skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we were inventing a new system out of whole cloth, I think there's a strong case for refactored bicameralism: one House of Congress for elected representatives, and another House for citizens chosen at random ("The People's Congress").

I can dream. :)
Thanks for the info! I think the 2nd link doesn't work.
"Environmental conservation by telling people to use less resources is like telling people not to sin.

The problem is that Christians have been telling people not to sin for 2000 years, and people have not stopped sinning..."
I have had the following things happen with gift cards that I wanted to use:

- Use 90% of the money on it, then there's not enough left to buy anything. I have a "gift card" that was a refund from a cable company, and it has something like $1.96 on it.

- I once received a "points" card to a restaurant that I used to frequent. Unfortunately, to "activate" it, I needed the credit card number that was used to purchase it. My father-in-law who purchased it for me, didn't know which card it had been on. I was never able to use the points, and eventually the restaurant closed.

- I received a gift card for participation in a clinical study. Despite activating it, I can't find any place online or in person that will accept it. It's a VISA gift card, but every time I try to use it for a purchase, it's declined. WTF?
Yea, which is why I want a real frontend, not an emulator or w/e. Ie, there are real frontends for both Neovim and Kakoune. They let the editor do the real lifting, and they merely change the UI.

That is what I want, but in a super well presented manner. I'd happily pay ~200/y for that. BUT, I think this frontend would also have to have a "normal" editor built in, because I don't think people like me would pay enough to allow a dev to write this editor full time.
You're saying that "if someone tells you some entitled garbage, and you believe it, it's not entitled garbage?". So essentially it's not entitlement because someone else told you?
A request for ad hoc processes to design a new process oriented toward better meeting needs?

Example: today, I was in court to convert traffic fines to community service. I was then informed community service must be performed for a 501c.3 to be recognized by the court.

Society and the government don't typically consider parenting or healing oneself physically/mentally/emotionally as something to be valued the same way as any paying job. Both take work and arebeneficial to society & the government, but people who help others accomplish those goals are currently paid/valued far more in capitalism.

So, I'm starting a 501c.3 to validate time spent parenting, supporting parents, healing and supporting healing for legal community service. The board will likely be stacked with anarchists (initially) and may be required to demonstrate a willingness to operate as such. In the face of by-laws requirements, this may be tricky to codify.

In any case, I see this as a way to starve the government of fines levied against people who fall into any of those categories (which can easily be met by anyone simply by hanging out with friends). Or at least I think it can apply to anyone. If I'm leaving anyone out, let's try to expand the mission to easily include them!

So we starve the state together through forming a nonprofit while meeting human needs.

It'd be nice if we could just say "This requirement doesn't meet my needs. Can we figure out another arrangement that doesn't require so much administrative overhead? I'm a full-time parent seeking to minimize the amount of time away from my child until I have broader solidaritous community support in my life."

I can write more on this, as this idea spawned out of already-in-place thoughts on peacefully revoking consent to be governed (for Lent and for All). But first I'm going to eat, clean the living room, and meditate on the nonprofit more while my partner and child nap.
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> no matter what the benefits would be

This is illogical reasoning. We should look at the cost/benefit tradeoff. Looking only at costs or only at benefits will not yield the best decision.

We need to draw a line somewhere between safety & cost. I'd argue it is always possible to make something safer if you are willing to accept higher cost. Expensive plane tickets have negative externalities, and for some, does cost lives (inability to get treatments for ex.).
Some people are trying to battle against negative fake reviews by posting positive fake reviews. It's not clear to me that they are as morally superior as they evidently believe.

Edit: The solution is to fix the voting system, not to abuse it further because you believe you are virtuous.
> Are people merely performing "at" their level (no promotion) or are they showing clear evidence "above" their level (promotion-worthy)?

Or are they showing clear evidence "above" their level but the manager has not generated enough career capital to put them up as a promotion candidate because promotions are about politics not merit (praise-no-promo)?
Situations like this make me think that public educational systems should experiment with some form of "digital literacy" courses / exercises for young children with the goal of humanizing the processes of online communication. Teaching standards for how to treat others (and how to respond to observed and experienced abuses) may provide some reduction in the number of individuals that seem to be finding their ways to toxic online communities. From a lay perspective it really does seem that people who participate in extremely toxic online communities are exhibiting signs of serious personality deformations; since the internet acts as a significant force multiplier on an individual's ability to spread their perspective, and since the problem of policing online speech without creating a locked-down surveillance nightmare seems unlikely to be solved any time soon, perhaps one of the better options would be to arm adolescents with a proper mentality for handling online harassment under the assumption that it is likely to occur.
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During the industrial revolution hard labor jobs transitioned to maintenance work for the machines. The problem is as we improve at automation the need for non-technical maintenance decreases.

