skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dijkstra was empirically wrong about that (generations of perfectly good programmers were taught BASIC first in schools) and about most of the other witty and self-congratulatory quotes in that collection: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EW... Perhaps the most amusingly wrong one is the claim of FORTRAN, which sits at the core of the scientific Python stack, as "hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today [i.e., 1975]: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use."

Dijkstra was good at many things, but there's no need for an argument from authority when we have actual data and not just opinions made to sound stronger because they are phrased more aggressively.
> A type is much denser, than a textual description, and in most >cases sufficient.

In feeble languages with simpleton typesystem may be, but in highly generic templated language like D it is not the case.
The type is not dense at all.

What's funny is that in general people complain that compiler errors in D are unreadable. You know why they are unreadable?

Because they print out the types of the functions in which the error occurs and that is nothing more than word salad for generic functions.

Types with hundreds of characters are very common.
While that's true, you're not going to convince anyone with that statement who didn't already agree with you; it's not a productive comment, and it's not one that invites discussion or "what to do about it".

By contrast, several top comments here are pointing out how it's counterproductive to do this kind of license enforcement, and that it introduces fragility. Someone pointing that out, and then throwing in an "or you could use Open Source, where you don't have to worry about this at all, and this kind of enforcement makes that an increasingly compelling alternative", is going to get a lot more traction than just a blanket statement that will not change any minds.
My impression is that it's a mix -- telecoms only want to upgrade wireline infrastructure where it's profitable (so, more affluent areas), and in my experience, in SF, there is some degree of NIMBYism about internet infrastructure at the street level ("green boxes" and the like) so even if the telecom is willing it can be hard to get consensus from the neighbors.
A major part of the film is about biomass and wood consumption for power. Have you watched it?
How did you do it when they came home with eight hours of homework?
I'd also expect womens' rights organizations to be strongly against vote-by-mail, then. Are they? If not (for, say, political conflict-of-interest reasons) and it's a real problem, I'd expect some of their spokespersons to have had to answer questions about that at some point, and their responses not to have been very convincing. Has that, at least, happened?
the kind of car your "friends or colleagues" buy has nothing to do with the kind of car he (or I) buys.

I get what you’re saying but lots of people do do that. Certain demographics flock to BMWs for example. Within a pretty narrow range you could guess a BMW driver’s occupation, and you would almost certainly be correct about their personality. Another demographic loves their Subarus. Or Porsche, classic choice of the male midlife crisis.

But pretty much everyone who can afford to, buys a car that they feel reflects their lifestyle or the lifestyle they aspire to.
BFT, which stands for Big FXXking Telescope?
I think you replied to the wrong comment. I was asking about home internet availability.
The single-blade model reduction is just a rhetorical device used to guide the reader on the principle of energy generation, not on viability.

As you point out, single-blade turbines have been done but they have their own suite of mechanical problems. A more practical way to save capital cost is to under-size the electrical system relative to the blade area. You may still only get 30% capacity factor of the blades and tower, but you could get 40% or better on the electrical system for a small win.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up.

Fwiw, I didn't somehow interpret it purposefully in any sinsiter way or choose to ignore an error to start an argument. For some reason, that's just how I read it.
And in any case: you can sell open-source software.

Do you do that?
An increasing number of sites are offering next delivery in major cities like Stockholm by partnering with Budbee or Airmee, usually at no extra charge. Same day delivery? It's rare and probably a more expensive delivery option only available in Stockholm.

Ultimately, I think that the small market size, taxes and staffing costs are why lots of international brands - Amazon included - skip Sweden as a market or fail to make an impact after many years.
Well... it is a function generator by definition, and they are attempting to sell it, so it is also a product. I'm going to go ahead and also say that this person has had some hardware development experience as well. Not very many people could put all this together in a couple months without any HW background.
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My understanding is that the lubrication in the drive had hardened and the heat is an emergency solution for that.
> Federal guaranteed student loans have nothing to do with UBI.

If you say so.

> It's hard to argue that college fees would have gone up so much if the government just gave a fixed $10000/year loan to every student-age citizen and let them spend it on whatever they want.

Really? I find it very easy to imagine, since IIRC student loans can be spent not only on tuition but on living expenses — and it seems to be possible to spend it on anything you want, even though you're not supposed to do that. [1] But I'm out of touch in that area, so my experience could be out of date.

The NPR piece that I cited above discussed research indicating that for-profit college tuition costs were strongly influenced by the availability of guaranteed student loans.

> UBI incentivizes price discovery

I suppose that's possible. But analogously, the availability of employer-provided health insurance seems to disincentivize price discovery.

