skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The implementation of Diya has probably nothing to do with that, as it was a pretty common PR topic for the police to find and seize stolen passport / tax data for at least the last decade. With so many government agencies having their own low security databases and employees paid $300/mo there's nothing surprising when dumps are so easy to obtain.
You can, of course, play tricks with javascript to thwart the scrapers, or serve them deliberately bad data, block ip ranges, etc. Depends on how tenacious they are, it's a war of escalation.
Could this be one of the first iterations of the Switch?
$1 per minute? Reminds me of those collect call numbers you would see on a late night commercial, except instead of a "hot girl" you get a condescending asshole.
Not quite. You look at any of the posts by politicians and you'd see vast numbers of people lapping up the anti-facebook rhetoric.

The sad part is that it's not entirely unjustified. It's just in this instance Facebook was objectively not being the bad guy, yet there's enough mistrust in the population that it's easy to be told that they (facebook) were in the wrong.
Please don't post any more shallow flamewar comments to Hacker News. You set off a massive one with this. Not cool, and not what this site is for.

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> This is patently false, the only evidence of backlash has been from reports in mass media, we were all loving the new newsless Facebook.

I only use facebook for extended family and friends of the family and noted a lot of people pissed off about not being able to share links.
I think that json is mostly a lightweight, human-readable data exchange format for machines to communicate. It's generally not meant to be written by humans.
Have been reading "Agency" by William Gibson of Neuromancer fame and the Thylacines are described in the book but I was too lazy to look them up.
I know Linux is way more then just one man, but holy hell what one person can inspire.
> What an embarrassment.

I expect nothing less of this government.
Interesting context and history, thank you!
I like your TaxonWorks platform. It feels like an important step towards a general empirical research infrastructure, eg the basic framework seems like it might be applicable in numerous non-bio fields, from (say) geology to sociology.
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"Specifically" makes it sounds like it only targets the M1. But as we have seen, it is found on both Intel and M1 products.
Yeah, I just sit it out now. Having a teenager who’s culturally as old as me keeps me hermetically sealed in my vault.
I think this is a greatly underappreciated point. Tesla is the picture of success these days but people forget things were looking quite grim from a production perspective not too long ago, and even now, Tesla's rush to scale has earned their cars a reputation for factory defects. Success is not a given even with a compelling prototype.
Nuclear is a perfectly cromulant technology for space vehicles. It is not a good technology to power cities on earth in the 21st century however.
How is this news? Is it expected for them to keep working after they've been fired?
It is even possible without mods, like [1]. This obviously assumes the prerecorded video (and pretty large datapacks), but it does work even with servers...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a8ka1v42CM
There are already better formats if we just want machines to communicate though; e.g. protobuf, msgpack.

The whole reason JSON is text-based is to make it human-readable while also enabling data exchange, but the lack of comments works against that goal.
I remember the day before Reagan signed the Executive Order to repeal all of Nixon's oil&gas allocation&price controls. Gas lines. The day after. No gas lines. All the gas you wanted. At last, I could pull right up to the pump and get gas. And the gas lines never returned in the next 40 years, despite many oil shocks (like Gulf War 1 and Gulf War 2).

The evidence is very strong that Nixon's actions caused the gas lines in the US.
>I never understood why they weren't part of the original spec

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

>Trailing commas in objects were only introduced in ECMAScript 5. As JSON is based on JavaScript's syntax prior to ES5, trailing commas are not allowed in JSON.

json was largely `eval`d when it first hit the scene. It was easy to parse because you just received it and `eval`d it directly to parse. worked in every browser. security concerns over time lead to this being rightfully replaced with the JSON object and its associated encoder and decoder.

however, since early javascript didn't allow for trailing commas, neither could JSON if it wanted to be able to be `eval`d.
Some airports have truck mounted jet engines that they use for clearing light snow from runways.
Because that is the law --- at least in the USA. Income / profit is taxable --- regardless of source.
Because that is complementary color, by color theory. Or, one kind of complementary color, anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors . It's a purely computational process, no aesthetic taste is implied.

But yeah, that default cyan/red combination is incredibly garish.
At least lawyers will be happy with Epic's quixotic endeavors.
> Someones ability to buy in to those assets is relevant for their ability to realize that appreciation.

With fractional shares all that matters is how much cash they bring to the table now how many individual units of stock they can purchase and that cash can then track the return of the underlying equity.
What kind of health problems did you have? I'm at 30 years vegetarian and my blood work has even improved when I started eating mostly vegan. I won't say I'm super fit, but I feel that's mostly due to lack of exercise. No problems for sure.

