skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that the unipolar nature of Canada driven by the federal government's usurpation of provincial powers is causing us far more harm than any harm caused by provinces exercising their constitutional rights. What we have now is a weird system where almost all the power resides in Ontario and Quebec, with an extremely weird Faustian bargain of payoffs and bribes to Quebec (primarily financed by the other provinces) to keep them engaged in keeping the power center out east, concentrating a majority of the extractive parts of business (banking, head offices) and government there, which is causing major stagnation and loss of productivity in Canada. We need to get to a more multipolar setup so that when the east decides to do something insane it does much less damage over the time period they are pulling their heads out of their arses (this is basically what keeps America so strong but because they are already multipolar you can replace "the east" with New Yorkers, Californians, Illinoisians, Floridians, etc) and our constitution should have set us up for being exactly this. What happened instead is the federal government manufactured a bunch of rights they don't have and made us all worse off.
[2011] or thereabouts
> I like wearing a nicely cut suit or jacket.

Suits don't set off my bullshit detector. Legitimate hackers have had to wear them since the dawn of computing.

The devil is in the details. Alarm bells start to ring for me when the sum of the details exceeds what my gut feels is reasonable.

Being worthy of the cover of GQ takes a ton of time, energy, and resources to maintain.

Managing to maintain the same perfect tan all year is an investment for sure, but not necessarily an investment that aligns with the hacker ethos.
Note: the post is deleted from mastodon.

I managed to grab a screenshot earlier: https://imgur.com/a/JB4xpPs
A lot of people who drive SUVs/trucks own guns in the US. Not a great idea.
Elon Musk apologizes after publicly mocking Twitter employee with disability
BlackMamba: Using AI to Generate Polymorphic Malware
The latest driver claims to improve DX9 performance by 60%. Counter-Strike by 120%.

Myself I don't care about old games. As long as they're "good enough", I worry about unreleased games that will force me to get a new video card before I would otherwise.
As the other commenter replied, inner-city gang culture is a principal example that is destructive to so many children's futures.

Even among groups that would be categorized together in the US, such as African-Americans, you can see a clear divided in outcomes between cultures; Nigerian-Americans, for example, have a higher average income than the US average, and nearly twice that of Somali-Americans. Average incomes for black people who immigrated to the US is considerably higher than those native-born.

Or take Indian-Americans vs. Bangladeshi-Americans, whose original countries are next to each other and have comparable GDP per capita; yet the former group has an average income more than twice the latter. And you can imagine that whatever prejudices an Indian-American faces, a Bangladeshi-American faces equally.

There's no evidence historically to suggest that cultural groups that value human capital differently should end up at similar levels of wealth over time.
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The word game of 'semantle' (https://semantle.com/) is a nice way to get an intuitive grasp of how unintuitive the closeness in a highdimensional space is, as you're required to guess a word based on it's semantic similarity (according to classic word2vec metric) to your previous guesses.
As a swe that works with typescript / javascript, I find this post exhausting.

Am I the only one? Am I a shit swe?

Edit - comments seem to suggest I was asking this question seriously. I was not, I was just (sort of) joking.

That being said, front end engineering is rapidly changing all the time, so the confidence I have in knowing I will always have work to do (read that to mean: a job) is satisfying.
"tyre" haha. his thread is gold. you EU trash nitwits can come try that in the US. we'll beat your weak little bodies to a pulp in front of your children.

violence is a perfect response to wanton destruction of personal property. sometimes you idiots need a good whoopin ;) i'll beat your ass to a bloody pulp in front of your children to teach them a real lesson about their loser daddy that doesn't respect others property.

bubble boy retards out in force.
I could imagine them getting shot.
Two Minute Papers is a relatively good proxy for this! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg
They've allowed "styled-components" to work though, which is pretty nice. I always thought of them as providing a way to parse DSLs directly in your code. For example, a fictional way to generate some config could look like this (using tagged templates):

const thingies = ["a", "b"];
const config = yaml`
- foo
- bar
- baz
- thingies: ${thingies.map(thing => yaml`- thing: ${thing}`)}
`;
// config = ["foo", "bar", "baz", { "thingies": [{"thing": "a"}, {"thing": "b"}] }]

