skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blackstone's[0] ratio comes to mind when thinking about laws like this:

> It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone's_ratio
Good news I guess. But my electricity price literally doubled. My house insurance is up 30%. My gas bill is up by a lot. Have you seen the price of oreos? The $5 box at Taco Bell is my splurge and I'm trying to cut back on everything I can.
Finding wrong-thinkers online is relatively easy and about the least dangerous activity possible.

Finding actual criminals who violate the life, liberty, and property of others involves taking some personal risk and effort.
I think your concerns were addressed by amendments 12,13,14 re founding documents. So those opinions were excluded actually.
I had a job like that right after college, my title was "Software Ninjaneer".
50 years ago a high school graduate could get a decent job, buy a house and raise a family without too much sweat. Even HS dropouts had a fighting chance. That ain’t happenin no more.

As Buffett alludes to, this is recent. In the last 30 years -as a consequence of offshoring. Cobbling shoes and pickin up garbage ain’t glamorous but they're a living. All the mills closing shop in the south affected working class black employment, in the northeast it affected working class white employment. But add up all the industries affected.

Now we’re beginning to offshore food. The laborers who used to cross the border for jobs now have jobs in their own countries which may be better may be worse…

It’s all done by a greedy gov and greedy industrialists who turned to globalism and away from supporting local economies to the detriment of the lower and middle classes.
This definitely sometimes happens and sometimes not, but I'm not sure when. I remember this happening recently on my private email (that I can't access atm), but I can't find any examples in my work email.
I was at a company with such a policy and I was fired for taking too much time off due to a family emergency.
Inflation is a year-over-year measurement, not a ladder. Signal in the previous year matters too. If aggregate prices in the economy come down 1.085/1.02 ~= 6.4% from wherever they were a year ago, we're back at baseline. Within a few months the year-old number will start showing some of the elevated prices from last fall. I don't know that anyone necessarily expects to hit 2% exactly, but we'll very likely be looking at "normal" numbers again by the end of the year.

Which is exactly what all the folks trying to point out that this was a transitory effect have been trying to say, repeatedly, only to be shouted down by the inflatocaplyse cheerleaders.

(FWIW: if prices continue to come down as rapidly as they did this month, the "recession" is likely going to turn out to be a phantom too.)
What is the difference between a Force and Coupling? I think of force in terms of F=MA, but it feels like this "coupling" is something different.
As an outsider (non-American), can you give me an example of loss of representation for Kansas farmers at the federal level? I thought most things are delegated to the State level already. My gut instinct is the issue isn’t lack of representation, it’s federal overreach in general.
> Apple phones slowing done when a new model comes out

Is this meme still alive?
Selenium via Python is really useful too if you need to do a bit more (e.g clicks) than just fetching the html from the page.
The opposite needs to happen actually. Prices for housing, used cars, and groceries are still out of control, and need to be reduced by 20-50%. Only way that happens is with higher rates (for houses and cars), and punishing suppliers for using the “supply chain issues” as an excuse to extort money from buyers (for goods and groceries).
>So there must be something extra non-formal for consciousness, and the meager electronics of modern computers plainly don’t seem it.

But the neurons of a brain do? Don't get me wrong, I like the theory that microtubules harness quantum weirdness to do something hard-problem of consciousness adjacent. But I would bet that if we were silicon-based lifeforms experimenting with carbon adding machines we'd say they plainly don't have the stuff for consciousness either. There's just no consensus theory[1] explaining how consciousness arises.

[1] though for my part I'd bet Tononi's model of information integration combined with quantum bayesianism and long relaxation times is on the right track.
I believe it is unintentionally egocentric to assume a single individual's perspective is enough to guarantee correctness. I imagine most of the time that individual makes the best call, but that's not less egocentric. It's easy for an individual to qualify the correctness of technical material, but not easy to do the same for soft skills like communication. As a senior developer or leader, you need some egocentricity in order to have a focused project and clear goals.
Amazon already knows exactly what I buy, now they'll know my home layout!
Stoicism and buddhism never worked for me—observing the world as dispassionately as possible is the most dead I’ve ever felt inside. Pouring myself out as passionately as possible to what I consider my life’s work is the happiest, most satisfying feeling in the world, and that’s despite the setbacks.

I still come across as stoic to some people, though, just because it takes a lot (if at all) to upset me, but my calmness is not borne out of dispassion—I really just know now which arguments or fights are worth having and with whom, and the vast majority of those arguments and people are simply inconsequential.
Gee, maybe we should just murder the Kulaks then? Sounds like you are advocating something other than a democracy.
> Is there a conclusive list of job titles and specifications one could rely on?

No, there isn't.

