skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under the California Environmental Quality Act, anyone who participated in the public comments or hearings about an environmental impact report can sue whatever authority approves some project. That is why in California every EIR on any project of any kind will gather some public comments from union members. The unions are preserving their standing to sue at a later time.

Typical example is this letter sent by lawyers on behalf of labor unions, commenting on the EIR of a solar project.

https://phonyuniontreehuggers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01...
Engineer crawls inside imploding rocket on jet in midair to save SpaceX
So for the vast majority of people the “zero cost” thing goes away next release?
Doesn't make any sense to me (opinion only).
But pretty cool idea! The result is also very light.
Pair (2) with a lack of immigration, which is what bails out the US from this problem (though it wouldn't be as extreme in any case). Wikipedia says China let in 1800 people in to US' 1.2 million in 2016.

This lack of immigration probably wouldn't be easily reversed, because Chinese governance and perhaps culture aren't well suited to absorbing heterogeneous groups.
We’ve shifted the goalposts from “providing every human the dignity of a home” to “providing every human a home that doesn’t look too shabby when compared to the highest bar in society”
Clearly open access has costs, but how does Nature Photonics get to $40k/paper?? Is that how much revenue they expect to derive from the lifetime of the paper?
Why would you compare a search engine to a social network? And to the single worst social network at that? If you set your standards as low as possible, just about everything "gets the job done."
Note: it's less about demand and more about price discrimination. Prosumers realize a higher benefit from their graphics cards and therefore have a higher willingness to pay, but they have higher RAM requirements than do others. This allows nvidia to segment their customer base by restricting the RAM on their gaming cards. If they didn't restrict the RAM on their gaming cards then they couldn't segment them. That doesn't mean there's not consumer demand for cards with higher RAM and marginally higher prices.
There was a much publicised terrorist raid in Australia where the police raided a suspected Muslim terrorist and proudly displayed an evidence bag containing a sword which turned out to be a common Shiite plastic decoration that wasn't sharp enough to cut a cucumber. Their suspect was released with no charges but it didn't give me a lot of confidence in their capability to protect the public from real dangers.

I still find it amusing when I go into a store here and use self-checkouts and there are messages aimed at people in neighboring states advising them that plastic picnic cutlery can't be purchased by people under the age of 16. I am sure the intention is good but legislators and law enforcement often seem to do things with no obvious benefit.

You have to take a kid's gell blaster down to the cop shop and register it as a class A firearm which puts it in the same category as a rifle or shotgun that isn't self loading. Now I get that you don't want people waving replica firearms at the police and getting shot for their stupidity but this isn't a lethal device. It is toy that is intended to be shot at people for fun. You would think adding a visual indication distinguishing it as a toy would be sufficient. I fully support gun control but this is crazy even to me.
SPARK:

At the time there were some motions towards a "better MapReduce," Scalding (ooh weee that had a learning curve) comes to mind, but I feel like Spark really lowered the bar for getting big data tooling and the ecosystem into mid level and pre-ipo orgs.
You may find this interesting: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=439400

“This paper provides an alternative behavioral foundation for an investor's use of power utility in the objective function and its particular risk aversion parameter. The foundation is grounded in an investor's desire to minimize the objective probability that the growth rate of invested wealth will not exceed an investor-selected target growth rate. Large deviations theory is used to show that this is equivalent to using power utility, with an argument that depends on the investor's target, and a risk aversion parameter determined by maximization. As a result, an investor's risk aversion parameter is not independent of the investment opportunity set, contrary to the standard model assumption.”
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Not arguing with your broader point, but the passage quoted above lists all Cell Press & Lancet journals. These would include, e.g., Cell, Neuron, etc., which are top-tier journals in their respective fields.
Some companies might be interested in keeping their long term market happy instead of loosing their flagship products to what they might consider a relatively short lived craze.

> Well... they can buy used previous gen cards from miners.

Yeah, last gen cards, which would ruin any lead NVIDIA has over its competition. Going by the steam hardware survey NVIDIA currently owns the PC market, that wont last if they whole inventory is bought up by crypto miners and might lead to serious long term consequences if gamers and engine developers shift their focus to AMD and Intel.
"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."

Anyway yeah people get offended when you question their beliefs, no matter how silly. Belief is tied to identity, and they feel insulted when you point out their beliefs' absurdities. So you get downvoted.
Well, it's hard to view an exponential when you are on it, because the time steps are so small, it can feel linear. As a 24 year old, I can see the effects of internet+smartphones has on people my age. We navigate information so much more efficiently than older generations, not just from technical skill, but from the standpoint of how we frame mental models, ask questions, etc. The early 1900's were a revolution on atoms, and the past couple decades were a revolution on information. It is harder to see and measure in general, especially when we are still in the thick of it.
HDFC deserves all the opprobrium it gets, but the fact that the RBI dinged HDFC and not SBI amazes me. Back when I had an account, SBI’s website would go down frequently, including for maintenance in the middle of the day.

