skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
your discount is everything if corruption is the most important part of the equation
Valid, interesting points. Personally, I find it very difficult in this connected world to know where my community begins and ends anymore (and thus how to manage the various social contracts I undertake).

Is my community my favorite subreddit, or my physical neighbors who are actively voting my rights away? Should I support my country of birth and residence in a trade war that damages my partner's family and her country of birth? We have a duty to protect the best parts of our communities - does that mean I should or shouldn't accept that job to work on nuclear weapons? At what point is it just to emigrate to NZ rather than stay and try to work toward solutions? My family is literally divided on this point, with several members now enjoying a covid-free existence on the south island.

These questions didn't really exist 2500 years ago. The boundaries of human communities were clearer, in my view, mostly because there were hard barriers to emigration and global communication. But to your point, that doesn't mean the fundamental principles have changed, and maybe things aren't all that different after all! We just have to be comfortable with asking and answering our own questions and applying principles to our modern times.
I agree that he is learning a lesson. I learned the common scams by getting scammed in the mmorpgs I played when I was a teenager.
I was pleasantly surprised that I only had to deal with a handful of spam PRs this year.
Used Tesla modules seems like a good fit for niche outfits like this.

E.g. https://eveurope.eu/en/product/tesla-model-s-module-53-kwhr-...

5.3 kWh @ EUR 1150 (ex VAT)
Is that the Matt Ridley that destroyed the Northern Rock bank while being chairman of it for 3 years ? His time culminating in the first run on a British Bank for 70 years and forced nationalization?

I genuinely would not pay attention to one word he says or writes, it bewilders me that anyone does.
Sure, but if it's outside the usual convention it should be explained with a comment. The comment can also include a command to tell the linter to ignore it.
Politicians ban irrelevant things all the time because the number of people pissed off is small compared to the number of virtue points scored.
I use SCP all the time to transfer files to a VPS. I do not understand this trend of deprecating things that are working (X.org, SCP) with inferior alternatives (wayland, ssh cat etc).
> A highly modified classic mini is a visceral experience, even when operating within the speed limit and especially on 10 inch wheels.

A stock 1000cc with nothing more than a tweaked cam profile plus LCB exhaust was equally exhilarating when I had it 20+ years ago. Loved that car. Didn't love the drum brakes and scary-fade-going-downhill as much though!

Properly envious that you still have a functioning 1275 - expecially an S (if you mean Cooper S?) and not just the GT.
How I Stayed Focused and Motivated While Working Solo
> "If a gun was put to my head, and they said, ‘Tell me the best episode of television ever,’ it’s this."

Better than "Homer's Enemy" (the Frank Grimes episode)? No way. While the Monorail episode is extremely good, I still have entire dialogues of "Homer's Enemy" memorized, and I haven't watched the Simpsons for over 10 years now. It's perfect in every way until the very last second ("Change the channel, Marge!"), has an extremely economic and concise narration (just think of all the sub and side plots: the factory, the school contest, the quest of Homer to get Grimes to like him) and just delivers one memorable line after another, non-stop.

"This is my son Bart. He owns a factory downtown."

"Simpson, you've got a 5-13!!!"

"You went into outer space? You?" -
"Sure. You've never been there? Would you like to see my Grammy award?"

Also, the overall best TV show episode surely is Breaking Bad's Ozymandias, although I admit that you can enjoy "The Monorail" and "Homer's Enemy" as standalone episodes, whereas to fully appriciate "Ozymandias", you need to have watched the entire series up to that point.
Jack Ma taught English at the university level [1]. He wasn't struggling for words, he's just not as smart as some had assumed.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/09/technology/business/jack-ma...
> real rescued animals are often quite distrusting

Will confirm, we have a feral cat living in the garden. We have provided it with shelter (a cat kennel at the top of the garden) he will use during bad weather, we provide him food so he isn’t reliant on hunting and the little bugger will often take a swipe at me while I’m giving him his food. It’s not like I’m cornering him with, he comes running over to me now expecting me to have food.
Ask HN: Starting a company for my contract work in US?
Hi, I am in the US (east coast) and have done chunks of contract work before and gotten 1099s, and paid a bunch of taxes and never claimed any work expenses.

