skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wanted to make a note of this, but decided to keep my mouth shut.

A Muslim couple find the vaccine for Covid-19 - https://bit.ly/33Ph2IV

It is surprising how the contemporary media notes accomplishments of Muslims by their faith, instead of nationality as would be the usual case, as though being a Muslim makes a person underprivileged or intellectually challenged in some way which makes their accomplishments more notable.

If you go back far enough in time and you'll see that all Muslims are descendants of non-Muslims. Why should they be any different from the descendants of their ancestors who did not adopt Islam?

"The soft bigotry of low expectations", not racism in this case. Muslims are not a race.
It's kind of hard for me to see what the problem is. Most of the world doesn't have the problem that you say is intractable. So doing a web search, I found this that says that North Americans really are a complete outlier on grocery shopping habits.

https://priceonomics.com/how-the-world-shops-for-groceries/

I live in NA, but a grocery store is an easy walk, and was on my daily commute in pre-COVID times. This makes me an outlier among North Americans I guess. But it would be the norm for places that allow for car free life.

The following is therefore speculation, but the best I can come up with to try to meet you where you are. Right now, your car based life is so inconvenient and so inefficient, that stopping by a store is something to be minimized, to do as infrequently as possible. So to you, going to the store more than once a week is an inconvenience. You have to drive somewhere special outside of your normal route, park, walk a long distance from the car to the store, wander around a store so large that the idea of stopping and grabbing something quick is almost inconceivable. You likely even have to wait in line, because checking out a single person with a full week of groceries takes many minutes.

Once we allow the possibility of not living with a car, which means all of your daily needs within walking distance, an entirely new world opens up that is much more convenient. There is a smaller, well stocked store along most routes you take. Grabbing groceries for a day or two is not an affair that has an extra half hour of driving and walking. It's a quick hop in and out. You can always have fresh food, because you stop frequently and quickly, without having to wait a week in between trips because to shop more frequently would be wasteful of time. Run out of sugar? No big deal, it's conveniwnt to buy some more.

Once cars are gone and cities are designed around that, everything is more accessible and convenient. I mean, the whole thread started with how life in cities so not need cars, and how having cars in cities ruins life there. And for that matter, much of small town life can be similar to cities, because there, needs can also be within walking distance for a small compact town.

It's only car-based suburbia with highly restricted unmixed land uses that leads to this "I can only go the grocery store once a week" attitude. Life does not have to be that way, people that want it should be able to live like that, and those that don't want it should be able to have walkable lives. Walkable areas mean more accessibility than car-based areas, because stopping does not involve parking.
That's not true. Every year it can be raised 2%.
Unfortunately R success killed xlisp-stat: http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~luke/xls/xlsinfo/

Edit: or maybe it's not dead? I just found http://www.user2019.fr/static/pres/t246174.pdf
It's kind of unfortunate that ML has become completely synonymous with neural networks in many people's mind.
Do you have (or need) certifications such as HIPAA?
So would I, but that really doesn't have anything to do with the article. Let's judge it on its own merits.
A very bayesian mistake. If you know nothing about a person, then observation of a fact that he is late is an evidence that he is a kind of a person to be late. If you think about it, it is highly more likely to see this kind of person to be late, than to see a person who "never late" to be late.

If you knew your coworker better, if you've formed your own theory about how he is likely to be late, than if he is late you'll probably assume that he faced some external force which became a cause of his lateness.
Can you tell us any more back story about this site, how the people in question were identified, etc.?
The idea is that once the denser buildings, the value of land from the city centers will also decrease far more rapidly.

There is a temporary transition period when shit is weird because we don't have the density/land value gradient to make farming not suffer. The best thing to do is re-plan where the density ought to be to come up with

> pre_plan(x, y) * current_value(x, y)

But I'm not sure how to do this in a way that isn't a political clusterfuck.
> The LVT is not the same as a property tax, as it does not punish those who put the land to use; it taxes only the land, not the structure built on top of it.

