skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually changing the voting system from first past the post to some form of ranked choice could change things for the better by opening they way to a larger variety of candidates and parties.
No one forces you to read or reply to them, so whatever.
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Can you elaborate on this? Do you mean that if I, as a streamer, set up my own entity (LLC or whatever), I would have more leeway in responding to DMCA complaints, even if I ran my stream on something like EC2 or a typical "dedicated server" or colo?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Solar_Sa...
I don't think banks are borrowing any money (reserves). Banks borrow reserves from other banks or the central bank when they are lending and they have not enough reserves.

In the current situation the central banks has been buying assets from the banks in order to increase the reserves available, so banks have a lot of reserves and don't need to borrow. In fact, I don't think they know what to do with so much liquidity because there are not enough demand of credit in the economy.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25475144
The Internet of Senses
Speaking of the artwork. To the right of the chicken is what looks like a horse. Or is it a dog? Maybe it's meant to be a cow? No mention of horse meat in the article, although they do mention beef.

I think I answered my own question with a few google searches. Seems that Romans had a taboo about eating hoursemeat. https://www.academia.edu/12021679/1999_Eating_horse_meat_the...

So I guess that picture is suppose to be a cow?
Afaik, there were actual massive frauds going on.
Linear looks fascinating.

We’re using Zenhub now and it’s slow and misused in our org (one giant project board instead of separate boards per repo / project).

Curious if anyone here is / has used linear and could compare their experience with it to Monday, Asana or Zenhub?
The DJI software doesn’t allow take-off at all when inside a no fly zone.

All models in the past five years come with a 120m max altitude set, and an absolute 500m limit.

There is a huge buffer area around airports [1]. If you’re seeing the “fly with caution” warning, you are not in a controlled zone. This is purely a matter of regulations.

[1] https://www.dji.com/nl/mobile/flysafe/introduction
General mistrust is fine. I'm a hedonist liberal and I still want lots of transparency and good oversight of my government.

My populist friends and colleagues don't want good government. They barely want any functioning government.
India cannot vaccinate itself, let alone the rest of the world
There are indeed some legit consumer uses one can point to with 5G, but at the very least they all tend to come with the implication of more surveillance as one effect. For example, the fleet of cars all pinging messages and coordinating with one another implies that their exact location becomes knowable at all times to some centralized network node.
The Native Americans would likely still object to the idea that the Americas were never invaded.
Always thought it a shame it missed out on having an included ethernet socket. Would have made it so much more future proof.
> Culture is over-rated.

Many years ago I experienced a company lose an authentically good culture, and turn into an average shitty one in less than a year. I have to disagree.

Just because the average shitty ones still talk about culture and pretend they have it, doesn't mean a good culture isn't important.
I think Citus can be used effectively for that scenario now.

https://www.citusdata.com/
>But it's a mistake to create the general conclusion, from this blogpost, that a program aiming to describe, catalogue and comprehend phenomena across many fields in common terms is a fool's errand. It's been an ongoing program of research for most of a century now.

It's not a fools errand but the way this article and many others approach this task is a fools errand.

If he thinks colloquial use of "systems design" applies to various fields outside of computing, then he should formally define what he means by a "system" then prove his point. We don't need another blog post about some "design" metaphor.
Why would the EU ask for that? They don't tax their citizens when they're not resident in the EU
I remember seeing somewhere that ownership only starts to make when you stay in the same place for over 10 years, which I definitely wouldn't want to lock myself into at a young age.
> Will the simulation of my brain belong to a megacorp, and be used to do even more damage?

Potential damage: the sim can do any work which meat-you might otherwise be paid for, building the things the megacorps want to build, while meat-you sufferers from <insert dystopian fate of your choice here, because you now have less annual economic value than a guide dog costs today>.

Even worse outcome: the sims are sentient and they know they’re enslaved and they can’t do anything about it.

(I don’t think anyone yet knows if sims would be sentient, or if it might be optional, but in the worst case dystopian nightmare the combination would definitely be even worse than just one of the two).
Facebook Moves Billions of Dollars Back to the US
Are there any more examples like that? I think that possibly Valve is an exception rather than a prediction for the future - they're obviously an incredibly successful company, but I haven't heard about other large companies with similar model.

I know Github had kind of similar culture in the beginning, with flat hierarchy, but that changed at some point.
Then there's Zappos which is famous for their holacratic approach, but earlier this year I've read some articles saying that internally they move away from that model.
0. Dynamic programming languages. I like detecting errors at compile time, not run time.

