jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Each state requires an annual registration fee which varies from state to state.

The state of New York, on the other hand, charges a tax based on the vehicle's weight, rather than on its value, which is charged at the time of registration renewal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_tax#United_States
Hey, GreenArrays! I did code generation for the ShBoom / PSC1000 once --- heavily bending a traditional register-centric compiler architecture to produce terrible, terrible code. Fascinating processor, though. And I have an MSP430 right here on my desk.

I'm afraid your paper is largely beyond me, though, but I'll go read up on program synthesis. Thanks!
Install--not that many, but usage on my desktop is far more varied.
Yes, but it's the "linkedin.com" autocomplete he's referring to, since it doesn't show up in any bookmarks (or nonexistent history)

Admittedly it wasn't a very clear article, and probably took longer to write than the bug request would have taken to submit. :/
http://us.macmillan.com/excerpt?isbn=9780374292980

Pre-ordered here in the sunny UK Midlands. Good catch, I'm writing this in the kitchen, surrounded by small 'category 3' workshop businesses and low density residential.

[The lads running the sign making shop round the corner (see posts a few months ago) have graduated to iMacs and have built themselves a huge (7m by 2m) table for cutting and printing on the laminates.]
That must be why they didn't really grow until about 3 years after they were founded:

http://static1.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4abbcbef60b187740...

And yes, it was "very early" in their growth cycle. In fact celebrity embrace was the catalyst for their growth. No Ashton Kutcher = no Twitter today.
Just gonna mention that N3 stands for Notation3 [0]. I'd never heard of it before, and just googling for N3 doesn't lead to any direct results.

My immediate reaction from reading about N3 is that it doesn't seem very easily approachable, especially when compared to JSON. If I type "json" on Google, the first result [1] is a fairly human-friendly spec with a huge list of implementations at the bottom. If I then type "json example" on Google, the first result takes me to a page with lots of examples [2] of JSON side-by-side with XML. In comparison, looking up Notation3 takes me to a w3 spec page for which my first reaction is to say "tl;dr", and looking up examples takes me to two pages [3] [4] which fail to immediately clarify anything.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TeamSubmission/n3/

[1] http://www.json.org

[2] http://www.json.org/example.html

[3] https://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Examples.html

[4] https://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer.html
The majority of Economists at the time also failed to predict the financial crisis. As a science, macroeconomics only has a limited set of historical data to go on and no ethical opportunities for lab experiments. Given this, perhaps we put too much trust in the predictions of experts.
Yeah, I made the mistake of actually getting a bit excited again when seeing the progress reports these past weeks. The wording in this blog post and my gut feeling after a year of waiting is that shipping internationally will be very low on the WakeMate to-do list. I wish they'd just tell us up front though.
First, I think it's awesome that someone put this together to try to help kids get into better colleges. That's great, and it most likely took a lot of time, and it seems like a project done entirely out of good will. That's awesome. That said, I had a really strong negative reaction after reading the introduction. I'm a college freshman, although since I spent some time working after highschool it's been about 2 years since I applied to colleges. I was aware of College Confidential but it seemed like a shitty site full of people pretending that they knew more than me about the college process. Lots of comments like "no way you could get in there with those scores." As far as I can tell, here's all you need to do to improve your SAT: take lots of practice tests. And I'm not even sure that's the best way to improve your chances of getting into a selective school. If you ask colleges how to improve your chances of getting in, they'll tell you to become more interesting and well-rounded. I don't buy the theory that colleges lie about this out of some ulterior motive – I just don't see the incentive. I ended up getting extremely lucky and got into a great school, but the only thing I can think of that would have made me "stand out" in an applications process is being relatively good at programming.

Beyond a certain point of classes / SAT scores, you're going to be much better served doing something productive and interesting with your time than endlessly taking practice tests and posting on a forum full of people who don't know what they're doing. The only people who really know whether or not you're going to get into a college are its admission officers.
Interesting. I know in some states servers are not guaranteed minimum wage. They can make as little as 4 or 5 bucks an hour, so if you don't tip them they make very very little money. If I was in a state like that I don't think I'd ever go below 20%.
So far, the COVID-19 pandemic is showing us that People, rather than Consumption, matter most.

We need consumption to support people, yes, but Economic expansion and increasing consumption can't go on infinitely.

Most people shouldn't be able to afford a car - they should be taking public transit - but they can obtain one because they take out loans.

