skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bring my own soap for hand washing because hotel soap does bad things to my skin.
>If we turned the screws on women and men to discourage out-of-wedlock births we might find that people decide not to have children at all.

I don't think that's such a bad thing. We can maintain a health population with immigration. There are plenty of places with more people than meaningful work opportunities.
Given how many from the comments and me have come to understand this is a BREXIT move I just want to say:

This is NOT technology is GEOPOLITICS, and it sucks!
As very much a non-expert in compiler design, I found two books to be helpful introductory reads (neither are free though). I'm not sure whether someone proficient in the field would recommend them as my knowledge in the area is small, but I enjoyed them.

- Writing An Interpreter In Go by Thorsten Ball (https://interpreterbook.com)

- Compiling to Assembly from Scratch by Vladimir Keleshev (https://keleshev.com/compiling-to-assembly-from-scratch)

The first produces an interpreter in Go for a custom language, but as simscitizen says there's a lot of crossover with compilers.

The second creates a compiler written in Typescript that compiles from a minimal form of Typescript into ARM assembly. It's not cheap but is good.
Because Whatsapp was bought to eliminate the competition. There is no quality control, it's by design
Can you define the difference (Serious question)?
You quoted from TFA:

> The people with the most money and education—the class most responsible for shaping culture and customs

which is another example of the bullshit-y parts of TFA.

1. the idea that "the people with the most money and education" form some sort of coherent cultural and ideological group is absurd. Does anyone think that the raft of Republican members of congress who went to ivy league schools shape culture and customs in the same way that, say, Beyonce does?

2. the idea that "the people with the most money and education" actually shape culture and customs is also open to substantive debate. Are they influential? Of course. Do they have some sort of exclusive control ? Doubtful.

3. the idea that there is a single culture or single set of customs is absurd on its face.
Have you studied statistics?

Using a variable to group a large number is people is essential to statistically understand variation within that group.

It seems like you may be unaware of the difference between normative and positive statements.
Content-marketing / keyword stuffing, so when you search for "How to delete Instagram", you get on Mozilla website and get to learn about it and eventually decide to download Firefox, which will make money out of ads from Google Searches and other partnerships.
> A counter is that other countries (Japan, Korea, Italy, ...) that enforce traditional values have had a collapse in the birth rate.

Yes, but the value systems (at least in Asia) are quite different than even conservative ones in the US so I don't think that's a fair comparison. In Asia there is an expectation that relationships will lead to marriage, that you will marry well before thirty, that women will exit the workforce following marriage, that married couples will have children quickly, and that enormous amounts of resources will be spent on raising those children (especially in terms of education).

The birth rate has gone down there because it is overly burdensome to be married and have children under these expectations. This is far different than even conservative expectations in the US which basically amount to the father should be able to hold down a job and show up.
It has the whiff a brexit about it. The current government is allergic to most forms of UK/EU cooperation. They don't want to give the EU extra leverage in the future, so its a means of diversification esp in the context of a lack of political will (strong NIMBY sentiment) to seriously invest in on-shore wind power in the UK. We already have 3-4 interconnects with EU countries if I recall: France, Ireland, Netherlands, ??? (a fourth?).

EDIT: Belgium and Norway is the fourth and fifth respectively, and apparently Denmark is planned.
Tax evasion, child abuse, embezzlement, drug abuse/dealing, drunk driving ... all crimes that can easily go unreported and if are reported result in reduced punishments for those who can afford good lawyers. Look at Rush Limbaugh. Plenty of drug-related criminality there but zero convictions. Will smith just attacked someone on camera but just walked away without even an interview by police. It isn't just the ultra-famous/rich. They are just the best examples of what privilege really means. (And the Russ/Oscars
incidents are polar opposites of the political spectrum.)
BMD has really carved out a great market for themselves. Adobe and Avid are still the 300lb gorillas but I love what BMD is doing on the hardware and software side.

Resolve is so impressive to me because it’s a relatively small dev team from what I understand, but they’ve put out a really great product. And the few hardware things of theirs I’ve used have been excellent too.

Nice to hear you run your whole production pipeline using Resolve.
If you have a suit or dress, the closet is a requirement to hang clothes so they aren’t folded and get wrinkles. Also, the iron is nice for a crisp shirt and slacks.
Interesting.

What do you attribute this to? Is it mostly just lifestyle choice? Or would most of them prefer to have a wife/gf but don't have one for whatever reason?
Just wondering how many AirBnBs in Compton you've checked out.
Bostrom is a full professor of philosophy at Oxford. Whatever you think of his arguments (or more likely, whatever mangled summary of them you ended up getting after the internet played a multi-year game of telephone with them first), he's as actual a philosopher as any living person can be.
The grounds under our feet, i. e. reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#/media/File:De...
> And unlike Facebook there's no ads, no viral bullshit, no astroturfers, no personal information

The counter to all of this is "for now..." - there's no network that gets massive without falling prey to numerous kinds of incentives.
> Why and how don't they work?

