skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not nearly that simple. You can essentially print an opinion based only in fact, both by picking carefully which stories you cover, and also which details of which story you choose to report. It's completely possible to frame the exact same story as either left wing or right wing using only facts.

If you want recent proof, look at that debacle with that Toledo kid. Some reported police shoot an armed thug, some report police shoot an unarmed kid. The video proof shows neither side is telling the whole truth.
Different training. Different level of accountability/liability/etc. Cops are not trained to deescalate, their are taught to have commanding control and respond aggressively. And they are trained to shoot to kill. They are also taught to fear a lot, the emphasis is on danger they are in.

And plus, this behavior is rewarded with promotions. And courts progressively removed legal obstacles to the above.
Design forces are very weak...

btw anyone saying that gravity is weak should try getting of this planet...
what are gold bugs saying right now? the general sentiment as well as the influencers in the space

are they saying that the market will correct and gold price will infact keep up with expanded supply of fiat? if so, do they give any time horizon for that?

are they rationalizing that it was already priced into the gold price?

or has the sentiment gone in favor of it just being a hard asset that they will purchase at any price just to get out of fiat, and dropping the inflation hedge part
Ah I see. I was only familiar with the latter advanced case usage
It feels like there are basic heuristics that too often people either don't know or forget to apply.

I recommend http://debuggingrules.com/ - it's a good book that lays out some rules that have always helped me. When people come to me for help debugging something, invariably they've skipped some of these concepts, and applying them usually gets to the bottom of things faster than randomly changing things (which seems to be a common, but ineffective, way to debug a problem).

UNDERSTAND THE SYSTEM
MAKE IT FAIL
QUIT THINKING AND LOOK
DIVIDE AND CONQUER
CHANGE ONE THING AT A TIME
KEEP AN AUDIT TRAIL
CHECK THE PLUG
GET A FRESH VIEW
IF YOU DIDN’T FIX IT, IT AIN’T FIXED
I still think chalk boards are superior due to the feeling and aesthetics. I had a chalk board of 2qm at home but got rid of it after leaving uni. I have white boards in the office and at home, and it's still superior to the Samsung Flip we also have, but nothing is even close to chalk boards. Not sure why. Feels down to earth? You feel more connected to the medium? I'm wondering how much of it is nostalgia (we had chalk boards in school) and how some of the next generations would see it. But the pencils still smell funny and the black colour of the pencil on your hands still sucks.

Now I want a chalk board again. So aesthetically pleasing, damn.
Agreed. I've eaten and had many drinks with Dan. He was generous. Never cared about throwing a few bucks down to help someone else eat or drink. We often had very large group dinners at conferences and Dan typically threw in a few extra to cover those who weren't as well off. (Standard practice for these things.) Definitely feels like a misread.
Too bad we can't just synthesize gasoline with electricity at a decent efficiency.
One major benefit of compiling to bytecode first is that bytecode is a more convenient shared source of truth.

For example, SpiderMonkey has two interpreter and two compiler tiers. The output of the parser is bytecode. We can interpret it immediately, and it's a convenient input to the compilers. It also simplifies transitions between tiers: for example, when we bail out of Warp, we resume at a specific bytecode offset in the baseline interpreter.

I'm not sure how you would resume at a particular point in the execution of an AST-based interpreter without agreeing on a linearized traversal of the AST, which is 90% of the way to bytecode.
Yassssa
I appreciate the clarification on codes versus zoning.

However I did some digging and found that there's a big difference between what the commonly used international residential codes allow, and what zoning commonly allows.

From an article on tiny houses [0]:

> Most of the country’s local building codes have been adopted from the International Residential Code (IRC) for one- and two-family dwellings, which contains size specifications like rooms (except bathrooms and kitchens) must be at least 70 square feet, while ceiling height must be at least 7 feet.

> Zoning regulations are based off more local factors, and determine the size requirements of your home based on what zone it’s located in. You will need to call your local zoning or planning department to find that info. Many cities and counties, however, have a minimum size requirement of 1,000 square feet or more for construction of a new home on its own land, according to Tiny House Community.

And from a separate linked article on minimum dwelling size to satisfy codes [1]:

> I find no requirement that the sleeping area or kitchen must be in separate rooms, and instead could be combined in a studio arrangement. So I believe it could be legitimately argued that a minimum legal area by 2015 IRC standards could be as small as one habitable room of 70 sq. ft. with sleeping area and kitchen, plus a bathroom as small as 18 sq. ft. while meeting minimum spacing requirements.

So it does kind of look like zoning is still the big cost multiplier, since codes say 88 square feet minimum (separate bathroom), while zoning in most cities/counties in the US mandate 1000 square feet minimum. Quite a difference. And that's before getting into minimum lot size.

