skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thread reminded me of another (unrelated) story. https://otfjokes.com/profession-jokes/manager-jokes-with-eng...
> it was conceived as a way to boost the German economy (before Euro the German mark was just too strong

Interesting theory, but I wonder when the German economy was so strong that Germany forced the rest of Europe to agree to the Euro:

When the first plans for an economic and monetary union within the EEC were brought up in 1969?

Or in 1979, when European currencies were pegged against the ECU, stabilizing exchange rates (and taking large parts of monetary policy out of the member states' hands)?

Maybe in 1989 when France made German reunification depend on Germany committing to the monetary union?
Ask HN: Article suggesting hunter-mindset is good for debugging
I remember seeing an article posted on HN discussing phenomena observed in military IED detection; if the soldiers take on a 'hunter' mindset with the IED being the prey, they have a much higher chance of locating IEDs compared to a victim mindset where they are viewing the IEDs as something to be avoided.

Does anybody remember this article?
Years ago I used to assume autocompletions were performed on device, not sent to a server
Neither of you seems to be offering a particularly charitable interpretation to the other. Launching with "that's a pretty bold assessment" sets the tone for your own first response.

The comment reads far better without that sentence. As it is, you and mikestew appear to be in violent agreement.
> punch down

You say this is easy. Seems to me that you're claiming to be elevated above us all with something we don't know, claiming that everyone else is doing it wrong, all the while hiding behind anonymity.

Stop clutching your pearls and faking the victim. No one is punching down; you're claiming knowledge you don't have and are being called out for it.

Look at any one of the references cited in the thread.
>>I also don’t want the IRS to be staffed to maximize revenue

The issue there isn't the IRS though, it's the tax code. The IRS is absolutely a department that needs to be staffed to maximize their revenue.

If you have an easy to navigate tax-code that doesn't require a doctoral understanding of economics, then there's not a problem for the everyday person (TBH you can also say the same thing about the law in general).

>>“Anyone opposing more police officers and equipment is breaking the law” is similar to your argument.

Here's a better statement: I believe the people who are most actively working and spending money to depower the IRS are those who seek the most to gain by hiding their financial doings. They seek to deregulate industry as a whole in the name of corporate gains while simultaneously infiltrating various branches of the government to further this agenda. These people are doing so in an (successful) effort to push more wealth from the majority into the hands of a minority. I believe this is bad for society as a whole.
I don't see how it's an anti-user decision. Whether it's bits over the network or physical stuff, why should they have to send me their product if they don't want to?
I can't imagine. I lived through Hurricane Andrew. I think it was a few weeks before power was restored, but we found ourselves a generator within 48 hours. We used it to run our refrigerator at home in the evenings, and my dad's business (a 1-hour photo lab) during the day. It was august, so it must've been miserably hot, but I don't remember that much.

What I do remember is how traffic functioned in Miami without traffic lights. There obviously weren't enough police to direct traffic at every intersection, so what happened was that a random driver who had a passenger would have the passenger jump out and direct traffic till his car got through and someone else volunteered to take over. This happened organically at many intersections, and it was really amazing to see.
I'm fairly sure that a hypothetically retired RMS would have no problem calling a restaurant, over a landline or hopefully a freedom-respecting mobile device.

Also that, should he go for a drive, maybe to a folk-dancing festival, he would use GPS and maps, maybe the paper variety.

As for the people inviting him to speak at a conference taking care of his scheduling and accommodation, I think that's fairly common and polite.

> I wish I could have a life like that.

By and large, you can. Whether you actually want to is another matter.
New England’s Municipal Utilities Get a Taste for Battery Storage
I've done some research into the serval mesh project and Briar and similar; I do wish most cell phones had some mesh networking installed by default. Something to enable granny to send a text message to me via piggybacking off other people who happen to be near enough to have P2P communication.

This would have to be a protocol designed for offline-tolerance I suppose, so something like auto-exchanging private keys while the network is good and/or in person if network is down for message security, then when in no signal mode, regularly transmit and receive small messages encrypted with the same key-pairs as the real ones, then if they can decrypt the short test message (short enough to be easy to try / won't eat too much battery life), establish a dedicated connection long enough to transmit full messages back and forth before disconnecting.

