skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deriding people based on their height is wrong. But preference for tall males is based on a preference for strength, athleticism, and ability to fight. This is true in all human cultures. If you think it's outdated, consider sports. Almost all MLB pitchers are > 6' and that's not even getting into basketball. In terms of fighting, although stature is less relevant than ever, there are plenty of ongoing military conflicts.

This is true for lots of things. Being fast is better than being slow. Being smart is better than people simple. Being attractive is better than being ugly. Being fit is better than being fat. This isn't a happy realization but it's true and it's healthy to accept it.

The dimension along which all people are equal is a metaphysical or religious dimension, not an empirical one.
>>are subsidized by the government (very few toll roads exist in the US, it's mostly combination State and Federal funding which builds highways.)

Toll Roads is not the only User Fees applied to fund roads. Other Fees include but are not limited to Gas Taxes, Vehicle Excise Taxes, Registration Fees, License Fee's, Wheel Taxes, etc.

That is with out adding in other revenue's that should also be considered user fees but typically are not like Vehicle Sales Taxes, and Fines for traffic violations.

Americans pay a TON of money directly in fees for access to the road system above and beyond tolls

Further the Interstate system is considered to be a National Defense project, that citizens are allowed to use, kinda of like GPS.

>>The USPS might be able to turn a profit

"Run like a business" do not mean "turn a profit". Not all businesses are for-profit enterprises.

A better turn of phrase may be found in the axiom of "Government Programs are judged by their intentions, Private Enterprise is judged by their results"

"Run like a government" generally means a program is not judged by the results of the program, and any failing of the program is simply a matter of spending ever increasing amounts of money never critically looking at either the program itself or the assumptions of the programs

"Run like a business" means looking at the objectives, setting a goal to achieve the objective, taking action, then evaluating the results of the action. Looking for inefficiencies, bad objectives, false assumptions, etc etc etc.
> You've confused Japan with China.

I think not: https://heianjapanweb.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/blog-post-tit...
I wish Valve still cared about Team Fortress 2. Unfortunately their terrible work distribution system has lead to the complete abandonment of many of their most popular franchises.
PyScript intent for using pyodide was usability with any existing library including c-extensions like numpy and other data science tools.
Disney has supported basic rights for LGBTQ+ people. This is one of those things which pretty much isn't up for debate anymore in most other developed countries. Beyond that, Disney has been solidly pro-corporate, anti-union, and generally right wing in its policies. I'm unaware of any stances Netflix and Salesforce have taken beyond similar support for LGBTQ and lip service to "racism is bad". Again, as far as I know, their economic stances are solidly anti-union, anti-worker, and pro-corporate.

None of those are "leftist".

Staff support is entirely different than institutional corporate support. Is Amazon leftist because one of its warehouses just unionized? No, it fought (and is fighting) that union effort tooth and nail. Similarly, Google has punished staff who were too open with their leftist beliefs.

Nor is support for the Democratic party "leftist". The Democratic party is split between neoliberals (who would be considered right of center anywhere else) and social democrats (who would be considered center left anywhere else) for the most part (with some rare Democratic Socialists who might actually qualify as leftist).

Hillary Clinton is a prime example of this. Anywhere but the United States, she would be considered solidly center right. It is only in the United States, where Fox News, et al have dragged the spectrum so far to the right that anything less than neo-fascist or anarcho-capitalist is considered left, where you could even pretend these corporations had a less than rightward slant.

Edit: I will note, this dragging of the spectrum is one of many, many reasons why I try to avoid spectrum based labels (left/right, etc) and stick to actual ideological labels. There is no single "leftist". There are Democratic Socialists, State Socialists, Communists, various flavors of Anarchist, etc who all get grouped together as "leftist", but generally don't agree on much. The other group of ideologies that get grouped with leftist are those supporting historically oppressed minorities - antiracism, antipatriarchy, and pro-lgbtq+ rights. Again, these are discrete ideologies and while people who subscribe to one often subscribe to the others, just as often they don't.

