skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the sibling comment noted; you don't preprocessors for these; what you want is compile-time computation. It's much more principled than text-based preprocessing
I tried to install NIX, but the graphical installer wouldn't boot. I'd have the option to choose it in GRUB, but it went to a command-line.

Then when I tried the text-based install, it couldn't see my NVME disk.
The mechanism for U.S. currency creation and management is constantly evolving, and its effects are as well.

Effectively what we're talking about are central bank operations, which is a dry and boring subject within economics, that is both misunderstood by mainstream economists and misused (for political reasons) by heterodox economists (many of whom are charlatans).

Generally speaking though, everyone tends to agree that central bank policies became looser over the 20th century, and IMHO that's really the only relevant kernel of truth in the OP link, who seems to be a promoter of fringe economic theories.

The best place to read about the topic is at the Federal Reserve Bank's website. Alternatively, I would recommend reading any of this :

https://orcamgroup.com/understanding-money/
My one man tech stack.

Scala (akka http, slick, Twirl)
Postgres
AWS EC2
Jquery/Javascript

https://www.formgadget.com/ for those curious.
Did you actually read the comment you replied to to the end?
Because then you're forcing clients to use malloc rather than their own allocator
A notable anecdote from Carmack's post:

"One time, my wife, then fiancée, and I were meeting with Steve at Apple, and he wanted me to do a keynote that happened to be scheduled on the same day as our wedding. With a big smile and full of charm, he suggested that we postpone it. We declined, but he kept pressing. Eventually my wife countered with a suggestion that if he really wanted “her” John so much, he should loan John Lassiter to her media company for a day of consulting. Steve went from full charm to ice cold really damn quick. I didn’t do that keynote."
DC v. Heller specifically in the Decision text does not support or go against CCW laws or prohibitions, rather leaving those to the existing state and federal laws. It was a finding against a ban on private holding and keeping of firearms, and of keeping firearms in the home in a state easily fired.
Janet Yellen Is Biden’s Pick for Treasury Secretary
I think its the opposite. People are weighting the events of 2020 far too lightly.

The American identity is under siege... being told where you can and can't go, and under what conditions (mask / no mask), is totally alien to an American, and I don't know why it would shock anyone, anywhere, that understands even the slightest bit about our culture to hear this.

And that's just one small aspect of the cultural component of this pandemic.

No... 2020 is going to change the entire world, or more accurately, COVID-19.

EDIT: Oh yeah, Morgan Stanley is already issuing guidance that 2021 is going to be a commercial real estate bloodbath, lol, so, you know... there's that.

Not to mention the huge influx of people into flyover states once they realize New York is only a nice place to be if you can actually go out and do shit. If you can't do any of the shit that New York is known for, why would you live there?
I posted the most politically neutral source I could find in a short time. There are plenty of other sources (including Kery's wikipedia page) describing his track record on nuclear.

I very much respect that he publicly claimed to have changed his position. Still, given the climate situation we are in, the importance of his new position and the overwhelming consensus between specialists that we need a 0 carbon mix of renewables + storage + nuclear, he should not have been even considered for this job because of his track record on the subject.

Had we (US) adopted nuclear like France did decades ago we would be on track for most if not all carbon emission goals.
Mostly these: Hugo / Tachyons / AWS S3 / Cloudfront / Compression

The biggest impact is not to have JS and not to have a giant amount of HTML / CSS. That keeps the content very small. The syntax highlight is rendered at compile time.
> What would you think if the following were true for a fairly generalized problem:

> - It is easy to prove a particular upper bound on memory requirements

That they should have included said proof in the source code (in a comment if the type system isn't expressive enough to run it).
Or, third possibility: considering that he apparently still has a copy of that contract (per the SFWA president) but neither ADF nor the SFWA has shown that any part of the contract entitles him to royalties for a WFH work, he's misunderstanding what he was getting paid for.

As ADF is claiming extremely special treatment, the obligation is on him to prove that he's owed special treatment. It's not our obligation to take him at his word.
Tens of billions are stolen from employees and nothing happens.
“Microsoft Pluton Hardware Security Coming to Our CPUs”: AMD, Intel, Qualcomm
> masks are only really necessary where social distancing isn't possible

All well and good as long as everyone buys into social distancing. Unfortunately plenty of people believe in neither masks nor social distancing, so you can't trust that people (strangers in the same vicinity) will stay 6ft apart.
15 feet is the range in optimal conditions. Anyway, it was clearly a vulnerability, but my comparison was to systems that would unlock and start the car without access to the key or the need to enter numbers next to a car.
>in fact a much larger amount

Citation?
Thank you - I was getting the same from Medium. Just slightly less pernicious than Facebook. Slightly.
Similar results to a paper (April, China), where of 1245 confirmed cases only 1 outbreak (involving 2 people) was found to have happened outdoors:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.04.20053058v...
Unrelated but which library did you use for the loading spinner? It is the exact same widget as the one used by the new Medium site.
I'm quite familiar with your comments here, I consider myself a fan (I too can be controversial).

