skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There’s a rudimentary heater, and if the idea of letting a 14-year-old loose on it seems unnerving, Krygier points out that unlike with a scooter – the most likely alternative for many of the Ami’s younger potential customers – you get the stability of four wheels on a proper chassis, and are safely enclosed in a solid tubular steel frame.

But it's not only about the passenger, is it? It is also about the pedestrian. A cube might be safer for a kid but the same cube going 45 kmph driven by an unlicensed person can be lethal to others.
I’d agree that it could be classified as an IR. Law is definitely a domain specific subset of natural languages. Even more, each field of law can be regarded as another specific domain specific language. If you’re doing healthcare law, copyright law, criminal law etc. you need to familiarize yourself with the history, terms and mindset of that field.

That’s why lawyers also specialize and that’s why years of training are needed.

But my general opinion is, if something (a bill for example) looks much more complex than it should have been, someone engaged in lobbying to twist things in their favor. If law is left alone from personal interests, the resulting legislation are often more clear and understandable.
What a great read. Thank you.

> We live in a Mediterranean climate that’s designed to burn, and we’ve prevented it from burning anywhere close to enough for well over a hundred years. Now climate change has made it hotter and drier than ever before, and the fire we’ve been forestalling is going to happen, fast, whether we plan for it or not.

> Megafires, like the ones that have ripped this week through 1 million acres (so far), will continue to erupt until we’ve flared off our stockpiled fuels. No way around that.
Thanks- this is a much more well-reasoned explanation.

I sort of felt like there was a missing step here- your arguments are supporting the statement "the government SHOULD NOT have the power to seize all your assets and savings", which doesn't necessarily imply "and therefore, cryptocurrency is good"- but then I looked at the parent posts and remembered I asked (approximately) for an answer to the former. So, yeah, you gave a good answer to the question you replied to, my bad.

Well, hmm, I guess I still do sort of object to this paragraph-

"If you believe the government cannot be tyrannical, aren't bothered by high taxes or inflation, aren't concerned by waste or corruption, then I could understand why you don't see the value of a currency outside of the jurisdiction of your government."

I actually do think you can believe/be bothered by/object to all of those things, except possibly inflation, and still not see the value in a currency outside the jurisdiction of your government- currencies don't really have jurisdictions, banks and financial systems do. People and assets can be in jurisdictions, though- so let me just steel-man you a bit here, if you don't mind:

If you believe the government cannot be tyrannical, aren't bothered by high taxes or inflation, aren't concerned by waste or corruption, then I could understand why you don't see the value of a currency that is harder for the government to track at scale, and more resource-intensive to seize.

I think that's even more reasonable, but let me know if I'm misrepresenting your argument at all.

And thanks again!
These could be lethal for cyclists especially if driven by youngsters.
Ask HN: Can I not accept Oculus' new ToS?
I bought my Oculus Rift before Facebook purchased the company, and I don't have a Facebook account. Is there anything I can do about my hardware that is about to be bricked?
> immigrants from cultures that DGAF about human life

Just out of pure curiosity, what `cultures' are these?
Read the article. Didn't see evidence that he met with them to discuss white nationalism.
I used this once and couldn’t believe there was no way to make it not 3-D. At least not that I could figure out.
Not an compression expert, but my eyes have been trained to ignore color gradient issues and minor pixelation as long as the outline of the shapes is clearly defined. This approach while doing better job on preserving detail in colors and avoids pixelation, it distorts significantly the shapes themselves (see the clock on the last example). It makes the images seem like google map 3D renders of shorts. How finely can you tune the target compression ratio ? Maybe with a less aggressive target these would not be that evident ?
Isn't that done also to break eye contact? In (some) analytical therapy face-to-face discussion is discouraged as far as I know.
Compared to what?

Java with its verbosity and relative lack of language features, partly hidden by powerful but complex libraries?
(Partly shared by more potent C#.)

