skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have heard this argument before, but there is an easy work-around: low-income people can request an exemption

That is only "easy" if you ignore the time spent by the low-income people to fill out government paperwork on a regular basis, and ignore the cost of the army of new bureaucrats that would be required to process it.
I’m a therapist to the super-rich: they are as miserable as Succession makes out
It's a lot easier to format code arbitrarily when a language is whitespace-independent.

For example, to do method chaining across multiple lines, Python requires parentheses around the whole chain. That's a quirk of being a whitespace-dependent language.

In general, I think people who advocate for braces and semicolons just find it easier to reason about the code when they know that the formatting doesn't matter. All the flow is done via visible glyphs.
Askgit: Command-line tool for running SQL queries on Git repositories
Can we stop giving governments the authority to just shut down the world like this? At this point it's getting ridiculous. After seeing the Dutch and Australian police in action to force another shutdown, one can't help but wonder if governments are just going to continually tell us we can't leave to maintain this absurd power they can now hold. Apparently all you need to do is whip up a bunch of uninformed journalists about a virus, get a few radicals in a frenzy, and you suddenly can just legislate and do borderline anything as you please.

It's like the Weimar Republic on a global scale...
If you are interested in training, and especially if you experience pain while doing it, I cannot recommend Barbell Medicine enough. Specifically: "4 Steps For Managing Pain in the Gym" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdwj5ORPmX0

Austin is a professional doctor/coach/lifter and an expert on the topic. The lesson I linked corresponds to this article: https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/pain-in-training-what-d...

Aside from paying for a pain and rehab consultation with the Barbell Medicine team - I'd recommend posting on their forum: https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/
You can find many examples of people in similar situations receiving professional advice from their staff free of charge.
Everything being so expensive provides windows of opportunity itself though. If everything was already cheap and plentiful, it would be differently hard to find a compelling new value case.

“Your margin is my opportunity” as one prominent modern businessman has said.

If things are expensive or difficult for other consumers, it doesn’t take much for them to divert some of their resources to cheaper and/or better substitutes. If you’re in the business of providing that, it’s far better for you for the world to be too expensive than too cheap.
That's a pretty binary take on an activity that exists on a ethical gradient.
Well spotted?
GendBuntu
> I'm not sure I would consider the Netflix ones ads? They're not trying to convince you to buy additional things or otherwise give them money; they're telling you about shows you've already paid for that they think you might enjoy watching.

Encouraging me to consume more of what you're peddling is advertising, regardless of if I'm a customer of yours or not, or if I've consumed similar items before or not.
> Epidemic modeling has been quite accurate at predicting this current wave in Germany.

Researchers predict that infection case numbers would rise with the start of flu season.

Grant money spent well. /s
Can't make a Tomlette without breaking some Greggs
Plenty of parallels but you won't get exact matches... yet a few things stand out.

I'd point at the war-on-terror as a good example of a permanent or equivalent always-at-war situation. Its not a stretch to suggest that a lot of the privacy and surveillance is based around anti-terrorism initiatives and plenty of security theater is now in place because of that. The war-on-drugs was another version of that. The war-on-... rhetoric in general is almost cliché now. This is not to say its not serious but consider the 1970s had quite a lot of terrorism going on. eg The UK had regular bombings from the IRA.

Political correctness tends to adjust definitions in ways very reminiscent of Double-speak. It seems to be a rich source of new words and terms. Like a conveyor belt.

The surveillance aspect is obvious.
Magnus Carlsen vs. Ian Nepomniachtchi
I was looking for this comment. Thought I was going insane for a second.
Dukka can be “work you do” so we do work and that’s not surprising. That’s our condition here.
"Optimizing based on a lottery event seems counter-productive"

I think it depends on how often you "win" the lottery. If a lottery event happens once or twice a year and it's fairly hard to resolve, we classify them as land mines (or sea mines for the more maritime oriented people among us). These issues get a lower priority, but we'll try to work through them to avoid emergencies or lower their impact. So, maybe not optimizing, but increase resilience against lottery events.
It hasn't happened yet. And this has been going on for years.

That's why some web sites show separate ratings based on who's rating them. They tally the ratings of professional film critics separately from those of the hoi polloi.
> What you’ve linked is not saying “we must read these authors because their skin is black”. It is saying “their black skin has caused them to live a life different from other authors, which has caused them to write something different from other authors, and we want to know about that.”

Right, and the parents aren't saying "I refuse to let kids read any books by black authors", they are saying "don't put books into the curriculum just because the authors are black". I know the way I presented them wasn't 100% accurate, but I'd argue that it is way more accurate of their position than their representation of the parents position.

