skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. This view also takes the idea that morality can be reached by reason on faith I am not saying I fully disagree, but even the concept of morality at its core is not rational.

2. It is possible to be religious and do good for the sake of good. Most religious people I know do. I would hope that even if I knew I was going to hell, I would still live the rest of my life on accordance with God's will as it is the right thing to do.
hash -> hashtag hardly seems like a meaningful change
This approach, "religion as an operator's manual to living one's life" is one of the very rare arguments in defense of religion I can vaguely resonate with.

Unfortunately this argument entirely fails to support all the rest of the luggage, especially the metaphysical hokum: you can perfectly chose to live your life according to a set of rules that will help you (and others) without having to justify it via the existence of some bearded dude sitting on a cloud.
What are the fraud protection and chargeback policies on that? Those might be reasons to continue using credit cards.
In what way? You already have to pay capital gains on it.
Structural member often implies a module central to all other components, but it doesn't have to be that way, a structural battery could still be bolted on to a under-spec structural frame to bring it within strength specs. I think what you are really against is the concept of the all-in-one car-frame-battery.
The US government effectively destroyed the US internet poker industry a decade ago without banning internet poker itself by simply banning banks from transferring money to/from poker sites.
> If the fundamentalists are a problem, maybe there’s a problem with the fundamentals?

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is often quoted as the fundamental tenet of Christianity.

> If they can’t get something basic right, why would they be right about something more complicated?

Donald Knuth is a devout Christian and he has been right about lots of very complicated things.
Removing illustrations on error pages in Firefox and a11y view
Seems exaggerated for sure, but I guess that could be artistic choice? Avocados in Brazil for example are bigger and with a longer top [1]

[1] https://st4.depositphotos.com/1023249/25027/i/600/depositpho...
Aren't majority of bitcoin held by a small majority, that is both international (read China) and anonymous.

So, who will participate in this massive backlash in the US besides Elon Musk and Dorsey whose companies have public positions in bitcoin, and a few others?
> I can't put my finger on it but I doubt the valuation of bitcoin/other crypto assets when converted to USD.

That valuation is based on what you can, right now, exchange crypto for USD on the exchanges.
Bitcoin will likely stay the dominate singular cryptocurrency for a long while, but Etherum has already surpassed it in terms of network effect, and will likely have more value held on it's blockchain than bitcoin in a matter of years.

Bitcoin has shown it is uninterested in being anything but digital gold.
my favorite calculator app is emacs's calc-mode, it is probably one of the nicest RPN calculators on desktop
If owning/trading bitcoin becomes a criminal offense, then 99% of people will switch back to regular currencies.
When I saw it described as a "heroku and netlify alternatives", I assumed it was meant to be a production-grade system, that's what those words mean to me.

If those are wrong expectations, you might consider changing your marketing.
As interesting as this article is, the related article is even more interesting: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/05/19/why...

Primarily because 1. California has over $1,000,000,000,000 in unfunded pension benefits promised and 2. It only takes one year of employment to reap these lifetime pension and healthcare benefits.

I wonder what will happen in the long run, especially if high-earning tech companies continue to allow remote workers and the California exodus continues.
"Attacking Crossover Work" -- Ouch.
There are probably better ways to say this. If you're familiar with the industry, perhaps you could better inform the conversation.

Personally, I've always been surprised by the amount of fruit, flowers, and other perishables that do economically come in via air.
The main thing I think most struggle with is what to write and how to organize. To that end, I think https://documentation.divio.com/ is a great resource

Smaller things are:

- knowing the documentation tools

- being able to see modifications locally

- using git workflow

- keeping in sync with the codebase

I'm certainly biased towards a git + markdown -> static site based setup
Your statement suggests there are infinitely many hypotheses that posit "a thing exists, but there is no evidence for it". Then you say others have failed to (properly) consider those hypotheses that you choose to believe. (Which may or not be true, but no evidence either way is evident.)

However, aren't you also saying you are not willing to (properly) consider the infinitely many alternative hypotheses to your own, much less the negation hypothesis of "NOT God"?

Which is better then? To choose to believe in one untestable hypothesis or to believe in none?
Unfortunately the NetBSD side's story was not widely known or reported. Otherwise it would give a different perspective to the case here.
505 changes, many of which appear to overlap in subject/domain/effect.

I wonder if dumping a list this exhaustive is more performative in nature than to just offer information on the patch.
"The first volume begins with a discussion of three economic bubbles, or financial manias: the South Sea Company bubble of 1711–1720, the Mississippi Company bubble of 1719–1720, and the Dutch tulip mania of the early seventeenth century. According to Mackay, during this bubble, speculators from all walks of life bought and sold tulip bulbs and had even declared futures contracts on them. Allegedly, some tulip bulb varieties briefly became the most expensive objects in the world during 1637. Mackay's accounts are enlivened by colorful, comedic anecdotes, such as the Parisian hunchback who supposedly profited by renting out his hump as a writing desk during the height of the mania surrounding the Mississippi Company.

