skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Roman empire collapsed at the hands of barbarians which it used to oppress.

Most of French nobility was killed off and replaced by peasants. Those peasants are now running the country and EU and are oppressing the population with high taxes, corporatism and globalism.

In medieval times, Jews were kicked out of various countries when they became too prosperous while debt levels for the general population got out of control.

More recently, the DEI movement also shows elements of this reversal of oppression. Many people will argue that it's now discriminating against whites.

These issues are usually controversial because they are backed by tensions between the oppressed and their oppressors. The oppressed will attempt to maximize their victimhood and the oppressors will attempt to minimize their responsibility.
Social engineering is problem for everyone no matter their background HN echo chamber or otherwise

However we don’t get to use manipulation foreign, partisan or otherwise as crutch or excuse, post 2016 was full of that: oh there was Russian influence, he didn’t get popular vote or we didn’t know what MAGA stood for, as am sure there will be blame now on Biden not stepping down, Harris not having a primary, Gaza and inflation and dozen other things, and the platform would shift even more to right chasing the non existent center, instead of resetting to the left. The right has figured it out there is no centre and it is pointless to try to aim for it.

Bottom line is this is who Americans are , maybe the country can change and be better maybe not , but denying reality of is not the place to start.
If a picture is a thousand words, then surely video is several orders of magnitude more powerful for brainwashing, especially in short form.
There is a Winnie the Pooh ride in Shanghai Disney.

I frequently see it mentioned in Chinese social media.
How about over 60? That's more likely to have a positive effect on society
> What could possibly be better for children who look for purpose in life?

They sort of naturally do that if you have the appropriate challenges and opportunities around them.

> ancient pyramid aliens or discussions about how veganism will help your body.

There used to be a tabloid called "News of the Weird." This stuff just exists. You'll find it anywhere people gather. We're story tellers. When we don't have a compelling story we just make stuff up. It's identical to the point above.

> even all the adults can't come to a shared understanding of what is "good" or true.

It's not possible. If the children are intended to inherit the future then this is a flawed and reductive strategy. You will not achieve what you seek through parochial means.

Really.. I think your biggest problem should be advertising. It should be nowhere near children. Ban _that_ but keep the social media.
These guys are clearly at least somewhat intelligent and have brought up arguments in the past that I, in my infinite wisdom, haven’t considered. It’s up to me whether I take those arguments onboard after a sufficient amount of research. So I don’t think we should not listen at all. We should just not be all-in.
SpaceX is building a railroad to the solar system. It will change everything, and quickly.

> The railroad was bringing people to a land that was already successfully settled by neolithic peoples tens of thousands of years earlier.

That's what people thought before the railroad was completed.

See "Nothing Like It In the World" by Stephen Ambrose:

https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Like-World-Transcontinental-1...
this reminds me of a similar blog https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/just/
Not enough workforce to fund the retirees pensions is one thing.
(Not the GP) I've been aware of this for a while but thank you for sharing a reference!

It's sort of fascinating how so many Democrats think that money-in-politics rigs the system against them even though Democrats benefit more from it.
Data MAY also include Egyptian hieroglyphs not encoded in Unicode. Does it mean that the markup MUST support them as well? I bet not. No format can natively support every possible data structure; serialization formats only have to support enough of them to which remaining structures can be isomorphically mapped.

> a common enough occurrence

Do you have a concrete figure about "common enough"? Otherwise we are only talking through anecdotal evidences (not necessarily bad though!). At least in my experience, graph structures do occur from time to time but almost all of them can be easily rewritten to non-graph form because they are typically DAGs and obviously ranked (i.e. its preferred topological order forms partitions of different nodes). The general graph that requires something like references was very rare.
and even if you do, it’s usually a system design problem that you’re maintaining

on one hand, I can see how this is an unfalsifiable standard, on the other hand I can see the utility of solving a friction for people that messed up
IIRC it was the Trump administration that was mostly responsible for getting a vaccine out in record time.

It's really hard to reflect on the pandemic. There were certainly some funny anecdotes like bleach or horse medicine but there were also some serious professionals who tried their best. We also don't really know what the other possible outcomes could have been given other actions.

I'm sure plenty of rich were lining up their pockets in the Biden presidency as well. Do you have some sort of resource/evidence that there were higher level of corruption during the Trump presidency? Something systemic, not anecdotal. Trump supporters say Biden is corrupt. What is an objective measure here?

Running a deficit during tough times (pandemic) could be the right thing to do.
The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan
I have personal experience with this and wrote about it here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39394432 Others might also find it useful. I think of it as my "second career" and am now looking at what to do for the rest of my life as a "third career".

