skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Racism is the root problem.

Is this a falsifiable hypothesis, or is it akin to Russel's teapot? In order to be meaningful, a statement must be falsifiable: What experiment could convince you that racism is not a root cause?

I ask because it seems like whenever there is a racially polarized disparity in outcomes it is blamed on racism, no matter the polarity of the disparity, no matter whether race is really needed as part of the mechanism that creates the racial disparity.

For example, gentrification in the United States is often attributed to systemic racism. However, despite only having one significant race, Korea and Japan also exhibit cycles of gentrification which harm the economic underclasses, completely independent of a "white system". So, have you looked at all the other potential root causes and ruled them out?
This NFT craze can't end soon enough
I have mostly skeptical about tax plans like this one that tax non-liquid assets. It seems odd to me to tax a person’s illiquid holdings in a company for example. Do we force people to sell pieces of their property to pay the taxes on that property? (In short, for many types of property, yes, but it still has always seemed strange to me)

That said, the more I read about the low or no interest loans against investments that seem to be the primary “income” of the mega-rich, it seems more and more that something needs to be done here.

Or am I wrong? Thoughts?
Reading the docs and the types help me a lot. If you've done Clojure/PHP/JS, maybe you're not used to it
So your definition for good men are only people who have never had a break up in their 30s/40s because there are plenty of people who have?
So, like City of London.
I think there is an argument to be made that movies have generally gotten dumber and plots more obvious. So when a film comes along that expects you to do a bit more work, I think lots of people find it confusing. (for example, figuring out that the reason no one uses guns is that shields only block fast things -- the former is unexplained, but easily deduced from the latter, which is reinforced many times.)
Training Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Does anyone else find it difficult to train reinforcement learning algorithms? Between writing a custom OpenAI gym environment and deciding on which algorithm to train in that environment, it seems like it takes a while to arrive at a trained agent using reinforcement learning. Thoughts?
Sure, but the available options aren't limited to "mine lithium in Maine" and "do absolutely nothing".
Perhaps that’s the part they think is not useful?
Do processing facilities like this exist closer to Maine than China? If not, a new one would need to be built, so I think the GP is still generally correct about the local impacts.
I disagree. I first tried Linux about 15 years ago and had the experience you describe, I tried each 2 years or so without much improvement. But for the last 5 years or so, Ubuntu has been my main OS without considerable problems on multiple desktops and laptops.
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Thanks, we are planning to do that — it will definitely mean that the pages can be simpler

But, it's a lot of work and will take months. And it makes modifying instructions complicated.

In the meantime I need to get people up and running in the next few weeks.
There is evidence that the virus in China was leaked earlier than we think, so their lockdown was pretty tardive as well. There are also doubts on the number of deaths reported by China (according to CNN, which is pretty pro China).

People had antibodies in the states in December 19 according to the CDC. This also matches some anecdotal accounts from a girl on instagram that claimed her family had COVID in 2019 in the States after a visit from China.

We probably didn't notice because COVID mortality is pretty low.

Containing such an easily transmissible virus is also pretty much close impossible, no amount of lockdown would have killed it.
MLP and MVPs: one of the keys to a successful product launch
Being "safe on the streets" is what this discussion was about. Drug use is irrelevant to what was being discussed, with user "ResearchCode" claiming that Barcelona is a place where people "are asked to practice war zone vigilance", something they've failed to back up with any kind of sources.

With respect to the drug use, I don't buy that measuring use is a valid proxy for measuring abuse or "disasters" - assuming all use is abuse is a severely puritan value judgement. I'd much rather be around an ecstasy or cannabis user than an alcohol user for example.
I don't think it's only whattaboutism, it's mostly that crypto is becoming a meme complaint and even whattaboutism is thrown as reflex "what about you".

ps: I'm trying to go from screamer to proactive these days. I was already frugal and dropped car use, I'm also thinking into starting clubs to make more walk/bike use, recycling/upcycling repair shops and the likes. Do you have similar ideas ?
This is a second post I see about "do your scripting in xyz". I wonder in what ways the *nix ecosystem with sh and all the tools around it is insufficient. Is it a case of wanting everything to have your favourite flavour?
There's also a railway (looks to be [1]), pretty close to Newry. 10 miles of railway would be a small cost for a large mine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lawrence_and_Atlantic_Rail...

https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Plumbago%20Mounta...
As a younger person groups is all I use it for. I also use Instagram (so they still get my data) and TikTok, but when I need advice/help/reviews/just reading about other peoples issues the quality of content is slightly higher and broader than reddit

in FBs earnings report this week MAU were up 6% vs. last year, far from stagnant.
Maybe because truck drivers are never at home, yet do provide a stable income. Some may see this as a feature, not a bug.
That doesn't seem correct. Next _does_ still use Webpack - it's what does the actual bundling:

> Underlying webpack improvements: We've made numerous improvements to webpack, including optimizing Fast Refresh and making on-demand entries more reliable.

