skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of those articles contain claims that votes were changed (election fraud) or that voters voted repeatedly or illegally (voter fraud).

They do contain claims of voter suppression, which I'll note continue to be made by those on the left this year (and in 2018 and in pretty much every election, disenfranchisement is an ongoing concern on the left).
All my experiences using Airbnb have been terrible and their apps/website are the slowest I've ever seen in a tech company.

But I think the price is reasonable because the Fed printing machine won't stop and US has long lost the opportunity to ever increase interest rate so everything will just pop up like end of world, e.g. what has Apple done this year so they are now worth 1 trillion more than last year? Thus 60b for Airbnb is basically the same as 30b last year.

tl;dr: if your asset doesn't pop 100% this year, you are a fool.
Can anyone comment as to how this question on employment application forms affects employability with regard to U.S. government/public sector and private sector jobs? The conventional wisdom is that "this information is optional and does not count toward eligibility", but this doesn't make sense; why would they ask this question on literally _every_ job application if it was optional and doesn't count toward anything?
This is a really great explanation. I'm relatively new to the US, and the system of sales tax struck me as odd until I learned about the various reseller and other exemptions.

The complexity (need for so many exemptions) suggests that the fundamental design may be flawed. If you have VAT, you can do with fewer rules.
Land Value Tax is simpler and more progressive and more economically efficient than both.
Developing the Ubiquitous Language
I started using daemon/emacsclient several years ago and never looked back. Especially since I use named servers per project or language or whatever. Like, I have an erc emacs daemon that just handles IRC stuffs. I have one for (this month) aoc (Advent of Code). I have a ledger one for tracking my money. And then one for any other active projects. And if I want to kill the displayed instances (say I'm done with project X for this week), I can without "losing my place", all the buffers stay open (which is fine for the way I interact with files, just make sure to save).

I made a couple shell functions/aliases to help me out. emacsd $servername and e for emacsclient -t. So spinning them up is trivial, and accessing them is just e -s $servername. With no name, it's just the default instance (used for random editing that's not part of a project or something I care to keep cleanly separated).
The statement was no X in Summer, no Y in winter. It was not talking about a daily or even weekly phenomena but seasonal one.

There is no summer which have had no winds, no winters that have had no insolation or vice versa. Instead of making up numbers, you can use a site like this: https://www.solar-electric.com/learning-center/solar-insolat....

You'll find that by comparing seasonal best case to seasonal worst case it is something like, on average, 50% difference. It gets worse the closer you to get to the pole obviously.

Furthermore, surplus production does not go into dev/null. Excess resources create markets, and there will be consumers that take advantage of cheaper surplus power (smelting, heavy industrial, desalination, hydrogen production, and whatever else anybody cooks up).
A bit unrelated, but a few weeks ago, I was watching some videos and reading related to disastrous industrial chemical spills, the incredible mess how they wound up in the environment, the effects they had on the population, and the seemingly incredibly long time it took for proper responses. I later on took a look at some of the former EPA superfund sites near me and out of curiosity started reading about the various contaminants and the history of the sites. Scary what multi-generational effects some of that crap can have and it could be very close to you.
That's great to hear! I got a pair a year and a half ago and consider them one of the best purchases I've made for productivity at work. They fit over my behind-the-ear hearing aids, they are great for concentration when the kids are being kids, and the mic is fantastic for zoom calls. It's also the first time I've seriously used a bluetooth device and the novelty of being able to seamlessly switch between music on my phone, youtube on the computer, and work calls still hasn't worn off.
a pancake ?
Well I have some good news for you, they lost the election. A few of them may not like to admit that, but they lost nevertheless and any scenario where Biden or Harris isn't president a year from now is a delusion.
> In your link, Trump says: "I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists -- because they should be condemned totally".

BUT HE IS.

The people he is talking about that he is separating out ARE white nationalists.

They are not carrying Nazi flags. They are not chanting "Jews will not replace us." If you asked them point blank, they wouldn't dog-whistle anything about "we don't think blacks are inferior, we just want a separate but equal society".

But their actions are aligned with white supremacy. Their obsession with the Confederacy and their generals is an expression of white supremacy. They are not interested in heritage. They are interested in perpetuating old power imbalances that keep "the poorest white man above the best black man".

> Regarding bleach, "So it'd be interesting to check that" is a suggestion for medical research, not a recommendation for what patients should do now.

That's now how supporters received it.

In both cases you give him the benefit of the doubt. His intentions are not to support white supremacy. his intentions are not to have his supporters drink bleach.

