skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've kept my financial situation very simple, I've likely sacrificed some (potential investment) income from doing so. I used an accountant the first few times who taught me what I needed to know and then I waste part of my life each year remembering how it works and researching the changes. Perhaps I also don't earn as much as the people you know, no idea. Due to exclusion and the credit I thankfully (and IMO, fairly) pay very little US tax each year, my major costs have been those initial accoutant fees. That wasn't worth a youtube channel (the income from which would only complicate my future returns, no thanks).

But I would like to hold some investments and that's an area I have no US tax knowledge of. So that'd be another accountant hit. Maybe renouncing is the better investment, once it becomes available again.
You added this entire paragraph upthread after I had replied more than once:

“You mentioned Covid. Watching the arc of excuses made by citizens of the US has been a black comedy: it started with excuses about how China managed to control Covid, it moved on to different excuses when some other Asian countries managed low death counts, then the excuses changed again once some first world countries got their shit together. The underlying premise was “USA #1” therefore if another country is doing better then let’s pipe up with a irrelevant excuse meme. The pattern is tragically hilarious.”

As well as lying about not having edited your comments, this comment is contemptuously anti-American and unconstructive. You can always find citizens of a country saying stupid things.

It’s also a non sequitur to what I was
commenting on.

Covid numbers across Europe as a whole have been comparable to those across the US as a whole.

The two blocs are of comparable size, so this is an interesting statistic when evaluating effectiveness of governance of a large bloc.
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They're public? I don't necessarily feel a desire to make a public announcement about every comment I think might be interesting or worth referring back to.
>And yet, as They Might Be Giants put it, these disruptive designs, so seemingly flawed, made the difference between extinction in the cold and explosive, radiating growth.

These designs aren't seemingly flawed, they are flawed. Evolution produces flawed designs by "design".

Evolution trends towards survival. One thing critical for survival is equilibrium of the ecosystem so on a macro level evolution will trend towards equilibrium even if that necessitates the need for flawed designs.

In fact, flawed designs are critical to ecosystem survival. It works because competing designs to the flawed design are also just as flawed.

An invasive species on an island ecosystem is a perfect example of an over efficient design destroying a local ecosystem and in turn eventually destroying itself.

This is why ebola didn't spread as far as covid-19. Ebola is too efficient at killing thus reducing transmission rate and burning out the local ecosystem and thereby destroying itself before it got too far. The less efficient virus is the one that spread across the globe.
or the value of the dollar has dropped, which makes demand for equities higher (causing their price to rise).

You didn't create more wealth - the equities didn't become more productive (cept may be the tech companies did more this year and thus have a deserved rise in price).
The people who are on this forum are cogs in a machine that, over the next 40 years, will displace millions of American workers. It seems where we are headed into a bifurcated society part overeducated technocrats part gig economy task rabbits.

Seeing the former group beginning to consider the effects of their work is dystopian.

I'm not sure what you mean by "mistake."
One COVID related transfer of wealth involves the Paycheck Protection Program. I know of several local profitable small businesses that received loans through this program. They were never in a position to layoff workers. When those loans are forgiven, as most are, or will be, where does that money go? Right in to the owner's pocket. It's interesting how many law firms qualified...
Of course, but that's comparing error handling code with non-error handling code.

The comparison you need to make is instead exceptions vs. return values. Unless you're going to argue all errors should abort by default or similar.

I do wish noexcept had better support, or was even the default (C++ and wrong defaults, a tale as old as time). But it's disingenuous to compare exceptions against nothingness.
It's actually impossibly slow for me, as it didn't work at all on Firefox or Chrome. Chrome showed a progress bar but no results when searching for the recommended "liberty".
My (now defunct) family's software company had a backgammon game with fairly good AI. We frequently got complaints from customers accusing the AI of cheating by getting favorable dice rolls. This wasn't possible, as the dice roll algorithm literally didn't know which player it was rolling for (let alone the context of the overall game). Instead, the complainers didn't understand that a chief strategy of backgammon is to set yourself up to be able to take advantage of as many different dice rolls as possible.
True capitalists do not applaud the crony capitalism common throughout the entire world. Japan’s government now owns sizable percentages or even outright majorities of all major corporations. The endless appetite for debt-fueled stimulus has led to crazy malinvestment that will be an extremely difficult pill to swallow when the bill finally comes due.

