skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These four elements work together to enable trust. Take banking, for example. Financial institutions, merchants, and individuals are all concerned with their reputations, which prevents theft and fraud. The laws and regulations surrounding every aspect of banking keep everyone in line, including backstops that limit risks in the case of fraud. And there are lots of security systems in place, from anti-counterfeiting technologies to internet-security technologies.

The problem isn't that banks and the government don't trust each other, it's that the people don't trust the banks and governments (see: crisis with the Bank of Cyprus).

If there's one thing I trust, it's that a bitcoin that I 'own' will stay mine (barring oversight on my own part). I have less trust that money in the bank will stay my own.
It really depends on the number of participants. A thousand comment thread could take an hour to properly read through every viewpoint. If we are only willing to spend a few minutes on that thread it needs some kind of filter.

If there are only 5 participants in a thread though it is different. Traditional forums would be read like this, but were almost always at a much lower scale.
Delete his facebook?
> Who in the UK actually has a .eu domain? It can't be that high.

leave.eu :)
> Old uneducated people

That's just needlessly dismissive.
FWIW - PepsiCo is far bigger than CocaCola
If the restaurant is paying less than minimum wage - which many (perhaps most, in some areas) do - then that's exactly what's happening.
What do you feel made your history course propaganda?

Looking back at my Canadian (BC) high school history curriculum, it was well-sourced and written, but I think it could have been structured in such a way to encourage youth to understand modern politics better.
Instacart Reverses Tipping Policy After an Uproar Among Workers
I worked for a company that did something similar (they said they sent a portion of profit to a non-profit of the user's choice, which was true, but if the user didn't designate a non-profit, then the company would keep the money... something close to 50% of the users didn't bother to designate a non-profit after signing up).

I brought a feature to remind these users to designate their non-profit, but the company had no interest in doing so since it would reduce their revenue. And this came from the top, it wasn't a product manager decision.

The company is no longer around, but I didn't stick around long after that, it seemed unethical.
> Requiring a comment for each vote to explain the user's position, for example, can curb this tendency.

Why not just remove the vote altogether? So commenters have to say something about why they agree/disagree/feel the need to comment.

And then maybe allow interest groups to form naturally. With a standardised protocol for exchanging messages, so there was no centralised owner of all data. And everyone pays for it implicitly through their ISP fees, like they do for other basic services like email or DNS. Instead of having their data milked, processed and fed back like some grotesque combination of Orwellian fiction and mad cow disease.

That sounds like a much more civilised way to Use the Net. Maybe we could call it something like, I dunno, Usenet....?
Yeah I can immediately tell when an area is illuminated by LED lights when I spot the strobing/flickering as I move my eyes and the saccade reveals the slow frequency of the light dispersal (or however it would be worded). It's super jarring and can be a bit disorienting.
Avoiding murder is a fairly objective moral decision. Most of us find this easy to follow, without getting into shades of gray between murder and justifiable homicide.

But what is the moral tax rate for a corporation, if not 0%? Is it 18.25%, as opposed to 7.09%? There's no objective answer, and it fluctuates from region to region, year to year, depending on how much governments can extract before corporations flee.
An Artificial Neuron Implemented on an Actual Quantum Processor (2018)
See you in hell Tusk :D
That is an interesting parallel I hadn't thought about in that context. (It's better if we change the tense so that it's "this page is intentionally left blank", otherwise it could be trivially resolvable.) The "this sentence is false" type can be explained away, to an extent, but appealling to the fact that 'this sentence' mixes 'object language' and 'meta language' and we could say the paradox arises from self-reference (in a somewhat problematic recursion fashion). For "this page is intentionally left blank", 'this page' doesn't refer to itself, but indeed to the page, so it's doesn't seem susceptible to quite the same approach. (Though I suppose we could take 'this page' as elliptical for 'this page with this writing on it'.)
> Wait, are you talking about the machines that have an electric heating element inside the washer? And you can still wash warm and hot cycle, but they don't require a connection to the hot water heater? Or are you talking about machines (which I've never seen but am willing to accept exist in other countries) that actually only offer cold cycle as a washing option?

The former. I don't think I've seen a consumer-grade dual-intake washing machine in 10+ years.

OTOH Japan might actually have the second, I dimly recall my sister mentioning something along those lines.
Coming from a public high school in the Bay Area I can totally understand the issue of AP/Honors or advanced math classes having the effect of segregation based on socioeconomic background. It's a tricky subject but I was able to take algebra in 7th grade which set me up to take calculus in junior year all through what the public schools provided which I was extremely greatful for. Personally I think it would be a shame if these classes get removed even though I understand the sentiment.
you don't need to scrape anything. you check provided email for mailinator's MX records\IPs.
Registering a .eu domain even through an Estonian domain registrar (I use zone.ee) using an Estonian e-residency ID (which I have) still requires a presence in the EU[0] so this probably won't help UK residents.

