skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes this concept is exemplified by the Oven of Akhnai story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oven_of_Akhnai

which underscores the idea that (in rabbinic Judaism—clearly other currents divided over this very issue!) human institutions were given responsibility for interpreting the law, including in ways that create leniencies or apparent loopholes. Although there is probably a better story or example about loopholes in particular.

Baked goods that many people are eating this week for Passover might be a good example, because a fair amount of food chemistry has gone into making some of them fluffy and bread-like, while still not technically being chametz. The mainstream interpretation is that the criteria for being "leavened bread" were authoritatively identified and fixed by rabbinic tradition, and that, if you stay within those criteria, you're fine, even if you produce foods that are subjectively reminiscent of leavened bread.

https://www.allrecipes.com/gallery/passover-bread-recipes/

https://www.allrecipes.com/gallery/passover-cookies/

https://www.allrecipes.com/gallery/passover-cake-recipes/

Fun fact: the oven in question is referred to as תנור (tanur). I wondered if this is cognate with "tandoor", and it is, as both terms were borrowed from Persian.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A8
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tandoor
Well, you made a lot of assumptions here. For example that a COO from a good tech company in the US would come to a small EU country to save a failing startup. Also, we needed some pretty specific knowledge to succeed and we did not even know we were missing it.

Our company checks with people working in the org to see if we want to take money from particular investors. We have rejected investors in the past because the values of the investors were different from ours. We take money from investors that we can align on the mission. I mean, there are so many more criteria than money - values, mission, control of the company (are we free to run the company as we like?), preference treatment (how much preference you give VC's on their stock? How much are you willing to reduce the risk of the investor by taking their terms?). We used to value such things and we continue to do so. I'm happy we paid a premium and would do so again.

I look at it the other way round - if you compromise on values / mission / control / other things that are important to you and people in the organisation - you can get more money.

I mean, but how did we get into a hole if we took all this smart VC money? We followed some of their advice (as well as our own misguided ideas). If we failed back then, we would have been just another company "destroyed by smart VC's".
The IE in the screenshots is IE 3.x (I think - judging from the swirlies in the toolbar background), which does have SSL.

The problem is it isn't going to have SSL versions or cipher suites that are compatible with the modern Internet so it's going to be pretty useless.
Meaning on good ole' paper, or in a government database somewhere that you have no visibility or access to. Is this preferable to an ownership record that you, the gov, or anyone else can verify from your phone?
I think the problem with observing interventions is it will result in impractically large sample complexity to derive the same causal conclusion as causal calculus armed with assumptions of DAG structure.

I think metaphysically speaking the approaches (observing interventions vs causal calc) aren’t meaningfully different in terms of inferences you can make with infinite data, see my similar observations to yours: https://vladfeinberg.com/2019/12/01/metaphysics-of-causality...

But if you can presume a fixed DAG you can get away with fewer observations bc then you can derive some minimal/cheap set of vars to randomize over such that the resulting experiment measures a causal effect. All causal calc does is give you a framework for clarifying assumptions necessary to derive such a set.

In high dims performing randomization is exponentially costly.
Windows classical UX was awesome:

- Menus

- Easy keyboard shortcuts with underlined keys in menus (Alt-F Alt-O!), and reconfigurable in general,

- F1 Help working everywhere,

- Unified keyboard shortcuts: F2 to rename, F5 to refresh (except in Lotus which closes entirely),

- Reconfigurable an draggable toolbars!

- Icons (those don’t exist in the web)

And so on. Treeviews! Lists with sortable and reorderable headers! They were awesome. It was the ultimate UI. Then they flattened everything and, worse than everything, came the time where treeviews disappeared and were replaced with infinite list sorted by “last document opened” like in Google Drive... That is what I regret most: Old documents being buried behind an infinite scroll, you can never be sure that you see and sort everything.
That headline is needlessly dramatic. It’s like the tag line for a movie poster for some cyber thriller.
It was possible, practical and happened. Collections were smaller because drives were smaller. MP3 became more popular by the end of the 90's, but a good 1995 machine, 100mhz pentium with 8mb of ram and 512mb harddisk, was 100% practical for playing mp3.
Isn't there a good chance that Southern soil deposits are depleted given the intensity of Agriculture?

Hard to know, but there is a decent chance that the migration of Agriculture further North could create even more food due to richer untapped soil.