> After making webpack 5 the default in Next.js 11, we've now officially removed webpack 4. We've worked closely with the community to ensure a smooth transition to webpack 5.

SWC is the equivalent of Babel for transpiling JS, not Webpack for bundling.
Thanks James. I have to admit that I struggle with the "No true Scotsman" argument.

I think that in the case of Agile, there is a set of principles and values clearly defining what it is. For a project to be Agile it needs to follow these. (Most projects ignore them and they just follow some Scrum practices). Just saying that you are Agile doesn't make it so.
So isn't ByteStream just Stream (Of ByteString)? And isn't all this just iteratees?
> It didn't have that Avengers style light hearted, not-taking yourself too seriously and intentionally over the top vibe

And I couldn't have asked for more. This movie was like a small island of refuge from the desolation of cultural genocide Marvel has caused over the past decade
Good job!
I think you should add Iosevka, and I think the editors should scroll at the same time so comparing would be easier
The only reason to marry is money?
but mutations have been in there since the beginning IIRC
> What about your idea regarding inflation as a way to avoid concentrations of wealth? (the idea I quoted and I replied to). That one is unsustainable.

You're free to discuss the facts I've pointed out, instead of going off on a tangent with a non-sequitur regarding Argentina's hyperinflation. It's undeniable that stockpiling cash out of the economy has a deeply negative social, economic, and even fiscal impact on a nation. Inflation provides an incentive to actually put the money to use, and interest rates for the most conservative investments, like risk-free bonds, are then used to provide incentives to couple investments with economic cycles.
I miss k10k[1]. They had always something new to explore.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030207162038/http://www.k10k.n...
Even when you apply the formulas in the linked spreadsheet, you can get into trouble because it seems to assume V_led is fixed.

For an example of how quickly this can go wrong, see my accepted answer to “Why is my LED circuit drawing 50% more mA than I calculated?” https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/572739/why-i...
I came into the thread to post my own eye roll like reaction to this, but you beat me to it. I'd love to know who the internal champion was at Adobe pushing this feature forward. Sure they could be working on performance improvements, improving the UI, or one of the myriad of outstanding and long lasting bugs, but instead, we're going to add in an NFT output filter!
If you, as a human, need to get into the middle and debug, you have a browser and can possibly exercise the system.
Still doesn’t absolve the current dispensation or make it any less callous. Topic at hand is current government’s attitude and not of previous governments.
You're confusing annual and quarterly revenue. YT made $7B in revenue this quarter. Implies a > $28B annual rev stream.
>there’s no natural way for it form on Earth.

'Naturally forming' elements on Earth are limited to uranium fission products.

Lithium (also aluminium, magnesium, sodium) distribution is due to it being light and chemically active, thus ending up in crust, while heavier metals (iron, nickel) end up in mantle and core. It takes specific geological circumstances to bring mantle material into crust, so there are 'hot spots'. Lithium is already there, so it is spread somewhat evenly.
> What's the point of "awarding a cloud contract" to a single entity when from the perspective of commodification when the government can instead use all cloud providers (maybe in different proportions though) at the same time?

Because it's really hard to train technical staff, certify the security of, and harden your attack vectors on one platform let alone doing it for 10 of them. These providers that handle gov data generally have isolated data-centers with more stringent security protocols, like making every employee have a security clearance. Doing that for more providers would increase costs exponentially for very little gain.
>Money is a medium of exchange - a mechanism for judging the relative value of unlike goods. That is literally impossible if the thing used as money is non-economic, like fiat currency. The money must be itself a tradeable commodity. Commodities that are useful as money have all the traditional traits you learn in elementary school, and gold is the traditional and current best fit for those traits.

If "money" is a physical medium of exchange then advanced economies do not have or need "money".

Our modern banking system simply lets people promise each other goods and services. It's effectively a system built around relationships.
> This workflow is really common in functional languages.

That depends on the language. OCaml compiles really fast, has a relatively good toplevel with good tracing, and a great time travelling debugger.
Do you think Google and Facebook are putting every item that they ban through some sort of a scientific review were they carefully weigh the pros and cons of all the data of every side of a debate?

Like there's a bunch of older gentlemen with beards and pipes and philosophy phds sitting around a room discussing the cultural merits of the song wet ass pussy.

My best guess at how the censorship process works is there's a bunch of really low paid people that censor things based on a narrative page provided to them.
All this is done differently in C++, due to historical reasons determined by decisions taken between 1980 and 1984, even before the name C++ was adopted (in January 1984).