If you tell me exactly how the Socrates’s dialogue with Meno is relevant to this question, I will explain to you what's the problems with that particular argument.

> Why are they not good? Why not explain how they don't convince you?

I've already tried to explain by example. Let's look at Umberto Eco's own words,

> But in spite of this fuzziness, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.

I want to emphasize "many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism". And as he notes before that quote, "fascism had no quintessence". How can that convince that ur-fascism Eco talks about is a real phenomenon worth studying and not a mish-mash boogeyman like postmodern queer neo-marxism?

> He does provide a very simple way to do exactly that.

He doesn't. There is no operational definition. He says that a fascist movement may or may not have some of that properties. And moreover, he says that non-fascist movements may or may not have those properties too. So what are the criteria?

> Why not argue against such a method, instead of implying it be a stupid method through countless examples, but never explaining how it would not work in such scenarios?

The examples show why it doesn't work. Again, you have a bunch of properties that apply to a set of things. And then you claim that those things don't have any quintessential properties that they all share. Ok, so is this kind of things a useful grouping? Why should we even care about it? How can I explain that it wouldn't work? Well, maybe it would, but the onus of proving such weird things is on Eco.

> This seems like such a destructive way to approach conversation. I can agree rhetorically on some points, but you are just pushing for the impossibility of effectively describing anything intangible.

People use vague and ambiguous language all the time. But when whether you should be punched and outlawed depends on a mere definition, it is very advisable for the speech to be as precise as possible.
2: what do you expect here? Apple has their own authentication and authorization - should they just leave an ssh port open on every phone or what?
The TV might be useful for Netflix. I found Netflix already logged-in by a previous guest in the hotel I last stayed in... just shows that it is used.
Just walking in doesn’t make you part of the economy as you imply. I can’t reject or support your claim of the border because I haven’t seen it myself and if I google it I’m sure I’ll find hits for either side, but I can tell you that being an illegal immigrant does not help either side. They can’t get a normal job with a W2, so if they pay taxes (which many do because they are more afraid of the IRS than homeland security), it’s probably not an accurate amount. So the only part of your economy that keeps moving is the uninsured motorist insurance and cash transactions in small groups. Obviously the declining rate is not a problem for the US otherwise they would simplify the immigration process and embrace that people want to move to this country to work and do good and increase the GDP
It’s sort of funny: they make the same mistake the “red pill” crowd makes. First they want to emulate a false reality that doesn’t exist, then some of them end up rejecting that same false reality that never existed (the red pill crowd) and end up tilting against windmills. Both groups have deluded themselves by choosing keep their eyes closed to the actual reality they exist in which is far more mundane.
Seems like one challenge to this would be keeping people with legit access away from it. Ie if you hide it in the billing folder, and sue in accounting knows, then tells her boyfriend who “hacks” her laptop that she left open for a bit to get the keys.
I disagree but only about 50%.

Python is not really very slow overall unless you’re on windows. When you get to serious computing then breaking out of python is possible, but systems administration is not the place to do heavy computation.

As for debugability, I find python to be easier, set -/+x is great, but that’s not doing much more than printing out every line of execution, there’s no interactive debugger like python has afaik.

The killer thing for me is that python has modules for basically everything, which is awesome.

The thing that kills python for me is that I can’t be 100% sure if what version may exist on a system; and worse: if I actually use any modules then I have to somehow get them on the system.

For systems administration, this is pretty close to a non-starter. Prevailing sysadmin knowledge is that the admin tools should not horn in excessive dependencies, since sysadmin tools should work when the system isn’t fully set up.

This is why go is so great. But go is harder to debug than python in my experience.
The soviet union illegally and unprovoked invaded Finland in 1939 and conquered territory. Then:

On 22 June 1941, Germany launched an invasion of the Soviet Union. Three days later, the Soviet Union conducted an air raid on Finnish cities, prompting Finland to declare war and allow German troops stationed in Finland to begin offensive warfare. By September 1941, Finland had regained its post–Winter War concessions to the Soviet Union: the Karelian Isthmus and Ladoga Karelia. However, the Finnish Army continued the offensive past the pre-1939 border during the conquest of East Karelia, including Petrozavodsk, and halted only around 30–32 km (19–20 mi) from the centre of Leningrad. It participated in besieging the city by cutting the northern supply routes and by digging in until 1944.

