skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is determining who is a fascist. The term fascist (and also Nazi) is one of the most overused words resulting in many people being falsely labeled fascist.
Why bother commenting then?
I am in complete agreement.
I got a kick out of this list. Especially this sublist:

> (note: You must pay if you use .casa, .cf, .click, .email, .fit, .ga, .gdn, .gq, .loan, .london, .men, .ml, .pl, .rest, .ru, .tk, .top, .work TLDs due to spam)

Makes me want to search my spam folder for .gq out of curiosity alone.
I think you are reading too much into it. That's just how the justice system works. You don't have to prove your innocence, you have to prove someone's guilty.
The best part is that they will shut down this game once people move on to something else and it's no longer profitable
As an informally trained writer of compilers, I believe parsing could be reduced to just these concepts:

1. Greedy matching

2. Minimal matching

3. Tokenization

Regular expressions and implementation of a subset of their operators are a good way to introduce and discuss each, and recursive descent is the elaboration on that, the graduation to a customized mechanism. The last is to generalize it all to a form of constraint logic and introduce other forms of backtracking(e.g. pathfinding algorithms). Discussion of types follows from discussion of constraints and explains "smartness" in compilers, so it might be the last thing if I were teaching the course.

What I really think is at issue with our vast number of grammars is just the reliance on text as the interface. If we discuss parsing as a thing applicable to arbitrary data streams we can start asking "well, what if we don't serialize it to characters, but to some other token format?" That is way more interesting today, since we seem to have dispensed with the premise of natural language being the way to program computers, that really got the whole parsing thing started.
If you don't trust your fellow citizens to discern misinformation from truth, you don't trust them to vote.
I tend to disagree with the notion that this letter is chilling on free speech. There is a difference between criticism of this government and agitprop designed to undermine the system of government. The 1A is designed to prevent the former, and this letter seems pretty clearly designed to fish for that latter.

I think it's a bad letter because Congress is trying to abrogate their responsibilities and act like this is AT&T's problem, when it isn't. They need to break up the monopolies and give people the tools to hold these businesses accountable, as you said.
If the knowledge is not required for the job, what is the degree for? Is it a concealed/outsourced IQ test? Is it a concealed illegal minimum age requirement? Isit collective insanity?

I dare you to provide an explanation that is not illegal and/or deranged.
> If anyone knows of other ways to create virtual cards, please let me know.

To extend the plea, if anyone knows how to do this in Canada, I’d love to know. As far as I know the services that exist are USA only.
Looks good. Would definatley suggest a few shorter videos to showcase the power of the tool (3 min each). Would start by showing the end result, then work backwards explaining how the tool made it happen. Good luck.
It's heavy handed, but not surprising. My guess is they're trying to collect information to make a case for some sort of fine and/or injunction and/or censorship of specific instances of misinformation that may be related to the recent insurrection.

The courts have held that government can restrict free speech to further national security, so it's not novel. At the same time, proving a relationship between media corporation misinformation and the insurrection would be very difficult.

Periodically, the Supreme Court has examined whether the government can restrict speech to further the compelling interests of national security. In doing so, the Court has recognized that national security, as a governmental interest, does justify restrictions on First Amendment rights. In the landmark free press decision Near v. Minnesota (1931), the Court established a general rule against prior restraints on expression. However, the Court did note that the government could shut down a newspaper if it published military secrets: “No one would question but that a government might prevent actual obstruction to its recruiting service or the publication of the sailing dates of transports or the number and location of troops.”

Nevertheless, the government must provide proof that national security interests really are in play—that is, the government cannot simply use national security as a blank check to sidestep constitutional challenges. In New York Times Co. v. United States (1971), the majority of the Court rejected the government’s national security justifications for attempting to prevent the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers, the top-secret history of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. In his concurring opinion, Justice Hugo L. Black explained that “the word ‘security’ is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.”

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1134/national-s...
I'd bet that writing botnet software was pretty good training for writing distributed processing software like NiceHash, though I think your concern is still valid.
Even if we limit ourselves to 7-bit codes, ASCII still doesn't have one true definition. US-ASCII was first published in 1963. In 1967, a new revision was published which changed some of the characters – most significantly, left arrow was replaced by underscore and up arrow was replaced by caret, although also some control characters were renamed/replaced. The vast majority of systems nowadays use the 1967 revision, which is also the basis of subsequent standards such as ISO-8859 and UTF-8. However, the 1963 standard did see some historically significant use – Smalltalk adopted it, and even today some Smalltalk implementations display up and left arrow instead of caret and underscore. It also influenced the choice to use the caret for exponentiation in languages such as BASIC (the original Dartmouth BASIC used 1963 ASCII rather than 1967.) The ASCII extension used by 8-bit Commodore systems (PET, VIC-20, C64, etc), PETSCII, is also based on the 1963 edition of ASCII rather than the 1967.

