skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct, will edit. C is hard, writing C in the browser sans coffee is harder. :-)
How is it alienating to point out a trend that's clearly happening? I feel like this is exactly the problem, where refusing to acknowledge the problem is the problem. "Please don't bring these issues up, it's a problem I don't want to deal with".

Are we expected to just pretend like there's not this huge anti-science movement on the Right because your feelings might get hurt? Look at all the anti mask, anti vaccine rhetoric. This isn't ok.

Plenty of problems on the Left too, and we should talk about those too.
Many of these “fixes” suggests that your reader have a Twitter account.

People who use Twitter frequently assumes that most people use the platform, which isn’t really true.

Still, I can’t fault people for posting longer Twitter threads. Even if setting up a blog is pretty easy, they already have a platform, however flawed it might be. Also few people want to set up a blog for a single story, especially when the target audience was originally other Twitter user.
Yeah, I get that, but why do we need to measure it? (in a context of accepting the possibility)
I suppose it depends what you're going to let your user do, but OLAPs in general and Clickhouse in particular don't do well under row-oriented workloads, as described in the post here. I'm imagining users primarily operating on small numbers of rows and sometimes making updates to or deleting them, a worst-case scenario for Clickhouse but best-case for an OLTP like Postgres.
Honestly I understand the scope think a lot better. I still have no real mental model of what a pronoun is. Didn't even know what one was until my daughter mentioned the term during her first year in school
Why is Firefox's Reader View not available for posts on PG's seemingly minimal site?

Also, with my minimal knowledge of programming, I have no idea what's going on with that website's HTML markup. There's also a document type not mentioned error so that might be what's causing this.

I wonder why @pg doesn't change this? I presume it'll only stand to benefit him with a higher SEO ranking.
as a sw dev / sre / engineer with 10+ years of experience, i can say that without a doubt the skills one learns that are not hard STEM courses and programming are 100% useful. i need engineers with critical thinking, a sense of empathy, eloquence, and a host of other social skills that lots of nerds-turned-comp-sci-student lack
I'm glad there are controlled studies that are documented so that we can have this discussion meaningfully and attempt to sequester the quacks.

There's a reason why we have chi-squared and T-tests, and an entire branch of math dedicated to statistical analysis for empirical studies. (And please don't quote Mark Twain, someone always does...)

That being said, I think the meta-analysis of decades of research is showing diet science is complicated a/f. It would not surprise me of we ultimately can create bespoke diets since we all are complex machines and different environments.

For anyone who's never heard, Michal Pollan has 7 great rules, but there's one golden rule:

"Eat food, Not too much, Mostly plants."

Here are the more "controversial" 7.

1. Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. "When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tubes, or eat something with 15 ingredients you can't pronounce, ask yourself, "What are those things doing there?" Pollan says.

2. Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.

3. Stay out of the middle of the supermarket; shop on the perimeter of the store. Real food tends to be on the outer edge of the store near the loading docks, where it can be replaced with fresh foods when it goes bad.

4. Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot. "There are exceptions -- honey -- but as a rule, things like Twinkies that never go bad aren't food," Pollan says.

5. It is not just what you eat but how you eat. "Always leave the table a little hungry," Pollan says. "Many cultures have rules that you stop eating before you are full. In Japan, they say eat until you are four-fifths full. Islamic culture has a similar rule, and in German culture they say, 'Tie off the sack before it's full.'"

6. Families traditionally ate together, around a table and not a TV, at regular meal times. It's a good tradition. Enjoy meals with the people you love. "Remember when eating between meals felt wrong?" Pollan asks.

7. Don't buy food where you buy your gasoline. In the U.S., 20% of food is eaten in the car.
> Please don't make this a partisan issue. I live in Missouri. I've voted for Republicans in the past. You're alienating people like me from being on your side.

Every group of humans - indeed, thanks to the central limit theorem, every sufficiently large sampling - is going to be normally distributed and there are going to be folks on either side offset from the mean.

However, that doesn't indicate that the mean isn't interesting or worthwhile to discuss, and isn't representative of the group as a whole.
You don’t fully understand Midwest culture then. You never say anything negative to someone’s face. You say it behind their back. Midwesterners are some of the most passive-aggressive people in the country. They’ll help you out of a sense of obligation then resent you for it.

I much prefer the coasts where you know where you stand.
"Just look into the orb, bro."
The world is banking on giant carbon-sucking fans to clean our climate mess
Are the long term effects any less detrimental than other polymerized materials, or is this basically another way to make plastic?
I wonder if there are moderation tools out there that identify who first proves Godwin's Law in a given thread.
"Arthur Brooks is an economist who for 10 years ran the American Enterprise Institute, one of the most influential conservative think tanks in the world. He has come to believe there is only one weapon that can defeat our extreme political polarization: love."

