skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems far more likely that if it's specifically in response to recent events

I can answer this conclusively: it's not a response to any single election or event. We've been working on this for almost 2 years. Here's a tweet from June 2020: https://twitter.com/SeattleApproves/status/12776993817564528...

As we all say, correlation is not causality, but more practically, it's impossible to announce an initiative that addresses a real problem without it seeming related to something recent :-) Until the prior election is done, no one cares, and yet signature-gathering deadlines basically require starting as soon as that election ends.

(AMA about running an initiative, particularly one that doesn't have an enemy - that is, we're not trying to "Move the goalposts" towards or against any viewpoint. That's incredibly valuable (IMO!) and quite rare, but also means the typical you're-with-us-or-against-us fundraising and voter pitches don't apply. "You're with us if you support representative democracy" requires a different campaign plan targeted at people and organizations who support systems and incentives, not only candidates and positions, and who put their own preferences second to the will of the voters.)
You couldn't (easily) use C# to write the frontend for a web application that you wanted to use as either a developer or a user, though (which is to say sit down, ASP.NET Web Pages, nobody ever liked you).

That's the lock that TypeScript turns, IMO.
I keep seeing folks acting like Marriott is afraid to go against China because they would crush them, but I see it just as capitalism at work. When you have to make the most profit all of the time or SHAREHOLDERS will shut you down then you have to bow to any large market that puts up a complaint.
There's a NASA TR about it: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19950005290
I find this article to be unlikely, but I'm no expert; maybe I'm missing context.
Winamp prepares a relaunch, new beta version almost ready
As far as I'm aware almost everything is still Android, even if they're not using the Play Store.
You never hear about developments of the RNG on other OSes. It gives me more confidence that the Linux RNG is constantly being reviewed.
I'm not entirely sure I agree with you. Just because something gives people purpose doesn't mean it's positive... You can be excited, hopeful and positive about something that provides very little value.
Helping move away from petro-powered transportation is a huge incentive for a lot of people. And it's not like Teslas are terrible or have a worse driving experience than other cars.

There is a reason that every single electric car made by anyone is sold far in advance, including non-Teslas where charging on road trips is still a sub par experience.
The author calls for tech journals to release their race data. This is why the author has to resort to the approximations you take issue with.

"Big Tech Media corporations should do the right thing and release the demographic breakdown of their employee base. There is even a federal requirement to file the form EEO-1 Survey which breaks this data down."
> wearing cloth masks was worse than no mask.

Self-infection when taking it off, right?

The contempt for the general public from these people bordered on the perverse. How can they sleep at night? "We acted with the best information available at the time, and followed the scientific consensus to make our policy". Not even close to the truth, but maybe it helps a bit.
Yeah, exactly. Altruistic instincts are much better than is often assumed.
Chomsky's not talking about "changing our habits," he's talking about mass protests. The examples he gives are the climate strike and the sunrise movement.

> The whole neoliberal period was basically class war. It had nothing to do with the markets or anything else. Just class war.
How is it designed and by whom?
Politics always lags societal change.
If there was hope, it must lie in the proles.
The one example you cite has been called out as a ponzi scheme elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29245147
I believe the author did in fact say exactly this.

> I did something very wrong, and the complication of my mental disorder should not excuse me entirely from blame for those actions. The degree to which any individual weighs that complication will have to be a matter of their individual ethical sense. Everyone has the right to make up their own mind about whether I should be forgiven or not. These issues are very complex, and I have had to wrestle with my culpability for my actions when manic for a long time. It’s not easy. It’s perfectly legitimate to weigh my mental illness as context and still conclude that I deserve to have social ties severed. I did in fact lose some real friends over what happened, they made their decisions in full light of my condition and history, and I can only respect that stance and hope that one day they might reconsider.

> ...

> I have not asked for absolution; I have asked for forgiveness. I have asked for forgiveness knowing that only guilty people have the right to ask such a thing. I am guilty of doing something terrible, and I know that some will always judge me harshly for it. I cannot ask them to do otherwise if they are moved to do so by their conscience.
It's not a pleasant experience to come on board and deal with a typeless, styleless, inconsistent mess. And that's what Ruby on Rails will create, unless you spend an inordinate amount of effort on adding back all the tooling you need to make functional software in large groups.

Even then - there's no real path to a mature and maintainable language/framework. In my area (Atlanta) we're seeing a glut of RoR devs available because a lot of the large employers have given up and shut down the RoRs projects in favor of anything more suitable to teams in the 15 to 500 engineer range. Usually this has been typescript/java/.net.

Even within the RoR guys I know - a LOT of them are trying to get out and work with something else (several folks I know are moving to elixir)
Neat idea. Lovely interface.