IDK. Probably serval mesh, briar, gnutella or similar already have this figured out. I'd like it to be end-user easy for us to prep for that though so if we are in a venue like a theme park or stadium our phones can transparently be P2P over Blue-Fi-Drop
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:r_DDSE... has the full content
How do I, with a very nice AMD GPU, and running on Windows, play around with any sort of GPU accelerated learning for anything? Last I knew, pretty much nothing worked with either of those caveats.
Creator of Ultimate Go study guide is making one for coding interview challenges
> I've lost a day's work to a mistyped "git revert HEAD~n"; my colleague blew away his month's work with a mistyped attempt at a squashed commit.

Don't you have backups? The companies I worked for had backups for all the home directories, so if I deleted something I could ask the admins to restore it.

If there are no central backups I would sure as hell set up a local backup, so there are more than one copies of my work in case something goes bad.
That's not really the same thing as the AWS model, thoughm is it? A Linode or Digital Ocean VPS has multiple price levels, but "choose the price level that most closely matches the resources you think you're going to need" is not the same as "metered usage billing."
Condenser 2.0: Automatically Subset a Database with Topological Sort
I was much younger and not involved in the finances, but my family's business was audited 4(ish?) times in under a decade, which is essentially a "guilty under proven innocent" scenario where we had to prove we didn't owe the money ($50k+) that the IRS claimed we did or we had to pay it. Each audit was easily a hundred hours which we would always end up paying nothing or having the IRS owe us money in the end for.

Though, since I wasn't aware of our financials, for all I know my parents could have just been poorly keeping track of the numbers which led to these issues.
I have drooled over the Talos II for quite some time...

Do you have a particular use case that makes POWER make sense over x86, or do you share my paranoia and love of non-mainstream ISAs?
How anyone can do productive work developing software in a coffee shop, presumably on a laptop, is completely beyond me.
It's the problem with leaning into a niche viewpoint. You have to continue to lean harder and harder into that viewpoint as the times change in order to keep the people who also believe in that viewpoint supporting you.

I genuinely think the FSF/RMS level hate of non-free software will continue to die out as everyone starts to die/retire from public eye. Whether or not that's a good thing overall is not something I'm going to touch, but it seems like there's not enough being this aggressive to keep this viewpoint sustainable.
Does this have a level of telemetry comparable to that of Google Chrome? I've been looking for a Chromium-based alternative to Chrome and I'm still waiting. Vivaldi looks like it, but it's still a bit too rough around the edges to be used as a daily browser.
I feel like I'm not understanding your comment.

Is it that you don't want IRS employees sitting around doing nothing?

Because if this resulted in losing $34B in revenue, it doesn't like they were sitting around doing nothing.
Well building the reals from rationals is not easy at all. It took a few decades to get a reasonable definiton. And in constructive mathematics, there are several competing (non equivalent) definitions of the reals. It's a very deep topic, yet we seem to understand (at least in calculus) what real numbers are.
Watch the original ... 180 South was based on ... Mountain of Storms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ympydy7f1Mg
Most people lead boring lives long before their retirement...

have friends who have no lives, dont take vacations. just going through the motions. Whats the point?
As long as they have diesel.
What's kind of interesting about this is the fact that it is able to just blindly dump environment variables.

For a long time, environment variables have been evangelized as the secure place to store credentials and things, but that just gives third party scripts a known place to look.

You could argue that might actually be more secure to store your secrets in a separate, custom config file that gets read into the rails app via an initializer or something.
One of very, very few sites that I was okay permitting serving me ads. No longer, obviously. What is happening to that company? They used to really respect their users.
I would be curious to know whether I have been the only one using TMB in production in a tech company. A tricky piece of software, but very powerful.
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https://thereadingrush.com/forums/topic/live-apoel-cyp-vs-ajax-ned-live-free/

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https://medium.com/@itvstreams_nfl/ajax-apoel-live-stream-kijken-1212b24eff41

https://thereadingrush.com/forums/topic/2019apoel-nicosia-vs-ajax-live-stream-reddit/

https://thereadingrush.com/forums/topic/ajax-apoel-live-stream-kijken-2/

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Strategies to Get the Most Out of an Accelerator
This is a cool real-life example of Taleb's antifragility.

In Puerto Rico, gas stations have had backup power generators for years (way before Hurricane María 2017). The power grid is so crappy that the generator turned out to be essential for normal business. And the owners couldn't increase the price over pre-set parameters (Puerto Rico's DACO sets those).

Meager profit margins on gas sales have been irrelevant in this situation. Once Joe down the avenue installs a generator on his gas station, you have to keep up with the Joneses.

So antifragility made it happen: the impact of lost-sales wasn't enough to bring down the gas station... yet enough of a stressor to push the installation of backup power generators.

