skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Otherwise you're basically saying that something is legal for the rich who could easily make the bail or the fine, but illegal for somebody poor who cannot make the fine which can have ever worse consequences.

That's an accurate description of the status quo. Just look at Volkswagen. Paid a couple billion in fines, couple of lower level managers serve a little bit of jail time, and the company is back to profitable as if nothing had happened - even though the deaths of thousands of people can be directly attributed to the scandal (per https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/emissionen-die-toerichte-...). The shareholders didn't suffer a dent.

It's similar with banks - when you owe a bank a million $, you have a problem. When you owe a bank a hundred million $, the bank has a problem. The richer you are, the more you can get away with.
The composition of waste is probably different between online and brick-and-mortar stores, but the total waste is probably similar given that the total costs are similar.
Yeah there's still billions of people that aren't online yet, and even without all of the optimization targets, people still use services like Facebook, Snapchat, Whatsapp, etc multiple times per day - all of these services will remain highly profitable even with declining usage figures.

It's just that their share prices will take a hit and shareholders will be disgruntled. Fuck those guys though.
Take a look at the edit history for the Wikipedia page[0]. This one takes the cake:

> I work at the company and the group of people that added this part just stole the code of the company and try to replicate the code. They give a bad influence of the company and what they are doing is against the law. They try to give a bad image of the company everywhere including wikipedia

The amount of ignorance shown in that edit comment is just impressive. I doubt they have heard about the Streisand effect.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Das_Keyboard&acti...
#Try a different book

Oftentimes the assigned textbooks are subpar. Less Wrong has a good list of textbooks. Quora questions have also been helpful

#How much of your time studying is actually spent studying?

You may need to spend less time studying.

You might spend six hours at the library, but only one hour on the actual problem set, and five hours staring out the window. It's better to spend an hour and a half on focused work and have 4.5 hours of free time then waste that time pretending to study when you aren't actually being productive. If you can't focus, take a break. Figure out how much of your time you spend studying vs "studying." and shoot to improve that.
I feel like it must be some SEO requirement - because otherwise who wants a rambling tale of the time someone's gammy took them down to the shore to experience the beach life, finding adventures and making new friends and then paragraphs later ok here's the recipe for Maple bourbon glazed salmon you wanted
That is the case in (some?) Scandinavian countries, as well as Switzerland. I think it's generally indexed on income (based on tax return), with fines being expressed in days (of a fraction of the offender's disposable income). There's usually a lower bound (e.g. 6€ in Finland) but no upper bound. The day-fines may also be convertible to jail time (at a ratio of 1:3 or 1:4 I think).
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Blogging with Emacs org-mode
I'm curious what your mnemonics are like, could you give an example or two?

I'm not a student of Japanese, but AIUI there are pictographs and ideographs amongst the characters, presumably these are effectively already mnemonics?
I assume my fellow humans are sentient creatures with volition and judgement. Do you?
I really like CS don't get me wrong, but I would not have majored in it if I could get the same ROI on somthing I enjoyed more.
> Flight risk is really not as high as the system is designed for.

The system is rigged against the minorities. Look why cannabis was criminalized in the first place - to target blacks and hippies (https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-...). As a politician, keep as many of 'em in jails as you can, thus showing the white population you're "tough on crime" and at the same time filling the coffers of your private prison operator friends with state cash for the jailing.
From the article:

> [...] turning them into a commodity that can be shipped anywhere in the world and converted back into electricity or hydrogen gas to power fuel cell vehicles
+1, I've got blue switches though, much to everyone's annoyance. Oh well, it's just me and my computer most of the time.

The only issue I have with it is its cleanliness, need to take it apart and give it a good scrub again sometime. There's also some rust on the base plate, probably because I scratched the paint at some point. But that's not something you can see or is a problem when using it.

It's mostly for leisure though, at work I've got an Apple wireless keyboard; the low profile works for me to prevent rsi issues.
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Who are you to say that content which someone else enjoys is useless?
> If one person gets their life savings cleared out for a $100 speeding fine, how do you equate that financial pain to Bill Gates? Why should Bill Gates be punished more in the same situation for having put the work in to build a successful company?

He's not punished "more", he's punished equitably. The ultimate goal is not to collect $100, it's for the offender to not reoffend.

Disposable income is an actual objective and important concept, and if you ignore it when handing out financial punishment it just stops being punishment at all for people sufficiently wealthy to not give a single flying fuck.

Having "put the work in to build a successful company" — or just inherited their wealth — should not make one immune to punishment, yet that's exactly what happens with unscaled fixed-amount fines.

> You end up with silly (IMHO) situations like someone getting a $290k fine in Switzerland for 85mph in a 50 zone.

