skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't taste much worse than pills-for-adults – unless you dislike bitter things, I suppose. The goal is to stop very small children from eating them, not determined 6-year-olds.
No issues with that, but surely tax gas by that same reasoning. My point is that fuel for vehicles is bad for the environment, we know that, yet gas in the US is very cheap and as a result there is no push for public transport which is cleaner and more efficient.

So for every post about how bad bitcoin is, it misses the point that there are older technologies, which are replaceable with cheaper, cleaner and more efficient alternatives now. But these are glossed over because bitcoin is the current target. If bitcoin dissappeared tomorrow i am sure that 90% of people who published an article about how bad it was would not switch to the next polluter. They would happily return to their status quo. Its disingenuous basically.
Yeah, it's all theater. A few weeks ago I opened a business banking account and the banker asked me what my company did, and I told her "I traffic underage girls, and sell methamphetamines". Woooo boy, she did not like that. It was an obvious joke and she knew it, but honestly, what criminal is going to tell the truth about their illicitly gotten gains?
This is missing the forest for the trees.

There isn't like, a piece of evidence presented here that any of this will matter.

Wyden and others introduce bills of little substance all the time, they turn the best polling headline / title into bills.

So in one perspective this is just politics as usual. Wyden's idiosyncratic donor focus groups ranked this highest this month and we're only hearing about it because this is Hacker News, and on some other forum there's some other bill we don't care about but also polled well with some other senator's donor focus groups.

This isn't saying much, that legislation is reactionary, but it's interesting the specific mechanisms nowadays are super-representative, super-cheap focus groups and polling, enabled by services like Facebook and Instagram that these bills, ironically, target.

Do these bills advance the cause of privacy? I don't really need location tracking data to guess that most of the time, you're at home or at work.

And if you're eeking out such a subsistence existence that you don't have a permanent home or you're jobless? The bigger injustice is that the government has set an adversarial sight on you in the first place.
Heh I wonder why you picked that year?
I really enjoyed the absurdist element to this. I think he is simultaneously advocating mindfulness and making fun of it, both earnest and satirical, obviously silly but also serious. Absurdism is great.
>The similarly sized house next to it sold for $149,000 in 2012. This is looking pretty bubbly to me.

But 2012 was also the absolute bottom of the worst housing slump in US history. If you averaged out the appreciation of a median priced home at the beginning of the housing bubble in 1998, which was $175,000 [0], at 3.8% annually, the historical average [1], until 2021, the median price would now be just shy of $400k. We currently stand at $350k median price, and that's with a generational tailwind of millennials (the largest generation in US history) now just starting to buy homes. The fact is that it's still the single best financial decision an average person can make, even at what seem like inflated prices.

[0] https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/

[1] http://www.fedprimerate.com/new_home_sales_price_history.htm
What exactly are you proposing be regulated?
Governments get all of their power from the people that constitute them. When people find a way to organize themselves that is a million times more efficient, then they will be superseded.
...or (since it's 2021) you could just use snowpack and call it a day.
Your linked consensus statement recommends against under 7 or over 9 hours, and says 7-8 is "most favourable".
You are incorrect.

Russia only has 3000 tanks in service. The rest are mothballed. That's not half, that's 75+%.

Even looking in total, the vast majority of these "12 000" tanks are in fact T-72s, 9000 of them. We already know how T-72s fare against modern tanks.

For sure, 3000 decent MBTs is a formidable force. But 3000 vs 1000 is not going to let Russia steamroll when their air force is set-up for defence and not offense. Even an advantage of 3:1 is not going to do you much good when your opponent has absolute air supremacy.

A Russian offensive into Western Europe will definitely get stalled, there is no question about it.
Now if only I could use legitimate tools to access my own Signal data on an iOS device.
> Not all parents are that involved

Then that's the root problem that needs to be fixed, and trying to invent ways for third party "experts" to "measure teacher effectiveness" won't help.

> a kid being bored in class isn't necessarily the teacher's fault

It might not be that individual teacher's fault, true; the kid might just be in the wrong class. But it still means there's a teaching problem.
And if you simply removed all the bitcoin miners, that would be the equivalent of saving 120 terawatt-hours per year. Or the equivalent of installing 20,000 large offshore wind turbines [1], for free, without any materials or construction or grid costs.

Does this proposal suggest that increasing BitCoin production could economically lead to the funding of anywhere near that many wind turbines? (Or, rather, many more, since much of that energy would be cannibalized by the mining.)

1. Average offshore wind turbine output ~6 million kWh/yr
Any court case where Cellebrite's tools have been used are now in jeopardy since the defence can just say that they were hacked by someone else. There's now reasonable doubt that Cellebrite can't be trusted. This damages their reputation with governments too.
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My immediate reaction was "Oh, web Cobol".

