skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real question would be "how". A [crypto]asset backed by another currency is easy in principle: simply hold the currency to back it (and make sure you have some sort of transaction fee to cover your storage costs, and don't lie about it...). Same with a [crypto]asset backed by oil or metals. But CPI goods include many goods which are either perishable or lose value over time, and the composition of actual CPI baskets changes over time so you can't do that.

In the absence of that backing you can create a purely synthetic asset that can only track CPI if you've got the ability to withdraw significant quantities from circulation every time the value starts to drop. (That's sort of what central banks do with targeting a fixed non-zero rate of CPI inflation. But they have an economy built on debt so the money supply can contract organically by debts being repaid faster than new debts are issued. This is less troubling for the future of a coin than alternative strategies like having to use VC/company funds to buy back coins, or making a percentage of coins disappear)
They can give an incredible energy boost and moodlift in my experience, but if feeling physically more rested is the goal, then I wouldn't spend the time & effort to try to induce lucid dreams.
I’m so glad that reader mode exists to make it at all readable on mobile.

That said, such design is perfect for precisely this kind of customisability.
I was recently watching a video on Doublespeak[0], one of the types of doublespeak is to bombard the audience with technical jargon which means you automatically win, unless they know more technical terms than you do!
In your case, your comment does not mean anything to me (or probably 99% of the HN users). Instead of this, you could at least cite a reputable source for this claim, this would be 100 times more effective and also useful for the readers.
Cheers.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP07oyFTRXc
It has been fairly stable. Creationism went from 38% in 1983 to 33% today (but with enough variability that it was also 38% as recently as 2017). "God made evolution happen" is another 40-44%, again fairly stable. Given the margin of errors in the polls, I'd say that they're pretty much the same, or a very slight decrease.

"It's just evolution" did change noticeably, but it's still only 22%. That's up from 9% in 1983.

So presumably the "i dunnos" are decreasing. But nothing seems to alter the misinformation very much.
Irresponsible by what measure? Genetics and family wealth still have a huge influence on "future impact," and that's what these schools are selecting for. It sounds like legacy admissions are doing exactly what they're intended to do.
For my solo projects I break the "don't code in master" rule because there is nobody else to coordinate with, and I usually only work on a major idea at a time. However I still use branches, usually if I want to quickly test out a breaking change, or if I start something I don't anticipate being finished with in a long time, so that my master branch remains usable for other side tangents.

The branching strategy means that it's pretty important that my commits are small, the brief commit message is accurate (even if I occasionally commit too many changes at once) and the description explains my train of thought. Nearly every time, I am communicating those changes to myself in 6 months when I switch into that branch randomly and wonder what I was in the middle of doing.
It depends on out-of-loop review of the oracles by people, to ensure they stay honest, and that new oracles are honest.

Over time, as problems come and go, I assume oracles will be added and retired, so this coin will require manual maintenance. A necessary cost of being interesting?
> You can verify that some fold achieves some energy state.

IMO, that makes it similar to Difficulty[1] (and the related target) in Bitcoin's POW scheme.

[1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
I know I'll be downvoted for this, but fundamentally this definition[1] includes "and forcible suppression of opposition". In what way is this letter not the first step in this direction?

I'm no fan of the previous president. Really didn't like him. But this ... this attempt at shutting down of opposition communication, is the hallmark, the signature of nascent oppression. And a slide into fascism/socialism/etc.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
Okta is my favorite. One Login is cheaper but have never used it.
> Those schools that are providing substantial negative value to their students ought to go under

I don't think this is a good way to go about it because there is still demand for schooling and if the market's answer to bad quality is having schools go under, it just becomes a game of whack-a-mole with new bad schools popping up to fill the gap in supply.

I think a better alternative is having more schools have tuition costs tied to graduate salary similar to how some programming bootcamps take a cut of alumni's pay for X amount of time. Then, at least, there's an incentive for the school to teach something that actually translates to a usable skillset in the real world.

Trades should also be treated as first class citizens. They are good fits for people looking for shorter college diplomas, but they are often stigmatized even though careers like plumbing can pay reasonably well.
True, But I've seen data hoarding used negatively to imply anti-privacy behavior[1].

[1] 'Facebook has suspended ‘tens of thousands’ of apps suspected of hoarding data'- https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/20/facebook-suspends-apps-hoa...
Amazon offers a live shopping experience
This dude dated a middle school girl in his mid 20s and his only defence is that her breasts were so big he didn’t notice she was 12. He might not be a pedophile by definition, but he is still a child predator.
Spoiler alert: we have that law. The GDPR as it stands outlaws annoying/misleading consent banners.

