skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > What I said is I understand finding them comforting if your ideological biases align with their approach

> I apologize for being argumentative, but originally you didn't say "approach" you said "ideological biases" which I interpret on its own as a synonym for political views.

No, I said both (one referring the the reader and the other to the writer) the first time [0], exactly as I did the second time [1]. “I can understand finding them comforting if your ideological biases align with their approach.”

I can forgive being argumentative, but a selective quote of a partial sentence in one response followed by a straight-out lie about the same material excluded from that quote in the next is... more than just argumentative.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31599240

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600009
The cartel giveth and the cartel taketh away. Blessed be the cartel.
That's not true at all, and I'm tempted to write something to prove you wrong.

My aesthetic choices were intentional, and almost nothing in your comment is right.
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Ugh, bigotry is an ugly look Google.
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It's also the same the other way around: a lot of male anti-racism activists / communists / etc were very sexist. Some still are. I still think it's nice that feminists are, today and historically, generally ahead of the curve when it comes to these things.
I lot of the comments hating on digital banks here have very "Why should I use dropbox when I have rsync" energy.

People hate traditional banks because their physical location adds a cost which means they have to charge more. Just look at how many people have opened up accounts at neobanks in the last two years
> It is still the 2nd most popular frontend framework.

Most popular. It still has more weekly downloads than Next on npm.
You're in luck, we have a separate open Firmware position as well! See https://jobs.lever.co/framework for a full listing of our currently open positions.
Nothing's being sold; it's just a little toy.
Richard it is better to have failed at this than to succeed at a lot of easier things.

I found 70 million jobs inspirational and I'm proud of the work you did.

Someday someone else will move this idea a little further down the field.
No you don't. But you do have a working relationship with your colleagues which is increasingly digital (don't forget the huge shift to WFH!) and thus all captured and analysed by software like this.

Such human relationships may include banter which may be about how you might like the look of the canteen girl, about frustration at processes, about going for dinner with a vendor.

All things which would be flagged under this. This is not your regular "personal use" web usage monitoring which we've all come to loathe.
Stripe's session had something unsettling in their presentation. They boasted about how well they're good at dealing with bureaucracy and byzantine laws in fintech so we, as their customers, don't need to worry about them. In a way, they're admitting that the moat is built by the bureaucrat class and they're the beneficiaries of being inside the perimeter. They deserve it but we should sometimes take two steps back and confer to ourselves – "Wait...why have we built a giant moat in the first place?". Large corporations have perverse incentives to increase the moat by working with the only coercive entity we have - the Government.

Future has in for us more state corporatism than I'd like. It is sort of dystopian, but that word has been diluted these days.
> After Gupta posted a link in the email group to a petition to reinstate the talk, respondents argued that caste discrimination does not exist, that caste is not a thing in the United States, and that efforts to raise awareness of these issues in the United States would sow further division.

> Some called caste equity a form of reverse discrimination against the highest-ranked castes because of India’s affirmative action system for access to education and government jobs.

> Others said people from marginalized castes lack the education to properly interpret Hindu scriptures around castes.

Wow. I did not expect saints; every person and organization will be fallible and all that. Yet this is still so... absolutely stunning.
If you believe mortgage purchasers are such idiots that they cannot understand a simple household budget, then we are all in trouble.

The fact is that many, many of them were trying to win a real estate lottery.

Here's [1] FRED mortgage payments as a percent of disposable income leading up the crash. Notice the record all time high? That is people choosing to run up debt for decades until it popped.

Here's [2] the FRED series on household debt as percent of disposable income leading up the crash. Again, note the all time high and run up period.

Here's [3] FRED series on household debt to GDP - same result.

So you can claim somehow people were cattle with zero input on any financial choices or consequences, but that's simply not backed by the evidence.

People were choosing to believe that the gains would never stop.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MDSP

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSP

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HDTGPDUSQ163N
This sounds awesome, I want to do something similar, only with housing for people with bad credit, or records, or anything really that makes keeping housing rough.

My grand idea is creating an intentional community with some glamping areas for cashflow, a community garden, shared tools and worker space with 3d printers, recreational vehicles, brooms, rakes, etc...things you really don't need to 'own', and cut back on too much consumerism. The idea being if you had 2 city blocks and everyone was related or at least friendly and built a huge garage to share items they maybe use infrequently, how much space would that free up for more people to live, or to work on a hobby or something?