Why even tax us anymore? If it’s so easy to print new money just sum all the money necessary for the budget and print it fresh. Basically the same thing at this point.
How is their good ness determined?
Chapo episode about Avatar (the Cameron Movie).

A sincere discussion of the film as an anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist film, that challenges the common view of the film as a 'white saviour' ferngully-like and attempts to explain why the film was so "un-meme-able" in contrast to recent Marvel movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7CtTo88QOI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12045191

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18973259

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Warwick
I'm visiting my parents on a low speed connection and it didn't work at first. I had to clear the cache and restart. I don't know if it's related to this, but I suspect so.
Thank you for making this point. The idea that it was an unpredictable failure mode of a complex system, rather than predictable exploitation of a system where safeguards against exploitation were deliberately removed as "inefficient," is exactly what will ensure a repeat in the future.
It depends what we mean by emergent. It was designed to be this way, but there is no switch in the code that says “if there are this many zerglings, buff their attack”. Instead it’s a consequence of their mechanics (they die quickly but in large numbers can do enough damage fast enough to offset this).
I practice a grappling martial art. If you bruise the tissue in your ear too much small pockets of fluid can form between your ear and the cartilage. If this fluid is not drained and the ear kept compressed it can harden forming cauliflower ear, deforming the ear. Some people are more susceptible to it than others. I imagine that would be a worst case injury. I don’t know of this happening with headphones, but it seems plausible.
The hype/release of the PS2 is understated. It was massive. Since then nothing has, and nothing probably will, rival it again.
A Primer in Coding DNA
We have quite a bit of SVG animations behind that image so might throw a curveball on Safari
Poor choice of words on my part. When I said "flawed", I meant "unworkable, and less fit for survival than the competition"
I would think proper humidity control would be most beneficial. Also this set up looks completely modular and you saw the robot arm adding a rack. Each section could be sterilized and put back into production reducing likelihood of mold and if you found mold could remove the effected sections only. With good climate controls and procedures I believe mold could be mitigated.
At first glance. I challenge you to find a technique (Being executed commercially, demonstrated in a paper, or clearly described) where high-calorie foods are grown indoors.

I'm not trying to be snarky; I'd love to see something like this, but the comment you reply to is my conclusion as well. I used to be very excited about this stuff, but the only viable crops are leafy greens sold at a high price.

I own a business selling sensors for use in hydroponics. I started because I wanted to make an impact in food availability. I've abandoned that, and continue because hobbyists, and companies like this have a use.
While interesting I guess that sounds like a straightforward compiler bug not a problem with the feature overall. Unless there's some missing nuance why 'noexcept' was apparently being ignored which would need further investigation.
This is a genuine question - would you mind listing some of those crops?

Specifically, there's a number of states in the U.S. that allows people to legally grow marijuana / cannabis. I know it's still illegal at the Federal level, but that hasn't stopped people here in Washington state.

Plus, I was never the type of cool that knew a lot about drugs and alcohol. Computers, sure - I was definitely the type of cool that knew a lot about computers, but not so much the recreationally altered states.

Which has now come back to haunt me as I'm woefully ignorant of which crops might grow well in this sort of environment :)
And all 13 parts of that aircraft that was "designed" they cannot know whether or not that design was the best optimal design possible. It's just a best guess, because they lack the ability to calculate the optimal configuration for that aspect of the aircraft, hence why they turned to "design" instead. That is for sure a lack of knowledge and is exactly what I'm referring to.
It feels really great to be on the receiving end of such gratitude, and honestly feels pretty great (if not greater) to give it out too.

One thing I also love to do, is talk people up outside of their presence. It takes nothing to mention how someone may have helped you and it's a great excuse to just spread positive energy.
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Nobody is arguing that. The debate is around whether manufactured public praise is tasteless
Relative to aviation, nuclear power, and perhaps cruise ships, the spilled blood of victims of those complex systems resulted in improvements[0][1], while in healthcare the seminal text appeared first in 1999.[2] Healthcare has a lot to learn from other industries with inherent complexity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster#Lega...

