skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, thanks for taking a look!

Excalidraw is a great tool and we believe their hosted instance also supports collaboration for multiple users. Open sourcing the project is not in our current plan as we’re focused on iterating and adding more integrations that we think are useful to software engineers based on feedback; however, we’re open to the idea in the future if we have more bandwidth to support an open source project.

Thanks for your feedback on the styling of shapes! We wanted to focus Scribble on building more software specific symbols (and we’re looking into adding more scalable support for even more symbols down the road. Part of that meant reducing the amount of styling choices to optimize for speed.

Curious if there’s anything in particular you enjoy about those styles for your use case of a teaching scratch pad?
Presumably you mean Republicans? But then why did the Democrats bail out the top 1% 10 years ago?

This is just plain stupid divide-and-conquer. They're playing you on social issues (abortion, social justice, ...) while looting the 99%.
In general, in the Julia community, we are all used to see Keno do impressive stuff routinely, but this one tops everything so far.

What is particularly impressive is that this lowest of the low-level debugging work is done completely in Julia - all the way.
I hate to say "benefitting", but on a purely financial basis it was - average household income rose 10% in April due to stimulus checks and increased unemployment benefits.
My favorite Firefox on Android feature is site by site JavaScript permissions.

So much good.
Bob & Alice is ZF1
I just think that they have different things to teach us. Chess gives you transferable skills of thinking through problems backwards, thinking about timing and how to create time, thinking about how you might get trapped later.

By contrast, say, backgammon gives you a transferable skill of luck-creation and the strength of being vulnerable and well, I don't know what exactly cube management is but something to the effect of the wisdom about when to cut out early versus when to stick with something to the bitter end. They are different skills.

Baseball teaches a transferable skill of perseverance, of "hey you are going to miss most of the pitches and in fact if you consistently hit a 25% batting average you can easily ride that into a professional career."

Trying to evaluate any of these in terms of its impact on "real life decision-making" is probably doomed to failure, no?
> The US has always been a land for the rich to oppress the poor

Wholeheartedly agree with this! But I think it's not just the US. Any states that emphasizes and pushes capitalism and it's values are going the same way. Seems like the only states where inequality isn't spiraling out of control are countries that are not strictly aiming for one system, but taking the best out of many, a balanced diet of systems.
I would like to report this if this is not genuine
This is alright but Todoist (and likely others) more or less already has ways to do this sort of thing. The typical procrastinator simply keeps pushing the unsavoury todos until they accumulate and then it’s game over.

In the end, my problem is not really prioritisation, but the anxiety and inner conflict that comes from feeling the external obligation to do something. I’ve dealt with it with meditation at times but it’s a continuous struggle, like dieting.

I wish there was a way of selling tasks to my brain. Something that could turn items from “YOU HAVE TO DO THIS!!” to “hey, wouldn’t it be cool to do this?”
Yet the states with high taxes pay more to the government than they receive compared to the states with lower taxes.
The barrier to TLA+ remains the high-cost of rewriting a piece of code in another language.

The translation process itself could be error prone. The disintegrated concepts requires considerable amount of mental effort.

I am very interested in using the host language (the language that used to write the software one wants to verify) compiler to compile into a TLA+ spec.
It was a few years ago, but last time I looked at iPlayer (arrive the time the license requirements changed to cover online) you had to put your license number in? (I guess perhaps that was a limited trial or something).
...and that charitable giving has net outcomes far worse than basic social democracies and is frequently used to reinforce the power and standing of the wealthy.

There’s nothing in contradiction with the parent’s sentiment and this giving.
If I'm improperly accused of sexual assault (totally innocent) I'll hear that case out instead of hiding in my man cave at a foreign embassy while still making contact with questionable foreign intelligence figures.
maybe true for US, but not other countries.

In my country, Amazon operates surprisingly well, and the local companies have a long way to go till they catch up.

The only exception is MercadoLibre, they upped their game considerable after Amazon entered the market.
I read that a lot, but I've never actually met anyone that does that. If by "consumption to match" they mean "have children", maybe, but otherwise, I don't know. All of my friends that are making good money are putting away significant sums.

Maybe it's a class thing? When you're middle class and you're making twice the average income, you're not immediately turning into a jet setter or by a sports car. If you live a middle class life, you have a whole extra income each month that just sits there.
Git Is Inconsistent
what why? OP has posed a valid question and frankly, I thinknits the right of every employer to chexk if a potential(!) employee is fit enough for the job.
>Finally, it's a stretch to call the dao hack "arbitrage trade".

It is absolutely not. It is exactly the same from the value judgments of the ETH project, specifically "Code is Law". The DAO specifically went as far as endorsing that the software execution takes precedence over the reading of the English functionality spec.

