skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I guess you’re arguing with ‘people’ then.

I'm specifically and directly responding to your question of why we should be in the business of judging the relative merits of different claims, and I elaborated by explaining problems with false balance.

Edit, since I can't reply: parent commenter asked "What perspectives do you see coming from the Democrat side that have the same mortality rate as vaccine refusal? "and you replied "why is this question relevant" and I explained why. So I was indeed directly responding to you, despite your continued protestations to the contrary. Insisting that I wasn't being responsive to you is bordering on ridiculous.

> Consider the belief that there is no such thing as biological sex, for example.

I'm pretty comfortable dismissing this out of hand.

Edit: and I'm not missing the point, I understand the role you believe it plays in the logical structure of equating democrats to republicans. I understand that you're invoking the subject of gender and saying it's an example of Democrats being estranged from scientific consensus in a way that's comparable to Republicans being estranged from scientific consensus on covid. And it's at this point in the conversation where I'm no longer attempting to engage with you, and I instead direct my comments to others reading this thread on understanding what false equivalences look like.

I was initially focused on failures to accurately compare differently weighted examples. But there's a different category of false equivalence, where people confidently invoke a completely non-existent scientific consensus. The invocation of gender falls into that category.
I've also found that in emails there's a surprisingly large number of people that think "yes" is a valid response to: "Should I do A or B"? They interpret the or like an interpreter and short circuit at A, rather than recognizing that this is asking which should be done.
Like 10 years after my 486-DX2 went into the trash after a long long life, I was reminiscing about the turbo button with a coworker, and he mentioned that he always kept his turbo button activated and that there was never a single repercussion from it!
I could refactor a self-contained 50 label goto graph into a network of tail recursing functions pretty quickly; as little as an hour, in the absence of nasty confounding factors.

If the goto graph implements a calculation with no side effects like I/O, my network will be all pure functions, too.

Completely beyond the reproach of any CS academic. :)

There is a mechanical way to do this.

1. We turn all of the function's local variables into function arguments. Each of our tail recursive functions will take these arguments.

2. Every labeled node becomes a function.

3. Every goto becomes a function call invoking the function that its target label was turned into, passing in each of its own argument to the corresponding parameter of that function. The function's return value is immediately returned.

4. Every variable assignment before a goto is turned into an argument expression in the function call which passes the new value to the corresponding argument. E.g. instead

a++; d *= 2;
goto foo;

we have

return foo(a + 1, b, c, d * 2, e, ...);

Once you have this working, then you refactor. For instance, if you have a function like this:

int foo(int a, int b, int c, ..., int z)
{
return a + c;
}

which does not pass its arguments to another tail-called function, then you can eliminate all of the arguments and just turn it into:

int foo(int a, int c)
{
return a + c;
}

and of course edit all of the calls to foo accordingly, and simplify those places also. In this way, you will "discover" simpler functions that work with just a subset of the state transfer.
All you are saying is that there are people for whom self-hosting is right, and others for whom it is not right. We don't disagree on that.
I followed this link and using the Server Wizard found that my biggest local instance is run by an experienced FOSS and business guru in my hometown. Thanks. I have to meet this guy now.
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I got a second phone. Gave the number out to absolutely NOBODY. The amount of calls and texts (all spam) that this new phone gets is astounding. Even that said, I wonder what will constitute "spam" according to the FCC. Well there's always Signal.
Try ServerFault?
excuse me but what the hell. the federal reserve is not congress they should have no power over this. hell this isnt even the sec.
>For most elected officials (that have broad scope of potential jurisdiction and thus are almost impossible to avoid conflicts of interests), blind trusts are probably even better.

Most elected officials (almost all federally) already employ blind trusts.

>For most public servants, even those that have decision-making authority that could potentially raise conflict interests, disclosure and recusal rules are probably all that is needed (and, actually, lots of public servants have no decision–making authority that is likely to even require that.)

True there are many levels and for lower level (comptrollers and such) that is probably fine. For senators, representatives, judges, etc. the index/bond fund would be even better than the blind trust, since these index funds are publicly inspectable, passively managed, and anyone can buy them.
The Google founders started the process of stepping down around 10 years ago. Pretty sure this was the turning point and the company just got worse since then:

> The explanation that Page posted Tuesday on his Google Plus profile cleared up a mystery hanging over him since he lost his voice a year ago, causing him to miss Google Inc.'s annual shareholders meeting in June and a conference call to discuss the company's quarterly earnings in July.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/google-ceo-larry-page-discl...
This sounds baselessly alarmist. Like yeah, we'll have to learn to live with less fossil fuels at some point, but it's not like a pandemic; there'll be years and years where we'll be able to collectively adapt. And since fossil fuel usage is already trending downward in the developed world (1), as green technologies become more efficient, it may well end up a rather gentle transition.

