skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Clearly, there is demand for the monetary good that is bitcoin, and the block space on which it resides.

>Rather than flinging indictments against bitcoin for its energy use—again, a proxy for the value moving across the network—it would be far more productive to question the sources of energy that produced the electricity that is consumed.

"Bitcoin is good, because people want it. Complaining about bitcoin's energy use, doesn't make sense because miners are selling something people want."

But this doesn't make sense at all. I could simply substitute bitcoin for X and energy use for Property(X) and the argument still runs through.

This is classic is-ought fallacy. Bitcoin is popular, so it ought to have all the properties it does, because if it didn't have these properties it wouldn't be popular and being popular is isomorphic to being good. Nonsense.
> this long protracted failure

Have you seen the companies funding the pro-crypto crowd? The 3 people and a discord server projects get the most attention and generally act toxic, agreed.

For the rest of the space, plenty of Fortune 500's investing in it for the long haul/"humoring the same lie."
Thank you. My partner is an architect, and while they aren’t a structural engineer, they had enough structures training in grad school to know that hobby tunnel digging is extremely dangerous. There are clearly alternative physical activities that would have all the same benefits with none of the downsides.
Bovril is obviously superior.
They should require banks to forgive loans, rather than forgiving Federally-backed loans.

If you require banks to forgive loans (or if you allow loans to be dischargeable in bankruptcy), you create an incentive for the banks to loan money only for college education that results in useful careers. The Federal government is immune to market forces, so forgiving Federal loans just means you encourage the type of college degrees that are not useful.
Wait until you hear about the upward wealth redistribution through COVID loans...
Uncomfortable chairs is how fast food restaurants handle this. If you make the seating comfortable, people will stay longer. Make it less comfortable (or uncomfortable) and people will move on after a shorter period of time.
Are you complaining about the massive amount of not-really-loans given to small and not small during COVID?

Right? You're vociferously complaining about that frequent game played by corporations with outsized lobbying abilities to get loans that aren't really ever expected to be paid? How much was that in the grand scheme of printing money by the fed, a billion?

Or are you angry about little poor people getting a pittance of money in the grand scheme of things?

It is so strange how much people shrug off corporate handouts, but get up in arms when poor folks get a pittance from the government.

Edit: my tone was a bit harsh, probably because I get this knee jerk reaction.

It's probably because corporations are like gods. You can't kill them. They are omnipresent. With data hoovering, they are some form of omniscient. They are tireless, sleepless, don't require air, water, or food. The modern way to kill a corporation is probably so serpentine that it puts the best D&D plot to kill a god to shame. They don't technically have a physical body. They have servants, followers, a clergy, and power. They can cast "summon army of retainer lawyers" and send you to hell.

Who are we to question if the god of money hands the god of cars magic printed-but-never-actually-printed numbers that aren't based in something?
I mean that would be nice, but it's been this way for decades and I guess I'm pretty jaded about it at this point.
This is great and solves a real problem!
Storage maybe, RAM less clear. Some web apps use more RAM (in the browser) compared with the equivalent native app, and on a laptop people like to run multiple apps at the same time, whether web or native.
Or higher education institutions will consider if they really need the ever-growing bubble of useless administrators who empty their coffers.
https://selectstarsql.com/ may help you for JOIN I recommend that your do it in its entirety even if you understand the first concepts
There’s a rabid strain of environmentalism that’s downright anti-human. The only moral good is for us to do absolutely nothing/not exist.

I can’t ever take those people seriously, vs people who see it as humanity’s role to be good stewards of the earth and operate in balance with it.
Why didn't they think of that?
Yes it is, the places are submitted by users of the website.
Places are fetched from Google API when there are no places on Workmode.
Turned this off tho, for now, because it slowed the backend
> Do people not regularly question what language to use when starting a project?

For me, it depends ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If I'm working with a team I'll choose a language that best fits the team/project. For example last year I was working on a project and I used C# since everyone on the team knew the language (and most of the team only knew C#) even though I knew Go would be a better choice. I spent 2 days creating the program and it could process all our files/data in about 40+ minutes. I then spent the next day rewriting it in Go which could process everything in about 1 minute. Whenever possible I'll start with something that the team can help support and I'll refactor/rewrite it if I have time to "do it better". In my experience management/companies are not willing to change the status quo but asking for forgiveness (after providing a significant improvement) hasn't caused any issues (yet).

