skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are interested in developing some intuition on Hilbert spaces, I recommend learning some Fourier analysis. Thinking about how vibrating strings conceptually have infinitely-many modes, but the higher frequency modes matter less and less, gets across a lot of the intuition. The Fourier integral and the spectrum of light is also intuitive.
very cool.

> When writing software for early PCs, every single byte and every single instruction mattered, so developers often wrote code entirely in assembly language simply to be able to physically fit their software into the available memory, and to be able to access the computer’s resources and internal workings.

This made me a bit sad. Imagine how fast things could be today if developers still had this mindset. Of course I wouldn't advocate writing everything in ASM, but the adage that computers are fast, write inefficient code...is disappointing to say the least.
Project Tye
If don’t see the big deal. They are just making you do light paperwork, to document your professional history.

It’s business relevant and you can do it during working hours.
Test prep has a small impact ONLY WHEN ALL OTHER BACKGROUND FACTORS ARE CONTROLLED. Many studies have found that without these controls on things like parental income, school district, etc., test prep has a large impact due to the vastly improved test prep of students who can afford high quality coaching/spend lots of time preparing.
The most HN of comment threads.
More like $100k max for Alabama.
Several established, profitable businesses have been repurposed for social change.

ESPN, The Atlantic, etc.

As a conservative, I find it a little unfair. The institutions typically have built up a legacy of middle-of-the-road communications, then they are repurposed with a decidedly leftward tilt.

Still, The Atlantic provides enjoyable to read articles, even if I don't agree with everything they say. I'm not happy that they undergo this loss.
> If that’s the core argument for UBI i.e. it’s far more efficient, why do such proposed initiatives come with significant tax increases on the population?

This is really just a framing issue.

The way existing programs work, you get $12,000 in food stamps and housing assistance and student loan interest subsidies etc., and then they phase out at higher incomes.

With a UBI, everybody gets it, unconditionally. The "phase out" is taxes. You get $12,000, but by the time you've made e.g. $60,000/year in income, you've paid $12,000 in taxes to fund the UBI, and it cancels out. Opponents paint this as you've paid $12,000 more in taxes, but really it nets to zero. Meanwhile the person making $80,000 might "pay $16,000" in taxes, but it's really only $4000 because they still get the $12,000 UBI.

It's the same as having $12,000 in benefits which phase out below your income level, except that the accounting is much clearer so that you can easily see what the true marginal rates everyone is paying are, and you can't accidentally create ridiculous marginal rate cliffs by having independent programs phase out in the same place.
I'd be very interested in any example of C++ having "Code that is simple and easy to read, understand, and write" as a goal.
There are no controls. Once you put something like that in place and create a dependent population, there is no going back. It would take a violent revolution to repeal it.
Someone with a brain, finally.
Headline is strange. The article itself says something similar but not the same:

> But in a new study, the researchers have found that bots may account for between 45 and 60% of Twitter accounts discussing covid-19.“

Edit: this was more interesting:

> not only were bots gaining traction and accumulating followers, but they accounted for 82% of the top 50 and 62% of the top 1,000 influential retweeters
Title is Bogus:

Should be:

IBM uses Covid19 as excuse to cut more jobs and get away with it . . .
Luckin Coffee Shares Plunge After It Resumes Trading on Nasdaq
this whole school choice and insurance choice neoliberal mantra is what has gotten us into this mess to begin with. The entire insurance sector is a huge waste of manpower and essentially just huge dump for the surplus of white collar university graduates that have nowhere to go.

There's not a single person on the planet who derives benefits from navigating the trade-offs of byzantine insurance plans, and school choice is a good way to speed up social and racial segregation and enabling quasi fraudulent religious schools that teach people nonsense.

It's time we do away with this altar of choice. I moved from Germany to the UK years ago, and I've never enjoyed anything more than the NHS because I literally do not have to waste a minute of my life on health insurance any more. I pay X amount of taxes, I go to the doctor, I get treated, I go home.
Central banks exist to ensure debasement. By its very nature, fractional reserve banks cannot honor their contracts. The purpose of a central bank is to print money to ensure the solvency of the fractional “reserve” bank cartel.

And predictably, we’re here at zero percent interest rates, large levels of private and public debt, and the public starting to realize that they can use the printing press too and demand to be given free money (UBI).
Microsoft's interest in on-premises business with these products is waning, just as the market share for them is also waning. They most assuredly aren't trying to win the war against Linux on the server. That war has been won (by Linux) and MS is off chasing other revenue streams that are growing.
Yes. You click a button or fill in a form to say you were. Done.

