skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your standard sounds pretty reasonable. I think that there's a lack of trust that people really mean what you're saying. It's a motte and bailey thing. What about when people start saying that denying that transwomen are women equates to "denying the humanity of trans people"? Which puts trans people's lives at risk, they claim. That's practically incitement if you want it to be.

I mean heck, they tried the previous president for incitement of violence. As best I can tell he irresponsibly weaved a false reality for people which (I think inadvertently) lead to the storming, but by no legal standard is that incitement.

Maybe people in my corner are imagining things, but there's enough fuzzing of the lines that we're uneasy about it.
Points 1 & 4 could be solved either via elimination of the party system (unlikely) or if one of the several initiatives to break up California succeed (also unlikely). Simply put, the problem is that when you have one party in control there's very little incentive for them to work cooperatively with the people.

Points 2&3 are could also be solved by dividing the state up so that each region could self-govern. Given that this is unlikely, I have a hard time imagining a solution. It's extremely hard to make "city folk" understand what's going on in rural areas, and vice versa. Worse, our current political climate is such that demonizing the other group is seen as a morally acceptable thing to do, almost always without really understanding them in the first place.

The first step to solving these problems in California is to close the political divide and get the people to work together to establish better representation.
The opponents also were not allowed to brush. So it's not curling, it's ice shuffleboard. Which is still impressive, but not curling.
Haha, since he didn't mention it, this guy (complexplane), is also the WR holder in super monkey ball 2: https://www.speedrun.com/supermonkeyball2
Qt is really quick and is used at plenty of places. Places where (critical) software is needed for internal use will be written mostly as native apps. For example monitoring and the like. And these places often use Qt.
I suggest you to try out the Telegram Desktop app (I think mac has a non-qt version as well so be aware). I really like using it for it’s speed as well.

My only gripe with qt is that one has to use C++ or python, other bindings are not
Yup, still thinking about pricing and features. Working on the privacy policy and ToS this week.
There should be delay that is long enough that anyone would forget the rich, but it should also be "random". You'd want to avoid using it too often around observant people (one every two months, maybe). The watch touch and ringing won't give someone away but thier bad acting will.
I think there's a pedagogic void here. Everybody enjoys quick returns. be it a lisp repl, php f5 refresh or bash .. the desire to have clear mental model of your program state comes after (unless you have both brain power, talent and/or passion for that)
Yeah there’s strategy, but I think it’s a bit of a stretch to compare it to chess. Ultimately you just need your rocks in the middle.

If you’re a perfect shot and go last, you’ll always win.
> Check out Reddit. Also take these with some scrutiny because Reddit has already been infiltrated by marketing companies willing to pay for fake reviews & upvotes

Yup.

An interesting case study for me was trying to find a reliable modafinil provider.

It's illegal in most western countries but won't actually get you thrown in jail, so you can't use the usual marketplaces, but people still feel comfortable recommending it on reddit.

The end result is that any possible subreddit you can find dedicated to provider recommendations is filled with paid recommendations that people made in exchange for discounts. The only subreddits that have serious non-shill discussions are the ones that ban recommendations.
Everyone here knew about it when you could mine a few bitcoins per hour on a midrange laptop CPU, but we all thought it was a stupid idea.

Here we are, a decade later, still sure it's a stupid idea and increasingly frustrated that the public doesn't understand that.
Regarding `repr(packed)`: Thank you for posting this. I really like Rust's official documentation on the subject. I stand corrected regarding Rust's support of structure packing. The following statement is a little troubling however: "As of Rust 2018, this still can cause undefined behavior." This greatly affects Rust's suitability for bare-metal programming, where you very often require control over a structure's layout in memory at bit-level granularity.

Regarding bitfields: At the risk of sounding a little old-fashioned, I don't like the idea of having to import external packages to provide these kinds of fundamental features. The article hints as much. It might be a bit of a culture clash however I feel that learning the different styles and interfaces of a bunch of external packages is an extra, undesirable cognitive burden imposed on the developer. Plus, "A macro to generate structures which behave like bitflags" (The crate's official description) doesn't sound very robust to me. It sounds like precisely the kind of hack that a future release could break.

In fairness, it should be mentioned that the C standard does not guarantee the layout and order of individual bitfields either (refer to section 6.7.2.1 paragraph 11 of the C1X standard). Even though the usage of bitfields is common in C, it's not without its issues.
What about someone who thinks males and females are biologically different? Or that surgery can't change that fact? The line keeps moving. I see people even on this forum attacking others in the worst language for opinions that look mainstream and benign to me.
I expected some moderately insightful analysis, where I would come out with one or two interesting new ideas.
how would you send 11M requests?
In English seeing it referred to as "monkeytail" looks weird, but in my native language Dutch it's often referred to as "apenstaart" or "apenstaartje" which means "monkeytail" resp. "little monkeytail". Though more and more often it's referred to as the English "at".

