skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, but it isn't
Looks like it's based on the honor system, the buttons can still be pressed even if you don't put a coin in. Still pretty impressive for cardboard.
Good point. I prefer the one about the Viking lander since it still fresh in my mind. It's interesting that no other lander/rover has carried out experiments to test for life on mars since Viking in 1976. It seems like the only people that are promoting life on mars are the scientist that worked on the experiment that did detect evidence of life
nobody's paying

that's the issue
Yes. I's forgotten its xedit roots. Lots of interactive operations like block editing a subset of lines matched by pattern. And it could edit huge files fast.
In other words, $20B is untraceable to origin. Not bad, considering how much physical currency in circulation
$20B/330M population = $60 per capita. Uncle Sam must be happy.
As noted in the linked article, arguably the most notable implementation of his ideas was the HTTP spec.

He wasn't suggesting people build APIs; he was suggesting people build websites.
They likely have a better implied return than Treasuries and many corporate bonds though, and people invest trillions of dollars in those. Risk-free investments that beat inflation aren't easy to find.

There are some issues with postage stamps as an investment, though. They're not as liquid as T-bills, though if they become a popular investment that problem solves itself. More worrying is that the USPS is not quite as reliable a borrower as the US federal government - can you really be certain this would never lose value? I'd like to see where the bond ratings agencies would rate USPS stamps.
former Biologist fisherman, can confirm, a hypothesis helps :)
Nothing’s in the same category when you look deep enough into them.
As long as you like it, that's what matters, right?
> The Hindi word for white/Caucasian is gora, "fair-skinned"

Doesn't that suggest that the concept of distinguishing fair-skinned people?

> many markers of high class/status in India are inherited directly from their erstwhile British rulers: speaking "proper" English, dressing in formal Western clothing, etc. Why would skin color not be one?

Colorism existed all over the ancient world: https://quillette.com/2019/02/13/the-origins-of-colourism.

> Ancient Aztec codices in Central America revealed the use of cosmetics by women to attain a lighter skin, and paintings from ancient Egypt depicted women with lighter skin than males. In the Arab world, more broadly, one early traveller noted, “The highest praise is perhaps ‘She is white as snow.’” In North America, one Hopi chief commented, “We say that a woman with a dark skin may be half man.”

The precise origins of colorism in India aren't known (some sources document colorism as early as 1500 BCE), but it would be very odd if it wasn't introduced to India until European contact in the 1500s CE, given that it existed in myriad other places in antiquity.
100% honest? I'm doing for learning and the fun of doing it.

I learn better by doing it, and it's very gratifying seeing your code doing something cool.

if you take a look at my GitHub you'll see that I have a small photo editor, now, because I'm getting familiar with shaders, I could rewrite that app to work on the GPU, which is way faster than the CPU.
That's cool. Do you mean jdbi from dropwizard or jdbc template?
> We survived that.

Just because we survived something doesn't mean we weren't affected by it. I'm not saying this is what you're doing here, but this argument -- I survived this, so you can too -- is often deployed by abusers to justify perpetuating a cycle of abuse. I think in general it's better to ask whether or not something is actually good rather than whether or not we are able to survive it.
Epic's store offers a cheaper alternative to a near monopoly on digital game distribution on PC. How are they anti-competitive?
A collaborator and I recently had fun code golfing integer implementations of floor(106*log2(x)) and floor(log2(x!)):

https://github.com/sipa/minisketch/blob/master/src/false_pos...
Unfortunately, org-mode is only a portable format if you stick to bare-bones org-mode; if you start using any of the "power-features" unique to org-mode you're stuck.

And if you restrict yourself to markdown-compatibilty, why not just write in markdown?
The kicker these days is that "standing still" is not enough. Software that "lasts" has to constantly change, because externalities force it to - primarily, security.

Whatever library, language or foundation you built on, you can guarantee whatever version you used is going to stop getting security updates in a couple of years. And then there will be a whole lot of baked in dependencies you didn't know about - URLs (like XML schema URIs that were never meant to be resolved but lots of libraries do), certificates, underlying system libraries etc.

So designing software "to last" now is designing software to be constantly updated in a reliable and systematic way. And the interesting thing about that is from what I can observe, the only way to achieve that currently IS through simplicity - as few dependencies as possible, those that you do have very well understood and robust, etc etc. So it sort of comes back to the author's argument in the end, though maybe through a different route.
I'm curious -- Roam Research appears to have won over a lot of folks with this kind of need recently. You didn't list Roam among the prior art -- do you think it's not really relevant? I can certainly see Roam eventually including cross-platform bookmarking/archiving, etc.