... in other words, we're all doomed.
It's probably both
That appears to be everyone's strategy.
Very interesting. Does not dwell on the rusian custom of drinking tea in glasses rather than mugs or porcelain cups. My grandfather always complained that porcelain cups tasted like milk.

Also, my grandfather (born in Ukraine in 1895), did not sweeten the tea. Instead, he would break a small lump of sugar, hold it between his teeth and sip his scalding hot tea through it.

He also claimed (and 5-year old me believed him) that it wasn't the sugar that sweetened the tea - it was the spoon. You only put the sugar in so you would know when to stop stirring. :-)
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5430443
>I've seen recently is the Pew poll which shows that in the space of 2 years Republican attitudes about higher education saw a 20-point swing such that that most Republican voters now believe college is net detrimental to society.

I am not quite sure how much of this is anti-science as opposed to anti-college.

Colleges, not science or education in general, have been at the heart of the culture war, especially in the US, and have been viewed by many - not just right/Republicans, but centrists and moderates as well - recently as problematic when it comes to things like mandatory overreaching PC culture, title IX kangaroo courts and "rape classes", safe spaces (and racial segregation of dorms to provide such safe spaces, for example), coddling of students, college educational quality and how it correlates with college profits (including minor scandals of celeb parents bribing their kids into good schools), racial bias in admissions, speech codes, left-leaning faculty, etc, etc, etc... The list of areas that people receive as "problematic" is long.

I am not here to judge all these accusations on merit, just wanted to point out that they exist in the wider public debate (no matter the level of truth to them), and this is what may have swung the polls a lot more than a general anti-science stance.
There are many other examples of large scale monorepos. They in no way require custom version control nor programming language.
Interesting, I had not thought of that. I have been purchasing auto insurance for over 10 years, and I get prices every couple years. I always buy extremely high liability only insurance because I can easily afford to replace my car if anything should happen to it. I have always found liability only insurance to be much cheaper than comprehensive and collision and liability insurance.

It would greatly surprise me if buying comprehensive insurance itself served that good of a signal to offset comprehensive/collision insurance for say, a $20k to $40k car.
> They definitely save time and money. The only way someone can claim they don't is if they've never actually had to travel and use taxis.

To be fair, the author had a very specific use case with respect to cost and time, with well known fares and availability from the airport to home.

But I think the author would agree with most of your points, it goes on for a bit about how much she does not like Taxis.

The interesting claim is the one about eco friendliness and how much driving around without a fare, or going to a fare Uber takes up.
How A Memory-Holed Sting Operation Set the Stage for Occupy, Snowden, and Beyond
Conservatives say that about college not necessarily because they have a disdain for education and learning, but because they think colleges have become a breeding ground for a dangerous type of bourgeois identity politics. I'm not taking any sides here just pointing out that the justification for rejecting higher education may not be coming from an anti-science perspective. That said, Parsons appears to be an idiot.
why should we have to coddle you
>> First of all, it feels disingenuous to me, people who say that never actually think that their questions will be stupid.

I preface some of my statements with this, and I fully expect them to be stupid. In fact, many of the questions I ask that I don't preface with the above disclaimer are in fact quite stupid.
Which necessarily means that every good thing that happens and every bad thing that doesn't happen is also the fault of the senate.

I don't agree, I'm just logically expanding your statement.
mRNA vaccines were originally invented for cancer treatment (late 90s). AFAIK, there wasn't much success.
I served in the Georgia legislature during a portion of a similar story. Without a doubt, the calculations throughout the story were political not technical.

In the Georgia version, the technical details of the exposed information in the Secretary of State's office were facepalmingly simple (misconfigured apache directives) yet the story dragged on politically for years.

Quickly, a hired security researcher for a corporate client found all registered voters info and instructional pdfs with credentials for the elections system publicly indexed by google. They responsibly disclosed. The apache configuration was updated to "use encryption" (moved from http to https) but still left the info indexed by google over https vs. http. Eventually, this information became public.

The state attempted to prosecute the security researcher but found no state statutes they could use. They then used this incident as a base to create a bill to criminalize the security researcher's actions.

As a state rep, I worked very hard to push back on a bad bill spawned by the incident that would've criminalized responsible disclosure.

Only due to bi-partisan efforts from technically versed people were we able to get the Governor at the time to veto the bill.

https://www.snopes.com/ap/2017/06/15/researcher-finds-georgi...