(Which, as I come to notice now, is almost exactly what the Wikipedia article in the sibling comment says)
AI researchers use games because they're a tractable problem with clearly quantified metrics of success. It's not to win the game but to advance the field. Sometimes it might be just to publish a paper and seem cool, but every game that falls to AI feels like a step closer to AGI, or at least to better self-driving cars and other simpler kinds of AI.
Because BTC is what they take. The coordination is more important than the tech. Granted, this is only because I don't patronize the super illegal Go To Jail Go Directly To Jail Do Not Pass Go type of merchants, but the point stands.

If you just need unfreezable funds and pseudonymity, not total cryptographically secured anonymity, you'll use Bitcoin instead of a dozen better methods (which are all crypto anyway, so wouldn't really count as a point against crypto, just BTC) because everyone else is using it.
The values that people hold don't necessarily match those that people profess. I don't think that's what's at play here, but it can be good to keep in mind.
And deflation, where the value of your cash increases constantly if you do literally nothing with it, leads to good allocation of assets?

There have been two major periods of deflation in the history of the US dollar. 1930-1933, and 2007-2008. When the value of money increases, people don't spend it, they hoard it, commerce stops, and the economy grinds to a halt.

Just look at your beloved bitcoin, who is actually using it to buy and sell anything (besides illegal goods and money laundering)? The price is entirely propped up by speculation and fake Tethers, and because it is increasing, everyone who has any knows they would be a fool to use it, which is the whole point of currency.
I don't like where you're going with this. Please don't work in any climate policy think tanks.
So does Julia [1].

[1] https://github.com/PainterQubits/Unitful.jl
HTML over the wire? So... a Hypertext Preprocessor you say?

We really have come full circle haven't we.
“Or maybe they are really expensive to run for some reason”

That reason is people. Journals don’t just create themselves. Lots more happens to make it so than just having an email inbox to accept submissions.

You need to be able to fund the enterprise, and often you want bigger/popular journals to subsidize the really esoteric stuff that’s important intellectually to humanity but still requires a base number of people to run it independent of the sales. It would also be nice for these people to make real money for their time so people who are good at it could make a career of it.

Elsiver etc are a different beast as they’re companies disconnected from a larger university. So their self-preservation goals are quite different, and accordingly, their appetite for organizational profit versus covering expenses.
I suggest you wear your mask and don’t visit the restaurants.
You don't need to live in China to be affected by China. There are many ways a country can use information on foreigners to advance the country's goals, affecting said foreigners.
There's a very amusing epilogue in Steven Levy's "Crypto" [0] about the fact that either RSA or Diffie-Hellman (I've forgotten which) was in fact known to the intelligence services for 10+ years prior to its re-discovery among public researchers. These are people who are very good at keeping secrets.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Rebels-Government-Privacy-Digi...
I mean, ideally there should be absolutely no bearing of usage of ORM on the snappiness of UIs. It should absolutely never block the Ui thread. At most it could add longer “in progress” screens or something, but that is a different topic (also, good ORMs when used correctly, that is the developer actually knows what he/she does and not only blindly copies code, than I doubt they would cause serious overhead. But I agree that non-correct usage can cause problems)
I _guarantee_ you she, and any other actor with Disney, or any studio, has contracts specifically stating that she would not make controversial remarks that may damage her reputation, the show, or the studio.

You can argue whether such things are palatable, to be sure, but she absolutely knew and agreed up front to this.

And realize part of the enticement to accept such clauses is the entirely healthy salary that comes with it.
Rent control, when coupled with other means of ensuring housing is built for those that can afford it, is a reasonable way of ensuring housing for those that can't afford it at the market price.

That is, globally applying a cap on rents would be a bad idea, since there would be no incentive to build new housing. However, when coupled with restrictions such as requiring only some fraction of new housing construction to be below market rate it can produce better results.

Imo we should just solve this issue once and for all by supplying government housing to anyone at a low price, but there seems to be little political will for that. It seems to me if you can reach the right people to pay for it they would gladly pay to solve homelessness (which, is admittedly more than just having available housing), but it's difficult to get that to happen.
No, that archive.org link is a valid link for the PDF of the linked paper - if you click through to the PDF from the HN link, it's identical, including the "work in progress 31.10.2019" stamp on the first page.

Why "work in progress 31.10.2019" appears on something supposedly submitted 1 Mar 2021 is an open question, but they do point to the same thing.
Looks like a neat hack, but it also looks like it has path traversal issues, so be careful with it.

$url = $request->url;
$path = $this->rootDir.$url;
$env = [ ... "SCRIPT_FILENAME" => $path,...]
$process = proc_open('php-cgi', $descriptorspec, $pipes, $cwd, $env);
Heh heh. Poor reading skills on my part.