Similarly on the right, neo-facist, neoconservative, paleoconservative, evangelical theocrat, and anarcho-capitalist (the proper term for US libertarians) all get grouped together under the heading "right". When many of these ideologies are (or should be) completely at odds with each other.
If you’re short you have bigger issues than finding a life partner (as I agree height is not the ultimate reason one can’t find love). Studies have shown height affects career advancement and is more significant than race for earnings. One of these forms of discrimination is illegal, but the other is not.
I like it. Easier to read. Nostalgic.
The NES, released the next year, had 2K of video RAM, 54 colors, and approximately 2 bits of color per pixel.
All of the comments here are are exactly correct and how things should work in a free market. Dangerous work? Unpleasant circumstances? Boom and bust cycles? Excellent - pay should be stellar. I don’t care about owners bitching and moaning. This is capitalism and if they need labor then pay up.
Why not <py></py> instead of <py-script></py-script> ?
It's entirely possible they've re-architected Colossus to run on top of Spanner by now (I left in 2018). A lot of distributed systems problems just disappear when you throw Spanner into the mix, so it would make sense. The only argument against it would be adding a dependency.
How does this compare with Actual that was open sourced just a couple of days or so ago?

I think it's easy to make anything better than the super buggy mint.com.
> If the industry actually planned for this cyclical nature by avoiding overexpansion in good times and reducing mass layoffs in bad times this wouldn't be an issue.

I think that advice holds surprisingly well for most startups too. If only they followed it.
I think this is a great idea. Similarly ISPs should detect if they don't receive any packets from your connections for any 24 hour period, and refund you for that day.
Wouldn't be surprised, Kobo kinda did the same with kePub, although they do support standard ePubs too.
I don't have a problem with it at all - as long as I get to define who is intolerant.
Unsurprisingly, there are no unattractive Vulcans, at least none I've met.
That wasn't what the OP was talking about. He was talking about failure.

Python doesn't stop you from using a None, it just fails hard and fast.

Javascript on the other hand doesn't fail. It has 3 things equivalent to nil or Null. Called undefined and NaN and NULL. It lets you do some nutty things with undefined. undefined + 1 = NaN. NaN + 1 = NaN. NULL + 1 = 1. In python None + 1 is an instant hard crash.

Still these types of errors are traceable by following the code path and even easier with a debugger. For C++ a seg fault could trigger an error anywhere and there's no direct path to the source of the error. For nullptr it triggers a runtime error but this is the same problem as javascript... not a huge deal.

In terms of safety the order is: Python, Javascript, C++.

C++ alone with the segfaults is what causes it to be on the bottom of the list despite the extensive type system. One seg fault alone is worse then a python program with 20 type errors due to the fact about how hard it is to trace seg faults. There are C++ production code bases where known segfaults exist but no one has ever been able to find the offending line.
That last example, where you store a single number in a channel, seems to contradict your recommendation to "not pass tiny amounts of work over channels?"
If you're meeting online, which is very common, you can get filtered out well before the first time you meet and can show off your confidence.
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I read that as it's useful for the startup that the established companies do it, not that it's useful for the startup to do it.
Interestingly, there is no actual "tofu" emoji, despite a huge variety of other foods having emoji representation. It was evidently proposed at one point, but rejected for some reason: https://unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html (page contains link to Google Doc with status of requests).
I also have trouble with it. Become an intolerant society before you become an intolerant society seems like a strange premise.

I think for me it comes down to the point, where the tolerant end up being destroyed.

How does this happen exactly? Shouldn't we focus more on that?
Are we to destroy the intolerant prematurely before they destroy us?

How about just not destroying people, no matter the perceived tolerance or intolerance they exibit?
I was just at a Walmart DC outside of salt lake this morning and they had a sign coming in to the truck gate say (IIRC) $87k/year + $8k sign-on bonus. Walmart has always paid at the higher end of the spectrum so they have more strict hiring requirements.

