skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly disagree. There is already informal voting (aka donkey vote), people who want to use their vote as a "screw you" have to choose between a number of candidates/parties, so who they are "screwing" is pretty hard to tell.

I actually think compulsory voting brings forward the importance of thinking about the consequences of voting, and voting for candidates that have the same values. Granted this can be manipulated (and is) with ads etc but getting people use to being involved I think is far better than making it optional and creating people that either never vote or a population that does when things are "bad" and an apathetic group when things are "good".
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Some people really are effective 12 hrs a day 7 days a week. I've seen it. It's rare, but not super rare.
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Almost: This anecdote is in the novel _Cat's Cradle_. His subsequent novels did not have indexes that I recall.
Are people not allowed hobbies? Are we only allowed to do both what we are good at and what will have the most impact?
While that's an improvement and a welcome one, Sydney (and even Melbourne) seem to still be lagging in cost-of-living terms.

But, more importantly, Big Tech senior engineer total comp is rapidly pushing to $US500K+.
Apple has done this for a long time too. I used to be an ipod believer, but then I tried to put music onto one using anything other than itunes. Obviously, that was a long time.

But woe be unto the apple user who wants to interoperate with a non-apple thing.
They just have to keep adding new items faster than you can listen to them!
> It really feels sometimes that the only thing the average Australian cares about is the price of their property portfolio.

Maybe the sample average of the people you hang around is quite different from the population average.

The average Australian can't even afford to have a property portfolio, let alone caring about one.
What a straw man argument in that article. "not a democracy" simply refers to avoiding decisions based on the public opinion that sways in the wind, sometimes dramatically. See vaccine and mask mandates.
95% of what I see many ordinary users do with a computer these days is mediated from within a browser window (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox). Those browsers seem to work just fine on MacOS or a Linux desktop.
The speedup is marginal and hardly perceivable. This theory Apple is slowing older phones to sell new models is simply untrue. On the other hand I challenge anyone to show me a perceivable difference between a 60 and 100Hz display. I think it just wastes energy. After all, if Apple didn’t waste that additional power budget from dropping a process node, then the device might last twice as long and battery aging wouldn’t be an incentive to buy a new phone anymore. Guess everyone missed that trick
U mean the language where they use unsafe, to throw away all the memory safety?
I would guess most banks survive on institutional momentum and regulatory preference towards cemented companies rather than providing quality service. I was once told by a security person in the banking industry that they were in the business of making money, not security.
The difference is the CCP is more aligned with the best interests of the country (not so much as individuals but as a whole) while Australian politicians are only interested in their own profits and those of their friends.
As an Australian, I should note that the reason positive cases were in the low hundreds — actually, low tens most of the time — was precisely because of the lockdowns. Once people stopped obeying the lockdowns, positive cases started rising, and we ended up with the current situation here in Sydney with ~1500 cases per day. The only reason it’s not any higher is because (a) we still have lockdown in place, and most people comply, and (b) we’re rapidly getting vaccinated as I type.

(And also, the lockdowns weren’t continuous by any measure. Lockdown restrictions were consistently relaxed as soon as cases dropped to single digits.)
Nvidia GeForce Now offers this for free, 1 hour at a time.

It barely worked in their web client but the desktop client worked pretty well.
> In Minneapolis they want to dismantle the existing police force and replace it with another.

Who are "they"?

Minneapolis has been a one-party city for decades.

There's nothing stopping that party from doing what it wants with the police force.

For bonus points, guess the party.
I have not gotten any offers to take the other side of my 10:1 offer...
Putting in more hours is key in jobs where you need experiential learning / want to get proficiency.

e.g. doctors become good at their jobs after their schooling by seeing as many patients as possible / doing as many procedures

This becomes less important once you become proficient / put in your 10,000 hours.
> negative gearing allows the average person investing to have the same tax advantages as a company investing (in anything), because for a company, only profits (revenue minus expenses) are taxed.

From a quick Google, it looks like companies are not entitled to CGT discounts. This means that forming a business would increase the tax you pay for almost everyone.

>If there were no "negative gearing" for investment properties, then either there would be fewer such properties, or people would have to form businesses to perform such investments (which adds an extra bit of friction with accounting and tax).

This doesn't sound like a bad thing. It would discourage people from speculating on the property market and outbidding owner/occupiers (which is a net negative for society) and encourage them to invest their money in productive businesses (which is a net positive).
Right, there's something disconcerting about the way people are behaving in this situation, and it's hard to process this as something that could reasonably happen. "I thought we were rational people in a free society?"