The Cirrus Logic VGA drivers might have come from here: http://ftp.mpoli.fi/pub/pub/unpacked/hardware/display/cirrus...

The HighPrint driver I'm less sure about.
Yup, we don't know what price concessions McDonald's obtained. Really these press releases don't provide a lot of info and are not very good news sources.

I also think there is a good chance MCD will announce their own fake beef product in the future. At least that's what I'd do if I were them -- they probably know a lot more about food science and also know their requirements well.
People should be Giving Ada a Chance
I work on avionics and we definitely use fixed-length text all the time. Text is often much more convenient than blobs, even when adhering to strict schemas.

Syntaxes like XML, JSON, YAML, etc have become popular for their convenience and versatility, but they do not represent the whole of what is possible with text.
That's the problem. People absolutely love dysfunctional systems. They love it when the machine is broken. They get to complain and then they get their preferential treatment.
OK, well, congratulations on your gains, you made a good bet, it paid off, and I hope you can put it to good use. It does not make anything I said false. You asked why deflation is bad, and I gave you a summary of the various reasons why.

As for what we should expect...why should the current situation be so surprising? The vast majority of merchants who "accept Bitcoin" use a third party payment processor that immediately converts Bitcoin into a fiat currency. The number of people who use Bitcoin as money, rather than as a system to communicate payments made in some other currency, is vanishingly small. The "technology industry" has mostly focused on non-monetary applications of blockchains and a lot of attention has been paid to "permissioned" blockchains because they are overwhelmingly more efficient.
There are a multitude of examples of PayPal closing or suspending accounts without the consent of the account holder. Banks are free to attach conditions and fees to accounts that are not necessarily easy to understand if one is not financially illiterate. Many people are "unbanked." See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbanked

I think it's clear that the concept of a wallet or account that can be created at any time in almost any place almost instantly, that can send and receive something of value securely is a valuable contribution.
I assume many of you here are familiar with the strength of influence that Dieter Rams had on Johny Ives.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/11/30/jony-i...
So could it be said then that it's more efficient? Say, you'd need less energy to measure time with a time crystal than a quartz crystal?
Aaahh dang, I see!
Except we aren't doing that, the demand for (cheap) beef far, far exceeds the supply of beef that could be made with just grazing land.
I like how you get so close to the truth and then shy away into your biases. People are funny. Are you going to lead the crusade against Christmas lights?

https://phys.org/news/2015-12-christmas-energy-entire-countr...
Remember that ArsTechnica does reporting for money. The more sensational, the more clicks.

I think National Inquirer and The Sun uses the same tact.
Citibank bent over backwards to get Costco. A few years ago Amex was the only card you could use at Costco. Citibank agreed to not only make a new card with better rewards to compete with Amex, but they agreed to honor all the reward points too. They just rolled over from Amex.

I'm sure Costco got a deal that gives them nearly at cost processing and a bunch of other stuff.

It was worth it for Citi too. The moment I got my Costco Amex replaced with a Costco Citi, the Citi became my primary card, because everyone takes Visa.
Qt is still a program for a single purpose, so it has barely any unnecessary abstraction. Any html renderer will have plenty, because they are browsers first and foremost.
> Why would someone backdoor their own key when they could instead just mirror the data or something?

Ever thought about .. let say big commercial companies (e.g. social media platforms), using keys that are either knowingly or unknowingly tweaked? A backdoor might not be trivially simple (one of the primes being fixes), but e.g. one prime be somehow part of any collection that is smaller than the pool of truly random primes. The problem then changes into "just" a list of division on the product of primes, with all potential candidates. A third party with the right information would have the practical ability to circumvent the encryption.

Still, at the same time, the companies can (maybe even sincerely) claim they use strong cryptography that "can't be broken" (when it has no backdoor).

Luckily, no government would ever consider either demanding such things, or covertly implement them through a compromised supply chains (or standard bodies?), even without the knowledge of their targets. [/sarcasm]

To be clear, I'm not saying this actually happens. I honestly don't know. There is also something to say that this would already have leaked if it did happen. Maybe. On the other hand, some rather nasty secrets have successfully been kept for a long time. Sometimes decades, or still denied after as much as a century.

I'm only saying that it is practically impossible to independently determine if such things are happening, while the technically possibility actually exists. Those involved might themselves not even be aware of it, which makes it even more problematic.

Which makes me wonder, why RSA was ever adopted in the first place. I know it all made more sense when it was introduced, in a world with a lot more trust (maybe always naively, considering some historical revelations). But with everything that has happened ever since, the world has changed a lot.

> No matter how secure you make the cryptography, the other party could still just leak the key.