0 - One of the proposals to expand the .eu domain is to permit any EU citizen living anywhere on the planet to register a .eu domain but it's not gone into effect yet.
Careful, you're in danger of swallowing uncritically propaganda aimed at halting progress.

Yes, in any period of turmoil sociopaths will attempt to abuse all and every lever of power.

But over the centuries we have made a lot of progress.

Humanity needs to get _much_ better at how we organize ourselves and decide things and grant authority to others.
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Ah, so your reasons to pick a different language are based not on type safety, but on performance.

Indeed there may be a plethora of valid reasons to pick another language over python for some project. But that wasn't the question.
I believe the general idea with gradual typing is that

1) It's faster to write the initial proof of concept with a dynamic language

2) It's common that the proof of concept becomes sufficiently big/stable that it turns into the final codebase

3) Gradual typing makes the path from PoC to real codebase smoother, instead of re-implementing in another language.

Point 1 is contentious of course, but that argument isn't relevant here. It is believed, and that belief becomes practice.

An example of point 2 might be OSH of the oil shell, which doesn't use mypy I believe, but was originally written in python with the intent to rewrite in C++, and eventually decided it was too costly to rewrite (somehow he decided that ripping apart the python VM would be the more fruitful path... and apparently he's making good progress there).

So basically, the usecase of mypy is when you're making the decision of continuing with python, or rewriting. Sometimes rewriting was part of the strategy from the start, other times a script just grew into a full-fledged program over time, but mypy's primary goal wouldn't be to introduce from the start.

Another usecase I've personally done is having the typing available to me from the start, but not actually making use of it until I reached a particularly nasty section of code. And so that particular chunk becomes (reasonably) statically typed, while the rest of the program remains standard python.

Although in that case I used a library that enforced typechecking at runtime rather than mypy (the library was typeguard iirc), which I only enabled on test runs (it slowed down the program significantly).
> The fundamental problem with capitalism (not just in silicon valley) is that access to capital is what defines winners and losers.

Well yeah, it's fundamental because that's the definition! So it's not a problem. Capitalism works as designed.
Also exists: https://mailnesia.com/
And riders get their cheap rides. Why are we not blaming the customers who can simply choose an alternative even if it's less convenient.
We don't need Uber or Lyft or Instacart or Door dash. Why are these companies even in business after breaking laws repeatedly and with impunity?
May be there lies the answer. If customers don't care enough to put a dent why would the business people care about it?
The tech world is so much larger than FAANG, no matter what SV wants you to believe.
I fully agree. It's going to be a while before tipping goes away, but it's being recognized more and more as a problem. Restaurants that get rid of it are usually seen positively. There's a successful brewery in Seattle that has a no-tipping policy. The beers are about a $1 more than elsewhere, so you pay the same. The employees are also paid more in regular wages to make up for this. Everybody wins: The employees make about the same except with more stability, and there is no awkwardness.

Tipping in restaurants is really problematic especially due to issues with tipping out the back.
For information, it's not 6 years across the whole of the UK - it's 5 years in Scotland. Of course, that's still pretty good!
Why pick on YC? All angel/VC investment works this way.
The naming is a bit misleading, e-residency provides absolutely no residency, it's a convenient way to digitally authenticate yourself as a natural person and sign documents digitally in an eIDAS-compatible framework.
On an iPhone - at least the 6S I have - you don’t even need to record a video. Just switching to slow motion in the camera app will instantly show you flicker in the live preview, I assume because it’s interpolating frames from the 120hz input.
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Note that when you "buy" land this is quite limited. For instance anything that happens sufficiently below it (e.g. subway tunnels, mining) or above it (airplanes), you have no say in it.

Similarly a state could say, you license (not buy) land for construction/agriculture etc. use. This license does not include extracting oil, which requires a separate license. The land remains property of the state, but for specific uses (e.g. housing) you have a guarantee that you can keep the license for 100 years and/or can renew it under similar conditions. This is for example what China does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_property_law
None of these guys are really all the accomplished as programmers though. Sure smart guys, but Microsoft bought DOS. Zuckerberg was far away from programming by the time that facebook was actually making money, and Musk didn't actually build any of the products he's famous for (Rockets, electric cars, or paypal).
> Even the giant panda, before arriving to this situation, had seen their forests devasted by us.

This only changes the question very slightly.