The american fracking industry shouldn't exist, but it can because it has access to cheap, infinite lines of credit.

Our health suffers for it.

So many people and businesses are able to live beyond their means because of access to credit. If we eliminate the ability to create credit, then consumption would drop to a sustainable level and pollution would also drop and we would see an end to wasteful businesses, products, processes, and ways of life.
This gives me a Cloudflare DNS resolution error.
This is yet another instance of misguided incentives causing systemic failure, much like famines that happen alongside modern farming in developed economies. Keep in mind that most people don't pay for gas in Venezuela, they just go to the pumps and fill up. Institutions handle the rest and those institutions never functioned well and have been breaking down for some time.
You could have attempted to starve 20 poor people with your income at any time. It works only if your increased demand does not bring any additional food onto the market. This is why we need prices to rise -- we need people to notice "Someone is buying 20 people's worth of food, so demand is now 40 instead of 20, so we can finally make money by (selling our stockpile/reducing wasteful consumption/not producing ethanol/building a greenhouse)".
Maybe it’s just my area but I’m not seeing any rational panic buying anywhere.

My stores have PLENTY of non-perishable items, but you know what’s missing for me?

Russet potatoes, bottled water (which will last you like a week without a means to make more), frozen pizzas, bananas, bread, milk, eggs.

I don’t get it.
FS: all-Function Segment GS: General-purpose Segment
Isn't that the definition of click-bait? Promise something in the headline just for the clicks, but don't deliver it in the article
I graduated with a BA in English with a Technical Writing concentration 15 years ago. I did the job for a few years and, honestly, it sucked. At best, I was treated like an idiot by developers. Developer aloofness seemed much worse back then — they were never wrong. I was always at the end of the software development cycle, so there was never enough time budgeted to do good work. Management couldn’t decide if I was a tester and a writer, so I often had to fill both roles. The rapid nature of software development today is great for users and developers, but lends itself to rapidly expiring documentation. I did the job long enough to teach myself software development. I switched over to being a software dev ten years ago and have never regretted it. Entry level pay as a software dev was better than experienced pay as a technical writer. I have been asked to write documentation, and I’m glad to do it — just not as my primary duty.
Well yeah, more or less cripple the economy by forcing large amounts of people out of work for extended periods, as well as shutting down many businesses would reduce those things. I doubt really anyone here would like the long term cost of this.
I'm the same way with blocking.

That's good insight, and mostly aligns with my experience. In the past it was mostly js players and similar api calls via scraping/injection, which are more prone to changing their selectors and interfaces.

(for reference, this was as a FOSS maintainer for a project called BeardedSpice which tapped into a bunch of different media sites for background play/pause/next control).
If you look at the referenced website, you'll see you're taking the question pretty seriously. To the comic author: I think your work is funny, keep it up!
How long are you waiting to show $$ as "supporting" an idea?

I've put in a bit, and it's been https://live.blockcypher.com/ltc/tx/bbed3a666b1399cb1a8b116b... awhile now and still not showing up.
You brought great material! Just happy I could help nudge it along.
I don't think most people would ever get as far as being able to create anything worthwhile without a job forcing them to work. It's easy to see in young people who haven't found the right job. They waste their lives plating video games or netflixing all day. Without to pressure to do anything no open source developer will be born out of this. No artist will emerge. They will Just stay in their comfy situation.

