skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lack of intellectualism in the American political discourse is a common refrain even among the American left, not to mention the rest of the world, after becoming the laughing stock of the world during the Trump era. Of course this does not mean that American soft power was decreasing, Tyler Cowen (the right-leaning writer at Marginal Revolution) would argue exactly the opposite, but still, intellectualism being relegated to the sidelines and niche communities is a serious concern.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-19/woke-m...
I kind of see that, but it completely ignores the cost of hiring (financial and in lost productivity in the team that has to onboard the new hire) and the loss of knowledge and experience from firing as well.
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Spain passes landmark labor reform thanks to 'computer error'
Wow that is a well researched position, thanks for sharing. First of all I do think think all confederate flags should be retired. The confederate flags represent an enemy the US defeated. No American should feel pride about those flags.

However, you’ve provided image links with no context but your own. I am not sure what any of those images represented back in the time. I’m also having a hard time finding information to support your position. Additionally, the Alabama link looks like a bush maybe? Definitely do not see the Gadsden iconography, but maybe it’s just a bad scan.

I will say the Battle Hymn link is tenuous at best. The timber rattle snake on the flag is representative of the original rebellious 13 colonies (on the wiki if you want to read more). The rattlers are really only dangerous if stepped on, hence the phrase on the flag. In the hymn, “Crushing the snake under heal” has religious background, and represents extinguishing evil.

To me the flag represents that the people of this country have the right to oppose the government. That is a fundamental ideal in the US. In that context, it makes sense why some extreme fringe groups would co-opt the flag when opposing the government.

However, that does not mean the flag represents extremist views to the vast majority of people who like to fly it.

Finally, my original comment said it was disingenuous to associate the two so closely like you did. At least say “and” instead of “/“. Someone not so familiar might assume they are literally the same thing.
I'll take it :-)
their captcha is not working with noscript/basic (x)html browsers, any copy of its content somewhere?
> Mathematicians will have above average ability with arithmatics

They dont. My family has multiple ma mathematicians in it and as a kid I spent a lot of time with their colleagues on activities. Many do regularly huge mistakes in basic arithmetic like multiplication or addition. Some of them do "memorise pi to 50 decimal places" or learn some other "stunt" for fun of it or in order to impress people. But they all treat it more of as a stunt then something meaningful.

It just does not matter for work of mathematician whether you are good with arithmetic. So they dont care about becoming good at it. They just joke about it when someone makes mistake yet again.
> But remember to reduce your personal carbon footprint! /s

Why not both? I work to reduce my personal carbon footprint out of principle.
As someone who has had to deal with subscriptions on apps on my wife’s phone, “20% cheaper” but outside of the Apple payment ecosystem sounds way more expensive.
What exactly does decentralization offer considering all governments are centralized?

The Holy Grail of crypto seems to be some sort of dream of a fully decentralized society without banks or governments.

What if that doesn't happen? There's no reason to assume that even if crypto wins, banks or governments go away. My personal bet is that governments (and probably banks, too) will be around long after cryptocurrencies go away.

What exactly are we winning? Practical stuff, not ideology.

What do we get? Why should I care?
If you want to strip away the MediaWiki adornments and editing/interactivity tools from Wikipedia, you just have to go to the mobile page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato

It is still consumption-oriented and stripped down, but retains far more non-textual information than your experiment.
Paternalism is the term that comes to mind
Something real to talk about, not just "it is another week it is time for another 1-1"
> But I bought this Polono label printer off Amazon for ~$140, which was a steal compared to the Zebra models that start around $500.

Secret: Go to Alibaba and find suppliers that will sell you a Zebra ZP888 for around ~$125/unit. They're a Chinese-market version of the venerable LP2844, a workhorse in the shipping industry for over two decades now, and they're brand new.

Edit: Also forgot: If you use a service like Shippo (https://goshippo.com/), you can get an API that'll dump ZPL shipping labels out. Chain your warehouse system to Shippo for the label, then chain the ZPL out to the script and out to the printer.
> That the cryptocurrency space exists in the first place is the evidence of this.

Maybe the existence of banks would be better evidence that 'some' people wanna run their own banks?
Writing fiction, by the looks of it.
Moore’s Not Enough: 4 New Laws of Computing
This would be categorized into Show HN
My main issue is wrong ornament and it looks like very quickly put up work, e.g. sun rays are misaligned, eagle's head looks like a child paint. I'm not offended by it, but that's a bad quality and lack of attention to details and for some people that could be a source of offence when it comes to their national symbols. I admit that Kazakhstan's flag is quite complex compared to something like 3 colored rectangles, so it's hard to ask for more. But wikipedia's SVG should just be sourced and resized as necessary IMO rather than spending time re-painting it again. Probably the same with some other countries. I don't want to blame someone who took his time re-drawing those flags, that's respectable by itself. But there's some space for improvement. May be I should make a pull request rather than whining about it.
Boring!

