skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a vast difference between reaching the supreme court with your amicus briefs and "spreading awareness" in a blog post.

They also aren't mutually exclusive.

>But I really don't want to debate. I came to state anecdotal evidence + opinion.

This is always funny to read. Write a strongly worded opinion, but refuse to engage with others.

>but historically, I've lived long enough to not see those make any difference so far.

Out of curiosity, in your long lived life, how many times have you seen amicus briefs written to the supreme court defending 5th amendment rights?
Well, if the numbers were scrambled, then the user would need to look at them - so a video from the same perspective would record both the numbers and how they get entered, and it would not help in any way.
I wish this article did more comparison to other languages (mainly Rust) which I think is one of the best package manager systems.
"the process is the punishment"
First come to my mind Cellink has 3D tissue printers. Some of their products also supports soft robotics . I think they are not alone in the market.
That would end the pandemic for sure.
I think you should consider the possibility that other people sincerely like this book, even the portions you found tedious, and aren't just pretending in order to show off their culture and intelligence. What does 'zabzonk' have to gain from proving his culture and intelligence to 'yuuu' and 'allturtles'?
>I have lost my interest in KGs for Knowledge Representation (in the AI sense)

Hi! Can you say more about that please?
This is a weird out there view that, to me, sounds like it's coming from someone who wants to feel injured.

Twitter's own research shows they have more broadly amplified the right than the left. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28953427 I for one could not be less shocked.

You (and temp8964) are engaged in, in my view, conspiratorial minded thinking. You imagine some great vast system working against a view. It's just not so. Governing a platform is hard, keeping things on the rails is hard. Not every decision is easy & clean & obvious. Taking the conspiratorial minded view, saying- this is not a democratic platform, this doesn't allow open conversation, is working against me- seems patently clearly obviously heinously untrue. To try to grind an axe over this is, to me, bogus. There's no evidence, no claim I can possibly imagine that justifies such extreme & radical shade casting.
While it is not completely without value, just confirming to readers that a problem they are well aware of already exists is probably the least value you can provide to them. You'd hope for more than just criticism.
In the same way that abbreviations are magical relative to spelled-out words.
> It's not that Amazon creates nice working conditions now; it's that Amazon can change it arbitrarily without having to care about any of the employees.

That said, it's also about the fact that Amazon currently has bad working conditions, across the board and even for tech workers!
Oh wow I didn't know that search everything in Jetbrains products included the menus and not just the contents of the project. That's handy to know. I've been a fan of Ctrl-Shift-P in Sublime Text, so it's always good to see similar features in other software.
IIRC there was a paper on recovering text, including passwords, from the keypress sound variation recorded by a microphone on the table next to the keyboard (e.g. in a compromised phone).
> Can you give an example of the rent-seeking?

I’m not that person but I’ve noticed this pattern in such people. Rent-seeking is anything they don’t like. So it could be landlords charging tenants rent, it could be Apple charging developers 30% “rent”, could be Google charging “rent” on the ad space next to search results, Microsoft charging for Windows even though an additional copy of Windows doesn’t cost them more to produce.

Basically it can be as broad as you want it to be. And these delusional folks say we can stop it by “not letting it happen”. Lol.
IntelliJ's git interface is basically the only way I can use git, or at the very least pull off anything other than the most standard tasks.

Its UI for resolving merge conflicts is so intuitive and powerful. You get 3 panels: local changes on the left, remote changes on the right, and merged in the middle. It's got colored highlighting going across from each of the side to the middle, showing where the changes want to go to, and you click arrows to accept/dismiss left or right, and sometimes it'll even have a suggestion for a way to take both of the changes (indicated by a magic wand). And you can also just type into the center editor if you want to not use either side, and manually rewrite the resolved change yourself, whether that be copy-pasting from each side or whatever you want to do.

It's saved me so many times, it's practically worth the cost of the entire IDE on its own.
What are some examples of content removed for having the wrong politics?
> Meanwhile in the US John Deere is cutting off health insurance to strong arm them into ending the strike.

Is not providing benefits when you're not working considered "strong arming" now? Is John Deere also "strong arming" workers into ending the strike by not paying their salaries when they're on strike?
> I am uncertain as to which "specific worldview" you think I wish to maintain.

belief:
1. an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists
2. trust, faith, or confidence in someone or something.

You are taking the position that you know something while at the same time you are acknowledging that it might be wrong because science often reveals that we have insufficient models or tenets for some understandings. This fits as belief. You probably think it's a detriment to use a term you associate with spiritualism, so you avoid it.