My idea is build a homestead, in an area where zoning and building codes allow, maybe use some earth-friendly building methods like earth bag homes, there's an awesome youtube channel called My Little Homestead where they basically built free standing buildings as 'rooms' for each of their kids and it's basically like their own studio apartment. Each one cost < 10k, and is something you can live in any time of year.

If you could build like 50 of these things, you could maybe house 50-100+ people and maybe just charge like 300/person 100 per child, and build bigger buildings as needed for larger families, etc. Rinse and repeat across the USA and bring rent and home prices down because you'd flood the market with cheap homes anyone can afford. The glamping section might have 5-10 spots each bringing in 50-200 per night throughout the year.

The community would be gated, and protected well, and work best probably for those who could work online or from home, or willing to commute as it'll probably be in a rural area.

They might not even be places you'd want to stay in forever, but great starter homes to live in while you save up money for something bigger or build up some investments or passive income sources.

Alternate to earth bags, we also could use tiny-homes which are roughly 50k per pop, possibly less if we manufacture them from kits.

I just have no idea how or where to begin to launch something like this, or if the brilliance is just in my own head, or if people/communities would actually find it valuable.
That must be for people who hate coffee, or hate themselves, or both. Even the cheapest grocery store brand ground coffee that comes in buckets sells for $0.4/oz which is about twice the price you mentioned. Anything worth drinking costs $1/oz where I live.
But that’s not what you do with the stock.
Slack was acquired by Salesforce
No, this looks like a product for companies who sell API access.

Our product is performance-based, rather than unit-based, and there's no exposed API. We would like to have a detailed itemized invoice (think a phone bill). Our options are build from scratch or shoe-horn existing solutions. It'd be nice to not have to reinvent the wheel and also keep our customers within our UI.
I like the FT's color cues: opinion pieces are marked with blue quotation marks on the homepages, the author's name in blue for shorter links (contrasting with the dark red category label used for regular articles), and a blue header with the author's photo on the article itself.
Our product is performance-based, rather than unit-based, and there's no exposed API. We would like to have a detailed itemized invoice (think a phone bill). Our options are build from scratch or shoe-horn existing solutions. It'd be nice to not have to reinvent the wheel and also keep our customers within our UI.
Why would you go through this ceremony rather than just making a bank transfer?
been there, can commiserate. i had to shut down my startup in a similar space a few years ago after we failed to round out our post-seed raise. literally had to let everyone go one day, then my co-founder left, and then, packing boxes and walking out the door for the last time.

it sucks, no two ways about it. hope you can find the next thing quickly.
Google bans deepfake-generating AI from Colab
+1. Would strongly encourage a gofundme for this. I know many HNers including myself would be happy to pitch in to help retire any debt you have remaining from this.
i remember those days, reddit was a lot down, and you did a lot of maintenance in europe time, so i would be productive at work.
"I spend all day getting pissed at my machine for doing exactly what I told it to do."
> That kind of thing is absolutely routine and police unions are almost certainly the single greatest obstacle to improved policing in the US.

I always find it interesting that police unions are generally portrayed as bad while non-police unions are generally portrayed as good. Or, vice versa.

(I realize that you didn't make statements about unions in general, only a strong statement that the presence of a large and largely independent collection of unions is a hindrance to improving one part of public life).
Read again what I wrote from the beginning...
How is a person with a criminal record, no job, no support network, and no savings supposed to move to another country?
That’s just incorrect, Australia isn’t a proper legal country and those tanks belong to the Crown, ultimately.
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And then in 16.8.8 they imported a completely new package from the Netherlands called 'Orange' (but they rebranded it), and marked a bunch of things as 'protected' to lock down inheritance.
Most dictionaries (at least from a cursory Googling) disagree with you:

"prevent from continuing to receive funds."

"to stop providing money for something"

"To stop the flow of funds to"

"to withdraw financial support from"

"to deplete the financial resources of"

But Cambridge at least gives you your 2nd meaning as an alternate:

"to stop providing money or as much money to pay for something"

EDIT: Oof, and the Cambridge definition was changed sometime after Dec 2020 to give it that more broad definition:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201207142418/https://dictionar...
> I don’t understand the meaning of the term “sex bias”.

This and “cultural bias” and “sexism” are all pretty well established terms you can Google, and are taught in social studies and history courses.

