skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has sadly spent many hours of my life with my nose in the ACH regulations and trying to wrap my head around ACH ops I can confirm that the entire system makes zero sense for the modern world. Unfortunately, the system we’ve built up is so unbelievably & needlessly complex from both a legal perspective and a technology perspective that it’s hard for anyone to even make progress on the important stuff - like basic security. But the system is so interconnected and important that even “disruptive” new fintech companies are forced to find a way to get their tech to work with the ACH network rather than the ACH network figuring out how to modernize.
Sleep is the best performance, memory and focus enhancement “drug” and immune system booster in existence.

Losing just an hour of sleep per night results in 30-70% reduction for all of the above, without us perceiving the difference. It’s crazy how underestimated the importance of sleep is in our culture.

Check out this interview with Mathew Locker, one of the lead sleep researchers in the world. Blew my mind.

https://overcast.fm/+RxHE3jC4w
What party platform document are you referencing? I've never seen that.
No, it could prevent future incidents. The market can only respond to them. Proactive vs. reactive.
Going from 99% black to 99.999% black turns out not to represent that much more efficiency. It's the difference between absorbing 99 of 100 joules of energy vs 99.999 of 100 joules of energy; unless the rest of your system is effectively 100% efficient, it may not even be a noticeable change. It is very likely that other engineering concerns, not least of which is price, is going to dominate this question.
Superficially. It does feel very much like Next.js, but I feel that direction sort of misses the mark, especially coming from a try-to-be-as-transparent-as-possible angle. There's still no opinionated way of doing data fetching (meaning one is free to shoot themselves in the foot trying to chase trends) and for doing non-trivial server-side things, you're basically dealing w/ raw req/res, which tends to devolve into an unstructured mess if the framework doesn't provide guidance (which neither Next nor Sapper do IMO).

For me personally, it has one other showstopper (its file naming convention is not compatible w/ Bazel)
Right. Im in a legal state and grow myself. I do take some issue with the gate keeping for commercial grow licences but its important these products are properly produced, especially on the extraction side more so then the growing side. Once its legal everywhere this wont be much of an issue because products will be regulated and bootleg products will be pushed to the fringe. You wouldn't buy Tylenol in a back alley to save a buck or two when its available at CVS in a sealed package, same will eventually be true of cannabis concentrates.
I will point out that nowadays most Chinese Student Associations are comprised of Asian American students and the international Chinese student orgs that the spies are operating out of and that receive the funding from the CCP usually have other names now. Scholar societies, etc :).

Thanks for your comment - it isn't often I see the poignant connection of similarities between past KMT propoganda under martial law in Taiwan and current propoganda under the CCP in China. The things you mentioned have also motivated me to seek out and identify my "Taiwanese identity."
He still hasn't been found guilty and thus the courts should treat him as innocent. There is no shortage of innocent people who plea guilty for any number of reasons so the court cannot just automatically accept the plea and must go through specific motions to do so (I would even argue those motions don't go far enough to protect innocent people from being coerced into a guilty plea).
Thanks, Notion looks pretty great. Beats Dropbox Paper on almost all fronts except the inline TeX.

It looks like it is on their radar:
https://twitter.com/NotionHQ/status/1093334827770699778

In the meantime, there is this workaround:
https://www.notion.so/Notion-Inline-Math-9c5047a4e7c84643848...

It's not a great workaround, however, since (by the way it works) it looks like it would only work locally on the user's browser assuming they install the violentmonkey browser extension, it is rather verbose (the code block + `math:` prefix), and having to press F2 to rerender all inline math.
Or, perhaps you've committed yourself to a rather narrow understanding of what engineers are "like" ;)
They do try. Avionics is miles ahead of everyday commercial stuff like your desktop computer in reliability and correctness.

This is not just about software, a plane is a complex physical system and the idea of absolute control is a fantasy. This is why you need alternatives, failsafes, contingency plans, and training in dealing with unexpected failure modes.
Of course this is already happening on a massive scale. Perhaps having someone openly admit to it will help make people more aware.
Honestly, this is the appeal (to me) of building a private World of Warcraft server.

This way, the user-facing artsy stuff is mostly done. You just need the backend stuff, although admittedly some fun is removed since you have to work with the network protocols the pre-existing clients expect. You'd undoubtedly learn about how and why various aspects of the game were implemented the way they were.

