skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm referring specifically to the Sedition Act of 1798 (one of 4 "A&S" acts), which was not principally used against foreigners --- and, in fact, was exploited by its opponents (notably Jefferson) to persecute political adversaries.

"Are we bound hand and foot that we must be witnesses to these deadly thrusts at our liberty?" (The thrusts were words on paper.) "Are these approaches to revolution and Jacobinic domination to be observed with the eye of meek submission? No, sir, they are indeed terrible; they are calculated to freeze the very blood in our veins. Such liberty of the press and of opinion is calculated to destroy all confidence between man and man."

The target of this speech, by a proponent of the Sedition act, was Benjamin Franklin Bache, a printer and native son of Pennsylvania.

My point is just that I'm deeply skeptical of moral principles encoded in the Constitution. I think it's a good system, a set of functional and useful institutions, not something I would want to fuck with, &c. Maybe not my moral north star, though.
Do you foresee being able to purchase a home in the next 10-15 years? I think the problem with renting for a long time (I'm a renter, my wealth is growing in other investments) is assets are inflating in value, housing is becoming more and more expensive.

If you can't buy now, with "significant disposable income", will you be able to buy later? That is, if you care for home ownership at all.

FAANG/SV engineers could buy a home pretty much in any major city after some years in the industry. I have heard that is not the case in Munich, Frankfurt, Zurich, etc...
You're describing someone evading the law, and your argument boils down to: "if laws worked, people wouldn't get away with breaking them."

We'll have to agree to disagree on that.
Yeah, they added a sun, too.
Doing a mail server project, you don't want to know how many people have recursive cnames configured on their mx records. At least now I know that ruby has a stack size of over ten thousand.
If you’re paying the price inflated rate of a thousand dollars a night, then that’s $30k.
And that’s assuming you could find a hotel room at all. Many people I know called many different hotels and couldn’t find a hotel room at all, for any amount of money.
the uk DofE are themselves guilty of the same crime. The school league tables do not include gcse statistics for key stage 3 students. This is because students in state schools don't take gcses before ks4- only private schools offer them. In order not to draw attention to the academic superiority of private schools and embarrass the state run schools, they simply ignore those gcse results! this artificially "improves" the quality of state education vs private.
Hot take: California's recall rules are anti-democratic. It takes 12% of the voters in the last election to to demand a recall. Has there ever been a politician with less than 12% of voters strongly against them?

A recall happens whenever someone rich enough wants one. Those 1,495,709 signatures aren't cheap.

https://ballotpedia.org/California_ballot_initiative_petitio...
I guess by your logic the US dollar USD is also a big negative for society then.
Not just COVID has sunk his career, I think the extreme social shift leftward of the American left has also become a liability for many formerly stable Democratic politicians.
I feel like the best way to play Diplomacy is in leagues of people who you only play Diplomacy with and never have to interact with otherwise.
Struggling with Sin
Maybe I exagerated, but you can't believe that 50% of candidates have such a low capability.

"How high do you score your C++ skills out of 10?" "9/10" "OK, can you explain what a pointer is?" blank stare... "no idea"
Ok, since we're on this topic.. why can't we delete our old submissions/comments or the account itself on HN?

HN probably is the only "social media" sites I use that you can't do that. This can't be good for users' privacy or "right to be forgotten".
I fail to see the problem, Java servlets and ASP.NET handlers do exactly the same by default.
I like this Roosevelt quote, and Brené Brown gets a lot of mileage from it, but it always struck as me as a veering a little too close (for my comfort) to a possible rationalization of why it was okay for me to fuck a bunch of stuff up and maybe stomp over a few cold and timid souls because at least I was doing things.

I would say "the credit belongs to the person actually in the arena, who is also able to step outside the arena and consider their failures from an outsider's point of view" but that is obviously not very catchy.

Hannah Arendt has a bunch of interesting things to say on the actor/spectator tension, though I am unable to currently find a better reference than https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arendt/.
It's not as if it's built into the protocol, operated decentrally and guaranteed to work. Someone generously operates the service. At least that's what I assume GP meant.
Would you also consider Google search a recipe for stalking? It provides a larger set of results, but you can easily narrow down your results to social media sites...

It’s a tool, much like a knife is a tool. They can be used for good or bad. The tool is indifferent.
I have and can validate its fairly accurate numbers for FAANG / SV salaries but not so much European ones.

It also gets hairy once you compare pre-tax (US Salaries) with post-tax (EU salaries) and different costs of living.