Next step: fire the incompetent people staffing the various data protection agencies and replace them with someone that would actually enforce said law.
> profitable

Similar to what stonesweep said, some people have different economics. For example, I have an old computer sitting around. And my home heats by electricity in the winter. Therefore any time I need to heat my home it's 0 marginal cost to instead do mining (of any kind). IMO this is the real future of green efficiency, finding the places where the energy was already "spent" on a high value task, and add a low value task in the chain. Another example could be server farms could water cool and use waste heat for elec generation, low temp plastic melting, or residential hot water...
I don't see why OAuth doesn't solve this problem for you.
updates it with garbage
France's electricity is largely generated by nuclear power which has minimal CO2 emissions.
Googeled it. Not very impressive
http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html

Yale University/Typical SAT scores 2019–20
Reading and Writing 720-770, Math 740-800

Of cause there could be an inflation.

and

"Bush had scored only 25 percent on a "pilot aptitude" test, the lowest acceptable grade. But his father was then a congressman from Houston, and the commanders of the Texas Guard clearly had an appreciation of politics."
How do you perform the initial rollout and configuration ? Does someone have to manually associate the RFID with the specific zerk and machine and set up a maintenance schedule? How do you handle machines where greasing is a function of hours of operation and not wall clock time ?
ha ha, we have had some interesting experiences explaining at pitch events and to investors.
What do you think of enabling letterboxing, uBlock, and DoH to prevent fingerprinting?

Are there any other config changes you would recommend to Firefox to harden it?
I'm not suggesting a ban on motorcycles. I'm a motorcyclist myself but I use the stock exhausts because they are quiet. I do want to ban excessively loud exhausts, or more simply, I want the police to enforce the existing noise pollution laws.

I think that an important part of being a decent human being living in close proximity to other human beings is recognizing and limiting one's own anti-social behavior. I hope that's not a controversial statement.
Echoing the parent, your intro is very well written.

I'm surprised I read till the end, even though I had no clue about zerks, until I read your launch post.
I thought of the Duet after writing my comment. I actually bought one when it was super cheap at Best Buy. I like it. The size is perfect. But I wish there was an optional hinged keyboard for it to turn it into a semi-proper laptop. Hoping it's selling well enough for Lenovo, or some third party, to make that accessory.
Show HN: Msgspec, a fast and friendly MessagePack library for Python
The author sees a problem, but his comments on it are off.

Strevens’s Machine, the engine of modern science, runs on a single principle, a kind of speech code that he dubs “the iron rule of explanation.”

No. That's wrong. As Fred Hoyle once wrote, "Science is prediction, not explanation". This is key. Successful prediction means you got something right. That's objectively testable. Explanation is not testable in that way.

If you can't predict, you can't make an engineering technology. Electronics exists because physics is predictable.

The frustration is that the hard sciences have been so successful that most repeatable phenomena have been figured out. Now what? Physics is stuck trying to figure out cosmology, where you can't experiment, layers below the subatomic level such as superstrings, where you can't experiment, and how gravity interacts with other forces, where you can't experiment. Real progress is being made at very low energy levels down near absolute zero, though, where experiments are possible.

The "soft sciences", psychology, sociology, and economics, seem to be unable to make reliable predictions. Even getting repeatable experiments is tough. Are they even sciences? Maybe psychology should be shipped off to the medical school, economics to the business school, and sociology to the school of public administration.
Tilesets and Datasets: Managing Data in Mapbox Studio
If you include humans as part of nature, then isn't literally everything part of nature? The common phrase "let nature take its course" would have no meaning then.
You'd probably hit diminishing returns when testicle shrinkage starts.
> Genetics and family wealth still have a huge influence on "future impact,"

In what way would genetics have a huge influence on future impact? That sounds like eugenics.
This discussion does HN a disservice.

Further the comments reflect a prior, thoroughly editorialized title.
Once a month you have to bust your hump to come up with crowdfunding so you can hock T-Shirts and sell enough to make a very modest profit.
> I think Lambda School style ISAs are the way for all but the top tier colleges. It means they have to actually be good at education.

Actually, the top schools would benefit from these the most. With close to 100% employment rates and better median salaries than anyone else.

> Imagine the opportunity of actually being good at education and doing ISAs. It would mean your institution could do what Universities largely just pretend to do. You could make money from ISAs and aligned incentives/student success. You could also make money from companies as a recruiting agency if your students were actually guaranteed to be good. Your curriculum would be closely tied to what's needed and what's relevant.