A small team of engineers can displace thousands or tens of thousands of workers without creating any new opportunities.
One great company after another destroyed by financial shenanigans. Avaya & Silver Lake Partners is another that comes to mind, but there have been many.
I'm skeptical of the superior use of that in practice.
Huh, no way am I fertilising or spraying weeds out on my lawn, as far as I can tell it's your basic tall fescue grass with some clover and self seeded violets thrown in the mix, and its main function is being trampled by kids. It's lucky if I put a sprinkler on it.

I tend not to let the clover or dandelions flower though, as it attracts bees to the lawn, and barefoot children (very common in my country, and not looked down on like in the US) and bees on a lawn aren't a happy mix.

My garden is filled with heaps of flowering annuals and perennials though.
>but recruiters have told me straight out: we dont adjust for cost of living, we adjust for market rate

Isn't that how it should be?
I was expecting way more “unsafe” uses than that!

I see two advantages to explicitly marking code as unsafe:

(1) You are very clearly marking the areas of code that are most suspect

(2) You can still have safe code outside of those “unsafe” blocks
This article provides context for the "Death to America" chants in Iran: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/death-to-america-iran... .

"Watching in horror as thugs grabbed our blindfolded embassy staff and paraded them before the cameras, Americans instantly learned that this was a regime that had no regard for any international law, traditional diplomacy, or morality. A revived relationship and summit meetings were unthinkable; anyone who met with Iranians on their soil was a potential hostage. The crowd of angry revolutionaries chanted “Death to America,” and the Iranian parliament and other official government meetings and rallies routinely began with the chant. Not even the Soviets began their Politburo meetings like that. By 1987, the regime instituted “Death to America Day.” Their Iranian prime minister introduced the national holiday by saying, “Tomorrow will be . . . a day of God on which America should tremble . . . the day when the arch-Satan will be placed under our feet.”"
GURPS is way to crunchy (numbers focused) for me, personally, but I'm seconding the Sprawl recommendation.

Hack The Planet is another great modern cyberpunk RPG, based on the Forged in the Dark rule set.
That's why this has remained an idea for me rather than anything I would consider attempting. Social networks have an enormous bar to entry. This is why I think this would most feasibly be applied as a restriction to Facebook/Instagram and it's probably something they will never implement unless forced.
I wonder if the people running this thing will now attempt to make good with the zoning department and try things like your suggestion, or if a discussion like this has already occurred and they don't have a further way to negotiate out of a shutdown.
CIOs Look to Boost Tech Teams’ Diversity
YNews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17341128
Not sure which one you are looking for, but MISRA is posted here often when speaking of C/C++ and safe practices. That is kinda focused in the embedded space however, so may not be the same thing you are thinking of. Another common one is JPL C coding standard that has been referenced here before:

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

https://yurichev.com/mirrors/C/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
Google's Project Jacquard – A Levi's Jacket That Can Accept Phone Calls
What I don't understand is why the Boeing executives are not on trial for the negligent killing of 189 + 157 people?
Thanks for the summary, makes me wonder if I would live in Zug and work in Zurich.
Its not a binary choice though - perhaps instead of a sprint to the bottom, it could be a marathon to the bottom with a lot more safety checks?
What's the point of telling each other exactly what you want and buying the other's thing? Seems like just swapping the chore of purchase to me.

In my family, for Christmas, everyone fills out a short questionnaire (hobbies, goals, what are you learning, where are you going, favorite authors/genres) then we use the questionnaires to guide gift giving. This way, there's still room for creativity and thoughtfulness in gift giving, but it's guided by the responses. Plus, it's fun to read everyone's answers and you can give gifts that line up with multi-year trends after a while.
There are dairy co-ops where I live that do this sort of thing. That's why they're so huge. However the small ma and pop ones that have local well known businesses charge an arm and a leg for half a gallon of milk. Yeah sorry, I'll pay half that cost for a gallon at walmart, thanks.
I couldn't say tbh, I'm keen in running a trial with Pulsar alongside Kafka in production, might write it up when I've done so.
Researchers are trying to teach computers to forecast traffic like the weather
This is a fair interpretation of zoning laws, but I don't think it respects the reality of most coffee shops. What I liked about Workshop (other than being one of the only places in FiDi you could get Stumptown for a while) was that it was explicit about the real trade going on in many coffee shops.

If you're spending more than a half hour at a coffee shop, you're there to work. You're playing this game where you're trying to figure out whether you've bought enough coffee not to look like a complete mooch. You're also hoping the free Wi-Fi is up and working, and that nothing is going to happen that will disrupt the work you're doing.