By the way, I think you should also take a look at Archive Box, which is very much in this direction: https://archivebox.io/
Starbucks doesn’t have a big red button so pausing can take a few days. Starbucks contacts their marketing agency, who goes to their digital marketing agency, who goes to their media buying agency, who goes to their vendor, etc.
wrong it's like that since before Aristotle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilal_ibn_Rabah
Thanks, that's the point I was trying to make. It's more clear when you have read the article.
I think that if you would describe the other party here as jingoistic, you're not understanding what they mean.

Their argument is essentially that war is inevitable, and US imperialism is a good way to prevent it. This is a consequentialist anti-war position. Consequentialists often believe that a bad thing is okay if it decreases the net number of bad things. This does not mean they are in favor of bad things happening.

Short of reaching post-scarcity, I don't see a path forward that ends violence without inflicting more. The conservative in me wants to carry on as is, because it's working better than anything else ever has. The liberal in me wants to push for economic measures to take the place of as much of the military as possible, and introduce transparency and oversight to prevent things like the war in Iraq.

You're saying a path exists that would awaken the radical in me. But you haven't explained how it works. You've just suggested that Europe can do what the US is doing instead, which seems net zero. And you've suggested that perhaps we can all just agree to stop, which seems impossible. I genuinely would love to hear more options, it is hard to escape a false dichotomy.
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This says nothing about the matter at hand. The concept of category is useful, regardless of its impreciseness.
And some categorizations are better than others.

> Nothing’s in the same category when you look deep enough into them.

That’s also patently false: many things belong to the same category. Everything that exists belongs to the existent category, for example.
If you use eww in Emacs, the readability of that post would be exactly as you wanted it to be, given that you've spent enough time configuring and tweaking your Emacs theme. Emacs (in general) is not for everyone - but it can be that perfect tool, that is truly perfect just for you.
Love it, smart cookie. Like every good reporter nowadays, the interviewer made it about racism right off the bat. Oreilly doesn’t bat an eye, genuflects to the racism god and make his point about the fundamental differences between the ventures within the good think context. It’s the new public relations dexterity.
Free, world champion Chess, Go and Bridge were a big find, and were added for version 3. All functionality of Mig Alley's well-known unscripted campaign has been restored. The daily and weekly score mechanism has been added. And last but not least, QA has been done to improve the user experience.
Great point. It seems like the money would go a lot further in advances science if spent doing running down other avenues for hypothesis driven research, not building a larger hammer.
Yup. It's likely that colourism dates back to the Indo-Aryan invasion/migration of/to India around 4000 years ago. More recent invaders include the Persians, Mughals, British, etc..., all of whom are typically lighter in complexion than the indigenous peoples of India.
i use them to pay security deposits on apartments, since i still use a credit union that only exists in a city i haven't lived in for a decade

all banking i do online and their web/mobile presence is really good, so i don't really wanna switch, but there's no way for me to get cashier's checks, so postal money orders it is

postal money orders are really convenient for the limited purpose i need them for, and post offices are everywhere. i can imagine that they're much more useful for unbanked people, and think it would be really good to expand postal banking, but alas
Evil mode on emacs, that was easy ;)
> exacerbated by caste, regional differences and Bollywood

Dissenting from the cliche of 'caste-cow-curry' as the 'core' culture of India, here's some inconvenient counterfactuals.

- Skin tone often varies more b/w North-South than within particular locations.

- Even within particular geographies, the large-scale migrations in light of the millennia of plunder of India, has resulted in admixtures of North-India population in the South. Kashmiri Hindus in particular are found in large numbers on the coast/north of Karnataka (the first president of Planned Parenthood for instance); there are other such groups in TN as well.

- Large numbers of Brahmins in South India are actually, shock, horror, both poor, and dark-skinned.

- The only 'fair' looking ones I've seen are within certain sub-groups within sub-groups of Tamil Brahmins who have explicit histories of migrations from N. India. Ditto with the 'Seths' and other migrant communities who've settled down in the south for many centuries.

- North-East India who populations have both E.Asian features (which in current zeitgeist is in greatly higher standing), and vastly lighter skin-tone, are neither rich, nor have 'elite' status considering their rather isolated histories.
I need checks so rarely that I've never bothered to pay for any, and just use money orders when it comes up. I honestly think it's strange so many people in this thread have found them to be such a hassle, I just swing by the post office or grocery store and it takes two minutes.
The slippery slope argument is that first VISA is going after white supremacists. Next they will be refusing to work with any Republican fund raising efforts. It's a dubious argument, but even it were true that this is the direction that VISA is taking, where would this lead?

I don't think VISA will choose to walk away from major customers in the future. More likely, they will continue to turn away the most extreme customers who are also very small.

