skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already have that. Each state gets allocated a number of representatives in proportion to its population, which, in turn, determines the number of congressional districts in that state.
What do they do and how does one start working at a hedge fund?
> reasonable New Yorkers

Holy dog whistle, Batman!
Could an executive order be made to make the approval process more effective and efficient? We did the fist part of the work by identifying the bottle necks (at least broadly), the Acts where approved by Congress, so now let’s optimize.

It seems like a lot of these executive order get thrown out which if true seems like a big waste of time and resources.
if you have clear proof the police do this, you have a lucrative lawsuit on your hands :)
It only comes into force when a majority of EC delegate-states agree, not before.
Thank you. That was interesting.

I am skeptical about the methodology and the results of the paper.

It does not make sense to me, and it looks like the authors knowingly chose to increase the YLL with the choice of their data sets and how they analyzed the correlation between covid deaths and comorbidities.

I’m happy to admit that I might just not fully understand it.
> Even Tclsh with readline would be better than a Python shell

In fact, I think Tcl would make an excellent sh replacement.
Could an executive order be made to make the approval process more effective and efficient? We did the fist part of the work by identifying the bottle necks (at least broadly), the Acts where approved by Congress so now let’s optimize.
It seems like a lot of these executive order get thrown out which if true seems like a big waste of time and resources.
The book's web page makes this pitch: Python-like convenience with Go-like performance, easy safety and correctness via compiler checks, and a huge ecosystem of tools and libraries. Compilation time is definitely a tradeoff, but if any of those bullet points seem interesting to you then you should definitely give Scala a serious look
You know internal combustion engines have spark arrestors by regulation.

Your point still kind of stands: ICE engines aren't without fire risks.
Trump has praised the Chinese government over Tiananmen Square
> Perhaps we can push back against what is effectively legislation by the executive branch.

By doing what? Protest?
Sure, and there's definitely value in that. I can't speak for other products, but GoatCounter intentionally doesn't try to solve every possible analytics use case.

Adding advanced features frequently comes with the trade-off that it makes things harder for people who don't use those features, so by limiting the scope it gets easier/better for some, and worse/harder for others. I found this is the case for software in general.

There certainly should be an UI to quickly compare how the current quarter is doing compared to the last quarter (I wrote some code for that last week, but not done yet), but doing stuff like adding extra search parameters like "from mobile" and "from Netherlands" seem awfully specific to me. While certainly useful for some, most people are not hard-core marketers and adding stuff like that is just "noise" for a lot of people which makes stuff harder to use for them.

Matomo can do all of that, and I also found it hard to use.

Or, tl;dr: Matomo is already good at being Matomo, let's do something different :-)

Related comment from a while ago: https://lobste.rs/s/e8zgt0/github_is_now_free_for_teams#c_r4...
> Holy dog whistle, Batman

Unreasonable people are not a protest's priority. They are entrenched. If they're with you, you won't lose them. If they're against you, you won't win them.

Note that this bias towards the reasonable only applies at the early stages of organization. When one is building awareness, before specific policies have been mooted. Once policy fronts develop, the unreasonable play their part. They create your battering ram of a base that focusses elected leaders on ensuring your policy remains a priority.

Putting the unreasonable front and centre too early leads to each camp preaching to its choir while the masses disengage.
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I agree with the general principle, but in this case Congress can't exactly pass a bill for every project requiring environmental review. They have to delegate some authority to the executive here.
I support abolition of the EC, but only if there is some form of geographic weighting (ideally a smart one) that doesn't allow a handful of cities to dominate the Federal gov't.

I understand that this sounds crazy to people, but as a resident of Colorado who occasionally enjoys marijuana, a substance that my state allows but the Federal gov't has long outlawed, I like the fact that the current system puts a higher emphasis on winning over broader regions of the country without just focusing on cities.

Obviously, I want it to be more of a sane weighting. My concern with not having some form of geographic weighting is that it sets up the USA not for some dramatic Civil War 2 that some people envision, but instead for a peaceful secession of certain regions who would end up going decades without having a voice in the Federal gov't.

Most Americans don't have a strong grasp of WHY the Senate was made the more powerful chamber of Congress. It was done over the objections of the two largest, most powerful states at the time (Virginia and Pennsylvania) at the demand of Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, Mass, etc.

They explicitly stated that they were worried that Philadelphia, New York City, etc would dominate the Federal Gov't and permanently ignore the smaller states who were irrelevant to the power process. It's an odd situation, because the Federal Gov't of the US was a creation of the state governments, not vice versa like many Europeans seem to think.