However he has a job, which is colloquially described as "the most powerful man in the world". That has responsibility. His throwaway lines embolden white supremacists who ABSOLUTELY seized on "fine people on both sides" just as much as the left did. His supporters do hear his guidance to the medial community and jump to the next conclusion.
Yes and that's always the discussion when people from US come in to visit to the french part of companies. "Hey we heard that you are paid 5 to 10 times less than us, why do you accept that?"
Ultra-high-temperature polymers might get there. There are polymers used in specialized industrial applications that can handle ~500° C.
Is Y Combinator a School?
> This cat is catching downvotes but that Club of Rome thing and (Limits of Growth, which is a paper this group published) is interesting economic stuff

I'm used to downvotes here since facts are not popular (bitcoin ...)

The "infinite growth in a finite world" is a traditional line from the school of thought this Club of Rome started.

However, as you correctly found out in the wikipedia article, it's dubious at best "the forecasts of the world's future are very sensitive to a few unduly pessimistic key assumptions. The Sussex scientists also claim that the Meadows et al. methods, data, and predictions are faulty, that their world models (and their Malthusian bias) do not accurately reflect reality"

I gave a very simple example (combinatorial explosion) that shows how the whole thing is wrong, and why (here, attacking a key assumption) - but there are many many more holes.

It's not really redeemable, after having been proved wrong more than wrong - just like Malthusianism actually.

> It's worth two minutes of reading

Indeed, in just 2 minutes you can notice even more holes - I just pointed to the most glaring one for people used to algorithm.

Hopefully you will not fall prey to ideological arguments based on a castle of cards with such a flimsy base
Personally, much more left leaning than right. My biggest concern about the future right now is the economy. I think we've made great progress in the last several decades breaking glass ceilings for women and minorities in the workforce and made some fantastic, huge technological breakthroughs. But I think a side effect of this is fewer jobs (from automation) and increased competition for those jobs. So I lean left on this issue -- I think we need an increase to minimum wage or a basic income or anything that gives more support for the unemployed. Worst case in my mind, they take advantage of this system and remove themselves from the labor pool making job applicants more competitive. I'll also add, with a bit of incredulity, that my conservative friend doesn't see a gap between wealthy and poor as an issue.

But I'm not 100% left. I'm not for socialized healthcare -- I worry about doctor visits becoming like the DMV (though even that would be an improvement to what we have now) and I worry about hospitals charging whatever they can because it's on the government's paycheck (even if that is an improvement to them doing it because it's on the insurer's paycheck) -- because I think there are better fixes to healthcare that don't require it being provided by the government.

On a more meta-level, I think there are far more political ideologies than just left and right, that progressive democrats have forced themselves to align with establishment democrats, as how Christian conservatives have forced themselves to align with anti-establishment conservatives (there might be a better label for it). So in that light it's ridiculous to me how, say, a progressive democrat can denounce a Christian conservative while supporting an establishment democrat when they have nearly as little in common with both.

Also, thank you for asking me this outright. Nobody on the internet ever has. What do you believe?
Profiling PHP at Scale
We do have most people looking at their phones while driving. We do nothing to prevent this.
Repl.it (YC W18) is hiring designers to build better programming environments
You might be interested in Endless Sky [0] and Naev [1]. Both are very similar to Escape Velocity. Both are available on Steam.

[0] https://endless-sky.github.io/

[1] https://naev.org/
> Where can you file for sales tax reimbursement?

Typically you don't pay in the first place, rather than getting reimbursed (EDIT: AFAIK). It also depends on the state, so I can't give a general answer. To give a concrete example, however, I'll use Washington state:

https://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/retail-sales-tax/reseller-per...

And here's a deeper link specifically for the actual action of applying for a reseller's permit, as linked in the sidebar of the above page:

https://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/retail-sales-tax/reseller-per...

EDIT: Okay, looks like there are deductions / reimbursement options as well, TIL:

https://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/retail-sales-tax/reseller-per...
A Lesson of US Manufacturing Dominance in the 1930s: It’s Not About Cheap Labor
It's not a balance between "enabling free speech and avoiding harmful content", it's a balance between keeping their customers and investors happy, and avoiding legal liability.
I think they teach you this in engineering school.
> Debts are already forgiven upon death

The dead person's estate is responsible for paying back creditors, even if that means liquidating the estate to do so.
Most of those examples are not great. Tesla isn't making cars... they're making electric cars.

The iPhone wasn't the first phone, or even mobile phone. It was the first mass market SmartPhone.

Those products each have a differentiator. "Cool Wireless Headphones" isn't something new or novel.
Decisions are best evaluated in the context in which they were made. If you, after best-effort due-diligence, concluded that a sale for $1 was an okay/good deal, then $1 is great.

It is much easier, in the long run, to be happy for the person who unlocked $499 in value on that baseball card than it is to turn inward and feel awful for the $499 you "missed out on". If you had no idea that such a thing was possible, why feel bad?

