skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's literally the case that urban living is what's regulated out of existence, and it's suburban and rural living that gets subsidized in a (very successful) scheme by politicians to buy votes. But the political realities are what they are, so voters will continue to demand those subsidies while pretending they are the ones that are being regulated.
Interesting, but definitely a life of privilege. Only a good passport and a full bank account or investments will allow you to roll the dice and move anywhere.

Given that, it's an interesting experiment I guess. But as an analogy, consider the privilege to run this experiment as being like having a million dollars in a bank account. If someone said to you, yeah, I've got a million dollars to invest but putting the effort into to deciding where is too stressful, so I roll the dice and invest it in random companies 50k at a time, what would you think?
I make a retained mode-ish gui library. (I am not sure if it falls exactly into the tradition of retained mode gui, but it involves constructing trees of widget objects, so—close enough.)

Its design is fundamentally much simpler than that of the immediate mode UI libraries. There is no need for implicit state. There is no need for layout to be a core feature of the library; layout can be 'just another widget'. This opens up the possibility for different types of layouts: constraint-based, grid-based, etc.

It's even possible to implement an imgui on top of this fairly easily; but not the other way around, because imgui has implicit global state to manage.

Imgui is not slow, especially with GPUs. But it definitely loses on the simplicity front.
This is an interesting point of view that I hadn't considered before. Thank you for making this argument. How do you square your ideas with musical genres like dubstep, likely not the best example but the one that springs to mind, that lack some or all of these features and are still beloved by a subset of the population?

Would the variance in taste not imply that beauty itself is subjective?
Bigger companies are more efficient and more profitable on average though. You kind of have to be to grow. Fewer companies, but more efficient and profitable are more productive and lead to a higher tax take which can be used for all the things the government is good at, providing services we want to be universal and transfer payments.
Why do they hang on to Python2.7? I suppose it doesn't have so much maintenance cost for them.

I have to say that their official benchmarks point out a performance comparison to python 2.7, and at this time that sounds irrelevant - comparison to Python 3 would be relevant.
Well, not everywhere in Europe has insanely high taxes and for a fair comparison I’d add what Americans pay in health insurance anyway.

As for high growth, Europe doesn’t have the space to engage in pump & dump real estate and the same scale of military subsidies that made the fortunes of many US industries.
Typography, and more broadly design, have a big impact on the way you perceive things. The rabbit hole is endless, but I recommend three entry points:

- The Design Trilogy of films, made up of Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Trilogy

- The book Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell

- The 101 Things I Learned In... series. There isn't one for typography, unfortunately, but the Fashion, Urban Design, Architecture, and Product Design books cover similar territories.
https://xkcd.com/1319/

https://xkcd.com/1205/
I guess you could say domains involving physical construction that had to be customized to varying circumstances required better understanding of the underlying physical processes at play.

So building war implements, like weapons and armor, and techniques, like how to target a canon, but also non-military disciplines, like the construction of buildings and bridges, the manufacture of commercial goods, etc.
Some algorithms and data formats become couple times faster when appropriate bit manipulation instructions are used.

Check this PR where I managed to substantially speed up an open source library: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openvdb/pull/49... That's just 3 instructions, bsr, bsf, and popcnt.
Rust solves the closure problem with its borrow checker, closures are heavily used through the rust ecosystem. ( I didn’t downvote)
In EU using DCF-77 probably would be more practical. I am sure that similar radio-s are in US too.
It is all connected, isn't it?

A Citroen Ami is less safe than a 2 tonne SUV but maybe not compared to a scooter and maybe not for its surroundings. So maybe we can push the massive SUVs out of the city and leave space for lighter vehicles.

I don't have the numbers but I wouldn't be surprised if traffic in China is more safe than in Thailand or Vietnam which have all these gasoline-powered high speed scooters.
Love seeing the triple release. PyPy has come a long way on Python 3 since Py3k [1] and Fulcrum [2] and great to see a non-EOL Python 2 out in the wild.

[1]: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/01/py3k-and-numpy-first-s...

[2]: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2014/06/pypy3-231-fulcrum.html
The management of the physical host itself (including launching and terminating customer instances when running in bare metal mode) is the responsibility of a component of our server called the Nitro controller.
Soviet Russia even created the Lada Niva (which is still build), a precursor to modern SUVs in that it features a self-supporting chassis. It's small enough to put on the side for changing tyres.
If the IRS wants to tax crypto gains, it must also offer credits for crypto losses.

That seems problematic. I would imagine the total reported crypto losses > crypto gains.
> I think you should consider some of the ethical implications of imposing vastly different punishments for the same behavior.

