skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But "pessimist" is more characters to type...

And, cynically, I see an amazing amount of selfishness around Covid.

One side won't wear masks because it impinges their freedom, and they'd rather have their freedom than not have vulnerable people die.

The other side wants to get everyone to do what they're supposed to do so that they (the ones demanding that others do what they should) can get back to living like they want, and never mind if they run over others' freedom or limitations on governmental authority or whatever. (Yes, I know, the second group is also concerned about the vulnerable. But it seems to me that at least some of the outrage comes from "Things should go the way I want them to, and it's unacceptable that the actions of others take that away from me.")
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While we live in an idealistic democracy, in truth we live in a plutocracy. Tech has become one of the venues to become a plutocrat and wield influence that a single vote in a representative republic can't even imagine.
I don't think there are any "middle options" that result in a good product. You want a localized app, but you don't want to put the work in.

If you add some new text somewhere in the UI, you need to start the app and make sure it looks right. If you only do that for one language, and don't check other languages, then there's going to be one language that's broken.

So your app is going to look broken in one language. And you probably will never find out, because the people who run into the bug don't speak your language.
Really pains me to see this happen. I guess I didnt really know my country, and unfortunately while it was nice to pull myself out of poverty in principal I suppose I have to go back -- simply cannot fit into this mindset/stuff/whatever it is.

Im not an anti vaxxer -- i just dont agree with this sort of mind set, much less the surrounding glee.
Indeed. The context here is:

> As a non-physicist who only knows QM from popular science texts, I always thought that wave function collapse does not require any human intervention and that this can be shown.

When pop sci treatments explain that any physical system interacting with the apparatus "measures" it, they are just talking about what you call "pre-measurement." This causes a lot of confusion for students.
update:

"To everyone in the NeXTSTEP community (and it is a community) but also to @mattl I apologize for saying Mac OS X apps are files not folders."
(I left MS recently)

Eh, I don't think it's any different than the general trend of people moving around. 23 years at a company would indicate that it's been a pretty solid place to work.
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I guess my main disagreement is that private solutions dn't have to be greedy and community solutions are often driven by it. I think we want the same or similar things, we disagree about the process?
Troll farms are associated with those who have more money than committed activists. Whatever you may think of the left, it tends to have the opposite. - maybe the vague center left at the level of Jeff Bezos could that but even here, you have money proportionate to committed followers.

the opposite of the military industrial complex

There's no money in anti-militarism. antiwar.com is a libertarian (ie right) website but it has survive on donations. Troll farm pay for opinions, that's a pretty specific thing.

Edit: Reading the article, this farm apparently supported some "left wing" causes. But basically it comes down to money.
“Tuition covered” means student loans, not waivers.

Someone I loved was accepted at a school like Stanford with a similar policy. The good news was the entire $50k tuition (10 years ago) was covered, the bad news was that meant $1500 in work study, $6k in scholarships, and $43.5k in student loans guaranteed. Plus $10k for room and board.

The way schools word this is such a dark pattern.
Legally: none. Making accepted applicants disrespect you? Infinite.
I'm not sure with this instance but I do know that people complained since CF is the antithesis of privacy and the free internet.
For Short term like intra or swing it works under certain conditions, but opportunities are less eg, MA crossover, breakouts etc.
Technicals mostly does not work for long term trading, prolly fundamentals can help in that case
The article doesn't talk about fractional reserve. It talks about commercial banks creating money by extending loans. It also talks about QE as another way of creating money by the central bank, when commercials banks aren't creating enough money.
Dr Fauci finally gets exposed
What if I've also lost my sense of touch? I think it should also have to disperse a sulfur agent into the air, just to be safe.
> More directly, empirical knowledge obtained via experts, science or scientism is unreliable as compared to our a priori knowledge about the nature of man.

How so exactly? What is your a priori knowledge of "the nature of man?" It obviously derives from introspection, since any knowledge of humans other than yourself is by definition empirical. So what you're really saying is that you personally find there to be moral hazards inherent in this scheme (i.e. you would be inclined to abuse it if you were in a position to do so), and you impute that to the rest of humanity, even though, according to your argument, your knowledge of their nature is inherently unreliable.

Setting aside this fallacious line of reasoning, I still have no idea what your actual point is.
I presume what the parent poster is referring to isn’t ads but spam images posted by people whose accounts have been compromised. They promise huge discounts on ray ban sun glasses. I still haven’t gotten my pair of $20 wayfarers!
It's not that German has a "unique word" for things, it's that they use compound words: multiple words written together without space to form a new word. This is a feature found in most Germanic languages except English, because reasons. It's just that German is the most commonly translated of them.

