skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it accurate to say they're terrified of having the ability to repair farm equipment? I think it's probably more accurate to ask "How come we have a political system where the politicians are more beholden to the large companies who 'donate' to their campaigns than the people they represent?"

or "how come so many politicians are terrified of loosing the donations of the farm equipment manufacturers" & "why don't we regulate politician's incomes such that they can't profit from campaign 'donations'?"
True, space is a selling point.
I hear this a lot, but it's incredibly tautological. "We only oppose coercive structures" yeah like is there anybody on earth that endorses coercive structures?

Or the closely related variant, "we only oppose unjust hierarchies". yeah right.
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Go ahead, delete your .env.example file
Know why that was? In a lot of cases it's because in a lot of states they weren't even able to start procesing mail ballots until polls closed on election day.

Processing a mail ballot involves physically opening the envelope, removing the ballot, ensuring that everything matches against the records. This could not be done in a single night. There's no conspiracy, just obvious consequences of those rules when you evaluate the information critically.
Show HN: Color palettes generator for data visualization
A generator app for charts/visualizations color palettes based on the article "How to pick the least wrong colors" [1] by Matthew Ström featured recently on HN [2].

The code is available on github [3].

[1] https://matthewstrom.com/writing/how-to-pick-the-least-wrong...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31639009
[3] https://github.com/aleris/category-colors
Is this in dispute? Obviously these businesses should not be positively valued.
Why would any individual state choose to let their citizens go hungry?
I hope the main thing you leaned is that people want a text editor to start up in less than a second
I've observed this personally! After finding a solution to a problem and repeating it numerous times, I'll often randomly change one parameter of the solution (I'm talking about things like opening jars, not building complex systems, but it could apply there as well) to see if it works better. This often happens randomly because I ask my self "what if I did this?" as I'm performing the action.

The result is that almost invariably, I found a new way of doing something that's better than before. It often takes multiple tries, but it's something that takes little energy because it can be done throughout the day and the stakes are small.

Applied to a larger scale, random adjustments to larger systems can be exactly what's needed.
This guy's name is Michael Myers. Not to be confused with Mike Myers of Austin Power's fame.
I am a fan of Microsoft's Powerpoint because I can use it quickly draw any kind of business or technical diagram I want.

I dread using Google docs for this purpose because it's far inferior in this respect.

As for the other tools: I use Word even though I hate it (selections and setting attributes like bold and italic seem to be possessed by the devil but that's true for every other application that mimics the Word interface) and think Excel is good for calculations... if you don't care if you get the right answer. I can't imagine docs is any better.

It seems to me that docs had one killer feature when it first came out (collaborative editing is a "disruptive innovation") but it has just coasted ever since whereas Microsoft is working hard to improve Office, even though like the Linux desktop it's not clear to me that Microsoft is doing anything more than re-arraigning the Titanic's deck chairs.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11701044/how-proposition-13-transf...

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/california-props-...

Late edit: the Wikipedia article would also be something to read up on - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13
How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? (R.A. Fisher smoking example)
I don’t know why people are so keen to dismiss aesthetic value of gold as somehow not being relevant as a functional use.

We don’t just use gold for jewellery because it’s valuable, we also use it for that because it looks good. Better than many other materials we could use.

Now you could argue that we only think it looks good because it’s valuable, and maybe that is how it came about, but I think it’s been embedded into the culture deeply enough that gold as a material looks great to us on it’s own merit at this point.

Aesthetic value is real value, as we can tell due to peoples willingness to pay for artistic objects even if made from cheap materials.
Isn't this basic demagoguery 101 -- attach huge social outcomes to the victory or loss of one political party?
That's a separate problem, one that is not solved by making public education private.
Do you think public schools are underfunded? Any chart I've seen has shown the opposite, if you compare our schools to other countries'.
> If we are physical beings, then "consciousness" and anything else we have must be an emergent property of our physical components. If we can simulate those physical components, then this simulation will exhibit the same properties - consciousness and anything else one can attribute to us.

Again, a simulation is not the thing. The map is not the territory. If consciousness truly emerges from actual physical processes of interacting brain matter (seems plausible), those _don’t exist_ in a computer simulation.

In a simulation of a brain, from what substrate could consciousness emerge? The state of the simulated brain is stored in an arbitrary subset of locations in RAM, unknown to and non-interactive with each other, along with loads of other stuff the computer is keeping track of. Do you think consciousness could emerge automatically from the state of the right subset of locations in RAM, or is it whenever a relevant value in memory is changed due to a transistor opening, or is it when the simulation computation that will result in the RAM update is happening, or is complete? Per the Chinese Room argument, would consciousness still emerge if half the operations were actually performed off-CPU by human mechanical turkers with rule books and notecards? Nothing in the abstract computation will have changed.

