skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hang on, the substance of your argument is a sort of mysticism - first you claim that an iOS image is a black obelisk fathomless to man and when challenged and essentially forced to concede this is completely inaccurate you fall back on saying your position is generally right and what's more, both right and unfalsifiable because of Archangels Turing & Church.

Neither of these are serious, engaged-with-the-actual-topic sorts of arguments. It's a little rich to be coming back with a grumpy note on the taxonomy of logical fallacies.
Negotiating pay and defending teachers from the administration
Administrators do have to deal with parents, and with the press, and with the police, etc. I'm not saying their job is more important than teaching, but they will be the ones facing the public when anything bad or embarrassing happens at the school.
Using intermediate grades to figure out which students to focus on is perfectly fine, and in fact I'm not sure it has much to do with what's being discussed. We're talking about a teacher being asked by a parent to create extra credit work so a student can jump from an A- to an A so they have better odds of getting into X/Y/Z.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that teachers can't dynamically adjust their attention across students as the class progresses based on grades. But at the same time teachers should not just be the pawns of parents. A parent shouldn't be able to just demand extra credit work for their child. This sort of special exception is something that should only be made by the teacher, at the teacher's complete discretion, if they legitimately think there's a truly good reason for treating that student differently.
When Millennials Battle Boomers Over Housing
Look at how may people and companies lost crypto currency of one form or another. That suggests security is actually a major unsolved issues with crypto.
This seems counterintuitive -- esp for homes with solar panels and extra capacity.

Edit: the logic is that homes with solar should share surplus capacity back into the grid, immediately. Not store it in batteries. (Net metering encourages sharing.)
The tourist hordes make the comparison harder; it's a whole nother form of foot traffic. But Broadway from Columbus circle to Union square is almost car free, so the non-Times Square portions are probably a better example.
A bit of misinformation in this side thread.

A JWT token is composed of three parts: a header, payload, and signature.

The problem is that people can put sensitive info in the payload.

None of it is encrypted, it's only signed with HMAC.

Unless you're keeping track of the tokens, once a token is issued it's valid until it expires, due to it's stateless nature.

You can use a JWT as a Bearer token, but since it's only base64 encoded, you can pull out that payload data.

A truly opaque Bearer token will be meaningless to anything other than your server.

Play with the debugger here to see what I'm talking about: https://jwt.io/
As the sibling subthread notes, it isn’t just satire (even if the parent intended it as such), and it’s already happening. They already do charge a 911 fee, they just ... don’t use the money to honor the SLA that it promises.
> every expert in the field unconnected to Tesla seems to agree [lidar] is necessary to implement Level 5 self driving cars

As someone that doesn't know anything about self-driving cars, how can this be true? Humans can drive cars with only visual input. Why can't AI?
Ah! Good catch! I didn't see that the ASINs were different, yup, you have to report each ASIN.

I'll keep that address in mind for next time. Thanks!
Barring a radical change in governance, we should plan for US transit projects to play out how US transit projects have played out in the past, not indulge in the baseless fantasy that an American polity would suddenly do a system correctly.

Inspiration is cheap. Disenfranchising the stakeholders who reliably mess things up is the real work.
This is a little difficult to explain, but as someone who (extremely ashamedly, in hindsight) became very obsessive about romantic interests - to the level of stalking behavior - at least twice over the course of my life - this is precisely the kind of technology design decision that has negative externalities which maybe aren't apparent to people who are of sound and balanced mind.

If someone is obsessed about another person, they're going to get the same kind of dopamine rush simply from seeing that the other person is online and active that most of us get from receiving new messages in our inbox or messaging apps. It's tricky to explain, but as you draw closer (or feel like you draw closer) to someone, the urge to be connected and know that they're present becomes overpowering. Moreso if that person is in any way encouraging this kind of dependence / attachment.

It's particularly bad when apps allow this kind of 'presence monitoring' without trying to deal with the obsessive behavior that it causes. Facebook, for example, clearly has the data and the ability to inform both parties of what is happening. Ironically in my case it suggested one of these people as a 'Close Friend'. It seems so much worse if the service provider is (at any level) encouraging these malign use cases - for the purposes of 'engagement', for example.

Fortunately I believe I now have the distance and levelheadedness to see how this all works (in terms of my own psychology, the relationships involved, and also the service providers who intermediated the communications), but it's something I wouldn't wish anyone else to suffer, and we could be a lot more careful about the way we design apps and services to avoid these kind of psychologically damaging situations.