At a company I worked at people were generating YAML using Jinja templates, but tagged templates to me would be a better approach. Is it hard to read? It can be, but compared to the alternatives it's not too bad.
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If I ask why is the sky blue, telling me because blue is the color or the sky doesn't help.
The downside to running a huge domestic surveillance state is that it undermines democracy and the rule of law. The upside is you could use it to catch a lot of murderers, rapists etc.

The US IS running just such a state. And democracy is in peril.

But the US does NOT use it for the only upside it might bring: less serious crime.

The US has created the worst of all worlds. Maximum risk, minimum benefit.

Is that clear?
they do turn unfortunately turn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sanbI_ze8c
Demis Hassabis: DeepMind
As an EU citizen, yes, I'm very aware.

In here though I talked explicitly about GDPR and data privacy in the surveillance economy sense.

I'm not discussing encryption or government overreach on privacy matters in the EU in general, unsure why it is brought up in this thread, care to expand?
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Nobody has good support for DX9 in their hardware, it's all in the drivers. And that's why the delta between Nvidia and everybody else is so much higher for DX9-DX11 than it is for DX12, Metal & Vulcan.
What would be a good example where an operator would make sense?
Also related, one of my favorite philosophy papers: Vehicles and Crashes: Why is this Moral Issue Overlooked? by Douglas Husak

Argues that SUVs are immoral because of the high crash incompatibility. They cause more damage to others (disproportionally), and ironically don't provide more safety for drivers due to higher rollover instances.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23562447
Ask HN: Help validate my CSV –> Dashboard idea
I'm fighting the urge to writing code and trying to validate my idea of quickly turning simple CSV data -> Dashboards/Charts. I often find myself wanting to quickly visualize some data, but things like PowerBI/Tableau seem like overkill; so I'm thinking of building something that makes it easy to upload a simple CSV file and create charts/dashboards in your browser.

I'd love to get feedback from others to validate if this is something others would find useful.

My attempt at a landing page is here:
https://mailchi.mp/2299e2367774/csv-moxie

Thank you!
> for peanut she said “no daddy, there’s nut in the name”

There’s also pea in the same. It’s kinda like a pea and kinda like a nut.
Coca Cola brought Crush and shut it down some 30 years ago. Some times try to get some market back in one city or another by using the brand again, but I know of no place where it lasts.
> Keeping up with the Jonses [sic]

I think it's even more toxic than that: it's an arms race. I have known people who have told me in so many words that they bought SUVs primarily so they could see around/over all the other SUVs already out there. Though they didn't say so, I'd guess they also feel like their odds of survival in a crash with one of those other SUVs when they're in one themselves vs. being in a regular car. (Maybe that's what you were getting at with your "perceived safety" point but "full size truck" is ambiguous.) Many people buy SUVs out of fear or its cousin insecurity, not because of any practical value it has over a sedan etc. In fact, just about every SUV owner I've known complains about terrible mileage, sometimes about difficulty getting in/out or poor ride characteristics as well. They feel they have to make those tradeoffs, mostly because others already did.
That used to be 20 seconds in the original robocop, right? Wow, technology is certainly advancing fast! ;)
To me, the single best example, is a function that turns a template into a parameterized query, and then makes an async database request...

var result = await query`
SELECT * FROM foo.bar where baz = ${baz}
`;

There are libraries that allow for construction of queries as well using template strings. I don't know of too many instances beyond this where there's custom functions for tagged templates, vs just string building with parameters.
You're comparing a dual-parent household to a single-parent household and claiming that if they made the same amount of money, the children would be equally well off. I'm not sure where you get this idea.
I would take a similarly dim view of anyone damaging my windows or my fence.
Good question. The answer is no for three primary reasons. First, the JWST isn't designed for observing Earth, so its equipment isn't optimized for that purpose. Second, spy sats are already at the limits of what physics will allow them to see. And third, the JWST is much farther from our planet than spy sats. The atmosphere blurs signals.
Ideally, the way to go is to live somewhere you can walk, bike, or take public transportation for your daily needs. A bus can hold a lot of kids!