Now, the point isn't which of those sides are right. The point is that one side here argues that the others should get rejected by society since their position shouldn't be tolerated. I believe that side shouldn't do that. I believe the people who argues like that are way more damaging to society than the side they are arguing against.
What I hate on Hulu is clicking to watch an epiode, getting a short network splash animation with sound, then getting a short promo for the show I'm about to watch, and THEN the show starts playing. These are not skippable and this is the paid ad-free subscription.
People here are giving you some pretty ignorant ideas. The reasons things like this exist for certain industries in Canada is to maintain healthy markets while protecting the smallest of players in those markets. Things like Maple Syrup and Milk are tightly controlled because it ensures that in both good times and bad that the market does not get too volatile and squeeze the smallest producers out of it.

Usually the strongest opponents of these controls and regulations are the giant players or external interests that either want to be able to dump product to undercut and corner the market or eliminate the ability for any industry to collectively bargain for better deals when it comes to things like shipping infrastructure (take railways as an example).

And then there is Canada's proximity and cultural similarity to the United States, which while being it's greatest strength is probably its greatest weakness. The USA heavily subsidizes its primary industries that it is in Canada's national security interests to keep up high walls, regulations, and "cartels" to keep things like Canada food security in Canadian hands.
"Ever" is a tough one but ..

Python is still the best-designed language I ever used, warts and all. It's often grouped with Javascript because they're both interpreted and "duck-typed", but imho the gap between them is huge.

Svelte is amazing for UI logic. It makes hard things feel easy and simple, and really hard things to feel possible.

QBasic was a horrible language, but its IDE (if you can call it that) was incredibly helpful for beginners. Maybe I'm nostalgic, but I never experienced such helpful hand-holding in programming ever since.

Sorry it's all about programming. Most real world design is either too trivial or too impossible to make an impression.
Thank you so much for this. I've been through 3 terrible thermometers in the last year and have been looking for a replacement.
> I guess this cluster API project is maybe something Crossplane would use under the hood?

It’s more likely the other way around: Cluster API needs a so-called infrastructure provider that creates cloud resources to get a Kubernetes cluster running. The logic to join/create a Kubernetes cluster within the VMs created by that is managed by a separate provider, the bootstrap provider.

So, I guess it would be possible to externalise the creation of cloud resources to Crossplane and write a small shim infrastructure provider that just translates your cluster specification into Crossplane resources.

Crossplane has a different use case than Cluster API (create any cloud resources vs create a Kubernetes cluster), so Crossplane using Cluster API doesn’t make a lot of sense. Crossplane basically is „what if Terraform was a Kubernetes Operator“, so that somewhat sounds like what you’re interested in with the later parts of your post.
MacOS and iOS do not "force" or "all but force" you to create online accounts, neither pushes you to use iCloud, and "sends a hash of the binary's cert issuer" is not even remotely the same thing as MS sending the actual binary to themselves.

You have made numerous incorrect statements in this discussion. Please stop.
I chose "idyllic", expecting titles like Kiki's Delivery Service, but all the recommendations were either fighting or sports-related movies (Raging Bull, Southpaw, Rocky, etc). Sometimes there's also an issue where the same page loads inside the video frame.

Good idea, just needs a little more polish.
I think Vancouver's original rapid transit line still uses legacy systems with 5 1/4 Floppies.
It's a trade-off. You can either assume all statements end at the end of the line, and require a continuation character (backslash in Python) if that isn't the case; or you can require a statement terminator (semicolon/closing brace in Rust) for all statements.

The downside of assuming statements end at the end of the line is that you need to have special rules for when that isn't the case (such as Python's implicit statement continuation inside braces), while always having a terminator is simpler and more consistent (all statements end with a semicolon) at the cost of extra characters.
Asuming they're reporting the pearson's correlation coefficients and not the slope of some linear fit (which they seem to use elsewhere) then a correlation coefficient with an absolute value <0.5 only explains <25% of the variation. Now that isn't actually too bad for a psychological test, so the fact that resilience and loneliness have are related to cognitive distortions is reasonable (and not too dubious a claim).

The main problem I have with it is that their main claim "Cognitive distortions predict safetyism" is based on a correlation coefficient of 0.25, this leaves roughly 90% of the variance unexplained which really stretches the meaning of the word "predicts" in their title. Also I don't have enough trust in their questionnaires to be sure that all of the variance in their results is actually directly caused by the thing they claim to be measuring so when you find some correlations it's hard to rule out it isn't caused by some confounding variable.

All in all someone's Cognitive distortion score is a pretty bad predictor of their adherence to safetyism belief. There's a nonzero amount of correlation between the results of their questionnaires but given the small effect size I'm dubious about their claim of a causal link between them.

