skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we knew in advance that the price of BTC would gradually decline from $16K to $100 over the next 5 years, nobody would ever talk about it again. It's an obfuscated Ponzi scheme wrapped in a clever (but extremely wasteful) proof of work algorithm.
Father discovers 11-year-old spent $170K on app purchases
I find jc useful for exactly this purpose -- https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
Unfortunately for your plan, a failing business is not exactly in a great position to start paying back all the revenue it ever earned.
Yep, I call myself a "mostly plants" person because of this. When buying and cooking for myself I avoid meat and animal products but I felt like it was wrong to waste food just because it was meat.
Seems suspect. Do they not trust Pfizer and Oxford University? Seems the best minds in the world are on this problem, and they feel confident.
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Built this because I wanted to have fast comment notifications for HN.

Around to discuss it. Its (over)engineered for the long haul.

Built on AWS EKS. Had too much fun making it.

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I absolutely hate all the cutesy trademarks businesses expect you to use. I don't want a 'Mc' anything, just give me a 'number 5 Burger.' And fuck all the bullshit terms these corporations use instead of small/medium/large. These are all attempts by their marketers to worm their corporate language into your brain.
I figure you've never received any pull requests. PRs RARELY are good to go, most of the time I have to put as much work as they did to accept them.

Except for a few contributors, most just pushed a single PR, which means they never get to learn how to contribute autonomously.

I've turned to reject PRs that are half-assed and ask me to finish their work.

They don't help me, they only push me to work more for free for something that they want.
That's an interesting point of view. How are cryptocurrencies being used by citizens in those countries?
I'm in the process of setting up a console-based laptop just to see what I can accomplish.

You might want to check out the command-line based reddit client 'rtv'. It even supports opening up links/images in your browser of choice. Supports login/comments/upvotes/downvotes.

I've found lynx to be quite useful for reading The Star, The Globe and Mail and The Economist as a clean wall of text without any annoying paywalls.

Even found some radio streams (okay, bassdrive.com) that sound pretty good at 32kbps on AAC.
I use ripgrep[0] to look for things. It’s incredibly fast - I have found that it’s usually faster than what an IDE takes on a much smaller project.

Once ripgrep has found something, jumping to that file is super easy (and fast!)

I use ctags on smaller subdirectories when I’m not familiar with the codebase and I need to jump around a lot to find definitions within a small number of files.

[0] https://manpages.debian.org/testing/ripgrep/rg.1.en.html
Yes of course government organized socialism would likely be more efficient than UBI. UBI is only a thing being considered because allows us to maintain the narrative of capitalism and is more humane than "Just watch poor live in poverty when we have a labor surplus".
An IDE has some integration benefits, sure, for a relatively tiny number of languages, typically, compared to Emacs and Vim, at the cost of amazing raw editing capability no IDE comes close to. Samples: copy/paste rectangles of text, interactive regular expression replace, dynamic abbreviation expansion, edit remote files via SSH, exchange words around punctuation, treat words, lines, sentences, expressions, functions as movable units, works on a bare terminal, works via X, spawns windows on other displays while sharing the same buffers, saves multiple cursor positions, supports macros that can cross modes (open/close files in the directory browser and mod them in a single macro), and so on ad nauseam. Anyone only aware of just using arrows keys in their IDE to move around and DEL + text insert to edit is blind to an entire universe of elevated editing possibilities in true power editors like Vim and Emacs.

Emacs is my IDE. I use Vim too. Both in their native keybindings. And when I taught, I had all my Unix students learn both of them the same way. I have never seen another editor that comes even close to them for power of raw text manipulation. Got one?
+1 on this. GraphQL is a great way to actually decouple your API from underlying database schema. When you start thinking not about specific REST endpoints, but about API data model in general, it turns out that it is much better to hide many database-level specifics and provide more natural data model to clients.
Well he might just not have fond memories of that school.
What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if they are open source?
That's just a meme at this point; pretty much every intro resource for vim gives an answer to this specific question.
If you priced the externalities in fossil fuels would be cost prohibitive, but a sizable political faction, particularly in the US, views Pigovian taxes as equivalent to totalitarian Communism, and an influential if anti-scientific set of economic viewpoints views externalities as either unreal or not practically subject to internalization.

So, I wouldn't hold your breath.
I'd strongly question the witch words 'heavily taxes'. The US federal government has some of the lowest income tax rates (both stated and effective) in the Western World [1]. And it's corporate tax rate is only slightly higher than the EU average [2], while in practice easily avoided [3] by large corporate entities like Google and Amazon.

Sources:
[1] https://taxfoundation.org/taxing-high-income-2019/
[2] https://taxfoundation.org/publications/corporate-tax-rates-a...
[3] https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/big-six-tech-....
Well, they can buy an Android, thus I think they have chosen.