As an aside: From the people of Puerto Rico, thanks again to all the beautiful people from the States that came over to help. Thank you.
Oh, these Google Map codes -- the geographic equivalent of Internet Time. Pass.
It's not to me to fixe that

There's nothing to fix. People work on what they want to work on. Things that seem important to you are not important to me, and the opposite. I'm OK with that.
I would love you to explain it to me.
> 5. Maintain ties to community. What does this mean?

I have gotten to know my neighbours from nearby houses much better after starting to work remotely, because I spend much more time on the nearby park.
Does it actually disproportionately harass people who follow proper accounting practices, and who report their income correctly? Is it harassment when they actually identify that money was owed?

Or is this just a meme largely spread by a demographic who is upset that their magic internet money is, in fact, subject to taxes (or, alternatively, a demographic that thinks all taxes are theft)?
The donations are handled 100% by ActBlue which is the non-profit site (run on tips) that handles donations for all the democratic candidates. They raised >$1B for the Democrats in the last cycle.

We are self-funding our minimal infra costs and the work is being done by volunteers on a part-time basis.
> nothing but...misinformation

Is this civil?
I tried this. What happened was that I was so lonely, I didn't have the focus to do any of it. I couldn't sit and read a book, I was so anxious all the time. I missed my "tribe" of coworkers however superficial that may be. I ended up watching lots of tv and movies all the time and was glad when I started a job again.
Over the course of my life (I am in my mid 30s), I have gotten probably 75+ tick bites.

When I was a kid I lived in the country, about 20 minutes from the nearest town and would have a tick-check every time I returned from being outside during the times when ticks are more prevalent.

Many times you would have ticks but they didn't get a chance to bite yet (Thankfully my parents did these tick-checks all the time, I hated it at the time but looking back I understand their concern).

I usually get at least one a year (tick that actually bites me), and although recently (Age 30+) I have been getting them checked out/monitor them more closely than when I was a younger, I've been lucky myself to not get this disease or any other ones related to ticks yet.

If anyone is curious as to this location, I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Isn't it now based on webkit like Chrome, Safari, and Opera are? I don't understand the hubub if their performance and features will be so identical.
I cycle regularly in Cambridge, MA which is the most bike friendly city in the US. It is still extremely risky, whenever I need to drive with cars on the same road. American drivers simply aren't accustomed to accounting for bikes on the road.

I fear for anyone who bikes in a city without the infrastructure for it in the US.
I share and respect your paranoia. I have a love of inspecting code and not having backdoors in my processor.
Their very first of the T4 series was 12 core / 24 thread 64-bit e6500 based (T4240).
Oh! The one that found success with the Laffer Curve. Right.

Freedom isn't an idea. It's an actual place. In terms of kingdoms a free peoples kingdom is a Freedom; and you don't have to pay someone for the right to exist.

Oddly enough we agree, there is a faction in the US pursuing its own agenda.
The Limits to Growth–Now Available to Read Online – The Donella Meadows Project
>If there is not, then don't market to 18 year olds. Very easy decision.

Can we extend that logic? For example, do we ban all marketing of any adult entertainment because it would also apply to most kids 13+? Do we ban marketing of games rated T or higher since they would appeal to people 12 and under?

Both of these are existing issues where people far younger than the intended demographic are using products not meant for them, and in some cases illegal to provide to them.
Blue Origin's comments seem mostly to be concerned that the language of the proposal often doesn't meet the intent of the proposal, and that some things are undefined.

Virgin Orbit also thinks that it remains too prescriptive.

ULA is generally supportive save for some definitional nitpicking.

Commercial Spaceflight Federation has same concerns as Blue.

Rocket Lab supports generally, with some technical objections.

SpaceX simply asks for more time.

Almost everyone thinks it's a bit rushed and feel like they have not had proper chance for input (except for ULA who urges more speed.)

While one might see "very serious concerns", they seem to be more with the implementation than the intent; transition to performance-based rather than prescriptive rules seems to be widely supported. If there's any flaw here, it's that the industry seems to be rather taken aback by the speed at which this has been done.

And, yes, the rocket side of the FAA is completely different; it was once a separate department under the Secretary of Transportation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Commercial_Space_Tra...
I think this is exactly it. Offices are prettier than ever and also less conducive to work than ever. I bet most people would choose an office with actual quiet workspaces -- even full-height cubicles! -- given that commutes were also reasonable.
Digital rights holders very much hold tightly to the fiction of "your data", and use the teeth of the law to fight anyone claiming otherwise, or copying it in a manner they did not authorize.

