skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-democratic states indeed tend to be non-free. But I think it is legitimate to think about extent of democracy vs. intrusion to personal lives.

It is probably fine to prevent someone from polluting water sources by a democratic vote.

It would be an overreach to prevent someone from grilling steaks on his porch because his neighbours are vegetarians and do not like the smell of meat.

Zoning of residential areas is somewhere in between.

Not too long ago, there was a case in Switzerland where a British person was denied citizenship by the initiative of her neighbors, because she complained too much about various topics (bells ringing too loudly etc.)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/woman-annoyi...

Is it legitimate to take opinions of your neighbors into account when deciding your citizenship application? It is certainly more democratic than not doing so, but at the same time, it might degenerate into a popularity contest.
To which my non technical friends don't know which to choose and didn't bother at all and went back to using WhatsApp.

If that is the consequence for multiple fragmented clients then no thanks.
I actually came from learned Perl before I learned Awk, and the reason I switched is because Awk is a much smaller language, so I can keep it all in my head.

I just about never have to refer to the man page. I also found that I can go for months without writing any Awk and then knock out a quick script without having to relearn anything.

I'll concede that there are things for which Awk just isn't powerful enough and perhaps I was never that good with Perl to begin with, so if you're already well versed in Perl YMMV
Yikes please be /s
Not every problem can be solved with contractors. Many products and systems need long term owners and maintainers and people involved need to be part of a team. That team culture is precious and the red flags can be hard to discern which is why teams come up with such lengthy processes. They're painful but I've yet to see a plausible alternative.
No worries. I was honestly surprised myself!
> Type system don't prevent bugs, they help you prove properties

From a certain perspective, I disagree.

If I write a function, let's call it sort. It takes an array of integers and returns an array of integers. I call the function with an array and it so happens that the array returned isn't sorted.

Is there a bug?

I would argue there isn't because the function makes no such statement that the array returned should be sorted, or that it should be a permutation of the input array.

How could any programming language/type system "catch all the bugs" if no statements are made as to what constitutes a bug?

If I create a function in Idris and specify in the type signature that the returned array will be a permutation of the original and that it will be in increasing order, then yes Idris will catch all the bugs.
Ive quit FB about 10 years ago but Im considering coming back because I keep hearing about the value of Groups. Sure its just mailing groups with UI, but thats where the people seem to be.
Citizen Journalist Who Documented Covid in Wuhan Resurfaces After 600 Days
The early modern period - Renaissance, Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution - occurred among highly competitive, constantly warring European states.
I agree, but there still need to be constraints. For instance, if I have a 1Gb symmetrical connection, it's probably still unreasonable for me to expect 1Gb connecting to my buddy's 1Gb 3k miles away.
Spot on - In my mind I use Agile and Scrum interchangeably because Scrum is what I see being used everywhere and it sure has swallowed Agile up it up like you said! It's too easy to throw scrum in - who doesn't like ready made processes that take minimal effort to overlay instead of integrate? Agile without scrum would require a deeper level of effort as it would first and foremost involve people. Much harder to think from people first standpoint than process first standpoint.
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The only response one could reasonably make in 2021 would be to defer to the administration and otherwise say nothing.
Blow the whistle and quit?
Nobody says that a bullock cart involves the bullock pulling the cart and the cart pushing the bullock. That’s only a physics framing.
> The new Loihi 2 chip, at a high level, uses 31 mm2 per chip for a million neurons, effectively increasing density 15x ... [still] 128 neuromorphic cores, but now each core has 8x more neurons and synapses. Each of those 128 cores has 192 KB of flexible memory, compared to previously where it was fixed per core at runtime, and each neuron can be allocated up to 4096 states depending on the model, whereas the previous limit was only 24. The Neuron model can also now be fully programmable, akin to an FPGA, allowing for greater flexibility
> an archaic notion

Maybe it's just part of the language now, and it will sound weird if you don't make that distinction?

English has similar issues, in that it has two words: girlfriend and boyfriend, which is a bit old fashion, especially when you come from a language that doesn't make that distinction. On the other hand, what would you replace those two words with?
Seeing as Stripe is generally more expensive than other payment processors (including PayPal, particularly for <$12 transactions but even for large transactions at bulk, which I am sure Digital Ocean did), I'm sure finance noticed, one way or another ;P.
The article shows that buffalo uses less energy, but its not at all suggested, although it would be a very good replacement in terms of taste and nutrition.
"a fortune" is very relative. Railway workers are not exactly known to earn a fortune. From what i could see in France (quick search), they earn between 1500 (close to minimum wage) and 2500€ per month, before taxes.