Of course, that's not always practical. For those situations, how is an SUV better than a van?
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We (Digger.dev) recently launched TFrun - a Github Action that runs Terraform plan and apply with PR-level locks. 2 days ago, we released the updated version v0.0.2 with Multi Environment Support. Super keen on feedback from HN!
No way, source? Kind of amazing if true.
SUVs have gone from being vehicles for outdoors people to vehicles for people who really need a minivan but are afraid of not looking cool.
I like the notion of this idea but 24 hours is ridiculous. It just reminds me of times of being so depressed that I didn’t want to do anything.

I feel like there’s a somewhat of a vilification of doing something for fun. Whether it’s video games, television, Reddit etc. We’re trained socially we need to be productive. We need to either be improving ourselves (mentally or physically) or making money.

I’d argue though that these “dopamine hits” aren’t a bad thing if you’re reasonably successful in the rest of your life. People deserve time to veg out.
So worrying about corporations and privacy from them when the government who literally has a “monopoly on violence” is taking away your privacy is like worrying about a mosquito bite when you have been shot.
TBH, last time I did a chargeback, I did not contact support first. That's because I could see a clear way to get my money back via a chargeback (dispute transaction button in the online bank). There was no such button on the company's website.
Tangentially related, but grasses are, in fact, a very recent evolutionary turn. We live in a very grass heavy epoch to the extent that it is hard for me to imagine a world with out grasslands. In some sense grasses seem primitive and foundational to us compared to a flowering tree like the magnolia, but no - grasses are actually really complicated and impressive organisms that filled an unexpectedly large niche.
porkbun is nice has been nice for registrations, migadu for email
I know in some non-US countries, WhatsApp is the default way of communicating (like SMS is in the US). Is that true in the UK? That could put significant pressure on the government
Very much this. There's lots in here about the 8-bit era which is just plain wrong.

The CPC was absolutely not an "impulse buy price point". It was several times the price of a ZX Spectrum, which was a much more "compromised" device than the CPC. Amstrad's marketing trick was to sell an all-in-one, non-toy system at an affordable price that didn't tie up the TV. Put simply, the CPC appealed to the parents who were paying for the computer, not the kids who were badgering for it.

When he says "many devices still required purchasers to undertake their own wiring, and sometimes even solder on their own plug", that's not at all the case. The kit computer in the UK died years earlier with the ZX81. Fitting plugs yourself was not uncommon in the 80s, but no soldering was required.
There's always bigger fish to fry, but by constantly shifting focus away to the bigger and bigger fish, we lose the opportunity to improve things that are exceptionally easy fixes in comparison.
SUVs are eight times as likely to kill children as other vehicles. [0]

It's not just about pollution, they're horrible death machines in other ways, too.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00224...
No it is not. The whole point of GC is to collect cycles and not think about ownership, while Swift and Rust require you to think about ownership.

In Rust you do so via borrow checker or explicit Rc/Weak wrappers. In Swift you do that via additional weak annotations (strong being the implicit default).
Yeah, they are educators, not commercial developers. They encourage others to fork it. I began organizing a theoretical framework for a solar powered laptop 2 years ago: https://hackaday.io/project/177716-the-libre-autarkic-laptop
Alright. Hundreds of examples. Hundreds sounds like a big number. How many LEOs are there in the United States? A quick Google search says there is ~670,000. Therefore hundreds is a relatively small number. Especially when many act like a majority of police are corrupt and bad rule breakers.
"challenge"
It’s exhausting because: _____

If you find yourself struggling to articulate it, seriously and honestly consider whether you’re simply choosing to be stressed about it.