Obviously, the current EC is pretty silly and feels arbitrary and unjust. But I don't foresee there being a single US nation without some mechanism to prevent a massive, contiguous chunk of the country from being permanently alienated from the legislative process. The history books are pretty clear on the longevity of empires whose governments ignore citizens outside of their urban centers. You can drive from Mexico to Canada in the US without driving through a single state that Hillary won in 2016. I don't see those people putting up with 6 elections in a row of defeat for their candidate. They frankly are already combative as it is.

Ironically, many states in the US already have this issue within their own governments. The citizens of upstate New York are pretty much ignored at the expense of the citizens of New York City. Property taxes reflect this. My home state of Colorado is so dominated by Denver that a minimum wage law was enacted that ignores the vast differences in cost of living across the state, forcing small businesses in tiny towns with extremely low rents to pay as if their employees live in the relatively expensive Denver metro area. The Denver Post, which is absolutely not a conservative rag, opposed the minimum wage law's implementation due to this fact.
I’m enjoying the schadenfreude.
You can't ignore the fact that labor costs were also a large part of the reason manufacturing moved offshore. Those jobs aren't coming back, regardless of environmental regulations.

The path forward is to continue to innovate, not roll back environmental protections.
> The counter is it's also risky to use a company that only does Domain Registration since it's a very low margin business and thus the risk for them shuttering is higher

You can avoid this issue by going with a registrar that focuses on bulk domain sales (eg. internet.bs in my case, but there are more, like eNom I think?), as they have a high-enough volume that they can easily stay afloat even when charging reasonable prices and without aggressive upsells.

It's mostly the consumer-focused "$1 for the first year" registrars like GoDaddy that you want to stay away from. Those are the really problematic ones.

> but since CF's business is literally to take over your domain DNS and slap on some add-on services, adding domain registration in-house seems like a good fit.

Sure, if you want to send all the traffic of all of your users through a man-in-the-middle US-based company with a very dubious past and a questionable business model revolving around basically centralizing the internet.

It's not a great recommendation to make. It also raises the question of why they seem intent on killing off the registrar market by offering "at cost" (which honestly isn't much lower than what aforementioned internet.bs charges anyway).
The animation seems jerky in the sense that the character seems to skip past obstacles. There's never a frame where it's vertically aligned.

For an obstacle positioned at 0, it appears to jump like this.

[... -2, -1, 1, 2, ....]
I don't like these because it's not hard, can't really show skill as people aren't impressed unless you overengineer. I don't have time/desire for that - prefer algo questions as it's some entertainment at least. Although this is probably best way to hire juniors.
There is nothing 'extreme' or 'revolutionary' about adopting strong containment (quarantine) measures during a pandemic. That has been established human practice for millennia. What is extreme is not doing so.

And your mention of the trolley problem is bogus. Early containment measures would have saved lives and the economy. There was no dilemma there.
Well, the real question is whether you have full control over the content posted on those domains. If you do, you should be fine, but the lesson is you should never host anything with user-generated content on Google Domains.
Setting it up so elected officials operate at the county level sets up a level of disconnect between the sheriff and the population that cancels out the accountability that elected office supposedly abides by.
Just about every 4-plex and apartment building in the world wouldn't exist if there was no rent to pay for their construction.

(On a much more minor note, there are not more housing units (about 140M) than people (about 335M) in the US and probably not in the world; though that's literally what you claimed, it's probably not what you really meant to claim. Taking the most charitable re-interpretation of your claim: there are slightly more housing units than households (about 140M vs about 130M) in the US. See above about the prediction that many of these housing units likely not existing [or continuing to be offered/maintained] if rent were outlawed.)
>here's the tough part, don't expand executive power when your own party is in the white house.

Solution to that is a functioning Congress, which requires less polarization (i.e. more compromise) and sane campaign finance laws. Term limits couldn't hurt either.
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A very small portion of pension or 401k plans are held in these ETFs. Pension funds invest in and 401k plans do offer mutual funds that have the same or similar benchmarks that these ETFs have so these facilities have helped to stabilize those.
I don't they will "need" amenities, in the worst case they can just wait in the car.
You are correct. They have 700bb allocated for corporate bonds but no takers. They’ve dumped billions into MBSs and hundreds of millions into ETFs.
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I mean, if you're switching registrars because the last one banned your domain that almost sounds like an endorsement.
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Never use google as a registrar. Support someone else. The internet is bigger than google.
I am sorry for playing the devil's advocate. I also think that pipes are extremely useful and a very strong paradigm, and I use them daily in my work. Also it is not an accident that it is fundamental and integral part of powershell too.

But is this really HN top page worthy? I have seen this horse beaten to death for decades now. These kind of articles have been around since the very beginning of the internet.