This sounds regressive. So someone with a bungalow on their property pays the same tax as someone with a 40 story apartment building?
Greek and Roman works were, indeed, transcribed to Arabic. But the Romans got their maths from the Greeks, who got much of theirs from the Egyptians and Mesopotamians.

Zero, with "Arabic" numbering, certainly originated in Northern India. Was it "Hindu"? The people credited with inventing it certainly were. But they may have learned much from the Harappans, whose work is today wholly unknown.

Persians and Egyptians, many of them Muslim, created a great deal of new mathematics, building upon older works. They also invented, in all its details, what we now call science. It was introduced to Europe on the back of a book, Optics, by Al-Haytham. The earliest European scientists freely admitted their debt to him.

Appreciation for higher learning in the medieval Islamic world was no more universal than in Renaissance Europe, or in our modern world, but it was honored in pockets, for just barely enough centuries to catch on in similarly restricted pockets of Europe.

Is modern science Christian? Not if you believe many Christians. But many of the people who built science atop translations from Arabic were very seriously Christian.

Higher learning is always anomalous wherever it blossoms, and always treated with suspicion by many in both church and government everywhere. It doesn't belong to any culture or people. We can honor anyone, anywhere, who fostered it, whatever their ancestors' or descendents' failings.
What do you mean? If you agree to the contract when you rented access to the font, you're subject to all its conditions. If you don't want to pay the additional rent, your choice is to break the contract and lose access to the font, or pay up.
"For an (opinionated) overview of philosophy up until the first part of the 20th century you can try Russell's History of Western Philosophy"

Opinionated is one way of describing it. Myopic, ill-informed, and narrow-minded on subjects that Russell wasn't an expert on is another way to put it.

As someone who used to be a huge fan of Russell when I was young, I'd say a beginner would do themselves a huge disservice by letting their views of philosophy be colored by Russell's bias and mischaracterization of philosophers he doesn't appreciate or understand.
Is this the "I hope to die at 75" guy?
We're experimenting with `nbdev`[0], especially in our effort to support fast.ai's[1] latest course 'fastbook'[2] on iko.ai[3], to test their notebooks faster. Though scheduling notebooks on our platform is a breeze[4][5] and we could launch the 20 notebooks really fast even manually and check their output while running (some fail that way as they required user interaction for FileUpload or something, and we decided to use fixtures).

- [0]: https://github.com/fastai/nbdev

- [1]: https://www.fast.ai/

- [2]: https://github.com/fastai/fastbook

- [3]: https://iko.ai

- [4]: https://iko.ai/docs/notebook/#long-running-notebooks

- [5]: https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/Entg8COXcAIDdTI.mp4
Why do that when libraries will out compete you on price? Print is getting more popular again too among younger generations. Certainly easier on the eyes than staring at yet another screen for hours more a day imo.
A reasonable argument, if the credit card company also provides the infrastructure for distribution of the goods.
You’re getting downvoted because your position is absurd on its face. Just because subpoenas are likely to be dismissed does not make them unworthy of reporting, and arguably quite the opposite - particularly when it is a major federal agency doing the subpoenaing rather than some small town sheriff.

A subpoena is expensive and onerous to fight. Yes, Buzzfeed has the resources to do so. Does your local paper? To dismiss the power and newsworthiness of a subpoena from a major federal agency with all of the financial and human resources (funded by you the taxpayer!) that such position implies is cynical beyond belief. To then further dismiss the criticism of that view as “spam” is revealing.
>only fixed-size types

I agree that intmax is silly, but I believe there are legitimate uses for variable-size types, like int_fast8_t and uint_fast16_t. These are their nominal size on x86 because the architecture has arithmetic operations for those sizes. But on POWER, they are both 32-bit types, because there are no 8-bit or 16-bit opcodes, and emulating overflow behavior with bitmasks incurs a performance hit.
IIRC SpaceSniffer can handle NTFS junctions properly whereas WinDirStat didn't understand them.
Look enforcement is typically difficult for anything being sold. The problem is many magnitudes larger than current abilities of enforcement agencies and a lot of these actions are in very grey legal areas internationally.

