skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine simple government software that acts as a middle man and sends out automatic fines if the api is not up to spec.

I would like to see a complete log of every purchase made like my bank keeps only with much more detail, each bill broken down to well described products with pictures, serial numbers and manuals. As that involves sensitive data we would have to think of some way to wrap it.

I also want tax office to have real time access to a relevant sub set. One administration with every purchase in the country and ever hour worked.

Then do salaries and taxes by the second and split off tax payments right where the transaction happens.

Might as well aggregate everything for sale into one giant government web store.

If everything is made insanely convenient it doesn't matter what it costs. No more sloppy fuzzy business but everything by spec.

I wonder how many people want to start a business but are simply to terrified by the paperwork.
The US has worked to prevent this. I remember as a kid in the middle east (a time/place where everything was in cash) seeing commercials from the US that said, in effect: "We are printing new 100$ bills. The old ones will be good _forever_. Don't fall for scams selling new bills for old."

Even at the time I thought those commercials came from a good place. Being a world currency sometimes going the extra mile to protect not just its value or exchange rate, but the reputation of its physical manifestation.
Neither the Xbone or the PS4 offer 8GB of ram to the game (system reserves), and yet almost every AAA game launches on those platforms.

They likely couldn't run Slack or the NYT tho. Just think about how slow the PS4 store loads (it's html5) or the whole xbone ui.

Games are actually optimized for speed. NYT is optimized on a different key performance indicator.
This is literally the business model of DoorDash, brought to you by the same genius investment firm who brought you Uber and WeWork.
He has a $5M house in the LA Hills.. I think "doing the right thing for his family" means "buying a vacation home in Jackson Hole" or something by now..

https://www.thetravel.com/joe-rogan-house-bell-canyon-califo...
That being the case, which is worse, youtube or spotify in this case?
If there was a coordinated embrace and move to DoT (at least for the "last mile" part between end users and resolvers), network operators wouldn't be able to get away with blocking it (see secure IMAP, secure POP etc. for similar shifts in the past).
There’s no shortage of companies who value money more than morals. Those affected can host their sites with one of them.
> Lebron's coaches have been pedestrian in comparison.

LeBron has been hand-picking his whole team for a decade now. If he was unable to find a decent coach, which is not subject to the same restrictions as stacking the team with all-star players, then that shortcoming is also entirely on LeBron.

And Phil Jackson's championships were on team's featuring arguably three of the greatest players of all times: Jordan, O'Neal, and Briant. I wouldn't argue that O'Neal and Briant's rings were a result of Phil Jackson.
Good luck running a large maintainable application without user-defined functions.
Tesla Owners Try to Make Sense of Elon Musk’s ‘Red Pill’ Moment
This article was very disappointing. The author writes like an American neo-con warhawk who fantasizes about the entire world and tech industry choosing US over China thus isolating and containing it.

China trying to move up the value chain so hard-working Chinese citizens aren't stuck working in sweatshops forever is treated as a mortal national security threat that the whole word must unite to stop. Luckily private American tech-firms and non-Anglo countries don't buy this BS and wants to establish a win-win relationship and don't want to pick sides.

The latest Huawei escalation has shown the entire tech industry that US supply chain can't be trusted. If I were TSMC I would be looking hard into how Japanese semiconductor equipment can substitute all American ones.
Here’s the more correct version:

Before and during the war, up until the late 80’s, 1 USD was worth 3 Lebanese pounds (LBP).

In the late 80’s (war ended in 90-91) the USD reached well over 1000 LBP, and reached 2500 LBP in 1992.

In 1997, the LBP was pegged to the dollar at 1 USD = 1507 LBP.

Fast forward to 2020, where the banking system has started showing cracks, and there are 3 exchange rates at the moment:

- Official rate: 1 USD = 1507 LBP
- Banks’ rate: 1 USD = 3000 LBP
- Exchanger’s rate: 1 USD = 4200 LBP (changes daily)
there's no protocol-level guarantee of that, both transactions are perfectly valid, signed transactions and it's purely dependent on the good behavior of node operators to reject these

and in fact it is quite common to accept "double-spending" since that is really the only way to increase fees to push through a "stuck" transaction. Otherwise you have to wait an indeterminate (potentially forever) period of time until it exits the mempool of all network participants
> I don't understand why it isn't just optional.

they probably got served with a secret order from the gov.
It seems like we should distinguish between hardware and the platform that software runs on.

I'm wondering if the same software can be deployed to mainframes and non-mainframes easily. Is the hardware sufficiently abstracted away so that it's like running a Docker file?

I do realize that virtual machines were invented in the mainframe era, but I'm wondering how it's done nowadays.
People born as men who transition to women, and I fully support them, have unfair advantages against people born as women. Would you agree with that statement?