As Humans with strong bonds to others it must be thought of as "Our Duty to Do" and in particular; Filial Duty is paramount (assuming "normal" Parents).

Lessons learned and Advice;

1) It will be very difficult and exhausting both Mentally and Physically (we are designed to be selfish and altruism is hard). But you will have to develop "mental attitudes and physical behaviours" to cope with all circumstances and build up fortitude.

2) Techniques from Philosophy and Science should be employed to develop proper attitudes and behaviours. For example from Tibetan Buddhist "Mind Training" practices (Lojong - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojong and Tonglen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonglen) one can train in compassion and willingness to suffer for others so that we can always maintain a positive outlook (this is key). See the book Essential Mind Training: Tibetan Wisdom for Daily Life by Thupten Jinpa for some of the original Tibetan texts. You should also read the works of Stoics Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Cicero for developing mental strength.

3) On the physical side, set up your daily schedule around the patient's and do things together as much as possible eg. eating breakfast/etc. together, watching movies/just talking/going out/etc. together so that they never get a sense of being "alone and abandoned". Make sure to have a proper nutritious diet and take frequent naps/entertainment during downtime. You are not giving up "your wants" but merely re-scheduling it around "somebody else's needs". Do/Maintain proper Exercise (light and not too heavy) so that you are in good health and do not have to worry about yourself (this is key).

4) Time is finite and in order to do the above you will have to give up somethings you love and like to do. Be strict with yourself and give up all "your wants" which will hinder your duty and only add them in if you can make time for it without hurting the "patient's needs". Be clear in communicating your duties to others(friends etc.) so that they understand your situation and can maybe help as needed. You have to establish a new equilibrium with your environment.

5) Periodically you will fail in your caregiving and blame them/others (we are selfish animals after all) but that is ok as long as it does not become frequent and a pattern/habit. Catch yourself slipping on "your duty" and get back on track and show you mean it with extra care talk/action.

Finally; always remember that nothing can overwhelm you unless and until you allow it to. Everything can be managed with knowledge, action and discipline.
I don't think (1) and (5) are different ideas?
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Have you?

And they are quite different!
Murdock has been American for decades now, it doesn't matter where he was born.
I agree. I think Democrats should have let Trump win unopposed in 2020. Then he could have dealt with the global supply chain crisis, had inflation attached to his name, been a hero for getting it back down again, etc. And then he'd be gone.

At the very least we would have avoided this incredibly damaging narrative about the stolen election. And there's a chance that the country would be less polarized than it is now.
Both the Israel and Ukraine wars started under Biden

Did Biden "start" the Israel-Hamas war? Or even do anything to conceivably precipitate it?

Since the answer is "no" -- why does this count as a war "started under Biden"?
Better evidence than party affiliation though.

Love your intellectual curiosity. The choice down to Stein vs Trump didn't raise any eyebrows?

Or why did I single out Biden for loathing and not Kamala (I pity) or the Democratic party?
It leads people down a different path, but that's not necessarily the correct path. For example, between the lack of discoverability of separate repos and the hurdle of modifying multiple separate repos, teams might be tempted to duplicate functionality and data instead of figuring out the appropriate relationships between services. Some amount of coupling is normal and reasonable. There are ways to manage it well.
Someone is attacking Tor and has been for a few weeks
I know this is shocking, but people don't have to look at TikToc or CNN no matter who owns it. Personally, I welcome the stat of Iran purchasing CNN and Putin buying TikToc. If the public doesn't like the apps/network they can use something different.
62, and caring for a couple of close family members with serious mental health issues.

It’s a good thing that my “not drinking” (for 44 years) also gives me a seriously good support structure. I have a lot of engagement outside the house, but my family members almost never leave the house.
A few-party system is just what happens with majority-rules voting, ordinary human preferences (a few hot issues much more important than free dogs, free public transportation, or a 4-day work week), and a large enough populace for the law of large numbers to matter. Candidates and voters both align around the hot issues, because candidates who do otherwise lose to voters rejecting them for the one thing they care the most about, and voters who do otherwise have zero influence on the topics they care most about (as opposed to the approximately zero influence a single vote has).

That's a problem in all voting systems (that the optimal strategy for candidates and for voters depends on your perceived knowledge of other voters -- you aren't incentivized to vote for the person who you think is actually best, and as a candidate you aren't incentivized to do what you think is best), ignoring some simplifications that sometimes arise in something simpler than a presidential election.

However, majority-rules voting is particularly bad at it, especially in a lot of real-world preference distributions. If you came out with a new party, magicked up a billion dollars in advertising, and thoroughly convinced the populace that you'd not screw much up and also make a 4-day work week a reality, you'd still likely lose. I might personally vote for you, but I'd bet a lot of money that you wouldn't stand a chance.