If I'm working on personal projects I always look for the "best" solution/language even if it means I have to extend my timeframe to learn something new.
I don't think it needs to be beyond government control in the way you mean to be useful. It just needs to be beyond the control of corrupt actors, in government or elsewhere. I don't mind the government being able to tax my crypto gains - I mind the people in it being able to bail out their golfing buddies when they gamble too aggressively on junk bonds.

It's counterintuitive to think that a financial instrument that increases transparency would make people more difficult to govern, and it would - unless the government is very corrupt.
I did! When I get some time to get everything setup this weekend that where I'll fill in my data. Unfortunately, I have 31 years to go :S so it will take time to manually enter. But a quick import of CSV on the left hand side where the points are added would be perfect!
I know every European seems to ask this of every American but what is the resistance to a welfare state? if you look at a government as investing in its citizens like a VC fund, then providing education and medical care is sensible, and some will turn out fine and others will be Bezos and then you can get your investment back via tax.

I am honestly trying to avoid the flame war here - but I do it know how else to frame the question?
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This is pretty cool. As a suggestion, perhaps you should have it integrated with keys at one of the PGP keyservers.
Two things come to mind; everybody trades what they have for what they want and anything you can't live without you can rent.

These are just fundamental truths of life.
Currently the only protected classes people demand to see at a company are women (far larger share of Americans than veterans) and Black people (about 2x the number of veterans).

Veterans are also people who are more likely to end up in certain industries, unlike (say) a Black person. You'd expect a lot of veterans in military, law enforcement, and government.

How many does that leave for the rest of us to hire? And how many are getting the degrees necessary for certain fields, like nursing or civil engineering?

I don't agree that 0 veterans (up to a point) says something about a company until you can show that they had a pool of qualified applicants and chose not to hire any. I would say the same about racial bias, too, by the way. A company with no Black people isn't confirmed racist until you know their applicant demographics.
Please, please, please take note before commenting: These are being forgiven under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, created in 2007 (fifteen years ago), which eliminates your remaining debt after you've made ten years of payments while working in the public sector (government or non-profit). This has nothing to do with current debates around loan forgiveness.
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It's news in that they're actually unblocking programs which actually had been long legislatively approved paths for forgiveness and were already supposed to have been operating to this end for years.

It's not news in that these are not new categories of, nor expansions of previous commitments to student loan forgiveness.

When you look at the overall stats of student loans, a increasing number of them (a majority!) look like they will be never paid off over their lifetime, and we are still in a situation where if an individual has a small loan problem it's the responsibility of an individual. But if an entire class or multiple-generations (or a big enough individual loan), has problems, then it's a problem for the bank - in this case the US gov't and an even bigger problem of our overall society and providing an sustainable economically competitive skilled labor pool.
Great way to take the fun out of using the Linux CLI.
This is half-wrong. You are right about cigs, but not booze. Booze is the single biggest cause of trauma admissions in all hospitals in SA. Banning booze was highly effective in creating a significant drop in those ER admissions, allowing for more resources to be put towards covid.

The cig ban was non-sensical though, and yes a certain minister is said to have profited greatly off them.
You might wonder whether it's actually regressive for people who have college degrees (or who at least attempted to get one) -- overwhelmingly not the neediest people in our society, even if I do sympathize with how terrible our student loan system is -- to be targeted for help from the government!
Maybe because okcupid is not statistical representative of all women? Or maybe because women don't think it benefits them if they answer that question with yes on a dating platform?
> These seem like it probably things people said to Alexa.

That could be an explanation. But some people made fun of Alexa and there was no human to filter out the nonsense:

In German I see:

"putzen ist gut staub ist so schlecht mach jetzt deinen zauber sauber mein teppich"

(cleaning is good dust is so bad make your miracle cleanly my carpet)
Yup we live in a clown world now.

What’s next, forgiving all the student loans?

Does no one think of the consequences of these kinds of actions?
Ah, that's unfortunate to hear. In this case I see grammar_score ranging from 2 (Some errors (the meaning can be understood but it doesn't sound natural in your language)) to 4 (Perfect)--looks like one of the raters was too generous with a rating of 4.

I think this feedback is helping me to realize that we should be more explicit about our philosophy of keeping some of the noise in the dataset and allowing people to filter based on judgments.

That said, people do say some strange and ungrammatical things to virtual assistants (not saying this example is representative per se), so it's nice to include some of the odd ones.

Thanks!
The tedium of errors irked me for a long time until I realized that it was my poor abstractions inherited from what I learned in other languages that lead to that state. As I established a more Go-minded approach, it became much more pleasant.