Also around here i've never heard railway unions ask for better compensation, because as you have pointed out they already have a good pension and some transport-related privileges [0]. However, they have been relentlessly asking for better working conditions in order to provide a better service, and that the government stop to try and privatize railways.

Of course the managers, directors and private contractors earn a lot more and that's how our corrupt overlords get away with siphoning much public money into private pockets. But these people, we could well do without, and unions would certainly support a move like that.

[0] Personally, i would strongly approve better compensation for those people we now call "essential workers". It appears in a capitalist system, those who work the most and provide the most services (railway/construction/food/cleaning/health workers) are those paid the less and with the most grueling working conditions. That's a shame.
> If the best argument for vaccine safety and efficacy is “We used the same process and experts as pronounced judgement on Oxy” then it’s not unreasonable to be skeptical — especially if you’re still coping with the trauma of lost loved ones.

That depends on what you mean by "not unreasonable." If a device tells you a lie one time out of 50, it's a misleading device, but it's still preferable to one that lies 1 time out of 3. The process that leads from "authority sources of information are sometimes egregiously wrong" to "all sources of information are equally misleading" is the very foundation of misinformation.

Do I believe that the FDA is "the truth"? Of course not. But I still believe it more than any other source on drug safety.
Doesn't Netflix have a CDN in Australia, and doesn't Australia have fast Internet within the continent? I'm a bit surprised this is such a problem
Pretty much. We can do so because the market is in our favor. Not because we have balls of steel unlike in other industries.

I have terrible marketing skills and yet, as a freelancer, I have to refuse work because there is so much demand. This also means I can charge a month of minimum wage for a day of my labor. That's awesome for me, but that's not normal.

Everyone is a genius in a bull market.
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No results for that search. Here is the full text of the article I see:

The Great Resignation Movement is turning the US job market upside down.

Around 4 million employees left their jobs in July 2021, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This should be surprising, especially in an aftermath of the pandemic, where the economy of the entire world is in shambles.
>mustard seeds left in. Maille's version is my go-to.

My kin! I scoured the article for "whole grain" and "seed". Nothing. It's so good.
Isn't placing someone on administrative leave, taking action?
I maintain my car for for < 1000€ a year.

Given, I have a "car dude" that repairs and sells me used cars in good condition (I don't drive much at all), but even if you would spend a bit more, it isn't as competitive as it needs to be.

But other than that, cars are almost essential today. Have family you need to take care of? Good luck doing that with public transport. Doable perhaps if you quit your job...
It is actually described in the article
While I see the logic in what you're saying, the Netflix business moat is already much deeper due to A) billion dollar content deals with major providers and B) billion dollar investments into first party content.

Content is king and competitors are already priced out long before minor squabbles over bandwidth.
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Just made it up
> I'm dubious of this common posture of "horrible violence in entertainment" is ok because it's a critique of XYZ.

The comment you’re replying to says the show is harrowing and a critique. There’s no “because” or apologia.
In reality what should happen is the users of SK Broadband should sue the ISP for being unable to provide a service they pay for.
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IMO that's satire, "the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues." It says a lot if you can't tell the difference.
From the discussion of the PR:

> A protected class is a group of people that has been historically discriminated or a group of people we (as humanity) want to privilege to offset the years of discrimination - but that's not all. For example the People of Color are a protected class, because of slavery. Members of board of directors of the big corporations are a protected class because they financially contribute to the cause. The non-heterosexuals are a protected class, because of discrimination. Women are a protected class obviously. I don't know how to better define it. The dictionaries should have a more understandable definition.

> Members of board of directors of the big corporations are a protected class because they financially contribute to the cause.

I don't want to debate the race/gender stuff as it's pointless, but "member of board of director of big corporations" is a protected class? Has this always been a thing that I wasn't aware of? This doesn't seem to be a joke, although it sounds like one.

By the same person:

> if they are not a protected class, they will lose that right, yes. That's California Core Corporate Policies in work. And we enacted them.

What's going on here? Why is Ruby adopting the "California Core Corporate Policies"? Again by the same person:

> That's common sense. We all know who are protected classes. For instance, members of board of directors of the big corporations are a protected class.