So, for example, in Dutch you would write sciencefictiontelevisieserie instead of "science fiction television series"; it's not an "unique word", just four words strung together. There are some examples that can be quite long; the longest in the dictionary is meervoudigepersoonlijkheidsstoornissen, or "multiple personality disorders", although you can easily make it longer by adding more words: meervoudigepersoonlijkheidsstoornisbehandeling ("multiple personality disorder treatment") or meervoudigepersoonlijkheidsstoornisbehandelaaropleiding ("multiple personality disorder treatment education"). I miss this in English by the way; you can get creative with it and form new compound words quite easily.

Sometimes the addition or lack of a space can change something quite a lot, so you can't just insert them because it's convenient.

It sure can be annoying fitting these things in boxes at times though.

[1]: https://twitter.com/spatiegebruik/status/1434538804883427330
>Do you honestly think people willingly work at McJobs that still require them to live on food stamps when they have better options available to them, like living with their parents?!

Living with their parents is an alternate option, that may or may not be the better option. Maybe it is cheaper and has comparable living standards, but at the same time it might also be in the middle of nowhere. The point is that there's a choice available, which isn't the case for indentured servitude.

>Amazon's warehouse workers are not buying organic takeout or getting luxury condominiums [...]

I specifically said they're not all doing it. I brought that up not to disparage the plight of the average amazon worker, but to point out just factoring in room and board fails to account for certain cases.
> when still it took several clicks to find the name of the author

Well, for 0 clicks the post is noted "by Brian", and for one click the blog's About page identifies him as "Brian Skinner[,] an assistant professor in theoretical condensed matter physics."

What are you talking about?
Bureaucracy.
Nature very rarely tries to splice pox with influenza. Humans, OTOH, do all sorts of unnatural experiments. See the log of US-funded research in Wuhan.
Do we know that the salt won't leave the sea? I know sand from African deserts can blow all the way across the Atlantic to the Amazon; is there any similar concern to salt building up to toxic levels in other ecosystems?
Isn't too surprising for a movie released in 1999?
Can I have a personalized Privacy setting? This ad bubble is getting all kinds of weird. Personalized is more like penalized.
What Is Segmentation in an Operating System?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuS3dxKK9U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DSdw7dHjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX3uCuFKlqw
The article talks about this American focus on private land, compared to Europe as a barrier to just buying land.

I think there is a middle ground, probably just using tax/stimulus incentives + zoning. The article mentions flood insurance, get rid of that it would be unaffordable for most to live in these places.

It's silly to spend billions rebuilding the same places over and over again. Didn't they replace the large transmission towers a few years ago, just for them to blow over again. With no backups in place.

I understand these are homes and lives and families. But that money would be better spent helping them transition. A lot of us will fall into this category, not just the coasts. Hell I'm even thinking of moving to a higher elevation (Denver) it's 95+ today and I can barely breath with all the smoke and pollution.

Though a good benefit of protecting smaller areas with extreme passion is that density is probably better for emissions too.
I'd say anonymity is sufficient but not necessary :D
Yeah and what an awful, insane and disconnected decision! If my intelligence is so insulted at square one, who the hell would I be working with if I accepted lol. People with no intellect or self respect?
Regulations about breaks don't really cover this situation. The gist, as I understand, is that Amazon requires workers to meet very specific productivity metrics such that the employment becomes a trade-off between efficiency and employee well-being. My understanding is that there isn't anything in the books that quantify exactly what's the minimum acceptable amount of "slacking off" an employee is allowed to engage in (I'm using the term "slacking off" loosely here to mean anything that isn't strictly actively engaging 100% in whatever is considered "productive"). In other words, there's nothing that specifically says "employers can't get you into hot water because you walked too slow from this shelf to that shelf"

The thing I constantly find weird about California regulation these days is how short sighted and micro-managey it all is. This one clearly is explicitly targeted at Amazon, the AB5/Prop 22 pair is specifically targeted at Uber/Lyft, etc.

It strikes me as a deep lack of understanding about how policy making is supposed to work. Ideally, policy is supposed to be something you get experts to research holistically, present data on and implement based on certain expectations of how pros and cons are supposed to play out. California policy making looks to me more like a reactive game of whack-a-mole, trying to put out whatever is the fire du jour with hacks and bandaids and hoping the new rules don't cause any collateral damage.
I really would like to believe your prophecy but want to offer a few rebuttals...

> the government really doesn't like a challenge to its power.