I believe we could legislate and leverage the executive to force agreements but anything done will likely be an uphill battle with no end.
It's a great idea, poorly executed and promoted by Mozilla. I'm hopeful it will thrive in the hands of the community.
Upon skimming, that article appears to be general radical leftist criticism of big government past propaganda campaigns about the Iraq War and bank bailouts, and ends up calling for UBI in the form of a Citizen Dividend. Other than the anti-establishment framing, it seems to be relatively weak tea criticism, it doesn’t claim that COVID is a hoax nor engages in anti-vaxx/anti-5G woo, it just puts out a narrative that “the government has lied before, it’ll lie again!”

Progress.org appears to be a Democracy Now! type publication that accepts content from different grassroots progressive viewpoints, some fringier than others.
Töreni̇ KİM Sabote Etmek İITEDİ – Mahmut Akşi̇tINE DEDİ?
TEI Genel Müdürü Prof. Dr. Mahmut Akşit canlı yayında "Töreni sabote etmek isteyenlere hakkımızı helal etmiyoruz" dedi. Herkes yerinden zıpladı.

Millet neden sabotaj sözüne bu kadar şaşırdı ki? Zaten Türkiye'deki her proje sabote edilmek isteniyor. illa gün yüzüne mi çıkması lazımdı?

Palet fabrikası iftirası yerli tanka sabotaj değil mi?

Suriye ve Libya operasyonlarından önce millet henüz sihaların değerinin farkında değilken, "damat devlete siha satıyor" demek sabotaj değil miydi?
S-400'ler sarayı korumak için alınıyor iftirası, Türkiye'nin acil hava savunma ihtiyacına sabotaj değil miydi?

Sadece bir tane tören sabote edilmiş çok mu önemli? yukarıda saydıklarımın ve sayamadıklarımın yanında ne ki?
How do you judge an article by its merits when it involves something complex that you don’t already fully understand? I don’t have the time or desire to become an expert in tax policy, so I have to use some other signal to measure the merits of this article. At some point, that signal will come down to reputation of SOMEBODY or SOMETHING, and looking at the other articles posted by this site is a good starting point.
Where do you want them to send it to?
We went from riding horses to computer and space ship so I don't know if those will have the same impact capitalism has especially if we have less money for innovation
If they're next to each other, yes.

If the bungalow is out in the suburbs and the apartment building is downtown next to the transit station, the apartment will pay MUCH more tax as that land is much more valuable.
Great resource. It would be great to have the animations also. How games transitions from one screen to another, or how the UI elements are animated is what makes game UI so cool.
Author here. I'll make sure to address the UI issue soon.
R’s data.table package is faster at these things out of the box than any single instance of a database server I’ve encountered. This is frustrating because I’m trying to explain some systemic issues we suffer by not using a relational database, but it’s really hard to make my case when data.table is one install.packages away and a version upgrade from Postgres 9 to something a little faster is gatekept by bureaucracy. I’ve been trying for months!
It isn’t regressive, because poor people don’t typically own valuable property.
Yeah, when I originally wrote the comment I thought that it was more generic. It was only later that I saw it was more aimed at domain sockets, and edited that in.
I disagree. I never use inbuilt help and only use man pages.
If someone is hoarding land on which a 40 story apartment building would be profitable, yes, they should be taxed for it
First, you are not forced to use intmax_t (unless of course you inherit it from someone else).

Second, in my personal opinion, it's really much safer to use C89/C90, unless you have very good reasons to use the extensions present in the newer versions of the standard. Even large projects like SQLite appreciate this approach. And if you are developing for an environment supporting C99 and newer standards, you could as well use C++ (or a newer language).
It's only sounds that we because there is so much yeoman farmer -> suburban everyman stuff in our heads.

The land is our collective inheritence, so someone with 1 story bungalow on highly desireable land is actually extremely selfish and decedent in their misuse of the commons.