Consider also that physical reality runs in full parallel, while simulations on computers run serially per core. So if consciousness emerging requires the simultaneous interaction of many moving brain parts, that isn’t something that happens in a computer simulation.

> Both classical and quantum physics can be simulated on a classical computer, to an arbitrary degree of precision

Quantum physics can’t be simulated on a classical computer to an arbitrary degree of precision. Feynman didn’t think so, and he hasn’t been gainsayed yet. And classical physics is full of chaos and very sensitive to precision.
My parents' involvement in my schooling was when I'd get good grades, they'd take me out for ice cream.

(People in those days didn't eat candy, cookies and desserts every day like today.)
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That's a very fair assessment

Cities where they've allowed their infrastructure to stagnate due to reliance on those private companies are going to be in for a rough time when they inevitably fail or drastically raise their pricing.

What comes next when private enterprises extinguish municipal services with unsustainable business practices? Can the municipalities recover? or are we watching hostile privatization?
I'm stating a literal fact that education is funded locally and it always has been. Always as in the entire history of the United States.
> I have a hard time believing in any organization's ability to affect
meaningful change.

Organisations are generally pretty shit at achieving anything.

But the good news is that individuals can and do make a difference and
ultimately change things. It's the small wins that count. Changing one
person's habits. Getting one more friend to drop BigTech. Getting one
teacher to rethink the effect of over-connectedness on our children.
Showing one person the problem of e-waste and seeing them jail-break
an old phone instead of buying a new one.

You overcome the myth of "the they" (the hordes of mindless "users"
who just want convenience uber-alles that we always hear about on HN)
one real person at a time.

Then you start to see friends and colleagues reflecting good values
back at you. Help your doctor friend streamline her time with real
computing tools, but also make it clear that you're not a charity, or
a mug and that what you're doing comes with a message that you expect
her to pass on. The health message about harmful technology [1] should
resonate with doctors. Encourage her politely to change her lifestyle
just as you would commit to changing your diet and exercise if she
told you to.

[1] https://digitalvegan.net
Republicans do offer free IDs in every state where they mandate IDs for voting. It may not always be the easiest to get since you have to go to the DMV though. Do you think Democrats would be willing to have voter ID laws if the post office offered free IDs?
No schooling looks like study, do your homework, and behave?

So any selection of topics to study is unacceptable by your criteria. We live in a society, we have to have some form of education. In order to give students an education, we have to pick curriculum for them to learn. Some topics are not very important, so we shouldn't focus on teaching them.

What system would you prefer to have in place? Or would you rather jut pick the topics that are taught?
Not having to work doesn’t mean you can’t be participating in society anymore. It just means you’re now calling 100% of the shots instead of suffering someone else’s decisions.
> One of the nicest things about creating a new stack switching library is that we are now halfway to supporting async import calls within Wasmer natively using the exact same strategy!

Should be a great great thing for loading code!

The description makes it sound very oriented around switching between host/wasm code. Hoping there's some general potential benefit for async-related capabilities.
It’s disingenuous to try to call it well prepared vs poorly prepared. Some people are just naturally more academically gifted
> Oh, and it'll cost you $50 (actual costs vary from state to state). And requiring voters to spend $50 to get an ID that lets them vote is totally not going to be in violation of the 24th Amendment (that bans poll taxes).

That's why all states with voter id laws also have to offer a free "walking" id.

> A final thing I'll bring up is this: to get my photo ID, I basically need to show up to the appropriate state office with something like a birth certificate and something that has my current address. Why is it that showing up to vote with this same information is somehow insufficiently secure to allow me to vote?

Some states let people use student ID's, like the thing the AV club prints in the basement. Birth certificate, social security card and a current bill should be enough in my opinion, but anti voter id folks would go nuts if you said you had to bring all those to vote.
How did it actually go in the Netherlands? Was it "better bike infrastructure -> more bike usage" like you suggest? Or was it the other way around?
The influx of conservative politics doesn't seem to be limited to HN from what I've seen but representative of a larger trend happening in our society at the moment.

Personally it's not surprising at all to me, it's just the pendulum swinging back.
Sometimes a tulip is more useful for storing value than national currency almost guaranteed to lose value every year.

Sometimes even cans of beans do the trick.
Some would argue everything fundamentally is physics, including mathematical models of chemistry. I can’t say they are wrong.

Physics being math doesn’t quite make sense to me yet, if for no other reason than a large body of physics laws are ‘because that is what happens in real life’ when you get down to it.

