skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s arguable but generally I agree. The New Deal worked for the US. National service policies in general seem to work well globally.

Defense seems to be a non-issue but domestic service is debatable. It’s disgusting but this is our reality. It’s the ultimate condemnation of “conservative” values.

As a millennial I would have joined the National Guard if there was a guarantee of no service in foreign wars.

I think a peaceful national service organization that guaranteed some kind of modest lifetime pension and higher education would resolve a lot of debates.

But, for most US military vets that’s already true of their service.
I had the (mis)fortune of being on a college campus during the height of covid. I'm totally down for taking precautions. I'm not down for the idea that this behavior can't go too far.

I remember seeing a kid forget to wear one and he was treated like a plague rat for the all of 5 seconds before he realized what was going on.

Also, the "mask" thing was _never_ clear. It flipped very frequently. Sure, science can change but if its "changing" that much, that fast it does make me loose a bit of faith.
If it's in response to a issue, that's constructive and helpful, but imagine some 20 something restroom safety coordinator reminding you that you'll get a rash if you don't wipe yourself as you leave the restroom unprompted.

These "helpful tips" are mostly a power play. The framing is you are an idiot that has to be told that you get sunburned in the sun, let me guide you so you don't hurt yourself, aren't you so glad that I'm here to look out for you.
It's an idea that every community college in the country has already had, isn't it?
I don't know why, but it seems to malfunction on Microsoft Edge for some reason, where the ant looks like a circular brown blob.
It seems refineries here in SoCal tend to catch fire fairly often too.
I'm pretty convinced that these boilerplate responses are a result of PR brigading, which happens a lot in threads of this kind online. They always seem way too positively scripted, and they bury real comments.

The Internet is so overrun by engineered smoke and mirrors now, it's hard to trust even online comments concerning corporations unless they're negative comments concerning those corporations.
The United States has gone back and forth between the two dominant parties for almost its entire history. Can we definitively say things have gotten objectively better? If not, then what does voting actually do?

If I could run for representative and have a decent chance at winning, maybe I would run. Unfortunately, I wouldn't stand a chance against better-funded, entrenched interests with unlimited money. Why should I bother, so I and my family can be destroyed publicly for the sake of winning?
Indeed. They will learn the real meaning soon enough.
Baitposting is discouraged by the HN guidelines. Faking controversy is one way to get attention.
I think it’s quite the reverse: rather than being out of touch with reality, it is based on behavioral economic studies of reality ignored by capitalists. Watch for example this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rbR2V1UeB_A

The way they would be able to contribute is that the UBI would allow them to negotiate shorter workweeks. They’d use the time for other things, like taking care of their own children and parents, rather than sticking them in a nursing home and public schools.

My solution also helps women close the pay gap: https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=286
Nothing they do is unique or substantially different than many of the Asiatic religions that have existed. People tend to fear what they don't understand.
Should the healthcare system have a podcast where they don't take responsibility for the content, because they are just having a conversation?

I mean, if it doesn't want to get demolished.
I think Uber coming along was absolutely a net win for consumers. They managed to

1. Upend the existing monopolies with cab drivers and create competitions in many different markets

2. Funnel VC money directly into the hands of consumers in the form of subsidized rides, especially in the years from ~2012 to 2018.

And they did this in a commodity market, so it's super easy for entrants to just copy the idea. Bad for Uber, great for everyone else. The fact that a good hunk of the money that got lit on fire during this process was Saudi oil blood money is just icing on the cake, IMO.
Obviously this is just a symptom. I chalk this up to spiritual emptiness, hedonism, and nihilism.
And even if it wasn't architecture-agnostic, it's pretty easy to translate restricted and well-behaved machine code between architectures. Much easier than dealing with javascript itself.
i think it just means turning off merge fast-forwarding (git merge --no-ff, or config merge.ff=false) so that merges appear as explicit commits even when one side of the merge has no commits, where git would by default just zip them together making it appear as though no merge happened at all

less work than dealing with squashing, and easier to understand past branches than the default
Brics Cable
In NYC, I had several drivers refuse to let me into the car until I told them where I was going. I never took those cars and made them cancel it (and then reported it). However, it is common practice.
People have high standards, but you're assuming that everyone has a decent level of information/education. Most people don't have a clue what's going on. I mean just look at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGjaNXNXm-Y

How many people in drug-ridden rural communities will take this at face value? Who can blame them when their entire circle of acquaintances thinks the same and the TV and radio says the same thing?

