skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advice is not given; it is received. The first step to consider is if the person is open for a conversation, and if the time is right. Learning doesn't happen when you want it; it happens when they are ready for it. Be thoughtful and respectful to the other person's state of mind, and approach it with empathy.

The second thing to consider is how to approach the topic. Unless you have a strong emotional bond with the person where you can be very direct (e.g., family member, close friend), or you are an authority in the field you're giving advice (e.g., teacher, senior colleague), what you're giving is not advice - it's just your opinion. Spewing up your opinions on why someone should change to conform to what you think is right is unlikely to stick, unless it helps the person to look at the matter from a different perspective.

One way of doing it is to approach things with curiosity, helping the person to question their beliefs, and asking powerful questions that helps the person to reflect and look from different angles. Growth comes from within, so it's not about you giving the idea or problem-solving it for them, but helping the person to find answers for themselves. Yes, it takes time, but you have a much higher chance of helping them grow than just vomiting unsolicited advice.

You can find tons of resources around coaching, and it applies in any situation where it involves growth and development, either in the work environment [1][2], at home, parenting kids, etc.

But hey, what do I know. This is all my opinion, not advice :)

[1] https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-leader-as-coach

[2] https://hbr.org/2018/08/most-managers-dont-know-how-to-coach...
Twitter said that's not why they removed the blue check and it was re-added. Not that I trust press-releases but that seems like it would be a bit of a departure for them.
No, it’s only the fragmentary preservation over thousands of years.

The fundamental story structures are quite similar. The scope of the tales told is quite similar. The behaviour of the protagonists and antagonists is quite similar.

We know about the Iliad and the Odyssey because they were relatively well preserved. We don’t know about Homer’s less popular poems, or of any particularly trashy verse that he wrote…because it didn’t survive.

The Iliad survived not because it is transcendent, but because it was popular (which meant that there were more copies made to survive over time). The "transcendence" was added later as a (probably wrong) reason for its popularity.

Some 3,000 years from now there will probably be someone calling the Saga of the Boy Wizard transcendent just the way that people call the Iliad transcendent. They, like many others, will confuse its widespread popularity and many copies with a judgement on quality. There are other similar stories better written that don’t have the popularity of HP. But they won’t survive over time because there weren’t as many copies.
I'm glad you had that experience, but as a "2nd" language, it was rough for me because it was the uncanny valley of programming languages: things _almost_ worked like in other languages but were not syntatically distinct enough to easily keep them separate in my mind. It'd be like if some new regex decided "{}" was range and "[]" was repetition

And we shall not discuss the horrors of its build and dependency system, which I appreciate isn't the "language" but what good is a programming language if one cannot compile it?
The part that's most interesting from Eco's take on fascism is that he stresses syncretism in the original essay on Ur-Fascism which is well worth reading directly.

"If you browse in the shelves that, in American bookstores, are labeled as New Age, you can find there even Saint Augustine who, as far as I know, was not a fascist. But combining Saint Augustine and Stonehenge – that is a symptom of Ur-Fascism."

I think this is the most relevant aspect of his characterization today because it rings true when you look at the combination of memes and traditional imagery that is often used by extremist groups. Fringe figures on the political extremes like "Bronze age pervert" seem to fit into that mold that Eco describes. Viewed through that lens fascism is not so much an appropriate label for the stereotypical arch-conservative who is just reactionary, but you may even find it in tech circles where you often encounter the same obsession with speed, youth, and the future but at the same time no trust in democracy, egalitarianism and so on.

https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf
It's not banning arguments, just recognising that twitter ads aren't the best medium for certain arguments.
> (e.g. developers adopt new APIs much faster which benefits the end user faster).

There is less than zero evidence this is true, if anything, it's the explanation for why devices in general get slower as time goes on even if someone doesn't download any new apps but does download regular updates.
Don’t forget the existing providers have already received massive funds to ‘improve rural broadband’ in the same vein as that act. Hundred of billions of dollars if I remember correctly.

It’s mostly been ineffective.
It's true that the culture is homogenizing, but Dartmouth or Cornell are very different communities than Penn or Columbia. Applying to some or most of the other Ivies is very different from applying to all the Ivies.

The question you have to answer in an application is why this school. If your answer is "I just want to go to an Ivy", each school gets to say "Ok, neat. Go to a different one." And if your answer is "I need to get in to an Ivy to validate myself", bless you sweet sweet heart. You answered honestly, but incorrectly.

It's like telling Columbia "I want to attend Columbia because I really want to go to college in NYC." Laugh, but it happens all the time. Their answer, of course, is "Ok, you have more than a hundred other options. Go there instead."

