skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what it probably looks like from a mile high is that we all have a little less eyewear than we could so that a lucky few can have a lot more of everything than they probably should.

We perceive this to be unfair and wonder if we should risk reorganizing society a bit to remedy this.
What It's Like to Smoke Salvia for Science
In the midwest, the cost of construction can easily be less than $50k, even $25k.
It always bugged me thats considered part of reproducibility.

That's 100% controllable and deterministic.
Because empathy (one day we will be elderly too), and because they did contribute value throughout their lives. In return for that, they earn respect and care. On some level, it is a selfish empathy (if I help this old person, it helps normalize that helping old people is a thing we should do, and then I can cash out on that when old), but maybe all empathy is anyways...its ok if its selfish internally if the result is consistently positive.
I find that more often there's somebody who pops in to say "x doesn't work." The people who've never had an issue will seldom go and say things are working like they should.

Sure, it sucks that wifi, bluetooth, and sleep mode don't work for you - so maybe Linux isn't a good choice for you if those are important. And the Linux community should definitely work towards fixing those issues, but the same stuff happens on every operating system.

I've had hardware just straight-up not work in Windows, then I head into Linux and it works immediately - and I'm not saying that means Linux is necessarily better, it means different hardware works better with different software.

And yes, the "works on my machine" comments are useless, but IMO no more useless than "it doesn't work for me," as if that somehow means... anything? My touchpad doesn't work on Windows, does that say anything about the viability of the OS? No, my touchpad just doesn't work good with it.

Though it is admirable you continue to use Linux, most people would just go back to what works at that point.
I absolutely can reproduce the main issue he is describing at the end. Open https://trailofbits.github.io/ctf/ and look at "Willing". Compare with https://pandasauce.org/images/fonts/72-liberation-browser.pn.... On my linux system - where I spent considerable time making the fonts look acceptable after moving to it from Ubuntu - there is also the kerning issue in that word. That's a shame.

There might be inaccuracies and subjectivity in the article, but if really all engines have that issue that's a real problem.
Are 10-15% margins crazy large in this or comparable sectors?

I'm genuinely asking as I'm to busy/lazy to look it.
wow! this is an amazing Apps.
it really helps a lot
Only if there’s no learning. The Apollo 1 fire, countless air disasters etc. led to much greater safety.
The TENNLab Exploratory Neuromorphic Computing Framework
what if you have a multi-threaded backend to the compiler that happens to lay down data in different orders?
and impact fees
Perhaps it's not a necessary but rather sufficient condition of evaluating consciousness. Humans may have other metrics with which to be evaluated.
ISTM a system that differed from the current one by really "closing all loop holes" would be significantly less regressive. Of course, there isn't a snowball's chance in hell of that actually happening in our Congress, but the vision is admirable even if isn't practical.
There is no feedback loop for most mail you don't want. Anything "standard" (or "STD") in the postage area will just be thrown away if you put it back in the mail stream. You'll also have to deal with every catalog being sent to "OR CURRENT RESIDENT".

The prior owners of my place still get on average 9-10 pieces of mail a week here, and I just have to throw it all out. If one sender is especially egregious, I will contact them and demand they stop mailing to my address, but this is a slow process. (The prior owners refused to submit change of address forms, and when I contacted them they specifically said "we get too much junk mail and we want less of it!")
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Animated map of population density in the U.S. (1790 – 2010)
> I never even read the measurements section in papers. I'm only interested in the ideas.

Genuinely curious, how do you identify if an idea is of any practical use without caring about measurements?
But a system of philanthropy is inherently biased insofar as since donors can and do choose charitable causes that match their own preferences. Taxation is necessary (also) to redistribute from taxpayers to reciprients in an (ideally) unbiased and (in the real world) somewhat tempered by democratic representatives.

That’s part of the reason why American and increasingly European politics have become so factious.
> Then just close all loop holes

One man's loophole is another man's incentive. If you are struck by catastrophic medical issues and pay more than 10% of your AGI in medical bills, you can deduct the cost. Is this a loophole? Or is this a way to cushion the blow of having been dealt a lousy hand in terms of medical costs? It depends on your perspective.

> That'd probably >2x tax revenue and be "fair" to everyone.

From an economic perspective, it's great to "lower the rate and broaden the base". The problems come when, after the rate has been lowered, lobbyists get all the same incentives/loopholes put back in. Now you have a lower rate, and many of the same carveouts.
So many reasons for this, but it boils down to the marginal cost on building a 4-5 BR vs. a 2 BR house is small compared to the profit upside.

If you want a 2 BR, you need to look in old neighborhoods or buy a condo.
-While the cynic in me thinks you are probably right, as they would no doubt mention it if the intent was to make the data freely available, I do note that the site is hosted by the BODC which is under the NOC (UK National Oceanography Centre) umbrella.