Also, the lack of good UX in Indian banks’ online banking is truly astonishing. Particularly HDFC, which presumably is rich enough to effort decent UX people.
Roon.

Roon is a home audio platform. It plays on all the devices in my house.

The 10x difference is during parties. The iPad with the interface on it gets passed around and people queue up music they like, but also get to read about what is playing. It gets magical when people pipe up "Well, if you like that then try this..."

I don't know why make such a difference compared to an iPad with Apple Music, or Spotify. My guess would be the music reviews, and its "take music seriously" presentation, encourages people to think about the music as more than just background noise? Anyway. Very happy.
Sorry, it was really hard to fit the title into the limit and I made an error. Edited.
Keep in mind that a runaway immune response is also what kills covid patients.
> the tax code was only 2,600 pages - Vox

> “a tax practitioner who relies just on the tax statutes will go to jail” - Tax Foundation

https://taxfoundation.org/how-many-words-are-tax-code/

> nightmare scenario has not happened anywhere

I’d be surprised to learn that any country had zero audits, because their file-free tax system worked for everyone. Is that the case anywhere?
California effectively did not lock down; both state and county public health orders Constitutionally rely on enforcement by county sheriffs, most of whom did not (and many of whom very publicly announced they would not) enforce the (therefore, purely notional) orders.
Libfawk, a C89 embeddable scripting library
relevant discussion from today's thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26479200
How the USSR captured American aircraft
> Taxing land sounds fair enough, but I was under the impression we are already subsidizing a lot of farming anyhow

I'm not sure what you're referring to here. Taxing land doesn't really have much connection to farming specifically. In fact, most high value land is urban areas and cities (NYC, SF, Silicon Valley, etc.), so farm land is mostly irrelevant when talking about a land value tax.

> Any aren't we supposed to be reclaiming land to turn back into national parks, planting trees, and capturing carbon.

To do so, we need to use more land more efficiently: less sprawl, and more building up/dense. And a land value tax incentivizes precisely that, since in high value areas, the tax would be high enough that it dense buildings would be the only real financially viable option. This increase in density in the core means we don't need to develop other land (and even reclaim some of it to parks as you suggest).
This was the most disturbing part for me:

> D’Andrea’s views carry more weight than usual because he speaks for the entire three-member utility commission following the resignations of chairman DeAnn Walker and commissioner Shelly Botkin in the wake of the crisis. Both were also appointed by Abbott.

> D’Andrea indicated that he expects to remain the sole regulator over the electric markets for the foreseeable future. He said he doesn’t think Abbott is interested in appointing new commissioners during the legislative session, when appointees would have to be confirmed by lawmakers. “I went from being on a very hot seat to having one of the safest jobs in Texas,” D’Andrea said. “I think it’s just going to be me for a while.”

> Given the focus on the PUC and its oversight of the market, new appointments would likely be “a big slog of a fight,” he said. Instead, he believes Abbott will wait at least until the end of the regular session in May before nominating anyone. “I think they probably enjoy having just one person up there because they can secure promises from me and I can’t say, ‘Oh, well, my fellow commissioners wouldn’t go along.’ It’s easier for everyone, actually. At a time like this when I’m communicating all the time with the Legislature, it’s easier to just be going through one person.”
We changed the font and complained about that person over a couple of drinks. Kinda the way things go sometimes.
Back to the future in one week – implementing a Smalltalk VM in PyPy (2008) [pdf]
> Installing software on linux truly sucked before package managers.

Although UN-installing software was possibly even worse!
How the West Lost Covid
aye - as it says it provides an FS. The second diagram shows how they chop up files into blocks then store them in the backing object (k/v) storage.

A filesystem really is just an index over k/v storage (blocks). You can find similar diagrams for the implementation of EXT/XFS/GFS/HDFS etc. Like databases there are many tradeoffs and nuances in terms of how these concepts are implemented.
> Why aren't there more avenues to hear "random new artist that matches my tastes"?

One reason is due to flat rate bundled compulsory licensing. If you run a coffee shop with live music you either restrict all performers to only play original works and still probably get threatened with lawsuits, or you pay up the ASCAP/BMI/SESAC protection money and can play whatever.

So in many contexts weirdo obscure independent artists can't compete on price (e.g. give their music away just to get it heard) because the customer has already paid for a bundled rate for popular music.
Why I don't trade stocks and (probably) neither should you (2013)
Easily AWS
How are you preventing the system being gamed? How would, for example, prevent QAnon, or its equivalent, from being the dominant source and judgement of reputation?