But my disagreement in this specific case is the accuracy of your description. In your prior comment, you seemed to be evaluating HN on an absolute basis, whereas this one seems to be mostly on a relative (to MetaFilter) basis.

Indeed, HN is one of the best forums going, even as its popularity has grown which makes moderation difficult. That said, common descriptions of it bordering on perfection (mild hyperbole) seem innacurate to me.

> I'm probably the only woman to have ever spent time on the leader board of HN, so I'm sort of a unique minority here and for that reason I make some effort to some degree to quietly let people know that I sincerely believe that HN is a place where you can get past your minority status if you will make an effort to read the guidelines and follow the guidelines, even when it feels like you are being ganged up on and have a minority view.

Might this depend on which minority status you hold? If not, then does that not suggest some form of ~perfection &/or consistency in bias? I don't think it would shock too many people to discover that a forum frequented by hackers and silicon valley type are neutral to pro-equality when it comes to gender differences. This notion seems to align quite nicely with any news stories I read. But does it also follow (both logically and observationally) that this lack of bias necessarily holds for other dimensions, like political leanings?

> It's not easy because you do need to keep following the guidelines...

This depends to some degree on who you are and what you say.

> I'm okay with you chalking this up to "personal opinion and she can't prove it."

I'm not chalking it up to that, I was simply pointing out that you were describing HN in a manner that is literally not possible without access to significant quantities of voting data.

My issue is not so much the bias around here, that I can live with - it's the widespread refusal to acknowledge that it (and other portions of reality) exists. Sometimes it gets rather absurd, imho.

> The membership here will take you to task and demand you support your ideas with something substantive, but if you can meet that standard, the social climate here is not actually the usual BS where you get banned for making people uncomfortably aware that they are merely prejudiced assholes. People here will consider your minority view if you can adequately support it.

I believe my comment history suggests things are not always as rosy as reflected in your personal experience.

But worry not, I'm not losing a whole bunch of sleep over it. It is a very valuable learning experience, for my purposes. It's simultaneously depressing, and motivating.
One Portland Bar Owner Promises Civil Disobedience
Quick plug for log2ram, which greatly reduces the write cycles on the boot SD, especially for Pi's that run 24/7: https://github.com/azlux/log2ram
G.M. Drops Its Support for Trump Climate Rollbacks and Aligns with Biden
Yeah, I suspect that both wage theft and {employee slacking + employee shoplifting} could aggregate to really large numbers.
that is a really interesting tidbit of unix lore.
If thought about this quite a bit since I got my Model Y. Disabling the API would probably be quite a bit of work, certainly more than 10 minutes on the side of the road. My guess is that all of that stuff is buried in the on-board computer and not a separate device like in some other cars. It would probably even be difficult to snip the antenna as it doesn't really have an external "fin" like most cars these days.

I guess the best you could do would be to use a GPS scrambler of some sort and force the car to report its location in the middle of the Atlantic or something.
There are certain limitations we know about though. Like that making a spaceship would be more difficult. Not only getting out of the water and then into space, but just that you have to have your capsule at a higher pressure. Though landing might be a bit easier because you don't have to use boats to get people out. But then landing and exploring another planet will be much harder, and don't get me started on what their airlocks would be like. Or clean rooms! Hell, anything optical or electronic you're going to have a much harder time with.
While I believe this study will be proven over time, it is just one study. Since it's getting colder I am keep most of my exercising inside, but when over the summer I masked up when doing outdoor activities just to be safe for myself, and to make others feel better.
Are you saying total value of employee shoplifting is higher than total value of wage theft?

That sounds surprising, do you have a source? Are you including all kinds of fraud, not just shoplifting?

For that matter how are the estimates of employee vs. customer shoplifting separated?
Ah, well, I neglected to think/realise AmE was generally 'nooze' too... So I might have to retract 'most dialects' (at least in the way I meant it which was counting speakers rather than distinct dialects).

The other form you often see this in is long 'u's being 'oo' rather than (as I would say) roughly 'ew'. (Duplicate, repudiate, muse, etc.)
It’s less secure than being able to start the car without access to the drivers key.
I cycle (hard!), I wear a mask. People I pass wear a mask. Jeez, people -wear a mask.
It can't be that difficult...to breathe heavily, or contain such, far from others?
The youtube algorithm is working extremely well, to the point where I find hard to believe it does not have any human in the loop or active moderation.

