skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have heard that Baltimore school performance is the counterpoint here, but I have never dug into it myself. Do you happen to know if there is a material point there or obfuscation of some form?
Or maybe they're discriminating against no one now?
silencing dissent and enforcing speech codes, as progressives are wont to do

The Republicans in charge of two school districts near me have been trying to organize book burnings for the last two years.

Get back to me when it's the Democrats.
You are explicitly considering a man's race for something that is irrelevant to that consideration, in this case to answer whether to hire/admit them.

You must consider a man's race if this concerns something relevant to that consideration such as their medical history. This is not one of them; there are actually very few instances where asking a man's race is necessary.
An Adventure into the Un-Official Paris Catacombs (2014)
Man as in mankind.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man

>1a(1): an individual human

>b: the human race : HUMANKIND

>c: a bipedal primate mammal (Homo sapiens) that is anatomically related to the great apes but distinguished especially by notable development of the brain with a resultant capacity for articulate (see ARTICULATE entry 1 sense 1a) speech and abstract reasoning, and is the sole living representative of the hominid family
We aren’t talking about one flew over the cuckoos nest here.

We’re talking about people walking around shoeless covered in dirt and open sores talking to themselves or screaming obscenities in public while walking into traffic. They are public safety risks - to the community and themselves. Not to mention it truly is inhumane to let them live like this.

You have to realize in threads like this you are likely talking to people that live in a community plagued by this extreme of circumstances. Living in San Francisco I saw what I just described just this afternoon outside my own window…

Are you suggesting state guardianship is not warranted in situations like I have mentioned above? Or are you just not aware that in many US cities things truly are this bad?
They mostly do it by measuring the family bank accounts!
Spending Buffet's staggering fortune in a manner nearing anything efficient feels like a herculean task that even the most capable would struggle with.

Objectively, his kids have not demonstrated any capability to do something of this magnitude. It's really quite disappointing to see Warren mostly backtrack on what he's always said (around nepotism and leaving staggering sums to future generations among other things).

You'd think even if this is related to Gate's Epstein connection, he would still recognized the importance of using his net worth for maximum good.

Maybe the human instinct to leave your possessions to your children is too strong for even Warren to fight.

It's really quite depressing watching the fiasco of how Mackenzie Bezos is donating her fortunes and what seems likely to come from Buffet's children. So many resources created+collected by brilliant people and then squandered by their loved ones.
> such as former convicts, individuals with substance abuse issues, those with mental health challenges, people who lost jobs or income, refugees, and more

The one thing they all have in common is how much more expensive it is to house them than it used to be.
What does healthy competition between producers have to do with advertising? If anything advertising is a way to withdraw from competition because building a great product is harder than telling stories to the market segment that your competition is ignoring.

I'm not against information, I just want to have gone looking for it rather than it having gone looking for me.
That's at best a less-than-complete view of immigration.

For immigrants themselves, it is usually an issue of self-determination and freedom.

I can't say I'm fully privy to the immigration debate in Canada, but framing it as an issue of "growth" could not be a complete view of the advocates of immigration. Especially with the level of acceptance of refugees in Canada.

The not enough housing aspect is completely incidental to immigration. In my city, the overriding reason that we have not built enough housing for even our own children is that people show up to block any environmentally friendly housing proposal, largely arguing against growth. In other words, using the framework you are right now! And it's a rather twisted version of the "we can't have growth" framework because it ignores the underlying reason for not allowing growth: environmental sustainability. So instead, the only housing that gets built is the most environmentally disastrous type of housing: sprawl far away from the locations where people need to be for their jobs and everyday life, causing massive environmental destruction.

I would argue that there are few more counterproductive ways to talk about the environment than to bring up a "need for growth." First of all almost nobody actually cares that much about growth in 2025 and secondly it has disastrous consequences when the rubber meets the road.
Don't forget that narratives or advertising can also be added to that opaque output without disclosure. And that what can be exploited for profit inevitably will be.
The Supreme Court doesn't seem likely to save TikTok
Did Socrates know how to see your middle eye? [pdf]
The reason it's expensive is or because the US is bigger. It's because the people in cities want to keep people out so they make it very expensive. Which in turn fuels homelessness.

The desire to exclude, the refusal to permit enough housing, and the rejection of density are the fundamental cause.

The scale of the US has nothing to do with it. It's merely a cultural choice by a prior generation that younger generations have not yet been able to overrule. But they will.
> pile of cash just sits there doing nothing

What pile of cash?

These are shares. Buffett and Munger have taken great pains to ensure that capital allocation will be done well at Berkshire after their death.