Global-scale crop rotation.
Not all crime is sophisticated as you imagine. Most criminals do the first thing that comes to their minds. If they were highly skilled they wouldn't be committing crimes in the first place.
Otoh, linux used to take forever to boot compared to windows, now its speedier than windows.
Yes, you have a point. When IPads/Iphones first came out they were so usable that old people who never touched a computer or toddlers could use them without much direction, they were quite intuitive. They've messed up since then though, they've gone into a dubious direction. And the rest of the industry followed good and bad apple UI/UX decisions, some of them even poorly and we have a confusing mess, confusing and headache inducing at times even for the computer literate.
You could always download the card games from early versions of Windows.
Garmin Autoland is much more than "apply the brakes", as I understand. But it's still guiding your plane through an essentially empty environment, not something in the same ballpark as autonomous driving.
isn't it postcss/purgecss doing this on tailwind's behalf?

this process also strips styles that are not in the actual html/template files being scanned and are only shown in error paths or in some other way.

it also strips styles applied directly to tags (without class).

i find it quite messy to maintain purge ignore lists and making extra-extra sure that the removal regexp is correct as it can remove valid classes added/removed by templating libraries like jinja.

proper css coverage is more than a glorified grep that looks for all the tailwind class names...
This is huge.

Insider trading is a crime, Bloomberg is a institution.

This is another thread pulled from the weave of the organised criminal network known as "the Financial System"

Another brick in the wall....
.> Brocoli, cauliflower, lettuce... all highly recommended by every book. You discover the need for fibers very fast when starting keto.

Exactly, as a chef we had to match the fashionable diets to our patrons and if you include brussele sprouts to that you essentially lined out the trend veg of the last ~4 years.

I go into ketosis when I need too, and have found that prolonged states of ketosis to be too limiting for an enjoyable life if you love food. BUut I cannot imagine anyone who would simply remove veg from thier diet and believe they're healthy, their is a reason many body builder guys end up with colon cancer and intestine replacements due to an exclusively high protein based diet.
I disagree. Many of Apple's user-base believes that the platform is immune from viruses and malware. It's important to get the message out that it's no better (and may be worse) than other popular platforms. Especially since Apple claims their platform is "secure by design."
To the author: This website seems to use something called SmoothScroll (edit: a javascript library) which makes my scrolling really really jumpy/janky. I'm using chrome on a MacBook with the touchpad. Made it basically impossible to scroll around the page which in turn made it very difficult for me to read the article.
Didn't some of them respond to the "help" command, at least to list basic verbs?

I agree they were pretty hard to win, but at the same time, when you figured out the solution to a puzzle it was pretty satisfying.

Modern IF games play with this trope of "hard to guess the exact words/solution". Some will incorporate the wrong input into the theme, as in that spaceship game were typing invalid input will make the game respond with "bzzzt... didn't get bzzttt that... you're bbbzrzzt up, can you bzz repeat?".

In others, like Spider & Web, where you're being interrogated, the "wrong" action will make the interrogator respond "that's not what happened, don't lie to me".

In "Photopia" there's a maze puzzle you cannot actually win because the game is intentionally withholding information from you. When you give up, the game frees you by telling you the one detail you missed.

I do agree I didn't finish most of the "oldschool" text adventures, though.
All of the above, because it works at residential and commercial scale at the load with no line losses, and at utility scale utilizing the existing spoke and wheel grid model, and for cities we'll use the community solar model already popular today. Welcome to the present!
My first computer was a TRS-80 and it booted faster than any computer I've owned since.
> Handles have many nice properties, for example you use them to easily implement promises.

Confused, (how) is this different from pointers?
Do you mean an AST?
The is exactly the definition of insider trading. If you're working in a situation when you know material information about public companies and trade on this information, you can get caught.
> Kids who want to get into building stuff are inspired by Colin Furze, not by the guy down the street who makes wheelchair ramps out of pallets.

That's pretty dystopian. Kids have to be exposed to causes before they can possibly develop compassion for them. That puts it square in the parent's department.

I guess if you need to be that glory hound, you'll have to do it the old fashioned way: by earning it through your works. Whining extensively about it won't get you very much glory. Completely the opposite, likely.
Wait until you hear about Sykes-Picot and the Durand line.
I said I have "...and raised money for political organisations..."

Using the methods I outline.

Not proof, but I have experience and I tell you, done properly donations can be very lucrative.
I seem to recall a MP3 player that worked directly from DOS during that era. My computer couldn't play them in Windows, but could using the DOS based player around that time.
Yes. Brew is a crutch, and so network hungry. Nobody cares, but if you move to the mountains and want to do software development, a Mac will grind to a halt every so often for myriad reasons decided by someone at Apple, or just some dev accustomed to 100mbps.

