skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No because they aren't corporate or bank bailouts.

My notes (from early November) indicate that the bills are about 1/3 healthcare spending, 1/3 state and local government spending (i.e. "bailouts" of those governments), and 1/3 unemployment benefits. Not sure how accurate or up to date those notes are.

I would presume that corporate or bank bailouts would be separate bills that don't exist right now.

I could be wrong about any of this but my point is, what you think is obvious, isn't, so maybe we should be nice to one another.

> You could even lobby your Congressperson to improve that aspects and remove flexibility from the executive.

Why say something like that? I mean, you know it isn't true, and so does everybody else. Unless you think I, personally, am a huge bank? I'm genuinely curious why you think saying something like this helps. I mean, do you actually think a Congressman gives a shit about what a normal person says? They don't. For every 1 of me, there would be 1,000 demented idiots writing to them (who they also don't care about).
Annotated return types are one of the single most prominent readability benefits of typed syntax. Knowing with certainty what type will be returned in a single brief glance, without the cognitive overhead of parsing function body and checking various return statements (at best: returning a variable obtained from an external source may obscure type further).

For me this also greatly improves my ability to refactor quickly and confidently (not needing to check additional places/files during refactor for edge cases in expected type).

Yes any type-related refactor mistakes should in theory be picked up at compile time, or by smart IDEs but having the context in front of you still greatly improves speed when writing.

It's also great for code reviews where grokking context is trickier and IDE goodies are typically not as rich.
It is likely to get you banned, yes.

But if the goal here is "advice on how to reach a target audience"... it's probably worth getting an account burned (not like they cost money), if it gets your post to the top of a relevant subreddit.
Facebook has an internal tool called thanksbot that you can use to “send thanks” to people, and these are recorded and can be discussed at performance review time. Ideally only in situation where it actually matters (thanks for the refactor that made our service use 50% less gCPU!) but obviously anything can be gamed.
oddly enough, when I went to disable it it was off by default for me. I’ll check again after they officially launch, but the email they sent said I could disable it now
So what is it that makes Garfield popular?

This is the more interesting question the article does not even try to explore.

My own theory: he's cute.

People love cute cats. Grouchy cats are cute. Ergo Garfield is cute, and lovable, even when not funny.
Just wanted to say I do prefer the more colourful version of the Wondermark comic strip at the end of the article.
No it's not at all as monopolistic as MS was. MS was the alpha and omega of software at one point, you couldn't get around them if you wanted to sell to consumers or to businesses.

This is not true of Apple, one can build a business and completely ignore them. Google on the other hand, good luck with that.
Sorry to pull out the pop-culture references, but "only a Sith deals in absolutes".
I doubt Elon can do much to address a not-so-uncommon scenario when you park your car in an underground garage or elsewhere where layers of concrete just simply block any signal.
The student information system at my university where you managed all your courses etc had this clearly very often-used link front and center on the first page: "my name has changed".
This guy is EPIC at coding!

I'd have loved to have such an enthusiast as teacher!
It started with possible Customers saying they couldn't close out larger orders and grant "in field" operation without FIPS and Type 1.

We already met FIPS 2, it took some reworking for FIPS 3, and Type 1 actually isn't too bad, it's the networking your way into the NSA (and a sponsor) and them giving you the time of day. Many of our Customer contacts LOVED the product, but were not appropriate sponsors and their intros just always went cold.

The best part of the story is when we finally got a phone number to someones desk at the NSA and I just cold called it. "Hello...", "Hi [my intro]", "[silence]"... lol
Understanding 5G: Why It’s the Future (Not Present) for Mobile Communications
They sell generic computers you can't run freely

So go buy a generic computer that hasn't had Apple's fingers on it. Contrast that to the 90s, when finding a computer without Windows and IE on it was much more difficult. And if you did find one, you'd still pay for a Windows license because that's the kind of deals Microsoft bludgeoned OEMs with.

