skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree the current plan is very weak, the article doesn't have any true specific points or proposition... just generic points.

Anyway, it Seems like the current proposal is a Obama 'shovel ready' infra plan 2.0, it didn't accomplish anything meaningful and lasting to the country. This looks the same.

I would have loved to have seen some true high-speed rail proposition, yet it doesn't contain anything like that. Biden is not looking for some true meaningful change, just more of the same stuff.

note: if you want to revitalize small towns centers/cores, trains are the best options. If you travel in europe, especially in Germany, in almost every medium town at its core/center there is a train station. It creates an ecosystem around it.
Roads to lead to more sprawl and the typical strip-mall architecture.
True, I meant native TTS as an addition to current accessibility specs to all apps with content focused on reading.

e.g. News apps should have a play button on the top both for accessibility and convenience. Here's a discussion[1] regarding that on my problem validation platform with participation of someone with accessibility needs.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/200-human-voice-summary-of-news...
The OP-1 was very popular and well known well before the shortage and subsequent price hike.
I recall in Ukraine in nienties some mobile operators did not charge for the first few seconds of a call (I think it was 2 or 3). There was an art of communication around that...
Damn, no ragrets. Yo but how does it feel to be moderately rich off of crypto? I wonder if anything would change besides not having to work.
That's the thing. I am very sure perception was tainted by my own laziness and "falling for" populist PR and it took pure coincidence to see the real side! Sigh.
For all the people saying that there's no issue with thing in very low orbits, I'm going to suggest considering the following issues.

1. When that busy ~500km orbit has a collision, some pieces might be kicked up to higher orbits where they pose a risk to other satellites. There's also important things in lower orbits, like ISS.

2. Every satellite that falls back to earth from any orbital altitude has to pass through very low earth orbit.

Between 1 and 2, the debris is never going to be confined to low orbits where everything decays quickly.
>If the global internet goes down and stays down

It doesn't take anything this drastic. All it takes is the country you are in deciding to cut off access. This has happened in various unstable countries many times over the last decade so it's not unprecedented.

The very time you would need something more stable than a currency is the time when the local telecom infrastructure would mean you can't transfer bitcoin.
What can you do if you find it early?
The ability to ban people from specific threads might be a good idea.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26760891
I'm interested in what you believe, not what the law says. I think you're using appeal to the law as a way of avoiding having to defend your stated beliefs. If you don't understand what you believe or why, then it's a good chance to think about it enough to make a cohesive statement. Maybe your belief is simply "whatever the law says, I agree". That's fine but also the end of any productive attempt to work out what's right and wrong.
Thank you very much for this discussion
Well, rules can be simple and there can be few exceptions and people will still screw up, so I don't think that anecdote proves anything. In any case, my claim is that there is exactly one possible pronunciation per correctly spelled Spanish word. The opposite direction is not quite 1:1, but again, it's very close, and anyway it's far closer than English.
Obviously, not well. We would have to do statistical analysis on the outcomes of everyone who did lambda school and everyone who did traditional CS at community colleges to reach any kind of meaningful conclusion. My main point is that comparing to the whole university system is pointless. Also, if we narrowed our focus to community colleges, they're typically very inexpensive and free for low-income students.
I’ve done it in such a variety of ways and splitting bets with buddies that it’s become a giant pain to figure out the net profit, but it has been relatively good——it’s definitely not getting me to retire anytime soon. You learn where a lot of the randomness is (heavyweights who can kill each other in a single hit), and where people are able to have asymmetric control of the fight (overwhelmingly dominant wrestlers determining where the fight takes place). Betting on the better wrestler who isn’t extremely outclassed on the feet will probably get you close to +EV.
I disagree on the train provided the route is built on an already heavy commuter route.

Even if they need to rent a car at the other end that's still a huge net benefit to reducing the load on the route as it exists now, as well as increasing the overall system efficiency.

And putting trains on tracks is easy. You aren't building trains you're building train track routes that can be used by many trains.
The first example with all the empty towns... Yes, it absolutely is less wasteful to have a single building in a big empty parking lot than to build a large city with no occupants. What am I missing???
I live in Columbus, Ohio. There are talks about expanding lines from here to Cleveland and Cincinnati and other locations. I love the idea of that, but it's just not a good use of money right now. There's nowhere to go once you get there. You need walkability. If you get there and have to rent a car most people would save the $100 or whatever and just drive an hour and a half or two hours.

And yea the east coast is different. Is the west coast? Idk. For most of the rest of America it's unfortunately not feasible in the current state of things. There are exceptions of course.
Can you please tell me what unique/good about this class you are referring to?
In almost every part of the US and almost every situation, the taxes you pay are based on the place you live, not where you work. For most cities, commuters who drive into the city just to work and then drive out are a terrible liability, because they wear out the roads driving in and out every day, then pay their property taxes (which is typically the large majority of local revenue) to a different city.