I missed out on buying AMZN at IPO prices, as did most of humanity, but I don't feel bad about it. The company could have easily failed. It didn't plan to turn a profit ... ever. AirBnB's price could fall far below the IPO price in the next few months. If so, the IPO-pricing will look like genius in retrospect.
A new 'blockchain denial of service' attack could stop miners from mining
I'm using Firefox. It says:

> You must enable DRM to play some audio or video on this page.

Uhh... what's up with that?
You can observe how a group behaves and fail to find anyone who can argue their case without joining the group.
I can't offer any modern links, but some background and framing that might help a bit.

Disclaimer: Everything to follow circa-2010. Modern ROS* may be substantially different.

First, and most importantly, "Why ROS?" To which one might reply "To run robots," but that's not really why.

Historically, ROS' purpose is so that researchers can avoid rewriting boilerplate linking / low-level code, and reuse high-level components developed elsewhere.

To that end, ROS provides two main functional components: a standardized message bus, and a somewhat-structured framework into which one can plug arbitrary modules. So yes, closer to an API/spec than an OS.

So the easiest way to think about ROS (the base framework) is as a no-batteries-, no-motor-, no-X-included kit. Bring your own everything. And for values of everything, where there is likely some component out there that does X... but that component isn't ROS.

So you (as it sounds like) essentially end up with the JavaScript ecosystem problem, except moreso. Do I use X or Y for this purpose? Does X integrate cleanly with A? Does Y?

When you look at ROS as something useful to a PhD student pursuing their robotics dissertation on SLAM, but who doesn't want to write all the other bits, it makes a bit more sense.
I bought at $146 and feel ok at that price for a long play.

I see regulation as the major risk.

But getting millions of people to trust you with their homes is one hell of a moat.

Everything about the post-pandemic world favors AirBNB.
- Remote/Mobile workers. That alone is gonna make them an incredible amount of money. This isn't ever going to change.
- Pandemic housing boom. People are buying at unprecedented rates. This is money leaving cities. This is a generation of global-minded, young internet-savvy buyers. AirBNB wins here.
- Economic recession / unemployment. Everyone who _does_ own a home and finds themselves in financial trouble is going to consider renting a room. It's an obvious move and I think the job market will have at-risk homeowners considering this move en masse.
Like Steve said, what you're talking about is quite a bit different than what the rust dbg macro does.
There are a number of goods that do have associated sales taxes that apply on any transfer, including some of the most expensive goods Americans buy. Particularly, in many jurisdictions, there are transfer taxes on houses and cars.
> There are definitely very irrevocable dynamics but many can be molded with a level of concern, effort and boundary setting that we usually associate with work added with a dash of true sincerity and deep care.

I think this largely depends on factors outside our individual control—specifically, the other person. Sometimes setting boundaries, doing the work, can help the other person see the way their behavior is impacting you. Other times, it won't, so if you want the relationship to continue you have to be willing to always and repeatedly do all the work to maintain the relationship. Without the other person being capable and willing to recognize their own issues (and maybe get some therapy), no amount of your own effort can effect a permanent change.
I'm not saying that times aren't rough. Obviously tines are rough. What I'm saying is that America is not on the cusp of a civil war and the overwhelming majority of Americans aren't itching to kill each other, they just want things to return to normal.
Show HN: What will it take to create a simulation of the universe? [pdf]
Hi HN!

I've been spending my free time writing an essay about what it will take to simulate reality inside of a computer. So far, I've been thinking about compute requirements and what current trends in programming point to, but I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on what should be considered.
The energy density of gravity storage is abysmal. How abysmal? A mobile phone battery can lift a 1-ton weight 10 meters.
> AirPods Pro noise cancellation is very good, for earbuds, but it’s nowhere near as effective as with over-the-ear headphones — if only for the obvious reason that over-the-ear headphones help block noise even when they’re powered off, because they double as physical ear muffs in addition to the active noise cancellation.

Is this actually true? I’ve always intuitively thought it was the other way around since the Airpods plug your ears (they’re not actually earbuds).

I also subjectively tested both in an Apple store and the AirPods blocked out sounds better.
It seems like a useful aggregate metric, but is it also used to rate individuals? For that purpose, it seems like it would be terrible. What if you have an experienced staff member from whom everyone else constantly seeks advice? That person may be having a positive impact that isn't visible as merge requests.
Do you not think that terrorism is more effective when it is a spectacle? I think you wouldn't be able to ignite such visceral fears and reactions with almost any other kind of attack killing so few. The death of a skyscraper is more or less unheralded, and it's easy to empathize with the abject horror the people must've felt as that happened

If it's just a low-rise apartment in Anytown it's not going to drop everyone's jaw when played on TV. Can't believe people think my last comment was a commentary on the value of human life as opposed to the impact of literally toppling a tower...
Except that the facts only support one side.
This I don't particularly mind if a small book with the material is provided to each person on request with no charge, potentially even at the point of voting. The point after all is to ensure that maximum numbers of people participating are aware of the systems, not as a gating mechanism.