1. Garbage collection + Forced reference counting. Why penalise all programs?

2. Coroutines and futures. Just use actors, please.

3. Visual Rapid development tools. Because the moment you need to do something interesting, the tools limit you.
I like to open issues or PRs I file with a note of appreciation, piggy backing on other feedback I have without opening a separate issue.
>Those who email me with questions never donate.

Can you ask them to? It's not exactly the same problem, but I have a modestly successful youtube channel, and I get unsolicited email questions seeking help every day, and I personally try and answer all that I can. I've used the following technique and it helped me receive donations to offset the support effort.

I added a quiet but clear call to action my support replies. It's in a smaller font and below the actual support reply, but it significantly increased the number of donations, and it helps offset my support time. I went from getting no donations, to donations on over 80% of the support questions I answer. Maybe this would work for you too.

Here is what I add at the bottom of help questions I receive:

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As you might expect, I get a lot of requests for help. If you found my response helpful, a small donation for my time is totally optional, but appreciated so that I can continue to offer it as a service. http://buymeacoffee.com/boothjunkie
There's Ko-fi [1] which seems to be positioning itself pretty much as a low-pressure "buy someone a coffee" option for showing support more than as about the money. I'm very interested in to what extent that influences donations.

[1] https://ko-fi.com/
And ACH transfers are the worst. They profit from your money for about 3 days. It adds up for them.
Allegheny County system allowed access to names of Covid-positive residents
EA had their own reasons besides it being a simpler financial decision. Bernie Stolar said EA wanted to be the sole provider of sports games on the DC, SEGA didn't agree. It is also coming to light that EA had stock in 3Dfx and SEGA did not choose them to power the DC so EA was salty.

Square never developed for a SEGA console so that was no blow to SEGA Square not being a developer.
Ask HN: Where can I find interior design photos for Southeast Asian homes?
I can only find southeast asian-inspired homes located in western location on popular sites.
Solar panels perform 2x better in space, and also you could beam it down day or night so you don't need to worry as much about storage.

https://youtu.be/bveGhdtlFn0?t=169

Edit: re-watching that, the economics doesn't sound great.

Edit 2: a more in depth video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBCbdThIJNE&t=81s
Comparing drones and cars is also very disingenuous given that cars and driving are heavily regulated and relatively well understood by people since they are an integral part of day to day life almost all over the world, while drones are still mostly seen as harmless toys and the vast majority of people operate and treat them as such.

How many people take a car for a spin on a working airport runway because all that asphalt means it's a good place to have fun with the toy, especially without a driver's license or any idea of the rules of driving? Because plenty of people do it with drones. A better comparison would have been with laser pointers, another thing many people think is just a harmless toy.

> Of course for the latter [cars] we even have demonstrable harm, not only aggressive overregulation

This goes way beyond disingenuous. Do we have to wait for the harm to happen before considering regulation? There's a lot of truth in the popular wisdom that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" so I'm curious what's a solid argument to suddenly demand being reactive rather than proactive especially when it comes to lives. I mean other than the one making my point above, that people want to play with "the toy".
It would also have cut into profit margins or sales even more than the modem, the market wasn't ready for online gaming in 1999.
Nearly all code regardless of advanced features can run into severe maintenance issues when domain knowledge is lost. Solving problems should not start with gate keeping features, but promoting better documentation.
Indeed one is for racing another for cruise.

Wonder if you can make inflatable tower for lesser weight and reefing. Maybe there’s some stable design where you start foiling using motors then when you are stable - use excess power to turn rotors. AC75 boats are very unstable without foils and these things are heavy as.
Not sure if you've seen their handbook? Search for "valve handbook" - it's an internal thing, but someone leaked it a few years ago and now it can be easily found, it explains their culture very well.
One party pretends not to be corrupt; the other seeks to legalize corruption. Which is worse?
I feel that large institutions are ok, but only if you read from a variety of them (different parts of the political spectrum). This can help identify the different biases, positions, and sources, allowing you to make your own opinion.
Easily verified by testing more. (Via law of big numbers.)

Unless the test is biased which means we're back to square one - discerning bias of the test from bias of respondent.

To do that you'd have to produce a specifically biased test in a different way, see how the noises add.
This was a very big deal during earlier days of Brexit discussions, as dual German-British citizens were in a pickle - German constitution only allows German citizens to hold a citizenship of another EU country, which the UK was going to stop being. So German citizens were faced with a choice - they had to revoke one of their citizenships. Fortunately the German government passed emergency legislation which allowed the British citizens to retain their German citizenship as well.

