skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxes are basically risk sharing across the whole population. But I wanted to specify that it's not risk sharing like your auto insurance is, or home insurance, or term life insurance. Those are infrequent, random events for the most part.

Whereas, healthcare is a guaranteed expense, so the premiums are just prepaying for the coming expenses. But today, you're not paying for your healthcare expenses, but for the older, sicker person's healthcare, just like FICA taxes are paying for healthcare for those 65 years and older.
I like this idea! I think the biggest difficulty with it - which is also probably the most important reason that engines like Google and DDG are currently struggling to return good results - is that the search space is just so enormously large now. The advantage of the suggestion in the blog post is that you trim down the possible results to a handful of "known good" sources.

As I understand it, you'd want to continue to search the whole "unbiased" web, then apply different filters / weights on every search. I really do like the idea, but I imagine we'd be talking about an increase in compute requirements of several orders of magnitude for each search as a result.

Maybe something like this could be made a paid feature, with a certain set of reasonable filters / weights made the default.
You could have read their comment as saying that they have things they'd rather be doing than learning Git. Instead you took the position that expressing a desire for nice tools is a sign of their total incompetence at programming, that they are complaining because they cannot grasp its complexity (despite them saying "I can use Git" which suggests they can grasp its complexity). You dismissed "The Git UI directly models the Git internal model and that's just bad design", launching straight into calling them stupid and saying they need handholding, for merely wanting good design - because good design makes things easier to use, and things being easier to use is for stupid people.

You could have argued that Git is easy to use and therefore they are stupid for not being able to use it. Or that the interface modelling the internal workings is a good design. Or that Git's complexity is necessary and no simpler interface is possible. Instead you agree that it is complex and thrill about the complexity and use it as a showoff point about how it makes you superior. That's the manliness part. Not as you willfully misrepresent it "if you can't grasp complexity you really shouldn't be writing code" but "if you don't want to spend your life on the complexity of a supporting tool unrelated to the problem you really want to solve you really shouldn't be writing code".

Git is a tool in support of programming, learning Git is not the whole point. Programming involves dealing with complexity (often in the sense of simplifying complexity and hiding it away), but that doesn't mean everything has to be complex to use, and it doesn't mean that someone has to enjoy the complexity in everything to be a good programmer.
Well, ideas are much easier than implementations.
That would actually be Reno, NV.
I don't know what being conservative is these days.

Other than decreasing taxes and anti-abortion position, I can't think of anything else that conservatives support which wouldn't be unreasonable by their own system.
> Crucially, I would not have it crawling the entire web from the outset. Instead, it should crawl a whitelist of domains, or “tier 1” domains. These would be the limited mainly to authoritative or high-quality sources for their respective specializations, and would be weighed upwards in search results. Pages that these sites link to would be crawled as well, and given tier 2 status, recursively up to an arbitrary N tiers.

I like this idea. It would be interesting to see the domains of every search query that I have clicked on and see what the distributions is like. I suspect there would be a long tail but I wonder how many domains actually need to be indexed for 99% of my personal search needs. Does anyone have data like this?
What ineptitude?
End University Mandates for Covid Tech
Many (or most) of the people who say there is absolutely no voter fraud actually tailor their words quite carefully; they usually say there's no evidence of "in-person impersonation fraud".

I personally have no idea how much fraud there is, or whether it matters. It seems like voting fraud would be very difficult to detect, as there is (by definition) no way to double-check.
I only know Rust well enough to read simple programs, and I had no problem reading your example.
The East already had a few diseases like this in the past. I wonder whether their reaction for the first time was much better.
From my memory it used to be 50-80k at its peak.... so, this is at least 60-70k more folks moving... in a city of 850k people, that's almost 9% of the population... which is not the end of the world, but if it doesn't stop, then it will become a problem..

SF used to be about 780-800k in the early 2010, so it is basically reverting back to that number
Or the database twitter saves it in and uploads to five eyes.
WinUI 3: Preview 3
When I was developing a Swing app, I ended up just distributing an NSIS installer that would automatically download and run the JRE installer if Java was old or missing, for that reason.
It'll be interesting to see whether they make this stuff available to paying customers via the API. Currently they say they have no plans to do so [0], but what if it takes off?

When you are an API customer you are supposed to honor all the actions that a user takes on their tweets (delete them from your in-house datastore if it's deleted from Twitter, for instance) but it's weakly/not enforced by Twitter.

If they start putting stuff that's inherently ephemeral into the API feed then how will they deal with making customers not just persist it anyway? Or maybe analytics for Fleets will only be provided by Twitter, which would be a bit of a slap to their API customers but at least Twitter can enforce the rules around the content.

