skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "As Devon Zuegel said in my interview with her, writing falls into three buckets: (1) trivial things that everybody knows, (2) things that everybody knows, [but nobody around you knows], and you have a unique perspective on, and (3) stuff that nobody knows so you have to do tons of research. Direct your energy towards the second bucket.”

Amusingly, this leaves out things that nobody knows but desperately wants to know, among other potential things.
Zuckerberg ousts critical board members, installs loyalist, at Facebook
You want to encourage population growth by removing child support?
TOML kinda breaks down when you have nested data:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48998034/does-toml-suppo...
> ... the higher the wordcount, the deeper the "spaces get"...

During training, what I would say is that the "space" gets denser. Imagine you live on a cliff overlooking a lake/sea (some body of water with known boundaries). You notice on some days the winds produces long waves that are spaced far apart, while other days the waves are very short and choppy. If you wanted to encode this, it would take more memory to encode the latter than the former despite the lake being the same size.

If you have more questions about the Deep Schizophrenia model, I'd be happy to discuss. You'll see my email at the bottom of the site.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swell_(ocean)
> Trains are also more expensive to run than planes because they need more infrastructure to operate, and that infrastructure is high maintenance.

Um... are you counting the airports when making that comparison? And the air traffic control infrastructure? And the maintenance costs of the planes themselves vs the maintenance costs of the trains?

> Privatised rail makes no sense anywhere in the world.

Are you counting the US freight railways in that? If so, you are badly mistaken.
I think it depends how busy the network is. If there are lots of free slots for new services and it’s possible to run faster by just buying new trains then maybe. But in the UK it’s saturated and many services have been running to pretty much the same timetables since the 1970’s so the whole network operates like a massive interlinked system of gears covering the whole country which in most cases has to be centrally coordinated. The only real flexibility that private operators have is what colour the train is and how clean are the carpets. They are allowed to offer cheaper fares, but many don’t offer particularly good deals because the network is saturated and demand is high so there is no reason to do this.

Edit: added ‘which in most cases has to be centrally coordinated.’
I would like that system, but unfortunately most of our fellow citizens would end up broke come tax time. Most people simply say "I can spend until my bank account is empty".

That's why most people choose impound accounts when they get a mortgage. Because they literally can not budget money for the bi-annual property tax bill, so they have the bank take the money every month.

It's also why teachers are offered a 10 check plan or 12 check plan. They get the same money, but most of them choose the 12 check plan, just so they don't have to remember to save money to live in the summer.

That's why the banks offer those "save your pennies" plans. Every time you make a debt card charge, they round up to the nearest dollar and then put the rest in a savings account for you. Because people are that bad at budgeting.

Can you imagine most of the people you know having the ability to set aside 20% of their check each month and not spending it ever?
This also showcases how innocent until proven guilty is not honored at all. Don't throw me in jail just because you're investigating me, throw me in jail if I run off out of town or do something sketchy to interfere with the investigation. If I am not guilty I wont be running out of town, but I sure wont be talking to you without a lawyer no matter what[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Yea this is 100% nonsense, and is borderline gatekeeping. Well roundedness allows me to identify a particular language/tech stack that is most suitable for a task and then I can just drill down on it and get productive very quickly.
Even worse, there will be exactly one person to whom your text also sounds obvious (rightfully [or not](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect)), and that person will leave a long angry comment.

The key is to accept that whatever is your topic and however you write it, someone will be disappointed because it is too simple, someone will be disappointed because it is too complex, someone will not understand the article because they miss some of the prerequisites, and someone will get angry because you spend too much time explaining the prerequisites.

People are different, you can't make everyone happy. The unhappy people are more likely to give feedback than the happy ones. (You probably wonder why other writers have tons of positive feedback. They likely paid for it. Or it is link spam: "your article is so awesome and inspiring; now here is a link to my completely unrelated web page".)

I guess you just have to imagine the target audience, and keep writing for them. First you get both positive and negative comments, which is okay, because the people who didn't like the first part should stop reading. If they keep reading your N-th article and posting the same angry comments, they are idiots; ban them and erase their comments. (There is a difference between pointing out a mistake, which is a good thing, and posting "this is noob stuff, loser" under ten articles in a row, which is bullying.)
Not quite. They would need to use the same file and the same chunker. Two people can add the same identical file and share zero hashes. Files are broken down into chunks and those chunks are hashed I to a merkle tree.
> Agents getting paid a percentage of what their clients get isn't the concern here, and is generally considered good in the sense that the more they get for you (their client) the more they take home.

That's the theory, but then it turns out to be a lot more profitable to get commissions for selling five houses for $400K each than to spend the same amount of time to sell one house for $550K.

