skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TV to Von Neumann was probably like white noise to the average person. Plenty of people use white noise to help them think, fall asleep, etc.
I doubt Apple has anything to do with it. More likely they used an agency that chose the location, and even that agency was probably unaware of who or how would be affected by the ad.
When I took a few months off to work on some of my own projects I found that universities have a lot of quite space that is open to the public. Sometimes it's the study area in the main library or in department specific libraries. My local university library also offered a special library card for the public that let me access all the resources in the library including scholarly papers which was even more useful for what I was working on.
https://cbor.io/
Not sure what's meant by "simple" here, but it looks quite complicated to me. Even though I use something similar at work (with Servant), but much simpler (FSVO "simple") approaches as a hobby:

- Those frameworks relying on built-in servers, including all their dependencies, are huge. If a program is linked statically (the default for GHC/cabal), that's also a very large codebase that doesn't get updated on system updates. Plain CGI (or FastCGI, if needed) is much more lightweight, and an external web server usually provides generic logging.

- postgresql-simple provides more than just protection against SQL injection; that is implemented in the C libpq, and usable with postgresql-libpq bindings (which are used by postgresql-simple) too.

- Database connection information, in case of PostgreSQL, doesn't require a fancy configuration: libpq reads it from environment variables. In many cases even those don't have to be set: by default it would try to connect to a local database, under current user, and to the database matching user name.

- PostgreSQL itself can compose XML (XHTML/HTML 5), which then can also be processed with XSLT, cutting out the blaze-html dependency.

- Custom logging facilities tend to be a pain to work with, and not necessary either; there are syslog and journald.

Using all that (and even more) instead of more lightweight/low-level/low-dependency alternatives seems like a sensible compromise in some situations, and I don't mean to say that it's somehow bad, but not seeing how it's "dead-simple". Maybe it's one of those "simple versus easy" cases, or just about different kinds of simplicity.
Racket has such a great community and many interesting libraries.

I still prefer Common Lisp (old guy habit, and 25 years with the language) but I recommend Racket to anyone just getting started using Lisp languages.

I was planning to go to RacketCon for the first time last summer but my wife and I had to change our travel plans. Hopefully next year in Providence RI.
Could this not call into question the empathy scale used in the study?
Unfortunately Moore's law is no longer expressing itself in terms of single threaded performance. So the only way to take advantage of the faster CPUs that are being released is to write multi-threaded code.

Many alternatives to channels (mutexes, atomics, semaphores, condition variables) have just as much if not more chance of turning the codebase into a mess. But yes I agree that if performance-wise you can handle being single-threaded, then do that, because it's much simpler.
China issues exit visas to Chinese nationals. These people buy citizenship in Canada, fly to Vancouver, and launder their money through our housing market.

How does this improve Canada? Seems like a no-brainer to push the pause button on Chinese immigration. Let’s take this opportunity to do an A-B test.
Corporate Debt as a Potential Amplifier in a Slowdown
That's so impressive!

What company do you work for? This is super cool.

Can you talk about the rest of your stack? Or other projects of a similar nature?
> Do you think Google is going to do any better at this? They already have no customer support, close accounts without notice....etc... The article is right, this is about engagement.

Absolutely. I say this as someone who is still angry with them over Reader. I don't trust Google, but I trust them a hell of a lot more than Wells Fargo, Bank of America, et al.
Maybe there is a good startup opportunity here - to provide quiet space for those who need to work/study/read/sit in peace. In my hometown, there used to be many such "study rooms" and I saw them pretty much full all the time, yet very very quiet. Silence was strictly enforced.
Not sure if you noticed before spending all that time into apples to oranges comparisons: SA article was about ingested sources of radiation.

Elephant Foot and natural background radiation are outside of your body. Coal ash gets inside. There is profound difference in effect - skin and outer layers of body cannot shield the rest.
I think Google can be awful and still fare better than most regular banks.
woof.js is great.

It feels similar to how Khan Academy do their intro to JS which in turn is very like Processing.js and other Canvas based libs. This gives it a clear progression path which is an advantage.

BlockLike has a slightly different feel/direction mainly because it is DOM based. You can dive into CSS with it for example.

Generally, with JS, one should learn early that for every simple task there are multiple libs ;)
Yes, I need the sound of air-con to help me fall asleep.
The average person in the top 1% in China has over $2.1 million CAD. That's 14 million people, which is half the population of Canada.

Canadian homes are their safe deposit boxes. They buy homes in Canada, one of the safest places in the world to protect their assets from the Chinese govt.

They walk into a casino with a suit case of dirty cash, then walk right out and it's clean, Tax free money. Then they buy a house.

