skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have not yet made enough money to pay federal taxes, so my hands are clean for at least the next few months.

Unless you have existed outside of the US the entire time, you have paid federal taxes. Income tax is just one small portion of the way the federal government collects money. Gas taxes, FAA fees in your airline tickets, FICA taxes on your paycheck, FUSF tax on your cell phone, etc.

Disabuse yourself and anyone you know of the notion that being in a low tax bracket means you’re not financially contributing to the federal government. Also disabuse yourself of the notion that paying involuntary taxes somehow makes you responsible for how those dollars were used.
For anyone who is unable or unwilling to update, setting the following two values to 'false' in about:config should patch this:

javascript.options.baselinejit

javascript.options.ion

I cannot 100% confirm this as I haven't found a PoC in the wild yet, however.
Meatheads? Beefy Boys?
It sounds as if, even if you agree that race-and-sex-based bias is defensible and desirable, it not only doesn't work, but is actually detrimental to the whole process, since the people doing the bidding have to pay extra money to circumvent these restrictions which they undoubtedly end up passing on to the taxpayers.
That's really nice then!
Perhaps they disable FF updates to let their package managers handle it? (I'm thinking in arch linux land for example)

Not sure how that conflict is resolved
> The problem is much larger, and self referential statements are the easiest way to construct a counterexample. Self referential statements are a symptom, not a cause.

I'm curious, though, if things like the halting problem actually hold in the absence of (certain types of) self-referential statements. To my (very limited) knowledge, all proofs in these areas rely on them.

> Most of the normal problems we deal with don't need algorithms which probe the boundaries of halting, and QA picks up the stuff we miss.

But QA gets a bunch of excuses derived from the halting problem! For example:

> Boss: We have A which works, and we wrote B that is much faster, make sure they are functionally identical.
> QA: I can write a lot of tests, run fuzzers, but actually proving that A == B is undecidable!

Also, partially as a consequence of the halting problem, running untrusted code in a sandbox inherently means setting hard timeouts.

> It turns out banning self referential statements makes it really, really hard to prove stuff.

I'm not advocating for stripping out reflection from whatever system. Just saying (based on dumb gut feelings) that maybe we've stopped short of valuable results on things like "The halting problem (ignoring that one gotcha)".
IAC to Sell CollegeHumor Unit, Which Will Cut Most of Workers
Depends on which parts of Lisp you're interested in. You can go as far as writing Lispy assembly (SBCL does), which gives you control over memory and is not garbage collected.

As someone desiring a performance-oriented Lisp, this is something I'd like. At runtime, I can handle memory myself ($deity knows I often do that when writing performant code). What I want to have is the friendly, homoiconic Lispy syntax, the ability (and the ease) to write code that writes code, and perhaps to have these facilities available at runtime.
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It seems you're writing from a USA perspective, that's alien from European reality. There aren't so many violent deaths over here and a sizeable proportion of them has been caused by islamic terrorism. Saying that police should ignore that threat shows a terrible level of misinformation.

On the other hand we spend much more in public healthcare than in wars. Are there other problems that take lives? Of course, but terrorism is one of the biggest problems that fall into police competences.
Using the latest Jailbreak (checkra1n) makes accessing most iPhones less private or the encryption still gives a sense of privacy?
Bluetooth using Airpods pros seems to be about 140ms latency vs speakers at about 60 ms. So a difference of 80ms. Others have differences 184ms - so more than double the latency. Could bluetooth adopt whatever apple is doing?
Hm, appears the graph in Wikipedia is out of date.
strange how this is selectively enforced around here. :x
$79 for IoT enabled version ;)
A radically different paradigm of physics would result in technologies that can't be imagined in the present paradigm of physics. For example nobody had even remotely guessed that transistors were possible until well in to the development of solid state theory.
They mention a couple issues in the article:

> Naturally, there are downsides: having to mess with the CRTC every couple of scanlines is quite taxing for the poor 4.77MHz 8088, so there's not much you can do with this other than static pictures. The 512-color variant, using only ASCII 0x55 and 0x13, doesn't suffer from this – it's basically "set and forget", requiring no more CPU intervention than any 80-column text mode (the familiar overhead of avoiding snow).