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25077248/
This is really cool stuff! If the claimed numbers square up this would be a pretty big deal for the urban areas of Canada & US which have lots of medium priced/quality land too expensive for farms or cheap warehouses but too cheap/contaminated/poorly zoned/etc. for housing and offices.
Too late for that. My family are big baseball fans, and we go to the baseball hall of fame for tournaments or indications every few years.

That drive from Albany to Cooperstown is progressively more depressing first as small dairy was destroyed by deregulation and later as agricultural policy put everyone out of business unless you grow corn or flowers or farm tourism.
As long as the crop is fast-maturing. Else the expensive 'pot' makes experimentation cost prohibitive?
Wow, those purple suited AI-driven Robots sure do look human! Impressive.
I can't wait until someone "Snowflake"s Elasticsearch and separates compute from storage.

There's not a great reason for there to be "shards" and "clusters". In 2021, I'd appreciate search running from object storage (e.g. S3), with a dynamic compute layer over the top providing all of the compute--especially with indexing being such a source of variable compute.

Also, why do we have to re-index all of the time? Most textual customization can happen at query time, with only a mild performance hit.

I'm curious if we ever truly get a cloud-native, easy-to-maintain search thing, or if we have to wait for ML to eat search in order to get nextgen tech.
In a past life, I pushed hard for more investment in seL4 for certain defense applications. The nuance isn't to be underestimated though – I can say from experience that it's often a hard sell to folks that aren't already versed in the ins and outs of formal methods, security, kernels/operating systems, etc. There are plenty of lower hanging fruit (like networking hardware) than the applications I worked on, yet commercial adoption still seems low. Maybe this is due to that nuance. To the credit of the folks at Trustworthy Systems and UNSW, they've done a great job producing literature that outlines the business case in a manner palatable to decision makers. This paper [0] in particular came in handy to me many times.

[0] https://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/csiro_full_text/Klei...
Better flood mitigation in Fla. and more jewellery on the "keep Austin weird" signage.
iFixit Teardown Reveals Few Differences Between iPhone 12, 12 Pro
Wouldn't your thesis predict more political problems in areas of greatest diversity (ie, cities)? The cleft in the US runs mainly between rural and urban populations; ie, between high-diversity and low diversity areas. Each 'system' seems to find political equilibria just fine on their own.

(Or, in a more flippant form: I hadn't noticed Toronto had become a hellscape of inter-ethnic conflict...)
What work? Not sure what's the question. Its retail sales, service industry, delivery, stuff like that.
On desktop I just use "Old Reddit Redirect" extension :)

But yup, I wholly agree with your point. The redesign feels like a mix of product managers trying to get promoted + boosting "engagement" numbers at the expense of all else.

Or perhaps we are the odd ones out - I'm sure there's been a huge growth in new users Reddit since the redesign and I doubt that new users are hankering for a different experience now that they're used to it.
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First, it usually doesn't make sense to buy coffee with bitcoin. Why would I do that if I had the choice to use depreciating fiat instead?

As a currency, the dollar is great for quick, low-cost transactions. But it's no longer a good store of value.

Besides, I can use my Cash App debit card or app and get cash back in bitcoin, which is rapidly appreciating in value [1].

As I already mentioned, lightning network provides fast (less than a few seconds) and cheap (fractions of pennies) off-chain bitcoin transactions—http://lightning.network/.

[1] https://cash.app/help/us/en-us/30982-bitcoin-boost
Thanks to those who worked tirelessly to work on Open Source projects.
You're really looling at about 1000 lbs of flour per acre. I think I was mistaken about 1 acre. I think its actually 1/4 acre, which is about 250 pounds, which should be enough for most families. But still, you need to produce excess yo pay for costs and provide an income.
Go and C (even moreso) are simple languages. Some people understand the reason for (and appreciate) that simplicity

Other people prefer profound language complexity; no comment
To everyone arguing about lettuce: lettuce is for practice. Weed & shrooms will be legal soon.
So forest admin is commercial for rails_admin or active_admin right?
They've only recently started playing nice with open source and developers. I doubt they'll do anything to jeopardise that.
What can one individual do to reduce their own contribution and complicity to this pattern?
Pretty sure that only applies to peaceful protests.
There are very few "open fields" near LAX. Feel free to look at a satellite view on google maps, and compare to Great Lakes area. One of the denser urban areas vs a lot of agricultural use.
Again, just what I wrote. Guessing mastadon behavior, extrapolated from what living mastodon? Speculating on behavior vs probability of ending in the fossil record - is that a thing? Where has that been studied? Ignoring risks taken by female mastadons - giving birth, defending calves. Are those part of the behavior group that affects likelihood of fossilization? Nothing in this (soft) article about that.

