skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also check out the interactive diagrams for the graph search chapter of that book [1]. I especially liked the "shoes of a search agent" one, which emphasizes that the algorithm doesn't "see" the whole graph like a human does.

[1]: http://aimacode.github.io/aima-javascript/3-Solving-Problems...
No, but Google needs to worry about a much more important constituency. There are not that many people who know how to build something like this.

Most are probably wealthy, to the point they don't really need to work. All of them can figure out how to covertly contact journalists. And at least a few of them are starting to have qualms about the negative consequences of industry ignoring the social implications in pursuit of profit.
P2EP: Blockstream's proposal to make Bitcoin transactoins private
The Battle for Houston
Agreed, however PHP was never praised for anything other than its ecosystem. Node is generally praised for its async IO, which is built on top of libuv.
## Enabling the option to block third-party cookies in Edge has no effect ##

Third-party cookies are still included in all requests when enabling the option to block these in Edge.

Oh my God T_T
If your entire situation is a W-2 and the standard deduction, then the 1040ez is a breeze. You can fill it out online and submit for free in 15 minutes.
This sounds like a misunderstanding.

‘Consumer activism’ is, in so many words, not activism. It describes the effort of working towards greater change through purchasing decisions. It’s a liberal rationalization common in capitalist societies that fails to account for the systemic limitations of the consumer voice. The issues with it are many, but I’ll list a few:

- It’s dependent on a person’s spending power, which is dependent on their capital wealth, which is dependent on their endorsement of the system as a whole.

- It shames those in poverty who cannot afford to participate and generates greater class divide.

- It relies on the transparency of the business entities to definite itself. If Google doesn’t tell us how evil it is, we cannot know the importance of avoiding their services.

- It relies on the media to expose misgivings, but the media relies on the misgivers to pay their bills. You get the point.

- It places a burden on the well-meaning by insisting they deny opportunities available to their competitors.

- It pits individuals against one another, undermining the solidarity needed for lasting change.
Good work supporting her. I'm sure that played a large factor. I suspect a single mom would have a much tougher time.
According to this article[0] that's unlikely. It looks like Mastodon is engaged in the same sort of blocking behavior Twitter is.

I think it's more likely we'll see private, invite-only services take off instead.

[0]: https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-is-dead-in-the-water-888c10e...
That sounds like incredibly awful implementation. I live in Uruguay where we have a hybrid system, it's single-payer in that everything is funded through the state, but you have a choice of medical systems, mostly are Mutual Organizations ("Mutualistas").

And, while there are some bad wait times for non-life threatening surgery, I consider the overall system really good. My sister-in-law had major surgery and hospitalization and care was very good.

It's not so strict as a pure "public" service, and there are state-managed hospitals where you can get bad experiences like crowding and bad care, but never to the level you're describing.

And I can (and did) choose to have some better services on top of the basic ones so I have amazing emergency services and same-day specialists, for an extra 200 dollars (on top of my mandatory health tax bill which is also like 500 dollars).

http://www.expatfinder.com/uruguay/expat-guides/article/heal...
To their credit, "Made in China" could mean the typed "make" in China.
not quite that bad.
This can already be done today through canvas & webgl, or through clever combinations of DOM + JS + CSS. You can control every pixel that's rendered to the screen through the browser.

So why doesn't everyone roll their own? Some issues:

- footprint - that whole runtime has to come across the wire just to render "hello world"
- javascript's single-threaded tendencies make perf a big challenge
- text rendering [this happens to be the thing the document-focused Web really excels at]
- text semantics [SEO]
- gigantic implementation effort [custom engines RARELY make sense even for the demands/budgets/returns of AAA games; how many websites justify this kind of investment?]
Yay, let's bring eugenics back. :D
And even then it's better to use a standard solution that other people will know too, if nothing else, to make maintenance easier.
would not increasing the base level of education decrease the chance of the currently ruling party staying in power? does not seem like a wise course of action (edit: for them).
Do you always refuse to consider the points of an argument if you find fault with the author?

It seems to me that if you cannot refute the given argument, your character assassination will be just as inadequate.
GraphPipe – Dead Simple ML Model Serving via a Standard Protocol
Under educated population is a disaster, but that problem starts about 12 years before college, in a different all public/free education system.

Jamming more people through mediocre and worse college programs to get worthless degrees is a waste of time and money.
> Why not move Jeremy Corbyn's next rally to, I dunno, Canada?

Because Jeremy Corbyn is a politician whose constituency is in the UK. The just makes DEFCON sound parochial

> Lockpicks are another - the UK does not smile on them.

Yet locksmiths in the UK routinely carry them.