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/comp...
For me going to college was about getting away from my horrible family. They still managed to screw me over and prevent me from finishing my last year of schooling, but my life was forever made better by the distance.

The class stratification in society is absolutely intense, if you're coming from a bad family you just need to get away from them as soon as you can. I made the mistake of not estranging myself from my own family much sooner. If I could change one thing about the way America works I'd eliminate the requirement for parental involvement when it comes to getting financial aid.

If your parents like to beat you up, you should be able to just walk out when you're 18 and get help to go to school. But that's not the system now. Aside from a small handful of exceptions which are painfully difficult to get, you're basically on your own. I think in Europe everyone just gets help to go to college so this isn't an issue there.
> What gives the C-Corp shares value

A business is a productive asset. Cryptocurrency tokens are not.
> I think it is overrepresented in universities

What would over-represented mean in this case? Here's a graph[1] of bachelors' degrees granted in various fields - the social science are grouped with history and are not particularly popular.

I'm personally somewhat mystified when people talk about degrees like they're ice cream flavors. I've met people with a wide variety of aptitude and interest and energy and while I think that anyone can get any degree, I do think we each individually have proclivities and talents. Even if I wanted to double the number of STEM majors, I suspect that many of the people who have chosen not to be STEM majors did that because they liked their chosen major better.

Edit: For what it is worth, I do think we could use many more people in the trades. I also think that people going to trade school should have the option to get the same "gen ed" college curriculum that people going to college get. It might help the idea that trade work is lesser (which, of course, it is not).

[1] http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cta#4
In the very least you'd have to adjust for purchasing power parity and look at the median rather than the mean, to say anything useful about quality of life for normal people.
> I respectfully disagree to anyone who thinks Biden is treated the same as Trump was.

People respect Biden more than they respect Trump. This isn't Biden's fault, nor the fault of the people.
i think measurement is more general than calculation. when i say mathematics also measures itself, i mean this in a pure-maths sense
The very same article I linked to suggests yours is a minority view among those who have attended college:

> When it comes to their own experiences with higher education, an earlier Center survey found that the vast majority of college graduates (from both two- and four-year institutions) say college was useful for them in terms of helping them grow personally and intellectually (62% say it was very useful in this regard, 31% say it was somewhat useful). Large majorities also say it was useful in opening doors to job opportunities (53% say very useful, 29% say somewhat) and in helping them develop specific skills and knowledge that could be used in the workplace (49% very, 35% somewhat).

I think the cost of higher ed is an enormous societal problem which leads some to feel embittered towards the system as a whole for good reason. But it's important to not throw the baby out with the bathwater and to separate the ballooning cost from the education itself.
California's population shrank for the first time since it was founded last year. Statistics seem to indicate that the "draconian policies" are causing an exodus
> 1. "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra

Not sure what he meant by that, it doesn't really make sense to me: thinking yields information and deductions that can be very useful, while swimming by itself accomplishes nothing useful.

Actually, I just can't make any sense of the sentence, because while I have a general idea of what a thinking machine could be, I have no clue what it means for a submarine to "swim", versus whatever the alternative is ("self-propelling"?).
Speed.

Your suggestion adds indirect memory access plus function call, for every instruction.

I've tried every other way I can think of, and nothing runs faster from my experience.
I really enjoyed Colbert's white house correspondents dinner back in 2006. That isn't what you were referring to is it? [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X93u3anTco
This whole thing looks like a solution in search of a problem.

I think a better solution that would be both cheaper and more effective would simply be creating a good digital bank.
I suppose the question is, what incentive do Apple or Google or Amazon have to put their content on a competitor's hardware? Moreover, pay to get it on Roku?

People are going to buy the hardware that has the content they want. I feel like the big three are squeezing Roku out.

Should legislation be written to require content and hardware platforms be separate? That Apple TV should have to be available for Shield and Roku, and that Youtube TV be allowed on Apple and Roku?
:face_with_rolling_eyes:
Donald Trump's social media SPAC shares surge 200%
Not true. Large Maya cities existed hundreds of years before Romans colonized Hispania. Nakbe was abandoned, hundreds of years after its peak, ca. 200-100 BCE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakbe
I disagree. The US has states quite a lot further North and their decisions are also likely to affect Canadian timezone decisions. Furthermore the same discussion is taking place in the EU with countries in Central Europe on the Easternmost part of CET (in particular Germany) pushing for permanent DST, so take my opinion not as a Northern-European one but as a Northern one.