Two modern researchers, Peter Garber and Anne Goldgar, independently conclude that Mackay greatly exaggerated the scale and effects of the Tulip bubble, and Mike Dash, in his modern popular history of the alleged bubble, notes that he believes the importance and extent of the tulip mania were overstated."
I knew better. The “test” of whether and to what extent lockdowns control the virus or “suppress outbreaks” (in Anthony Fauci’s words) has been tried all over the world. Every serious empirical examination has shown that the answer is no.

When the very title of an article starts with pure, abashed hyperbole - "So not everyone is flat-out dying from X? This means the risk of X is basically nil, right" - you can safely disregard the rest of the article.

Very very safely, in fact.
Project Reunion 0.5
I thought this was exposed by npm in package metadata?

At the least it can be made a requirement for packages in the case of multiple people with publishing access that everyone uses 2fa
This 'therapy' is often forced on patients, especially in state run hospitals. It's nothing short of medieval quackery, its only use is to destroy parts of the brain.

Anybody that performs this nonsense on another human is a sadistic psychopath.
At least one reason is that a big chunk of crypto value is being driven by wealth flight out of the PRC. A lot of the dollars propping up BTC's valuations represent trade deficit dollars that would otherwise be leverage for a plausibly hostile government.

Surely the feds are aware of the scale of money laundering being done in the cryptocurrency world, but I'm guessing they'd prefer to see that being laundered by western criminals than leveraged by China.
Great idea. Only $30 processing fee.
Another similar web app is CalcuLaTeX https://mkhan45.github.io/CalcuLaTeX-Web/
This Place Is Pryson (2019)
We have to do that with securities too. You sell, you report. If my Bitcoin wallet was hosted with some financial company like Coinbase, I'd want/expect them to send me a 1099-B reporting those sales to help me with my taxes, just like Schwab sends me a 1099-B for stock transactions. But if not, just keep a record of the transaction in your own documents, showing the price of Bitcoin when the transaction happened, and that should be enough for the IRS.
> This is a contradiction in terms. If you have a set of tools such that some tools reliably determine truth and some don't, inherently that latter set can't be used to "access" other "regions of truth." Put differently, when I examine the universe with my reliable truth-tools (roughly, the scientific method)...

You'll notice I put "reliable tools" in quotes. I do not think they are as reliable as you do. For instance, to give a secular example, they're unlikely to be able to give an answer to the simulation hypothesis. Say physics ultimately derives from a certain configuration in Conway's Game of Life, and that configuration is in-fact running on some kid's Hyperpentium 4 PC. Science may be able to access the truth of the configuration and game rules, but it's totally blocked from probing the region of truth beyond that. However, that block is one way, and the kid's totally capable of editing the configuration to add a message "LOL U DOODS R IN MY PC." Now (with or without the message) you may decide to have utter faith in your tools, and deny or dismiss as meaningless what they can't perceive, but that's just denial or averting your eyes. There is truth there, it's just outside the grasp of your tools.
Not really, a 10 Gbps SFP+ can be had for $18. A 1 Gbps SFP is around $8. They continue to drop in price.
With an SFP you can go 500 m tot 10 km, around $0,06 per meter for a pair of fibers.
Have you tried wrapping everything with lead?
This isn't an excuse, more curiosity, but did that take place during the mass hysteria about supposed satanic cults?
Ahh, this makes more sense.
If the number of false positives in your project is > 10 static analysis is a waste of time. It doesn't matter if your project is 10 lines, or 100 million, 10 is the most false positives static analysis is allowed to have before it is shut off as useless.

It is very hard to be a static analysis tool developer. All the easy cases have been done, most have been folded into the compiler. What is left is the hard cases where you have to figure out how to not trigger on the false positives. Get this wrong and your customers will dump you - doesn't matter if you get it wrong by not detection many problems, or you get it wrong by too many false positives. It doesn't help that once the customer has fixed all the problems they forget about them, but the false positives come up all the time.

You can't get out by making it possible to mark false positives. Once you allow that everyone will just get in the habit of marking all messages as a false positive. I tracked one production bug to a line that was immediately preceded by a false positive suppression - the problem was real but the someone decided instead of thinking they would suppress the issue like every other one found.
To bring it back to Amazon, it's even better if you can plausibly deny breaking the rules by orchestrating your system such that the people you're heavily incentivizing to break the rules and generally behave antisocially are non-employee business associates who you very clearly told (in very fine print) not to break the rules.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26597228

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26596378
The elephant in the room.
"A nourishing culture of experts, etc" is not at all a positive take on "toxicity, elitism, and fetishizing". It's the polar opposite.

