skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point. That first part was a copy and paste from the article.

In defense of nozero or haidt, statistically that is accurate. The red vs blue is certainly concentrated rural vs urban.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/upshot/america-political-...

It's interesting the consequences of this as well. There are policies being changed without a mindset of urban vs rural. Where a policy that makes sense in a urban point of view is catastrophic to rural communities. "If you think the world is overpopulated, leave the city."

Political policies like carbon tax for example disproportionately harm rural people. Some dude living in downtown toronto taking the subway is basically getting a pay cheque from the government at the expense of rural folks who must drive a low mpg pickup truck. What you think farming can be done in a econobox? https://metro.co.uk/2015/03/28/udder-disgrace-cops-find-cow-...

In fact, if you know a bloc of people support your policies and another doesn't. Figuring out of a system which transfers wealth to your supporters at the expense of your political opponents is an ideal system.

The problem though is that we in a country are the same team. Attacking 1 side is never beneficial. Urban folks attacking farmers with carbon taxes? Ok well how's that food inflation working out? Attacking oil workers with carbon taxes? How about the gas prices?

>People (on both sides) do this to each other constantly (though they have been since prehistory - it's just particularly bad in the US lately).

It's interesting as well to imagine how to solve this in the USA. Lets say Elon fails or even makes this worse and he deletes twitter. It just doesnt exist anymore.

How do you bring both sides back together without blood being shed?

You cant do nothing, it's actively becoming worse right now. Act now or else.

It's certainly not going to be solved by more censorship and removing free speech. In fact, censorship is a new thing. Free speech has been around for plenty long to know it's not causing it. My hypothetical also assumes reduction in censorship by elon failed.

So as president happytoexplain of the independent party. How do you bridge the divide? How do you bring people back together?

You might try to go nationalism. Tell everyone they are Team America, that the fight isnt with each other. Build some foreign enemy for people to rail against. At the same time go around ending all the wars the USA involved in. End wars that the USA arent even involved in. Reduce tension, reduce war exhaustion. Make sure people's economic situation is as good as possible because of high correlation between violence and economic situation. Reduce the poor mindset in general, tackle it directly.

Who did I just describe?
I had a friend once, who really went nuts on this 20+ years ago, so I've dug pretty deeply in this nonsense. However, no arguments were able to convince my friend that this 'chronology' is crap. He believed that all archeological evidence was forged, all starmap calculators were using incorrect formulas, etc. - so even taking direct page from Fomenko books where he claimed the stars conjunction took place and verifying it in starmap calculator proving that stars on that day were 1° apart didn't impress him.

Eventually he also took to loving Putin, so our paths have naturally diverged.

The most interesting thing is that he's an overall very clever guy, a physics scientist, I think, somewhere in Norway. But some brain defects just can't get fixed, I guess: even before that at 13yo he dropped out of school and joined the White Brotherhood, escaping home and making his way all the way to Kiev from Urals in Russia, for the announcement ascension of Maria Devi Christos [1] (of was it an apocalypse? I don't remember).

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Tsvigun
You and I talked about this the other day, and I walked away from this article further convinced that improvement districts are an abomination to the concept of democracy and must be ended. To these ends I think it would be smart for some politician to say "I don't think this bill goes far enough" and propose legislation to dissolve every improvement district.
The idea that a neighborhood's character needs to be preserved is exactly the kind of logic used to justify redlining.

"Random" people should be able to buy property and use it in the same way that existing owners can.
Can you point to the specific error in the paper?
I have a PhD from MIT, but I am not sure why "UBC" is relevant to the paper in question.
I wouldn't be surprised if a RH employee sold the info. Something similar happened to me with their "Robinhood Card" and many others. Fraudulent purchases being made when the card never left our possession. Either a database breach or their access controls are not good. Either way IMO you should not be involved with this company..
This could move packages and mail easily. Those are already containerized, packed and repacked multiple times as they move through the mail system. Larger shipments could be palletized to a form that fits inside these vehicles and be quickly moved too.
Open-Source R600g Driver for Old AMD GPUs New Activity to Improve GPU Compute
People are only measuring social division in the online discourse imo. Look at the world. People are lining up politely in the grocery store and smiling when you cross paths on the street. I'm guessing you will also note there is no social division in your neighborhood either when you go out walking around.

Meanwhile, in the 1960s people were burning their draft cards, starving themselves to be underweight for the draft, or fleeing to canada. Returning soldiers at the airport would be spat on by protesters. Black people regularly had stones thrown at them or worse and no one made any news article about it. Activist groups were actually armed, and serious situations occured with that. Teenage girls were congregating in a canyon outside of los angeles to join a serial killers sex cult. Groups of people were travelling the country in a school bus turning square people on to acid and mushrooms. That was the peak of social disorder.