Edit: By the downvotes, I'm guessing people think it was a lazy attempt to poke fun. It's not though :) Cobol has a very repeated VERB->NOUN->ADVERB->ETC sentence style pattern that's very similar to what's in that snippet of _hyperscript above. Like:

DIVIDE NUMA BY NUMB GIVING RES-DIV

PERFORM VARYING LoopCount FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL LoopCount GREATER THAN 4

And so on...
The End of History for Programming
Well, you might also enjoy some of these: https://zaiste.net/posts/shell-commands-rust/

I definitely recommend the grep and find alternative, a lot more intuitive.
Passed the Wendt/Cheers Line two years after Tesla was founded and three years before he became CEO.
Do you have some examples of newer games that are more refined?
Canada, Australia & New Zealand (and I'm sure many other countries) have done an excellent job providing money to people who are stuck at home because they can't go to work. Here in Canada it was $500/week for 28 weeks, then you moved onto a different scheme if you still needed support. Everyone who needed it go it. We have not been desperately waiting for a pittance of $1200.

Be careful not to generalize that all democracies have done a poor job just because some have.
Then they will need to get used to driving 3 hours a day
Unfortunately, we cannot be sure it is low for today's academia. So many people working there, with nothing useful to do other than flooding the conferences and journals with papers. They are desperate for anything that could be published. Plus, they know that the standards are low, because they see the other publications.
Doesn't part of PageRank involve sites linking back to the dail mail? Isn't it possible they just aren't referenced as much as others?
They didn't actually say anything of the sort. They may have implied some stuff. Anything they did imply wouldn't be an active attack though, it would be a passive one, triggered only if Cellebrite tried to gather data from the Signal app on phones. Not gathering info from a phone, or not gathering Signal data from a phone, would both be ways Cellebrite could avoid this potential passive attack.
Python Packaging Guide for Apt/Debian
> Even Wikipedia's co-founder agrees

Those are some odd examples...

On one hand he complains Obama's article doesn't mention the Benghazi Attack, when that's actually listed as one of the events during his first term.

On the other hand Trump's article doesn't mention the 2019 attack against the US embassy in Baghdad.

The choice of topics after that doesn't help dispel the notion of the author having a bit of an bias issue himself: Abortion, Jesus (a whole lot of that), global warming and vaccines. It's like a best-of of the deeper ends of American conservative talking points, the only thing missing is 2A and some good old "teach the controversy".

Particularly that Jesus part is very difficult for me to take serious: Recognizing that the biblical Jesus is mostly a myth is not "bias", as much as it might offend some religious sensibilities.
> I'd sign up in heartbeat to take a gun to China

I'd send the two of you to bed without any supper for posting such shameful tripe to this place. Please review the site guidelines and stick to the rules so we don't have to ban you—regardless of which country you have a problem with, or how fond you are of grandiose rhetoric. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892834.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To me the most promising area of blockchains in publishing is NFTs. The author only spends a couple sentences on them:

NFTs, or something similar implemented without blockchain, may be an interesting niche market, but I don’t see how it could revolutionize publishing. As of today, it looks like many creators who try NFTs don’t earn even a penny.

A lot of revolutions happen when a niche gets bigger and bigger until eventually it's really big. It's pretty early for NFTs and they seem more likely to revolutionize the art market than the publishing market, but these don't seem like great criticisms of NFTs to me. It's small now, and most creators can't make money on NFTs, but those same criticisms would apply to any of the past revolutions in publishing before they happened.

There's just so little funding right now for areas like short fiction. Is it really so unthinkable that NFTs could become the primary funding source for it? Or that in the future something like "new meme development" could become an important, profitable type of publishing, whereas now we just assume that it's done for free.

To be fair, I do think it's more likely that Substack revolutionizes publishing than that NFTs revolutionize publishing, but I think they both have a shot.
That's use it or lose it budgeting for you.

Kind of hard to justify the "APC maintenance" line item if the answer to "how much did you use that thing" is "never" so things like MRAPs and the swat team get used in situations they shouldn't be just to inflate their usefulness on paper.
For now unfortunately you have to turn on "Optional diagnostic data" - aka "full spy mode" - to access this feature.
> It means having a realistic shot at winning the title

"If Leicester City win the premier league I'll do MOTD in my undies"
Do you start a company, just to try out a business idea?
It would be preferable to have a registered company when launching a saas, just to not be personally responsible for issues with GDPR, terms of use and such things. But, at least here, it costs about 2500$ to register a business. How do one think about this in the early stages, when you are just testing your ideas with the market? It is a bit expensive if it does not succeed.
Very much appreciate boilerplate tools, they often come with sane defaults and avoid configuration hell when you just want to get started. I just wish there was some easy way to version them, so you can migrate from an older boilerplate to a new one.

I quite like how React Native does it. They have git diffs of a created project for each released version. So if you want to migrate from version A to B you just see the diff and apply those changes yourself.