[1] https://studentloanhero.com/featured/what-can-i-spend-studen...
Agree. If folks have come across better sources for product reviews, would love to get your recommendation.
Ransomware groups continue to target healthcare, critical services
The discard gem for rails has put a lot of thought into this and works pretty well, all things considered.

It's not perfect, but I find using a library (either directly for inspiration) is often a shortcut to learning about a lot of edge cases from doing your own things.

https://github.com/jhawthorn/discard
So you inherited an AWS account
Or a tax on natural resources, extracted from America. Instead of a few people owning the mineral rights to everything underneath the country, you make American oil, coal, natural gas, sunlight, wind, nuclear energy something the people own. It's something that already happens in part of America, and it works in Europe. Supplement it with a VAT on luxury items above a certain threshold (yachts, jewelry, property) and a sin tax against sugar and other drugs. Cap it off by replacing agriculture subsidies with the tax break + a "heath discount" on the purchase end of the transaction.

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

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

I would even advocate taking it a step further, and replacing HSA's and Social Security with individual savings accounts, a la Singapore. Approved purchases (up to a certain amount of rent, food stamps like foods, medical expenses) qualify for tax free or subsidized purchase (this is mostly psychological, giving people a "discount" vs depositing more money in their account, but it can also steer their behavior.) The government invests a certain amount in each person, and then they can contribute an additional amount from payroll. Segregate the money into two tiers, allow money in the "long term" side of the account to grow through some kind of investment, but minimize or eliminate the choice of how it is invested. Cap per year spending on everything except medical.
Make it closer to a CD than SP500 investment. Everybody gets the same glide, per a single factor such as age or retirement date. Returns are guaranteed. Allow certain penalized/taxed hardship withdrawls.

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

Plan: America First Sovereign Fund (mineral/luxury/sin tax), deposits into Forced Savings Account at USPS, which includes a tiered account that subtracts the qualifying part of a purchase from Savings Account, the rest gets charged to a Debit/Credit card on file. Allow the reverse, where Chase, WF, BoA, Citi can link their cards to your Savings Account, and automatically deduct qualifying purchases from it. Allow opt in for digital receipt tracking, or receipt scanning a la expensify, so you don't have to maintain records of purchases for disputes. If you use your bank card, you control what records are forwarded and stored in your USPS account.

This does five things. It pays for the program. It gives everybody some individual responsibility to manage their account, while helping them save. It steers their purchases towards healthy. It gives everyone access to a public bank account that is tax exempt. It lets them not have to manage multiple swipes at the register.

Finally, I'd advocate for a hybrid FTC/AG managed consumer protection service. Sort of a Consumer Reports / Wirecutter service on steroids that's easy for everyone to track their purchases, warranties, and to comparison shop with. A single place for product recalls, safety warnings, price comparisons, and information regarding what the best purchase to make is.
It's a different mindset. The buds charge in a case so whenever you're doing anything else you just drop them in. They charge very fast so I can go days without realizing the battery is draining just by habits. It's only when I don longer session that I hit it.
So just because they don't exercise those privileges/rights means they should be legally barred from doing so? If that is a valid argument, then you could use that same line of thinking against your position to say that who people who haven't voted impacted by the voter ID laws.

Sure, there's opportunity cost to everything. Take the kid with you. What do you suggest we do about it? And not just on this issue, but filing taxes, marriage licenses, etc.

If you think we should hold the actions of a few bad people as parts of debates, then I don't think I should pay taxes because of misappropriation, or because criminals use them to travel.

Again, (because I don't think you got it) my position is that I don't see the issue with requiring photo ID because it is required for many other aspects of life, including other rights. The law should be congruent in that respect. If there are implemetion issues, then that is a different story. If you wanted to advocate the removal of ID requirements in other areas of life, then I'd be open to that too.
When my state decided to go to 'e-learning' for the rest of the year, those of us who are located in rural, or low-income districts were terrified. The high-income districts couldn't be more excited; they're biggest headache was making sure each of their students' school issued laptops were appropriately tagged before being handed out.

This will further bake in the inequities already present in our garbage education system. Those that have, will have more, better experiences due to involved parents (because they have flexible or even just able-to-be-completed remotely jobs). This will be an enrichment period for those students. If I had a high achieving middle schooler at a high income district, this would be amazing for their development. For those that don't have, they're losing 3-6 months of education, at a minimum. For my child, even with two highly educated parents, due to a lack of resources and access to technology, this will be a loss.

Source: My career in rural, urban, and suburban education, both k-12 and higher education.
Food stamps generally do not allow purchasing hot food or a wide variety of foods that are not considered essential (there is some variation in policies, however). Remove those restrictions, and it would be better.