But if VISA did go down this road, it would open up an opportunity for a new Repulican-oriented credit card company. Or more likely, Republicans would turn more and more to their competitors, such as American Express.
No, I do not know that, actually. It seems to depend on whether those people have someone at hand to introduce them to alternatives for the play store and the Google Services Framework (et al). Show them an Android device with F-Droid (or Aurora Droid pointed at the F-Droid repository) and Aurora Store and they'll feel right at home. As to whether that device runs microG [1] or GSF is of secondary importance to them just as long as it works.

[1] https://microg.org/
> But features like URL discovery: I never understood why someone would do that.

The custom media types are the key to this. Hypermedia API is like browsing a HTML website, but instead of HTML you use a custom markup language that drives your application's native views (or you can interpret it as sending commands to perform or options what the app can do next).

So it's not a method of discovery how to use a networked database or invoke remote function calls, but a server-driven UI. That makes it extensible without client-side changes, because you can link more endpoints the same way you can add more pages to a website.
Excellent episode.

Part I: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/76h967
Part II: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/n8hwl7
You might enjoy a few of my favorite sigmoids: https://raphlinus.github.io/audio/2018/09/05/sigmoid.html

That's not a deep exploration of the numerical analysis (especially compared with OP), but it does make one point: traditional "numerical analysis" techniques tend to assume the traditional four mathematical operators as canonical, but if your goal is to get something computed on actual computer hardware quickly and reasonably accurately, you have a wider palette to play with. In particular, inverse square root is a primitive about as efficient as reciprocal on modern hardware (or if using Carmack's wtf trick).
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I think the key question is, what is it about?
> I gave up and when I retire will enjoy one extra month of social security benefits courtesy of the federal tax payers.

$10 says that they finally fix the error after you collect your first check, and then prosecute you for fraud.
Sure it does. I suppose the Geisha of Japan also put on white paint because they're descended from an alien source planet of pure white Asiatic races.

P.S: Japanese is far more similar to Indian languages than any of their supposedly 'close' Indo-European cousins.
Tackle the monkey first
Recently went through some GNU and BSD source code and the difference in file size was quite dramatic. GNU's really doing its own thing :)
> Do you know what Microsoft collects about you?

...Yes?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/required-wi...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/windows-dia...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/diagnostic-...

What's with this trend on HN to act like Microsoft's telemetry collection is some kind of mysterious black box?
VS Code’s remote ssh extension could help here. It’s basically a “headless vscode” running on the remote instance that your local machine can connect to. (A la. emacs, from what I’ve been told.) The language services and etc. all run on the remote instance, so there isn’t the giant network penalty you get from sshfs or whatever either.

Disclaimer: on team, but not in this area specifically :)
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covid is going to have long-term, even lifelong damage for many, it is not being covered by media (and soon not even insurance) only "deaths" seem dramatic enough and then people write it off with "well I'm not going to die" but there are states that may be worse than death, permanent damage to lungs and hearts and now minds

https://globalnews.ca/news/7111094/coronavirus-scientists-he...

https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/the-enduring-grip-o...
What do you mean by that? The stock is still trading at the moment.
Textures.js is a JavaScript library for creating SVG patterns
Many NYTimes journalists have terrifying thoughts that covid fear porn will be harder to write in the coming weeks. Yesterday 285 people died of (or, to be more precise, _with_) C19 nationwide, and deaths have been trending down since mid-April. Yet we're still treated daily to a "we're all gonna die for real now" rhetoric.
A shameless plug but this seems a good place for it: I created a PWA to keep track of the cheeses I've tried. You can use it for free at www.cheesewiz.app (There are no ads; this is just a personal project.)
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...

4.5%. So not many but it's certainly "among."
In the US, it was possible to do banking at the Post Office until the 1960s. Given the crappy reputation of the 'Payday Lending' type services, there've been many suggestions in recent years to make it possible to bank at Post Offices again.

This would end one part of the deliberate gutting of public services (and the sorry outcomes which usually result). And it would give the PO another source of revenue for services ... which in my estimation would a terrific thing. Once the USPO is gone, watch out.

ADDED: According to Bloomberg (in 2013), "Banks have shut 1,826 branches since late 2008, and 93 percent of closings were in postal codes where the household income is below the national median, according to census and federal banking data compiled by Bloomberg." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-05-02/post-cras...
Well, the money orders sold at Walmart and the USPS do require you to fill out your and the recipient's information. The amount of money is pre-printed.
I used something similar to implement an approximate square root function in a graphical DSP platform that only has addition and multiplication. A 4th-order polynomial gives satisfactory accuracy from -20dBFS to 0 dBFS, which was the region I cared about. It's hard to do better near the origin (-inf dB) though, because the slope of the square root approaches infinity.
Thanks for explaining. Does this mean that each time a “day trader” makes a sale of $N, the minimum cash they hold over the next 3 days must be at least $N? Or does the exchange not make the cash available for 3 days?

Also, can the same stock be re-bought within 3 days?