I use a combination of levels.fyi, Payscale/Glassdoor plus Numbeo / Nomadlist to keep running the numbers around how much I could save by moving elsewhere.
Bird flu: Russia registers first human case of AH5N8
Seems he indeed was an international student.
I will pay $3.14 to the first person that formalizes mathematics using only https://treenotation.org/.
I’d guess being a monopoly they really don’t care to stress over small improvements.
That they were foolish for holding onto Bitcoin itself. That's not what it's being used for.

Here in the West there's basically no barriers for someone like me sending $10k or $10 million wherever, for whatever. Just ensure I pay any taxes on investment profits, and don't fund terrorists or drug cartels. Many countries are far more strict. E.g., Argentinians can only move $300 a month out of the country legally, as I understand it. If they want to purchase real estate in Canada or Australia as a hedge against inflation, for example, that can be very hard even if they have the funds.

Getting around capital controls seems to be a niche for Bitcoin. I can think of few other ways to simply send $10,000 from Argentina to Nigeria in one hour, reliably and securely. Assuming people can exchange Bitcoin for cash or similar on both ends, it can be near-ideal for certain pairings compared to the legal and traditional financial system.
You realize that the article is quite explicit that the power being used here would otherwise be exported? The prices of electricity in that town aren't cheap because there is some non fungible surplus of power. They are cheap because the local government sells the electricity at below market rates due to political reasons.

> The combined output of the basin’s five dams averages around 3,000 megawatts, or enough for the population of Los Angeles. Until fairly recently, perhaps 80 percent of this massive output was exported via contracts that were hugely advantageous for locals. Cryptocurrency mining has been changing all that, to a degree that is only now becoming clear.

The miners aren't consuming free or spare power: they are directly using fungible electricity that would have otherwise been exported and used to shut down coal power plants.

This isn't some minor indirect problem, the article literally points out that this is going on.
Yep. Cheaper than all of this is having a few blankets, a camp stove, and a week's worth of rice and beans on hand.
> If you want to stay employable as a programmer, you need to keep up to speed with new techniques and new languages.

Hi, I've been doing C on Unix for 30 years, with a digression into C++ on Win32 along the way and some C++ on Unix.

("Unix" includes GNU/Linux).

All of it has been mostly new development, or new development in the context of legacy code, not maintaining legacy code.

If you have to keep learning new languages, it's because you jumped on the language-of-the-day wagon in the first place.

I jumped on the "close to what makes tech work" wagon.
Thank you. That is useful information.

I'll also have to find something my employer is happy with me working on, but I think you've pretty clearly laid out what I'd be signing up for, and I appreciate it.
That definition works for major potion of USD in circulation as well. So what's your point?
> So i am going to scream, boycot and lobby government against them until the needs of thier shareholders bend a little closer to those of thier consumers

This line of thinking scares me. It’s basically saying “they aren’t doing what I want so let’s use the government to make them do what I want!” How is this freedom? Forcing people to bend to your will though government is the opposite of freedom, and should be used very sparingly
Can someone explain how transactions are not insanely cost prohibitive for Bitcoin with power consumption figures like those? Those numbers would suggest something like >20 USD. Is it because most transactions in practice actually happen internally on exchanges that avoid putting every individual transaction on the blockchain?

I have limited knowledge of Bitcoin so maybe not quite "explain like I'm five"... but close. :)
So nuclear has been up and running in mainstream use for what, fifty years at this point? If that waste sticks around for just 10,000 years (optimistic), and assuming no increase in demand over today (which is laughable), your ‘just one football field’ waste site is actually two hundred times bigger.

And that’s raw waste, it doesn’t include containment for each deposit you make.

Not to mention the issues we’re already having today with containment decay around existing waste sites.
There's no GitHub because Ted doesn't believe in open source.

He's not on board with open systems at all

We don't talk anymore because of that disagreement. I tried to convince him to blow the thing open and tried to explain how that's how projects get accelerated. Nope, not happening.
raises hand I did that because it worked and nobody told me not to until years later. Not sure if that's an effect of self-teaching or just not properly reading configuration guides (or both), it's about ten years ago now.

And apparently I'm still doing it wrong, I recently learned I'm supposed to point the MX of the various domains to whatever certificate the mail server will use. I thought the mail server just had to have certs for all the domains it wished to serve. Again, though, it worked and nobody told me otherwise until the topic came up a few weeks ago (a friend of mine is building a mail server). Back when I set the thing up, StartCom was still popular, and while I use LE now, I didn't know I had a reason to change configs to better accommodate transport encryption.
I did but couldn't find a simple solution to implement that.
The plan right now is to integrate flurly as a payment solution in the future.
This is great, and timely for me. I've got some horrifying rats-nest prototypes in the field that I've been really wanting to replace with PCBs.

I'm looking forward to part two about doing the layout. That's the part where I get flummoxed.
I guess nowadays that should still be useful to give both an IPv4 and IPv6 address for the mail server?
I don’t think an author can ‘not even wrong’ intentionally - if it is intentional, then it would be something like a Gish gallop, which Sandifer describes another SSC essay as.