I generally eat lots of vegetables and supplement B12 and D.
The doctrine of the trinity certainly looks like it flirts with polytheism if you're coming at it from a traditional Jewish or Islamic perspective.
Because the hue scale was designed to be perception-based, so flipping by 180 is the intended use. Obviously a single formula cannot describe all complexity of human color perception, especially if you take into account spatial interactions and background illumination.

The color science is far from developed, and better models than HSV and CIELAB are available, but typically are very complex with little practical gain.
This.

This is why I feel modern economic machine has failed us. An artisan is making something and selling at a price they are happy to get as wage. And external people have to now think* how the artisan should be raising prices to make more money.

There is no pricing failure. Someone is happy creating their version of art and selling it to run their life and family. They have enough customers to keep working for the next many years. Full stop.
It's not necessarily big business, but short-term incentives of big business that may not align with any other stakeholders than the current stockholders. Big businesses are necessary to enact the scale of change we need (it takes a huge number of people to design and build electronics, operate heavy industry, etc), but it's the misaligned incentives to meet rather arbitrarily-set quarterly earnings, and the possibility of being sued if a company does not pursue that goal (if publicly traded), that drive the worst parts of capitalism.
I should add, keeping companies private could also be a scheme for throwing a wrench into the rising calls for a wealth tax. How you value property that has no liquid market (like private company shares) is one of the issues that makes a wealth tax extremely difficult to implement in practice.
I believe the Rust compiler can use an alternative linker, but I'm pretty sure that mold can't link Rust programs because it lacks lots of features. It's so experimental that I didn't even think about trying to link a Rust program with it.
Non critical malfunctions or accidents happen pretty much every day. You would have more than 10 daily in pre covid times and they are normal and the pilots are trained for it and for the passengers they are merely inconvenient. Just check av herald.

I think noting every small incident is just riding the wave because you can’t provide proper news. It is fearmongering and bad journalism.
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Old media saw their traffic stats crater, I think.
Is the -0700 offset PDT or MST? ISO-8601 doesn’t solve a whole bunch of problems related to locale-aware date math.
The idea that covid is somehow a preventable disease is one of the more malicious bits of propaganda that’s been floating around. Is the flu a preventable disease too?
> I don't think there is a native immmutable array in javascript.

I'm here to tell you that `Object.freeze()` works just fine on arrays.
probably just as easily counterfeit aircraft parts due to economic squeezes
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26234020
> Their wages don't keep pace with the inflation of assets, so they are continually unable to save or invest their way out of poverty.

They're poor, they don't have cash. Their assets have their own ROI separate from the benchmark rate.

> for the umpteenth time, they are paid in depreciating units while the real value of assets appreciates in nominal units; creating a problem where in order to save they must invest, and they continually have less real income to invest, because the paychecks are getting smaller (in real terms) and the assets are getting pricier (in nominal terms).

The depreciation only matters from the time they receive their paycheck to the time they invest in productive assets or pay for necessities. Only for the time they're holding literal dollars. If it takes a full year they retain a full 98% of the value. It doesn't matter. You are wrong.

Their paychecks are not getting smaller because wages have kept pace with inflation. [1]

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
It feels like watching your kids accomplishing something difficult on their own. The fear of mortality is loosened a bit.
The kind of SPACs we are seeing is what indicates something is fishy. Just look Lucid Motors. They have no product -- their first car is still in development... and yet they are about to be a public company with a market cap that matches or exceeds many in the SP500.
That's already exactly what tiered pricing is.
Or just do RSON? https://github.com/rson-rs/rson

I honestly don't want to bash JS, but typing is not it's strength.

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They're not the inverse, but the price of gold had its run-up earlier than other currencies (it started rising in mid-2019 and peaked in summer 2020). This is probably because of gold's status as an inflation hedge - people started buying as soon as Powell started easing in 2019 - and because its speculative nature and easy storage makes it more responsive to future expectations. If the Fed drops rates in March 2020 and you expect this to mean major inflation will hit in Oct 2021, you can buy gold immediately to hedge this. If you try to buy corn instead, good luck storing it for the next 18 months.

It's also interesting to plot all these commodities (as well as cryptocurrencies) in terms of the S&P 500, which is rapidly becoming the true store of value. I think you'll find that their price is relatively constant in those terms, and it's the dollar that's been falling.
> You might (not) be surprised to hear this is a US centric practice. In Australia this behaviour would fall foul of consumer protection laws.