Accountability is important but our media is incredible at misdirecting our attention. Compare the media attention given to the Panama Papers vs the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial. The gatekeeping of information is by design, if people knew how badly they were getting screwed over, there would be riots in the streets.
I think you're wrong about this, and the parent comment makes a valid point about the credentials of the instructors at this organization, which appears to have as much a political mission as it does an educational mission. It's also priced higher than a community college, but lacks accreditation or, presumably, the facilities of a typical CC.
According to the Secretary of State, the company was founded on March 3rd of this year. It doesn’t have legal authorization from the Chancellor of the Ohio Department of Education to operate in this state. The Chancellor can ask Attorney General Dave Yost to get an injunction to shut them down in short order if they enroll anyone.

The whole thing feels either like something is wrong or it is a sting by ICE. I remember them running one outside Detroit in the past couple years.
One would think the app would be banned at the first attempt.
A couple of points:

* Every time you win, someone else must loose. You should be happy to make the same sacrifice.

* If you loose half your games, you are playing at your appropriate skill level. If you play consistently you will inevitably reach that point.
You interpret little action and a lack of political will as evidence for "too hard and too expensive", when it's mostly ideological possession and corruption by anti-renewable conservatives, and to a smaller extent anti-nuclear greens.

Solar and wind costs are roughly on par with fossil fuels now. Variability doesn't matter when you can pipe excess amounts into poorer countries. It's all excuses.

"double digit percentage of our population lives in poverty"

So you're taking the moral high ground huh. Will you be happy to accept a hundred million immigrants from SEA when the pollution from your country has made their region too hot to be liveable? Or will there be a convenient excuse to not do that?
Oh yeah, I think that was on the 1997 test too... I think it may have been something like "please write a recursive function in the language of your choice, or prove a property of integers by mathematical induction".

I don't remember if there were suggestions (like factorial for recursion or a summation formula for induction).

At that time it was taught by Brian Harvey. I liked him a ton. I know there have been other excellent 61A teachers, too.
How can it be anything higher than zero?
> This situation wouldn't fly in a lot of other countries

Yet it’s very common in other countries deeply divided by ethnicity or religion.

In a democracy, the main way to hold politicians accountable is by voting for someone else. But in a society with deep sectarian divides, voting against your party can be tantamount to voting against your racial/ethnic/identity bloc. So people don’t do it, and incompetent incumbents can always blame their failures on “the other side.”
Petscii Robots!!

https://www.the8bitguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Petsci...
It's interesting that you think the fundamental nature of reality depends on what you find "boring" or not.

In any case I disagree that we know nothing. We know that subjective experience exists. I think it makes sense to start with what we actually know rather than with a bunch of concepts we've invented (like matter) to explain the phenomena we experience. The only basis I see for believing in the reality of these concepts is their apparent consistency and predictability, but even that is largely illusory once you move beyond very simple systems or machines that we've designed to be predictable.
Is it not zoom calls and pizza parties? /s
for (; counter < 1_000; counter++) {
// ... I know this doesn't make much sense :)
}

I think the JVM would optimise away this loop because it doesn't do anything. e.g. if the loop optimisation method is to unroll the loop into 1000 inline statements, there's nothing there.

This makes "No Logging" result not quite a fair comparison; maybe something like the sum of 1000 random numbers do some actual work in the loop.
There are quite a few qualifications to that answer.
If Toyota made one bad car, would you lose faith in the entirety of Toyota?

.....because if so, let me introduce you to the Toyota Mega Cruiser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mega_Cruiser
“When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men … but when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen.” Matthew 6:5-8
The same employer treated my like a lump of labor, wrung me out and I could not leave because I was shackled by being on a work visa. And they knew it. Those were the most miserable years of my life. I'd do it again, still, cause of the perspective it gave me, but there are probably other ways that involve less trauma.

Which makes them telling me to use sunscreen even more grating. The reason I find it so off-putting to tell employees to wear sunscreen in an all hands meeting is that I do not see this as the role of my employer. What I do in my private life is my responsibility and my choice. This might be a cultural difference too, I remember being alienated by the possibility of drug tests. The copious amounts of cocaine I might or might not do in my spare time are none of my employers business.

And about cloaking things in "good": I have yet to see a bureaucracy that does care about "good". In my experience bureaucracy cares about risk mitigation and liability. My personal risk assessment works differently than that, it takes things like my human experience into consideration. So I get cranky when I feel my employer is encroaching on my personal space.
In some places it is. See comments elsewhere.
Can be. Not "is"

Humour is culturally informed. I worked in contexts with people who had been to Oxbridge and like institutions, and a wry, punning humour was considered a badge of honour. Scabrous humour was fine: what mattered was that it was witty.
Germany is an industrial superpower without military industrial complex and command vertical, meaning that the government is not set up to do such things quickly (in fact, I don’t think even China would be able to move that fast).
Yeah, it's totally myopic

The C64 wasn't even a good 8-bit machine for a start

And even if it was, it is so removed from today's computers to be useless. Really

I'd say a 386 is not obsolete from that point of view (of the discussion). Or even the Amiga as others mentioned. But the C64 is.
Singapore is a flawed democracy at best.
Here I was imagining actual explosives hampering repo efforts, when they merely speak of a rising rate of auto repos.
OK. I fell for it.
Depending on your usecase you can integrate using your backups occasionally into your normal data processing.