C++ which is only slightly faster to write safely than Rust, you have to be careful to not use unsafe subset, and generic code is more verbose?

C which has even fewer language features than Java and is harder to make safe than C++?

Javascript where it is easy to write bugs, mostly of the null object kind, and hard to handle exceptional situations? With mediocre debuggers?
(Also thus used with complex frameworks and libraries.)

Python or Ruby, where instead performance may require dirty tricks using extra time?

Perl? PHP? (Do these even have well working debuggers?)

(Last 5 require additional code for tests due to dynamic nature to ensure correctness too.)

Lisp, Haskell, SML or OCaml where there are fewer quality resources and libraries available to programmers?

Perhaps the less used JVM/CLR or JS languages? (Groovy, Kotlin, CoffeeScript, F# come to mind.)
It is optional, of course. The other option is to not use the app.
>As far as tracking and ads... we’re all going to lose that battle fairly soon. The same tech we all praise as good for privacy is also great for data collection and advertising.

Can you elaborate on this? I'd be interested to know more about how this could happen.
That’s what I thought. Why not make a cheap usable cargo bike? I can carry both kids on mine (https://www.lepetitporteur.com)
The answer is similar to the one for those who retort to the suggestion that taxation should be higher with: "if you love paying tax so much why don't you just send a big cheque to the government?".

In both cases, it is that an individual's actions don't move the needle. Even a low-to-mid double-digit percentage of the population's actions don't move the needle that much.

So, to address your accusatory question: no, thinking people are not OK with the destructions of ecosystems, the decline in animal populations or the extinction of many species.

And if it were the case that through my own avoidance of consuming meat for the rest of my life I could significantly abate these problems, I'd happily make that choice.

But thinking people also know it's not remotely as simple as the question implies. I could avoid meat for the rest of my life, and it would make zero difference to these problems. Even worse, everyone in the world could avoid eating meat, but that would still leave (indeed possibly exacerbate) the issue of land and resource use for the production of plant-based foods. And it would also have no bearing on the issue of animal poaching for medicinal or ornamental uses, of which I'm pretty sure just about nobody on this website is an advocate or customer.

None of this is to say it's a lost cause, that there's nothing that can or should be done to improve things. Plenty is being done, and plenty more should be done.

To the extent that heathy ecosystems are necessary for human survival, self-interest will ensure that more efforts go into that, and social/political pressure will continue to see benevolent efforts being undertaken.

But for solutions to be truly effective, they have to be co-ordinated across society, and that is the great challenge we face.

I often observe that people who choose to avoid meat for environmental reasons and finger-wag at others for not following suit are avoiding confronting the deeper realities and challenges involved with solving these problems.
Personally I don't think the outcome of the election on November is going to matter one way or the other, because I don't trust politics to consistently deliver clear headed, science based policy.

It's not just this election we need concern our selves with, but all those after it too.
Speaking of US non-rhotic accents, I was amused[1] to learn that the admonishment to

Use Yah Blinkah

has recently been joined by

Stay Wicked Fah Apaht

Bonus quinzy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7g3RuoreRc

[1] which explains why I am also a fan of Mister B, who puts the RP in RaP.
I still remember those massive cow themed boxes kicking around the attic for years
> You can't seriously consider 2020-2021 figures, considering how all economic activity has essentially been shut down for a solid 3-6 months.

FY 2018-2019, completely pre-shutdown (July 2018-June 2019) was $214 billion in revenue.
Hanabi only has limited communication. Of course, it's a bit unfair, since a game like Diplomacy requires large amounts of verbal communication, but I think that's the kind of game that's difficult to solve.
You mean the Silicon Valley bubble of reality distortion. It's become so far disconnected from the information technology industry that it's rapidly becoming irrelevant. Outside, in the trenches, one won't find much Rust. Or Haskell.
What a ridiculous hot take. We buy meat to have a varied and healthy diet, and yes we like our food to taste good - as is that is something to be ashamed of?