If objects with constructors and destructors had been introduced in a language with distinct "in", "out" and "in-out" parameters, everything could have done in a much simpler way than in C++ and without needing to introduce a lot of weird syntax and non-intuitive mechanisms.

In a language with distinct "out" parameters, yes the compiler ensures that the "out" parameters are raw memory, i.e. registers or free stack locations, or if the space previously occupied by temporaries is reused, the temporaries are destroyed before invoking the function.

Inside the function, the compiler ensures that any "out" parameters must be initialized somehow, e.g. by a "new", before any kind of access.

In a language with "out" parameters, assignment would be defined as having an "out" left parameter, so there would exist no copy constructor or move constructor and "operator =" would be what in C++ is named now as copy constructor.

The compiler would take care to destroy any left-hand operands of assignment before the assignment, when necessary.

The same for out parameters, if they have been declared but not initialized, they are raw memory so they are passed as they are. If they have already been initialized, the compiler ensures that they are implicitly destroyed.

All these rules are obvious enough, and they are much simpler than the very complex rules that you must take into account to understand what a C++ compiler does with temporaries and what happens differently when you add either "&" or "&&" to the type, and so on.

Some people believe that having to write 4 member functions, copy constructor, move constructor, copy assignment and move assignment, as it is mandatory in C++, is an opportunity to sometimes make a performance optimization, but I do not agree.

I believe that the case when a worthwhile optimization can be made in a copy assignment function (e.g. by reusing some allocated memory, which slightly bypasses the same reusing that would have been done in the memory allocator otherwise) are far to rare to justify the waste of time with extra function definitions for every class.

Initially C++ did not have a copy constructor, but only an "operator=", which mistakenly assumed a pre-existing object as its left-hand side.

Initializations by copy were done by the default constructor followed by "operator=".

This was inefficient, so the copy constructor was added, but the right solution would have been to redefine the semantics of "operator=", to match that what is now called copy constructor.

Then initializations would have been done with "operator=" and for assignments the compiler would have invoked implicitly the destructor. The programmer would have always written only 1 "operator=" function (and a simpler function, corresponding to the current copy constructor) and there never would have been any need for the other 3 functions.

This would have almost always resulted in the same performance as now, but with a far less burden on the programmer.
My son read the book and we went to see the movie. He liked it a lot but I was definitely thinking that it would be tough for anyone else.
It's not about the virus disappearing, it's about governments accepting that people die of diseases and COVID is just another one.
I don't buy this at all. I never read the book and found the movie easy to follow.

I certainly buy that some people were confused, but I don't agree that means the movie was poorly made. Some things are just not for certain people. It's a work of art as much as a product — it should not be designed-by-committee to achieve maximum popularity.
GM net income drops 40% in Q3 from chip shortage
If we talk about inequities, why not use economic factors? Get the money from equity holders. Probably from BlackRock in this case, not from WhiteRock.
So, uh, what benefits does this offer over existing, usually CLI-based, solutions? As far as I can tell it's a rather simplistic GUI wrapper around a static site generator - running in Electron, no less.

I'm not trying to come off as snarky - I am genuinely confused what benefits this offers over Jekyll or Hugo.
For reference this recent article describes research that tries to nail down the exact computational ratio
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-computationally-complex-i...
spoiler : 5-8 layers of artificial neurons per complexity of biological neuron
(This is all a rough idea in my head, with no sources to back up claims, but putting it out there nonetheless)

Over the course of history, how we evaluate companies and value them has changed. The concept of valuing companies based on quarterly earnings growth, is a relatively new concept and is not a necessary attribute of capitalism. So let's change how we evaluate companies.

What if we evaluated companies based on their environmental benefit or impact again? Tax break their environmental impact, tax break their environmental benefit?

I want to see "Ford company announces third quarter results, sequestering 100b tons more than expected".
checks calendar

nope, not April yet.
Too many new papers may mean novel ideas rarely rack up citations
Haskell is relatively slow to compile when compared to OCaml.
You’ve moved the goal posts about five times now. First it was our entire lives indoors. Now it’s just a few months a year in some parts of the world. First it was in the next 20 years. Now it’s by the end of the century.

A single study that predicts brain damage from CO2 “by the end of the century” is pure speculation at this point. The link you shared even says it’s still very unclear what the effect is.

I’ll say it again; the actual science says that climate change is a serious problem. It doesn’t say that we are headed into the apocalypse in the next decade.
Yeah, advertisement generates a lot of waste by making people buy stuff they do not want or need.
I can't claim numbers but even if you have the fastest and leanest information system, the rest of the economy might be problematic, the human layer is really bad. I stopped counting how many time we asked people to come back another day (more car use) because the old paper+digital system is not made for high throughput. Our servers are probably super fast.. but the apps are not useful, the system is not useful, thus lots of waste above.
It doesn't matter where the data is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
I'm sorry your experience has been lackluster. Personally, I find that the documentation/wiki for systems like Arch are quite packed with useful information. Going from my hands being held and things mostly done for me in Ubuntu with a mostly-vanilla setup, to Arch with a tiling window manager, and setting up networking/audio/etc manually was not that difficult at all, thanks to the Arch Wiki. They do a great job.