I don’t necessarily agree, but I understand why she’d think so.
Not more than a few months. Seems about the same as if you fasted but drank all the water you needed.
If anything can reduce/limit now the climate catastrophe then it is total transformation to clean electric energy which is produced with minimal emissions: housing, transport, industry, everything must go electric. Producing does not need to be renewables, it can be even fossils, it just has to be without GHG emissions. Nothing else matters. These theoretical risks, long-term waste storage etc are at best secondary questions which are totally irrelevant in current situation where we have almost lost that battle. Considering that full electrification requires automatically 3-4 times hike of energy demand any clean enough tech has to be considered and where possible deployed right away. It is simple like that.
Hotter take:

It's very democratic, and too much democracy is bad for efficient, practical rule

California's recall rules are democratic (a recall is just calling an election thus there's sense in keeping the signature level low, winning/losing the recall is completely democratic).

BUT, democratic isn't always better. The ability of the people to call elections whenever they want to puts a strain on the finances of the ruling party. Unforeseen elections also sow doubt and discord among the populace. In addition, most voters aren't educated on the issues and might recall a sitting leader without really considering whether it's merited or not. That can lead to long-term problems when governance is constantly doing and undoing policies rather than committing to long-term strategic plans.
These kinds of comments are probably better worded as questions.

Many questions are simple. Others are difficult and not immediately answerable, but perhaps worth pondering.
It isn’t about being right or wrong. It is about sustainability and foresight. Yes, landfill works now. But the population is growing and eventually the land may need to be reclaimed. It is about recognizing that excess waste now may become a problem for future generations. It is about realizing that things could, you know, maybe be done better.

Dumping our trash in the ground is lazy and I just don't understand how anyone wants to defend it.
Do you think there is any long-running complex system that does not have conceptual integrity? For example, does a city have conceptual integrity? Does a country have conceptual integrity?

Conversely do you think there have been any failed and therefore short-lived complex systems that did have conceptual integrity?
An RTG is not the same sort of thing as a regular fission power plant. I don't believe they are efficient or high powered - they are just useful as batteries that last a long time without maintenance or recharging.

Also, RTGs have been used on earth, contrary to your implication they are only in space for safety reasons. Russian equipment in the arctic, for instance, has been powered by RTGs.
Carbon Filled Nylon Filament Twice as Strong at Half the Cost
Pretty much all uses of MathJax use it with LaTeX input and HTML-CSS output, no MathML involved.
I knew that overlooking the word "European" which I did not understand would be a mistake. Thank you.
The Sordid History of Auto Safety Glass
New interstates are being built all the time. They are under construction today.
Who is a "maker" and who isn't? This seems like a false dichotomy. An enormous number of people on Earth are engaged in making things. And every maker of things is also a consumer of things.

Or is it that only makers of this particular thing are qualified to comment? But that would be a strange principle, because again, who are you making things for?
Transclusion is a great concept which I first time saw and used in Jacobson's Objectory software engineering tool. It's also available in the CrossLine information manager (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine).
I'd heard of Diplomacy before but never really knew what it was, it just seemed like another one of those games i'd likely never find enough people to play.

That was a fascinating read though. It sounds like a game i'd like to try at least once...though I don't think i'd want to play it with friends or family, a group of strangers would probably be more ideal.

Also, i'm not sure which would be more appealing, in person or a mail/email game. I could see them both being entirely different experiences that probably require different kinds of persuasive skills to play and I can see why in person games probably get far more intense.

The tournament play though seems especially brutal. Honestly, the idea of a tournament for that game almost seems a bit sadistic. There's no way it's not going to end up with people snapping.

I'm honestly kind of surprised nobody's been killed or badly hurt at one of those. I've heard plenty of stories of people being killed for less.

It's almost kind of hard to see Diplomacy as a game, it sounds more like an actual Diplomacy simulation than a game. If something like that started as a video game, it'd fall pretty clearly under the simulation category.
That's exactly where I started when I learned how to do this, glad it could help. If you have any questions about your project specifically feel free to hit me up, I love talking about this stuff
When using an external service like this one, you have no guarantee:

- this service will last forever

- this service won't be acquired by someone else with evil intention and will never lie

Do not use this service. It has the power to steal your traffic.
> If JSON is specified to only represent numbers that fit within a JavaScript double,

It isn't / doesn't make that restriction. For example,

10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000

is a valid JSON value. Python will decode it to an integer with the equivalent value; JavaScript will decode it to "Infinity", as it exceeds the limits of Number. (Despite nowadays having a bigint type that could represent it.)