[0] https://archive.curbed.com/2016/9/22/13002832/tiny-house-zon...

[1] https://americantinyhouseassociation.org/minimum-size-for-a-...
The simplest would be to make sure the addresses are not announced by the DoD,
which depending on the thinks they want to
test could matter, or could be irrelevant.
I'm in more-or-less the same boat, so I sympathize. There are nooks and crannies in every big city where you could have a semblance of a shop, but you're right. It's hard. Especially when you're not sure how long you're going to be around, so it's tough to justify investing.

That said, it is amazing how much some people do with so little. Look at Clickspring's work (http://www.clickspringprojects.com/). The man is a freaking virtuoso and I think his shop is 4 feet x 10.
It is now for regulation-compliant stablecoins. Also KYC checks and AML blacklisting.
Xandros has changed hands as several times over the years, but it looks like it's still around! It's based on Ubuntu instead of directly on Debian these days
> From TFA itself, they estimate they can offer a price of $171/MWh, while Lithium-ion batteries cost $367/MWh.

With absolutely nothing to explain the cost estimate, so you can put away "TFA" thank you.

A system like this with only a single weight is going to be a huge amount of work to set up each unit of capacity.

Also looking up the info I can find, I think they're calculating that rate over a 60 year lifetime.

Edit: Uh, did I say something offensive?
What happens when we'd put some microbes there now?
Your case to freely be racist with no repercussions is unconvincing. 4chan’s cover story doesn’t matter. It’s clearly a huge center for racism and other forms of discrimination. You’re literally arguing to use slurs.

4chan most definitely exists in the real world and is subject to its morals. It doesn’t matter if you use a slur at a private club, Internet forum or at home. It doesn’t change its offensiveness.
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> it takes 10 more units of work to distribute it across multiple computers.

That's just serialized work in a different form: in order for a computer to do a unit of work, it must be sent a unit of work. That's strictly serial -- a computer can't process a unit of work it doesn't have. So no matter how many units of work it takes to distribute the load, that's still 10 serial operations.

Amdahl wasn't only seeing things as separate chunks, with the parallelized work over one part of the code, and the serial work in a different part. The operations can be interleaved.
what you call 1:1 NAT is just called NAT by cisco, the stuff most folks think NAT is is actually NAT+PAT (like what you run on your home router with a single public IP)
> And then there's a class of problems that neither debugger nor print statements will help: many years ago a very junior co-worker was wondering why his C code was giving the wrong answer for some math. It took me pointing out that one of the numeric types he was using in his code was different from the rest

A debugger and watches on the values of concern absolutely will help with that (so will properly placed print statements), so its a really bad example. (Of course, strong typing helps even more with that particular case.)
Why does MicroStrategy think they are a 'market maker's just by buying bitcoin 8 months ago? Correlation isn't causation, and I won't accept anything about their bitcoin purchase affecting either the gold or bitcoin price without much more information.

Edit: also the bizzare implication that gold won't see $2k again. We're around $1750 right now.
I don’t want to live in a world where racism and discrimination are accepted. Pretty simple actually.
And yet here we are, in just the last few days:

1. Making organ "donation" default and you have to "opt out".
2. Talking about a 100% inheritance "tax" so parents can't leave their possessions to children.

Talk about fascism, most people can't even see it coming.
That isn't really how it works anymore. It's possible (and standard) to push any political agenda without ever stating an opinion directly. It's all about which specific facts you choose to report and which you choose to ignore. It's very easy to select and report only facts that make group A look good, or only facts that make them look bad. In that way, 2 news sources can give people the opposite opinion without anyone ever stating an opinion or saying something that isn't true.
I love this. We got so much traffic from StumbleUpon back then - good times.

"Unfortunately, we can't display this site directly, but it's worth to check out!"

Please add an option to hide these sites.
On the one hand:

> Could that task be performed by simply the right set of transistors, at the hardware level, no matter how insanely arranged?

> What shortcuts could be taken?

Seems to be suggesting ASICs as is done with Bitcoin mining. On the other about optical rather than electrical which could be more efficient, i.e. produce less heat.

I was expecting a completely different post about evolution of brains that operate with photons, and another jump to entangled ones.
I think you've taken
rileymat2's comment the opposite way than was intended.
Discussed yesterday:

UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corrupt data’ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26913037 - April 2021 (279 comments)

Some past threads:

UK Post Office: Error-laden software ruined staff lives - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26905528 - April 2021 (3 comments)

UK legal system assumes that computers don't have bugs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25518936 - Dec 2020 (24 comments)

Post Office scandal: Postmasters celebrate victory against convictions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24661321 - Oct 2020 (2 comments)

Faults in Post Office accounting system led to workers being convicted of theft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21795219 - Dec 2019 (103 comments)

Post Office hires accountants to review sub-postmasters' computer claims - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4143107 - June 2012 (1 comment)

p.s. I've changed URL above from https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/23/22399721/uk-post-office-s... to the BBC article it's based on.
I'm interested, and building something like that in Hawaii.
pychess has done pretty well for me, recently updated
I don't understand the excitement for finding life on Mars. I personally really, really hope we do not find life on Mars.