I should at this point note that "percentage of variance unexplained" is a bit of a simplification and only really works for linear fits, but I'm using it here as a rule of thumb to reason about the strength of the correlation.
Ironically I got told that you can be required to show immunisation certification to enter a hardware store. My thought-to-be-silly-to-make-a-point example about the hammer is reality right now.
ThinkPad laptops (W520/T420s/X220/...) up to 2011 - with 7-row keyboards.

Also Dell Latitude D630 laptop with great idea on the extended battery that extended up front as additional rest pad - also with 7-row keyboard.

I did not realized how great they were until they were gone ... now all laptops have these counter productive island type keyboards ...
It also runs into this problem, which was mentioned on HN just a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29328838
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> However, for some obscure reasons the shittier the technology, the more chances it has at becoming popular.

The reasons are simple: it's promoted by a big company. Same reason why C# and Go are popular.
It sends a hash of the certificate issuer.

MS sends the actual executable file.
There's a multitude of ways to workaround this hack. You can easily grab the screen area via the OS if need be. Seems pointless to try to restrict access if it's viewable in a browser.
This is a good take, but

> A machine learning organization thinks of risk entirely differently than an automated risk underwriting organization.

It's possible and maybe even advisable to use machine learning in the automated risk underwriting business, but it is a different setup / set of objectives.

As the author notes, IMO the adversarial and antifraud aspect of risk underwriting turns it less into a straight-up estimation problem and much more into a game theory type of problem. ML models can assist in evaluating risk, but you do indeed have to be preocuppied by your risk as a party to the transaction in the first place, and not just trying to predict prices as a third party observer (which by itself is pretty riskless).
I don't know what Dwarf Fortress is, but that's what I meant. Fortran now has INTENT specifiers, and you can expect constants to live in .rodata(?) on ELF systems, so you get a SEGV if you evade any compiler warning.
Interestingly this is the top article on The Atlantic at the moment: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/universiti...

It’s an interesting trend where suddenly the universities are not only trying to find the truth, but apparently they have a monopoly on it.
Why do you think this a more “real world” example? This is messaging coming from a teacher organization? Which one? Have you heard this in the real world personally? Or can you point us to where this conversation actually occurred, if it’s a real world example? Or is this something that just happens on Twitter?

What makes this conversation more real than the other one, which you claimed happens often. Does that one not happen often after all?

I’m just looking for the real world basis of this model conversation you have written for us here. What has given you this perception? Facebook? Twitter? Your personal experience with teachers associations (which ones)? Your friends and family?
I have to admit I still don't understand what is going on with the water and wine part.

The card trick is pretty straightforward though. When you mix up the cards you end up with something like 7 face up and 3 face down in one deck and 3 down 7 up in the other. The trick is just that the magician flips his cards over, inverting the cards and matching the other deck. Presumably he does this while engaging in some misdirection.
Don't some Linux distros come with games pre-installed? I mean...it's the same thing really.
South Africa was the first "second world" country in the economic sense, from before apartheid.

Rich elites living roughly Western lifestyles and everyone else super poor.
I can't think of a specific example but I do know that there have been times where I have chosen to write a loop as tail recursion and times where I have used mutable variables and a while loop. Why one or the other might be recursion better capturing intent, preferring immutability, efficiency or just a matter of taste.

Sometimes it makes more sense and is more flexible to package functionality as a recursive function, then mutation and variables feel like clutter. Other sometimes using recursion instead of a loop gains nothing expressively. Or sometimes structural recursion + pattern matching is the much more elegant approach in terms of communicating and capturing the essence of the algorithm.
PRISM is the code for FAA702 collection, and has nothing to do with the Google/Yahoo WAN cable taps, which had the codename MUSCULAR.

PRISM continues to date. The USG can get any data they want out of Google without a warrant.
Snitches get stitches - obviously you're not a criminal.
What? Lol it would be a PR mess in Latin America, Portugal, Spain and parts of Africa.

I speak Portuguese and I can assure you what you’ve written is funny nonsense. No one would care about this when making the 1000th internet meme.
Elimination seems to be the only viable strategy to go back to normal, and clearly the cheaper option (after 2 years it is crystal clear). With vaccines and more PCR tests, it would be easier to implement at least for the developed countries.

(Other diseases also have animal reservoir, but the outbreaks could still be sporadic after elimination measures.)
There are still large, unvaccinated populations in many developing countries.
How do they measure success of the talking therapies? Because I know people who just buy cannabis on the black market and won't tell doctors about it - they improve but not down to the therapy. They attend talk therapies out of fear of being discharged. It's a huge waste of resources. Nobody I know got helped by these.
wow. It's almost like you meant to reply to some other post. That's not at all what this thread is talking about. Dr. Campbell was not a midwife. He was a teaching nurse. He's accustomed to reading these studies.

