skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this kind of comment a lot and it's bizarre to me. It echoes Elon's own views [1]. It's bizarre because it shows just how normalized right-wing views are in the US. Some highlights:

1. There are like 4 progressive members of Congress. Compare this to how many Republicans openly support QAnon conspiracies and other right-wing positions;

2. Anywhere else in the world, the Democrats would be a center-right party;

3. The Democratic Party actually hates progressives and goes out of its way to rid the party of them. Look at the hit job on Bernie Sanders in 2016. Look at the recent primary in the Texas-28 where Nancy Pelosi and Clyburn went to campaign for Henry Cuellar, who is pro-gun and the only anti-choice Democrat remaining in the House over Cisneros, an actual progressive;

4. Based on leaks there's a high likelihood the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, pushing back 50 years of progress;

5. IN 2008 (in Heller) the Supreme Court for the first time recognized the Second Amendment as an individual right;

6. The Roberts Supreme Court also decided money is speech, which has openeed the floodgates for primarily conservative PACs;

7. The same court gutted the Civil Rights Act in terms of voter protection, which has led to a wave of anti-voter measures in red states;

8. Primarily red state has gerrymandered the hell out of states. For example, in Wisconsin, the GOP holds a super-majority despite getting 10% less of the vote;

9. Despite numerous incidents of easy access to firearms leading to the mass murder of school children multiple times there is not (and will not be) any meaningful restriction on access to mass murder machines (aka assault rifles);

10. Obamacare, pretty much the only lasting achievement of the Obama era, has largely been gutted;

11. Trump's tax cuts despite a Democrat in the White House and Democratic control of the House and Senate remain largely in place; and

12. As soon as the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, they'll probably next come for gay marriage.

This is just off the top of my head. So how exactly has the left gone off the "deep end" exactly?

There's really only been progress on two issues:

1. Gay marriage was legalized (but, as noted, that's at risk of being reversed); and

2. There have been advancements in trans rights.

This I think is the crux of the matter when people talk about the "far left". They really mean they hate trans people and want them to go away.

Conservatives are sore winners but great propagandists as evidenced by the fact that this myth that conservatives are "losing" perpetuates at all.

[1]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144
> There are a lot of people who have seen the left in the US go off the deep end

As crazy as the left in the U.S. might be, it's genuinely hard to beat the craziness of e.g. suggesting that injecting bleach is a legitimate COVID-19 treatment, or shameful pandering to anti-masks, anti-vaccination sentiment.
Thank you for taking the time to clear that up. Sounds perfect.

Have a great weekend, sir.
> You will not convince me there is nothing you can do in an instance of school shooting that will reduce the victim count.

Nor did I claim that.

What I did claim is that the available evidence suggests that actual school shootings drills instead of unknown unspecified behavior changes are safety theater whose actual effects are enriching entities that provide those trainings and traumatizing students.

> Even if school shooting drills were merely performed as a special case of evacuation with special procedures (in a format free of presenting anything graphic or scary for kids) that would be better than not doing anything about

That might be better than nothing, but that's not what is actually done.
> The "radical" US left equals the conservative right in many European countries.

Who cares? The US is not a European country, so the point is irrelevant. And although I see it repeated a lot, I don't think it's factual either.
Thanks for the explanation, I will definitely check out the docs on algebraic effects!
You could do "third rail" at those points (or the whole line) but that has other safety issues.
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The same way that js isn't free because you need webstorm or an aws account to deploy a node app? That argument is a stretch too.
As far as I can tell NASA had no plans to return to the moon until spaceX came around with starship. Hard for me to say spaceX isn’t the direct reason for the planned mission
Is there a long version of this story?
Is there any possibility that this could be extended to be able to specify a preferred browser or ordered list of said? I ask this because part of my work involves accessing a large number of user computers and I've found that few users set their preferred browser, they will overlook the browser request to be the default for long periods of time or just dismiss it.
It's posted on a Nintendo fansite. Amongst Nintendo fans it is known that amongst all the awesome creative products Nintendo has created and enabled, it has also always been ruthlessly controlling of its ecosystem. It basically invented the walled-garden strategy that was later copied by all other capital intensive hardware manufacturers like Apple. And even amongst those Nintendo is known to be particularly strict.

You should read this article as being tongue in cheek seen in that context. It allows a Nintendo fan to go "Well technically.." as a joke, because obviously some minor Atari reseller in Turkey is not really relevant on the global scale.
Could you expand a bit on why do you think Java has too many features? It is a very small language, that is often berated because it picks up features way too slowly if anything.

