skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s too risky to make a mistake in the age of social media.
There is a huge difference in difficulty and reasonableness between the examples you list and going into debt. "He didn't teach himself self-defense", "she wore provocative clothing" vs. "he spent money he didn't have through installment payment plans". Listen to yourself apply those judgments and it should be clear why these are different situations.

Note that in cases where people go into debt for much more unavoidable reasons ("her husband got cancer and racked up a million dollars in medical bills before he died", "she was born into poverty and had to start work as a waitress at a young age to keep a roof over her sibling's heads"), people are much less likely to victim-blame, because those cases are much more legitimately victims.
It's also wrong historically.
Exactly. I don't think it warrants it's own class, but it could be integrated into a known framework like ec where the kids are instilled some financial literacy --any literacy in debt.
Rather than giving specifics I’d try to focus on popular (translated) speeches from the time from Germany, Russia, France, UK, US. Read old news papers if you can as well (there are archives online). That’ll give you more of a “heart beat” of what’s going on.

The geopolitics of the time I developed from reading probably a hundred or so books on it. When you get a history book they have citations, go through those and find a few to read. You’ll get closer to the source material.

Sorry for being “loose” in my particulars of recommendations. I really do think for understanding civilian life newspapers might be the best basis (it’s most of the original source material).
It's an aesthetic - have you seen https://carbon.now.sh ? I think it's that website which popularised it recently.
It's not like Gen Z is the only generation this has happened to. The Boomers ran up a lot of debt as well.
I think the point is, young people are in fact _not_ well informed. It's in the entire credit industry's collective best interest to keep consumers in the dark.
> Spending money you don't have...

You basically just described loans. So the mortgage industry.

I'm not looking forward to bailing people or companies out for being irresponsible again (referring to 2008 housing, I'm fine with student loan forgiveness).
This doesn’t make sense.

Wages are decreasing. Companies are using inflation and recession fears to not just stagnate wages, but actually lower them. Public and private sectors are doing massive layoffs.

No. This is a bad idea.
I don’t think it has anything to do with the number of lanes directly, it’s just a bunch of opportunistic assholes taking advantage of a bunch of lazy cops.

I have little insight into LA because South Pasadena isn’t known for street races but here in San Diego, the intersection between my house and the I15 (in an immigrant/family oriented suburb at the outskirts of the city) regularly gets taken over by these assholes on Friday nights. They not only do donuts in a four lane intersection but use it as a launch point for late night freeway races which regularly break triple digit mph [1].

The cops are fucking useless [2]. There’s at least three squad cars every time and all they do is a half assed attempt at crowd control.

At this point I’m hoping my alibaba bulk order of caltrops doesn’t get held up by customs.

[1] a few years ago “in my youth” I pushed my Toyota Corolla to the max racing one of these fellows at midnight going west on the 52 right before the warped asphalt (which has sadly been fixed). If I managed to reach the limits of my speedometer you can bet the guys with turbos are even worse.

[2] a few months ago I was driving down the freeway a few cars behind a cop right as they received a call. For the next five minutes I watched several dozen cars completely ignore the flashing lights, forcing the cop car to weave in and out of traffic like a street racer.
problems(problems)
Who can say no to free money? /s
To the contrary, I think paulcole made a great point. It doesn’t need to be weapons. A programmer who makes a social media feed more addictive isn’t necessarily moral. But a salesperson/marketer can promote something generally seen as good, or at least far more good than the example programmer.

Ad campaigns can remind people to vote, encourage people to quit smoking, or convince people to avoid drunken driving. A marketer is behind for the design and distribution of these public advocacy campaigns.
And creditors are well informed about the consequences of lending and chose to consent. Not repaying a loan is not a huge moral failing. In most cases it is not a even crime--because no one believes all loans will be repaid, especially the creditors.
> keeping his account active, poised to return immediately (but still, definitely leaving)

Note that when you delete your account, the handle becomes free to be reused 30 days after, at the risk of someone trying to impersonate him. It's better to leave the account stagnant or "protected" than delete it in this case, and simply point to his Mastodon account in a tweet, his display name or his bio.
I think the threshold for victim blaming depends on the event. Your examples of rape and murder have an extremely high threshold for victim blaming, where you should almost never, but perhaps in some cases you still could e.g. responding to a cannibal who advertised for victims on a forum.

Things like gambling, pay day loans, credit cards, buy now pay later are all forms of predatory behaviour and are in that way similar to rape/murder but considerably less grievous. The threshold for victim blaming is alot less in these situations but you certainly still could.

I don't think you should admonish someone for victim blaming here or make out they're equivalent to rape or murder, they're clearly not.