There is also the broader family of compatible 7-bit codes of which US-ASCII is a member – ISO 646. ISO 646 codes take US-ASCII, and replace up to 12 punctuation symbols with symbols needed in non-US-English text. Some people will say that only US-ASCII is ASCII, and these other derived 7-bit codes are not. On the other hand, the very existence of the term "US-ASCII" (which is IANA's preferred term) suggests that these other variants are ASCIIs too, and the original is just the ASCII for the US. Indeed, the original developers of ASCII foresaw and expected the development of variants of it for non-US use. It was only the later development of 8-bit codes (and then even bigger codes, such as ISO 2022 and Unicode) which meant everyone could standardise on the US version. And the fact that popular programming languages ended up using (close to) the full complement of US-ASCII punctuation marks gave people the motivation to do so – others you had to rely on ugly hacks such as C and C++'s trigraphs and digraphs.
You can substitute it for English, Communications, or Literature if you prefer.
Evolving Schemaless into a Distributed SQL Database
I get that it's slightly esoteric, but this is all pretty basic biochem/endocrinology.

Here's a small study that demonstrates that losing weight can increase fertility:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3177768/

Additionally, this mechanism is why drugs like clomifene and anastrazole work for male infertility.
> these people deserve lifetime-imprisonment after multiple offence.

You can't be serious when you say that you'd lock someone in a cage for the rest of their life because they broke a noise ordinance.
Let's play devil's advocate: you have limited and messy data about the qualifications of a hundred 20 year old candidates. You have one qualification that shows they worked quite hard for the majority of their life and a sustained and high level. You should value that data point almost as much as you value hiring the best candidate. There is not likely to be any other data point as valuable at that point in the applicants' lives.

It's a Bayesian problem all the way through and you can probably quantify the value of the signal provided. However, and most importantly, it's just a signal. I personally prefer hiring interns, completely irregardless of school, and developing and hiring them, any time. At that point, there isn't signal, it's just measured performance that is de-risked.

Now, people that use it as credentialing are morons. I mean that bluntly and literally. Randomly picking on CFOs: "I want a CFO with a Harvard degree" is stupid thing to say, on its face. The person saying something like that has literally inverted the real point, which should be, "I want an excellent CFO, and a Harvard degree is a signal of some properties correlated with that outcome". Once you invert that, it's just another data point in a meritocratic decision, and a relatively minor one.

Sorry to post/write so much on this. Startups are the ultimate meritocracy in some ways, and having something posted here that's populist and almost anti-intellectual bothers me. Ycombinator has no problem pulling from Stanford. And Stanford, MIT, and Duke (and many others) are as elitist as any Ivy on any day that ends in y. That's leaving out the really class conscious "small liberal arts" colleges out there, and ignores the differences between ivy league schools in this regard, which is large.
> Evolution and selective breeding don’t arbitrarily modify DNA.

Except for random mutations, which are, well, random changes to DNA.

There is a reason the nightshade family[1] is so varied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanaceae
I will look into it, Wiki2SSML looks very handy.
No, because a CPU isn't a consumable resource, like electricity or labor. You should occupy the CPU with all valuable work (for whatever definition of value) but keeping it pegged for no reason makes no sense, and just wastes electricity.
Hi, we (pindora.fi) have been doing HaaS now for some months and in my short and narrow experience at least it is not easy to have hardware upfront cost and then software subscription fee for _something new_ people have net learned to pay yet.

What if you would try to have "setup fee" and then "subscription fee"? Could that work?

Same thing, named differently :-)
Size of their feet differentiates them too. How is it actually usefull?
SEC halts trading of iced tea company that pivoted to blockchain
If they haven't exited the BTC position, then selling the BTC to convert back into USD may not be possible without dramatically affecting the price. And if it's still in BTC and they don't bother converting back into USD until the last minute, then a run on USDT may make it impossible for them to convert enough BTC to USD fast enough to redeem USDT.

It's hard to analyze Tether/Bitfinex's risks here because, well, they have been fairly opaque about what their actual financial situation is, so people are relying on their gut instincts to guess what it is.
I work for a consulting company which helps these struggling colleges. It's a difficult discussion to have. When you tell them that they are spending way, way more than they need to on administration, they usually 'ahem' and 'guffaw', especially when the implication is that the people in the room with you are part of the problem.
Notification aggregator: switch apps without switching back and forth
> it raises an interesting follow-up: why not squash and rebase entire months or years of project work into single commits?

That's effectively what happened before version control/before the small-scale rebases we enjoy now were possible. And the reason is that it's hugely valuable in certain circumstances to be able to see some granularity of the history. (Though clearly people disagree about what the grain size should be.)