Whenever I have worked with them, they have been quite eager to ensure their research is readily available to the interested public.

One can hope...
Probably in a separate app, like the current system level key/password management solutions.
> the opt out process is ever-so-slightly easier.

Oh? How do I opt out of Google's spying? I already don't have an account or use their services, but they still collect data on me from a wide variety of sources, both online and not. As far as I can tell, there is literally no way to get them to stop it.

I don't think Google has much of a high road here.
A 1000 sq ft home costs nowhere near $200,000 to build. The land, on the other hand, costs more than that alone in major cities.
It's type theory, so the `objects' in question are either systems of terms and/or types. See where it says:

terms allowed to depend on types, corresponding to polymorphism.
types depending on terms, corresponding to dependent types.
types depending on types, corresponding to type operators.

So I think they're using the word `objects' either loosely (as in, they could have said `things' but maybe that's too informal?) or they're using it as a shorthand for `type-theoretic objects', in which case they're talking about languages of a certain constrained expressive power: the language which features polymorphism, the language which features dependent types, the language which features type operator.

`object' here refers neither to the objects of object-oriented programming nor to object in common lisp object system.

edit: IANATT
Gitlab is great for someone already using it and is familiar with their configuration syntax.

Dockup has these:

- Seeding DBs with prod-like data is easy and works super fast so you don't have to wait around for a long time until you do a database dump/restore. We can do this in Dockup because we can maintain a pool of single-use DBs for your deployments.

- Deployment form to mix and match different versions of your apps (example: you can try how branch-foo of frontend and branch-bar of backend work together)

- Users who know how to write Dockerfiles can easily setup Dockup. Many of our users are project managers and QA and they find the UI easy to use.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19307787
So what? Many Chinese people also see Taiwan as a success.
Correct. I have multiple LE certs with SANs.
I think Luxottica CEO himself explained the whole situation in 1 second 7 years ago, and it is spot on (Not saying it is how it should be).

Listen for yourself.

https://youtu.be/VxPLGPO2q3E?t=749
I’ll have to trademark “Lithium Producinf Exporting Countries” before they do.

How is collusion risky? Seems worth trying.

Restrict supply, jack up prices, maybe lose 20% of your sales by weight, but make it up with revenue.
My mother worked in city planning/government and at a conference Maxis was giving out copies of their brand new game, Sim City 2000. It was a great way to get the kids of these professionals (or the professionals themselves) into both gaming and city planning.
I don't claim to know that much about it, but nothing I've heard suggests that there's that much room for automation in the industry. Every wedding is a one-off with at least some custom requirements, and none are ever repeated. Where does an app or website come in? The experienced people in the industry know who to trust to get it right, who can do what, and roughly what it costs. They have the human ability to take care of the small problems without bothering the family, and know what issues to escalate to them.

Maybe the planners would like and be willing to pay for some tool that helped them organize things, but there's probably too much individual customization needed to make any such solution practical to build cheaper and better than Excel or something.
For what it's worth, I hate laptop keyboards in general. The MBP keyboard being the best laptop keyboard I've ever used is, quite frankly, an extremely low bar.
Again, we did that in the 90s here in the west all the time and user accounts weren't necessary and their introduction did not really solve anything.
If you don't like the majority deciding on taxes, you don't like democracy.
My pet theory was that natural neural networks have built in learning mechanism that is prone to over-fitting. The way nature is overcoming the problem is periodically disconnecting inputs and outputs from the neural network and letting it trigger randomly for some time to add a bit of noise.

But it seems that more and more evidence shows up that sleep is just clean-up time for the brain.
Today I first discovered that Pocket, which is the integrated service associated with that odd icon in FireFox that I had never clicked on before. It's like Instapaper, which is also something I have never used. Both of those seem to be online services, like Polar, with APIs to support browser extensions, Android integration, and other stuff like that.

I was pretty disappointed that FireFox integrated a service that was proprietary and not even one that was GDPR-compliant.

I have been looking for a hackable alternative to Google Keep. In the past, Pinboard.io had served me well, but now I am looking for something more. I want not just to store bookmarks, not just to archive web pages, but really to have all these at my fingertips for analysis. I want to shift the balance I have between consuming new information and munging on the information that's already come my way.

Polar seems to be a great alternative because it's a computer application that's 100% self-hosted. I would like something that could be run in a federated way, like Mastodon, but this is still _very_ nice. Since I own the data, I'm not worried about any limitations. I especially like that various forms of cloud sync are supported (looking at you, Syncthing).

I see Electron bashed on HN from time to time. I have no opinion about it personally. Even if there were some noticeable overhead, the capabilities this offers are probably worth it.

Super exciting. I'll give it a go.
In this piece he goes into the status game that so many of us play and why you should be opting for another game (wealth) instead.
Your objection is explicitly addressed in the linked article.

