skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major differences: no ID checks at security, and boarding passes aren’t scanned by humans in make-work jobs, no shoes to be taken off. If it was mostly the US imposing on the rest of the world, you would see separate security for US flights in airports whose layout allow it (and international flights to USA already have lots of annoying extras, like adversarial interviews at the gate (e.g. AA at LHR), and hand searches of cabin luggage).
> Are you suggesting I am not taking it seriously[?] .... [it is h]ard to take you seriously.

I was sorely tempted towards sarcasm by that combination.

But I'm suggesting exactly that, and that we should standardise to not taking the waste of either solar panels or nuclear particularly seriously, given they are both very minor problems that can be handled by the people involved.
I’m fairly sure there will remain sufficient coercive threat of human violence to keep society existing and operating well even without a state.
Not if you control more than half of the hashpower. Then it’s just a matter of time.
It’s very controlled beyond prostitutes , helpers (maids) and labourers. They even specify which race and sex can do which job . Construction bangledesh (and some others) under 60. You must employ 1 local at 1400 a month to employ 7 Bangladeshi with no minimum wage and house them 24 to a room in what they call a dormitory , some might call a labour camp where COVID was out of control.

Helper , female under 50
https://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits/work-permit-for-fo... sourced from certain country’s only ,
At the professional and executive level it has been capped at about 200k and lowering for the last 10 years (out of about 6mil )
I strongly second this recommandation. Daniel Guérin is a very interesting author.
Props to you. The TI-99/4A was my second -- and longest childhood -- computer. Getting one working again so perfectly warms my heart.

Fun fact about the TI-99/4A: It was actually fast, sporting a 16-bit CPU in an 8-bit era. The BASIC interpreter was slow because it, like many TI-99/4A programs, was written in a sort of interpreted bytecode that could live in video RAM/ROM. The CPU itself had access to only 256 bytes of system RAM; all other RAM in the system was video RAM that had to be accessed through the video chip. The slowness of the video RAM access, coupled with the fact that the interpreter for your BASIC ran on interpreted bytecode instead of native CPU instructions, meant that your BASIC programs would crawl, but give that 16-bit chip a chance to open up and it can do some amazing things. The game Parsec has a smooth scrolling playfield, which the TMS9918A wasn't able to achieve on its own. The CPU is shifting the scenery graphics "by hand" as part of the main game loop.
You can start calling them Alfhors spaces instead.

But I think it's important to keep Teichmuller around as a reminder of the important lesson (especially around here) that mathematical genius does mean that everything one says on all topics is logically or morally correct.

As Teichmuller wrote:
> I am not concerned with making difficulties for you as a Jew, but only with protecting – above all – German students of the second semester from being taught differential and integral calculus by a teacher of a race quite foreign to them. I, like everyone else, do not doubt your ability to instruct suitable students of whatever origin in the purely abstract aspects of mathematics. But I know that many academic courses, especially the differential and integral calculus, have at the same time educative value, inducting the pupil not only to a conceptual world but also to a different frame of mind. But since the latter depends very substantially on the racial composition of the individual, it follows that a German student should not be allowed to be trained by a Jewish teacher.[8]
That is an informative article that leaves me wanting to disregard it because of the condescending tone. I guess I prefer facts separate from the moralizing.

I wonder how modern pellet stoves with more complete combustion compare to traditional wood fires?
I presume you are a bigger API design expert than Joshua Bloch. Please point us to your talk/insights.
Those of us that prefer bundles have been "forced" to use centralized repositories our whole lives.
Sure you could, but that's not how the dealers are (usually) operating. The option is much cheaper than the stock, so when selling a call option you're unlikely to have the entire position covered. From further down the article:

"Options are a way to get leverage, too, and can work sort of like an extreme version of the margin loan. If you have $100, you can buy options on $1,000 worth of stock, and a dealer will go out and buy $500 worth of stock to hedge that option."

The dealer doesn't own all of the stock they have sold you the option on. So when the stock price goes up, their exposure goes up, and they have to buy more stock to manage it.

If you're happy to own the entire position, why sell the call option?
Awesome insight. I didn't know any better at the time, but it's always cool to hear about little things that made one machine or another stand out from the pack.
But...

