skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A simple glance at the statistics would show you why.

The drug laws have race at their roots. If you don’t have time to look up the history I’ll give you an example: during the “crack cocaine epidemic” in the 80s and 90s the focus was on a version of cocaine mostly used by the poor and not on the use of the powdered stuff by the middle and upper classes — in fact that usage was celebrated.

Oh but wait: I didn’t use the word “race” in that example. Just look at the wealth and access to the middle classes for Black people in the US and decide.

Note: I haven’t looked at this for meth and fentanyl. Pot and cocaine in the beginning of the 20th century (the origin of the US recreational drug laws) were chosen because they were common the Black community at the time. I don’t doubt your experience (that of your friends I mean) but the burden is not spread uniformly.
Would the west be as rich and Democratic without?
don't forget the 19.99% or higher interest paid by users of visa cards who cant or forget to make payments.
The compiler "guessed" your errors. This does not mean the compiler "knows" your errors. A rephrase of your question is -- Why compilers don't always assume the "guessed" correction of your code? This is because compiler doesn't know and you won't know when it may guess wrong. And in the case of guessing wrong, you will have very very mysterious errors to the best, and have very very mysterious wrong application behavior (that doesn't even fail) to the worst.
Must… resist… “well actually” this person about heat pumps…
But no one individual need represent the group, in fact the group need not be represented at all. The question posed is why we should choose, not why we must choose for everyone and announce the choice here. E.g. we should choose links over lynx/w3m if JS support is a hard requirement. That doesn't mean we all have JS support as a hard requirement or should all agree on the a single choice.
Too bad we couldn't change the definition of "wheelchair" to include bikes and get them to comply under the ADA.

This kind of thing happens all the time where the perfect becomes the enemy of the good, and solutions that everyone knows are silly become the standard.
Can't find anything about opencl support
I read it as he wants pushback—that he wants to engage in a back and forth discussion, almost like two people in a fight pushing each other, not a fight where people push each other for a minute and then the other pulls out a gun. I understood his definition of heresy as a tool for wanting to end debate, not deepen it.
Whats the likelyhood countries are testing non-approved drugs on prisoners? This is what scares me the most
It was like this even before strict mode was introduced.
> For most I imagine that thought has parts of both comfort and dread.

Yes. What we see as mob rule now may mature into something not unlike
a real polis. But (see my recent comment on vigilante speeding
cameras) technology may give us a civil arms race that just drives a
wedge further down the middle.
This is what I use, and honestly it (and other systems like it) is the only thing that allows some conversations to progress if someone doesn't reply for hours or a day, depending on how much I've been commenting. I've had a random reply to a comment of mine that came in a week later yield a useful conversation.

It also means I can just ignore HN for longer periods even if I really want to know if there's been movement in a discussion I've been having. Seeing if there's an email present is less distracting and time consuming than reading through my threads.
The Laptop Class
Check out Layered Money by Nik Bhatia. He expounds on the different layers of money, Eurodollars being a system of layered money, and how they evolve through time.
I also did one or two years daily headspace and it helped me a lot. At some point I stopped, but I need to get back to it. I also used a headspace sleep meditation often. Now that you mentioned the pooch palace sleep story, I searched for it everywhere but did not find it. Where can I get it?
> A second mortgage is extra risk to a person's most important asset

Okay, fine, so that's the reason we don't like borrowing money to invest.

Now explain why it's good to have a mortgage at all? Don't just say "because a couple hundred a month is a small number". That's not a reason, it's just a single, incredibly subjective and situational factoid. Is there a logical or mathematical reason not to increase the amount of my mortgage as long as I can easily afford the monthly payment?
> I can't speak for the Ukrainians, but stopping the war is probably more important than the transit royalties.

If it was so, then Ukranians themselves would have stopped the very profitable gas transit.
Cats are capable of more than they seem. I've spent time around many different dogs and cats (and other critters) when I worked at a vet clinic. I'd say that the cleverest of cats were almost on par with the cleverest of dogs. But the average dog is much more clever than the average cat. Cats also have a lot less interest in problem solving.

There was one cat who lived permanently at the clinic. She would be crated every night before we left. She would often get out of her crate and we'd find her roaming around the clinic the next morning. The cage required that you press two pins towards each other. It's surprising that she figured this out but also that she had the dexterity to reach outside the cage and do this.

She was one of the smartest animals I've ever interacted with. You could see the gears in her head turning when she wanted to figure something out.
More like: some oligarch's need for a new heart outweighs a poor Chinese prisoner's need for his own.
I'm reminded of a Feynman story about rats in mazes. Their senses enable them to cue in on a dozen things that human maze-builders miss. So the humans misinterpret what ques they use to solve the puzzles, and publish erroneous conclusions.
There's a lot of filler in it, it's not very pointed, and it's mostly handwavy. You could substitute almost any other language in there and it would read the same. "This is your brain on Perl"?