> Could we read and understand massive projects quickly and easily, if they only had a few commits to them?

I don't think so. The current state is visible at the top of the git tree regardless. History comes in when you are trying to understand why the state is what it is. Usually this is for troubleshooting in my experience, but sometimes also when doing a refactor. Meaningful commit messages attached to meaningfully-clumped patches are, in my opinion, absolute gold in those cases.
>Why does a classics degree cost the same as a CS degree when the market value of a classics degree is basically zero?

This is good. If degrees were priced based off of supply and demand economics then only rich people would be able to afford a CS degree.

Currently the bar for getting a degree is partly economics and partly intelligence. You can't get rid of economics completely but at the very least they keep prices egalitarian and allow for raw intelligence to be a huge factor in acceptance.
Definition of efficiency (from Google): the ratio of the useful work performed by a machine or in a process to the total energy expended or heat taken in.

Heat pumps are >100% efficient.

Usually, we cannot convert all input energy into useful work, so efficiency is always <100%, because of energy losses, which are producing waste heat. However, in case of heater, heat is the "useful work", so electrical heaters have "impossible" 100% efficiency, while heat pumps have even more "impossible" >100% efficiency.
Outside of pretty printing - MySQL breaks your app if you depend on key order in an object because it alphabetically sorts object keys when you store it in a JSON column.

JavaScript itself will also sort object keys if they are numeric, so `{a: "a", c: "c", b: "b", "1": 1};` will be transformed to `{1: 1, a: "a", c: "c", b: "b"}`.
The point in question is not whether it is justified or moral single-party rule. It is whether there is a shift towards single-party dominance.
The pattern match of career to Eurogame strikes me as deeply flawed.

You can have a long time horizon at 70 and plant trees whose shade you will not sit under.

Ends become means and the board resets every few years (3-5 in a fast moving industry; 7-10 in a "normal one" 12-20 in a slow one).

I think this is more about pacing layers, where chance and random events play a much larger role than this analysis seems to capture as well.

Applying the Somers post to career planning ignores a number of innovators and leaders who were viewed as wrong or obsolete until suddenly they were not.

Most breakthroughs come from 'non-consensus' perspectives: speed matters less than the depth and quality of the paradigm change.

I think you are painting yourself into a corner with this model. I think you can continue to learn and grow at any age.
I think your comment, particularly your use of the phrase "bombard the audience with technical jargon", is a much better example of double speak than then comment you're replying to.
Why were they removed from Google and Apple's app stores while Facebook, Youtube and Twitter are still available?

Twitter uses AWS for some of their stuff. Why aren't they removed for violating AWS's policies?
MMOs are something we are also thinking about! But we do have a strong feeling around “short animated scene creations” use case. Thank you so much for suggestion. Means a lot :)
>All sides should be subject to the same rules, whether they're doing it a lot or just a little.

Sure, absolutely.

>Saying that one side or another is worse, and therefore requires special attention, is wrong: it's false that only the worst offender should be policed.

This is not my position, I just disagree that the "left-wing" media outlets that rayiner identified are materially engaged in misinformation in the same way that the outlets identified in these letters are.

But I also don't really want to litigate this question, as it's a recipe for a flame war.

>My personal philosophy is that for all sides, the remedy is to encourage more information to shine light on the falsehoods, rather than trying to gag any ideas.

In general I agree, but we're in a state of exception right now. Since 1/6, certain ideas have now proved themselves to be dangerous to (small-d) democratic rule. I don't think this is an easy question to answer, or I would be giving the easy answer, instead of asking the question: what actions are legitimate in this instance to preserve democracy, and do they include regulating the speech of institutions which reject majority rule? Karl Popper has an answer here, but I'm a pretty strict constitutionalist and a strong believer in freedom of speech, so I can't unreservedly suggest the government should intervene.
Counter-exampe: regulations exist relating to bombs, stabbing, and guns, without having any threshhold of maximum allowed pushing force or speed of matter.
Glorified babysitters require their glory.
No idea, but at least I do use it for legal content. I believe it even works with some steaming DRM nowadays (even though I don't use that). No idea what others are doing, but I don't see why people would use kodi to see pirated content more than other video player/media center. A pirated video file should be readable everywhere.
And don't forget pro-corporate, which has been historically the norm, to the point of overthrowing other governments to protect crop yields / revenue.

There was a study that came out a few years ago, and I can't find it, but the point was that any laws passed that the general citizenry want were purely incidental. All the laws passed over the last 20 years or so directly benefited corporate and special interest groups.

Another person described the spectrum of the various forms of democracy as a highway. The went on to describe the two US political parties as the two parallel lines dividing the highway.