The terrible thing is that this is exactly how people behaved in "historical" times - a foreshadowing to what lies ahead. The vast majority of people believe we are post-history, and that we're somehow more rational and good than previous generations. This isn't true, and people are just as susceptible to insane fantasies as they've always been. We're in danger now because of these people.

What we're seeing is exactly what it looks like: mass psychosis on the level of witch-hunts, with incompetent and superstitious leaders trying to rule with underhanded measures. There's nothing to try to understand here, it's just time to wake up from the delusion that everything is stable and properly managed.
So why do Black people say that Republicans are trying to stop them from voting?

I can't tell if you're completely comfortable with the fact that no evidence exists supporting fraudulent voting, or if you just think it's A-OK to break a few black eggs in order to make the omelette of your desires.
Most species experience fertilization effect from CO2 all the way to 1000+ PPM, some to 2000PPM. Higher CO2 concentration reduces the loss of water, since the stomata don't need to be open as long.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomatal_conductance
That would be more believable if they let you do the same things. It would probably be more accurate to say they had to keep the old one because the new one is (still!) missing half the settings.
I addressed this in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28452001

To summarize, you have to have the ability to correct statistical aberrations after manufacture via extensive validation and testing, as opposed to design aberrations which can largely be eliminated through destructive iteration. Without the former process, you'll launch a million telescopes and not a single one will work.
My understanding of his argument goes something like this:

When you are solving a problem with a program, the program has two types of complexity; essential complexity which is needed to define the problem, and incidental complexity that comes from executing the program on the computer (variables, functions, class definitions, etc).

He argues that there is no way to eliminate the incidental complexity from the program without defining a DSL at the level of abstraction of the problem domain.

So a DSL for generating a flow chart would contain keywords for 'start', 'end', the various states and structure to join the states together, just the minimal amount needed to uniquely define the flowchart. Unlike when solving the problem using a general purpose language, what the DSL would not contain would be functions and variables, methods to draw boxes, housekeeping for export formats etc. In this way the essential complexity of the problem is captured entirely by the DSL, and the incidental complexity has been moved to the DSL implementation.

So once a DSL or language has been defined for the problem, he argues you now compile it down to an underlying metalanguage (anything with a quasiquotation operator, macros basically), rather than using an interpreter or something. The reason he argues for compilation is that compilation can be defined as a series of tree rewrite rules, as trivial as needed (nanopass was used as an example of a compiler framework that operates this way), then combined linearly until it's expressed in the underlying metalanguage (or another DSL). Any primitive runtime features needed for the program would be written in the metalanguage or another DSL.

He argues an advantage of having a common underlying metalanguage is it allows him to combine the DSL's as needed, and whip new ones up on the fly as needed. His threshold for making a new DSL is anything that takes more than 5 minutes. He has a bunch of tools to make this whole process easier, inferring IDE integration code, autocomplete, debug info, etc.

I find it compelling, and getting convinced by the argument that there's no other way to eliminate all incidental complexity from the program other than a babel tower of languages, linguistic abstraction.
Anecdotally I've seen it quite a few times. In most cases, mentorship and the environment play a role in how successful you can be as an IC versus as a manager, and even within the same organization, the IC culture versus the Management culture can be drastically different and one or the other might not set you up for success.

That said, in my experience when there is a mass exodus of the kind you talk about, the underlying symptom is some flavor of poor management and toxic culture. Doesn't matter if that organization incidentally happens to implement something which would otherwise qualify as "best practices of management" - in that environment it is simply putting lipstick on a pig.
Here's a larger interior picture of the Aachen from the book:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/ncghvl/a_cabi...
Kill Kill Kill without mercy.
> Continuing a lockwdown while the number of positive covid cases remains in the low hundreds and the daily death rate in the lower tens to single digits.

Surely you can see how this is equivalent to asking why the company hires a system admin when the system hardly ever goes down or gets hacked.

And you have always been allowed outside for a jog. Please do not spread false information.
thanks for pointing that out, I edited my original comment to reflect that this isn't imposed on them anymore.
This talk about "Draconian" lockdown in Australia needs to stop. Our privacy and digital rights laws are awful. But the lockdowns are necessary.

NSW had upward of 1000+ cases and that's why they're (still) in a strict lockdown. QLD and i beleive WA as well for example are not in lockdown at all because of their much much lower daily cases.

Also, "50 cases in a nation of millions"? I dont know where you're getting your info, but NSW and Victoria are NOT on top of COVID: https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavir...
We either coup, sanction, manipulate with predatory loans or invade every country that tries to sell its resources for something other than US dollars, or nationalize their natural resources, or seize property from United States corporations. The goal being that raw materials are kept cheap and that cheap goods continue to flow into the USA. And it’s our ability to print infinite amounts of money that in turn makes it possible for us to fund such an oversized army. It’s just an empire, by other means.

