jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I just recently got a Chevy Bolt. 240 mile range for 1/2 of the cheapest Model 3 (used, paid in cash). It has the typical GM fit-and-finish, nowhere near what I'd demand out of a car with an MSRP at ~$43k with the trim level I have. GM took so many shortcuts with materials and design choices in what I assume was an attempt to not take a loss on each Bolt sold. Aside from a pretty nice big infotainment screen, it lacks the features, fit, and finish that I'd demand from a $20k car. I still love it, very peppy electric motor, drives well, plenty of space for a baby seat and passengers, decent cargo room.

It's still a bargain GM car at luxury prices, you'd be nuts to pay full MSRP for this vehicle. I got a great deal on a used one; tons of great deals were to be had on cars coming off of the first batch of 3-year leases until the battery recall put a stop-sale on everything at GM dealerships.

I know they don't stack up good against other brands comparing MSRP to MSRP, but I have to wonder how bad Tesla's "initial quality" really compares against all of the electric options out now.
Road wear is mostly from heavy trucks, but road construction isn't driven by heavy trucks. It's driven by the needs of normal people driving sedans and SUVs and pickups.

Wealthier people buy more goods and services, which get delivered to their local store/home on roads. While they personally won't pay more mileage taxes, they will end up paying more of them through their purchases.

I get it, this isn't the most progressive form of taxation, but neither are gas taxes (if they don't come with a dividend, like they do in BC.) If anything, poor people pay disproportionately more in gas taxes, than they would in road use taxes, because they tend to drive longer distances in less fuel efficient vehicles. That's a double-whammy.
This was great, actually.
I don't program in Scala, but it was very interesting to hear about the difference between types as abstractions vs types as they are used.

For unfamiliar topics or when presented with uncommon insight, I believe rants, monologues, even diatribes are actually some of the best things to read.
Transforming colors or shapes into sounds is trivial, and there are an infinite numbers of ways to do it (e.g. for each RGB value assign a tone, or set of tones, and bam! there ya go.) So it's not like that by itself this project very interesting. Or maybe I'm missing something?
https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/ is the site. It is technically not an IRS service, but one provided by the free file alliance as part of the IRS agreement not to build their own software.

There are no income exclusions or anything. It is possible you will be unable to use it if you have to use some really obscure forms, but it does have all the forms that paid Turbo Tax can file for you. You also might not be able to use it if you have one of those weird tax situations where the IRS instructs you to write a message across the top of your 1040.
But how quickly does SWIFT or ACH settle? When one wires money overseas, settlement is counted in days, not minutes or hours as in bitcoin's case. Most of us use layer 2 or 3 solutions in our legacy national currency systems, such as Cash App, PayPal, Venmo, etc. Non elite don't have access directly to FedWire or ACH or SWIFT... it all has to pass through banks and other 'trusted third parties.'

Also, eventually most lower-value transactions in bitcoin will be on layer two technologies, like the lightning network (peer to peer) or liquid bitcoin (federated peer to peer, mostly for exchanges and traders to quickly move funds between exchanges).
It is indeed absurd to claim they lost 99.7% of btc holdings (2000 left out of 750k) - I dont care how incompetent they may be..
They lobbied the government to give them a singular exemption to a law that interfered with their revenue generation. They didn't help anyone else doing software business with Iranians. This is monopolistic behavior -- a company using its market-dominating power to carve out special rights for itself.
The problem is no other laptop manufacturer besides Apple has the capital and resources to build their own chip.
The vast majority of academics are underpaid workers in precarious jobs who need those publications because securing one of the few stable positions is explicitly tied to having enough imaginary points.
Baidu and Tencent are in China, hence why they were excluded from the discussion (since the poster specifically said US/China can't be trusted).