Not ideal but it really helps when you want a good mix of configurability while avoiding incompatible divergence.
There are some activities that should be "intimidating to newbies" though, shouldn't there? I can think of a lot of specific examples, but in general, anything where significant preparation is helpful in avoiding expensive (or dangerous) accidents. Or where lack of preparation (or intentional "mistakes" like in this case) would shift the burden of work unfairly onto someone else.
Also, a "newbie" in the context of Linux system programming would still imply reasonable experience and skill in writing code, and in checking and testing your work.
Efficient Attention Nets Support with RLlib (RL Library)
Improve developer ergonomics. Standardize the boring parts of your projects. Simplify code. Fix flaky tests and flaky automation.

Keep a calm, steady frame of mind, so you have a more uniform appreciation of time passing. Don't fall into a busy frenzy or a puzzle-solving trance that allows a haphazard or complicated way of doing things to feel quicker than it really is. Don't let boredom blind you to the virtues of smooth, simple things.

A common mistake people make is identifying boring, predictable tasks as the most urgent focus for improvement. This is misguided. A task that is boring and predictable is already well-engineered. It can and should be further improved by automation, but much bigger gains come from standardizing the tasks that seem to go differently every time, the tasks that are typically handled by the most experienced developers. Making an "interesting" task boring saves much more effort than the subsequent step of automating it.
Yeah, especially when the researcher begins gaslighting his subjects. He had the gall to call the maintainer's response "disgusting to hear", and then went on to ask for "the benefit of the doubt" after publishing a paper admitting that he decieved them.

For comparison, imagine that you attented a small conference and unknowingly became a test subject, and when you sit down the chair shocks you with a jolt of electricity. You jump out of your chair and exclaim, "This seat shocked me!" Then the person giving the presentation walks to your seat and sits down and it doesn't shock him (because he's the one holding the button), and he then accuses you of wasting everyone's time. That's essentially what happened here.
Exactly. Since when is "people will sometimes believe lies" a uncertain question that needs experimental review to confirm?

Maybe that cop convicted yesterday was actually just a UMN researcher investigating the burning scientific question "does cutting off someone's airway for 9 minutes cause death?".
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Thanks. I meant that `tsc` has no `--bundle` flag
Sean Astin is the greatest BASIC programmer of our generation
I see you do not have a child.

I hate the trite “oh, you'll know when you're a parent!” stuff as much as the next person, but… have you met a one-year-old? So curious, and so quick to eat new things: a bad combo if I've ever seen one.
> Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "stoppage"?
When players or coaches call timeouts (I don't know if this is the official name), even tho there is no clock to interrupt, to interrupt the flow of the game at key moments.

> I don't understand what you mean by your "dishonorable gameplay" example. What does amortizing a ball mean to you?

It took me some time to find out, but this is what I was refering to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunt_(baseball).

Now truth be told, one thing that makes me love baseball is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gaedel#At_the_plate.
that is depend on who you are asking. if i am taking "no nonsense" aproach then some people are having no problem. but other people, include especialy woman, are say that it is not "nice" and that there is some problem even if it is neither "mean".

also here we are seeing persons are having no interest in "growth and improvement", they are not even creating the good faith contributions to project.
that's not even what democracy means.
I'm not sure the Tories love them per se, just that they don't really care enough either way to make a difference. The DfT civil servants and Highways England do love them though, largely on cost grounds (it's a lot cheaper to convert existing hard shoulder into a new lane than widen an old style road).
If you put your head in a plastic bag and tie it off tightly at the neck, you're literally guaranteed to not die from Covid. Which highlights the idea that you really have to consider the costs and downsides of any Covid prevention measure, something that is often not addressed by many people supporting draconian anti-Covid measures.
"Misleading readers of a journal" might actually cause more damages to all of humanity (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt) than inserting a security vulnerability (that is likely not even exploitable) in a driver that no one actually enables (which is likely why no one cares about reviewing patches to it, either).

Thought to be fair, it is also the case that only the most irrelevant journals are likely to accept the most bogus papers. But in both cases I see no reason not to point it out.

The two situations are much more closer than what you think. The only difference I see is in the level of bogusness.
Agreed. And add in having easily-viewed diffs over the course of the bill’s evolution, so we can see who’s making which changes.

But there’s a lot of inertia against changes like this. And hard limits on bills mean there’s less horse-trading to help certain legislators sign onto a bill (which often might be pork). Not a great realization, but it’s part of how bills get passed.
I think it is interesting that the writer of that article pointed out that the total adds up to 143% because multiple choices were allowed, but then argues that the real number [of people who can actually afford $400] is 86% by adding two of the choices. The entirety of the 36% could potentially be included in the 50%.
I have regrets. It's really weird, super bitter.
So many people here who clearly didn't bother to read much (if any) of the paper talking about how the headline is "obviously" wrong. If it feels "obviously" wrong to you, it's because of your preconceived notions and biases. How about reading the paper before making fools of yourselves?