We don’t buy insects because last time I checked, supermarkets don’t sell them. Maybe you could look into why time and time again, insect food startups fail.
There were just so many FACTS in this article. I love an article dripping in FACTS.
Might want to refresh your assumptions:

Just from last week

https://coinnounce.com/swift-report-reveals-criminals-prefer...

“ A new report by the SWIFT says criminals prefer using fiat currencies over cryptocurrencies for money laundering and other criminal activities”.
> What's wrong with having "print('hello world')" run on a micropython running on a risc V core on an FPGA?

Because it betrays a misunderstanding of WHY you are using an FPGA in the first place.

If you want to program a microcontroller, go get a microcontroller.

You generally use an FPGA for a reason. And that reason almost always relates to speed (either latency or throughput). VERY occasionally it has to do with simply translating logic standards (changing from something like LVDS differential to standard CMOS, for example).

If you don't need speed, you should go back to the microcontroller. And, even if you need speed, you should still go back to a microcontroller and see if you can bend it to your needs somehow.

Programming an FPGA isn't just "throw some HDL around". Why do you need a clock? What are synchronizers and why do you need them? Why does my FPGA suddenly not have enough resources when I design a numerical divider and ask it to be fast?

Digital design != programming. And vice versa.

Programmers complain all the time "Git is easy. You just have to learn its mental model." and bitch about people that won't. So, why do you believe that wouldn't also hold for digital design?

> And why is it not simple?

How would you answer to someone complaining that "Why isn't programming simple? Dogma? Industry standards? Drinking the IDE vendor kool-aid?"

As a reminder, remember, "Hello, world." is a very difficult hurdle for most non-programmers.

> What's wrong with having "print('hello world')" run on a micropython running on a risc V core on an FPGA?

RISC-V is slightly odd in that actual microcontroller hardware is a bit thin on the ground. However, wanting to play with RISC-V via an FPGA development board that isn't explicitly set up for that purpose is kind of like learning Rust by programming an STM32F7 development kit.

You can, but boy are you making your life miserable.
I'm not really up to date on what QAnon is or does, but isn't that an even worse version of the Scott Alexander case?

I am not sure if exposing someone like that and sharing their home address would be legal in my country, yet it seems to frequently happen in the US. Doesn't that invite mob justice?
> Laws are only enforced if we all believe they are just

That's not even approximately true.

Laws are only enforced if there are people that think that it's worth enforcing them and who have the means (which usually i closed government sanction) to do so, which often happens when far less than all of the governments constituents think the laws involved are just.
In my opinion, public transport in cities is already good enough (it could be better, sure, but it's good enough that most people won't want to buy this "car"). A small "sub-car" that can be driven by younger people would make much more sense in rural areas, where public transport might exist, but maybe only once every few hours with the stop a 30 minute walk from the village.

Marketing it as a city vehicle, especially in dense Paris, seems strange to me. The only people who are going to be attracted to it in that setting are those who really hate public transport.
> Apps like the Wireguard GUI don't have access to necessary system APIs outside of the app store

Wait, on macOS? You’re saying the store gives you extra permissions there?
Nope. With the success of Rust, Haskell has won. Finally.

The thing is, designing programming languages is a science, but practitioners often considered a craft. Things like the syntax of C++, the undefined behavior of C, the erasure semantics in Java, the weird semantics of Scala, or the minimal type system of Go all stem from that misconception.

Haskell took the science part serious. It is an academic language, but it tought people what can be done with a thorough design. Rust is the first language, as far as I can tell, that takes that mindset and improves practical programming. Rust is just objectively better than C++ in so many aspects. But it would not exist if it were not for Haskell and a plethora of PL research done in that language.
Big European states call for cryptocurrency curbs to protect consumers
I'm not sure why total revenue would be what to compare to the costs against.

