skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Big Topic! (showing how there are no easy solutions)

The Democracy/Tyranny/Unanimity issue has problems. Any decision can be expressed as its reverse: [Freedom From] or [Freedom To]. Requiring unanimity allows any individual to exert their will against the remaining 99.9xx% of the people. I want [Freedom From triplexes and all their knock-on effects], you want [Freedom To build triplexes]. If 99% of the ppl agree with your or me, the last one of us standing imposes our decision on the rest. Not even solvable with defaults. The current default here is [Freedom From development], so we should require 100% unanimity to change it? Literal generations have worked with the same set of rules, and continually agreed, voted and paid large sums to support them, so it's kind of specious to argue that it is not a legit default.

Moreover, just changing the rules is like an unfunded mandate - it imposes huge costs on existing people who have already invested massive amounts in the previously defined structure. This applies to towns that do not have centralized services (water, sewer, etc.) as well as those that do - changing the loads by half an order of magnitude is not free. If you want to change it, bring funding too.

I agree with your point about adding to commutes. MIT traffic studies in our area show how the commute traffic suddenly gelled and nearly doubled commute times with just a few hundred cars added from a couple of towns. Changing all of the zoning in the sub/exurbs will only create an absolutely unworkable mess for everyone, including the newcomers who thought they were getting X, but actually will just get Silicon-Valley-style traffic.

I could probably agree that some kind of larger scale planning is appropriate once the density of employers and people exceeds certain thresholds. E.g., when it is already more than 10,000 residents per square mile, and some number of jobs per square mile, then there should be a planned, and probably large scaling up in allowable density, with design for intra-city transport, lower traffic, etc.. BUT, I still question balancing my/our ability/right to impose that vs the fact that this involves problems that The Market is not good at solving well.
How long do new OLED displays hold up? (Honest question, I don't know). And how is the viewing angle? Do you need a glass panel to protect it, does that have issues with glare?
It is funny: there are essays in this thread, authors clearly breathless to explain the utility or lack thereof of NFTs.

Yet your two sentence explanation is the most comprehensive.

NFTs enable the possibility of a market that is orthogonal to the channel that distributed the token.

The viability or existence of such a market is not guaranteed, but the likelihood that one could emerge at all has gone up thanks to the novel properties of NFTs.
Thanks for the reference! I'll have to read about those more.

Sounds like that also eliminates any fuss with oil/fuel ratios, since they're introduced separately.
> If the client doesn't want to hire a minor

The client hasn't mentioned not wanting to hire a minor.

> You should really be focusing on college applications anyway

I'm not in my senior year so that isn't something I have to worry about yet.
It’s not clear from the picture. The belt seen is actually on one of three pulleys. The pulley on the left of the belt drives shaft b, which spins B and turns the output. Likewise, the puller to the rights of the belt will turn a, and therefore A.

The things that are most unclear is that the shaft between b and B is hollow (allowing the shaft from a to A to pass through) and that there are three unconnected pulleys the belt can ride on.
This is like a Murakami story
Hondo-mega?
hega-mertz?
Ronna-hertz & Quecca-hertz just doesn't do it for me.
Miami has had a nice cultural revolution in the last 10 years or so. A lot more art and culture than before and tons of things to do besides partying on South Beach. Many areas of Miami feel more like SF in LA than Trump country.
You are probably thinking of ARC which is automatic (not "atomic") reference counting a la Bacon/Dingle [1] via Nim's --gc:arc/orc.

Because some people do not consider any "reference counting" to be "garbage collection, I think "automatic memory management" a more clear term.

Regardless, you can turn off all automatic memory mgmt with --gc:none, though the stdlib won't cooperate much. --gc:arc/orc is fairly practical, though still not quite as bug free as, say, --gc:markAndSweep. Nim gives you many options for many things.