I have discovered so many interesting types of music and documentaries and subculture/subgenres on it. It manages to hit my interests so well, that I rarely go to netflix nor spotify anymore for discovery. I 'll either directly go watch something that I 've chosen on amazon prime, or let the youtube algorithm handle recommendations. (I know this reads like a fake review - but I swear I have no affiliation for youtube btw. Just amazed how well their recommendation engine works)
> The problem with this line of thinking is is that when people say "we" they don't really mean it in "the human kind" sense.

I think they mean it in the 'species' sense: that there's another planet that serves as a redundant node in the network of the human species. If one node fails, another is on hand to keep the network going and rebuild the failing node.

> So educating these people should come first

People who talk about 'educating others' on some important thing often convey a deep sense of hubris. I hope that's not actually true of you, but please just be aware that your comment implies this.
You are aware that you are trying GUIX out on hardware which has been tightly locked away from being interoperable with anything besides MacOS, right?
Apple exec indicted 4 alleged role in Santa Clara pay-to-play gun permit scandal
The other day I was driving down one of the major streets in Poughkeepsie, NY. There was an old woman sitting by herself on her front stoop, wearing a mask. The sidewalk was maybe 12 or 15 feet away, and there was no one out walking.

Best of luck pointing to the actual study. Are you going to print it out and carry it with you?

Please understand, I'm not criticizing you -- except to maybe point out that you place an awful lot of unfounded faith in your fellow human beings.
> Are there any drawbacks of using a plugin centric approach?

Here are some:

1. You're perhaps more subject to Hyrum's law. If plugin devs can see it, they will use it. The general observation here is that it's harder to control the visible interfaces and implicit dependencies you export than the dependencies and interfaces you rely on. As one example, semantic versioning doesn't cater for this at all. Plus, most of the practice knowledge in software is on managing relied on dependencies.

2. Dog follows tail. It can happen that a plugin becomes so successful the overall system evolution slows down. The core system can upgrade, but adoption/deployment can be constrained when a particularly valuable plugin doesn't move up to the latest and the customer base sees more value in the plugin than its core platform. This can compound poorly over time, and in extreme cases the desirable plugin can become its own platform/system (something I think business savvy tech leaders are increasingly aware, and wary, of).

3. Operational complexity. It can be harder to run and maintain a plugin based system than a closed one. 2 is a consideration here, but so are other concerns, such as security and resource isolation. Strategies vary, but who pays this cost on a relative basis is one of the more (and perhaps the most) interesting aspect of working on or using plugin systems. As one example of this, think about allocating responsibility for bugs.

4. R&D complexity. It may take more time to design and build a plugin system than a closed one. Incrementally evolving to a plugin system can be difficult if you didn't start there to begin to with. So you usually need a clear opening motivation to delay reward (or avoid over engineering) to invest in a system design where functionality can be extended by non-core developers.
It is more complex than what I'm looking at right now, but I still appreciate the read as it helps me think about some things I can do now to be better prepared for a more scalable environment later. Thanks. Oh, and I had one (serious, but off topic) question... what are you using to brew your fresh cup of coffee?
Nothing, it's clickbait that hits on two common HN sentiments (yay Linux and fuck Google).
Reddit will pay workers the same salary no matter where they live
For any given forum, the "we" making the claim is almost certainly correct. Most people on any given forum only lurk, so the people commenting are inherently "contributing" more. Many lurkers will recognize your username, and you certainly contribute more to HN than them, so if you were to have made that claim in your comment you'd be correct.

See: Participation inequality [0] and the 1% rule/90-9-1 rule[1] and the friendship paradox[2].

Re-reading your comment, I think you might actually mean that people commenting on random forums think they are the biggest contributors to <something off of the the forum>, which isn't nearly as certain.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_inequality

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
The key differentiator is the mechanism of action, not the storage system.

The other two current candidates are mRNA vaccines, an approach which hasn't been used in humans before -- looks like the harbinger of a revolution but we have no past experience.

This O/AZ uses the actual spike protein embedded in a simian virus (that does not affect humans and has its own DNA removed). It's possible to generate antibodies to the vehicle (virus) which is why a simian virus is used (humans won't already have encountered it) but also means your own immune system could target the vaccine itself. Loewe speculates that this is why the higher dose was less effective.
There are certainly many periods of knowledge regression in history. Following the decline of the Roman Empire, many technologies were lost for centuries. In some cases the knowledge was preserved within one geographic area but lost to another.

Even modern technology can be lost. Look inside any company with a lackluster documentation culture to see this in action on a small scale.

Even NASA had to spent considerable time re-discovering how the Saturn 5 was put together.