You would still have the problem that it wouldn't actually provide food for everyone or some people would end up losing the money because they're frugal.
There are quite a few companies working on this: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/a-beginners-gui...
Nah, I'm his brother.
What's peculiar about your response is that you're the only person that interpreted my question as trying to shut down the discussion as opposed to starting it.
Please don't put "Show HN" on things that aren't ready yet for people to try out for themselves. This is in the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
UBI is an unproven pie-in-the-sky pipe dream with no strong evidence in its favor (since it has never been adopted, at scale, by a nation or city-state). All of the UBI studies and experiments are highly controlled, small scale, and don't take into account human behavior that happen in real life (greed). Let's see some UBI experiments that fail for once by telling the participants to take advantage of each other however they can, richest man at the end wins.

Shouldn't that make UBI unpopular as well? Anecdotal evidence is better than no evidence.
> One problem with this maxim is that all nefarious code would also be open-sourced. Would you really want every subversive tool also openly available?

Yes, of course. Every last one of them. That will make such tools more usable by people who actually need them, and more understandable by those defending against them.

> One could argue that the inner workings of a car engine or music box are "closed source," yet there is no imperative on releasing detailed schematics with every unit.

If everyone could carry around a machinists shop and universal manufacturing facility they way they can carry around a laptop, there'd be a lot more demand for such schematics. (And there is already such demand among groups of hobbyists and enthusiasts in those areas.)
Way to reinforce negative stereotypes about landlords.
> In the interview, Mnuchin also said many companies are ceasing stock buybacks and are likely to use the additional capital to retain workers.

So they are on the honor system.

> Some experts disputed that assertion. “Some companies have ceased buybacks and dividends and some haven’t. We shouldn’t have to keep our fingers crossed,” Gelzinis said.

Is there a public list of the companies that took the aid?

Absent real restrictions on the loans, the next best option might be a website that shows the amount borrowed by those companies next to any layoffs, dividends, exec bonuses, or share buybacks they did while taking the loans.
Is there a district-wise covid map that someone could keep a track of this?
Hiya. Author here. Hit me up with questions.
Japan group offers retro video game consoles to cooped-up kids
Verifying the email keeps someone from hijacking the account without leaking that an account formerly existed. At least so long as their email isn't also compromised - in which case they have bigger problems.
This pain point may be a disguised blessing. The sudden demand for remote education might break the lock by local educators, exposing most subjects to global competition. Instead of getting the best teacher within walking or busing distance, parents are starting to level up to picking them from anywhere on the interweb. In many places it's the difference between no choice and some choice.

It's like the difference between being limited to books only by local authors, and being unlimited. It's worth a good deal of pain to get from here to there.

It is a massively less demanding task to curate and monitor your kid's education than to personally conduct it. And even the curating and much of the monitoring can be outsourced.
> Historically, all we needed to thrive was the promise that hard work, creativity, or both, would be proportionally rewarded.

Well, a "cushy military job" isn't really a place where hard work and creativity are rewarded. I'd regard that as a more plausible cause for that lack of motivation, as opposed to simply being secure in one's basic needs.
Lacking active noise cancellation doesn't leave them a generation behind. They're aimed at the Airpods not the Airpod Pros given both feature-set and price. Honestly, these are between the Airpod and Airpod Pro in terms noise cancelling and sound. Google can add a Pro model at a higher price point to compete with the Airpod Pros if they'd like.

Google Pixel Buds: $179, passive* noise cancellation

Apple Airpods: $200, no noise cancellation

Apple Airpods Pro: $250, passive* + active noise cancellation

* For the confused, passive noise cancellation in earbuds is when they form a seal with your ear canal to block external sounds. The Google Pixel Buds do this with the different sized silicon sleeves they include, just like the Airpod Pros do. Active noise cancellation is when the headphones have microphones that sample outside noise and feed an inverse sound wave to your ears to cancel out the external sounds.
>because decimal representations only have countably many digits

This should rather say that it's because decimal representations have digits indexed by the natural numbers I guess, rather than by any larger countable ordinal
If frys hasn't gone out of business yet, they're not going to - last one I was in only sold gift bags and batteries in a massive retail space and yet somehow they were still there. The retail gods must love Mr. Fry.
Probably should change the link to https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/840678984/small-business-resc...
Sell honey, sell crafts, etc
If you’re trying to buy anything on Amazon right now, you’ll likely be frustrated by shipping times. It’s super inconsistent. For example, I got a keyboard delivered to me next day, but if I wanted to have cloth delivered it would take a month. So I’ve started sourcing things that I want to buy directly from the manufacturers.

