skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points. A lot of people have been really tearing into the color theme selector on here, so it looks like that will be getting demoted out of the onboarding experience haha. As for premium, I'll make the feature breakdown of Free vs Premium available from the home page so that communication is clearer from the start. Thanks for your thoughts!
That's not directly related. The halting problem states that we cannot write a program that can decide whether arbitrary programs halt - even if we had solved every mathematical question that is still open.
> because the science shows that Facebook actively damages people’s mental health

come on...
I think OOP builders can work without extra state if they implement `->addThis()->addThat()` by actually doing functional `addThat(addThis(defaultObj))` and creating immutable values inside. But ultimately there's no good answer to the absence of named arguments, and by now not having them is a pure atrocity.

Of course, I'm guessing C programmers would cringe at the prospect of going full COW for such use-cases.
The majority of humans do not live in western countries
> State laws don't override federal law.

Weird, because half of the States' ten-year tax plans seem to think that they (effectively!) do!
I tried to pull reducto ad absurdum as hard as I could; judging by the score on that comment, I've succeeded.
> M1 is a very impressive chip, but it can't compete with the Threadripper/Xeon club.

Looks at fanless M1 MacBook Air, with 14+ damn hours of battery life in my real-world use

I mean... OK? My minivan isn't an aircraft carrier, either.

> It really has trouble with the high-end laptop club too.

If you're memory-constrained or doing something with GPU, that might be true. Otherwise, benchmarks plz. And again, high-end laptop... looks at big desktop-replacement laptops, then back over at tiny little fanless MacBook Air
Pair Programming, Pair Blogging at Recurse Center
Very sad to hear, an inspiration to those who enjoy Space and the outer reaches of our atmosphere.
Thanks so much! I'll look into that.
>it’s just in the power brick instead of the monitor

Sure, but it was removed from the main device.
Non user upgradable products aren't better for the environment though.
The case in question is an important one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_v._Exxon_Mobil_Corp.

Edit - link that works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_v._Exxon_Mobil_Corp%2E
(thanks layer8)
Too bad they couldn't figure out how to put the SD card reader in there too. At least it still has an audio jack.
I wonder why all these new bundlers don't provide a webpack-compatible API to entice new users. I can't take the risk of investing in a new tool only to find that I can't migrate the last 20% key features that I need. I also don't have the bandwidth to constantly switch between vite, webpack, parcel, etc. every time I switch to a different project.
Occam's razor hardly ever applies to stuff like this (news in the intelligence space) because deception is the whole game. A tendency to believe simpler explanations is something they exploit.

I think Occam's razor is often misapplied in this way. It's for explaining natural phenomena, not for surmising the intent of an intelligent entity with an incentive to deceive.
It also doesn't even seem accurate. Private industries can compete with public ones on both quality and cost. The problem is that, in the face of municipal broadband, private companies have to compete to actually serve the public not "compete" to gouge consumers of as much money as possible in their comfy government protected monopolies.
Somehow this makes me sad :(
> Most of the money they created here is still just sitting in big banks and isn't moving around so it does not really add to the velocity of money.

I agree that establishing a direct relationship between the Fed and individuals could be a better way to stimulate the economy than expanding the availability and demand for loans and buying bonds, but does it have to be done on the blockchain? Couldn't it simply be handed like any government account, and keyed to, for instance, your SSN? You can then transfer it via ACH/RTP or FedWire to your bank account.

I'm open to the idea that a CBDC could be an interesting innovation I'm just not entirely sure what the specific benefit would be here, and would be interested in your opinion.
You've addressed CPI, but would you also care to discuss the effects on asset prices and the future issues of those price movements?
This is absolutely the correct answer. This joke/riddle gets to the heart of what "money is". It's a form of communication, it's merely a catalyst that enables trade.

Another way to look at it: The debt (or the $100 bill) allowed all these different professionals to offer services to each other, without a direct back-and-forth barter. If they had started with the prostitute renting the room with a $100 bill, there would have been no debt.