[0] https://twittercommunity.com/t/will-twitter-api-support-flee...
Browser plugin to preview links, preventing Cross-Site Scripting(XSS) attacks
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager. ;)
US healthcare is terrible because of system effects, not the profit motive. Most hospitals are run as non-profits and yet their spending is INSANELY out of control.
nit: I can think of 1 brand that has numbers in its name: 7-11 (and not a western brand). I haven't actually looked at hard data, but my guess is you decrease your odds of success by having a number in your brand name.
First, that's because European languages have small alphabets. It's not like Chinese or Japanese with their many thousands of characters could have fit in those 2,048 spots anyways. So it makes sense to allocate the small common alphabets there.

Second, text is so comparatively tiny relative to photos, video, code, etc. that it really doesn't matter at all anyways.

Third, text is often zipped as well. It's often zipped over HTTP. It's zipped when it sits inside of an EPUB. It's zipped when it sits inside a Word document. You can even configure MySQL to zip text fields in a database. Basically, whenever space is an issue, you can fix it.

So it's hard to see how this is any problem in practice at all, when phones and computers mostly ship with 32 GB of SSD minimum.
What if programs spoke *our* language? (New Chris Granger project)
Yes, we're going to need more renewables to support peak demand, I thought I mentioned that above (ie curtailment). A global grid is not necessary, although a more integrated grid (likely long haul HVDC transmission lines [1]), storage (utility and distributed), and demand response is [2].

[1] https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/J... (warning: pdf, "HVDC Submarine Power Cables in the World")

[2] https://www.energy.gov/oe/activities/technology-development/...
See below for the numbers of Sweden, where there are few mitigating practices mandated.
This came up in the last hackernews post I've seen on the topic. It essentially boiled down to that air conditioner efficiency (and similar machines) is measured using a different formula than energy conversion efficiency.
There's something wrong at the human level here. Systems that protect the worst of the bunch. Doctors lawyers politicians managers

There's something more primal going on here. Maybe we just protect our tribe and some of those we protect are bad, then those outside the tribe find the worst of them to say the whole tribe is bad.
> Instead, it should crawl a whitelist of domains, or “tier 1” domains. These would be the limited mainly to authoritative or high-quality sources for their respective specializations, and would be weighed upwards in search results.

Not a big fan of this conclusion. Who chooses the white list, and why should I trust them? Is it democratically chosen? Just because a site is popular very clear does not mean it's trustworthy. Does it get vetted? by whom? Also, who's definition of trustworthy are we trusting?

If I want my blog to show up on your search engine, do I have to get it linked by one of those sites, or can I register with you? Will I be tier 1, or
And its companion, ansible-pull which can periodically run to sync changes _onto_ a machine which doesn't otherwise allow inbound connections: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/user_guide/playbooks_i...

In your scenario, once those changes are captured, they can be written into `/etc/ansible/facts.d` and they'll show up in future playbook runs: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/user_guide/playbooks_v...
A federal or state prosecution service for police malpractice with teeth I think is the ultimate thing that keeps this shit in line. With separate lines of business, separate people they work with and separate career incentives which are only about locking up criminal police, FBI or even the NSA / CIA, complete with undercover operations.
I guess, but only in the way your power provider has veto over the content. The CA doesn't care about the content, only about you proving that you own the domain.
> it may be a lot more palatable

I somehow doubt it! I can hardly imagine a smaller burden to place on a person than to compel them to wear a mask, and yet look at the endless bickering it's caused. The idea that the people protesting mask mandates would find this tax more palatable seems completely implausible.

The whole idea about taxing away undesirable behavior is fine in general I guess, but if you think of the major effect as reducing the R0 of the virus, then why not just go further and make a full mask mandate? The smoking thing for example might have secondary effects, but not the way a /virus/ does. Is there no burden so small, no benefit to society so large, as to justify a mandate?
I share some of these criticisms, but the hardware is so good and, I think, the harder thing to get right, that I'm optimistic to see the software improve over time, perhaps through community contributions.
While politics are being hotly debated I came here to say that I am again and again fascinated by the ability of the human mind to delude itself.

You might be quick to argue that these patients aren't smart, and there will likely be a correlation, but being smart does not protect you from delusion.

This is evidenced by a number of Nobel prize winners who have gone on to peddle pseudo-science. E.g. Kary Mullins, 1993 Nobel prize in chemistry for the PCR technique, went on to deny the link between HIV and AIDS [1]. This New York Times article has more examples [2].

So there is a non-zero chance that you and I might find ourselves in similar situation of denial, and we shouldn't be too quick to judge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis#Contrarian_scienti...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/weekinreview/28johnson.ht...
> The fact that it's portrayed from a white person's point of view doesn't somehow invalidate the story unless you're just anti-white.