Note well: I'm not taking a position on whether your particular group is toxic or nourishing. I'm just saying that you can't spin one as the other.
Well with the current Gamestop craze that is happening it probably helps to generate clicks to title something "enemies of wallstreet" as false a title as it may be.
Uhm. Why do you limit your reasoning to people doing this to stop their shift early?
I don't have a senior developer, but I have a ton of people submitting pull requests to me. Sounds like you need to adopt testing. Isn't that part of Agile? Or was that in agile? Can't remember.
Author here. Thanks for the kind word. It's not a post I wanted to make, but I think it's the post I should be making, for all the reasons I wrote.
The author decided that it would be cool if there was a way to portray some irrational exuberance, and boom - here's your article. The main point is that back in the day finance apps struggled more than they should have and now they are having it too easy. That may or may not be true, but the selective case studies certainly make it hard to take every word at face value.

Let's examine the 2009 case study - Simple struggled to raise money, whereas supposedly it should have been a walk in the park by today's standards. Nevermind that they shut down recently.

And to illustrate today's standards, the author is bringing up Step, which was able to raise at whatever valuation it wanted once it hit the list of top downloaded finance apps. So first of all - Simple and Step are not an apples to apples comparison, because Simple was not a top downloaded finance app in 2009.

And then let's address the point of Step's valuation - someone cold emailing you to take their money at whatever valuation is in reality just trying to get a meeting. If you respond with a ridiculous figure, you won't hear back from them again. Sure, they are clearly not valuation sensitive, but also not necessarily total idiots. It actually sounds more like a brilliant move to me - if you were allowed to invest $5m in each app that hit the list of top downloaded finance apps, would you achieve a good IRR? Remember, all it takes is one unicorn to return an entire fund.

Would it be really that hard to dig into some unit economics of venture funds and try to provide some context for what's happening in the market rather than just ride the wave of "check it out, another investor doing crazy shit!"?
It doesn't look like it's fully open source. I'm just seeing community extensions and the Alfred plugin on the github page.
Even more bizarre is some of them make no sense...

Example:

https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1375509172549132289?s=...

Quote:
>There’s a big difference between talk and action. @SenSanders
has been a powerful politician in Vermont for 30 years and their min wage is still $11.75. Amazon’s is $15, plus great health care from day one. Sanders would rather talk in Alabama than act in Vermont.

Hes the US senator for Vermont. He is charged with being a respresentative for the state of Vermont for the Union of the United States and is responsible for 1/2 of the votes for that state on Federal Laws.

He is no more powerful than any other Vermont citizen in regards to their own state laws such as minimum wage...Its like they gave the keys to the account to some disgruntled intern....
I didn’t even know there’s a calculator app on macOS. I simply write formulas into Spotlight, and if I need history or variables or anything serious I launch an Octave prompt.
Sure but the luck here is the number of days until a sufficiently high tide. Imagine a simple model where every 28 days you get a sufficiently high tide and every other day is not sufficiently high, and the ship gets stuck (after high tide) on a uniformly random day. Then the expected time until the ship is unstuck is 14.5 days and the luck is how close you are to the time the ship can get free.
Very great but as I kept watching the demo video on the homepage, I felt like I was watching to learn python. Is there an ubuntu version of this?
Ask HN: Probability of merging your pull request
Recently somebody showed a service that provides the probability of merging your pull request per github repo. Does anyone remember it's name or has the link to it?
Thank god. This will make sure no one has access to Bitcoin, just like when we outlawed heroin and cocaine.
Metrics Metrics Everywhere
> so... we have Proof of Stake, in various forms.

And which one of those Proof-of-Stake forms are you already heavily invested in?
Looks fine? It is a big blob of undistinguished text. If you squint your eyes everything looks the same. The lack of column widths means your eyes have to do a lot of scanning especially on a bigger/wider screen. The lack of color/font/size differentiation means there's almost no information hierarchy to it. While we all might complain about advertisements and loading times, I for one are very glad we have moved on so significantly.
If you're using OS X, try using Spotlight or Alfred directly (Keypirinha[0] is a reasonable Windows alternative) - just type in `1 + 2` and you get the answer without launching a special app. There are plugins for conversions as well.

[0]. https://keypirinha.com/
True, but then businesses will pass the processing fee to the customer if they want chargeback protection. They could even incentivize and say: "pay directly and save 3%". For small purchases, are you really doing a chargeback anyways?
How would the gas fee work in this scenario?
>creating a big business opportunity for middlemen

...or decentralized settlement networks like LN.
Author here. Sadly, not without a current toolchain, plus all the custom changes for Mac OS 9 on top of NSPR and other pieces. CodeWarrior is a solid compiler but the classic Mac OS versions definitely show their age compared to modern gcc and clang.
>More than that, they believed each others gods were cultural representations of the same actual gods.

