skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Accusing it of leading to the things you talked about is a non sequitur.

I didn't say the replication crisis lead to bad incentives. I cited it as evidence bad incentives exist.

> But insisting that its primary problem is that grant writers are a pack of pathological liars

I didn't say remotely that.

Academics have incentives to make their work sound overly impressive, and many are playing this game. That doesn't mean every grant writer is a pathological liar, but it's very naive to think they aren't incentivised to oversell findings, and many do.
Fish stocks are being depleted. We are running the earth down.
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Should I Py or Should I Fortran?
Not about the protocol :(

For those that don't know, apparently gopher is also some sort of programming language for surfer dudes.
> Why is Comic Sans so reviled?

This site sort of explains it (click to scroll): http://comicsanscriminal.com/
Yeah, Karabiner-Elements has that option and it's great. There is something satisfying about smashing that ESC button sometimes though in some contexts. :(
If anyone here has used this, what has your experience been?
>Crypto like bitcoin is necessarily an appreciating asset because it is deflationary by its very nature.

That assumes that the demand for cryptocurrencies remains constant. If the demand for cryptocurrencies drops faster than the deflation of the currency, then the value goes down.
I tend to be a pretty pessimistic person and I happen to agree with you.

Regardless of how hopeless our current position might seem to some, there is an absurd amount of sheer panic and terror that you just happen to be exposed to because you are on the internet.

It is a wild gnashing of teeth with little productive thought taking place.
As to point 3 - unity has introduced LTS versions to counter this.
My experience has likewise been that film DP’s have extremely impressive visual acuity, memory for color, etc. Talented artists often have developed whole sets of skills that the rest of us are unaware are even skills. In the same way a programmer might have thought about cache line false sharing as it affects memory hierarchy throughput, visual art often hides lots of expertise you cannot directly perceive, even as you can sense the quality of the whole.
> Neither of which requires Windows, or any other vendor-specific platform.

If they don't require windows and it is OS agnostic it shouldn't matter whether they use Windows or something else.

> It's neither justified nor necessary to force children to use Windows or any other specific operating system in school.

You are talking about Children using Windows as if it was forcing them to clean chimneys. This is ridiculous.
Historically, it was not possible for the IRS to figure it out without an investigation that costs more than most people pay in taxes. Computers exist now, but changing the status quo would be politically challenging, and may still involve a net cost to the budget because the government would be performing a service that was previously the responsibility of taxpayers. However, the experience of other countries suggests that partial automation is well worth the investment, even though full automation is impossible, so the other commenters griping about lobbyists are correct too.
I keep seeing stuff like this and wonder where the actual advantage to graphQL is?
Author here. I spoke about Python and Fortran to an association of chemical engineers a few nights ago. Some folks here may find the slides interesting.
To highlight how nuts this could be:

I travel to India every year, and I always carry with me a few hundred USD worth of rupees (the local currency).

It would be insane for me to try and track the value of the rupees (in USD) for every time I bought something, and calculate the deltas between that and what I originally gave to the money changer. It is completely impractical to do that, and while I'm not an accountant, I have an intuition that for any reasonable amount of money that any traveller would be carrying with them, the fluctuations are irrelevant.

And yet this is what people using cryptocurrencies are expected to do.

Obviously if there is a large capital loss or gain, then this should be reported on your taxes, and I suspect the same is true for foreign currency exchange.

I guess to ask a question: are individuals expected to track the fluctuations in USD value of their cash while travelling? If so: is there a threshold? Why is crypto different (other than some belief that it might be more convenient).
Quorum rules are to make sure you're not holding a sneaky midnight vote with two councilors asleep. Councilors who are present but recused should count toward a quorum.

You might still have a rule that at least two votes are required to pass something (to prevent a 1-0 vote with four recusals). But requiring at least thee votes on a five-member council is requiring an outright majority, which means a recusal is the same as a no vote. That seems unfair.
Niven and Pournelle thought so as well when they wrote "Lucifer's Hammer" [1] in which "...China, anticipating the coming ice age launches a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia. The last Soviet Premier reassures the US that they are not the target, and he requests help against the unprovoked attack."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer%27s_Hammer
It’s never too late to decrease the damage being done.
Apple was always going to build its own modem, and the Intel deal helps
I've actually picked this up as a hobby since a year ago or so.

I grew up in the late 80's early 90's doing exactly this type of thing as a kid. Having worked as a professional dev for the past few decades I started to notice that I've been taking my work home for all that time, and even though I like my work, I felt I needed a hobby as I'm getting older.