> The Russian side reaffirms its support for the One-China principle, confirms that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, and opposes any forms of independence of Taiwan.

hm that could be exciting

> The Chinese side is sympathetic to and supports the proposals put forward by the Russian Federation to create long-term legally binding security guarantees in Europe.

the rest of it kinda sounds like the product of "diplomatic industry", millions of man hours of negotiations and hard work writing up clear policies and agreements that will only ever be relevant to footnotes about "the agreements that were forgotten after the wars"
> "consciousness is just an illusion"

Replace "illusion" with "perception" and it will make a lot more sense.

Consciousness does obviously exist in one form or another, but when people think intuitively about consciousness they imagine it as an actor. A little guy in your head that looks at the world and makes decisions.

That's the illusion. That "little guy", that "self", isn't the one doing the work, your brain is the one doing the work. The little guy is a how the brain tries to make sens of itself.

Just like photons hitting your eyeballs might be interpreted as cats and dogs out there in the world, the brain interprets or perceives whatever it is doing internally as a "self".

> You can't prove consciousness from behavior (afaik)

Without some sens of self any creature would have a pretty difficult time surviving, as it wouldn't be able to tell itself apart from the rest of the world.
I agree! The whole progress of what must have happened as the world is pushed into "dark" ages. There is a book in there!

btw. I'd recommend all the Expanse books if you're interested in how the whole civilisation manages a catastrophe.
You know that phrase, "small government"? A lot of money is spent to convince the masses that if only we had small government, everything would be amazing. The opposite is true. "Small government" means a gutted system, with castrated agencies that cannot do proper investigation, enforcement, and prosecution.

The new book, Flying Blind, described how the underfunded revolving door that is the FAA effectively gave up oversight responsibilities to a bunch of Jack Welch trained vulture capitalists, who made short work of an amazing company like Boeing, gave us the Max, killed hundreds of people, and walked away with massive bonuses.

Those people - LOVE small government.
First of all let me say that I do absolutely agree with you that the whole concept of taking "personal responsibility" for our CO2 footprints is insane and we should clearly be creating tougher regulations on an international level.

However, from the perspective of "okay, but what can I actually do?", it's still worthwhile to do things like going vegan, flying less, isolating your house, etc.
And on top of that: vote for green parties (if you country has any). If there are no such parties in your country, then vote for whichever politicians are in favor of regulation of industrial pollution.

I'm not implying that you don't know this, just putting it to text in case anyone reads this and thinks "yeah indeed, why would I have to change anything if those companies don't?!".
How many people make international wire transfers? It's an extremely rare and risky kind of transaction, which is why banks have built up their own opsec around it.

If cryptocurrency enthusiasts had their way, though, the high-risk transaction the GP called out would be required to buy a gallon of milk.
Calling it a tax doesn’t make it a tax.
That was an especially frustrating period. The vaccine trials never tested for that, and later studies were all like "maybe it does", so the sars-cov-2 vaccines preventing infection was always misinformation and no one was willing to accept that. At least people are aware of it now I guess?
Aren't fireplaces much more polluting when compared to burning gas for heating?
last time i checked Alpine linux I had the idea that the desktop functionality was barely supported (i think the only DE available was XFCE, which is fine to me, but the install documentation seemed incomplete). I think I'll give it a try also.
I've been on the phone with a whole fleet of Product Managers (on the Alexa side) and they all seemed very overworked (jumping to multiple meetings within the same 30 minutes).

This is all anecdotal of course, but my experience in working closely with the Smart Home side of Amazon makes me not want to work at Amazon.

If you're a workaholic, you'll do well. If you aren't, you'll hate it.

Again, just one guys POV.
Fellow materialist here. For me materialism, and more specifically a strong degree of determinism, is the only coherent solution to the problem of responsibility and agency.

After all, if my decisions do not flow from my state, including my experience, memories, preferences, etc, how can we say they are meaningfully mine? I fully accept a degree of randomness in the process, quantum mechanics is a thing, but randomness is just noise. No determinism, no agency.
GDPR mandates it, but it's not happening.
I do math art (https://gods.art) and Machine Learning, but I pull out my phone calculator to tips, and my most hated class in school ever was 5th grade math (long division).
True, and I fully support the push back against the fees. Hopefully they will end up lowering them to a point where everyone is happy.
The main reason is also stated:

"We were, and still are, mechanical engineers and students of gas-dynamics first and programmers second. C++ was a lot of trouble for us."