I've seen it dozen of times in my social circle and even with myself. A job provides perspective and can show you that you are truly worth something before you even believe it yourself. I'm quite certain that I and many of my peers would still play CS and whatever the current MMO is all day if I was never forced to get a job.
Schuetzen matches and anschutz are a thing in the US but come to us courtesy the Germans.
We'll always have boundless bandwidth to learn from you. Thank you!
As a matter of fact, some people do wait around for moments when they can get away with violent crime. I've met them and this is how some people think (maybe even most violent people are this way). During one weekend of the protests in Chicago this summer, there was a weekend with over 20 murders, which happened partly because people knew all the police were downtown and it was a good moment to settle scores (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52984535). I agree with you this could have something to do with the rhetoric you mention, just as well as other political rhetoric. It could also just have to do with virality, the impression of lawlessness/lack of repercussions, the "fun" of being violent, and people in public who shouldn't be. In the end, if you shoot a woman in the head with a flare gun, I'm not too concerned whether you claim you did it because "of the president's rhetoric", "to fight white/asian supremacy", or "to steal her pocketbook for economic motivations". I'm more concerned that the police arrest you and the government locks you up until you know better. Anything else looks like more deflection of responsibility to me.
Well said. With enough to say FU at any time, enough to move on a dime, to cover insurance for several years out etc., life is good - no worries. With too much beyond that I've found it can turn on you in many ways, mentally, physically, spiritually... family and friends... I ridiculously wish taxes kept going higher each rung of the ladder until 99% so I could know my limit.
I set up hot corners so moving the mouse to the bottom right corner locks the computer.
This functionality is supported by the software supplied with the broadcom driver for any bluetooth enabled phone (on Windows). No need for an app on the phone. Such functionality is also on linux in the bluez package. Don't know about Macs. It is really sad that previously ubiquitous software is now being made into "apps".
Doesn't work for me on MacBook Air.
130,000 pages released, yet every commenter here is talking about their own beliefs.. incredible since this is supposedly a science community.. I clicked to see if anyone had looked at any of the pages yet and dug up some stuff to save myself some time..
Interesting theory. What prevents other sites from scraping SO posts? If the answer is "nothing", that suggests it's just a matter of time until it's just as bad. Right?
Static site is more secure only if the server is also up-to-date and setup properly to trim down all unnecessary options. Putting static site on a general purpose apache installation that will happily serve PHP and CGIs from user home dirs is not such a big security improvement.
It will be interesting to see how close to the front page this makes it. I seems that these difficult subjects are soon flagged dead before any meaningful discussion.
It seems like your argument is the opposite of the point made in the essay you linked. You say a browser is unnecessary, but the essay says that WASM won because it integrates with the rest of the browser.
So if I gain a monopoly on a nation's water supply, and then charge the population exorbitant but enormously profitable prices for a litre of water, I must be "helping people and improving their lives" because without my activities they'd literally die?

Water certainly can't be in the category of "regressive products".

People paying someone for things they need isn't an indication that the seller is a moral/ethical actor. It's just an indication that they own valuable goods, and ownership has really nothing to do with personal ethics, unless you subscribe to a seriously flawed ethical belief system like Prosperity Theology.
Assume a 30 year fixed mortgage. Say the buyer pays $1 million total, the interest rate determines the purchase price. But why do you care? Either the seller or the lender will get the money.
100% in agreement. Is how I've been running my teams in all the companies I've been to too.
Is 1.7k open issues something to worry about or is it normal for a project of this size?

PS: I have also been building something similar, but not completely open-source: https://www.usertrack.net
Now it says 99.9% for the current quarter.

If the current quarter started at the beginning of 2021, they're saying Slack was down for 7 minutes.

If the current quarter means the last 3 months, they're saying Slack was down for ~2 hours. If we assume the figure is rounded up from 99.85%, that's ~3 hours.

No matter how charitably I interpret this, it doesn't seem true given what happened yesterday.
I have been living in Saigon for the past 10 months. I'd say on the contrary, the first few days (what a tourist would experience) are the most stressful, but after a while you get used to it and it's alright.
Even in cities with mass transit in the US, there's a substantial wealthy population that chooses car (or helicopter!) commutes (they might not be commuting daily, though, or driving themselves when they do) over transit ones, so with people for the means for either, it's definitely not a 100% preference for mass transit.
ew the rivian design looks 10x worse than the tesla one
Education isn’t a profitable enterprise, unless you skew the input or cut corners. We need to teach everybody, regardless of their needs, and pay the teachers well to do so. (This is actually one of the cruxes of the article)

Monopoly has invaded every area of our lives, and we’re worse off for it. We need the opposite of “free” markets in order to deal with this. Companies need to be broken up, sectors need new regulation, and we need to prevent mergers while subsidizing competition.
I would like to see a PowerShell equivalent to the autocompile feature in Visual Basic.Net where error checking is done after each character pressed.
Do they also go after the thief?
How would it know which direction to move in if the position of the goal was not part of the input to whatever control algorithm they're using? The part of the code that detects the overlap of the cursor and the goal should be completely separate from the part that is translating the implant inputs into x,y movement so I don't see how it could be driven by anything other than input from the monkey.
I tend to invest in people and the people behind this seem really solid, and they’ve been remarkably open about their stack and how things are built.

It all seems very well engineered. I worry more about them getting acquired quickly (which is deserved for them but not so much for their customers)
OK, I see that the "you are dumb" argument is towards me now.