1 - for example, in the US: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2021.07.06/chart2.s...

This looks like the new normal is that fossil fuel usage drops in a recession, then stabilizes after.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3401156/what-is-the-use-...
>>"Is it worth paying for YouTube?"

I think that largely depends on your personal ratio of income vs perceived value of time vs annoyance by ads.

For me,today,I'm lucky enough that it's 100% worth it. Somebody sent me a link last week and it opened in non google Firefox container so I wasn't signed in... After I went through "wtf" moment at inopportune interruptions, I realized how totally worth it it is.

Yes the content promos are a bit annoying too but much more easily skippable,not to mention better timed & integrated,and less disruptive.

Plus again,I'm lucky enough to be able to afford supporting content creators and pay for what I consume. As a student in war torn Bosnia my perspective was radically different than established worker in Canada.
This is not a US only problem, virtually any country is run by a couple of political parties and their friends and they can do pretty much anything with little repercussions.

I agree better pay is not the answer. The only reasonable alternative is to reduce their powers (especially reducing the amount of money they can spend and the laws they can impose on people) and spread them to local entities.

Decentralisation is the only antidote to government corruption and waste.
My experience here reflects my general pattern:
1) Read an article via HN
2) Return to HN, to smash the upvote button
3) Go to the article's comments
4) Realize that there are problems with the article that I was totally oblivious to
5) Remind myself to not be so damn naïve

So big thanks to HN people, and PG.
Yes, sorry, but just in the name. I personally go the FEIE route.
All goto code can be mechanically translated into a network of mutually tail-calling functions arranged into an identically shaped call graph that is hardly easier to understand.

What you can do with goto-based code is refactor it into a form that obeys certain conventions such that it is easy to mechanically translate to such a tail-call newtork, but then stop short of actually doing it.

Then when reading the code, just pretend you're looking at function calls.
There are a number of interesting cases of people being raised without language, and then being studied later in life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_deprivation

I think it's a massive, massive stretch to make the claim that any of them weren't conscious.
> we can discuss nuclear power, GMOs, unreasonable COVID restrictions

If you want to discuss those things, it's worth first pointing out that the US had the worst Covid death toll of the G7 countries[0] and that red states had higher case and death rates than blue states[1].

Also, it's possible to accept the science of nuclear power and GMOs while still not trusting large corporations to exercise sufficient care and restraint when given control over nuclear material and life itself, especially when the government agencies ultimately responsible for regulating those technologies are half the time appointed by a party that doesn't believe in regulations or government.

[0] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/us-death-rate-worse-brita...

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/10/politics/covid-cases-deat...
IANAL, but I expect lawyers would say satellites aren’t “aerial systems”, on the ground that they are barely flying through air.

Even if they qualify, you most of the time cannot put all details in the title of a patent. That can make titles more generic than the patent proper. because of that, titles alone can’t be used to determine whether something else is prior art.

(This isn’t a claim about this patent. I know too little about this field to make an educated guess about that, and found it too much effort to try to understand what this patent describes)
If Gab really has updated its production code since then, then that's a license violation and they should update their repo. But, I don't know if this is the case.

Yes, it's disappointing that they switched from having all files tracked in version control to this password-protected archive. However, it is good that they released the code and Truth Social should try to meet or preferably surpass the standard that Gab is setting.
I can offer one anecdote, having only yesterday finally received a shipment that had been mired at long beach for over a month. My truck driver went to 3 appointments a week for the last 4 weeks, only to be told every time that there were no trailer frames to load the container onto for him to haul away.
Lol you people always come out of the wood work. They are supply constrained, they are not lying about their product line. FSD being the only maybe but I genuinely think they think they can make it work.
Privacy issues are paramount. The other being you can't create value out of thin air by issuing people magic numbers and expecting that to be useful in any way to people.
There is a term called regulatory capture where large corporations lobby governments to write regulations that stifle competition. When hundreds of millions or billions ride on such regulations that is created by a few individuals, they have enormous power that is susceptible to corruption. And its very difficult to remove this corruption. The long term stable approach is to have as few regulations as possible that removes such absolute power from a few unelected individuals. An example of thriving with few regulations is the tech industry. It was able to boom and dominate because it had few regulations.
This is good