If people in modern cultures are unmotivated to have [replacement rate] babies just like the pandas, what metaphorical forests of human experience have we already destroyed?
this is one of the reasons why the wifi button in the ios control center slide-in sheet is so infuriating. at the very least, that button should be tri-mode, so i can turn the wifi radio off rather than just disconnecting from the current wifi ap. otherwise, it leaks location data all over the place.
Given that Tolkien explicitly calls pipe-weed a variety of Nicotiana, smoking it would tend to suppress the appetite.
Also maybe Paypal should consider to stop sending "credit approval" spam from the same addresses.
RDBMS are developed with joins in mind, but also die of the complexity involved resulting from these joins (both from developer perspective, as well resources.)

Now imagine your join to become a primary perspective to look at your data.
Then you'd see creditcard transactions (who buys what when?) or maps are better represented as a graph.
I know for example TomTom uses neo4j to validate map edits in production.
mypy is a joke of a tool. I have actually used it, and 80% of its messages are useless junk or just plain wrong. Granted, the other 20% can be on point. All things considered, it's better to be with a tool like it, than without.
"oh ok it sounds like im hired already, so does this first assignment pay on stipend, salary or hourly"?
Therefore I believe I'm right that claiming that HTTP/3 is used at all is wrong, and that 7% is not even the same QUIC that will be used with HTTP/3. So " already uses QUIC (HTTP/3)" is a wrong statement, the right can be only "GQUIC is used at the moment", also, as far as I understood, "making according to Google the 7% of the traffic" (and not on 7% of the sites as claimed). And HTTP/3 and the matching IETF QUIC are used nowhere. So, again

"> The book says 7% of all internet traffic already uses QUIC (HTTP/3)"

was wrong: the book doesn't say that, and that what is claimed that the book says (even if it doesn't) is false in more aspects.
I am convinced that data migration is definitely one of the hardest problems in data management and systems engineering.

There are basically no solutions today that satisfy fundamental requirements such as minimizing downtime and guaranteeing correctness.

It is _such_ a huge problem that most inexperienced developers see kicking the problem down the line with NoSQL document storage as a viable alternative (it isn't; you'll be either dealing with migrating all data forever and special-casing every old version of your documents, or writing even more convoluted migration logic).

It's also clear that even the most modern ORMs and query builders have not been built in mind to consider the issues that arise in migrating data.

It would be a refreshing thing to see more research devoted to this problem. Unfortunately, migrations end up being so different from each other with such heterogenous requirements that we'll probably be working on this for a really long time.
I don't follow. Lobbying is paid for by corporations and organizations. The financial conflicts of interests that this poses on legislators is separate from campaign contributions. For instance, a legislator cannot use the latter for anything but campaign expenses [0]. But a legislator, after leaving office, can go to work for a friendly corporation (though there are laws requiring a "cooling off" period before they can directly lobby Congress).

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mike-pence-used-camp...
Nissan-Renault alliance to join Google on self-driving cars
I was very confused. I didn't see anything about Godel or P=NP. Turns out it's the title of the blog.
Side questions if anybody answers this. How did you get your first job industry? I imagine corporation weren’t like there are now and thought of code as black magic.
This article is a long stretch, Tencent hasn't censored Snapchat and Discord because it doesn't need to so why would it bother to censor Reddit?

It only does censorship in China or else the Chinese govt will heavily fine Tencent, otherwise censorship is actually an added cost for the company because of time and effort, so why would it make operations more costly when it doesn't need to.
PoE+ will deliver 30W to the far end of up to 100M network cabling. Given that those cables radiate out to endpoint devices from a central point, rather than powering multiple devices in a ring/loop topology, the potential to power lots of devices over a wide area is huge.

Biggest problem tends to be accommodating the central power delivery device. Those big PoE switches run hot and loud.
When evaluating literature, ignoring the context of the literature strips significant meaning from the literature.
Not your parent, but I've recently toyed with TiddlyWiki, which shows promise, but requires heavy configuration.

There is also an extension to it called TiddlyMap which displays several of the properties mentioned in this article (edges with properties, etc), but again, requires configuration to get just so.

If you're game to do some tinkering, I've found it to be hackable to some very deep levels. Another nicety is that it's all just a single HTML file, so it's madly portable (I can use the same site on my phone and laptop).

All this being said, there is a growing list of features that I would like to see in Tiddlywiki that I'm not sure I can hack in myself, so I suppose I, too, am looking for the "one true knowledge management" solution
My impression is that Clojure has reached maturity and most people that are using it are just quietly getting on with their lives and building useful things with it.

From my perspective, it has never been better than it is now and there are a few more things coming this year that are the cherry on the cake.
Why millions of people are getting hit with a surprise tax bill this year
The problem is, you have no idea what you will pursue after HS. I didn't have any interest in history in HS. I ended up getting a BA in history in college because I fell in love with it. I never would have guessed I'd end up there while in HS, but in retrospect I'm grateful for the history classes I had to take.
But isn't this exactly what happens when a charity allows you to specify how your donation gets used, or when a government calls for vote on a new tax that will benefit only X (e.g. education)?

