skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, where is this? Doesn’t match my experience at all (US west coast).
It seems to dilute the oneness, and hence the perceived value of USB-C, not to mention the logos are fugly.
This is why it needs to be evaluated on its own merits. Who knows maybe you're an FB astroturfer looking to discredit a whistle blower (also in sci Fi novels)
Modern fire prevention techniques and building codes mean that firefighters don't spend much time actually fighting fires. Most of their calls are for vehicles crashes and medical emergencies. (And I don't intend this as a criticism of firefighters, someone has to respond to those incidents.)
You just swap the battery out like other power tools.
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>The ones with no families to care for them should be in nonprofit, closely regulated facilities with well-paid staff.

how's that working for higher education? state schools aside, AFAIK most private schools are non-profit. rather than money flowing to shareholders, it'll be money flowing to bloated administrations.
You’re enough. You’ve always been enough. You always will be.
What's the point? New power structures would arise immediately after. Let's abolish Facebook instead. Google too. And every other surveillance capitalist. They have too much power, too much data on people.
one more after that for 3.14.1
There are huge swathes of unpopulated land across the world.
However in many areas the local zoning rules prevent you building on them.

In Australia for instance, thousands of acres of Rural land have been rezoned as "Farming", which means that you can't build a house on less than 100 acres. And of course the only ones who benefit are the corrupt real-estate developers.
And in the rest of the non-nihilistic world those grandchildren would rather have one more year of grandma than any amount of money 15 years later. This whole discussion of letting seniors die to optimize economic potential is gross.
The other end of this is depending on the government to ensure the wellbeing of the most vulnerable; the government is the one giving billions to these facilities that do not provide adequate service.

Facilities where the family pays aren't going to get away with mistreatment, because the family will choose a different facility.
It worked out great to burn William Tyndale for heresy. Right?
The material abundance here is obvious, it's not just on paper.
Australian standard pallet
I don't know much about altmodes. What does the cable need to do to make displayport work right?
Hitler was purposely given a short sentence and little oversight in jail, allowing him to meet with other fascists and write his book, by the judge and guards who were sympathetic to his message. Hardly deplatforming.
Government has to make money some how. While it is good to extract wealth from people with deep pockets I believe profiting from transactions though taxation for the most part is discouraging economic activity.

I and many other people have a laundry list of skills that I could offer to others only if I fill out piles of paper work.

If little jimmy wants to wash 1 car he needs to register a business and get the business bank account?

If big Joe has 100 car washes and he is earning a stable income without expanding or innovating to much government could make a bid on it and offer him a job.

If say the US gov wants to force-purchase the google search engine it should pay handsomely for it. Say 1800 billion. Alphabet would do just fine bidding on the advertisement slots and selling them to their customers. (Such a large purchase should probably involve a referendum)

It is our government. If we want it to sell beer in town hall it should be up to us. If you and many others are against it it obviously shouldn't happen.
I don't agree, especially on the second point. Having strings default to empty instead of nil is a feature not a flaw.

What Go actually needs: Nil-Safe Types! [1]

Programmers can work around verbose error handling(3) and lack of enums(1), but forget to check for nil before using a pointer... CRASH! And that's something the compiler doesn't warn about.

[1]: https://wakatime.com/blog/48-go-desperately-needs-nil-safe-t...
Unarmed? https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2021/09/trump-extr...
Playing devils advocate here but maybe we have too many fire fighters?

I have four good friends that work in metropolitan fire houses all making well into the six figures. They constantly joke about how they get paid to do nothing and haven’t been on a fire in years, mainly they respond to calls at old folks homes. Oh and the only work a four or five days a month.
>PR’s are usually ready when the feature/bug is already being worked on and in the last stage of its development process. It’s an “already change proposal to be merged into the current system”, don’t forget that.

What is the second sentence saying? I can't parse it at all.
With Python style favoring exceptions, I could see just the zero-cost try alone being a meaningful improvement.
Nobody cares about the merits. That's not how arguments have worked for a long, long time. Now it's about red vs. blue, name-calling, post-hoc rationalization, and getting so wound up that every disagreement becomes an existential threat. At best you'll get some cherry-picked "evidence" that has a non-zero chance of already having been retracted.
I don't know if this is common to all the Martians, but John von Neumann was home-schooled by private tutors/governesses until the age of ~10. No doubt he had a broad spectrum of intellectual talents, but his early development at least was based on a one-to-one pastoral footing, not a mass-education school system.
Straw Man
noun
1.
an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument.

My comment speaks directly to to above post as follows:
"It really sucks that there's a 'D' for 'Defense' at the front of the acronym. Their website says they're "creating breakthrough technologies and capabilities for national security". Horrible that national security is the reason for this, when it should be human progress."