Accenture is American-Irish and listed on the NYSE. Subject to US jurisdiction from a national, not global level.
Sure, but the point is the buyer only looks at the price as a function of the payment they can afford. If the buyer can afford 2k/month they don't really care which part moves. Rates or price? If that means high rates and lower price? Fine. Low rates and higher price? Fine, but carries more risk as you (and I pointed out).
The loans are packaged into a company and then traded on the stock market. Your loan repayments are the company's "profits".

Bonds are created and then sold to share holders and you may even have a bond with your own mortgage in it.

Depending on the class of bond, you get paid more or less (this is the CDO)

The profits are from the bonds on the loan in the stock market.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

> Pumped storage is by far the largest-capacity form of grid energy storage available, and, as of 2020, the United States Department of Energy Global Energy Storage Database reports that PSH accounts for around 95% of all active tracked storage installations worldwide, with a total installed throughput capacity of over 181 GW, of which about 29 GW are in the United States, and a total installed storage capacity of over 1.6 TWh, of which about 250 GWh are in the United States.
I got Linux running on a MacBook 14,3. It was ... less than ideal.

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/linux-on-a-macbook-pro-14-3/

..but I also don't want to see Linux get left in the dust. I'm more likely Intel or AMD crush the M1 in their next few generations.
I thought it was the equivalent of “damn you” or “go to hell”. Or “leave us alone”.
It's cheap to start a social network. I run a Pleroma and a Mastodon server and you can find the links in my profile.

But don't fool yourself into thinking my little instances have any sort of effect compared to the big mega-corps of Google/Facebook and Twitter.
>Ah, we’ve had nonsense like that all over the internet for decades.

and how many times has that led to storming the US Capitol building with guns and bombs?
The difference would be that in the Play Store, Google hosts the app. They haven't blocked anything per se, just removed it from the server. It'd be more like them kicking problematic we sites off GCP and Firebase, which I don't like but can totally see happening.
There is a moderation team that deals with these. It's on the users' to report them. You can't expect moderation to catch 100%. GP is the one who is cherry-picking.
I would be humbled by data that proved or rejected the idea that disenfranchisement of actors who organize violence from mainstream platforms actually prevents or reduces its occurrence.

There's a fair point to be made that they'll move on elsewhere, but what if that slightly increased barrier friction is enough to stop them? No harm, no fowl, if that's the case. We traded a small bit of free speech for public safety, the ROI looks good, if it's so.
Welcome to the streisand effect. Big tech has effectively silenced 80m Americans and Parker and other alternative wrongspeak will grow much faster now.
The violent groups that organized on Facebook, does anyone feel Google or Apple should penalize Facebook for allowing that to occur? Should all Facebook users be deplatformed?
Fairly certain they're alluding to Amazon's company wide effort to get off of oracle databases, with most teams opting to use dynamodb instead. AFAIK it took about ~4 years.

Source: interned / worked at
amazon for a bit a few years back
If true, looks like they thought “stand back and stand by” was meant for them.
I find the book is too long and indeed tedious, but I like the core concept.
This. And then nearly equal in importance (or maybe more depending on your position), speaking. If you can code well, write clearly, and cogently argue your case without being a jerk about it, you will do well in the software business. Join toastmasters for at least a year.

You make money by being able to do things other people can't do, or won't do. Most programmers won't or can't learn to do these well, so those that do get a very big leg up. When execs and owners try to figure out who should become dev leads, managers, CTOs, etc, they will be looking for these skills in addition to technical chops.
The CZ Scorpion EVO subreddit is one of the more active firearm ones on Reddit, not surprised here.

https://old.reddit.com/r/czscorpion/
But is there anything to support the huge losses angle?
But still, that means several of those highly-valued SV companies could afford to buy most gunmakers in existence...
They should just ban the gathering of personal information without consent, and ban any UI that makes it easier (or as easy) to opt in.

On the day the legislation takes effect all users should be assumed to have opted out, regardless of any terms of service or non-negotiated contract.

The only exceptions should be things strictly necessary to do business (e.g., contact info for a bank account holder.)
We've all grown so comfortable in modern America that we forget that default state of human nature is subjugation and repression and has been for thousands of years.