However, no mention of monetization strategy. Are you selling my personal data? Do you show me ads? Do you intend to sell subscriptions?

Also, no E2E _and_ it's not open source/self-hostable. I need at least one of those. Either I don't need to trust you because things are E2E encrypted, or you establish trust by letting me see and verify code.
I know some of your questions are rhetorical, but early math education prioritizes vocabulary, like “remainder”. HN is full of people exposed to higher symbolic math. EquitableMath and the work of Dr. Gutierrez are not pointed at undergrad subjects, but most of HN has learned their greatest math insights at that level. How do we talk about enabling disadvantaged kids to reach matrix methods? One way not to do it is allow a correct solution (with work shown) to be less important than the teacher’s reception of that student’s absorption of the language of feelings around privilege.

I expect multiple proofs of Pythagoras to be the early lesson that multiple proofs exist for the same theorem. I think you’re mistaken, but I’m not a math teacher. Renaming the Pythagorean theorem to ABC is fine with me.

It’s not the memorization or process of deploying the quadratic formula, but the problem-solving steps shown in your work. Deriving it from first principles will get partial credit, even if (in theory) calculations fail because the pupil is only familiar with a non-Arab-Indian number system.

You assert that math teaches false constructs, but this is not because teachers “internalize the sequences”. Word problems are simplifications. Physics teachers simplify mechanics to demonstrate Newtonian laws, yet this doesn’t demonstrate quantum effects. Is that “highly detrimental”?

Also, you’re wrong about matriculating from matrix methods to third-semester (multivariate) calculus. But, it is my opinion that matrix methods serve potential programmers better than calculus. I’m sure you agree that, whether it’s a gatekeeper or not, multiple great, free resources exist nowadays for kids of any background to learn matrices, independent of whether they matriculate to calculus.
We don’t need to all boycott all of them for this to be effective; creating a (sufficiently strong) gradient where their profits go up if businesses act better (for whatever value) is likely to work.
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I don't think the constitution would allow it. Kowtowing is an expression of something so I would guess it's covered by the 1st amendment.
And will end entirely in a few months.
The clever idea that makes manyclangs compress well is to store object files before they are linked, with each function and each variable in its own elf section so that changes are mostly local; addresses will indirect through sections and a change to one item won't cascade into moving every address.

I'm not sure the linking step they provide is deterministic/hermetic, if it is that would prove a decent way to compress the final binaries while shaving most of the compilation time. Maybe the manyclangs repo could store hashes of the linked binaries if so?

I'm not seeing any particular tricks done in elfshaker itself to enable this, the packfile system orders objects by size as a heuristic for grouping similar objects together and compresses everything (using zstd and parallel streams for, well, parallelism). Sorting by size seems to be part of the Git heuristic for delta packing: https://git-scm.com/docs/pack-heuristics

I'd like to see a comparison with Git and others listed here (same unlinked clang artifacts, compare packing and access):
https://github.com/elfshaker/elfshaker/discussions/58#discus...
Except LANTR solves a very similar problem, which is the requirement for different performance parameters at the beginning and at the end of a rocket flight (high thrust and propellant density in first stage, low thrust and high Isp in the second stage) in a single stage vehicle. And I mentioned it because its way of operation is very similar to the thing describe above, i.e., injecting something extra into the nozzle, so it reminded me of it. Not because I consider it comparable to using aerospikes on Earth (I'm not convinced that's useful at all) but because this is one of the few such variable Isp options that appears to provide any useful benefits at least somewhere (even if it's not on Earth).
You're right but does it justify the power grab anyway? What has been done since last year about hospitals capacity?

I can tell you that in France we have less beds than last year (not sure about intensive care though) and we fired quite a lot of unvaccinated nurses.
https://archive.md/vV79x
https://medium.com/@zack_98398/is-reading-articles-about-whe...
I agree with much of your sentiment, but a top down approach with government regulations is absolutely necessary to assist with stopping harmful emissions and pollution. It's extremely difficult to tell everyone to walk to McDonalds to not waste gas and to not grab a plastic straw. Most everyone will not follow through with those requests when McDonalds is quite literally giving it away straws for free and gas vehicles are so readily available. But if you force McDonalds to use a recycled paper lid that doesn't require a straw, and force their suppliers to deliver those products with electric vehicles, and we force car manufacturers to only produce electric vehicles: then we can stop the emissions and waste generation at the source. People will have no choice but to take more green options if thats all that is available to them.
Oh I absolutely agree that you have to look deeper to understand the drivers. I also agree that many of the drivers are from far before any candidate hits the hiring pipeline or anything like that.

