skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The West, and specifically America, is blamed not so much for slavery but for the following things all together:

1. Chattel Slavery

2. Racism as a form of pseudo-scientific theory that established why different "races" were of lower quality than others, and thus any member of the lower race deserved to be enslaved by members of the higher race.

3. Laws in various states of the U.S that established black people could be enslaved when traveling in that state, or that free black people traveling in the region would not be allowed to do so https://medium.com/luminasticity/the-free-slave-8336f214da45

4. After finding slavery unacceptable, the U.S with its pseudo-scientific cover of Racism in much of the country still treated black people as if they were enslaved, and often killed them for no particular reason discernible to reason.

5. One can argue as to the exact point that Black people became equal in the U.S, some might argue that it isn't the case yet, but anyone fairly arguing would have to concede that there are a number of Black people still living who were at least children when it was not the case that this state of equality existed - even if they wanted to argue that it does exist now.

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> On the bottom... there goes all the visibility gained by having the low hood. wtf?

That is a little weird, now that I look at it again. But the way you'd use the rest of that bottom space would be by lowering the driver, basically, and that would mean the driver's not as high up over the hood. So maybe getting the higher angle gains more visibility than having them sit lower just to maximize usable windshield area? (The only way you could have both is if the dashboard was transparent.)
The Inuit, for starters. Oh, and me.
The camera is positioned so that the side window is visible through the front windshield. I think the "black coating" you are seeing is just the interior of the van, and that the entire front windshield is usable.
Both languages don't do much about Tony Hoare's Billion Dollar Mistake, and to me that's an immediate black mark on type safety, though they fail in this regard in distinct ways.

In Java all of your user defined types are, alas, represented only referentially and a null reference is always possible, so even if there is no such thing as an invalid Goose, your variable of type "Goose" may just be null anyway.

In Go, it's possible to actually make a Goose and have it as just a local variable living on your stack, but, the language insists that anybody can conjure one into existence despite having no basis for doing so, the resulting Goose is at best now in some invalid "null" state.

To me, avoiding the Billion Dollar Mistake in new software is table stakes. Even at work, in the relatively boring C# language, we can avert the Billion Dollar Mistake in new codebases and gradually wean old ones off this idea. The CLR is hostile to properly fixing the mistake eco-system wide, but this is a marked improvement.
Credible reduction in car dependence needs well connected fast passenger rail networks, and changing urban sprawl to something denser with more local amenities.

The first one is a major infrastructure project, the latter is largely unpopular with the people already living there (and Republicans react to the concept of 15-minute cities like it was a gulag).

Infrastructure is still built as if it was business as usual, so can easily get blocked and delayed by decades on budgeting, bidding, consultations, NIMBYs, environmental surveys, etc.

OTOH we've already got EVs, we have already been building infrastructure for them, and it's a smaller change more acceptable to people.
There are many brands of yogurt with "fruit on the bottom" or otherwise unmixed that use plain sugar. Not every store-bought product is the worst possible version of a store-bought product. There's a huge variation.
Like I said, this is OpenAI's game to lose, not someone else's.
Minivans have had powered doors for decades and make great taxis, why do they need a special vehicle for this?
Where exactly do you mine "dirt" from on a planet that hasn't had any sort of biosphere to create it? Dirt isn't just "stuff you're standing on" - it contains a lot of stuff that's been decomposing.

Plus, Mars is full of chemical compounds that we suspect are pretty terrible for you, and the Moon's regolith is full of jagged, sharp bits that aren't good for you or the plants they're growing in.

Mining "dirt" from most of the places we can get to would do as good of a job of growing food as grinding up your windows & plumbing.
Harder in the sense that never before in human history could any person communicate with any other person on most of the inhabited planet through instant wireless internet. They can do all this with end-to-end encryption, if sufficiently motivated, via apps like Signal.

Most (I would hazard > 99%) people won't use this capability for criminal enterprise.

Some would. Some do.

BTW, This does not mean that we should open illegal backdoors to our end-to-end encryption. Private communication must remain possible and viable and easy for everyone.

It also does not mean that law enforcement should resort to unconstitutional means (at least in the US).

But, this is just a different game than what they are used to. It is okay to acknowledge it and resource them to do without.
Reminds me of the "Stripe cut off my account without warning and won't talk to me. I've done nothing wrong!" posts that used to show up. Upon further digging, it turns out the person started off with a legitimate business, then got into a gray area, then pushed further to the point that they were against the terms of service. The person always becomes evasive or non-responsive once the questioning starts to unearth some peculiarities.
Laws do not define the ethics of a society though. While laws may be informed by ethics, laws are not mutually inclusive or exclusive of one’s cultural ethics. One need simply look at a country’s tax laws to understand the disparity.

