skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just be warned, if you are used to vba you might feel constrained in the various dashboard tools we have today (Tableau, PowerBI, etc.). I am convinced we need more than that, we need tools to build web apps that allow data entry.
Errors in facial recognition software have already resulted in more than one wrongful arrest due to mistaken identity:

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882683463/the-computer-got-it...

https://lawandcrime.com/civil-rights/third-innocent-black-ma...
You gotta have some real big cables to avoid transmission loses.
nvim-treesitter is pretty promising, do you know if it supports this type of highlighting already?
I made a syringe contraption to fill Parker ink into the full size single-use cartridge. My fingers are far away from the bottle and I can use the full capacity as opposed to the plunger cartridge that is half the capacity.
> It would be nice to see the U.S. government incentivize heavily small businesses.

Good luck with that. We're in the middle of a health crisis that's being used to funnel as much money from small businesses to the biggest ones as possible. Americans' cynicism is well-earned.
to clarify for all who only read the headline

"Going forward, the government has clarified [Facebook] will retain the ability to decide if news appears on Facebook so that [Facebook] won't automatically be subject to forced negotiation,"

so it looks like Facebook won in the game of chicken between them and the Australian government.
The whole point of the academy is to insulate thinkers from this sort of thing and give them room to work, instead of retroactively justifying their existence and life choices to pundits or politicians in search of a soft target.

It seems like we're already having a crisis (ie the collapse of ecosystems) and in any case it shouldn't take a crisis to get supposedly-responsible people to think ahead and do risk mitigation etc. I mean, I have no scientific qualifications or special training other than curiosity and a willingness to plough through papers and follow citations, and it disturbs the hell out of me that I seem to have a much better grasp of environmental and fiscal systems than most policymakers. This idea that we should sacrifice all our institutions built up over centuries on the altar of economic competition (knowing the existence of perverse incentives and short-termism) is clearly Not Working.
Hiring is mostly about rejecting people because there are simply too many people.

The myth that there is a desperate skills shortage exists to sell training and to drive down wages. The industry is actually saturated except for a few particular niches, of which generalist webdev isn’t one.
Fair, very fair. Have gotten bit by that in the past.

Adding an IANA library to the ISO8601 library (often part of the same lib) has so far solved that problem for me. I’m sure it starts struggling with dates before the early 1800’s though.

Also doesn’t work well if you’re dealing with relativistic effects I think.
Explain to me how inflation affects people who don't have money, while their wages keep pace with inflation.

You say this like they're two different things. Debasement is the mechanism by which inflation is achieved. They're the same thing for all intents and purposes and italicizing one won't change that.
Is there any downside to humans feeding bees?

If not, why isn't it more common?
If you think this approach is wrong, could you articulate the reasons why you think it is wrong? This is a classic memory management strategy... if a program is running as a batch program, all memory will be freed when the program exits. Any alternative memory management strategy would have to free and then reuse memory in order to show improvement. If it's a small amount of memory freed, or if the memory is unlikely to be reused, the benefits of freeing memory are smaller and it may actually slow the program down.

The fact that this program can successfully link Chrome means that we have fairly solid baseline performance metrics we can use for "big" programs. Chrome is just about the largest program you might ever need to link.
We have energy privatisation in the UK and I've never experienced any hucksters. Indeed, I've had a very good experience with the small start-up energy providers compared to the big pre-privatisation firms.

I would guess there are different types of deregulation. We still have a regulatory body that ensures the market and new private entrants are operating effectively.
TLDR: Imagine every single major repo being inundated with tens or hundreds of thousands of absolute rubbish PR's that do nothing but change one line and break the build.

Like fork React or Linux and then open a random file in the web editor and type "GIVE ME SHIRT" in a random position.

Then save it and commit and submit a PR.

Followed by opening a dozen issues demanding that it be accepted so it counts for the free shirt.

I contributed to a small (<5k star) repo at the time and after telling the issue/PR-creators to stop, started getting newsletter signup spam and hate mail directed to my git commit email too.
You can boot from a z/VM reader, which would be a virtual card reader, but it's not the only option.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

The actual booting part is a REXX CMS script, and you can see the references to punchcards within:

/* CMS EXEC script to punch RHEL 64-bit install */
'CP SPOOL PUN *'
'CP CLOSE RDR'
'PUR RDR ALL'
'PUN KERNEL IMG * (NOH'
'PUN 'userid()' PARM * (NOH'
'PUN INITRD IMG * (NOH'
'CH RDR ALL KEEP'
'IPL 00C CLEAR'

It's not as terrible as it sounds. It just turns kernel.img and initrd.img from stream files into record based files with records of 80 bytes.
I'm typing this on Ubuntu 18.04. The desktop is perfectly adequate for my purposes. Mac OSX drove me crazy because the designers kept adding features I didn't need and kept breaking features I depended on.
Despite the Australian Government's big scary words about not backing down last week.