Is it organic?
I am really enjoying this series, thanks. I've read PAIP by Norvig which includes a compiler, but this is a whole different perspective, being straight to machine code.
Nice. Eta?
Market For Liberty is an audiobook you can find on YouTube that answers this question better than anywhere else I've seen
Political manifestos don't belong on HN.
While there seem to be ancient unis with rich literature[1], my understanding was most of the manuscripts were destroyed by invading forces, does the 40 million figure count those as well?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_higher-learning_instit...
It doesnt
> terminology being "accessible" doesn't really matter, but being precise does.

There is also an argument that for experts names are even more accessible than the alternative - if a descriptive name is used but is wrong, then it becomes more confusing. Math already has a problem with overloading common words with special meanings.
"Lovecraftian toolchain" made me almost poop myself when I first read this article.

I've been learning TCL for fun lately and I both adore it and am frustrated by it.
Ugh I feel both sides.
I consider that a non-sequiter. I'm not trying to be rude but you have taken my comment, said nowt about it and then produced a The Tale of Genji which is nothing to do with food or the region we are discussing.

A cook book is on show here and not a novel.

You might like to investigate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf which is a poem written about the same time as The Tale of Genji. It isn't a novel as such. It's an epic in poetic form which is basically a long story with a lot of baggage!

Beowulf, I feel, helps to tie England to its roots and there are a lot of roots. A lot of roots, not to mention a tangled thicket above ground!
> What do you do with really bad / evil people who got caught doing evil things (there's enough evidence to put them in prison). I never heard a good answer from an anarchist.

I think most anarchists believe in self defense. So in that sense the really bad people are self-eliminating -- they try to kill and instead they get dead, and then they don't bother anybody anymore.

Obviously this is imperfect, but it doesn't seem dramatically more imperfect than the status quo.
There are other ways of expressing yourself that don't involve insulting the other party. You could've just said "I doubt it" and then continued with your rant.
The Cost of Ceiling Fans vs. Air Conditioning
I would like to comment a little bit on my competitors. Facebook and meetup.com are search based events. If you want to find something to do you have to search it. You could get invited as well but if you don't you will never know about an event unless you actively look for it.

They are not the same culture ethier. I would not go on meetup.com to see if my friends are going to the bar. The same goes for Facebook. Also I'm 21 most of my friends don't use Facebook. I went on meetup.com to find coding events or networking events. A lot of my friends have never heard of meetup.com.

My problem is I hate texting people every time I'm trying to go out for the night. If people don't already have plans that I can go to, I have to create the plans. Then I have get everyone on board with them. I have texted like over 20 people doing this sometimes, and we don't always have a group chat, or want one. People hate group chats sometimes because you get included in a conversation that you didn't even want to be included in the first place. Plus your phone dings too much with group chats. And some people can't make it due to timing, or simple they don't want to go. So I would love an app where I can just go on it, see what all my friends are doing that night, and go to their events.
>You realize that not everybody is so desperate to have work that requires commute taking 2+ hours of life

I've always regarded it as pretty much a requirement that my commute be 10-15 minutes, max. I was even able to maintain that a scant few miles from the center of DC, by working in a suburb in the opposite direction from all the other commuters. My other jobs have also been in cities; once I lived in an apartment a 10 minute walk from the middle of Richmond. Part of that is that I've been happy to live either downtown or right off a highway and not somewhere more isolated.

However, I still feel like WFH saves time, because after packing up, walking to the parking lot, driving home, checking the mail, unpacking, etc. it seems like roughly an hour disappears after work every day before I'm really at leisure.
I just looked at the fastai library on the GitHub app on my phone, and tapping on symbols doesn't show where they come from.

By the way, I love your courses, and I appreciate that you've contributed a ton to the community :) I just think the import \* thing could use changing. It's something that's helpful for experimenting, but unhelpful for library users. I've played around with fastai2 a bunch, and I think showing imports would've helped me understand the codebase a lot faster. It's also a pretty simple change that could probably be automated.
...you had far less theft and violence than before.

Who kept these statistics?
By subsidize housing you mean that the government builds housing which they then sell to citizens. Which is a form of middle class welfare, but quite different from what most westerners would consider subsidized housing.

If you’re unemployed in Singapore, you get 3 months worth of welfare from the government. After that you rely on your own savings. (Unless you’re permanently disabled)
Lol. Thank your own country’s stupid patent troll movement. Apple wanted to make it an open platform, you us people thought it was better to have a patent troll lock it down
> Apple paid $35B to developers last year.

Paid is very strange term to use to describe it. They sold 3rd party software to users, while taking 30% cut.
Here’s what I don’t understand (childless person); How did parents get by for thousands of years always having children by their sides?

