skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm asking specifically about the racists. If we were talking about bad things in general, that would be at or near the top of my list along with climate change.

I'm sure many of the marchers happened to be racist but I'm not sure that can be characterized as the main point or driver of why they were there.

You can definitely make the case that a lot of Trump supporters are driven by reactionary racial attitudes, but it's not quite the same as open racial intimidation with white robes and burning crosses.
I see what youre saying, but then again, think of those who are unfortunately disabled, maimed, disfigured, socially inept, etc who have never/may never have a fair shot at a relationship. For them, sex robots/robotic companions could be a fantastic thing given that theyd accept them unconditionally. It could have the ability to fill an emotional and/or physical void for them.
Also, if your stuff burns down in a fire, you’re more likely to get some insurance money back if you have a well-maintained list of items, serial numbers, purchase price, etc., rather than depending on your post-trauma brain.
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents and certainly not into ideological flamewar. Those things are not what HN is for and destroy what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32068220.
I didn't dismiss anything out of hand, I replied to all your questions as objectively as possible, but you just pretend that I didn't. I also would not have you believe anything, I am not trying to sell you anything here. I just answered your questions because I believed they were genuine questions. I am now starting to question that...

My question to you: what is your alternative? USD has many of the problems you mentioned and more. Transactions happen "off-chain", monetary inflation largely benefits the wealthy, etc.
i am now user 7001. :-)

spun up a vm and am googling a lot
I adamantly am a camera off person but am shame to admit I do add my photo to resume, it really did make responses from companies night and day
I know it's not a requirement, but running docker containers is a nontrivial headache. Additionally, running VSCode resulted in a number of frustrating bugs:

- copy+paste not working, or only working on small strings

- font size issues and anti-aliasing issues

- delays on keystrokes

Any type of advanced networking in Linux was also a huge headache (e.g. a wireguard interface) and didn't interop with the browser. So as needed, I was at one point running both the Chrome on ChromeOS and another Chrome in Linux.
Going further it's in fact the very foundation of the morality of western civilization. It's little wonder why it's constantly under attack and diminished.
Because they were told wrongly by an informant that he was a planner of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre
I really like this video by Juergen Schmidhuber:

https://youtu.be/pGftUCTqaGg

He makes the case that we’ll approach technological singularity (Omega) around 2040 (as do many other tech profits).

I like to contrast this with the MIT limits to growth model that says civilization will collapse around 2040.

Of course, you have to take both of these predictions with a grain of salt, but nevertheless, it feels true that we are accelerating toward an ambiguous point of either transcendence or demise.

So now imagine you go to see a movie. Which movie do you want to see: the one where someone gathers edible plants for 5 hours, or the one where we find out the fate of human civilization?

Basically, good or bad, I think we’re alive at the most exciting time.
Benchmarking Petabyte-Scale NoSQL Workloads with Workload Prioritization
Driving tests: Thousands of booking accounts blocked
I’m puzzled why he didn’t take the video down while he acknowledged that Maree is upsets about it, instead asking that she contacts him and requests the video to be taken down.

The strange perspective and sense of entitlement of a successful TikTok influencer…
Would you expect the same level of candor from your employer? If the answer is no then you owe them nothing.
Seriously curious to those in the gamedev community: how does Unity acquiring an ad company materially effect the feature set and platform that Unity currently provides? Is it one of those "Unity has been going downhill in slow-mo for years now and this investment is proof that they aren't interested in fixing real issues that indie devs have--writing's on the wall..." type of thing? From the outside, just seems like business as usual to me... I genuinely don't understand the pull people feel to entirely retool simply because Unity wants to do ads better. What am I missing?
that explains my issues with digging my own domain. I’ve chosen .ch so it is my surname: loosh.ch
point releases are usually within 3 days and 9.0 release was within 10 days :)
Please forgive this ignorant question, but what value do publishers provide when developers can release their games directly on Steam?
I thought the problem with the NYT article was that it doxxed him, a particularly nasty thing to so to a practicing psychiatrist.
Stripe lowers internal valuation by 28%
On older laptops, watching a video in the background while you work would increase fan noise and shorten the already short battery life.
In a world where you don't own things but can only rent them (and potentially where there is limited competition due to natural consolidation), you may be taken advantage of via high margins that result from an imbalance of power or information between you and the companies you rent from. What starts off as a great deal may quickly become untenable if they raise prices.

Laissez-faire capitalists will tell you that the solution to this is perfect competition. I'll observe, though, that perfect competition doesn't seem to have thrived in many industries. I'd guess that one cause is that no one (particularly investors) wants a business with razor-thin margins.