You wouldn't, you'd impose the same punishment on everyone, e.g. 1% of net worth.
(2) - most "historical" land use differences that can be attributed to the automobile are recent, because the US did not even fully embrace the automobile until after the war. New Urbanism started because architects realized that postwar zoning codes made constructing a traditional New England town center illegal. And most rural towns today even have dead or dying Main Streets caused by the huge shift towards automobile dependent big box stores.

This sounds like the rhetoric around gun rights, where any amount of regulation on guns becomes an absolute seizure of the right to have any gun. No one is talking about an absolute zero automobile society; even societies that deprioritize the car still have cars available, just not as the first choice. Cars don't have to be dominant to be available and usable.
I suggest “The Elements of Typographic Style” by Robert Bringhurst. Already the first 5 pages come with a quick guide to typographic elements and history that made me fascinated.
The State of the Modern American University
Hire someone. Or, if you don't have money, bring on a co-founder.

All the books and suggestions could make you better. But if you've never sold, there's probably a 10% chance that you'll _ever_ be good at it. And if you had an interest, you probably would have done some SA/SE work earlier in your career - given that you haven't, your chances are probably lower.

Finding a good salesperson is also no easy task. Best advice is to recruit someone who has sold you something. You have the relationship already, and you know that they are able to build trust and win business.
Exactly. How is that the same to you?
I think it's called "tax optimization"
The result looks nice. I think this type of diagramming need to be as straightforward as possible, with as little typing as possible. I see you use many different types. For example

gcp.Database.Sql(diagram.NodeLabel("Database"))

What does the NodeLabel type provide that you would not gain with just the string?
Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian
Cyclists and pedestrians don't account for a sizeable amount of the population in places where there is no infrastructure for them. Build cities designed for them and they will magically appear.
Wait, a mouse driven application is using the right hand keys for shortcuts? Yes, that sounds very handy for a left hand mouse user.

I prefer to be able to set my keys myself. I use the left hand WASD keys together with ctrl+shift for most things so I can control the music in any application (with winamp). No need to find buttons, the hand is already there even if I'm using the mouse with the right hand.
Very nice, but IMHO this should be the engine behind a file that could easily be parsed such as YML / JSON.

I really don't see the point in having to write a Go snippet to describe the architecture: in the end you're providing only data as an input.

I guess I'll try to do what I just described because I feel like this could have a lot of potential for my system diagrams
Germans may not care specifically about New Yorkers' every thought about their country but they do compare their results internationally. Here's a Der Spiegel article about how the German PISA results are good but could be better: https://www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/schule/pisa-studie-der...
I'm strikingly reminded of Jocko's book "Discipline Equals Freedom". Not the contents, just the title. (Echoing: http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html)
Also, since crypto gains are considered capital gains, then any capital losses you have been accumulating can now be used vs your capital gains.

The problem here is.. how the heck can the IRS verify your claim that some gains were capital gains? What if you sell drugs for a living and invest poorly in the stock market. You just send your drug sales gains in as crypto gains, and so you have effectively washed your illegal gains, giving you the benefit of being able to not pay tax on that bc of your capital losses.

This system is ripe for abuse.
So you need exceptions for those people. Something that has to be considered during implementation, but not a general showstopper.

Sometimes in those discussions I’m extremely confused. It’s as though the concept of an exception doesn’t exist and any counter example prevents some policy suggestion, no matter how minor.
Lets do a little thought experiment shall we? Imagine for a second that the two most powerful nations on the planet, one representing democracy and freedom (yes flaws, not totally accurate just bear with me) and the other representing fear and oppression (yes not totally accurate either, utilitarianism, etc). What im trying to say is what if rather than balance and work to improve one another, these two countries UNITE in thier individual efforts to retain power and instead turn against thier own people in a desperate attempt at maintaining control. Imagine if these two giants were to unite not out of peace and mutual respect but unite IN STRENGTH. The whole world is effed at that point. Nobody can stand up to that. Where will people go? Who would they turn to? Were looking at a potentially catostrophic situation for the entire world here. We've already seen various reports about the rise of authoritarian regimes powered by oppressive tech and its a trend that will likely continue to get worse if we let it. If we abandon Assange now it sets a dangerous tone at a very dangerous point in time to the point that i almost want to say the human race is utterly doomed. The road we are walking on leads to a very dark future and it troubles me to say that the more i study the matter the more apparent it becomes that the walls are closing in and we are fast running out of time. Whether there is a conspiracy or not is irrelevant. Im tired of seeing division over petty details. Everyone here knows the situation were in. Whether you want to blame this politician or that generation or the other particular group or nationstate or criminal organization or whatever doesnt matter. If we dont turn this ship around we are 100% completely, totally and unambiguously FUCKED!
Amazon Prime web player uses it but does not force keyboard focus on the place where it can detect it, so many times you have to click first before it will pause on space bar.