This is for the Walmart fleet though, that Walmart trailer that almost took you out last week was most likely driven by one of the outside companies that run dedicated for them and they for sure aren’t as strict on who they hire.
I'm a guy of median height and great fitness, and I had a partner recommend limb lengthening in passing to me once. At the time, I had no idea what it even was but became disgusted as I learned the details. When I asked her why she would ever recommend such a thing, she said it was a joke. However, she had also purchased some pairs of 3 inch elevator shoes for me (also had no idea these were a thing) and insisted I wear them multiple occasions, despite me communicating how offensive the suggestion even was. When she suggested again that she expected me to wear them for the wedding and cared about it enough for it to become a shouting match, I knew for sure that something was VERY wrong. This, along with a dozen other reasons, caused me to call off the engagement. I'm still trying to make sense of it all.

EDIT: It may also be relevant that she was also at least 4 inches shorter than me, so there was no risk of me looking shorter than her, even if she had heels on.
This reminds me of how useful it is to make your ids include the type of the thing they're identifying as part of the value. This could be as simple as something like "u<random digits>" for users, "p<random digits>" for projects, etc. Or it could be a full-blown URN scheme like some of the big cloud providers use (though please, whatever you pick, BE CONSISTENT about using that form and only that form. If there's an operation to exact "just the id" from your larger value, and you need to use the full thing in some places and "just the id" in others, then you've missed the point).
If she earnestly believes that particle physicists are lying to the public to get funding, then there's nothing malicious about going to the public and saying this. It makes her essentially a whistleblower, and there's nothing malicious about that. Even if she happens to be wrong, that still isn't malicious intent.

If she's lying, then that's different. But I haven't seen any convincing evidence that she's lying. It's clear a lot of people don't like what she's saying, feel threatened by what she's saying, and think she's wrong. But that doesn't make her malicious.
The problem is that if oil companies make multi-year investments to increase production, what happens if the Ukraine conflict ends in a few months and Russian oil is tolerated again, or OPEC ramps up production? Companies and investors are tired of repeatedly having the rug pulled out from under them, investing during high price periods and then eating losses when the price of oil falls. If the government wants more domestic oil supply, they will need to craft policy to encourage that, not just complain in press releases.
How did we arrive at worms representing people, and what happened to stick men (or women)?
Russia can't operate the little Navy it has, better bases won't help.
Presumably "more of that." Would cosmologists really turn away even more funding? I can't imagine so.
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No, the point is companies/devs want to one codebase to work on all 4 platforms. (Win, mac, linux, browser)
This, like boob jobs, makes me so sad.

I don't but into the "why does culture make us do this" thing, these forces are primal and cross-cultural.

I really just get sad that there are people who are high enough in neuroticism (in the personality psych sense) that they will pay $75k to have their legs broken and hollowed out, to gain 3 inches in height.

Easy for me to say as I don't have this particular issue.
[citation needed]

My additional accecdata: it's really, really not. Even for an individual, stated preferences are often not that true in practice.
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> Use your own site to publish checkins instead of Foursquare

I never understood why people publish their location. Why does anyone care except maybe your significant other, who you can just text? Do your friends really care? Does your family? Do your coworkers?
You would also need Cantor and Riemann, as well as Pythagoras, Bernoulli, Al-Kashi and Al-Khawarizmi, Yang Hui maybe also Lebesgue, Cayley, etc...

There are a lot of small but inaccessible results that are necessary and left out if you only consider sheer amount.
The average here is 1,75 so my friend is shorter.

My point is, it doesn't matter that much. It matters, sadly, but not to the point where you can't find women that are attracted to you.
“Catscape” inversely maps to “birdscape”
> The modern 'incel crisis' is fueled by online dating and government subsidies.