So, I'm currently making a shooting game for the 286/16 in modex VGA with SoundBlaster digitised sound and Adlib for music. All programmed from scratch...
The balance sheet is (slowly) normalizing though. It's being reduced by about half a trillion a year, and that program will continue, regardless of interest rate changes.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
I understand where you're coming from.

I think that the most immediate risks associated with climate change is not sea level rise, but it's extreme weather. We're seeing this in spades already.

It intuitively makes sense at some level: adding more energy to a somewhat chaotic/somewhat stable system (weather over the past 1000 years) will increase the chaos and lessen the stability.

To me, this article about heat moving toward Greenland is less of a cause/risk and more of a symptom. The fucked up jetstreams, caused by a relatively small global increase in temperature, is allowing this heat to move somewhere it would almost never be able to move previously.
The Touch Bar. Makes more sense to call it iPad Slice though.
The IRS has decided to treat cryptocurrency as an asset (like gold) instead of a currency.
Chinese propaganda is definitely part of reason Chinese people online are unusually defensive. However, it doesn't help that a lot of "facts" about China that circulate on the internet are completely false. "Facts" like this one:

> Plus there is a large group of astroturfers constantly scanning the web for mentions of China (aka “50 cent army”).

The 50 cent army is really a China-only thing. I highly doubt that China thinks that the most effective use of their limited number of fluent English speakers is argue with people on Reddit and HackerNews.
One big safeguard is that no launch would be detected?
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The indigenous Inuit call it Kalaallit Nunaat ("land of the Kalaallit").

The Saga of Erik the Red from the 13th century tells us Grœnland was chosen as misleading advertising to get people to relocate there.
Why do you have to report a new address when you move? To whom?
They don't hate it because of a direct, well thought out opinion they've made. They just like to jump on the hate bandwagon because it's the thing to do.
Similar to the cyber attack attribution problem, isn't it?
Which I think is a mistake. The tax code should be accommodating; it should not be adversarial.

Many people do not treat bitcoin like gold, they treat it like a paypal account.
To be clear, I’m pretty sure that was a voluntary move on juul’s part, you can still buy those flavors of pods on their websites. Supposedly they are coming back to stores when juul can confidently deploy the age verification system they want.
You don't think an alternative to government action will take longer to find? Or are you advocating revolution?

What are your new ideas?
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Well a lot of people are treating cryptocurrencies as speculative assets. ICOs wouldn't have been such a big thing if people didn't do that.

So why shouldn't the IRS do the same?
You could try TED (or TEDx) talks. For example, a couple of titles I see by skimming the video list are "The living tech we need to support human life on other planets" and "5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins".
Chinese domestic media is for the most part trash and it's well understood that it conveys the views of the ruling political class. It has never even pretended to be an unbiased source of information.

As far as the Chinese domestic media threatening to nuke US just any godly day, I highly doubt it and I've never seen this. Their domestic media is much more focused on internal development and accomplishments. It serves the purpose of reminding the people how great the Central Government is, which is the CCP's primary objective. International affairs (even with the U.S) are an afterthought. You won't find nearly the amount of vitriol directed towards the U.S that the U.S media directs towards China.
It's too bad the "space force" isn't setup just for this.
OTOH a huge part of the creative market vastly prefers using desktop machines for better performance. Even if you connect a bigger monitor to a MBP you are most likely going to use an external keyboard.
Gotta flex my (amazing) Topre keyboard, which is "mechanical" as well but works on a totally different capacitive touch mechanism:

https://i.imgur.com/SnfIDbe.jpg
Those ratings are used to evaluate the search system, not to change it directly.
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Most people in the world will never be able to visit the United States but they seem somehow to survive.
Thank god Obama set us on the right track. The current administration is doing everything to hamper this great progress in terms of converting to renewable energies.

Lets get some real leadership back in the White House in 2020!
I'm looking forward to Firefox supporting OpenXR, which will open it up to all the headsets supported on GNU/Linux by OpenHMD via Monado.
Former investment banker and President of the New York Fed, Timothy Geithner in his confirmation testimony to become Secretary of the Treasury [credibly, I would say] maintained that he had misunderstood the code and mistakenly underpaid his taxes by $34,000. If he can't understand the tax code, how can we.

At the end of the day, the IRS just wants their money.

On the other hand, IANAL, but a tax lawyer once said to me the only thing you go to jail for is hiding money. You can claim weird deductions, invent new depreciation schemes, misapply rules and all the IRS will do is say "No" and stick you with a bill. But if you're hiding income, it really upsets them.
One caveat, if viewing this image on a high-dpi display there will be blurring from image upsampling by the browser. My eyes have the same result as yours: the white line appears thicker than the black one.

