skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author addresses this deep into the article:

"A greater percentage of Americans may be deep literate in 2019 than in 1819 or 1919, but probably not than in 1949, before television, the internet, and the iPhone. We have reached a stage at which many professors dare not assign entire books or large parts of moderately challenging ones to undergraduates because they know they won't read them. And while more Americans are graduating from four-year colleges than ever before, the educational standards of many of those institutions, and the distribution of study away from the humanities and social sciences, suggest that a concomitant rise in deep literacy has gone unrealized as the degree factories churn."
If the needs of less populated states weren't considered, then there'd be no incentive for them to stay part of the nation. It's necessary for the political system to remain stable.
Surely by being forced to do lockdowns later on we are paying dearly for letting them stay open.

I think we can also have more fine-grained policies. In Scotland they simply disallow serving of alcohol in restaurants and pubs, and restaurants have to close by 6PM. Unsurprisingly Scotland seems to be doing somewhat better than England and has avoided a second nationwide lockdown.

The basic idea is if we can target the 5% of the economy that is causing most of the spread, you can keep the other 95% open.
Show HN: Websnake An elegant HTTP/HTTPS non blocking requests in Python
Out of curiosity... did you ever fall into the trap of using

numeric_limits<T>::min()

instead of

numeric_limits<T>::lowest()

? Because I did.
I make about $400-500 per month on https://shortkeys.app - a browser extension for custom keyboard shortcuts to do all kinds of stuff.
If you don't have the manpower then don't. It's that simple.
I'm obviously biased because I don't consider FAANG to be a goal at all, either as a stepping stone or end game. There are much better things in life than a lot of money.
I love The Good Place and only recently realized that even the characters might be loosely based on some "Gnostic" beliefs (Valentinianism, etc), like the judge (e.g. Sophia).
This is the only sensible scheme in this whole thread.

2.5% in 2 mos is 15.97% annualized. Very respectable return. Can you keep that up for a year?

If so, you should repackage it and turn it into a ponzi. /s
What are you basing your predictions here on? Do you have an example where this has happened?
Or perhaps Firefox. All the haters say it's a Chrome copy anyway, right? But seriously, why Chromium?
Thank god, now we can sit back and relax. No need to change anything.
"This only works for the subset of devices which use the local DNS. If they use any of the well-known techniques to avoid that filtering it's completely ineffective."

If you also block all port 53 after allowing your own resolver ... you may have some headaches with devices that refuse to use the DHCP provided resolvers but you know they aren't going to other resolvers.

That kind of control is what DoH breaks and I'd love to find an elegant (non-MITM proxy) solution for it ...
The term "racism" has been used to describe prejudices against religious groups (not just what you or I would consider "intrinsic characteristics") for decades now: see the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Show HN: Sukhoi A minimalist and flexible Web Crawler in Python
> I find it disturbing that people have stopped supporting free speech when they stopped liking its content.

I think the problem is that - in the west at least - we have fairly good free speech, and the governments do not routinely go around censoring discussion etc (obviously this is not true everywhere and varies from place to place).

So this means that people who want to say something can say something using the usual means/technologies. They do not generally need to resort to anything special to avoid censorship or consequences.

As a result, a large proportion of the people who do end up using the uncensorable/untraceable tech are the worst of society doing outright illegal stuff. Drug dealers, kiddie fidlers, murders, organised crime, terrorists etc.

I love the idea of decentralised web tech etc, but I do not want to spend my time facilitating the scum of society to break the laws in my country. I also don't want to host their decentralised content on my machines or waste my bandwidth transmitting their uncensorable porn etc.

Of course I realise that there are places in the world where there are not as many freedoms as I enjoy and people might genuinely need to use such technology to avoid oppression. I guess I am just selfish.

Tl;Dr - you can support free speech without supporting illegal activity.
> That's literally the exact system we have right now at the http level.

And you might notice that the http level is not where the existing problem occurs.
And accessibility trolls are hot right now.
The solution is clear: an, ummm, income-based land value tax
For Hegel I’d just say read a short modern secondary source that summarizes the main ideas and traces their influence on subsequent thinkers. Honestly the main point of knowing about Hegel anyway is because he deeply influenced Marx, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and many other philosophers that you might actually want to read and apply to your life and worldview. Peter Singer’s Hegel: A Very Short Introduction is short, clear, and has all the information you’d need (https://www.amazon.com/Hegel-Short-Introduction-Peter-Singer...).
The unfortunate conflation of libre and gratis in the English language is... not a new observation on your part.
I haven't noticed this elsewhere, but haven't been paying attention. It'll be interesting to see how much I notice it henceforth - interesting and probably disappointing.