As for the world being difficult to predict, or to use your phrasing "non-ergodic", it is in fact easy to predict that security will be necessary. It is difficult to predict exactly what the threat to security will be. This uncertainty alone justifies development.
Also, DARPA tech is well known for spreading outside of it originally intended remit. Ie the research itself can be of use in other areas.
Ask HN: What's your favorite E-Ink project?
What cool things have people built on HN? I just came across this one, which involved him writing a minimal UI toolkit and an OAuth lib for the board: https://rahulrav.com/blog/e_ink_dashboard.html
Care to elaborate on what is bad? How bad are they compared to other languages? (Assuming you are always accepting some tradeoffs when moving from one eco system to another)
> The US can barely afford to school its children

FWIW, US has one of the highest spend on education in the world. Among OECD countries, it is only behind Luxembourg, Norway, and Austria, and only barely so. If the educational outcomes in US are below expectations, it’s not because we spend too little, but rather because we’re not getting our money’s worth.
No, and I'm not sure how you arrived at that.

I was referencing policies like those in WA, OR, and Europe where people can choose to end their life.
So everyone likes to hate on Hacktoberfest, but how many projects have benefited from it, and to what degree? I know that's probably much harder to measure since we can't really know what PRs would have not been sent without Hacktoberfest.
While I also quirked an eyebrow at the exact version, is 3 better at package management & environments?
No need to believe Fukiyama. The exception to the rule concept can be based on the idea that capitalism is novel in its ability to absorb and transform any protest against it. The divine right of kings, to pick just one example, was unable to pull off this trick, and perished under questioning. So far, capitalism has done remarkably well at incorporating protest and criticism that targets it, in a way that does seem quite novel.
It was a missed opportunity to decouple power delivery from data link at the port through a visible, mechanical design like maybe a two-part connector. That way the data-only portion should always work as long as you've got a proper cable.
How else does one track “richest” anything? On paper is what matters when counting wealth.

That said, the gap between capability and actuality of spending that your parent comment is lamenting is the gap for that on-paper wealth not being used for real-world-improving actions, and instead being used to increase the on-paper wealth of a tiny minority of wealth-holders.
Darn this is a great point. Thanks for mentioning this.
Humor me, by what measure is the US the richest nation on earth, or even close? Anything per capita will be dominated by Monaco/other tax havens. Anything on a gross level will be dominated by China.
In some cities you call 911 give an address and police, fire and paramedics will arrive while they are figuring out what the emergecy is.
The Problem with Nouns
How static metrics significantly distort reality
I think you are still confused the control systems were designed and manufactured in Ukraine there was nothing to reverse eng. The only step not done in Ukraine was uranium enrichment.
You should choose one field or tech on high demand and go for that. That may be a consumer application like powerBI or could be a framework like React. Then you create a personal project to use it. Doesn't have to make you money or even launch. Just keep you interested enough to work on for a few months and use that tech as much as possible, to the point you are now an expert in it. Just focus on one thing and learn it very well. Then look for jobs that value that specific skill.
If you're trying to optimize for engagement AND avoid rewarding divisive content or misinformation, then yeah, that's complex and maybe impossible.

But as Haugen points out in her 60 Minutes interview, they don't _have_ to optimize for engagement above all else. They have tools to drive down divisiveness and disinformation. They just choose to leave them turned off most of the time.
> and the company was uncomfortable shouldering the financial and legal cost of trying to create a solution.

Did they find a solution before determining that?
Ajaib (YC S18) becomes Indonesia's latest unicorn with $153m raise
> The SAT and its relationship to intelligence has also been studied.

Yes. The SAT is a poor measure of general intelligence, but correlates pretty well with socioeconomic status.
I was with you until that last line. I know two fire fighters; they work a standard 160 a month (though the schedule itself is kind of bonkers).
Hmm the article did not clearly state this, but I assumed that the 240W / 40Gbps labels were just an example. Hopefully they are not neglecting a huge portion of the market that does not need that much PD...
Yeah, that's unclear. Some folks go to FAANG with an idea of finding a future cofounder, but the reality is that requires constant effort to network. Bye OKRs streamlines that.

FAANG-ers aren't the best founders. Those are probably the serial entrepreneurs with multiple exits.

I was trying to keep it small for a trial, but maybe the feedback is to open it wider.
> Flow

> Journey

> Abzu

> Superhot: Mind Control Delete

4 of my favorite games. Journey and Abzu in particular were both more emotionally evocative and engaging experiences than almost every AAA I played except for The Last of Us Part II (the masterpiece of this generation IMHO, God of War in second place).
The different cables can already physically exist, so it's not really changing those things a lot, just making cable identification easier.
No I think people should in fact focus their rioting towards politicians. That's much better than harassing or committing violence against your fellow citizens because of something your government did.