I believe NYC may be a partial exception to this as I know it has local income tax (which is very rare), but I'm not sure if they charge that to people who don't also live in the city.

Other exceptions are some towns that have almost no residential and a lot of commercial, and collect almost all their income from sales tax.

But, again, those are the few exceptions, not the norm.
antitrust law uses tests like pricing power which identift empirical monopolies even where a player may a minor (by marketshare) player in a typical descriptive market segment. (Also, even relatively weak US antitrust law regulates various behavior of non-monopolies.)
Some of the propellants (especially the hypergolics) are pretty toxic. However, Soyuz, Long March 5 (and later), Falcon 9, and Delta III (first stage) all use high-grade kerosene (RP-1 or its Russian equivalent) and liquid oxygen. Jet-A isn't too far from high-grade kerosene. Ariane 5 uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in its first stage. Many of the smaller players use RP-1/LOX, and some of the next-generation rockets will use methane/LOX propellants.

Though, the Delta III and Ariane 5 boosters do contain ammonium perchlorate, which is worse for the environment than jet fuel.
Build some maglev trains literally anywhere.
Yeah this was big among my age group in Australia too, in the late 80s early 90s. Pay phones only charged if the other end picked up, so it was an easy way to tell dad to pick you up or that you’d be late.
>All existing feeds will continue to serve uninterrupted...

I hope so. And I hope that "serve" means they'll continue to exist in the same formats at the same URLs. Feedburner RSS feeds make up 107 of my ~1100 feeds. It'd be a hassle to change them.
I think it's worth wondering whether or not he still holds any of the opinions expressed in the article. It looks like it was written over a decade ago.
Interesting. Hopefully it doesn’t suffer from the mouse model flaw.
This is not a solved issue and bounties simply result in a lot of free work with no assurance of being paid, and there is nothing the company can do to fix that which doesn’t result in the company being taken advantage of.

There is no way to compensate based on code amount or code commits or anything.

Feel free to change my view! But basically you just need to sign on everyone and pay them based on time with bonuses based on milestones. Or just hire people the normal and time consuming way.
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Subsidized in what way? If he's a mile from commercial buildings he doesn't live in one of those gentrification bubbles fifteen minutes from downtown, he's in a small town. The kind with more undeveloped than developed land.
Can you go wrong with a professor that says, "I fucking love databases"?

His videos are top notch. Passion creates good quality.
> Mastercard has long prohibited merchants from engaging in unlawful activity on its network.

I'm glad to see more corporations stepping up and enforcing laws and morals. In today's fast moving world, courts and due process are simply not fast enough, and the law itself can be slow to catch up - after all, doing business with Pornhub was never ruled illegal.
No, it was the fact that Apple fixed people's out of warranty phone so that it wouldn't suddenly go dead that suggests they fixed it.

Google, on the other hand, lost it's court case after refusing to fix a known defect that had Nexus phones die while reporting they had more than a 50% charge remaining, and staying dead until you connected them to a charger.

>Nexus 6P owners eligible for up to $400 from Huawei and Google in class action settlement

https://www.androidcentral.com/nexus-6p-owners-eligible-400-...
> This is all feeling very dotcom bubble 2.0.

Yeah, what a shame, that Internet thing never really took off.
Capitol Police Told to Hold Back on Riot Response on Jan. 6, Report Finds
What would be amazing is a tool that analyses the script first, figures out folders and files (and networking) it influences and allows to sandbox it accordingly.

This script wants to modify:

- /usr/local/program/*

- /etc/program/*

- $HOME/.program

Do you want to execute this? [Yes/No]

..because you know, what happens when you execute a script that does rm -rf /usr in the 100th step?
> I've faced this over and over again. Writing algorithms is hard when the underlying data is not optimal. It simply invites writing complicated code and workarounds.

This is actually one of the reasons I am moving more and more to functional programming for myself. I find that modeling the data as just data makes it easier to find a good representation. And that it usually results in simpler algorithms.
It would be awesome if this could be integrated into GNOME, KDE and the other open desktops as an accessibility feature.
We know it's hard to predict the future, and how research might be useful - lasers are a famous example. So yeah, research institutions tying research to the value of the contributions, instead of rewarding quality research is maybe worthy of criticism (but sadly common).

Personally, I'd guess it's the two-faced-ness of it all is a bigger one. Not being supportive, i.e. demoting/blocking tenure for Karikó, while at the same time being happy to patent the research, trying to use it as PR 7 years later (once it was shown to be useful), and potentially strategically omitting details. Just leaves a bad taste behind when you find out about the background. Probably without the PR, there'd be less criticism.
It's both. Language changes, but at any particular time, there's some consensus about what's correct and incorrect. You can ignore it if you want, but people will think you're ignorant.
> I do live in the suburbs, and it's not all bad. It's easy to get in my car and drive a mile down the road and get a coffee from McDonald's, what's not to love?