If we find even the most basic microbial life, NASA is going to shut down all future exploration in the interest of Martian planetary protection. China and Russia probably won't, but the US will cripple itself (again) out of caution.

On a more existential level, finding life elsewhere in the solar system (assuming it's not diaspora from earth or vice versa) says really dark things about our own potential. If life is truly common in the universe, the fact that we haven't seen it anywhere means that the great filter is still in front of us -- and nobody has slipped through.

OTOH, if the great filter is behind is, there's no data about our likelihood of killing ourselves before we do manage to explore the rest of the known universe. This is such a better outcome.
Makefiles (2016)
Ggez: Rust library to create a Good Game Easily
#3 is a negative if you decide to only build office space on the mall property. But one can choose to build both residential and office space. Like this actual project: https://www.gglo.com/project/northgate-mall-redevelopment/

Neighbors in single family suburban homes are more likely to be NIMBYs and block development, so insulation from them is a feature, not a bug.
Shhh, don't mention the PTFEs
We don't have "full" understanding of human body and working of mind. I suspect in future humans who take birth and grow in different scenarios like earth natural / earth urban / mars urban and so on to have different life spans and body capacities.
We probably have done this already, with the man made machines that we had sent. Although the NASA tries to sterilize the robots/rovers, I doubt that they can kill every bacteria and some of the bacteria are known to somehow survive when exposed to space as well.
What's more important: knowing if Mars had/has life on it or having life on it?
no. right to know.
I'm trying to figure out if we should legalize farming. We know that farming was heavily associated with slavery, so it's logical that farming should illegal.

Some progressive types keep talking about legalizing farming, but all I can think of is that it will increase the smuggling of humans to contribute to the farming workforce.
People believe machines because they don't lie. There is a cognitive dissonance between knowing that software is written by humans who make lots of errors and the believe that machines don't make errors.
Try the 1st Deus Ex demo and the addon map.
If you have multiple applications accessing a database, you can have data integrity maintained using something like triggers in the actual DB, as well as constraints.
Also tremendous amounts just on parsing C. I found Lisp In Small Pieces far more interesting.
How this got on the front page is a mistery.

Person orders wrong Dell, wastes Dell's time with support, a motherboard replacement (and a refund?).

All as a business expense (who want to pay taxes, right?)

The proceeds to lyric about it in 50 tweets.
>Always sell your old junk.

This approach isn't for everyone. There are serious costs in time to this kind of lifestyle. I could spend a couple of hours on YouTube tearing something apart and trying to fix it. I could spend time taking pictures, post something for sale, deal with idiots on Facebook who want me to drive 2 hours to give it to them for 10% of the asking price or trying to give answers about whether it was always kept securely in a vegan-friendly household, or I could not.

Time is one of the most precious commodities. We all get a strictly finite amount of it. Whether someone is working multiple jobs trying to make ends meet or fortunate enough to be working as a software engineer who is well compensated but seemingly persistently oncall, free time is the rarest thing in my life and consequently the most precious. Everyone has their threshold, but unless something is in the hundreds or dollars or I can sell it to a coworker who will literally come get it from my desk (or porch), most things are simply not worth my time.

I like taking things apart. I like building things. I have a wood shop in my garage, a soldering iron, and various other maker tools. But those are for things I choose to spend time on because I find interesting.
holy shit dude stop
I recall reading an article about studies showing that the majority of people who were hospitalized for COVID in some country (the UK?) were either obese or had vitamin D deficiency (which can also be caused by obesity). I can’t seem to find it now, but it raises some interesting questions: Does all of society need to restrict itself to accommodate the safety of those who, mostly due to their own choices, are unhealthy? Or should those who are at risk or simply risk averse restrict themselves instead of demanding that all of society change so they can still retain some freedom for themselves? Should a child lose two years of socialization and education or should the obese adult just stay in?

Everyone has different opinions on these tough questions based on their values. I can’t help but feel that choice must be retained at the individual level in the end, so that each can act according to their own values, their own perception of risks and benefits, rather than one philosophy of risk management being forced on everyone.
Every hackerspace/makerspace has been preaching this to anyone who'll stand still long enough to listen, too. Learning and doing things together is even more powerful than just learning and doing them in general.

It's tough times right now for in-person gathering and collaboration, but as soon as it's safe to do so, you owe it to yourself to see what communities have sprung up locally, and/or start another one.
Seeing him present his work on stage at DC was one of those things I'll never forget: the technical excellence, the dazzling visualizations, his comfortable and confident style, and whether you agreed with it or not -- his own point of view, not a thinly veiled corporate / gov / academic shill.