While I’m unsure of Singapore’s current situation, I know there was a sizable amount of able-bodied men in both Israel and Ukraine who had left, and an underground railroad of sorts sprouted up to help them. To me, that sounds like the ethics of their society are clashing with the geopolitically-driven laws their governments erected.
I'm also pretty aure you'll see it eventually... Consider the possibility that this is both a bubble waiting to pop, as well as the stuff that will shape the future. Kind of like the Internet around the year 2000.
The existence of some amount of emergency care should not drive the structure of the whole market
In my book about distant civilizations they eradicate all life except the forms that are able to function as you described. Because it’s pointless to just avoid participating in a meat grinder that life itself is naturally. The point is to stop anything that suffers from suffering. They dream about visiting every world and eradicating unascended lifes there for that same reason.
You are choosing to consume human-generated content even though right now you could go to ChatGPT and get infinite AI-generated content, for free!

Why is that?
This is a fun article, but the whole "dependency resolution problem" is a bit of a wild goose chase anyway, because the underlying data you're basing it all on (what package authors publish as their version constraints) is only slightly better than junk. For a start, python (like most ecosystems) is very limited in its ability to express compatibility constraints - it's not even able to understand the concept of stable branches that receive backports.

Add to that most package authors putting about a second's thought into their version constraints, with other package authors being overzealous and for example thinking it's their duty to protect you from security vulnerabilities through their version constraints, and I frequently doubt the worth of putting all this SAT wizardry into these tools, as fun as it is.
Nah, just create the world at a state where modern medicine can cure cancer, like we're on the slow road to doing.

In the 1800s someone might have asked "if suffering is required and a child is going to die of a systemic infection, maybe the whole project should have been scrapped at the planning phase".

To me it's clear that human flourishing without much suffering is possible in this universe and it's more about knowledge and power to prevent suffering being hard to come by. The kind of knowledge that e.g. could have been written down in ancient religious books or whatever if we had a best possible world.
600m generating 5% of GDP sounds crazy. Any source to back that up? What % of people are doing manufacturing? The American bull case is that China collapses because these 600m people die off and take their lead in manufacturing with them meanwhile the US is already at the top and continues to absorb the best people in the world hopefully sustaining their growth.
I couldn't help but read wikipedia and wonder if you could call him a scheming schemer?

Eich started work at Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1995. He originally joined intending to put Scheme "in the browser", but his Netscape superiors insisted that the language's syntax resemble that of Java. As a result, Eich devised a language that had much of the functionality of Scheme, the object-orientation of Self, and the syntax of Java. He completed the first version in ten days in order to accommodate the Navigator 2.0 Beta release schedule. At first the language was called Mocha, but it was renamed LiveScript in September 1995 and finally – in a joint announcement with Sun Microsystems – it was named JavaScript in December.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Netscape
I agree, and when I see foreign currency as an option I think of two possibilities. First, moving to the country that hosts that currency. Second, waiting for the US currency to slide into obscurity and switching to whatever takes over as the global currency.

Both are tough choices that rely on either too much time or too much space.
counterpoint:
https://ctmirror.org/2024/09/29/cant-read-high-school-ct-har...

America has some of the best schools, but also some of the worst. Engaging kids doesn't mean pushing them to academic heights. We should be working on engaging kids in all the facets of life instead of pushing sports and STEM.
Maybe you can't imagine it, but lots of people do it all the same.
> The onset of inflation correlates more closely with global energy supply shocks than with changes in QE policy or “printing” money in Covid stimulus.

Hmmm. [1]

> USA, the UK, Aus etc and haven’t had for a number of years at this point

Indeed, the US abolished the 10% reserve requirement in 2020. Crazy. I hope you guys also save in inflation hedges.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
As a Java/Kotlin dev now writing Go for a living I agree with quite a bit in here and actually think both languages have things they could learn from the other.

Having said that I cannot understand where the idea that "the [Go] libraries and ecosystem are so much better" comes from. The average quality of both the JDK libs and the popular 3p libs (Jackson, Jooq, even ...Spring) are one of the things I miss most about writing for the JVM and I'm yet to come across another ecosystem that comes close.
I was following along nicely until I hit this line:

> This is despite the fact that they are identical in both taste and colour.

The only way I could ever mistake Coca-Cola for Pepsi is if I were to completely lose my sense of taste. I'm quite surprised to encounter someone who considers them identical or interchangeable.

He's right, though, that I could change the supplier for airlines, browsers (or ChatGPT) and my world wouldn't be all that different. It would taste the same.
> A segfault is a security vulnerability :)

Fair enough.

> I expect a modern programming language that has a runtime to not do that, correct.

But how do you define "has a runtime"? Java clearly has one - the JVM. Go produces standalone code, though.