Sex bias means a cultural bias or prejudice based on someone’s sex. I’m using sex here more or less interchangeably with gender right now, but there are times where that distinction matters.

> it’s completely unclear to me that it existed previously and that I want it to stop existing.

There’s no question about whether sex bias has existed, nor whether society wants it to stop existing. Those are facts not being debated. The primary example I had in mind when I said 100 years is women’s suffrage: the right to vote. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage) When women were legally barred from voting, or owning land, or initiating divorce, those things were sex based biases. Women gained the right to vote in the US a while ago, but it took longer before women started to appear in C-level corporate roles, that is still changing today.

> Cultural bias is about people from different cultural having different standards?

Please read the link I posted. Cultural bias is about having ingrained prejudices in large social groups. It can be, but is not primarily about people from different cultures in the sense of, say, Indians vs Americans. Indians have certain cultural biases, Americans have their own separate cultural biases. The idea that nurses should be women is an example of a cultural bias.

> What is the hypothetical ‘fix’, imposing uniform standards

The goal is to remove bias and prejudice that is hurting certain categories of people, preventing them from having equal access to opportunity to improve their lives, and to make decisions about people based on their interests and abilities, and to establish and respect some basic human rights across the board. I don’t know what you mean by “imposing uniform standards for judgement on everyone at all places in all times”, but this sounds like a straw man and that you’re skeptical. It might be described as imposing minimum uniform standards, perhaps.

I will turn your question back on you: what is the alternative you’re suggesting, do you support having different standards for men and women in QA? Why or why not? Do you support the idea that a woman developer who writes the same quality of code and works as hard and has the same level of experience as her male coworker should be paid the same amount?
Or just anti-trust actions.
I wrote about it here (ignore the first half of the post): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285793

Similar other past comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
> I've never heard of that claim made seriously, have you? The only language family known to exist in both Asia and America is the Yeneisian-Dene family

I assume, then, that you've never heard of the Borean languages [0]. Which link the people of southern Asia, northern Europe and South America, culturally, with a common origin around 40-45,000 years ago. The Borean hypothesis is a claim that is made quite seriously, but does not presuppose a universal origin. It is wide reaching, but there are people groups outside of it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borean_languages
> people can sometimes lose a big chunk of their brains and still perform well on tests

This one is wrong. People without big chunks of brains are significantly worse than their peers. I vaguely remember that none of them ever had IQ > 100.
Dunno about the overall ceiling of Emacs' syntax highlighting capabilities. But the few times in the past that I've had reason to look at the definition of the highlighting for specific languages, the Lisp code has looked like horrific imperative rats nests.
As far as I understand this is not just email, but teams conversations as well (though I'm not sure if it applies to both voice & text or just text, but be aware that Teams already has voice to text built right in!)

And also be aware that the 'watercooler' conversation has been replaced with digital forms over the last 2 years, meaning a look over your shoulder to see who's within earshot is no longer sufficient. And it's not always obvious that someone (or something, in this case) may be watching.

In the last 2 years most of my comms with my colleagues went from 90% face to face to 80% digital. Big difference. And it's not healthy either to not talk about frustrations at work.
According to a quick search, ~2mg vs ~100mg.
> I graduated from Uppsala University in 2018 where I majored in Information Systems

Sorry but I honestly stopped reading there. While there is nothing wrong with theorizing. This feels like "do your own research"
I appreciate that, sorry if I got.. er.. pitchforky.

Coming back to (2) - what I mean is that it's unclear to me if there's ever been a bear or bull cycle in that market in reality. It's such a short span of time that you could still, even now, be in the tulipmania phase of a speculative frenzy that hasn't yet run it's course (and I'd argue that is the case for a bunch of reasons).
I’ve played three Unity games recently and one had working vsync and two (including this one) didn’t. I suspect that there’s some trick to making it work properly that’s poorly documented. That, or the “get started with Unity” sample gets it wrong and everyone just blindly copies it.
It's on my list to do more about the bad titles. We do fix them when we see them. We also tell the startups not to do that: https://news.ycombinator.com/jobguide.html.

If an irritating one shows up, you (or anyone) are welcome to give us a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com.
wow, thanks for sharing this
Those who drank 1.5 to 3.5 cups of coffee per day, even with a teaspoon of sugar, were up to 30 percent less likely to die during the study period than those who didn’t drink coffee.