Can anyone give advice about what is the smart way to collect contract income? I am also upgrading some work hardware currently which is expensive. I've heard anecdotally that some small businesses only pay tax on profit. I am hoping there is a way to set up an "entity" for myself that pays for and owns the hardware, and then the contract payments go to the company (for which I would be an employee), and then I don't have to pay taxes on all of the income since it is covering expenses (and maybe the business keeps the money too, I'm okay with not taking that money as a salary until a later date). (But ultimately, income will outpace expenses for the year).

Does HN have any advice for an individual contractor with notable expenses?
Online game teaches players to sniff out 'fake news' using tactics like trolling
Yes, we didn't want to make this article too long or confusing, but we have a static, compile-time-defined event system[1] to allow for applications that wait for external inputs to start executing again. Each event handler is guaranteed to halt even if the application continues to run.

[1]: https://alan-lang.org/alan_overview.html#a-static-event-syst...
"But frankly, I do think this matters much less than people are making this out to be. Larger-than-life superhero CEOs are bullshit. I do not believe you needed Musk or Kalanick to get things that look like their companies. US culture just desperately wants to believe in their homemade gods, so you get conversations like this."

hear, hear
Such laws do not supersede the constitutions of its sovereign member nations. If a member nation's constitution requires something that would place them in violation a treaty agreement, then it would have to fix its constitution or be in violation. The treaty itself doesn't change municipal law, though. (Unless it's a country where it does, anyway. But France is not one of them.)

> unless they take over the execution of the prison sentence against the wanted person

Yes, that bit. France still cannot extradite its citizens, but it can meet its obligations to its partners by prosecuting and incarcerating someone within France.
- Are these going into reasonable price/capability machines or just "premium ultra portables".

Look, I know you don't want to create a market perception that ARM = "cheap & slow" but I'm not paying $1500 for something as slow and limited as a Surface Pro X. I'm not even paying $900 for it, though some might.
> Larger-than-life superhero CEOs are bullshit

This is well written. Thank you.

If you believe in the exceptional, or believe you are exceptional, America will draw you to it. If you don’t believe in exceptionalism, America looks like it incurs costs for no gain. The Chinese system in contrast looks balanced.

I believe in exceptional people. Almost every measure of a variety of skills has long tails. In most cases, those tails are developed through working at a skill and are not the sole product of innate talent. Incentivising that development thus makes a civilisation more capable.

But I’m not so wedded to this belief as to claim it the only way. If exceptionalism is a fiction, freedom of speech doesn’t make sense: there are no special thoughts which, if extinguished, are unlikely to recur for a long, long time.
In fairness, deprecating a Linux CLI program basically amounts to a tentative suggestion that you maybe try to find an alternative sometime in the next 20-30 years.
You can also buy lead replacement fuel additives [1] designed to run leaded-fuel cars on (widely available) unleaded fuel.

[1] https://www.holtsauto.com/redex/products/lead-replacement-mu...
The first Connections series (and the book), and The Day the Universe Changed, are both excellent.

Connections2 and Connections3 flag somewhat. Both were produced for TLC, at a point before its Honey Boo Boo slide, though off its peak. One ran shorter (~25 minute) episodes, which is unfortunate, and there was an excessive fascination with early-1990s CGI effects. Still a net positive.

The series is often findable on YouTube.

A notable omission from all four series is much reference to Chinese science and technology, or any reference to Burke's compatriot Joseph Needham, who compiled the definitive study of these topics, Science and Civilisation in China, a monumental work I've only learned of in the past five years or so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_Ch...
Counter strike has HRTF. It’s nice.
I'm sure Jack Ma is still rich.

What else are you going to do, not try anything?
I think supermarkets are well run because they are highly competitive and you go every week so if you see it as a prisoner's dilemma where they "fulfill the brand promise" or "don't fulfill the brand promise" they get punished then they don't fulfill it so they have a reason to fulfill it.