It is possible to write a JSON parser in JavaScript that would handle decoding large numbers to BigInts. Most people just don't bother, as it's pretty rare to need to go above the 2 * 53 limit of JS's number.
I think the most productive thing I could do is write up how the weave works. People don't seem to understand that, if they did, nobody would be talking about patches.

I'm sorry if I pissed off the other guy, but I'm retired, and I'm tired, and I have no interest in arguing with people who don't get it. But it's on me to provide the info that lets them get it. I'll do that and what people do with it is up to them.
That’s assuming you could find the main water valve.

That’s assuming you had the right tools to close the main water valve.

That’s assuming that the main water valve isn’t already frozen solid.

Again, you’ve made a lot of assumptions here that were not necessarily valid during this past week.
Hah, I used to be active in student politics and managed to use both of these in writing and heard them plenty of times in speeches.
actually Numpy and MATLAB try to mimic the high-level behavior and syntax of Fortran.
The propellers are huge in order to get this tiny helicopter to fly. A quadcopter would be larger than Perseverance, unless you devise some zero-mass hinges to make the entire thing fold into the same space that was available for Ingenuity.
That is simply not true. I don't think you understand how Bitcoin works.
IIRC you can just email the admins (check the FAQ) and they’ll help you out.
That's the bad design of the system, that a kid that predictably will ruin learning experience of all their classmates, has no place to go where they would cause least harm.

The system simply denies existence of such kids, and pretends that teachers just need to work harder, or we need to throw more money on that kid, and then everything will magically be ok.
> In many ways, Romania is like the US

This made me chuckle, I often compare California to Romania (since I know both places well) and can contrast the corruption, money waste, terrible infrastructure and inequality in a way that friends / family that moved from Romania can't agree with.

They always paint Romania as a third world *hole that's incomparable to the US/Canada or other "civilized" countries.

I follow the news, political developments and have friends there so I'm aware how far it's gotten in the last 2 decades, I'm pretty proud of the direction they're heading in.

The only caveat I have for you with living in RO vs the US is the healthcare system. Even if you opt for private care, the really good doctors, the emergency procedures that need to be done in public hospitals are a disgrace. At least in the US if you "live like a king", you can pay for a king's level of healthcare.

In RO, you literally have to fly to Germany/Switzerland or elsewhere to get quality healthcare and if you have a really bad accident, you may not make it to the hospital to get the care you need.

That's the one thing keeping me from moving to RO today, even with its extremely low cost of living. I can't risk my family's health on the disastrous healthcare system there.
It means that if you have two similar and equally large groups of people, except that one is unvaccinated and the other has received the pfizer/biontech vaccine, and 1000 people in the unvaccinated group dies from covid, then you may expect 11 people in the vaccinated group to die. That is, the vaccine prevents 989 of the 1000 deaths that you'd see if the vaccinated group were unvaccinated, leaving 11.
Move fast, break things - if only we could innovate in nuclear energy... It’s telling that all these experts who complain about regulations can’t point to a single one being a problem.
Not only is the Xanadu system fascinating, but the odyssey of its on-and-off development should be required reading for any software professional.
So if you can't get it out, then doesn't that break your conversion model? Why are these entities holding millions of dollars on Coinbase that they can't get out?
That was an especially unfortunate typo in a post riddled with typos.

I will stand by my use of electron arbitrage though.
Oops, you're right. Apparently you said that you've "met parents that were regretful of having children", so I was really mistaken to interpret it the way I did. Taking back the last part of my comment back and apologize for the straw man.
There was a notorious case that a paper by Wehring solving the largest outstanding question in lattice theory was rejected by JAMS despite glowing referee reports (and being pretty short). So it's pretty much an example of editors arbitrarily killing a paper. (It appeared in Advances in Mathematics.)

You can see a letter to the editor of the Bulletin about it. Look at the affiliations of the people protesting the decision, and the affiliations of the editors defending it: http://www.ams.org/notices/200706/tx070600694p.pdf
> and I feel totally weighed down when it comes to speaking up in a way I would have never countenanced a few years ago.

The prevalent "cancel culture" today makes this even more difficult. If you don't go by the groupthink, you lose your livelihood and can't support your family anymore.
Pay satisfaction is relative to your surrounding so if your pay is in the lower range of your peers/coworkers then you will feel badly paid no matter how much you earn relative to the general population.

I suspect he has an understanding of what his co-workers are paid at his company so he feels under paid.
You achieve stability through diversification, not by buying all stable assets.

It's kind of like saying you don't want to buy an index fund because there are some really volatile stocks in there!
Btw If eth switches for proof of stake can Folks keep their existing coins? How does that work?
Love ethical ads!
I guess finding OSS through an ad is not the right way.