To get less moral and more mathematical, developers can lessen their tax only to the extent that the flood the market with floors pace, devaluing the good they are selling (floor space, not land space). This forces and equilibrium where the vast majority of people do better than today.
I disagree, if a town with 1000 households are interspersed with 100 farms, those 100 farms should not be paying an equal amount of money to the town finances as the 1000 households. It just doesn't make sense. They should certainly be paying for the right to have exclusive access to that land, but those 100 farmers do not put as much of a financial strain on the town budget as those 1000 households
Speaking of podcasts, I can heartily recommend The Partially Examined Life[1], which has been by far the best philosophy podcast I've ever heard (especially their earlier episodes.. not as much a fan of their more recent ones).

[1] - https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/
This piece of article is filled with misinformation. Indian calender system called "panchang" incorporated the motion of earth, sun, moon and stars long before the dates mentioned in this article[1]. Various Sanskrit Astronomy treatise calculated and continuously refined the calculation.

> Dharmic (Hindu) scholars kept precise time by observing and calculating the cycles of Surya i.e. the sun, moon and the planets. These calculations about the sun appear in various astronomical texts in Sanskrit, such as the 5th-century Aryabhatiya by Aryabhata, the 6th-century Romaka by Latadeva and Panca Siddhantika by Varahamihira, the 7th-century Khandakhadyaka by Brahmagupta and the 8th-century Sisyadhivrddida by Lalla.[24] These texts present Surya and various planets and estimate the characteristics of the respective planetary motion.[24] Other texts such as Surya Siddhanta dated to have been completed sometime between the 5th century and 10th century present their chapters on various deified planets with stories behind them.

Hindu India have names for time scale ranging from 10e-17 to 10e22 long before Greece and Arabia[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_calendar#Texts

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_units_of_time
The idea is to tax the opportunity cost of the land. If Jeff Bezos decides he wants to build a bungalow in the middle of Manhattan that is his prerogative, but he shouldn’t get to pay less taxes than someone who put the land to more economical use as a 40 story apartment building.
I suppose this is meant to be changed. I can't say I paid attention to what the 2020 census actually said, but on this matter Wikipedia says:

> White American, European American, or Middle Eastern American: those having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. Following consultations with Middle East and North Africa (MENA) organizations, the Census Bureau announced in 2014 that it would establish a new MENA ethnic category for populations from the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab world.[18] However, this did not occur on the 2020 Census.
Show HN: Just for Fun
I can't possibly see reading Hegel being a good idea for a beginner. It'll just lead to thinking philosophy is intentionally obtuse. He's basically impossible to parse without taking a philosophy course. http://existentialcomics.com/comic/281
Many brokers, including IBKR, set their interest rate to be a small increase over the federal interest rate.

The federal rate is currently 0.25%. They set this rate extremely low to encourage the exact behavior we are seeing here - investments in the US economy.

I have a 1.4x leveraged portfolio with similar reasoning.
Kaitai is designed to describe arbitrary, preexisting binary formats. You can’t do that with ASN.1.
TLDR; Blog author is pro-censorship but was working on tech to prevent censorship, so decided to quit doing that.
It never even occurs to me to use —help. If a tool doesn’t have a good man page, I just find a different tool.
> special knowledge about price oracles

I still don't get it. Can you point me to some actual examples?

Do you mean people are front running contract using data provided by oracles? I would not see that as illegal, just as removing friction coming from oracles that have too much latency.
How about Piet?

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet

Programming as an abstract painting
Not reading.

Living, observing, and reflecting has been the most beneficial to my pursuit of knowing myself, finding peace, and then realizing it's all futile (yes, even the reaching the mountain top of enlightenment -- a sham).

Keep a journal. Write down your thoughts and observations for the day -- observing your thoughts and emotions as you do. From there, you can understand what you think, how you feel, and make changes as you see fit.

Books and philosophers can offer you nothing but a distraction off the path.