Apple is profitable precisely because they don't, as a company, have many/any "loss leaders". Each unit within the company is expected to financially contribute to its margins.

That was one of the (many) changes Jobs brought to Apple when he returned.

I'm also not sure how a reviewers salary would be $50,000. Where'd you get that number?
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I can see the use for Rust in writing an operating system or device driver...but manual memory management for application software? That's a huge step backwards. I really don't get why anyone uses Rust outside of low-level or very performance-driven problem domains. Seems like a cargo cult or hype machine, though certainly an improvement over C, it should be replacing C. It might be better than Java, but what replaces Java should look more Haskelly.

I don't get it.
Because the specification does not mandate a constant time operation.
It's not "huge" problems. Russian state of art radhard design is mostly on par with what exists in Europe and just a couple of generations behind the USA. Most of production is obviously abroad, and nobody actually cares, as it involves much less money than Huawei case)

Also, this site was chosen for publishing because it was easy and because they actually give you some audience. Getting the same attention at Medium would be much harder, and a copy of this text, which I posted at LinkedIn, got something like 60 views. LinkedIn has a great publication editor, by the way.
If you have an advice on some better place where I could publish scipop texts about microchips, that would be really appreciated.
Would controlled burns still be useful at this stage, or is flaring off in megafires the only way forward now?

I'm from South Australia, so raging fatal bushfires were a part of my childhood.
> You're complaining that, to get a job, you have to demonstrate your ability to do the job

That's not generally what people complain in these interview threads. The complaint is that to get a software job one must demonstrate a performance skill 100% unrelated to the actual job.

It's as if a surgeon with 20 years experience in his specialty would be interviewed by making them balance chemical reaction equations. Sure, they studied that back in undergrad prior to med school but it's completely irrelevant to the job. But that's how we treat software interviewing.
Sadly no, more that inferior projects got foisted onto the gov.uk website and the actual project got defunded. The employees I know went back to private enterprise (and yes, made much more money).
No matter what people say, timing attacks are not practical over the network.
Read the article. It’s a fictionalized dispatch from the 2030s.
> I'm 30 years old and don't have a driving licence. Many people learn to drive because their parents paid for lessons. Mine did not.

I envy countries that have driving as part of the school curriculum. I was in the same boat as you, and it's an incredible PITA to make the required logbook hours unless you have a partner or very patient friend.

I'd suggest looking into a 150cc motorcycle license, for some reason the regulations are less strict. Still won't keep the rain off your head.
The issue stems from the fact that in Italy if you actually drive at merely 50 km/h in average roads you're perceived as an antisocial menace.
I strongly suspect that this is not the kind of hacking around he is describing.
That tracks. It was absolutely bizarre to watch a successful, apolitical ongoing project like that get ruined.
How does this compare to PhotoStructure[0]?

[0]: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/
Who recommends 50 grams of protein per day? That’s way too little for an adult male.
The car industry has forever not given a fuck about people who aren't their direct customers, mostly because they don't have to.

Nobody's buying a car on the merit that it will protect victims of a crash that aren't in the car itself. I think that's mostly due to the cognitive dissonance that people have where they think that they're not going to be the one to cause a wreck somebody else dies in. Because if you were aware of that possibility, you'd have to be aware of your responsibility to drive safely. But driving should be cool, fun, and maybe even practical, at least that's how car companies sell their product.

Safety is only ever marketed to the consumer as something that protects them.
Switzerland does a lot of raising livestock near mountaintops and I think none of the cows in boxes factory farming. Prices of beef in shops seem to not exceed $100/kg, for most cuts hover around $50/kg ($22.5/pound). How does that compare?
> His smugness in the way he concluded each topic was just a giant turn off of ever seeking further work with companies like Amazon (giant & highly competitive software conglomerates). I feel like everyone is trying to one up or appear to be king shit in some way, it left a bad taste. (For the record, I did a couple interviews of this style before totally writing the experience off. Others were better, but this experience always stuck with me)

Well this is the typical behavior towards those who cannot interview properly and has to introduce pedantic point scoring to bring people down. It would take an experience of resentment, denial or some sort of impactful rejection from the interviewer to be at the point to certainly enjoy this ego trip as an interviewer at somewhere like Amazon.