A better solution would be to allow a gender-agnostic bracket alongside women and men, where anyone can compete.

To people downvoting me: Please use the upvote/downvote as marking my contribution relevant or irrelevant, not to mark disagreement.

PS: I fully support trans people in all their rights, should go without saying but that is far from the default these days.
Still stupid, shouldn't they ask if I want that functionality? Not like it's going to be hard to brute force a user's PIN.

They should explain what the pins is BEFORE they ask. What it looks like is you are going to be locked out of signal if you make a mistake. Not like the average signal user is watching the whisper systems blog.
> The only misconception is that its 20 years out of date instead of 50.

Clarification: Are you saying that Java is actually 50 years out of date?
It seems like Pharo has all the action going on. Is Squeak still maintained.
Based on some quick back of the napkin calculations, we'd probably be facing severe overcrowding and famine; same as if Genghis Khan had been a stillborn.
I've wondered this, too. There have been maybe a handful of things I've found out about, gotten excited about, and went and purchased. At least since the days when I had to bug a parent to buy it for me (I'm in my 50s). In each case, I proactively went out and bought it on my own. I never clicked on the ad. I don't know if I ever have clicked on an ad, let alone bought something that way.

I've been assuming I'm somewhere close to normal (definitely debatable) and that most people when they want to buy something just go and do it. How many people actually see an ad, get excited about it, click through, buy the product, and then come out of a kind of trance or something and wonder what caused them to do that? I'm probably more susceptible to candy displays at grocery check out counters than I am to online advertising. I'll occasionally buy one of those and tell the clerk it's an "impulse buy".

I assume there's a reason this is a billion dollar industry, but if I'm the poor schlub they are targeting then I wonder how they even stay afloat.
> I have a feeling PyPy is eliminating the string conversion as dead code.

If I'm not mistaken, the specific variation of the benchmark shown upthread could not be eliminating the string conversion, as it's adding the length of the resulting string to a variable which is later printed.

> len(str(i))
Pretty marginal gains at the expense of eventually centralising most of the world's DNS lookups through a handful of FAANGs.
I've tried a ton of online apps before eventually writing my own. YNAB can be used to help track spending very well. The budgeting aspect is more to help with self control. For example.. Say you want to tighten down on things a bit, and you notice you spend $230/mo on going out to eat. You can set the budget to $200/mo which basically makes the number red instead of green if you go over.

I would place Lunch Money above YNAB right now. It tracks money in a bit intuitive way, and is easier to use in my opinion.
When you talk to most cisgender people, two of the biggest transgender issues they mention are sports and bathrooms. Meanwhile when transgender people are allowed to choose what sport to compete in or what bathroom to choose, there have been very few problems from them. It seems to me that lots of people just fundamentally believe that transgender people are wrong, gross, or whatever derogatory term you want to use and they work backwards from there looking for excuses before eventually landing on sports and bathrooms.
Link?

Not that I don't believe you but I can't find any information
The Power Imbalance in Hiring
That is a barbaric lie. It's akin to Christians taking credit for the Greco-Roman civilisation. Completely backwards. Persia / Babylon / Sumer was one of the first advanced civilisations. Arabs have contributed nothing to civilisation in terms of anything and are pretty much like the mongols for their role in history.
They did! It came out back in February
I keep a personal capital sync around for pretty much their retirement planner which pulls data from your synced accounts and does some light portfolio checks / some good visualizations of sectors that you’re invested in.

https://www.personalcapital.com/
> Generally in the US there's no career path to becoming a tenured professor.

It's true that, in general, there are far more graduating PhD students every year than tenure-track faculty positions. But I think "no career path" drastically overstates the difficulty. It's way easier than making it as a pro athlete, for example.

> A lot of assistant professors, etc. sleep in their cars.

Are you thinking of adjunct professors, who are not tenure-track? Assistant professors typically make at least 50k+, and in the more lucrative fields (computer science, business schools, biopharm I think) >100k is common.

> You would have to have the right connections, or publish papers that were undeniably brilliant. (ie. be a celebrity.)

You're correct that an average PhD student will probably not get any tenure-track faculty interviews, let alone offers. This is especially true in more resource-constrained fields like the humanities.
You’re forgetting what was mentioned in the article: one of the 2 enemies can’t/isn’t printing money at the moment, and is sitting on a deflationary currency.
What would you look for in a coach or a mentor?
For simplicity, let's say that:

- the role of a coach is more strategic, working with you over a longer period of time to help you to achieve longer term goals
- the role of a mentor is more tactical, offering advice or feedback on specific situations day-to-day

As an engineer:

- Have you ever considered working with either a coach or a mentor?
- What kinds of things might you ask someone like this to help you with?
Banning Alex Jones is a good thing.
You sure you're not referring to CloudFlare and The Daily Stormer?
Never had a single issue with official repositories.
I used to drive a truck on a beach cleaning crew.