No wonder locals can't afford a home. A studio apartment costs $500,000.
> But tunnels do remove many of the arguments against cars: pollution (both CO2 and tire abrasion) can be easily filtered

I have never seen this done. Questions: How? And if it's so easy, why don't we do it?
The title led to be believe this would be about extracting relational hierarchies (e.g. scene trees, dependency graphs) from arbitrary images. That would have been very impressive, and somewhat unbelievable. The actual article appears to be about extracting graphs from images of literal graphs.
Then, by definition it's not anonymous because the authorities know that you have it.

If you transfer it to someone else (legally) then there's going to be another taxable event, and the IRS will know you no longer have it.

If you're trying to store cash anonymously from the public, there are many countries where that's possible. If you're trying to store cash anonymously from the government, there's not really a legal avenue for that.
Is It Possible to Upload a Mathematically Impossible Level in SuperMarioMaker 2?
> Theoretically, the brain can

What “theory” is this? Because I’ve tried it (not by choice) in practice, many times, over the decades, and never found it to work at all. I’m genuinely curious why people think it could ever work, when empirically it does not.

Theoretically the brain will adapt to working while hanging 100’ in the air, too. I adapt to height fairly quickly and don’t mind working up in the air. Many people apparently do, and no amount of telling them that it’s “theoretically” possible will make them productive workers there.

It seems patently unfair that modern offices picked the one type of distracting sensory input that happens to be my kryptonite.
They're two different words with two different uses, neither can be called "correct" without providing the context into which it is going to be used.

"The Doctors began a systematic treatment plan to treat the patient's systemic infection."

"Systemic corruption was found to be the root cause of systematic discrimination throughout the department"
Design tax policy so that it doesn't force the government to be involved in every single transaction people engage in. Something like a land value tax, perhaps.
> Sure, why not? It has worked for many years before.

Citation very much needed. It depends on what you mean by "working".

There's references to tax evasion going back before the Roman Empire. For an example from the era of the Roman Empire, the topic of tax evasion is where the story of "give to Caesar what is his" (Mark 12:17) comes from. (I've found earlier Greek references going back to at least 300BC, but that's the easiest example to verify).

The state works better when it has funds to deliver on those plans - though there are many other factors that can disrupt it such as incompetence and corruption.

"Money laundering" may be a recent term, but it is not a recent concept. In fact some notable conquests on the ancient world wouldn't have been possible without concealing ill-gotten funds. It was a common tactic for avoiding paying tribute to a neighbour who defeated you.
You realize the first-world middle class taking cruises is as much a part of the rich as billionaires right?

A yearly salary of something like 32k puts you in the global 1% of earners. I won't be so strict about the definition of the rich, but families having money for cruises are definitely part of the demographic I'm speaking to.

And I mean, vacations is are just the tip of the iceberg, those people so poor they have to use firewood go survive, aren't the reason we have so many commercial airliners shuttling around goods so we can have the latest throwaway item we desire in 48hrs or less.
Validation of which requires a functioning pervasive VAT or similar mechanism to prevent laundering and fraud. There's no way to win here.

Truly anonymous, or even mostly anonymous money is basically isomorphic to bitcoin: it's mostly fraud and illegality, with just enough privacy advocates (and a few dirty preppers) to make it look legitimate.
Zcash is more likely to be secure than Monero. Both have their issues, but the Monero system is significantly easier to de-anonymize.
As a vim user, I too agree. Vim is my favorite editor, but the learning curve being a barrier to adoption is an undeniable fact.

Just would hate to have vi dropped entirely, like it is in NixOS / GuixSD.

Also, I can't recommend vimtutor enough to anyone new to it who doesn't have nano at their disposal.

Would prefer if something like nano but non-GPL was available for the BSDs.
My European credit card works around the world but is blocked by default in the US for security reasons.

I need to call my bank to temporarily unlock it if I ever go to the US. Payments with PIN code are allowed by default though even in the US. So the problems seem to be with the swipe system.
I use the local library for this. There are some really nice libraries where I live (in Chicago) and they are generally quiet, except for the few that have a kids' area that isn't sufficiently isolated.

I know in some countries there are dedicated study spaces which you can pay to access. That would indeed be nice. Co-working spaces could have served this role except many play up the social aspects and have open office configurations. They do have private office spaces but they are expensive.
Yes, but if it's a car that's bad. Cars are not as efficient as shared transit. https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/docs/Pub...
> What Invoca allows the call center is even more power than that. We allow them to know whether you spent time on their website (or competitor’s websites) prior to the call and we allow them in real-time to know much more than the key words of a Google search because in real-time we evaluate the query in the call for the sales rep and use AI to help predict what your needs are or were (after the call).

Creepy af.