I wonder how much income stream is coming from underperforming programs at modern Universities. For some of them it must be substantial. And I'm also wondering if some of them also redirect the income toward more useful programs or research.
These banners are there to fool you into accepting all cookies. They are basically a dark pattern at this point. The GDPR and the so called cookie law state that strictly functional cookies have implicit consent by the visitor. Even selfhosted tracking via cookies is considered functional. The GDPR/cookie law also does not enforce those banners. They only state that the user has to consent to every form of tracking.

So every time you see one of these huge banners it is the deliberate effort by the website owner to trick you into accepting the tracking.

https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
I think if schools want to give a taste of the parsing->execution flow, they should have students implement an NFA based regular expression engine. No fancy features like captures and named character classes, just the primitive operations will do.

Regular expression syntax is context-free anyways, so they could use grammars if they wanted. Then again, you have to wonder if all of this should be covered by a theory or PL class instead.
I don't do much work like that -- I suspect you're part of a much larger developer team -- but I think I understand the problem you're describing.

Couldn't you simply review/bisect at the fork/join points? i.e., take the commits at which forks began or ended, ignore any intermediary commits, and run the bisect (or, read diffs) across that subset? That way you're only comparing at the chapter-markers of the story, so to speak, and not getting mired in the gory details.
> It's very easy to build a fair image recognition system by representing all demographics.

I wish it was easy. Unfortunately, reality is more complicated, as it tends to be [1,2,3,4].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03058

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05248

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11600

[4] https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12101

> Some AI ethics researchers cherry pick on those mistakes to justify their entire research.

This is a weird statement. This is like saying police cherry pick on criminals to justify their existence.

Do you not believe in harm reduction? Don't you think some part of AI research should be dedicated to minimizing how many "AI systems will continue to make mistakes"?
Glad you think that, thank you!

The pricing plan is hidden behind few steps in the funnel process (sorry :D). Once you fill short form on homepage, you will get follow up email with another form which takes less then 3 minutes to fill. After that you will get confirmation with EA page with a pricing.

As I mentioned in other comment, it's because we are looking to work with fewer serious customers, who can afford our EA package.

There are two packages $1k (Pro) and $2k (Expert) for a year, where Expert package gives 50% LTD (life time discount).
Hard disagree. We can censor, for example, child pornography, bomb-building tutorials, and revenge porn. I'm not going to fight against censoring them on the grounds that allowing them to be censored will allow anything else to be censored too.
> "Ivies really wanted to promote social justice, they would let in more poor kids"

> This is not their main priority.

I think you're right to say that this is not their main priority, but I think they actually do quite good letting in more more poor kids (at least better than most people expect).

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/09/th...
Why should DB table names be singular but REST endpoint resources be plural?
I like the website and the prospect of the tool looks amasing. Really good work. What are your next plans?
> Unskilled rich are a drain on public agency.

Indeed, and much of this comes down to hereditary wealth - one of the world's great evils.

What we should do as a society is, whenever a person gains above a certain threshold of wealth and refuses to give it up to the state, they are forcibly sterilized and banned from adopting, thus ensuring no heirs.

And anyone who already has offspring has their wealth taxed at 100% above that threshold.

This might sound dystopian, but just imagine if this policy had prevented George W Bush from ever being born. That in itself would be a public good.
Your statements don't align with the claims in the article. It says they lost (as in, "where is it") almost a billion dollars and said they still had it, while knowing they didn't.

Bad situation but honest: Legal.
Bad situation but dishonest: Illegal.
First of all, this is not a belief that is widely held in Britan since I've not heard anyone seriously suggest that Britains occupation of India " was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself.". This assumption is incorrect, therefore this article is not honest.

Another quote that is incorrect and tantamount to a lie:
> - "David Cameron asserted that British rule was a net help to India."

The link this journalist added mentioned Camron saying:
> "I would say that it’s a help because of the shared history, culture, the things that we share and also the contributions the Indians talk about that we’ve made. Obviously, where there are bad events, we have to remember them, be clear about them and learn from them."

He said nothing about Britain being a net help for India...
No, the cookies won't be sent. That would defeat the whole purpose.
Certainly more-so than the average [software] engineer. There's no 6-week bootcamp for hedge funds and there's no "typing JavaScript into a computer" equivalent. We can argue all day about whether hedge funds are good, bad, or useful, and reasonable people will disagree on the answer, but you'd be hard-pressed to make a cogent argument that the average software engineer works even nearly as hard as the average hedge fund analyst.
It seems tantamount to declaring that a system can never interact with the outside world.