If you don't believe that consolidation will lead to fewer options and an imbalance of power in more industries, look at the history of today's monopolies. Look also at the advice that investors like Peter Thiel give to startups in books like Zero to One.
Two reasons I can think of:

1. C# in Godot is faster than GDScript.

2. The type safety features of C# are a bit more mature (and non-optional) for C#
Yes, same here. I want to want this, but the lack of third-party resource control (I'm a big uMatrix user) means I don't trust most browsers, and I don't want to resort to running my browser in a container.

I thought that earlier versions (when it was still called Next) did support keyboard-based browsing, but maybe I'm misremembering (I toyed with uzbl too). The first thing I'd want for keyboard-based navigation would be an easily accessible cheat sheet.
Imagine a Gamepass and Netflix bundle... games and movies under on subscription. Could also set up Microsoft nicely to be a metaverse play with a mix of gaming and traditional media.

Although come to think of it, maybe it would make more sense for MSFT to make a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery? Cheaper valuation, and you get DC + Harry Potter properties which would be huge as properties to be leveraged in gaming and the upcoming VR metaverse.
My own idiocy? I suppose that's what makes me pessimistic about my future. Or are you talking about everybody's future?

- Everybody's future: Well, there are specific aspects of psychological perception that still, despite all that evolution, don't transfer well between HN-style communities (where it's a latent gift) and more bell-curvy social discourse. (The same is true in reverse btw) We are getting closer but there are still huge gaps. For example, people still insist on labeling things they don't know anything about, and making decisions in that context. We have a very crude, near-backwards ability to talk about or deal with the unknown. This is really hard news for UAP research, in the extreme case. But it's also just terrible news for a planet that needs to do a lot of future-planning very soon. Planning for the future involves immediate and extended contact with the unknown, as well as things like thinking in terms of probability.

- My future: I can write software to automate and run huge parts of my life. But I still can't reliably make and keep a doctor's appointment. I get lost in the manual aspects of the process and then place too much trust in my ability to track my macros or whatever. And when I do get to the doctor, I second-guess a lot of what goes down during my exams. For example I am a huge pessimist when it comes to our reliance on one-off tests and would rather take the same test 15 times over a span of weeks than trust a single test of anything. Is that smart, because I learned a lot about errors in tests? No, it's dumb insofar as it keeps me away from taking any tests.

Just some examples!
I'm saying that even if the power were there, these smart thermostats would still strain the grid by turning on all at exactly the same time.

Power coming from renewables can exacerbate the problem, thus requiring grid storage, but the problem remains even without them.
Async/await is syntactic burden. In golang, everything is async so there is no need to differentiate between async/sync methods.

Goroutines = coroutines with implicit await on every function call

> And somehow people are ok with it, and say it is simple.

Threads and queues are (IMHO) fairly easy to understand and work with. If you know how you'd write an application with threads and queues, goroutines and channels work pretty much the same way.
Is it too high or low? I am interesting about condition settings of foreign!
We don’t know what journalists feel or care about. We are not mind readers. For that matter, journalists described hundreds of thousands if not millions of people.
As someone who was a practicing catholic for over half my life, its still not exactly clear.
Those teams still exist but now they get drowned out by the enormous number of new games that poor into the space month after month.
Maybe that's typical in gaming situations, but it has a weird license: https://github.com/defold/defold/blob/1.3.4/LICENSE.txt ("the Defold License version 1.0")
To be fair to the store, their privacy policy was likely designed to stop things like abusive spouses/parents tracking down people who they gave permission to use a card.
OTOH, Woz will sign anything that’s put in front of him. He’s always tried to be friendly with his fans! Jobs was a bit more… uh, driven. Also he’s dead: no longer available to sign hardware.
A group of smart WebAssembly experts tried to start a company around the idea of incrementally porting to WebAssembly, and wrote an excellent post-mortem of why that didn't work: https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_post_mortem.html
Everything You Didn't Need to Know About MRIs [pdf]
You might be surprised to see the scale of LTO tape consumption by FAANG companies.
"By default, I assume that if it captured on camera, it has been planned/staged/etc for the explicit purpose of being shown to people" - I'm genuinely curious, you'd include much of the war footage that's come out of Ukraine recently? I've no doubt a certain amount of it is "stage managed" and carefully edited to come across on TV as strikingly as possible, but to imply that most of it (including secret-filmed footage of POWs being marched off and later shots of their bodies etc.) is staged for the explicit purpose of being shown is a big claim.

(Technically your initial claim is almost tautological, but I assume you meant "shown for purposes other to genuinely convey information about the real world")
> I have a mostly Pinkerian view of the modern world, which is to say that by nearly all metrics, the world is better today than it has ever been, and is continuing to improve.