A couple points for the extra lazy:

* Renewable power generation from wind and solar has a much higher ratio of wasted power because they have such high variability in output. Because of this, in cases where the power generally can't be cost effectively stored or supplemented (by dynamic increase of dirtier energy), wind and solar simply won't be built in favor of coal plants. Bitcoin mining can use this wasted energy, which increases the revenue that can be generated by renewable sources, thus making it more likely that areas will choose renewable over coal.

* Bitcoin mining is a fixed quantity: so the more mining done using renewable energy, the less will be done with coal power (so when SamBam mocked this paper by saying "If we double the amount of electricity used on the planet, people will need to spend more on solar panels!" He completely didn't understand the zero sum aspect of bitcoin mining).

* In fact, this has a more pronounced effect because players in the market who aren't as efficient can see their margins decrease below the point of profitablity. Since otherwise wasted electricity is cheapest, more and more bitcoin mining will be done using it, which means less and less will be done using usable electricity.
I'd be curious to hear some numbers on the percentage of active users with Nitro subscriptions. Slack's business model makes it easier for them to make monthly revenue off passive users (by encouraging teams/companies to over-provision and also double-dipping in the user overlaps between teams/companies), so in some respects it incentivizes them to optimize for passive users. The Nitro/Server Boost business model is likely to have fewer passive users paying the subscription costs recurring monthly and doesn't as easily double/triple dip users (unless they intentionally and optionally overpay for server boosts), but it incentivizes the company to keep active users happy.
Same experience here. We were lucky and with just a few adjustments are being able to cope quite well. It does require for me and my partner to go to bed earlier to have more of our sleep overlap with baby's, otherwise it'd be hell. But at the same time we get up earlier, too.
People do this with static analysis tools all the time. It’s obnoxious but not necessarily malicious.
How does an IRB usually work? Is it the same group of people reviewing all proposals for the entire university? Or are there subject-matter experts (and hopefully lawyers) tapped to review proposals in their specific domain? Applying “ethics” to a proposal is meaningless without understanding not just how they plan to implement it but how it could be implemented.
My bad, I copied the wrong link (edited now). I meant to link to the largest systematic review I could find[0]. Instead I had linked to the US recommendation which I was initially thinking of linking for the part where most over-recommend 8-9.

Relevant part:

>that compared with 7 h of sleep per day, a 1-h decrease in sleep duration was associated with 6% increased risk of all-cause mortality and a 1-h increase in sleep duration was associated with a 13% increased risk of all-cause mortality (N = 241 107 adults in 43 articles).

With again, the bigger effects being under 6 but even with an per-hour average the risk from 7 to 8 is higher than 7 to 6.

0. https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/apnm-2020-0034
Could someone clarify: this made it to the stable branch, so does that mean that it made it out into the wild? Is there action required here?
Same. Honestly, I only have not-nice things to say about Node, JavaScript, and its ecosystem, so I should probably just shut up.

But I was like you- I picked up Node because we had an existing project in it. It only used libraries that had the most "stars" or whatever on NPM and they were all pretty deficient (and some were shockingly slow). But none were so frustrating as Sequelize.
This was absolutely the right move. Smells really fishy given the history. I imagine this is happening in other parts of the community (attempting to add malicious code), albeit under a different context.
FigJam might be (and has the potential) the best product ever launched since the beginning of COVID.
What really scares me is that it feels like in today's climate, the press would not even touch a story like the Snowden leaks. Not only that, but any outlet that did would be labeled as a spreader of misinformation, and banned.

After all, it's a conspiracy theory, which means it's verboten.
> That is a subjective take that's mainly in your head.

Wow that’s gaslighty
As much as I love the spirit of the GDPR it hasn't done much other than add in an extra layer of annoying float over bars to webpages harassing me about cookies.
If you want the global sport then use global football revenue. If you want apples to apples for a regional league then compare US to Europe or normalise by population for a single country.
I’m sorry that you’re in this situation.

A corporation, and particularly a C corporation, is the most formal type of US business entity. For example, most of the publicly-traded US companies are C corporations. I believe the rough Slovakia equivalent would be a private A.S., or at least more formal than a J.S.A. That’s why the regulations assume that you have some amount of capital and that $109 is not a barrier. LLCs, sole proprietorships, and S corporations exist for smaller companies and don’t have as many filing requirements. Many or most startups begin as LLCs or S corporations, especially those which don’t raise outside capital from the very beginning.
That’s nothing. I’ve quadrupled the number of cigarettes I smoke a day. Granted, I can’t climb the stairs any more without having an asthma attack, but I think you’ll agree that reducing my risk of infection from hardly anything to almost impossible is surely worth it.