Dan: streams a tv show over DNS

Crowd: goes wild

He was one of the ones who I aspire to be: to show others they can do .*
0x0 is a really useful website.
We've changed the URL now. The submitted URL (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/23/22399721/uk-post-office-s...) had the bad bad software title.
With vegetables they are part of a regulated legal industry that has the ability to perform nation-wide awareness initiatives & recalls if there is some form of contamination.

And events like that also represents a significant financial loss to the producers, which itself acts as a form of accountability above & beyond regulatory penalties that might apply.

Basically, it doesn't matter if microbial contamination of weed isn't any more dangerous than for vegetables because current agricultural products have a remediation process in place to mitigate the danger, a process that doesn't exist for unregulated weed.
I don't think BTC doesn't make the messy people problems any easier. That doesn't mean it's without value -- I do think there is some incompressible utility to having a globally decentralized "universal money unit" as you say. But that's no shortcut to curing socioeconomic corruption.
There is a whole ecosystem of blog posts reading various financial charts like tea leaves and seeing what they want to see.

No idea how this one ended up on Hacker News, though.
We've changed it. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26927818.
How to Design Your Office for Improved Productivity and Purpose
Will be a lot harder to prove the software was wrong if it uses AI
8 minutes read.

There is something magical in others who can take an idea or concept and translate it into real-world experience. I'm much better describing the interaction and emotions it should create. Betty Ernst covers helpful tips and resources if you're dealing with a redesign of the office, or moving into a new office (as I experience these days). Include your team in these decisions, as you want to make them happy and effective. After you take some notes, observe how they work when they're focused. See the setup they are in when you hear laugther. Optimize for that instead of how customers or investors will feel when entering the office for a short visit.
> almost as if the real motivation is to drive you to the app store...

Every "security" feature on Safari points into harming web apps so you are on the right tracks...
I'm not sure about entire departments, but for individual officers, it's not rare. Many if not most police officers never fire their weapon on duty for their entire careers.

For some perspective, there are around a million police officers in the US (https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=249).

A lot of police shooting incidents have made the national news in recent years, but I can think of tens of such incidents over a decade.
Gold bugs are saying what gold bugs have always said. Hyperinflation is coming, you need to buy gold now before it's too late. Pay no attention to current or past prices which are clearly the result of manipulation, the last gasps of a dying system before its collapse. Just keep buying more gold, preferably using this affiliate link.
Actually, I'm not a Bitcoin fan. I thought it was overpriced at $20.
If the frequencies used are above the plasma frequency of the ionosphere (typically >30 MHz) like here then the only solution to "mesh" or cell networks is line of sight and that only comes from height above terrain. And height above terrain, except in rare and unique cases, is always expensive.

The only reason cell networks work is that the telcos pay big money for getting access, power, and backhaul to places up high. No amount of power increases, modulation gain, reflector aperture, software, or anything else you can think up is going to get around the lack of line of sight.

Unless a decentralized mesh network has enough money to do this it will only ever work in specific regions where single individuals or groups can pay $$$ and cover large areas. Like in Seattle where the mountainous coastal terrain is useful for hamwan's network, or in mega-cities like New York where residents have skyscraper roof access for p2p wireless community ISPs.
Everyone has bias of one kind or another.
There probably are programmers that paste entire functions, but for me it's mostly either concepts or minor snippets. In particular the DBA stackoverflow is great for all kinds of clever tricks in SQL to use a set-based rather than row-based approach (e.g. to things like string handling, and tricky aggregations). I'm not too worried about the copyright police for things like that.
Ask HN: How would you approach spaced-repetition for children?
I’m a licensed physics teacher and a parent of a toddler. I acknowledge we humans are a diverse group (some tools are not useful for everyone) and that there are commonalities (some tools are universally effective). I use spaced-repetition systems (SRS) to embed all sorts of things in long-term memory. Perhaps what I spend time learning ranges from trivia to important, depending on perspective. The book “Make it Stick: the science of successful learning”[0] gives advice to teachers for using SRS in teaching but doesn’t specify an age range, or what SRS might look like to be engaging for a three-year-old.

Some examples: I’d like to help my child recognize names and faces of friends and family; contact information; local wildlife (relationships within the ecosystem primarily, but also names for convenience); numbers, letters (languages in general); and astronomical features. Most of these things are review of topics engaged with in other ways (playing, talking, observing).

Based on your experience and/or research you’re aware of, what do you recommend in general for incorporating SRS in the “handful” (ages 1-5) years?
If non-zero, would you put all cards in one deck for interleaving, or keep topics separate?

Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.

[0] Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel (2014)
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