We are all in line now, despite what the narratives in the media make us think. People hold opinions strongly, but they are of a limited set of prescribed opinions from the media. Find any thread online about a given topic you've read about online before, and the comments will all be the same and predictable. We aren't exposed to as much unorthodox thought as our population used to be back before global media had total influence on how we sourced our information about the world.
It's open source... We could try. :D
The example you give is a clear violation, both in the past and the present. The author's feet are clearly in Italy and hence subject to Italian taxation (unless reciprocity agreement). That's not up for debate. This corresponds to the "latter" option I proposed before where the sysadmin travels around. This we are definitely aligned.

Upon reflection, I should not have said "an open question". Rather, I should have said that many feel that the spirit and intent of the law should be revisited. For many, the feet test is about resources utilization. Using electricity, internet, housing, etc. In the author example, the author is clearly making a choice to live at that hotel. Back when the law was written, I think this would have covered most cases. However, now, the modal case are "digital nomads" where the normal thing is to not spend more than 1 week - 1 month in a single place. Oftentimes, the destination doesn't matter, but the journey. In the extreme, imagine spending 2 days in every country in the world, in perpetual motion. This has always been a possibility and the law covers this case (as we both know) but I think people are beginning to question if it makes sense given the new distribution brought by the internet. To come back to the sysadmin example, the point was that the sysadmin is utilizing the same global resources except for maybe an additional epsilon as they move around to the different localities. Many feel that the locality does not provide anything in return for the right to tax the income.
I think it's more a question of what's easier on the reader, rather than what a reader can feasibly distinguish. Yes, words like "read", "present", "lead" have multiple prononunciations, but they have a cost; if half the words you encountered were like that, English would be very hard to read. I find "co-operate" slightly easier to read than "cooperate", at the expense of being slightly longer.

These are all minor trade-offs (or is it tradeoffs?) of course; it's not a cut-and-dry (but hopefully not cutanddry) argument as to what to do in any individual case.
That's partly the issue of concern, isn't it? Giving children the idea that if they don't fulfil a traditional male or female role, then they must be some alternative gender identity.

Many people don't agree with this stance, both from a conceptual point of view, and that in practice it may lead impressionable children to want to modify their bodies to fit some idea of gender identity they've had instilled.
>They should have known their user base better.

Hindsight is 20/20. Prior to that event happening, was there credible evidence that an S&P 500 company was going to get pumped 10x in price by a bunch of investors coordinating on social media?
Robinhood is legally obligated to provide users with the lowest spread they can find. They make money because market makers are willing to pay robinhood to bring them customers who get the exact same price as everyone else. The market makers do this because they realize robinhood users are schmucks who are more likely to lose money than other investors.
Sadly, no. If flying first class would have allowed my cats to sit in the cabin, I'd have done so. Nothing short of a private jet allows that though, and perhaps regulations wouldn't allow it even then.
I don't think this makes sense. Plain strings and format strings are not interchangeable, and using one where the other was meant is probably a bug.

Would you expect that a user input like "{secret} please" is interpolated? If so, we hopefully agree that this would blow major security holes into any python script processing untrusted user input. And if not... Why not?
yeah as another tech worker in Berlin, reading these salaries on consistent basis is kinda depressing. The 70-80K is like a starting tech salaries in larger part of US. Here in Berlin you have to toll for multiple years and then before you know you have hit the 90-100K ceiling.

Just compare Berlin with any big American US city, Berliner's PPP is still quite low. This is after the salary "boom" in Berlin.
More fine-grained.

Because separate cores each have their own cache, and their own program counter, there's a lot of communication overhead between them. When you're using instruction-level parallelism[1], you can actually do stuff like "perform a single add and a single multiply in parallel, then add them together", and the system is designed so that you aren't adding any overhead when you do that.

[1]: MIMD instructions are one way of doing this, but the computer you're reading HN on is probably an out-of-order superscalar, which accomplishes the same thing implicitly.
I've seen it in things where performance isn't super important (OCaml is slow as per my experience). Many, many provers/theorum solvers use OCaml because it reduces the bugs in the provers themselves.
I like python although I don't use it too often. Would it be unfairly critical of me to say that this is the outcome of a bad design choice? Ideally languages should be designed in a way that a bug like this which is so widespread and easy to create, should be caught via some mechanism, either linting or some part of the process.
It is clearly both. The correct answer to an overly simple question is that it depends. If someone is stating an answer, but leaving off the assumptions, they are doing a disservice
Chevrolet replaced some folding keyfobs with old style fixed keys as a part of their ignition switch recalls.