I would go as far to claim that Java is an easier language than Go, or at least in the same ballpark.
Of course not. But getting out and walking away surely beats an explosion than blows the turret off. No one survives that.
A better service would be one that automatically blocks UK politicians with a clear message indicating why
Unionizing is pure free market. Workers are holders and sellers of labour (which free market advocates typically class as a commodity). They bargain for the best contract in exchange for that labour. Why is a worker's optimization of their commodity lame and negative, whereas a company's optimization for profit is not?
Does FluxAI Make Sense?
I'm trying this one more time... I really want to know what others think about this...

Already posted with no responses before:
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31430932
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31772495

I'm seriously curious to know what people think.

I've only designed a PCB once - but collaboration wasn't really the first issue that came to mind for me.
They raised 12M apparently - maybe I'm missing something? Who would use this??
https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/13/browser-based-hardware-des...
Looks great!

A few questions (hopefully the author still reads it):

* Any plan for support of arrow/monad comprehensions?

* Semi-related: When it comes to generators it might be worth to consider making them clonable (see https://github.com/pelotom/burrido)
I don't doubt that the government can make life hell for its opponents if it wants to, I just doubt that ordinary voters will allow it to get that bad. Tories have such power right now because they're taking actions (and making signals) popular with the people, whether the rest of us agree or not. I don't buy that they've so corrupted the system that it no longer matters what the voting public think, which is why I still believe this bill is not going to be implemented or enforced in a way that removes real freedoms, once the public notice.

Besides, don't plenty of despotic countries already ban VPNs around the world, to limited effect? A large, liberal country like the UK banning them would I'm sure drive improvements to VPN protocols to make them even harder for ISPs to detect.

Maybe I'm too hopeful for the future...
Yeah this is true. But also the employer publicly firing those who sent the letter without some form of discussion also looks really really bad. People have an expectation of a CEO to have a really "mature" and controlled temperament.
Mondragon has tens of billions in revenue and nearly a hundred thousand workers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

Is that Tesla or SpaceX scale? Seems like it's in the ballpark.
Presumably its to stop chatter on the front desk? Most hotels now you can unlock your room with an app so that would work.
> C is what it is, and we live with it. Still, it would be unreasonable to say that the amount of UB it harbours isn't absolutely ludicrous.

There's a lot of ludicrous stuff about C and I wouldn't recommend anyone use it for anything. Not when Rust and C++ exist.

But UB really isn't the scary boogie man. There could probably stand to be a `as-is {}` block extension for security checks, but that's really about it.
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but why would a heavier train take longer to stop? Assuming the brakes are strong enough to lock the wheels, shouldn't the increase in braking force required be exactly matched by the increased friction from the additional weight?
Not OP but they meant https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.16.1.0/docs/Data-...

As you have the normal map function for Functors (using Haskell):

> :t fmap
fmap :: Functor f => (a -> b) -> f a -> f b

you can have bimap for Bifunctors:

> :t bimap
bimap :: Bifunctor p => (a -> b) -> (c -> d) -> p a c -> p b d

which specialised to pairs is:

> :t bimap @(,)
bimap @(,) :: (a -> b) -> (c -> d) -> (a, c) -> (b, d)
Thank you for this, internet stranger!
Are you saying the US is already a second-tier country, or that it's not sliding into that status?
Also, "equal level" can have issues if you're serving multiple trainsets - they may all be at platform height but some are narrower than others, resulting in a platform gap that can be difficult to navigate.

If the trainsets are all identical and the platforms are straight, you can get a very, very narrow gap (easily navigated by a wheelchair alone).
More than you would think. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/03/cars/tesla-buyer-politics...
Can you recommend at good product at that price point?
So they're using Scylla to manually do what kafka does, basically processors polling for new records in a shard and updating their watermark once its done processing. I'm surprised that this is faster than just using kafka alone, though one of the reasons why they wanted to avoid kafka is dealing with deployment complexity and memory usage of kafka clusters.
> The difference between Elon and others is that Elon doesn't put on as big of a facade.

It is fascinating to me that you see Elon as not putting on a facade, rather than his public face constantly being a changing facade.

As far as I can tell, Elon has two modes: "engineering", which is where he's super awkward and, as far as I can tell, totally and completely honest, if optimistic on capabilities and timeframes, and "public", which is where he's totally erratic and populist.

His twitter persona is almost totally public. Nothing is serious, everything is flippant, and his opinions sway with the breeze, or on the basis of who he feels slighted him most recently.
What's the different between freedom of speech with consequences and not having freedom of speech?
My guess is its the vocal minority - if I were Elon I wouldn't pay much attention to it.