Ref counts have a reputation for being slower than mark/sweep/generational/etc AMMs, but (with a lot of compiler assistance/optimizations) they seem at least as fast (and maybe faster) in practice, at least with Nim which usually performs like C/Rust/etc.

[1] https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-bacon/...
Yes. Even when they are probably doing more harm than good.
The impact could reduced if a single Electron runtime is shared across apps. Imagine the various HTML5 mobile phone environments, like Palm's webOS, but in a desktop setting.
> Michael Teal, 737 MAX chief engineer, testified to Congress that he first learned only after the Lion Air crash that MCAS relied on a single sensor

Uh, what. How does something like this even happen?
While I agree with you, I would add that most glands add a wrinkle to what you are saying. Hormones significantly impact personality and reactions, and their secretion is not happening in the brain. Now, the direction of causation is of course debatable, especially in a healthy person, but do you believe that replacing ovaries with testicles (assuming we were able to do it) would have no impact on the mind of the person? Or replacing a hyper-active thyroid with a regular one?
There's a good chance we support your bank in Denmark. We support a good bunch of banks in DK already.
The blockchain provides a complete record of the movement of bitcoins. So for a given address, you can see how long value has been there, and the addresses that participated in the send transaction, and so on. You can't from there figure out how many coins are still available for circulation, but you can see how much has moved (or hasn't moved) over any period of time (last day, last week, last year, etc). From there you can define circulation statistics, like 'value that hasn't moved in 3 years' or whatever.

For paper money, the fraction that gets destroyed is probably small enough to not matter.
And yet a constant theme I keep hearing on HN and other places is that “I would only donate if I could support X initiative at Y foundation”

Mozilla comes to mind here. People often claiming they would donate if they could support only specific parts of the organization.

This article shows there is much more nuance to think about here than just supporting a specific part of an organization
Well, the burden is proof is on the vaccine to show that is near completely safe and that it is clearly providing a benefit, isn't it?
( not the other way round where the burden of proof is put on someone to prove that it not harmful).

The point that I'm trying to make is this - to the extent I have looked I see no clear benefit, and in some cases there appears to be a clear harm. So why bother taking it?

>Vaccines are or are not harmful?

My guess - only one 1 or 2 are effective, rest are either useless or harmful. These are ball park figures based on fair amount of reading/listening, I could be wrong. But it begs the question, why should it be so hard to see clear benefits? One has only so much time to investigate these things, I did it years back and have moved on. My default today is to mistrust anything that medicine has to offer. ( it used to be the other way round)

Also don't forget to look at the drugs Thalidomide and Vioxx - should give you a glimpse of the how murky the industry is. These are IMO not isolated incidents. That should at least tip you off in the right direction.

Last, but not the least - if a vaccine has clear benefits ( based on broader set of parameters that I would consider) , I would take it, who in their right mind does not want to protect their health?
> What do you find radical about Zig?

Personally, I find the "bring your own allocator" philosophy to be pretty radical. Yeah, other systems programming languages can facilitate additional allocators beyond "the" allocator for the language's runtime, but Zig seems to optimize for that case, which makes it a lot more intuitive from a learning perspective (no more guessing about where the memory lives). Even Rust (last I checked) defaults to assuming some global one-size-fits-all allocator.

There's also Zig's flavor of compile-time code / metaprogramming. It's probably less powerful than Rust's macros, but I feel like it's a lot cleaner and intuitive, and I'd argue that being able to run ordinary Zig code at compile time is powerful enough of a feature for Zig's use cases. Ultimately, it's a nice happy medium between full-blown metaprogramming (like in Lisp and - from what I understand - Rust) v. preprocessing (like in C/C++).

And yeah, I'm sure there's plenty of prior art for everything that Zig does, but I don't know of any other languages that combine these things in such a simple and intuitive and principle-of-least-astonishment-friendly way Zig does.
I'm in favour of some version of this.

Let's say I start off with $20 worth of article reading credits that can be used across all websites. This would be the same as standing in front of the magazine section holding a $20.