Linux (Arch for me, but probably others) can be told to respect your personal situation, as opposed to dictating it.
England and Switzerland come to the top of my mind, I’ll need to dig for a comprehensive list.
640K ought to be good enough
Was about to post the same. This might be the most frustrating scrolling I've ever encountered.
Did you ever read the manuals? Every single one of them had a section that gave you an idea of basic commands common to all adventures, as well as ones specific to whatever the particular game was doing - Suspended's set of six robots, Enchanter's spellcasting, Deadline's character interation and interrogation, Nord & Bert's goofy wordplay, etc.
Had to google what is the default font for LaTeX. Ah, this one? Right that does look familiar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern

And the font itself was created by Knuth? Did Knuth invent like everything?
AST, CST, CFG, DFG, PDG, or any other data structure for representing a program. But I can't imagine it being done with a simple array or a hash map. The all end in T or G! How would you approach that with your way of doing things? I guess if you work on game engines this is a relevant problem? Or if not maybe a graphics data structure like a BSP? How do you do that without trees? Or a NPC navigation data structure? How do you do that without graphs?
From the HN guidelines:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
On a roll: skating booms in lockdown London
The most prominent example I'm aware of is the one I linked earlier in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26674988

It's still not going to be ready tomorrow, but it doesn't require building the eighth wonder of the world.
It's true, but only half the story. You'll only become functional in the language through trying to actually speak it. It's extremely important to have efforts focused on collecting data points, and efforts focused on conversing with real people.
I don't think it can be worse than Windows. Not immune, but definitely not worse.
Winamp was 1997.

I remember there was one software decoder that was fast enough in 1995, so I plugged in my Pentium/100 laptop to decode music and pass it uncompressed to my desktop Pentium/90 (which was too slow) over 10base-T!
How does something like this wind up on the front page? As of this comment, it was posted 48 minutes ago with 12 points , one other comment, and sits at number 5. It's a self-professed clickbait title, though the content is interesting.
it certainly beats leaving it in my bank account for a 1% yearly gain? I'm not going to let you take me down with you ;)
Win95 was kind of the intermediate between win 3.1 where it really worked that way, and later windows where its definitely not on top of a cosole based os.

If you boot into dos mode on win95 its just stopping the boot process at the start windows step, which is not that different from booting linux but not starting x windows.
I’m very skeptical about achieving FSD in the next few years, but I don’t think your giving them enough credit. Even if you’re limiting yourself to a known city, you still have to deal with human drivers and pedestrians doing weird shit all the time. That’s no small feat, even though it’s far from the ultimate goal of being able to pass out drunk in the back of the car while it gets you home safely.
Drugs are for people who cannot handle reality

Reality is for people who cannot handle drugs

Handles are for people whom reality drugs
FWIW, F97/S98 was when MP3s started to take off on my college campus at the time.
Brainfuck is “simple”. Much simpler than Golang, even! There’s only eight commands and that’s all you can do. It’s Turing-complete.

Of course this language simplicity means that programming in the language is much harder. To me that’s almost tautological: things the language doesn’t do for you become things you have to do yourself.
I dual-booted 2000 and XP for a time because 2000 was simply superior for meaningful work, while XP was good for gaming. And it looked like a toy, too.
Kids actually learn really slowly when you think about it.
Like I said before, I think local solar is great. But utility scale solar is an environmental nightmare. Look at Ivanpah. Do you want the deserts covered in that?
The ranking algorithm put it here.
The only kind of insider information that you get you in trouble is the one done by (relatively) small operators in the market. If, on the other hand, you talk to directors in a company and, based on the insider knowledge you learn from them about the business, make a large investment, then you're called a smart and sophisticated investor (the biggest example is Warren Buffet).
So FYI most of those are misleading. When he's typing into a terminal and it does {}+{} it's interpreting it as and empty code block, and then an unary plus on an empty object, similar to:

{
};
+{}

If you put parentheses around it, or assign it to a value and then print that value then {}+{} isn't empty string.
I'm relatively confident I had MP3 decoding software running on a 486 circa 1994/5. Even today, mpg123's website states "Plays Layer 3 in stereo on an AMD-486-120Mhz or (of course) a faster machine." and of course 48MHz ARM M4 microcontrollers can also play back MP3s.

cdda2wav seems to have existed by 1996.

the "quantum bigfoot" 1GB-and-up HDDs also in 1996 could hold several albums, especially if you ripped at lower rates like 64kBit/s.

I also recall exchanging MP3s on IRC with /dcc send, and am reasonably confident this was 1998 or earlier.

On the other hand, "On July 14, 1995, Karlheinz Brandenburg sent an e-mail announcing the .mp3 file extension had won a poll and announced that the old .bit file extension should no longer be used."

So while literally 1995 is early for people to have a "collection" MP3s on their home machines, the time before everyone had moved on _from_ Windows 95 sure overlapped with the mp3 era, especially for early adopters.
Although the naming is confusing, crowdfunding in the JOBS Act sense enables small-time investors to invest for equity. It’s different from crowdfunding in the traditional, product sense which is essentially just a preorder and was legal before the JOBS act.
That's possible because most of the server was already implemented in the OS kernel. The .c file only glues the components together.
mozilla killed WebSql because it lacked "developer aesthetics", now we got shit indexedDb nobody uses without middleware to ease the pain.