Let's be totally honest. Paleontologists have make astronomical errors in interpreting probabilities and statistics in the past.
Sky’s the limit as tech investors pile into cloud startups
sounds like a job for the intergalactice computer network
I think you're dismissing a critical consideration:

There are systems that are impractical to formalize, either because they are too complex, too poorly-understood, too dynamic, too ephemeral, or too expensive to do so.

Your complaints about the words "architecture" and "design" sound like a cached rant. I agree that there's sometimes an uncomfortable amount of squishiness in the way we build technology-systems, but I don't think that's always a bad thing! By and large, we are not specialists in our sciences, we are generalists working in the emergent systems created by the interactions of formal components. For many, this is the exciting part.

We borrow heavily (terminology and patterns) from building, manufacturing, various artistic disciplines, and from complex systems theory. This is inevitable of course -- but when I think of "systems design", I think more of Donella Meadows (Thinking in Systems) than Morris Mano (Computer Systems Architecture, Digital Design) ... though both are brilliant and responsible for hundreds of hours of my university career! (And the latter is a good example of why your objections to terminology are dead ends.)

Our industry builds squishy complex systems (products, applications, interfaces, software, firmware, some hardware) on top of rigid formalized primitives (algorithms, other hardware, physics). The area we inhabit is fertile ground for iteration, agility, and yes, charlatanism. I can understand why that might be bothersome, but I think it goes back to the old vitality-volatility relationship -- can't have one without the other. You may prefer a different part of the curve of course.

I have friends who graduated with Civil Engineering degrees, and work in their industry. Their projects are extremely formal and take decades to realize. This is appropriate!

I have other friends with Architecture degrees (the NAAB, Strength of Materials kind of architecture), who work in their industry. Their projects are a mix of formal and informal processes, and they take years to realize. This is also great.

Now obviously there's a lot of self-selection involved in these groups, but even still everyone has their set of frustrations within their industry. We in technology can iterate in an hour, or a few days for a new prototype PCB rev. This gives the industry amazing abilities, and I would never trade!
Reddit intensifies the war against its own users.
At least we have Lua, which we can call freely from our C++ application.
> I hope one day the researchers will realize that they are trying to cancel the wrong source

I dont think its due to intentionality just that low pitch is easier to cancel than high pitch things like voices.
Linear founder here. As you pointed out issue tracking and project management tools can get easily out of control if concepts get overcomplicated etc. I can't really say of the other tools but we tried to build Linear to be simple and really fast, and adopt to your needs as your grow (e.g. enable more advanced features as you need them).

Linear is free to use for a modest issue count so it's pretty low key to try it out for a project with your team if you want to compare it. And if you end up switching, we have open source import scripts available: https://github.com/linearapp/linear-import If you end up trying us out and need help organizing your team, feel free to contact me jori@linear.app
It's a SQL beautifier.
>What this means is scarce financial assets are going to go up, and up, and up

Until they don't...The exuberance I'm seeing lately scares the shit out of me. This is going to be a horrific crash when it comes.
They use some kind of neural net thing for other languages. e.g. here is a paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144
ULA is not new, its basically Boeing and Lockheed Martin getting together to form a monopoly. The rockets themselves have a lot of legacy going back 60 years. These rockets were developed for the US government and ULA itself has never created its own rocket.

I also didn't talk about China or Indian launch who are also doing it.
It doesn't matter to the Drake equation except to make it far less pessimistic. Abiogenesis had to happen somewhere for panspermia to occur so if it happened so early in the history of our galaxy to then migrate to our planet, the probability of many such colonizers converging on intelligence goes up drastically. Panspermia might even simplify other parts of the equation, like the probability that we'd coexist in the same time period or in range to detect each other's radio waves.