or making InfoSec students know OOP and programming.
Up to people who do understand it to expose the ones voting for it.
Send me an email and I'll be happy to share specifics.
I wonder if there are any similar philosophical discourses about graffiti scene and street art? Thanks for sharing BTW.
Infection rate protection of 64% is the key number because of Long Covid.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/health/covid-19-patients....

A study of 2 million people with Covid. 1/4 had symptoms 1 month and later after the initial infection. 1/5 of those were asymptomatic -- they did not know that they had Covid until they complained of health issues consistent with others who had Covid and then were tested.

Areas of the US that are not well vaccinated will be having real problems, but even those that are vaccinated will have to be very, very careful.
In college many years ago. I worked at a small pet store. Managers wore red shirts rest of us blue.

Customer walked in, looked at 4 of us. Other 3 wore red I had blue. Customer went to me as I was clearly the manager.

That was the day I realized 75% of the staff was managers.
There's always speculation. But yeah, definitely nothing else.
> fork had a serious intent

> given option purely for jokes

This doesn't mix well and looks like a rigged poll for me. Even in Tropico if you allow election and lose it you lose the mission.
wow! this is really excellent.
I've long joked that the most beautiful word in the English language is not "cellar door", but "sale".
Its more complex than this. You cant put complex questions to simple referendum as a yes/no question (see brexit). Law making requires compromise and seeing the whole picture and its very easy to get people to say yes (or no) just depending on how you frame the question.

Great example is maternity leave: amazing thing, exists across Europe for a length of 4 to 36 months. In some countries moms can take nearly three years off, and still get paid. Great in principle but after three years (or more with more kids) those moms basically have no chance to get a job in their field as their knowledge is outdated and they often end in precarious low wage low skill jobs. I'm 200% in favour of maternity leave, but if you set the incentives wrong you don't help families more - you just kick women out of the workforce. So how do you put a referendum on this? You need trial, expertise, analysis - not a simple 'do you want 12 or 36 months of paid maternity leave' as most voters don't understand the long term consequences.
Seems to still exist in India

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/riot-brok...
people who live in countries that are under US sanctions i would presume? I'm not an expert on this stuff but I'd be surprised if buying or selling US securities was not heavily restricted for people in sanctioned countries like Iran.
Anytime anyone posits post-scarcity society I cringe a little. Human wants are infinite; atoms on Earth are finite (and take considerable time and energy to move around).
That seems like stocking bins is a solvable automation problem too. Trucks can be unloaded by vaguely smart forklift bots. Box moving bots are a thing already. Box cutting bot? They showed an item picking bot in the video: look at the barcode, maybe do a little tetris and fill a bin with them. Empty box crushing bot? Repeat.
> The world is not ending - Its going to get by just fine.

We may be turning this planet into a lifeless rock. Other planets like Mars and Venus are "getting by just fine" by that measure. We may not be able to induce a total runaway greenhouse effect but killing off the oceans and making much of the planet inhospitable is still on the table. Really though, environmentalism is more about saving ourselves than our planet.

Our sun won't last forever and eventually the Earth will be totally destroyed. The less we have to struggle with survival due to what we've allowed to be done to the Earth the more we can work towards finding new homes.
Today's Unicorns have bigger and longer losses than Amazon, Still No Turnaround
What I learned the hard way from naming 30 startups