I think that's what most of us forget: the world has VASTLY improved in the past 50 years for the average person on the planet. The life prospects of the poorest half of the world's people are a lot rosier now than in the past, what, thousand years? Advances in telecommunication and public health and global transportation of essential goods has advanced most of the least advantaged parts of the world to life-altering levels. Child mortality, pestilence, starvation, all are significantly diminished. I think that's what Pinker posits, and it's hard to dispute his numbers or conclusions in terms of how the prospects for billions of people have improved a great deal.

But to the American lower and middle class, who enjoyed the post-WWII economic boom, the future seems less gleeful. But the decline they now bemoan didn't happen overnight. Diminishing opportunity among unskilled workers in the US began in the 1970s, and anyone paying attention back then saw that it was time to change career plans and get away from unskilled work, especially in those parts of the country where employers were already migrating away. More of that decline was sure to come, and sure enough, it did.

I feel for them, but that ship has been sinking for decades. The time to head for a lifeboat was 1990, not 2022.
While we're throwing ideas out there - why doesn't Microsoft just take a huge swing to try and buy Disney?

They would instantly cement themselves with onbtaining get one of the world's largest media conglomerates with an extensive library of beloved IP, and they could leverage all of that content in movies, gaming, and the metaverse like you mentioned.
You have that backwards. Bloomberg rezoned the queens and brooklyn waterfront for his real estate investor buddies, which gentrified the shit out of these neighborhoods and brought in a ton of people that would have never dared to cross the east river.
First, your sentence makes no sense at all. Libertarianism is practically the opposite of authoritarianism. Libertarians are in favor of a small state with limited power. Authoritarians want the opposite.

Second, "Bitcoin being high value to authoritarians" is another way of saying that authoritarians like Bitcoin. There's a lot of evidence that they don't, and for good reason: they can't control it.
I don't need strangers to pay for my groceries either, but I think if they did (assuming it wasn't for a social media stunt) I'd accept it gracefully and try to pay it forward somehow. Maybe offer to pay for the next person, or use the money I'd have spent to buy those prepared bags for food pantries some shops offer.

It's feels good to genuinely do something nice for another person and I wouldn't want to take that from them. It's also nice just knowing that not everyone in your community is only looking out for themselves. Might as well take the opportunity to do something for someone else
> Visiting back to the place and it's just toxic bullshit everywhere

> a giant portion of the population being horrible people

If everyone you meet is a jerk, maybe it's time to look in the mirror.
> The infinite growth delusion seems like it will break in my lifetime, retirement is scary

I don't think the illusion of growth is a problem per se. Growth, or at least stability, could be achieved relatively straightforwardly, if only the underlying social dependency ratio weren't growing. It grows though, at least in developed countries, and to any moderately longtermist person this feels like an obvious bomb slowly ticking away, until no time is left anymore.

If no systemic fix is going to be implemented, some generations will end up holding the proverbial bag, and for now it seems that this burden will fall upon the millenials and zoomers when they hit retirement age. Especially the childless.
Web archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/20220714195035/https://www.nytime...

The new 409A valuation is reportedly $74bn, down from last year's fundraising at $95bn.
I couldn't find any use for it. It just bloated my IDE and added latency, and never helped me accomplish a single thing. I deleted the plugin.

I guess if it did one thing it was reinforce something I already knew about my job - writing code is always the easy part.
The obnoxious thing is that if it turns out you have a sleep problem but it's not apnea, there's not much they can do for you. Or at least that was the impression that I got :(
There would be coverage of a KKK march through some town, for example, but it was always kind of a man-bites-dog kind of story. There'd be like 20 KKK'ers marching and hundreds of anit-KKK people on either side of the road. They were viewed as fringy.
The Alma Linux team does incredible work, it's my goto distro since it was first released :)
A book about this topic: Hans Rosling - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34890015-factfulness

I can highly recommend it.
I didn't use the term pacifism once, I said anyone who uses the word "anti-war". Regardless, feel free to explain how I'm wrong within the context of what I actually said rather than lazily saying I produced a strawman and walking away.

Lastly, I think you have successfully proved why this deserves discussion, especially on HN.
The Computer Museum in Boston merged with The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, which received nearly all of TCM’s artifacts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Museum,_Boston#...
FYI, it's not a rationality question. This involves ethical questions you can rationally argue about.
The analysis should also cover zstd...

Zstd typically outperforms snappy, and has the benefit of a wide configurable window of compression ratio Vs speed - and that's important if you want to use a dynamic algorithm to select the compression ratio to maximize throughput.
>Second, what color is the bubbly music museum next door?

