skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this is such Yak Shaving.

Oh yes, let's deal with our horror and grief by taking a deep dive into the seedy forums full of expression that is distasteful, and try to imagine that somehow this doesn't exist in other languages or in other cultures. Somehow, this pit of disgust is the cause and source of the horror.

But it's not. 4Chan isn't unique it special, it's not an aberration whose existence is solely the cause of the horrific events that America endures again, and again, and again.

The question to ask is why America is the only G8 nation where mass shootings, school shootings, are normal and common.

It is only in the USA where this is normal. It is a symptom of American culture.
There's lots of ETFs underperforming meme stocks at the moment. ARK is not the only one.
Yup, I ride an old clunker, use a padlock and chain, and try to park next to a nicer bike with a cable lock. You need to have a really good eye for bikes to notice that my ugly bike is actually a finely tuned machine.
Justify Every Word
qqq held up much better . it's not that tech was too overvalued but that her fund was just terrible.
I was excited to try this once as a weekend project. Got it all set up and working so my desktop sent DNS through the Pi. Then went to set the router to use it instead, and it was a no-go. Comcast routers don't allow you to change the DNS settings.

Of course I could've bought a new router and set that up to work between the Pi and the Comcast one, but that was more than I wanted to put into it.

Now I have a different service with a different router, so if I can ever find the Pi, maybe I'll try it again.
Body fat distribution and tendinous inscriptions, both genetic, are huge factors. It's not just a matter of muscle, you also need the fat layer on your stomach to be thin enough that your abs are visible.
>This seems to imply that food waste will be lessened. Instead, prices will simply be raised,

Why not both? There's isn't some magical point where everybody goes "oh shit" and then scrambles to reduce food waste. Instead, there's always people on the margins that only need a little push (from the rising prices) to enact food waste saving measures.
Those are all very different things. It is probably possible to argue that using a JIT would have solved some of Itanium's compilation issues, like it would make it easier to make compilation decisions about where to do software data miss handling, but I don't think it would have made the hardware fundamentally more sensible, or all that performant. RISC-V isn't really anything like VLIW, it is about as close to a traditional RISC as anything gets nowadays, and macro-op fusion is just a simple front end trick that doesn't overly influence whether the back end is in-order or out-of-order (or whatever else).
I decided on Raid 5 and 2 drives broke within the week.

Not much to tell otherwise though. I was really annoyed with it at the time.
I think he meant "inverted U". An upside-down U if you want.
> In this area we have indigenous families that have histories that go back for many hundreds and even thousands of years.

Where is that? Thousands of years is well beyond the histories of any North American tribes.
Helping each other understand the material means you are learning. You'd do well on a test. They were sharing answers and then all failed the tests when they weren't able to. Anything that gets you a good grade without learning the material is cheating.
Seems like an intuitive correlation, but some of the most productive people I know use just a laptop with a small screen.
That "people are sheep "is merely the first idea that his thinking is based off of. The rest of it is about the mechanics that follow. If you actually read the article you can see that there's a discussion of those ideas beyond merely "people are sheep".
Seems to be 403 forbidden. Text from that article, from archive.org:

> Our hottest May in history gets much worse next week

> What we have seen so far in the month of May is nothing short of extraordinary. When you take the average temperature (morning lows & afternoon highs) in Austin through the first 11 days of the month, you get 82.2 degrees. That is 1.6 degrees higher than the next hottest May on the list, 2018. I know that doesn't sound like much, but that is a significant margin when looking at multi-day averages. Unfortunately, our lead will only increase with the third week of May likely to shatter numerous records across the state of Texas.

> May 2022 is our hottest May in history through the first 11 days.

> First, WHY have we been so hot so early in the year? It has been the perfect storm of ingredients including a La Nina phase of the El Nino Southern Oscillation, our worst drought in seven years, and finally a very early showing of a ridge of high pressure that has been stubborn over the southern U.S. High pressure consists of sinking air in the lower and middle levels of the atmosphere, and physics dictates that when air sinks, it compresses, and compressed air is hotter.

> Now, onto the forecast for the next 7 to 10 days in Texas. The ridge of high pressure is in the process of reorganizing and intensifying over Mexico, and it will return to Texas as early as this weekend. It won't be in a hurry to leave either with this sinking air situated over the state through all of next week.

> In Austin, that gets us to the upper 90s as early as Saturday and near/above 100 by Sunday and Monday. Hitting 100 this early in the year is highly unusual with this marking our third earliest trip to triple digits in Austin's recorded history. We could push even higher though through the second half of next week.
That's just not how startups work. The entire phase startup of company is growth growth growth so any indication of that trajectory slowing/stopping is death. It's always coming overnight with no forewarning just due to the nature of it. There is no maintenance mode to pivot staff to, because there is no customer base or revenue yet to keep them afloat.