I'm merely protesting the use of a gating mechanism in isolation. If the gating mechanism came with an educational booklet then my concerns evaporate.
This and the news that they can access Signal conversations...great.
> Screen Hero was light years ahead of anything on the market a few years ago. I'm not sure why they didn't integrate it into a simple feature button in Slack.

They claim they did, but Slack screensharing is nowhere near what Screenhero's was.

A more Screenhero-like replacement is Tuple: https://tuple.app/
Disney stock hits all-time high thanks to streaming strength
The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved
While I realize we don't always have a logger wired up, it's also easy to implement this in standard logging.

%(filename_lineno)s will give you the filename and line.
Thanks. Yes, housing is getting a little more expensive now that so many people are moving to the Wasatch Front. It’s not as bad as Boise or Denver, though, at least not yet.

We’re unsure if we’ll stay long term and buy or not. We want kids and a religious community for them to grow up in. That would’ve been kind of tough even in the Bay Area, though.
Online grocery shopping is growing, leaving behind millions on food stamps
I think the bigger problem is that nuanced positions don't sell as well as sensationalism. Outrage is a powerful drug and the media has us hooked on it.
So either way, no one should believe anything written in an opinion piece, even if for example an impartial third party like Mastercard is able to verify it to the extent that they found the information actionable enough to suspend business relations.

I genuinely do not understand the position of "it could be fiction, and therefore should be treated as fiction even if it's found to be true simply because the section it's in is often populated with bad writers"
Spacebin: Text sharing for the final frontier – pastebin server in Go
I've heard that molten salt sous vide cooking is starting to really take off.
GIVE PEOPLE CASH
I am with you. I grew up in a below-middle-class family raised by my widowed mom. My dad passed away when I was 12. I have two younger siblings.

As I look back on the last ~40 years of my life, it's mostly about struggles sprinkled with brief periods of joy lasting no more than a couple of days at most. Most of the time, I'm studying to get good grades so that I can get scholarships, without which I'd not be able to go to college; helping my widowed mom with her chores (including taking care of younger siblings) because she is occupied with making money to survive; and even now that I'm an adult with a stable income, I spend most of my time working for someone (selling my 8+ hours a day to my employer) while worrying about if I'll have enough money saved by mid-50s when I hope to be able to enjoy life a little more (e.g., going on vacations) with some spare money to spend.

All I'm trying to say is that life is a struggle for most people (the poorer family you were born into, the truer that statement becomes). We never have moments of peace because we have things to worry about constantly. I'd never bring another human being into this mess unless I can have a discussion with my future progeny before s/he is conceived (which is, of course, impossible). In other words, unless some ghost/spirit is begging me to let him/her incarnate because s/he see value in this rat race, I'd not make this decision one-sidedly.

As a tangential note, I am a strong proponent of euthanasia and hope that one day, it'll be commonly accepted by the society.
>My A/C could have a reservoir of refrigerant that is compressed overnight.

Not unless you want to just vent all of the refrigerant during operation. You need to keep the suction side under low pressure otherwise it'd just stop boiling the refrigerant.

>My deep-freezer could have an ultra-chill zone that runs at night.

That'd be making it much less efficient so even if you can get away with some load shifting here you'd be increasing the load substantially in order to do so. Also this would cause large repeated temperature swings for everything inside, might not be too big of an issue once it's already frozen but still, undesireable.

>My dryer could run in slow-mode if I turn it on at a dumb time.

Your dryer could be replaced by a much more efficient design such as a heat pump dryer or a mechanical steam compression dryer.

>My water heater (even a gas one has a 250w powered vent) could ultra-heat during off-peak.

Safety devices make this a complete non-starter. A mixing device to lower the output water temperature can fail and probably eventually would fail stuck all the way hot making this a substantial burn hazard. Even ignoring this, all water heaters have a temperature and pressure relief valve and increasing the water temperature to e.g. 200 degrees instead of 140 substantially reduces the safety margin you have between normal operating conditions and catastrophic failure of the tank (a sizeable explosion). Also you're not really gaining a lot here, you could just use a standard water heater timer to turn it off during peak hours and rely on storage capacity. Increasing the setpoint from 140 to 210 assuming ambient cold water temperature of 70 degrees only doubles your hot water equivalent capacity. I suspect it would be cheaper to increase the tank size and not have to deal with the more challenging operating conditions. Also, again, a much better solution is just widespread adoption of heat pump water heaters. For most homes you don't need the higher output of a resistive water heater and even if you did every heat pump water heater I've seen still comes with resistive heating as well if it can't keep up with demand. The decrease in energy bills pays for itself over the lifespan of the appliance.

Personally I've always wanted to see a practical combined heating and refrigeration system for a home that could tie in a fridge, HVAC, hot water heater, etc via CO2 refrigerant.