You seem to be trying to paint a picture of Vegas being free, and Europe being oppressive. There are plenty of things that are legal in parts of Europe that are not in the USA. What you have really succeeded in doing is painting a picture that DEFCON is so much about guns that you would not trade the guns for anything.
I believe when most people say “make college free”, they’re referring to a “tuition free” education. There is still a housing cost, which is “skin in the game”.
Some people have some back pain / other pain and, if they're out of a job (commonly factory jobs) they go on disability (almost as a form of welfare), and will often get meds for their pain (this is the fault of doctors, pharma companies, generally medical culture emphasizing quick fix Rx vs other methods of dealing with pain).

Obviously these drugs are addictive, and if you're already in a bad place bc you went from a great stable job in your 30s to pseudo-welfare in your 50s, you're more vulnerable to addiction
I can say that in Latin countries, like Italy, where basic Latin knowledge is common, we use "Alumni" talking about one male/female anyway.

Same grammar confusion happens with "curriculum" (single) or "curricula" (multiple).
The title is ... very optimistic. From the article:

> We've also yet to find any evidence of Hawking radiation, let alone Hawking points. So while this is an interesting theory, there's plenty more work to do just yet before anyone goes about claiming the definitive existence of a previous universe.
Socialist professors just need to work for free. Problem solved. Healthcare - free too. You're entitled to everyone else's labor... for free! It's so great. Remember slavery guys? It's great! Make Everything Free Again (MEFA)! Spread the word!!!
The Super Bowl of Beekeeping (2018)
I used to have the same intuition but also just recently started to learn about material sciences. They refer to 'ceramics' as a wide family of material that is comparable to "metal" and "crystals" and the likes. These families are usually categorized by the type of atomic bonds found in them. Example, Wikipedia starts the article on "Ceramic" with:

A ceramic is a non-metallic solid material comprising an
inorganic compound of metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms
primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds.

At least, if your mental model was about ceramic vases and ornamental objects.
Not sure I agree with this either. I expect the most likely circumstance would be that the defender shows the weapon and the aggressor runs away. It's possible that it results in more gun deaths or injuries when you count both attackers and defenders, but not certain. IMO ctric isn't wrong that, as with anything, you need to study both harms and benefits and make educated decisions; I just had to point out that his initial interpretation of the study results was misleading.

I personally don't own a gun (I'm also in Canada where things are a bit different) but I have to admit that if someone broke into my house I would prefer to have one than not. That doesn't mean that unrestricted gun ownership is a net good though, of course.

Fortunately it appears we can all agree that it is critical gun owners store and secure their guns properly. In my opinion that would be a good place for new laws to focus: for example you could be required to demonstrate that you have a secure storage location and proper training before you could be licensed to own a firearm.
Sorry, I should have said price. The price to me is what I'm referring to.
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Ask HN: How would you change the tax system in the US?
I find our tax system to be a convoluted mess. What would you to improve it?

From my experience it looks like a system loaded with complexities, and loop-holes that only wealthy can take advantage of. The tax money, goes into a black box, that seems to function like a furnace.

I have friends that work in government, who acknowledge the bureaucratic mess that just wastes money.

I think we should all pay some predefined portion, but have the ability to change where we want our tax money allocated each quarter. Education, defense, infrastructure, health, etc. Everyone is happy, no one is skirting around their fair share, but each person gets to decide where their money goes. Granted, this might cause undershoot and overshoot in times of war, emergencies etc, but we could think of some clever way to mitigate that.
Check out the Reach algorithm, which is related to your idea.
Naively, yes. In practice, you could treat them exactly the same and either decrement the physical pointer by 1 unit (so an index of 0 would underflow) or leave the first index unused or for metadata (eg. array length)

There might be some other tricks you can play depending on your instruction set, but nothing comes to mind.
The Hacker News Habit
You could be right, I don't know. Of all the Latin lessons I had in high school, I probably zoned out the most during those that covered the ablative case. :)
“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.”

I suspect good lawyers refrain from falsely alleging a claim is baseless when they have more sound arguments to make, and they save the histrionics for table pounding occasions.
> or hurt poor people (aka your customers) by raising prices.

This is bullshit. Walmart profits are such that they could pay higher wages without changing prices. Sure, i'll accept you'll piss of investors by paying higher wages. If your only judgement of whether something is good or not is how much money it makes for investors, then that's the thing to optimize for. If your goal is to have functioning communities, perhaps that would lead to a different analysis.

