skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Recent example is the coal miners in West Virginia, which coincidentally happens to be a swing state for the presidential elections

???

WV was R+40 in 2016, there's no way it's a swing state .
Good summary. I'd also add that 80% of the difficulty is spent on optimizing the last 20% of performance (i.e. the last dB), which is what separates the hobbyist from the pros, or the art from the quantitative.
Speaking of terrible. Those little yellow boxes in the middle of the screen of 99% invisible are VERY distracting. Yes, it's easy to find the previous/next article. I appreciate the effort. But I'm trying to read! And my eyes keep bouncing left and right trying to focus on the text, but these little yellow dots keep pulling them in opposite directions.

Good design, poorly executed.
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IANAL caveat aside: the GDPR says sites need to ask for consent for cookies that are not needed for site functionality. These sites are not doing that, so they are violating the GDPR, but by providing a warning of what they are doing, I guess their liability might be somewhat less in the somewhat unlikely case of enforcement.
> OO programming where classes are completely isolated

That sounds like COM, especially the Automation subset.
Readability, Hackability, and Abstraction
I have a pack. It is literally just really good chalk. When you write a lot, it's nice to have a tool that doesn't put so much strain on your wrist.
It was the first time I sold a program I wrote, way back in yonder years when I was 16.
That takes me back! I remember the vibrations of that phone. I think that was my last non-Apple phone.
It's not, it's just how my blogging thing works, I don't care much about SEO
I find the scrolling interface strangely satisfying -> useful too, as you can do a full page search via the browser.

Good job!
The only reason why I wasn’t using TOR for all of my browsing is because of the latency. I guess I might just use it now.
It's not just leaking. You cannot use Discord anonymously.

Signing up for a new Discord account via Tor means you are prompted for a phone number, which is a single API call to a data broker away from full name, email, and home address.

You cannot join anyone's discord chats without the digital equivalent of showing an ID.

A lot of us mind. We're just being excluded from more and more conversations.
>a lot of things I'd be interested in are censored

Same for me.

Frankly I accept HN is a space to discuss a limited range of subjects, and keep other subjects to elsewhere. It's annoying to a degree, but it the longer run it works.
SSH in and get caught messing with the system manually - get fired. Keeps everyone honest.

The environment is close to 90,000 systems. We service the hardware because it is configured redundantly, for example the / filesystem is always on a mirror. The physical systems are system engineered and configured to withstand multiple hardware faults without any loss of service.
> This is already happening. Defined benefit pension funds and defined contribution pension funds (401k/IRAs) are all invested in the same place: the public stock market and real estate. That's why I think bailouts of public stock market values are basically guaranteed, as long as the US dollar remains relatively desirable.

Keep in mind that half of Americans have no 401k savings. Agree with your point that QE has been beneficial for those who have retirement arrangements that are invested in the asset classes you mention. My concern is that is insufficient to keep a lot of retirees out of poverty and the associated suffering, and a whole lot of political will is going to be required down the road to stomach more drastic measures than the country has traditionally considered.
Where did I say “all”?

I said “far too many”. Although judging by the amount of crap software around, it’s certainly a lot.

“it's also true that business stakeholders need to take the time and understand the impacts of their 'ship fast always' mentality”

You’ll note where my original post points out programmers are not the only culprits at work. Learning is a two-way process. But developers are ostensibly the experts in turning requirements into solutions and what is needed to do that; so if users have utterly unrealistic expectations of what is/isn’t achievable then whose fault is that?

Often what users want is feedback: they want to know when they’ll be getting their solution, and be confident it does what they need. Both of these are engagement problems. That points to logistical shortcomings in the development cycle, particularly the siloing of parties and processes, which I know is a blight in which everyone is at fault.

But a lot of programmers would far rather wrangle code than wrangle users, even though user-wrangling is by far the more important of the two. So what does that say about these “solutions providers” and their ability to deliver?

Me, I’ve only been coding 20 years; professionally the last 10. My first programming job, I was one of two devs attached to the IT team out on the shop floor, working directly with users developing them quick-turnaround solutions to their immediate problems. In the 3 years I was there, I never once saw a developer from their 20+ Enterprise Applications department walk out of their glass cage onto the shop floor and spend some time talking to users about how they were getting on with their software and any problems they might be having.

Sure our code was small and simple, and theirs large and complex. But that’s all the more reason for them to engage closely and constantly with users, in order to avoid large and costly errors downstream that embarrass and frustrate everyone.