So the war you are talking about started with, again, the soviet union bombing Finland. We got hella mad and pushed them back, reclaiming our lost territories. Did we march further into russia than we needed to? Sure. Was there precedent? Absolutely. Am I a bigot for hating russians? Fuck no.

Some prisoners of war dying of malnutrition or disease is hardly an evil act from a tiny nation of farmers struggling to feed themselves while fighting to survive invasion from russia.
One of my favorite places to get new books to read.
Waxy.org Turns 20
> They put like ten thousand dollars in a bitcoin wallet and hide it on all your end users machines. The idea being that an attacker will cash out the wallet giving you a heads up you are breached before they move on to ransomware or whatever.

wow that is the craziest justification i have heard so far for sustaining a planet-eating, nightmare 'currency'
Yes it's currently only on android
These companies need to be reminded that users are the sina qua non condition for any customer whatsoever, and that their disinterested to hostile attitude towards users is a poison pill for them. "Users aren't the customer" is tired corporate-speak for "I want to be an a*hole", and needs to die.

As to Canonical, the only reason I use FF anyways is because it is the lesser evil. They are far from stellar with their constant attempts to inject invasive monetizers into the browser.
>What men do is based on what men want. What men want is sex.

Too simple, though what you say captures the essence. People have breakpoints for how hard they are willing to work for various things. Some of them are progressive (relationship -> kids -> family). Some are lateral (relationship, starting a business).

For a lot of men, they see getting a relationship is more difficult than just having low effort sex. So they get exactly that and continue on with their lives otherwise.

Next step, families and children. Have a relationship? Cool, now look at how much effort it takes to start a family and raise kids. Look at the risks involved. Look at the demands it takes. Loads of guys go "nope, too much, too risky, too little reward" and check out.

Society has been pushing to make it much easier to have sex risk-free. They have made it much harder to start a relationship, let alone start a family, by introducing all these risks and incentives not to. Plenty of men still want a family more than or on top of sex. They just don't want the current deal given to them.

Cherry on top, almost every time the debate opens as to why men in particular don't want this deal (as opposed to "why do people / women not want this deal"), the discussion turns into shaming men into taking the deal rather than evaluating things and working together. No civil conversation, just a bunch of monkeys flinging poo. And people are surprised men are ghosting society, when you won't even pretend to listen?
> I'm not sure why they can't just put wind turbines in the UK.

From the article:

> When domestic renewable energy generation in the United Kingdom drops due to low winds and short periods of sun, the project will harvest the benefits of long hours of sun in Morocco
There's a pretty high payout rate.
I think missing from this comparison is that while the US is quite different from Finland, New Hampshire when taken on its own is quite similar.

But we never ask, “how could we make the whole US like New Hampshire?” and probably for good reason! I don’t think we’d want the whole US to be that way. The US is big and diverse and that’s a good thing.
Yes thank you for feedback I'll add a video of it.
The context of this discussion is Zoom/Teams type meetings. My point is that low latency audio is most important in these settings. Low latency is really the key and currently seems to be an unsolved problem in MS Teams at least.
I've never had any problems installing a browser on Windows. What's the problem? You run the installer and it installs itself in seconds, and the browser periodically updates itself on its own without having to figure out any dependency headaches.
Dang is a person; the main moderator on HN, but thanks for the laugh :D
Liberals and conservatives agree on the basics and disagree on the scope - which is why conservatives are always defending the so-called “liberal” policies of a generation ago.

Admitting the base and vulgar nature of humans puts the whole concept of a liberal democracy at risk.
Fundamentally they are the same SMT concept though: multiple hardware threads that have separate register (and other) state but share an execution unit.

HT as an implementation tries to give long sequential execution windows to a hardware thread, it's designed to hide occasional long latencies (IO typically), but pays by having a higher switching cost.

A barrel processor trades off individual instruction latency for a higher degree of parallelism and improved latency hiding.
It seems realistic that 14% of people would have their own soap.
Does the author self-declare their philosophical and political beliefs?

In my view, doing so is necessary for an author to be intellectually honest and open.

Generally speaking, I'm not looking for an author to 'sneak in' a belief by way of a good narrative.

I've read similar commentary by a socially conservative author writing under a pen name (Theodore Dalyrimple) [1]. He wrote a highly selective account that matched his beliefs. It is one thing to so this -- it is another thing to try to hide the underlying belief system which preceded the commentary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Dalrymple
>The contrast made me realize that professing liberal social values that one doesn’t live by harms society. It matters what we say about what’s good and what’s bad, what works and what doesn’t. Creating a culture where men can attain dignity and social respect by providing for their family and staying with the mother of their kids matters.