And yeah, there's already a project for private WoW servers, but if I ever get a few months off work, that's something I'd like to look into doing separately. Maybe after enough time, Blizzard would open source the clients so we can hack on those, too. Although WoW still brings in good money, so that'll probably be a while.
At first I thought this might be just a retread of Sapir-Whorf, but it isn't. The article discusses how language taken from an adult mind (such as for people with aphasia) doesn't affect their ability to think. But doing this to a forming mind has drastic consequences.
Perhaps the reason it's not "solved" has to do with who benefits from the latency of check cashing process?
That's a mechanistic explanation though, not an explanation of why they don't share the information that would reduce fraud.

(they could batch the transactions/fees and still share information about the members of the batch…)
I don’t think confirmed bachelor means what you think it does.
It took Amazon more than 14 years—58 quarters after its May 1997 initial public offering—to make, cumulatively, as much profit as it produced in the latest quarter alone. Keep in mind that Amazon consistently lost money for its first several years as a public company.

https://qz.com/1196256/it-took-amazon-amzn-14-years-to-make-...
They may be using the form of the scientific method, but they are not using the substance. I value the latter much, much, much more than the former.
So it's literally an education problem? The same issue exists with authentication on the web, if it weren't for normies being unable to wrap their head around it, we could be signing into websites with public key crypto instead of faffing with passwords.

Must we continue to drag things out and design for the lowest common denominator?
That example is resourced under "plans" but doesn't offer one. It doesn't list steps or actions that can be taken to stop corporate lobbying, just a vaguely worded closing sentence about giving congress the "tools" to combat lobbying.

The business of lobbying has grown to over $3 billion per year according to OpenSecrets.org [1]. That doesn't include campaign contributions. It's impossible for so much money to make its way through individuals with their own self interests and result in a sustainable government beneficial to the people. Money will always win whenever it makes an appearance. We can't combat lobbying with tools, we have to prevent it.

So, it's a non-starter until she lays out actual actions to consider or commits to ending the practice.

1. http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/
I don't think the two situations are that similar. I'd turn in a dirty cop in pretty much any context, but probably not a friend since junior high for theft.
Thanks so much for the feedback everyone. It was fun and engaging hearing your thoughts. Just wanted to let future readers know that I likely won't come back and read this thread any time soon, so that I can actually go and get some work done ;) Of course if you'd like to discuss without me, feel free..
Super cool, I've had plans for games I want to build out over a long period of iterations percolating for a while now. I will keep following this project for sure.
Unfortunately I don't have much experience with btrfs, however I've found the CLI commands for ZFS to be much more intuitive to use - both in terms of how they're invoked and their output.

There's one command for handling storage pools (zpool, https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/zfsutils-linux/zpool.8....), e.g. adding/replacing disks, monitoring I/O utilization, etc.

And then there's another command for dealing with ZFS datasets (zfs, https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/zfsutils-linux/zfs.8.en...), e.g. setting properties for datasets (quotas, compression, delegation of privileges to non-root users), managing snapshots.

Both CLI commands are scriptable (e.g. -H can be used to suppress human-readable headers and -p turns off "friendly" formatting for numbers) and there are libraries (libzfs, libzpool) which can be used to access their functionality (e.g. for managing snapshots) in your own programs.

I don't think I can do ZFS on Linux (or btrfs for that matter) justice in a (short) comment on HN. There's just so much to it (e.g. SSDs as cache/log devices, sending/receiving snapshots over the network, compression, etc.)

There are some rough edges, of course. Until a few years ago ZFS on Linux had massive problems with resource management, i.e. it would regularly panic in low-memory situations. These appear to be fixed though - at least I haven't seen any panics in the past two or so years.

Due to its license ZFS on Linux will probably never be part of the upstream kernel. We use it on Debian which means we get to compile the ZFS kernel modules on each box when there's a kernel update (with DKMS). Plus there are some pitfalls when using ZFS as your root filesystem (on Debian stretch without systemd services would start before /var/log was mounted).

We've had plenty of disk failures which ZFS detected well before SMART did because we run monthly scrubs for our ZFS pools (i.e. basically ZFS verifies its checksums for all the data that's stored in a pool). Recovery is as easy as popping in a new disk and running "zpool replace".

Ok, this ended up much longer than I had planned. This has to suffice for now.
And where did I say "keep everything as it is" now? Perhaps I should have been clearer: by prohibition in this context, because we already have legal prohibition, i.e., it's against the law, I meant in the vein of abstinence, that we should be telling people "don't do it".
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you can also do "asterisk greater-than text asterisk"

> like this
> moves through the air at massively supersonic speeds without causing friction or sonic booms?

Wasn't one of these tictac anomalies seen going into and coming out of the ocean at supersonic speeds? Water isn't very compressible and hitting the water at modest speeds is often a death sentence for bridge jumpers and can completely annihilate a falling airplane.

But here's something large, fast, and observed going into an incompressible liquid as if it wasn't even there.