Some websites will offer content cheaply (say $0.50/article) with no option to get a bulk rate. Expensive sites like FT can offer a high per-article price, but lower subscription pricing. Besides being a market-oriented way of producing content (charge what you want, not what AdSense deems that you deserve), it would probably make users more mindful of content they consume. And that runs contrary to how our ad-based system persists.

Of course at some point this system would be poisoned by digital middlemen like Yelp popping up to become gatekeepers of 'good' and 'bad' websites.
Agree. The mask has been awesome for winter times to be honest. Face doesn't freeze off, air doesn't freeze the hairs of your nose, and my lips don't need a ton of moisturizer.

The one part that sucks is when you get too much condensation in there and I still have not found a good combo that allows sunglasses without them fogging up instantaneously. The temperature difference between your exhalation and the cold does not help at all.
>physical cash you know how many coins are minted and notes issued etc.

but with coins/cash the actual circulation can exceed what the government claims to have issued, through counterfeits or malfeasance (ie. the government under-reporting the issuance).
Except in reality there is no standardisation, and everyone's API is different. Making it that much harder to actually integrate. Still, having _an_ API is way better than no API.
A broad interpretation of clickbait as any low-quality or gratuitously obscure writing style might be seen as a factor.

In practice, people will vote down or flag what they will. Asking for permission really won't change that.

The practice of using a recently-coined acronym without definition as the principle focus of a story is pretty egregious.
Purpose offers a new way to manage the display of windows and buffers
>On Feb. 25, Kato was arrested on suspicion of freeing wild boar caught in traps set up by Japan’s government in November. At time this article was published, he was still being detained for questioning.

Publication date is 3 March. Anyone know what are the time limits in Japan on police detention “for questioning”?
I imagine visual programming like this could be excellent for ML, designing the pipeline and models?

I just haven’t seen any high quality attempts?
I think a lot of us are tired of cryptocurrency snake oil. It is an uphill battle to build things on a cryptocurrency and try to convince the wise that it isn't an elaborate vehicle for get-rich-quick speculation.
Debian is great and will be very familiar coming from Ubuntu. The next stable release is coming in June too.
Not trying to nitpick, but IP handles that just fine (see mosh[1] for a great example of flawless roaming).

It's the TCP that doesn't handle it. Unfortunately HTTP and most other protocols are on top of TCP so suffer from the same problem.

[1]: https://mosh.org/
I'm confident that speculation—no matter how well-intentioned—is a form of misinformation.
And lots of lovely teasers on your youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq8B-rJqhICq2u2qSm5tdSw/vid...

Not much of a linguist myself, but they look nice. Will keep in my bookmarks for later.
There's more to a language than just features and functionality though. Why does Clojure have adoption despite being the least powerful Lisp, created decades after Common Lisp? Its stdlib, default data structures, and even syntax make it compelling (yes, sometimes having a deliminiter other than parentheses is helpful, and no being able to define new syntax via macros is not the same thing because defaults are important). Its not bad to rehash language features that have existed for 50 years if the resulting language has other compelling qualities.
> would the impact be positive or negative?

That's a fair question and not sure I have the answer to it other than stating a personal preference. Much smarter people than me have been trying to solve this content conundrum for decades now and it doesn't seem like anyone has found something workable for all parties involved.

It's a bitter pill to swallow that maybe what exists now is the best system we have and it will be around for a long time going forward.
>...off the mask...

Freudian slip!
Boeing's management hid the details of MCAS from FAA
Yes, in 1998 there were full fledged IDEs which allowed for GUI development. Delphi, Visual C++, Visual Basic Powerbuilder, NeXT Objects,.... I would actually say that it was easier to develop apps in 1998 than it is now.
NFT NFT NFT wtf is an NTF
It's not very cold where I live (bottoms out around 15 degrees F, usually above freezing) but I've come to like the feeling of cold air in the my lungs. I also find it hard to run with a mask on.

