skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, as a driver and pedestrian, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for bicyclists. In my city, at least, I’ve almost been hit by cyclists multiple times as a pedestrian. In one case, the cyclist was going the wrong way, blatantly ran the light, and screamed at me as he passed within maybe two-three feet of me at full speed while I was crossing the street.

In another case, a cyclist blew by my at full speed down a steep hill on the sidewalk, again coming stupidly close to an accident (for both of us) for no reason.

As a driver, I constantly see cyclists on the wrong side of the street, back and forth between the sidewalk and not, and not obeying stop signs or stop lights (let alone other rules). I’ve never even heard of one being ticketed.

I’m all for new bike lanes that are separated from traffic. But honestly before a city encourages more bike riders I really think they need to dramatically step up enforcement of traffic laws against them. If running a red light or stop sign is a $200 ticket in a car, it should be a $200 ticket on a bike. Otherwise it is just unsafe for everyone involved.
> I have seen people cycling between rows of parked cars

It's kinda ironic that that's used as an example of bad cycling, and also exactly where most bike lanes are put: in the door zone of parked cars.
I assume see also and/or inspired by good the ol' Dewey Decimal System?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes

You probably don't know much about Dewey, he's got a pretty "interesting" life story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvil_Dewey

"At the June 2019 conference of the American Library Association the Council voted to remove Dewey's name from its top honor, the Melvil Dewey Medal; the resolution cited Dewey's history of racism, anti-Semitism, and sexual harassment. The resolution was passed overwhelmingly with no debate. The award was renamed the ALA Medal of Excellence at the Association's January 2020 conference"
the policy still exists tho
I don't think we needed Stalin to fight Hitler, in many ways the fact that they decided to (euphemistically) 'share a border' helped contribute to the start of WWII. The street combat that led to the NSDAP's seizure of power was closely tied to fear of foreign communist influences. I really don't know how you would argue humanity needed either of them... even one in opposition to the other (with the added caveat, I know, that the Eastern Front was where the substantial proportion of German casualties occurred -- how much is Stalin? Impossible to say, futile to guess in my view).
There is some anecdotal support for the article's position in a recent [1] article about the origin of the C programming language -- apparently the C predecessor language CPL used "OR" as a keyword where most modern languages now use "else", on precisely these grammatical grounds, as understood by Christopher Strachey.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/12/a-damn-stupid-thing...
In Chicago, they recently (in the last couple of years from what I can see), started implementing similar lanes / boxes in high cyclist traffic areas.

I realized I am much more aware of these bright green lanes on the road than simple sharrows. Anecdotal, but I do think these or completely segregated lanes are the best bet to make sure everyone is safe.
Would you mind sharing the public discussion to monetize data? Would be interesting to read.
Gotta give the US government props when they do the right thing and I’m proud of them for looking out for all Americans.
Aren't the others privat (or no university?)

Edit:

They want 2300€ per semester.

Hagen wants 11€ plus 100€ per course you take, and fulltime is 3 courses per semester.
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Yes, I don't understand why you would assume government backing, but you don't know which government. If you don't know who it is, it could be anybody.

I think people use Nation-State to suggest that they are not so incompetent that some random hacker could get access.
No, I didn't. I mean just showing what your run looks like, inline in the blog, which is pretty typical, just like in the comment where someone tried to reproduce the results:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25409535
Don't they have a philosophy master?
Decorators are just a way to introducing typing via another mechanism.
1) Yes, different industries have different transactional flows. Because VAT applies at every level, complexity is required to avoid unduly interfering with industries with multiple mid-levels.

2) To say GST is exactly like VAT is to say that an abacus is exactly like a supercomputer because they both calculate things.

A GST is not a VAT. A GST is a goods and services tax, not a "value added tax." The GST only taxes the final value of the product or service sold, similar to a sales tax, not the value added at every step. This is important, because it means that a GST does not try to capture the value delta provided by middlemen, while a VAT does and is deliberately designed to do so. Thus, a VAT impairs the value proposition of utilizing middleman. This makes a GST (or sales tax) significantly more efficient from the perspective of taxpayers, though from a governmental revenue perspective, this also means that GST raises less revenue than a VAT would.

A big issue with sales tax is that reseller exemptions only apply to products acquired with the intent to resell, which means the supplier has to know (or be told) if the products acquired in a transaction will be resold, and this creates complexity for every transaction. So instead, the simple way to do it is that every transaction is subject to GST.

To get legitimate resellers and middlemen back to the economic position of not paying GST, they get to offset the GST paid for goods or services acquired to produce their own products or services against the GST they collect for their goods or services. This is superficially similar to the VAT, except that with GST you're done (yes, it's really that simple), whereas with VAT you've still got way more work to do.