Give a better answer to the question. Even if the culture is homogenizing, pander to the audience and tell them things that they uniquely offer. Unless you've won the equivalent of the Siemens Competition or you have letters of recommendation from Fields Medalists, you've got to sell yourself to them.
Which means you were 17 in 2005 which fits my theory perfectly. "Wokeness" might not be a term that existed in 2005, but like I said, there were multiple waves of the same ideal going back before 2005. Maybe you should examine why you are ok with the "political correctness" wave of the 90s and not the "wokeness" wave of the last decade plus. Is it potentially because you didn't see the earlier waves in real-time as a mature adult?
And your qualifications to make this call as opposed to a professional like a librarian are?
They already offer these degrees. They are called Computer Information System, Computer Information Technology, Management Information Systems, etc depending on where you go to school. I've been gainfully employed as a developer for over 10 years with my degree in CIS. Alot, of the time they are part of the Business school.
On the topid of neo contemptory fascism, I'd highly recommend reading Timothy David Snyder's works. Particularly these two:

- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

- Road To Unfreedom
I feel like the use of astronomy and cosmology to model and understand sub-microscopic processes seems a little… backwards? Frankly, I’m ignorant of both but my gut feeling tells me it’s a bit of a scientific dead end. Would love to hear why I’m wrong or if anyone else more educated than I am in this area shares the same suspicions.
> when the science is settled it becomes a law

That's not how it works for most of science. Most consensus ideas are theories because they are impossible to prove well enough to call them a law.
> Non-newtownian/non-classical/non-relatistic Quantum effects are truly random. That's the core axiom of what makes "quantum" mechanics not Newtonian/classical/relativistic.

Bohmian mechanics[1] (which is a model of QM) is fully deterministic, and Born rule emerges from the fact that we don't know some information. QM (equations, experiments) is fully consistent with a world, where the perceived randomness of a measurement is the exact same random, as in coin flips.

For additional properties that QM does not satisfy (because there are known counter examples) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mec...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie–Bohm_theory
GDP and USD are not the same thing. GDP measures production over a year (a timespan which is simply an artifact of our planet) in US dollars. It's a rate.

USD is the sum of US dollars in use. It's an amount.

Comparing a rate (defined by an arbitrary local constant) to an amount doesn't make much sense.
Sure, there are other benefits of uint256. But it does simplify carrying around crypto keys.

256 bit integers to avoid floats seems like a good idea too. I’ve wished for it whenever I try to represent integers as double. 2^53 is such an arbitrary restriction.
That often cited list devoid of any context looks like a mishmash of things Umberto Eco personally dislikes. It looks better in the context of his own essay, but even in his essay he is still unable to give a coherent explanation of why those things constitute fascism and why the term “fascism” even has any merit.

It looks vaguely intuitively appealing on the surface level, but I don’t think it deserves the fame it has.
This is only about books banned from some public school libraries. Not books banned in the US.

The fundamental issue is, public schools are run by the government. Hence, the government makes the decision about what is to be taught, and how it is taught. The government schools cannot allow any teacher to teach whatever they feel like teaching. No school can work that way, unless it is a one person private school.

For example, public schools cannot teach creationism. Nor can they teach religion. Nor can they teach eugenics. Because the government decided what the curriculum would be.

It's not a free speech issue.

Now, if a non-government library decided to make these books available, and the government tried to stop it, that would be a free speech issue.

Also, if a private school made these books available in its school library, and the government tried to stop it, that would also be a free speech issue.

Note that many private schools teach creationism. It's their right to.
Lisp is quite good for that, really. Numerical computation, parallelism, etc. With a good compiler, using unboxed values and primitive arithmetic and Boolean operations on ints, most code will compile to not much slower than the C version.

For example, I just saw an old paper [1] where the author implements dynamic compilation from Lisp, to Lisp, in Lisp, for parsers. One describes the language to be parsed, in a high and abstract level in a DSL in Lisp. The Lisp program then compiles that definition into to a low-level sequence of unboxed boolean and arithmetic ops and conditionals in Lisp which, being primitives with direct machine code equivalents, the Lisp compiler can translate into reasonable machine code. The end result was probably only a few times slower than doing the recognizers directly in C.

Not so different from the usual parser generator technique. But the nice part of doing it that way is that you retain the full Lisp system; your generated blobs of "machine-level Lisp" are still just another Lisp object, so you can take your generated functions and single-step it in interpretation, or transform it further. I suspect that's a big part of why Lisp was so popular for so long. Other languages provide similar capabilities now, though sometimes not so general in ability. But for a long time, this sort of meta-programming where you write the program at the high level to generate the code at the low level for you, was basically a proprietary superpower for Lisp.

[1] https://www.plover.com/~mjd/misc/hbaker-archive/Prag-Parse.h...
I assume you mean "out group".