“The Speaker has no prior knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions," said the spokesperson.
I admin and use a Mastodon instance. It takes a while to get used to the differences from Twitter, but it's far more polished than people seem to expect. The reading I tend to recommend if people have questions is Darius Kazemi's https://runyourown.social/
I think one should just take the blog post for what it is. It isn't a UN resolution. He actually has thoughtful opinions that he is happy to put out there without endless qualifications. That is what makes it valuable, not why it is problematic. The broader relevance, the applicability of the notions to one's own life, the motivations of the author are all left as an exercise to the reader.
So the untruthful assertion that they corrected is that “the NIH had not funded gain-of-function research”, meaning that the correct assertion according to the NIH is that they had funded GoF research. Correct?
for (c), HTTP 307 doesn't work?
I'd argue that these days, the majority of kids' interactions with any desktop computer comes in the form of using school-issued Chromebooks. Those are certainly Linux desktops.
I've been trying to set this up for years and it continues to defeat me. Even the Docker method is still fraught. I hope they can dumb it down at some point, or clean up the docker setup. There's a LOT of different frameworks & tooling at play in this ecosystem to debug when things go wrong. But I guess it is close to rocket science.
In general yes, they solved their manufacturing issues on the Model 3 line and it reached the required speeds and saved the company. See the cashflow turnaround in 2018-2019. They managed to scale that line far beyond their initial targets.

However that experience did teach them that their design was flawed and for future vehicles after Model 3 they did switch to large castings anyway rather then traditional welding of stamping.

If you are interested in the flaws of the initial Model 3, see this interview with Elon and Sandy Munro where the discuss this:

https://youtu.be/YAtLTLiqNwg?t=1026

First they had two casting in the back for the wheel area, then moved to one. Now they are moving to replace the whole front.

So the new car designs will be two big castings connected by a structural battery pack (yes its removable).

Here you see the changes:

https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/04/Tesla...

The new design:

https://468y981o84o43v2wo2600a0gcj-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/w...

Example casting:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0173/8204/7844/files/Scree...

Here the first press in operation:

https://youtu.be/BwoiFC-HwPE?t=302

Since then they have order many of these, 8 for Berlin for example. This should support around 500k cars production.

These custom made for Tesla by IDRA in Italy, they put out a lot information:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onCrHQEvgYs

Even more information:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyvdbTy3v1d4fxNvP0HTB...

They are moving to even larger presses for the Cybertruck.
> This is not a US only problem, virtually any country is run by a couple of political parties and their friends and they can do pretty much anything with little repercussions.

Citation definitely needed on this one.
I wouldn't have thought HN would be particularly good for this purpose. That said though, we just came out of a 77 day lock-down today, so if there's anybody in south-east Melbourne...
I assume frustration levels for both come down to the soft skills used to run the process.
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You can without the old admin's cooperation, but not if the old admin actively tries to stop you.
Ok but tell me when in America have women and people of color ever oppressed white men? That's why "just change the label and it's totally racist bro" doesn't make any sense at all. Because it's been white men who have oppressed women and people of color. Not the other way around. It has never been the other way around. Ever.
> The Democratic Party is conservative by any popular measure outside of the insular American worldview

Its mostly a center-right / center-left coalition with the center-right currently slightly stronger (until very recently much stronger). While it leans right, it isn't coherently conservative, even by international standards.
I really wanted to like it, but it's just so difficult to actually find people and content, considering you can only search for hashtags and all...
How did the switch to Framework feel in terms of daily use? Most importantly: how is the trackpad on Framework?
For some reason the Apple TV YouTube app's recommendations are pretty abysmal compared to the desktop website or the iPad app, and Watch Later isn't saving the day either. Could be that the app displays a grid of just 6 videos per screen, which is utterly ridiculous for any TV screen, god forbid a projector. Premium is still worth it though.
If they did update their production code since their last source code release, then you're right, it would be a license violation. I don't know if this is the case. Either way, it is much better to make occasional source code releases than to not release any code at all, when the code is under a copyleft license.
A Decoy is when you introduce an option in the menu that is "absurdly" or illogically priced, in order to make other options seem like a better deal. Some examples:

- Some restaurant menus will have 1-2 incredibly expensive entrees or appetizers. They know the volume on these items will be low, but they make other items seem less expensive by comparison.

- The most famous example is how the Economist did pricing for their online and print offerings -- The offered Online-only for $60, Print for $125, and Print + Online for $125. Obviously the Print-only option makes no sense, it's just there to make the Print + Online seem like a better deal, and push you away from the cheaper $60 offering. A less pop-up filled explanation is here: https://cxl.com/blog/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-know-...
> is akin to moaning that someone told a story in a pub.