Of course this article is aimed at professional athletes in much colder conditions.
> but I'm not sure that the complaints that the author has stem from Rust being inherently more popular.

These complaints made the top of HN today, not 5 years ago (when Rust for embedded was way less mature and convenient), for a good reason. And notice that this person isn't advocating that Rust is too complex and you should keep using proven tech like C or Python for doing real stuff, they are advocating using a brand new experimental language, with a radical new design, whose compiler keeps crashing and which still makes breaking changes every once in a while[1]. This specific article is a really good illustration of the hype train moving on.

> but at the same time it feels like things could be more cohesive than they are.

The Rust team attempt to make the feature as cohesive as possible (and compared to a language like C++, they are doing a pretty good job at it) but nothing is perfect. I'm curious if you have specific examples of features that you don't think are cohesive though. (One example I can think of is the old `macro_rule!` vs procedural macros, but maybe there are others).

> With that said, I don't really feel like Rust is popular/common enough to lose hype. Basically no one uses it in production in comparison to the obvious alternatives and it'd be a bit odd for it to lose hype so soon.

Hype is a multi-level thing: the Rust hype is still growing (it still makes the front page of HN almost every day), but the most avant-garde hackers are moving away from it. That's nothing unexpected.

[1]: I'm not bashing Zig in any way, nobody expect such a recent language to be polished already!

[2]: https://medium.com/code-adventures/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3...
I see "1234" was a popular password in 1984 as well.
A lot of work in compliance and accounting is really about making the organisation legible.

There's a certain amount of box-ticking for sure, but the analysis and reporting are really about getting the data into a form that allows people to create narratives and have conversations.

There is no ceiling for the amount of legibility that management can want.

From an external perspective, the amount of legibility that external organisations can demand (via regulation) is sensitive to what seems possible. Reporting requirements seem to inexorably increase in scope and detail over time.

I predict there will ultimately be no job loss due to efficiency improvements in these areas. It may in fact increase demand.
> Uh, what. How does something like this even happen?

By "this" do you mean "egregious lies focused on making a case for plausible deniability"?
Oh, it’s good to be back enjoying a PG essay! :) Even if it is just a short message rather than a grandiose statement (maybe that’s the reason I like it).

I worked with nonprofits (and philanthropy advice in particular) for a long time and this is a great message to send. I don’t think it will change things much, as I don’t think PG has as much influence in the nonprofit world as he has in the startups world, but worth the shot.
> I think even Office 365 nowadays has a lot of the UI stuff written in react native.

Where can I read about this?
The site can track me across visits by the fact that I always have the same token?

I don't trust the centralized authority to not track me, money based centralized authorities engage in extensive tracking.

The people disbursing my funds cannot currently track me, because there are currently no funds being disbursed.
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I wish I could upvote multiple times.
> Wouldn't you rather the $1 you donate generate leverage in new donations?

It depends on where the money is coming from. Suppose I donate $100 to a cystic fibrosis charity and using that money they convince 10 people to donate money to their charity instead of the muscular dystrophy foundation. I wouldn’t consider that an effective use of my donation. On the other hand I have no idea how you’d measure that.
Debian is closer than Arch FWIW, though of course Arch is good too.
Its the old Greek "Ship of Theseus" argument, but in biology. If you replace every part of a person with a transplant over several years, who is it that remains? And if you do it one afternoon, does that change anything?
The maddening thing about these pipelines is that fixed infrastructure should have such high payoff for moving petroleum compared to roads or, when possible, trains. As long as politicians show such an unwavering commitment to neglecting old infrastructure in favor of building more, however, we would be crazy to support any more of it being built. But outside the NRC, I don't know of any US agency with sufficiently thorough cradle-to-grave scrutiny (which even they are denied by politicians, considering the disposal debacle that is Yucca Mountain).
Android's Bluetooth latency needs a serious overhaul
Firefox has no long-term future with Mozilla.
I think instead of talking about the past 2 accidents so much, at this point the question is if the current system is safe enough. I wish he went more into the details of the software certification.
“This, milord, is my family's axe.