I think "A Fractal of Bad Design" ruined me for these.

People call Perl a "write-only language". That's a good takedown! And in just a couple words! I don't get why people have so much reverence for Naggum.
In the Models Tested table row Power input, it’s USB-C for all of them. How come no Power over Ethernet (PoE)?
You don’t really have to get their individual thoughts. At the end of the day look at their satisfaction levels. Look at the number of Chinese exchange students returning home vs staying abroad. And look at the economy. If it is doing well, chances are most people will be Ok with their government.

Polling people for their thoughts is usually unreliable anyways because people can say anything: it costs nothing. It’s the same line of reasoning on why asking users directly how they would change a product yields crappy results.
Funny thing is, reading books is one of those things that are not affected negatively by my ADHD - At least books that interest me - As a child I would get very sucked into books and totally ignore other inputs. I was the kid who got yelled at for reading in school. That being said, this was pre-internet, apps, smartphones etc. Now I hardly ever get a chance to get sucked in like that, except for traveling by air. When I have to travel I often by one of the fun novels at the airport book shop and the trip is over in the blink of an eye.
I like the tests - easy to read and compare.

As someone who just spent a bunch of time trying to read and get comparisons on a 6e setup, I think my biggest complaint is that it's testing against older models.

The ASUS ET8 and Deco XE5300 are closer 6E comparison devices than the models tested. I believe both would probably outperform, one of which being half the price.
> only the Chinese people have the power to make changes to this regime

Not the Americans exploiting cheaper labor in China and making China rich ?

> I would be shocked if it was Iceland or Norway doing that.

I would be shocked if you weren’t wearing made in China / Vietnam shoes or clothing.
I am afraid the debt is now come due for payment.
I read what I'm extremely interested in. When the mood comes to me I'll just read. Shrugs it doesn't happen often though. Last book I read was "The Pentium Chronicles". Found it on archive.org and I rented it for two different days and just binged it before bed. I didn't get distracted because on the first day I made sure to set myself up to not have anything else left to be distracted by. The second day I just wanted to come back to the story really badly. The reason I wanted to read the book was all the messing around I was doing with retro systems in PCem and 86box and I wanted more appreciation for what went into the hardware. So I was so absorbed in articles and wiki and technical documentation and my own world that Twitter and Reddit and YouTube had no relevance.

Edit: the really hard part is the initiating of the action rather than the upkeep of the action later on.

Edit edit: when I say I read the book before bed I don't mean I read it on my phone. I read it on my Mac Mini which is connected to my 55 inch 4K TV in my web browser on archive.org.
Depends on how you define stolen in this context.

It uses GPU IP from IMG commonly known as PowerVR, the same technology powering current Apple's GPU and some Mediatek SoC. And IMG the company is now wholly owned by Chinese Private Equity Fund. The fund acquired IMG when Apple claimed to no longer be using any of their IP and caused their market valuation to drop by more than 70%.
I don’t understand why you say that. The fact that people can be deluded is not an argument against the existence of minds. My position would seem to be insisting that there is plenty beyond thoughts and feelings.

What is gender, in the sense of an internal property? How do we detect it?
Stop.

Right off-the-bat: It sounds like a team and manager issue.

Where’s the knowledge transfer and team on-boarding? Where’s the process to catch mistakes?

Where is the process to treat research as its own time-bound spikes, before you do the work?

Why isn’t the team pushing for a well-defined acceptance criteria, before you do the development (not prototyping) work?
Monkey-patching console.log sounds so hacky..

> In React 17, React automatically modifies the console methods like console.log() to silence the logs in the second call to lifecycle functions. However, it may cause undesired behavior in certain cases where a workaround can be used.

> Starting from React 18, React does not suppress any logs. However, if you have React DevTools installed, the logs from the second call will appear slightly dimmed. React DevTools also offers a setting (off by default) to suppress them completely.
It's the US society that is so polarized. Global society is just in a situation where it has to deal with the fallout of that.
WTF is “innocence”? Where TF is the “clear line”? The books the Danish use to educate their children about sex would be classified as kiddy porn in most of the USA. The books the Saudi’s use to educate their children about sex… don’t exist. But here you are telling us there is a “clear line” without stating what that clear line is.

There is, obviously, no “clear line.” You’re just trying to impose your personal — and very much not clear — morality on others.
Exactly, and many places have broken processes that are revealed by Jira. Before the dam holding back process stupidity was "the system can't do it", but Jira can do it.

Unfortunately once process stupidity sets in it usually metastasizes and there's no cure.
Historians would point toward a pressure toward democratization of states that occurs as the middle class gains more power.