Thus Amazon is going to have a really tough time in that sector, but other parts of the retail sector tend to have you come into the door infrequently enough or are in uncompetitive markets so that they don't get punished for failing.

It's too common for people to blame the victim here, or say that people are asking too much but that's just plain wrong.

Some examples:

* That time I went to K-Mart to buy three numerals for my mailbox but they didn't have the "2" in stock.

* That time my wife bought a bra at Target that had a nice print but had a completely nonsensical design that wouldn't be comfortable on anyone

* Buying clothes at Target can be really hit or miss. I bought a shirt there once that was great but so often I find things that don't really fit, are poorly constructed, I can't stand the style.

* Same with shoes at WalMart. At best you might go there and find a $20 shoe that is similar to an $100 shoe from Brooks, not quite as good, but certainly not five times worse. Sometimes they only have crap

* Inevitably in the early spring I still need cold weather equipment such as electric space heaters (sometimes desperately, as in to keep animals alive) but Home Depot, Agway and all of those other stores quit stocking it.

* Small storeowners decide they won't get any customers in their last hour so they go home early; so they've decided that the customers that do come will go to a big box store next time

* Years ago Staples used to stock only junk brands for cordless phones and similar things (e.g. vtech); today Amazon pushes no-name products from Chinese suppliers which are occasionally excellent but often junk

A common factor in those failures is that the stores don't get feedback. K-Mart never knew they lost the sale of a "4" and "7" because they didn't get "2". The small storekeeper doesn't realize that "nobody will come in" is a self-fulfilling prophecy, etc.

People also discount the idea that "the customer is always right" to normalize bad behaviors such as not stocking space heaters when you need one right now for your chicken house -- somehow it is my fault for needing heat at the end of the cold season instead of the beginning.
> These old cars are super lightweight, so 40-60hp is pretty peppy as it is (although top speed is limited due to the 4 speed transmissions). 107 hp is gonna be crazy in a mini.

Yes! Also, if you've ever driven one of these things you will know how low to the ground they are... it's not the same as some silly lowered hatchback, the whole thing is _tiny_ compared to modern cars, so 60mph feels you are breaking some kind of ground speed record.

This will be a crazy fun car... I will kinda miss the manual transmission - I guess i'm getting old.
> the engine runs on Ether Petroleum, which is only still produced for medical reasons.....so any time they want to pull it out of storage, they literally just buy several bottles out of a pharmacy

The first journey of any length in a motor car was made by Bertha Benz in her husband Karl's 1888. She bought her fuel at pharmacies...
The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 Basic
So does this mean that blood-letting actually does improve the ability to fight disease? Has blood-letting ever actually been studied in randomized controlled trials? If it has perhaps those trials would contain data relevant to this new finding.
I'm betting on this being pure greed.
I do remember reading that those don't work these super old engines though, they require either actual leaded fuel or a modification to the ignition system. But yes, for more modern cars you can just get the anti-knock additive.

Edit:
Yep, I had to look it up - certain metals used in old engines make them incompatible with common additives. You can however, buy an additive( Tetraboost (Tetra-ethyl lead)) that contains lead, effectively making any unleaded petrol equivalent to leaded petrol:

https://www.fbhvc.co.uk/fuels

There seems to be a total of 13 garages in the UK authorized to continue stocking actual, real leaded petrol.
But in this case heat is the primary output.
2,934 people per sq km in Helsinki, 1.5M in the metro.

321.9 people per square km in Oklahoma city.

IME helsinki these feels & has the dynamics of a big city.

Oklahoma city feels mostly like a suburban sprawl.
Gotta be careful with those Lysergic acid differentials.
>Now, as someone who has organized events with speakers, I must admit I would not appreciate if someone had been invited to give a talk on one thing and then takes half the time to talk about how someone else is wrong (with a subtext of "I am right") instead. I have a certain desire for reliability when I'm organizing things and I would feel let down someone did this to me.