We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade.

And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family?

And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.”

- T. Pratchett - "The fifth elefant"
Are you doing cross-platform development in Flutter, or by “works” do you mean on the platform you tried?
We learn. That's not harm.
These threads often cause comments that have no clue about the reality of black people. For those who are ok with videos, here are some good but enjoyable ones. You may use 'NewPipe' from fdroid or the youtube-dl command line utility to download them:

[1] How to pretend systemic racism does not exist? (with eng subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ciwjHVHYg

[2] Let's talk about what it's like to be a black person in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD8mWq0Hdcw

[3] Let's talk about being armed and black.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL_IX8yX_JU

[4] How cops are trained to shoot you in your home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuzQrbio2Qw

Other resources include James Baldwin's books and documentaries. His 'The Fire Next Time' is just 120 pages [5].

'The Price of the Ticket' and 'I Am Not Your Negro' are good documentaries [6][7].

[5] https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Next-Time-James-Baldwin/dp/06797...

[6] https://www.amazon.com/James-Baldwin-Price-Ticket/dp/B01M25W...

[7] https://www.amazon.com/I-Am-Not-Your-Negro/dp/B01MR52U7T

[8] Also the 1965 Baldwin and Buckley debate on the theme "Has the American dream been achieved at the expense of the American negro?" > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxLUbKebYvc
I said: "It seems like there should be well-known victims of being made an example of."

"Victim of being made an example of."

I never said he was the victim of a cybercrime. And it IS relevant because because it makes it unavoidably clear what I wrote that someone didn't read with proper care: The financial sector doesn't have this experience. - They don't have their own Aaron Swartz.
> People often claiming they would donate if they could support only specific parts of the organization.

I think this may simply reflect lack of faith in Mozilla as a nonprofit. People don't trust them to use an unrestricted donation in a way that they think is good.
Fits perfectly with the technology I imagined for the post-apocalypse: Gopher, lynx and text messages!
I agree, there needs to be multiple orders of magnitude improvements in HW&SW, as well as domain specific dataset development for this to work at all.
I can imagine using a very accurate image segmentation algo to analyze the background and thereby prevent shooting lasers at vulnerable targets, but it's still hard to see how this is a good idea.

A 1W laser is even more dangerous than you say. It is powerful enough to start wood fires.
Do you understand how this works technically? Like, what bits are in the token and how do they describe ownership of a tweet?
The key point I took away from the article is that some complex interactions with and misbehaviors of the autothrottle system remain unaddressed in the upgrades (or at least Boeing was not ordered to make changes there, and Jacobsen chose to make this public, so presumably they remain unaddressed), so I think it answers your question.
NFTs aren't the original and digital reproductions are perfect.
I think the parent poster makes a point not that the mind should be considered to be distributed throughout the body, but that "your identity" should extend beyond just your mind. So that even if your mind is not in your hand, your hand should still be part of your identity.

I don't think I agree, but it doesn't seem preposterous either.
The article shows that safety engineers at the FAA would have had the requisite knowledge to see the problems with the MCAS system, but as OP said above, there was no "issue paper" from Boeing to regulators about the system.
`f(x) = return 'Liberal'` will get you a great accuracy running the analysis within a subset of black women.
Jealousy is the most destructive feeling. Other activities not so much. Mining incites jealousy. So, if you ban mining there will be no jealousy.
23 days.
This thread was about the unfairness of asymmetrical market access, not who is worth the most right now. Side note, in all likelihood, ByteDance would be worth a lot more if they were an American company, even if nothing about their business and revenue changed, because there would be less perceived systemic risk. That being said, the capital difference between them and Google in terms of PPP isn't huge because of lower costs in China.