Modern America is a historical anomaly. The powerful aren't peaceful by choice.

It's the SECOND amendment in the constitution for a reason.
It's only because your environment is fragile running stuff on metal instead of in a virtual environment.

Why not just give everyone an isolated space on a server with stuff like systemd-nspawn and let people do whatever they want including using docker inside and if they've screwed up, that's 1 lesson for them and redeploy his environment from a daily backup of the entire space or from a base image quickly.
Otoh if your browser/os is not compromised, it's safer than authentication code and SMS OTP.

And hopefully recovery codes have maximum retry count?
Dvorak is still the only one that's available on Windows, by default.
Reminder: FIDO2 is mostly useless if your browser or your OS is compromised.

Also if someone hijacks your account using bruteforced recovery codes and/or email.

Also if the servers are compromised or account data leaked.

In short, it protects from some forms of phishing.

(I'm not trying to criticize FIDO2, just pointing out what to expect from it)
The demo I linked uses a slowed down profile with lots of error correction applied in an attempt to get longer ranges working. I've tried to expose all the knobs for this on the profile system to make it configurable though. Looks like yours is quite a bit faster.

Have you done much testing with long range and non line-of-sight transmission? The acoustic echoes present some interesting challenges.

edit: Oh also it'd be nice to compare notes about mobile devices sometimes. At least for Quiet I've found the transmission quality is very dependent on specifically how the mic/speakers are set up and it can be tricky to avoid hidden resamplers and noise cancelation.
I wrote pass-otp because I want to use a hardware token everywhere, not a TOTP secret that can be duplicated. The number 1 complaint I get is that I'm defeating the purpose of 2FA.
There's no way to get the oral/gun microbiome using shotgun sequencing without also picking up human data along the way. The raw sequence files will contain reads mapping to the human genome, but those are often filtered out in subsequent steps of the data processing.
That doesn't sound like a right wing dogwhistle, although you could perhaps phrase "by forcing everyone to talk in English" differently to not be so negative.

But overall, it's a great answer. You talked about your specific team, which happened to include Russians, Indians, and Europeans. You pointed out that there were challenges involved, but you made an effort to make sure nobody felt left out, and that overall it was worth it. Nice!
We'll see. Off the top of my head, only Combine and SwiftUI are Swift only for now. And Combine has specific features that are explicitly meant to make it interop with ObjC (and @objc Swift) objects, e.g. KeyValueObservingPublisher. The other "hot new" Apple frameworks, like CoreML, ARKit, HealthKit, ResearchKit, etc. are all still written in and usable from Objective-C. They _are_ starting to use Swift(UI) in UIKit, but so far continue to wrap it in an Objective-C interface.
I was nervous about buying an HP laptop, but bought a HP Envy 15 recently because it was the only thing with the specs I wanted (1920x, good graphics card, SSD+HDD combo, fairly thin and light.) It's turned out well so far; it's good-looking, feels sturdy, runs Linux fine (although you need a recent kernel for some particular BIOS-related patches.)
cheapskates are disproportionately pathological clients
^^^ This! One of my first clients got me at a ridiculously low rate, and has over history been the most demanding client I've ever had.

"Work for full price or for free. Never for cheap." is the most useful advice on this subject.
I'm actually looking to start out like this myself, and I found a small, poorly organized nonprofit that has a less than stellar website. They're dying to make a change, but they don't really want to put the time into it.

I suspect there are lots of nonprofits like this. Or smaller nonprofits that simply don't have websites. Soup kitchens and stuff might not be into the 21st century.
My best freelancing success has always come from former colleagues and managers already familiar with my quality of work. I'm not sure what your professional experience is, but if you have an existing network to leverage it will make your ability to secure projects a lot easier. I've also found that as a general rule of thumb, you can usually charge your former hourly salary +50% (and sometimes more) and nobody will bat an eye. If they do, you might want to reconsider them as a client.
When starting out freelancing you could attract clients by offering to complete a project first and let the client pay what they think it is worth.
I'd need to look a little closer but if ARM's P/E is lower than Apple's (which is v.high something like 15x trailing earnings, which for a billion dollar company is high) then ARM is actually dilutive and hence value destroying, for Apple shareholders.