What you're describing could be called a lead data engineer but you can also call them a lead software engineer if you don't want to distinguish between data and non-data engineers with the title. But the "what to measure" and "where to measure" parts don't really fit under it - that's more like a data analyst or someone in a business role (depending on what you're measuring and how important/advanced it is), or a data scientist... but then not every part of the job needs to be reflected in the title.

Basically there are many different ways to set up the titles, and most of them are fine.
Why not just take it a step further and get rid of the Senate? The Senate is a far worse democratic representation.
> Code can provide just as much safety as the database

No, database constraints declaratively specify invariants that have to be valid for the entirety of your data, no matter when it was entered.

Checks and constraints in code only affect data that is currently being modified while that version of the code is live. Unless you run regular "data cleanup" routines on all your data, your code will not be able to fix existing data or even tell you that it needs to be fixed. If you deployed a bug to production that caused data corruption, you deploying a fix for it will not undo the effects of the bug on already created data.

Now, a new database constraint will also not fix previously invalid data, but it will alert you to the problem and allow you to fix the data, after which it will then be able to confirm to you that the data is in correct shape and will be continue to be so in the future, even if you accidentally deploy a bug wherein the code forgets to set a reference properly.

I'm fine with people claiming that, for their specific use case or situation, database constraints are not worth it (e.g. for scalability reasons), but it seems disingenuous to me to claim that code can provide "just as much safety".
Dunning-Kruger is not just an observation but a purported explanation for those observations. That only qualifies as "a thing" if only that explanation can account for the effect independently of confounding factors. The Dunning-Kruger effect has not reached this threshold, not only because data artifacts account for a large portion of it, but also because of the other confounding factors described there that could account for the remainder.

See also this review for a more detailed analysis: https://replicationindex.com/2020/09/13/the-dunning-kruger-e...
"Polarization" is not, in fact, the "the single greatest weakness of the United States as a country today." I am so sick to death of this sentiment. Fukuyama and guys like him love systems, they love tinkering, they love efficiency, they love "getting stuff done". Never mind the unspoken ideology of the middle, never mind what we're actually trying to achieve has a distinct ideological identity, we're political engineers, here! We're just trying to fix the system! It's almost like they're optimizing for bill passage rate.

I reject the idea that technical moderates are the default, that they're non-ideological, and that a watery combination of left and right ideas is best because it appeals to the most people, if only because we've been doing exactly that since the 80s and it's gotten us here.
That is true, however, certain people when surrounded by "hateful" speech for long periods of time can easily become the actual law breakers who attack foreigners or trans or whatever other things some people hate.

Although this Bill is garbage for variou reasons, I do understand that people want to try and fix things before they get out of hand, not just after somebody has stabbed somebody else when it is objectively a crime.
But surely even not "smart" people get to experience the awful reality of things, and realize that there isn't much you can do about it?
Automate checking a ticket system's availability with Node.js and Pipedream
Dublin, CA has been growing strongly for 40 straight years - the population grew 72% from 1980 to 1990 (presumably when many of those sleepy single family homes were built). Looking at the most recent crime statistics (and ignoring 2020, where crimes decreased drastically because of the pandemic), total number of crimes increased by 7% from 2015-2019 while the population increased by 17%, so crimes-per-capita has actually been decreasing. If cost-of-living increases has you concerned, reducing housing number of available housing units will probably not increase affordability in any way.
It's an embarrassingly bad take. "The sociopolitical system that I am benefiting from also happens to be the inevitable final and best one" is something that so many people have claimed over the years, and has failed each time. And that's not to mention the fundamental contradictions between democracy and capitalism, the existential threat capitalism has posed to the entire world via climate change, the fragility of pseudodemocratic institutions past and present, and dozens of other problems. But sure, the system we have had for less then a tenth of the duration of many ancient empires is final and complete, and everyone should just give up on finding solutions to its many problems that might inconvence those currently in power.
From the article:

> In some cases, resources (like money, staff and proper materials) are not available to properly maintain the site.
I guess, the MacOS native Spotlight influenced the growth of more indie “launchers”. Especially, Spotlight being quite limited customization wise.

I personally lately leaning towards niche launchers like:

* https://blipnotes.app for note taking;

* https://shortcat.app for “clicking” interface without a mouse;

* https://dashlook.app for searching git repositories/pull requests (disclaimer: I am the creator).

It just provides better experience compared to Alfred’s community plugins (usually not maintainted).

The problem with separate apps though, is that you need to remember dedicated shortcuts for each of them. On the other hand I had the same experience with Alfred, only that you need to remember specific command/keyword.