Edit - I think I meant this as a reply to the GP, but I'll leave it here.
So there is currently an informal structure for that across the US. I know where and who has a combine that I can borrow or pay just a little bit to harvest my crops. I know who can cover feeding for me if I'm out of town.

Also, that is what we used to do across the country. Co-ops and informal neighborly agreements to trade labor used to be the standard. We've gotten away from that with the development of mega-farms.

Not sure what that's worth, but there it is.
> employee shoplifting ... is in fact a much larger amount

Could you share your numbers on this, please?
If you don't have Covid then the only way to get Covid is to be exposed to someone who is contagious. I know that's stating the obvious. The point is, if you're outside and with no one but yourself, and not close to anyone else, there's no risk. A passing squirrel or a bird is not going to infect anyone.

People walking solo in open spaces with masks on - which I see a couple times per week on my morning run - perpetuates a scientifically false narrative. I'm not going to object. If that makes them comfortable. But it's also a false sense of comfort. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
This is really cool but Lua is nicer than Javascript or Typescript in my opinion.
> tax cuts

Although the top marginal tax rate has changed drastically throughout America's history, if you look at federal tax receipts as a percentage of GDP, they've been remarkably stable hovering around 17% [0]

Similarly, education spending on K-12 has grown a lot per pupil (in constant dollars) since 1970 [1]. Its roughly doubled (in constant dollars) between 1970 and 2000

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S

[1] https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/edlite-chart....
Is virus exposure a threshold mechanism (some form of initial defense exists that gets saturated at some point) or is exposure to more virions simply the equivalent of a higher number of lottery tickets from the virus perspective?

I seem to remember having read wording in one of the many papers that we surely all skimmed in 2020 that looked suspiciously like a statement declaring side in a scientific community that still considered both possible. (something like "We are working with the Independent Probability per Virion Assumption here" or something like that.
There are so many IT companies craving for coders, just saying.
Victoria, Australia. It was relaxed just this Sunday after three weeks of no new cases and no community transmission. However given the progressive relaxation of rules over the past month, some of us are rightly concerned and choose to wear masks and avoid indoor venues whenever possible.
What about employees stealing time from the employer?
If zerossl is reselling/a subsidiary of sectigo, that’s enough reason to never use this.

Sectigo is the new name for Comodo. The same bunch of pricks who tried to trademark “Let’s Encrypt”.

Other players in the acme cert “business” is great. Renaming a slime ball name and carrying on like nothing happened is not ok.
Thanks for reminding me. Giving anything Wingo et al is involved with a wide, wide berth.
(Actual laugh-out-loud moment reading your comment)

What a fucking wake up call they got, eh?
How is the comparison disingenuous? The point is that the attention that different types of theft receive is disproportionate to how much is stolen in aggregate.
Generally something like this wouldn't require an NDA, so it's likely that the WFH agreement includes special terms that Disney doesn't want other authors to be aware of, or older terms that are no longer present in their current-day contracts.

Given that ADF was a big name back in the day, he was probably getting some generous sales-based bonuses. He claims he was getting paid through at least 2014 for the Star Wars novels, which would mean Disney was still paying him for 2 years after the Lucasfilm acquisition. That would have been about right for Disney to have had time to review all of the Lucasfilm contracts and stop payments on the ones where they weren't actually required to pay. (This isn't all that rare; at my former job we were paying $20k a year to a former employee and it wasn't until one of the new general counsels asked why that we actually looked at the contract to see why were were still paying it. It wasn't questioned until them because the company been making those payments for years, and in the scheme of things, was fairly immaterial. Ultimately, the former employee had been entitled to those payments for several years, but the contract term had long since run out. However, anyone with knowledge of the expiration date had since left the company, and their replacements just kept paying.)
Because, as someone brilliantly said above, it's more about signaling to others that you embody the "hacker lifestyle" than anything else.

The minimalist lifestyle of repurposing an old device, not buying an extra one, would fail to signal your "hacker spirit" as you would not stand out so much - unless say, you add bolts reminiscent of frankenstein to the side of the screen, but you'd need a good excuse, or you might get called out.

This perfectly achieves the goal, with plausible deniability for the bolts: "it was built like that to make opening faster" - as if Phillips head screwdrivers were at a premium...
I like this quote from John Locke:

> Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Liberalism is not at odds with sensible resource distribution. On the contrary: A free society is rooted in participation of all, both political and economical.
From the linked article[0], which the posted URL appears to be a blogspam regurgitation of:

> After the seller of the Victure doorbell declined to give a refund, we took the case directly to Amazon, who agreed to fully refund the customer.

That’s probably the most viable way: if enough people request refunds, Amazon will have to address the shady sellers.

[0] https://www.which.co.uk/news/2020/11/the-smart-video-doorbel...
as soon as they would get into using and advancing tools it would be inevitable at some point