Not sure how you equate him with anti-vax. He's adamantly pro-vax.
Loops are a lot of fun in Common Lisp, what with LOOP (https://gigamonkeys.com/book/loop-for-black-belts.html), ITERATE (https://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/doc/Don_0027t-Loop-I...), and FOR (https://shinmera.github.io/for/). But their fundamental problem of trying to extract a "bird's eye view" of what you're actually trying to do remains here.

Maybe a new iteration construct specifically supporting parallelization would help here. Some of these things might already work quite well, for example it should not be difficult to discern from (let me use ITERATE's example)

(iterate (for el in list)
(finding el minimizing (length el)))

that you're computing argmin using a pure function, which should be easy to do in parallel, whereas the way you'd typically write this in C would be probably difficult for the compiler to confirm as such (it would have to look for pattern such as "if (f(current)<f(best)) { best=current; }" or something like that. (BTW have you seen another loop construct supporting argmin/argmax in another language? I haven't so far.) Whether this could be done somewhat generally and extensibly is something I have to ponder on.
Taxes for externalities do not solve power imbalances caused by centralisation.

As for economies of long distance transportation, this is as a result of investment into those forms of transport as a result of centralised bargaining power and economies of scale. It's not like long distance transport has an inherent efficiency benefit over short distance, it's just more amendable to centralization.
I became a teacher in software engineering when I was 46.
In our country there have been and still are lots of vacancies for technical teachers.
I find it very fullfilling to work with young persons (students) and it is easy to keep up to date with new software eng. techniques because you are in an environment with som many technical persons (colleagues, students, workfield)
I'm not trying to "make it appear the virus could only mutate in a lab".

But, there are well-documented experiments in labs of the type that could create Omicron. And, only a small fraction of all experiments that are happening ever wind up in transparent sources.

Consider EcoHealth's creation of hybrid viruses with increased virulence. Or the 2020 research I linked, which bred the ancestral COVID strain for increased immunity-escape.

If a patient is suffering from a potentially-fatal disease, enforcing a taboo about enumerating all the possible causes is no favor to the patient. It could kill them. Squelching informed discussion of what enhanced-virulence disease agents are truly, actually being created in research labs is a similar false-decorum that can kill.
You'll get no argument from me about using a hydraulic splitter. Around my property there are a few species (I don't know which) that are quicker to split by hand. Anything that I have to sit there and smack on gets the ram. I burn 3-4 cords per year but mostly to keep from going broke on propane.

>especially when I'm as behind in getting my wood in as I always seem to be.

I'm convinced anybody that isn't behind on getting firewood for the season has too much time on their hands. xD
The list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#In_popular_culture is shockingly short.
Magma: A Dependently-Typed Language
It is "more real world", not "real world". The example is exaggerated to make a point.
and the download size? heavy?
Liquidity is NOT good in a dire-necessity supply-constrained market like housing, because it invites capital which could've been spent elsewhere to lock up unnecessary housing units (houses are empty while being flipped), further constraining supply of a critical resource.

Imagine if drinking water was treated as a speculative asset, with large percentages of a countries water supply being stored in tanks and sold back-and-forth on paper between capital-rich investors instead of actually being pumped to where it was needed through pipes.
No this is not how orbital mechanics work. You need to escape the earth's gravity completely to go to the sun. In order to go tot the moon you don't.

The "Just point at it and keep going" doesn't work in an orbital system. Here's a nice delta-V map that explains it a bit more: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1ktjfi/deltav_map_of...
They are out 200k. They bought for 100 too much and will have to sell for a 100 less than planned.
Just having 7 seats doesn’t mean that 7 can actually be seated. I would argue that if you had two car seats the third row would be completely in accessible.

Even if you didn’t have two car seats it’s unlikely that any of the kids stuff will fit as well. Kids come with a lot of stuff in general.

I bought my Tahoe for $30k, I looked at Tesla but we couldn’t afford the 100k price tag of the model X.

For people who are in lower or lower middle class total cost of ownership is something that you can’t really take into consideration because it’s easy to flex the amount spent on gas by reducing the driving around and being more efficient with your errands, but you can’t flex your payments.

Lastly while 57k isn’t bad for an electric vehicle, it’s still far from affordable for a large portion of Americans.
That's VIP, but then there's this:

> House 17’s expressed purpose was to maintain phony records and crank out millions of phony IRS 1099s on capital gains and dividends, trade confirmations, management reports and customer statements.

It's like the Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors book [1], which is expressly written as a manual to teach even a novice how to commit murder and get away with it. The publishers of that book were found responsible when a guy used the book in a plot that killed 3.

House 17 was specifically written to facilitate fraud at scale. So one can say that it made Bernie's job a lot easier.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_Man:_A_Technical_Manual_fo...
Systematic method to reverse engineer and rewrite DOS games