[U.S.] Suburbs become unpalatable once you live somewhere that actually cares about public transit and designed the city accordingly. E.g. Seoul. With mixed residential and commercial businesses, one never has to walk more than 5 minutes to get groceries, if that. Trains and busses will take you anywhere you want. Of course, you can still have a car, but it simply is obviated unless you have a specific need to move furniture, etc.

After having experienced that, I absolutely detest having to hop in my car to drive and get groceries, etc, because there is -nothing- but houses in my suburb area. It makes me rather depressed knowing what people are missing out on, what life is capable of being like. A well-run, comprehensive train and bus system like that will probably never happen in the US.

edit: I am speaking specifically about suburbs in the US. I don't think other countries design suburbs nearly as car-centric and isolated as the U.S. does.
You make this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26775235

Which is riddled with errors. Make a well cited annotation of the errors.

You say you addressed my comments "elsewhere" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26783664

I ask you where.

Your response is a deflection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26784172

My interaction with you has only undermined my confidence in GrapheneOS (especially considering seba_dos1's perspective, and he is a person I have worked with and I trust his judgement). I have no idea why you think I would listen to you about LineageOS.
I think it will increase pork, because every congresscritter is a gatekeeper and their job is to bring home the bacon.
That’s a simple but brilliant solution.
The lack of tax on fossil fuels to offset fossil fuels’ externalities is the biggest subsidy.
That’s not what that means. It has nothing to do where income is earned. Suburbs are expensive to maintain (and incredibly harmful for the environment), and so of two people working in the city centre, the one living in the burbs receives far more subsidies than the one living in the city. The taxes of the city dweller (which are higher than those in suburbia) are used to subsidize suburban infrastructure.
Yup, that's true. In Python, generally if you want to only compare equal to the same type, you would use the NotImplemented value to implement:

class MyClass:
def __eq__(self, other):
if not isinstance(other, MyClass):
return NotImplemented
else:
# whatever your comparison is

When NotImplemented is returned, there is a fallback sequence described in https://docs.python.org/3/library/numbers.html#implementing-... - where basically, in the expression `A == B`, if `A.__eq__(B)` returns NotImplemented, then `B.__eq__(A)` is checked as well (falling back to an `is` identity comparison if both return NotImplemented).

This is neat because it allows you to define a class B that can compare equal to an existing class A with the expression A == B, even though class A has no knowledge of B.
It seems to me that "believe experts" is somewhat analogous to Catholicism, and the contrary to Protestantism.

And I think that Christians over the centuries have had very good critiques of both amid the wars and persecutions.

The experts are not necessarily reliable, may be corrupt, need to have checks and balances.

But the average person is not as smart, not as educated, and can be led astray.

It's a never ending conflict because there is no simple answer as to which is best.
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TBH that's a perfectly valid reason in itself.
Two main points he is missing about the infrastructure/jobs bill:

1) it is primarily about pumping out some working-class jobs, quickly, before we have too many angry young men turning to criminal activity in the cities, driving even more people (and businesses) out of the cities, in a downward spiral. This isn't "investment", it's more like a blood transfusion.

2) if our system were more democratic than it currently is, the infrastructure would not be less auto-centric, it would be far more automobile-centric. If it were put up to a vote, there would be >2/3 in favor of automobile as the only infrastructure getting worked on. Not saying that would be wise, just that it's not the undemocratic aspects of America's system that cause it to be auto-centric, it's the democratic aspects.
This is honestly absurd
Plenty of cities collect income tax from workers who do not reside in the city. Our is half the amount collected from city residents.
Worth noting that the game came out in 2011, and they wanted people to be able to play it on laptops. They were aiming for really minimal computation.
The subsidies come in the form of infrastructure spending per capita when the spending source is at the state or national level:

Roads that serve few cars.

Electricity infrastructure from the power plant to the suburbs.

Water infrastructure (pipes need to bring clean water in and sewage out)

Not to mention the racist history of the reasons for subsidizing suburbs. White flight followed by redlining and deeds that prevented suburban housing from being sold to African-Americans. Followed by a neglect of city infrastructure as black residents moved in.

Edit: Since I’m being downvoted for daring to suggest that suburbs have a racist history, I’ll leave a recent stratchery article to explain.

https://stratechery.com/2020/dust-in-the-light/
No, the biggest subsidy is the $1,000,000/year I'm not charging them for reading my comment. After all, the null policy is not the reference policy. ;)
Does this say more about the people who use OP-1 or the people who use Instagram?
That's all well and good. But is the maintenance tab for the roads, water, sewer, power, and telecom that you need actually paid for?