>My concern with having such talks - regardless of that Joel does not mind - is that I would worry about sending a message of "give a talk, have your points ripped into pieces 2 years later" to speakers who might be less happy to have that done to them.

That's a legitimate concern. However, Joel Grus' talk was about all the reasons he did not like Jupyter notebooks. Would you not consider a talk about all the reason Jeremy Howard likes Jupyter notebooks to be a step towards symmetry, fairness, and a fun way to engage debate.

I did not see it as ripping apart someone's work, as I didn't see Joel Grus' talk as ripping apart the Jupyter Project's people's work apart. In my opinion, that was a refined and fun way of disagreeing, and if I would love to be able to do that, or have it done to my content in such a way.
So, one of the reviews I've watched had this to say: "We have two next generation consoles coming out, but only one next generation controller."

I've heard amazing things about the PS5 controller.
No, they'll have a set of pre-made HRTFs and then use a listening test to pick the most appropriate one for the user

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8LyNIT9sg
That's the Plan 9 way. The "everything is a file" model mostly relates to exposing all objects as file descriptors that support read and write operations--specifically the read and write syscalls. IOW, everything is a file means the universal API for all objects[1] is read and write. How you acquire the descriptor is a fuzzy area. Using open on virtual namespaces makes alot of sense, but not always, and in any event no incarnation of Unix, not even Linux, supports virtual namespaces as comprehensively and seamlessly as Plan 9.

[1] From a systems programming standpoint--kernel resources, IPC, etc. But there's an obvious relationship to, e.g., Smalltalk objects. (Just don't ask me what it is ;)
How come the residents of CA voted to legalize drug use?
It's good for building a loyal audience but I'm not sure about the revenue model. I think a "build once, sell twice" approach would be more sustainable on the long run.
But the binary maps are easily misleading (and can easily be used to intentionally mislead). Perhaps they shouldn’t be the default for communicating electoral success.
Interesting perspective, I have talked to two very seniors engineers there who love the place(one worked there 7 years, other I am not sure). One of the things they like(and I would agree) is that Shopify does rewrite old stuff when they move to something new, so there are no leftover unmaintainable untouchable .

BTW what it shows is that, he loves to code. He already built an incredibly successful company. Whatever is that he does works. I love writing code too been doing it since I was 14. One of the reason I do not want to move to Engineering Management is the expectation of abandoning it.
>would you expect to spend $840 in games

If you get the PS5 then... yes. That will be just 12 games on release and thinking back I bought much more on PS4

I mean you buy 3 games a year on release that will be $210 on PS5. Of course you can wait for sales and such but still, Gamepass is an incredible value no matter what. And they are also combining it with EA Play
Which probably won't work in a lot of cases. I just got burned by the very minimal raspian ssh server they ship by default.

First it didn't support the authentication method I wanted to use, and then it didn't have any port forwarding ability. I'm betting it doesn't have sftp support either.
OP did say "top 10 most dangerous cities in the US" and those studies usually don't count auto accidents.
What you don't hear about much is underwater drones. I have no doubt that they exist, and a drone swarm, each drone armed with a few tons of conventional explosive is infinitely more politically palatable than a low-yield nuke to take out a carrier group.
T-Mobile's 5G band set is

Band n71 (600 MHz)

Band n41 (2.5 GHz)

Band n260 (39 GHz)

Band n261 (28 GHz)[1]

Only 71 is capable of traveling more than a short distance. Reports are band 71 speeds are 100Mbps-200Mbps, which is better than I expected.[2]

A couple of notes. 71 is the same band used for 'enhanced' LTE.

T-Mobile recently finished the nationwide rollout of band 71, to US towers. From what I can tell, that doesn't include every US tower but 1+ tower in every area. Even then, YMMV. I have a 71 capable phone and there's a (reported) 71 tower nearby but I'm always 66 or 2, never 71.

[1]https://www.t-mobile.com/support/coverage/t-mobile-network

[2]https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/05/t-mobiles-600mhz-5g-peaks...
> Keep in mind that "gentrification" also tends to make local residents wealthier — it's not as simple as the usual picture in which locals are simply pushed out.