Is the person who built his house upon the sand to blame or is he an innocent victim of the people who sold him the land, the bricks, the plans and the labour?
Why should they worry? Some future President or Congress will just make people who were responsible pay their debt for them. That's what we've taught them, after all.
He says:

>Here's the thing about @tesla It's not a car company. Tesla is a company that has to make cars in order to sell its real product: Emissions Credits.

So the so called real product makes 2.7% of the revenue, but actually selling the cars to customers makes them 97% of the revenue, but somehow it's not a car company but an emissions credits company? What?

If the credits disappeared tomorrow, only 10% of the profit would be lost. If it were an emissions credit company it'd take heavy losses and shutdown.
> false sharing

Usually the "cache invalidation" remark is about correctness and knowing when to invalidate, like for example making sure all your login tokens get expired when you change your password. This is about performance impacts from having multiple logical entities in one shared cached entity.
I feel like nobody external really totally understands it. Heroku kept going fine for some years after the initial salesforce purchase in 2011 (heroku's real launch wasn't even until 2009, so arguably most of the "golden" years were post-salesforce... )

I would be very interested to see a balance sheet, like how much revenue and how much profit for heroku specifically, over time. But that's known to nobody outside of salesforce so far as I know. Neither is how their staffing may or may not have changed over time.

We have seen heroku kind of stagnating, and maybe having more technical problems, which they handle without the professional polish we had previously expected, and now get rid of free tier -- and there have been a few pieces kind of saying this, but what I'm interested in is... why? What's happened?

I have seen various people speculate, including that it may have been doing quite fine well in the black as an independent unit, but salesforce has always wanted it to be more "synergistic" with their other business than it has been, and just wasn't interested in investing in it. But maybe it hasn't been that profitable? not sure anyone publicly really knows?
There's no stopping an NMI (non-maskable interrupt), even if you're in a division error interrupt.
> "Musk, meanwhile, has sought to personally call chief executives of some brands that have curbed advertising in order to berate them"

Great plan he's got there. Instead of berating, wouldn't he be better off begging or at the very least asking nicely?
Income Distributions in 16 Different Countries
I have a task to investigate https://www.firezone.dev
So what?

If you sell water bottles for a $2/ea loss, and the government makes soda companies pay you $3 for each bottle of water... you don't have a good business.

Hyundai recently spent the equivalent of Tesla's quarterly revenue (not profit) just to build a new EV assembly line. They are small and insignificant in grand scheme of the auto industry.
Not showing him as cast of terminator 2, his most successful movie, is bad, but not showing him as cast of CONAN THE BARBARIAN -the 1982 movie- is worst!!¡
ARM is cache coherent, meaning it has some kind of MESI (or better, like MESIF) protocol going on.

ARM is _RELAXED_ however, or perhaps... "more relaxed" than x86. More orderings are possible on ARM, but that only makes memory-fences (load-acquire, store-release) even more important.
WWII saw similar response, so precedent is there when Americans see a direct threat. Some political action that nobody agrees with like Vietnam/Korean conflicts is where you see the lower interest. That's more in line with your example.
Can you help me learn how to search for threads on LtU? I tried using the search box for lua but found nothing. Also failed to find anything in the archives.
I was going to say whatever the CIA says assume the exact opposite. These guys literally invented the word misinformation.
Yeah but through the lens of what they asked for I'd expect the %age to be low. What's asked for tends to be utterly disconnected from reality.

This figure seems exceptionally small even in absolute terms.
> Spending money you don't have is being financially irresponsible, regardless of whether it's through credit cards or some other equivalent.

Hmmmm... spending money you don't have is how modern economies work, to a great extent. Companies take out loans to fund investment when cost of capital makes sense. People take out mortgages to buy homes.

> However, the financially irresponsible tend to blame the tool (eg credit cards) rather than becoming more responsible, and, in the case of this article, Gen Z seemed to have fallen prey to a similar tool but with a newer name.

Well, there is a certain class of loan products that preys on people who don't deeply understand how our financial system works. That understanding only comes from experience. How much can you truly blame someone when the "tool" is designed in such a way to take advantage of them. Lenders obscure the cost/risk, use advertising to make it seem like free money, etc. They target young people, because they are the ones most vulnerable to such tactics, and they can probably work for a long time, so you can make a ton of interest odd them, especially with the current bankruptcy laws.
In the original Pinnochio, a trickster steals a large sum from him, so he goes before a wide old ape judge. The judge hears his complaint - and then has him imprisoned for stupidity. The thief wasn’t arrested in the book.