It's Zen Koan in a way; the underlying pattern between all of them is that it's all subjective, there is no truth. Stop looking so hard, and just live.
is this practically confirmed?
Uhh... wait a minute... is this sarcasm?

I hope it's sarcasm.
It seems to me that Microsoft really makes no effort to improve subtle aspects of Windows and hardware integration. In fact, their OS is in such shambles and is a disoriented mess with respect to UI consistency. They introduced Vista, Metro, and now Fluent. Yet there's almost no coherence and the UI is now a mish-mash of XP, Metro, and Fluent era elements. By the time they announce their next UI, you can bet you'll now see yet another ingredient added to the jumbled soup.

It really is beyond belief that an organization with so many employees can fail to adhere to a uniform vision and standard and focus on correcting details.

I'm a life long Windows and Android user. But honestly, seeing articles like this and how smooth the UI on macOS and uniformly they apply new updates and UI changes makes me extremely jealous and resentful that Microsoft is so bad at something so basic.

Features are great, but users at their start point interact with UI first. They need to fix that before anything else.

Now they want to give you the option to run Android apps on Windows through emulation. This just going to create a bigger jumbled mess.
Perversely, if it was based on what the value of the property would be without any building on it, in lots of popular areas it would be more than the cost of the property tax because people will pay a premium for land where they can build what they want if the area is popular.

So I guess it can't be that way, as it would piss a lot of people off.
About the same.

AIUI, they see a few benefits:

- it will ensure someone holding onto empty land for future use will have to pay at the same "rate" as you do. They don't get a discount simply because they choose not to use the land. If you aim to collect the same total amount of revenue, this would lower your tax.

- Use of land would be better optimized if there was no disincentive to build an expensive (eg bigger/denser) building. IMO this is flawed in that local land use rules are the bigger issue compared to tax policy.
It's not perfect, but I find blocking all traffic in/out to global dns servers with pfBlockerNG to be an okay way to limit the DoH bypass of simple port 53 blocking. There are still ways around it, but it has caught a lot of other interesting traffic (snmp, ntp, etc.) leaving my network and that a simple port 53 block misses.

This is the list I use: https://public-dns.info/nameservers-all.txt
I haven't been paying attention to debian packing of chromium, but I am wondering, is the situation on testing or unstable any better?

I used debian on desktops and laptops spanning several decades and IMO a typical desktop user probably doesn't want to stay on stable, that's been my experience anyway. Machines I don't use interactively I've kept on stable though.
> It's unconstitutional for the government to close down businesses without due process, even if it's done with good intentions.

No it isn’t. That’s just not true. The government can do it in an emergency like pandemic, after a failed sanitation inspection, after a crime, etc. You can’t just say

> It's unconstitutional for the executive branch to make arbitrary decisions without representative input,

No it isn’t. This just isn’t true. For starters the decision is obviously not arbitrary. And “representative input” - Jesus. You can’t just make up stuff that isn’t in the constitution and claim that something you don’t like is therefore unconstitutional.

> It's not legal to confine the majority of people in a state to their homes, whether they've been diagnosed with a transmissible disease or not.

Again this just isn’t true and has never been true.

One of the most frustrating things of this year is dealing with dangerous ignorant bullshit from people like yourself.
If the value goes up when all else stays the same, it is actually the land value that goes up.

If you completely renovate the house, a property tax would go up but the lvt stays the same.
Hi - I'm enjoying reading the discussion around this, and the previous discussion [1] as well. It's possible that Materialize can help us transition a really complex pipeline to real-time.

To the short discussion here [0] about window functions - any update to that in the last 9 months?

Our workloads involve, in a lot of cases, ingesting records, and keeping track of whether N records of a similar type have been seen within any 15 minute interval. The records do not arrive in chronological order. Is this currently a potential use case for Materialize?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22362106
OK, so taking the usual programmer's working hours then add 10 hours a week to that. That's some opportunity cost there, just to be able to jump through a hoop that has little to no bearing on a real world programming career past the intern/junior developer level.
Figma is much more a PPT/Keynote alternative but you cannot use dynamic media in it.