Am I missing something newsworthy which makes this article different from the hundreds of thousands of similar articles?
Also notable is that if you go to that section of their site (‘scraping API’), they don’t mention its deprecation and are still advising users upgrade to Pro to scrape.

I guess they can’t figure out how to charge enterprise clients more than the common folk or stand-alone security researchers not backed by a company. This also has the unintended consequence(or perhaps intended, since it is the source of the content people are paying for) of concealing the behavior of malicious actors. Either way, I can almost say with certainty, that I don’t think people were upgrading to Pro for any of their other features.
No need to invoke a deity to do that...

echo 'Hi!' | tee "$(printf "foo\nbar\tqu ux.txt")"
cat foo$'\n'bar$'\t'qu' 'ux.txt

IIRC the latter only works in ksh93+, but the former should be fine pretty much in any shell.
> I believe that car manufacturers in the US are required by law to produce spare parts for 10 years after a model rolls off the assembly line.

With a car your spare parts are typically a small fraction of the value of the vehicle even used. With an iPhone, an official replacement screen will cost more than the 4 year old device is worth. Likewise the mainboard.

Really what I'd like to see is Apple doing a re-use campaign where they recover working parts from their own recycle chain, certify and resell them.
I don't want one person determining our laws no matter who it is.
Might just be my weird browser (Palemoon) (or a mistake in making it into a bookmarklet), but this does nothing other than log "SyntaxError: identifier starts immediately after numeric literal" in the developer tools console. The other url-bar games mentioned in this thread all work (at least normally on their websites).
I meant rather with the aim of progressively replacing smtp.

We complain about these protocols that are too widespread to ever be retired but the reality is that TLS and http are managing the pace, ftp, pop and imap are almost gone, and smtp is probably the last of the 1990s protocols that is frozen in time while being a backbone of communications (and attack vectors) on the internet.
Of course photons carry information about whatever it interacted with. Photons don't have past (photons do not experience time). Photon's energy is the information as well as its polarization, direction from which it comes, etc.

Single photon is very small amount of information, you typically need more photons to get some kind of picture. But then when you think about it, the picture must have been carried by those photons so the information about the object IS in the photons you are receiving.

Now, photons coming away from black hole do not actually come from black hole. The photons that you can see are radiated by matter orbiting and falling into black hole. This carries no information from the black hole other than the geometry of the space (size/mass of the black hole), its angular velocity (angular momentum) and the charge which are the only measurable information about the black hole.
I doubt this is going to prevent even a single serious crime.
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This begs a larger question of how petroleum mega corps are going to weather the transition to electric vehicles. Looking at BP, margins are really poor. They have $22 Billion in cash vs. $11 Billion operating expenses and $24 Billion in debt.

There is time: in March, 2% of new vehicles sold in Europe were BEV. On the other hand, the total spend on electricity per mile driven is 1/3 that of petrol. That means a complete transition would ultimately yield 1/3 the revenue. In order to remain even, the companies would need to see 3x the gross margin on the electricity than they gain on petrol. Is that possible? BP's gross margin is 7.5% (TTM). Can they get <20% gross margin on electricity?

Maybe. But the real killer is people charge at home, over night. So, no. Electric charge stations will not supplement petrol station revenue. They are toast. They'll need to find entirely new businesses to invest in to survive.
Gas stations make much of their money from the convenience store. The margins on the gas itself are pretty thin. The fact that electric cars take longer to charge means it's more likely that people will venture out of the car to browse the store.
There is no way that providing electric charging at gas stations is a boost to all gas station's revenue. Consider extremely rural gas stations for example. (Yes, I am aware Germany is more dense than the US)
I would be down for that, yeah. That's why I don't like the way Trump approaches things as mandates instead of conversations. I think it just ratchets up the divisiveness to the point that people start downvoting you on here if you like one thing Trump does because you think it's good to build houses and give people jobs to buy them with :p
They decide by the Wired guys having a coffee with the Google guys or a chat in some party.

Google is people afterall. Corrupt as fuck. That's why plenty call it gulag.
You took that python shell too literally. Ipython included a shell profile (you can still use it yourself) and https://xon.sh/ works just fine.
> in a place that doesn't have trees

What problems do trees cause for starlink?
"data definition", from MVS JCL.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dredmorbius
I think his points are valid and shouldn’t be dismissed as “poetic blarney”. His words may inspire and other scientists to look into these details more and look for clues to decipher the photons that come from black holes. His statements are qualitative observations, just because something is not quantitatively measurable due to tech limitations doesn’t mean it should be dismissed (much of Einstein’s works was done in his head and confirmed decades later from experiments). Some advancements such as ability to watch for minuscule changes in stars and to determine planetary movements and sizes is probably a good example of some techniques that can be used for studying the photons that are coming off of black holes.. perhaps some day we may indeed be able to measure certain characteristics that give us clues to ancient photons.
In case anyone considers writing this off as a partisan or economic issue, it's worth remembering that both of the acts mentioned here -- the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act -- were enacted by a Republican president during a recession.