As I say, the problem is not in the code but in the people and their processes. Yet, no prizes for guessing where most programmers will try to solve it.
Small credit unions, and I don’t recall seeing any on NZ banking sites when I grew up - they essentially have domestic WTs because you can send money to anyone’s bank account online (in NZ having someone’s bank account number means you can send them money, not the US absurdity of withdrawing money)
Not a physicist, but don't you mean maximum? Gaussian distribution is entropy maximum with finite mean and variance
Financially it should have been a wash: either the company saves $X on your behalf in its pension plan or the company pays you $X extra salary for you to save. The benefit of the pension is the built-in discipline. Then we discovered that the financial aspect doesn't work.
Web Assembly Summit 2020
It may be the only way to find some of thing things preserved via citizen archives. I enjoyed the talk Ian MacKaye gave there about archiving the live performances of Minor Threat & Fugazi. Here [1] is a post on the subject.

[1] https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2013/05/ian-mackaye-and-citi...
Thanks. That's all really quite educational. Does the U.S. have any social program like Canada Pension Plan where:

1. your paycheque is forcibly deducted an amount based on a formula

2. that amount goes into CPP investment

3. when you retire you can get a monthly pension based on the total amount you paid in

To me that seems like a sane way to protect people from themselves.
Is there any Free software alternative to the proprietary Charles Proxy?
What if we just open our filter bubbles so that not every click has that effect?
You might find freedom.to useful. You can block websites for certain times of the day and it works with all devices.

I've found that if you can break the habit of reaching to some site when you're bored the addiction falls off pretty quick.

Programming has a lot downtime sometimes - waiting for a build or a long test run - and there's sometimes a steep context switch to working on something else. (At least for me if I start something new I'll forget what I was working on before) It's those times when I found myself on Twitter or Reddit.

One thing I've been trying to do instead is read an actual book - non-fiction does ok, I can usually follow the argument reading a few paragraphs at a time. And Kindle makes it easy to read in your browser and pick up where you left off on an e-reader.

One tricky thing though: I blocked YouTube only to be reminded that Google's login still goes through a YouTube domain, so I inadvertently made it harder to login :(.
Why did they change the shape of the star? The new logo uses a pentagram but the state seal doesn't.
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Ha ha, "If you are very math-oriented maybe it will work for you". The AOE is definitely not math oriented, and not what is typically used for EE courses. If AOE was used for undergrad EE, then 2/3 wouldn't flunk out. Don't get me wrong, it's a good book, but it's definitely not for the math oriented.
This is a really good meta point. There's a weird kind of cultural secularity with branding these days, largely because every company wants to appeal to everyone on earth, so they take these plain, fairly benign shapes and forms.

Though the logo is really quite nice, it's also fairly generic. It looks like a logo for a petrol company.

I think states can safely stick to old-timey fonts and images if they want.

It'd be nice to see some smart creative agencies take this issue on because I'll bet they've noticed the same.
We worked remotely on top of a U-Haul
It's just an export mistake. Someone turned off anti-aliasing before exporting that PNG.
The location search bar is particularly frustrating on my phone. Perhaps exacerbated since the site's under load? But it's appears to be kicking off an ajax request per keydown and not updating the input text until that request is completed. Very frustrating as I suck at typing on this danged phone and the feedback delay aggravates that.
That's probably an effort to load a faster, maybe a leaner version for mobile/whatever.

To actually prevent jumping (including on lean image load), I believe it would be more effective to simply set width and height.
A checkbox for "VISA" or "INTERN" (like the who is hiring threads) could be really valuable. I like the UI, but what's the source for the 'total funding'?
> I guess my question is: why do we allow companies to manage retirement funds?

Additionally, why do we let employers be involved in choosing our healthcare companies and plans at all?

Employer managed retirement accounts and healthcare need to go away. They just need to pay more to the employee to do those things on their own.

Healthcare disconnected from the employer is pro-business and it will lead to a better consumer healthcare market with less fixed pricing, more like auto, home, life insurance which people get on their own. Imagine when you change jobs if you had to also change your home, auto and life insurance policies in addition to your health insurance policies, it is silly.

Requiring companies to provide healthcare is also a competitive disadvantage globally when other countries offer it as public or private separate from the job and the businesses, who don't want to deal with it nor do they care about your health beyond your production, don't have to. Starting a business changing jobs are also more difficult with employer bound healthcare.

Healthcare bound to the job is a legacy system that needs to be updated along with retirement disconnected from employers. Employers just need to pay that in salary or that goes to the employee to manage. Safety nets and public retirement systems like Social Security + Medicare make up the rest.
Sure but also, is this what we "want"? (for wildly varying definitions of the word want.)