What an embarrassment.
ECONOMICS
(of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period.
"there is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular"
If the default is the downgrade, what have you lost if there's not upgrade path in the first place? nothing!
So was the term "Gish Gallop" that you wrongfully accused me of, so you still owe me a "mea culpa" for that too.

A series of statements needs to be lies in order to qualify for that term, and you totally refused to provide any evidence and failed to prove anything I said was not true, but it was. The fact that Eric S Raymond has provably and publicly said so many many many racists things over the more than three and a half decades that I've personally known him does not make me or WikiQuotes literally quoting a few of them a "Gish Gallop".

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond

Those were all actual ESR quotes, despite your denials and overconfident claims that I was lying and that you could rationalize and explain away them all. Please, in the future, chose your words and heros more carefully, and stick to the facts, instead of making stuff up, and please stop lying and white-knighting in the defense of a virulent racist (and sexist Harvey Weinstein defender) and linking to his personal fundraising page.

Nobody "canceled" you -- quite the opposite: I tried to engage you in a conversation, gave you the facts and citations, asked you to explain yourself, and prove what you claimed, and YOU decided to refuse, despite the fact that you glibly brushed off all his racist statements and wrongly called me a liar by saying "I’m sure all your claims can be either explained as inconsequential or disproven as false" in his defense.

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
I like that they have this page: https://fibery.io/blog/fibery-vs-x

I think more companies should call out and explain the differences between their product and some of their competitors. Pretty good idea.
> because wages are sticky, firms that need to cut costs in a recession are more likely to lay off people than they are to give pay cuts. Inflation helps to weaken that rigidity so that job losses are not as large.

How fortunate for the capitalist that he can retain his entire workforce by paying them less and they are not even likely to notice.

> You claim that central banks depreciate the currency because they "think wages among the working class are too high." But rhetorically, you are doing more than just referring to the explanation I gave above. You are implying that central banks "think" working class wages are too high, and want to lower them to hurt working class people.

Banks wanting to hurt working class people is an unnecessary hypothesis. they merely want to help their friends who own businesses and would like to pay less in real terms for their workforce.

> the purpose of inflation in that instance is to implicitly reduce the downward rigidity of wages so that employment does not contract as much in a downturn.

give workers a stealth way cut so the business can afford to keep all of them, yeah, I get it.

> Presumably you, champion of the working class, would rather more people be unemployed?

I want them to be unemployed the same way you want them to be tricked into making less real money.
I’ve read that essay before and I re-read it just now and I still don’t understand what is meant by “avatars walking around on top of our company home page”. So I guess the essay proved its point.
> Obviously the wealthy are in much better position to take this advice than the middle class, the working class, and the poor. Therefore inflation benefits the wealthy disproportionately.

If the poor don't have cash, and their wages keep pace with inflation (they do) then how are they harmed by inflation?
> Money isn't a long-term store of value, it never was

Yes, we all get your point: currency is not intended as a literal store of value. I think this is where the real misunderstanding lies. The good arguments against currency debasement are not about money's ability to "store value" but rather its ability to transmit information about value across time and space. These are arguably the same thing, but the more descriptive phrase makes it clear that the problem is not specifically that the unit of value corresponding to the currency "shrinks" over time, but that the processes used nowadays by monetary authorities to manage currencies severely distort the signals carried in that currency unit in ways that lead to economic waste and increasing inequality.
There's a Macbook Pro 16" that you cannot get with a M1 Processor. That's the one I have.

So yes, you can compare to the current gen and would be choosing between that.
There was a blog post where someone reverse engineered the IR protocol of the pokewalker and found that it had a bunch of commands which were never used but are still active in the firmware (some likely were planned for events)
Kia Soul is boxy and doing quite well. People love Jeeps, they love the old Toyota FJ Cruiser so much that resale values are insane. Landshark is hottest SUV right now, is totally sold out, and has a boxy look. A boxy electric hummer is coming out.
> 2. The established automakers are too slow, due to their size, bureaucracy, and relationships with component suppliers, unions, and dealers, to be able to efficiently make this switch

Literally every major car maker has an EV on the market or is launching one this year. The problem isn’t the car makers, it’s that the market is still early.

Give it 10 years. There’s lots of kinks left to figure out that we take for granted in modern cars.

Most notably cold weather performance, weight, resell value, range, and longevity. Can a modern EV be expected to work fine in 20 years? An ICE can.