Prior to iOS, you distributed your program.

And now Apple doesn't allow one to write Android programs? I missed that one.

Your comparison is poor. Starting with the fact that a minority of devices run Apple operating systems.
You might check out (get paid up to 10k to move):

https://www.movebuddha.com/blog/get-paid-to-move/

Some international options:

https://www.helsinkibusinesshub.fi/90-day-finn/

https://www.outsite.co/blog/best-visas-for-digital-nomads
I would assume that the average American is emiting way more than the average human, so you can't just multiply it up by earth's population.
Yeah I have actually bought one. But I'm comparatively well off.
It exists everywhere
This looks exactly like something from the game Control. Specifically, it reminds me of "The Nail" from "The Foundation" DLC.
It’s even in the name. You’re paying for ... convenience. That’s why things are more expensive per unit.

A) they are closer to where you live. And B) in smaller unit packs. Maybe you only need one battery, but to get them cheaper (per unit) you need to buy an 8-pack.

If a one pack is $2, but an 8-pack is $0.50/ per battery. If you only need one, you’re still better off paying four times as much ($2 < $4).

It’s all about the convenience...
President of Havas Canada on Microservices, Bad Metrics, UX vs. CX and more
Because it really makes more sense to plan for the eventuality where anything we do makes a difference than the far more likely one where this entire trainwreck just keeps going straight toward a wall. Sure you get some real points for cynicism before rock meets hard place, but it doesn't count for much outside of that.
Statistical sampling has been reported to work in many cases.
I think by their actions it's pretty clear that every decision they make is about growth and exactly none of them are about civility - unless they are afraid of losing users.
Do pedastrian-only zones or the internet kill retail?
This is over simplified. Using TypeScript you should specify all the types required to have your code base fully qualified - not more. In the example above having a fully typed `otherFunc` would directly specify the type on `func`. If you (automatically) refactor `otherFunc` the type naturally flows and you don't end up with (unnecessary) modifications on other spots. Use type inference when possible, but don't over do it.
I too am controversial on many axes, which is maybe why I find you interesting - in an era when The Experts and Rationalists can't get even remotely hope to get their shit together, after being given decades to do it, seeing what the freaks even have to say about matters maybe isn't such a crazy idea.

It's sad that you and I differ on whether it's important to understand other people though. I wonder if there's anyone on this planet that is able to even consider the possibility that understanding is important, maybe even when it seems like it isn't. In any normal undertaking, if what you're trying isn't working, it would seem logical to try something else. But when the scope of the undertaking gets too large, this thinking seems to mysteriously change.

Enjoy your day as well. :)
After working there for a bit the most amazing story I heard is that he would lease a new car every six months so that he wouldnt need to get a plate put on it so he could park in the handicap spot without getting ticketed.
Statistics by definition is not science. The vernacular usage of science refers to the empirical sciences; physics, chemistry, geography, biology. Mathematics, statistics, and computer science are all formal sciences, sometimes simply referred to as math.

See the application section of https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section1.html.

And for when the two fields clash:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04243-3
> I am still in awe of NeXT's software technology, generally. It was just so carefully and intentionally designed as a coherent whole [...]

The closest I got to experience inner workings of NeXT software is observing the boot log of Mac OS (which you can see if you boot it with Qemu/Clover). I haven't seen so many triple exclamation marks in a while. That somehow didn't leave the impression of carefully and intentionally designed software.
Vegetarian and vegan diets and risks of total and site-specific fractures
It shows that it might help, but it's not conclusive. It's clear that air molecules pass easily throught he mask, even if you can't feel the flow. So the fact that you can't feel the flow doesn't really tell you all that much about whether the air is moving.

It means that they're moving in a more diffuse fashion, so they may not spread quite as fast. But once in the air, they can still drift around.

That said, viruses are larger than air molecules, and the droplets that carry them are considerably larger than that. They're larger than the pores in N95 masks, in fact. So yes, there's good reason to expect that masks provide protection.