That might be just me but I feel like something sinister is happening. Open source, adopting guidelines to protect "members of board of directors of the big corporations"? I'm not trying to say that these people are bad, but do they really need protection on the same level as gender/race minorities? Why is the discourse centered around one specific Californian policy? What incidents are they preventing by adopting these rules? Stuff like the recent criticism of Amazon for trying to "take over" Rust? Again, that might be paranoia on my part, but this sounds fishy.

Edit: okay, it seem that this guy was trolling. Funny that he's trolling in the discussion but still got changes in because they were considered good. That's a beautiful way to demonstrate what actually matters
I don't quite understand why the label exists. Can the OP clarify? In what contexts is it needed?
In my case it was gitprime. This is a software to stack rank based on git commits. Since good developers supposedly make lots of small commits, if someone makes too few, they are bad. Also bug fixes are penalized as “code churn”.
I find it crazy how many people are surprised by this label and even more how many people try to ridicule it or dismiss it by saying "why don't you just call it blah...", etc.

It's a cultural norm, and it isn't just a Chinese/Mandarin thing, this exists in many other cultures. In India they also have very different words for different relatives and it has long traditional reasons because historically it was (and even still is today) very important to keep good relationships with a big family network because quite frankly in many places life depends on it.

For example, if you have a sister and she gets married then you'd address your sister's husband's brother differently than if you also have a married brother. You wouldn't use the same word for your brother's wife's brother. Why? Well traditionally (and still today) if a women gets married then she leaves her family home and moves in with her in-laws. At that point she leaves one family and becomes the "daughter" of another family. She'll be living alongside her husband's siblings and his parents. As a brother you will address them differently and with respect because you want them to be good to your sister and because you are thankful that they are taking care of her now.

People should educate themselves more before making stupid comments because it really just shows their complete lack of worldliness, education, ignorance and arrogance. Not attributes which gain you a lot of respect in the world IMHO.
Most small farms require a second job to make ends meet, or at least one person who can provide benefits from a "normal" job. Even if it's more than just hobby level. I know quite a few people waking up at 4am to do farm chores and then going in to a fulltime day job.

Most states have legal definition to determine if you're a farmer, like if you make more than 30% of your money from farming.
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I absolutely agree about both the impetus and the danger of this currently prevailing viewpoint.

I will speak to the motivation however, because I'm a reconcillatory kind of person most of the time, and unlike this CoC I do believe intent is important.

I believe that the intent behind those adopting these documents is protection and general social good, and I believe their adoption is very very bad because those adopting them are blindsided.

Because the people writing them are not lawyers, and are not expecting them to be used as laws to be enforced, but as "good feeling reinforcers". Effectively, corporate virtue signalling (and, in some cases probably also personal virtue signalling - with all the negative connotations that brings).

The fact is, when you introduce a set of rules, you have to expect those rules to be interpreted by people with some extreme biases, and ensure that the wording produces a fair outcome regardless. It doesn't matter whether you call these rules "guidelines", or a "code", or even a "statement of intent". They will be used as rules, and if they aren't, then what is the point of writing them?
Careful there; you dismissed not only Dijon mustard but also Bavarian sweet mustard, both very traditional mustards.
Considering that even the word mustard comes from old French, it is worth considering that mustards can be created to fit more than just one taste profile.
One local mustard that is extremely popular in my country in certain eateries is yellow mustard seeds mixed with an equal amount of room temperature water, left to sit at room temperature and never refrigerated for example; try at your own risk though.
Funny enough, most of these ideas are not his own but James Davidson, who elaborates on them in the sovereign individual. In the latest edition of the book, Thiel writes the preface.

In the pre-face, he discusses China. His thoughts on China may be encouraging his foray into politics.
> worse than traditional currencies in every way

Yes, they're worse in many ways, but that is exactly the design decision they made in order to be better in one particular way; to be censorship resistant (and permissionless).

Not all are deflationary; many have a tail emission that makes the supply dis-inflationary.
> No comment on whether you're an anti-vaxxer, but you are misinformed.

No they are not. Your fact check confirmed their statements. "We have a very high vaccination rate here in Iceland but that did not stop hospitalisations, or deaths. But definetly decreased them. Our high vaccination rate has had 0 effect on the spread of infections though."

I don't understand how can call the OP misinformed when you are stating identical statements. The only difference in your posts is the narrative (spin) surrounding the facts.

> which actually seems to remember that Iceland exists:

OP is from Iceland! Slow down and think about how condescending your post reads.
> why am I paying for bandwidth on AWS?

That’s a great question; it’s because cloud providers have conditioned you to believe their rent-seeking is necessary.

See Cloudflare R2 vs AWS S3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28702997
Spot on and well said!
Isn't it also the most searched-for term on Google?