I think the more relevant data point is the FTSE and DOW's bad week/month, and traders desperate to find any good news.

Whether or not the deal strategically makes sense, Apple need to consider it's impact on shareholders.
Meditation has been life-changing for me, and combines nicely with a good diet and regular exercise to keep me feeling terrific. Negativity and stress are almost non-existent for me, and at 48 years old I have never felt better in my life.
Yeh, sorry. I meant Gandi :) love their interface.
That's right. It took a major effort to track down all the contributors (including Apple and Disney!) and get them to sign a relicensing agreement. Both Pharo and Squeak include relicensed code, and both Pharo and Squeak require that all new contributions be made under the MIT license. Claiming that Squeak has "unclear licensing" is just FUD.
So how would you implement it?
The connection between his successful prediction of current weather and his attempted predictions of global weather patterns 25 years out seems unfounded (at least in the article). His technique of comparing the Sun's behaviour with previous years might work for current weather, but just because that may be successful doesn't mean that he can be trusted when making a prediction completely outside that particular area.

The difference between having a successful method for predicting this month's weather is predicting this century's weather is ridiculously huge.
Interesting. I thought it would come from the international B2B space, not consumer. Facebook credits is very interesting, thanks!
Yeah, the one library I'm using is pretty lightweight. It just does JSON parsing of responses over a socket connection and handles a few HTTP details.

I've been really happy with it, and its been reasonably fast in the Cog VM. I haven't explored using CouchDB's list views yet, but I'm considering that for just loading pre-built HTML for larger document lists.
Read any writer's "On writing" book and they all talk about a mandatory amount of words they have to write on a daily basis. I just finished Jack London's and he had to write a 1,000 (polished)words a day. He struggled with it, but strangely, his creativity came from his routine.

I'd recommend Stephen King's "On Writing", Ray Bradbury "Zen and the Art of Writing", and "Ernest Hemingway on Writing". All have great insights into the joy and struggles of writing, but each on makes you want to be a great writer.

Best of luck keeping it up!
I think I just found a project for my Christmas vacation.
IMHO: the message is dandy, but I found the medium somewhat jarring. I had to switch to another tab in order to listen to Stephen Fry in peace. The visual style is just too suggestive of impertinent attention-grabbing TV ads, and unfittingly drawn-out for a speech of such a length.
Agassi did exactly that, playing with an obviously painted Prince racket when he was sponsored by Donnay.

I think this still happens a lot in tennis, but this was a memorable one.
We aren't at peak TV-as-spy-device yet. I was able to get a flagship 2020 model TV and all basic functions work without a internet connection. It actually can be connected for firmware updates but as long as the ToS isn't accepted all 'smart' features are disabled.

If you want dumb-dumb, a good projector is a much better option. There's no need to sacrifice quality in pursuit of privacy... yet.
Using the joy of cooking instead of google for finding recipes was a funny revelation for me. The index of a book is so much better than web search for this scenario:

- Only one recipe.

- Vetted to be high quality.

- Gets straight to the point.

The internet is amazing but for a lot of domains books are way better.
Considering the carbon footprint of datacenters, replacing your phone with a NoPhone may have a positive impact on the environment.
It's the most precise word and also is readily understood by his target audience of writers. A correct term of art can replace swathes of text. Compare using the abbreviation DAG as opposed to trying to explain the same concept without appealing to shared knowledge.
A new FPGA company for anyone interested (well... 2012, but in chip world that's kind of new)
https://theamphour.com/535-efinix-fpgas-with-sammy-cheung/
Yep, GNU/Linus is the future.
In the Seattle area the existing train tracks are removed and turned into bike paths which transport about < 1% of the people the rail lines could have served.