To the point that I now find it desirable. I have been on Typescript/Javascript projects of late. Now that's a tedious error handling experience. I notice my colleagues have given up on error handling entirely due to how difficult it is.
That can be a valid complaint as long as it's not about the logic or rules themselves, but how they're expressed in the code. Code that your team members can't work on is a liability.
Yes! And if they stopped issuing these loans, tuitions will drop quickly. Im against loan forgiveness, but if they’re going to do it that also need to stop backing these loans.
Why in tarnation...
What are some solutions for body text containers at full width?

On large screens, body text at the default 16px / 1rem size is too long if the container conforms to 1200px or even 1920px width.

Some designs break the body text into columns, or present it in a single column in a narrower container (60-80ch).

Any other options you’ve found useful?
The guarantee is the only reason the loans are made. Otherwise, you're lending a lot of money to someone with no income and no assets, and no one will want to make that loan.
This won't be popular, but only a tiny minority of users have JavaScript disabled (~0.5% to 1.5%, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/No-JavaScript_notes) and many page interactions and third party services require JavaScript (forms, animations, pop-ups, payments, captchas, logins) so why would companies invest budget into progressive enhancement and adding that on top of already tedious cross-browser testing?

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but this has never been on the radar let alone seen as important with any clients wanting websites that I've worked with, the same way most aren't going to prioritise Internet Explorer support for ~2% of users (https://kinsta.com/browser-market-share/). Non-tech people and many developers don't even know what this is and most likely have JavaScript enabled themselves so it's going to be a hard sell, especially when they see their popular competitors have JavaScript heavy websites.
Except (at least in the case of BTC) that transaction will be permanently recorded on an indelible blockchain for everyone to see. Such security and privacy.
And the student loan debt cycle continues. I'm all for canceling student debt if it is attached to a longterm plan to reduce the cost of higher education so that the next generation is not strapped with the same problem. My cynical side thinks the higher education lobby is deeply entrenched with the Federal Government and loves the never ending conveyer belt of young adults with large bankrolls provided by government backed debt.
Doesn't technical sales also involve lots of meetings?
+1. Defaults exist for a reason - they force the lender to think about whether someone can pay off a debt or not, and we got here by giving everyone a loan, whether they could pay it off or not.
Human beings who have lived in a state of nature. When there are medical cures to mosquito-borne diseases available, the patient can choose to take it or not take it. This foisting of treatments on people without their consent creates very dangerous precedents.
Sounds good; feel free to add that feature idea to changemap if you want! Or I can take a note to do it when I get a chance.
We did print money, multiple times over the last two recessions.

Guess who got the money?

Why are you angry at a small number of poor students?
> Because being able to differentiate uniquely different offerings by different designations is only of value to marketers?

What are you talking about? The whole point we're discussing here is that thanks to marketers we have the opposite of that where the exact same product has had three different marketing versions associated with it over the last few years without any actual difference.

USB naming/numbering was perfectly reasonable up to 3.0. Higher speed revisions got a new number and lower speed revisions kept their old one.

Then with 3.1 this all changed. Suddenly the same port that was a USB 3.0 port yesterday is now a USB 3.1 Gen1 port and the new 10 gigabit speed is USB 3.1 Gen2.

Then 3.2 comes along and suddenly those ports are now 3.2 Gen1 and 3.2 Gen2, with the new additions of 3.2 Gen1x2 and 3.2 Gen2x2 modes.

What would have been wrong with continuing the same way they had already been doing things and just calling the SuperSpeed+ mode "USB 3.1" while leaving the old ports referred to as USB 3.0, then when dual lane came around that is "USB 3.2"? It's straightforward, easy to understand, and doesn't have any chance of confusing someone in to thinking "well this thing has USB 3.1 Gen1 while this other one only has USB 3.0, I guess the first one's better".

> There are differences that warranted the incrementing of the numbering - mainly the vastly superior USB-C connector over the gawd awful USB-A, Micro, Mini and that other one that I can never remember the name of.

The type C connector is independent of the versioned standards. The USB 3.1 spec was released in July 2013 while the Type C connector spec didn't come out until August 2014. USB 3.1's 10gbit SuperSpeed+ mode is allowed and supported on the same USB 3.x Type A and Micro-B connectors as USB 3.0 SuperSpeed uses. USB 3.2's dual link mode of course requires a Type C connector at both ends.

