skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and why must a normal person give a damn about the misfortunes of junkies and alcoholics?

for starters because they're also normal people. If you think there's no drug users or alcoholics even among all the people you know you'd be very surprised. It takes a lot of callousness to think that people who struggle with addiction or really any other thing aren't exactly what 'normal' people are like.

What I wonder about is when it became normal to put that much lack of empathy and compassion proudly on public display.
I didn't say that milo ect were typical or that I agree with them.

I said that the idea was about labeling conservatives in general as nazis and justifying violence.

I don't agree with the idea that you get to punch someone in the face if you disagree with them, even if you label them as a fascist
They don't get a bonus, but it can help them move up or get a better private job.
As many others have said, there's no shortage of labor in the US; there's a shortage of pay.

Like many others, Bezos built his business by exploiting a temporary condition: A virtually infinite supply of people willing to accept a horrible job for low pay. That condition no longer exists, but Bezos didn't realize it was unsustainable (it's unsustainable because if all workers are paid shit wages they can't afford to be customers). Or maybe he did realize it which is why he retired. In any case, now Amazon is panicking.

Good. When I think about this along with their other dick moves like pushing cheap Chinese counterfeit products, encouraging fake reviews, and stealing third-party product designs just because they can, I now check Amazon's competitors first when I buy something online.
The notion of open-source scientific discovery is a good one, but some of the suggestions here seem very unlikely to catch much traction, and even if they do, problems will remain.

For example, say an academic chemical research group synthesizes a series of novel compounds in the lab - they're not going to just release the raw data on everything they did immediately. The thinking might be, 'we can give this MS student this compound to work out a better synthesis route for, or this pHD student can try to extend the synthesis and make other compounds'.

A more realistic scenario mentioned in the article would be to require publication of the raw data to a database as a condition of publication. This is already done to some extent in journals, but materials and methods sections are notorious for leaving out some key factor or other, meaning repeatability is an issue and other labs will generally only try to replicate the more interesting results (possible new antibiotic, etc.).

This worked out fairly well with GenBank, the database of published gene sequences, and also with the protein crystallography databases, but everyone in the molecular biology world knows that all sequence data is not of the same quality, and so cross-referencing by the more reputable researchers and reading their papers to see if their methods are transparent and robust or not is still an important step. A database clogged with low-quality data isn't as valuable as a more carefully curated one, certainly.

It would be nice though, to have a database where you could look up everything there is to know about something like the antibiotic ciproflaxin, including all the spectral identification data, optimal reaction conditions, etc. - but this is also a molecule that researchers are busy making derivatives of, likely with the hopes of patenting some novel new knockoff and getting an exclusive license distribution deal with a major pharma corp, and so they won't be releasing any data, or even publishing in a timely manner (at least not until the patent application goes through, and maybe not even then).

That leads to a controversial question: should research universities and academics financed by taxpayers behave like for-profit startups pitching to a VC outfit?
Benefiting society is one thing, but padding a corporation’s profit is another.
Locking people in a cage for years and controlling every detail of their life: okay

telling them to dig a hole: slavery
That's very good to hear, I've been looking at MacBook Air also because they're pretty much the kings when it comes to battery life for a handbag sized laptop. I think the bidder MacBooks have slightly better battery, but you can't really fit those in a smaller bag, you do kinda need a backpack for it or a laptop specific bag.
Well, weren't they warned that crime doesn't pay?

/s
Sadly we will know in the next years how fragile is the current food production system. High centralised food system based mainly on fossil fuels gives high yields until it doesn't.

Every time I listen to Steven Pinker I think that he would learn a lot with Nassim Taleb books.
Only if the incentive structure is connected.

If the Judiciary doesn't receive any benefit from it, then they're not likely to pursue imprisonment.

So if they do, maybe indirectly, systematically etc. then it can be an issue.

That said - I have no problem otherwise with prisoners doing work - at minimum to pay off their own upkeep, and the social costs they have incurred. Judges, juries, police etc. are not 'free'.

Imagine if we charged every criminal a fee for their jail time and legal apparatus. And compensation for all victims?

Obviously it's really hard to work out in a pragmatic way, but I wonder if giving the guys a job on the 'cleanup crew'- that they can choose to keep once they leave jail as a means of getting back on their feet ... might be positive.
The implication is that, regardless of the words you use to describe it, law enforcement capturing individuals and incarcerating them strongly resembles kidnapping. Personally, having had a close friend who was driving my car at the time disappear without any communications for days due to this process, I'm not entirely against this categorization.
The original Rails demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY Everyone went nuts when this dropped in 2004.
Do you think it's out-of-bounds to criticize someone based on their publicly-stated political views?
>1: No, real science is based on evidence and falsification

Doubt is intrinsic to falsification you silly goose!