There’s no “pile of cash sitting there doing nothing”.
Adorned with Rattles – Koyoltzintli
Hey, some news came out that might give you an insight to why the fact checking might not always work:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-says-biden-p...
Exactly, if you're only 1cm off the surface you follow every nook and cranny. If you're 10km off the surface only Everest is a blip.
my grandmother used to tell me if i went cross-eyed too much, they'd get stuck like that. it took me until a google search at age 15 to see that was an old wives' tale...
but you might have to change it back to main when the next president shows up.
They don't cost $1M a unit just because. The article you posted highlights a number of reasons it was as expensive as it was, many of them policy choices that could be undone with the stroke of a pen and a round of votes. There is nothing about building housing in cities that makes it that expensive other than the regulations, many of which could use a re-think or a re-scope.

Otherwise, what's Finland's secret? Are they building houses for the homeless in the middle of nowhere? How do they manage to build public housing in the city without it ballooning into a $1M per unit boondoggle?
Have a look at Gambas3 [1] it kind of continued where Vb6 stopped. It's super useful for quick GUI based software.

[1] https://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html#
Very interesting! Congrats on the launch.

Do you mind sharing your contact details? I have some feedback and some ideas I’d like to share.
They’re not just trying to be close to museums, hip bars, and top notch ethnic food. Homeless people want to live in cities because if they can’t afford an apartment, they probably can’t afford a car, suburban areas rarely have any resources for them, there’s safety in numbers, and most bored suburban and rural cops wouldn’t let people camp even 5 minutes on public land, let alone tolerate it long enough to be tenable. Cities are the only place a significant homeless population can feasibly exist in the US.
> Fun fact: the creator of the DF engine told me he based it on a reverse engineering of a beta release of DOOM.

Can you provide a source? As I understand it DF is based on the (pre release?) Tie Fighter engine, and DF began production before Doom released. That's why for example DF has some non-textured 3D models like the turrets and mouse droids. I follow The Force Engine (reverse engineered fan port) and Dev Game Club (hosts worked at LA).

Supposedly DF devs did see Doom (perhaps even a pre release version), but already had their own tech working by that point.

> Apparently, the final release of DOOM cut a lot of engine features to gain speed.

Doubt. There's a lot of interviews with the ID guys, and I don't recall anyone saying they cut significant technical features. They made Doom in only 13 months, minus almost a month to port Wolf3D to SNES. Maybe Carmack -- or the released alphas and betas -- can clarify? Or perhaps you are confusing some of the Doom porting efforts, which did cut down levels and sometimes features significantly.
And having to rebuild a golang binary based on this horseshit just to get a bugfixed collector is some horseshit: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tr... which is required (as best I can tell) because they text/template in the deps https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/bl...

Heaven help you if it's a contrib collector bugfix
Still not buying this argument.

If it was a simple matter of trademark abuse, your attorneys talk to theirs. If nothing good comes out of that, your attorneys file a suit. Have you done this? Nope.

This is not about the supposed trademark abuse.
You’re admitting to eating orca meat? That’s a serious violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act and bears investigation if true.
> You may feel you have a just cause but it doesn't mean your goal justifies your actions.

Only ever said by someone that’s part of the establishment.
Hey! Thanks for asking what I would do to make it better. First, of course, the karma system has to go - scoring can still exist without being visible and therefore pressuring people to be performative. In addition to that, I would adjust the rankings to show not only the most popular posts but also some of the most controversial ones (controversy being defined as least agreement among voters). These are changes that will alienate many, however, and unlikely to be incorporated by a platform that amount to a content marketing tool for an investment group.
Can you expand on this?

The cost of a Costco membership is $65 per year (really half that if you can share the 2 membership cards you get between two families), available to everyone, and the prices they have there are so good that even my 3-person family saves money each year by shopping there. Every family I know here in my local area shops at Costco, rich or poor, because the prices are so good for many things. I don't see how any of that is exclusionary on racist or classist lines, it seems to me like Costco is one of the good corporations trying to give a good service/product and low prices.
You make great points and yes there are definitely many causes and they might need different approaches. But it is bullshit in this day and age that as a society we have people living in the cold and on the streets. Elon Musk has billions of dollars, good for him. But if he was to spend $500k each day it would take him around 2200-2400 years to spend it all. Ridiculous. There is no reason that kids have to come to school hungry or wear one set of clothes in this day and age. It’s sad. Capitalism for the win. But sorry to the child who goes hungry. I don’t think everything should come easy but having seen a kid steal free food from the breakfast club at school then when asked hey how come you are hiding food you don’t need to it’s free and he says because his little brother not yet in school is at home and has no food your heart fucking breaks. I pray I live long enough to see money and capitalism fail.
That has less to do with the size of the US but everything to do with the lack of size in the US. We make it impossible to do things by making each city small independent, and having a lack of unity.