The reason why the physical $100 is so important (and why the Fed prints money), is that it allows for trade to occur without this accrual of debt. The existence of the debt creates the perception of risk, which prevents further trade from occurring.
Oh, the title is underselling this. Pre-first-dynasty is a big deal.

(As I understand it, the title of Pharaoh originates in the 18th dynasty almost two thousand years later, when Hatshepsut became ruler and it was difficult to call her "king".)
Thin = less material, less cost, and more environmentally friendly per unit
Whether you think it is good or bad, Facebook is going to abide by "local laws and regulations". Why risk getting kicked out of the country and lose money? Unfortunate but most of us know that corporations value money over morals, despite what their PR departments may say.
It’s striking just how short those two wars were when you compare them to others, before and after.
Nakadashi, the Japanese Art of Fulfilling Others.
Kaspersky are a branch of Russian intelligence.
That is helpful! Thank you.

> Ms. Oh decided to resign after a U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, in an order issued Monday, questioned her conduct during a deposition in a case filed against Exxon Mobil Corp. Ms. Oh’s law firm, Paul Weiss, represents Exxon.
Uh, let's see: When I was buying math and physics books, it seemed that a lot of them credited the NSF with funding. I gave two examples, Kelley and Luenberger, but there were more.

Soooo, there was some NSF pure math funding in the 1950s, to respond to a small point. The funding seemed to be generous since the joke was "While you are up get me a grant.".

And from my non-representative sample way back there, it looked like the NSF loved "The analytic-algebraic topology of the locally Euclidean metrization of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifolds."

I should have been more clear -- LINPACK is software and IIRC was written at Oak Ridge. So, by then some Federal organization
was funding software. So, the Georgetown pair, in about 1973, that wanted funding for speech recognition and was told by the NSF that they didn't fund software was, shall we say, early and later the NSF changed their mind.

1973 was a long time ago. So, with your impressive data, the NSF has evolved!

Oh, by the way, the grad and ugrad B-school students I taught did okay: They liked that I got them into matrix theory easily, used duality to prove the two person game theory saddle point result, and made min cost capacitated network flows easy to understand.
Well, I don’t think socialists are completely wrong about everything. It’s just that particularly in economics the basic theory they’re working from is deeply flawed. On the other hand while market forces are incredibly powerful, they’re not an end in themselves. Both capitalism and socialism taken to ideological extremes can be incredibly dangerous and harmful, but the ideas in both have plenty to offer.
Court: ‘ghost gun’ plans can be posted online without State Department approval
Well, if you really want to, you can do it:

Alice->(5)Bob:message1

space -6

Alice(4)<-Bob:the other\nmessage
Wild and unfounded speculation: I feel that the thinness of the new iMac was not an explicit design exercise, but rather a consequence of bringing the M1 over to the desktop. Because of how powerful the M1 is, they were just able to recycle the already thin laptop designs, putting them in a desktop enclosure. They couldn't do this before, because Intel mobile CPUs didn't match the performance of their desktop equivalents. And since those desktop CPUs had more demanding thermals, they couldn't make a thin iMac.
Which is good, but they don't keep the dishonest people from dishonest practices, protect citizens from risk, nor protect consumers from antitrust practices anymore, respectively, it seems.
Not quite as simple as you make it out to be.

Why should I let you scream "fuck you" over and over again in my coffee shop?

Yeah yeah, maybe social networks are the new town square blah blah. My point is that the line isn't so black and white.
Everytime I see manhole in the written word George Carlin the comedian/philosopher comes to mind. He famously said they will call it “personhole” cover.
Probably not. It would be somewhat backwards in my opinion. The community members of this site are in many ways performing a crowd-sourcing think-tank for new ideas, business ventures, etc.. even if at times it does not appear that way and sometimes strays deep into rabbit holes.
Reminds me of the 2005 conversational simulation game, Facade[0], in which any mention of the word "melon" would be met with being immediately kicked out of your host's dinner party.