That's a whole different topic and not what I was pointing at.
I recently switched back to a regular watch recently. I needed vibrating alarms (have 3, which seems to be enough) and I like a countdown timer. I already had a Timex Expedition Shock that fit the bill in the basement from several years ago. I dug it out of my extra gear bin expecting to have to order a new battery. Nope. Running like a top. I use buzzkill on my Android phone to make sure I get exactly the notifications I want. Pretty nice set up and I feel much less distracted.
How the rise of ‘citizen voice’ increased infrastructure costs
Politics of the International Space Station
> everyone... is still living in the same apartment

I don't think this is a function of rent control. The people who were renting 10-20 years ago will still need somewhere to live.

If there isn't sufficient new housing available, then this increases competition for existing housing, but kicking people out of their homes doesn't seem like a good solution either.
Seems easy enough to settle. If the robot can win against human teams that sweep, then we know you don't need to sweep (to beat humans). If the robot only plays against non-sweeping humans though, we don't know.

Also, I assume the purpose of this exercise is not to improve automatic curling, but to challenge an AI/robot with things. If the purpose is the challenge, or the accomplishment, then it seems to defeat the purpose to rule out the challenging part of the competition. This is like how I am a world class basketball player, if you discount scoring, I'm the equivalent of anyone in the NBA.
This seems to take the view that all feedback is pointing out shortcomings.

That's not the only type of feedback that's useful. Sometimes I might just want to ask a question, or propose another idea that may or may not be better than what was done. Sometimes I have testing suggestions. These are not problems.
| for those who are not actually displaced, yes.

Yes, exactly.

| But the ones that are displaced are often essentially banished

Without it they would have been displaced even earlier. Speculative bubbles exist outside of rent control, especially in the US where rent control is never all that strong or comprehensive.
You could say the same thing for plants right? They probably don't want to be eaten.
I'll have to try some of those out. I've used fzf a little, but haven't really looked at it enough to get the full productivity gains. I've heard of rg ofc, but ripgrep_all has flown under my radar thus far, and actually sounds amazing, I've got a decently large library of pdf's I keep losing stuff in.

The rest I haven't looked at, but will have to add to my list, they fill a couple voids I've been feeling.

> I should roll my own blog static web site generator in Rust I suppose, because the existing ones are either slow or don't support what I need... So, not going to happen in the next year, most likely. :(

It isn't powerful enough to support what you need I'm sure, but I actually did something similar a little while ago.

http://a-shared-404.com/programs/

It's written in Rust, with dependencies on sh and markdown. I'm thinking about adding the ability to automatically execute an (optional) shell script in each directory, so that it would be easier to do things that markdown doesn't.

The code quality is atrocious (first Rust program of any size, and I'm not great at programming in the first place), but it may be useful. If you're interested in me adding that functionality, let me know, it may be the push I need to move it to the top of my pile.
Obviously I'm a sample size of one here, but i've stopped eating beef in the last year and have only been eating Beyond and Impossible. Long term i'd be shocked if some amount of the real beef market isn't taken by plant based.
Why not?

The plastic straw doesn't require rare earth metals, anywhere near as much plastic, silicone and other materials. Besides, it's been shown time and time again, eWaste is largely a farce, with majority of components being sent directly to landfills.

Ounce per ounce, thousands of plastic straws are far better for the environment than a single Apple Watch.
Because nutritional yeast is fortified. Hence a supplement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional_yeast#Nutrition
Well deserved security bounty. At least they should've locked the account after too many failed attempts.
Which is great- desperate propaganda is one of the stages of grief for a dying market.
Solar is already under-pricing them, they can no longer fight it with regulation manipulation alone.
Shareholders are already exiting them in droves, waiting for the final blow - the invention of some large scale storage.
Either that or supra-conducting pipelines, shifting energy globally to were its needed in location and time.

Blunt lies to the former middle-class, who by nostalgia associate that technology with there own lost status, wont save them, they may only prolong the inevitable.

Let Don Quixote ride one last charge against the giants..
I am literally "big boned" and have found a NATO strap is what you want for good a good, secure fit.
I use BigInt often, but you can't (for example) do most substring operations with it, even though floating point indexes make no sense.

Map goes part of the way to what I want. But I really want to control which objects are considered equivalent keys, rather than being limited to reference equality.
How swapping a '\n' char for a ';' is less "wasteful" or "ugly"?
I tried the impossible whopper too and I could certainly tell the difference. It was very close, and if I wasn't paying attention I might not have noticed, but it does taste distinctly different.

Not trying to say you're wrong, just want to provide another datapoint. I tried it about a year ago, so maybe they've updated their recipe since then. I would encourage anyone reading to give it a try see what they think.
on jQuery 4.0 roadmap page: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/milestone/7 , it seems having no progress in two full years.
Canada, The UK, & New York City among others have considered legislation making misgendering illegal.