Regarding first/last name confusion, how many people here on HN _know_ which is her first name and which is her last? It's a lot easier for Western Anglicized speakers to get it wrong with non-Western non-Anglicized names than with "Jeff Dean", whether intentionally or not.
Only that doesn’t happen in real life. People on the brink of poverty don’t inherit property. And if they do, they can always sell it and put that money to better use.
Would the stable release managers not accept a non-maintainer upload? I agree the strong ownership culture is a serious problem, but it mostly affects unstable, right?
If you're only using it for light HDR work, both are almost equally usable, and if you're mastering HDR content all the time, you'll need a dual-LCD panel anyway (as the sony hxr-310).

But you're right, the additional 3000$ are definitely noticeable - but if they're noticeable enough to justify that price tag is another question.
Apple files for light trapping matte black MacBook Patent
Modern Monetary theory is theory not policy.

The jobs guarantee that goes with it I really don't like. It's stupid in 2020 to not be trying to reduce the total labor per person.

Sure, some infrastructure projects are really important, not profitable, and might even require the training of new labor to get it done. They should definitely still happen. But I see no good reason to hitch that to jobs guarantee.
People who nominally think a text is infallible often in fact pay attention very differentially to different parts of it. That’s why few modern fundamentalists own slaves or stone disabled people who enter church. Perhaps you can ding them for inconsistency.... Meanwhile, many Muslims and Christians are not literalists in that sense.
Where google requested she retract her paper to include information that was flattering to google and Google thought was relevant?
OLED isn't super useful on computer screens where elements stay in a static location for a long time due to burn in.

Also the amount of bright colors used in computer interfaces would cause some significant discomfort.

And I'm not sure how legitimate this claim is, but I've read before that OLED suffers from dead pixels at a higher rate than other screen types, but don't take that too seriously without proof.
Implementing this has the language level has proven to be a total disaster.

The number of cases where it’s important to use different types on different architectures exists, but is very small.

That’s something that would be much easier to handle at the library-level for a finite set of architectures than at the language level for all archs.

I’d also like to see the elimination of printf specifiers. Another total disaster and source of soooooo many bugs. Especially with all of these variable types.
fortunately, I never misunderstood the original intent of Tony Hoare and Donald Knuth
A reasonable argument, if we had any proof that infrastructure is actually what is driving the 30% cut. Unfortunately there are no alternative integrated payment and distribution methods allowed so we can't really say. My gut feeling is nowhere near 28% of the cost of a digital book is in delivering the file to the user though.
Do you have an example of where LVT was tried at scale anywhere at all ever?

I'm just describing the incentives. Identify the flaw in the logic.
Hacker News' software automatically strips leading "How" from titles, to prevent clickbait presumably. I think it's probably fine to have it here though.
Does it? Do you have any data to support that?

I thought about what you said, and immediately connected it with several other claims of things that also rise with tech advancement... marginal impact of weapons, medicine, intelligence, entrepreneurship/luck, sports, games, entertainment, communications...

So if the marginal impact of everything rises, then maybe that’s just the way of technology? It increases leverage. But then in relative terms, all those things still have the same impact? Or maybe the ratios between them change (e.g. weapons/nukes became more more powerful than communications)? Or maybe there’s other areas that massively reduced in marginal impact (e.g. production of food)...
Signed overflow should be defined and a platform that provides a normal int which has different overflow behavior should have their int named different. Maybe noverflowed_int or
> This article was originally published at Medium by Phil Allen, the founder of The New Physiocratic League project.
I'd suspect the OLED burn-in is a serious concern for a monitor.
Through this thread I really feel like I’m missing something.

Are we not talking about writing binary files that conform to the spec?

Like, in the case of a GIF: simply writing valid garbage data should produce a file that presents as a valid GIF with noise for the image. Similarly: reading the file through the parser and writing it out unmodified should create an identical file (assuming no stenography).

Right?
Honestly I am literally shaking with rage over the top center image. Put so damn much effort into beautiful symmetry and then just said fuck it with the one blank space to the left of “Welcome to” but TWO blank spaces to the right of it? I mean wtf was he/she thinking?

Just do “ Welcome “

/s
There isn’t an effective solution for a device which ignores local network policy other than returning it so the manufacturer pays the cost of designing a bad system.
Are you not contradicting your previous post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25318387
Also bought EFTsvwhen the market went down. Huge gains....
But if you used a fixed size type, you end up doing things like using 64-bit integers on AVR, where you’re going to again have a bad time. Flexible and fixed width types both have their uses.
And many times have you been subpoenaed, exactly?
The RSS feed still lists MP3 as a patent encumbered format, which it no longer is.

http://hackerpublicradio.org/syndication.php

If this is deliberate, it seems like a very curious hill to die on. Almost zero mainstream podcast apps natively support OGG, and telling people to avoid MP3 isn't really helping anyone at this point.