> Then, there's that other problem which plagues 80-column CGA on composite displays... the hardware bug that leads to bad hsync timing and missing color burst. There are ways to compensate for that, but none that reliably works with every monitor and capture device out there. This proved to be an enduring headache in calibrating, determining the actual colors, and obtaining a passable video capture of the entire demo... but that's all covered elsewhere.
The Setup-Cleanup Problem
Is there a reason why an organization would continue to use CVE numbers from last year?
No offense but this is incredibly unhelpful and useless to say. Maybe some people can pull it off but most people won’t make progress without some guidance. In addition most of us don’t live in a monastery or are independently wealthy so we have to live in the world and somehow find a positive path through it. Telling people to meditate and not ask questions is completely unproductive. Buddhism has a long history of inquiry and debate for that reason.
This is not bluetooth classic, BT as you know and hate it. It's BLE Audio. BLE is MUCH better.
Assessing the U.S. Climate in 2019: Warmest Year on Record for Alaska
Interestingly, it's the lack of searchability that made me gravitate towards a physical system. It forces me to think about the situations I may find myself in when I'll want a piece of information, in order to file it in the correct place.

This has the odd effect that I'm more successful at finding things in my paper system than I ever was with an electronic one, though it's probably of little use to anyone else. I also find that flipping through the notecards to file or look up something serves as a pretty good idea-generation engine.
I think the gcc backend is quite attractive! rustc still has some cases it doesn't catch the optimizations gcc does.
You typically wouldn't write an entire program (unless it is really critical) in SPARK. The biggest payoff from SPARK is being able to prove that exceptions can't happen, and therefore you can turn off Ada's run-time checks. For mainstream applications like you're talking about, Ada works well with the run-time checks on, and exceptions doing their thing. This usually provides enough safety - and more safety than Rust imho.

We did use SPARK to implement a UTF-8 stream decoder, for example, as well as in core parts of a JSON parser, where speed and security are particular important. With SPARK, you want to use it in the really critical parts, since formal verification is hard and expensive. You use Ada for everything else - and you end up with something that is extremely robust.

As far as IDEs, honestly I use emacs, but AdaCore has a functional language server if you want to use VS Code. They also have their own GPL ide "gnat studio"
Super interesting article.
I can recommend Pearl's Book of Why to learn more about it

Although to me it's still quite difficult to apply the theoretical knowledge to day-to-day applications.
Any references or ideas?
You can call it "abuse" but it's doing specifically what provision 1201 of the DMCA was designed to do: prevent circumvention of technological measures to protect copyrighted content. In this case, "copyrighted content" is Apple's OS instead of, say, a DVD or Blu-Ray.

I mean...it is disappointing, and I still vehemently disagree with the entirety of the DMCA, but that's the law. If it's disagreeable, petition the Librarian of Congress to provide an exemption; they review the provisions of this law every three years: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
This is pretty cool. I like this: "If it takes 50 weeks to become advanced at any skill, you can learn about 44 new skills during your career or 64 if you include retirement. Might as well pick something for this week".
I feel like you are being intentionally obtuse by avoiding all direct answers and just replying with platitudes. Some of them plain wrong since the "horse" argument was based on a well known quote by Henry Ford [0] also implying that just because you have a working solution doesn't mean you have to stop searching for a better one, and that "the market" is not an oracle.

The market was wrong so many times that using it as a source of ultimate truth sounds like a last ditch argument. The same market that still goes for oil and coal and would have barely touched EVs or clean energy if it wasn't for subsidies.

You either didn't understand the problem or are just like anyone who ever said "why invest in clean energy when we have perfectly good coal and oil today, and it scales". We did and now we reap the benefits of clean energy. There is no reason to not invest in getting even better, even if this requires research. But I think you just see the label "nuclear" and any reasonable argument based discussion flies out the window.

In the mean time Germany is closing nuclear plants to burn coal. Lungs rejoice.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15297-if-i-had-asked-people...
Ask HN: How Does Delta’s Parallel Reality Work?
I've seen this really exciting announcement from Delta, do you have any idea how does it work?

(https://www.tomsguide.com/news/deltas-parallel-reality-is-the-most-mind-blowing-tech-ive-seen-in-years)
Elm-spa: single page apps made easy
I agree entirely that the strategic benefits of using a low yield nuclear weapon are dubious at best. Then again, that didn't stop them being manufactured, hasn't stopped other military actions dubious strategic benefit have been carried out or advocated by senior military personnel, and you yourself cited the example where the
only thing stopping a low yield nuclear attack during a moment of incredible geopolitical tension was that their particular rules of engagement allowed an officer to veto what the other two wanted.
Second Quantization for C++
'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond-milk obsession
You misread what I wrote.

I didn't say they were protecting their credibility or not.

I said they wouldn't say anything that lacked credibility.

I'm saying the Mueller team is not going to lie, whatever they are saying. They are careful and deliberate.
In the US it seems to follow the economic characteristics of the supporting population. So while there is expensive gastronomic cuisine in Mexico City, the great majority of Mexican food (not including chains) is working class cheap. Same for Vietnamese and most Thai.