[0]: https://www.playablstudios.com/facade
> What do savings accounts pay in the USA?

Right now, the best ones are at about 0.5% APY, maybe just a tiny bit higher. 3 year CDs are about 0.8% or so.
They operate within the constraints of thier authority and resources. Complain to you congress person and or senator.
There is no print money operation.

There is federal spending which creates net financial assets by first issuing new bonds in exchange for existing reserves and then spending those reserves back into the system.

There is swapping reserves for bonds either as they mature or as repurchases.

There is federal taxation which destroys net financial assets by draining reserves.

That’s it, there is nothing called “print money”.
That principle was never intended as a reason for censorship. People shouting fire in a crowded theater should receive a trial. Facebook and Twitter aren't known for having a formal appeals process, and you're lucky if they even give you any attention.
This list is amazing! I immediately starred a lot of really interesting projects.

Thanks for sharing!
Have you noticed the Dem-media-academia bloc seem to lionise some of the shiftiest people when they should really know better

- Avenatti

- Cuomo

- Lincoln Project

Not too confident about Fauci and Schiff.
> When you refer to the Fed's tools for reducing the money supply, do you mean the selling of financial assets?

Correct me if I'm wrong folks, but my understanding is the Fed controls the money supply through adjusting fractional reserve lending rates, benchmark interest rates, and through selling purchased assets (mostly T-bills).

The US economy is largely debt-driven, and increasing reserve rates means fewer loans are available to create. Increasing interest rates means loans are less attractive. Selling back bonds means that cash leaves circulation.
It’s just double entry bookkeeping
Do you guys still need oxygen there? How is the situation there really?

India is the largest producer of Oxygen and vaccine in the world! Despite this, we are facing a shortage of both.

Then how did we get in to such a situation? The reason is the complete apathy of the government in planning and preparation.

While we are the largest producers of Oxygen in the world, we only have 2000 trucks to transport them. Failure to plan and improve the logistics is one of the reason why all are hospitals are now facing Oxygen scarcity, even though we have a surplus of it! The second reason is failure to upgrade existing infrastructure in hospitals.

According to an opposition leader, we exported 60 million vaccines between January and March of this year, while we had only vaccinated around 30 to 40 million of our own people!

Our vaccine plans also hit a hurdle when a US vaccine by Novavax, that has been licensed for production in India, is facing hurdles of getting the raw material for the vaccine from US (that has obviously prioritized it for its own needs).

According to the same opposition leader, we also exported around 1.1 million doses of Remdesivir to other countries. And our media is showing people desperate to buy Remdesivir from anywhere at any price.

In between all this, the government permitted huge gatherings of people in election rallies and religious occasions.

Summary: We had all the resources. But apathy and poor planning screwed up India's fight against COVID.
The book "Hackers Delight" goes over a lot of these kinds of software algorithms for integers.
Sales: From Foundational Planning Through Scaling, with Jim Wilson
The Radio We Could Send to Venus
I don't regard that as value; your reservation price is what you can't afford to go below, not what you want.
I seriously hope that I won’t have to resort to name calling here on HN but are you for real? Oxygen and advanced life support is not unique to COVID and his tweets don’t say so either.

How the hell is this equivalent to shouting “FIRE” in a crowded place?
Please, give the medical system in India at least a tiny bit of respect and stop trying to armchair quarterback their solutions with your chemistry knowledge.

They know what they need better than you do. They're not going to MacGyver their solution by improvising an industrial chemical production process with welding equipment and random chemicals.

Being able to make oxygen in a chemistry experiment is not equivalent to being able to deliver oxygen to patients in a medically appropriate manner using standard medical equipment.
their "tool" for constricting it is raising interest rates and causing a recession which they will never do for political reasons. especially with the most dovish president weve ever had. theyd rather 20% inflation.
Did you read that the statement of it being a heart attack came from the police (that are being used to intimidate people) and not medical professionals.
Stop Saying “Job Creator”
I’d argue that’s one of the reasons municipal governments are the best place to do this. If you tried at the state or federal level it would be slow as molasses but cities can move quicker.