But given that in this thread there are lots of people denying that this is even suggestive of a problem, I can also see the merit in collecting the information just to demonstrate that a problem even exists - it is hard to get buy-in among people who do not believe that race should be discussed in the 21st century.
I love this thought process. I've gotten into the habit of only checking my email at work when I sign in and when I leave for the day.

I know you don't integrate with email because of some time critical messages, but I wonder if you could still integrate as an email/sms app and allow temporary overrides (kinda like how pihole let's you pause it for 5 minutes).

That'd be downright awesome
so many people are just looking to belong to something now. Society at least in the US has lost its sense of togetherness and belonging so many people have no real life friends and spend the vast majority of their time online. Its a society wide issue and this is a symptom. Good for them for getting some sense of joy or excitement from this.
Bloody hell...

"Scores of people in the Philippines and Vietnam have quit their jobs and make a better living playing Axie for hours every day. They earn Smooth Love Potion (SLP), a token earned through Axie gameplay that can be exchanged for fiat, which in turn can be used to pay for food, shelter, medical bills, and all of the other things needed to survive. Some people who were previously making $5 per day now make $20."
People who seek out drugs are not a good proxy for the general population
I agree that The Date™ is sometimes driven by legitimate factors. And that other things often become tied on to The Date™.

But The Date™ also is a BFD when none of that is true. And if things like client training and penalty clauses were all that important, people would be extremely careful about picking dates that are realistic. Instead, frequently The Date™ is made up and people get fetishistic about Meeting The Date™ in ways that are untethered from actual circumstances or consequences.

That's a sign to me that the real purpose of The Date™ is not the nominal purpose.

> There is a reason some activities are called Sprints. You can't do them all the time.

This is a perfect example of how distinct the nominal purpose and the actual behaviors are. In the Scrum framework, things are structured as an unending series of Sprints, back to back from here to eternity. Whereas in reality, a sprinter like Usain Bolt runs, what, 10 or 20 officially timed races per year at under a minute each? And the rest of the time recovering, prepping, and training.
Nuclear takes too long to build and is too expensive.

Renewables are quicker, cheaper and sufficient.

A 3x overbuild of solar+wind in an optimal mix, along with a continental grid and 3 hours worth of batteries is all you need for 99.99% reliability over an entire year.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z
I think the reason why the stat was computed in the first place was also to show that an overwhelming majority of emission sources are in turn controlled by 100 * (avg board size) human beings. Changing consumer behavior and incentives is one side, but one should also consider the behaviors and incentives of those 1000-ish people.
Why do you trust these numbers? There are (in all logical likelihood) far more instances of myocarditis than are reported, as well as far more instances of covid than reported. This immediately makes the death rate of covid go down and the rate of myocarditis go up by some unknown factor that nobody can possibly know. A fit, healthy young male has no reason to be vaccinated in such a situation.
How long before this gets serious consideration and a cure for "depression" becomes available?
It's not, you are completely correct. But I try to buy from companies that align with my values, I run my tech and things into the ground before I buy new. But it doesn't take a few people being perfect, it takes all of us to imperfectly do our best.
HN regularly posts the smallest, weakest studies in a delusional confirmation of its own biases against women and minorities.
ThinLTO can be pretty quick if you have enough cores, it might work. Not sure how well the LTO objects compress against each other when you have small changes to them. It might work reasonably.

manyclangs is optimized to provide you with a binary quickly. The binary is not necessarily itself optimized to be fast, because it's expected that a developer might want to access any version of it for the purposes of testing whether some input manifests a bug or has a particular codegen output. In that scenario, it's likely that the developer is able to reduce the size of the input such that the speed of the compiler itself is not terribly significant in the overall runtime. Therefore, I don't see LTO for manyclangs as such a significant win. But it is still hoped that the overall end-to-end runtime is good, and the binaries are optimized, just not with LTO.
You are restating what the article says but I don't see any evidence presented nor is a mechanism that would cause this link presented. It sound to me like no more than idle speculation. 'Individuality created a vacuum that was filled by surveillance'. What does this even mean? Why are these two things related? Correlation does not equal causation.
Yes, and whenever anything like that comes up someone always comes and says how it is a dog whistle and what you really want to say is that you hate women and minorities and just want to perpetuate patriarchy and capitalism and you are just evil.

But, yea, HN is quite countercultural in that regard. It is not as bad as at other places where such attitude is more prevalent.
> the fact that there are millions of users and many who are coming up with ideas, building products, etc. is something that is hard to ignore

I think most people's interest in crypto begins and ends at "you can get insane returns". It's gambling or FOMO for most people.

The excited builders are very more sparse (try to find anyone building on or even talking about Dfinity for evidence).