Workshop offered a great cafe menu, but most importantly offered assurances around seating, quiet spaces, and high-quality Wi-Fi. It was a hybrid model, and one I don't think there are decent laws established for them. This is a bummer, and probably a bad application of by-the-book zoning in a city where those same laws are being used to prevent way more important things like improved housing density.

But that's SF for you, I guess.
I’m not the person you’re replying to, but Grifball is talking about BitLocker. BitLocker is a device encryption tool that ships with certain versions of Windows (I think only Pro, but don’t trust that.)

I believe that what Grifball is saying is that if your disc was fully encrypted and you lost the ability to decrypt, you’d be in a lot of trouble. In the BitLocker case, if you had a valid Windows license, encrypted your disc and lost your license, it would be a very bad day.

As for your comments about backups, you’re correct though in this case, a backup wouldn’t be much use if you lost access to BitLocker. That would take a really serious ops failure, but far stranger things have happened.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-we-learn-lambda-income-shari...

"In the meantime, Lambda shifts the equation: For about half of the ISAs, the company sells the rights to a portion of its returns to investors; in return, it gets cash up front."

You can even see a "Sample Offering" for Lambda School on Edly, a marketplace for reselling ISAs: https://edly.info/investors/
> I think the ultimate root cause that led to the 737 MAX crisis was de-regulation and the airlines race to the bottom on price. The whole reason for making the plane a 737 and not a new aircraft was to cut pilot re-training costs.

Can't you also plausibly in a similar spirit argue for the point that the regulations about retraining pilots were responsible for the 737 MAX disaster? Otherwise Boeing would not have made such crazy engineering decisions about its design.
As I understand it in 2021 these micro deposits or a similar control will become mandatory (date delayed from Jan 2020), but for the time being it's optional. I don't see why a bank won't allow an ACH payment from one account to another - that's what the system is made for right?
There is an enormous body of law in the US that incentivizes a top-down corporate business structure and disincentives a co-op business structure.
>In addition, newer tractors have a lot of nice, kind of gimmicky features in the cab. Things like satellite radio, working air conditioning, anti-theft systems, and GPS-controlled planting are nice even if they're not necessary.

From what I understand, this is really the main advantage.
Also, it's totally anarchy. Temporary anarchy. I view the rigid dedication to "one governance system at all times" is a cultural artifact of static thinking. Neuroplasticity and grown mindsets are a thing. The science of learning how to learn suggest we operate in a more fluid fashion. Same for cultural evolution. Let's redesign everything from these recent perspectives instead of clinging to ancient paradigms.
"Layer 2 refers to a secondary framework or protocol that is built on top of an existing blockchain system."

from https://www.binance.vision/glossary/layer-2
£18bn Crossrail line delayed again to autumn 2021
No, because a patent would only cover your novel implementation of those functions.

You can't copyright them either in the same way that Harry Potter is copyrighted but not the word 'the' which is used throughout.
Goodreads is desperately in need of a strong competitor.
I once spent an hour sitting in the SF planning office on Mission and it was the most eye opening experience in regards to the city's building issues. Most of the discussions are done in the open so you can hear the conversations between the planners and people looking to get permits. Almost every convo started with "...so your permit looks good but I won't approve it until you make [some irrelevant, arbitrary change]". They would look through historical Google Maps images and find temporary backyard sheds, windows that had been replaced or door frames that were painted and refuse to issue until these changes were reverted.

I understand the need of a planning department to enforce safety codes, plan large construction like the Salesforce tower and make traffic decisions. But every discussion I heard that day was a planner making completely subjective decisions that, in my mind, shouldn't be anybody's business but the building owner. No wonder we have problems building enough housing when so much effort is exerted dealing with such minor design decisions.
Fair. But every experiment must begin with a hypothesis. ;)
Cash doesn't take up much room, is easy to regift, and is much, much more versatile!
But isn’t the most important step having a compiler-enforced keyword for code that seems to be doing unsafe stuff?

The rest are just plugins and tools that look for said blocks and “do stuff”. I don’t see why these tools should be part of the language.
Losing your job to automation is bad for your livelihood. It has been since we started automating things.
How do you think zoning laws came about? We had no zoning laws, and then cities grew naturally, and then we had zoning laws. They exist as a result of real problems in the world. Now, some of those problems were definitively wrong [1], and we should clearly have a way to review, modify, and revoke zoning which is bad for society. But throwing them all out and doing nothing else is a quick way to welcome them right back.

[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning_in_the_United_States#Ra...)
That's really a shame. My library will transfer any book, DVD, computer game, power tool, or even a wifi hotspot from another library for free and usually within two days.