I will add that confirmation bias is powerful: all of the listed traits are easy to find almost anywhere you look. One exception might be traditionalism, but lots of revolutionaries quickly pivot to having their own traditions if they have any success anyway.
Laws aren’t based on consensus or age as we have plenty of Laws that are known to be wrong and stuff gets called a law fairly early.

F=MA fails really obviously at high velocity but the error doesn’t go away at low speed it just becomes small enough to be ignored. Even the most known Law of conservation of energy fails in expanding space time.

The basic rule of thumb is can you write a useful equation? And for climate change it’s just too complex for that.
You charge money for it. Otherwise it will have no value whatsoever whilst you gave away a few minutes of your life.
Thank you for responding! No I think I do understand, this isn’t just TTP. It’s about trustless interaction between peers all mutually agreeing on a universe view. Mostly exchanging money, for goods and services, one of the oldest human endeavors.

Our abstractions in life all require some degrees of trust and trust delegation so it is a difficult concept to grasp in a pure computation/storage domain.

CEXs (centralized exchanges) are a trusted party, however they are not part of the protocol anymore than any other peer. Email being a decentralized protocol is analogous. The spec doesn’t care if most use big providers.

What is trust? A belief or a delegation of belief to another party or system holding a particular universe view.
That view that cannot be proven by rigorous or universal concepts like A < B.

When commerce can occur without requiring ‘trust of the money’, we have removed a major vulnerability in which parties can manipulate the universe view. So much of the time and energy spent on protecting paper (a universe view) just doesn’t need to be spent.

I get that the value is volatile relative to fiat systems. But we are in a transitionary period and the true value to humanity at last is only just starting to dawn on people. Stop thinking in “Bitcoin”, and start thinking about how you can add value through goods and services and how many sats you will charge.
The special district actually existed so that Disney was financially responsible for improvements made to public lands on their behalf, along with expedited permitting processes.

Now the taxpayers are on the hook for that special district's debt, which stands at over $100 million.

Basically, in attempting to punish Disney, Florida actually ended up giving it a $100+ million subsidy.
What did you do with 10Gb that you could not have done with 1Gb or 300Mbit?
What group doesn’t have a vested interest to spew demonstrably false information about it?

Climate change isn’t science it’s mostly politics around preserving or not preserving the temperatures and sea levels from when the steam engine was invented.

Like I believe the climate is changing, but we should do almost nothing about it. That said I don’t own any property within 7 feet of sea level so I don’t really give a shit if the people who do lose a little bit of their waterfront property.
They are the same just because you say so?
One could argue that inflation increases the value of future income streams, which is not a bad thing if your goal is to maintain civilization.

What irritates me is that a lot of people seem to treat this "humanity project" like a paper towel that is meant to be thrown away the moment they die.

You can't just put labor in the fridge and then take it out when you are 70. Time doesn't stand still. So old people are reliant on young people. Old people must find an arrangement that works for young people too. I don't think that is impossible.

However, a lot of old people don't care, they just want the future generation to be their worker bee with zero say. Let's say you work and save 20 years of labor. For your money to maintain its value, a young person must work 20 years for you.

There are obvious problems here. What if there aren't enough young people? What if they earn money at a slower rate than you did? What if you don't actually give them 20 years of work so they can work themselves out of that debt?

The latter is particularly ironic. A young person has 20 years of debt and his old father has 20 years of savings. When the father dies he thinks he is leaving his son a fortune, yet the only benefit the young person sees is that he is out of debt. He doesn't gain something he didn't already have.
What's impressive to me here is not the capacity but the price for the capacity. At allegedly 777 CHF per year this is a steal so far removed from my reality it's obscene.
This CL would fix Go to be able to read zip files concatenated to binaries: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/387976/
I wonder if this has anything to do with Elon Musk saying he wants to buy Twitter and change it for the public good
I'm also in SF Bay Area and I just had 3 Gbps symmetric fiber installed by Comcast. This is their $299/mo "Gigabit Pro" option. I posted about it on Reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast_Xfinity/comments/tkmv9y/upd...

There's a benchmark posted there showing that the speed is really as advertised.
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Its interesting how you can make sweeping negative generalisations about one group in society (based on age) and its completely acceptable. But for any other attribute (skin color, gender, orientation, ethnicity) it is considered appallingly ignorant.
Really appreciate this feedback and the positive attitude. This is helpful, thank you!
Not to mention when doing large wires with countries that have to do exchanges through a national bank your third party can just forget to accept it. Then you get a wire reversed for a large amount in some cases and the bank freezes your assets because you just got a huge amount of money from some random place. The thin vail of freedom is quickly lifted whenever you want to do anything international from sending money to getting married.