If anyone knows more niche “launchers”, I would be very interested to learn about them.
I’ve never heard of the author until today, so I don’t have any bias against him, but I think his argument makes a lot of sense.

Personally, my preferred solution to polarization is voting reform (I actually think approval voting would be a better fix than RCV though) but he makes a good point that voting reform is a long term solution to a short term problem. I still think it’s worth pursuing, but there’s no way it will help us with the 2024 presidential election, for example.

The Democratic Party moving to the center could be done much more quickly, and if the strategy was successful in winning elections, might force the Republican Party to similarly adopt more moderate positions.

Another “solution” to polarization in the US is a civil war. This should definitely be avoided at all costs, but would probably eventually reduce polarization when the winning side forces the losing side to adopt their policies (like how the North forced the South to end slavery after the Civil War).

Having a single party dominate politics for a while sounds a little scary, but if they’re democratically elected, I guess that’s what people want, right? And, to me, it’s a much more palatable short-term solution to polarization than Civil War II.
I thought it was. The alistic manager wanted to plug into the social gravity of React and the autistic employee wanted an explanation for his labor he could understand. All people regardless of autistic or allistic are usually self-interested and not consciously aware of what motivates their desires. For example, I doubt the manager was capable of explaining what attracted him to React any more than the OP could understand why being part of a famous community might benefit them. Only thing that helps in these situations is for one side to know the other side better than they know themselves. It's easier to work with people if you can mentally model what motivates their desires. That's called empathy and whether or not you've got it distinguishes senior from junior engineers. It should also be a hard requirement for managers.
Indeed! And accepting that some things are outside one's control is when you move on instead of believing people who say you are wrong.
Right now oil and housing are basically what are driving the narrative and as a result, fed policy. I don’t necessarily expect that to last forever but currently it’s very clear that the fed is basically reacting to monthly cpi numbers and the narrative that results from them. This fed has become very easy to predict, hence the massive moves in yields/stocks this morning. That said, if oil were to go back up for a few weeks to 110+ I’d expect the next cpi print to be higher than expected and this move to largely reverse. Kind of crazy so much is based on the price of a commodity nobody can really control, but it’s where we are.
The founders didn’t all have the same opinion on these matters, not by a long shot.

It’s true that they didn’t generally hold democracy in high esteem. They were too well aware of its past failures, and wary of repeating them. They in fact avoided using the word "democracy" for that reason.

And yes, several of them were keen on increasing the power of the federal government. The US constitution was written in a context where the federal government had been hobbled because under the Articles of Confederation it didn’t have enough power to carry out its policies.

In retrospect it looks to me like they might have been able to make the Articles work, maybe with some adjustments, but they didn’t think so, in the end, and of course they were closer to the situation than I am, so even I take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Maybe I'm missing something but I have a hard time seeing what any of this has to do with autism. Everything in this article sounds like the lament of an intellectually honest and rational person working in an environment filled with people who are not.

I do recognize that we are only getting one side of the story here, but giving the author the benefit of the doubt, that is what I see in this post.
I've seen many ads where the first "X" button that appears is fake, placed there to make you question yourself: "Well, the X is very small, it appears I fat-fingered it". It then becomes "real" after you switch out of whatever the ad opened and back to the app hosting the ad. It works on the second try, and that confirms your belief that it must have been your fault.
Logo is a dog, and everybody I know call it "canines"
Mike wanted to write a TCP/IP stack.
Ignorance is bliss.

Most things labelled smart these days are not.

Happy (one of my least favorite words) seems to mean passive contentment in the modern context -- a recipe for getting nothing accomplished.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/happy
"characterized by a dazed irresponsible state" a punch-happy boxer

That definition seems to fit the 'happy' people pretty well.
Democracy, means that the political power is not restricted to a subset of the citizens, but all citizens have equal political power.

This principle does not specify anything about the mechanism that determines how certain executive or legislative positions are filled.

Any such position could be filled for example based on the result of a majority voting by all citizens, or by representatives of all citizens, or based on a random choice between all citizens.

These and also many other possible mechanisms are all equally democratic, because any citizen can fill those positions and all citizens have equal influence on who will fill the position.
Thank you! Let me check it
I'm not sure about the accuracy of the article, the problem with the Online Censorship Bill is that it allows the Secretary of State and OFCOM to define what is "harmful", it doesn't specifically mention "offensive" speech.
He said that now fascism and communism had been "defeated" that there will be no more competition for liberal democracy.

Yet he's arguing both here and elsewhere about how to defeat liberal democracy's new domestic and foreign opponents.
gyms only force the figure height because people are less likely to screw it up and it's easy to check for far away if it was done correctly

Outside climbers and rope-access often use other alternatives like the figure-nine or double bowline that are easier to untie
Yeah. Anyone familiar with the phrasing, and especially how it’s used in parts of South Africa, knows that’s not a dog whistle but a foghorn.