Cue statistics about real estate agents selling their own homes for substantially more than they get for their clients.
No we can't get maglev trains with detaching passenger cars because already the nonmagical train infrastructure we have today costs millions per kilometer for high speed service and modernizing the grid to support maglev service on a reasonable number of connections would be way too expensive.
Chicago, and more importantly IL at large, is broken. The state gov is one of the most corrupt in the country. 4 out of the last 6 or 7 governors have went to jail. Dennis Hastert comes out of the IL political machinery. State employees pension funds will likely bankrupt the state as the taxbase shrinks. The job prospects for most engineers are limited. I grew up there and wouldn't move back.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-ed...
Do you also not use a “rewards membership” card at grocery stores where you get charged extra to not be tracked?
A keyboard-driven workflow for inserting special characters on X and Wayland
The problem with ini is that it has no good story for arrays or associative arrays. TOML attempts to fix this, but it provides ugly format for arrays and associative arrays.
The problem is compounded by the fact that 4G and beyond have location triangulation specific features specially built in to them. The tech is only going to improve as today it isn't as accurate as GPS.

I found that this Wikipedia article is a great little read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking
How does it suck harder? Sure, the closing tags can be a bit annoying (but decent editors can insert those automatically), but attributes don't have that problem, and contrary to JSON it has comments.
>But loaning money, doing the work with your own employees, suggesting infrastructure that they can hardly afford ( and definitely not maintain), burying the country in debt is something new.

Is it? Having your own companies build infrastructure in foreign lands for your own (trade or war) benefits, and dumping the costs of build and maintenance on the region doesn't sound like a 21st century invention - it sounds like a common strategy of powerful nations.
> The solution to people’s inability to save is not for the government to hold their money hostage.

Meanwhile, in the real world where the left-hand side of the Bell curve exists, and where many people have poor impulse control, that actually is the solution to some people's inability to save.

Heck, as a student I worked in a union shop where this was actually baked into the collective agreement because of past experience of people not being able to save.

It shouldn't necessarily be mandatory, and there are ways to adjust one's withholding taxes, but it isn't all-bad.
In my eyes, you neglect the opportunity cost of "using one tool for everything": You end up with a solution that is much harder to mantain, since the wheel will have been re-inventend many times over and sprinkled with bugs along the way. Given a problem of fixed complexity, at some point costs will rise when fewer tools are used.

In summary: There is a "too much" and a "too few" when it comes to the number of tools used in a project. Where in that spectrum the OP is falling, we can't possibly know without knowing more details. Maybe the cost could have been smaller, maybe they hit an optimum and costs couldn't have been reduced by fewer tools (or more tools).
Anyone who pays 10k in state taxes is going to be well into the top 10% of incomes.
What we need is a general carbon tax.
Why do you assume the Advertising ID is the only tracking signal used?
Of course it should count as food waste if you let your milk expire and throw/pour it away (or worse, pour it away because it's past the expiration date, even though it's still perfectly fine)
It is entirely against the premise of "innocent until proven guilty" we treat suspects like criminals, I get it, you want them to "crack" but what in the world! If someone has no criminal record, please treat them as if they may not have one after you question them, don't ruin their lives.
What background does one need to understand the "4.4.8.8.in-addr.arpa" paragraphs? I'm a career web developer who took a networking course many years ago but "timely inversion," "DNS zone," what "public" means as an adjective for a DNS server, "hop," and "block of IP addresses" are all presented like I'm supposed to intimately know them already...maybe I'm just missing something
I think it's valuable to understand that most of what we're taught is an abstraction for describing something.

Using negative integers as an example, it wasn't until I was introduced to unsigned integers in C that it even occurred to me to wonder about what the heck a negative number is. It was then I realized how cool it was to know that I could make up my own version of numbers where there are no negatives. From now on, numbers all have a length and direction!
Instead of +3 and -3, now we was 3 in-that-direction, and 3 in-the-exact-opposite-direction!

I decided it was easier to keep using regular negative integers, but it was cool to realize someone just made them up many moons ago. Then I felt smarter and/or less dumb, and I started having fewer "I could never do..." thoughts after that.
And what proportion of taxpayers would be sufficiently disciplined to make sure they have funds on hand to write that check at the end of the year (or quarter, or month)?

Maybe you'd have the foresight to get a 6-month CD, then pay your tax with the money at the end of that period (and pocket the interest), but the majority of your compatriots would have long since spent it -- whether on healthcare or a holiday in Vegas, either way it's gone.
>The only Chinese city with clean air is Xiamen.