"Aesthetics and Web Developers" https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...
Both of these experiences are completely unlike mine, but I guess that goes to the variances in what people want and use.

The one thing I want in brew and don't have, is hugin. Nothing else I use is missing. Iterm and docker and other cask like installs can be ropey especially if they do update checks inside themselves.

I, probably a very simplistic user compared to others. YMMV.
I question the underlying assumption that the average person is more intelligent today than 100 years ago or even 20,000 years ago.

Yes, the Flynn Effect is real. IQ scores have risen internationally over the past 100 years, but that's more likely due to greater access to education and education systems that teach the kind of test-taking skills that IQ tests measure.

IN the US, the average GPA have been increasing for both HS and colleges, but that's almost certainly not evidence of an increase in general intelligence.

It takes for more intelligence to create today's technology and society than that of 100 or 20,000 years ago, but it requires far less intelligence for an individual to survive in today's society than it did to survive 20,000 years ago.

For example, 20,000 years ago if you wanted to eat you needed to be able to distinguish between dozens of subtly different berries and mushrooms with no books or reference works. Make the wrong choice and you die.

Today you just push a few buttons on your smartphone.

Edit:
Better nutrition has definitely had an effect on the average number, so I guess I'm really talking about a hypothetical well-fed human not exposed to toxic chemicals at any point in time.
In the US, separation of powers is an important concept. I think the reasoning is that if you give parts of the government extra authority beyond what's necessary for them to do their jobs, the damage due to some of them abusing that power in the name of the public good outweighs whatever extra advantage they have in actually serving the public good.

I don't know if this is true in every situation, but the IRS at least seems like an entity we should be wary about giving additional power to, since it already receives so much private personal information about literally everyone in the US.
Notice "most" and "not in tsunami endangered areas". By safely I meant following standard practices, not in areas in risk of being crashed by tsunamis. I did not mean no disaster can happen. Nobody can guarantee that for any industrial operation.

Yes sometimes people or nature do bad things that result in disasters. Disasters will happen with or without nuclear reactors.

I'm saying the serious disasters involving nuclear reactors are rare. Serious disasters because of nuclear reactors are rarer. Chernobyl was incompetence of personnel due to dysfunctional society + cheapest design without containment. It is not indictment of nuclear energy, but indictment of the soviet system. Fukushima wasn't as bad as Chernobyl, but it too shows problems with how government approached nuclear risk. I do not condone building plants like they did in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

> What if the government of the future cannot properly maintain their nuclear plants? Based on the past 100 years of history I do not believe this is merely a hypothetical concern.

We help them. West did help Russia with decommissioning of old nuclear equipment. I think that is a good strategy.

> There will be disasters in the future. You understand this concept, right?

Indeed I do. But it would be very stupid of us to stop advancing nuclear energy because we made mistakes in the past. We learn from mistakes and double down. I believe we can do it and we should do it.
Ivanpah is concentrating solar with heliostats, right? Not flat plate photovoltaic cells which is 99.9% of solar electric energy.
Anyone remember the "hipster winamp" Kjöfol?

Also there was an application, I believe called "gooey" that would automatically create a chatroom for any site you visit. So when you visit a site, there would be a chat for that particular url and people would chat in it.
The response, for the longest time, from a lot of MacOS users was that "Macs can't get viruses." No thanks, in large part, due to Apple's own advertising.

This led to decades of bad online practices on the part of Mac users, thinking that by virtue of using an Apple computer, they were immune to such attacks they deemed exclusive to 'viruses.' Malware was for someone else, they'd argue. Because they don't get viruses, they were fine.

As a result, one of the largest botnets for a time was a MacOS one. Flashback.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashback_(Trojan)

The headline isn't needlessly dramatic. It's dramatic enough to prove a point. Bad habits and lack of safe file handling is the most guaranteed way one opens themselves up to attack vectors such as the one demonstrated in the article.
Tying insider trading to a Bloomberg reporter is very rare, although it has happened before, and I linked to one instance above.

Because it is rare, it is newsworthy, particularly for the Columbia Journalism Review. Even if you don't care about journalism, the fact that one of the world's great news organizations and news wires has ties to insider trading should concern you and Bloomberg's top editors, because it's dirty. You just don't want your reporters abetting crimes if you can avoid it.

My guess is that Hammond will not last long at Bloomberg. This story is more about the reporter than about the insider trading. And it is less about the law, and more about journalistic ethics. It doesn't matter whether it is illegal for the reporter to tell Peltz that the story will come out soon; it is certainly against his agreement with Bloomberg.
It looks better and more functional than my Gtk3 based desktop environment on linux today. It's amazing how much the desktop environments have regressed in linux over the last decade.