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I wish I could get a bead on how useful ML is. Hackernews makes me think it’s all hype.

One thing I've never understood about this position--why is university such a stark cutoff? Most everyone agrees students shouldn't have to pay for their books in K-12. We agree it's better for our society if primary and second education is not gated by a family's wealth. Not just ethnically, I think it's better for a nation's economic productivity. The whole world is getting more educated, and it does feel like a bachelors or equivalent training is what a high school diploma was 60 years ago.

I can only speak for myself, but I've never found the `Foo foo = new Foo()` that onerous. In fact, it seems kinda quaint after a bunch of Guice and Dagger stuff

I find the cyber noir nature of this rekt.news to be really delightful

I think that for both examples, having people's attention is a precursor to doing anything else. That's just my intuition though.

Maybe it is possible to have a landing page that people leave much more quickly but that is more successful. Maybe it is possible to keep your audience informed without them watching for very long.

I think if time on page and average session metrics suggested that's what people wanted, that's what we would see. It's like complaining about how the news reports on inane stuff.

Is there anything written about this?

I'm extremely skeptical that a big chunk of people in such a highly online country just left their phones at home. Maybe some of the Hardeim but I would guess 95+% of people wouldn't do this.

When they say REPL in this context is that a reference to replit.com?

Don't people who've been infected count toward the herd immunity. That ~30% of Americans. I know there's some overlap but if we can get to 70% of people vaccinated I think we'd be really close, no?

Not really a buyers market rn. Maybe this ideological position will specifically attract people who feel alienated by SV culture, maybe not. But there's no way that losing a large fraction of your engineering team is anything but a disaster.

Wow tbh I thought this post was being kinda precious until the menus thing. That is so gross and has never occurred to me.

+1

I've been vegan half my life and my recollection of cheese has mostly been replaced by the plant based alternatives. But I still think they've come light years from what we had back in '08.

I think a key to being able to enjoy plant based facsimiles is to not judge it based it on how closely it approximates the dish, but rather how good it is on its own as a cousin.

What is a C2?

Like any other externality that isn't constrained by regulation, the problem is raging out of control.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-17/space-...

It's definitely interesting, but I don't get how this kind of thing doesn't make other people feel a kind of intense sadness.

It's like the intersection of the insignifigance and smallness of my own individual existence + the immense scale of time to underscore that fact + the fact that even all the things that are spectacular and powerful also meet the same kinda end as me.

Something about the 58 billion trillion trillion trillion trillion years last black hole thing just bums me out.

Thanks this makes sense. So the toIndex is literally defined as "the index after the last element in the range".

I just took a look at the rangeCheck:

https://majadhondt.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/googles-9-lines/

Is this example correct? Can someone explain to me how this: if (toIndex > arrayLen)

is correct?

If the array length is say 5, and toIndex is 5, that should still throw an index out of bounds exception, right? But it would be acceptable here.

I agree with and appreciate your position. I'm more annoyed with Apple than with the security researchers. Apple is preying on your desire to do good. They could easily afford to pay a reasonable amount and promptly.

Jerusalem definitely has the age, but it's never struck me as a place of intense urban activity. Am I wrong?

Kinda curious now, are there other examples of cities like this? Rome? Jakarta?

If there are really 1063 I would think conservationists could know about almost every one individually. That's smaller than the high school I went to. I know they are spread out over a wide area in a dense jungle but I think it would be possible.

Many of the places in the world with better infrastructure than the US have more strict industrial regulation and, in some cases, a government that is much further to the left.

Do you find pretty universal recognition of unit 8200 among American companies at this point? Most recruiters and hiring managers must be somewhat familiar by now, no?

I think this kind of lock in doesn't exist because you can create bridges to native code anywhere in the code.

I've recently been reading a bit about the history of Israel and the prolific tech industry there. Funny enough the founders are Israeli (company was in NYC), and one of them had a leadership role in the Talpiot program--something akin to the Navy seals for science and technology in the IDF.

Really remarkable country, seemingly overflowing with human capital. A population smaller than New Jersey but so much innovation and startups.

Are these not good points?

> This was not my experience as an inmate in Texas.

Where did you do your time? Because 70% of Texas inmates are housed in facilities without A/C. Concrete structures that get up to 105 degrees. Inmate accounts of this are truly horrific.

The state spent 7 million fighting against having to fix this, potentially (according to plaintiffs) more than the cost of fixing it. So the state is so dedicated to horrible conditions that they spent more money to fight than it would have cost to fix them. Litigation has been going on for years, and the state authorities are still dragging their feet.

This is just one example of the way the carceral system dehumanizes people. I'm sure youre familiar with Nutraloaf.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/07/26/texas-prison-heat-ai...

Is this a substantial number of environmentalists? I've never encountered the sentiment.

Hmm, really good point, but I still stand by my thinking. I think the expectations should be higher for an organization that is empowered by the state to do violence than for a gathering of citizens. There shouldn't be any expectation that bad actors are just a part of law enforcement in the way that there should be when there is just a group of thousands of people.

And moreover I think that police killings are kind of the top line item because that is punchy, but most activists would say their problem is with the entrenched structures that allow police to behave badly with impunity. It's impossible to sue an officer as an individual for even the most egregious offenses, police unions have fought really hard to protect bad officers and policy, even when people do "win" legal action against the police the bill is footed by the taxpayers, and in general the thousands of bad interactions people have and film that never even get attention. I'm biased, but I think that the system of policing in the country is more corrupted by bad actors than the protests were.

If 10000 people walk down the street, and 10 of them light a building on fire, is it correct to refer to it as a violent protest? There has never been a large demonstration, anywhere, that didn't attract some bad actors and opportunists. I won't say this is bootlicking, but it does seem like a position that never leaves you on the side of popular demonstrations.

15-26 million people participated in the protests in the US last summer. The 1-2 billion in damage[1] is a shocking number taken on it's face, but if 20 million people poured into the street with the intention of causing damage, they would cause orders of magnitude more damage than that. Adjusted for inflation, the 1992 Rodney King riots in LA caused 1.4 billion in damage[2].

The main demonstration in my city last year, which I attended and attracted thousands of people, were totally peaceful in vibe. A group of people burned a bank down in the evening, but it was a totally different group that formed hours after the main BLM march and was 20 miles away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests

[2] https://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-insurance-civil-unrest-ri...