C++ is just not very fun to use if you're not a programmer.
How do you expect people to answer without knowing anything about your company and your team?
It's solving the problem of, 'we want programmers to be a more powerful caste.'
The whataboutism is right on cue today as always. Surely you're not suggesting a moral equivalency between Guantanamo Bay and the Uhygur concentration camps in Xinjiang?
The bridge has been given a special status and an agreement was made not to dismantle it any more because each time they do that they risk damage to the structure. Shipbuilders are well aware of this but they must have figured that if they just build the boat that the rules will be bent.
And likely a working professional adult who can afford an iPhone is worth at least a deviation or two above that.
Lightning is only safe if you constantly monitor the blockchain, otherwise your transactions aren't safe (as in double spending is still possible).

Opening and closing Lightning channels is an operation that requires a transaction on the blockchain - no real win there.

Due to the restriction just mentioned, most L2 transactions will take place via intermediaries who you need to trust and who can take arbitrary fees for their service as well (the whole routing business).

Lightning might be ok for regular payments (subscriptions, etc.), but at the same time it offers not a single advantage over traditional banking and credit cards other than explicitly not being either.

It might alleviate the transaction time and energy problems of the blockchain, but it does nothing to tackle any of the other problems mentioned by the author.
I'm not even sure we want it to be legal.

There's a reason we still talk about Kafka almost 100 years after his death.
I don't understand the comparisons presented in the article. Comparing a full stack MVC framework to a front end library is as apples to oranges as it gets. IMHO frameworks such as NestJS and Adonis are more comparable to Ruby on Rails.
These are great questions for a more detailed page. Most of the issues you raise are no longer problems for me, because I now have an explicit time-scale and check-list that I go through to preempt them.

However:

> In which steps are the failures more usual?

Usually it's getting the PO number from Finance, or otherwise getting explicit agreement about payment details.

> Do people expect the talk to be free or "for exposure"?

Some do, but in my very first response I ask "Do you have a budget?" If that's not answered, I repeat the question with no other information. In my field there's a lot of good will, and people (almost invariably) act in good faith.

> Is it common to not get paid after the talk?

Very uncommon. The expectation is laid down early that I'll give a good presentation, invoice them for an agreed amount, and they'll pay. I think in 30 years I've only had three or four people ghost me and not pay.

> How common is to get a bad description of the expected audience? (size, age, math level, ...)

Rare. People are asking me to accomplish a task, and they know that if I'm mis-informed then it won't go as well as they'd like. I also make it clear that I'll work with pretty much any audience, at pretty much any level, so they don't need to lie to get me on site. The incentives are all in favour of accurate information.

And that last comment is the key. Getting incentives aligned is the key to getting everyone working together effectively. Spending time and effort up front to get that alignment is crucial.
True but you're sorta missing the point.

The people selling you a closet encourage you to pay extra for a TARDIS --- even though you have no real practical need or use for all the extra whiz-bang features, just to impress the neighbors.

It's a total waste of your money but it earns more profit for them and that's what they really care about.
As a side, note, I'd like to point out that you should go vegan predominantly for the moral ethics of killing something for 5 mins of taste pleasure rather than purely environmental concerns (although valid)
This thing must fly. Are there any benchmarks?
50% effectiveness against infection is still pretty significant. And note that OP said "essentially no viral vaccine prevents infection." I think we can agree that is not the case.
> if I submited 51k lines of code in January and my whole team submitted 68k, do not call me a "Least Effective".

Hmm, I think I've known this type of fuckabout whose massive submissions totally screw any hope of team cohesiveness and trust. Ok, slugger you can write shitloads of lines of code. Is it any good? Why would I want that much code when a factor of 10 less is more manageable?
Next time around I'll be sure to get born wealthy so I don't have to worry about it. But it's incredibly privileged to be able to do the sort of work we do compared to standing in a factory production line or working away from family. I enjoy my work, but I know if the company fails it's not my fault and I will be working somewhere else tomorrow.
Maybe you can add custom CSS rules that make links the same color? I also much prefer the wikipedia interface to the alternatives.
>The factual history of slavery and discrimination in the US (as promulgated against minorities by non-minorities)

See, this is the crux of the issue with CRT. You have assigned blame to "non-minorities" collectively, and absolved minorities (again, collectively).

The reality is very different. Not only were there many black slave owners[1], but of course many of the most successful abolitionists were white (or non-minority as you say). So assigning blame not to individuals, but rather to race, is in fact racist. This is what CRT teaches, and is why it's a problem.

There is a reason that CRT uses a collectivist framework too, which as they say, is the quiet part we aren't supposed to say out loud...