Question to investors and VCs: Assuming that all decisions are based on calculations of financial risk vs reward statistics, from where would you expect signals that something is a bad idea to show up in your decision making meetings and slides? For example, assume you were an investor in 17th century Europe and a business you were considering was essentially the african slave trade. If you were, let's assume, participating today in something equivalent, how would you expect indications that something is probably "financially profitable but should not be done" to show up in the processes, documents and decision making that happens in your firm as it works today?
Iran's 'largest internet shutdown ever' is happening now
I understand that it should be structured to minimize risk, but if your prod stack can be taken down by a scan... you really do want to find that out in a controlled manner and not because a script kiddie decided to do the same test.
> Also, governments are finding new and creative ways to put new taxes on already legal money.

Care to cite some? That's just a silly point. There's probably no area of regulatory theory more well travelled than taxation. Imagine a trick and someone has tried it, often thousands of years ago.

And it's even incorrect as a practical matter in the modern USA, where government revenue as a share of GDP has been going steadily downward for like 70 years now, even in the face of decades of deficits. It's literally the policy position of the ruling party!
Interesting to see that Microsoft improved Surface repairability from 0 to 5 while making it lighter than latest MacBook which scores 1.
I generally prefer mk to make, I just find the way multiple mkfiles compose and some of the syntax changes pleasant.

A small change, but being able to just do $foo instead of $(foo) is so nice.
When you have empathy, do you take the viewpoint of the master or the slave?
The worst part is the corporatized results. For example, if you search for a movie, google search returns the reviews of corporate newspapers first and in the results it also lists the corporate newspapers news reviews first so that you need to scroll down to see useful aggregators and go to the 2nd or 3rd page to see pertinent forum reviews or independent reviews.

Google properties have been skewing to less relevant news and corporate results ( search, news, maps and even youtube ).

It's a shell of it's former useful self. Hopefully ddg and other search providers step up their game to put pressure on google.

Google is just another example of a monopoly gone bad.
The Nuclear Boy Scout
Best practice is hiring an architect...but acoustic drop down ceiling tiles and carpet help.
44% of Americans live in relative poverty to the owner of amazon.
I stopped reading after three pages. The story was interesting, but I'm not going to keep clicking on links every 30 seconds or whatever.
I think this is incredible and everyone should seriously evaluate their commitment to both their money and time when it comes to charity work. So many people "want the government to do something", very few will get their hands dirty.
The inside tale of how Nokia lost a market it dominated
What about production? One of the comments mentioned that the coal industry exports lots of coal.
If you have empathy, you do both.

That doesn't mean that your sympathy for each is equal.

EDIT: But, the measure in the article doesn't measure empathy, which is independent of position, it measures whether one frames virtue through victimization narratives. People who agree with that wouldn't empathize with both, they'd empathize with the one that they see as the slave, which would all too often be driven by confirmation bias and tribal victimization narratives within their in group. I mean, we live in a country where the racial, religious, gender, and political ideology groups (alone and in every combination) having measurably disproportionate social, economic, and political power have equally strong or stronger (within their own communities) victimization narratives to the groups that are objectively disadvantaged. It's very easy for people to answer yes to the question that supposedly measures empathic concern when they in reality have no empathy for those outside of their identity group, which they perceive as disadvantaged and their only “empathic” concern is for those within their in-group that they identify as even greater victims of the same injustice that they themselves are victimized by.
You might need to reach out at cris@dosyago.com I think the G Suite email (dosycorp) is dropping mails.
There’s an arbitrary line between handshake and battery, yet most people and the law system can see the difference.
Claiming there’s no qualitative difference between someone giving $100 dollar to their child as a birthday gift, and inheritance of billion dollars, seems like a weak argument.
Yeah that... definitely does not exist in real life.
Very cool. I’ll have to check this out.

Do you know of any stock trading sites that have bots?
Well, multiple pages was too much for me to bother clicking through, so I stopped reading. It's really annoying, and I hope this doesn't become a thing.
It is intriguing that nobody's replicated PHP's ease of deployment. Every other language does require downloading some sort of runtime and setting up some sort of templating/page serving system. Would be an interesting experiment to start with essentially an HTML generating DSL like PHP, but with more modern language design.
There are some (higher-end) hearing-aid style ear buds that monitor external sound and filter it out or focus in on local sounds only.

This is far better than the whole totally enclosed ear-muffs + disposable ear buds approach (which does work but creates an uncomfortable pressure on your ears):

https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/he...

> Scenario 2: You find yourself at a popular new restaurant, where loud music and reverberant acoustics make it difficult to hold conversations (even if you don’t have hearing loss). Your hearables are monitoring your mental effort, again by tracking your brain waves, determining when you are struggling to hear. They then appropriately adjust the signal-to-noise ratio and directionality of their built-in mics to make it easier for you to understand what people nearby are saying. These hearables can distinguish your friends from the patrons you wish to ignore, based on audio fingerprints that the device previously collected.

Some of these are still in development or super expensive.