And no matter what everyone says, EVs are still kind of impractical. I rented a Tesla for a weekend (in SF) and it was terrible. We spent the whole time chasing chargers and ultimately almost destroyed the car according to the dashboard warnings. Finally found an available charger in the city with 3% battery left.
That sounds more like a bug that, because the group responsible for the bug didn’t fix the bug and was extremely important to the community, developers of JSON parsers had to put in bug fixes on their end instead. 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, and AFAIK it didn’t lead to the propagation of different variants of JSON that are both in significant use but are incompatible. Or to put it another way, I don’t think people need to worry about whether they’re using “Google Translate JSON” or “Standard JSON.”
So, I like the idea and I'm starting with a Niche: board games! Yes, that's right, it's me pimping my programming language for board games which I really need to work on more

http://www.adama-lang.org/

I see a lot of potential outside of my space since I'm operating at the level of a document + atomic transactions + workflow, so I may have something more broadly applicable. However, the burden rests with me to paint the picture for how that could work.
Why should you pay taxes on trading currency? Why should I have to pay taxes when swapping between different cryptos and not just when I swap to USD?
We are definitely saying the same thing in very different ways.

Just using the drag polar approach and neglecting second-order effects (assume negligible dependence on Re, sufficiently subsonic so negligible impact of M, and linear lift coefficient region aka no stall), we get the following (I'm skipping a lot of intermediary steps):

Cd = Cd0 + k*Cl^2
-> Cd0 is the parasitic drag coefficient
-> k is the lift-induced drag coefficient
-> Cd is the overall drag coefficient

Range is maximized when Cd0 = k*Cl^2 (parasitic drag = lift-induced drag)
-> Cl is a function of speed: since the required lift is constant, more speed = less Cl required = less lift-induced drag
-> maximum L/D is achieved at this range-optimal speed

This speed can be calculated exactly from the total weight (W), air density (rho), lifting area (S), and drag coefficients:

range-optimal speed = sqrt((2*W/(rho*S))*sqrt(k/Cd0))

As long as you always operate at this range-optimal speed (aka speed for maximum L/D) which is a function of air density (and therefore altitude), the equation for range reduces significantly:

R = endurance*velocity, where endurance = battery energy / drag power, and we know the equation for drag power...

Simplifies to:

R = E*eta/(2*sqrt(Cd0*k)*W)
-> R is range
-> E is battery energy
-> eta is total system efficiency

Dimensionally, this equation is of course the same as yours, with an energy being divided by a force to get a distance. The key point I am trying to make is that if you just look at that equation with no context, speed and air density are not present anywhere. But what is hidden in the assumptions is that you are assuming that you are operating at the maximum L/D speed given the air density at any particular altitude. Going back to my other comment, range at the range-optimal speed does not depend on air density or velocity directly, but lower air density at higher altitudes will result in a higher range-optimal speed, and hence less travel time for a given range.
No it doesn’t. I know the HN-crowd feeling about this, but no, YML doesn’t suck as a human configuration language. TOML or XML properly suck. YML is actually a superset of JSON with comments and less brackets if you want. It’s widespread and supported and fulfill the need of OP, so no need to add yet another format. Or use JSON5. But please not yet another standard
Just because you don't see them, it doesn't mean you didn't ran them over
> Every country in the world was subjected to oil shocks. Not every country had price controls. Every country experienced a recession.

> Likewise, every country experienced the pandemic. Not every country had lockdowns. Every country experienced recessions.

I can't speak to #1, but #2 is not a strong argument. Lockdowns covered enough of the world that you would expect to see a recession, on those grounds alone, in every country with any exposure to international trade.
Are you saying Dai and USDC are frauds or are you specifically referring to Tether?
Maybe we can have fun designs like this if there are ever city cars with low speed focus and regulations. I can only imagine how much fuel those cars in your link would use at 70 mph (if they ever got up to that speed)
> In an economy with a working financial system there is no such thing as abundant or scarce capital, because financial capital is not used up when an investment is made, but merely transferred to the accounts of vendors and employees who then store it in funds which in turn seek new investments elsewhere.

If you invest 10 million in my business and I use it to buy 10 million worth of 30-year treasury bonds, how exactly is this capital “seeking new investments”?
I’ve seen a year of dev time spent on less complexity than this a BUNCH of times in industry, and I’m not sure government is a more competent or efficient taskmaster than the Fortune 500.
The problem with trying to use the DMCA for this is that, provably, no human creativity is involved, and so it's likely that the output of this is uncopyrightable.
It wasn´t my comment, rather OP's quote.

As for not using new and delete, I kind of agree, then again the only C++ GUI worth using has it over the place.

I rather see all those school kids learning Arduino to use new and delete than malloc() error prone size calculations, or dive into template errors due to the misuse of smart pointers.
I really think that if you truly believed your identity is defined only by things you share in common with the original, then you as the upload would have no fear of deletion.