Edit: it seems like the page is probably just under-maintained. It still links off to Google Play for podcasts, which hasn't even been Google's primary podcast app even long before Google Play was discontinued.
You are completely spot-on.
I'd say "sort of." I see flat UI designs in games in essentially two places.

The first is games where it seems stylistically appropriate within the aesthetic of the game. I'd argue Pokemon falls into this category somewhat, but that's definitely eye of the beholder. The flat UIs feel congruent enough with the world to me.

The second place you'll see flatter UIs sometimes is in the sort of "hub" UIs that many multiplayer games. They usually have a lot of functionality, are very much "out of game," and are incidentally normally built on web tech.

But for regular, in-game UIs? Not really IMO, not like it has been for apps.
If you didn't notice, this was created by the cofounder of Figma.
I think the implication is that "rich" girls won't show interest in you.
I actually didn't mean to include JSX in any of my comment. It is a DSL unquestionably.

I meant that the JS you write in React, Vue, and Svelte feels like a DSL.
As the other responder says, LVT is good no matter what the basis of the economy is. But also, we absolutely have problems specific to today around automobile use and suburbia that ultimately go back to inefficient land use.

Trying to keep society progressing without improving land use and suburbia is like trying to improve CPUs while not improving upon 1980s processes/chip density.
The distinction is only relevant for floating point types, is it not?
Also the ISP DNS is sometimes just unreliable. Not malicious, just bad.

I once had Windows Update broken by my ISP DNS. It was just returning the wrong IP, maybe an old one, not sure.
Esoteric languages are create only for the gimmick of being esoteric, and do not represent an actual effort to solve a problem in a novel way. They are really not very interesting as anything other than toys.
> Interesting read but IMHO fairly irrelevant for language users. I've been coding in C and C++ for more than 25 years and never encountered intmax_t or any problems related to it.

15 years and ditto. I've only used it and seen it used for printf with %j, because that sucks less than the C99 PRIxBLAH conversions.

> It's better to accept that C (and C++) are only portable in theory,

I don't agree with that at all, though.
I taught my older son to bike like all parents by breaking my back running along them. All stressed out he will die if he falls.

It took a week or so.

His younger brother learned in 15 minutes when we were on vacation because otherwise he woukd not have been able to play with him and some friends.

The key thing is that the older brother won't have much pity, either you follow or you don't.

I saw that in plenty other cases where the younger one had to learn fast, and he learned much quicker and earlier too.

Us being imperfect parents, he also watched some movies earlier than his brother did.

I find on my one data point analysis that the way children are raised are very different between siblings.
I make about $200/month with olodolo.com but it’s not completely passive as I need to manually handle things like disputes and refunds. I’d say maybe 2h/month.
I wonder if it's not something coming from the muslim world itself.

Modern nations is a western concept and has mostly been shaped by western colonisation. Identity in many part of the world is more defined by ethnicity, tribe, or religion, than by the nationality.
This seems to be part of the debate about Timnit Gebru exit from Google.
This is true (though since land is a finite resource, market forces can also encourage landowners not to sell the land to someone wanting to put it to efficient use now if the shortage of suitable development land in the area is likely to grow worse)

The theory behind LVT is that the increase in a land's value from it becoming the centre of a bustling city should accrue to funds the government spends on the city's population (which helps make land more valuable) and not the person that's sitting on the land
Typically it's assessed value inferred from market sales data from similar properties.
The long-standing problem with Microsoft's internal culture is that it rewards people and teams for 'innovating' where innovation in many cases is just reinvention.

I worked at Facebook for years and it now has a similar problem. Developers are evaluated every six months on their 'impact', which results in many dropping boring work and joining teams that are doing new things, even if they aren't needed.
I agree, if it is an embedded device specifically designed to connect to a limited set of services, there is no reason to expect it to follow DNS provided by DHCP.

Conceivably, there's no need to it to even use "real" DNS at all, you could just run a server that responds to queries like "updateserver.ecorp" and save the hassle of even announcing these servers to the public DNS at all.

Also, DoH or not, there are plenty of other ways to ensure that ads get through a DNS filter. For example, a local hosts file could be included in firmware updates and they would just need to make extra effort to ensure that the server IPs didn't change (an elastic IP or load balancer in AWS would be all you need, then it can persist even if the VM has to be deleted).
I agree with this. I never understood why philosophy is always structured as a history of the subject. It would be like learning math from a history of math class. I would like to see a philosophy course which starts from a modern perspective and references the history as secondary.
In Defense of Blub Studies
I am talking from experience. You are wrong on both counts.

What makes you think that poor people don't inherit property? There are lots of people with very low incomes but who own a house.
And no they don't just sell it. Why sell the only house you have? Or maybe it is not their house but it is a piece of property that they have always owned and which they use as a garden or a yard or storage.