Our government is not more complex than Finland's because we have more people, it's because we chose to make it inefficient and complex.

Removing local cities' power to be different for the sake of complexity would solve the issue quickly. If the Bay Area had a regional government rather than tiny fiefdoms devoted to allowing wealthy people to extract the maximum economic value from shared business interests, while willing away their own tax dollars in tiny enclaves that are protected by minimum lot sizes and apartment bans, not only would we have far less homelessness to begin with, but we could solve the leftover homelessness much better, refuse crime and poverty, and have a far better functioning society.
I wrote about something tangential a few months ago; the need to have curation-based alternate forms of discovery on the WWW.

https://nadh.in/blog/decentralised-open-indexes/
You seem to be the most upset commentator in this entire thread. Perhaps you should not have a “cow”, as they say.
Because Clojure treats data as first-class citizens, we could build our own lightweight conflict resolution system using pure functions that operate on these transactions.

What does it mean to say Clojure "treat data a first-class citizen"? I understand FP would treat function as first-class citizen, but the statement seems to mean something different.
I mean... even within India, the poor act nothing like they do here. I've been to India several times and witnessed abject poverty (getting better now supposedly). But the poor people in india still go home to their families (they had families!), have dinner together, and are deeply invested in educating their children to set themselves up for success.

I'm shocked when politicians in America blame our homelessness problem on poverty. Poor people do not behave this way. This is a breakdown in culture.

It's weird growing up in the 90s as an American and visiting India and thinking that America was better than that because we are so rich and no one is that poor, but 30 years later, it no longer seems that way. While India is still very poor, I think even the homeless there might have a more stable life than what I physically see on the streets of west coast America. I mean.. it may be a slum, but at least they have a permanent house, their kids are in school, etc.

Meanwhile, in Portland, I see human feces on many streets, and the homeless are drugged out zombies (Portland has enough beds for all homeless but no ability to force usage of shelter beds, and few homeless person accepts the offer).

I hate to say it, but maybe just allowing a 'proper' slum would be a better option.
Talking to a lawyer is not "stopping everything", it's an hour or two of time and maybe a couple hundred dollars. Not nothing, sure, but not something that should be an obstacle for most here.
No... homeless people in India behave nothing like homeless in America. Their situation is easily fixed with money.
I see your point, but isn't the government forcing the insurer into a bad deal?
They aren't, but it's unfair from them to benefit from the tilt.
The 'homeless' in India live in slums. They have relatively stable housing, even if it's a hovel. They do not behave like American homeless. America's homeless problem has little to do with money or accessibility of housing.
Hyundai just launched its cheapest EV in Japan
The person above was just saying that having a closer balance of hires to the greater population was a good thing. They didn't talk about how companies got there. We shouldn't just assume they got there by using race while deciding whether to hire or not. Maybe they did something else, or maybe they found some existing racism in hiring decisions and removed it.
It’s also about cultural homogeneity. Countries like Finland, Denmark, and Norway often have relatively uniform cultural frameworks, which can make it easier to implement broad social policies. The U.S., by contrast, is among the most multicultural nations in the world. This isn’t a critique of diversity, but an acknowledgment that diversity often leads to more complex social dynamics and outcomes than homogeneity.

An interesting case might be Israel. While it has a Jewish majority, there’s significant diversity within that cultural framework: religious, ethnic, and ideological [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Israel
Isn't it interesting how certain online forces affiliated with the letter Z are against copyright for Western IP in general, but are pro copyright when it comes to hamstringing Western AI?
I’d say it is, although it’s not really a document but a stream of tokens. The intuition is that the model is able to build abstractions from that stream. Some of the abstractions are related to goal states of the training metric. However, it’s easy to imagine how some of the goal states pertain to the model’s survival in the “wild”, and part of the abstraction that the model captures for this goal is a reflection of itself.
I can tell you, even a massive corporation that makes medical devices definitely does NOT choose their suppliers just by quality, a LOT of the suppliers we used were thanks to "people who know people", such as the painter that sucked but was buds with the plant manager so we kept dumping money into his company to fix their deficiencies.

The biggest lie that they told you was that the world actually works on merit: it does not.
IMHO one should only desire to become Confucius level famous. The kind where you don't need validation to know you've done something interesting.
Lotsa homeless in Honolulu.