The talk entitled 'What is Good Technology' from the 35c3 congress makes some very good points along these lines, in terms of what we can do improve our technology product decision-making process to avoid causing pain and damage to cultures or people we might not otherwise understand: http://streaming.media.ccc.de/35c3/relive/9965
I guess you're not doing a full sync. Here's an example of a person trying to do it:

https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/37348/parity-fu...
looks like i'm switching back to it again from zsh
I wish it was the other way around. We'd have fewer, but faster features.
It doesn’t stop at high school. No rich parent is paying $50k a year so their kid can get a C.
I would argue (though this is getting more philosophical) that time is what has intrinsic value (or rather, time saved), since we all have a limited amount of time.

Labour is how time gets saved -- one person spends their time doing something so that another person doesn't need to spend their time on it, and thus the person spending the time gets some money as a token for the time they spent.

(But I agree with your point.)
The millionaires building private police forces in the US
The scale is massive. Take a look at the satellite view here:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/chittagong+ship+breaking+...

You can scroll up and down the coast to see how many ships are beached and being dismantled.

If you check the scale of the map, you'll see that these are big ships. And most of the breaking is done manually, using torches and sledgehammers. This requires lots of manual labor.

So if you consider the massive scale of the shipbreaking happening here, combined with how labour intensive the process is, that 200,000 figure starts to make sense.
Yes, lets create a scarcity of all of our burned matches! If my calculations are correct, at 21m bitcoin would be the equivalent of 15,405,810,000,000 used matches. That's a great idea. Sadly, you'll just have to wait 24h for my antique wire transfer.
I don't know anything about the person who wrote this, but I know almost everything they don't know. Am I a much better programmer/engineer than I thought?
> Do you want to trust his idea of "good for shareholders"?

Absolutely. I have no doubt Larry will do what is good for shareholders.

I also have no doubt that Larry will not do what is good for consumers, but that's a separate question.
Okay, but what happens to energy prices when enough miners flock to low-cost centers? Prices go up. In a long enough time horizon, opportunity to take advantage of energy prices basically gets competed away. I haven't read much on energy production, but as far as I know there are many places on the planet that cheaply produce renewable energy.
Certainly there are bad cables, and sparkles are clear signal dropouts.

The description of that cable though, says Perfect-Surface Technology applied to extreme-purity silver provides unprecedented clarity and dynamic contrast.

An HDMI cable can not affect the "clarity" or contrast of the image or audio it carries. It can just succeed or fail (and failure results in obvious pixel noise, not some overall lowering of contrast or clarity like in analog)
Labor is a sacrifice of ones time, and one expects to receive compensation for that sacrifice. The medium of compensation could be anything, and is certainly not limited to regional monopoly currencies.

The key distinction between the currency and Bitcoin is the government's use of force to mandate that people accept the currency as a unit of payment for services (and use it to pay taxes). There is no intrinsic value. After all, it is merely paper or digital numbers.

It's amusing that anti-bitcoiners will use the government force argument to try and push people away from bitcoin. "Bitcoin is no good because it is not backed by government force."

When people hear that, they say. "Oh my god, really? How can I get some?"
urban Boomer homeowners... have consistently—and incredibly successfully—blocked construction of affordable housing

This very premise is false.

"Affordable" housing is, by definition, housing built and sold at a loss of income on the part of the developer.

"Boomers", individually or collectively, lack any authority to stop such developments -- only governmental bodies have such authority.

The actual story is that such "housing advocates" try to extort the dedication of part/most of any development to be artificially low priced. If they would just let development happen at market rates, the overall supply would be increased, thereby lowering prices across the board for that dwelling type in that area.

Anyway, it goes on:

"(The Ghost Ship) warehouse that had been informally turned into an artist collective and residence"

Uh, no. It wasn't just illegally subdivided and ridiculously dangerous, it was illegal for anybody to live there at all.

If a city only builds upscale units, there’s nothing for working people.

That assumes that every "upscale unit" is sold only to a new arrival. In fact, "movin' on up" creates a chain reaction of others moving up into each's prior residence.

Urban Boomer homeowners are part of this trend, and they’ve made enormous profits

Not until they sell, they haven't... and once they sell and move, they aren't around to wield mythic powers against development, are they?

Neighborhood councils and homeowners associations

... have no actual power to stop development, regardless of its targeted demographic.

"I point out the HALA program because many states bar inclusionary zoning. In San Francisco we require a percentage of units in a new building to be rented or sold at below market rate..."

So, zoning is only "inclusionary" if BMR units are demanded of a developer? Forcing BMR losses upon developers and "zoning" are completely different things.

using publicly owned land for affordable housing

As opposed to San Jose, which just gave away a bunch of prime parcels to Google for well below market for office space in the Montgomery/Autumn corridor, including no housing whatsoever, BMR or otherwise.
I disagree, if time were the intrinsic value then all workers would receive the same disbursement amounts. As Labor also requires Skill and Proficiency those combine to adjust the value of the Labor.
Were you passing --gcmode=archive --syncmode=full flags? If not, then it's just a light node.