Who pays for it, if not me?
The idea that the tools you use is a reflection of how smart you are is just plain old silly. Most of the work you do in software is language/tools independent. A smart software developer can do great work with almost any tool.
China to construct commercial spaceport to support booming space industry
Thank you, Matt. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I've been vaguely pining for an Advantage keyboard with a trackpad in the middle. In a typical display of mainstream keyboard makers being completely stuck on the same track, keyboards with an embedded trackpad have it on the right, despite laptops providing a ubiquitous example right in our faces and hands.
That is an accurate comment. Your SELLFF profile can help you to connect with new business opportunities, from which you can save and/or earn $$. It's a new/different alternative to the megacorp solutions that does not track you or sell your personal information.
I don't think this is an accurate description of the responsibility hierarchy. If in fact the code by Netgate or associates/ contractors/ employees of Netgate is not of professional quality, it has no place in the FreeBSD codebase ready for a stable release. Ultimately, the FreeBSD core community/ developers are together responsible for the codebase even if you cannot hold them legally accountable because of the license. They together hand out and take back (deny) the commit rights (bit, whatever). If a highly sought after component _in the kernel_ is (at least to Jason's account) not even up to the lowest security and code quality standard it has no place in the code base in preparation for a stable or probably even a beta release. Other developers (and that's where Jason is completely in the right if his account is correct) should protest the inclusion of such possibly very bad code into the codebase more or less in late preparations for a release as I understand it.

So it is first and foremost on Netgate, if Jason is right but right after that it is on the other responsible FreeBSD co-developers. I mean having so obviously bad code in any kernel of a modern operating system release would be really, really bad. There are many people and companies dependent on it that cannot really influence anything but have to endure the consequences either way. I mean, if you buy a storage appliance, a router or a firewall you trust the quality of the product to a degree and cannot really audit much even if you had the skill. You have to take the word for it and make some reasonable accomodations. No insurance is going the replace the full damage due to lost data to an attacker or a bug. Peoples lives sometimes indirectly depend on the full chain of competence and no insurance can resurrect the dead or right the good name of anybody. Remember, most of the time when you have to update anything for security reasons, somebody didn't understand the system fully or just plain messed up. The only exception is when the problem or times / requirements have changed (e.g. the computers got so fast, we have to transition to longer keys/ passwords whatever).

So yeah, if Jason's account is accurate it is bad the code landed in the codebase at all and raises questions about the quality and security of FreeBSD. I mean, it is code directly meant for a secure-as-possible VPN and something that often directly interacts with the open internet. Surely such code should experience extra scrutiny.

From the short personal interaction with Jason he came across as quite thoughtful and knowledgeable. Over the years, he and his supporters were able to convince many not so easy to convince people about the quality of Wireguard and some of its implementations. He and the supporters have shown a long term commitment and I am for these reasons inclined to trust Jason's judgement as well.
Sure, but from the user's perspective Linux operates in exactly the same way as Windows. A boatload of drivers available directly from the vendor but they're out-of-date (or in the case of Nvidia not the official drivers). And it's much much more of a PITA to install out-of-tree drivers on Linux than Windows.
radio frequencies, too, work with the same principle... or lasers.

this stuff isn't new, either, by any means.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Rife

good luck getting past the quackery though.

https://www.livescience.com/7472-kill-viruses-shake-death.ht...
That page does not even show what permissions/scopes the Authorized OAuth apps have access to! (Or am I missing something?)
> They do, don't you remember those FBI notices in the movies?

Oh I'm sorry I don't have the ability to look for that, my system is only equipped to look for that specific string.

> And when you sign up for netflix or cable tv, there is an agreement you accept that you are not going to pirate.

Again my system doesn't read the TOS, does Googles?

> Remember, the nosnippet does not have to be on every page -- you can put into robots.txt or HTTP header, so it is literally 1 line of configuration for most web servers.

Remember they just have to add the string "nosteal" to the opening credits. That's a few minutes in final cut pro.

Also, if they forgot to add it or have some other issue I offer no public facing customer service whatsoever.
Sieve: https://sievejobs.com

Software Development Job Search with metadata to allow developers to filter jobs by any facet that Software Developers could want:

- Interview Style
- Open Seating vs. anything better.
- Pay Rate
- Work Hours Expectation
- Automated Productivity Monitoring/Surveillance

Of course hiring managers would be reluctant to divulge so much; I'm currently working to attract enough (free!) Software Developer/Job Seeker profiles that hiring managers will be more or less compelled to post on the site.
A casual "game" that lets you organize information (text, pictures, video, webpages) within a 3D building, allowing you to browse and jump in/out of different contexts easily.
By people who communicate in a thousand year old language, no less
Great article, I had no clue Hinton had that amount of commercial savvy.
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Make structures out of it lol. Its rotten balsa. Also the amount electricity is still too small to use.