I'm not saying it'll never change, but right now there's no ecosystem for blockchain outside of NFTs and coins.
The problem is sometimes we wouldn't get a customer unless we meet the deadline the customer requires. I'm fine with that. Most of the time, it's the sales team promising the world so that they get more bonus without having to pay the price for guaranteeing those promises.
> I also subscribe in a very self-interested way to the School of Disbelief Suspension, and hoping the reader will meet me halfway. I was trying to write a world where you can absolutely believe it, once you have accepted the enormous and unlikely sci-fi premise.
When I initially read the description, I thought this could provide a drop-in runtime-linked shared library stub, but looking deeper in the docs and examples it appears there is at least some setup code required on the client side?

Can this log the RPC calls around the target C library? Or potentially even replay calls in isolation? The latter could be expensive for non-trivial programs (require saving all synchronized memory state?), but might be more viable with binary diffs of the shared state if the client side doesn't modify the synchronized memory too much.
How dare you not try and cancel this evil person?
Two areas stand out to me personally:

1. Gaming. There are a lot of interesting games now where people own assets (sort of like trading cards), characters in the games, and get compensated for how they contribute to the games. This is a very interesting model, and some of the games have millions of DAUs... And that's millions of DAUs while the tools to buy the tokens to play the games are still very difficult to obtain for some people.

2. DAOs. The level of interaction and excitement around people discussing how to govern their communities in a healthy, scalable way is something I've never seen in social media... This doesn't even involve money/crypto changing hands -- it's about using voting tokens, bots, and creative rule making to make organizations and communities grow and scale inclusively and in a way that doesn't have a centralized authority making decisions (in contrast to say, Facebook).

If you're interested in learning more, I highly recommend joining a few Discord channels for DAOs.
Imagine believing this is obvious, confirmed, and the truest science. Now imagine a website that upvotes this. Welcome to HN.
I leaned once that in ancient China they paid family doctors a monthly free, unless someone in the household got sick, then the fee was not paid until everyone was healthy again.

Doctors did due diligence on their clients and advised them preventive. They did not want sickly households.

Also the incentive is on keeping the whole house in good shape.

I learned the opposite once: never let a capitalist near your health care program. They make money when you are sick, and stop making money when you are healthy.
This will continue to happen until the US government backs not bending to foreign actors, as it did with the ridiculous "Interview" movie.

The US handled it well: the govt stood behind theaters who might have otherwise stopped screenings, and local police were outside theaters. Was it worth it for the entertainment? No. It was worth it for a political message.
by pushing all the shit to master branch and letting your users deal with the breakage, obviously
Yes. Companies can conduct themselves unethically, but that doesn’t absolve customers who are the source of demand for unethical products.

We must condemn equally the rhino poachers and the horn-buyers.
A microdoser is not an average drug-seeker.
Sitting in a ring and pointing fingers is ultimately extremely toxic and counterproductive. The consumers can blame the producer supply, the producers can blame the consumer demand, the politicians can blame the the voters, the voters can blame the politicians.

Just where is that getting us? How is this search for who is most to blame going to do anything to help solve the problem? Seems like it's a tactic for avoiding the very real truth that each and everyone needs to do something, what needs to be done doesn't care about what is fair or what is convenient. The reason assigning blame to someone else seems to work is that we are all to blame. Almost whoever you point to, you are almost certainly correct: They are to blame. But so are you.

Productive change always starts with individuals making changes to themselves. We are all humans. The consumers are humans. The producers are humans. The politicians are humans. The voters are humans. It is humans that need to act.
That sounds like pretty standard out-group stigmatization that you also hear applied to immigrants, people of color etc...
This seems like a new initiative between Google and the CSN to stop people from falling from scams that YouTubers like Kitboga[0] and Jim Browning[1] like to expose.

The about page dives into the problem at hand: https://scamspotter.org/about

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/KitbogaShow

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/JimBrowning
I would be more interested to hear the thoughts of the children of adults who microdose psychedelics.

I imagine they would be the best guage of the total net effect.
Loss of privacy is not driven by individualism, but by an increasingly risk intolerant society.

Individualism is not directly in conflict with privacy, but rather both are in conflict public safety and compliance.

The article posits that increased individualism and breakdown of communities has led to a loss of privacy, but this was not a given, but a choice.

A society can simply choose to reject the loss of privacy and accept the costs that may come with individualism & privacy.

Further, the entire argument that community surveillance was effective and required replacement is suspect. For example, murder rates were higher and case closure was much worse in the past under the community surveillance model. Crime rates were dropping at the same time that communities were disintegrating, all before the advent of mass surveillance.
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