Although, I also hope Elon isn't biting off more than he can chew. I look forward to actually affordable space flights one day...
First I've heard of them. They come across as incredibly hostile and over the top. "Human rights are in peril, and so are British businesses". Tell that to the folks in Ukraine. This is utter nonsense. Perhaps this is a way to rile folks up to get them engaged, but it is a massive turn off to me at least.
Claim: Solid state batteries, far superior to LI, to be commercial in 2024
The plan is to give users control through the Allocate effect which can be handled in any way desired as long as it returns some memory. It is similar, but easier to use since it is an effect, to zig's approach of "pass the allocator everywhere." I say easier to use since effects are automatically passed around where necessary and propagated via function signatures and can be inferred.

The specific design is still in question though. For one, an effect like Allocate will be almost ubiquitous throughout each function so care is needed to not clog up signatures too much. There's a few potential solutions here if you're interested. From including Allocate within the row-type of a larger effect like `IO = can Allocate, Read, Write, ...` to encouraging effect inference on functions versus manual annotation.
Yes exactly, Elon isn’t some cringe conservative he’s very middle of the road left leaning but the democrats have gone so tribal that’s now not okay.

Most of America shares Elons values you probably just wouldn’t know it with the way the polar ends skew the picture
> Apparently, you have to be 15 to imagine gradual transitions between things (slush must be mind blowing for the little one),

She is unable to grasp time horizons over millions of years, and tell them apart from intuition that at best goes to 3 digits. Visualizing that the transition between Australopithecus and Homo Habilis as incremental steps over hundreds of thousands of years, I presume, is too hard for her (or for my ability to explain). Maybe she can do it before 15, but not yet, I think.

Anyway, fact that we use taxonomies in the first place, is part of the problem. As long as we insist on giving names to ancient life forms, this type of question comes up by itself.

> but 5 year olds are insisting you give thorough answers to questions about rarely-occurring abstract moral concepts like bestiality?

Not explicitly. She is not aware of the concept. I suppose that's what she was asking. But obviously, it is implicit in the question, don't you think? If we insist in defining an individual as belonging to either Australopithecus or Homo, there must have been a time when someone we label as one mated with someone we label as the other.

Obviously, I didn't give her that answer. But I did think it.
The UK does have state-issued ID cards: Passports. Are you a UK person that wants to operate on the "international internet"? Get yourself a UK passport! :)
Turns out discussing working conditions is one. And a very reasonable argument could be made that this letter is explicitly discussing working conditions.
There is a "last percent" when you are thinking about drops from peak value, which is how many people think about stock prices.
Getting fired for insubordination isn't a protected class. The former employees don't have a case.
I think the fame and power has gotten to him. Plus, he spends way too much of his time engaging with people on Twitter. I think his experience on that site has warped his view of the world. It's also amazing to me that someone in his shoes takes time to respond to randos replying to him.
>> This is literally how traditional finance works as well.

Most recent case is that Archegos guy over-leveraged at Credit Suisse not to mention the LME or GME fiasco. The "traditional" market is rigged/bended by various individuals ALL THE TIME.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/elliott-associat...
Not sure what this is supposed to mean, really. Atari didn't region lock their consoles, this weird Turkish retailer changed the consoles to get a monopoly on games in Turkey. Nintendo actually designed and built the devices for all markets.

In my opinion, the Turkish "Atari" is a sabotaged fork of the original Atari rather than a region locked console. I can yank open a bunch of Magnavox Odysseys and swap pins around in the console and in the cartridge but that doesn't mean the Oddyssey suddenly becomes region locked.
Importantly, Bitcoin and Ethereum are (inadvertently) almost quantum-proof (because the addresses are hashes of the public keys), just not quite (because the public keys still get exposed during transactions). But at least the latter should be fixable (because the community is quite used to changes to the protocol anyway).
Why does scylla not need clustering when kafka does?
So it's purely syntactic sugar around concatenating plain string literals and various expressions, it has no relation to print or other I/O, and in case a string comes from input (BTW, I don't see any mention of serious IO besides print for "logging") or from some computation it isn't subject to interpolation.

I don't think limiting string interpolation to enhanced string literals in code (leaving out generic strings) in order to allow static checking is a practically acceptable restriction. For example, logging frameworks meant for long-running application tend to specify message templates in configuration files or databases, possibly hot-reloading them at runtime.
I have a sample size of 1 as well. Probiotics didn’t help me but I’ve dealt with digestive issues for the last 4 years after a bout of food poisoning. I used to think gut flora / microbiome was quackery but I recently did an oral FMT (fecal microbiata transplant) the results were unreal.

For reference, I’m a 37 y/o fit male and donor was 18 y/o female. After 2nd week I got the deepest sleep since I was a child (slept for 11 hours straight - went to bed, teleported to the morning) and woke up with this hard to describe feeling. I literally felt like I was 16 again. This sort of optimism / happiness I hadn’t felt in years. And I’m a generally happy dude! All my symptoms went away and the euphoric feeling persisted. Whatever the bacteria did was truly remarkable. The bad news is a few weeks after the FMT was finished, things went back to the way they were before. I’d continue to do them forever but it was very expensive, $1400 for the month. Fwiw, I tried it again with another donor with zero results so I could have been a fluke.