What is it about the modern world that makes children act like starving cats all the time? Is it the sugary diets? Is it the overstimulation from media? What the heck changed in the last hundred years or so?
Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23348578
Yes, the assertion (as I understand it) is that not only do different branches of our own world exist, but so also do all other mathematically consistent universes, even if they follow different rules of physics.
Insecure websites aren't illegal. Only -breaches- are. And that only a civil offense, leading to a fine, the company pays. Right now, both the punishment and the decision are aligned.

You're looking to now make it so that there's a punishment levied on the developer, who has no more power to say no than they currently do. You want them to say no, but all you're doing is making it more unpleasant for them to not do so; you've done nothing to make it easier to do so.
Is there some trick to that thing? Whenever I use a trackpad all day, I get horrible finger pain. The only other activity that's as hard on my fingers as heavy trackpad use is playing Guitar Hero on a high difficulty setting (presumably playing a real instrument would be as bad, but I don't know how to)
Hi sorry for the late reply, I would very much appreciate that if possible! My id is ankuj@helplicit.com
Thanks very much!
Lucky us, we have Booleans, Turing Machines, Bolzmann machines, Markov Chains, Liskov Substitution Principle, ISO 8601 dates, the MIT and BSD licenses (hat-tip to the GPL), and the wholly ambiguous concept of a "class" or "object-orientation"
Yeah, I agree with this. The comment which I replied to which has been flagged now stated something like, "this is so misogynistic". Hence, my comment that prevailing morals were largely different then. One can choose to leave the misogynistic things yet still appreciate his work on politics and economics.
So you just want VLIW architecture? It turns out it's better to have that abstract bottleneck ISA in practice, so CPU hardware can iterate microarchitectures without breaking software compatibility. Intel learned about this hard way with Itanium.
That brings back memories. Parsec was a great game.
I'm am not encouraging people should go out. Just the people that already are if they want they can use my app.
That seems like a weak excuse. Why would patent trolls affect ability to open a standard but not affect ability to ship and profit from software using that standard for a decade?

Apple is known for many things, and they make pretty damn good products, but open standards isn't one of the things they're known for.
In the long term, nothing works, because the universe is larger than the language center of the human brain.
Well, I would say that if you are an 'actual impostor', it would become much more clear very quickly and create an impasse. I think impostor syndrome is much more about the feeling that behind your back, people think you're dumb which is just a much more unlikely situation.
The most influential technical book I have read over the past 10 years for sure.
The author guides the reader though the process of managing complexity with some intriguing concepts such as "Define errors out of existence" and "Deep modules".
I definitely recommend it.
I figure that you imply, that you are the real anarchist or at least familiar with their way of thinking? I have a question for you then and please disregard if you are not a real anarchist.

How is the current system of any consequence for you to live the anarchy dream? Why can't you just ignore it and do what you wanted to do in the hypothetical anarchy? If I had these beliefs (i.e. the lack of social hierarchy and organized violence to uphold it) I would be very happy as I could immediately live in my ideal society by just ignoring the existing hierarchy and organized violence since all I could do about it in the true anarchy I can do already (i.e. submit to the organized violence or die challenging it).
I agree. I've seen my fair share of homeless folks in SG, but I heard they are regularly stashed away in some temporary housing that can barely fit anyone.

And of course, for an actual taste of SG culture, one has to visit the hawker centres and the HDBs to actually get a feel of the city's life. But they seem so staid and artificial still, almost Soviet-esque, compared to their counterparts elsewhere. Even if I take a locality in Dubai (the other culprit here), the Dubai Marina is still vastly more lively than MBS, and the less fancier residential colonies in Old Dubai are still more lively than the average HDB complex. Shenton Way turns into practically a ghost town on weekends in comparison to its counterparts elsewhere.
Even beyond that, if you've imported `from foo import bar` and then `from something import *`, it might work just fine. Then you upgrade the `something` module, and it happens to now include an item named `bar`, and you're suddenly breaking your existing usage without ever having changed your code.

Star imports are convenient, but dangerous in so many subtle ways. There's a very good reason that every major Python linter will call this out as bad behavior.
The article doesn't touch on this, but in C pointer types are also the only kind that can be invalidated without any apparent change to their value:

void *x = malloc(...);
free(x);
if(x); // undefined behavior

Note that this isn't about dereferencing x after free, which is understandably not valid. Rather the standard specifies that any use of the pointer's value itself is undefined after being used as an argument to free, even though syntactically free could not have altered that.