They don't sell it because they'd rather have a piece of land to enjoy then some money in the bank. It might be their only luxury in an otherwise frugal life.
Best part is towards the end:

“Apple wants your machine to be secure: secure from everyone except Apple (and the governments to whom Apple must answer). Apple wants your data to be private: private from everyone except Apple (and the governments to whom Apple must answer).

These systems are now insecure by design: there is no way for them to be made secure.”
I assumed find their way was a reference to Jurassic Park and these Sea Turtles were going to be hermaphrodites fertilizing their own eggs or something like that.
The podcast The History of Philosophy without any gaps is a great way to get into it. I found the philosophy of the pre-socratics all the way through to the scholastics was easy to understand and grasp as a lay person. After that, the language gets a bit dense. However, I was still able to understand it.

https://historyofphilosophy.net
OP’s argument was specific: “ Take a look at some BLM protests and how people wanted to chant, display repent for their sins, subjugate in Communion, etc.” By all means, disagree on the specifics - that will be more persuasive than calling him “sad”.
Yeah, I think you can handle this with symbol versioning. Which is a sort of hand-coded linker magic for symbol mangling that the author complains about. But I don't buy that it's the major problem the author claims.
I use iptables on an openwrt router to redirect all traffic on port 53 to my own DNS
> Everyone should say whatever they want without fear or retribution. ... If this incites violence, so be it.

This is not a logically sound stance to take. Violence, by its nature, stifles speech of its intended victims.

You are only promoting the free speech of the boldest or most ruthless. You are not promoting free speech for those who would be victimised by them.
the big issue here is neither DRY nor YAGNI (and they're not solutions either), but this:

"Next week, your PM comes back and says..."
"then your PM says..."

you cannot abstract in code somebody's opinion, at least not other people's. the number of possibilities is too high, and you have no clue what they are. this is why your carefully crafted structure will break down -- it has no basis in reality.

sidenote: if you will call yourself an engineer than you need to think on a different level than implementing somebody's whims. but of course a lot of of this type of work is fiddling with things to make somebody happy. I would think a real engineer would provide a technical solution to a non-technical person for them to fiddle with themselves.
You don't want to. Wayland-based GTK and Qt should to do per device DPI. XRandR cannot.
Do you have a viable alternative to property taxes for raising municipal revenues? Additionally, certain acts like California Prop 13 of 1978 attempt to solve the problem you’re addressing but, in my opinion, ended up causing much more harm than good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_...
ImHex: A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people that VA (cont)
Big difference is Katai is designed to parse existing binary formats like PNG, JPEG, MIDI, WAV files.

Things like Protobuf can serialize/deserialize any data but it’s very opiniated about how to do this. You won’t convince it to work with existing file formats.
Thanks, this is what makes HN good.
The problem with the idea that "the answer to bad speech/misinformation is moar speech!" is that people aren't bayesian belief nets who update their beliefs in propositions based on new information.

Instead what happens is, information that confirms people's existing beliefs is not only heavily weighted, but it is reshared with others. Information that contradicts existing beliefs is filtered.

This has the overall effect of reinforcing the bias of a person and their existing social network.

So conspiracy theories, propaganda, racism, just flat out wrong information, once it takes root, is very hard to dislodge.

We have huge chunks of the population now believing in COVID conspiracies, that hospitals are misreporting to make money, that it's a psy-op, that mask and distancing directives were either purely to disadvantage their favored candidate, or exist for some nefarious purpose, and on and on.

Maybe this is the real answer to the Great Filter/Fermi Paradox -- civilization drowns in a sea of mutually reinforced misinformation.
Can Kaitai Struct store its metadata in a binary form that's parseable with Kaitai Struct?

Seems like there's an obvious bootstrapping task there that would then make the custom .ksy format irrelevant.
Regex literals optimization (or how to cheat on benchmarks)
> Given that he has pledged to give away 99% of his wealth either while he is still alive or when he dies, why do you think he is doing that?

Wealthy people wanting to polish their legacy while still directing the use of their wealth from beyond the grave by establishing endowments and non-profit foundations etc. isn't really a new phenomenon, though there is much less emphasis on monumental architecture these days.

I'm not sure if anyone has studied whether such foundations and endowments are particularly efficient allocations of those resources compared to the government (either is in principle less efficient than the market, but the government steps in where society in general judges that markets have failed, and non-profits generally step in where donors, specifically, perceive the government has failed as well, but I'm unsure whether that implies more or less relative efficiency in allocation).
> ..if you were to add a page on your blog you would have to take care not to change the link in the future...this is not the case here.

But we have control over our own blogs and URLs. We have no control over you shutting down your site. That value prop feels like a big stretch.

Your site itself is fine... you just haven't yet solved a problem for most people in a new way, so you need to keep working on it to figure out what unique value this can have.