skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps while playing rock music, designing land-speed record-breakers or saving the world from extra-dimensional alien invasion.

Sorry, couldn't resist the Buckaroo Banzai call-out.
While that may be true, "spaces for alignment" is nigh unsupported by all editors I've seen. They insist on replacing 8 (or N) spaces with tab even if in an alignment region.

int foobar(int a,

___________int b) // should only ever have spaces (using _ here because HTML)

But good luck finding an editor that won't insert a tab when you use the tab key here (willing to be wrong).

The other issue I have is that diffs break alignment between undented code and anything with tabs because the tabs "eat" the leading space, but unindented lines are offset by one.
I encountered a weird, butt maybe hilarious bug running this on the Brave browser in iOS. I closed the tap, but the dialog kept going. Only when I went to three webpage again and this time paused it, did the audio stop. Truly infinite conversation. I'm almost sad I was able to turn it off at all.
I think taking down the buyers is a the best tool we have right now for this issue.

And there are things we could do to make that easier, like putting a serial number on the converter on new cars and replacement parts. Requiring the make, model, and serial number of the car it was removed from, and a web site with a DB that has the ID number of cars they've been stolen from so buyers could check it.

Make those who buy and sell and steal them pay for it. For new car buyers all they be paying for is the addition of the serial number. Can't add much cost to engrave those during production.
I feel like this is exactly like going after ivory poachers instead of the buyers at the other end.

Who is creating a market for stolen catalytic converters? Are the precious metals being extracted, melted down and sold? to who and where?

Put THOSE people in jail for the rest of their lives and change the setup so there is in incentive for anyone to even steal one in the first place.
Educational attainment is pretty easy to judge. Parents almost certainly have linkedin profiles. Census data also asks for education attainment. Incomes and assets are also attainable via tax info. Sure, they can cheat on income taxes, but usually that's making $100M in assets look like $60M. Just based on address they can at least determine the value of your home. An applicant attending Deerfield Academy that reports a family of low income and no parental education is going to ring some alarm bells, and probably isn't going to pass muster.

We don't need to conclusively define class, but we can at least quantify it relative to other applicants. Is the plumber making $90k upper classic? We don't need to pin a label onto it, but we can say they're higher than someone making $40k a year and not as high class as someone making $500k a year.
Civil forfeiture is a euphemism for theft by authorities.
And where is the love for ANSI C?

As an embedded systems developer for 38 years, with 26 years writing for small threaded RTOS, including 16 and 32 bit DSPs, and the remainder being platform work on QNX Neutrino, NetBSD, and Linux, most of my code has been K&R, then ANSI C.

A very small amount of C++, but by comparison, a very small amount.

Everything else, Shell, Perl, Python, is a shadow by comparison.
A lot of people seem to use "killing" and "murder" interchangably, though they are different in more than legal ways. A building collapsing can kill a person, as can a landslide, and an uncontrollably skidding car. A lion attacking a human and eating his organs is no murderer, and neither is that human for defending themselves by killing that lion before he can finish his attack. One human killing another does not necessarily have to be murdering them. Initiation of violence, and intent, determine the difference between killing and murder. Even self-killing and self-murder have their own words (suicide is one). Also crows; They gather in murders all the time.
Please consider applying the correct word to the context you wish to discuss.
https://lightstep.com, but that’s the only one :)
The way these are stolen (cut out), vehicles won't be operable without replacement (or putting in a straight pipe where that's legal).
history/second paragraph, whether you call it grant or any other way it's still just tax money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX?wprov=sfti1
> Affirmative action is problematic and has some negative side effects, but it has probably been a net positive for society.

I'm interested to see that you consider it to have been net positive for society. What tangible benefits outweigh the obvious negatives?
There are perfectly good tools for that which don't require text changes.
mander.xyz seems quite pleasant.
Watch Back To The Future.
Yes, it is legal. There is no state in the US where it is completely illegal. Colorado and Utah limit the amount you can collect.
1: why do we need obsolete tech like catalytic converters when there is better tech for ICE to accomplish the same thing? (answer: because the government requires catalytic converters regardless, so no motivation to replace)

2: why did it take them this long?
I'm honestly not sure the MacLane reference applies here.

Although the abstract phrasing can be traced to him, the particular use of "just" in the parent comment's quote tells me they're specifically thinking of the (deliberately condescending) version from the Iry post, especially since that's the version that gets memed throughout the FP community. After all, that particular phrasing is meant to convey a sense of "this is obvious and you are stupid if you don't understand it immediately", which is a far cry from the MacLane version (since that one is, as you said, intended for mathematicians).

But I probably ought to have included the full provenance regardless; thank you for bringing it up!
I agree with the headline.