I like Apple's walled garden. I'm a developer for 20 years professionally and 10 more as a hobby. Writing this on a MacBook Pro, with an Apple Watch on my wrist and my iPhone next to me (I left the iPad at home).

I care that Apple's has this control over their ecosystem that I feel 100% confident on leaving my iPhone or iPad with my kid and know he won't follow some weird website instructions and brick/compromise it for example.
> This is very misleading. US government heavily taxes people and organizations and spends on certain projects. But if people had more resources left to themselves, they could spend some of it on the same projects US gov spends it on.

The burden of proof for that is on you. Where did it happen like that in recent history ? Even in Germany and Japan two other powerhouses of research in the world, it's greatly helped by the fact that public research (funded by the state) and corporations are intertwined. I'm French, our best years for innovation were during our glorious 30's when state was directing mainly state corporations (telecom, energy, aerospace) to do long term research. When it was privatized due to antitrust pressure by the EU, all that was killed (see how much telecom technology came from the CNET/Alcatel, even one of the Internet primary idea, packet switching, came from a French researcher of this era).
> They start accepting contributions from the public, including substantial features and bug fixes.

I spent a considerable amount of weekends helping out with a FS2020 mod. The maintainer now accepts donations and makes a considerable sum. I got none of that. Personally, it left a bad taste in my mouth. I maintain a private fork now, because I don't like the idea of someone profiting off my rare nights and weekend work. It would be one thing if he recognized the work and/or gave back to the contributors in some way, but they don't... so I stopped contributing publically.
How do you know if a specific “mental health incident”
is not going to be violent?

What if someone is walking in the street, naked, and screaming things? Are they violent? Are they mentally ill? Are they on drugs?

I get the intention here but I don’t think I’ve really seen anyone ask why we police this way. Is there a lesson we are forgetting?

It’s like the tale of the new property owners that come across a fence that appears random. They’d be wise to verify why the fence was put there before removing it.
BMW Creates Electric Powered Wingsuit
But you can use the printer - you just swap out the instant-ink carts for regular ones (or clones). Of course if I'm wrong, I'm open to being corrected - but my understanding is that it's not the printer that's the service, it's "the magic instant ink carts and the ink in them"
Anonymous Data Scientist uncovers strange patterns in Mail-In Votes
> With 90% efficiency it will be extremely tough for the virus to spread

Aren't you assuming 100% coverage at 90% effectiveness?

What if it's - say - only 50% coverage, at 90% effectiveness. That's not looking so good.

I'm still trying to understand why an otherwise young and healthy person would want to get take one, or more likely multiple, shots of a C19 vaccine, given the risk from C19 is so low. What's the benefit to them?

In HN-speak: how well does a C19 vaccine deployment scale?
I never saw it in France
It really depends on which part of "Game Development" you are talking about. What most of the people agree is that Rust can deliver value to the core and to the performance focused components in the game engine. I assume that's what this article is talking about too. But beyond that it's hard to see it eating the market in other areas.

You really want to have some easy to find average coders that can pretty much script your game on top of an engine and framework, and you don't want to spend way too much on them. It could be a different story for some multiplayer AAA games since they have enough lifetime to become mature and start to take every optimization opportunity.
I don't see what kind of problems could arise from this. From the point of view of the country the number of citizens remains constant. Only the name and the facial features of the passport-holder have changed. There may of course be a fee for updating the passport, besides the price of the interchange.
Ironically, you could argue the same about some of Kamala Hariss' rhetoric.
OK I updated to include last digit and penultimate digit analyses. Essentially identical slightly skewed distribution for Biden and Trump. Go to site and see.

Conclusion: Enron type fraud detection does not yield a signal on USA county tallies.
That was my concern as well. I haven't measured it but the impact on battery life seems negligible. My phone is a Nokia 6.2, for reference.
> several viruses can cause post-viral chronic fatigue

Right, and with over 95% of fatalities being people over 55, we know this virus affects the elderly disproportionally.

Furthermore, TONS of infections cause major neurological damages, strokes and other conditions in the elderly, which rarely (but sometimes) affects young people as well. A minor fungal infection can leave you with complications that lead to permanent disability.

What we are attributing to CoV2 may just be people who were alright at high risk for any infection, taking a particularly hit to this one.
Well, yes, but if you are traveling to a country where you have a citizenship, it's considered repatriation, so travel rules do not apply (but you usually have different set of rules to abide). And a completely different set of rules also applies for international truck drivers, another for cross-country commuters, etc.
You are taxed on income you make abroad, even if you never set foot in the country. I'm not talking about capital gains. I'm talking about income. Yes, up to a certain amount, you can deduct dollar-for-dollar taxes paid in the foreign country, but you are still taxed on that income. It's the only country in the world that does this. Because of this, among other bits, I do not think it is reasonable.
Fuck all that shit, no other business uses those terms because they are specifically Starbucks corp's attempt to be cute, despite what you may think. Who the fuck in America says 'venti' instead of extra large? Nobody except Starbucks and their customers, so cut the shit.
It is strategically important for a country to be able to feed itself (vs importing food). Farm subsidies are the current method that enables this.