Seattle also will dig a new transportation tunnel, and fill up another tunnel with the excavated dirt, so a lot of money is spent and capacity does not increase.
I don't know, what he seems to want to do can be expressed in haskell as

doesFileExist "file" >>= \exists -> if exists
then ...
else ...

When he writes (do (>>= ... in his lisp example I don't think that he understands that do is just syntactic sugar for >>=s and >>s, and that what's actually happening is the data is being "taken out" (for lack of a better term) of a monad.

His problem seems to be that you do have to bother with monadic IO when with a macro he can just write (mif cond ...) and be done with it.
If you just want to remove elements from the page, rather than block connections to third-party servers, I recommend Stylish. You can just write custom CSS rules and make those elements display:none. Alternatively, write a user script that does the same.
Which is why these things shouldn’t be decided in a court of public opinion. If you’ve ever been involved in the employment dispute world, you know there is a lot of liability for employers talking about internal investigation matters publicly. It’s not realistic to expect Amazon or any employer to talk openly with the press about an ongoing dispute with an employee in detail. Meanwhile, an individual fighting the company has every incentive to air everything (as they understand it) and little liability for doing so. Consequently, news stories are seldom going to give you a full accounting of facts.
Netflix makes a lot of money in Europe. Most of that profit would move to the US... even more than it currently does.
Well, would HN be allowed to moderate the comments section, maybe except to remove illegal content?
Not having a common culture is because the goal mounted on greased maglevs - anything common is declared "cultureless".

The "rootless" line by the way is itself an absurd dogwhistle of antisemites amounting to "They are not trustworthy because we repeatedly robbed and kicked them out - ergo they must have deserved it!" Along with all of the feudalist anti-merchant and anti-banking cliches to assure literal serfs that military dictators. While whitewashing all of the considerable hatred and conflict. You unironically repeat ancient self-serving lies of long dead strongmen and yet you think we're the ones confused and manipulated?
Linux Myths Series: Setting a password secures user data.

Not when you can change passwords of any user account if you've got physical access: https://askubuntu.com/questions/24006/how-do-i-reset-a-lost-...
This book was republished several times with the same content but with a different colour of the cover each time (white; dark blue; something brownish; maybe more). As a child, and I went through at least three different colours; I managed to destroy or lose a The Hobbit every year or so.
I completely agree. This change is interesting and all, but GitHub (Enterprise, in my case) tokens aren't granular enough. There's a lot more benefit to be had in fixing that issue.
A few centuries back the average person couldn't read at all, so I think there's hope that it can be taught, not just explained.

On the other hand, the separate disciplines are more and more specialized and complex, so then I agree 100% that communication (translation) is key.

Lastly, "mindless partisanship" may be the cause, but is also an effect of other longer/subtler trends in media-tech, culture, education, etc.
And https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Would you compromise and agree with the phrase "less biased" or "removed of one specific kind of bias"? It is impossible to be objective when we're talking about people's experiences. And I don't think "taste" can be defined without including the taster - the objective measurement of molecular concentrations is doing a mass spec on something, not tasting it.
What does Julia bring over Python Poetry package manager ?
https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry
What about modularity, concretely?
"Even though I like both basic income guarantees and eugenics, I don’t think these are two things that go well together – making the income conditional upon sterilization is a little too close to coercion for my purposes. Still, probably better than what we have right now."[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200228054021/https://slatestar...
How so? That sounds like overreaching conclusions. You might as well say "monarchy is responsible for the scientific and industrial revolutions", or "Christianity has created the Renaissance", just because those pairs of complex changes in society and history happened concurrently in time.
This is really an argument between big corps operating on scale + M&As vs. small local businesses.

I think we should favor more news outlets than fewer (a specific threshold is a loaded question) that have outsized influence at the local level. These large media companies are living off clickbait and pandering to echo chambers and not on 4th estate accountability, or providing real value to peoples lives.
I use eM Client, but it's not open source.