skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that naive arguments about speed and laws based on fixed numbers don't really help anything except ease of prosecution. Inappropriate choice of speed can obviously be dangerous, but what is appropriate to the conditions and what the fixed numerical speed limits dictate can be wildly different.

For example, the default speed limit in the UK on most residential roads is 30mph, but if you drive past a school at 30mph at the end of the afternoon when the kids are coming out and there are lots parked cars obscuring your view, that is still inappropriately fast for the conditions.

However, slower isn't always safer. On a motorway, the speed limit is usually 70mph, but in poor weather conditions and heavy traffic, everyone travelling at lower and similar speeds may be the safest choice. If you're the one driver insisting on unnecessarily doing 20mph when everyone else is doing a steady 40mph, you're also increasing the danger to yourself and others.

Another example is that the speed limit for heavy goods vehicles on many of our major roads was increased by 10mph in 2015, having previously been 20mph below what cars were allowed to do on the same roads. The results were notable for several reasons, among them that the actual average speed of those heavy vehicles only increased a little but the safety of the roads appears to have increased. This was attributed primarily to closing the gap in speeds between different types of vehicle and thus, among other things, reducing instances of queues behind and overtaking of the slower vehicles, both of which increase the risk of an accident.

Finally, we have the classic motorway speeding situation, where on an open road in good conditions, a competent driver with a suitable vehicle could do far more than the legal limit of 70mph with negligible increase in risk. Moreover, statistically our motorways are both our fastest roads and yet also among our safest. You could certainly print money by setting up a covert speed camera watching some stretches of motorway, but whether it is a good use of police resources if your objective is to increase road safety is a different question.
If-then-else had to be invented
I didn't!
You haven’t been watching the markets lately because that’s literally how it is today with EV stocks going up 100% in a month, SPACs, etc.
Maybe it is... Go to China and sue them, lol
Unfortunately, many people who claim CP2077 fails to tackle this or that thus is -phobic or -cist fail to understand what the word 'dystopia' means.

But I would also argue that CDPR marketing department overhyped this game as some kind of GTA like AKA power fantasy which it isn't.
>the time you’d need to spend convincing higher ups is still trivial

From this sentence alone I'm not sure how much time you spent working for a large company.

It's not just that you have to convince your manager, depending on how much is to be spent they have to convince theirs. Often creating very long decision paths.

And it's not only the time you spent but sometimes also the delay incurred that messes with this approach. Often enough even with buy in you get the answer that it can be planned for next year's budget.

One year delay later, you might get the approval, but it may be too late.

And if the company is large enough often they've already built a subpar internal solution that everyone is convinced you should use. Since it's "already working".
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Unless you're driving on a salt flat, I doubt the curvature of the earth is a bigger concern than the contours of the terrain or turns in the road.
I recently discovered the https://openlibrary.org/ by The Internet Archive. On the face of it, their "about" page[1] sounds appealing (not least because it resonates with my open source values):

One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty but achievable goal.

To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site.

To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.

Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget--it's all welcome. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone!

---

They also seem to provide an API[2].

[1] https://openlibrary.org/about

[2] https://openlibrary.org/developers/api
How are gaming consoles good though? They are just normal PCs that are sold cheaper because you can only run authorized software on them, no?
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>and Koba (as Stalin was sometimes affectionately known).

The live representation of old Russian anecdote about what West thinks about Russians. ;)

The anecdote is one-liner: History teacher in English school "...tsar Ivan Groznyj who was nicknamed Vasil'evich for his brutality". ("Groznyj" means "fearful" and "Vasil'evich" is a patronymic name)

Koba was a nickname of Stalin during his Tsarist Russia work with Bolsheviks. So to refer to Stalin as "Koba" is about to refer to Obama as "Barry".

Anyway, 1984 was about Britain and is a prediction based on what Blair endured working for BBC during WWII years.
Climate and energy priorities for the new U.S. administration
The problem with allowing phones into maths exams is they have browsers and internet connections, and can store thousands of pages of searchable reference material. The calculators allowed into exams are specifically chose because they do not have these features. My eldest is doing maths at the moment and has an fx-CG50, it also has Python but only a very stripped down subset of MicroPython with just the math and random libraries.
I applied to YC a bunch of times with a prototype for a business to help create more of the semantic web. They were never interested in the slightest bit.
Unfortunately there will be some books missing, either because of lacking data on them or lacking intersections with other books, or because they're too new. There's also a difficulty in where to draw the line as every book added can slow down querying (each query traverses a database of over ten million relationships and around 400,000 books). This is a point of improvement that I'd like to work on though.
It would be hard as the child of one of these families not to feel like a chit in a parlour game.
> With that said, we really need to let calculators go

From what I've heard this is actually happening. Classes are done with laptops and GeoGebra (or other similar thing). On some tests only basic calculator apps are allowed.
I’d recommend the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ and make peace with the fact that you’ll never know it all and enjoy the journey. Years later you’ll still be stumbling across new stuff.
Signed into law by someone else.
> At some point it has to stop though.