It’s clear the math is a tool to try to reason about the reality, not the other way around.
Scientists Propose Turning Skyscrapers into Gravity Batteries
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> No, it doesn’t happen often enough to undermine the integrity of elections in the aggregate.

Nah election fraud matters pretty materially. If it werent for this rigged election, we would have never gotten the 1964 civil rights bill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_13_scandal
You don't seem to understand how that negotiation works. Higher deductibles aren't good for medical insurers. In terms of insurer profit margin, higher deductibles are neutral to slightly negative. It's the employer (customer) who has complete control over deductibles. That is the reality of how the market works.

Deductibles are generally going higher because healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies raise prices every year, and because we have an increasingly unhealthy population that demands more services. Insurers try to hold down those increases but with limited success, so they pass those costs on to their customers (employers), and those customers in turn pass on the higher costs to their employees.
What you’re proposing is that the official in charge of running elections can cut funding to precincts that usually vote for his opponent, and then later invalidate all ballots cast there?
I suspect this is common across many companies; even if there was a "fire visa first" policy, the actual managers who decide who gets laid off would likely lean away from laying off someone on a visa, because of the issues it could cause for the person.

Now there can be a snide comment about how the visa workers are likely "better bang for the buck" for the company, and the company may have a hard time arguing they need more visas next year if they just laid non-visa workers off.
Agree.

I have a couple of fairly high value domains I've kept I'm interested in selling, but there isn't a great market I've found for this instead of letting them go?
You seem confident an "ultraviolet catastrophe"-like scenario won't play out there, too.
We'll find out soon enough, as young taxpayers renounce their citizenships and move away.
There are so many jobs out there, thousands of companies are now hiring remote. Your google resume entry will help you get good pay and jobs.
wish granted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31672761
Gifted programs as we know, are basically advanced programs for shape-rotators, which closely relates to IQ.

The IQ distribution is different across race groups, therefore you expect to have more representation of certain groups relative to others.

It's obvious that Asians --I am not Asian-- perform extremely well in IQ tests compared to other groups. Same with Ashkenazi Jews. These groups would have, relatively speaking, a higher representation. It would also be more male than your typical classroom.

Just like we have "physically gifted programs" in sports, and in some Blacks are overly represented. People don't seem to bat an eye for such "inequity", because it is understood that, on average, Blacks have superior athletic ability in some sports.

People really have a hard time understanding basic statistical facts, and they take these things personally. When we compare average heights across countries, nobody gets offended because everybody is aware of their own height. A 6'4 American is just as tall as a 6'4 Indonesian, so people don't take personally. Somehow average IQ is this thing that people take personally as if it was an indictment on their intelligence.

Besides, there is much more than IQ. Plenty of people with average IQs are successful. Sure, the premium on IQ increased in our society, but there is so much variance in activities and other inherent or acquired characteristics, it is really not that big of a deal.

With that being said, it is important for a nation to identify exceptional talents --including intelligence-- and nurture these individuals so they maximize their potential. It's good for them, it's good for society as well. Recognizing that people should have different educational experiences is the right thing to do.
Progressive politics fails us again!
There should be good models already or emerging soon that support temporary local dev and then merging envs when connected back... that seems like the inevitable model unless I am missing something here?
The analysis never found fraud? Or there was no analysis at all? According to the DOJ, the fraud centered on Democratic primary elections [1], which don't receive anywhere near as much scrunity or participation as Presidential general elections.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-philadelphia-judge-ele...
off the top of my head, gold is non corrosive. it doesn't react with anything.

I'm convinced the great filter has something to do with the availability of gold to a species. There are all manner of gold based alloys that we haven't researched and There are all sorts of technological innovations locked away from us simply because gold is too expensive.

case in point, a boat hull coated in a gold alloy could be non reactive. no more need for antifouling paint or sacrificial anodes.
Accepted. Just to be clear, it’s not a link bait as far as I understand it for two reasons
1. I am dead serious about making cache invalidation a simpler problem
2. “Cache invalidation might no longer be a hard problem in Computer Science” is the subtitle of the corresponding systems @scale talk I just gave.

I respect the guidelines and I am OK with the rename. I just want to clarify that I don’t think the old title is misleading.
Are there any leading elevator companies (e.g. Schindler, Kone, and Otis) including this capability in their products? Even as an option?
After going around the horn a few times, I expect the student would eventually learn to take the canal :-)
That’s a bit like saying ‘we can only make horses so efficient’, which is true, but that’s why we end up coming up with automobiles, airplanes, etc.