Again, depends on usecase but then it becomes integral to your existing workflow instead of an addendum that you end up forgetting to do

The whole purpose is to make the failing of one be effectively extremely noisy and irritating

It's like what I do with raid. I have a script that will shut the machine down on drive failure and then will use dialog(1) to say something like "hey bozo replace the fucking drive first" when you boot it up and then it will shutdown again and be unusable.

Make the complaining show stopping, loud, rude, and disruptive. Because if the next one fails you're screwed
It was standard on old days wiki.
I'd prefer that we didn't make phishing even easier.
“…voted against an incumbent…”

I did every year — even the odd years — during the decade I lived in Texas. None of my candidates ever won!

…Of course my district was so heavily gerrymandered that it looked like some weird, vestigial organ among a bunch of nice, rectangular districts.

And every year we had to register a little earlier if we wanted to vote. Oh, and, you can’t register online in Texas.

And it always seemed like there were fewer polling places and the lines were a bit longer each year.

What’s crazy is that, where I live in Minnesota these days, I don’t deal with ANY of these problems. (Well, I’m sure my district is probably somehow gerrymandered, aren’t they all?)

It’s almost like in Texas they didn’t want me to vote at all.

EDIT: To be clear, I don’t think it’s about standards. I think it’s that all the options are horrendous and the game is rigged like a carnival, anyway.
Thanks for sharing your experience, I feel like this is not very well resourced territory for our industry

Btw you may find Graber/Wengrow's recent Dawn of Everything to be an inspiration for how these sort of structures could scale up to larger groups of people than conventionally thought historically possible
We program our subconscious long before we fully know what we are doing and why then define our conscious beliefs and values much later. Unfortunately that is a recipe for a conflict such as yours.

My recommendation is to;

1) Start writing a daily journal so you will become more clear on what you believe and why you do the things you do (and change them if you want) and your value system.

2) The subconscious is mostly automatic and many good or bad habits arise automatically from our minds and before we know it we are acting on them. When I am trying to break a habit I use a counter to count how many times I catch myself doing something that I am trying to change during my day. It is counter intuitive but just focus on the counting, don't analyze, just click the button and move on. Over time this simple technique will help to reprogram the subc by just making you aware of the automatic thoughts/action but it does take time. I use a knitting counter but there are many varieties and I don't use it all the time. These are for the finger but I replaced the strap with a rubber band and wear in on my wrist.

https://www.amazon.com/Kingdder-Electronic-Knitting-Colorful...

3) A couple of times a month do a "laugh log" by which I mean write down during the course of a day anything that makes you laugh or that you find amusing. Introspection can be difficult but what we laugh at is a little peek into what is going on under the hood, so to speak. Collect the log and review it in your journal and identify implications.

Good luck!
Is there near term availability of enough doses of a nice vaccine (e.g. MVA-BN/Imvanex/Jynneos) to vaccinate the entire MSM population?

The US has a large stockpile of ACAM2000, but it is unpleasant, potentially dangerous, and has at least a mild FDA warning for use in patients with HIV.
Twitter doom scrolling is real.
Has your Honda been PWNed? – security flaw
if you are at all concerned with outcomes, "what is the other guy going to do?" is an entirely reasonable question to ask, and often the answer is miserable

you could say that the solution is to then move attention to the primaries, and this is happening to some extent, but attempts there have been repeatedly stymied by abrupt rule changes and blatant ratfucks (see: the entire history of Bernie Sanders)

we, arguably, got an answer on the right when Trump was elected, and pretty much everybody agrees that's been a disaster, from the establishment that fears him and the countermovement against him, to the base disappointed by his term and snubbed by his eventual removal.
However, he doesn't address the disparity BETWEEN LABELS on Spotify.
Some labels have much sweeter deals, and that's considering aggregators already, I mean at the raw-play-count level, some get a bigger portion than others.
Unfortunately this particular server was a replacement for another that had failed suddenly so that wasn't really an option in my case. If it had been one of many at work then it would have been a sensible option, I agree.
Yup, his tweets sometime make him seem like the deGrasse Tyson of math, tbh.