At least that's what the internet told me, I have no insight into that industry.
Are you suggesting beanie babies disappeared after 6 years? Or only that the speculation did? Because the former is demonstrably false, Beanie Babies continue even now as an available product still interesting collectors. They, of course, aren't really a speculation product anymore, but, they definitely didn't stop existing on the mark after 6 years.
I guess it really comes down to how you conceptualize the nation-state. I think most people view a nation as a community, a body politic, maybe even an extended family. Buying citizenship is just as tawdry as paying for a mail-order bride.

But I’m sorry. Me and many others see the nation state as a service provider. An institution that enforces the rule of law, furnishes protection from invaders and criminals, and provides large-scale public goods in exchange for some slice of tax revenue and a code of conduct.

But if I’m unhappy with a service provider, then I should be free to change vendors to whomever meets my need. No different than the freedom to pay for a new phone plan or new gym membership.

You complain that ordinary people don’t have the same consumer choice as the ultra-wealthy. If so, the focus should be on how to make the global market for nation-states more competitive for a wider range of consumers. I agree that many are locked into a shitty service provider. But if anything, the tiny slice of people who can exercise a choice almost certainly makes this market more, not less, competitive.
I’m sorry, have you lived in Europe recently? Paid any attention to the news this year? Every country in that agreement reserves the right to restrict travel in times of emergency. Pandemics apply. For instance:

Estonia forbids travel from any country with an infection rate higher than x/100k (x keeps changing...)

During the first pandemic lockdown the Baltics were open at first, then Finland shut their borders, then they all shut their borders.

Poland agreed to let people traverse the country... then decided not to. Estonia had to send a ship to rescue citizens from the Polish border.

For a while a few months ago you couldn’t come to Estonia from the UK, but if you flew into Helsinki and then flew to Estonia it was fine.

Know your facts.
That is indeed the libertarian argument against public spending on research and innovation. The book I linked to provides a compelling counterargument to it. I suggest you read it, if you're interested in this sort of thing, as it's a good read on the matter of public funding for innovation.
Seriously, he should just inform people to send him feature requests and in return he'll send an quote estimation; no need to be petulant.
The nice thing about this website it the extra explanation on most of the options, with considerations explained.
How does consciousness even make sense?
So thats what I initially thought but then I ran it and it works so IDK anything anymore.
It IS a milestone, but 1k a month is not a meaningful amount in any rich country. Remember, it's revenue for your company, not your net salary. Not even your gross salary.
Fair in turn. I'll try to do better next time :).
I guess Ripple (XRP) is the biggest non-PoW blockchain at $11B. Ripple is also mired in criticisms of every kind.
The true origin isn’t known. Maybe escaped from a lab, we don't know yet.
Nginx conf snippet for blocking bad bots
I think this is a great approach
> As far as I am aware, the US is the only country in the world with this requirement.

Not quite: I believe Myanmar (and perhaps Eritrea) have similar requirements.

I'm sure Americans feel right at home in that company....
> The majority of the 10 year funding bill went to SNAP (food stamps).

That would only rebut the claim being made if there was an analysis that SNAP spending + other subsidies did not result in a majority of the total ending up with the meat and dairy industry. Its worth noting that even before they were configured into a poverty support program, food stamps were conceived of, and have always been (hence the involvement of USDA) an agricultural subsidy program. So what goes into SNAP is not separate from industry subsidies.
If you compare countries by how well they collect taxes, I am pretty sure it will completely correlate with how well their middle classes are doing.

So it’s really hard to see how taxes are draconian for the middle classes. Or draconian at all.
I tend to find unmet dependencies to be an opportunity to package that dependency and upstream it. Even keeping the package private in situations where that's not appropriate feels like less work than the alternative of manual management.

And I've actually found the discoverability of the tricks used in nixpkgs to be pretty amazing. Sure the manual could always do with being more thorough (indeed it's always getting better), but again, in comparison, the quantity of stuff understandable from just reading the contents of nixpkgs and knowing basically one language is huge.

I compare it to a lot of the other systems I work with where just to decipher relatively simple setups people have created I have to understand cryptic combinations of terraform, Dockerfiles, bash, helm, github workflows, concourse pipelines, puppet/chef/ansible/..., travis.yml, Brewfiles... each of which being weirdly arbitrarily restricted and inevitably needing to call in yet another tool to fill in the gaps in their capabilities.
With a dozen or so asterisks, you are correct. Poland stopped all traffic at its border during the last lockdown, for instance.
Yeah I expected a segfault too... but it didnt happen for me and printed fine so I was confused.
People keep talking about the taxation aspect of the thing.