I'm genuinely curious to see your sources on this -- isn't displacement of original residents the primary definition of gentrification?
I think the point was that a street full of car traffic is much less liveable than a street full of cyclists and pedestrians.

Cars are still dangerous and noisy which leads to a stressful atmosphere. Many hide in their cars as if they were tanks, afraid of connecting with anyone outside.

What's needed instead is people coming together to form a community.
In my case, yes
Which Linux distributions are you referring to with the "legacy" moniker ?
Who's grossly misremembering what? CSS was the encryption scheme attempting to protect DVDs. AACS was the encryption for Blu-ray. DeCSS could defeat CSS encryption because it was so weak. AACS was defeated because the master key that generated all other keys was discovered [0]. That's the magic number to which you are referring. Totally different subjects on somewhat similar topics. These 2 cases were separated by years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...
The Aztecs had made so many enemies from slavery and sacrificing children in their rise to power, the Spanish had a broad choice of allies. Even if the Aztecs had instead sacrificed those 20k warriors on Spanish swords instead of the priest's knives, they still would have lost.
I've watched several reviews and both controllers got good scores. They don't seem to be that much of a big jump than previous gen but imo that's not a problem
Ha, full circle then.

Here's the video, if you're interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ4vB55z0RE
You didn't read the article, just the title, did you?
No, count/2 can sometimes take non-numbers in the second argument, behold:

1> c(test_count).
{ok,test_count}
2> test_count:count([], bang).
bang
Fight for just housing/zoning policies and against NIMBYism

Join orgs supporting the homeless and fighting against the criminalization of homelessness.

Buy from locally-owned businesses that treat their employees well. Not the gentrifying upscale cafes and restaurants and boutiques
Just to clarify: Values in elixir are still immutable.

The core team will insist that variables are immutable but bindings are mutable, but in my mind variables are their bindings (there is not a third category distinct from the value and the lexical binding).

I think there is huge debate as to whether this is good or bad - I think though you really really want to have mutable variables in the REPL. In your static code it's trivial to check for variable rebinding and be sure you're not doing it (credo makes this easy to set up)
Technical debt as a lack of understanding
I don't know, b dd b dd b has a nice rhythm, just imagine you're singing a drum beat.
Meet the AI That’s Defeating Automated Fact Checkers
That's pretty light on details, and the more I look around their site, the less I seem to understand about what the kit actually includes, or does, or how much ancillary equipment has to be created by the builder.
Aspirin to Be Tested as Potential Covid-19 Drug in UK Study
Best Practices in Developing Remote Patient Monitoring App
Yes, thought I think the smaller $ amounts have also been helped along by reduced startup costs. Heck, a startup can literally get $100,000 of AWS credit for free. In manufacturing terms that's like getting the factory for free, you just have to configure the assembly line to build your specific product. So $400,000 will go a lot further these days than it would have 20 years ago.
For me, performance is much more critical, and the languages with ownership semantics do not easily allow me to get those performance benefits unless I ignore/bypass the ownership semantics of the language. It's one of the reasons I started my own language, the Odin programming language.

I wanted the ability to have control over memory layout and memory allocations, and be tied to a specific model of how structure and design my program determined by the programming language itself, especially ideas which have yet to prove themselves as being "good" (by whatever metric).
Gron is awesome, I use it frequently to quickly find jsonpath queries to kubernetes manifest properties.
I don't have any visibility into the VC world. But I wonder if they've moved at all in the direction PG was recommending since 2008.
Why not simply just not differentiate between humans and bots, and enforce a usage policy that works for your business?

You don't want them scraping 1000 articles an hour? Just put a limit on viewing 20 articles an hour, no need to differentiate between human and robot.

The boundary between humans and robots will blur over the next few centuries. At some point it will just be a spectrum from all-inorganic to mixed to all-organic beings that roam the planet. We might as well prepare for that future by abolishing chemistryism (discrimination against organic vs. inorganic chemistry of a being) today.

(Yes this sounds stupid, but 200 years ago, abolishing racism sounded stupid too.)