The ETH system, but the core values of ETH, should do exactly what your arb contract specifies, and exactly what the DAO contracts specify, even and especially if that's not what the writer originally intended. To selectively reneg on that principle would be wrong for the same reason as doing it on an arb contract.
Despite obvious differences both in societal import and trivial details, weev's case was like a practice run for Assange's. Not only is the government using the same playbook, but the character assassins in traditional and social media are as well.
Git Rebase in Depth
A lot. Others have mentioned most of them already. Ads, telemetry, etc.

I'll just add—forced upgrades to Win10. Still hard to believe how much (some divisions of) MS despises its own customers. I call them the "Balmer camp" as a shorthand.

Despite parts of MS turning over a new leaf, the sociopath wing persist.
> While those with secure jobs (like most people in here)

You've alluded to a good point here that I think HN needs to remember.

HN lives in a bit of a bubble. The proportion of people making less than $60K/year is significantly less than other forums like reddit. Most of us work tech jobs, with a considerable fraction in Silicon Valley making a Silicon Valley wage.

Whenever a topic involving poverty or low wages is brought up on HN, it becomes crystal clear how few people on HN have ever struggled with it.
The fact that people have to rely on private charity for things like healthcare is indeed the problem and the point
Spatio Temporal Clustering in Python
I assume the person you are responding to is referring to the charity “crowd out” effect. Google it if you want a bunch of questionable observational studies.
A bit OT but this just reminded me of something I haven't thought about for many many years. Just wanted to share.

I bypassed the payment procedure in a coke vending machine with a lighter.

Germany, around 2004 we had a coke vending machine at school, probably from the mid 90s. Someone told me you get free coke if you flick a (non-piezo) lighter in front of the display at the right time. I didn't believe it one bit, but when I tried it, it actually worked. It quickly spread around our school until months later the service guy fixed it.

Many years later I realized what has happened. The flick of the lighter emitted a strong IR impulse that triggered an infrared receiver (which was probably used for debugging, configuring etc).

This must have caused an interrupt, and if triggered at the same time the machine vended the bottle, it completed vending but never got back to actually decrementing the money you put into it. You could empty out the whole machine with nothing else but 1 Euro and a lighter and you even got your money back.

Lots of cokes were had.
This is helpful and informative it doesn't however mean it is zero risk just that its low risk enough to do many times if there is a corresponding diagnostic benefit.

There is only one arrest for every 27000 miles driven drunk too it doesn't mean you should drive even one mile down the road drunk to get tacos or get one unnecessary x-ray so doctor billsgood can make another payment on his boat.

You will statistically probably make it ok in either case but its a stupid pointless risk.

Incidentally the link looks very informative but I cannot read it due to a paywall.
This is starting to sound like No True Scotsman.
Wouldn't a remote controlled drone over the internet fulfill those purposes? Would be relatively cheap to get working.

I think the majority of people aren't very good at flying drones. Even outside, it can take a lot of practice.

People don't want to spend hours or days learning how to fly a drone in their homes. They want stuff to just work.
The free WiFi in NYC seemed to work pretty well, and there is NYC Mesh[1].

[1] https://www.nycmesh.net/
Bottom line: The core ETH team used their political influence to escape the consequences of "Code is Law", the very same criticism they made of existing legal systems -- that outside parties can come along and void the plain meaning of contracts and laws. That is the height of hypocrisy.
It's so low-level, every time I try to look into it I am reminded of the 6th normal form, it's such a mess to gather all the parts of the condition into one big conjunction...
>Nowhere in the article did it say that the directory of the NIH call the anecdotal reports "credible".

Sounds like nitpicking to me. Dr. Fauci directly says it needs to be seriously looked at.

>“Anecdotally, there’s no question that there are a considerable number of individuals who have a postviral syndrome that really, in many respects, can incapacitate them for weeks and weeks following so-called recovery and clearing of the virus,” Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in July during a COVID-19 webinar organized by the International AIDS Society.

Also in the webinar:

>"This is something we really need to seriously look at because it very well might be a post-viral syndrome associated with COVID-19".

That sounds like he finds them credible.

No one's arguing doctors are sometimes wrong. The issue is whether it's warranted to dismiss the opinions of independent experts around the world who have now seen multiple new coronavirus outbreaks, even if we don't have scientific studies on the current coronavirus outbreak.
Why not both?

My parents went from poverty to middle class during my childhood, and I was able to go to college with a reasonable familial safety net to support me as a result. I promptly discovered the joys of chronic depression compounded by undiagnosed ADHD, then failed out, but honestly I feel like it doesn't matter a bit in my day-to-day life.