I was about to disagree but I just looked it up and it seems to be doing a lot better than I remembered.

http://pm25.in/xiamen
I find myself not writing Java now thankfully :)

My day job is embedded systems programming for aerospace, so it's almost entirely C/C++ with some tooling in Python.
Can I also say: Please don't use YAML as config files.
Any non-trivial YAML file can be messed up way too easy.
Also make sure your home activities continue as normal such as electricity, water, gas, and internet usage.

And don’t use any vehicle with a license plate that can be tracked to you, or the area around your house.

All that effort is better focused on committing legal white collar crimes, via plausible deniability and in person conversations that aren’t recorded.
To be clear, both of those issues are just with YAML 1.1. The core schema of YAML 1.2 dropped parsing "no" as true, or (as you mentioned) colon-separated numbers as sexagesimal integers. But yeah, unfortunately a number of libraries that only support 1.1 are still being used.
There’s a dark side to women’s health apps: ‘Menstrual surveillance’
Infocom used "interactive fiction" as the marketing tag for their games. You can easily see this on their box covers. I believe they started using the label with the "grey box" packages in 1984.

I don't know how much competing IF companies, like Level 9, tried to use the term. Infocom may have treated it as a trademark; I haven't checked.

Post-golden-age, hobbyists were congregating on the rec.arts.int-fiction newsgroup starting in 1992 or 1993. The newsgroup wasn't actually started by Infocom fans -- it was more serious literary-hypertext people who tried to co-opt the term! But that didn't stick, and it was all parser/text games and Z-code software by 1994. So "IF" was solidly held by that community through the 2000s, when IFComp and the IF Archive started to clue in to Twine and the larger space of text-based games.

As for the words "interactive fiction" -- of course their literal meaning is wildly off from how the genre is understood. Genre labels are always silly when read literally. (Contemplate "science fiction" and "fantasy", which do not mean "stories about scientists" and "made-up stories".)

(I have a soft spot for the term "adventure game", which -- for a few years -- literally meant "a game like Adventure, aka Colossal Cave." But it's changed since then, and I mean since 1982.)
Names come from people, so the probability being distributed is the probability that you'll get a given name from a given person for a given thing. Take your sphere-to-disk example. The bigger the hole gets, the less likely it is that a given person will describe it as a hole. But at various points you'll get spikes where most people say "hole," "bowl," "disk," etc.

Personally I think it's silly to take this as proof that the definition of hole "isn't working". Probability distributions are good enough for quantum mechanics and fluid dynamics, but not language?

Also look around: people communicate about holes productively (i.e. to accomplish work) all the time, so obviously the definition is working just fine under many conditions. Language is one of those things that works way better in practice than in theory.
The deduction wasn't limited under the normal tax, but it wasn't allowed under AMT, so it was effectively limited by AMT.
The ability to have arbitrarily deep nesting along with the efficient and information-dense visual organization make this look pretty interesting.

Trello is just too simple to capture the complexity in any project of reasonable size, and JIRA is a maze where you really have to know what you're looking for.

We have been using Plectica[1] to plan together and keep track of progress. It's not perfect, and sometimes it's actually too flexible, but in the end has really worked for us.

[1]: https://plectica.com/welcome/technologists
Gee, you mean "civic responsibility" like not rewarding tax avoidance and tax cheats like the orange buffoon and his ilk?

Yeah, we're all in favor.

These tax changes have raped the lower and middle classes. Trying to be disingenuous about "civic responsibility" and "basic finance" is pretty shitty.
Does anyone have good information for how rare this actually is? To me - as someone who believes in global warming but believes the media does a disservice exaggerating its effects - this seems like a misleading article.

How many times during a 365 day period does the temperature read 20 degrees above (or below) the average? How many times does this happen per day, per weekly average, per month?

As someone who grew up in New England it doesn't seem like it would be that rare. There were weeks in July where it was over 95 when the historical average was probably 75 and weeks in February when the average was 10 even if the historical average was 32. What is the standard deviation for temperature in certain areas and how rare is it to see 20 degrees variation if you are looking at multiple windows of time that vary in length?

Sure, global warming did not cause it to be 20 degrees higher than usual? If anything it would be +3 degrees global warming +17 degrees random variation? Why run with 20 in the title if there is no way that global warming would be responsible for the random variation.
Dictatorship and high GDP per capita is contradictory. China collectively has a lot of wealth but its spread among 3x as many people as America has, and it isn’t distributed very fairly.
Sublime Text uses JSON for settings. As a user, I've never been unhappy with that. Their JSON parser handles comments fine because each setting is accompanied by one.

// When enabled, hovering over a word will show a popup listing all
// possible locations for the definition symbol. Requires index_files.
"show_definitions": true,

The author does highlight an important point though: if you're using JSON for your program's config and your program's parser doesn't support comments, you may want to find a parser that does.