Of course it’s all relative. Verizon has supposed to have been rolling out FIOS to my neighborhood for a decade or more now.
Yes, the key role of velocity of money in the monetary equation [1] is an excellent point to call out. An article from Nov 21st 2020 [2] discussed how velocity of money has fallen since the 1980s and dropped sharply last year. I’ll be curious to watch: (a) if velocity of money picks up after COVID and leads to consumer inflation; (b) the impact of money supply on interest rates and asset prices unrelated to consumer inflation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_exchange

[2]: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/11/21/w...
The trash can Mac Pro was a bet on the power of Thunderbolt, which for the first time was a peripheral bus fast enough to connect things like SSDs and GPUs without loss of performance. The idea was to make upgrading even easier than the previous Mac Pro... as easy as plugging in a Thunderbolt cable.

It didn’t work out that way. High performance Thunderbolt peripherals like eGPUs were slow to develop, for reasons outside of Apple’s control. They thought you’d soon be able to buy the latest GPUs in external enclosures as well as internal cards, the way you can hard drives. Didn’t happen.

It’s a good example of a big bet from Apple that didn’t move the whole computer industry. Eventually Apple threw in the towel and went back to the traditional big box case for a pro machine.
I wish someone would change the dictionary definition of money to “record of value” rather than “store of value”. It would clear up a lot of economic misconception.
Sorry, but I don't want a black box for stress testing bridges - or any other infrastructure for that matter. Do black boxes have their place in design? Sure. In validation? Absolutely not.
Instead of verification, you could use the emailaddress as a login-method. Don't use passwords, but let the users login by email, sending a mail with a time-limited authentication-token and make them login that way.

That way you don't have to deal with passwords, and you will know the user has a mailbox which they control.
Please note that the senior management is always in the loop for the phishing tests along with some of the security team. It's just the users who are not told. You can't just send out a phishing email without telling anyone about it, you are liable to get fired for it. Remember the first rule of cybersecurity testing is to get written permission and then establish rules of engagement.

All these researchers had to do was reach out to Greg, loop him in the study to get his go ahead for it.

Now that several of these 'patches' are now in stable and in fact did introduce issues is a big problem and a major waste of time for the maintainers.
Pomegranate. After burning the poppy fields.
Because my main quibble with webpack is that its API is a mess and sucks.
They still don't have a day's worth of battery do they?
Garmin watch actually lasts a week.
Shares are currently up 3% in after hours trading, at $136.70.
Two graphs of different things stitched together as if they were one.
The echos that we see today of similar class warfare, of similar narratives supplanting real science, and replacing it with activism ... This is the direction we are heading toward. As the joke goes, history doesn't repeat itself. It does rhyme however.

You can see echos of Lysenkoism where a narrative pushed hard by activists, that has numerous problems from a scientific point of view, is rammed down peoples throats. When people can be "deplatformed" or "canceled" for having the temerity to express different opinions than the narrative allows for ... that is, in many ways, modern day Lysenkoism.

It took Russia many decades to recover from this. As it will us, if we allow this to continue.
Interestingly, the scenario does not include transaction costs. In the general sense that is money that stays in the cycle (economy) ?
> Essentially as long as nothing threatens Apple's ability to tell other companies, including other tech giants, to play ball or pound sand, I'm fine with it.

Is your premise is that the vast majority of iOS users want the Apple control of apps exactly as it is today?

If that premise is true, then having additional app stores available will not change your experience at all. The vast majority, as you assert, of iOS users will want no part in the alternative app stores, thus the Apple app store retains dominance and Apple doesn't need to change their behavior at all. So nothing changes for you. And the few oddballs who want to run non-Apple-approved software, still can, but they'll be a fringe.