And, so many problems have been encountered by others, that usually if you experience a problem, and look it up on the web, you'll get an answer at least 70% relevant to solving your own.

Maybe it comes from a stubbornness, or a heightened curiosity and intrigue, but it only took me ~6 years to go from Windows power user, to almost never booting Windows up, and feeling like I know Linux pretty deeply. I never felt like this with Windows. Things just... make sense.

This whole comment came off as me stroking my own ego, but I really just don't understand what people find so difficult about the process of transitioning from Windows/MacOS power user to Linux. I just never really met any significant resistance throughout it all. If someone really wants to take more control of their system, they'll get there no matter what.
Python is actually where most of my experience with SOAP was. Import suds, point it at the WSDL, get on with your program. I had far fewer interop issues with that than with all the different ways people implement "REST".
Globalization has exploded since we got off the gold standard. It was heavily slowing the world economy down. There just isn't enough gold to represent all the amazing things people want to do.
a part of me is definitely in favor of this, but another part of me wants to avoid turning http error codes into a meme
If a 2-lane road isn't sufficient then the facility's driveway won't be sufficient either.

I'm guessing that their driveway won't be open to public traffic and would be built to withstand constant use by massively heavier trucks than are commonly seen on US2, so I don't think this is an apples-apples comparison.
> maybe they are just issuing private keys to each pharmacy

That seems too complicated for every single pharmacy in Europe. I bet they just punch in some data to a web app and it does the actual cryptographic signing.

> I took a friend of mine, who was vaccinated out of EU, to a pharmacy and nicely asked if he can have a certificate for travel. They just glanced at the his vaccination dates and gave us qr codes, no questions asked.

This seems no different than Joe pharmacist punching in Hitler. It's still a big problem, but it's not nearly as bad as leaking the actual private key.
But, they do not check your id. You can just get a valid certificate from your friend (a screen shot even!), and enter the premises.
The question is this more/less work then writing a good blog post vs will it get more/less syndication.
My point is that nowhere has successfully done it. No jurisdiction that I know of has completed a changeover to zero-carbon emissions power based on their wind/solar production, while there are several that have been quietly humming along on 100% nuclear for years.

While there have been massive advancements in wind/solar, the only tech that has been successfully used to create the backbone of a zero-carbon power-grid is nuclear.
>Imagine having a web socket directly to an RDBMS being able to call any stored procedure, you would do backflips around teams arguing over REST API:s.

Doing that will make REST zealots judge you for heresy.
But they are beige...?
I think this speed up that process.
It's because the feds are already the biggest thieves in the world, they already created 40% of all dollars in the last 12 months - they don't fear small competitors.
Ask HN: Best neobank with great API / Marketplace
I am based in EU so bonus points for the ones operating in EU, but I guess we can share those globally.

I can access my traditional banks data using Nordigen [0], but I am curious if anyone is going marketplace route.

I guess if we could have sandboxed access to run our code on banks infrastructure, we could come up with some interesting use cases.

One example: Read emails from gmail using their api, check amount due for my bills and automaticly pay them.

Is this possible today anywhere in the world?

[0] https://nordigen.com/
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what's funny is while REST is so badly conceptualized the underlying concept of using simple http with headers and a json payload to implement RPC is a very good one.

That said I think XDR based approaches (everything from original Sun XDR to protobuf/grpc) are far better because the idea of passing API calls through HTTP proxy layers is kinda crazy.
In case the creator of the site is reading: The bullfighting statue is most likely an analogy regarding the conflict with the harkonnen.

The harkonnen name stems apparently from Härkönen which derives from the finnish name for ox. In the movie Leto says that his father already practiced bullfighting, which could be a hint towards the ongoing conflict between the houses.
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China’s New Aircraft Carrier Is as Big as It Can Be
Ah, good point. Though I don't think there's an overuse of made up words, and most are actual non-English words.

I like that in the (otherwise mediocre) "Nightfall" novel by Asimov and Silverberg, the preface states "we are going to use English words because alien words are stupid. Please understand the characters are aliens and are not actually speaking in English. If it makes you happy, substitute "mouth" for "lrrrvkr" and "eyelids" for "ktkskssrrsch") :P

The characters of the Dune universe do come from Earth though, and it's clear Herbert was fascinated by the Middle East to the point Arrakis is The Middle East in Space.
It (already?) records as invalid in the Italian app.