To me it looks like it's mainly the Southernmost states and countries that are pushing for this. Which is especially strange since actual tropical countries don't seem to have issues with standard time.
Nice stuff, what sets you apart from your competitors like https://super.so/ ?
This is exactly what they had. Curated friend lists. You could see what select groups of your friends are up to. They were somewhat limited but good enough to keep facebook useful. They killed that in 2018, and lost me as a "customer" at that point. I still have messenger to talk to friends but they lost all the ad revenue from me. Whatever that amounted to :)
This really should be the top comment.

>Strange Article.

Agree wholeheartedly. It is as if someone who dont know much about music industry writing about music industry. I clicked his Bio and nothing much shows up.

Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
The anti-science, anti-intellectualism, us vs them, anti-vaccine mindset that Parsons has is pretty emblematic of Southern Republican governors, senators, and congresspeople. Parsons responded in the expected, knee-jerk 'my political opponents are out to get me' that's been the theme of the GOP for a while now. Even though this security issue had nothing at all to do with politics. This was a consistent theme around Covid and vaccinations at both the state and national level. I think that's the background of the parent comment. Painting Parsons' response in his broader political actions and fellow party politicians' actions.
Could we drop Symbols from Ruby?
Also tricky because many things "work" but aren't stylistically acceptable.

Like, python oo is perfectly happy with "this" instead of "self".
That doesn't sound like backfiring to me. The hardest part of explaining something complex is matching it to the recipient's existing frame of reference. Letting them lead the explanation by asking questions can be an effective way for them to fit the new information into their current understanding.
yah, that’s an awesome building, especially the exposed beam interior. it’s interesting that they used nail-laminated timber, which is just regular lumber close-packed and nailed together with plywood, in place of concrete floors/ceilings. according to the site, they’ve moved on to using dowels instead of nails for this.
That’s not what the central limit theorem says, and it’s not and cannot be true in practice.
What about this one? This one was mentioned a couple of weeks back and is really funny.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28758106
The UK government has taken a different approach to all-out anti-higher-ed. attack: cut 50% of the funding for many university arts courses, while keeping the overall budget fairly flat. In the UK media this is seen as an attack on "lefties", either justified or unwarranted, depending on the outlet.

https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/19-25-july-2021/funding-...
No. This is a rationalization for a belief that is incorrect.
2nd time's the charm?

Pretty remarkable considering what happened with Zenefits.
Viewing source is hacking! /s

I got sent to the principal's office (years ago...) for opening a command line and trying to ping a printer that said it was offline but was sitting right next to my station and looked happy. Most people are probably like my former teacher, who will wind up on a jury.
That phrase long pre-dates Colbert.
I like to assume everyone has a positive intent, until proven otherwise.

I always ask people why, because I sometimes learn something new, I often learn about the knowledge level of the other participants, and it anchors everyone to the fundamental problem we are trying to solve.
While i am pro-cryptoeconomy, i think we 've reached peak bullshit
You're making it about sides. Facts are not one sided. If someone speaking truth makes you feel bothered, that's your problem, not theirs. We should be able to speak to one another without getting emotional about which team someone aligns with.

Republicans are fostering anti-intellectualism which is (in fact) anti-science. From my perspective you'd be alienating yourself out of spite. This goes for Democrats or any political party.
Actually "GOTO Considered Harmful" should be considered harmful. But goto should but not used by beginners, or else they get bad habits. Also, people should consider that there is a proposal for "break break" in C2X: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2859.pdf
Well, so do I. :)

But you see how harmful it is to the site to do explicit political flamewar. Yours was the only non-aggressive reply out of five.
I'm also in favor of returning governance to the stats and we're probably in disagreement about a lot of things. Seems like an easy political win for Washington would be to return power to the states
Then the value received for Sentry most likely also pale in comparison.

I've never heard of Nim before this comment. It looks pretty cool, especially the self-contained aspect. Do you know of any big company using Nim in production?
Strictly speaking yes, but I think it is a poetic way of saying that Socrates was better attuned to the limitations of his knowledge, as opposed to most people, who believe they know things they actually don't know (what is the good, etc). As a result, Socrates is actually wiser than most.
Except that my blog doesn't have followers and stuf...
I wonder how much of this is just memeing by the r/WSB crowd vs a lot of people really wanting an alternative to FB, Twitter etc (regardless of the merits of that wish).
When GitHub is down we legally don't have to do any work, it's in the constitution I swear
> Do you expect people to pretend the trend isn't happening in order to comfort you?

There are plenty of trends happening on the "other side" which are also veritably nuts, so I don't find this to be a very compelling argument. The ad hominem doesn't help, either.