Or do you say that it has a runtime because it has a garbage collector that is running while the program runs?

The original Pascal didn't have a runtime (if you weren't using UCSD, which generated p-code), and yet you couldn't segfault it.
Kodak pauses all film production in November to 'upgrade manufacturing plant'
Arch moves the critical but crufty work around safety, observability, and routing of prompts outside business logic. Its a uniquely intelligent infrastructure primitive, engineered with purpose-built fast LLMs [3] for tasks like intent detection over multi-turn, parameter identification and extraction, triggering single/multiple function calls, and offers convenience features to auto dispatch LLM calls for summarization based on data from your APIs via system prompts configured in archgw.
AgentAuth: Seamless Authentication for AI Agents with 250 Tools
I was squeezing by in front of a modern garbage truck this morning that basically had a glass side door. It was great: I could actually establish eye contact with the driver and sign that I was going to drive in front of him and he could give me small wave to go ahead. The driver of a less modern truck would have had no way at all to see me, much less communicate with me.
US Dept of Justice's cure for Google could inflict collateral damage
What case might that be?
Opened the article and decided to try out the "Listen to this story" section.

After reading the article name and author, it proceeds to state "This is an AI generated narration".

Well, well, well.
I don't know; the overly-ambitious parents push has been working out pretty well as evidenced by the Asian community in the US.
It's easy to see why many commentators on a US company's forum would make said assumptions.
"Pioneered method of keeping restrooms clean by keeping them locked during business hours."
These people you describe are experiencing very real eating disorders. Even if they aren’t counting calories, they are keenly aware that they’re destroying their body. They aren’t silent, they’re addicted.
Writers condemn startup's plans to publish 8k books next year using AI
There's also almost no recourse even if your rights are violated. If you are lucky any evidence gets excluded from a future trial. But what about some remedy? It is outrageously difficult to sue individual state police or state police departments. Federal agents are even more protected, with Bivens being slowly crushed into nothingness.
I'm glad that you had a good experience! I also benefited immensely from my school's setup. I just think it's worth analyzing these programs from a critical perspective instead of an all or nothing lens. Programs can be worthwhile but still not good enough.
> It's a shared fiction that becomes real because we share it.

It's called the network effect, I believe.
Robert Lustig has been preaching this for years:

https://www.amazon.com/Metabolical-Processed-Nutrition-Moder...

A good rule of thumb if you care about avoiding UPFs but don't want to overly limit your diet is to only buy foods with 5 ingredients in them (plus or minus 2 :).
Will just say a mini-mill would be happy to use otherwise unused solar to power their electric furnaces.
It's not a question of funding it's a question of administrative competence.

This is also funding related. Yes, it takes time to turn things around and there needs to be oversight. No, withholding funds from failing schools wont' work. It's like beating people until they are happy.
Just what we need, a PC telling us that our code passes the sniff test.
All galaxies are just space explosions
You have to be extremely careful with benchmarks like these. It's very easy to measure and conclude different things. In this case, it really only measures the compiler's ability to optimise the `for` loop construct - nothing else. It doesn't say anything much about the languages' general "speed", whatever that means (which is generally the implication with tests like this).

Some points to consider:

- `for` is not how you'd write an optimised loop in all languages.

- Be VERY suspicious of microbenchmarks on C, C++, and similar - the compilers are smarter than you think and you won't get the code you wrote.

- Languages do arrays differently - added memory effects on performance.

- Languages do numbers differently.

- Summing and modulo is somewhat contrived example. Modulo is one of the slower instructions out there.
Sunsetting Equinix Metal
I have great faith in the ability of ahem some individuals to harm themselves out of spite or inability to recognize inbound leopards, but I'm pretty sure that even those would find the new vehicles to be an improvement even if they're EVs - at least if they're actually driving the old and new vehicles.
Nor does it pretend to be.

It's literally just "1 Billion nested loop iterations", methods and results.

You make of that whatever you want.
> Both languages don't do much about Tony Hoare's Billion Dollar Mistake, and to me that's an immediate black mark on type safety, though they fail in this regard in distinct ways.

Java is well on its way to alleviating the problem. [1]

[1] https://openjdk.org/jeps/8303099
> Most people I know consider E-numbers as dodgy ingredients.

(From a quick 30 second search) E300 is Vitamin C, E101 is Vitamin B2

And yes - I'm aware that vitamins that are naturally present are probably better than "fortifying" food - but still.
"Write once, run anywhere" specifically meant that the execution semantics and the interface to the environment (OS, storage, GUI, etc.) of a Java program are the same everywhere. Relating that to "simple, secure, stable" seems like a stretch -- of course there's a little overlap in practice, but those are really four separate dimensions. Java has had its own long-running battles about simple, secure, and stable.