Countries like France and Britain didn't suddenly decide on "parliamentary democracy" as a model out of nowhere; they developed a parliament first, when they were still monarchies, and then the parliament suppressed the monarch. The second estate (nobility) of these countries, which previously favored cooperation with a monarch, changed allegiances once the newly-empowered third estate (borgeoisie) gained enough economic power. Top-down power was effectively strangled by the combination of nobles + business owners collectively bargaining, refusing to e.g. build the monarch's war machine for wars they had no say in.

Western democracies looking at this historical model of democratization, expect that the best thing to do for a country's democratic freedoms is to economically enrich the country's borgeoisie, to the point that the existing dictator-empowered oligarchs see more value in supporting the borgeoisie than they do in supporting the dictator.
The courts, to this day, still believe in 'truth through debate.'

Science does too, although the debaters are generally expected to be working towards developing empirical ways of settling their disagreements. I believe it was Gell-Mann who famously tells a story of holding on to his theory because of its beauty despite several experiments indicating it was wrong, and eventually being vindicated.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

It's difficult to build strong opinions on a topic. Mostly we go with the safe opinions that are acceptable by society.

And problem comes up when we mix belief, perspective, facts and opinions.

https://binaryho.me/opinion/
I agree that was the original intention, but these days (and possibly the entire time) it just slows innovation by preventing people from using technologies.
These numbers are only the tip of the iceberg.
Paul Graham grew up in a time when rich middle-aged white men with no relevant experience or credential could spout off about whatever topic they wanted, including pseudo-intellectual racism/misogyny, and everyone would be forced to listen to their nonsense unable to respond with more than an eye-roll for fear of reprisals. (For that matter, when Graham grew up those powerful white dudes could beat people up, sexually assault people, etc. with no consequence.)

Now when they spout similar nonsense, such dudes are publicly criticized, and the criticism deeply shocks and distresses them, to the point that whiny white/male supremacist grievance has now entirely taken over a whole US political party, which is trying to outlaw public criticism of white/male supremacist ideology.

Edit: Disclaimer to satisfy rayiner: I am a 6'2" married 36-year-old straight white male homeowner with 2 kids and a car.

Edit #2: Folks may enjoy https://popehat.substack.com/p/our-fundamental-right-to-sham...
I (mostly) agree with you factually, but I really think it's almost always detrimental to use the old line "this isn't newsworthy" and its other forms, e.g. "why are you surprised", as they imply fallacious equivalencies. "Newsworthy" is not equivalent to "secret", and "surprise" is not equivalent to "offense/outrage". It's bad to imply that news outlets shouldn't report on these things, or that people shouldn't be emotional about them, or have strong opinions about them.
It’s cool that you can express this sort of structure in Lisp without any change to the language. This contrasts to extensions to other languages that allow an XML-like syntax. For example JSX for JavaScript [1], XHP for PHP [2], and XML Literals for VB.NET[3].

[1]: https://reactjs.org/docs/introducing-jsx.html

[2]: https://github.com/phplang/xhp

[3]: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/visual-basic/programming-g...
Thief is one one of my all-time-favs. Surprised to hear it being notable for its tech; for me, it was all about the sneaking and creatively avoiding full-on confrontation.

About ten years or so ago, Drake: Uncharted (plus its sequels) on the kid's PS3 was recommended to me as a worthy game to play. But I found it boring, having to face a fistfight and primitive shooting only after 5 mins into the game, so I didn't bother.
Some versions and forks of links have JS support which can differentiate it.

Lynx and W3M are extremely similar, W3M was Japanese and in the 90s had much better support for the language. Lynx has unicode now but I'm not sure if it's fully on par in Japanese text rendering or not now.

I'll also throw browsh in as another sub-category, it uses a headless instance of Firefox (packaged separately allowing independent updates) in the backend for full web support but presents the page in text-mode.
Really real patriots do not need to heat, because they have an inner fire, burning fiercely.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/01/19/putin-takes-icy-di...

...
And hopefully with heavy weapons that bastard and his miserable minions will be stopped cold.

Slava Ukraini
Every job I've gotten outside retail/customer service has done background checks. Criminal record is basically top of the list for what those checks are looking to uncover.
Eliminate the distractions. I have a separate desk for work. I sometimes turn off the network on the machine on that desk when reading/brainstorming/focussing. My phone isn't in the room.

Get into the habit of mentally segregating your workspace like that. I use the separate desk just to re-enforce the line for myself. It's obviously not strictly necessary. But when I do this, I find that distractions feel out of place and I notice them more quickly. (Why am I sitting here with my phone? I never have my phone in this room. I shouldn't have my phone in this room.)
I'm pretty sure we also don't have equal rail density in all regions. So this is just the average. Nevertheless I'm not sure how this can swing a factor of two hundred. (If I use rail length per capita instead, which somewhat compensates for unpopulated regions, the advantage is still ~1.4x for non-electrified and ~50x for electrified rail.)