And liberalism putting identity politics first divides the electorate and makes it so we can't make any progress on overwhelmingly popular economic policies (e.g. universal health care, college and child care), which is by-design. And the Democrats will continue to take money from corporate interests and happily fail to deliver on any really big policies which would move the needle for the bulk of Americans. Middle and upper class liberals will continue to scream about racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic people--who will continue to be those things and vote Republican and nothing will get done.

But The Economist packaging up the end of Affirmative Action with a message about how maybe that is a good thing because we might restructure it around class (we won't) is a bit disingenuous.
Can you express why someone is wrong instead of just telling them they're wrong and unqualified to have an opinion?
Most Nordic cities have central heating plants for millions of homes. This water is recycled, colored bright green and have non-corrosive additives.

Helsinki has also central cooling system utilizing near-by Baltic sea. There is also yearly discussion about using the heating radiators for cooling. Unfortunately system is not designed for that and condensation will damage buildings.
leadership of complexity?
So, not exactly. California just shows up as #1 because of the total value of the crop. Look at the moneymaker: “Fruit, Tree nuts”. That’s Grapes (for wine) and Almonds. Both crops are non-essential (speaking scientifically). Others are important, but also fall lower on the spectrum of key essentials.

California is important but remove Grapes and Almonds and some of the other non essentials (like avocados, sweet potatoes, etc) and California is somewhere at the bottom of the top 10.

Compare that to #2 on the list, Iowa. If Iowa didn’t produce the $17bn of “grains, oilseeds, dry beans, etc”, then large swaths of the Americas experience severe nutrition issues.

I love California and live here, but let’s not kid ourselves - the Midwest feeds the US
Spaces define by themselves the spacing convention unambiguously, whereas tabs is environment dependent and need other tools like editorconfig to guarantee consistency
Texas has more than double the licenses of even the second place state (Florida).
I was a Cobol developer for a year in 2016 in Prague. It's hard to make a proper market research because the Cobol market is small. My limited point of view is, that it's not worth the stress. There is nothing new to build with it and young developers are there just to replace the old ones and maintain what's left. Even that it's hard to find a Cobol developer, i couldn't find a Cobol position that would pay more than a React developer.
I wonder if they limited the seizure to second homes, or basically just kicked the alleged criminals' families onto the street.
For technology focused universities, women usually have higher admission rates than men: https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/can-your-gender-give...
People would grind off the serial numbers and sell them on the secondary market, or for the metals. With motorcycles, for example, motors and frames have vin numbers stamped to help prevent this, but you’ll sometimes see cheap parts for sale with the vin cleaned off.
> Russian

He's been very critical of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, so I doubt that
Also, in a society so bent on making money, what do you want the "guy who inherited a multi-million dollar business" to do? Give it up?

No. He is going to do what everyone is doing. Compete with every tool in his arsenal.

And from his point of view, the competition is a whole bunch of people who inherited THEIR wealth and plenty of people MORE wealthy. Does he see himself as having a privilege compared to all of those people?

Is he going to want to give up any privilege he's got? Especially if some of his competition aren't affected?

I'm not saying it is right. But you'll never get them to agree.
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The TX system creates weird incentives. I know kids have dropped electives because it drops their GPAs making it more difficult to get in the top 10%. And it's worsened because many of the high schools grade higher level course on a 6.0 scale.
Dogs are smarter than people.
This is not true he only put $100K

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX?wprov=sfti1
There is some reason to wonder if the market was algorithmically coordinated to raise prices irrespective of competition

https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...
Great finds - I've added them to the list above. Thanks!
GGP is talking about intentionally killing people. That's murder.

Please consider applying the correct word to the context you wish to discuss.
It’s still a downgrade because it’s an avenue for social engineering the customer service/support reps
Maybe I’m more optimistic than most.

In any case, the gymnastics needed to explain why one was totally wrong and the other is absolutely necessary will bring about an era of US dominance in the sport.
From the press release:

> They knowingly purchased stolen catalytic converters and, through a “de-canning” process, extracted the precious metal powders from the catalytic core. DG Auto sold the precious metal powders it processed from California and elsewhere to a metal refinery for over $545 million.
"White privilege" means that you fit in the particular mold that American society pours and casts people out of. Nothing more and nothing less. If you want to object to the jargon on the grounds of being jargon, fine, but I've yet to find better terminology than this.

It doesn't mean that all white people are rich, it means that poor white people are in less of a shitty situation than equally-improverished black people. It could be as simple as just living in a better ZIP code with more opportunities in it[0], for example. But it's still a shitty situation, in the same way that third-degree burns are bad but different from a broken arm.

The constant self-flaggelation approach is actually opposed by a lot of anti-racists specifically because it takes focus away from the victims of racism and to people who benefit from it.