The finance people are going to be far more valuable to the existence of the company at that point than any cohort of interns so it's silly to suggest that they should prioritize undergrads with no experience to the actual financial professionals who need to restructure how the company will operate moving forward.
I’m actually really curious to know when ManU was really thought of as the people’s team. I always thought that Man City was the team for the working class and city dwellers, whereas ManU was the management-class and suburban team.
I would love it if Apple figured out how to do this with their keyboards. Might be up against some laws of physics, but would be nice.
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/volcanoes/traditional-knowledge...

> Traditional knowledge that relates to prehistoric eruptions is part of the oral history of many Native American tribes. This knowledge even extends back to volcanic activity that occurred thousands of years in the past.

> Oral traditions of the Klamath tribes and Umpqua people indicate that people witnessed the eruption of Mount Mazama 7,700 years ago. Artifacts have also been found underneath the Mazama ash layer.
I run across this in decade’s old industry where some component is used in a chemical formulation that no one quite knows what purpose it serves.

It’s too risky and expensive to reformulate, so these stick around over the decades as interesting solutions to unknown problems :)

Super curious to see how this manifests in software a century from now when digital archeologists will be required to fix things.
My biggest issue with HomeAssistant at the moment is the refusal of the Devs to support Single sign on methods. Several have been submitted via pull requests and almost gone through and then dropped based on very poor reasoning in my opinion. There is an auth header addon in HACS but without official support the android app is a buggy mess to get working.

HA is the only service I am running now that isn't hooked into my SSO and it's a niggling frustration to say the least.
Michael Lewis talks about his time on Wallstreet in Liar’s Poker and in several interviews. His take was that he had no idea what he was doing and realized that he was far from alone. He just knew enough to know he knew nothing; many his colleagues fooled themselves.

I don’t think Cathie Woods has ever read a single book on investing. If she has she ignored everything she read.
You won't be complaining anymore when it's your child with the disease.
Good point, those aren't relays at all, I didn't think to make the connection to the needle telegraph.
Particularly since that Girard is not particularly known for his modern, innovative and daring ideas.
Free markets never work when the players get too big to fail. It happened for banks, it happened for tech and it's happening to food.
Find like–minded individuals in your neighborhood and meet for lunch occasionally. It doesn’t have to be expensive; just take sandwiches to the park or whatever. You don’t need an office to get social interaction.
Yeah, that's a good one.

The terminology is well established and standardized in english, so if someone says things like bus, heap/stack allocation, driver, or even simple random things like timeout, tracker, to trim a string, to wrap an error, etc. everyone knows what you mean but when people write their docs in spanish and make up their own terms (let alone the mental effort required to translate every term), you can quite easily end up with a huge mess.

Por favor, programad en inglés y usando los términos conocidos y si tenéis un equipo a cargo forzad a hacerlo así, os lo agradecerán en el futuro!
This is why I don't get the opposition to Elon buying Twitter, when this kind of thing is exactly what he wants to end.
>If not for an absurdly high interest rate and capital controls

It also helps that imports are also way down (due to sanctions/boycotts) but exports are slightly up (due to increased oil prices).
> Girard argues that we don’t develop our own desires but want what others seem to want

I don't think that this is precisely what he argues. There is an obvious circularity of logic if you believe this. If everyone only wants what someone else wants, then how does the original desire even come about?

I think what Girard is actually saying is that there is a certain kind of desire, mimetic desire (wanting something precisely because it is coveted by others), that is a strong and dominant force in our society and those that have come prior to us.
I think, even in prototype systems, the class-vs-instance dichotomy still exists at a conceptual level, even if the language/runtime doesn't make it explicit. My "window" prototype might be the same sort of thing as an individual window, but it would be a big mistake to try to actually display the prototype on the screen. Being explicit about the class-vs-instance dichotomy is a kind of strong typing – the language and runtime is aware of the conceptual distinction; whereas prototype-based languages are comparatively weak typing – the conceptual distinction still exists in the mind of the developer, but the language/runtime doesn't know about it. Class-based languages catch the "trying to use the prototype as if it was an actual instance" bug at compile-time, prototype-based languages leave it to blow up in bizarre ways at runtime (accidentally treating the prototype as an instance can lead to modifying the prototype, which can then cause unpredictable consequences for all the other objects having that prototype.)