It’s really not. It’s fueled by echo chambers and it’s self-reinforcing.
I hope these become more popular. I'm not a fan of the way cartoonish emojis have become so ubiquitous. I don't care for the aesthetic being plastered all over the things I use, but I do like the ability to use symbols to express emotion and other non-verbal things in written form.
I don't use a lot of emojis privately but I especially do not use them in a professional environment. I think one of the reasons being that I dislike the aesthetics, which plays into another reason, which is that they "feel" unprofessional. (Although there is probably nothing inherently unprofessional to them, it's basically just a novel way of communicating).

The blog post mentions increased interpretability and adaptability but I think making emojis more professional and aesthetically pleasing "in a professional setting" might be a big step as well.
Mostly programming languages related: code analysis, compilers, code generators, and formal verification tools. Outside PL work, I’ve used it to build some modeling and simulation tools. I also use it for misc. little tools that I need every so often where I want the type system to help me out. For a brief few years (‘09-‘15) Haskell played this role for me but I went back to SML after getting frustrated with various parts of that ecosystem.
PR is likely terrified of this headline: “Google removes skin color from emoji, making white the only option”
> I discovered that RAM pickups are no longer owned by Dodge.

That one got me awhile back. Ram was spun off in 2010, but they're both owned by Stellantis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Trucks
I think you dodged a bullet, mate. I wonder how she would react if you recommended she get breast implants.
So many opportunities missed to avoid this! Look at one ID and ensure it is what you expect it to be. Run the script in a dryrun mode. Run the script for 1 customer. Probably more!
Dating apps are a way to gain insight into how UX manipulates desire + how applications produce behavioral statistics which we then clumsily project into iron laws of psychology.
GnuCash can be a lot of work, but I've found worthwhile ways to use it. YMMV.

I used GnuCash when I had a consulting business (including abusing the invoicing features for time-tracking), as well as for personal finances.

Over the years, I keep experimenting with different ways to use it.

At one point, I could even run a custom report to show how much I was saving by making coffee at home rather than picking up one each day.

Eventually I kept simplifying, especially in Expense accounts, eventually only distinguishing transaction categories by tax implications.

I also stopped recording each individual little cash transaction. Instead, I occasionally counted the cash in my wallet, and added an "Expenses:Misc." transaction to make it match what GnuCash thought (given ATM withdrawals the bank import showed).

I never did figure out a practical way to track Guideline.com 401(k) in GnuCash, and, the instant I could close the account, I rolled it over to Fidelity. Where tracking the prices and every dividend reinvestment of my ITOT and AGG was easy and almost fun.

I'm currently taking a break from GnuCash for 2022, seeing whether a fancy assets&liabilities spreadsheet in Libre Office would be better. (While still saving the monthly OFX/QFX exports from my financial accounts, while I can, in case I ever need them.)

Initially, the spreadsheet seemed to do what I want with less effort, but I'm finding that GnuCash might actually be less effort in practice for the level of up-to-date and historical charting that I have.
How exactly do you suggest the federal government create 4 trillion dollars in yearly profits?
You're off by a factor of 1,000.
I wish they had just fixed the inconsistencies in the original blobmoji font instead of scrapping them alltogether.
And if they save the earth from an asteroid they never have to pay taxes again?
> Price: Free daily puzzles on mobile, $12 for full game

> Platform: Windows (reviewed), Mac, iOS, Android

I guess making it work in a web browser would be too difficult?
> In the end, I never wrote anything in that notebook at all: what a waste.

Years ago I took some bookbinding workshops. The guy running the program ended up making tons of books for the lessons which he ended up giving away. One of the thing he did was to scribble on the first page so it wasn’t pristine, so that the recipients wouldn’t want to use it for being “too nice”.
That would involve living in denial or becoming a hermit since these perceptions are often verbalized unprompted.
He means that legends go on, even without evidence to prove them, because people want to believe they're true even if they aren't.