The best way to describe this behavior of denial is that it's baked into your worldview (think supermario bros, not the earth). Thinking that answers that science have provided are more valid (for some value of valid) than other belief means that your belief in science can't be belief and it certainly isn't "faith" (complete trust or confidence in someone or something.)...oh I guess it is.

Not sure why people think this does anything but confuse discussions about reality when treating the religion of science differently because it is a practice and tenets born of humans rather than a flying spaghetti monster (which we are quickly outgrowing). It's the SAME THING from a different source and just as likely to be used for evil (eugenics, political messaging, smoking doctor ads, etc).
Here's the thing: you can have all sorts of detached, academic discussions on a forum like HN or on a blogpost about what the best thing to do is, or the most pragmatic thing, or the worst thing when dealing with a police encounter.

But if you ever find yourself in a situation where a police officer is pointing a gun at you, none of this discussion matters. I've had that happen to me (when an AirBNB owner failed to mention that they have a silent alarm system which calls the police). It is not pleasant, and there are no clever things to do or say. You will do whatever the cop wants, because you do not want to be shot.

People don't like hearing this. They like to think of themselves as being smart, as having self-respect and dignity, as being able to 'speak truth to power' or at least stand their ground. That, unfortunately, is not the reality.

Should you encounter, at some point in your life, a situation where a police officer is pointing a gun at you, you will do whatever the fuck they are telling you to do. That's the grim reality.

It is an utterly dehumanizing, degrading interaction. There are no witty things to say or do. You will do whatever you are told, because a person is pointing a deadly weapon at you and telling you to do them.
> Curl to a file first, inspect the script, consider it within the context of your own system, then run it if you deem it's safe.

But you can still do that if you want? It is not like this is a hidden executable or something.
> USA has a really strong propaganda system and it's a shame that even on HN, where people should be more critical thinkers, this is not widely recognized.

That's the fault of "American exceptionalism". At least one positive thing happened as a result of the 45th - Americans can no longer deny that their nation is immune from falling into the hands of a proto-fascist and a gang of cronies and goons in his wake.

Anyway, the list of points is (sans the pledge) applicable across most countries in the Western world... partially because a lot of our culture is US-influenced (social networks, but first and foremost Hollywood's media industry) and because our media isn't much better. Germany's most influential BILD tabloid is a rag that spreads authoritarianism and right-wing ideology, and the cop show Tatort consistently has peak TV attendance rates.
I mean, I live here. So why not!

Though I imagine considering Brisbane's circles we're likely already friends haha.
Is there a name for this type of bias?
Same chips as before but in bigger configs. Not big news IMO.
Ads they show only to people who are going to buy that thing featured in the ad anyways, or ads they keep showing you weeks after you buy something!!
I don't think it reflects well, I'm merely pointing out that taxis are cheaper than ubers and lyfts, and they know it.

In fact, I frequently offer taxis flat-rate to a destination if its busy and uber/lyft are at capacity. It's can be a nice feature about taxis, though agreed my friend was taken advantage of in this scenario.
The operators that calibrate them and pick parameters, do. And some machines have internal long-term calibration and feedback (no need to call it Machine Learning), so in a way they learn on their own too.
What you are describing is zealotry, and these activists are zealots.
the one part of this I will defend is taxpayers footing the bill.

Frankly, the government employs cops on our behalf and they act on behalf of the population. This type of behavior is part of the American culture of policing, it is not 'individual bad actors'. We should bear the cost of them acting improperly. I vehemently object to us creating a culture where police are expected to behave in this way but then are personally responsible when they get caught doing what is expected. Cops should pay the criminal costs for their actions, but the liability belongs to those who employ them and empower them - us.
Facebook ads are really popular, ~84B in revenue.

I believe Microsoft still operates a large ad network.

Taboola is everywhere.

Amazon has a huge ad network as well, ~14B in revenue, though obviously limited in terms of what is advertised.

Verizon Media also apparently operates a sizable ad network.
Making “asking stupid questions” socially acceptable can solve SO MANY issues. Being able to politely say what everyone is thinking and not keep things to blow later is also probably the way for world peace. (Or world war 3…)
Is Alec Baldwin in jail yet?
It's worth noting that desktop Linux has improved remarkably in the last 5 years.

I know that this is always said, but compared to, say, 2012 when Windows 8 was announced we have:

* Youtube, Netflix and other services that Windows 7 users would have taken for granted that weren't available by default on Linux

* Stable drivers for infamous Wifi problems

* Thousands of games working since Proton was released in 2018 [0]

* Anti-cheat support announced by EAC and Battleye earlier this year [1]

* Easier install processes

I think the knee-jerk HN backlash against Linux in comments like these is getting less and less justified. There's certainly still reasons that you could be flippant and sarcastic about Linux. It still is at only 1-3% of the marketshare after all, but I don't think you can compare it to previous versions of Windows in the same way anymore.