[1] https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/12/emblack_sla...
Now that I know that there is the Show HN I will post it also there
You are vaccinated. Stop with the dramatic language. Get over Covid. Move on.
I think the moral of the story is I need to go to Russia and get a Big Mac
Arithmetic (mental math) is a skill that must be practiced like juggling. I used to be a high school math teacher and spent a few hours a day working problems on the board. I got to the point where I could work through stats problems with 3 decimal places about as fast as the students could do them with calculators, and I didn't need to write out my work (although I did). Now 5 years after leaving I prefer to reach for a calculator when adding or subtracting 2 numbers, just to make sure I don't make a mistake.
In the past few years, McDonald's (and some, but not all, other fast food restaurants) really seems to have gone all-in on the price-discrimination approach of setting list prices high and offering all kinds of discounts if you know where to look.

Relevant to the Big Mac Index, at the moment the app offers a two-for-one deal, through February 27, on Big Macs; so the effective price isn't $5.81 but $2.90. If you don't want two Big Macs, you can get free fries or a free drink, or both, or 20% off your whole order instead: but you can only use one discount every fifteen minutes, and you can only use any specific discount once per day.

The implication for the Big Mac Index is that in the face of the complex web of discounts offered by McDonald's it's nearly impossible to calculate the actual price of a Big Mac in the United States for general purposes.

That the 'discount' is offered through February 27 shows that this isn't really a discount but effectively the regular price for people who order through the app. The choice of the 27th for the end date leads me to suspect that they might be lifting the discount for one day a month to keep the FTC happy.
Unlike the visa transaction history, the history on blockchains does not have easily identifiable recipients and I send from addresses not connected with my name each time from funds clients personally paid me in for services.

A store publishing a public log of all cash transactions wont alone identify if any of them are mine.

No central marketing firm has a chance of working out which transactions on chain are mine and who is involved in them. They can at best determine what major exchanges are involved.
In web dev terms it makes total sense.
Most of the country hates any form of regulation.
I think the point of the writing in this article (and many similar ones out-there, including dozens upon dozens of published ones from academics themselves) is to point out a systemic problem that has emerged from the complexity of our civilization which is increasingly dependent on the institution of science to provide facts (and also "facts" used for political/policy advertisement) on plethora of diverse issues. The values you try to defend in your post are real but are not under question or even in the spotlight.

The bureaucratization of science, the science institutions metrics and evaluation, the iron-triangle (written about 2-3 decades by academics) all are valid issues which now seep out to the public. If you want more "posh" articles see https://innovationfrontier.org/fix-science-dont-just-fund-it... or here (science is self-destructing...) https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/saving-science

In short, there is no need to "burn it all down", but denying or ignoring what appears nowadays even to an outsider(s) (for the article is clearly by a non-academic and it is not exactly just an outlier) obvious means that discussion and thinking about improvements is in place. Having a debate, well, on HN is not really impact-full... but regardless.
I sorted all svg files by size to find most complex and least complex, it looks like good indicator but not to be used alone.

3 worst

-rw-r--r-- 1 197121 395610 Feb 4 15:19 do.svg Dominican Republic

-rw-r--r-- 1 197121 187525 Feb 4 15:19 rs.svg Serbia

-rw-r--r-- 1 197121 118305 Feb 4 15:19 bo.svg Bolivia

3 best

-rw-r--r-- 1 197121 225 Feb 4 15:19 pl.svg Poland

-rw-r--r-- 1 197121 215 Feb 4 15:19 de.svg Deutschland

-rw-r--r-- 1 197121 191 Feb 4 15:19 bd.svg Bangladesh
Part of the reason OP liked the `if assignment` was to avoid polluting the higher-level scope with a variable that is only needed during the if statement.

Your solution fixes the error, but at the cost of losing the upside OP saw.
> [A]ny personal data collected so far by means of a TC String in the context of the globally scoped consents, which is no longer supported by IAB Europe, shall be deleted without undue delay by the defendant.

I don't get it, did they basically have a tracking backdoor that companies like Google and Facebook happily used that they now must plug?

> In addition, the Litigation Chamber orders the defendant to prohibit the use of legitimate interest as a legal ground for processing by the organisations participating in TCF in its current format, via its terms of use.

Wait, what? So what's the point of consent if they can just claim is "legitimate use" and have your data anyway??
This compiles:

type Test int

const (
T1 Test = 0
T2 = 1
)

func TestSomething(t Test) {}

...

TestSomething(17)

So this isn't a good suggestion, because you can easily pass any int value and will not get a compiler error. You may as well be using strings at that point.
Ghost Army, a World War II Master of Deception, Finally Wins Recognition
78% of people dying from COVID have at least 4 pre-existing conditions and one of those is almost always obesity.

The people supposedly being blocked by COVID patients are largely people who have pre-existing conditions from smoking, eating unhealthily, not exercising, being obese, taking stupid risks, etc

At best you have one stupid group blocking another stupid group.