I wish coffee studies would report results in ounces (or better, ml) instead of ambiguous "cups"

The Coffee industry uses 6 ounce cups, the USA standard "cup" is 8 ounces, and the imperial cup is 10 ounces (the study was based on UK data).

I drink around 12 oz of coffee a day and I drink it out of a single large coffee cup, is that 1 cup, 2 cups, 1.5 cups, or 1.2 cups?
How? Are you talking about real estate prices?
Ha, wow, forgot about this one. I played on a CMU server, which I was local to. The saying then was GPA - Rank (0-4) = 0.

Office mate even hacked on netrek to enable a soccer like experience.

Team play, fast respawn, and the game mechanics lead to some epic games. Having more planets meant more armies, but the last planet stands where everyone the defenders respawn where they are needed made for some amazing come backs.

Saw a few players that were amazing with the star bases, allowing remote repair, using tractor beams and repulsors, and helping the team be more coordinated.

Fun stuff, on the surface kind of like xpilot, but much more strategy and team work.
The Google Cloud Console is the most notable Google service built with Angular and my experience is that's one of the best advertisements for not using Angular. If even Google engineers theoretically just offices away from the Angular team can't make a performant Angular app, who can?

The Angular Team act like it's a great feature that they don't give "special" support to in-house dogfooding teams, but that just leaves as much an impression that they'd rather just support everyone equally bad. Sure "no special support" sounds great on paper, but it certainly looks like "no support at all" from where I'm standing.

Some Angular proponents will also make excuses that the Google Cloud Console is an amalgamation of components and pages owned by a variety of different teams, like that's a unique situation to Google that no one else deals with bureaucratic scale like that. I guess they haven't experienced much other enterprise development, because that is very common in my experience. If they aren't building Angular for multi-team enterprise applications, what exactly are they building it for? (They are certainly advertising Angular as great for those, even if they are using it as an excuse for why Angular isn't performing well in Google's own usage of Angular.)
Microsoft hasn't changed.

Install Windows freshly, lots of intentionally misleading privacy options.
Edge is increasing its tactics to get you to set it as the default browser.
Including Teams with a package people paid for anyway (Office 365) to try and take out Slack.
VSCode, Github as on-ramp into paid Github and Azure Devops.

Same old, same old.
Oh, I see what you mean -- you don't mean contracts as in the number of miner's transactions/rewards per block, you mean contracts as in "the miner pool decreases in size." My bad, that was a mistake on my part.

Agreed, that's definitely a possibility, and that would improve energy usage. However, it would also make the network more vulnerable to 51% attacks, and if Bitcoin were to have enough value to actually replace a financial market, it would need a lot of miners to secure that value or it likely lose that value.

But... quibbles aside, you are completely correct that if mining stops being profitable then fewer people will mine, and that is also the correct answer for how to deal with Bitcoin's energy usage. Bitcoin miners will use as much much energy as it is profitable for them to use, and the only way to make that energy usage go down other than banning crypto would be to decrease the profitability of mining (ie, by keeping transaction fees and payouts low and by reducing other mining rewards) -- and that could be accomplished through either reducing the rewards, moving to another system like PoS that removes the miners entirely, or by Bitcoin's price crashing.
The spec people have been very rude to the Lisp people every time something has been brought up. I'm not going to look up everything that's been written, but here's an example:

https://sourceforge.net/p/sbcl/mailman/message/34821303/
Have you considered contacting "Homeboy Industries". It seems like what you have would be a good fit to help them scale their org. https://homeboyindustries.org/
I liked it. Very reminiscent of a rubik's cube. I found it's easier to make solid stripes and manipulate from there instead of going for the checkerboard right away.
Municipalities already vote to put people in charge, who then negotiate the contracts. However, the police unions are very good at negotiating a contract that gives them the maximal amount of latitude that they can negotiate. Which is fine, but when the Democratic party _and_ the Republican party run candidates who do not push back against police unions (primarily because the police unions fundraise for them), how does a "market" make this any better?

There is not an idle set of police officers just waiting around to bid lower and win a new contract. That's not how a union works, and I doubt that any police officer would willingly give up the arbitration clauses that allow them to keep their jobs.

If your response is "just privatize it", I'm sorry but you're not being realistic.

The problem is that the Democratic party is not interested in pushing back against police unions. There are no elected officials that are interested in pushing back against police unions because they are a strong constituency that can make or break a campaign. There are very few politicians who go against the police and still win their elections.