(Note that I have spent the last several years handling both GST and VAT compliance. You will not convince me or any other tax professional that a GST is anything like a VAT except in the most superficial ways.)
Pfizer’s phase 1 was a 100% white according to a commentor above.
Just before charlie hebdo attack (in françe) by terrorists...

some ppl told that a rescue test had been performed just before attack...

It smell the brown out... :D
Yes, I’m quite certain they can/do, as it is a requirement for FedRAMP.

However, the US government has their own IDS/IDP that they use for the .gov domain, namely EINSTEIN (and its variants).
> Indian television showed workers throwing stones, tossing office furniture and setting fire to a sign at Wistron Corp.’s operations near Bangalore. Labor leaders said workers at the Taiwanese-owned company that is a contract manufacturer for Apple Inc. were upset about wages and working hours.

That seems more symbolic--I was picturing workers actually attacking the physical buildings, like StarCraft Zealots.
Nation-state: a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent.
That's not true anymore, but it's not widespread yet. https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/10/14/introducing-de...
Face masks fool Finland's speed cameras
I have a computer science degree from a regular university and studied a master at Hagen.

I found Hagen much better, they had really good scripts.
Another example is one-way traffic signs. They are positioned for drivers which means that they are low enough to easily be missed by cyclists whose sitting positions are higher up.
> So you add a tariff on chinese goods. If they are not the cheapest, then you buy from elsewhere... which still isn't the USA.

But that's still good. It provides for supply chain diversity even if it isn't in the US. Now you can buy from China and Mexico instead of only China.

Then you get a functional supply chain operating in Mexico, which has geographical proximity to the US and has greater overlap in language and culture, and you're one step closer to manufacturing in Arizona and Texas.

> And then China does the same thing: retaliating with tariffs, and then buying goods from elsewhere, which isn't the USA either.

But the US has a 3:1 trade imbalance with China, so we can use a third of the money to cancel out their tariffs on our stuff. Or threaten to raise ours 33% if they don't stop.

The US has leverage here, but only if they use it.

> And, anecdotally: I still buy products from china.

Manufacturing left the US over the course of 50 years. It isn't going to all come back in less than 5 years. We're talking about long-term here.
As a driver, cyclist, and pedestrian, I'm reasonably confident that virtually 100% of collisions involving a car and a pedestrian or cyclist involves real mistakes by the driver. I use the 6 year old rule. If a 6 year old ran (or cycled) recklessly into the street would you hit them? If so, you're not driving safely.
Console apps? For the terminal?

The strength of Lazarus was creating Windows GUI apps not console apps..

But I made a console app with it: http://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html

A query language for HTML, XML, and JSON
I don't know what you mean by "backed by Saudis" -- do you mean that the participants (including bin Laden) were mostly Saudis? Certainly, but it was not at all backed by the Haus of Saudi or any other governmental function (to the extent that the two can even be separated).

After Afghanistan (and perhaps before, I don't know), Osama Bin Laden's objective was the overthrow of the Saudi monarchy -- despite (or because?) he was part of a large, wealthy family in the upper echelons of Saudi society. This is very clear in his writings and videos, and in particular the ones just before and on the subject of the 2001 attacks. As he became a worldwide figure he broadened his scope (PR is everything, amirite?) but could never let go of the "venomous" house of Saud.

It's not like there was a conspiracy to cover up his blathering -- understandably a lot of the English published in the USA focused on the attack on the US and then on the wider "jihad" topic that was important to the government and overall was more important to Americans. It would be surprising if that had not been the case.

But academic work, and translations in other countries (Western Europe, Indonesia, likely other places whose translations I could not read), were more comprehensive, presumably as the direct risks seemed less acute than they were felt by the government and general public in the USA.
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I wonder if that means, that, well, the system works. There wasn't an incoming missile strike: part of the early-alert system sounded and another part -- a much more human part -- interrogated the data further and decided to not declare a loud alarm that could have potentially severe consequences. And, well, no missile strike came.
I'm not sure why you only want to blame the Democrats:

https://newrepublic.com/article/159946/blue-states-suppress-...

Voter suppression is a two party problem and needs a two party solution.
Is 256 bits not enough? I'm curious what the standard is
Static vs dynamic dispatch, to start with.

You need default values (and ideally named parameters) to really make them equivalent, but yes, both address a similar set of developer needs.

The java implementation, where it bleeds into bytecode and method scoring in insane ways, is particularly unfortunate.
There are more problems facing the Web than just "Google". Removing Google is good, and necessary, and solves a lot of problems. It's why we excise much of Google and Chromium from our own code-base with each update [1].