It's obviously not full-blown UBI, but it's certainly a form of BI, and I think it very clearly dis-proves many of the "supposed" problems that a UBI will create like massive inflation, people lazing about not working, everyone doing drugs, etc. etc.
I've evolved it over time - I think budgeting, the csv import is key to get a rough handle on expenses, but I guess not every bank supports that.
Yet we won’t find longevity research.
It is extremely difficult to do archeology in many countries in the middle-east, even pre-war.

Turkey, for example refuses most requests for digs. It is generally understood that they don't want excessive religious historical context placed on their country as it doesn't mesh well with their current national identity.
Everything you say just isn't true in many places on Earth.
They use it extensively. The file extension isn't "msix" though.
What happens when someone spends all their labor-earned money on whiskey or oxy and consumes it all and is then hungry?
Non-capitalist societies that industrialized also saw enormous gains in wealth.

The difference between the US and the USSR was much smaller than the difference between pre-industrialized Russia, and the USSR.
You can pay for tutoring that will improve your ability to answer those types of questions rather than increase your intelligence. If the standardized tests were good tests of general knowledge then paying $4,000 for a prep course shouldn’t be able to materially increase your score. You’re basically learning how to solve the SAT/ACT/LSAT puzzle, not suddenly learning a few years of school in 2 weeks.
Related: The Museum of the Bible in DC recently admitted their "Dead Sea Scrolls" were forgeries: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of...

And a longer piece about a forged first-century gospel from the same institution: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/museum-...
The lead author Dr. Neil Rau has been arguing against lockdowns since February. It seems disingenuous for him now to claim that lockdowns have been successful and so it's ok at this point to lift them, without admitting that he was wrong to oppose them earlier.
If you're using RabbitMQ on .Net, I highly recommend using NserviceBus. It's made working with queues so easy. It handles maintaining a connection and retrying/acknowledging messages for you.
The tests are used to enforce age discrimination bias indirectly to shield from lawsuits. But at the same time I can't stand those employers who are quick to hire and quick to fire usually they're too lazy to do decent job of vetting. Its a tough question how to analyze someone's capabilities. So there is no easy answer. If you were working tons of unpaid overtime your github may be a ghost town who has time for side projects when the main job is asking for 80+ hours a week. There's no easy answer here except we should stick to practical questions and avoid testing for computer science concepts which are only valuable for university teaching or research positions in computer science.
Surely someone better qualified than me can make some pertinent remark?
It all makes sense to me but what about an epidemiologist's opinion?
agree with your comment

Also, a genuine question

Are Amazon, Twitter, Google, Facebook really doing any very technically amazing things?

mostly they are building platforms to collect more and more data and spy more and more

that's hardly cutting edge stuff that needs the world's best engineers

perhaps Facebook is beginning to realize this
Show HN: Play rock paper scissors remotely over chat
Just came up with it. It needs weakness analysis though.

0. Alice creates alice.txt file with 'scissors' text in it

1. Alice zips alice.txt with password Apass as alice.zip

2. Alice sends alice.zip to Bob

3. Bob creates bob.txt file with 'paper' text in it

4. Bob zips bob.txt and alice.zip with password Bpass as bob.zip

5. Bob sends bob.zip back to Alice

6. They share their passwords over chat and unzip both zip files

7. Alice wins.
Along with this, I added this snippet to firefox/userChrome.css:

#TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse !important; }

I absolutely love it, now there's no title bar on my Firefox. My screen is big enough that I have the horizontal space to spare, and it feels sleek without the tabs on top. If you've tried out Firefox before and felt like it wasn't quite there yet, now is a good time to give it another try.

More info on userChrome here, if anybody wants to try it out: https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html
This is why a local stub is a very good idea.
Chuck E. Cheese, Applebee's deliver food under different restaurant names
Can you answer the question directly? This glib response does nothing except, I guess, reveal your dislike of surfers (?).
Meh, things in life don't need to be so serious. I'd get a good laugh out of it.
Did you actually play Alyx though? It’s amazing. I think VR will dominate both the consumer and commercial markets as it matures. It will be a defining technology of our lives.
Love the Cromwell reference! And your main response is on-point, as well.

However, when I read that Dennis Kwok, a pro-democracy lawmaker, said "This is a complete and total surprise and I think it means the end of one country, two systems" [my emphasis], I hope he is saying this rhetorically, rather than as an expression of being blindsided by the turn of events.
"where are the bots to close America?"