Probably not. But you won't know until it falls apart.
Municipalities pay for their infrastructure {1} from land taxes. The per-unit costs of suburban maintenance {2} vastly outweigh the per-unit taxes colleected.

The inverse is true for dense urban units: per-unit costs for urban units are far lower than the per-unit taxes.

{1} (roads, sewers, water treatment and distribution, waste collection...)

{2} (repaving once every 20 years, repainting once a year, repairing sewer pipes every 40-60 years, water pipes every 80 (unless they were installed in the 50s-80s, in which case every 30), etc)
Wow. Am I interpreting that correctly? Lower orbit stuff falls out of orbit pretty fast while the higher orbit stuff just kind of stays there.
The other big issue is the ambiguity of the vote: dis/approval, dis/agreement, or low-/high-signal?

I think agreement and interesting (signal) need separate votes. It could also be nice to have a hilarity vote that can be de-prioritized, allowing optional entertainment value without shunning it completely.

Also, flagging should be reserved for absolutely deplorable comments, not microaggressions or score-settling.
As a former NYC resident who now lives in it’s burbs, you only pay the city tax when living in the five boroughs.
Are you talking about about both Burroughs B5000 and Lisp Machines having a tagged architecture[0]?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_architecture
His electricity rates are the same for his house than for the nearest town center, even though it takes a lot more money to build and maintain power lines to his home than it does to pay for wiring town centers.

Just one example.
There was a story not long ago a out someone paying a very high ETH amount for a simple ethereum transaction. Apparently with the right technical combination it is possible to guarantee that your miner will receive the mining fee. This makes it a good option for laundering.
Nice...looking forward to seeing this evolve!
Cool. But it still doesn't say how. Except
"Cracking the case."
People have such curious idea of what a suburb has to be like.

I live in a suburb in the UK. We have groceries in walking distance. I can get a train or a bus anywhere I want. This is all achievable without building a metropolis like Seoul.

I don't understand why people hear suburb and think unwalkable and no public transport. It's normal in other places.
That's still 10 years.

Does than mean we shouldn't judge Wolfram until 2031 at the earliest? I don't know...
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Yeah "just ignore them" is easy for me to say, but not that easy to do. I myself get plenty of those "tell me how I get started with X" emails to which I can't bring myself to reply "start with the docs". And I'm sure he already gets plenty of those support requests on account of his programming tips and courses alone...
Why "practitioner"? it really does not feel like the correct term.
I’ve lived 30 years in extremely well run and organized cities, with great public transport and used car only every few weeks for the longer trips.

I live now in a proper suburb and drive everywhere. And I enjoy it much more.

Not everyone values same things in their life the same. YMMV.
Some things.

WASM binary size is highly dependent on optimization level. If your WASM is anywhere near the size of your JS, something is off with your compiler settings. Since Rust and C++ are statically typed, compilers can use LTO to remove almost every unreachable instruction. JS, even with tree shaking, gets nowhere near this.

Default settings in Emscipten generate huge binaries. Rust without the "native" target or a bunch of configuration also does.

WASM bytecode is also more compact than JS. There's simply no reason the binaries should be even close to the same size.

The memory usage should also be different by and order of magnitude. WASM has basically no overhead above machine sizes for most types. Look at Benchmarks Game, memory use JS vs Rust. You should be seeing a difference close to that.

I can't speak for speed. But I can say I did a head-to-head comparison between the fastest pure JS PNG encoder I could find vs a C encoder transpiled to WASM, and the transpiled encoder was >10X faster.

It's hard to say if something is off in the benchmark or compilation but I find it hard to believe there's such a big difference between my tests and yours. Emcripten especially is not exactly easy to use and maybe a good place to look for size and speed optimization
> In almost every part of the US and almost every situation, the taxes you pay are based on the place you live, not where you work.

Income tax is typically based on both where you live and where you work. Property tax is based on where you own property. Payroll taxes (state unemployment, etc.) is mostly based on where you work. Sales/use tax is based on where you physically shop or where you live for other shopping.
Real consequences for the officers and a complete rejection of "we had no idea this was happening!"
Exactly. Routing infrastructure into the boonies is not cheap or efficient, nor are subsidies like the “6000lb vehicle weight tax deduction” which leads to people driving tractors around town.
Sure, but it doesn't fit into the traditional framework of "effective altruism". Collective efforts-based altruism is just very different in so many ways.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste" as they say - political concessions would be squeezed out of nations needing the vaccine but not able to pay for it. China is doing it, the Eurozone and US are doing it. Everybody is doing it.