People just type "google" in the address bar when they want to go to a search engine.
I believe most constructive mathematics (mathematics not using the law of the exluded middle) is actually weaker than peano arithmetic. Certainly there is less that has been proven in it. Most type theory is constructive afaik, hence it might be weaker than even Godel implies.
So a basic voxel editor and world editor are live on the site. You can access them here but you need to be signed in (for now):

World Editor:
https://dotbigbang.com/game

Voxel Editor:
https://dotbigbang.com/voxelobjecteditor

Currently game functionality is made in a Unity style component system using components written in TypeScript. All the games on the site right now were built in our editors. So with the release of scripting to the public we'll be enabling people with existing game dev or programming experience to make their own games. For an example one of our Incubator program members, who is high school aged with some basic prior programming experience modded our FPS game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Cklg-3EBM

We're also working on lowering that bar to entry. Both with elements users can drag and drop into their games to create functionality and simplified scripting environments.

> Edit: oh, so scripting is not even there yet.

Yup, releasing soon but we've been making games internally with it for quite some time.
My question is why Open Connect Appliance wasn't even in their network in the first place?

I mean there are only a few ISP in every country. SK Broadband isn't small either it is something like 25% of market share. If I remember correctly Korean Telecom was 50% and LG was something like 15%. SK Telecom is also the largest MNO is South Korea. And if you are into hardware you may have at least heard of SK Hynix, world's third largest NAND manufacture.

Normally being a Korean conglomerate or Chaebol I would have thought SK must have some subsidiary competing with Netflix. But this doesn't seems to be the case here.
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Have you been outside?

Have you watched any television?
Its a cool project, but the footage isn't that great. Youtube has a bunch of bigger storm & wave footage from ships.
that reminds me, I need to fix my company mode :)
thanks for the tip - and thanks for the extension. I'll give it a try for sure
Probably not, I imagine the vast majority of this would be from Edge for Windows users.
sigh...its like the Richard Attenborough character in Jurassic Park.

"Creation Is An Act Of Sheer Will! Next Time It'll Be Flawless!"
Completely agree and I left my last job for exactly this reason. Endless meetings fuelled by direction coming from above of needing to cooperate more and Agile coaches popping up.
The CTO and some early developers in the company were basically meeting in secret, deciding what new cool thing they had to run in teams (whether mob programming for hours or some new way of organising the backlog) and then all the early developers (who didn't have a formal manager title - sure, just normal developers like everyone else! Flat structure! Everyone has power!) were going back to the teams and proposing this new cool thing. The majority didn't have the heart to put them down and soon the trial would become a standard practice.

This is not Agile, this goes against the Agile philosophy of putting people first in front of process.

Agile doesn't need coaches, just make your staff read the manifesto.
If you have an Agile coach scheduling meetings nobody cares about, you're putting process in front of people.

From my experience, people are generally nice (not including myself in this group) and they won't say to your face that your job is useless. Heck, they'll even praise how good of a coach you are and ask for more meetings - while complaining in private about long meetings and leaving in record numbers.
Nice costumers you have there SK Broadband, would be a shame if your costumers leave you. Oh? They are unlikey with Netflix not in a monthly cancelable contract but Internet plans generally require contracts of 2 to 3 years in South Korea.
I would throw in that some percentage of 'the great resignation' isn't a new movement at all, but a one-time backlog of people who stayed longer at their jobs in the middle of a pandemic for income security. Now that things have gotten better (YoY, relatively speaking,) 2021 is full of both 2020's and 2021's resignations.
Again: yes, it does not scale as well. But scale to what? Silicon Valley is generally obsessed with quick growth without thinking about long term impact. But politics is generally long term.

It is easy to put together a temporary, unstable mob of people in virtual reality. But real political impact of such mobs tends to be superficial.

Impactful organizations such as, well, the Taliban, sacrifice rapid growth and substitute it with higher-quality personal connections.
People here seems to miss the main point of the article: Don't compete with Roblox!

Why do so many try to make something that is so hard to do? Basically every other game genre is easier to make money with, and non-game startup ideas are easier than making a game. This is about as hard as it can get if you want your project to succeed.
Doesn't the Netflix app already do that? Or was that the Prime Video one?
What amazes me is that the CoC doesn't actually say that. It just says they're different.

It relies on the reader to have already known that "intent doesn't matter, only impact" and anyone could actually interpret it as the opposite, especially if their culture already thinks that intent is the more important thing.