There's nothing silly about it. If that's a $500 fine for somebody with an income of 7 figures, it's not a punishment at all and completely fail at its purpose of making the offender not reoffend: they could get such a fine every single day and live just fine while an offender on US minimum wage loses two weeks worth of work on a single fine.
That seems a fairly reasonable fine to me - if the speeder has "annual income of more than $820,000 and is worth well over $20 million" then why shouldn't he pay more?

Also:

"The Testarossa driver was initially fined a little less than $90,000 by the local jurisdiction. That was raised to $145,000 by the next court after the driver claimed diplomatic immunity, saying he is diplomat from the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. That didn't sway the court, which boosted the fine to $290,000."

https://www.wired.com/2010/01/record-speeding-fine-dents-swi...
oh god yes I sure hope so
* occaisionally

occasionally
Oops, I killed that during one of the edits.
Ask HN: How do you force yourself in doing something you don't like?
My whole professional career I struggled with certain tasks - mostly paperwork related, I try to avoid them as much as I can. While I love technical job and hands on I can't force myself to do necessary paperwork and this does have an impact on how I'm being seen by my boss.

How do you deal with such things? My goal is to push mentally these tasks into "it's not that bad to do".
The U.S. would do itself a huge favour by allowing student debt to be bankruptable. College prices can rise infinitely because there is an unlimited supply of AAA+ debt to feed it. Drop that rating to reality and investors don't buy the debt, loans don't get originated, demand for college at $250k dries up.
Fully agreed. My overpriced Das Keyboard started to exhibit severe key bouncing just after the warranty ended. They refused to do anything about it.

I only found out that the company had quietly changed what used to be Cherry switches for Chinese knock-offs after buying the keyboard.

One of the most regrettable purchases I ever made.
Thanks, I couldn't notice it somehow.
haha that was my first thought too, but then I read "social media" and started to realize which "snap" they were talking about
> Yes. One practice is honest and one is dishonest. Do you really not see a difference?

Both are equally dishonest.

> "We invited you in with your lower score because we recognize it is more difficult for you to achieve that score, and as such are more likely to succeed" versus "We didn't like how smart we were so we lied to you about passing the exam to hide the fact that we're biasing entry standards."

That's just rationalizations to justify your bias. The japanese made similar rationalizations. Female candidates are likely to get pregnant and society is better off with females getting pregnant because japan has a low birth-rate problem.

Their justification is just as "good" as yours. Both are discriminatory and evil.
This is my experience as well. As an iOS developer I needed to upgrade my OS and then came the the problems with pretty much everything. Clover, EFI-partitions and backups of every kernel extension I needed couldn't keep the update threshold from being uncomfortably high which meant I hesitated to keep my system up to date. The issues show up in the most subtle ways too. I had a kernel extension for networking and after a seemingly minor update the LAN interface would die under high load. As in it would work when browsing, streaming, regular use but downloading a larger file with high bandwidth usage for a while would just bork the connection completely.

The only reasonable thing to do was to dedicate the machine to gaming on Windows and buy a Mac. Not trying this again anytime soon.
But newspapers are curated; twitter is not. A closer analogy to twitter is the Postal Service.
I pretty much exclusively dev on Windows, and the only thing that's a problem for me is the lack of error and assert traces. Someone started implementing the support for it, but never finished it. It is complicated by the fact that Microsoft does not distribute DIA with Windows and Zig can't include it in its own distribution.
Second that. Windows is pretty much at the limit of obnoxiousness for me now. I'm locked to it by things like drivers for my fancy photo inkjet, but any kind of regular charge would be the last straw - I'd just swap to Linux and possibly buy a cheapo Mac for the inkjet type situation.
Lombok quake: Facebook 'regrets' earthquake balloons
The proposal here is to crack the ammonia back to hydrogen which is then used in a regular fuel cell car.
If you were looking at fine as a price to pay to break the law, then yes, it's silly. But the fine should make you not want to break the law in the first place. Then math is completely different.
As (primarily) a node user, there's way more data science an ML in Python than there is node.

If you're still tying your horse (and haven't already) it might be better to skate to where the puck is moving - Elixir would be a good example.
Going Serverless: From Common Lisp and CGI to AWS Lambda and API Gateway
Just out of curiosity, what's everyone's prefered keyboard these days?

I was getting aches in my hands / wrists so I grabbed a MS Sculpt L5V-00001 last year and couldn't be happier with it. After working on a Macbook (2013 style, not the new ones) for the last few years I can't really see myself going for something with a huge amount of key travel anymore.
Yes but it refers to an electronic musical keyboard, not a computer keyboard, which is indeed „Tastatur”.
A $50 ticket is not going to deter bill gates from speeding.