This happened to me when purchasing a house in another country.
Brokerage CDs are a pain if you need your money back early. Unlike a normal CD, which you can redeem early for a penalty, you can only sell brokerage CDs on a secondary market. They trade at huge discounts, and you have to pay fees to involve a broker because they are not liquid enough to trade yourself. At least this is how it was when I tried to do this a few years back.
> However, you can burn a million quid

KLF much?
"Contradicting science" is exactly how you do science.
As a physicist who used to work on unifying QFT and gravity, no, QFT is not accessible at all, to anyone. General relativity is kind of accessible to a non-physics student if they otherwise have a strong math background, which is like 0.001% of the population, optimistically.
Most people do not have savings that are the product of more than a year of work.
That seems to be the way of cutting edge science. The data that Hubble gathered that showed the expansion of the universe is considered terrible by today's standards, but it was enough to prove it.
In its original iteration, the Nazis were very much not accusing their opponents of such things. Fascism is very visible, with displays of strength, mass events, iconography, etc. They concept of the enemy was more conspiratorial in nature, i. e. the jewish conspiracy.

It's really only the most mindless middle school name calling of the last two years or so where you get Trump people saying "oh, but it's national socialist" and now Putin. It's trolling, "flooding the zone with shit". The Nazis were better than that.
25 users of 1Gbps service? Obviously, a simplification, but something along those lines is how they tend to be advertised
Sorry. Better latency :)
Until the two banks agree that it isn't. Errors happen all the time.

https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/no-payments-are-final/
None of those issues are resolved by crypto.

If crypto is to be legitimized, the government isn’t simply gonna say, too bad, the stuff we think is absolutely necessary to the point we suspended civil liberties for, that stuff we will ignore for you.

Whether you agree with what the govt is doing or not, they aren’t gonna stop doing it because it’s crypto.
We'll be stuck on them up until we're asked to invert a binary tree and then we'll start managing restaurants
I have. One of my favorite highlights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
How can the consensus ever change if we deplatform, defund, and ostracize all scientists (or would-be scientists) researching and publishing any evidence that contradicts consensus?
> The enemy is both strong and weak.

Any group or person who has had an enemy that is only strong is no longer with us. I'm not sure this is a distinguishing feature, it seems like something that is always true.
What’s a pinoygram?
Couldn't much the same thing be said about Florida schools "banning" books with so-called "critical race theory" and/or LGBTQ themes?

Students aren't going to get expelled for reading these books. Their parents aren't going to be criminally charged for buying them for their kids to take to school and read. Everyone in Florida is welcome to buy as many copies of these "banned" books as they want. The schools in Florida have just chosen not to buy some books they feel didn't have educational value. So what's all the fuss about?
That says nothing about there being nobody in rural areas, just fewer people, and it being an unsustainable welfare state obviously refers to the current subsidies.

So yeah, it was a straw man on your part.
OP here, yes with a big team with established processes and a backlog that hundreds might be in love with, proceed with caution. And honestly, this is only to protect other people's sentimental value with the content. The lost time spent on backlogs with reviewing, reporting out, re-evaluating, migrating, reading between the lines, and other grooming, far out ways the handful of times you leverage it. This is an extension of the 'build trap' I feel, where we're convinced that we need to coddle the things that we might build.

In my experience, the things that get built that actually have impact are always recent realizations, not things that have been sitting in a backlog for a year.
> countries adopted negative interest rates we could stop the inflation

If you're talking about monetary policy, this is wrong. Low rates spur inflation. Raising rates fights it. Countries that implemented negative rates did so to fight deflation and spur inflation.

If you're talking about how we quote and talk about rates, we quote nominally because that's how most bonds are written. When you buy a 10Y Treasury, it will pay you a specific nominal rate. You know that ex ante. Inflation is whatever it is now, but we have zero guarantee around what it will be between now and ten years hence.

Also, there is no single figure for inflation. It's a measure on a basket of goods. That basket is designed to approximate the average American's, but nobody is an average American. (Or an average Indian.) Your experience of inflation will be different from mine based on our purchasing preferences. (This doesn't make inflation subjective. Just heterogenous.)
I think fascism is often thought of as reactionary backlash against modernity.
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Can you check if they have The Transgender-Industrial Complex[1]? It's one of the few books Amazon refuses to sell. You can only get it from the publisher or Barnes and Nobles.

[1]https://antelopehillpublishing.com/product/the-transgender-i...
It is obviously not an "expert" issue, but a values issue, which anyone is able to argue.

In fact, this common equivocation of "expert knowledge" with "value judgments" is a scourge on our modern discourse.
There needs to be a way for rooms to communicate to clients which features they support.

I need to be able to make a room without threads (DMs, small group chats, etc). And clients should be able to see which features are enabled in each room and support them appropriately.

That is what a universal protocol would allow for.