Takeaway available with the press of a button is certainly not what my soul wants.
The big difference is that you can pass an object to a method of another object, but you can't send an actor through a message channel. That jives with threads because a thread can't climb in to the stack and get passed through another thread.
Redesigning the flag is a politically fraught process.
For a recent, major construction failure in the U.S., see: https://www.nola.com/news/article_ca2f263a-ed77-11e9-8cfa-57...
Why Apple Wants the Same Apps to Run on iPhones and Macs
I feel like that wasn't an option initially and that I was relieved when but also offended when everyone started using the fake phone sound.
Here's an app that simulates bad networks named Comcast:

https://github.com/tylertreat/Comcast

:)
Any recommendations for a Firefox alternative to Crackbook Revival?
MathJax – Beautiful math in all browsers
So how do you calculate the expected added latency?
If you over do the protein - fat balance you just end up in gluconeogenesis instead of ketogenesis which is not a good way to do it (it's just atkins). It's very difficult to balance for your average person with a life outside of training and nutrition
Please ready my comment in context (which I have added as a quote for easy reference).
Prior to "Eternal September", maintaining a personal killfile[0]/scorefile was only a minor chore (indeed, adding someone to your killfile could be accompanied by a sense of glee), but in the next few years the addition of spam to the mix made it overwhelming, giving an edge to moderated mailing lists and discussion boards.

YMMV, of course, depending on which groups you frequented and their community norms.

pg's "A Plan for Spam"[1] provided a lower-effort solution eventually, but by then it was too late as the onboarding experience for new users had become hopelessly polluted and toxic (new email users at least had a grace period before their address was discovered).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
There's also the issue of keeping it at body temp.
That’s another possibility alongside misdiagnosis, normal privacy, etc. I personally doubt any single factor is going to hide discovery of blind from birth vs blind as a young child globally. But with populations this small a few is all it would take.

PS: That’s a direct quote from page 2 of the link. It’s got some other interesting information about this topic you’re interested.
Talkpython.fm courses. Well worth the money.
Private pensions don't solve this, in that they were still only available to those whose employers offered them. For the most part pensions were replaced with 401ks, so there was no significant loss of access to retirement product.

To your concern about lack of access, the solution is simple: raise the cap on IRAs. This still doesn't solve the nudge problem, where people are less likely to sign up withou HR emailing an enrolment form every year.

There is also probably a correlation between people without 401k access, and those who would not be reaching the current IRA cap anyway.
I'm still going to use it but I'm not going to evangelize it the way I would if it actually provided encryption and trust.

It was never supposed to encrypt lookup; that was mostly a disingenuous strawman argument from the usual suspects.

It does provide a chain of trust. By using the public key published in your zone, a validating resolver checks the digital signatures from the root to your zone.

It’s no different than when a browser checks the digital signatures on a certificate that’s signed by an intermediate certificate that was signed by a root certificate.

For authentication and trust purposes, every resource record in a DNSSEC-signed zone is cryptographically signed and validating resolvers--Unbound, Knot Resolver, BIND--confirm them.
> You cannot join anyone's discord chats without the digital equivalent of showing an ID.

This only happens via Tor and oft-abused VPN providers. "Showing ID" has two benefits:

1. It helps mitigate a lot of unsophisticated spam attacks, taking off server load and annoyance off users.

2. It helps to some extent with mitigating criminal affairs because any potential criminal that falls in the gap between "doesn't realize IP addresses may leak location information" and "knows how to use compromised hosts as proxy" can be picked off by the authorities once they're noticed.

Anonymity is gone and it's not coming back. We have to adapt and we don't get a choice. At least there's some minor upsides to it.
Why not work somewhere high income for most of your life and then finish up somewhere with a nice pension?
The state seal predates this redesign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_Oklahoma
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This rules.
I would pay for the Italian Assassin’s Creeds all over again if they had a big discovery mode, now that I’ve been to Florence and Rome.
Apologies, we will prioritize fixing it today. Yes, the traffic has spiked right now which is adding to it.
The first part sounds reasonable.

I hadn't thought of English as a creole, even though it combines features of multiple languages, because there's no evidence of a pidgin evolutionary state. But, like a creole, it does have a substantially more systematized grammar than either its Scandinavian substrate or its French superstrate, both of which, for example, inflect for gender. And it certainly shows evidence of rapid historical change, like many creoles, and some of that seems to have been driven by decreolization-like processes. So maybe English really is a creole.

The linguistic analogy starts to break down there, though. In some sense all programming languages are pidgins, and of course they are conlangs.
All marriages in ancient kingdoms were barters.

It still exists today as ‘giving away’ of the bride. The female’s dna and germline gets the best it can buy with dowries and the bride’s attributes.
I think for letterheads and buildings, its pretty good - even if I might prefer something more traditional.
As a lay person I find it really hard to understand the significance of this single days temperature reading. It sounds alarming but I have no idea how to view that single data point. I wish they'd go into more detail in explaining that in these sorts of articles.
It's really great for a lot of network testing. It let's you intercept and modify requests/responses directly which is great for testing front end /backend input sanitization.
Well, there are:

1. IRAs

2. Savings that aren't tax-advantaged

So it's not like not having access to 401k's keeps people from retirement savings. That said, 401k's are nice from a tax perspective and, even though they're still usually opt-in, are at least as straightforward as anything that requires affirmatively making a choice can be.