The goal of a speeding ticket is not to collect $50, it is to save lives by detering people from speeding..
>Web 3 is just getting started though, and with new technologies are going to come novel and compelling forms of social interaction.

Can you elaborate on this? What do you mean by Web 3, what are examples? What is just getting started?
Exactly. I've been running a few webshops where cookies were used only to keep the session/cart state. It never occurred to me I should irritate my users with cookie/GDPR notices. To quote the famous cookie law [1], the cookies exempt from consent were:

* user‑input cookies (session-id) such as first‑party cookies to keep track of the user's input when filling online forms, shopping carts, etc., for the duration of a session or persistent cookies limited to a few hours in some cases

* authentication cookies, to identify the user once he has logged in, for the duration of a session

* user‑centric security cookies, used to detect authentication abuses, for a limited persistent duration

* multimedia content player cookies, used to store technical data to play back video or audio content, for the duration of a session

* load‑balancing cookies, for the duration of session

* user‑interface customisation cookies such as language or font preferences, for the duration of a session (or slightly longer)

* third‑party social plug‑in content‑sharing cookies, for logged‑in members of a social network.

This means you could freely use cookies for normal operation. It's only when you start tracking people you needed to ask their consent.

[1]
http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
Rainforest Automation sells a little Linux appliance that reads smart meter data from your energy meter. Some providers, (including mine - ComEd) provide the spot price via that meter. The Rainforest device has an api both cloud & local.

Whenever I get a couple of bored minutes I go and update a little go library I have to work with it https://github.com/kklipsch/reagle
I'm a vendor serving that industry segment, and that's not out of line with the coverage we have to carry.
Steeper fines for failure to appear is just pushing the goalpost.
Introduce a heavy tax on fossil fuels and use the revenue to subsidize research and development and installation of sustainable energy sources.
Yikes, thanks for pointing this out.
I'm quite the person to say that it is useless to me.

I also am quite free to have the opinion that a lot of content is simply a waste of time. I also propose the question of how much actual enjoyment it produces and the quality of said enjoyment. You are free to think otherwise :)
Nope.

Evidence and facts dont support the retaliatory bias position - retaliatory bias is currently too insignificant a force in comparison to previous systemic or societal biases.

Maybe if we lived in a highly equitable society in the first place, the position would make sense - the forces would be more relatively matched.

Currently, all things being equal - the systemic biases are far more significant and harmful to society as a whole.
Here is a paper created by CSIRO scientists on the round-trip conversion efficiency of the process for different routes

The paper also mentions fuel cells which was a question I wondered about:

“Ammonia at the point of end use can be converted to hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles or alternatively utilized directly in solid oxide fuel cells, in an internal combustion engine or a gas turbine. “

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b02219
Hmm, based on condition.
That's also the case in the german-speaking countries.
Some Snapchat source code leaked on GitHub; removed after all-caps DCMA takedown
"what does the chemical reaction look like when harvesting hydrogen from ammonia?"

Reverse Haber process maybe?

2NH3 -> N2 + 3H2
The whole point of those Switzerland-style fines based on wealth are to make sure that Bill Gates is punished the _same_ amount for the same crime, not more. It's just using a different measure of "amount of punishment" - in this case something based on proportion of wealth/income rather than a flat amount. That flat amount means a lot less to Bill Gates than someone who has $100 in savings.

Having to rely on charities to fix problems in our justice system seems completely backwards to me. That's a workaround, not a solution.
Ammonia is 10x more dense than hydrogen gas at the same temperature/pressure, so you can pack more of it into the same volume.
Here's an article on Tesla abandoning battery swap [0]. There was also an Israeli company trying to do the same thing that failed to pull it off. [1]

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/teslas-battery-swapping-plan....

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-pl...
> We'd probably really be regretting that choice since CoffeeScript use is dwindling

BecauseJS eventually got better and everyone moved to new versions and Babel. If you'd offered an alternative, maybe they would have moved to that.

> Dart was an optionally typed language and is actually older than TypeScript.

OK.

> Is the "was" part of that intentional?

Yep, a lot of Ruby folk moved to node, now they're in Elixir or Go.

> I think you have to aim for where you think users will be, otherwise you end up irrelevant by the time you launch.

I totally agree, but I think those cowpaths give you a good idea of where the ball is moving, particularly syntactically. And it doesn't seem like Dart paid any attention to that signal at all.
Everything about FB has been psych tactics since day one. This is not unique to FB, though they do have a fascinating resemblance to all the tests I took in the military, broken down into smaller pieces which I think the military could learn from.
Decentralization is one part of Web 3. ActivityPub could be one technology that is relevant to this story.

Edit:
Moving things out of silos, re-focusing on the content and its value to people, instead of what's relevant to advertisers – as have been mentioned throughout this thread.
With UWP and .NET Native, .NET (C#/VB) is as first class as C++.