[0] Thanks, Robert Moses.
> "Deterrence" has generally been found to be a pretty well-rooted myth.

I'm interested in learning more. Do you have some good resources you could point me to?
Property is not worth a life. Not even the life of the person damaging it.

Have you seen the film "Bicycle Thieves"? If someone's property is his livelihood one can have sympathies for those defending it with extreme measures.
> Long story short: other professions clearly delineate between jobs that are (creative) problem solving and jobs that are more "grunt work" like Ikea-assembling CRUD apps. Why don't we?

Is that even possible? It's difficult to separate grunt work and problem solving, because you often need similar levels of context to solve both. They also tend to intertwine a lot.
People were accusing people of being "diversity hires", or having "slept their way to top", or similar dismissive nonsense long before AA was in wide use.
I see your point, but imagine a situation where I robbed bank for a million dollars. Should I be able to use that million to pay a really good lawyer to defend me in court? And then after I'm feeling guilty I just throw my hands up and say "well I don't have that million anymore, good luck collecting it from me while I'm in jail."

At the very least, I believe the assets would be returned to them if it turns out they are found not guilty. So they are seized but not gone for good.
Most people in 2022 have plenty of free bytes on their disks so they don't really care about how long their code is. If you want short code, I can recommend Fortran 77, no identifiers longer than 6 characters allowed.
You can look up sun-synchronous orbits; orbits that are mostly polar, but can be set up to continuously face the sun and without ever going into the earth's shadow. For continuous power delivery to a single ground station from such an orbit, you'd need several satellites. (If you remove the requirement to never be in shadow, but just mostly never, there are quite a few orbits that could be set up.) Geo-synchronous orbits would always be stationary above a single point on the earth's surface and could therefore potentially get away with just one solar collector, but you are guaranteed to be in shadow at some point and taking up that much space in the very precious geo-orbit is unlikely.
ALL of the political spam I've been getting has prominently talked about "protecting home values"
Sometimes walking around the apple store, do you really want to know?

It might be for your annoying nephew, the one who changes technology like underwear. It's not for you, the one who keeps the same phone for 10 years. :)

(worse, it is for advertisers, or stockholders)
I’m a gun-owning full pro-2A believer and I absolutely disagree with killing someone over stealing a catalytic converter. For fuck’s sake, prison or murder cannot be the only two options here.
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What subset of the openCypher dialect specification will Apache Age support?

Every implementation is all over the place and completely non-portable. And neo4j performance leaves much to be desired.

My personal go-to is RedisGraph paired with RedisInsight for the instant visualizations. It just feels "right" and, while not perfect, is overall intuitive.
> So you might be wondering, hey, how did you make a javascript applet ping these arbitrary servers? What about cross-domain request protection?

> Answer: I did it by just making the queries anyway, and seeing how long it takes to get the error message back that my request was refused because of cross-domain request protection. Yes, this results in an infinite number of error messages to your javascript console. Don't look at your javascript console and you'll be fine. Trust me on this.
You have to interact with people at some point, even if it's just when you get groceries. In rural areas, everyone knows everyone: you can't stay anonymous. In a big city, you probably don't even know your neighbors, and you choose your own friends.
As an older dev, screw those older devs that 'roast your code'.

The really good ones won't do that. The ones that do suffer from some weak superiority complex. I had three awesome mentors when I started writing C, and a couple great mentors when I did what little C++ work that I had to do.

The only scold I ever dealt with wrote overly wrought, overly complex crap. Kitchen sink patterns to handle any possible future variation, instead of solving the problem at hand.

Stay away from people like that, they'll just turn you into the same old grouch.
Bernie also said “when you’re white you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto, you don’t know what it’s like to be poor”

https://youtu.be/z6IlGoeDIUQ&t=0m42s
The Boomers climbed the ladder then cut all the opportunities out from below them and pocketed and spent the money and didn’t save for retirement.

As a whole, they are clearly going senile and mentally declining a lot faster than their parents. Also they’re selfish whiners. Most of em deserve cattle call retirement line up take your meds in run down projects they never bothered to upgrade.

Prison not pensions for a bunch of them.
Can I exec a new process without an executable file? (2015)
So pay the insurance... and then pay full procedure price?
> particularly southern ones

Care to elaborate?
I wire everything that isn’t a nightmare to get wire too. WiFi is for smart home things and when I bring my laptop to the couch.
The survey specifically asks about racial discrimination. There is indeed more widespread support for "affirmative action", but not race-based affirmative action. I don't think the supreme court is going to strike down policies favoring first generation college students or low income students, only those focused on race.
Containers aren't great security boundaries. To get the safety you'd really need, you should absolutely use a VM.
Great differences of wealth in the same area, coupled with a culture of "keeping up with the Joneses", and policies disabling/disincentivizing stable relationships, are good predictors for violence and theft.
The reason that communism thrives in racially homogenous societies like North Korea, 20th century Russia or China is because it requires people to believe that everyone is roughly equal and that they only have different economic outcomes because the bourgeois conspire to hold the proletariat down.