For example if your government is oppressing you and your response is to burn your fellow citizens car dealership or vandalize their shop, that is less Noble then going after your government officials.

I disagree with the Jan 6 rioters but they correctly targeted their efforts . On the other hand, blm Chicago called for looting private businesses, many of whom had even come out in support of their cause.

BLM riots were drien by just as much misinformation. Studies show that progressives are way more likely to overestimate the number of minorities killed by police. A good portion of them believed tens of thousands were being killed a year. This number is way off. Conservatives were most likely to accurately estimate, although even they were skewed towards overestimating.

And the Russia collusion narrative is a hoax. While Russia certainly has an interest in interfering with us, the claim was that trumps campaign directly aided them. That is false. It is provably false. Stop changing the goal posts. You yourself are spreading misinformation.

Edit: and for the record, the federal government of the USA derives legitimacy from the people not buildings
if lush were uncontroversially a lisp, I would have used it for at least one side project. IIRC things weren't that clear (back then when I stumbled over it) when looking at it in detail, which is why I decided not to use it (but don't ask me now why exactly).
My goodness they were old ladies with walkers... This is so stupid as to be comical.
Facebook was beyond fixing the day it was founded. Zuckerberg is one of the least ethical operators of a large company that I'm aware of and the company reflects that in every way possible. Fixing Facebook would mean removing Zuckerberg and that's not going to happen, so I applaud the whistleblower stepping forward but I think they're hopelessly naive if they believe that this will really lead to meaningful change.
> being fat

That is not a choice. The causes of obesity are complex.
And why is that happening? "We" certainly have the technology to fight it so I wonder why that hasn't happened already. Hmmmmmm...

https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=18104
Also known for the Nernst Equation which codifies some fundamental electrochemical properties, plus the Third Law of Thermodynamics, which are both more popular than ever. Among other things.

Even though it's now been 101 years since he earned the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his thermodynamic advances.

>Nernst's laboratory discovered that at low temperatures specific heats fell markedly and would probably disappear at absolute zero. This fall was predicted for liquids and solids in a 1909 paper of Albert Einstein's on the quantum mechanics of specific heats at cryogenic temperatures. Nernst was so impressed that he traveled all the way to Zurich to visit Einstein, who was relatively unknown in Zurich in 1909, so people said: "Einstein must be a clever fellow if the great Nernst comes all the way from Berlin to Zurich to talk to him."[12]

>Nernst and Planck lobbied to establish a special professorship in Berlin and Nernst donated to its endowment. In 1913 they traveled to Switzerland to persuade Einstein to accept it; a dream job: a named professorship at the top university in Germany, without teaching duties, leaving him free for research.[13]
I would love great enum support to be added to Go. I want to have a case statement for an enum’s value and have the compiler assure me that I’ve covered all possible cases.
This is how education was traditionally done. If you can at all afford it, take your kid out of the public school system and either home school or find a good private school. In the age of the internet with so many learning materials online and the possibility of zoom tutoring by subject matter experts, it's never been easier to get a fantastic education.
The capitol police opened the doors. Nancy pelosi was offered help by the executive branch to help keep the protestors at bay. She refused.
A story about the text version of this concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
True except your not an asshole and neither is Facebook. The assholes are people crying like babies about a dumb website
> a lot of its package management is based around that philosophy of carefully hand-tended servers shared by multiple users.

Is it? I'd love for apt to support virtual environments or `apt install --user` like pip does, let alone populating venvs with requirements.txt.
This will have huge ramifications across all of big tech. They will get regulated now based on this. This is the excuse that government needed and they won’t lose this opportunity.
> Playing devils advocate here but maybe we have too many fire fighters?

It sounds like the type of service that you want to over-provision for. What if a major fire broke out and you needed all of them?
> Our research lead us to find that a high percentage of elderly folks (50+)...

People in their 50s are now considered elderly?
> Not more demand but stable demand.

as in, demand for using crypto as a transactional currency, rather than as a speculative asset right?

The demand that is unstable is because it is driven primarily by speculation. There's very few commodities being exchanged via crypto.

So to reach stable demand, crypto must be a currency that is used for non-speculative transactions (such as buying groceries, or buying oil from countries). I don't see that happening any time soon tbh, except for may be countries that are trying to escape USA sanctions.
Sad thing is that this is nothing new. I caught this same thing in the first episode of a show from 1984. If I get in a situation where I have been committed to one of these facilities, I hope, for their sake, I have forgotten all the adversarial pentesting skills I've acquired over the years.
TFA cites a book on surveillance capitalism:

> …the essence of the exploitation here is the rendering of our lives as behavioral data for the sake of other’s improved control of us.