Obviously if this is some sort of tech it is doing things we don't even think are possible according to known laws of physics. Which is interesting.
https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/ is up.

https://requests.kennethreitz.org/en/master/ is up.

From @kennethreitz https://twitter.com/kennethreitz/status/1176637337553559552 :

> Been deleting domains for an hour. Down to 26.

But the links on the now-transferred-to-PSF repo are not updated:
https://github.com/psf/requests
Immediately below that, the final Excel output is unreadable: it shows the left axis scale ending at 450 and right axis scale ending at 400, with both values corresponding to the same grid line.

Below that, it says you can draw these charts in JavaScript with a <chart> element, as if browsers natively supported it.
T-Mobile's taxes & fees included pricing is the #1 reason I switched to them from AT&T.

Amazon has items for less than $10, but most items with a price between $0.01-$9.99 have to sell for $10.00 for their free shipping economics to work. That's notwithstanding the fee that your license to buy, i.e. Prime, cost you.

In San Francisco, if you sit down at a restaurant, take the written prices on the menu and multiply them by 1.5 to get what you'll actually be paying. I don't think it's that bad in Los Angeles.

Further, in San Francisco, if you sign up for $40/mo fiber Internet, it's really $63.50. Somehow Sonic managed to break past 1.5.

The takeaway is there is no hard and fast rule about transparency in pricing. It's all psychological.
OP, what do you think "gaslighting" means here?
You used the magic word, "Ponzi:"

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

Not only did Ponzi bring this scheme (which is far older than him) to the public's attention, but he also "got in over his head." He wound up running the scheme far longer than he wanted or needed, for the (correctly divined) fear of it suddenly collapsing.

A similar thing happened with Bernie Madoff, if his account is given credence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff
I did a tour of duty with the USDS and you are so far from the truth its painful. There are very few individuals there who made millions in social media, and the technical staff is so far beyond any other organization I have ever seen.

Most of the engineers there looked around at the country and felt there was simple things that would make life so much better for their neighbors and friends, and they knew they were wasting their time trying to make people click on advertisements. For my part my father is a veteran who had to deal with the VA for his doctors appointments and benefits and his experience was beyond bad ( which is something you can hear from lots of veterans ). When I got the opportunity to join the USDS and work at the VA with the Secretary of the VA and the Senior Executives I also felt it was a fools errand, but I figured if I didn't at least try how could I expect anything to get better for my dad. I joined a agency that was struggling to get even basic IT systems working, and with the help of world class engineers and dedicated public servants we helped millions of veterans and literally saved lives. I have had veterans break down crying telling us how much better their life is now that they can actually engage with a agency who was trying to provide them services.

Quite frankly the people who staff the USDS are not only the most technically competent, but their dedication to service is so strong, and their ability to succeed in impossible situations though sheer force of will and dedication so overwhelming they have radically changed how this country operates, and there is still individuals there who are continuing on the mission.

What did you do with your life? If your concerned about the pay cut and poor working conditions then stay at your job and see if you can manipulate people into clicking on ads better, but just know those people who you just looked down on are making a difference.

* Also for the record my tour of duty ended two years ago, and I am no longer associated with the USDS, I am just a huge fan who's life was changed by what I saw while I was there.
What was asked for sounded like an RTG to me. I wasn't saying it was a nuclear thermal rocket or that it could be used as one. As you point out, it's a constant power source.
"Attention whore" to the women who wrote the blogpost.

The claim that the sign was attached to the door later (yours not intentional, but on other comments, I saw it like this)

The claim as a fact, that Minsky did not have sex with that girl.

When this remains unclear so far.
Yeah also that's not how the process of check clearing works (instant account-to-account payments). Banks batch checks payable to the same counterparty institutions and then compare their liabilities against one another to transfer only the net. It's an extension of the historical process where banks would physically go to a clearing house with bundles of paper checks and tally the differences between institutions.
Right, but so could a market self-correction. They're both delayed remedies.
That might have been true until state governments realized there's nothing to check their power on local governments, and started passing legislation to severely hinder what a city can actually do. And then use gerrymandering and veto-proof majorities to allow the desires and biases of conservative rural districts to ride roughshod over the desires of more liberal cities hundreds of miles away.