He was hardly an environmentalist, either. That's how important this was 50 years ago.
The police union is powerful, but so are several other public sector unions in the city. I don't see any reason to create a special theory for the police only. I guarantee you the mayor will defend the teachers union from criticism as well.
Didn't the Actix creator say "fuck open source, fuck all of you" due to the amount of hate he got from the Rust community for overusing unsafe? That doesn't seem a stable foundation on top of which to build something no matter which side of the argument you fall on.
You will find that a lot of suburbanites have a fair amount of guns and yet the suburbia does not seem to sugger from the same afflictions as inner cities. In short, I think you are wrong about the cause.
If, as you're saying, a complex system of corruption has affected where public money is spent, isn't that actually a great reason to question the legitimacy of police budgets and consider pushing for that money to be spent elsewhere?
You know, this is interesting. Google is taking something close to an editorial stance here - it is clear that they take action against their customers based on content on their sites.

Some might consider that sites with controversial content who use Google as their registrar and not taken down are considered reviewed-and-OK by Google.

Others might start pressuring Google to expand the nature of content they find unacceptable.

And yet others might try pressuring them to expand their policing - who knows how many bad actors could be shut down with Gmail monitoring?
Please don't ever assume you can avoid spaces and quotes. It's just a time bomb.

It's like people saying you don't need to escape SQL values because they come from constants. Yes, they do... today.

It's not just quoting either. It's setting the separator value and reverting it correctly. It's making sure you're still correct when you're in a function in an undefined state. It's a lot of overhead in larger projects.
I was referring to the notion of "bullshit jobs", optimizing for leanness, and neglecting societal safety nets.
How does google know they hit back within three seconds? Oh yeah, monopoly. Break them up.
Oh snap, she’s got an EP on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/album/1Bl6FF8hHZcazhCIxzI46N?si=wrM...
Something’s gotta give. There’s always going to be some sort of gross underbelly to this level of economic damage. I would personally prefer vastly higher taxes but I recognize that it has to come from somewhere.
>there is such a sheer volume of resources like this, which imply very clearly that becoming a programmer is a trivial thing

I think they imply that becoming a programmer is a matter of hard work and the right explanations. I'm 100% sure of the hard work part and maybe 60% sure of the right explanations part.
There are limits to the executive's ability to ignore laws.
It makes a huge difference. You can't use blocking calls in core.async, since they'll block the entire thread. There is no switching when you do a blocking call, the thread your code runs on will be out of commission until the blocking call returns. So this means that blocking APIs are out of the question and this translates to you not being able to write linear, straightforward code. You have to use non-blocking APIs and callbacks, and rely on core.async channels to force switching between blocks (core.async doesn't have lightweight processes). This is a total nightmare to debug and forces you to bend your programming logic to support this non-optimal programming model.

Constrast with Go goroutines or Erlang processes where you write linear, synchronous code that executes as part of lightweight processes. The built-in scheduler will automatically schedule these processes on real OS threads, and switch between them when they block (either through channels or blocking calls). OS thread utilization is far more effective, debugging is a piece of cake and the code that you write is easy to read and understand.

I'm bypassing your "world's foremost concurrency expert" comments. I suggest you use the concurrency offered by Go and Erlang by spending a few hours to do tasks you've done with core.async. You will learn something and you will see how Clojure falls far short of the optimal.
Interesting. Where I come from in Brazil, “sobremesa” is used to describe a dessert, direct translation.

I’d also add the Portuguese word “saudade”, which is a sense of yearning or of missing someone/something - often hard to convey in English.
>Those jobs aren't coming back, regardless of environmental regulations.

And many of those jobs no longer exist... they were automated away long ago. So even if you brought the factories back, it wouldn't put many people to work.
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In NYC, some officers are even covering their badge numbers with black bands. It was supposedly started as a gesture of respect for officers who died to COVID, but who knows?

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/03/nypd-badge-black-band/
And it creates monopolies, perfect for gulag control of the people.
These are permanent solutions to a temporary problem. No one is digging up the roads and pipelines after the economy has recovered.
Perhaps it's useful to reinforce pipes' utility to those who are not aware.

As for being top most article, if I had to guess it's because people feel related to the tool's power and enjoy sharing anecdotes of it.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, but I wanted to say that petrol stations don't have feelings...