[0] https://protondb.com

[1] https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/valve-making-linux-anti-c...
What is the point of vaguely placing the author in a category of "those types" and expressing your distaste for "them"? It adds nothing, and refutes nothing.
> if someone develops macular degeneration, do they lose their savings

The irishash is used to get an initial airdrop, not to access funds/make transactions later.

But since equality seems a key principle, I am wondering how they'll deal with people without eyes.
> I actually disagree.

Of course you disagree because it's your job. Satya Nadella himself makes sure you try to sway the opinion here in favor of your company [0]:

"In fact, this morning, I was reading a news article in Hacker News, which is a community where we have been working hard to make sure that Azure is growing in popularity and I was pleasantly surprised to see that we have made a lot of progress..."

Hint: criticizing Linux in such a heavy-handed way won't work that well.

[0 ]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/events/FY-2019/earn...
the US killed the half-penny when it was worth what a dime was worth today - practically speaking, anything under a quarter is too little to be worth worrying about.

Yes, this likely means retailers will play games with change, but other times you will come out on top with the rounding. And think about it this way - yes, sometimes retailers played games with the half-penny too. A few decades on, once you've gotten out of the mindset that someone is "cheating you" out of maybe as much as a quarter-penny every transaction, nobody cares, it's not an actual significant amount of money.

there also are significant costs associated with maintaining currency units that small - it costs more than a penny to make a penny, and while sure, that penny gets used through multiple transactions, that also incurs additional costs on everybody who has to handle that penny in every single transaction. The amount of time and energy spent handling that penny probably winds up being dollars over the lifespan of the penny.

this also gives interesting context to the expression "a penny saved is a penny earned" - that expression today would be "a dollar saved is a dollar earned". A penny was actually a decently significant amount of money when that expression was coined, it wasn't literally "every single quarter-penny matters".
The debate that started this thread proved my point without needing any effort of my part :)
I'd say youtube being used to radicalize people is an even bigger problem. When does the report on that come out?
Attractive people generally illicit more empathy and cooperation in work settings, and are generally more successful in their careers, than those of average or below average physical appearance.

It's not the mark of an "incel" to take note and think this is important.
ACLU is a communist front.
One can understand much of the US’s politics through the lens that fully 50% of the country sees themselves as, if not small-business owners, then having small-business ownership in their career trajectory.

As such, fully 50% of the country thinks that any measure that prevents them from being fully competitive in the worker-exploitation race-to-the-bottom that is business in most commodity markets (such as minimum wages, unions, more than 2wks mandatory vacation, etc.), will mean that they’ll fail to launch that phase of their career, and have to go back to flipping burgers.

Of course, 50% of Americans will never be small business owners. It is thought by some that large corporations push this vision as propaganda, because voters who think of themselves as small business owners, vote for things that end up benefitting these large business owners.
Obviously, mobile devices far outnumber desktops and laptops now (servers too), but I think conflating Android with both Linux and the Linux desktop is wrong.

The whole meme of the Linux desktop wasn't meant to say, "uses a highly modified version of the Linux kernel with a custom userland, proprietary interface, proprietary services, custom drivers, etc. The idea was not to replace one proprietary system with another mostly proprietary system that happens to have a modified version of the Linux kernel and that puts some of the software in a git repo. I do think it is telling that the most successful user-facing implementations of both Unix and Linux have had to create largely proprietary wrappers over them both.
This is all just my POV too. I'm sure there are people out there who use list comprehensions all day every day. I just haven't seen them.

I tend to vastly prefer a small, beautiful, principled, "growable" language over one that has many builtin forms. e.g. Scheme. Because, as I said, each of these features just makes it harder for other implementations.

FWIW I also don't think it made sense for JS to get a pipeline operator; only reaosn I like those is when a language supports user-defined operators. But, anyway.
Either im missing something here or something doesn’t make sense. How can something be a distributed system but be a strongly consistent system? Unless may be they lock all the instances of that object, in that case there is a performance penalty.
But reading into the docs,
They say that all clients subscribe to an object which is globally unique, and has only one instance. And cloudflare migrates it between regions intelligently. If thats the case, lets say there is User A (in US) and User B(in UK). Where is that globally unique object instance (chat) stored. It cant be edge here nor distributed, if its a single instance. If its distributed then there is no strong consistency, unless locks(there is a penalty to it)along with latency to sync data.
I've been on a Metroid kick lately, still working my way through Dread which is excellent. Recently I also saw a video about Other M: https://youtu.be/KTuMfsWwd0E

The upshot is, while it doesn't make Other M a great Metroid game or even a great game, the original Japanese hits way, way different. Federation Army Samus is much more of a petulant child, and she doesn't crush on Adam so much as view him as a surrogate father. There's a line that in Japanese was something like "I didn't hate Adam for making me feel weak" and in English was like "I was fond of the way Adam would call me something delicate". Implying that while young Samus loved and admired Adam and her fellow soldiers, the way they condescended to her stuck in her craw. Eventually (after the incident with Adam's brother Ian) Samus couldn't take it anymore and struck out on her own as a bounty hunter.