If that’s not true, perhaps you can name a single exception? Sure, without coercion the dollar would still be the reserve currency for a while just on momentum. But keeping it that way requires a bit more.

Or, a lot more.

From https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peopl...

Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)

China 1949 to early 1960s

Albania 1949-53

East Germany 1950s

Iran 1953 *

Guatemala 1954 *

Costa Rica mid-1950s

Syria 1956-7

Egypt 1957

Indonesia 1957-8

British Guiana 1953-64 *

Iraq 1963 *

North Vietnam 1945-73

Cambodia 1955-70 *

Laos 1958 , 1959 , 1960 *

Ecuador 1960-63 *

Congo 1960 *

France 1965

Brazil 1962-64 *

Dominican Republic 1963 *

Cuba 1959 to present

Bolivia 1964 *

Indonesia 1965 *

Ghana 1966 *

Chile 1964-73 *

Greece 1967 *

Costa Rica 1970-71

Bolivia 1971 *

Australia 1973-75 *

Angola 1975, 1980s

Zaire 1975

Portugal 1974-76 *

Jamaica 1976-80 *

Seychelles 1979-81

Chad 1981-82 *

Grenada 1983 *

South Yemen 1982-84

Suriname 1982-84

Fiji 1987 *

Libya 1980s

Nicaragua 1981-90 *

Panama 1989 *

Bulgaria 1990 *

Albania 1991 *

Iraq 1991

Afghanistan 1980s *

Somalia 1993

Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *

Ecuador 2000 *

Afghanistan 2001 *

Venezuela 2002 *

Iraq 2003 *

Haiti 2004 *

Somalia 2007 to present

Honduras 2009 *

Libya 2011 *

Syria 2012

Ukraine 2014 *

Bolivia 2018 *

And probably, now Guinea 2021 *

And that’s not even considering the dozens of countries we have sanctions or embargoes against or the ones we’re actively bombing. Or the ones we’ve manipulated through predatory financial instruments. Considering the oceans of blood we’ve spilled to maintain the dollar empire it’s honestly a little bit insulting to suggest it’s all based on good feelings or some such nonsense. It’s maintained at the barrel of a gun, baby. You don’t build a globe spanning empire by being nice.
Just like the US should have cancelled all those air-craft carriers that cost as much or more? This is pennies compared to the defense budget.
But epigenetic changes during foetal development could effect the likelihood of being successful at passing ones genes along at all, although I've no idea how you'd manage to isolate or replicate these effects in any scientifically useful fashion.

Someone in these discussions always brings up epigenetics at some point, its impact there far exceeding its impact on population genetics I would guess :) Nobody ever talks about genetic drift or gene flow however, probably because despite being actual things that affect population genetics talking about "nearly neutral drift in small populations" is really hard to wedge into an ideological shouting match dressed up as a scientific debate.
Sure, in a perfect world. In the world of politics you let your opponents eat themselves.
> Continuing a lockwdown while the number of positive covid cases remains in the low hundreds and the daily death rate in the lower tens to single digits.

Correction - thousands, not hundreds. But comparison to the previous numbers is required, because it's approaching the peak we've seen. So close to highest ever, rather than something to be dismissed.

> Serious cannot leave your house outside and go outside for a jog … because there are 50 positive cases in a nation of millions ?

... You can still do that. There are several allowed reasons to leave your house, and exercise is one of those, and always has been.
I don't want to single you out, but the monomaniacal hardon that middle aged Redditors and Kevin Rudd (same thing) have for Rupert Murdoch is fascinating from my outsider perspective. It seems like a relic of a bygone generation—think 2003 and "Faux News." Like, it's not the wrong news that's turning Australia shit. Mean old Newscorp didn't force Labor to vote for increased surveillance, to leave negative gearing alone, or to go soft on coal lol.
Yup. It's a huge mechanism for success, it punishes managers for not treating their developers well. Especially since other teams can see all of the code you wrote. If youre good, no amount of politics from your manager will stop other teams from figuring that out and hiring you.

I think this ability to quickly move around is heavily underrated.
You are not getting his point. You are taking about what was. He is talking about what aught to be.
> Why is this an increasing trend

Because the lived experience of politicians on both sides is that the less time something spends in the limelight the less scrutiny it gets. Once something is determined to be supported by both parties (and almost universally when it involves increasing the power of government over citizens they are all in favor) it is not in anybody's interest to have it linger around for debate.