Meanwhile, my wife and I homeschool/unschool both of our children and are therefore deeply involved in their education. I expect that this will mean that they have man advantages over their peers - if I didn't expect this, I wouldn't have invested so much time and energy into it!
Yes, all deductions hide the true costs. I don't see why people would be for SALT deductions. The only purpose (which deductions accomplish poorly) of a deduction is to reward the activity that qualifies for the deduction. I don't see why paying taxes should qualify for a deduction.

Then again, I'm in favor of removing all deductions. If government wants to incentivize some activity, then they should just pay for it. That way it can be properly accounted for.

Edit: I typo'd and wrote "I don't see why people would be against SALT deductions" instead of "I don't see why people would be for SALT deductions".
Pijul: A intuitive VCS unlike Git that's based on sound theory of patches
FWIW, it was already enabled for me in Nightly on MacOS - 83.0a1 (2020-09-25) (64-bit)

Thanks for all of your hard work. Firefox forever!
> And to be first, they hired new grads or junior McKinseys they could impress with high pay while giving monkey equity, while pressuring at will.

You say that as if it was a bad thing.
I believe the main use case of TLA+ is to first design the code as a spec and then implement it, rather than the other way around.
Nothing can top professional written books, I use videos as supplementary learning material.
Private charitable givings are tax-deductible (to an extent) so some of those donations aren't entirely, or at all, altruistic. How much of this charitable giving can be attributed to our nation being altruistic and how much of it is just the upper class choosing how their tax money is apportioned?

I'm not trying to belittle your point, but is there a source that goes more in-depth on this topic?
Charitable giving is tax deductible and manages reputations for the wealthy. Furthermore, many of the charities throughout our history haven't actually contributed to the common man's well-being, many are niche interest causes like art, opera, elite universities, prohibition, pro-religious rights, etc. If Americans truly wanted to help the world, they'd allocate their charitable giving more towards bug nets, HIV treatment, food, housing, and causes that help the poor around the world.

Side note on HN etiquette, to say the parent comment displays a "total lack of understanding of the USA" is an ad-hominem overstatement, ratchet back the language and turn up the civility.
As a PhD student this is heavily dependent on what grants you can get. Glass door says the average student salary is $27k, so $5k less than median salary in the US and less than half of what a high school teacher makes. A PhD graduate makes, on average, ~$100K, which is within 10% of the average Software Engineer salary.

There are a lot of incentives to become a phd for us citizens. You can be called doctor. You have some level of social prestige. You can specialize in something that really interests you. Some jobs that might be appealing require a PhD. The cash incentives aren’t there. There are faster paths for larger pots fo money.

For perspective PhD students I recommend The PhD grind. If that doesn’t scare you away than maybe it’s the right path for you. Link to a discussion about the book. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4179982

Dump of links where I got my dollar figures from.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/us-phd-student-salary-SRC...

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=Doctorate_(PhD)/...

https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/high-school-teach...
> 1. Has there ever been a nasty shock to economic systems or unforeseen circumstances that do not affect the poor disproportionately? Of course the poor are more affected, that's always the case.

It can be argued that during the Black Death, the working poor that survived got a decent deal out of it. All the death created a labour shortage, resulting in higher wages and better working conditions.
> It now supports Highlighting. The highlights can be colors, underlines, strikethrough, etc. and have added notes. All highlights can be both stored in EPUB files for easy sharing

This is amazing! It's always driven me batty that things I highlight in Apple Books, even when it's my own epub file, are kept internal to Apple Books and can't be exported in the epub itself.

I never thought epub had any highlighting standard though. Is this just adding <span>'s with CSS to achieve the effect? I do wish this became standard for all non-DRM'd e-readers -- the way highlighting PDF's is standardized.
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"I love dropping into a messy, ambiguous situation where the first step is getting everyone to even agree on what problem they’re all trying to solve. It can be tricky to find the right questions to ask, but once you do, you often find that everyone has a different, unspoken expectation of what the goal is and what the world will look like when it’s done."
"Here’s the irony. Residents of “blue” states send more tax money to Washington than they get back in federal help, while residents of “red” states send less money to Washington than they get back in federal help
...
blue states are sending welfare to red states – the same red states that say they don’t like welfare."

https://www.salon.com/2018/11/16/how-blue-states-help-red-st...

To caricature the situation a bit: Red States don't like to pay Federal taxes. They only like to receive tax-dollars from the Federal Government
Exports Is Not a Function
It is quite sad that we might never experience that stability and usuability of commercial big apps/os anymore in the age of penny
squeezing and spyware.

I had my Win XP, Photoshop and MS Office with ever lasting licsenses. You need FOSS today for that. As soon as you pay for software nowadays you are a loser, in general.
Depends on what you’re talking about.

Car engines are vastly improved in both reliability, cleanliness, and efficiency by the introduction of computers into them. You might not like that when it goes wrong, but we all appreciate not breathing in pre-computerized car engine exhaust.