And i'm pretty sure every single country in europe, and from my limited experience in asia, probably in most countries there too.
Having an electric car is still a luxury, and most people understand it. Economy of scale is not yet at the level of gas cars (the turning point will be when self driving starts working or at most 2030 when the batteries get cheap).
I would be interested to know what the net loss in click/ad revenue was over this period
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Ah, just seemed surprising they had all these parts to step down the voltage and everything but didn't have power cables. But I guess it is what it is.
Interesting take. Note that the Council of Chalcedon took place in 451 AD, or around a hundred and twenty years before Muhammad was born so the divergent views between the orthodox everyone else would have definitely been canonical by then, lending credence to that possibility. But note that Islam’s view on the nature of Jesus (a prophet but not a god) is probably easier to reconcile with the Chalcedonian view that separates between his purported divine and mortal existences to a greater extent than orthodox miaphysitism (which tends to blur the lines somewhat) does, at least as I understand it.
It would have been nice of them to do a world tour one more time.

But of course their break up is probably due to a disagreement between the two of them so it wouldn't have been possible if they don't want to spend time together.
> I’m not familiar with the details of that event, but it doesn’t sound like anyone was actually accepting this as a new valid variant JSON

When they accept it, it becomes defacto valid. That's how acceptance works.

See also http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php#41 for a big table of "JSON-encoded data and JSON parser that didn’t work perfectly together". Read the whole page though. It's quite enlightening.
From the linux side, dd(1) has blocking/unblocking and EBCDIC/ASCII conversions as well.

IPL IIRC was "Initial Program Load", and I'm guessing PUN would be "Punch" but since it's converting file formats I'd like to read it as "pun".
I stay at a level of selfishness that I'm comfortable with. I do what I can to make the little things I can control better, I lead by example when I get the chance, and I understand that I'm not going to change society so it's (selfishly) not worth it for me to be a zealot.

I don't have kids, but I'd like to. I know even that's the "selfish" answer, but I can attempt to justify it by teaching them to be good stewards and thereby doing something positive about the problem. Calling it passing the problem on, but they'll have better tools than me to cope with it because we're building those tools right now. At the very least, I'd hope my daughter would be smart enough to understand that being "part of the people killing all the wildlife on earth" is a gross simplification of an incredibly complex social and scientific environment.
It's more likely to be a crash up than a crash down. Interpret that as you like.
So the news sites all knew exactly how much of their traffic came from Facebook, and they should have known that people’s habits change slowly. What did they expect? They started this game of chicken and didn’t even have the will to wait over a week for user habits to change?
Yes and no..
The smartphone is extremely relevant because access to the internet is essential for modern life. So much necessary activity takes place online, from banking to accessing public services. That needs to be factored in, perhaps not as the cost of a smartphone, but rather the cost of a laptop plus internet.

And yet, it doesn't matter if you have a smartphone and internet access if there are no jobs, or if those jobs don't pay sufficiently.
There's certainly a fair difference in difficulty between hue=(hue+0.5)%1.0, and doing things 'properly' (perceptually uniform spectral sampling? Sounds quite a lot harder tbh!).
HSL and HSV certainly include compromises, but in many cases the utility of being able to work with colour represented in this way means they're still super useful, even if inaccurate.
I'm not saying it mightn't be 2000 hours of red tape, incompetence, and corruption. I could believe that easily enough. I'm saying it's not 2000 hours of actual work.
Yeah I thought that bit was cool too.

A bit of (probably) useless trivia that I noticed, because I used to work in feature film visual effects, is that the card reader read 13 punch cards per second, which is about the same speed as an arriscanner which scans reels of motion picture film. You get about 4-10 frames per second depending on the resolution.
I was vegetarian for around 10 years with the last 3 being vegan, I supplement B12 and my blood work is fine. B12 deficiency is apparently quite common in modern humans, vegetarian or not. I don’t doubt you, just wondering what health problems you had so I and others here can avoid the same.
I’m trying to decide between buying a Tesla or a Porsche Taycan, and the main thing why Tesla is interesting to me is autopilot and the supercharger network: many people write that they can go 2x as far with autopilot without getting tired, which sounds great for getting lots of vacations or for traffic jams.
I wasn't suggesting that non-accredited investors sponsor SPACs.
I grew up in that town.
To reach the high-school from the track, you have to cross an overpass. They were concerned about the weight of the train. The school is is about 1.4 km from the overpass.
This memory management looks pretty shiny, but is there any way to get down to manual allocation as well?
Great rundown! It's love/hate for me too. Python is the worst language for scientific computing, except for all the others. I think Julia's going to take the crown in a few years though, once the libraries broaden out and they figure out how to cache precompiled binaries, to get the boot time down. With Python, it's not so much that you get to write C, you have to write C to get performance. I'll be interested to see whether Julia takes off for applications beside heavy numerical stuff. That seems to be the Achille's heel of languages designed for math/science applications -- it's easier to write scientific packages inside a general-purpose language than vice versa.
Not having a v2.0 does not mean it's old, it just means that they did not break backward-compatibility since then.
... severely distort the signals carried in that currency unit in ways that lead to economic waste and increasing inequality.