>2: I find your gatekeeping statement about science not being about gatekeeping interesting.

Indeed that may seem linguistically ironic at first, until you study the history and how the most ground breaking science has always been persecuted by gatekeepers.

Like a finger pointing at the moon, if you get hung up on the finger, you'll miss the moon.
If rnd() > .5 printf(“it’s DNS!”)
Lets say 50kWh/day average, giving 1,500kWh/month. If it's only saving $65 on your electricity, doesn't that mean your electricity is around 4c/kWh? My math must be wrong. Are there other fees, or did you also include the payment for the panels?
There are 29 German companies in the Fortune Global 500, each with tens or hundreds of thousands of employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_German_compani...
According to this[0] article, Amazon is considering raising wages for min wage employees to increase the size of their labor pool. If there was an abundance of min wage workers, then Amazon would not need to raise wages.

https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-wareh...
You may know this, but if you type / in the file chooser window, it replaces the path buttons with a text bar that you can type or paste into. I discovered that by accident, probably a couple years after the text bar vanished...
How much water do data centers use? (2020)
Do you think there are any people who profit from US prison labor and comment on hacker news?
This is also literally one of the main reasons for Stalins purges. Once the communist state realized that Gulag was pretty effective at using slave labour, there was pressure to increase the amount of available inmates.
I wouldn't say never, but based on the tankage requirements and tank structural needs for high pressures, it'll be limited to short range regional craft only.

There is still a lot of market in the size of things like the Q400 flown by Alaska Air. Like a Seattle to Montana flight.
ah yes I am well versed in this argument :)
This seems to miss the forest for the atoms. Communication and language are collaborations, the intention of which is to be understood. I don’t personally believe we’ll ever meet intelligent life (if the universe is computational, I think it probably avoids ever having to sync rich timelines such as those of intelligent civilisations). If we do, I’m sure some will be inscrutable to us. But I suspect most will by definition try to understand us and make themselves understood. I don’t know what else “intelligence” would be.
Using this same logic would support things like import duties to offset the lower labor costs that we can't domesticallycompete with, right?
On the other hand he tries to silence any unfavorable sayings about him or his companies. For a free speech absolutist, he loves himself a good NDA.
You mean like when Musk whines that SEC is stomping on his freedom of speech?
Charming, wry, and slightly subversive is all her personality. However, more than a few people who have been on the receiving end would argue with you about "charming" and "slightly".

Presentation ability, however, was learned and practiced a lot.

She used to make all her subordinates give oral reports weekly on written articles she would pass out and then discuss as a group.

If you committed any of various presentation sins, you had to dump a quarter into the penalty jar.

Her subordinates got very good at presentations.
I've seen some terrible implementations in Java abuse Boolean as a tri state value: true, false, null.

However, this always caused bugs because you'd end up with terrible code patterns. For one, what does "unset" mean? Does it equal false, because it wasn't enabled? What's the default? I think "unset" is a state to be generally avoided because it's bound to create problems for you down the line.

Personally, I prefer enums for anything that's not an actual boolean. A boolean should, in my opinion, always be a yes/no variable. Other states should probably be more specific.

I've seen people use booleans and other types to represent limited options (i.e. animal.IsCat to determine if an animal is a cat or a dog. I'd go so far as to create enums that will only have two or even just one option if expansion is expected soon enough, with an optional state encoded in the type system as well. If your database can't store optional/maybe values, I'd add an enum variable.

Of course I'd make an exception if you're terribly resource constrained. If you need to save every bit, document the hell out of it and optimize your code any way you want.
Prisons are a part of the legislative and lobbying systems that directly influence which laws send people to prison. So, yes, they can send more people to prison.
The incentive to avoid prison is to avoid prison. Prison is terrible, even a "nice prison" where you don't have to work. The incentive for our society is to avoid a situation where the prison complex is financially incentivized to keep people in prison: setting aside the huge moral problem with this, it drags useful workers out of society and does not recoup the costs of prison.
In C# I would definitely use the nullable "bool?" then you can use null coalescing operator to default to either true or false: "value ?? false"
So what, an employer is gonna go on losing money and will never look into why? If they go out of business then the employee will also lose their job.
yeah they would! I'm left leaning and I would consider it right now based on how the liberals are acting!
What has failed us is putting people like Ajit Pai in charge of the FCC and the federal government trying to remove net neutrality.

The economics textbook version of the term "regulatory capture" is what has failed us in the large telecom and large ISP industry.

The private internet has failed us? No shit, maybe we shouldn't allow entities like the combined Centurylink/Level3 to acquire various mid sized players and reduce the market competition. Maybe we shouldn't allow Rogers and Shaw to merge in Canada. Things like that.