(IANAL) At what point can we claim that Terms of Service statements are agreed to under duress, and regain rights to our data as the rightful copyright owner of such data?
"The attributes that you say matter most in your browsing experience are performance, privacy, and reliability. So that is where we are starting."

Sounds good.
> the agency had been aggressively scrutinizing groups with names such as "Tea Party" and "Patriots."

So the IRS was profiling pro-profiling groups based on their extensive association with anti-tax and anti-government political currents, expecting that people who don't think they should pay taxes may well be trying to avoid paying taxes less than honestly?

According to KOS at the time, literally the only group which got their 501(c)(4) application reviewed and rejected during that "scandal" was a progressive one. Meanwhile a bunch of "tea party" associates got their 501(c)(4) (or worse 501(c)(4)) despite historical and ongoing partisan political work.

Sounds like "conservatives v twitter", where conservatives cry foul every time they get on a blocklist, and twitter replies that they can't autoban white supremacists the way they did ISIS because it'd throw out half the republican conference and a significant fraction of their followers.

All in all, just more and more examples of Wilhoit's hypothesis

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

[0] https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/5/19/1210132/-The-Only...
On the todo list. When I shut down Camarades.com/WW.com I took the photo archive offline as well, but did not realize my blog pics where hotlinked from it. Now I need to go digging around on some ancient backup server.
Exactly! The only downside is that ActBlue sometimes takes a little while to confirm the transaction. But usually only 2-3 minutes.
What do you mean? Smaller governments work better for the same or greater workloads, of course?!
So I've all but given up on trusting these big corporations to delete all of my data when I turn off data collection/clear history.

However, I think these activity tools are extremely useful. They allow me to see all (or at least most) of what Facebook/Google has on me and it allows me to practice and implement strategies that prevent the corps from collecting the data in the first place.
permanent business boost / well rewarded

That was not claimed by the author.

For better or worse, gasoline tends to be break-even for stations - from the operators I've talked to, maybe they make 5 to 10 cents per gallon. They make most of their profit from the shop. A month's worth of gasoline sales might not cover the upkeep and depreciation of the generator.

I'm more curious to know if any other stations installed generators after this experience. I wouldn't be surprised if the answer was "no".
Just noticed this is not hosted a microsoft.com URL as I was about to download. Is this thing above board? Any way to confirm that it's from Microsoft even though it's not their origin?
We aren't discussing "drastic action to ensure the survival of a culture". We are discussing principles of value -- and I assert that functional diversity is intrinsically valuable (unless and until the diversity tears the broader system apart, resulting in less functional diversity).

On the face of it, more people does not automatically equal more cultural diversity. What's your argument?

To be clear: Walmart is a monoculture when it destroys diverse town centers in favour of standardized parking-malls.

But the argument is subtle -- why isn't the diversity of product offerings at Walmart sufficient to offset the diversity of town centers? I don't have a ready answer, but I intuitively believe that a nation of Walmarts isnt as strong a nation of main streets.
I would think so and that it would be more likely given M$'s track record.
Usually this is how it goes down:

B: Stop working on X and work on Y immediately.

E: If I work on Y it will prevent me from completing X before critical deadline T. Can anyone else help out with Y and/or X?

B: No. You need to complete X and Y before deadline T or you will be fired. Have a nice day.
Last week I saw a person on Facebook sharing an anecdote patterned after the "welfare queen" trope and arguing against food stamps.

I noticed from her Facebook page that she owned a ranching operation, so I searched her name in the EWG Farm Subsidy Database and saw that she and her husband had received $18k in subsidies in 2018, and nearly $250k since 1995.
Only way to make people switch is to make it privacy oriented like Safari now is... That would probably let Microsoft steal significant share away from Google. Privacy oriented Chrome, standards compliant, developer oriented. Do a 180 from the IE days which Google is now mimicking.
They actually came out with a Blackbird, and I have been considering getting one of them to replace my server (it runs FreeNAS, but I have gotten my Debian system to run an encrypted ZFS drive).
I ask people what they do so that I can understand how to talk to them. There's a huge difference between the jargon/diction I can use with someone else in biotech vs someone is a completely unrelated field, as well as even topics of conversation that we'd find interesting. I take a lot of pride in my work and enjoy talking about it, and I'd guess a lot of people do as well. If they don't we can always talk about something else.
The Financialization of the American Elite