Also, is there any statistics for this northeast corridor, regarding region area, electrified, and non-electrified rail length? I only know where to get national statistics, so that doesn't help me a lot here.
right how are the website operators going to figure out that it is the cookie banners causing people to opt out?

Hmm, I guess they would have to notice a big upswing in this behavior and then in deciding to test things say let's A/B test cookie warnings. Of course in order to test it they would have to turn off setting cookies because setting cookies and not displaying the warning would be illegal. So they would have to do some significant programming in order to test this, in a lot of cases.

But it seems unlikely that even if many people started following your example that the site operators would ever consider this was possibly the cause.

Perhaps if you developed an extension that when you clicked it would find some contact info on site, close the site, send info to site contact that behnamoh closed the tab at this time because of being met with cookie warning.
China might be the only society treating people and other animals equally, then
Growth would have been slower sure, but we were doing fine before and we'd have done fine without them, but they would still have rotted and by now may well have been forced to reform through economic failure.
so why did this get flagged anyway?
I’ve looked at some of these academic circumstances and the ones I looked at were very misleading. Often times the only account we have is from the fired person, who is obviously going to push the most favorable narrative. When you dig in, there is something else amiss.

But this focus - deliberately engineered btw - on right wing firing is misleading. There is an order of magnitude more firing and suppression of left wing voices at college. It’s just there is no Fox News of the left to focus culture war agitprop on those cases.
What makes you think the Chinese people don’t support their government? People will support their government if they can deliver the basic needs like economic growth and prosperity. At least on that front most people agree China has had some of that over the last 20 years. It’s safe to assume if that keeps up Chinese citizens can be pretty complacent.

The needs and wants of a foreigner for the Chinese government will be vastly different from those of a citizen of China. For example we are primarily concerned with human rights, their cooperation in global politics, and other things that concern us as non citizens. But to a citizen they want jobs, food, a stable local economy. These are things China historically did not have, and which can at least be partially credited to the government for providing. By our metrics, yes they do poorly, but then our wants for the Chinese government are pretty much completely detached from that of a local citizen.
Strategies that isolate hostile or naturally adversarial countries don't seem to work either. Just look at North Korea. Arguably, the North Korea situation has resulted in much worse net violence and human suffering per capita than, say, the West's fraught trade entanglement with China.

> sown the seeds of our own destruction through our complicity

The future is unwritten. Actors behave reflexively. Imagine how bad the future looked in July of 1940 after Germany conquered France. It must have appeared as though they'd soon conquer all of Europe, with the rest of the world to follow. And yet, a few short years later, Nazi Germy was annihilated.
What is he supposed to write instead? This is not news. There's new studies confirming it, but we've known for decades China is ruled by a totalitarian regime that treats human life as disposable, and we've heard rumors of this for decades, and of much, much worse.

No one with power has done anything about it. No one with power wants to do anything about it. Instead we have world leaders praise China for its boldness in the coronavirus lockdowns, politicians and pundits who fantasize — let me use Thomas Friedman's words here — "What if we could just be China for a day? I mean, just, just, just one day. You know, I mean, where we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions ..." China has power. They envy it. They want it. They want us to be less free and more like that. It's more common than not. Your political party is not immune. If you're lucky, they're struggling to engage with the idea of China as a Major Geopolitical Risk (and it makes them somewhat uncomfortable to admit even that) or they're trying to be tough on China as a general play for Economic Protectionism, an excuse to serve the self-interest of a narrow slice of their constituency. (America First!!! Let's pay $900k/yr/job to save $100k/yr jobs in the steel industry!!! This is the only road to prosperity!!!)

You chide GP poster for his cynicism, essentially. Why shouldn't we all be cynical? I'm sorry, you're late to the show and probably missed out on the shock factor by a good decade or so, possibly longer.
Maybe some day you reconsider. Some of us just don't want to be bothered but don't mind sharing. Check my other reply for context.
I like it but I wonder why the model looks so flat and more like painting over than sculpting. Did they not use bump map or the 3D model was so coarse it would not help much anyway? The view of the real artifact is way more impressive even without the painting.
Like the Perl takedown downthread, this is pretty disappointing milquetoast stuff. It's sentence after sentence repeating the same question --- "why another new language?" --- that was literally one of the first Paul Graham answered when he did Arc. It reads as if Naggum believes he's the first to have thought of asking. Embarrassing.
> This is a good reminder that COVID isn't over.

Covid, the disease, should be over for pretty much everybody except for people with very unusual health problems. Most folks are either vaccinated or just not that concerned and living with what they think is an acceptable risk level.

Covid, the dumb bureaucratic reaction and endless money-grift, may survive quite a bit longer.

> I don't know how I feel about that.

Do you need somebody what to tell you to think about a nightmare dystopia?