But if you're worried that there will be a mass exodus to the non-Apple app store, (if that was allowed) then I'm hearing that there is in fact large percentages of unhappy users, which is itself proof that removing control from Apple is required.

What doesn't make sense it simultaneously assert that nearly all iOS users are happy with the Apple iron fist but large percentage of them are itching to break away from it the second they could. One or the other can be true, not both.
Yes, once you understand what caused the spike, spreading this graph without the explanation is basically misleading propaganda.
You could, since it’s a runtime dep. But a better comparison would be to the client dev tool chains in other ecosystems, like Xcode (11GB), though still not very interesting. Turns out client dev is hard and it doesn’t make much sense hand wringing over dev tool size metrics.

Better to look at how well they solve their problem space.
Calibri is an excellent typeface. I'm happy they're move on to another one because that means it won't be used as much as it is right now, and we will desaturate from it. It is an amazing font that doesn't deserve to be brutally exposed like that.
Why can't you use esbuild for production builds ?
My understanding is that high levels of savings (hence, investments) and the low interest rates have combined to create a massively leveraged asset market. US margin debt is at all-time highs too. [1] Generally such high levels of debt precede pretty big crashes; an increase in interest rates could meaningfully de-leverage the market. That's my biggest fear about being in equities, but I really don't know how this will play out.

[1] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market...
> if you were to write say.....a book with very explicit minor sexual content.....that's not illegal

Not in the US, but in Canada and many European countries, I believe it's illegal.

> We cannot be at a point as humanity where text is illegal. Right?

Even in the US, much text is illegal in certain contexts. Think false advertising, written plausible threats, etc.
I think that was the GP's point. They're implying that the agencies only engage in redundant work, not significant work.
> Imperial College London claiming millions of deaths, while the actual infection curves never hit those numbers.

Because we took action to avoid that.

I truly don't understand why people keep repeating such dezinformatsiya.
OP's statement should be read as such:

"They make rules for people that follow rules. If you don't follow rules, then their rules do not apply to you."

The implication is that they lack will, capability, or force.
It is solved if phones use RCS. RCS allows many of the features you love in iMessage - e2e encryption, typing indicators, large files, delivery receipts, reactions, etc. And it is all standards-based and backed by the carriers.

Android phones do support RCS. Apple will not implement it. Apple will only support the bare minimum of SMS/MMS and then people wonder why it doesn't work well.

Carriers have worked to improve messaging. And Apple won't work with them, preferring to make "green bubble" a horrible experience. People should be outraged that Apple is able to e2e encrypt their chats but refuses to implement the standards.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/06/apple-rcs-support-imessage/
That din has a short i. The one in Alaa’adin, (despite how Disney would have you say it) is a long i.
Alex Oh worked for a law firm which represents Exxon. That law firm was accused of obstructing a deposition to avoid providing answers to the other side. [1]

>ORDERS defense counsel to show cause by May 14, 2021 why sanctions should not be imposed under Rule 11 (b)(3) for alleging that plaintiffs' counsel was agitated, disrespectful, and unhinged during the deposition despite a lack of record evidence supporting those allegations. See Mem. Op. 29-31.
>ORDERS defendants to serve a copy of this order on Ms. Oh.

Was Alex Oh specifically responsible for this conduct? The order doesn't say.

What does this have to do with Clinton? Nothing, except in a six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon sense.

[1]: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.14559/g...
Thanks, this actually answers my original question in regard to the kernel's part of it. I'll take a look at what names and signatures libc has, and if they're still like that then the question is readdressed to libc—though I guess the answer then would be “because that's how it is in the kernel”.

P.S. Come to think of it, I sorta knew about the interrupt business, and vaguely about the later but fundamentally similar method (but not that there are many interrupts for syscalls, though thinking about eight-bit registers clears this up quickly). Guess I just forgot that libc is kept separate from the kernel, in the Linux world.
It's fascinating!... But am I the only one who finds this actually aesthetically unpleasant?