Here's the interesting thing about your observation: doing alpha compositing of text in a perceptual space (as opposed to a linear space) results in a thickening of black-on-white and a thinning of white-on-black. So doing gamma "wrong" actually results in better perceptual matching.

Do you have evidence that either Apple or Adobe varies the amount of stem darkening based on text luminance? I've tested Apple (macOS 10.12 most carefully) and have not seen this.
Could Equifax be the dumbest company on the planet?
Equifax is now using a 3rd party "settlement administrator" to check claim eligibility from their infamous breach.

Here's the thing. They're using a non-equifax.com privately registered domain to collect this info. It's also domain control validated vs. an extended cert showing ownership:

https://eligibility.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/en/eligibility

They request your last name and the last 6 digits of your social.

Obviously, anyone can set up a private domain and phish the hell out of people. This is exactly Equifax's behavior after the initial incident, whereupon they setup a plethora of privately registered domains intended to mitigate the issue.

Why are they training people to be phished? Have they learned nothing?
He forgets to mention: Africa
Federal? No. You defraud someone and it is state, local, or even civil.. unless circumstance (e.g. via mail) makes it a federal offense.
Sanctions are so tough people can't even work for free.
Yeah definitely liberated Tibet with all those greenhouses and tomatoes in xinjiang.
I know I hate change, though some changes that I loath initially, can and do grow on me. Though there are always some that do not. But as a whole, most change is good. Just that initial impact and we go from an autonomous interaction from various queues to having a new layout, sequence, feature or even font. Those put us off out pace and for want of another way of putting it - mess with your mojo. Over time, we adjust, some changes quicker than others, other changes take longer. Few never at all take. But then we all have those, and if enough users still dislike those changes, they tend to get rolled-back, but not all.

I will also add another tangent to this:

We tend to overlike change we create or instigate.
Opinion:

The tough truth is that improving the world at that scale is mostly about politics. Politics is how the nations allocate resources to problems.

You maybe want them to talk about the technical fundamentals of the problem but the important bit is usually the politics.

[A sibling comment says to look at TED talks. This is an excellent idea. Then, after a couple of years, ask why none of the solutions have been implemented, and you are ready to get interested in the politics.]
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If you're interested in this, you should probably check out some of the reporting over the political battles this very year over wind subsidies and the intraparty disputes among republicans in the state lege.
> you basically give up on a stable narrow interface when shipping header only.

I agree.
But in some cases, you also gain performance not achievable with stable interfaces.

It’s about tradeoffs.

I think modern C++ needs stable ABI and well-isolated modules less than it did 10-20 years ago. 20 years ago people wrote everything in C++. Now C++ lost the majority of the market to higher level and safer languages, it’s only used for components where performance really matters. For such components, runtime overhead of stable ABIs sometimes matters.
I thought it was actually running watchOS.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13454052/apple-macbook-p...
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Note: [video]

Hopefully someone can post a TL;DW
Looking at housing costs without considering current price e.g. ( rental equivalent ) is a tricky business as it will lag current conditions by decades as a relatively small portion of the population pays current prices.
No it's actually not different. It's trivial to prove with a bit of motivated reasoning, here watch this:
(for people not watching it closely, the following is not my opinion but a demonstration how one could prove censorship of political opinions is necessary if one is allowed to censor "offensive speech").

UK is a democratic country. In a democratic country, the government is elected by people, and can exist only while people support it. Not literally everybody, of course, but a significant part of people must support any government system for it to be able to function as a democratic society. By attacking the government, you offend these people and their deepest held beliefs, and imply that they are either not smart enough to figure out how the government should be, or are too lazy to go and vote for a proper government. Moreover, if you argue that a particular elected official is stupid, or corrupt, or bigoted, or criminal - you also imply people who voted for that person either are OK with these things or are too stupid to recognize them (at least if these things were known before the election). Both can be deeply offensive to people. Of course, some people would be OK with being called bigots or idiots, but many would take it as a gross offense. Similarly, calling their chosen representative such words would be possibly a less personal, but no less hurtful offense - after all, if somebody insults your friend, you'd be also hurt as if they'd have insulted you, wouldn't you? Maybe a bit less, but same goes for your representative.

Thus, it is clear that political speech can be grossly offensive. Moreover, I would go further and claim that it is more offensive than, for example, a racial insult. You do not choose your race, so if somebody insults you on the base of your race, it has very little to do with you personally - it's not directed at you as a person, but at a vague concept of race which largely exists in the mind of the speaker and nowhere else. You could shrug it off as empty words having nothing to do with you specifically. Insulting your political creed goes much deeper to the core of your identity and hurts on much more personal level - it is offending part of your identity that you yourself chose and built!