> "Assumption 5: The fact that a computer simulation can be conscious, is independent of the CPU speed of the computer."

Do you disagree with this assumption? Is it your argument that a "slow" computer can never be considered to be conscious, even if it's given sufficient time to run the exact same software? If so, how are you deciding what the cutoff frequency should be?
For people downvoting this, consider that it can (and should IMHO) be possible for citilife to live in a system where this is the case, and for you to live in a system that meets your needs as well. I don't understand why so many people are convinced that a giant state imposing one-size-fits-all on a hugely diverse population is a good idea. The United States particularly was founded on the idea of a tiny federal government where most things were decided by States, so people could freely move to the government that best fit their needs.

Some further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntaryism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panarchy
I've been purchasing back-up glasses for nearly 20 years at places like Lens Crafters and have never spent over $50 for such a pair - granted, they're dorky safety frames and no fancy lens coatings, but still.

Cheap glasses have always been available, if you don't want fashionable frames.

Also, please don't skip an actual yearly eye exam, for your health.
You fix the tools so that they work properly. You modify the compiler to always produce deterministic output (e.g. dummy timestamps).
Well, my first thought was - if eyewear can be produced for less, why doesn't somebody take advantage of the opportunity and do so? Capitalism at its finest and all that. But the answer immediately struck me: if somebody was offering a product at half the cost everybody else was, I wouldn't trust it - and I suspect most other people wouldn't, either. Considering the size of the initial investment, this upstart wouldn't be able to get enough traction to stay afloat.
Programming with Lazarus, a Brief Introduction
It'll be useful if the title could clarify that this is about metro/subway construction costs in large cities, rather than all construction costs in America.
I used to care a great deal about font rendering, but when I got eyeglasses I had trouble learning to focus with them. To make it easier, I disabled anti-aliasing, giving the fonts maximum sharpness, and making it obvious if I was focusing correctly.

Surprisingly, I got used to this and never switched back. The most legible font is the one you're most used to, but if there's any objective measure of quality, it has to be sharpness. No anti-aliasing = maximum sharpness. It might look ugly at first, but you get used to it quickly. I recommend trying it.
The party line is: "to check your eyes for disease"

If you reply: "People that don't need glasses don't get their eyes checked every 2 years for disease"

The party line will be: "People that don't need glasses are at lower risk for eye disease"

I just got a physical copy of my prescription and uploaded it to my google drive. It's 5 years expired, but I still see 20/20 and use it to purchase new frames online.
> But a system of philanthropy is inherently biased insofar as since donors can and do choose charitable causes that match their own preferences.

Anand Giridharadas goes pretty deeply into that idea in this talk that he did at Google. I highly recommend watching it, I thought it was elucidating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zt3kGW1NM

I want to read his book "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World" but I haven't gotten to it yet.
> The Wyoming Rule would fix the underrepresentation in populated states and the electoral issue.

How would this fix the electoral issue (I assume you're referring to the Electoral College)? From the wikipedia page, it appears only to propose changing the makeup of the House of Representatives.
Shoplifting Detection Software Helps Spot Criminals Before They Strike
That is a poor definition of a regressive tax. A better definition is "a tax that ignores the marginal utility of income in its application".

Poor people derive overwhelmingly more value from dollar $10,001 than rich folks do from dollar $1,000,001. (This is not controversial.) Thus, rich folks can--and should because they derive more value from the structures of the society that enables them to be successful and not hit over the head for their paycheck--pay progressively more to sustain that society. (This is also not controversial in reality, even amongst relatively right-wing economists.)
Thanks for sharing the list! We should show up there soon now that we've made a public launch.
As someone who files an extremely high volume of Apple bug reports, that's not actually true. They occasionally close a bug with "please try again and let us know if it's still happening", but that's extremely rare. And to be fair, the last time I saw that happen, the bug in question had actually been fixed at some point in the past. I'm pretty sure in that instance some engineer said "hey wait, that sounds familiar, I think we fixed that already, but I can't find the original bug report".
God forbid anyone make a profit?

I’m not sure what your point is, prices are set by what the market is willing to pay. Anything else is not sustainable.

You are not entitled to buy houses wherever you want for whatever price you think is good. Certainly not in the Bay Area.
The New Zip Process and Zcash Governance
My first order with Zenni I got probably 5 different frames, using a coupon code, and that helped me figure out what kinds of frames I liked and what didn't work. With that, I was able to dial in on what frames fit me best, and over the years I've mostly settled on one very-uncool but so-comfortable-I-forget-I-wear-glasses frame that goes in and out of stock. I order two every time and have extras at work, in my car, at my parents' house, etc.

Years ago I got some huge aviator sunglasses from them, but they aren't in stock anymore. I just have one of my aforementioned extras in my car with the nerdy clip-on.
Knowing when something was built is more useful than having better verification of exactly what code went in?