Not to mention that the reason walmart is able to get away with paying lower wages is because of those subsidies. If their workers can't eat, they would be forced to do something else. Don't ignore that relationship
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There is an episode of Roderick on the Line where John Roderick goes on at length describing his relationship with past-John and future-John, and all the woes that past-John has visited upon him, and all the reasons he can't be bothered about future-John's wellbeing.
Then don't fund Shady St Uni. Put criteria in place for evaluating, and make sure the universities have skin in the game.

(Also, not every degree that doesn't immediately result in you making $250,000/year is worthless. And students are pretty motivated already in pursuing degrees that they see jobs in. Even if your education is free, if you put in 4+ years into something that you can't do anything with, you're still not profiting. Students themselves would still have skin in the game even with free education.)
We had a rule of never finishing a Monopoly game. We would end at 70% or so, so that people continue to talk to each other that night.
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Twitter Explains API Changes to Employees as Limits for Third-Party Apps Go Live
Stopping drug overdoses is far from a politically safe goal though, because you need to stop the war on drugs and take a less draconian approach, which goes directly against the hard-line stance of the Republican party.
Monad Transformers for the working programmer
> That is a very strange thing to say following a comment about natural law, considering there is nothing about nature that guarantees you a right to live.

I think we agree there is no natural law when it comes to macroeconomics, which is a human invention, and the various economic systems that each come with their own strengths and weaknesses. What we have now is better than primitive hunter-gatherer economy, but we seem to be stuck with this belief that only "more extreme capitalism" can make things better.

> As it stands right now, even if you taxed 100% of the income reported by the top 1% of earners, we might not close the government's budget gap, let alone expand the government's budget to guarantee survival for all citizens (not to mention the economic chaos that would result in taxing 100% of all income earned by anyone).

I don't think anyone proposed taxing 100% of anyone's income. A 100% marginal tax after a certain AGI sounds intriguing, and is not far from what was implemented in the USA back in the mid 20th century, to no apparent detrimental effect on the economy.
Gel pens were amazing when I first tried one.

My path went crappy pens -> Pilot ballpoint -> Pilot gel -> Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen.

Not having to exert pressure makes such a difference to me that my handwriting immediately improved when I started using fountain pens. I've even had friends comment on it. "Wait, I can read your handwriting."
Seems reasonable, because bank vaults and armoured vehicles are designed specifically for protecting high value items. Hotel room safes on the other hand are not (in fact some even have a disclaimer advising you not to store valuables in them).
totally. Your comment was right.
There are at least two other products on the market and they are easy to use.
Just quit buying epi pens. Tell your doctor/school you won't be using it and deal with it.
Not a bad idea. There are 1.6M professors (including part time, but let's just assume they're full time). If we paid them 100K each, it would only cost $160B per year. So we can definitely afford to continue with a smaller military.

Obviously the amount of people enrolling and therefore the number of professors will have to increase. However some of that can be addressed by using more internet based lectures, etc..

Also, to backfill the loss to the military, they could require a significant portion of the degrees be in robotics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj1MCjeFxrM
I am not sure if Wayland actually intends to catch up. Mostly the work seems to focused on supporting Gnome and KDE without bothering with all the rest. For example, there was a discussion a while ago about taking screenshots. Adding a protocol extension for that was declined for security reasons. Instead, the compositor itself should contain that feature. This only makes sense in the "big" desktop environments that contain everything from the compositor to the utilities and the kitchen sink.
Doesn't Wyoming currently have disproportionate political power relative to their population? If they didn't, would they still be subsidized?
If you look at the UK, which has in recent years gone from free to firstly low tuition fees and more recently exorbitant tuition fees, the reverse seems to be true.

In making university a £9k a year proposition universities seem to have significantly increased student expectations along the lines of "I paid for this, I expect top marks", along with vast increases in appeals etc. It does not seem to have increased educational expectations - just transactional. This seems to be particularly prevalent with overseas students who pay even higher fees.

Universities have, in the main, happily adopted the profit mentality by providing and offering less and increasing class sizes.

My conclusion is by adopting a high fee model we have significantly weakened further education in the UK.
How terrible would you feel if you just graduated from NYU and sacked with $500k-$1m in debt?
Does anyone know if the single payer models we use in the US keep Dr. salaries on par? I've only heard of savings from negotiated drug prices, and insurance overhead; but, if Dr. salaries are also decreased, OP's got an interesting point.
Note that game engines typically use bidirectional A* for efficiency.

https://github.com/sroycode/tway
ARM Aims to Deliver Core i5 Like Performance at Less Than 5 Watts
Why do you assume that degrees are "worthless?" How are you defining "worthless?" Based on the research, getting a degree significantly increases your earning potential. But I would argue that even if that wasn't the case and everyone got philosophy, literature, and history degrees, our country would be significantly better positioned globally.