Ironically, Christianity kind of did the same thing, rather believing everyone else's gods were just demons or sorcerers in league with Satan. In further irony, this led to a lot of syncretism of pagan beliefs and rituals into Christianity.
Is there more information on this? The IRS are planning on adding this question to form 1040:

"At any time during 2020, did you receive, sell, send, exchange, or otherwise acquire any financial interest in any virtual currency?"

How literal is "currency?" I would consider currency different than "assets" from a tax perspective. Can anyone provide some clarity or articles which provide any?
The goal of such questions is not to find very competent engineers, but to remove most of the very incompetent.

It's one step above the fizz-buzz.
> it was meant to be seen, and it was

Are you sure about that? If anyone wanted to demonstrate their access/power, they would probably leave some way to identify themself as the author - with a half-hearted concealment like this, anyone could claim to have been the hacker.

The only way this discovery would help the hacker, is if they intended to force a security audit of the karma system and/or the move to GitHub.
VW accidentally leaks new name for its U.S. operations: Voltswagen
The final example in their intro video doesn't make sense to me. Can someone explain it?

Here's the text:
price = $8 times 5 $40
fee = 8% 8 %
fee on price in Euro 39.48 EUR

What does that mean? "fee on price" should mean "fee times price", right? So 8% of $40. That's nowhere near 39.48 EUR. Could it mean "price after fee is deducted"? But if so, it must have been made during a time when EUR was worth almost 8% less than dollars? Did that ever happen?
> At the end of the day it seems to me that any free society that supplies energy as a service shouldn’t be dictating what individuals do with that electricity as long as they pay for it.

This doesn't compute for me. We can (and do) have a free society that still has regulation. In fact, it's probably necessary for keeping it free.

Regulating resources is also critical---e.g., overfishing, mining, logging, etc.

Finally, I would say it's not the particular usage of electricity that should be banned here, but rather a particular action which currently has a negative* effect on society with no known positives beyond enriching a small number.

* If you want to argue that bitcoin currently has a positive effect on society then that's a separate argument. I'll actually concede if you show proof that its usage is driving solar up to a point that would not have been achievable otherwise, considering that fossil fuels are still predominantly used.
Thanks for the feedback. You're probably right, although in this case the clickable area doesn't move. I'll look into it!
My Sony WH-1000XM4 only connects to 2 devices at once. That's mildly annoying since I would like to connect it to 4 (Phone, Tablet, Laptop, Desktop). It stays paired just fine, but I have to regularly go to the bluetooth settings of the device I want to listen to and press connect. On all but one of those devices that's more work than replugging a cable.
https://i.imgur.com/uGHmeOI.png ... The 6th of October gave it away....
The same can be said of rape and murder.
The relevant comparison is "at the same age", and boomers still come out pretty far ahead. They had more when, say, they were in their 40ies.
Whoops, you're right. I didn't know that SOCKS only forwards data, not packets.
Not really "as a kid" but I had Latin for a couple years in high school.

Pro I guess is that it lets you read some classical literature although in 2 years I never got remotely proficient. In some ways it's easier than a modern language because you're mostly learning to read.

Con is mostly the obvious. You could be spending the time learning a modern language. (I also took 4 years of high school French. Never got very proficient in that either. It helps a bit when I visit France but I never spent enough time living it to get good.)
I don't think you can do the same in a movie, but I assume every photo used is heavily photoshoped. Sure the model looks awesome naturally, but no they don't look like that.
Author here. I looked at some of those (and I did recently dust off the classic Mac port of Lynx: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/02/maclynx-beta-3-really.ht... ) but they suffer some similar problems in that they are generally "toys" and won't view sites most people today would require as essential. The biggest bugaboo is JavaScript. Classilla's JavaScript is far more advanced than WaMCoM and Mozilla 1.3's, but it is still based on Firefox 3.0, which by modern standards is ancient. And that doesn't include what's missing from the DOM, either.
Except that it's not true and been debunked continuously the past few months over and over.

Most of this electricity is idle peak going to waste already and up to 60% has been via renewables that cannot be distributed globally like in my country of Iceland. Where we mine 11% of the Bitcoin network.

But sure, align with whatever anonymous author you think best suits your narrative by all means.
Are you on Big Sur?
> Whether linked list questions are appropriate or not is another matter, but at least they're in the correct domain.

It is not just "another" matter, it is THE matter. The correct domain is a vast space. The OP wants the interviewee to go through something they know instead of knowing more about the interviewee. It's lazy interviewing - it makes no attempt to understand the person's "appropriate" skills. If you care if they can program, you won't ask a LinkedList question. For the most part, neither the interviewer nor the interview would ever program a LinkedList apart from a few courses in university.