To the point the Windows UI team does all their graphics demos in C#.
I have heard this and always wondered what exactly is keeping people from doing drugs with lessers sentencing?

For example, if crack-cocaine carries a high sentence, then why not drop the habit in exchange for powdered cocaine?

If the question is price, then this is really more of a system targeting the poor than one that is against any specific minority group.
Same reason companies are punished for some crimes as a percentage of their value.

If flushing toxic waste to a river always resulted in constant fine - for rich companies with big enough waste treatment bills it would be rational (cheaper) to do it and pay the fines.
It seems odd that Python ended up with asyncio when they had a clear and successful model they could’ve adopted from Stackless. It would have been more difficult to implement, but it would allow for the same benefits without requiring an asynchronous programming model, which would have reduced the total amount of effort involved in getting to having good concurrency in Python.
I would redirect them to Diaspora, if they want to get social they better get social on an open platform :P
The problem with a fine for failure to appear is that you have to find the person to make them pay. The assumption being that if you're skipping out on a court case you're probably doing so with the intention of never attending, and a fine they can't enforce isn't going to make a difference.

The logic behind bail is simple, you either show up to court or lose money that you cannot afford to lose. The incentives make sense at first glance.
In the UK it's very hard to have one parent stay at home - to pay the mortgage you usually need two full time to cover the mortgage.

Child care is subsidised heavily by other taxpayers, but only government childcare - get a grandparent round and there's no tax break. The tax system works hard to discriminate against single parent families too (two people with two kids on total £80k pay a marginal tax of 32%. One person on £55k pays marginal 60%)
Probably because ammonia production is using a waste product from natural gas plants (hydrogen).

This just means that one of the inputs for ammonia production has esentially zero cost, on those plants. But it does not answer any of the following questions:

1) Can that scale to produce high quantities of ammonia, without having adverse effects. That is, if the goal is to reduce dependency on hydrocarbons, having more natural gas plants makes no sense.

2) Would it be cheaper to produce hydrogen (and thus ammonia) using other processes? Currently the hydrogen is free from natual gas plants, but the natural gas plant is very much non-free. If you do not want natural gas, it makes no sense.
Culture is so important and sometimes it’s hard to get a true read during the interview process. If you can take someone on the team out for coffee and get the real scoop on the challenges of the job it can provide some more insight. Sometimes a mass exodus isn’t a bad thing and can help course correct a systemic problem but for that to happen it would take exceptional leadership. I wouldn’t shy away from asking about an exodus if one exists and what steps are in place to improve the environment.
What's the deficit in using a premade card set? Does it not work at all (for you?), take longer, focus on the wrong weaknesses?
I wish there was some kind of pledge or iOS/Android rule not to waste my time.

Example: I'm on 2 dating app. I want notification on so I can make sure to receive messages from actual people but I get one notification every day from each app "You should check for new matches today!" Nether app has a way to turn off that notification.

Google Maps now does something like this too where they are trying to get me to add reviews and photos so Google Maps starts notifying me "Add a review of that place I think you just visited?" I think Google Maps at least had a way to turn it off though not 100% sure.

In general though the more some service bugs me with anything the less I want to do business with that service. That includes mailing lists. Hate them! Don't add me. I didn't opt-in! Etc...
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"liquid hydrogen"
> Why should Bill Gates be punished more in the same situation for having put the work in to build a successful company?

This would make people equal in front of the law.

Why would being wealthy allow you to break the law more often with less consequences on your wellbeing? See the example of Harvey Weinstein in the article. The dude is rich, so he can get away with it. What do you think of that?
It takes resources - a lot of them, including energy - to build the miners. It's a net loss if you can't run the miners at a sufficient duty cycle. Cheap mining power is about 4c per kwh. A $350 GPU at 200W (hand-waving) takes about 20c/day to operate. At $70/year of power, and maybe a useful life of 3 years, it's actually capital-dominated.
Because when I read a headline like "Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid (bloomberg.com)" I'm like... wait, is "Zero Spreads" the name of a company, or "Green Energy", or "Energy Floods"? It just takes a lot longer to process.
I'm not even the same person as OP so your last sentence doesn't make any sense. I was only pointing out that white supremacist gangs forming in the US has nothing to do with Norway. I also don't think white gangs are only in reaction to other gangs and I also don't think black gangs can all be simply labeled as "bad" or that white gangs are "good."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-01-03/apple-los...
This was my thought when I saw the example on the frontpage with styling
Baidu search results are much, much better than Googles.
Ammonia is toxic, though, we will have to convert it back to hydrogen way before it reaches the car or most gas stations, just to be on a safe side.