But the government as a whole hasn't really made up its mind. There are a few junior congresspeople who are vocal about monopoly problems with Big Tech. But senior Democrat congresspeople from Big Tech states have not uttered a word against Big Tech. Even senior Republicans, and republicans have been at the receiving end of Big Tech censorship, are loath to antitrust as they have started conflating checks on Big Tech monopoly with checks on free enterprise. In short, government will has not coalesced around antitrust action against Big Tech.

I don't know if Big Tech can be stopped by the government. A possibility I see is that the stock market bubble pops, Fed money printing loses its ability to inflate tech stocks, leading to a decline in Big Tech power.
What ever happened to "my body my choice"? I'm vaccinated because it was the right choice for me. I don't agree with mandating it for everyone.
I mean people have been putting cameras in their cars for more than 10 years. And at some point, with the advancement of neural interface tech, the line between eyes and cameras would start to become blurry.
>This is the media breathlessly reporting "Amazon bravely fixes SQL injection bug by disallowing special chars!" while every person who's thought about this for more than a minute goes "why the hell are y'all celebrating, that doesn't fix anything."

but it does? It's not the ideal fix, but it does prevent sql injections.

>It's not hard to fix. It just requires the will do to it.

Fixing the soaring cost of education is a non-trivial problem.
There is hope!

> Two trucks were used for building "The People Eater Limousine". One for closeup shots and the second for stunts and the final explosion scene.
Would that >= license be enforceable in court? It seems lame to create a license that forces you to agree to whatever future license changes come about.
Fed's reserve requirement is currently zero percent. Multiple of zero is zero.
In this case the "classical state" would just be a preferred basis for the polarization. And basically what I'm saying is "If superpositions of polarizations aren't real, why is there such a natural way to change the basis so that any given polarization isn't in superposition?".

Analogy: if simultaneity is absolute, why is it so easy to confuse people about what happened at the same time by changing my speed?
> kernel operations are faster than userland operations

Call me a pedant but this grinds my gears. The speed my CPU will carry out instructions is not determined by if it's in a kernel or user context. Avoiding making switches between those contexts certainly means less work though.
At the same time, leaving after 23 years for a reason other than retirement suggests something changed.

I have no insight into the company as you do, but that is the first impression I’d get from the circumstances. People don’t stay at a company for 23 years only to jump ship for the same reasons early-career people jump around.
Sure, it's not the license itself. But this does read like a problem. It's difficult to imagine that the authors of libbfd licensed it under GPLv3 because they wanted to ensure that no one would link it against perf. Maybe they do have strong feelings about supporting that license.

But this is an example of the ugly side of open source licensing. A lot of people don't have strong feelings about ensuring the distribution terms of their code, and just don't care how it's used. And in those cases, it can be annoying to have e.g. opensource.org insist that GPLv3 is the best option.

Edit: To be more specific, I mean that this problem could be avoided if both softwares were released under a public-domain-equivelent license. But of course, that will never happen.
> that 95% of the effort is from vested interests who prefer the status quo

The incumbent power structure has both wealth and incentive to resist change. Underdogs usually don't.
This is how I approach the Internet as a whole. Treat unverified anything as if they are the enemy trying to hurt you. Be skeptical. It's a real shame too because the Internet is one of mankind's crowning achievements but it has this taint.
Happy Thursday buddy.

The premise of your question doesn't relate to that last part, (masculinity vs men, different things) but I can answer the last part: they do get the same level of support maybe even better, but no, they shouldn't receive specific support reserved for folks with different obstacles.

I like white men! Love everyone! I dislike excuses around "poor me"s from folks that lack perspective on how they have it better, (I did not say good, said better). And not all white dudes feel sorry for themselves and blame "society", or college, or women, or other skin colors, or etc... Those folks are awesome to hang with. I'll hang with anyone, but you'll get an ear full if you bring that stuff up and are a white dude, still friendly though.

THE RELEVANCE OF MY HAIR IS EVERYTHING, I am in my 30's and it's committing suicide everyday, I'll talk about it while I still can. (You really hate my jokes, still like you though)

I usually don't care if you don't answer my questions but I was truly truly hoping you'd answer what you think masculinity is, I answered for you, come on now.
what basis do you have for this specific allegation?
Banks don’t lend out deposits to they create money that is then eliminated when the debt is paid back.

To create money banks need a certain amount of capital this is governed by capital requirements most of which come from the capital invested into the bank through share purchases.

Many countries have no reserve requirements at all, BOE specifically doesn’t even issue them any longer.
> 10. Riemersma KA, Grogan BE, Kirta-Yarbo A, et al. Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Individuals Have Similar Viral Loads in Communities with a High Prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant. medRxiv. 2021 Jul 31; https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387external

Not particularly supportive of the thesis your are arguing for. Perhaps you could narrow down a bit the range of papers that support 'vaccines prevent infection / transmission' thesis?
I think Richard Werner's empirical research on how banks create money is probably better than anything put out by the banking system itself, including the central banks.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265909749_Can_Banks...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283907413_Do_banks_...