Italian seems more bimodal, you have cheap pizza joints and sandwich/sub/hero shops and you have the white tablecloth places. Japanese is either $$ or $$$ (in rest pricing parlance). But rarely do you get cheap Japanese or cheap Korean though Korean rarely goes to $$$. (maybe LA has super fancy ones) Indian mirrors Korean. I think they kind of loosely mirror the economics of the population that brings the cuisine and those that give it their patronage.
I guess that makes sense given the provenance of C#
"Elitism is bad unless it is my brand of elitism". Isn't this your own version of NIMBYism.
Is it safe to assume from your comments that you have never traveled to exprience the great outdoors in your life?
Don’t forget that Buddhism is about compassion. If someone is struggling the compassionate thing is to give them advice they understand.
They support BT Classic, not BLE Audio which is what this is. The issue with BT Classic in hearing aids is as far as I know the same issue with most BT devices, the pairing and constant connectivity.

I've found BLE to be much more forgiving. BUT, the BT SIG is a special group, we'll see how they mess this up.
You learn something new every day! I'm going to start using this. Not because I care (unaffiliated), but because I'm astounded that anyone could be seriously offended by this.
"Immorality" is not only theoretically possible, it has been thoroughly mastered by many ;)

I think there's a noteworthy distinction between science and its applications. In my mind, science is about understanding the world, whereas fields like engineering/medicine are about their practical applications.

I do think that there's a tremendous amount of progress that could be made in sciences like Biology, Psychology etc. But I would draw a distinction between the things that fundamentally change the way we understand the world, vs building really cool toys that we would love to have.
Interesting that "suspected" flies in the EU. I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think an insurer would be allowed to ask anything more than if you've been convicted of fraud in the US.
One of the comments above mentioned that police in the UK (and western Europe) tend to be more polite than the often aggressive police in the U.S. This is believable, so too is the notion that police and the justice apparatus in the US are also more punitive than their western European counterparts. With these things in mind, it's rather ironic that the U.S turns out to be the much better place for protecting ones digital privacy by refusing to disclose passwords. Since it's not even legally allowed in the US due to the Fifth Amendment... (border crossings still being extremely ambiguous places on this).
I seem to remember one of the PopCap founders being active on comp.sys.ibm.pc.games, back when Brad Wardell and some of the other later-high-profile designers were in the conversation as well, mid 90s or so IIRC.

Would that have been one of you too? Those were gaming glory days for me, with limited forums for discussion and everyone gravitating to what there was. You got to rub shoulders with some pretty cool people, digitally speaking.

Also, how weird is it that the public net has been around long enough to ask things like if we met on the internet 25 years ago? My mind still reels.
Why did you leave out this (essential) information that associates your cherry-picked statement?: (emphasis mine)

>The data on the association between GBS and seasonal flu vaccination are variable and inconsistent across flu seasons. If there is an increased risk of GBS following flu vaccination it is small, on the order of one to two additional GBS cases per million doses of flu vaccine administered.

They clearly never state your conclusion, they said 'If there is such an increased risk, it is incredibly small'.

Now the question is, why would you do that?
The argument in favor of it is that Monet was an exceptional trained painter, and one specialized in colors on top of that. He might have been extra sensitive to colors compared to most humans (both in the sense of biological sensory sensitivity, as well as trained ability to perceive colors).
I just imagine 337453805774280 football fields end-to-end when I want to visualize a parsec
The author explained in a comment why Tesla wasn't included. tl;dr They reported 0 miles and agree that they shouldn't be included.

> "I see Tesla as being in a separate category. Right now Tesla's autonomy stack has much more limited functionality than Waymo's (or Cruise, Argo, Zoox, etc.). And it's overseen by ordinary customers, not professional safety drivers. That means that Tesla doesn't get the kind of annotated feedback Waymo gets. If a customer deactivates Autopilot that _might_ mean that it made a mistake, but it also might just mean that the driver decided to pull over to buy a cup of coffee. Tesla agrees with me—they reported 0 miles of on-road testing in California in 2018.

"I think you can see Tesla as pursuing a third strategy alongside the Waymo/Cruise taxi strategy and the Voyage/Nuro 'low-speed services first' strategy. I'm personally not optimistic about Tesla's strategy but I can't rule it out."
It's definitely an intentional thing among prominent Republicans, but especially the "Fox News" set.. like I doubt you'd see Justin Amash saying it, but the Devin Nunes's of the world love it;

Here's a Twitter search for Trump with all the times he said "Democrat" singular, almost every occurrence is designed to be a pejorative: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=from%3A%40realDonaldTr...

Or for Matt Gaetz:

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40mattgaetz%20%22democr...

Or Jim Jordan:

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40Jim_Jordan%20%22democ...

Edit:

Apparently it made it to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
(Imagining "anti-diluvianist" ants cracked me up, especially because of the double pun.)