As recently as this past fall I requested books from libraries in New Mexico and New York and both came with zero fees.

I sure hope your local library system has dropped their fees by now.
Which you can then use to go to school to become a solicitor or barrister? Does it have any directly associated jobs?

"The GDL is one (full-time) or two (part-time) years long, and successful candidates may proceed to either the Legal Practice Course (LPC) for solicitors or the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) for barristers."
Is that really the case? If I have made an ACH payment to a company they then have a unilateral right to withdraw funds from my account? A valid authorization is required for this to happen. [Edit] Plus there is recourse via disputing an unauthorized transaction, the process is well established.
That only exists on a generational level. The generations born afterward will never know about it, and therefore not care because it wasn't embedded in their cultural perspective.

It's like taking a childs binky away. Over time, you totally forget why you even had the thing in the first place.
And it just so happens that large companies like softbank fall into this category.
As far as I know, the consequences of any “propaganda campaign” were minor. Assuming they did happen and considering that the election was very close, then sure, an argument could be made that they ultimately determined the election.

But that isn’t your argument, or at least what I’m interpreting to be your argument (your last paragraph is a single run-on sentence and it’s quite hard to understand.)

If the media weren’t completely wrong, they would have predicted a close race. Instead, they overwhelmingly showed Trump losing by a significant margin. Hence my point: the mainstream media messed up, big time, and instead of acknowledging it, they’ve embarked on a campaign to find a nefarious reason for the entirety of the events, when in reality the cause of election results are far more mundane and have more to do with economics.
Interesting.

802.11ac's ("WiFi 5") core benefit was (with enough antennas) running channels on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz and supporting devices duplexing across both channels for maximum speed/latency shaping. It made running 2.4GHz cool again, and from what I'm aware of finally solved some of the compatibility issues between 802.11a/b/g and 802.11n so that there are fewer issues with older devices.

My impression from school ages ago is that though 802.11a botched the original plan and took years to fix while 802.11b captured the market, and 802.11n mostly fixed it right, and even though 2.4 GHz is one of the noisiest bands in the modern home (microwaves, old school walkie talkies/baby monitors, parts of Bluetooth, all sorts of other random home appliances), 2.4 GHz is still the technically superior band in a lot of cases, and WiFi frequency hopping and noise avoidance have gotten really good since 802.11a.

It's interesting me to decide to ban that entire band from one's home WiFi options.
Goodreads is cancer.
Actually, it was the parent post that created the context I was responding in. I totally agree with you.
I have a project with a build system that is basically cat src/js/* > dist/bundle.js , it's refreshing when you have to deal with setting up webpack at work.
You know whats an even stronger correlating factor? Having $400k liquid per year.

Homeownership is advertised as owning an extremely leveraged illiquid asset whose margin calls take years, which is the only reason why it works for people that don't have enough cash to be financially independent another way.
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I think gift cards have the implied context of “treat yourself”. Ie I might give a gift card for your favorite restaurant. The cash might just be used at the gas pump or buying groceries.
So your're correct that there is a Fourier Transform analogy for the uncertainty principle, but in the context of FMCW lidars (which brought up the question of velocity vs position uncertainty), the measurement of frequency actually determines both the position and the velocity. It's actually a problem for most FMCW lidars because you just get 1-2 frequency measurements and somehow need to disentangle what the range frequency is, as well as what the doppler (velocity) frequency is. A massive amount of effort has been put into developing lidar methods and architectures that solve this problem well.

But in summary, the uncertainty principle as encountered in quantum mechanics has ~nothing to do with a trade off between range accuracy and range uncertainty. It's possible that it could come into play in a very detailed treatment of FMCW lidar SNR, in the context of counting return photons, but also not generally necessary there. The time-frequency uncertainty plays a role in that the range and velocity resolution both get better the longer you stare at a signal. So for a given amount of reflected light, at a given range/velocity, there is a fundamental lower bound to how long you must integrate to a) get a signal at all and b) achieve a desired precision.
Why Have So Few Women Won the Turing Award?
Deep learning predicting mutations of metal binding sites in protein
I'm not the OP. I don't know of a good source. I just want to point out that the second tweet in the linked Twitter threads talks about reselling ISAs.
Aside from the spoofing issues what are the main drawbacks and benefits of GoodReads from your perspective - what's the worst of times, what's the best of times?
Yeah, it's a basic tragedy of the commons, where the commons is noisy to begin with radio spectrum.
pcwalton wrote a NES emulator in Rust 7 years ago as a demonstration of Rust: https://github.com/pcwalton/sprocketnes

Also, a nitpick:

> One line of unsafe (std::mem::transmute::<u8>() -> i8)

You don't need unsafe for this, you can do that with an `as` cast.