We were driving along at about 3 in the morning when the truck suddenly stopped. The wheels were in quicksand. The front of the truck eventually sank up to the headlights.

There was a buried outflow pipe from street sewer drains that emptied into the ocean.
The pipe broke and the water/sand mixture turned into quicksand at that point. On a beach at 3 in the morning this wasn't the least bit obvious.

Needless to say, the boss was not amused.
Forget namespaces. What about local variables?
A few weeks ago, out of Coranavirus-induced boredom, I decided to run Apple Rhapsody in VMWare, which can be thought of as a very early version of OS X.

At first, I couldn't get it to boot—it kept kernel panicking, and I couldn't figure out why. After a bit of Googling, I found the problem—I'd given the VM too much memory. Rhapsody DP2 will not boot if it has access to more than 192 MB of RAM. I assume Apple figured that no one would ever need that much.

Rhapsody came out in 1998. Not really that long ago.
> And the quality of WDDM drivers has always been higher than anything Linux has.

And the outcome of implementing this seems to ensure it will stay that way.
That only makes sense if you consider someone like Alex Jones to be “just another person who happens to have different opinions about some things than some other people”. He never got shit from anyone for merely offering unpopular opinions, his history (and present) is much more complicated and fucked up than that. He’s definitely on a short list of people for whom humanity in general is worse off overall for having him in it. Like a negative contributor on a team who just makes work for other people, he’s a negative contributor in many, many ways for all of humanity, and not just from spreading transparent lies and obvious disinformation. He never got in trouble for simply saying something someone else disagreed with, he got in trouble for directly fucking with the lives of victims of horrible tragedies, over and over again.
That's one thing I have been thinking about. I think Haskell and other statically typed functional programming languages would benefit from a more interactive REPL like experience for "non-pure" programming where you are sort of changing the wheels on a moving car.

This has a very reactive flavor, so I think you could have a sort of functional reactive approach where your hot-swappable definitions are represented as behaviours over time.

How to make that get out of your way until you actually want to swap things out, I have no clue. I think it will involve some sort of effect system, but I'm not sure if that will solve the problem.
I'm sort of shocked this isn't already solved. Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Apple could cement themselves as the "only viable browsers" by solving this. Here is how I see it:

- Form a consortium (just like the competing banks did in the 50s to create Visa).

- Google, Apple, and Microsoft already have expertise in collecting payments and running services, which they can lend to the consortium.

- Each member creates a UI in their own browser for micropayments that is backed by the consortium.

- The UI has the ability to add funds (processed by the consortium) and set budgets and have little check boxes for "ask me every time" or "automatically pay if below 1 cent" or "allow up to $5 / mo on this web page" or lots of other budget options so that you don't have to think about it every time.

- When you go to a page, they can throw up a request for payment (which if you've already made a budget decision you don't even see as a user), you send a token, they pass the token to the consortium who moves the money from your account to theirs.

- The consortium pays out to web pages when they have earned more than $10 (just like Adwords!) and generates a 1099 or equivalent. They take a piece of pie at this point.

And now if you want an ad free experience, or want to use a site that requires micropayments, you must use one of those browsers. And the site owners can offer both. Send back a payment request, if it fails, show ads.

Heck, even if Google didn't want in, Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft could pull it off without them (they still have about 38% of the market).

You can secure it using standard crypto. The browser generates a private/public key pair. The website generates a keypair. Both sends the public key to the consortium. When you make a payment, you generate a message that says "I pay foo.com 1 cent" and then sign it. Foo.com takes the message, wraps it up and says, "I want 1 cent" and signs it. The consortium verifies the signatures, makes sure the amounts add up, and then sends back an "OK" response if the user has the funds available.

They key here is that if those four agree on a UI and agree to a central payment processor, they have enough pull that website owners will want to use the service. Especially if there are no per transaction fees.

This also solves the onboarding problem for website owners. It pushes it to the consortium. Who can push it right into their parent companies. Google could automatically tie payment to your Google account, and so could Apple and Microsoft. It would be part of the UI.

In fact it would be a good workaround for Google in the new "do not track me" world.

People block ads because they are annoying, and trackers because they get no perceived benefit.

But payments provide benefit to the user, so they would be more willing to make the payment, thus providing tracking data. And for Google it would help cut Facebook out of the tracking because then they could encourage blocking tracking while accepting payments!
>> the migration of Windows to linux

Please no. Please keep your peanut butter out of my chocolate. Call me a purist, but linux should take nothing from windows, give no ground, make no compromise. One must die for the other to live.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
A surprising number of these folks in the SFBA are willing to relocate.
> If awk's syntax was a subset of either python or JS, wouldn't it be better to just use python or JS?