His work made realize that not even the banking system fully understands the banking system.

(Werner is the economist that coined the term Quantitative Easing, originally created to describe Japanese post-WWII economic re-development monetary policy, research that later informed the US Fed's response to the GFC, among other things)
The point I'm making here is that the device becomes useless without said service, even though there's no valid technical reason for this dependency.
Ah, yes. Another online service that curates news content and extorts huge fees from the already dying news scene.

I'll give it a few months before questions about content moderation arise.
He's been at Microsoft for 23 years and it's basically the only company he's ever worked at. He's also over 60. I can't blame him for wanting to try something else with the tail end of his career.
Another example I saw was "(N) seconds ago" (e.g., "30 seconds ago") vs. just "seconds ago" (i.e., someone just posted this). They were translated into a single phrase. Hilarity ensued.
Attraction Comes from Doing These
That sounds like illegal wage fixing to me. Companies should not be able to disclose this kind of information to each other and twisting an employees arm to consent to such disclosure is questionable. Employees don't get enough information to do similar tactics to maximize their salaries so the end result is keeping salaries artificially low.

I think constant wage fixing has actually backfired for big tech. The savings in pay they have made might be an impressive number but it is very little compared to what they leave on the table whenever they fail at a software eating the world project, and they end up with a lot more competition from companies that can afford to match their compensation despite operating in much smaller markets and having very little profit relatively.
That's pretty useful, thanks.

I can setup a monitor (FOSS) for the computer that is doing the site monitoring, since I only use open source software that I can inspect.
Is having quotas itself a problem, or is it that the quotas are too demanding and rigid? From what I've read, it's very hard for most people to meet them, and injuries are common. Turnover is also very high. Quotas do have the benefit of being objective, which is good for workers too. It's harder for a manager to fire someone for discriminatory reasons if they're meeting an objective criteria, for example.

It seems like instead you could make the quotas challenging, but not to an extent that they're impossible for most people to meet without injuring themselves. You could also have some (but not infinite) flexibility to allow for bathroom and lunch breaks.
You’re right, but it’s worth pointing out that the other party being slowed down by these rules are corporations that are paying influencers to post ads, some of which are quite large. They’re losing a source of sneaky ads hidden as genuine personal endorsement.
"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work.

The statement implies a lack of understanding of what currency is.

Currency is inherently a social construct, and there is no 'avoiding it' because that's 'what it is'.

We could try to avoid it by having for example very 'hard money'. We could just use Gold to back all currency.

This wouldn't work in normal conditions, almost assuredly leading to deflationary spirals, but given that a total lack of monetary policy, and a 100% chance of a 'Black Swan' event, which happen every 10 years or so ... the first crisis would wipe out the economy.

The 2008 crisis and COVID would have knocked all the dominos down. (Yes, there are good arguments that there would have been less risk in 2008 with better currency, but the conditions still remain).

Of course, on the other end of the spectrum - you have 'abuse of monetary policy' which is bad, which is what Crypto would like to get rid of, but I'm afraid there's very little opportunity there.

"It's time we had the same thing for money."

No - this is a missatribution of the problem. For the same reason that BTC very quickly stopped being a currency and became 'kind of a store of value' (really just speculation), you can see the issue is not 'trust'. As people begin to speculate and as it increases in value, businesses cannot use it as a currency, and, people are likely to hoard it.

So if we want a 'better currency' what we need is a 'better monetary policy'.

Unfortunately, that part is fairly entrenched.

Because currency is so intertwined with the nature of the economy, it's hard to separate.

Alternatively - you could develop an 'easily tradable asset' that is backed by other assets, like property, but that would still require centralization.

Or you could start your own economy, and use a kind of Seigneurage and export the currency, allow other nations to use it, but again, requires trust.

BTC was a nice experiment but it's not going to work for reasons that are fairly predictable and obvious to people on the finance side of the fence.
Or you realize that you've spent basically your entire professional career at one place and this is your last chance to try something different.
What do you think printing BTC means? They don't have an actual printing press that prints bitcoins. Instead they create a transaction that credits a BTC address but debits no addresses, thus creating new bitcoins out of thin air. On the bitcoin blockchain the number of bitcoins that can be created in this way is limited, but off-chain there is no such limit. A bitcoin exchange can credit an internal account with a number of bitcoins that it has created out of thin air, in exactly the same way that bitcoins are created on-chain, in effect increasing the total supply of bitcoins.