Maybe when the US federal government hands out subsidy money to companies like Frontier and Verizon to build suburban and rural FTTH they should be held accountable when they just take the money and don't actually build the service promised.

Maybe people in their ordinary homes in ordinary neighborhoods should have better options than degraded DSL from the local "phone" company on 30 year old copper POTS lines or the near monopoly local Comcast DOCSIS3 coax cable service, squeezing every last dollar of ROI out of that legacy coax plant.

bias/point of view: I do network engineering for a small/mid-size ISP that directly competes with the telecom dinosaurs.
> You can't "predict" that something will cyclical will happen on some indeterminate timeline

It was in plain sight as early as one year ago. The fed itself had signalled exactly one year ago (coincidentally) that they are preparing to tighten money supply in 2023 [1]. Of course they didn't anticipate Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing supply shortage. But as far as cycles go it was clearly expected. Also, it was obvious if one had paid attention the fed rate history [2]. Interest rates were on the rise until COVID struck forcing both fed and treasury to increase money supply to prevent hardship to the people. Also, back in Nov 2021 fed had slowed down money infusion by reducing MBS purchase speed.

People don't realise the extent to which 2008 GFC continues to reverberate. 2010s were truly exceptional years where interest rates were kept artificially low and fed kept printing money through QE (e.g., MBS purchase [3]). It would be really absurd to expect fed to have kept creating money and as the last decade drew to an end something had to give just that COVID postponed the day of the reckoning. Make no mistake 2020s are going to be really harsh money supply wise; a generation of people are going to experience what tight money supply feels like.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/6/16/federal-reserve-...

[2] https://imgur.com/a/np0FkyQ

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TMBACBW027SBOG
My observation is that, in households where sexism is a real problem, the public-facing stuff isn't likely to be the meat of it. Nobody who has a husband who might murder them considers religious attire as the worst thing about their relationship. The worst thing is having a husband who is controlling and homicidal.

The point is, both muslim and non-muslim women face that in most countries around the world, because most countries are systematically patriarchal and domestic violence is largely normalized. In every country in europe, domestic violence makes up the vast majority of violent crime, and murders are most likely, especially for women, to be committed by family members.

So by focusing on the hijab and the makeup thing, you're missing my broader point: that muslim women face oppression as women, and not as muslims, except insofar as they are the targets of racial discrimination. The mechanisms that allow partners to coerce muslim women are the same as those that allow partners to exercise coercive power over white women.
I realize that is how one should do a comparison. But many comparisons do not. I am wondering if they include this type of labor. Maybe it wouldn't matter because the prison population is still small compared to the entire labor force. But for some age/race sub-groups it is actually a decent-sized chunk.
just reiterating in case you missed it, regardless of when it was last updated:

you actually only linked to the homepage of a general data portal (not even a specific data set),

versus to a study supporting what you're saying

I have to imagine this is a mistake in getting the specific URL you were actually looking at
The Invention of Unix
Can you point out which poster said this?
Yeah that's not the point. The point is that your billion dollar idea is worthless without someone to implement it. Without 9,400 people working for SpaceX, SpaceX doesn't exist. It relies on labor, same as any company.
You don't think averages are useful at all for predicting climate and weather cycles?
> with a lower heat signature too

The visibility will be extreme though, for the same energy density. If mobility is a concern, then the energy density/lb would be incredibly low, compared to fuel. I think this would only make sense if you were near a body of water (obviously) for an extended period of time, and you didn't care if everyone flying over knew you were there.
Given the choice between the window manager making all of the positioning/size decisions and allowing the app to do it, I'll gladly pick the WM. In the opposite world, sure, most apps will behave sensibly but then occasionally you're going to run into that application where the author says, "hey, my app is so great, you're definitely going to want it full-screen all the time!"

An exaggeration of course, but I have seen plenty of apps try to do "smart" things about window management on their own, and they always get it wrong. It's one of the reason's KDE WM allows you to to override and make permanent a surprising number of settings.

(I also believe that websites should not be able to just do whatever the hell they want on my computer, but that battle seems to have been lost.)
Except that the actual data shows that the large majority of people agree on critical issues
Apple Just Wrecked 15 Startups in Less Than 1 Hour
I agree, unionization at face value seems to be a great tool to empower workers. As for reciprocity I don't think anyone is suggesting it's perfectly balanced. If you're using that phrasing as a device to suggest it's extremely unbalanced then I would wonder what data you're using to come to that conclusion. It is, after all an entirely voluntary relationship being formed in a country with no shortage of jobs.
> rather a much-gamed and an integral part of stretching out the “playable campaign hours” metric

That may be the case in many games, but in most games that were translated from Japanese, the reason is that Japanese is a much more compact language (many words are just 1 character long, for example) so the speed is OK in Japanese, but horribly slow in Western languages. A few devs actually increased the text speed for oversea releases, but most didn't.
The red button shows how important depth is for UI controls. There would never be any doubt that it’s an interactive element.