Not necessarily—sometimes it makes sense to use Datalog instead of Prolog, for example.
Olive Oil Consumption and Cardiovascular Risk in U.S. Adults
I, too, enjoyed skimming search results about Grand Theft Auto and Peter Madsen and ended up with the same article you did (via another HN thread). Unsurprisingly I drew the same conclusions you did.
> Lots of the early archeology exported antiquities legally. At the time most of the Middle East, Greece included, was ruled by the Ottoman Empire that granted official permissions for western archeologists to take objects or even whole buildings and edifices.

But this answer can't satisfy anyone who cares about the issue, because there's no good argument that these exports were legitimate, just legal. Compare the Soviet Union's early efforts to sell off treasure and art belonging to the Czar -- they couldn't do it, because no one would buy their stolen goods. (Eventually, this broke down as the Soviets stayed in power.)

Saying it's fine for the British Museum to have Greek antiquities because the Ottoman Empire, the mortal enemies of the Greeks, gave them permission to take whatever they wanted... looks ridiculous. Imagine China freely granting permission to foreign archaeologists to dismantle and export Tibetan palaces and monasteries.
So they WILL port DirectX to Linux, but only when it's running as a VM atop Windows.

Typical..
Using date-of-death based statistics does indeed cause a misleading drop-off in the last few days - there's no perfect way of reporting uncertain information like this in real time - and I should probably have noted that, yeah, but the decline was longer term than that. Though in any case, it looks like my guess was wrong and the problem with Florida stats was even more embarrassing than that. Like, I'd assume if the supposed data manipulation had to do with drumming up support for reopening it'd have some relevance to what was happening now...
one can be against censorship and against the message being censored.

in other words : don't assume those that defend people like Alex Jones are defending his opinions.

Many are defending his ability to transmit his message, regardless of the quality of that message, in the interest of preserving that ability for themselves and causes that they support.
Have you listened to Howard Stern lately? Sirius XM is getting ripped off and he would be insane NOT to re-sign his contract. His show is just not funny, creative, or interesting anymore and it seems like he just gave up a long time ago.

"cutting out the middleman (SiriusXM) and reaping all of the profits himself"

Most radio personalities don't want to have to deal with all of the technical aspects of running a podcast (if you don't have good studio equipment and people to run it, your show will not be entertaining and the sound quality will be seriously lacking).

You also need to manage things like getting advertisers, and show producers (Stern has many people working behind the scenes). It's much easier to just sign a contract with Sirius for 500 Million/year and call it a day.

When you make this much money, you can pretty much already get anything you want. Why bother with all of the hassle of running everything yourself?
He made over $30 million last year on just his podcast. HE still gets checks every month for News Radio since it syndicated. He has several investments in several businesses. He works for the UFC. He has Netflix specials.

Some guess he is pulling in over 100 million a year. I'm sure he and his family are going to be ok.

I figure Jamie probably makes 1 million a year...
Ever since the arrival of multi-core CPUs chip speed should probably be considered a dual number: max single core throughput and total throughput.

Also, my over 6 year old DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) CPU[0] is still plenty fast. It’s almost everything around it I have since upgraded (NVMe SSD, RAM, audio interface, video card) to keep overall system performance high.

[0] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/77780/i...
Its amazing that i had just posted a link of Notion in the twitter and Linkedin for a tool to use as daily driver and just in few hours it shows up here. To be honest, its a good tool to learn from and master but it needs to be open sourced to grow much better.
Notion is just an idea coming live like once Linkedin or GitHub was. We need a platform to integrate all other tools in a single place and it will take a lot of efforts.
There are 2 ways to achieve it.
1. Private like Notion
2. Public like ?
I personally feel all big companies must release api's( if they don't already) and work in harmony to create an ultimate plug and use workspace system.
Due to rapid growing of Tech stacks and tools every day.
This is once of the biggest product i can see in futures to come.
I read comments about security and how people wanted it real bad. To implement security in product like Notion, it might need a rework from scratch as they this was probably not a concern when they started it and as it grows it will be difficult to even integrate it again this is were an open source community comes into play and can be very helpful.

From views on Notion perspective is that this is the right time to go open source and let the world patch in. It's not a work that can be done in private as it's a huge pile of possibilities and requires an immense group of talented people to make it a success.

Why don't i do it then?
Well i can definitely start a repo but my lack of experience, skills will easily out-number me by people who are better. I can be a good thinker and a decision maker and a leader but this thing needs support from amazing people and a repo is generally successful because of immence tech skills in initial phase of development in open source.
> It seems like he wants transgender people out of sports completely

I think this is something you're reading that's not quite there. He isn't sensitive to the topic, but I don't think he hates trans people.
For further reading, Wikipedia has a list of freeports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_economic_zones
> after macbook’s position as the default developer laptop

Perhaps in your country/field. Certainly not in mine...