On the gripping hand, this study isn't really about any of that. It's about mask mandates, which has to factor in whether people comply, what materials they're using, how much noncompliance matters, etc.

So yes, you can take "Wearing a mask helps" for granted, even if you need to think a little deeper than "I can't feel the air". Each individual act on that. But more importantly, "Requiring people to wear a mask helps", which is an important action for legislatures, not just individuals.
There's a distinct difference between type annotation and type information. In the case shown above, as long as `otherFunc()` is strictly typed, the manual annotation is simply duplicating information that's already there. At no point did I argue against having types, I'm opposing needless duplication. As perhaps a simplified example, annotating `Foo` in the below example is similarly redundant:

const foo: Foo = new Foo();
"The difference is that if you encrypt a file with a strong, industry standard algorithm, with proper key derivation, enough entropy on your passphrase, and stick it on a $27 USB key, you can be personally certain (by most reasonable standards) that your data is secure at rest."

And how much does it cost to convince 100,000 users to do this correctly, consistently? And to convince someone else that your personal certainty is worth a damn?
We want to build a payment network for the ownership economy
A lot of UVC webcams will output MJPEG, basically a sequence of pre-compressed JPEG frames, which would relieve pressure from the Pi's CPU.

With some work I suspect you could combine tools like ffmpeg, tar, GPG (with private key stored off-site), and rsync to: 1. capture and extract JPEG frames, 2. bundle them up in roughly equal 1MB-ish tarballs (to prevent leaking information about how compressible the frames were), 3. encrypt them, 4. store locally in case the network fails, and 5. ship them off to be reassembed later.

Either pipe it all through the shell (if possible) or maybe use a RAM disk as a scratch space, and beware of swapping or disable it altogether.

I'm not super familiar with GPG, but bonus points if it can generate a new random symmetric key for each bundle. That way if someone steals the device, they can only decrypt a few of the most recent frames using whatever key is still in RAM.
But not with HTTPS.
What class is Word best in?

I use it a quite a lot and think it is okay, but it has all sorts of problems and behaviors that don't make a lot of sense.
Should we call them monoghetti?
> sounds like speculation. it's a major desirability factor in bitcoin.

No, that's a plain fact. Nobody ever buys security as an end unto itself. You buy security to protect the thing you really want. Which in the case of Bitcoin is by a vast majority "getting rich".

> you wouldn't lock a $5000 bike with $5 lock. so difficulty increase correlates very much with amount of wealth poured into bitcoin.

It correlates, but not in direct proportion. With any other kind of security, you don't need to spend 10 times as much to protect a 10 times higher value, and there is a possibility of security getting cheaper due to advances in technology.
Thanks for sharing the chapter. Some feedback:

This reads like a forced conclusion that isn't really supported by the evidence. The points about startup equity having questionable value are good, but it deliberately ignores the fact that startups are the least likely to have bureaucracy and red tape. It then goes on to criticize FAANG companies for having too much bureaucracy and red tape. It feels like cherry-picking points to support the desired conclusion.

Moreover, the criticisms against FAANG aren't really supported by the evidence. The claimed benefits of working for medium-sizes companies feels dubious and doesn't match real-world experience. It feels like this piece is deliberately ignoring the fact that FAANG companies like Google have an overabundance of profits and engineers, leading to some of the most lax demands on individuals. Moving to a medium-sized company means you might be the go-to person who is responsible for keeping a lot of things running, simply because they can't afford to hire enough other qualified engineers to fill out the team. Being desperately needed by a company is a two-edged sword. Especially if you want to go on vacation.