I don't have any proof. But I have always assumed that this is the case. I hope I'm wrong. But I don't see why a charity or a government wouldn't do this.
A small DC-input PoE switch in your RV might be the next logical evolution :)
>where do you draw the line?

How about the internet? Once you publicly share something on the world wide web, you have crossed that line because anyone can then simply copy and paste. It's naive to expect otherwise.
An obvious and famous counter-example to this argument is Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules For Life which actually was born out of one of the most popular and up-voted Quora answers.

The problem is people have substituted their own critical thinking for a metric of varying quality (upvotes)
So there's no problem with Silicon Valley, just with "capitalism" itself? Yes, access to capital is good business. But I think they are saying that the stock market is what determines winners and losers in a properly functioning piece of the capitalist economy. IPO is supposed to get you started in the game. These blitzkrieg idiots want to declare victory before they even enter the race. Then convincing their minions that's it's "capitalism's" fault. What a joke!
Every time is correct but machine work vreification is no more like human finger work
The other big piece, is think of how you can help the person you're talking to. Don't think about how you can help yourself. People who naturally try to help others, end up getting help in spades when they need it.
I think it's a bit of both. Which makes it particularly clever. Not many companies would be willing to poke fun at their own product that way.
Where did you go to school? Mine (Victoria - Social Studies) was a joke. Literally the same Canadian history lessons over and over, they didn't even get into anything recent, nothing past the second world war.
Compared to the real world, where people make arguments around the table and others applaud, grunt, hoot, roll their eyes, etc., upvotes seem like a rather mild form of feedback.

I don't think zero feedback is a good goal. Even with voting, forums exhibit a level of trolling and asshattery you'd never find if you had to watch people's live reactions to your statements. And not that much grandstanding, compared to, say, politicians in the media.

That said, should HN add an option in your profile to hide comment scores? You could always get around it with some effort, but maybe not seeing the score right there would encourage you to comment for truth, beauty, and posterity, rather than upvotes.
"We're sorry we got caught." This sort of thing is why socialism now has a higher positivity rating among under-30's than capitalism does.
There are losses that individuals can't take, but can carry forward due to the amount of income they make, notably real estate investments when the individual is not a real estate professional. Think about how messed up that is, DJT and his ilk can deduct and deprecate all the real estate that they own and operate and continually carry forward excesses, but I as an individual have to carry forward the loss until my income drops to some suitable level. I have no problem with carry forwards, but if you are going to limit the individual to the amount they can deduct in a year, that should apply to business as well.

It's also possible to pay no taxes if you derive all of your income from investments every year as long as you don't exceed the allowed limit since we have a marginal capital gains structure that combos with our marginal income tax structure.
The killing of large species is pushing them towards extinction, study finds
You don't really mean "exactly what's happening". You mean "approximately what's happening, averaged across everyone's tips." Which is still not true, because people know the restaurant situation up front, while this situation goes against expectations.
> generates a one-way hash code from the detected device’s MAC address (using a SHA-256 algorithm)

This does not sound truly "no way to reverse" if they are using plain or some simple variants of SHA-256. There are only up to 2^48 possible MAC addresses (way less in practice), which is a very realistic number for rainbow tables.

That said, this might be less relevant quickly as more and more devices are going to use randomized MAC addresses for probing Wi-Fi networks.
It's always the race for more and more telemetry that seems to justify an increase in general data collection. Can't we just accept a certain level of blindness/primitiveness?

More specifically I wonder, how has the addition of this collection approach improved whatever it's used for over the previous approach? Is that improvement worth it? Or is it, as is often the case, data for data's sake that makes them feel better about decisions than whether the decisions are actually any better?
A high-end Nvidia Tesla GPU might be able to make a dent in it
This happens even in the best families. Yesterday Outlook365 informed me that there's a suspicious and blocked message coming from Github. And yep, that was the email confirmation I should've received from the real Github. I would assume that whitelisting bought services could be a thing within Microsoft...
Thanks. I started to assume it was Coke, then realized it's probably in the holdings.

Anyway I think it still makes sense, yeah?
> The lobbyists are the ones shaping the tax code. Further tax reform is a generational thing, the last time it was taken up was under Reagan in 1986. Simply "electing different politicians" will accomplish nothing.

If the lobbyists had infinite power, I guess the corporate tax rate would be zero -- or negative. So, popular voting must be accomplishing something.

> mature legal system, a stable government, and infrastructure and those things take money to run

Which is by no means the lion's share of a state or federal budget. Chief are all the transfer programs, followed by defense well in excess of the necessary spend for protecting the 50 states from invading armies.