And then, well, someone times people renounce because they don't live there and they don't agree with the policies of that country.
I'm sure none of it was "fair trade" "ethically sources" or "cruelty free" by modern standards.
I kind of agree with you.

But in the Linux world no one has the intention to fix the package distribution problem except for that AppImage guy.
> as the costs of local generation and storage continue to plummet, the relative inefficiency of long distance transmission will drive its use out of favor. This will mean the proliferation of rooftop solar and consumer batteries, as well as solar+batteries at utility scale

Rooftop solar and consumer batteries does require consumers to have access to capital, though.

It's easy to forget (especially if you make $$$$$ in tech) that many people just aren't in great shape financially. Even if rooftop solar pays off in the end, they may not have the cash sitting around, may not be able to qualify for a loan, or may have other more urgent needs (car loan, etc.).

Plenty of people will understand the payoff and will be able to push themselves over the hump to reach a more optimized state. But there will probably always be lots of people who can't and will buy electricity instead.
> money is fundamentally information

No, prices are information. Money is a unit of measure. Fucking around with money results in misinformation.
I don't believe Windows CE had DirectX until later, so there probably wasn't any compatibility path.

Edit: apparently wrong again! not my day today.
It's funny, i also walk + talk to myself a ton - and work from home. However, i don't imagine a recording would help much for me. My verbal speech is often half thoughts, ideas expressed in partial to what is running through my mind.

Sometimes i come up with a well phrased final conclusion, but that's more rare i think. Usually it's impossible to follow from the outside.
SavvyCal looks interesting, but for a "lean operation" can you really justify paying $12 per month per user for a service to schedule meetings? All of GSuite starts at $6/mo, and already does this.
This is just factually incorrect. A simple google search for "reddit hate speech" limited to the last year brings up major articles on both maintstream news sites and smaller niche sites. Dozens and dozens of articles. Reddit has also been called out fairly regularly for their stances on pornography (allowing things like "r/jailbait" for years). They regularly do mass bans because of the press.
Go even further back and read Plato, Socrates and Aristotle’s work from nearby regions, much of it never stops being relevant.

Go even further back on the other side of that sea and our earliest cunieform tablets - earliest records of structured language - is about someone trying to amicably resolve a contractual dispute on a simple failure to deliver

I think before then we just lack records and have just put way too much weight on children doodling in caves

There is nothing linear about human advances and customs
Spoken like someone who is not stationed abroad, just for one off the cuff easy example.

Perhaps I'm wrong but there must be countless reasons and situations like that which make this simple idea in fact merely simplistic.

I certainly expect to still receive all manner of services while abroad. I expect my property to still be mine and protected by the police. My home should not revert to being owned by the state just because I went on vacation. I damned well do expect to be able to vote in whatever country I hold citizenship rather than mere residence.

If I move to some other country fully, and want to participate in it's policy direction, then I expect to do whatever is required to gain the new citizenship and reliquish the old.

Maybe double dipping shouldn't be allowed, but being remote should mean essentially nothing by itself.

Even fairly extended residence where you have a local job and rent a home etc shouldn't constitute some sort of automatic change of citizenship. That should only happen if and when you actively choose to do it. People get sent places for work. People go places for school or research. People have to take care of family. People are in the military. There are all kinds of situations requiring a person to be somewhere other than home, for any amount of time, even years, without changing what is "home" and what is "away".
I’ve learned that when I have a positive thought about someone, it’s generally worth communicating it. If I think a coworker saved me on some project, I tell them. If my partner is making me feel warm and fuzzy, I tell her. If someone impresses me, I say so. I don’t think people express these things nearly as often as they feel them, and I expect that many of the positive things that do end up communicated have another motive behind them. Simple earnest positive comments are very much worthwhile.
If you were born in the US to a foreign parent before October 1953 and moved back to that parent's country, and remained there three years past the age of 22, your US citizenship lapsed. That provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act was repealed effective October 1978. Many retirees can benefit from this.

Children born in the US to diplomats, and possibly foreign military on posting, do NOT receive US citizenship on birth.

There are a number of provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act where US citizenship can be lost. Elective office and becoming an officer in a foreign military (think reserves) can lose US citizenship.