Frankly, this feels like it's being contrarian for the sake of feeling noteworthy or enlightening. It might be more relatable if you at least gave a more honest take on the benefits of working for FAANG or a startup and admitted that medium-sized companies aren't a panacea. As it stands, this just feels dishonest.
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"It is illegal to install structures or art without authorisation on federally managed public lands, no matter what planet you're from," the department said.
Relax for the Same Result
"We pay our taxes" sounds a bit disingenuous from a company that is famous for aggressively offshoring its profits to avoid paying US and California taxes, the latter of which would directly contribute to local housing programs.
This is what I've been referencing: https://blog.bitmex.com/mining-incentives-part-2-why-is-chin...

I've read it some time ago. I recalled it as less speculative than it seems now.

The premise is that energy is a large part of aluminium production cost and the plants work on small margins. An over-investment into energy production provides cheap energy and allows the aluminium plants to improve their margins via crypto mining.
Philz Coffee – “Can it be done in React Native?”
Nice blogposts, to bad it'll take 6 months for anyone to share their results following your post :)
If retail still exists, just not in inner cities, then it wasn't the Internet.
> even on a site as rational as HN?

This site is made up of people, just like all the other sites out there. As a group, HN is no more or less susceptible to biases and irrationality than any other group of people or any other website. Our starting lemma should be that we are flawed, not that we are inherently less flawed. Acknowledging our biases and irrationalities is the first step toward overcoming them.
> it's criticized as a "sweetheart deal"

Sure, maybe they can assign these properties to "eligible" people at random. Someday you'll be on the losing end of a lottery limited to "eligible" people. The draft to Vietnam. Getting Parkinsons. Being born across the street, from the better zipcode.

Just because in some abstract mathematical sense they're fair, doesn't mean lotteries are equitable or just in the way people care about.

Besides, the idea that it's wasted or neglected, it's crap. The government has basically unlimited resources. How much money did we borrow, how many checks did we cut in the last 7 months, and what were the implications really? It is never about making the most of a scarce resource, there is never really scarcity. And maybe it's not justice either.

Nobody has a right to charge a person rent who would have gotten a free, beautiful government apartment instead. However, because that landlord wants Birkin bags, and the government will simply never, under any circumstances, give out free Birkin bags on purpose, the landlord is going to be rationally, legitimately mad about free apartments. That's the antagonist, not the government.

And the reason we have a less interesting world than the humanistic one you propose is, landlords care more about fucking Birkin bags than say, art and writing.
I think stele would be the right word maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stele
How expensive would a solid piece of metal that size be?
Ham Radio Needs to Embrace the Hacker Community Now More Than Ever
“Water is wet.”
I don't think that the work you do should be the only thing that defines what type of person you are. Someone could work at those types of companies and be a serial killer in their free time.
Scalability Patterns of Distributed Systems
I think you're being facetious, but on the off-chance you're not, and for the benefit of others: averages are incredibly practically useful for modeling systems. Parameter estimation (which generalizes averages and applies to other distribution features like variance) is a foundational modeling methodology. It's useful for both understanding and forecasting data. Measures of central tendency are nearly always good (if obviously imperfect) models of systems.

Here is a trivial example: one of the best ways of modeling timeseries data, both in and out of sample, is to naively take the moving average. This is a rolling mean parameter estimate on n lagged values from the current timestep. Not only is this an excellent way of understanding the data (by decomposing it into seasonality, trend and residuals), it's a competitive benchmark for future values. The first step in timeseries analysis shouldn't be to reach for a neural network or even ARIMA. It should be to naively forecast forward using the mean.

You might be surprised at how difficult it is to beat that benchmark with cross-validation and no overfitting or look-ahead bias.
Both. It’s enjoyable to go shopping once in a while. If you get treated properly and it’s easy to go there, why not? Even a small increase in price is totally acceptable. But if none of those things apply, Amazon it is. This seems to have happened with my rather small city next to the Ruhrgebiet
Can a computer devise a theory of everything?
Fortnite is getting a monthly $12 subscription for exclusive in-game items
You clearly didn't read the table that compare the verbosity and cognitive overhead of the Haskell way vs the fx way
yes; a forum for computer enthusiasts filled with people enthusiastic about computers.... what has this place come to indeed
Don't forget children. The television series are very child-centric and also the plush toys.
"This is why even as far back as the early 1800's it was not uncommon for local sheriff's to mandate a leave your guns at the sheriffs post at the edge of town policies. Yet, the local barkeep could still have a shotgun under the counter. Town was the public square, where the local bar, while a public establishment, was a private proprietorship."