This special behavior is also specifically applied to FILE* pointers after fclose() has been called on them.

If there is some historical reason / architecture that could explain this part of the specification I would be interested to hear the rationale, this has been present in mostly the same wording since C89.
> The concept of "kicking people out" implies that they have some natural right to be part of that society.

Thats still force, though.

You are just saying that the force is justified. But thats still force to physically prevent someone to have access to those roads.

It is force, in that you are physically, using a threat of violence against someone else, because you don't want them using your road.

I am not saying that this is morally wrong, or anything. I support the justified used of government force against others. But lets not pretend that this isn't force/violence.

> you can't be a part of the society.

It is not that they "can't". Instead, it is that other people will use violence/force against them, in order to prevent them from being a part of society. That is force. that is violence.

You can make the argument that the violence is justified. Which is fine. I absolutely believe that violence and government force can be justified. But justified force is still force!

> You are free to leave.

And if they refuse to leave? What are you going to doing about it? Answer: you will probably use force against them (although you may believe the violence is justified, justified violence is still violence!).
I'm not sure what you mean, could you explain a bit more?
You can have it both ways.

I wrote about this when I worked full-time remote a few years back [1]. It's a very different scenario when you think of it as working anywhere instead of working from home. I think post-COVID we're going to see a huge boom in coworking spaces with much better facilities, and that will provide the missing social elements of the office.

[1] https://west.io/blog/working-remotely-vs-working-alone/
I also have a contract like that. They don't sue you, but everything I produce is intellectual property of my employer.

Not very useful when working on open source, which is why I don't.

I argued about this before signing, but this has been in every contract I have ever read and when I argue about this they will always say it is standard practice to include.
I have a similar story. I got weird looks for wearing a respirator to grocery shop in early March (but felt totally vindicated by some idiot coughing furiously in the middle of the store). More recently I had a hassle getting into a hospital to visit, due to said respirator being a "street mask". Luckily one of the more enlightened staff focused specifically on the concern of it having a vent, we were able to have a reasonable conversation where I explained and demonstrated how I fixed that, and then she remembered me after that.

That same staff member lamented that her sister had gotten her some N95 masks, but she was prohibited from wearing them. I can imagine if Covid continues much longer (as it will until we find a magic vaccine, as there is no societal will to contain it), enforcement of the rules will become even more mechanical and unforgiving. Glaringly suboptimal outcomes imposed by top-down structure is a tyranny anarchists take issue with. Although the group behavior around Covid shows why the ideal is ultimately impractical for everyone, I still consider myself a libertarian.
If project timelines aren't adjusted for the available resources and the tight timelines are putting pressure on those who are available, that is not the fault of the parents taking time off, it's the fault of bad project management.
Are aliens hiding in plain sight?
> I see there the typical pattern of the 'expert beginner' developer.

I see the typical pattern of someone being a jerk calling people "junior developers" without first doing their research on the person and finding out (1) how long they have been a developer and (2) the work that they have created.

Debate why the methods are incorrect instead of saying "you look ugly".

The author has a completely different development environment than you that supports this paradigm (https://nbdev.fast.ai/) that you likely you aren't using. If you read the docs of the library references to this is well documented. However, that isn't going to be apparent to someone who engages in drive-by comments without doing the proper research.

And yes, it does look like a personal attack. Stop it with the lazy take and actually try to read before jumping to conclusions.
Productivity doesn't inherently mean more consumption. It can just as well mean fewer resources for the same or less consumption.
Has Canonical still said nothing about this?

The conclusion is inescapable: they do not care. And that is why we should all find alternatives.
Mark Zuckerberg Has Set Our Democracy on Fire
In some cases that’s exactly how it works. There’s a four way stop on a major commuter route where I live. Most of the traffic passes through it in a straight line and there is a major build up, like 20-30 min long during rush hour. In one direction there is a side road that loops around off the main road for about 2 miles in a big U and joins back up again at that 4-way stop. Before Waze became popular you could shoot around this bypass and be the only car on that side of the stop sign. Now there is a pretty significant amount of traffic there every rush hour thanks to the GPS apps. Lowell road and Barnes Hill road in Concord, MA for anyone curious.
I had a TI-99/4A when I was 6 or 7. I remember playing Parsec, and typing in BASIC programs from the manual.