I know that cigarettes are bad for my lungs and for my heart. How do I know that? Because I can read ONE COMMON OPINION everywhere. All the time. Nobody claims it is good.

Global warming? I hear everything pro and con and then more.

Your answer is essentially: go learn something because it is true.

The funny part? I know very well this is true. How? Where to look for the ELI5 version? No idea.

Suppose one moment you are not an expert in quantum mechanics, especially the multiverse model. Out of your head, where are you going to go to learn about that? Wikipedia? OK, let's see the "Scientific consensus and society" part for global warming. Lines and lines of explanation that all scientists say it is true.

Do you see something like that elsewhere? No? So it means that the topic is far, far from being obvious and that we should have a good campaign, oriented to normal people such as myself (and not erudits such as you) to explain it clearly. I live in France and I have not seen one such campaign.

So much for awareness.

Your position is exactly what drives people away from science: "With your level of education it shouldn't be at all difficult to find a resource that answers your questions. Instead you've sought out two comic strips and two extremely ideological sources.", "Again, this has all been said thousands of times. If it helps to have somebody explain it to you, great." etc.

Have you ever taught others? Well I did for years and telling them "you dumb people, you should know this so move your ass and learn" is not going to help.

Of course I (as in me personally) know how global warming works. My neighbours do not. Because what they hear is "you should know because it is simple"

You say you are frustrated. I spent 30 years pushing science into the head of people, either willingly or not (-I mean the receivers of the science :)). I fought pseudo science. I tried to teach what I knew.

I am not a specialist in climate and my understanding is a bit above your "this is very simple" part (I would add the physics and the complexity of simulations in the "I get that" part). But I am not equipped to evangelize the topic. And I see that other are not either because I did not hear about it eanough so that it is obvious fore everyone listening.
Unfortunately Opera is also Chromium-based now, as are a growing number of browsers
(edge was the nail in the coffin)
Absolutely. In fact, I intentionally used the word AI in the article and was hoping I would get this sort of comment. I fundamentally believe that we can only make progress in many areas of what constitutes AI if we have a concrete focus on the underlying technologies. And there we are looking at ML (among other things). Especially when it comes to higher-level topics such as regulatory policies, AI is all too often used as an intellectual wildcard. The consequence of that are low-quality discussions and misguided policies.
Regular Nix user here, I agree with your points regarding the language's peculiarities, and adding on a few points:

> 1. Where does the semicolon go? Reading code makes it feel arbitrary, but really the only time a semicolon is used is to terminate an assignment (=). If there are no equal signs, then you don't need any semicolons.

The semicolon is also required when using with expressions (i.e. augments the environment of an expression like let, but confusingly doesn't shadow let bindings)

nix-repl> with { a = 3; }; a
3
nix-repl> let a = 5; in with { a = 3; }; a
5 # ??????

> it it doesn't quickly jump out at you that ${VAR} are being templated in by nix

One situation I've run into is how to quote ${ in a multiline string, and the solution is to write ''${ :

nix-repl> '' ''${ ''
"${ "

> The documentation is fairly decent, but when trying to figure out how do something, you are basically hunting in that code base.

This is very much true, essentially Nix and its ecosystem is a big instance of Hyrum's Law[0] whereby people go with what they actually observe rather than what should be according to the spec (if it exists).

[0] https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
99% white males, awesome.
You don't find it dystopic because the Brave New World so frighteningly resembles ours. The people on the article actually behaves like the idiot mainstream inhabitants of the Brave New World.

That you don't even find it dystopic is probably another sign that it's actually the parody of the world we're living it; superficial, commercial, filled with porn and vulgarity, reality TV and shitty music, individualistic and thoughtless. We don't even need a Thought Police to enforce proper thinking.
Still waiting for news: Opera xx - now we support google services!
Yahoo Serious? That actually made me chuckle.
Why are you leery of doing anything practical with Erlang and Haskell? #haskell on freenode is filled with people doing practical things in Haskell and Ericsson has bet most of its infrastructure on Erlang...
Here is a review: http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/publications/book_reviews/ful...
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It's not totally mandatory. They allow for exceptions and there's the option of home schooling.
This is misstating the science. Pre-teen school environments have not been documented as being centers of superspreader events, owing to lots of factors (including better adherence in school environments to other mitigation strategies like mask wearing and distancing; schools are better organized and MUCH more rule-compliant than society at large!).

It is not true that kids don't get covid. It is not true that kids don't spread covid.