No, it doesn't, actually.

> How much longer are we going to keep making formerly usable computers obsolete?

For as long as increases in performance and energy efficiency open up the potential for new uses.

I don't see the problem here. You can still use the old computers with the old applications. Just like you can still use hand-drawn carts – doesn't mean that we shouldn't develop the horse-drawn cart, even though they made the hand-drawn carts obsolete. Same goes for trucks and horse-drawn carts.
Come on, £82 is what this calculator costs... You can find Android phones at that price

You are paying because you can take it with you to an exam, period
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This has been an AWESOME thread to follow. Thanks for taking the time to answer through the thread.
I don’t like pranks of any sort, but pranking is not the preserve of the rich.
I had the exact opposite experience with Aussie drivers - with the exceptions of taxi drivers, who were the absolute worst, it was always easy to merge lanes, noone driving too dangerous or fast.
Indeed. It's a real struggle as the nature of how this operates on intersections ("people who like Foo also like Baz") mean that escaping a "bubble" really just means moving to its fringes. The more inward and consolidated a bubble is, the harder it will be to escape it (with the current approach) because there'll be almost no intersections that reach beyond its borders. :/ And grabbing random books from beyond its borders is as useful as walking into a bookstore and pointing blindfolded at a shelf.
Harsh, but certainly something that I’m also try to tell my son, but oh well..
I think your position is unrealistic for an education setting. You’re proposing working computers and smartphones for every desk and student.

Computers and apps are not standardised at all. Disparity between them and compatibility issues are a massive contention when you have lots of people to educate. Not only that, even today here in the UK, not every student has a smartphone or a home computer so you’re instantly discriminating against them. The answer? Grab a standard calculator out of a box that everyone else has and loan it to them.

All students need a calculator for other subjects as well. In science, technology and geography they use them too.

And you can’t realistically control the configuration of a computer or smartphone in an exam.
I would say WordPress is probably what You want to use. Assuming You know nothing but that, what You want to search for is Content Management System, sometimes acronyms are used so often the meanings of them get lost. (Especially on technical subjects). So yes there are many other CMS out there but WordPress is still very popular.
I agree that’s not always a wise thing to say. I disagree with the implication that it’s what I’m doing. I don’t believe @aflag was requesting an apology or that I’ve done something that would require one here. Context matters, sometimes “I’m sorry” expresses compassion rather than remorse.
Sure, but one available choice is "don't use x". The point is that he says it's obscene, but he acts like he prefers it to not having it.

One worry about the rising tide of anti-Facebook etc. sentiment is that it is driven by (a) a small number of vocal people who (b) say that x is horrible, but don't act like it. (I don't say whether this worry is always, or even mostly, correct. Just that it is worth considering.) The result can be problematic.

For example, like millions of people in the EU, before I use any new website, I now have to click "OK" on a GDPR button. I consider myself as caring about my privacy. But my behaviour tells me that I just click "OK" without even reading what they have to say. Obviously, my privacy is less important to me than the 10 seconds or 1 minute that it would take to read their policy and opt out from anything I dislike.

You can respond that this is a "dark pattern", and I agree. You could also say it would be better for me to be able to set my privacy once - say, via browser settings - and I indeed try to do that, having used various Firefox settings and plugins to manage my cookies. Nevertheless, the fact is that, as my behaviour reveals, I would rather get on with my life, than waste 10 minutes a day clicking on privacy policies. Given that, of course, I would also rather not be presented with the "GDPR OK button" at all. It's a fleabite of annoyance that I deal with many, many times, and every time I mutter to myself "screw the EU and screw the GDPR". I suspect I am not alone.

I also suspect I will be downvoted for this, by just the noble idealists about whom I am grumbling. Sigh.
Well, apparently the Bible is going to help me break out of my bubble.
In France they don't do that. At least not yet.