But, yes, although they have downsides defined-benefit plans were effectively a form of forced savings for long-term employees in large organizations.
https://twitter.com/withinrafael/status/1227505393439346688?...

Sounds like it’s coming.
This is true for any way of providing for retirement, though. Eliminating pensions just transfers the risk from companies to individuals. It's clear why companies would want this, but not clear it's societally beneficial.
I've always been a fan of South Carolina's flag. It's a moon and a palm tree.
So are the tattoos on Trooper Calicoat's arms.
Sure we do. These are our small-scale desires. Then you might think that on a larger scale this is not really what you want- but try to deny the right of people to desire ordering food from home, or buying online, or going where they want as fast as it's possible, or being cured from pneumonia or cancer.
This experiment is extremely flawed. Most conservatives I know don't disapprove of redistributing wealth wholesale. They disapprove of the government doing the redistributing

They believe redistribution should be voluntary otherwise it is stealing.
In the most recent issue, there was in fact demonstrated "unsafe-bleed," in the sense that client code could hit undefined behavior by using public safe APIs a particular way.
Erlang OTP 21.2 introduced the idea of `persistent_term`, which is a data structure any process can read from at the expense of being costly to modify. This provides a nice alternative to locks, since you can have a single actor/process responsible for handling writes (and deciding when to flush those writes, triggering a GC pause on processes depending on the term) but any number of actors reading from that persistent term at full-speed.
Oops, my bad. They do have a Democrat senator, and they do have some pull with the current presidential administration, so they must have some way to leverage their political power. Perhaps it was a reward and incentive to continue for voting Republican.

But the point is that whether or not you get bailed out depends on how much influence you have.
Then I disagree with him. :-)

I personally try not to downvote a post I disagree with, if I think it's a valid, reasonable contribution to the discussion.
U.S. Reaches Settlement on Undisclosed Chinese Funding of Scientists
I went through the same progression as you did. Dave Jones' OpAmp video was a godsend, I wish he'd make more videos like that. I think there's a great deal of value in "slow learning" when you have the time; let complex ideas percolate through your subconscious through repeated exposure over time.

It's been said many times before but I'd like to recommend The Art of Electronics to anyone who's graduated from the YouTube School of Electrical engineering and has some motivation to keep going. It has some mathematical theory (which it insists is optional) but I've found it useful for filling in the holes in my education and has loads of practical advice like the EE mentor I've never had.
Ocado also have the “eco delivery” feature, where you can pick a delivery slot when (I presume) the driver will be making a similar delivery nearby.

It’s not a huge thing, but shows they are doing something (either that or they understand their middle-class market).
I'm thinking 20-40 years in the future. Will this pension problem be reduced? Perhaps the aftereffects of the current crop of problems will still be felt, but how long will he have new pensioners "contributing" to the problem?
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> Coerced old-style on Reddit without an infinite scroll

This is why I deleted the reddit apps and use the mobile site instead. Having only one page at a time really helps from sitting forever in an infinite scrolling list.
I am a physicist, and minimum is correct. Quantum uncertainty is not an entropy measure.

Importantly, the 'minimum uncertainty' is not just about the width of the wavefunction in position space---the uncertainty principle (roughly speaking) says that the variance in position space times the variance in momentum space has a lower bound. A gaussian saturates that bound.
There are no such thing as a CRUD app and every app is a CRUD app.
If it were merely a waste of time, it wouldn't be so bad. But recycling does active harm in some cases.

When people switch to reusable bags, they generally don't disinfect them between uses, and nasty bacteria can grow (think raw meat).

There was that poor woman who was killed by a reusable metal straw. Fell on it with it in her mouth. With a classic plastic straw, this would have been at most an unpleasant cut.

In our lunchroom at work, a well-meaning cleaning woman fishes through the "regular" trash looking for things to recycle. Great, no? Well, except that the trash is filled with all sorts of bacteria from half-eaten food, used tissues, etc. She then, without washing her hands, continues to move around the room, touching the tables and chairs that people are eating off of. Hello coronavirus.
It was good. Love Linus.

This was his video on the 3990X recently for those interested: https://youtu.be/1LaKH5etJoE
Persistent L2ARC Might Be Coming to ZFS on Linux
Andy Rubin’s Essential is shutting down
That's called Social Security in the US but many people have additional retirement savings because it doesn't pay much.