(And yes, I am familiar with who John Baez is and his work).
1) find someone to work with, 2) strip features down to the minimum, 3) give yourself an arbitrary deadline e.g. do a weekend hackathon and publish the result no matter what.

bonus: find someone that pays for what you published, and now you have a startup.
Spirituality is the only thing that can convince people to spend a lifetime fighting against these structures of injustice. Otherwise, why not take your intelligence and use it to build a good life for yourself and family?
I have an old 4790k running OPNSense. Old gaming rigs make amazing 40gig routers.
The limiting factor would be the memory chips themselves and any firmware required for them (if any). I also don't know how well they are spec'd and if full documentation is available without NDA's and lawyers.
In his book Programming the Universe[0][1], quantum physicist Seth Lloyd calculates that if you had every atom in the universe computing for the age of the universe to generate strings of text randomly, it would not likely have written even the first line of Hamlet. His solution to how we managed to get the entirety of Hamlet plus the rest of Shakespeare's works given much less resources (i.e. evolution on one small planet culminating in one playwright) is that the monkeys/atoms are not typing text into typewriters but instead typing code into a computers.

[0]Programming the Universe, by Seth Lloyd, a great read about physics and computation: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Universe-Quantum-Computer...

[1]The book is accessible with free account at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/programmingunive00lloy/page/n13/...

[1]Interview with Lloyd where he also mentions this calculation (search for "hamlet"): https://www.technologyreview.com/2006/07/01/39028/qa-seth-ll...
Yes, Christianity is a cult but not really in the tabloid, cable news meaning that you are used to. “Cult” is not inherently negative or out of the mainstream. It simply means a system of religious worship. It has become more negative in recent decades in popular culture by being associated with some “unusual” religious groups.
If their image were receding faster, we could not see it. So, no image. We just happen to know the space they are in is going that fast now, based on how far away and thus how far in the past, the image we see is.
Seeing how debatable the issue of deaths caused by actual nuclear disasters is (varying from 400 to 60000 for Chernobyl), I can't imagine how little agreement two parties could have on the comparative amounts of human suffering caused by different energy sources. You would have to encompass land use changes, air quality, long term statistical health outcomes, respiratory illness, wildlife impacts, the list goes on ad infinitum..

I don't think that Mayak is relevant, as it is a secretive, poorly regulated nuclear weapons production facility. Similarly, the impacts of Therac-25 [1] patients or the Goiania Incident[2] don't get counted against nuclear energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
That assertion doesn’t pass the smell test. Americans are among the most highly educated people in the world. And significantly more educated than folks in most European countries, and significantly more educated than Americans of previous generations.

I’ve got an engineering undergraduate degree and a law degree, and when I saw that ad, I remembered the 2020 Democratic debate where nearly everyone raised their hand to decriminalizing border crossings and free healthcare for illegal aliens.

You can split hairs and say that Biden didn’t raise his hand, and he’s the President, not Elizabeth Warren. But the ad doesn’t depend on folks being “uneducated.” It merely requires them to make some uncharitable inferences about how much influence the supporters of those other candidates have over Biden. In my opinion it’s a legal tackle.

As to people being “screwed over” they’re not. Noah Smith, a liberal, has done quite a good job showing how most Americans are better off than their European counterparts, except folks at the very bottom: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/americans-are-generally-ri...

> but again this is just one more data point showing that the typical American enjoys a higher material standard of living than the typical European.

> A person at the cutoff of the bottom 10% in the U.S. takes home only $11,287 per year, while their counterpart in Denmark takes home $15,607.

Instead of assuming that people are just uneducated and irrational, maybe educate yourself and understand what dynamics are really at play. The median American is choosing greater consumption capacity at the expense of safety nets for those at the bottom. That’s arguably selfish, but not irrational.
FYI, a part time job for a programmer is a bad deal for the programmer. Programming is a variable output profession. It's very hard to produce at a high level all the time since you have to solve very different problems on a regular basis. Managers will be expecting an X level of output from you as a part time programmer but you will have less time to think about the solution so to make-up for it you'll be working additional hours for free.

If you want part time look into contracting for defined projects. It's better for every one involved.
What exactly is causing the bug though? If the same area is written to some x number of times the solid state device in that location permanently fails, is that correct? If so in an always on device how can this bug be escaped? They need to randomize the writes and for that the storage size should be a multiple of what is needed for regular operation. Even then the disk will fail eventually. What am I missing here?
Their $40B+ market cap says otherwise. What I imagine you are using is short-term profitability as your metric, which is a very narrow definition of success.
Luckily it is old enough where you can replace it
They already have that — see their whole COVID effort.

They should try having a podcast with several hour interviews discussing actual information with experts — rather than telling us official lies, in sound bytes. Like John Campbell, Vinay Prasad, Robert Malone, etc.
Not if they're actually good at inventing and know the plot of 'Demon Seed'.
Why is it surprisingly that simple? You lost me with that claim and I’m a suspicious US citizen.