If I'm creating tax filing software, do I need to spin up a local instance of the IRS to test with?
Interesting, sounds like a very unique use case. Is containerizing not a possible solution?
Peter Thiel covers this question deeply here:
https://youtu.be/IXG2F0a6I28?t=996
Reading the letters, they are only signed by two Democratic members of the house. They are both on the committee for communications and technology, but they only represent 2 of 28 voting representatives.

This really feels more like a publicity stunt on their part to please their constituents than some sort of concerted effort by the Democratic party, but perhaps someone with more insight on congress could enlighten me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Energy_Sub...
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MULE, Seven Cities of Gold, Heart of Africa > the entire sierra catalog
> Interestingly, bitcoin mining is an electric space heater with 100% efficiency.

Technically you can get greater than 100% with electric heat pumps. But you're correct if you're marginally comparing just a space heater with/or without a CPU inside it.
alternative title:

man complains of foot pain after having intentionally dropped an anvil on it.
Central Europe braced for third wave of coronavirus
Similar - couple of neighbors of mine enjoy the leaf blowing and riding mowers. I mean... it's not speculation, one said "oh, i love it - it's my relaxation time". And... when he can, he'll spend 2-3 hrs putzing around riding and blowing whatever he can. We have the same size yard, and have a company which is paid by the job. They can do the whole same size in about under 30 minutes (often just with 1 person - 2 folks it's often 20 minutes).

There's little we can do when someone gets pleasure out of running a loud motor for hours at a time. He started a leaf blower, then left it running next to our window while he went inside for about 10 minutes (bathroom visit probably?). Just... insanity.
Yeah, never underestimate the value of solid rollback steps. Never deploy anything without some plan to get the system into the previous state, ideally with a button push. And for those rare cases when you can only roll forward, like with a major schema change, make sure that is easy to do too. There’s nothing like the stress of a broken build to make you stupid.
I use Google Calendar and Google Docs without any issues in Firefox. I agree Gmail is coded terribly and do not use the web site! I stick to using Thunderbird on the computer, and checking email on my phone. Have not been using Hangouts for a couple years, though.

For me, the way Google is keeping Gmail terrible for other browsers is exactly the reason to not use Chrome. No way I'm OK with that.
One of my favorite games, Below the Root, has not one but two named playable female characters: Genaa and Pomma. It's from 1984, so only 2 years after the game in this article. I played it on a Tandy 1000.

It was a trailblazer in all kinds of ways: a side-"scrolling" adventure type game where you have to explore, talk to people, gather inventory, raise your skills, and solve puzzles. You can play as either of two rival factions. As you play you can really feel the depth of world-building and backstory. There is no set order to do the various things required to win. You can play any of five characters, who have different levels of strength and "spirit skill". And it did it all with four colors and a single joystick button. It is at least as innovative as King's Quest (also 1984), maybe more.

It has an intro sequence that explains the goal, but it's quite terse, so you might want to read the Wikipedia page. The game was commissioned by a fantasy author and intended to be a sequel to one of her books.

You can run it on dosbox. I highly recommend trying it out!
Not kernel panics, but the apple music app has been crashing a lot.
Are you familiar with the concept of survivorship bias?

It's an important concept to remember when talking about the long term outcomes from adverse market events. "If they still have it today," for example, is a useful qualifier, because it subtly renders the statement almost tautological. "Sure, it was a bloodbath, but all the people who survived seem to be doing OK."
Having children take one name or the other does not require changing one's own name.
This WSJ opinion article concerns the ban of a book titled "When Harry Became Sally", which is critical of sex-change procedures in children. Another similar incident was the ban of Abigail Shrier's "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters" from Target at the behest of activists on Twitter. That ban was later reversed, but it was followed up quickly by a ban of a different book on similar topics, "The End of Gender" by Debra Soh (https://thepostmillennial.com/target-bans-dr-debra-sohs-book...). This book was also then reinstated (https://reclaimthenet.org/target-silently-removes-then-reins...). And now, we see Amazon instituting book bans and preventing advertising of certain books based on ideological positions.

It's also interesting that it's not just activists pressuring tech companies and retailers to institute book bans but also the ACLU (https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-the-aclu-want-to-ban-my-bo...). To me, the hasty bans and reversals, the spreading of book bans, and the advocacy for the same from institutions like ACLU points to a bigger societal problem, a new extreme that "cancel culture" has extended itself to. I view this trend as especially problematic when mega corporations that face no effective competition, like Amazon or Google, can enact these bans unilaterally. These companies are so big, powerful, and influential that their policies have a drastic effect on limiting (the practical effects of) speech.