One big problem with Java, is the lack of meta-classes. Why can't I subclass Class? There are cases where doing so might be a sensible solution, but Java won't let you. In Java, for my instance methods, I can inherit them from a superclass, or have them implement an interface; but, static class methods cannot be inherited, nor can the static methods of a class implement an interface. This forces people into workarounds such as the factory pattern (which many Java applications/libraries massively overuse), when having a static method implement an interface might be a simpler solution – but that would require us to be able to (effectively) subclass Class. It also produces weird things like 'Class<T>' to mean a class extending class (or implementing interface) T, where meta-classes would offer a much more elegant solution. I don't think the real problem with Java is that it is class-based rather than prototype-based, I think the problem is that its class system is half-baked (no metaclasses, no reified generics, etc)

A point this article raises, which is very true – in Smalltalk, reflection is read-write – modifying classes at runtime is as easy as querying them. Java reflection is essentially read-only. It is possible to do read-write reflection in Java, but it involves immense complexity with source code or byte code generation libraries, custom class loaders, etc – to do something which Smalltalk supports trivially. The argument on the Java side, is that read-write makes optimisations (JIT/etc) a lot harder. No doubt true, but there are alternatives which Java has not pursued – for example, support multiple versions of a class, code is JITted to work with the latest version at JIT time, but other versions are detected and cause a fallback to interpreter mode (possibly followed by re-JITting to add support for that other version.)
Whew, I'm so glad that I live in an extremely civilized country that already has an extremely zealous government agency that blocks whole websites for hosting anything like that, up to and including '90s Simpsons porn comics drawn in Paint (this is not a joke). It protects me and it protects my society.

However, what you described does not seem to be a “furry version of child porn”.
Yeah, I picked the worse time to be homeless in Washington. Cold and wet, non stop. Leaving this week cause I can’t take it anymore.
It’s been fascinating to see the shift in seasons resulting from it here in BC. I read this morning that snow pack on Vancouver island is currently 90% higher than usual. My wife and kids are going crazy waiting for mountain bike season to open up, haha.

My garden is doing great thanks to the cool, gentle spring (and some good fortune that the seeds I planted happen to prefer this weather). After last summer I’m actually enjoying this shift a lot.
Training Your Creative Muscles
Most recently from four months ago about a 2020 article:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30070757

Also, "The Fallacy of Chesterton’s Fence (2014)":

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13063246

And "Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking" from 2020:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22533484

"Taking a Fence Down" from 2017:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9745149
North American diesel locomotive airhorn guide (2020)
> The thing I don't get still is how QAnon became so big. Most everyone who was around on the chans and reddit called it out as bullshit at the time.

We live in an era where people feel free to believe whatever they want to believe, and apparently QAnon provided a framework for some of those desired beliefs.

American society is headed towards a crack-up, and no solution is forthcoming from any current political faction, because that would require giving ground for the greater good.
I don't have a number, just a dream. Achieving that is my goal every day, and sometimes that includes earning money to pay bills.

Ultimately though, money is not everything, and to me life is more than providing for myself and those important to me. But providing for them and myself is also not meaningless.

What's important is why you're doing what you do. For me, I do what I have to do because I love God and I love my family. That makes everything worthwhile. Whether I am rich or poor, happy or sad, in pain or pleasure, I keep going and I'm content because I do my best and that's enough.
> It’s crazy that in the face of health authorities saying don’t do this, it’s dangerous, your reaction is “prove it”, rather than doing some research on your own to counter your skepticism. The lack of trust in public institutions is deeply saddening.

I 100% disagree. I'm not an idiot. I can read a recipe, even a complicated recipe. And I'm not even saying they're wrong. I'm just asking for some simple example of why, for someone capable of following the instructions exactly, this would be too difficult to do at home. Not the right equipment? Fine. Ingredients that are not readily available? Fine.

But to go with some hand wavy bullshit, basically saying "Sorry stupid peon, this is just too complicated for you", is just dumb. On a site called "Hacker News" I think it's incredibly sad that a request for a more detailed explanation is met with "I think that's crazy".
Why Am I Writing?
> There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, 'I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away.' To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: 'If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton / wikipedia]

> Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. [wikipedia]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton'...

Really glad to finally know where this story comes from. I yell it at my students all the time.
> Some people are literally children.

That’s the problem. They need to figure it out.
Comments like this are incredibly useful. A simple statement, backed up by a link with graph that verifies it. I’m not being sarcastic, I know it kind of reads that way. Comments like this teach me more about the world than 1,000 word rambling news articles.
I think you're underestimating how much waste water is produced by orders of magnitude. Any inland reservoir will be filled within months of completion.
It turns out that there may be a shared etymology from Old French "arraier" (I arrange, prepare, put in order; contrast En. disarray). So, as far as choices go it's not necessarily a bad one.
Me encanta eso ! Estoy aprendiendo la idioma y me parece muy interesante la idea de programar en español.
You mean nan right?
Yes, that's a good point... but I think ARK must have by far the worst performance/hype ratio.
> I’m not convinced it isn’t just performance art or clever meta-commentary or a joke for the in-person protestors as well.