Blocking harmful ads and trackers is a necessity; users were already doing it in growing numbers before Brave came along. But this trend, while it yields safer users, cuts into the support given to the sites we visit and love. And asking users to send money to sites isn't necessarily a solid solution either.

So Brave aims to address both issues: 1) User Privacy, and 2) Creator Support. What's interesting about this is that Ads are both the problem and solution. But not in their present form. Presently, ads on the Web harvest user information, auction it off to third-parties, and build up profiles on remote servers, far beyond user control.

Brave's privacy-respecting ad model uses client-side matching against regional catalogs (avoiding fingerprinting) with machine-learning. This model ensures privacy. And when an ad is displayed, 70% of the revenue goes into the user's cryptographically-secured wallet. This is where the second challenge (supporting content creators) comes in. As you browse, the ad-revenue you've generated gets queued up for the sites you visit. The privacy-respecting ads you view are translated into real-world support for the sites you visit.

This is one of the reasons why users prefer Brave. We aren't trying to solve half of the problem; we're trying to reform the Web such that it remains free, equitable, and open.

[1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
> “This is a nation state,” said a different person briefed on the matter. “We just don’t know which one yet.”

So, how do they know then?
Perhaps you can correct the definition on wikipedia then.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

A more appropriate title could be "Unlimited Data Storage is Dependent on New User Adoption". No reason to use a title that doesn't fit and is just sensationalized marketing.
Annual
I used 20% time for things that were related to my work, but out of scope for my team. For example, I wrote a DNS library in Go for work and then I open sourced it [1] and used it to rewrite the standard library DNS client [2] as a 20% project. It actually worked out really well for me. The promo committee specifically called out my DNS project when they approved my promotion and ignored the stuff that I had been doing for my team.

[1] https://golang.org/x/net/dns/dnsmessage

[2] https://golang.org/cl/37879
Have you even tried Parler? The interface and UE is garbage.
>inclusive-or case

I used to drive my friend crazy when he would ask if I wanted a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or a ham and cheese sandwich and I would answer yes.
> No. I think he was writing about the dystopian present he was already aware of, and then projecting that a little into the future.

He was extrapolating mostly from Stalin's USSR. This is well-known.
Bulgarian also has a question particle (li or ли). In many cases questions are phrased by simply inserting “li” next to the focus of the question.
This is an interesting point, and it was made by UK cycling bodies back when the private car had only just started to dominate UK streets. They argued that dedicated bike paths would limit the freedom of cyclists, since they would be obligated to use these paths.

In hindsight, this was a missed opportunity to build this infrastructure at a time when cycle usage (and therefore public support) was very high... and cycle participation has plummeted in the decades since to 1.7% of all journeys. Now, cyclists have the right to use all UK roads (except motorways), but only the bravest actually do so.

Meanwhile, the Netherlands has fantastic cycle infrastructure and participation is very high - although still lower than it once was in the UK! I don't think it is hyperbolic to say that given what we now know about climate change, harmful emissions and the health consequences of inactive lifestyles, this is a national tragedy.

Good cycle infrastructure encourages more people to cycle, and the rights of cyclists are better protected in societies where more people cycle.
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A leak containing a register with the details of nearly two million CCP members
I know these discussions always end up in worker vs owner debates, but what I'm talking here is about the nation.

Factories will need to adjust their prices, now you take that as you will, and if one is naive one can think it means executives will take a pay cut while workers do not, but in the end it mean less wealth for everyone, less money for taxes, less money for shareholders, less money for executives, and of course less money for workers. That is less wealth for the nation.

So yes, owners will take smaller profits, along with everyone else.
Twitch was basically a 20% project at justin.tv.

Let smart people do what they want.
Yes, until they experience taxes anywhere else in the world.

Australia's tax system, at least for businesses, is probably the simplest and most efficient tax system in the world (at least for Australian businesses, it's a bit more of a hassle to get registered for the system for foreign companies).

It's a good model for what an ideal U.S. tax compliance system would look like, however, there are some aspects of it (like the BAS and GST netting) that would not scale in the U.S. due to the higher levels of tax fraud we have stateside.
> "more is always good/better" stance

It might be the ultimate endeavor. Right now we live in relative scarcity, so resource gathering dominate our culture. But imagine a thousand years from now when robots produce everything, and material is plenty. What do we do then? What's our purpose as a species? A good candidate is striving to maximise healthy and dignified earthly life across the universe.
One modern systems, preemptive multitasking has a surprisingly high overhead. Much of your CPU time can be spent on context switching and the associated cache thrashing, which isn't productive. Furthermore, many kinds of macro-optimizations based on temporal locality stop working because preemption can randomly inject badly chosen computation into your carefully crafted computational sequencing. Preemptive multitasking makes it more difficult to ensure robustness under load generally because the default behavior of the system is that it will happily do the wrong thing at the wrong time under stress, because the OS has no idea what the right thing is, which can aggravate the situation. Obviously, none of this applies to systems that are typically under light-to-modest load.