And that’s the rub. While shoddily written software shoehorned into cheap consumer goods obviously degrades the experience, there are tons of places where well written software has massively improved the quality of the goods that they’re added into. Objectively car engines are just better for the addition of software both in design and in operation. They’re smaller, more powerful, more reliable, cleaner burning, and more efficient than they were before we computerized them.
Building an Aluminium Prosthetic Hand
The day we bought the kids one of those mini indoor copters my cat almost tore my daughters ear off bc he was so frustrated that he couldn't kill it.
I'd be very surprised if more lockdowns came. Lockdowns are useful in only 2 situations:

1. there's a new disease that is spreading rapidly through the population and you want to prevent the healthcare system from becoming overwhelmed while you figure out how to best reduce infection spread and provide treatment

2. you have a small number of cases and a short lockdown will bring the total to 0, which will allow you to fully re-open your economy with no restrictions (New Zealand)

The US is never going to be in situation #2, and we know enough about how to manage the disease now that we aren't going to be in situation #1 again. Right now I live in Boulder, and the university is under lockdown because cases have increased 1000% in the past few weeks, but the rest of the city is operating normally (including indoor dining!) with a low rate of disease spread.
Even if that's true, there are at least two problems with that argument (at least as you've said it):

* There's no guarantee that those charities are providing the right sort of support for the poor. For example, the thread you're replying to is about worse schooling for the poor, so are charities directly addressing that or just providing after school classes (less good), or even just food handouts to adults after it's already past the best time to educate them (far worse but unfortunately the most likely)?

* Are they even directed at the most poor at all? For example, it's common for the rich to donate to cancer research charities, which helps the rich more than it helps poor people who can't afford healthcare at all (but is still a good cause, don't get me wrong).
Yeah that's mentioned in the article as well.

Kind of takes the wind out of the, "same rules for everyone...level playing field" argument.
I don't know the details of Australian working life, so I can't speak to the specific differences. But a lot of things push down the lowest labor rates in the US:

* A long history of slavery followed by systemic disenfranchisement, creating an underclass of poorly-educated people with few job skills and difficulty obtaining any employment.

* A slightly-shorter-but-still-long history of using labor from people not legally allowed to be in the country, to whom protections (including the minimum wage) apply only sporadically or not at all.

* Collapse of labor unions (happening now in Australia, I gather, but ongoing for four or five decades in the US)

* Active, well-funded hostility to minimum wage laws, driven in part by a strong temporarily-embarrassed-millionaire ethos[1] in which people believe they will one day be rich and don't want their wealth siphoned off by the undeserving poor (even if they are, currently, poor themselves).

* Even more racism, in which the minimum wage is seen as a giveaways to brown-skinned people who would not otherwise be able to earn it.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/328134-socialism-never-took...
And most startups who claim to want to “take on Goliath” really want to get acquired by Goliath. Whether they want it or not though, that’s the expected exit of their investors.

Just look at YC. Only two YC backed companies have ever gone public - DropBox and PagerDuty.
I don't mean to defend this particular insurance, just point out that insurance is a negative expected value product (hence why insurance companies exist and are profitable) but it still makes sense to buy it a lot of the time.
> Until around 2007, games received no updates.

Warcraft II, from 1995 received multiple patches. So did many other games from that era.

Do you perhaps mean console games when you say "games"?
Deploying faster means you can onboard faster, because part of onboarding is deploying.

Deploying faster means you can onboard faster, because you get quicker feedback on your changes, getting insight into code and systems faster.

Deploying faster means you can onboard faster, because you have fewer (ideally just one) pending changes to deploy to keep in your mind while working, increasing the amount of changes you can make in a work week.

Deploying faster means you can onboard faster, because you spend less time deploying and more time studying the system.
When pulling I always use rebase - I don't see any benefit in the history showing merges.

Any idea if you can squash some commits? Often I'd like to do this, but instead it's either squash everything or nothing.
I've heard that too, but the effect doesn't seem to have
been large enough to show up in any of these plots I've seen (including in the linked post). Did I miss one where it's more clear?
Roombas are internet-connected, but not internet-controlled. They can only be turned on or off via the internet.

Also, Roombas aren't all that great at mapping your home, unless you live in an empty shipping container with no furniture. I've seen the maps that my Roomba creates. They are useless for anything other than their intended purposes: Showing wifi signal strength.
This should do wonders for the Epic/Apple case
They're intertwined. Many things in life you can't learn from textbooks, which you can from having friends who have parents who are doctors and lawyers and business owners. When they cluster together, by living near each other in higher priced homes and towns, and send all their kids to similar schools, you end up with an unequal education for the kids because while the teachers and the books can be the same, the learning environment as well as access to adults with better resources can't be made the same.