Funny story, I was sitting in a pizza place in Spain talking with a coworker about the high cost of rent in Hawaii and the homeless people who wander around Waikiki. Some guy (also an American) overhears us and butts in, blaming the Liberals for all the social programs that make homeless people want to move there. My response: how'd the homeless people buy tickets to Hawaii? He didn't have a good answer for that one.
Disagree. Due to the complexity and diversity in economic, cultural, and social value networks it's actually easier to build housing.
Portland (population 622k) spent $531 million (https://www.koin.com/news/portland/shocking-amount-spent-on-...) which is 1/16 of the $8 billion that will fix homelessness according to you.

By your reckoning, Portland, which is 0.15% of the American population should have been able to fix homelessness for its entire population for $12 million. Portland spent 45 times that so we ought to be able to house the homeless in the Ritz Carlton, if your calculations are correct.

But they're obviously not. And your argument is childish.
I think you are intentionally misreading this. My point is that we shouldn’t hold people responsible for actions they didn’t take. Sins of the father and all that.

Doesn’t mean we should forget them. But getting angry at someone now because of something that his great grandfather did to your great grandfather is a great way for these grudges to never die.
Part of that ability to rapidly evolve is in the structure of the genome. Canids have more chromosomes than most other mammals which increases the odds of passing on advantageous genes to the next generation without having too many other random crappy genes come along for the ride.
Honestly, I couldn’t care less. I just hate the attitude in the nerdosphere that anyone that cares about their appearance is an idiot.
Wow, I didn’t know I could do that!!

I’m not sure how this new learned trick, can apply to other stuff… but I’m happy I tried it and it did amazed me haha thanks for the share dude!
Reading it I'm not sure if this is just a unilateral communist-style purge or an actual fork launch (or both). Here's hoping the fork gets off the ground and removes most of the pressure creating this nastiness that isn't helping anyone.

Just pointing out with gpl forks, if egos will allow it, code can be shared both ways. That's much easier if bridges are still standing.
Pretty sure every big tech company is Asian-overrepresented. Apparently almost 75% of tech employees in Silicon Valley are immigrants, no doubt the vast majority are Asian (East Asian and Indian).

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/17/h-1b-foreign-citizens...
The data are pretty clear that those who are not drug addicts end up coming out of homelessness fairly fast by making use of America's numerous social programs. The story of American poverty alleviation is a resounding success.

Drug addiction and mental illness is another story.
Even a tool like Frontpage was a game changer.

Simple website in a minute without any need to know HTML.

No free tool that does that today. Dreamweaver does, but it's paid.
Location: India. GMT +05:30
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Technologies:
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Stephen King's "The Long Walk" was published in 1979

"Every year, on the first day of May, one hundred
teenage boys meet for an event known through-
out the country as "The Long Walk." Among this
year's chosen crop is sixteen-year-old Ray Gar-
raty. He knows the rules: that wamings are issued
if you fall under speed, stumble, sit down. That
after three wamings... you get your ticket. And
what happens then serves as a chilling reminder
that there can be only one winner in the Walk—
the one that survives"
The only way to change employee racial composition is to hire and terminate on a racial basis. The only way to force that composition to mirror social composition is to do so explicitly and strictly on racial basis.

A lot of factors go into proper hiring and terminations, most significantly the merits of the individual concerned. Such factors will lead to an employee racial composition that might not mirror that of social composition.

Certain hiring practices like favoring women for flight attendants and black men for basketball teams should be terminated with extreme prejudice, but to force employee racial composition and specifically that one way or any other is racism.
A copyright strike nearly sank a famous YouTuber's channel. How he saved it
> where does this slippery slope end? [...] who do the autocratic government's bidding in controlling the population (by controlling information) for fear of retribution to their bottom line.

The people have exercised power and voted for Trump. Corporations currying favor with the currently fashionable leader is what you should want, because the currently fashionable leader represents the interests of the people, and this is a check that the people have over corporations. You theoretically want to go all the way down this slippery slope for as long as the people control their government; the people are sovereign, and invest their power in an elected government; that in turn invest in corporations the freedoms that they need to maximize prosperity.

Or is something wrong with the institutions today that despite Trump winning both in terms electorally and the popular vote, this is somehow undemocratic? I would like for you to examine why a dynamic that is supposed to be democratic has led you to consider that it is aligned with autocracy (I think you mean authoritarian here); such an exercise will help with the quality of the discussion we are having.
Shadow Warrior (Build) did have some room over room stuff. But IIRC it still leveraged offset sectors like Duke's water. FWIW some modern Doom ports appear to have this as well, at least with levels that support it.