For servers with hardware capable of very high bandwidth I/O, preemptive multitasking is a major drag on performance and scalability. Hence why "thread-per-core" software architectures are idiomatic for high-performance data infrastructure software these days. You don't just gain significant absolute performance, the behavior can also degrade more gracefully under extreme load.

Like with all things, it depends on what you are doing. I've designed database engines both ways and Linux is not opinionated about such things.
US defence planners: "Attacking with all nukes as soon as we get a warning of an enemy launch is the only rational way to use these weapons"

US missileers: "I'ma wait a bit to see if maybe it's just Joyce that forgot to update the spreadsheet today before destroying the world"
I dont see any apple related post on the front page, let alone negative ones. Do you see a different front page than I do?
The case fatality rate was considerably lower in the second wave in almost all cases, and the total number of deaths generally lower as well.

The 'lag' is accounted for in that most 'second wave' places have past the peak over their waves.

Deaths were 'higher' in the second wave in places that had a small first wave, like Austria.

But for places that had a 'real' first wave, the second wave was generally milder in terms of overall deaths, and much milder in terms of CFR.

We can't ignore the real risk of 'waves' but it's also important not to deny the nuanced reality of them. In particular, the 'second wave' had many more younger people, probably accounting for the lower case fatality rate.
I wish I knew enough to create the kinda of symbolic solvers available on TI calculators. They're so great but none of it is open in the slightest.

Open symbolic solvers are great and very powerful, but they're almost too powerful. Just a clone of whatever capabilities a TI-89 has on a microcontroller would make me very exceedingly happy.
> The long incubation period and asymptomatic carriers makes for easy spread of the virus

Long? The median is between 4 and 6 days. The 14 days often quoted is the 99th percentile. Can we stop perpetuating this myth?

> asymptomatic carriers makes for easy spread of the virus

Actually, most of the spread comes from superspreading events. Most people with the virus don't spread the virus at all, or spread it very little. True asymptomatic people are far less contagious than symptomatic people (up to 10 fold or so less). Severity of the symptoms is also associated with higher chance of spread.

> It will take something like 75% of the population to be immune (by vaccine or previous infection) to have effective herd immunity.

This is often calculated considering an equally susceptible population (which is not the case) with uniform mixing (same), so it's a very pessimistic estimate. The actual figure might be lower (though not as low as 20% as some "skeptics" say).
But I thought that the SVE extension allowed interrupt and restart of an instruction? The alternative seems like it would lead to potentially very high interrupt latency?
And a vast majority of BTC is owned by the Bitfinex criminals who created Tether. You can't win against the bank and in this case the bank is the Ponzi schemers themselves.
Is Addsimplicity.com Content Lost?
I had some articles from the blog bookmarked, some others downloaded but know it seems the site is down.

Does anybody know if there's some sort of backup of the posts?
Related to this history is how calculators used CORDIC, COordinate Rotation DIgital Computer, to compute trigonometric functions in real time with minimal hardware.
CORDIC was originally developed by Jack Volder working at Convair corporation in 1959.

Here is a nice explanation (PDF):
https://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Degrees/DMNS/Faculty%20Doc...

EDIT: in the HP-35 article it is mentioned in section III. The PDF here goes in to the math and implementation of CORDIC.
Thanks for the feedback!

1. Added support of single quotes for JSON
2. And made some improvements in error reporting. It says now position of first invalid character.
I would guess the processor would just cause an exception/interrupt and it would just call an OS level exception/interrupt handler which would probably tell the user what the exception/interrupt was that occured; in this case an unsupported instruction.
There's also the paid VisualGDB and you could probably make Visual Studio work for debugging a remote application via SSH.
The solution is to block the street off from cars. I don't get why every street need to have two-way car traffic. It can even lead to more congestion when there's more roads and intersections.

Here someone will always cry "it will kill the businesses on that street", but then the opposite happens. It's a more quiet street, it's walkable, can sit outside and drink a coffee etc.
Thanks. That was an honest question. No idea why I got downvoted multiple times.
I've been working on a low-code setup for developers. Working with the generated code is paramount.

You can see https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hofmod-server for some ideas. Mimic for your favorite technologies.

Technically, I built an framework for building low-code modules for developers. https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof
I think it's a mistake to limit the scope of consideration to countries that are antagonist to America. I doubt it was them, but at least in theory, might not Canada have an interest in having advanced knowledge of things the US Treasury might decide? Certainly the US economy impacts Canada as well, as it does nearly any other country to one degree or another.