This changes the story of the game significantly, and makes Samus more of a feminist than a lifestyle sub, more fitting with her character in other games. It also makes the story more redemptive: Samus is a prodigal daughter, and she and Adam are struggling to repair their broken relationship. Another line, by Adam, rendered as "I now authorize Varia Suit use" in English, is in Japanese more like "Turn on your Varia Suit right now!!" More desperate, more "What the hell are you doing, you idiot?!" Meaning that Samus didn't leave her Varia Suit off as some sort of token of submission waiting for Adam's command to enable it. Maybe she just forgot to turn it on? She seems more stressed and not functioning at full capacity in this game, as the bit with Ridley shows.

As for this article, I feel like the author is trying to hammer home a point, like "you are the monster, wiping out the helpless metroids" or something, which is just -- no. Metroids are living bioweapons, created as such by the Chozo with various attempts to revive and cultivate them by the Space Pirates and Federation Army. They can't space travel on their own, but they're usually carried to new places by other races intending to use them for their singular purpose. It's not their fault that they're indiscriminate killers, but wiping them out seems like the sensible thing to do (especially at Metroid II's point in the tineline) when they were engineered for destruction, letting them fall into the wrong hands almost inevitably leads to disaster, and you have the occasional incident like the metroid gain-of-function research depicted in Other M, which portends even bigger disaster. I get it -- deconstruction is pretty much table stakes for modern criticism, meaning you haven't truly analyzed a work until you point out how it subverts its own putative message. But that's not really a good thing. The Metroid lore pretty much reinforces at several points along the way that metroids are a galactic threat.
Yes a beautiful movie until that violinist looks at the camera.
Generally speaking I get a pretty large sum of cash out at the beginning of a trip upon arrival and try to use cash for everything. It does depend on where I'm visiting, but the reality is that in a lot of the world there are places which only accept cash or where you can have a simpler transaction using cash. When I return, I just dump whatever remains in the jar. In theory I would take it with me if I visit a place that uses that currency again, but I usually forget and since I have to get more from the ATM anyway I don't really worry about it. It's not as if I brought back 300 euros from one trip. I have currency in there right now from about 28 different countries.

Regarding cash to carry, I basically am not concerned with pick pocket / theft, for a number of reasons, and am more concerned with a business being unable to take a card for some reason. For instance, my primary travel card is an American Express which is not accepted by small businesses in a lot of countries, such as restaurants and shops. In these cases I have a backup card, but I would prefer to use cash. I also ensure I have enough cash to always get me back home and in communication, so enough to replace my phone and get a return plane ticket.

I imagine locals don't need to carry as much cash as foreigners because they have a different set of concerns and easy / ready access to more cash without being charged exorbitant fees for access.
Funny -- only if you don't know what the words mean. Both are not strictly facts so any discussion around them is bound to derail into... exactly what's going on here.
Too much of legal procedures relies on 'discretion' rather than protocol.
I have zero interest in playing this but will probably still buy to support
There is so much anti-union disinformation coming out of most large and medium corporations at all times that by the time you are an adult, you probably know very little about unions but have this inkling that they are bad. This gets solidified as you go into the work force for [large corp] and are bombarded with anti-union propaganda. The disinformation is also class-based. Blue-collar workers and below are bombarded with this disinformation the second they start working at [large corp], and also hear it by virtue of their parents hearing it while they grow up, while white collar workers largely are not, which is why you see this peculiar progressivism amongst the elite, other than the portion of the elite that actually perpetuates anti-union sentiment because doing so is tacitly in their job description.

So sadly, someone with a 1099 job at Amazon or McDonalds is much more likely to have anti-union sentiment, because they are much more likely to have been exposed to a "union education" pamphlet or "educational" video at work.
Renaming a file is a multi-step process, only one of which is changing the name
I wonder if "nice guys" are more likely to let bad behavior go on around them? I doubt they are more likely to initiate bad behavior, but perhaps not be assertive enough to stop it.
I don't really follow the academic freedom debate that closely, but I did notice that in the video that was circulating yesterday regarding a protest at Netflix over this class of issue, one of the protesters was saying "Repent, motherf*ker! Repent!" The "repent" language does seem to have a strong religious authoritarian quality.