There are similar parallels with ancient Sparta. Back then, boys were soldiers by mandate, and were taught to steal from local farms. They were whipped for getting caught - not for theft. Theft was encouraged, getting caught was severely punished.

Just interesting things to consider that come to my mind. Especially because I think banks may turn out to be Pinnochio in the story and we the thieves in the long run. ;)
The Zen of Python is not much more than a meme. As a nearby comment pointed out, Python doesn't follow it in many ways (explicit vs. implicit comes to mind), and it contradicts itself in several places.

"Readability counts" might be the one exception, at least early on in the language's lifetime. Nowadays it could be argued that even that is diminishing.

But readability is often overlooked by most programming languages, which is a mistake. Programmers (should) spend more time reading than writing code, so it's very important. It's also very difficult to get right, being so subjective, but GvR has a good eye for it, and he made good design choices to balance it with expressiveness.

Readability is also crucial for a language being welcoming to newcomers, and new programmers in general. I think that Python is still the best first language for people learning to program. This is likely the biggest reason for its adoption and popularity today.
Interesting, but having to sign up to even click on a book made me instantly leave
Given that all of this tech is already being used inside Twitter, I feel it is unethical to discuss any non-public info (like discussions with cloud vendors on cost etc.) in public. The engineers have been kicked out, the tech still belongs to Twitter. This is not "decimation" of the engineering, just of engineers' egos. Someone else will do the job, the show will go on.
Exactly, the tweet is basically factually incorrect. It implies Tesla is mostly about the credits when in reality it's a nice cherry on a really big cake for them. And it's not like they are getting favorable treatment here (which is another thing implied by the tweet). A lot of those credits exist because companies like GM receive them too and the US government just decided to inject a lot of dollars in renewable infrastructure. Only fair that Tesla gets a chunk of that given that they do invest a lot in exactly that kind of thing.

Also, people keep talking about Tesla as if it is just a car company. They now have several booming businesses related to grid batteries, domestic batteries, solar panels, charging infrastructure, and a few other things. They are becoming a virtual power plant even. And they are about to become a major semi truck producer (planning to ramp up to 50K trucks per year over the next few years). The cars are still a huge chunk of their revenue and profit of course but they have healthy growth in their other businesses as well. I think grid batteries are about 1 billion $ revenue per quarter at this point for example.
I agree, but there’s no reason to be an asshole about it.

If you communicate and someone fails to understand, that’s a communication on your part.

But perhaps what you meant to say is “if you disagree, you’re stupid”. That sentiment is incompatible with constructive discourse. It is also a dangerous trap for you.
If you assume everyone who disagrees with you is dumb, you cannot correct any error in thinking. The only people who never need to be corrected are the people who are perfect. How many of those people are there? And even if there were perfect people you would not be one of them since you misspoke and said understand instead of agree.

But like I said, I do agree. We ought to build value. In fact that might be the answer. The economy is dangerously overbalanced, but the solution is a return to value. Identify the things that produce a tangible benefit by making peoples lives better, making their work easier or better, making their lives less environmentally destructive. If we trim all the speculation off the economic system a core of value will remain. The system won’t go to zero because there’s good in the center. And maybe it’ll do us all a lot of good for the wild speculation to stop.
I'm looking forward to when Big Clive (the Isle of Man's top tech You Tuber) starts making videos in Manx!
Sorry but a genuine question, what does being a Muslim have to do with the rest of your statement?

I have read/heard that early Christianity had something against charging interest or similar. Is it the same with Islam?

Was that related to stories of money lenders being mostly Jewish? (Or were they? Or was that some rumor to stoke resentment?).

Apologies if I’m asking too ignorant a question. I don’t come from a Judeo-Christian background.
Right - we did it with student loans (even if it is in legal limbo). It’ll start with $10K for school loans, then $10K for your credit card debt, and then…
YES!

I could enumerate the enumerable reasons that have been dancing around and torturing my mind for the last years, but frankly I'm exhausted of trying to explain myself. This stuff should be obvious to people.
> You're simplifying the opposition to fascism too much.

In much the same way that they simplify their opposition into a strawman. But you're not denying the violence and destruction.

> For ex. when Antifa were destroying things in protest to police brutality against people of color.

What did perceived injustices have to do with an anti-fascist group? I don't see how they have justified their involvement.

> Many thought this was unjustified and wrong.

It was. They were destroying the livelihoods of people in their local areas that had nothing to do with their current situation. If you want to believe the idea of racial based inherited guilt, it was the black people who captured and enslaved their own people and sold them to foreigners.

> Imagine your people were being killed unfairly; how would you react?