There are a lot of automatic speed radars (at a single point), and a bit fewer average speed radars but they work over a few km at most (and don't interact with the toll).
I want to pay for stuff that I want to read/consume. The problem is that no one implemented micro payments and wants me to pay some amount every month for crap that I don't want (Netflix, spotify, Disney, newspapers). This needs to end first.
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This blew my mind. Not the answer, but the question - I'm a native English speaker, how did I never notice that else makes no sense? Clearly I've been programming for far too long :)

EDIT: Thinking about it a bit more, "or else" is valid English, although not ususally following "if". More like, "Do this, or else I will...".

Perhaps it was supposed to be "or else", and "or" was already a keyword so we're left with "else"? But it still doesn't follow well from "if" so the bad translation from German (possibly using a dictionary) is still more likely.
It has been a great wonder for me that why US highschools seems to require expensive programmable/graphing calculators especially those made by HP/TI. I assume it was some deal made by these companies with the education departments of the states and administrations.

In most other countries, students complete university undergraduate courses, let alone high schools with only needing a cheap non-programmable calculator, while some courses like an undergraduate course in Computer Science wouldn't require any calculator at all.

Why this American exceptionalism?
> The files were transferred via yggdrasil.

I wish you would have at least mentioned it in your post that you were indeed relying on the security of the network and that nc by itself is not secure.

I'm not saying it would have been a real risk in your particular case, but giving these examples on a public website is basically saying "see, you can do it like this". I'm not saying you don't know better, but some of your readers might not, and may replicate your unsafe (without the underlying assumptions) code where the risk is higher.

This is especially bad given that there are safe alternatives with equal or better ergonomics.
I don't know how much things have changed in ten years but when I was in university I simply couldn't find a computer calculator software that had the same easy to use UI as my HP 40gs or even a basic Casio fx-991ES.

Sure I could fire up Matlab with the Symbolic toolbox or even Derive under wine but nothing came close to just typing in what I wanted and pressing a button. I guess it's more a matter of dedicated physical buttons and muscle memory.
Not everyone uses Homebrew. Besides, there are already dozens of libraries in the app bundle, I don't see why they can't put this undocumented dependency inside the app bundle, too.
Glad it's brightened your day! Baldwin is wonderful to experience. Re: moving people from one chamber to another, one hopes that enough chamber-hopping might give people the broad perspective we hope for. Tribal ideology is always a trap but maybe it becomes less tempting as you experience more diverse echo chambers.
Cause it’s illegal??

This is akin to not calling the fire department to help your neighbors burning house on the fact that they have a well and water available...
Where do you read about science?
I have recently paid attention on how little or none at all news are appearing on my radar about scientific discoveries. What is your source to read about science?
> Goodreads isn’t some struggling self-funded startup — it’s owned by Amazon.com

Not that I like Amazon, but it is not philanthropy. I assume goodreads take non trivial cost to run operations, moderations and the site and just because Amazon is doing well financially it doesn't mean they have free money. This move makes it easier for Amazon to monetize on goodreads, it is as simple as that.
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Which leads to the conclusion that some form of god exists. The only "logical" explanation if you accept the universe had a beginning. But then you are introducing another paradox. When we refer to the universe we mean "everything that exists". So, if some form of god exist(ed) they would be part of that universe. So where did the god come from?
One of the most fascinating things I've read in some time
"A friend" drove a (non-UK reg) car from Glasgow to Southampton last year, significantly exceeding the speed limit most of the way and maintaining >90mph for multiple hours, and wondered if speeding tickets would later arrive in the post. Nothing ever happened. I can only guess that speed camera tickets are only sent to UK registered vehicles? That's a pretty big loophole.

I don't drive like this in France, they will stop you and my understanding is you must pay the fine on the spot or they arrest you and tow your car.
Could you say what AML/KYC is?
Very interesting—I certainly wouldn't have expected the antithesis of Mein Kampf and Revolt Against the Modern World to be Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking. Honourable mentions include the Bible (NIV) and The C Programming Language.
But there are people who generally research vulnerabilities in academia and your “term of art” doesn’t really apply there. Point being - “vulnerability researcher” means one thing talking to a PhD student at CMU vs talking to someone in the industry.
There was a podcast that touches on this - https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/28/642675050/hurr...
Plants are soaking up far less extra CO2 than we thought they would
For reference, we are talking about $7.8 million in today's US dollars, at time of death.