It's a little interesting that we have to vote for a single "president". An interesting byproduct is that _most_ people disagree about _most_ of the decisions (even in the same party), despite perhaps favoring them for one or two important reasons. If there were a neat way to divide up the power over education, abortion, ..., you could achieve a majority of people being happy about all of the major issues and maybe have a little more time to talk about some other (comparatively) minor ones.
To be clear: that’s additional votes this election versus last, and so is counting absolute turnout, rather than percentage-of-the-population?

It’s good to know the absolute numbers, but I feel like they’re less significant than the relative numbers (what % of the population voted)
Imagine you buy a jar of vanilla extract without ever having had vanilla before…and try a spoonful.

You would absolutely hate it. Yet, vanilla is fairly universally liked by people everywhere…
I agree with your core point but: I would believe this affected more of the world if historical turnout for the youth (18-24 or even 18-30) wasn't lower than older populations. That's part of why campaigns focus so little on that age group.
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> I am doing something similar with stocks.

How well does it work?
Not really what they're talking about https://stackoverflow.com/questions/97197/what-is-the-n1-sel...
But it does mean that the Corporation's dividends all go to the Foundation, its sole shareholder. It has paid such dividends in the past, though as far as I can tell, dividends have been replaced by royalty payments in more recent years.
Vast majority of food packaging is plastics like PP and PE that don't use phthalates (or any other plasticiser) as they are naturally... plastic. PVC (soft) is the major application of plasticisers.
I am a fan of space. I love the things that have happened with SpaceX and breaking the space industry out of a multi-decade rut, but is it possible to dsiconect the political ambitions of Musk from the technical achievements? Or, to put it more clearly, should the discussion be less about 'look how cool this tech is!' and more about 'This tech will be the gateway to space and Mars, shouldn't we be talking about the gatekeeper?'
Almost no serialization format is canonical by default---AFAIK bencode was the sole example that mandates the canonicalization. Instead, a canonical subset of the format is usually defined, which would of course exclude comments, unless comments themselves are considered semantic like XML. Yes, even XML has a canonical subset [1]!

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n/
Australia plans social media ban for under-16s
Can relate.

I made a comment about that, a couple of minutes ago.

I live in NY, and we have very good support for treatment. I have a friend whose daughter was mentally ill, and lived in NM. It was very bad.
I think the best bet at this point is either go all in on politics and make it your life's work, or just shut it off for a while.

Too many people drink from the firehose of bullshit news and it drives them nuts. In reality you can't have much influence on any of this beyond voting, unless you're going all in on it.

And believe it or not, life is going to go on either way. Might as well act accordingly.
What rhetoric is that? He's a felon. He questioned Harris' racial identity during the campaign. He claimed at numerous rallies that boys would come home from school as girls without their parents knowledge.
That makes sense.

Of course, the implementations are going to have varying performance depending on code quality/optimisations but that's a given.

Edit: some other poster gave some cues to my question.
I guess you can do some trickery by decomposing the waveform before encoding and recomposing it.

I'll read more on the specs.
So Americans would rather hear a convinient lie than an invonvinient truth? Sadly consistent given these last 8 years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42072648
Hitler’s character has been going through a revival of sorts amongst right wing white nationalists. You can find such posts on X.com. Threads doesn’t want that on their platform. They also don’t want the white nationalists to decry the fact that their posts about Hitler are deleted but posts condemning Hitler are not deleted. This will lead to things like what Texas tried to implement regarding social media platforms. Easiest course of action is to ban all mentions of Hitler.
No it wasn't obvious that Trump was headed to a routine reelection. In 2019, the sense was the economy was slowing down. If not for the tariffs on Chinese goods, the normal business cycle had it that a recession was coming in 2020.

Trump publicly pressured the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low so he could campaign on the economy.

Had he not intervened inflation probably wouldn't have been so high in the years to follow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/business/economy/bonehead...
This prompted a shower thought: Isn't N separate repos actually strictly worse than a monorepo with N completely independent long-lived branches, where each person checks out all the ones they need to work on under separate folders with `git worktree add`?

I can think of only 2 ways that the multiple-branch monorepo is worse:

1. If the monorepo is large, everyone has to deal with a fat .git folder even if they have only checked out a branch with a few files.

2. Today, everyone expects different branches in a repo to contain "different versions of the same thing", not "a bunch of different things". But this is purely convention.