Focus handling is generally terrible in web apps, but few instances infuriate me like this one.
How to multiply currents: Inside a counterfeit analog multiplier
Overly negative and/or grumpy. Wont all traffic come from google anyway?
Use virtualbox.
OT: There's an thread on SO with a collection of awesome comments in code. Well worth a read. If not for the insight, than for the chuckle:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-...
So the screenshot on https://trueq.io/our-journey shows one person asking a question and another person, instead of answering, complaining that the question has been asked in the wrong place/way.

That's the sort of thing I'd want a new Q&A site to avoid, not highlight!
About meat specifically -- one has to be careful when counting all greenhouse gases versus just CO2, and pure quantity of gas vs. effect on global warming.

Cattle produces a lot of methane, which has a very powerful greenhouse effect, a lot more powerful than CO2. So while it does not contribute to CO2 emissions that much, it contributes to the greenhouse effect proportionally a lot more.
Slower speeds means cars drive closer together which means throughput increases (to a point). I think around 60km/h is generally considered the speed which yields the biggest throughput of cars.
Reminds me of Daryll from the office. Blue collar innovation. There's talent at every level in corporate hierarchy. What it needs is flattening the hierarchy.
It's not hard to make these systems fail in a safe way.
I think when Americans say Europe, they mean "that part of Europe that best fits my argument".

Likely the same vice versa. Both are enormous and diverse places.
> we can't really define the difference between humans and other species? Or can we?

Am I missing something? The difference is genetics, manifested via neocortex and thumbs.

The question isn't purely philosophical though, as there are entire fields devoted to the topic (cognitive sciences, areas of neuroscience, areas of ai research)

Personally, I subscribe to something along the lines of attention schema theory and panpsychism, and the last time I mentioned this on HN, lots of people agreed with this notion: the state of physical imbalance is, in mathematical terms, both sufficient and necessary for consciousness to evolve. (So if there is an imbalance in the realm of electromagnetic forces on some atom, the atoms 'urge' to adapt is what we describe as consciousness, albeit we usually experience the same phenomenon from a vastly more complex and abstract viewpoint (through the attention-mechanisms of our brain))
> The lion's share of what the employer pays is not taxes. It is, indeed, mandatoty, but it is not a tax collected by the state, as it opens individual rights to jobless claims, health insurance and retirement schemes.

If it’s a state mandated by the state that you can go to prison for not paying economically it’s a tax. It functions exactly like a tax in every way. That it’s legally something else is irrelevant to economic impact.
> Time is one of the most valuable resources in the world. If there was something you could do to free more time for yourself, why wouldn’t you?

You can automate a task and thereby cause the task to happen without your involvement, but that doesn't give you more time. It just automates a task.

The amount of time you have is still that which happens between being born and dying.
Ah yes, the “true happiness is simply moving to another country” argument. The truth is that life is what you make of it - the happiness you seek cannot be provided by any government. Plenty of people are happy and plenty of people are empty, sad, unfulfilled, and depressed in every country on earth.

That said, I will prefer to live in places that give me more choice - more economic choice, more living choices, more everything choices. I am by any global metric a wealthy person and my US tax rate is very low compared to every other western nation except for tax shelter countries. And I prefer to have less government mandating where my wealth is spent and retain more control over my life.

What’s so wonderful is that apparently anyone (just like yourself!) can so easily uproot their entire lives to experiment living in two different countries! Although research tells me that Scandinavian countries, The Netherlands, and France have very difficult requirements for immigration. I need to learn Dutch? Huh? In the USA it’s so much easier!
> and phrased as "...contribute to the project...".

Reasonable enough. You could pay them. I did.

> no example need to be shown

Nope, show me on LibreOffice's bug reports where they say that. You want stuff for free, but so many won't contribute, won't pay, expect first class service without giving anything in return.
Looking at the gradual car-choice changes of the us forces in Italy, I see a slow adapt to smaller vehicles. Still too many huge trucks that seem to carry mostly air, though.
Debris is a type of solid waste.
Pastebin Adds 'Burn After Read' and 'Password Protected Pastes'
The main reason to move to py3 is the libraries, but they're not using any libraries.
My unfounded pet theory is that everything other than us has always had a form of consciousness... that is, a feeling of presence. But that it’s tied to a feeling of connectedness. The insect doesn’t differentiate the presence of itself from the presence of the flower it’s in. It’s all one presence.

So what we label “consciousness” is the ability to turn off the connectedness thing. We see ourselves as present and everything else as abstract or distant.

I think it’s evolutionarily adaptive, because the insect doesn’t _really_ care if it’s eaten by the flower. It’ll recoil from stress but it won’t fight to continue to exist with the same fervor that a “conscious” creature will.