In terms of some practical solutions today, there's a brand called IQbuds ($300-$500) which use a similar strategy and can be custom-molded to fit your ears (just like a hearing aid) so they can be worn over a full workday:

https://www.nuheara.com/iqbuds-boost/
What do you mean by 'not present in the source code'? Annotation processors generate code before the whole codebase is compiled, any tool can analyse the generated lombok source code, the same as with any other code-generating annotation processor.
You might have autism
Server-X: Puer's rebirth, next generation dev-server
I think setting x-ua-compatible ie=edge doesn't mean use the Edge EdgeHTML engine - it means enabling "Edge mode" in IE, which means "the latest available version of IE" and you end up with IE10 or IE11.

EdgeHTML can be embedded, but only using the WinRT API, not the ActiveX WebBrowser control.
It's exactly the kind of roadblock that people who do offensive security are great at finding loopholes around.
> Conversely, one of the most distracting things for me is barely hearing people talking. My brain keeps trying to interpret the murmuring as words before it can reject it.

Same! My family loves calling each other on speakerphone. Asking however politely and considerately for them to use a headset or hold the phone is a mortal sin.

Coincidentally, when I moved out on my own, my ability to focus suddenly shot through the roof. Like putting on glasses for the first time when you're nearsighted.

Going back home I don't lose that sense of focus. Until the phone calls start again...
> Probably because there is enough people that also value being able to always trace the code written by less experienced team members?

You can trace/debug lombok generated code though...
s/o to unionfs for plan9 by kvik: http://code.a-b.xyz/unionfs

Userspace implementation of union directories with control of which half of the union made gets precedence for certain operations such as file creation, etc.
China’s Uighur camps are the latest example of ethnic cleansing with impunity
Can Dirtbags, Pretty Ladies, and Twitter Save Horse Racing?
#nondualism

The master and slave are part of the same whole; one cannot exist without the other, and more generally, everyone is a flawed or incomplete person in one way or another. Having empathy for one without having empathy for the other is to misunderstand the universe.
There are plenty of companies without open layouts, add remote workers to that and self selection is a big factor. Add to that the possibility that people aren't comfortable complaining to someone who is very obviously pro open layout.

Also every survey I can find says that employees don't want open office layouts by a large margin. There's clearly something else going on beyond autistic programmers complaining.
Thats a problem for the individual to deal with, not the company. If your CEO has an employee who is bothered by the noise, they can just put that employee on a PIP if the employee is not able to focus and execute.
Does it really matter if the data is technically being "sold" or not? The fact that any one entity holds an unprecedented level of information about us is alarming in and of itself. As Snowden said in his first interview, all that data is just sitting there waiting to be abused, and the only thing stopping anyone from doing so yet if they haven't already are policies that can and will change in the future. It doesn't matter who has access to the actual data as long as someone does.

If adtech wants to serve us "relevant" ads, that's fine but the intrusive spying has to stop. Plain old contextual ads should be more than enough for that purpose.
That, though, is mostly about risk management -- and even if they close your account, you get the money back.

(I also would never do business with Bank of America, because they're awful and they hate their customers even more than Wells does)

But even BofA doesn't do things like read your Twitter posts and YouTube comments so they can blackhole your account if you have have the wrong politics.

The tech giants, on the other hand, will seize your stuff in a heartbeat if you step out of Silicon Valley's definition of acceptable beliefs and opinions.

My credit card works at any merchant -- and the fees are the same. I don't get hit with a temporary ban if I buy a Chick-fil-A sandwich, for example.
The template that does nothing (2015)
The steps you listed work in any language, that's just the browser rendering a text file :).
> Rather than needing custom-built infrastructure for every type of language supported

My understanding is that bazel is moving away from this, so that you can define toolchains by saying "here is a binary that serves the job of linking/compiling stuff".

The challenge with your idea is that you're basically saying "hey, we should sandbox and introspect <any number of fairly arbitrary and complex binaries> to intercept and modify their filesystem and network (at a minimum) accesses, across any number of versions and uses". Even just handling conditionally rewriting file writes/reads based on guessing whether something is an input or re-used output isn't that easy in general.
> It recently bought two huge coal companies in Wyoming to send the coal to Asia.

Wow! Fascinating. What has any of this got to do with governing the state of California?
Stand up comedy in front of a bunch of stoned Terrawna folk would be so good for the improv ego. Laughs all around. Never a bad joke.

Don't forget how long Hot Box has been around in Kensington Market. I don't know when they opened shop, but it was definitely before legalization was on the visible horizon.
It looks like overlayfs removes most of the tricky questions by only allowing the topmost filesystem to be read-write. In that case rm is pretty simple: remove it from the topmost filesystem if it exists there, and make a tombstone if it exists in a lower layer.

Unionfs is significantly more complicated.