The only real benefit that I can see of making a separate repo (over adding a new project directory to a "classic" monorepo) is the lower barrier to getting underway -- you can just immediately start doing whatever you want; the pain of syncing repos comes later. But this is also true when starting work under a new branch in the branch-per-project style monorepo: you can just create a branch from the initial commit, and away you go -- and if you need to atomically make changes across projects, just merge their branches first!

What are the downsides I'm not seeing?
A lot of them don't have addresses. I wonder if it can be intersected with another data set that has more complete address list.
The numpy equality thing is actually an enormous footgun, especially for people new to numeric Python. The equality for numpy and its derivates should have had the traditional Python meaning (yielding a bool), with the current operation (yielding a mask) should have been put under a named method.
Not to mention when you need to make cross repo changes in development, and you have to set up a whole web of local repointing in package manifests. Repo is a hard boundary. Sometimes you need one. But to create a boundary when you don’t have to, on things that are deeply interconnected and have nowhere near a stable api? Utter madness imo.
>I think we might even go the other direction - circumscribe the rights of women directly to increase the birth rate, Handmaids Tale style.

Given recent events, I think the Republic of Gilead will be a real thing in the USA before too long.
No, I’m not. We’re not in disagreement that most people will fall in line. We’re in disagreement of how many people it takes to form an effective resistance group. My claim is a handful, your response is to dismiss this and act like everyone is going to fall in line. That just hasn’t ever happened in history. It’s why occupation is difficult. It’s why occupation has evolved to be through internal puppets rather than explicit ownership. Because it’s the same strategy as the resistance in reverse.
Why couldn't it be?

Canada has an extremely generous, massively exploited foreign worker program (it is actually one of the reasons this government is profoundly unpopular). ByteDance, like every other company, can unilaterally declare that they need to bring in an entirely foreign staff and get it rubber stamped. Given the company's alleged closeness with the party, using it as an easy vehicle to drop loads of intelligence workers of various sorts in Canada would be logical. Similarly China has a thing with running intimidation tactics against Chinese ex-pats living in Western countries.
By default, dataclasses can't be used as keys in a `dict`. You have to either use `frozen` (in which case the generated `__init__` becomes an abomination) or use `unsafe_hash` (in which case you have no guardrails).

In languages with value semantics, nothing about this problem even makes sense, since obviously a dict's key is taken by value if it needs to be stored.

--

Tuple behavior is sensible if you are familiar with discussion of reference semantics (though not as much as if you also support value semantics).

Still, at least we aren't Javascript where the question of using composite keys is answered with "screw you".
They paid me (poorly). As to better prospects, meh. I graduated with an engineering degree in the naughts.
I also had a really rough go with cdk. I personally found the lack of upsert functionality -- you can't use a resource if it exists or create if it doesn't -- to make it way more effort than I felt was useful. Plus a lack of useful error messages... maybe I'm dumb, but I can't recommend it to small companies.
Wrong. The only reason capitalism didn’t do it earlier was because it wasn’t profitable to do so. It is absolutely specific to and a feature of capitalism, because socialism by definition concerned with the welfare of workers, whereas capitalism is by definition concerned with the welfare of shareholders.
I respectfully disagree. That state of affairs made people more “united” - perhaps, but it was at the expense of knowledge about the true nature of our reality.

We are “divided” now because we are basically in a battle for what is consensus reality, and the only way to have a satisfying answer to that question is to have unfettered access to the underlying facts and knowledge of who is who.
Wouldn't what?

Also given other peoples experiences in this comment section, that doesn't seem to be true.
What "privilege" means in this context is that you need a license to do it. That doesn't imply that it isn't still a right. For example, you might need a signage license to put up a sign, but free speech is still a right, and for that reason the government is constrained in the criteria they can use to deny you the signage license.

But people say "driving is a privilege, not a right" as if these things are alternatives to each other. Requiring you to pass a driving test is quite a different thing than discriminating against you based on your state of residence.

Here's a quote from your own case:

> The nature of the private interest involved here (the granted license to operate a motor vehicle) is not so great as to require a departure from "the ordinary principle . . . that something less than an evidentiary hearing is sufficient prior to adverse administrative action," Eldridge, supra at 424 U. S. 343, particularly in light of statutory provisions for hardship and for holders of commercial licenses, who are those most likely to be affected by the deprival of driving privileges.

Strongly implies that constraints exist on what the government can deny. What's that about, if there isn't a right to be implicated?
haha

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$9 isn't worth being detained while on an international trip in a place where the police don't speak your language because they don't believe your photo is you. Actually, it's less expensive than the last set of passport photos I had made, so maybe I'll just go to AAA next time.
Can't make a horse drink, even if the owners weren't an issue.

Let's be real, people wanted to be patted on the back and told it'll be okay. The want words, not solutions. Trump is happy to do that.