On FB, I recently saw a meme along the lines of "a couple weeks of eating their own cooking and white people are rioting".
https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD
An open source Covid-19 exposure notification solution
& this exists, https://webtorrent.io/faq
>The original version of DOS that Microsoft bought to license to IBM for the PC was written in 6 weeks.

Is this actually true? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson

When a book appeared in 2004 claiming that 86-DOS was an unoriginal "rip-off" of CP/M,[6] Paterson sued the authors and publishers for defamation.[7][8] The judge found that Paterson failed to provide any evidence regarding "serious doubts" about the accuracy of the Gary Kildall chapter.
OMG, Washington State, I live near Seattle, Inslee is a complete idiot. I have gotten several letters telling me my unemployment is on its way, I keep going online to the web site and telling them no, I have not filed a complaint. Then say we have frozen your ability to file a complaint. Total incompetence. Also they set up a tattle tail web site to report violators of the covid stay at home order. Then the identities of all of the people who made reports got stolen and promptly everyone on the list got unemployment claims made. Unbelievable.
Here's a tangentially related def con about the strange economics of that whole scam. Basically, everyone in the chain apart from the cardholder benefits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IT2oAzTcvU
fixed, sorry about that.
I start to wonder if he might be loosely summarizing the story in a way that makes it more amusing.

Like maybe there was a card explaining it and he either threw it away without reading or left it out of the story. Maybe the parallels to The Godfather are something he thought of later.

Or maybe you're right, and whoever sent it was kinda dopey and thought a fellow Washington State person would immediately get the reference, and he didn't.
Test Utility Method Pattern
Most other sites would accept the upload, try to parse it and then return an error message. Its always the sites fault if it just gets stuck
If the iPhone took pictures in webp format, exactly the same thing would have occurred. College board doesn’t accept that either despite it being open.
If they spend lots of time preparing, they deserve it right? Even if you compare a rich kid preparing full time versus a poor kid preparing exhausted for an hour at the end of the day, the rich kid rightly deserves it - logically they'll also have more time for their studies at the college and do better at it.

I'm all for equal opportunity, but not of outcomes.
Sharing your username and password is considered "high security" nowadays whereas merely "standard security" would be installing a root kit or running shell code each time you want to install something.
Sorry guys, it was a busy day and just realized this kinda picked up, cloudflare workers reached their limit and I am now looking into a solution.

In the meantime, it can be accessed via https://www.notion.so/cd2571b6bd0b434f8bf2042d5fa0d6ea
> recommendation algorithm (time based)

Can't any choice (not being purely audio, why the title is only in X languages, etc) can be considered editorial, for any TV news show or book? It isn't constructive to construe FIFO as editorial when it is the common way to experience and share events. Since content creators ostensibly retain control of what is published, they could ideally rearrange their content in their feed by re-pub or out of order publishing anyway.
Yagni, Cargo Cult and Overengineering (2017)
The psychology of a large one time payment versus a passive, smaller one is absolutely immense and should not be equated. Native tribes have oftentimes given their youth large payments that get spent on expensive consumer goods that wind up back in pawn shops, but UBI experiments in Kenya and in low income areas around the world have shown dramatically different results with the hallmarks of upward mobility presenting (risk taking, lower stress, future orientation, etc.). Lottery wins are nothing like a permanent trust fund that pays out if you stay out of jail like in Yang’s UBI.
Fundamentals of the P Versus NP Problem [audio]
I wonder what will happen to the next gen of video codecs. The proprietary video codec is on the verge of collapse with most new devices now shipping AV1 decoders and streaming services looking at switching to AV1 when available.
It is. There are books on all kind of things, are we going to burn books we don't like, next?

The line is already there, we don't need corporations to draw it for us. If something isn't illegal, it should not be censored.

If people commit crimes they'll get arrested.

Including those that commit crimes because they watched the extremely fringe and dangerous Qanon conspiracy theory you mentioned--which from what I've heard makes you torture and kill small animals right after the first video, to continue onto progressively worse things as you keep watching (stay away from it, kids!).
Simply habit can keep people paying. Previous to the internet , my routine was to wake up, get dressed and pick up the morning paper to read at the coffee shop.

That was about 50 cents a day.

If the system allows for it, I would probably commit to buying twitter access on a daily basis as I brush my teeth.
Considering that Plaid, which is "please enter your bank username and password so we can validate you are who you say you are" is very common, just assume nobody cares about anything
Please stay firmly tucked away while the scammers raid $100 for every man, woman, and child in our state. :-P
I can confirm. The average graduating high school senior or first-year college student is woefully inept at technical tasks. They grew up with tablets and smart phones, but outside the common apps, they aren't any more tech-savvy than anybody else.