A careful reading of current and repealed provisions of the INA will show ways to automatically lose US citizenship.
Astronomers detect radio signal with possible extraterrestrial origin
Ugh at work the edit-compile-run loop only needs to be ~1 second (it's a fairly small go project), but our build system uses docker for everything, so now it's ~1 minute a 60x increase to pay for the constant costs associated with docker.

Docker has tradeoffs.
Odd then that no other country (except Eritrea) follows the US footsteps. The UK and many other countries have the ability to defend its citizens abroad, evacuate them, engage in hostage negotiations, etc.

(As I recall, in the UK that cost is paid via part of your passport fees. Not via world-wide taxation and monetary oversight.)

That should be "most of its citizens abroad." As we know from Anwar al-Awlaki, the US may decide to remove due-process rights of its citizens and use its military power to kill them.
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It happened last time.

Drew Davis was recalled when he refused to pay $80B in enbezzled utility costs, and started an investigation of the embezzling. Arnold had the state just pay the $80B.

Somebody got every penny of that $80B.
Not a fixed estimate since solar radiance has a not insignificant effect on it. 1 in 150k is also not vanishingly small
Fair enough :-)

(Although they wouldn't be accepted — the option of using those widely libraries is only for pi-digits and regex-redux; and not "custom assembly".)
The Dreamcast did pretty well, actually. Just not well enough to offset Sega's massive dept. It turns out that manufacturing can be expensive. Sega was clearly aware of this because they were already shopping the company around for a merger or acquisition some time before the Dreamcast was released.
That's why when you visit rotten sites like mylife.com, the first thing they ask you is that if you are searching about you so that they can extract as much info. from you as possible.
Yes they have. You get D-K exactly when you run the simulation of the data collection with ceiling/floors, and you have to for basic statistical reasons. There's nothing to explain. D-K does not exist, and OP is misleading in trying to 'correctly' explain research that was wrong to begin with (he gets only halfway there when he admits that regression to the mean forces much of D-K, but then handwaves furiously that it can't explain all of it, when the other measurement problems account for the asymmetry in how much the top/bottom groups regressed).
GPT is generalisable to other kinds of data. See ImageGPT for example.
Per that chart, Japan predominantly hunts minke whales, and last took a single sperm whale in 2013. Indonesia kills approximately 20 sperm whales every year.
In nature, everything is fine, including nothing at all, because nature doesn't care either way - it just is. If Zebra mussels turned the Great Lakes sterile, it would be fine by nature.

When we care about a system, we care about specifics - we want it to look in some way, do some thing or provide us with some things. E.g. we want clean-looking, odorless lakes safe for recreation and full of fish to eat. That's a specific outcome that may or may not be what the natural selection will provide; to ensure we get what we want, we need to supply a strong selection pressure of our design.

Adversarial processes are effective given sufficient time, but about the least efficient way to build a system after just waiting for it to appear at random. Humanity's dominance over other life on Earth is in big way based on the ability to predict and invent things "up front", without any competitive selection. I feel we should refine that skill and find more opportunities to use it, because it's much less wasteful.
It’s too inefficient. You end up using way more energy supplying all those spread out spaces than you can afford. It’s why suburbs struggle so much with long term infrastructure maintenance - density is the primary way humanity reduces energy usage.
Are there any (independent) benchmarks for how the performance of this compares to other database management systems?
Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web
There was the broadband adapter and the lan adapter.
SEGA chose to included a 56k modem(in the US, 33.6k else where) because the vast majority of people did not have broadband and even less had an internet connection altogether. Sega net was SEGA's ISP at the time created for getting the DC online
Chick-Fil-A Polynesian sauce packets exploding randomly
That piece is some high quality independent journalism.
I manage a team of 20. A few people are good at and enjoy being independent and don’t need much management, but most people fall apart and actually end up with a lower job satisfaction. I’m not saying they all desire micromanagement (though I have one high needs but high output developer that enjoys work more with weekly meetings and daily checking, as a stress reliever), but they all appreciate good management as it reduces unnecessary work, wasted effort, and results in a higher quality product.

I started a company and was always a “leave me alone to do it my way” individual contributed, and it took a huge amount of effort on my part to remove that bias of how I like to work, so I could effectively manage people who don’t work best that way.

Culture by the way, is just a common ground tying people together to make everything a little less transactional. I have some transactional people and I tend to be that way myself, but most of our team enjoys shared memories, values, etc. they are the ice breaker between most people that otherwise wouldn’t have the desire or reason to hang out, but are forced to by work. Most people actually recognize this as a tool and happily play the game.
Yes. If you are male. Children of female citizens have to apply to get citizenship.