I’m speaking from experience here.
And are walls, houses, rivers, people, etc. all shrubs?
I am not sure if cloudflare is liked by HN this week, but so far, I’ve not had a bad experience with their registrar.

Fast and cheap.
Back before I moved to NYC, I lived in Colorado. When it came time for me to replace my car, I couldn't see the logic in buying a SUV that would be predominantly used for commuting. So, I countered "convention" thought and bought a sporty Acura RSX with a standard transmission. I loved the simplicity and utility of that car, and I loved the fact that, sometimes (depending on how I drove), I could get nearly 34 miles to the gallon. Meanwhile, my friends driving SUVs would complain every time they had to fill up about how much gas would cost them.
After I moved to NYC, I held onto my car for a year in case I needed it. But, once I got used to living car-free, I sold the car to my brother's GF for a song.

Unfortunately, there are only a few cities in the USA where one can live car-free. However, it's maddening (to me) how many people choose to buy the biggest, least economical vehicle. On the other hand, it's quite fascinating how marketing has successfully imprinted on the American driving public the "need" for such vehicles.
> But, what do you think happens when you write (input) data to memory and then read (output) it from memory? I'll help you: it starts with "I" and ends with "O"!

That's.. that's not what people mean when they talk about I/O in this context. But I think you know that, you're just grasping at straws to win an argument.
I wonder if this is hurts testing culture with Rust. People think the compiler is magical enough they doing out a lot of energy into writing good tests still
exactly! controlling refers to directing or regulating the behavior of something, while operating refers to the actual execution or manipulation.
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Would you mind if I suggest Taft Test [0] instead? The pictures take about the same amount of space that the text does, and they serve as... moodsetters or whatever it's called, so I think replacing them with pictures of the America's greatest (by volume) president would work just as fine.

[0] https://tafttest.com/
OTS development hardware is fine for very initial prototyping/derisking phase, but as your product evolves you need your development hardware to match the hardware in the field more closely.
This article missed the chance to be much more interesting. While the 2019-2020 Australian fires were undoubtedly catastrophic, there have been other much worse fires in recent times. This one killed 34 people; a decade prior, the bushfire season killed 5 times as many people, with 174 deaths. Four decades prior to that, the bushfire season burned 5 times as much land area as the 2019-2020 season, with over 15% of Australia’s total land area suffering fire damage.

It was the particularly intense burning, causing smoke to travel much further than usual, that caused this season to loom so large in people’s minds. There are astounding figures, like that 80% of the populace experienced days or weeks of heavily smoke-filled air, or that it arguably killed as many as 450 people indirectly through smoke inhalation interacting with existing respiratory issues.

That intense burning was due mostly to the extremely high fuel density of the particular areas that were on fire - forests rather than grasslands. And the intense burning caused some incredible phenomena: flames at ground level that would reach the 20th floor of a skyscraper, radiant heat so extreme that you could be standing on the other side of an 8-lane highway and it would still give you 2nd degree degree burns in seconds and kill you in minutes, fire fronts that travel for days at an average of 6-8 miles an hour (even an ultra-marathon runner with a head start could not stay ahead of the fire) and reach peak speeds over 80mph (overtaking you in your car)… and all throughout, the roar of a thousand jet engines as vegetation literally exploded at the fire’s approach - gaseous decomposition from the ambient heat.

These fires were so intense that they launched smoke far higher into the atmosphere than fires usually do, and so we got to see some very unusual chemistry happen in the atmosphere.

I criticize the article for not being as interesting as it could be because it exhibits the same malady as so much of the other reporting on that bushfire season - the unique physics ignored in favour of using the tragedy for political purposes.
I don't know if this is serious or not. Maybe it's a Bay Area thing? People getting very used to having their windows smashed and such without any recourse? But 'round these parts, people don't just stand around watching their life and livelihood get messed with.
It looks like SUVs emit between 14% and 25% more than a passenger car. If you replace SUVs with passenger cars, you haven't moved the needle much (except for changing the headline from "SUVs emitted more CO2..." to "cars emitted more CO2...")