And I agree with your statement that the problem starts earlier. Although most of our issues with primary and secondary public education can be traced to poverty and racism. So, I think we should raise taxes to address those as well :D.
Really? If anything I would say that the rule of thumb (anecdotal) is 1 mg / lb.

Smaller girls I knew would be fine with 100mg doses and big dudes would need about 200mg or so. Most people would do 125mg - 150mg.
I don't think it was negative environmental differences, but the positive ones.

The kids in the burbs had been taught to read before they entered school. The teachers are just better, as they're paid better there (school funding comes from property taxes). The kids are pushed to succeed, internalize that, and push eachother to succeed, whereas school in the city felt more like daycare going into prison.

Also, your teenage screwups are far more likely to be swept under the rug or not be noticed in the burbs. Saw more guns in school there. Saw kids get busted for literal pounds of drugs, but because their dad knew the DA or something they got a sealed misdemeanor possession, and had it expunged as quickly as possible.

You know the saying "you're fine as long as you aren't breaking more than one law at a time"? Like don't speed if you have a joint in your car, etc.? That comes from a huge position of privilege that isn't afforded to a lot of the population.

EDIT: Also I was told (but haven't confirmed) that apparently colleges were weighting grades from the higher background school in such a way that you could be a B or C student, and after weighting it was the equivalent of off the charts in the other district. Like literally unattainable, straight As with AP classes (if they were even offered) would still be weighted as less.
I'm usually content with very little; just for myself, I wouldn't make a lot of effort to acquire wealth. Future me loves money though. It's not just that future me has interests that require money; future me is getting screwed, by a guy named Anno Domini. Future me is poor, feeble, unhealthy, and unloved. You know, unless I work hard to avoid that. Future me is an entitled bum, but they don't really have anyone else to take care of them, so I do what I can.
Yeah, that's why I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leaderboard of HN (under a different handle): Because women are so fully integrated into the tech world.

/s

One name out of more than over 100 over the years. That's dramatically worse than the figure I have repeatedly seen of 17 female CEOs out of every 100.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I love HN. But the idea that there is no sexism in tech is laughable.
Accounting for the Costs of Free Services
Hm, I don't think so - and I think this might have been a DOS game. That's an excellent candidate, though!
Your citations are about a policy that predates a single Android device being available to the public, so they do not support your claim.

> Besides, even in 2008, what other OS were OEMs going to license to compete with the iPhone? Windows Mobile?

Yes, Windows Mobile was the dominant licensed smartphone operating system at the time. What's that got to do with anything?
What's wrong with zoology / ornithology today?
Many of their competitors operate in China to some degree: Yahoo, Bing, even DuckDuckGo until 2014. There's no shifting from values here, Google operated in China until 2010 when it was kicked out, and this is just a move to make it back in.

I don't want to be relying on the broken windows fallacy here however. We don't know the extent to which the Chinese government wants Google to comply. Since there are already a bunch of comments speculating the negatives, we can do the same with the positives.

Let's look at the potential benefits of existing in China. Results will be censored, there's no getting around that, but unfavorable, yet uncensored, results can be prioritized. Support for Chinese related tools might improve due to the increase in data. Translation could see a quality improvement for one of the most spoken languages in the world. Google may see an increase in revenue, potentially creating more jobs. Ads in China may provide an easier entry way for Americans to advertise there. I'm sure the list goes on.
This makes little sense. Unless their reverse proxy is in front of every website they provide analytics for (like CloudFlare!), Then I don't see how this is means anything.. most analytics companies don't do this - really it's just CloudFlare that I know of...
People will still go for the degrees they go for today, which for the most part are degrees they believe will provide a good return on their investment of _time_. On top of that, unis would need to limit how many people are accepted to a penguin program, because how many qualified teachers can they throw at that?

Beyond admissions quotas, I imagine that if gov’t does decide to fully subsidize unis, they too will impose limits per field of study. This is already done in European countries that subsidize uni.

Finally, I think with “guaranteed” gov’t loans, unis have already taken a lot of their skin out of the game. They don’t have to worry about that student defaulting on their loan later, the gov’t does. Or even for private loans. If you had a seemingly infinite bank account, would you penny pinch or see how many new toys you could buy?
This is the part I don't get. It is my understanding that if you offer an internet service in China, you have to give your source code to the central government. I'm not super well versed on this but would love to learn a bit from someone on HN that understands these requirements in more detail and how google might try and work around them if needed.
IE cursed Edge from beyond the grave. Its legacy must live on.
See also: array, assortment, bevy, collection, horde, legion, multitude, myriad, panoply, plethora...

Words often have multiple, independent meanings.
Again a reason to block at least third party JavaScript.