Here's an example:
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/16237

,,Seems like it does indeed proceed but very slowly. After 12 days on the 96gig ram machine I am finally at block 4732597... I will report back how long it takes to finish.''
I don't see anything. Is there a non subscription way to read about this?
Probably you got the calculation wrong. And to get 100k in Portugal you probably need to be CEO of a bank or very close.
Teachers get max gross 40k a year.
You did a fast sync, not a real full sync (which verifies the transactions since the genesys block).
I'm going to state a couple of strong opinions and hope it doesn't backfire on me:

1) Teachers should be paid more.

2) Teachers shouldn't be pressured to work so many hours off the clock (after school).

3) Teachers may continue to make their own lesson plans, but they should always have available lesson plans available to them.

4) School administrations should protect teachers from harassing parents.

5) The number of administrative employees & administrations in general should be reduced or consolidated. You have some school districts with over 100 schools, and others shepherding just a few. The differences between districts can be very big (especially when it comes to lesson plans).

6) Politics is f-cking us hard here. Education should be easy to fund and a non-issue. The current situation is under-serving our children, and will create a feedback loop of underfunded/undervalued education. I personally believe a lot of allocated funds are spent wastefully on the administration and not teachers.

7) I wish we had online examinations that students could take over and over from day #1 of the school year to improve on over the year. There could be material that requires teachers be present to administer, and others that students can do on their own at home (and possibly cheat on). It would have helped me immensely to be familiar with what we were going to learn about "next month". I first encountered a syllabus with a month-to-month plan in community college.

8) Can't forget this: F-ck zero tolerance policies. Schools need a lawyer on-site looking out for the rights of students.

9) You shouldn't need a masters degree to teach 5th grade algebra. It should be easy to hire someone off the street who can pass a background check and exams against the course they might teach.

10) And then easier ways to account for students so it doesn't take 15 minutes to 'start class'. Longer days that start later (8am) & less/no homework.
While their politicians and presidents cruise the streets in "cool" gas-guzzling SUV motorcades.
I found a comment that explains it:

"The users in the study were using pricing to their advantage. They were buying power in low demand times (low price) and discharging the battery to avoid buying electricity in high demand times (high price).

The problem is that high or low price doesn't necessarily correlate to high or low carbon so while the arbitrage can save the consumer some money they may not be reducing their carbon footprint and in some cases were actually increasing it." - username Statistical
That's like saying the art is created by brush and paint and certainly not the artist
In that case, I agree. I don't change final grades. By that point, students have had plenty of opportunity to approve upon the negative grades that feed the final one.
> CO2 is the most dangerous waste

> the CO2 produced by Chinese coal-fired plants eventually makes its way to me

Not. It doesn't work like that. CO2 is not even waste in the strict sense of the term; is basic for our survival. If you wipe all CO2 from the air, humankind will go extinct in a hurry because all plants would die really fast. All what we eat started as a CO2 molecule being captured by a plant somewhere.

The problem to recycle or clean it from the air has been solved for us by plants millions of years ago. Plants love CO2 and clean it for free.

Therefore, in the real life, many CO2 produced by Chinese coal-fired plants will be soon captured by a weed or a tree. The rest will go to the atmosphere where will hang on, maybe for a long time, but far away from you.

If you touch or inhale radiactive waste you could die in literally seconds. If you encounter CO2, as long that there is also enough oxygen around, nothing will happen. You will inhale it, will readily enter in your bloodstream, do a couple of roller coaster trips and will be discarded. All of we do it, many times a day for our entire life, without noticeable damage in our body.

And we could say that CO2 is a signifiant danger for the climate, but again, there are much worse molecules in this sense. Methane for example.
I wouldn’t say he comes across as a know-it-all.. everything he’s written that I’ve read has to do with React or a few closely related subjects. And his writing never has a tone of superiority or “this should be obvious” that is, IMO, a requirement to be a know-it-all

I personally kind of figured he knew a lot about everything Webdev related since he knows so much about React, but that’s obviously not the case now that he’s listed all that out. In fact, now I don’t feel like the extent my knowledge is as limited as I did because I have a basis for comparison! Which I.. figure might be the point of the article?
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Everything is ultimately subject to physics, including optical signals. Nobody claims otherwise.

But it is incorrect to say that digital transmissions must be at the mercy of physics. Digital transmissions can defy physics. There are numerous techniques which ensure that a signal reaches the destination with precisely zero flipped bits and exact timing. And even when the signal has no integrity mechanisms, in practice the error rate will be low enough to never matter in practice.