Tesla has pushed software updates to remove features.
To be honest, I don't really know. I don't have an economical background and I think its easier to criticize a system than to propose an alternative.

People who know what the Club of Rome discusses might be able to chime in, but 2052[1](not affiliated) largely shaped my opinion about this topic. Can't put it into perfect guidelines, but I would wish for a system which is dicated based on how happy it makes its people and on how sustainable it is.

Otherwise, if we still stay focused on growth, I don't see how we should handle climate change and other global issues. Because exactly this desire to always grow and expand seems to be the common factor behind a lot of these issues. Continue growing and buying Co2-certificates is not what's going to save us, we have to rethink our western, first-world way of living and maybe turn down our luxuries a bit.

In my opinion, expanding wealth gaps are a big issue as well. People who have the means to just ignore climate change and other things by spending money will never care, at the same time the same people are exactly the ones using the most resources.

As you can see, I'm more rambling than really answering your question, but we can gladly continue discussing this topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2052:_A_Global_Forecast_for_th...
Some additional context is needed for such an evocative phrase. Maybe it was close in meaning to the backronym WIERD (Western Industrial Educated Rich Democratic).

Maslow studied what he called the master race of people such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass rather than mentally ill or neurotic people, writing that "the study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy." Maslow studied the healthiest 1% of the college student population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs#Me...

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henric...
That's not appeal to authority. That's just advice to take their reputation into consideration.
> >China is soon going to overtake the US as the world hegemony.

>I don't think this is guaranteed

This is very much assured. Only a matter of when. It may take 2-3 decades to realize but it's gonna happen if China's growth rate [0] continues as US GDP [1] steadily declines. Though with the current geopolitics around the Russia/Ukraine war, maybe China may threaten to invade Taiwan and speed up this process of dethroning US as the top super power.

[0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/263616/gross-domestic-pr...

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/188165/annual-gdp-growth...
Night happens.
I don't know, not having enough collateral to fund normal operations seems like a failure on the company's part to me. It's not like the collateral was an unknown requirement, it's the normal way the system works.

RH failed to adequitely plan for a surge in activity, which seems like an odd thing to blame retail trader ignorance on.
- Emmisions related to livestock are 5.8% of _all_ global CO2 and other GHG emissions [0]

- Methane leaks from Oil and gas drill sites and abandoned wells alone account for 5.8% of global emissions. [0]

Ethically I am aligned with animal welfare but rationally it is a lot more realistically that we force Oil&Gas to clean up their act than to expect everyone worldwide to switch to oat milk.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/09/Emissions-by-sect...
It's true that this solution doesn't apply when you have finalizers, but I think of that as the unusual case, not the usual one. I don't understand what you mean by "special cases where you control every allocation"; how are things getting allocated in your arena without you controlling them? Who is "you" if not the author of the program, who controls everything in it?
In a way I sympathize with RH. If they were truthful that they didn't have enough money, they would have had to publicly admit they couldn't cover the purchases, which could have led to a run on them and everyone pulling out of Robinhood at once. In some ways, pulling the buy button was the best option they had. Too bad they didn't account for the fact that it would spawn a thousand conspiracy theories.
Depends upon where you are in the world. In rich countries local producers are outcompeted by producers in lower cost regions. Without price supports the local industry would collapse.

If a country's food supply becomes completely dependent upon imports, then this gives the exporter political power over the importer, and also reduces the importer's resilience to disasters.
Also see: Python 2 => 3 hell. Nobody wants to repeat that.
When PCs still needed spinning rust to boot from. Even SATA SSDs are not as good as NVMe.
Pedal, electric, or motorbike?
Yeah, and many of those things are used by unscrupulous companies to take advantage of those “not in the know”.

It can be hard to find the exact details for comparison which is why it’s good to have contacts in an industry and in an area.
I looked through all three. The first isn't really a complaint because the bot acted in good faith and found an error. In the second one they complained abiout a missing unsubscribe link (reasonable) and in the third one, the author should update their code so it doesn't create a variable named path, then a non-f-string that includes "{path}". I had to stare at the author's comment that it was a false positive for quite a bit to convince myself they were right.
Butterick’s advice en dashes is fairly controversial though, in that it's the opposite of the advice given in Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style and other works, with no real explanation given for Butterick's position.
AKA Maslow's top-heavy pyramid or hourglass.
You are right but both are right. The market and the user pushed the idea of free as in beer (confusing it with freedom) and businesspeople were happy to do everything you describe.
YNAB drastically changed their pricing (double for "grandfathered" customers), but even more importantly American Express import has been broken for about 6 months now. That was the final straw.
Law is all technical details and abstractions though.