USB 4 actually requires a Type C connector, while it supports single lane operation for setup and fallback it requires all devices support dual lane. The 10 gigabit mode also uses different encoding than SuperSpeed+ so it's not just another rename.
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Thanks! Hope it saves your team some headaches and time.
Txtai 4.4 released – explainable semantic search, build your own query language
There's a ton of fake stories posted to reddit. Some of them are creative writing projects. Others are pretty clearly "push-polling" certain political/social themes to generate outrage. The bad ones are pretty obvious, yet most of the comments slurp them up. Most people just aren't very critical of the things that they read.
People in the US are always punished for being financially responsible.
My master plan is to eventually have 13 graduate level Master's degrees under my belt. Why you may ask? If one is enrolled as a full time "student", the student loan monthly payments are paused. Since, at least for me, I can handle being a full time Master student and also my full time remote-only job, this isn't an issue.

The reason I am doing this is because there is $1.6 trillion in student loan debt; the government is definitely not seeing most of that money. Someone will have to come in and save us all. And well, I am willing to bet 13 master's degrees on this.

Currently at 3. ;)
> the government should stop handing them out

Minor nit: The gov't doesn't give the loans, they underwrite & insure the loans.
So much worse than the Dell Mini 9.
> In my mind, this would be akin to, "today's lesson is about LGBTQ studies." The law doesn't apply to what kids are allowed or not allowed to discuss amongst themselves.

The problem is that the teacher is the source of truth, so that discussion is likely to end up in the teacher's lap. What do they do then?

What I'm afraid this bans is the teacher being able to respond with something like "Yup, some people have 2 dads. And some have 2 moms. Some people have families that look nothing like yours, but it's not a big deal."

Basically I would hope for explanation and normalization along the same lines as divorced parents. Nobody is expecting them to explain why people get divorced, or what sexual orientation is. Just an acknowledgement that it exists, and it's fine, and little Timmy isn't a weirdo because his parents are gay or divorced.

Maybe on Pride Day they read a children's book where the parents are just incidentally LGBTQ. The "Timmy goes out to play in the rain with his dog, and comes inside muddy. His moms/dads are mad that he tracked mud all over." Doesn't have to be a whole lesson gay identity and culture, just a reminder that not everyone has the same kind of family. They honestly should do the same thing with single/divorced parents; I don't feel like they exist in children's books either.
> they need the space for new customers?

I think this is an important point. I occasionally work in a Panera near me during the weekday (I usually order a soup or sandwich) and I don't feel bad about taking up a seat for an hour or two since the place is practically empty, and would be a little irked if someone asked me to order something at that point.

I would feel bad and wouldn't mind at all with leaving or ordering something more frequently if I wanted to do the same thing on a Sunday afternoon since the place is often very busy.

Some signage similar in tone to what I see with metro buses and wheelchair seats seem appropriate (roughly worded as "it's perfectly fine to sit here, but if you see someone who needs this spot, you should give it up").
It's not exactly the same, but in Japan a few capsule net cafes opened up that sound similar to what you're talking about:

https://youtu.be/HkNzjvueJm8
As a userbase increases, the lowest common denominator falls.

I don't have any estimates on the rates of change, but consider how huge Reddit and some of the default subs are, and how half of those people are below-average intelligence(Carlin quote?).

I'm not at all surprised to see dumb shit on big subs, or to see people lying on the internet for imaginary points. I just moderate my expectations based on where I happen to be at a given time.
I hope every single person who is vocal about cancelling student debt, but doesn’t talk about fixing the underlying problems, recognizes that they’re just another generation of unremarkable hypocrites.

It’s a real problem deserving a real solution. Well beyond people just sticking their hands out, saying “gimme!”
My country. You see little kids walking to school by themselves.

Taking public transportation.
Running errands.

It was a shock when I saw how parents helicoptered their children here.
Love to hear more about this?
I would argue that errors per se today are more than sufficient for this, but http.Handler is what's lacking. There's no idiomatic way to abort a multi-handler chain or to signal an error to a parent handler. This is the #1 value I get out of non-http.Handler-based frameworks like Gin.

(RPCs tend not to have a comparable number of layers of middleware and more support for reading "downstream" errors, though I do wish gRPC supported nested interceptors better.)
That’s a great observation too. I wonder if areas like these would cause fish to congregate, which might explain why animals like minks can readily find fish under the ice. There’s so much I don’t know, haha.
No. Tuitions will drop like a rock.
If the program turns out successful students, I don't see why not? If the program turns out unmarketable skills, sure, charge through the roof and steer kids away from a useless degree.
what happened to the free market economy? the incentive structure is fucked. As a person who worked my ass off this decade, it is unfair :(
Considering our very recent understanding of sodium Coulombic explosions[0], using liquid sodium for... anything requires an enormous amount of care[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PEVmflpUCo
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAYW9n8i-C4