And you know what, even if bits were getting flipped and jitter was extreme, you still wouldn't have signal degradation in the ways described by audiophiles; you would get a raised noise floor. Random error is noise. Noise is random error.

Of course this is never an issue. We can send digital signals that are millions of times more complex than digital audio, with zero problems, using equipment that is insanely cheap. The assertion that the extremely low data rate PCM audio signals have some special risk associated with them is delusional.
That depends on what categorizes "Audiophiles". If out of a million self-proclaimed audiophiles, a few hundreds are genuine ones and if out of those, a few tens are behaving this way, I think it can be reasonable to say that the audiophiles are behaving like that ;)
You must be aware that the audiophile community lives in a completely different world, where recreating sound is of more importance to them than rather enjoying the music on its own. The amount of money and time these people put in satisfying their "passion" is unrealistic. So, no. The article is right in talking about the weirdest of the weirdos ;)
It’s absolutely true. My wife teaches in a lower-income district where many families are African or Asian immigrants, and she loves it precisely because she gets no such bullshit from parents. When their kids misbehave or get poor grades, they apologize to her and promise the kid will do better next time. I hate to say it, but this “customer is always right”mentality is totally a problem specific to well-off whites.
Thats not because of the technology but legislation around it. Most of the pricing will go down once more gets put up so yes and its a hell more effective than wind snd solar which arent even supporting 1% of the worlds supply and not even close to a realistic solution to them beeing unreliable and frankly inferior even with a 300% improvement which isnt possible.
By that logic the apollo program wasnt really government innovation because government employees didnt actually design or build the spacecraft.
I wish liberals and conservatives could reconcile the intellectual dishonesty around their views on vaccines and abortion. They are on opposite sides of both issues. Either a person’s body is their own or it isn’t. I know I would prefer my personal rights be recognized and if letting others have abortions and decline vaccines is necessary to protect my rights then so be it.
I love hardcore modes of video games. I once made it to The End in Minecraft on hardcode mode and as I materialized on the platform near the island the Ender dragon swooped over, knocked me off and that was it. Quite hilarious! But I also play full loot PvP games that are just basically unloved by the mainstream video game player. It is too much loss for most.
Numbers are a beautiful thing, but in this case if we attach meaning to numbers, things like salary and disposable income start to pop-up.

We pay middle but earn way less than middle, meaning cost of goods and services are pretty much the same within some margin, but income is a order of magnitude off.
What you have to show at the end of the day is a digital currency that has no central authority and yet still prevents double spending.

The cycles are not wasted - they secure a digital currency.

Banks and governments use immense resources to secure fiat currency.
With some important algebraic things, like -0 and 0 are distinct numbers that are equal to each other, and 1/0 is infinity (depending on exception mode), but 1/-0 is -infinity, and all of the different kinds of NaNs, etc.
https://www.shipbob.com/

looked into this very briefly. operate similarly.
Mathematica was my first programming language love. It’s got a lot of flaws and things I wish we different but one must give credit where credit’s due, its an amazingly expressive and powerful symbolic programming system.

I keep on playing with rolling my own symbolic languages and Mathematica has been a great guide for both seeing what functionality I want and also seeing what I dont want.
> Groupon [...] pissed me off with retargeted ads, and earned a lifetime ban.

You too? Can't believe I'm not the only one. I used to see their crap every single time on Youtube a few years back (before I discovered adblockers).

Their brand was definitely imprinted in my mind so I guess it's a success... just a shame it's imprinted in the "go burn in hell" part of my mind.
Even the motherboards have gotten better over time. I recall being over at a friend's house in the early 2000's and he was saying, "my speakers are so bad, I guess I need new ones" and I said, "wait, try plugging those into a different source", which we had in the form of another friend's laptop. The audio immediately went from tin can quality to reasonably transparent. The issue was with the cheap DAC in his computer.

But I usually go with onboard sound these days. I did get a FiiO E10K when I got new headphones recently, but I've put it away even though the sound is noticably smoother and less compressed-sounding than my onboard sound - it's another cable and associated hassle.

The reason to go for pricier stuff in my mind is to get more I/O. Good audio interfaces for recording can run you hundreds, and you're paying there mostly for having more channels and some recording features. There's more of an expectation of getting what you paid for.
Too bad they don't get reasonable jobs everywhere else, or a job at all.
It may be ad-hoc (although I would argue that "0" in this case is really just a token that's a part of syntax - basically a numerical keyword - so expecting a constant expression is too much). But, in any case, the main point is that it never changed - it was always wrong to use =NULL to denote abstract virtual methods, and there were always implementations that broke that. So it's a strange example of the lack of stability in C++.