Liberal social values includes committing and providing for your family
Mozilla is very active on privacy advocacy and highlights Firefox’s privacy as a feature[0]. This makes some sense because the features of Firefox (cookie blocking, containers, first class ad blocking) all help preserve your privacy better than Chrome or Edge. As part of this advocacy space they’ve also done things like “privacy not included”[1] (the asterisk and lowercase are intentional, similar to the 1987 movie “batteries not included”).

[0]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/privacy/

[1]: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/about/
Same - and this is really the crux of the matter. You are in control of how toxic your social media experience is. Find that a group or particular person is making your world a worse place? Unfollow/Unfriend.

People bemoan the Facebook of old where it was updates from friends old and new, and family - but that's still the core of the product, groups are optional.
You weren't actually friends if all you had was a Facebook connection.
I don't know what ethnics has to do with it. If it waves the flag it's of the nation. Russia is a nation of russian people. A nation with a history of illegal invasion of its peaceful neighbors, including mine.
Such a remarkable and useful project. I had to look this up in Wikipedia; it was started in 1971 (!) by Michael S. Hart. They've never done much for aesthetics or curation. I like https://manybooks.net/ as an alternative. It's mostly Gutenberg sources (with credit) but the site and epub downloads are nicely designed. Although they've gotten pretty spammy.

If Sci-Hub is more your speed then Z-Library has 10 million books available for download. However most of them are not licensed copies. The neat thing about Gutenberg is it turns public domain books into something easily accessible.
Any recomendation? Please.
> I'll guess that production-aircraft-grade hydrogen fuel cells won't get past 85% efficient (hydrogen ==> electricity).

Why would you convert the hydrogen to electricity instead of burning it in the jet engine?
Lol biased ref counting. I tried that years ago. It’s super fast for serial workloads or very simple parallel ones. I would avoid it for anything real.
I am not knowledgeable in high voltage transmission, but in which ways does the shallower water depth affect the transmission line?
How do they get around only being able to get at your last 3000 tweets?
> Only recently France were threatening to cut off power to Jersey.

Just want to add that it was a bit different than that. More exactly, an English newspaper asked a French official if cutting electricity off was a possibility and that official answered nothing more than "the treaty that was agreed upon does include this as a possibility".

It was never an actual threat or in any plan at the time.
> when you have kids for no reason, they know they’re here for no reason, and it’s a formula for a disaffected person.

That does not make any sense. Most older generations did not choose to have children (certainly not as much as we do) and it did not result in generations being "disaffected". If anything that's exactly the opposite - we are the generation when we have full control of who gets born and there's never been more unhappy families in History than now.
Democracy ≠ politically stable
I tried it once and remember that the community was unfriendly. New users are ridiculed. "This is an app for Pros. Never in my 17 years of experience have I"...is the general tone. Just off-putting.
No particular problem with parens, hell if you want to do postfix I’m cool with that too, it’s just that the leading parens really discourage you from currying by default while ML-style juxtaposition-is-application does not (normally ML and F# curry a bit less, Haskell and Scala a bit more, but both curry much more than is usual in Common Lisp or Scheme). And currying is really useful when some of the curried functions are values of config settings.

I didn’t think HCL had laziness (which is vital to how NixOS module or Nixpkgs overlay A can set or use things in B which in turn set or use things in A), I’ll have to look at the theory more closely, thanks. (Its documentation tries pretty hard to make HCL look boring and weak, I guess it’s my fault for believing it.) Doing logic-programming-like things would probably also work as an approach to achieving these goals, yes, just a different one from that implied by my constraints above. I’d count CUE as being interesting in that direction as well even if it’s not technically logic programming (is it?.. the bibliography is not great). I’ll guess we’ll see.
It's not about "dont give a fuck". This is about intergenerational poverty, and the costs that we all will have to pay because the elites decided to destroy social mobility for the poverty-stricken classes.

When you are born and live in poverty, hold jobs that amount to minimum wage or tiny bits above it, have no way to *see* a future of any sort of success; happiness, alcohol, drugs, and sex are the primary forms of feeling good or not feeling pain....

Yeah, you're going to have massive problems at a societal scale.

The elites of this country, along with governments bribed, gerrymandered, and installed by said elites made the volitional changes to social programs that keep people down in poverty. And we're living with those changes since Reagan went off about that "black welfare fraud woman". That was the start of poverty-austerity movement: the idea that cutting off most/all funding would get them to not be lazy.

The credit system instituted in the late 80's only has further cemented the idea that "if you were poor now, you'll still be poor and we wont help you". And housing has gone stratospheric, as have all other bills. And insert homeless numbers talk here - homeless are used as a tool of the elites to show what happens if you don't play along monetarily.

I'm honestly surprised that the political elites haven't instituted ST:DS9's "Sanctuary Districts" (https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sanctuary_District) . Out of sight, out of mind.