It doesn't invalidate the story. But if you're having a conversation about race, you would probably benefit from having black perspectives. Otherwise you convey an undertone that outcomes for blacks are for white people to choose. The message we want to teach kids is deeper than racism is bad.

This is vaguely addressed in the book's pseudo sequel, go set a watchman, in which Atticus reveals a bigoted side opposing integration.

> You're projecting an opinion that people with different political opinions are just ignorant of the facts, which is itself ignorant. There are plenty of educated people who disagree with you.

I'm not saying people ignorant of facts, I'm saying they're ignorant of nuance, and I'm saying this is a large chunk of people on both sides. Hence liberal perception of racism and conservative outrage. It doesn't matter if educated people disagree with me. The fact that "the continuation of power structures that make it systematically difficult for minorities to have equal levels of opportunity" is the fundamental argument behind recent race relations conversations.
The problem is downvoting, not history. Web forums without voting are much more pleasant than reddit and its clones.
Yep. You’ll often find there is nuance to these debates and people will justify their side by blowing the upsides out of proportion and minimizing the downsides.
It is undefined behavior if a signed integer arithmetic overflows. If T is signed, the first and fourth lines are undefined behavior.

The representation of signed numbers is implementation-defined, not undefined.
Hey there. I happen to be lucky enough to work close to some of these beautiful machines; so I relayed your question along, and one of my coworkers produced this useful response for you:

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As a couple of people have already pointed out, the machine you're looking at isn't really the quantum computer, it's the apparatus that's used to keep the processor in a nice cold, quiet environment (a very necessary and complex endeavour when working with delicate quantum systems). Superconducting processors require dilution refrigeration, a process that uses the two common isotopes of helium to extract heat from the fridge and its payload (although other QC implementations may also require some cryogenics, the specific apparatuses may look quite different); Oxford Instruments (one of many commercial fridge manufacturers) has some relatively accessible documentation here: http://home.agh.edu.pl/~kozlow/fizyka/otrzymywanie%20niskich...

Gold is a commonly used material in cryogenics for a number of reasons: 1) it's soft and conducts heat really well, so by coating pieces made of other materials like copper with it and pressing them together, we can get good thermal contact; 2) it's shiny and doesn't oxidize so it reflects light really well  since radiation (light) is another form of heat transfer, this again reduces heat absorption. Overall, material choice/design in cryogenics is complicated because many materials' properties change drastically at low temperatures (fun fact: dental floss is often used for this reason).

Depending on which images you're looking at, the "tubes" may indeed be coaxial cabling to carry microwave signals to the processor, but there are also tubes that act to circulate helium and as structural support of the various stages.

D-Wave's quantum annealing processor requires very few microwave signal lines, one of the reasons we've been able to scale it to over 5000 qubits.

For further exploration of quantum computing systems, I recommend this tour of D-Wave's lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfxNdBTH8wY and this WebGL interactive 3-D tour showcasing the D-Wave Advantage processor: https://www.dwavesys.com/d-wave-advantage-showcase

I believe a new lab tour video is being produced right now and should be available soon, so check back on the youtube channel.
> Is that a sufficient justification for the government to step in to negotiate food prices on behalf of its citizens?

Yes? We already do this? For many years directly in the postwar period and now indirectly through agriculture subsidies and programs like SNAP. Making sure everyone has enough to eat is step one of having any kind of functioning society and why it’s always been a source of massive government intervention in the economy.
I think the idea is that your three year old is going to be a very different four year old, who again was different to who they were as a two year old.
Fleets actually make it easier for Twitter to censor more content without being detected. By the time you realize your Fleet was shadowbanned, it would have been gone anyway.
Yes, very misleading clickbait title.

I was expecting some actual insightful anecdote about a pivotal choice by a major tech company that made all the difference. But nothing at all.
As much as I hate to admit it, stars might be the biggest thing keeping my code on GitHub. That and search.

We really need someone to solve decentralized likes/reactions.
I suppose your mattress phones home to tell its makers how often you sleep and with which frequency you do other vigorous physical activities on it. Only way to improve it.
struct timespec already exists and stores time as two 64 bit integers. Should last a little while.
Now this is impressive .... now I wish Microsoft ported Windows to it :(.
Thank you for the kind words.

> How we feel can really distort how we think and what we believe.

Have you seen this book? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31170723-behave

Not only do our feelings distort how we think and what we believe, they (along with our personal background, evolutionary history, etc) also pretty much transparently and automatically create the foundational reality upon which we stand, moment by moment.
This was a poorly written article. Although it had numbers, there was nothing to compare it with. For example, the same time period in the previous year or to other big cites, etc.
Canada's GDPR Moment
The `.gitconfig` and also be 'given' to you by just being checked into the project. Someone has to know that you can have per-repo configs, but not everyone. ;)
Make sure you have a plan to upgrade all your projects to .NET 5.[1]

ASP.NET is quite fun, if you can keep your work up to date. Opening up a project that needs bug fixes, but doesn't have access to the latest tooling in VS2019 or language syntax because it still on the old .NET Framework is a bummer.