I do think I’ll try it again with the original donor. It was a spectacular month. I really think the microbiome is a major key to our health and wellness. Remember the blood boy from Silicon Valley? I bet we see ‘fecal boys’ for rich people in the near future.

If you’re interested, I’ll link the source and study I based my dosage off below. The guy who runs the fmt operation very passionate about the concept.

[0] https://www.humanmicrobes.org/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7866462/
This !
The "idea" of Defi was that w wouldn't need "regulations and rules" since we could 'just' look at the actual deployed code(eth contract for example) to see if you going to get screwed.

Of course few ppl actually look at the code, or sometimes the code is just bad and you get bad actors willing to exploit this.

That being said: In practice and real life there are a bunch of dodgy companies and badly written eth-contracts(code).
> Let people wait on the platform as the train arrives. This is something that basically every train operator but Amtrak does.

I haven't been to penn station in a while but I know the LIRR track numbers aren't available until the train arrives or right before. This dictates which platform to stand on.

Basically you end up standing in a huge open lobby and eventually a big display says to goto track 21, then there's a mad rush of people making their way to track 21 which involves leaving the lobby, going down stairs, and making your way to the track to board the train.
1. This is kind of vague but Republicans do vote on Democrat-lead bills [1] which is a pretty poor way of thwarting them.

2. I did forget about mentioning that one. Republicans could have easily restricted it in 2016 if they as a cohesive unit wanted to. They do not. It's much more useful to leave it in the current state where it can constantly be brought up every election cycle as a way to drum up supporters who have no object permanence.

3. You got me here but that's also the thing I listed as their only accomplishment.

4. This one is very bi-partisan. The military has no issue with losing funding and especially wants to optimize funding by doing things such as closing low-utilized bases and moving those staff to other under-utilized bases. However doing so affects congressional districts and their congress representative have no interest in losing jobs (money) for their region. The lack of awareness of defense spending as a jobs program is a big pet peeve of mine :/

> What Republican lawmakers are great at is being united in thwarting Democratic policies and doing what it takes to enhance their own power.

5. Sure but Democrats have this issue as well. There have long been calls for things such as Ranked Choice Voting, Approval Voting, etc and Democrats and Republicans have long tried to even overturn those efforts even when decided by voters as a ballot measure. Both of them know that allowing this will degrade the "both sides" situation going on as other parties will gain a foothold. However it also leads to situations where voting for your first choice (a 3rd party) in close elections (i.e 2016 [2] vs 2020 [3] and 2000 [4]) can allow your second favorite candidate to lose but Democrats collectively are ok with losing every 3rd presidency (~1/10yr) as long as it doesn't eat into their powerhold (every other elected position).

There really is no reason to argue about the Republicans here. We have a bunch of states such as North AND South Dakota strictly to increase the number of republican senators [5]. Or more recently, in 2000 when Republicans in US Supreme Court overruled Florida's Supreme Court about if a recount should occur [6] (so much for states rights!). SO yes, it's a moot point that Republicans are power hungry and don't care about consistency only power.

[1]: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/report-cards/2016/s...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Territory#Statehood
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
Most computer magazines of any kind are defunct, their death throes lasted until around 2014.

Websites naturally hold most, if not all information there is about programming. You could buy an e-ink tablet for reading.
Those are all very bad recommendations. Buttermilk is loaded with cholesterol and saturated fat, kombucha with sugar, and fermented vegetables like kimchi have shown to increase prostate adenocarcinoma. You want to regulate your gut flora with a variety of whole plant-based foods, not quick fixes like pills and a jar of stinky cabbage.
Even if the CDN can't (for whatever reason) one could easily include a tracking pixel on every page that is marked as `Cache-Control: no-cache`, or insert a few lines of JS to do the same.
To be clear, I didn't say they were equivalent. They're equivalent up to isomorphism, not equal.
And this is what i fail to understand. He has kept his nose clean, apart from some minor incidents ("pedo" tweet comes to mind). How does he have the time and why does he bother to spend his time making noise on Twitter. He should focus on the final push to get both of his major companies to the next level. It's almost as if he's gotten bored and wants to move on, but has to keep up the appearance of being involved in day-to-day managment of these companies
Well put. His accomplishments are long and impressive but it seems social media has distracted, if not corrupted his line of sight.
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Interesting point, I suppose the affair didn’t affect the bottom line of the company, but Musk trying to buy twitter and considering how strongly his company’s brands are tied to his personal one are not something to be ignored. I believe they have a tangible effect on the value of the company. So in this case his behavior should be considered.