Transitioning away from SUVs and cars is also not a small feat.
I heard an interesting podcast where they interviewed a German pilot. And he said that in order to get promoted(getting to fly a bigger plane, in his case) the only factor that counts is the years of experience. There is nothing a pilot can do (this might depend on the airline) to speed up this process. The reason is that they want to avoid pilots taking risks in order to "get better", like being faster, more fuel efficient etc.
>Personally I’m a bit frustrated with how huge cars have gotten. My house was built in 2005, with a garage made to fit the cars at the time, and with ~177” of usable length

Hmm, even in 2005 that was small. The 2006 model year BMW 3-series, which would've been the one on the market in the year your home was built, was ~178" long, and the 3-series has always been considered a relatively compact sports sedan. You would've had no chance of fitting the contemporary Honda Accord, and even some of the Civic models would've been an incredibly tight squeeze.

So I somewhat dispute the assertion that your garage was made to fit the cars of the time; it was small even then.
> Do these people believe that they are intrinsically bad?

I'm sure some of them do. People can think they are terrible people while continuing to pretend they aren't in public.

In my experience it's quite easy. You quickly get resigned to the fact you're broken and will never be able to change. Once you accept that as truth, it's easier to just ignore it.
in Switzerland though salaries need to be higher to account for the higher cost in living, no?
Pixels are points with a (usually) square footprint. Whether the point-ness or square-ness is emphasized depends on context. "Pixel" = "picture element" = "quantum of a picture", nothing more.
Thing is, bankruptcy wouldn't imply that Twitter _went away_, though it might be the end of Musk-Twitter.

As for how long Twitter has left, with the broadest possible definition of "Twitter", well, myspace.com still goes somewhere.
for an operator you do, what you mean is a controller =)
I don't think it's that bad but I wish they'd focus more on improving the terrible JS web API rather than adding language features.

I mean they are adding features like static initialisation blocks when we only just got String.replaceAll(), and they somehow managed to fuck that API up despite it being explicitly a replacement for an existing bad API!

Where are all the containers? Sorted sets/maps? Why can't I even map an iterator?
> If you want to eliminate fossil fuel use, and aren't just posturing for political convenience, stopping production makes a lot more sense than stopping emissions at point-of-use.

This. And the fact I haven't heard of any country saying "we'll stop extracting coal/oil to help the environment" tells me nobody really cares about the environment - everyone just wants to look like they care to appease voters.
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Welcome to "A thousand plateaus" by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.

ATP is a political book, albeit not a book about politics. But in the process of building their radical political theory, they build a radical general systems theory that's u-n-m-a-t-c-h-e-d. We have no choice but to study it.

This doesn't do it justice, but it's a fair beginning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy)

This is an illustrated audio reading of the first chapter of ATP (the one dedicated to rhizomes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XYc2scuJrI&t=64s
My reasons:

1. It still snows and ices in suburbia, and suburbia isn't always flat. So while not fjording a creek AWD and higher clearances are useful.

2. Long road trips are not doable in a cramped sedan for a family of four.

3. SUVs are popular so it is easy to find one and it is easy to sell one when you need to. Only a handful of car companies still sell a minivan today.

4. Cargo area balance with passenger area

5. Occasional towing

6. Car seats have become so large that they often do not fit safely in a backseat of a sedan or hatchback.

All in all SUVs are incredibly well balanced vehicles for the average family needs.
That chart is both wildly misleading and from 2016. Many of those sources listed aren’t net CO2 producers the way fossil fuels are.

Also, Tailpipe emissions are only a fraction of total road transport related emissions.

Refining the oil to create gasoline directly releases CO2 as does building the infrastructure to do so. Add up everything from oil extraction, flaring, transportation, refinement etc and using oil for ground transportation is a lot more than 11.9% of total net emissions.