Besides, it's a deterministic build. You can use a lookup table with the hash to find out exactly what revision it is.
“Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”

http://freakonomics.com/2010/08/12/quotes-uncovered-if-wolve...
> more than 60 percent want stronger privacy laws

TIL that 60% is considered a "supermajority."
Ignoring marginal utility is absolutely regressive.
Because this is not a solution, you still get penalty and bluebird is slower in latest nodejs versions.

Not really a long term solution.

We adapted approach with context from golang and now it works really well.
Do you care when the build was made or from when the code build into it is? The former is a problem for reproducible builds, the latter is possible.
Sure there is! ...as long as you don't mind using fractional exponents, along with zero.
Here is a thread discussing the detection of `curl | bash` based on script timing [1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636032
Yes, look up Google Bazel (the open source version of Blaze)
Logics for Analyzing Games
More importantly, when you have a giant company with a monopoly on something, they don't have to compete with you, they can instead just buy you up.
That's not how the market works. You may think that way, but most people shop on price above all else.
I can do a build off of year old code.

Would you rather you get a timestamp embedded that tells you it was built today, or take the hash and be able to find the exact revision.
> This is simply not consistent with facts.

Is it really a "fact" though? I know there are studies out there and that it's a popular opinion. The question is, why? There are near infinite factors impacting "success" and "success" is fluid, but also any statistics used are correlations and generalizations at a massive scale.

My point, is that we cannot begin to determine each case independently. Instead, we should uniformly tax the society for funding society. The ultrawealthy will pay more on a percent based system, the upper, middle, and lower classes will progressively pay less.

> Where you are born, what education you got, and what risks you were able to take has a huge impact on success.

Also, I've seen this thrown around - let's assume this is true. I tend to agree, but you also have to recognize that by 30 years old, we shouldn't be treating people like children. By 30 it's entirely possible making minimum wage to attend college or to take risks. It may have been harder or they may have had to work hard, but there's no reason to make the argument the opportunity wasn't there, because it typically is.
Waaay at the bottom of the article is the truth. "The spending is only 14 percent of T-Mobile’s total spending on DC-area hotels — half of which went to Hilton hotels...."
We have stumbled into the era of machine psychology (2015)
The income tax would not be regressive, but the overall tax system (including sales tax, gas tax, and other consumption or usage taxes) would be regressive.

That isn't to say that regressivity is a fatal flaw — tobacco taxes and other "sin taxes" are all regressive, but they're seen as good because the goal is to discourage behavior, not raise revenue.
Hot take: The touch bar is goofballs. Going from a magnetic connector to usb-3 is a usability regression. Removing the headphone jack is user hostile.

These are takes a lot of Apple users would, to varying degrees, agree with, so I'm not sure how "hot" they are. :) You can make a case for all of those choices, too, but despite the reputation us Apple fans seem to have, most of us just aren't going to say "I hate this, but because Apple did this, I must actually love it." In fact, we tend to be very, very vocal about things Apple does that piss us off, and most of us have a list of such things that goes back decades.

(Personally, I think removing the headphone jack is user hostile on the iPad Pro but not the phone; I think MagSafe is superior from a UX standpoint to USB-C, but USB-C has some advantages when you have USB-C ports on opposite sides of the laptop, a test several of Apple's USB-C-only gadgets fail; and the Touch Bar is a solution in search of a problem.)
Original paper published February 28, 2019: Ecological interactions between arthropods and small
vertebrates in a lowland Amazon rainforest
http://amphibian-reptile-conservation.org/pdfs/Volume/Vol_13...
Obviously they obtain benefit form employment.

If it were multiple competing companies, the same output would probably require MORE employees. One of the ways it is so profitable is to implement economies of scale not possible in a less monolithic industry.

You are failing to see that extractive business models such as monopolies do not add value, they extract value and concentrate it in the hands of the execs/owners. This removes capital from the socio-economic system/society and reduces the capabilities of the whole system to grow (the occasional purchase of a yacht does not rebalance things).
If I look at 'willing' closely on that page, there is what I perceive to be about a 20% increase of spacing between the the second 'l' and the second 'i' character.

I didn't notice it at first, I had to look at it very closely.
Companies can and do, e.g. Costco, for prescription glasses anyway.

I bet what often happens instead is that the higher margin company just buys out the cheaper guy, and... it's back to the higher prices!
> (The prior owners refused to submit change of address forms, and when I contacted them they specifically said "we get too much junk mail and we want less of it!")

I don't submit change of address forms, as the USPS sells the data from those to spammers.

I do, however, systematically call and cancel any sources of spam, as well as redirecting any mail I actually want.
Prospiracy Theories
So their effect is not little; it's at least as broad as illegal, spam, harassment, toxic, TOS violation.