Does that mean the ants were unable to communicate the upcoming danger to each other and had to rely on first-hand observation? That's surprising given how much they communicate otherwise.
Okay okay you can still have your PDFs, but only after you submit your pull requests.
Ask HN: Do I need business insurance?
I've formed my own LLC, am the sole owner and have nothing public available for my business yet (website/product/etc). I am not advertising/selling because my product development is not yet done, do I need general liability insurance?
What's the concurrency model and what thread/coroutine support is available or planned? I see some supporting classes in the System.Threading namespace.
Cray built a massively parallel machine out of a bunch of Alphas. (Cray Research Inc, iirc, not Seymour Cray). The T3 I think.

DEC had bragged about the features of the cpu useful for parallelization. Cray engineering complained about the features missing for parallelization. It was all described in a glossy Cray monthly magazine description of the new machine but I've been unable to locate a copy.

I disliked the Alpha floating point, it was always signalling exceptions for underflow. Otherwise a fine set of machines.
I could see this being very confusing if you were a non-native English speaker. "Democratic" = OK. "He's a Democrat" = OK. "The Democrat party" = NOT OK.

Hmmm...
OpenDNS offers paid dns service (if paying for dns give you peace of mind). Alternatively, you can rent a vps and run your own recursive dns server there, but make sure your vps provider allows running recursive dns to avoid account suspension.
Discussed a bit at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14726355
Edx Announces “Microbachelors” with College Credit and Coaching
It is effective at increasing awareness, which is necessary for enlightenment, but even Stream Entry is based on wisdom, which comes from learning how, eg, taking thinks personally works in relation to suffering.

Some do gain stages of enlightenment while meditating, but I suspect the majority gain those stages at the end of their meditation session, when they switch from meditating to analysis putting together what they just saw.

Also, Arhat is usually achieved while reading suttas, and Once Returner often is achieved when socializing. Stream Entry is the only common enlightenment obtained while meditating.
>Looking back there was a lot of tedium in Everquest.

The original game designer Brad McQuaid (RIP) defended that tedium, particularly around things like travel, as necessary to give you a feeling of achievement. He was also worried about inflation in the economy. Although I have some warm memories of playing EQ I vehemently disagree with his views on game mechanics. In retrospect I realize I enjoyed his art style more than anything. I plan to give the follow on Pantheon a miss because it too plays to the poopsockers of the world.
The nature of a paradigm shift is that it recasts all the existing laws of nature as special cases of a more powerful, more general model of reality.

Who knows, maybe we'll find that we actually are living in a simulation and then figure out how to hack the matrix. The idea of "travel" and "time" would become obsolete then; you'd just poke new values for your wave function into the simulation's RAM.
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Oh this is highly relevant to my interests. Well done!
To all the sarcasic and nonsense posts here...

This is not Bluetooth Classic. Your impressions (and mine) of shitty speakers that lose connection until 2am and randomly start playing something don't apply.

This is BLE now with an Audio stream. It's not the same. BT and BLE share radio, and GAP profile, maybe L2CAP, everything else is entirely different.

I'm not saying BT SIG didn't mess this up in special ways, but no, you don't know anything about this yet.
>cos(270°) = 0
(parent)

I don't know of a language (but I don't know many) which trigonometric functions use degrees and not radians.
In radians and finite precision, "cos(x) = 0" is false for all x (unless your cos is wrong), thanks to Pi being irrational (for example, cos(Pi_in_f64) is about 6.123233995736766E-17). You have "sin(0) = 0" though.

>angle = arctan(dy/dx) where dx=0.

If dy != 0, dy/0.0 is +-Infinity (if following IEEE754), so angle is +-Pi/2.

Coordinates/physics is among the things I see developers get wrong the most (even excluding units issues), along with threading/locks and instances_ownership/pooling.

Data races and deadlocks issues can be rare, and leaks get fixed by a restart, but these coordinates issues can introduce constant errors and biases often overlooked by tests (in addition to almost systematically unhandled cornercases like these).
One comment at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10545353

Related from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11054912

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10871222

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10576697

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6983649
I'm not even sure if the linux version of FF has an auto-updater. And even if it does every distro I've ever used (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and currently Arch Linux) must disable it, because I've never had FF try to auto update on linux.
That is simply not true.
Right this moment, coal is the single largest source of electricity production in Germany (33.66% of the total)
They're emitting nearly 400gCO2eq/kWh, compared to nuclear-first France's 70.
That is an abysmal result.
https://www.electricitymap.org/
There are a lot of places D does well, but if I had to pick one for which it is ideally suited, I'd say replacing C on a Linux/Mac/Windows desktop for app development or scientific computing. C is simply obsolete in those domains since D offers basically a superset of the functionality. In terms of interoperability, you can even #include C header files.