The EMP isn't a music museum any more, it's now the Museum of Pop Culture. I can get being confused by that one :)
World human population will arrive peak size soon! (about 20 years) if we find some way to keep live and sustainability for everyone, human just win the game, I mean never anyone worry about food, life and environment... can imagine that this even possible? but there is actually way we have some chance.
My experience with C# has mostly been working on a personal project WinUI desktop app, and my biggest peeve has been reaching for something I use regularly in other languages only to find that it doesn't exist, and the solutions offered up by googling are usually, "well you can write your own implementation", "[huge utility library] offers that", or "don't do that it's not idiomatic/performant/etc". While none of those are showstoppers they slow development down and act as a source of frustration.
Maybe even three-quarters the same word. (4/5ths if you count code points in NFD!)

Malé parties are a lot of fun.

Those are some pretty lamé runners.
Hard not to chuckle at:

> People have erroneous intuitions about the laws of chance. In particular, they regard a sample randomly drawn from a population as highly representative, that is, similar to the population in all essential characteristics. The prevalence of the belief and its unfortunate consequences for psvchological research are illustrated by the responses of professional psychologists to a questionnaire concerning research decisions.

(emphasis mine)

Not only does the statement say that “people” make this mistake then go on to cite a questionnaire only of professional psychologists, but the questionnaire is the prototypical non-random random sample the very psychologists taking it are allegedly proving misinformation about. Questionnaires select for people with the time, inclination, and attention to start and then finish a questionnaire.

Infamously, experiments held at universities bias towards undergrads. Experiments that reward participation bias towards people motivated by the reward. Experiments that don’t reward participation bias towards people good-natured enough to contribute just for science.

Randomness is hard.
I always thought Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces should have a feature like this!

Or a way for the crowd to point out that you've been talking for too long, make your phone start buzzing or something
I saw kids sneakily tacking a sticky note on a stranger's back a store a while ago. The person noticed (their stealth level was negative. It was embarrassingly obvious) and they awkwardly took it off and ran away.

I'm pretty sure it was some TikTok idiocy.

I get that adolescents have always been pretty nasty, but I don't think this licentiousness with random (and older) strangers was ever this prevalent.
> Before he went to Substack, he took down his blog because of a NY Times hit piece...

That's a distortion. He took down is blog because the NYT journalist planned to use his real name, which is their typical practice. They didn't even have to break confidence to find it out, because he had publicly made the link in published work. This was also before he (or anyone else) saw the article. He and his fans seem to be under the false impression that their extremely-online internet-forum mores apply to all of society, and were outraged.

It's also an exaggeration to call the article a "hit piece." It wasn't glowing fluff, and that's all. I don't think he and his fans would have been satisfied with anything except an uncritical report of how they see and understand themselves.
+1

Discovered this while building https://github.com/plutomi/plutomi as I was enamored by Rick's talks and guarantees of `performance at any scale`. In reality, Dynamo was solving scaling issues that we didn't have and the amount of times I've had to rework something to get around some of the quirks of Dynamo led to a lot of lost dev time.

Now that the project is getting more complex, doing simple things such as "searching" (for our use case) are virtually impossible without hosting an ElasticSearch cluster where a simple like %email% in postgres would have sufficed.

Not saying it's a bad DB at all, but you really need to know your access patterns and plan accordingly. Dynamo streams are a godsend and combined with EventBridge you can do some powerful things for asynchronous events. Not paying while it's not running with on demand is awesome, and the performance is truly off the charts. Just please know what you are getting into. In fact, I'd recommend only using Dynamo if you are migrating a "finished" app vs using it for apps that are still evolving
> Why put people on the spot, when you know you'll end up getting only a fraction of their mental capacity out of the deal?

I don't get it either. In a meeting the other day I was asked about something I did six months ago. I responded with something to the effect of "Let me refresh my memory and I'll get back to you", but the boss laid on the pressure "well, why don't we try to figure it out now?" So we spent a lengthy amount of time talking about it and reached a conclusion.

When the meeting was complete I spent a few minutes fully engrossing myself in that work, like I wanted to do originally, and realized that what we concluded was wrong. Following that realization, I got back to them with the correct response... What a waste of time that was. It's not like we are talking about how nice the weather is. Technical discussion requires a lot of information that usually isn't available in the moment.

As a 20 year veteran to working from home, I have worked with teams who have embraced async communication in the past and it is amazing how much more productive it is. Now that everyone and their brother think they can work from home, without having built working from home skills, it's been interesting to say the least.
Honestly I kind of like the idea of being killed by a lion over dying from a nuclear holocaust. Like a real man.

I've been telling people this for like over a decade and they don't think I'm joking, there is a hint of seriousness to this though. I mean these are all things that killed a relatively lower amount of people, stuff we could bounce back from and adapt to basically - it wasn't like the prospect of any of the things you listed basically means all life on earth is completely screwed over for centuries and centuries until cockroaches become sentient or whatever.