I live in North Carolina, home of the HB2 "Bathroom Bill" and restrictions on cities not being able to pass more comprehensive anti-discrimination laws than those that exist at the state level. And not being able to alter their voting systems (implement IRV or approval voting) even for city elections. And not being able to apply for certain federal housing or transportation grants without the state General Assembly's approval. And not being able to stand up municipal broadband. And...well, you get the idea.
No, but it should be rather trivial to see if the issuing bank has enough on the account balance through an API. Plus the whole money transfer should be near instant, not take days for transfer and months to settle.
I love it this part:
"The guy with a button that says “Steal $30 Million of Paychecks” doesn’t press it the first chance he gets. That would be stealing! He is a moral human being, he has standards, he stays well away from that button even if he is also simultaneously running a bunch of complicated frauds. You can look yourself in the eye when you’re running a complicated fraud;"

He's bang on.

I'm curious what his "other companies" were, that they became a source of such financial pressure. One would think a payroll middleman has the easiest job in the world next to printing money. Companies put money in the kitty, you disburse the monies to other parties and take a cut. HN crew could probably set up an event-sourced system with Lambda to automate it all. 8000 employees, that does not seem like a lot?
Surely that's only true for a vanishingly small subset of fields of interest?

I mean come on, Amazon didn't invent obscure topics. Bookstore people would know more specialized stores, though this was naturally less true at chain stores. This was at least as effective as Amazon giving you a list of other books bought by people who bought the one you're looking at.
I would very much doubt that a company that demands 6h of overtime even before we sigh a contract actually offers good work-life balance. If I was cynical, I would wonder whether this test's purpose is to filter for that reason.
Ask HN: Is Kickstarter Worth It?
So Kickstarter takes 5% plus CC fees, is it possible to do a same or similar volume using my own page? Granted KS gives one exposure, that seems to be the biggest obstacle. Thoughts?
More likely to find use in something like optics, or cameras, where removing any and all stray light is desirable to reduce noise.

There are a few uses for radiative heat exchangers, so its possible it could also find use there.
We're criticizing bad UI design and the attitude that digital touch interface is automatically without fault and order of magnitudes superior to whatever was established in the last hundred years.

You can make bad UI with or without buttons.

Remember VCR clock controls?
Also

"he was arguing against using the term "sexual assault" because its legal definition is very different from the everyday connotation"

He did quite more than a semantic argument, by saying "more than willing"
You could still use that feature to enumerate how much is in the account by using a series of requests but that would be very easy to spot.
It would be amazing if someone could come with a useful technology that solves this particular set of problems. Something like a public distributed ledger where all transactions are validated by a majority of actors in a trustless system ... oh wait.
This is not a new scheme, anyone with time and patience can do this. The problem is how to make the scheme work on a large scale. This is what makes this case different.
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> Well even if you favor the status quo being informed is kind of neccessary for everyone doing their job directly for evaluating arguements properly. Trusting the source with a conflict of interest?

You do not need a government office to provide expertise. There is a large private market economy to provide skeptical research regarding all sorts of topics. Banks and financiers regularly pay outside companies to conduct critical research regarding investments, etc. There is no reason the government cannot pay outside, private scientific research firms to provide expert advice on particular topics. Congress in particular has absolute authority over the federal checkbook, so they have no excuse that they are unable to come up with the funds.

> Plus one upside of bueracracies is that they are an anti-spoils system by being harder to sway in a "he who pays the piper sets the tune". If they are wrong then their own private researchers should be able to make a case refuting it.

When someone tells me something like this with a straight face, I am forced to conclude that they must have so far lived their life without having ever met someone who may not think like them. Government bureaucracies are literally the epitomy of spoils-based systems. They rarely ever are eradicated. Once government agencies fulfill their initial mission, they are forced to come up with yet more fake problems to justify their continued existence, and government bureaucrats typically enjoy better pay and benefits and job stability than their private sector counterparts. Aside from extreme lobbying by the government employees, there is no way to explain this discrepancy. It is ridiculous. I suggest reading a bit of Thomas Sowell. You may end up hating the man, but at least you will be exposed to someone who may not think like you, and you won't make these kinds of absolute statements without sufficient justification.

> Willfull ignorance is still unfortunately always possible but having one removes the cover and excuses from bad actors.

Oh right, I forgot that having a Congressional budget office means that Congress always passes a reasonable budget that reduces the public deficit of the United States!
Eek. How are they measuring average? Those with a median amount of hours under their belts? Those with average IQ? The term seems likely to cause a ruckus as who wants to be called average.
85% likely still using a keyboard to manipulate pixels on a screen
This feels like a satire. But it's not. My god. We are truly living in the end of days.

Also the title is purposely inflammatory (if not also true).
No. That information is already public, freely available, and has been widely distributed by mainstream media, social media, and blogs. People are already aware of the dearth of ethics in the tech industry and are either apathetic or are leaving the guilty platforms. I don't think better information or new revelations will change how we interact with unethical companies.
I’ve used a Wacom tablet with zoom whiteboards and it works great.