Any company that was willing to update their .NET apps regularly, and treat development of the app as a service rather than a one time project would make me jump ship.

[1] - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-5-0/
Have adopted from foster kid system.

Pretty quick they are YOUR kid. Emotionally, It fills the same.
Chrome 87 released with fix for NAT Slipstream attacks, broader FTP deprecation
Similar setup (desktop Mac plus iPad Pro with keyboard), and similarly happy with it, but I'm afraid once the COVID situation has been resolved I'll need a MacBook again. The iPad works surprisingly well as a laptop replacement, and I can get things done on it, but it's not an optimal environment for serious work.
If your concerns were truly about "everyday people" having a day in court, then it wouldn't be conditional upon these platforms not adopting your preferred speech policies.

Please explain why my woodworking community should be responsible for a user libeling another user about, say, their professional woodwork just because the forum has a "no politics" rule, for example. Or even a "politics sure but no Nazis" rule. What sense does this make? Let private companies compete in the marketplace. If folks don't like policies, they can switch services. No need to rewrite 230 to punish or reward companies based on their speech policies.
>> I really can't stand when people use those for quotes

>Which would be way less likely if HN actually supported quotes.

But look how well this works ;p.

Sorry...couldn't resist.

I dunno, I like the 'hackish' nature of it.

You're right i'm sure the tiles or playing cards could be used like that too, it may be arbitrary, I don't know. But, those were just some reasons off the top of my head, i'm sure when HN was being programmed a bit more thought went into it, or maybe not, who knows?

My main point is, I like the simplicity of it all, sure it could be better, but better doesn't necessarily lead to better quality content.

There's a minimum amount of distractions, most users find reasonable ways to communicate the context of the content of their posts and scrolling through most threads tends to be a mostly uniform experience where if users are following a few established conventions, you can follow the flow of things pretty well.

It's not perfect, it's not the best, but I feel like it fits the general vibe and nature of the site. It gives HN an identity among all the other news aggregators and forums.
robots.txt

https://www.robotstxt.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard
Yeah, agreed, but my take isn't that Apple is going out of their way to prevent it, just that they have no interest in spending any resources on it. Some conjecture here about what will be possible:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/running-linux-on-apple-...
>I don't have particular reason to believe that balancing users needs would come out in favor of the current behavior.

Gitlab and Github (rightfully imo) came to this behavior. It was not random and is not the default git behavior which is to just allow the force push and all the chaos afterward. If you don't like it, mark your master branches as unprotected. However, there's clear reasons for the current defaults.
I don’t know which country is being talked about here but if I had to guess why fishing is proscribed, I’d hyphothesize that fishing had alwasy been classified by the state as being a “sport” (allowing fishing bodies to apply for grants, licences, etc.). Then, when Covid-19 mitigation measures were being drafted, all sporting activities were proscribed (possibly because many sports involve risk of transmission between participants and/or spectators. This is what happened in my country (Ireland) with hunting clubs. Despite being an activity that is pursued by individuals or very small groups, they were caught under a similarly wide umbrella.

I don’t envy legislators the task of having to drill down into every aspect of human behaviour and make ongoing risk assessments for it. For Level 5 restrictions in Ireland, a huge amount of effort went into determining what goods should be considered as “essential” so that shops selling them could stay open. Needless to say, they didn’t get it right and there are inconisistencies. However, legislators have to react quickly to changing circumstances while maintaining the requirement that their work be legally sound. Under such circumstances, I don’t expect the new (and temporary) rules to be perfect in every way. The best we can hope for is that they get the big picture right.
Fox News is also part of the mainstream media and is definitely not aligned with the Democratic establishment.
well my 80m2 apartment is fully heated to about 22.5C with an air heat pump drawing about 600W with an outside temperature of 0C. So take from that what you will about efficiency.
Ever tried to host multiple apps on a single machine? Oh look, a custom Nginx config only one person understands. Oh look, some hacked up letsencrypt config only one person understands, etc etc.

> K8S on a single node does nothing for you network-wise

- Container IP auto-assignment

- Container security policy

- Container DNS management

- Ingress management ("custom Nginx config")

- "Environment that feels like a large network and doesn't change if moved to a large network"

What part of this is difficult to understand?
Yes, but that isn't what was done in this case.
OP's point is that if you want to get the same quality , it will cost you the same with PCs.

_Of_course_ you can find a cheap PC that costs less but that's not the discussion.

The discussion is with regards to the same build quality.