Of course, in reality the isolation isn't perfect, which is how we got things like deterministic (slow) floating point and "write once, test everywhere".

Go does have a similar attitude, practically speaking, if you stick to the standard library. It's more like "cross-compile and run wherever".
The funny answer would be "god I wish so".

A more serious answer is, monopolies in the long run are detrimental both for the economy and the general public as well. A company becoming so important that for an issue like this it could threaten to make phones bricks is already a bad signal, but they're not gonna do that cause they like those sweet pesky profits in Brazil and in the eu as well

You think that apple can do whatever it wants on its platform because its their ip? Well then, I don't see why the eu and Brazil can't do whatever they want (perhaps this brings out how dumb the my platform my rules argument is)
I've been using Jekyll for my blog for nearly 10 years now. I also recently wrote a little plugin that uses SQLite, though I'm using it in a minimal way as a vector database rather than storing content in it right now.

https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2024/04/23/better-related-p...
Because you're curious for the answer to your question. Why would you think there must be some other implication? (What did I imply by using that phrase in the previous question?)
In the past, in many states entry into gifted education classes required a professionally administered IQ test. Many locations needed 130+. Those requirements have gone away but I feel it wasn’t discriminatory. Can it really be criticized as such?
Compiled means it's a direct executable in machine code. Java ain't that. Heck, if it needs a runtime with a garbage collector built into the runtime it's especially junk.
I mean I think there is a philosophical divide. Go is very minimalist in terms of external dependencies. Those that are their are very good in my experience. The builtins are just the right amount of opinionated imo. I concede that that statement was grounded in my preference for Go's take on external dependencies.

I also generally am writing REST APIs and doing simple "enterprisey" stuff.
I think you are just restating what I said. Yes, Leibniz and any of his defenders must assume that there are hidden constraints to what is possible that lie beyond human understanding that made Hitler (just to use a very salient example, but insert whatever evil you like), necessary to achieve a greater good. It is ultimately an argument from faith (just trust in God, he had the best for the world at heart) that can only be accepted by those who already believe.
What the average programmer out there writes is just a tip on the iceberg of what gets executed. And an incredibly small tip.
The thread is discussing the people in G&T programs as the people that "move society forward" and the rest as people that hold society back. While OP seems to think that there's an expansive group that "move society forward", I'm skeptical that this is actually what they mean, because the people that are used as positive examples for these conversations are exclusively poor Asian kids that get into top schools, not ordinary people like me that are considered failures by this class of people.
The whole point of "gifted" was that these are kids who are disproportionally likely to drop out of school, engage in risky behavior, get pregnant, get bad grades, etc.

The problem is that A. they called it "gifted" so people thought it was something you _wanted_ your kids to be and B. the screening test they used was the IQ test, which you can massively improve your score on by studying for it. So parents were determined to get their kids into "gifted" education, and coached their kids on the tests to get in, and in the meantime kids from less-privileged backgrounds with the same characteristics were being labeled as behavioral problems and shunted into remedial programs.

Now that we have the label of "neurodivergent", it seems to me it would be productive to reframe "gifted" education as "neurodivergent" education: rich parents would stop trying to get their kids into it, and it would be able to serve the kids it was intended to serve.
I think it might have more to do with the specific implementation than the tool.

Most incarnations of C# offer a GC.Collect method and an ability to configure the threading model around collections. Used properly, you can keep maximum delays well-bounded. You still have to work your ass off to minimize allocations, but when some do inevitably occur due to framework internals, etc., you don't want to have to clean up 3 hours worth of it at once. Do it every frame or scene change.
There's a cool book I didn't finish White Bread by Aaron Bobrow-Strain. It talks about the history of store bought bread supplanting home baked bread, and the marketing wars waged both for and against store bought bread. I'm gonna start it up again and I recommend it.
I used magnet because that's the most commonly known term, but my high school definitely was not an attempt to desegregate schools. If anything it increased segregation by a lot.
An alternative to this is to statically compile and use scratch docker image.

Another tip is if writing a http app etc Axum/Actix have Lambda shims.

I add a cli flag “—lambda” which enables the shim. That means I can run the app locally, in Kubernetes, ECS, Lambda with minimum effort. It also makes dev easier pretending lambda doesn’t exist.
365 Days with Teenage Engineering's OP-1
Premature optimization, and premature automation cause a lot of issues, and overlooking a lot of insight.

By just doing something manually 10-100 times, and collecting feedback, both understanding of the problem, possible solutions/specifications can evolve orders of magnitude better.
Why the "if"? Of course, I was talking about captcha, is the regex parser in your brain case sensitive?
The average podcast fails that test, but does fine.
MariTide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariTide
I've never seen Vitamin C listed as E300 on a label. So while you are correct, the heuristic (avoid E-numbers) works in practice.