This hardly counts. You would probably be surprised how many people have this level of assets - liquid or in property. All those houses you can't afford because people were grandfathered in with low property tax rates? Yeah you probably don't want to know.
Disagree. Pervasive passive voice is an obfuscating irritant. In a description of a multi-step procedure, IMO better to switch to "you". It clearly flags actions for the reader to take. Keepin' it clear & simple.
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If you are running corporate IT on CentOS to save a few bucks over RHEL, any issues are 100 % on the maker of that decision. Because it's a dumb decision.
Nineteen Eighty-Four, and most of Orwell's other works (including his essays) are freely available at:

https://orwell.ru/

Edited to add direct link to the appendix to Nineteen Eighty-Four, as referenced at the end of the article:

https://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_app
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Wow, I've been looking for a terminal that does this sort of thing for a while, nice job! And it's beautiful !
Android is already pretty open and the world has not ended.
The strong form has been rejected. Not weaker forms.
My main objection is that enforcement, at least in the UK is absolutely useless. The likelihood of actually coming across a speed trap is tiny, the likelihood of coming across a speed trap that isn't one of the ones that are regularly used is close to 0. So it's not like people who speed get fined. It's people who speed and get unlucky get fined (and points). I just think it's bad policy to have relatively huge penalties and relatively rubbish enforcement. It's capricious and ineffective. People still speed because being caught is highly unlikely, people who get caught face a penalty that is disproportionate for something so common. The increase of tools like this don't actually address that. Tools like this don't actually address the policy failure in speed enforcement.
You're missing his larger point by focusing on the first few sentences.

Effectively the only reason it's not supporting itself is precisely because Amazon bought it.
I'm not sure what "don't have money" means here. Presumably 90% of users do have some money. I would think most of them pay money for internet access. The question is whether they can afford service X given the other things they would prefer to pay for.
I bought a TI calculator after reading Americans rave about them, and I used it for a while to try and get the hang of it, but the interface really sucks compared to my Casio, so now I just use the Casio. I don't see what's so great about TI calculators.
First of all, it doesn't suck.

As someone who started the Software Dev career in the freelancing websites you mention, I can tell you that the customers who are looking for the cheapest way to do things are getting that. Those who are looking for reliable work can look at reviews, past work portfolio, interviews and milestones... to make sure they're getting better workers or at least minimize the risks.

There are providers of much more reliable workers, which do the vetting for you... but those are limited to narrow domains. You need to hire experts to vet freelancers and this does not scale. In traditional freelancing platforms, this vetting is crowd sourced to previous customers, so it's automatically scalable.

Another thing is, you don't even mention what your approach to solving the problem is. Yes, there are some problems inherent to freelancing on the internet, but that's true for anything. What is your selling point that will solve the existing problems and make it that much better than the competition while not losing the value existing platforms provide to your customers?
And yet you could dial TESTMODE on a StatTAC and listen to any analog channel.

http://www.jax184.com/projects/StarTAC/wireless/testmode.htm...
anti-money laundering and know-your-customer rules.
In China, documents can be re-classified as secret after they have been released.
But the free market literally cannot exist? The free market won't bring you back to life so you can "choose a different competitor" if it kills you.

That food? Bad. Dead. That tool? Dangerous. Dead. That work on your house? Dangerous. Dead. That car? Unroadworthy. Dead. Those aircraft parts? Counterfeit and not to spec. 300 people dead.

Every single thing humans do is already regulated in some way. Why? Because humans in the end, like all animals, try to achieve the best least effort : highest reward ratio they can.

In the modern world, these regulations need to be extended to automatically cover modern technologies and prevent inherent harm. They shouldn't be overbearing. They shouldn't be pointlessly excessive. But they are required for all things.

Many people think capitalism is greedy because they have literally spent a lifetime experiencing greed fueled capitalism first hand, not because they sit on YouTube watching propaganda videos.
How is that different from managing aws? Because in my experience (of 20+ years) there isn't any for most projects. There are reasons to pick aws, but, for most of them, this is not one of them.
Well, at least in France, those expensive graphing calculators are mandatory in high school and later if you choose to study sciences.

Some of it is to avoid "cheating" (not using a computer during exams, a new "exam mode" was also recently mandated, with a flashing LED). But I am not sure why calculators are still that expensive today: https://xkcd.com/768/

That, while you can buy a linux-compatible processor for a few dollars, slap python or GNU Octave on it and call it a day.

I think it's in part due to the certification process taking quite a bit of time. Even new incumbents such as https://www.numworks.com/ have relatively poor specs at a high price by today's standards.
The number of people that would need to coordinate their actions to acheive the outcome is almost certainly fewer.

The formation of something new, and independent, means it would also be less susceptible to corruption.

Given that this is one of the primary purposes of governments, what do you suppose has been keeping them from stepping in so far?
How did that turn out with Sony in the end?