/rant
I like your comment about this being easier to justify on a PPT than in the dirt - we are on the road every day experiencing this reality. We are making progress, customers are buying it for more than just the greasing - they have transient workforces who take care of the equipment differently and want consistantly . Some of them use greasing as an indicator "if they can't do the greasing, what else arn't they doing?" another guy got rid of 4 guys over 12 months for not completing the greasing, so he is saving on recruitment costs, there are many others..
You should publish this someplace. This perspective is never mentioned in the mainstream outlets, even if it's pro or neutral on BTC.
My mining rig will stay profitable until the ETH price is at ~900$.

Or until Ethereum will switch to "Proof of Stake"?
> But I did and we learnt that the 1918 flu killed more people than WW1.

Hmm, but I would argue there's a difference between young healthy people dying en masse (war) and mainly the sickly and elderly dying (pandemic). It feels awfully utilitarian to distill it down to this, but I'm sorry, a healthy 18 year old dying from a bullet is way worse than a 70 year old dying of a disease, especially from a "years of life lost" perspective.

In my view, with covid, it's mostly the elderly that got a few years cut short, but most of them would have died within the next decade anyway of something else (including "age") and I predict we will see "negative excess deaths" in the coming years for that very reason.
Then it shouldn't have been difficult for professional representatives of the House to find a good source.
Discussed at the time:

Everything Is Getting Louder - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21229540 - Oct 2019 (305 comments)
It's not rose tinted - as a country, Britain was better of during the Raj. People are yearning for a time when we stole huge amounts from the rest of the world.
> It's a legislative body which is trying to limit speech not through legislation but through intimidation

Bingo!

When these CEO's enact new policies that censors "Right-Think", it'll be totally okay because it's not the Government limiting Free Speech - private companies are allowed to limit Free Speech, don't you see!
FYI, I used to have similar experiences. Until I started deliberately lucid dreaming and learned some "dream stabilization" techniques.

The first time I had a proper, photo-realistic dream with complete awareness that it was a dream it blew my fucking mind in a way that was almost religious. I could feel the sun on my face, and the texture of the sidewalk I was walking on. I couldn't stop looking at plants! It was incredible to see every leaf and twig with the realization that they were being entirely rendered by my brain in real time. TRUST ME, those experiences are completely possible, and the detail a brain can create is nothing short of ASTOUNDING.

Upon reflection, it makes perfect sense. EVERYTHING you conceive of or percieve in your waking life is a lie, essentially a hallucination of sorts. It is a mostly high-level construction and summary made by some part of your brain based on sensory input. It turns out, your brain is perfectly capable of synthesizing the high level construction without the fine-grained sensory input.
U.S. Will Have Enough Vaccine for 130M People by End of March
Many of the best developers I can think of didn't major in cs; many didn't go to university at all.
If you've ever been inside a house that has insulation installed in all interior walls, the sound mitigation is really something else. That's a feature quite high on my list, if I ever construct a home.
Would be good biz for a company (ubuntu) to setup Linux distribution to support security monitor/update for schools for some model of Chromebooks for $500-1k per school?
> or you get useful skills that enable you to go down a particular career path (e.g. CS degree)

I so completely disagree. College/university is for education. If you want skills go to a trade school and save a truck load of money.

As an example lawyers and doctors don’t gain skills in law/medical school. They are required to slosh through forced internships for that.

CompSci graduates can’t tell the difference because the software industry isn’t mature. In all other professional career paths there is some combination of licenses or certifications. Many of those licenses require college as a prerequisite. It takes substantially more to become a truck driver than it does to be a software developer.
react-three-fiber is a really nice library to make web 3D things with. Three.js is brilliant, but there's a metric ton of boilerplate to get complicated things up and running. react-three-fiber just shuffles that away so you can concentrate on building a graph out of components. I've been getting up to speed with it for a little while and I've been chucking things I've learned in to a Github Pages site - https://onion2k.github.io/r3f-by-example/ Each example can be spun up on Codesandbox with the click of a link eg https://onion2k.github.io/r3f-by-example/examples/geometry/i... (Click the "Fork on Codesandbox" link)

There are tons of good examples of how to use react-three-fiber on Codesandbox - https://codesandbox.io/search?query=react-three-fiber&page=1
Turning out? These lawsuits have been seen as "lawyers make millions, you get a coupon for your suffering" for many years now.

I remember discussions of this back on Slashdot during the Zip Drive click of death lawsuit where I eventually got a coupon for like $10 off my next IOMega purchase or something. Total bullshit.

The counter argument is that the companies need to be punished for their behavior, even if the victims aren't the ones who get the compensation in the end. I've thought that seems rather mercenary.

There was a "take the cash" option for that Equifax settlement, but nobody I know who opted for that ever saw a dime. I think they eventually weaseled out by saying that you had to prove in arbitration you were financially harmed by the breach to receive the cash or something.
There's nothing more just than vengeance.