The author also mentions readability, which I think is subjective. I find JSON plenty readable provided key names are descriptive and the JSON is well-formatted. Readability does suffer when you have multiple nested objects. I'll also agree to the annoyances of forgetting a trailing comma somewhere.
Agree. The ULEZ is an utter joke.

My car is over fifteen years old. It's ULEZ compliant. I can drive it in to Central London for free after 6pm and at weekends, because it's not diesel.

I don't do it often. I'd be supportive of a serious penalty (50+ quid say).

When it's extended to the North and South Circular roads in a few years time; the car will at that point be almost 20 years old, and if it's still going, permitted for free.

Oh - but I don't live there! I live further out, so actually none of this would affect me in any case, despite local roads still breaching pollution limits.

I wouldn't go quite as far as a blanket ban; I think charges are reasonable (basically to make petrol cars cost about as much as leasing an EV, say, but not forcing up-front massive expenditure). But at the moment we seem to be in this bizarre land in which the only changes that happen are those which don't feasibly affect anyone.

Suggesting that someone who can't afford to buy a new car probably shouldn't be driving around London is seen as political suicide.
do we know what they have access to and what they are withholding? if we knew what they are withholding then we know what it is so... Sounds to me like we´re trying to read minds and apply a narrative that we cannot possibly verify. Not saying it isn´t the case but as far as I know, and I might be very wrong here, we have no evidence of them doing that. right?
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If you use them to connect to your home wifi then they show up on the internet with the same IP. It's very easy to connect separate devices to a single user.
If you read a couple of articles on the site you'll see that it's about how we can use well-known, or recently forgotten technology to live in a much more sustainable way. It's a counterpoint to the "magical technology of the future will solve it" school of environmental politics.
The only config system I've worked on that ever felt even vaguely satisfying was built around the excellent Typesafe (now Lightbend) HOCON implementation. The fact that HOCON is a superset of both JSON and properties formats made adoption in a large org feasible since it could "just work" with the many already existing config files in those formats. While generalized programmability has obvious dangers, HOCON's ability to do variable substitution was super useful for the large amounts of config that was supposed to follow a convention, e.g. hostnames based on a template like

${service}.${env}.example.com
Do note that in addition to block collections, YAML also supports the flow collections of JSON, which are not whitespace sensitive. In fact, YAML 1.2 is a superset of JSON, and you can parse JSON with # comments as entirely valid YAML.
TOML is arguably an evolution of ini format.
And why not? I don't see any fundamental reason why your local taxes should be deductible for federal tax purposes.
Yeah if you're going to sling shit like this, link to your sources. I've handled incidents involving both ecosystems over the past year and they're pretty comparable.

NPM also bought a security company (https://blog.npmjs.org/post/172793182214/npm-acquires-lift-s...) and integrated NSP directly into NPM in the form of `npm audit`.

Ruby/Gems has `bundler-audit`, which is equally good, but a separate project with a looser integration.
>People need to start thinking about information systems as property

Except they don't ? "You" can, of course, but it doesn't mean "people" need to. There is no scarcity of digital files in the world. You can create and destroy them at will. With real property, you can't. That's also the basic argument against DRM systems. The file isn't scarce. That you transferred the scarcity of resources to make the file to the file itself is something you brought upon yourself. Nobody asked you to. If it does not suit you, you are free to do everything with pen and paper, and put the papers in your wardrobe. You can't have the benefits and convenience (i.e., lack of scarcity) of digital files, and still pretend that they are scarce. Pick one.
That's what happens when you don't take anything seriously.
I hope there is universal compatibility.
Is there any reason a software developed on winsubsys for linux would not function on a linux install?
Im kind of concerned about the idea of a proliferation of linux wares that require windows10 for operation.
Im further concerned that this may distribute FUD regarding linux adoption and conversion.
I'm all for reading science data, but an article like this makes me wonder about Buffalo, NY. Or Chicago, or Minneapolis. Why pick Alaska to report on?
https://www.feelgood-at-work.de/workplaces/perk/bahncard/

You'll find that in a bunch of companies. The company I worked for has occasionally even paid Bahncard 100 for some employees. All it took to get any Bahncard for employees was to provide a calculation that it was cheaper than the other options.

If people submit travel expenses, they might also be able to submit the expense for a bahncard.

Any capable controlling department will easily detect that a substantial amount of money can be saved. For a company with 200 employees and 50% of them traveling this might be a six digit figure.
Any recommendations for cars whose UI doesn't suck?

Anything before the late 90s? Buying an old car and then installing your own backup camera would be one possible way to get the useful features but not the annoyances.
Do you have a link to ChromeheadOS? I somehow can't find it via startpage or google.