Thus, one can consider proven that criticizing the government is as much and maybe more hurtful than regular slurs and insults, and must be prosecuted at least as harshly.

(for people not watching it closely, the above is not my opinion but a demonstration how one could prove censorship of political opinions is necessary if one is allowed to censor "offensive speech").

The solution of this problem is that government should not ban any speech (with obvious and well-known exceptions, blah blah) and not be allowed to determine what is "offensive" and prosecute people for that.
> Instead of really improving the product, features become checkboxes on the roadmap. Which eventually results in degrading the quality of the product, it becomes bloated, the UX becomes confusing (especially to new users), and existing features start to suffer because the "maintenance surface" becomes bigger and bigger

I side with you 100% on that

The meme about software being an act of non-stop bicycle reinvention has never been more true to life than it is now
No, this is not the case. For foreign currency there is a low-value transaction exemption. If you go on vacation in Italy you don’t have to report forex income/loss for every meal. But if you came back with an Italian sports car, you would.

Not so with bitcoin, which the IRS taxes every transaction, no matter how small.
Strongly disagree. In terms of both actual usage and the rhetoric I most commonly see on crypto fora (“digital gold!”, “store of value!”), commodity, not currency, is the correct categorization.
There are studies for Germany that show that just renewables can do it. I assume in other countries it's similar. I'm not opposed to nuclear, but building nuclear plants takes way too long. We have twenty years give or take to become carbon neutral, there doesn't seem to be enough time to fight the legal battles you have to win before you can even start building nuclear plants.
The standard of law for civilians is much higher than for people in government, sadly.
Maybe they don't actually care.
30 day warranty! Be nice to have an optional extra to increase that.
Preferably without the silicone wiring that fails constantly? I've had to fix so many of those crappy power cables...
My ignorant gut would be that greater portions of the workforce are replaceable with capital nowadays than in previous times.

You want to hand manufacture more widgets, you need to hire more people.

I'd be curious if there's also a de facto inflection point, whereby decreasing requirements for broadly available labor limit wage gains, which stunts demand, which stunts additional labor and hiring.

Essentially: in a bifurcated economy demand and unemployment become less tightly coupled.
The ICO market crashed and trading volume on crypto exchanges keeps dipping lower and lower and lower. Its main use-case has shifted back to currency after a failed bid as a security.
Every so often someone finds an albino sequoia sapling and post pictures. For it to have gotten that big with no chlorophyll it is taking sugars from from one of the adult trees via root grafting.
Maybe at one time fortran had the most mature libraries for simulations but is that still true?
It depends if you look like someone powerful and wealthy enough to fight back against abusive overreach, or not.
Do you think this is repeatable with the housing market nowadays? My gut instinct is it's not, but love to hear your thoughts.

The key point in your post/experience seems to be the fact that 8 years ago you moved to a rent-controlled apartment in SF.

8 years ago (2011) was the lowest point of the housing market after the crash. If you, for example, bought a house in SF in 2011 instead of getting into that apartment (say if you saved up for several years for a down payment), that house would likely be worth 2x to 3x now and right now you may be able to sell it or rent it out and semi-retire in a different city.

The point is, 2010-2012 was a magical period if you made a move at the time (get into a rent-controlled apartment, bought a place, etc.). I have a feeling that the housing market isn't going to crash again the same way it did back then, so I'm not sure what you advocate is possible anymore.

As for the OP, personally if I were starting my tech career now, I would probably not move to SF. Plenty of other tech hubs are spinning up in the past few years (Austin, Boulder, etc.) where housing is more affordable and you still get to stay "in the scene". Admittedly I live in the bay area right now (I've been living here since high school, so kind of a native here), but am indeed planning to move away at some point.
Are they efficient? They certainly produce the most, but that's a given considering they have 1.386 billion people to feed. Proportionally it's impossible to say if China is more or less efficient.
This advice is good, but never addresses the issues of:
- cost
- impact to work
- fear of retaliation (Oh, that's illegal? Show me how that will be dealt with in ways that don't negatively impact my job/family/bank account)
The words "single tweet" link to it in the article.
What experiences are that?

Right now I see some fat kids with necks bent at 90 degrees staring mindlessly into a tablet watching some YouTube video of other people playing video games and shouting nonsense. Or babies and toddlers watching whole playlists of AI generated crap trying to get ad revenue.

These kids are not getting a good start in life. Wouldn’t be surprised if the end of their lives doesn’t look much different from the beginning.