I wish the flat design trend we’re only now starting to drag ourselves out of only extended to materials. I’ve no problem with getting rid of the OS X Aqua/Windows Aero-style gloss that was everywhere and starting to look dated, but we lost a ton of usability by making interactive elements indistinguishable from labels.
Is this that jacobin article again?
No, it's not. The Supreme Court settled that argument over a hundred years ago, in Bailey v. Alabama:

> The plain intention was to abolish slavery of whatever name and form and all its badges and incidents; to render impossible any state of bondage; to make labor free, by prohibiting that control by which the personal service of one man is disposed of or coerced for another's benefit, which is the essence of involuntary servitude.

It may help to interpret the wording of the amendment like this:

"Here is a list of two things which shall not exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction: Number one is slavery, number two is involuntary servitude (except as punishment for a duly convicted crime)."

And that's how SCOTUS appears to interpret it, which means that's de facto what it says.
The problem is the conflict of interest that it creates.
That doesn’t seem very user-friendly. ;) Or at least that’s always my perception when programming Lisp.

As a side note, I believe that different people fundamentally have different programming languages that objectively suit them best, due to differences in their respective psychology and way of thinking and perceiving. It’s interesting to discuss trade-offs, but in the end there is no single truth about which language is better overall — it depends on the task and on the person. There’s no “one size fits all”. What’s valuable is to understand why a certain syntax or language might work better for certain people.
Point taken that floating point arithmetic might be broken in Excel, but most use cases of Excel are calculation without floating point numbers.
"Blanketing thousands of people across the company with repeated unsolicited emails and asking them to sign letters and fill out unsponsored surveys during the work day" is markedly different from posting something on your personal Twitter.
We've been using crystals to keep time for over 100 years.
I feel like the federal government at large has failed us, due to financial conflicts of interest taking priority over everything
Symmetry becomes much more easy to grasp if you think of it only in terms of transformations - in this case coordinate transformations. If you for example rotate your system by a few degrees, does it look the same if you were to overlay it with the initial state (imagine the crystal as an infinite lattice). If yes, you have found a symmetry. For a crystal structure, you usually only have some discrete symmetries, i.e. you can maybe rotate by multiples of 90 degrees or shift axes by multiples of a certain length, but apart from these things the "inherent" rotational and translational symmetry of empty space is gone. What they're calling "spontaneous symmetry breaking" here is technically correct, but in this context it's a pretty trivial observation (I mean, yeah, it is a lattice after all) without any deep insight, as opposed to the Higgs mechanism for example.
I’ve noticed this when it comes to subjects I have a higher than average (but not necessarily expert) level of knowledge in, in articles in my country’s major news channel.
I just learned that my IDE, PhpStorm from Jetbrains, comes bundled with a plugin called Grazie which wraps vale. So you may have been using this and not even realize it.
That high cost is bureaucratic bloat which ultimately gets funneled into the pockets of the wealthy and powerful who make decisions against the wellbeing of the poor, contributing to the perrenial cycle of incarceration.

Some people definitely deserve to be forced to pay for what they've done. But if a man is born into a decaying and violent environment, and he commits crimes, keeping with the norm of his peers, why should all the guilt be put upon him? I say state corruption, or mismanagement, is guilty for much crime.

It's a complicated system. The label "criminal" tends to be a thought-terminating classification that prevents further analysis and assessment of what causes criminality.
Skio (YC S20) is hiring in NYC
The argument is, in part, "these people [fascists] don't play by the rules, and will obliterate you if given the chance". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

I think most folks would agree that at some point Hitler's Third Reich could be opposed by force, but I think folks would struggle at exactly when to draw the "ok, it became OK to punch Hitler's brownshirts" line.
I think the deal is that Wolfram thinks he doesn't need the canon. He thinks he's so smart that he doesn't need to read it, and that it would be a waste of his time. (Or so I suspect.)
Well, I did say it was 'unspoken'. It's brazenly obvious to me, but maybe somehow other people don't see what I see.

Look at the people who love to defend sociopathic behavior in every form (or at least, that's what I perceive). That's one side of it.
I thought the gender pay gap was supposed to be about "when M and F take on the same job titles, on average M gets paid $X more than F"... was it not? Otherwise it sounds more like a "gender title gap" or "gender job disparity" or something like that, than a "gender pay gap".
These two words (like acid, acrid, and vinegar) come from the same root.