Where are you working if you are flying above various states and countries while VPNd?
I mean, keep in mind milk = cheese as well. Cream. Yogurt. All the derivative products like infant formula. Tons of canned and dry goods.
For me it was Shopify laughing at me for asking for 90K with 7 years of experience.

EDIT: Shopify not Spotify
> Also the cost of doing something so small can add up when you can have a cushy tech job making 200K relatively easy.

You've hit it on the head. The fastest way to wealth is not a startup (though VCs want everyone to look the other way that most fail), but to get a job at a FAANG or FAANG adjacent company.

A friend just switched jobs and he made a hit list of companies based on his analysis of expected RSU appreciation.
It not the small doses that makes it ok, it's the fact the speaker is small. If however, the speaker gains a following and the systems starts to perceive it as a threat rather than a nuisance, the reaction is much different.
Westworld manages to make it work. Plenty of science fiction films like Interstellar make it work. Hell, Black Mirror's entire point is social commentary yet it doesn't feel woke.

> questioning the premises our society is based on

There's a difference between doing this in a way that also tells a coherent story and one that just forces themes that don't exist into the story. One of those things is woke and the other one is not.
You’re right that the business major has metastasized, while the education major has shrunk.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/05/09/310114739/what...
to me, well-intentioned systems wiht a high true positive rate and low false positive rate are welcome so long as they follow reasonable etiquette and norms, which this group seems to do.
We’re not talking about deprecating a feature here, we’re talking about the addition of behaviour that will break existing code, potentially in non-trivial and hard to debug ways, and in ways that could easily introduce security vulnerabilities.
Kind of an annoying point but I'm tired of seeing factorial-like functions as the first demos of PL sites. It does nothing to explain how the language works, what it looks like, what any defining/unique features are, what the standard library - if any - might have included, etc.
Ah, that explains it! Thank you for the insight. I‘d stick to ffplay then.
I found it pretty remarkable that Theranos was not even mentioned, at least in comparison. Theranos makes the author's case far better than Tesla, though not better than We Work.
Which side would you put Kotlin in? Feels equidistant between Clojure and Java.
It's not clear from your phrasing whether you know this already, but America has an extensive freight rail network already. It's the best in the world in fact. More than 40% of all freight in America uses rail, while in Europe it's less than 20%.

Passenger rail is another matter entirely. Common wisdom about trains in America seems to focus on passenger rail (which is infamously abysmal in America.) But that absolutely does not generalize to freight rail.
I see those Tailwind classes!
This already happens, that’s why every company is incorporated in Delaware.
80-characters line length limit in 2017 (and later) (2017)
Just bump the major version number from 3 to 4, right? How long could that migration take?
And as part of updates / recalls to cars they've also removed functionality such as locking steering columns because they caused so many problems.
You're banned, which means everything you post will be marked as "Dead". Only those with "showdead" enabled in their profile will be able to see your comments and posts. Others can "vouch" for your post to make it not "dead" so it can be replied to (which is what I have done)

As for why you were banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275804
There’s also this project which focuses more the Command & Conquer Generals
https://github.com/OpenSAGE/OpenSAGE
He'd not be able to do it in say 1985.

It's the unprecendented amount of time that Americans devote to following pop-culture and Musk wants to become pop-culture squared.

China is approaching this thing differently, they make it very clear if you want to become a pop-culture icon you should sing or act. It's not allowing businessmen to become influencers or politicians, nor to put their nose into public health or education.

According to them the roles should be clearly separated, so his style and twitter purchase won't work there (or would work there for different reasons such as China using it as a trojan horse in the AMerican society)
Ah thank you for the reminder. Added it now!
Python does not do this. A change like that would require a major version number increment and the community would revolt.

Too bad we can't go back in time to 1996 or so.
fast forward - 4 billion years- during the Andromeda & Milky Way galaxies merger - the nights sky is expected to look like this:

https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/20120...
I remember asking the HS computing teacher in the late 80s if CDs could be copied to a computer, since they were both digital. He said... hmm, it should be theoretically possible. Drives for PCs would not come out affordably until the early/mid 90s.
How does it suck for employees? They still get paid. Any stock options or grants are essentially a lottery ticket. Anyone taking a job offer expecting to get rich on that basis is a fool.
OCaml has a particularly easy to associate mascot that's been prominently featured in the past - is there a reason the website is moving away from the more familiar camel iconography?
Generously speaking, recurring motifs are a feature of many complicated dynamical systems.