As long as we have free brain cycles focused on solving problems or understanding something we do not yet understand, we’ll continue to do better.
Wait a few decades and it will probably plateau at, if not shrink from, a maximum.
Theres the startling fact that Indian housewives hold 11% of all gold - presumably predominantly decoration and wealth storage.
I've considered upgrading to the U4320Q from a U3818DW (38" curved), but have been concerned about neck strain. Do you notice any issues like that with this monitor?
I haven't thought of that scenario to be honest with you...you make a very persuasive point!
Gitpod would meet those requirements:

https://www.gitpod.io/blog/opensource
Thanks!

Sometimes it feels like I live all alone with my hate for Microsoft/Gates, but I'm glad I'm not alone.
> programs end up conferring the most advantages to those best conforming to the ideals of the dominant culture

The definition of merit for any given school, is transparent. School work is relatively straight forward, in that they are designed by the teachers for students to complete, and at the end of the year you can see how students were rewarded or punished with numbers. Also, not all merit-based systems are good, some may reward bad behavior etc., but the solution is not to get rid of merit, but rather adjust what you're selecting for.

Also, I feel like "dominant culture" is an ambiguous term thrown around to justify the ideology of equity and how some groups of people are perpetually oppressed. Arguably the U.S. no longer has a dominant culture. There are many cities with neighborhoods where English isn't required (i.e. Chinatowns, Miami etc). This in turn affects the local schools and their curriculum, which means their merit-based system is for the most part under their control.
Presumably one of:

- the image is never analyzed

- the image is sync'd to device and then analyzed
This article is this: https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/self-test-check-...

When you can summarize the same result for 99.99% of the cases with a tweet: https://xkcd.com/1723/
> In Chicagoland, every polling place has a team of 4-5 judges, and they all have to sign off on the final election result

but what if they are all from the same party?
The same thing occurs in New Zealand, even though most schools are funded by the government (property taxes don’t pay for schools).

The government also tries to help poor students by boosting funding for schools that have poor parents. Schools are ranked into 10 deciles[3] depending on the income of the parents, with an equal number of schools in each decile. The government gives out more funding to schools with poor parents (decile 1), and less funding to schools with rich parents (decile 10).

The academic results of students are strongly correlated with how well-off their parents are[1]. Attendance and other factors are correlated as well[2].

[1] https://keithwoodford.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/socio-economi...

[2] https://figure.nz/search/?query=Deciles

[3] https://www.education.govt.nz/school/funding-and-financials/...
Well ackshually...most successful ransomware schemes also use crypto, so access to your own files is also something you can buy with crypto.
Tokenomics are generally aggregated and published by third party organizations for almost every project.

Blockchain analytics are also big business.

My point stands- it's hard to hide things on an open source, decentralized blockchain.
I appreciate the rule and that is fair. I do think putting extremely inflammatory racial language front and center is notable. Particularly when it is so casual and so many people feel like it is unobjectionable as can be seen in the replies.

I will refrain from this sort of comment in the future though. Sorry dang!
Presumably barnacles would still stick to it though?
Awesome!!

Additional things you could display under the map:

-Breakdown of which countries and cities have the most friends ("mutuals" in Twitter terminology)

-Time to travel to the top 5 nearest ones

-Top 5 furthest from you

-Average distance
"Toit, a languaj de-shined for microcontrolersh, yaysh"
For those interested in a comparison to MicroPython: I recently wrote a Toit version of the MakePython ESP32 Dev Kit lessons.

Here is the Toit version of it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K-TYea7jbYfj2ecMUmr0T0zd...

And here the MicroPython: https://www.makerfabs.com/desfile/files/Get-Started-MicroPyt...
Lowkey I think the current education system has evolved from communities that allowed teachers to beat their kids to teach obedience. that obedience was passed down through generations in those communities establishing a culture of obedience for teachers. The current system, although non-violent, is still heavily leveraging the culture of obedience from students. when a kid is disobedient, usually the above mentioned communities threaten to move the kid into an environment where the obedience culture is even more strict as a result of even more violent punishment historically. Early days Public school teachers might lightly smack you with a ruler, early catholic school teachers might spank you, and early military school teachers might straight up beat the shit out of you.

So I think by extending the current system to areas in poverty that do not have an established culture of obedience means we have to either change the system or start beating kids again imo. I vote for the former, obviously.
There was a peasant / worker revolt in 1905, which led to the Tsar implementing some democratic institutions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Russian_Revolution
> How often do developers want to edit the same file, at the same time, and have those updates occur in real-time?

That's a very specific example of collaboration. Remote work is exploding. What about, say, integrated, collaborative debugging or code review? Integrations with things like Slack?
The post mentions inserting in the middle of the list.

Sort of, do you assume you found the right node already, then it's O(1).

If not, it's O(n/2).