But the irony for many of us is we are on a journey to rekindle that connected feeling. A major goal of life for some is to shed the lie of individualism and keep in mind the truth we knew before we became “conscious”—that we don’t really exist separately from the world around us. We are part of thousands of collective consciousnesses and we can only perceive the world at all through those collective eyes.
“Demolition represents more than 90 percent of total C&D debris generation, while construction represents less than 10 percent.“

https://www.epa.gov/smm/sustainable-management-construction-...
It gets tied to China, for better or worse.
Same here... who would have thought reading random ancient source code comments could expand your vocabulary?
Fun! I don't want to stop...

22. Google tracks your visits, one way or another, on over half the pages you visit on the internet!

23. Google introduced Takeout in 2011, a handy service with which users can view the many terabytes of personal data Google collected about them. Try it! See if you can find the search you made for "Vagisil" in 2012!

24. Google was so successful, it broke itself up! Under the name "Alphabet", and with its own OS, browser, search engine, webmail, DNS, cloud storage, office suite, and control of all the web's videos, Google made Microsoft's monopoly look like a monop-o-lite!

25. Google tracks all sorts of useful information from your email! Did you know they track your purchases? Convenient! Don't worry, though... it's not a person snooping on you, it's a harmless program.

26. Google once developed military robots. It's not as scary it sounds! They sold the company before any actual killing started.

27. Google wants to make the web faster! How? By hosting the web itself. It's called AMP. The Verge says this means Google has become the web's 'nefarious puppet master'. Wow, what drama queens!

Ugh. There's so many more, but I'm not having fun any longer.
I've seen a lot of rhetoric, even on HN, that frontend/webdev is "not that hard", that frontend/webdev engineers are doing busy work to justify their jobs, etc. And then people with this mentality go to their jobs, they subconsciously or overtly promote these views in their workplaces, people who are good at this stuff try to avoid toxic workplaces that undervalue them rhetorically or with actual compensation, and then you wind up with "easily" fixable things like this and the toxic people blame the frontend engineers who are willing to stay in environments like this.
Stanislav Petrov saved more lives than just about any human who ever lived
I think any third party taking a margin off your sale to help facilitate the transaction constitutes a channel.
This has nothing to do with "maturity", this is introducing sickening levels of complexity that hide behind walls of configuration JSON just to get cheaper programmers.
Android Application Hacking Series
macOS Mojave 2020-005 Security Update is causing major issues for some users
"Pulcritud" and "pulcro" are not everyday words in Spanish, but pretty frequent. Mostly used to describe something that has been cared for and set up in a deliberately clean and orderly way.

A guy with an unshaven face, wild hair, casual or wrinkled clothes, etc would never be described as "pulcro", even if they otherwise look very handsome, beautiful, or attractive.
> I was not responding to an accusation or difficult question.

You're arguing based on technical details of the particular definition you chose here.

If I were to say well, ICE is indeed terrible, but innocent dogs in your local animal shelter are being abused and suffering and you can easily do something about it by adopting one - would you say that's not whataboutism because I was not responding to an accusation or difficult question?

I think this kind of statement captures the meaning of whataboutism perfectly.
You're okay with enjoying free food from an armed robber as long as you're not the one he's robbing even though you know the food is funded with proceeds of crime.
I grew up with Z80, back in the day when business applications had enough Assembly into them. Used 68000 and all x86 variants until Pentium (by then it was too much effort to write Assembly by hand), also had to deal with MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM and various bytecode formats.

X86 remains my favourite, in tooling and high level opcodes with cool tricks.
I was also surprised by the statement that the oldest extant large-scale surface is ~1.8 Ma old. There is a citation provided for this [1]. It seems the point is that older features like mountain ranges are subject to significant erosion (as you point out, a marine environment can become alpine during the life of a mountain range) and that this could destroy or disperse most evidence of an industrial civilisation that lives for only a few centuries. The oldest surface which preserves archaeological evidence, due to its low rate of erosion, is merely in the millions of years, whereas what we know about earlier periods is extrapolated from a tiny sample of exposed sections of the earth’s crust. Meanwhile, the seabed is recycled on the 100 Ma scale, and eukaryotic life has been around for 2 Ga. That is a lot of recycling.

[1] http://geomorphology.sese.asu.edu/Papers/Matmon%20et%20al.%2...
And what you're going to attack them? Really so you think that these people who go so crazy if you attack an idea are really OK to attack a person?
Jupyter Notebook Autocomplete Intellisense and Menu Shortcuts
Yes, I was providing that as a (rather weak) counterexample.
The cores I compare the smaller RV cores to (the ARMv*-M cores) don't seem to have a popcount instruction either, not even in their new Helium vector ISA.

If it's a deficiency at that gate count, it's one RV doesn't have to compete on it seems.