Source: I work in tech for higher ed.
FYI what they're referring to is this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/windows-dia...

This page outlines everything additional they recieve on the Full setting.

> In the Windows 8 days, they claimed that engineers couldn’t silently pull individual files from machines without managerial approval. I can’t find the source. It was some old news article with an interview with a Microsoft manager.

I recall reading something similar, but for Windows 10. AFAIK it said that engineers diagnosing a difficult problem can select a group of machines to receive raw telemetry from, after getting permission from managers + microsoft's privacy team. I have a feeling it was for insider builds only though.
"Plenty of people will voluntarily give food to a hungry person."

Not enough, with the amount of hunger that's present in the richest country in the world.
Of course, yes. Doesn't make any sense.
It’s about time MS open sourced QuickBasic or at the very least released it as abandonware.
I wonder if the decision was made on data. Is SAT score correlated to college GPA? Educated guess says high school gpa has a stronger correlation.
It's probably not worth it. Anyone needing near-real-time feed webhook updates will probably build their own scraper.
Pac-Man Turns 40
This concisely captures an important element of the dynamic. I am often offered extremely high wages, even by Silicon Valley standards, to work remotely from wherever I wish. And some of these companies are not in expensive locales. They aren’t always paying for geography.

There are many skills and levels of talent for which there is always a global shortage.
> Under the gov't version, if you were healthy, you're "free". You only cost when you actually need the medical treatment.

Government insurance is still insurance. It isn't that each individual costs the government $10,000, it's that most cost them nothing and one in ten gets cancer and costs $100,000. Insurance is the same. The large majority of the money isn't going to the insurance company, it's going to healthcare providers.

> By making medical treatment a tax payer funded scheme, the cost of an unhealthy society is spread out amongst all.

This is literally the definition of how insurance works. It's also why insurance sucks, because it allows people to make risky/unhealthy choices and socialize the costs of those choices, and therefore why high deductible insurance is more efficient by introducing at least some price sensitivity.

> Not only does this give the gov't buying pressure to lower the margins of all medical treatments

This is equivalent to legislating prices. They can already do this regardless, but it's a bad idea for the same reason price controls in general are. How do you determine what the price should be? Too high and you're overpaying, too low and you force providers to lower the quality of care to meet the price target. If this was so easy then why wouldn't the insurance companies be doing it too?

> it also makes a policy pressure for gov't to give preventative measures for good health outcomes (like legislating low sugar foods, or incentivize exercise and good diet etc).

Couldn't they do this anyway? Also, wouldn't they have the opposite incentives, because then the companies making blood pressure medicine or whatever would lobby against any such programs, and be more proficient lobbyists because they're already dealing with the government to begin with?

And if the government really is so much more efficient then they should easily be able to out-compete the insurance companies and other healthcare providing systems on fair terms in a competitive marketplace, right?
> They are not and never have been. They have always been paid what someone is willing to pay them for the work they do.

“Willing” is the wrong word. People are paid based on what the company can get away with paying them, as long as it’s less than the amount that they are “willing” to pay (then they don’t get hired).

In other words, the labor market is more like a 2nd price auction than a 1st price. This is obvious when considering the “go get a competing offer and show it to your current employer who will match” strategy. You just changed the 2nd price!
Do I really need to explain that if I upload a file to Dropbox or iCloud it's still not on the web site form where I want it?
No, what 99% of sites are doing is

<input type="file" accept="image/png, image/jpg, image/jpeg" />

If you do that, Safari will convert the HEIC image to a JPEG automatically when you try to upload it.

What they did instead was to poorly reinvent the accept header in Javascript as follows:

<input
type="file"
...
onChange={async e => {
const split = file.name.split('.')
const fileType = split[split.length-1].toLowerCase()
const isAllowedExtension = extensions.includes(`.${fileType}`)
}}
/>

(per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23261598).
> Since text is difficult to manipulate without a physical keyboard, visual programming opens the doors to doing development on mobile devices.

All content creation is difficult on mobile devices, other than passive content creation like shooting videos and taking pictures.

Visual programming will be way easier on a desktop machine with a proper mouse, and a real keyboard (for the UI shortcuts you will end up using).

But, about the main question, visual pogramming has no value beyond being friendly to newbies.

This is like asking why don't Fisher-Price plastic tools for kids take carpentry by storm. They are so light and easy to hold, why don't we frame houses with them?