Perpapbs a pressure sensor or some kind strain gauge is more applicable.
Only if the money comes from the printing press, as opposed to from taxing the rich.

Also, without the fed printing money, we'd be feeling deflationary pressures, because we are in, you know, a recession. Some printing doesn't actually cause abnormal inflation in that situation.
> Which part of the pledge pertains to morals and values?

Pledging allegiance to the things that protect and serve you. Support for something larger than yourself. The American ideals in the constitution and on the statue of liberty, even if you don't feel others support them as much as they should.

The USA is a tremendous country that has done more to build protections for people into its law than almost anywhere else. You should see this and support it even if there are problems. America pledges equality and it's actually available. There's a reason the entirely of South America would move to the USA today, and it's a flattering reason if you'd look at it.

> It was still said during a time of complete racial segregation.

No, that never happened. Even during slavery, only some states practiced it and it was distasteful elsewhere, and even in those states it wasn't universal. Small help to a slave, sure, but your representation isn't fair.

> Did the practically unchanged pledge teach children about the morality and values of that?

Of the country that fought a hard war to end slavery, and is trying for equality? I dunno, you don't seem to have heard that message.

> Or domestic internment camps during WW2?

Meh, war is tough. When you're shooting some people it seems less bad to merely imprison some. Find a solution for the war itself and then let's talk about the imprisonment which were practiced to prevent more killing. Also, Canada did worse in its internments. More theft from the victims, and even worse scapegoating.

> What about during the Vietnam war?

What about? It was a badly chosen war that was guaranteed to go past the initial semi-principled stand into a huge quagmire of a proxy war. Dumb idea and bad. But are mistakes forever damning?

> What deeper nuanced meaning am I missing where it balances "freedom and liberty for all" with the massive expansion of the post-9/11 surveilance state?

So, like the Vietnam war, it's a mistake. But fight to save what you've got rather than equating it to the worst dictatorships. It's also a forgivable thing though, to overreact to murder. It took the UK and Ireland a long time to trust each other after the troubles.

You should be proud to be American. Your country at least tries to right wrongs.
Welp, we're back at the Gilded Age.
Well, not quite.

You really want to say that mod15(pow4(x)) == mod15(pow4(mod15(x))).

Example:

(3 ** 4) % 15 = 81 % 15 = 6.

But,

(3 % 15) ** 4 = 3 ** 4 = 81.

(That said, the two functions do commute when you restrict your domain and range to Z/15.)

edit: also, I wouldn't consider mod15 to be an injection, as it's, um, not injective (it maps multiple inputs to the same output).
Jetbrains products
What you're describing is relatively straightforward (bi)linear interpolation. It is worth noting that even at this relatively simple level, going with bicubic interpolation instead will usually give you nicer results, except in cases where the hard edges in the image are only horizontal or vertical.
Not everyone is a developer or reader of HN. Apple has evolved their software to make users safe.

I get fewer problems managing friends and family on Apple products vs Android/Microsoft products. I work in enterprise and am a lot happier managing macOS devices than PCs.

I get the whole “I own it and shouldn’t have to have it walled/leased/owned by the developer,” but the success for Apple when Jobs returned was simplifying the product lineup and making products that just work.

I agree I don’t like being locked into a hardware manufacturers box, but not everyone can build a kernel from source or use Gnome/KDE/whatever desktop manager there is out there. It should turn on, be easy to use, and be a safe experience for everyone.
You're missing something. You can click the app name for a details+actions page for that app-grant.
great job! you took a problem, came up with a solution, and executed it very well.
Correcting myself here. Wind output dropped to a low of 2% of capacity, not 0.
Not software but financially, option spreads. The ability to construct risk/reward defined outcomes completely changed the effectiveness of my investing.

These never used to be realistically available to retail trading, but are incredible financial tools if you take the time to understand the mechanics.
The blog is dense but pretty great reading too..
The economy is centered around factors of production, which include labor and capital, both of which are value inputs towards meeting some need in the marketplace, and both of whose market price follows supply and demand. The more valuable the input (i.e. scarce+necessary), the higher the market price.

Capital is valuable (high price) when it's needed and scarce, e.g in the junk bond market. Labor is valuable (high price) when it's needed and scarce, e.g productive software engineers.

There's no sense in conceptually elevating capital above labor, or vice versa, insofar as we're attempting to understand economic systems, as they're both just factors of production.

Now, that's not disagreement with Sam's point. Labor will decline in value as an input since AI will provide zero marginal cost competition to labor (effectively it'll be a massive increase in the supply of labor). More supply = less unique value = wages crater. Capital may slightly decline in value too, but at a slower rate than labor.
I like the term solarpunk! I'm gonna describe myself that way from now on.