Iirc, Schmidt has recently picked up some consulting for the us government?

I wonder if he just had some other "inside intelligence" from that and is setting up something like a plan b.
Similarly here. The codebases I work on are smaller, but then, I sometimes work on a go from a sidearm 2-in-1 computer. It's lovely to be able to just SSH (well, mosh) into my beefy desktop and run Emacs in a terminal, and have it both look and work identically to the GUI version I use at home.
That's not the argument. The argument is the state and city government remuneration model of defined benefit pensions and other post employment benefits such as retiree healthcare results in a situation where voters of today, politicians, and higher ranking government employees especially in positions of power with the unions are all incentivized to dump the cost of today's labor onto taxpayers decades into the future.

I'm sure everyone is in agreement for giving everyone an awesome life. The problem is no one wants to pay for it. The proof is that voters won't vote for a politician who would compensate government employees a cash amount in their 401k equivalent to the defined benefit pension, because that would require increased taxes compared to a politician that pushes those costs into the future via defined benefit pensions. And taxpayer funded defined benefit pensions and retiree healthcare are a proven vehicle for corruption where costs are shifted from today to tomorrow.

And unless the government has the power to print money, they should not be in the business of promising people money decades in the future. That's the only way I see to prevent a repeat of IL/Chicago/Detroit/NJ/CT/RI/KY/CA/San Diego, and the list goes on and on.
There's many vaccines in development, even some to be available as nasal sprays and oral vaccines. I'm hopeful that by the end of this year, we'll get 1 or 2 more vaccines successfully completing Phase 3, and then several more in 2021.
What was the source? An ex?
The mockery was mostly about how obvious/lazy/predictable people felt the name was. I don't understand why you think that disproves anything? The iPad was a success, but the name can still be obvious without the product being bad.
Re: BTC is not money

In addition to attacking the "BTC is money" argument by claiming it isn't really a medium of exchange, I would take exception at saying it's any sort of "store of value," either.

As I understand it, 1 BTC is born after somebody cracks a specific SHA-256 hash. Okay? Big deal. That means all you can really say is that whoever successfully mines said BTC came up with the answer to a very specific math problem.

Granted, that does require a significant expenditure of resources (electricity to power mining equipment), but, who cares? Just because I put time and work into creating something does not make it automatically worth anything.

As far as I can tell, there is nothing else that gives BTC its value other than "proof of work," and the fact that enough people believe it's worth money. I have mentioned how "proof of work" clearly does not imply any particular value to a thing. So, that basically leaves the idea that BTC is worth something because people believe it is, and that sounds an awful lot like those dirty fiat currencies BTC and crypto people in general like to deride.
Your insight and the comments in the Github thread all back up the same point - the current economic model is not set up to empower or distribute wealth to the little guy.

I think it was phk who many years ago pointed out that Free Software is really anti-capitalist at heart; it makes sense that it would come from America (and MIT!) because of how the economic system works there.

The licenses are a distraction. The bigger issues are structural in terms of how the economy is set up. Our current free market system is predicated on folks at the bottom of the pyramid getting squeezed for their labor. It is only when it starts happening to us and not folks somewhere else that we begin to do something about it.
It is partially owned by the public. All labor is partially owned by the public.

Private IP makes corporations and people a lot of money.

That money is taxed. That's how the government gets its share.

The public-private partnership allows for researchers to claim most of the value of their labor, while the government can encourage areas of research which are in the national interest through grant funding.

How much tax money do you think has derived from the early research on integrated circuits? A lot, right?

Proposing that the government can simply confiscate intellectual property if they fund it, would just result in a world where government funding is unattractive. This would give more power to corporations and billionaires to direct the course of research into their own private interests.

That doesn't strike me as a win.
Rust is in an interesting place right now.

It's something that can compete with C/C++, but has a community as good as Ruby. No other programming language has both.

With the diaspora of Rust engineers from Mozilla, I'd guess things only to improve even further.
There is also abandoned graphql-preload gem with absolutely amazing API (it wraps graphql-batch under the hood):

https://github.com/ConsultingMD/graphql-preload

It is very sad that its creators are left and current owners aren't responding.
Making a Rainy Window in Unity
I agree, but this might be impossible for companies that license various closed-source software from other companies. For example, slingbox may have licensed various hardware drivers, and don't have the right to distribute their source code.

I don't know what the right answer is, but I'm not sure "open source everything" is the right one in this case.
It worked in a few countries that now have close to zero cases.
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