Most Australian politics is cynically focused on controlling the debate rather than solving important issues. So both sides will usually pick strategically controversial but unimportant things that they think favor them and then focus exclusively on those. Everything else is dealt with as expeditiously and in the most minimalist fashion possible. It does have the upside that a lot of "good government" where both sides agree happens in the background without anybody realising.
>doesn't really give any moral superiority here of the US over Australia for two reasons:

I wouldn't call the US morally superior here anyways. In fact, i think anyone after the US is really late to the party. The first US law was MA legalizing gay marriage in 2004. It took 11 years of fighting after to get to supreme court.
Love the opened-from tracking for tabs and spatial organization, which reminds me of the Promnesia extension [0] that helps you track when you've been to a page in the past and where you came from.

I think there's a huge untapped potential value for users in historical browsing activity that is just wasted by browsers today (well when they're not busy siphoning it off to advertisers). The standard browser history data and ui is so crap at mapping to your intuition about how to find some tab you had open recently that it's basically useless. It was modeled when the primary navigation in a browser was one window with no tabs and you clicked from site to site literally linearly, and this design has never been updated since. Now I have 2-4 windows, with dozens of tabs each, on 4 computing devices, where windows have been open for times ranging from 2 minutes to 2 months, where on each each tab I may switch to it or move it or close it or open new tabs from it at any time. And all that activity is reduced to a single linear 'history' where the order in which items appear is nonsensical no matter what sort order you use. Real browsing activity is no longer linear, modeling it as linear is hostile to the user.

Knowing that you've seen something before but you can't figure out when or how you got there because it's pointless to trawl through thousands of completely unrelated links in history is despair.

[0]: https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia
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My mother panicked when she found out I started playing D&D with a friend at high school. She consulted the closest mental health professional she knew which happened to be the psychiatrist at work. The psychiatrist didn't see a problem with it as long as I knew where fantasy and reality were. After hearing that, my mother gave her blessing for me to play D&D. I should probably add that my mother worked in the local jail as a nurse.

So to make a long story short, I couldn't play D&D without getting the approval of a prison psychiatrist.
I'm fairly sure I know where I can buy used/refurb Dell R820 at good prices with 512 or 1024GB of RAM, but I don't think I could accomplish the same for 4TB of RAM and $4000. Certainly not in one machine. And not with two $2000 machines each with 2048MB. We're close, but it's not that cheap yet.

Looking on ebay I can find some pretty decent R820 with 512GB each for right around $1500 a piece. Not counting any storage, even if they come used with some spinning hard drives, would end up replacing with SSDs. So more like three servers, 1.5TB of RAM, for $4500.
This more seems like the Republicans are trying to tar a democratic candidate who will definitely win with some very slight of hand statements about "hispanics." Most likely it seems like there were two other people with historically-hispanic last names who also entered the election. Chicago is pretty damn hispanic if you haven't been there before and Chicago Democratic politics are especially contentious and nasty. This feels like a rat-f** job
Well he’s free to do whatever he wants. But creating someone with that education is a type of investment society makes. There’s a high cost to the community and yes of course the group expects something in return. It’s kind of like the lying flat movement in China. They can do what they please, but wouldn’t it be nice if they enjoyed helping the people around them? Is that too much to ask?
I don't see any insults or "making fun of people" in the comments you're responding to. You're choosing to see that.

Apply the Principle of good faith and you'll see you're the one getting worked up over nothing...
I mean he enjoyed making it! Not only is he increasing his skills making his next project better he is also sharing it with others potentially getting more people interested in that field both of which are helping the "community"!

Really whats the point in living if all you do is work for the "grater good" without ever having fun? I got into programing purely because I wanted to create something for a video game that was missing. In zero way was this productive for society! I'm 99% sure that Doug got into programing for a similar reason: because it was fun for him!
Ahhh right... I didn't realise Sydney got so unnaffordable that long ago which is what I think threw me off.
I use a custom active window title bar color but frustratingly Google Chrome is about the only application I notice that doesn't respect it.
And "AI".
> Gibson has a track record of expressing his Christian faith in and around Tripwire's games, dating back to the original 2005 mod version of Killing Floor. After one of the female monsters in the mod appeared unclothed, Gibson wanted the monster covered up, he said in a 2016 interview.

> "I really started to say, 'Hey, I don't want to just call myself a Christian—I want to live it,'" Gibson said. "That really started to then impact my game design and development."

…

> "[It] may surprise a lot of people with it being such a violent game, such a gory game, that there is any kind of, you know, Christian behind the studio that created the game," Gibson said in the 2016 interview. "But if you look back through the history of the Bible, there is a lot of violence in there."

Oh wow he said it out loud, whoops