I’m surprised I got downvoted for it.
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This is like saying that the existence of precession in mercury's orbit detracts from the adequacy of a Newtonian analysis and so there must be a dark matter blob pulling mercury's orbit around.
You have repeated exactly what I said in my previous statement, yet their opinions can impact the way they structured things more subtly as well such as creating systems that enforce an imbalance of power towards white wealthy land owners.
Exactly. It reduced slightly to still a very high level.
i hate to be that guy, but “it depends”

scrapy is still king for me (scrapy.org). there are even packages to use headless browsers for those awful javascript heavy sites

however, APIs and RSS are still in play, and that does not require a heavy scraper. I am building vertical industry portals, and many of my data rollups consume APIs and structured XML/RSS feeds from social and other sites.
What if I find poorly thought out legislation offensive?

After all, it arguably affects more people more directly than the various things the politicians are dog whistling about.
All of the genuine name-brand ones work fine, stick to older Prolific (the ones Tripp-Lite included with UPSes are great!) or genuine FTDIs.
YoY averages out seasonality though, a lot of things go through annual cycles.
Why? Hate is not juvenile, it can be appropriate.
Yes. It really is a big deal. Each representative now represents differing amounts of people. If you're a resident of California or Texas your amount of representation is diminished. Conservatives love to point out that America isn't a democracy but is a Representative Republic - but even that is skewed because not everybody has equal amounts of representation. Your demand for a single issue that would be resolved if everybody had equal representation is simply a red herring.
A Sausage McMuffin and a coke used to cost $2.12 at most locations near me two years ago. Today it varies from $2.95 up to $3.85 (strangely this high value is in Detroit proper where income is lowest vs the burbs).

I notice this price varies even at the same locations sometimes, but it's WAY up in general by a solid 50 percent in 2 years.
Dude has 7 followers and is writing under “Illuminati Ganga Agent” nom de plume.

Plenty people out there applying academic rigor and discipline to discourse on this subject. This is not that.
Congratulations! "syntax monocultures" is now a Googlewhack! https://www.google.com/search?q=%22syntax+monocultures%22
The ideal should be equal representation. If some over-representation is going on it has to be corrected. If not, is is undermining democracy.
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I think that what makes Cursorless "really different for editing/writing code" (per OP) is that it is a voice-controlled structure editor focused on maximizing efficiency. Cursorless leverages tree-sitter to maintain an up-to-date syntax tree of your code, and then allows you to manipulate your code using voice commands that target structures like functions, classes, arguments, etc. Cursorless also has an emphasis on composable / chainable commands. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwdpPN-21-g . As you become fluent, you'll find that the emphasis on higher level syntactic constructs and chained commands enables you to program faster than you could using a keyboard, without needing to worry about low-level details like cleaning up commas, selecting functions with a mouse, etc.

But as the creator of Cursorless, I'll allow for the possibility that I'm slightly biased
They're measuring the same thing they were measuring when inflation spiked. They don't change what they measure on a month-to-month basis.
This is great. I have been trying out pipedream and would love to try this too. Are there steps available to do a self deploy?
Also, can the URL be rendered on my own domain?
Food might have other issues that keep it from becoming nicer to the consumer
It's been a smash hit at work. There is a bit of a learning curve, but nothing compared to kubectl.

: for changing "resource" types (and a few other miscellaneous things)
/ for filtering
shift-? to see more commands
Give them to me! :)
Are bots allowed on HN? If so, someone should make a bot that comments libreddit/etc links on Reddit based threads, perhaps twitter => nitter as well. old Reddit is practically unusable on mobile and twitter is a UX nightmare for not logged in users
> I wouldn't expect any group of people to be particularly happier than anyone else

Interestingly, there is at least 1 group (to my knowledge) that is particularly happier than most everyone else. When surveyed, nearly 99% indicate that they are happy with their lives.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3740159/
My concern is that if I don't trust the vote counting mechanisms in <pick a state that isn't mine>, I can at least take comfort that the worst-case outcome is that the citizens of that state do not get their votes accurately counted, but that the damage is limited to those (fixed amount of) votes being cast not in accordance with those citizens.

If we define the amount of election discrepancy as being the difference between the election totals and the count of actual ballots properly cast by legally eligible voters, an electoral college system confines discrepancies to within the given state. Illinois voters might have their votes improperly represented, but that's of much less concern to Arizona voters than if any election discrepancy not only misrepresented voters' wishes in Illinois but could manufacture additional voting power to that discrepancy.