Most people define identity in part by continuity of experience, which is something that wouldn't be in common with the original, but I think this is just superstition. It's easy to imagine setups that preserve continuity that come out with identical results to setups that fail to preserve continuity (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26234052), which makes me suspicious of it being valuable. I think continuity of experience is only an instrumental value crafted by evolution to help us stay alive in a world that didn't have copying. I think if humans evolved in a world where we could make disposable copies of ourselves, we wouldn't instinctively value continuity of experience -- we would instead instinctively value preserving the original and ensuring a line of succession for a copy to take the place of the original if something happened to the original -- and that would make us more effective in our pursuits in a world with copying.

Now if I was the upload, and I learned that my original had died (or significantly drifted in values away from myself) and none of my other copies were in position to take over the place in the world of my original, then I would worry about my mortality.
TiddlyWiki kind of does this. It can store binary data, but it is literally a single HTML file (or at least can be easily saved as such). I think you could just export to a single file tiddler and email that to yourself as a chron job.

For sync, I personally just use OneDrive though any other file sync service would work just as well. I use TiddlyDesktop actually and save everything as a single HTML file. TiddlyDesktop has its own backup system separate from OneDrive since it always puts the previous version into a folder before saving over it (this does need cleaning out periodically). The backup feature is actually great for resolving conflicts since the backups have unique names.

TiddlyWiki even has encryption, though I've never done it. There is a plug-in for encrypting individual tiddlers as well.
FB: We provide you reach and you get advertising revenue because of it. Why would we pay you for something you benefit from?

AU: Because.

FB: We'll just stop giving you reach...

AU: Like to see you try

FB: ...

AU: Yeah, maybe that doesn't work for us after all.

I wonder what would have happened if this had been in the US. I'm guessing that Australia's news content is a nice-to-have, and not (yet) part of their core revenue. Some consumers probably enjoyed having fewer news items appear in their feed. It hurt Facebook a little, but it hurt news providers more.
Does it look like a Tesla? Which part? I don't think anyone would ever confuse it for a Tesla, unless you zoomed in to only show a door handle.
First, the person who brought the game spends an hour reading the rule book. Finally, someone finds a 10-minute video on youtube where the creator of the game walks you through a few rounds of the game.
That was my experience with Mice and Mystics, anyway. Awesome game. Still can't get anyone else to play it with me.
With what part of it do you take issue? I don't see the discrepancy...
Can someone recommend what's the best material to learn emacs and lisp at the same time
Well at least the article is aware of its own vanity. I was going to cite the XKCD about “standards” but it did for me. Just use JSON5 and stop losing time (or YML, yes it’s not that terrible for configuration files)
You can google the Arab oil embargo. Most of what you'll read is garbage, but it should give an overview.
His novels -- American Gods, Graveyard Book, et al. -- are in the same vein of clever and British humo[u]r as Adams'. Whether they are funny or not will depend on the reader.
But.. there is sooo much money that can be made from selling killer robots..
Assuming they were live animals:

Couldn’t you keep reintroducing the cloned individuals into a gene pool to increase diversity? Yes, you’re stuck with (say) 30 individuals, but cloning would help you get more combinations out of the DNA than just breeding the 30 animals, right?
Big business sucks in a plethora of ways, but I share your overall reaction. The coda of corporate resentment takes away from the article and dumps on Amtrak for no useful reason.
>the current increase points to an affection for the mechanical amid a digital age.
>the device once considered the essential business machine was reborn as a creative tool far removed from the drudgery of work. The typewriter has acquired a touch of magic.

These 2 lines jive with my fondness for (really stiff) mechanical keyboards: I learned to touch type on manual typewriters. The feel and sound of a good mechanical brings back some of the 'magic' from when I was just starting out.
It would sure get fixed if it was releasing prisoners early.

You'd have the private prisons and the prison guards union climbing up everyone's posteriors.
At least I got this sock puppet dog out of it

(Yes, for real, I have one)
"Sticky wages" is typical macroeconomics pablum. Imprecisely defined, completely unfalsifiable, used when it supports an argument and ignored when it doesn't. Contributes absolutely nothing to true understanding of the economy.
> Rather than keep making new variants of JSON, it'd be nice if somebody could convince some mainstream language maintainers to just update their built-in JSON parser to add optional features like skipping over comments and not caring about trailing commas.

I think the most correct way to deal with this problem is to get IETF and ECMA to update the JSON standard first. Honestly, comma-after-final-element and comments are such important quality-of-life features that I never understood why they weren't part of the original spec.

On the other hand, it might be easier to just adopt TOML and forget about JSON.
Why do all these color theory sites generate a complementary color just by flipping the hue 180°? I feel like the reason we do that is just because the math is easy, not because these color combinations look good.
It's also amusing that "bubble people" can also continue to be wrong and bearish for long periods of time, and then ultimately when there is a correction, bear market, or god-forbid crash they scream from the rooftops "I told you so!!!" Except for the fact that they missed out on untold fortunes and profits being bearish that entire time.