I don't doubt that surveillance capitalism is a problem. I do doubt that the underlying motive here on the part of capitalist concerns is improved control of us. Capitalism wants profit to move towards capital. Improved control might be a way of doing that, but it's only one tool in the arsenal of capital, and it's a fragile one at best.

It seems to me that the main motive of capitalism is to continue to drive high levels of desire-driven spending, and that it is at least as likely that surveillance capitalism is mostly about understanding how best to do that as it about actual control.

Yes, we know that marketing & advertising have demonstrated over the course of at least a century that consumer control is possible and desirable. It's just not clear that capitalism needs to increase or improve the level of control over what's already established.
> If there is an industry that needs startups, it is long term care and senior care in general.

Whatever happened to Soylent?
I'm sure this argument is along the lines of what Facebook employees must tell each other so they can sleep at night.

But let's be clear, Nissan is making a car that is as safe as they can make it for consumers at a certain price point. Safer than riding a small motorbike. Safer than crossing a road. Or many other alternatives. They're enabling and empowering consumers that can't afford better cars to have some measure of mobility and safety.

Facebook, on the other hand, designs features to manipulate emotions and harm consumers. Make them feel bad, stay engaged, worry more, buy more. They ran the numbers. As long as the increase in suicide count is under a certain threshold, it's not a big deal for them.

There's a big fucking difference between the two.
You didn’t read the article. By law, she is allowed to whistleblow and share internal documents.
I did not know that but the real story is even weirder. Having been to China many times, the billboards for plastic surgery would be hilariously off color here so the story seemed plausible, doubly so combined with the culture of "leftover" women which is to say any woman over 30. My bad
Really? How can you tell? What don't I understand?
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was a turning point, things got really ugly after that.
Oppressive Speech: https://doi.org/10.1080/00048400802370334

Performative Hate Speech Acts. Perlocutionary and Illocutionary Understandings in International Human Rights Law: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334199177_PERFORMAT...
> "infinite compression", in which it is claimed that every possible input can be reduced in size.

It's computationally intractable (in fact, I'm pretty sure it's computational-intractability-complete), but if you live in a deterministic universe, it actually is possible to compress any input to at most a psuedo-constant number of bits.

Just run every possible program in some Turing-complete language in parallel, and pick the shortest program that outputs your input. In the worst case, this will be a program that simulates the entire history of your universe up to the point where you were provided with the input and then reads out the simulated input. No matter how large the input is, this will only take (U+logXYZT) bits, where U is the number of bits to describe the laws of physics and initial state of the universe, and logXYZT is the number of bits to describe your position in space and time (among other things, it's logarithmic in the current age of the universe).

(Caution: there may be elditch abominations in your universal prior[0], but as long as you stick to programs that output a fixed input and don't try to fiddle with them to decompress more data than you originally put in, they probably can't hurt you.)

0: https://ordinaryideas.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/what-does-the...
Looking forward to another constructive conversation between good faith protectors-of-speech and the folks bored or dumb enough to take their bait.

Surely this time we'll finally solve it.
> Facebook has two classes of shares

I had no idea companies could legally create vastly unequal schemes like that. How do people even find out about things like this? Is this information available somewhere? Impossible to make good investment decisions without this sort of knowledge.
Many places they get paid per call. So maybe thats a factor.
Unless you can get Apple to agree to use these logos on their official cables, this kind of standard isn't going anywhere. And I don't think Apple would be seen dead with logos that look like that.
In https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html :

> A new function operator.call has been added, such that

operator.call(obj, *args, **kwargs) == obj(*args, **kwargs).

Isn't this the same as the old apply function?

https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#apply

Ah, it was discussed:

https://bugs.python.org/issue44019#msg400821

> Python2's apply has different semantics: it takes non-unpacked arguments, i.e.

def apply(f, args, kwargs={}): return f(*args, **kwargs)

> rather than

def call(f, *args, **kwargs): return f(*args, **kwargs)
You are right. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/fi...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2015/09/04/05316abe-...
"Deftly removing noxious propagandists is good" She writes.

Twitter notably didn't care until their reach became too much counterweight to the approved political philosophy and the analytics were showing sky rocketing monetization from these shock jocks.

Howard Stern can objectify every female that walks onto his set, but God forbid Hillary Clinton get relentlessly mocked by the right on Twitter.
Doesn't USB4 also introduce its own optional PCIe tunneling spec which isn't exactly the same as Thunderbolt?
Exactly my thinking. FB staff make a choice to stay. That speaks volumes.