It just doesn't. Wealth and income inequality is a real problem but a social policy problem, not a monetary policy problem. Talk to Congress.
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Confidence.

So many young people are terrified.

Scared of commitment

They are scared to have kids

Scared to drive

Scared to cook

We do not serve enough tools that build confidence. (2020 didn’t make it easier)
I mean, that's how most people see it. The novel (and extreme) claim here is that things like turn taking and facilitation are white supremacist. You can't just explain by saying "well in my opinion the KKK used to lynch black girls".
More absurdity: this a place where one is asked a question, answers it honestly and gets punished for it.
Iron horses. I like that.
I believe Germany has done the opposite. Unions have agreed to pay cuts so they wouldn't be let go. Part of the reason may be that wage levels are reasonably flat compared with the US, so the upside in switching jobs for a better paying one at a competitor is limited versus the hassle of doing so. In any case, it's an interesting alternative model which ensures stability for employees and employers alike.
FB was right on the merits here.

The news has no leverage, they want to shakedown FB for driving traffic to their own sites?

I'm glad FB told them to fuck off.

Meanwhile Google decided to pay Murdoch's extortion fee: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56101859

Google did the wrong thing.
Traditional car companies are valued the old-fashioned way, on future earnings. Tesla is not.
It’s one of those startups that sounds like a good idea but isn’t... everything that needs this has too much context and is dependant on being able to be answered quickly. The combination is intractable.
I think that's the opposite of what GP is advocating; they're arguing that a better approach than defining entire new formats, we should just augment existing JSON implementations. I'd guess that the rationale is that it would be a tougher uphill battle to get people to switch to an entirely new format, but adding new features to implementations they're already using wouldn't require making anyone switch.
The hue scale is not designed to be based on perception. It is simply a polar coordinate version of RGB.
Summary: in practice yes, but sneakily not directly, because those areas are first turned into pastures. However, once used up, they are then turned into soy bean fields. This also circumvents legislation specific to the rainforest area against deforestation to plant soy beans, because, well, it happened indirectly.

As other comments here also bring up, direct human consumption accounts for about a fifth of all produced soy beans, with only six being in the forms consumers directly probably think of (tofu, edamame, etc.), and the other 14 in the shape of e.g. soy bean oil.

The main driver for all this production (and hence deforestation), however, at a whopping 77%, is to be a source of cheap livestock feed.

This is what the article says. It does not, directly anyway, make any health or environmental claims regarding one diet over another.

Deforestation of the rain forest is bad. We all know this. And because it is only done to meet demands from consumers, what we as consumers can do is demand access to supply chain insight so we can then avoid products that come from this horribly shortsighted process. Regardless of whether said product is a piece of meat, a bottle of oil, or a block of tofu.
I know you are saying this because it sounds absurd, but in a way it seems to be kind of what we're doing right now, but slowly. The rich are eating the poor.

I don't think the rich necessarily intend to, but in consumerist societies the consequences of our actions are so far removed from the moment of decision they usually don't even register for a lot of people, and surely don't make an impact on our ethical radar.

As a moderately well off Dutch guy, I am one of those rich people, and I'm constantly finding out how I am consuming rather than using the earth. I'm losing trust in our society, it's like discovering we are governed by a bunch of children instead of adults. I guess I'm still naive at 40 years old.
And used to be their manager till 2008
Seriously, I believe the omission of Infinity and NaN from JSON is a huge mistake, if not Crockford's bad joke. It is commonly said that JSON was originally going to be `eval`ed and Infinity and NaN could have been redefined, but that eval had to be already preceded by filtering anyway so you can put a few lines to ensure that Infinity and NaN are expected values. Or use `Function` instead. Or use `1/0` or `0/0` as pseudo-literals. Not every JS value is present in the JSON data model, but it's absurd that not every JS number is present in it.
ACH is dead, RTP is the future, it's real-time and practically free -- all without consuming an Argentina of power. Crazy, I know. [1]

[1] https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/rtp
This article took a more holistic view than
BTC Endgame (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26198210) but the author doesn't seem to have landed on a position only enumerated "maybe, maybe not"
Do the equity crowdfunding platforms fit here?

Wefunder, Republic, Startengine, etc...? They'll be able to run non-accredited investor crowdfunding rounds up to $5MM per year soon.
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