"Performance art or clever meta-commentary or a joke" has a way of mutating into sincere belief if the content gets at all popular.
> Respectfully, this is a cop-out. This is your site. You can do anything you want to make it fit your vision, from making it members-only, to making every post subject to review. I’m not trying to tell you how to run your business or anything, but to throw your hands up in the air and say (paraphrasing), “Internet forums are hard, what can you do” strikes me as forfeiting responsibility.

I would argue that the way HN is at the moment is the best fit for the vision of the people who own/run it.

The fact that everyone is "sticking" with it for over 15 years seems to suggest that whatever dang and the team are doing is "still" working.
With the massive efficiency of corn its actually kinda hard to do that to the level you expect. Corn is very effective at turning space into starch.
“ He’s talking to corporate America, and his goal is to have companies essentially institute a hiring freeze and end the cycle of paying up for new hires.”

Ahaha. What.
Yes, her high level thesis is correct. Which is that technology is transforming the world and is incredibly valuable. But anyone following the stock market at all could have told you that companies like MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, have huge returns and that there may be more companies like that in the future. The key is to invest in those and not into COIN.
For Julia the reproducibility is rather straightforward. You just stick a Project.toml/Manifest.toml in there and you'll always get the same package versions. Keeping the non-Julia dependencies together will be the hard part though.
It’s almost like managing the state yourself on a modern cpu is a complicated task. Automatic vectorisation, reordering, etc can all be more easily done to a pure declarative program. Imperatively managing the state and the control flow with an ancient language like C etc really does no longer reflect the underlying hardware which is significantly more advanced.
On Craft
I feel like there should be a term for over-designing something that doesn't need to be redesigned. I guess "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"?

A classic example for me is microwaves. The amount of variations I've seen to enter in a time and turn it on is absolutely ridiculous.
There was a nice little side-discussion about Chesterton's Fence on here recently - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31340408 (that's the parent comment that adds a little context).

In my work as a business advisor, this is a concept I use A LOT! Even long term team members or owners may be unaware of why things are the way they are, and it's especially prevalent in new management hires who feel obliged to make changes and prove their worth quickly.

As a simple example, I had a client once who was subconsciously obsessed with cash flow. (To add more clichés, he saw it as 'once bitten, twice shy' and I saw it as 'Generals are always fighting the last war'.) His team would often propose ideas that would improve profit margins, and not understand why they were shot down or poorly implemented. By helping the founder, and then his team, understand how every strategic decision was driven by its impact on cash flow, all of that frustrated energy shifted. And then I got him a better accountant, who was briefed around what the motivating factor was.

Once you understand the context behind a decision, even if your instinct to remove the fence was correct you can still do so more effectively.
Which it is worth pointing out has (relatively recently, in 2015's ES6) added classes too – which are mostly just syntactic sugar for prototypes (but not entirely, since they also add some new semantics for which there is no equivalent in pure prototype-based code.) Looking to the future, they are likely to add more new semantics and syntax to classes, which will have no direct equivalent in pure prototypes, causing JavaScript/ECMAScript to evolve from a purely prototype-based language into more of a hybrid between prototype-based and class-based OO.
This is what population stagnation looks like, wups there are no young people to fill some jobs…
In what way? Do you mean we should not reference the repo that was provided with the study?
There was this in 2007, so it's definitely possible to do a full keyboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard
I've lived in the same city in the same neighborhood in Southern Ontario for my whole life.

We used to have a light dusting of snow on Halloween every year like clockwork. It sucked but it's long gone and now Halloween reminds me every year of how the world has changed.

The wind is new. The mornings where every lawn is covered in branches. That never happened when I was a kid. And the sudden torrential tropical-storm like downpours that vanish as quickly as they come. This has real impact on our electrical system -- the power's been out for over a week for folks in Ottawa.
> If that happens, so be it.

Easy for you to say (presumably either because you're not in danger of getting nuked, or don't care about getting nuked), but I doubt most people hold that view.
Elgato Stream Deck XL comes with 32 buttons.

Are you saying you want even more than that?
I love HomeAssistant, and use it to power my whole house. I automate most lights, my whole house audio setup, my security system, and more. I highly recommend it.

I recently wrote about how to do a declarative model for automations, which I use throughout the house: http://peterhajas.com/blog/declarative_home_automation.html