Now it seems everyone and the whole tech industry thinks they're Amazon, Microsoft or Google by asking about implementing efficient algorithms, libraries or the like yet they continue to use the slowest languages, spinning up multiple VMs or clusters at higher runtime costs and choosing Electron for software development. Unless they are also contributing to writing a production grade compiler or systems software, companies who ask these data structures and algorithms questions are doing it simply 'because of reasons'.
Is forestry managed at the county level?
I mean the module-virtual-surround-sink written 8 years ago [1] doesn't even work properly[2]. Even worse the convolution algorithm is a naive implementation with O(n^2) instead of O(nlog(n))[3]. 8 years later it appears the issues are finally being worked on.[4]

[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/20...

[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issue...

[3] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/20...

[4] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge...
What do Wikipedia, Bing, and Google have to do with this?
Top 10 Prestashop modules I recommend
I once negotiated with an employer that tried to use these exact kinds of cost-of-living stats to compute an adjusted "matching" offer to an offer from California. But it's a bad deal because those high california prices are "paying" for very desirable benefits like nice weather and job opportunities. These differences are not considered when "living" is treated like a commodity where the only stat to compare is cost.
> Even the name "Boolean", could be changed to "Conditional"

ah, my pet peeve. When I invent my language, a "bool" is going to be a set, closed under the operations "union" and "intersection".

if you want conditionals, you can use zero and nonzero, the way things were always intended.
Ruby is nothing compared to its original hype bubble.
Because those are different. AirPower and AirTag were never rumoured to be launch with an exact date. iMac Refresh as well.

Some people claim iPhone SE Plus were delayed right on the day of announcement. You need at least two weeks run in just before the production start. You can do that with other product like AirPod ( not any more ) or may be HomePod where the production volume is small and it can really work in a Just in Time fashion.

Not with iPhone, where your launch volume are expected to be in millions of unit. You need weeks of preparation. And even that is a tight schedule.
Says, but we’re still waiting to see if this will hold out in practice.
In Amsterdam,NL we've had these for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canta_(vehicle)
And the more recent, fancier Biro:
https://biro.nl
You're allowed to drive them with a moped licence, available for 16 y/o. Don't think they cause many accidents though, I'd say safer than a moped.

They're causing issues as you are allowed to park them on the sidewalk (which is already crowded by bikes).
The author doesn't appear to understand the economics of the hiring company; it's about time & effort to filter and the cost of making a bad hire. I cannot give every application 1-2 hours of review if I get 100+ resumes.

This is an entirely self-created problem, not for you personally, I mean for the industry. We are against "credentialling" so signals like personal recommendations, alma mater, or work history at prestigious firms are overlooked.

My employer tried Hackerrank for a while, we abandoned it when we realised that the candidates we really wanted (e.g. based on personal recommendations from existing employees) were dropping out of the pipeline as soon as the Hackerrank link was sent to them. And the ones we were getting were good at Hackerrank and not much else.
wow this is really is incredible.
Quite debatable. Yes, there are moments when I'm getting stuck for a long time, but I'm still learning. Java was definitely simpler to learn. But on the other hand Rust makes writing convoluted code almost impossible. I don't see reference hell like I often see in Java programs. Making dependency cycles and global state so hard is IMHO a big win in bigger projects.
""Port knocking" is idiosyncratic and widely looked down on by security engineering teams"

I can't comment on that.

I'm not a UNIX sysadmin because it's a rewarding career path with excellent opportunities for advancement.

I'm a UNIX sysadmin because I truly love doing it and always have. I would do it for free.