I wish people had a better sense of this earlier social arrangement.

It was the most conservative of approaches to gun possession and was imposed by the town elders who wanted to regulate and order behavior in the public sphere.

Now we find ourselves in bizarro world where firearms politics are exactly flipped: a free wheeling "let-do" policy is championed by "conservatives" and a highly regulated policy is championed by "liberals".

In reality, a historical perspective shows us that the ownership of modern weapons by average citizens is off the charts liberal. That is absolutely where it sits on a political spectrum of rights. It is, historically, the prerogative of the most conservative and reactionary interests to prohibit/restrict arms.

All that to say: I prefer the conservative approach. I, too, was very young once and very excited to exercise my rights and privileges ... I open-carried regularly, had a CCW, etc., and the result was a lot of discomfort and bad feelings. Carrying a firearm is a provocative act and it makes sense that conservative actors in a community would try to keep that at bay.
You should try a sidecar. Want to go left, turn left. Want to go right, turn right, but not too fast because the chair takes to the air and now motorcycle physics are involved.
Square mil, and square mil-e[quivalent], for the battery-only efficiency, not miles.

When you have a volume-per-distance measurement, such as liters/km, you can cancel units to get an area.

The square mil -- a mil is 1/1000 of an inch, usually used in machining parts -- is the US customary unit which is best suited to the magnitude; 62 square mil is so much nicer than 0.04 square millimeters or 40000 square micrometers.
I commend your creative thinking, but the flatpacks were left in the garage and the driver never stepped foot inside.
…or Apple Watch-like pulse tracking, etc., and then who knows if/when Neuralink becomes practically, widely deployable and useful. I think we’re just a bit beyond the technical capabilities of the Thought Police right now in terms of sensing — their telescreens could hear breathing in quiet rooms, but on the other hand Orwell didn’t seem to foresee people buying their own pocketable ones with GPS & cell triangulation, etc. (they didn’t necessarily know everyone’s exact location all the time) — but perhaps we’re quickly surpassing their analytics abilities (particularly bandwidth — finite human staff are less of a bottleneck) with AI.
France is about to become less free
I used to work at a company which used GitPrime, a product which tries to use git statistics to create graphs and productivity rankings for management, but of course it lacks any context.

The easiest way to shoot up the ranking was to avoid any work where you'd not be instantly coding. Never fix a bug where you need to spend time tracking down the issue, never take on the more complicated pieces of work, never use your time to help out junior team members. Instead focus on simple work and trivial refactoring. The statistics are vaguely interesting and I never had it used against me, but the old quote applies: "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
Yes, it would be very harmful to humans, but so were most industrial processes. We have now eliminated almost all of them in the West (some exported to other countries). I guess my main point is that if nuclear power had been around for as long as steam power then society would have grown up around it. It would be familiar, like fire (fossil fuels) is, and the human race could judge its merits much more rationally in comparison to other power sources.

There are many a history book of war captives (slaves) being sent into gold/silver mines for a quick death.
I wasn't aware that there even were Comcast customers without data caps anymore.

I have 1Gbps service with them and pay for uncapped. With the cap you can break it three times before they start charging you extra. It's cool to hate Comcast, but it's not an unreasonable system - people who utilize 2TB a month probably should pay more than those who utilize 200GB.

I think uncapped is $50/month, but I've had a friend mention that they were able to get it for $25/month if they leased their modem from Comcast, another $10 a month for a total of $35.