I’ve seen a lot if different takes on these issues, and an unsure what to believe.
I must be a really advanced landlord, because I take deposit payments via Zelle and Venmo (and rent too). Seems like a pretty safe bet. If you reverse the transaction, our contract isn't valid and I don't give you the keys.
That's those who use Emacs, not those who know what it is.
It would crush the economy. Everything still runs on oil except the fraction of Teslas out there. Not to mention everything made of plastic and other oil derivatives.
You seem to realize that an RPC API design is totally separate concern from HTTP, and I agree with most of what you're saying, but then in your last sentence you say "REST verbs match up nicely" and can simplify your API. Respectfully, no it can't.

REST doesn't remove abstraction layers, it creates abstraction layers. Whether you do REST or not you will have an interface between client and server, which has to be documented and have a well defined set of nouns and verbs, period. Can't be avoided. Removing my choice of verbs does NOT simplify things. If my API only needs CRUD verbs that's what I'll use. No problem. But forcing me into those 4 verbs, only, ever, and always (as pure REST does) is not a help, it's a hindrance.
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Survival shouldn’t be the only objective, there are plenty of lasting impacts that aren’t death experienced by many more people.
Designs for LIGO by Ronald W.P. Drever (2002)
It's one of those theorems that still boggles my mind even though I know it for so many years now. Either complex functions are so much well behaved or complex differentiability is so much stronger condition, I can't decide which. Top it off with the uniqueness of analytic continuation and you start to wonder what causes real functions to be such a pain.

If anyone knows some nice articles about this topic I would love to read them
At first glance, the skin-whitening creams themselves are seemingly no different than any other beauty product. After all, what is the difference between Indians wanting lighter skin and white Americans wanting more tanned skin?

The problem is that the skin color issues in India go much deeper. It is a form of racism that is overt and deeply held throughout their society. The level that skin color is focused on in India would shock the average westerner. From very young age, dark kids (specifically girls) are made fun of for their dark skin color but told of their beauty if they have light skin.

It's rare in the arranged marriage process that a man marries a girl of darker skin.

(Besides affirmative action programs) Nothing in the US is near as race focused as what I've seen and heard from Indians.

Not that we don't have our own widely held discrimination... maybe the most similar concept in the west is height (girls don't marry shorter guys, from young ages short guys are made fun of while tall are admired, big income boost for extra height, leaders tend to be tall, etc).
It's worth going to a Herman Miller dealer to try the range of models. Some of them fit different body sizes, especially varying heights and widths much better. I didn't like the way the Aeron felt on my shoulder blades, it's very wide, so I got the Embody which is also quite popular, and much more narrow. The Embody is more expensive but worth it in my opinion. Also remember that both come with an incredible warranty.

The only models I wouldn't spend much time looking at are their conference room chairs -- the ones not designed to be sat in comfortably for a full day.

More info on Aeron vs Embody - https://www.btod.com/blog/herman-miller-aeron-vs-embody/
But they can certainly buy assets.
I had to get one to pay a $10 or $20 parking ticket in Ely, MN in 2002. They sometimes come up in situations where paying cash for something presents a massive opportunity for abuse.

Imagine the cop who wrote that ticket being able to collect the fine in cash, and that's $10 into his or her pocket rather than $10 less overhead into the city coffers.
Hostess "recovered" after their bankruptcy by selling assets to a new company (the new company is now Hostess Brands and the old one is "Old HB Inc"). The good parts of the company are in a new shell, and the unit economics allowed them to continue operation. All of the liabilities are in the old company.
Many investors and pension holders took a loss, and many employees lost their jobs.
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I agree with most of what you write except this part:

But, this faction lost. There's not conspiracy, people just didn't want what Bernie, Taibbi, et all were selling, that's all.

There was and is a conspiracy in plain sight, that is the control of media to present only two options: capitalist racists versus neoliberal thugs.

All polling suggests (and has done for a long time) that the US public is far to the left of either the Dems or Republicans on a bunch of issues to do with foreign relations and domestic policy.

This is not reflected in the media.
Cabot Clothbound Cheddar is a pretty good compromise. It's close to English-style Cheddars and not quite as expensive as other artisanal US Cheddars. A great snacking cheese!
I think what makes fox different is they internally believe the threat is serious and are respecting various guidelines for controlling the virus, and then encourage everyone else to thumb their noses at such measures: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/12/fox-news-staffers-wil...
emacs used to treat the whole world as text. now it treats .jpg files as images, and based on the extension, not the magic numbers. it's mildly infuriating.
https://youtu.be/l7o4A16QCxE
Raw number says 0.026. isn't it 2.6% rather than 0.26% ?
I for one am glad that the postal service sells money orders especially if I'm out at strip mall sushi place with a broken credit card machine and I don't have cash, but there's a post office nearby to get a money order to pay the bill. (This actually happened).