In a multi-racial society like the U.S, people are less likely to believe that because of racism. This is why libertarians and racists are often strange bedfellows because they oppose communism together, but for completely different reasons. They would probably be sworn enemies in a racially homogenous society.
Why is catalytic converter theft seemingly worse in the US/UK than in Europe/AU/NZ?

I think the problem is underlying societal collapse rather than consequences.
I'm curious what editors you've experienced that with.

I've had some editors that made tab-space conversion an option, but it was never mandatory.
I’ve armored both of my IC engine vehicles due to the local theft issues which spiked after the pandemic started. Cost about $400 per vehicle (both happen to be the top targets for thieves). I’m hoping it’s saved me the annoyance of having the part stolen, but I’m rather sad to see things degenerate to this level. Glad to see the feds really go after the crooks.
I don't have any good data and would also be interested. Anecdotally, I do know women who didn't use them at first and started using them later for multiple reasons: aging, advice of medical team changing, unexpectedly low pain tolerance, and in a couple of cases, just wanting to experience an epidural with the last kid. :)

I also know some who stopped using epidurals, but fewer and most of them simply had become interested in more natural births between children.
As someone who had a similar mindset about my childhood, I'd like to share that you might be wrong in thinking they're "resolved" if "dredging them up" still stirs negative emotions in you. Also, even if it doesn't directly, there are other parts of your daily life that it might insidiously influence without you even noticing. So, if you have never talked to someone about these things (I'd suggest a professional, friends and family can inadvertently cause trauma reactivation by offering help or advice, and that can be very dangerous depending on the trauma, especially if gaslighting was involved).

But regarding mushrooms: on their own, I believe they're not that useful for healing. I have a (layman's) theory that post-trip therapy is probably more successful due to increased neuroplasticity of the brain[1]. There was also some research that suggested the DMN gets a bit "scrambled"[2], so another of my layman's theories is that it's able to reach a new "equilibrium" once it was kicked into this unstable state.

[1]: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.17.431629v1...., and a more easily digested version is here https://www.sciencealert.com/one-dose-of-psilocybin-regrows-...

[2]: Can't find the thing I was thinking of now, but googling "psilocybin dmn" will yield some interesting reads regardless!
> We must maintain the culture of hard work and high risk/reward, otherwise our economy will consist of uninspiring medium-sized companies (with the only large ones being banks or oil companies), as is the situation in most of the world outside America.

You think that without that culture, there would be no large companies other than banks or oil companies anywhere in the world?
This makes me very curious how many steps in the laundering chain you have to go before it’s no longer indefensibly obvious that something's not right with the sourcing.
See: New Jersey State Unemployment Insurance.
I thought that was intentional
Have we even considered if there may be rare minerals on the asteroid that we would want to mine to pull our population out of poverty?
So what do we tell those US nationals "become citizens of Samoa or become stateless," because that's obviously not a viable path forward.
This is why American Samoa prefers to remain a territory.

They don't want to end up like Hawaii.
I wonder if the scheme outlined is more or less stringent than the US's legal ability to track guns. For now, they require serial numbers, but my understanding is that the ATF is disallowed from using computers to track firearms. It would be ironic if catalytic converters ended up with stricter controls than guns.
> While I believe there is belief that Harvard is accepting C-students over asians A+ students I think the reality is much closer; they are rejecting students with perfect scores and accepting students who scored in the 98th percentile.

You don't need to speculate, the gap is more like 99th vs 93rd percentile:

"Asian-Americans admitted to Harvard earned an average SAT score of 767 across all sections. ... African-American admits an average of 704."

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/10/22/asian-american...
Is it possible that morning people are more productive than people who prefer later times of day. This article is filled with things that are "biased" towards morning people, but didn't actually provide any evidence that this bias is unfounded.
As with all other types of data: the right approach is for model and presentation to be separable concerns.

We're struggling with the wrong problem if we aren't asking why the editor can't treat blocks as entities that are displayed however we want.
California is the only state in the country with this policy.
So give the refinery a fine that is 10x their yearly profit, cripple it's leadership and make an "example" out of them. End their business, and make it clear that any metal refinery buying materials that could come from catalytic converters needs to be very, very careful and have extremely good documentation about where it actually comes from.

I mean, when you're buying refined precious metal powders from inside the US, it doesn't take a genius to figure out where it's coming from.