There is a huge difference though. A person telling a story in a pub is basically trying mainly to have a good time with friends that are immediately there. There are no “pub influencers”. For the most part, news articles don’t go around quoting pub conversations. With Twitter, there is a more performative aspect. The use of Twitter is not just about sharing a good story with friends, but rather a desire to be known more broadly as a good story teller.

It is this aspect that turns a lot of people off to Twitter.
Private businesses are the only thing that kept America relevant. If it wasn't for Big Tech, the USA would be poorer and much less relevant.

The centralised American army, with its huge spend, doesn't have much to show for.

I dislike megacorps as well: I would prefer to have smaller businesses so that the power would be more spread across society.

Incidentally the government and their regulations are often what helps monopolies to solidify and become unbeatable. Maybe if you get rid of all government and not only of "big government" you will have less corruption and mega corporations as well.
Except it always was. We belong to a very close knit catholic parish, and it takes constant effort to keep it up. I'm a part of the men's club, and we're always doing work -- like actual work -- to make sure the social aspects of the parish work and people can meet friends. We work to encourage friend making, dating, etc. For example, the men regularly wake up before the first mass (so we're talking before 7 AM) to get breakfast ready. That's work. It means getting up early on a saturday morning to foster the kind of social environment we want.

This is not a new thing. In fact, it was more prominent in the past. Knights of Columbus councils like the one i'm in are smaller than ever. Growing up, our knights of columbus was huge, and the guys there again did actual work to keep the community going.

That's group friendship. My parents kept a few friends individually and again... this is also work. My mother would regularly cook large elaborate meals for the sole purpose of having people over... even friends she didn't like. She'd complain about her friend for hours and hours and hours (mainly about political differences) but still invite them over, because to her it's better to have friends than to cut someone out, and anyway... she could barely cut out her friends from her life, much less her family. These days, people cut people off because they aren't on the same page politically, don't have the same taste, etc. Some people literally won't meet up with friends because they have a better thing to do... it's so individualistic as to be toxic.

This is not to say my mother was a pushover by any means. My parents did cut out people from their lives, including family, but it had to be for egregious reasons. For example, my dad's sister and her husband were cut out because they enslaved my parents, but unless someone's going to go to that level of depravity, I don't think my parents could cut someone out of their life.
You could use jira for tickets. Why put all your eggs in one basket?
Honest question: is this something that is stopping you from joining/getting more active/build an audience?

If it is, have you considered running your own instance?
I found it more interesting that apparently it's possible to get paid by the hour to do research on subjects like this.
We've been working on this for awhile and ya, I hope it is the start of something!
If you want to read the logical origin point of where I started thinking about this project check this out:

https://arccompute.com/blog/why-computers-suck-and-how-openb...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21776370

We're not using Nvidia's APIs in our code! libvf.io is entirely based on cross-vendor, standard APIs. :D

The one that is a bit weird is AMD who is fairly far behind Nvidia and Intel but I think if they want to modernize support they can definitely do it. My hope is that consumers will start asking for this capability more (especially with Intel's ARC GPUs enabling GVT-g at every price point) and AMD will update their stuff to reflect that demand.
I’m curious why all the heat is on Pelosi for trading? I see people on twitter making similar remarks. Is she more corrupt than the other politicians or are people just parroting each other and it’s become a meme to be negative towards Pelosi in particular?
> I usually say, "please ask stupid questions, because if you don't then you'll run off in the wrong direction and work on the wrong thing for a week before the next review, and you'll have wasted a lot of project budget."

Does it help?

This sounds like they are expected not to waste time, so it might get even harder to ask a stupid question a minute too late, and especially to ask something tomorrow.
Yes, Clickhouse is heavily used for storing http access logs which follows that scenario.
But if the point is to mock the concept, how would it be considered normalizing anything?
As another poster mentioned, memes are analogous to viruses in their interaction with humans. I would hazard to guess that any survival value to humans is purely accidental, especially taking into account the time frames involved.
Small state != rural state.

Rhode Island is a small state, it isn’t rural. Hawaii is a small state, above average population density. Small and large on an electoral basis refer to population size.
Almost all of that figure is "breathing pollutants, and environmental damage". Not the government giving Exxon money. Which first off, I wouldn't really call a subsidy, and second, is unquantifiable. You can't tally up the cost of breathing polluted air as if it's a line item in a balance sheet.

For me, that casts some serious doubts on the accuracy of the $5.8T figure.
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