I really like the Shopify model, as they (currently) don’t compete with their customers unlike Amazon. I was rather surprised that I didn’t see more Shopify stores at some of the sites that I bought things from recently. My one recent example (a ski movement analysis sensor called Carv) was incredible - one click checkout using Apple Pay without having to enter anything to order. I’m hopeful that we can get a credible competitor to Amazon for independent manufacturers in the near future.
Who counts as a 'Western Nation'? [0] I think most people would assume Western Europe and the Anglophones (USA, CAN, AUS, NZ).

If we assume that the US counts in the "hit hard" category, then we can partition western nations by per-capita deaths[1] like so:

Hit Hard: Belgium, Italy, France, Spain, UK, Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, US

Not: Portugal, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand

So I'm guessing that you either a) have a different definition of "hit hard" or b) have an expanded definition of "Western Nation". Eastern Europe and Latin America as regions haven't been hit hard yet.

The impact of covid-19 depends a lot on when it started spreading in a region. Most of the differences between European nations are probably due to when it started. A nation's response mostly affects how it compares to other nations which had outbreaks at the same time. I would guess that India is benefiting most from reacting early in the disease progression relative to other nations.

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

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
I hate to say it but I still don't believe this, it just goes against all intuition that I have, but people much smarter than I have proven it so I take it on faith for doing things like calculus etc just my lizard brain won't let me accept something that looks like less than 1 being 1 the same way that the limit of 1/x as x goes to infinity is zero but it doesn't seem like ti should be. The number gets infinitesimally small but it's still some non-zero number -- I dunno this is probably proving my ignorance it's just what it is.
It was thought by the Greeks that the Amazons had one breast removed in girlhood, to be able to better wield a bow. How ironic, then, that drilling in handling their weapons causes these German soldiers to grow boobs.
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And this I think is the real issue. When someone says that 0.999... = 1.0, what they are saying is that this is true given a number of assumptions that we are taking for granted that would not be obvious to a non-mathematician. There's a lot of math hiding in those '...'.
If you see something similar selling somewhere else, then you can probably sell it too.
I don't really have that problem but I noticed that tips that fit help a lot. They are usually interchangeable and come in several sizes.

In my case, the most comfortable tips came from a no-name cheap pair. So I guess it is one area where fit is more important than anything else.
There is enough resistance to the idea of letting people choose between schools within walking distance that I can't ever imagine it being permissible to choose schools within an unlimited distance.
This is one of the reasons why I completely pulled out of amazon and now focus exclusively on ebay only. Amazon constantly screws over their 3rd party sellers.
They are so customer obsessed that they sent me 5 defective different products one after another last time I purchased electronics from them (feb). In the end, I simply gave up and decided I would never buy anything remotely expensive there. The customer rep didn't do anything. I needed a laptop urgent but the laptop came wrong twice and after emailing jeff (because their customer rep didn't do anything for days mentioning warehouse investigation). I got some indian guy who forgot about me again after telling me to wait a few days. Then another indian guy taking his place told me to wait, that repeated until march of 10-15th. Copy paste responses looking like spam. (gmail even put one of their email in my spambox)

I got nothing in the end and wasted damn time with customer support + money stuck twice... since refunds take time to appear.
Thank you for this. I love music festivals, and as strange as it sounds, one or two a year put me in a much better frame of mind. I've been struggling to explain this to my significant other who accepts it, but ultimately views them as just a party. To me "the psychological, social and emotional benefits are real". Very real.
It's counterintuitive but not surprising?
3 kids here, pre-k, 1st and 2nd grade, so no self-directed learning of any kind going on. 2 working parents, one of us working much harder than normal during this time. We are doing our best to have school directed by our au pair, but her English isn't great so learning new material is not really possible. We just focus on the basics, have them read, write, do math, art, throw in a bit of science, and line up as many zooms with their teach/classmates as we can handle. I was pushing too hard for a while, and the kids were getting upset, which stressed me out, which stressed them out. Came to a head when my 1st grader was screaming at me that he didn't want to do a book report and then literally ran away down the street with me chasing after him. I made a decision to stop stressing that day. I eased up on the deliverables, shortened the school day, and made sure we prioritize de-stressing. Now my wife likes me again.

Without an au pair it would be bedlam and they would learn absolutely nothing, and I recognize that we are far ahead of a lot of people in terms of resources, so I think barely anyone is going to actually have a good experience with at-home schooling unless the kids are older, can actually manage the schooling themselves, and are actually motivated to do so. Or you have one heckuva stay-at-home parent.