People get killed unfairly all of the time, my people included. There is only so much I can carry.

> I'm not saying all the destruction is the best way, but they can't just be silent about it right.

I don't at all expect silence. A peaceful protest would have been a good start. For example, 100k black people demanding to be heard at the capitol would have been a hell of a statement. Policing accountability would have been a great demand - how could anybody possibly disagree.

Instead we got destruction and violence, a few people kneeled who had nothing to do with slavery and the BLM organisation ran off with the money after successfully helping themselves.

> Ignoring the real cause for a protest is easy when it doesn't affect you.

It's unclear to me what the real reason for the protest was. That might be because there wasn't a single reason, and not all the reasons were good reasons.

In any case, my position doesn't change. The belief is still that some ideology is supreme, therefore violence is justified, is exactly how the thing they are opposed to is born.
There’s a Wikipedia on this apparently (to my surprise)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_t...
Main difference is that offering financing tools is not a crime, raping and murdering is. It's an apples to elephants comparison.

They're not victims. They knew the risks and decided to venture.
Google's doodle for international men's day: nothing.

50% of the world population.
And debt was forgiven done before with mortgage payments in 2008 (even if people lied on their mortgage applications, or took out HELOCs on the mortgage!) and on taxes owed on stock option speculation during the dot-com crash of 2000.
Can you point to a well known communist today who opposes freedom of speech?
I’d call them “slideshows”. Much catchier name.
> When an object is only partially visible, the human visual system extrapolates from the shape of the visible part to form an expectation of what is occluded.

Yes, for example if I see this:

blah () {
whatever
whatever

I know that it is not complete; something is occluded. At the very least, a closing brace:

}

Here, I do not know:

def blah(x):
foo
bar

that could easily be the whole thing, or it could be the first three lines of five thousand.
They taught it to us (very briefly) in our Canadian high school, it was part of a mandatory course. I don't remember what it was called but the other thing I remember learning in that class was sex ed stuff.
Like I said, I agreed in general.
And you don’t even have to be a person! Bankrupt car companies? Send them checks! Incompetent banks? Send them checks! Incompetent schools? Send them grants! Incompetent government agencies? More cash (1)!

This can’t last… it’s a pyramid scheme that assumed the authority to shut down competing pyramid schemes.

(1) My home state of Minnesota spent over $100 million and over a decade of time to build a driver’s license system. Total sunk-cost. The rollout was so bad they scrapped it for a third party platform. Look up MNLARS for the gory details of absolute technical failure.
Cities have much better hospitals than rural areas, and that's not going to change until super advanced robots are developed.
i personally think its a good thing that goods sold commercially are not going to start basking my other electronics in random rf.
What if it's spending incurred by a trip to the emergency room?
I think the comparison is facile. I'm just a layman, but it is my strong impression that nearly all scientists working at the edge of astrophysics and quantum theory know what they have is a model, sometimes stunningly predictive and accurate but still a model. The vast majority of experimentalists (and theorists) would love to get some result that is inexplicable, far more than another experiment that takes years and doesn't turn up any surprises. Dark matter, dark energy -- as far as I know, everyone working on them see our current ideas as placeholders until someone comes up with a good explanation.

Sure, there are many examples of scientists clinging on to old ideas too long, but eventually when enough evidence is marshaled by someone to overturn the old model, they are heralded and given honors.

That is all to say: frontier physics is utterly unlike religion, where so may claim to KNOW the truth, where the most tenuous claims are literally gospel, where there is little desire admit counter-evidence.
why not just use https://chitchatter.im/ ? matrix is quite intensive for a single user and not very private by default.
It led to the invention of these hard rubber dots that were meant to stop donut-doers. They don't work though...

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/those-newly-install...
I trust the Tesla engineers who thoroughly review the code for a few hours more than this guy who worked at Twitter for years.

After spending time reading Elons first responders on Twitter, I have learned that in the hierarchy of human competence, rocket scientist or FSD engineer > engineer supporting a website. This means naturally they are better at everything even when they stoop to doing a lesser job and would quickly recognize the coding deficiencies at Twitter.
It reminds me of subreddit simulator
Everything you do will affect others, like it or not, positive or negative. That's just the price of freedom, and it's something I have no resistance about continuing to pay, because the alternative is an authoritarian socialist dystopia.

that could improve the life of everyone around you

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
This one is good too: "A U.S. indictment alleges that Huawei and [CFO] Meng participated in a fraudulent scheme to obtain prohibited U.S. goods and technology for Huawei’s Iran-based business, and move money out of Iran by deceiving Western banks."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-iran-sanctions-exc...