Is the pilot that was identified really the 'Ghost of Kiev'? Which squadron was he with? What is his combat record? Where can we see that? Where was he shot down? What day and time was that? Were the "Ghost of Kiev"'s 40 kills verified? Where were those kills? When were those kills?

Exceptional claims require exceptional evidence.
We may well be stuck with the equivalent of those again, only we'll call them Google and Facebook.
My guess is that it dates back to the beginning when there weren't good documentation search tools? Very simple search tools like "grep" will return useful results if the function name appears in the doc string.

It doesn't seem very important nowadays, though.
Not to mention the money part. Forgive me for I've been out of the dating scene for quite a while now, but this....

"a 2006 study on online dating found that a man who is 5'6'' needs an additional $175,000 to be as desirable as a man who is approximately 6' tall and only makes $62,500 a year."

How exactly does this work in modern dating? See, when I was dating, I've not once had a woman ask me about my net worth or income. Never. You'll eventually find out, but not during the dating phase. A complete taboo and red flag to bring it up. One could only guess, or decipher it from somebody's job.

Is it now normalized to throw around these numbers in online dating? You fill it out on a profile and people filter for it? Please tell me that's not true. Culture shock indeed.

And those inches are quite expensive. A 175K extra for 4 inches. Takes a lot to build that wealth, after which you're supposed to hand it over to a woman that trades a lack of height for wealth. Quite a prize.
Anything I've heard or read Musk say about Twitter longer than a tweet seems to be positive from my perspective. The two themes I hear are the idea that it's a "town square" and that this form of communication is crucial for society. To me this seems like trying to go against the belief/conversation bubbles present by default on other social platforms. There are other aspects that will have to be dealt with such as how to monetize it to satisfy the private investors, or how it might be misused for other purposes. These other aspects don't have to negate the first primary goals but rather find a way to co-exist. I can't tell if the detractors (a) don't believe the stated motivations, (b) don't trust it will be done well, (c) have various other complaints/beefs that outweigh the positives. I find it hard to argue that Musk won't execute well given Tesla and SpaceX as priors.
I swear by Muji notebooks and pens. Seriously high quality paper and smooth writing pens with lots of colors and very reasonable prices.
It seems... a little...something. The word "founding", "founder", "founded", at least in technology circles (the relevant circle here), has historically been used to refer to starting a company. All of a sudden people are saying things like they "founded product X at Google" or something. Everyone knows the historical usage of the term, so why use it when "started" or "created" or "stood up" or "established" would work?
Considering how few (web) apps allow you to switch to your system's font for emoji, I doubt it'll become very popular unfortunately
> There was a communication gap between the team that requested the deletion and the team that ran the deletion.

Big red flag. If two teams own something, no body owns it.
If, by "an order of magnitude", you mean "10db", which works out to be a bit more than 3x the sound pressure required. For comparison's sake, I consider an order of magnitude to be around 10x or more.

Exaggerations aside, I could very well be wrong about that part - I was basing my observation off the response curve of reference headphones, which all fall off drastically starting a bit before 10kHz. But since they sound the same throughout the frequencies, I inferred that hearing is more sensitive slightly before 10kHz, since even age-degraded hearing can go above the 14kHz range.

> 12dB in either direction was standard issue in, like, the 70s.

Look at the EQ provided with your phone's audio application. 12 dB plus and minus. Look at the EQ on your computer. Unless you're using custom software, it's more-than-likely going to be 12db (Spotify, iTunes, WMP, etc.).

40dB of dampening is custom hardware your average sound bar won't have. That your average consumer-grade home theater system won't have. That even a quality headphone amp/dac won't offer.

> Getting the EQ right is table stakes for getting this production ready.

Here we agree, as I pointed out in the post you're responding to.
He's not disagreeing with that. . After pregnancy there are about 18 years of raising a kid too-- so ability to provide is a part of selection. In the past women would have to take it into account, but now it's much less necessary because they will be provided for either way