skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you considered that the "desperate clamor" might just be a clamor to do the best thing ? And just how would we do that?

I have considered that, and rejected it.

I'm not talking about people who don't really know and genuinely get their information from whatever their TV or internet or friends tell them and they just go along with it but generally live and let live in the face of differing opinions.

I'm talking about the hateful bullying mobs going around attacking people, and the people and corporations who actually look into the information which is quite easy to see those "authorities" are hardly a good source of truth, yet they grovel down on their hands and knees to lick boot.

> Your entire attitude seems to be predicated on the idea that nobody actually knows anything, there's no point listening to "experts" (even putting the quotes around the word is intended to be dismissive), and there's no way to spend time learning more about something.

That's not my attitude.

> Look, you've provided a great list of terrible things that the US (and other) governments have done (though it's necessarily incomplete and mostly rather recent). But in the context of your point, so what?

The context of my point is that journalists, politicians, and other self-proclaimed "experts" are not. It is more the rule than the exception that they are self-interested corrupt liars and manipulators.

I'm not talking about, say, the scientist who develops climate models or the medical researcher developing vaccines. I'm not talking about actual experts.

> What about the experts that know how to build bridges properly? What about the governmental policies that actually result in positive changes? What about the doctors, engineers, designers, architects, farmers who actually do have a better understanding of their fields than an average person?

What about them? None of them are manipulating the populace into going to war, or drumming up their throngs of pathetic subservient bootlickers and brownshirts to attack and bully anybody who questions them. So I'm obviously not talking about them.

> I don't disagree with you about the lamentable actions of our government and the processes/structures that allow them to happen. But I reject the implication that this requires me to just be infinitely cynical about everything.

There was no implication.
Presumably if it is more costly to obtain a license (either in time, effort, or money) then people would be more careful about their behavior and wouldn't risk losing their license that they spent so much effort to obtain on something stupid like this.
I haven't yet read the Moller and Granlund paper, but its narrowing division using precomputed reciprocal would be a natural fit for libdivide. (libdivide does have a narrowing divide, but it is Algorithm D based).

Regarding the second question, it is possible to be off by 2. Consider (base 10) 500 ÷ 59. The estimated quotient qhat is 50 ÷ 5 = 10, but the true digit is 8. So if our partial remainder is 50, we'll be off by 2 in the second digit.
“I placed too much faith in underpowered studies:” Nobel Prize winner admits (2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27126092
The proposed San Francisco/Los Angeles HSR line is fairly comparable to the Madrid/Barcelona HSR line.
All I can think of is pronouncing "marry" and "Mary" as "mar" (as: to damage) rather than as "men" (as "merry men", where the "me" parts are pronounced the same) but if I try to do that it comes off, to my Midwestern American ear, as very rural-sounding.
I agree. Also better PR work. The article is based on information the criminals have released, it's pure speculation that negotiations have even happened in the first place. If it would be categorically illegal and if they would clearly communicate that it is so, there wouldn't be much of a discussion and people could focus on the main issue - the security breach.
I'm from Nashville, TN and live in Seattle, WA and recall one particular instance on a date here when some girl was trying to get snippy & sassy about the "pen" vs "pin" issue. She and many other people here, and generally outside of the southern states, immediately equate the accent with ignorance. Which makes everyone adopting "y'all" more casually now really funny and weird to see, like are you mocking it or celebrating it?
I don’t think the hacking group would want to show future targets that paying the ransom won’t get them un-hacked. People would stop paying them. It would be bad for business.

If anything they’re working on speeding up their decrypting tool for the next release :)
Any time Ender's Game is mentioned I immediately think of this review that was way more entertaining than the source material: http://somethingshortandsnappy.blogspot.com/2013/03/enders-g...
Not an issue for enterprise though, really.
Cool. By the way, I sometimes use the transcription of lectures into text https://audext.com/
I'd say that honest, thorough and helpful articles like this as a function of marketing lead to word-of-mouth, organic growth.
I’ve done a huge amount of “enterprise architecture” going back 20 years or so. I’ve designed and built horrible things that scare most people to death. Imagine monoliths with over 1000 DD and ORM mapped business domain classes, 2000 http endpoints and hundreds of database tables glued into tens of megs of Hibernate mappings.

Inheritance is the number one cause of these turning into a massive shit show. It’s not a pattern that can ever be refactored into something else down the line once the decision is made. You end up with things that can’t be fixed and escalating costs like you have never seen just to keep the plates spinning.

I always favour composition for that and very light weight service oriented architecture.

Roughly the only thing that scales is things that have fairly strict command-query type segregation. Carefully designed REST interfaces are a good example of that.

Regarding complex business rules they are mostly best evaluated through simple stacked middleware, messaging, matching, routing and workflow style applications. All of those are feasible with the simplest of languages. Hell half the world is still hanging off rancid bits of COBOL.

If you are short circuiting your evaluation on this basis I think you are making a lot of noise without a lot of experience.
Who manages access to the blockchain, and how do you trust them?
How much more does the web really need to evolve though? Maybe IE 11 already had all the features that the web platform really needs, and the upgrade treadmill is now being driven by nothing more than our insatiable demand for convenience as spoiled developers. Pity the users who can't keep up with the treadmill.
Google - other tan FB and Twitter - seemingly made the (in my opinion) right call not to shove ads down to people who actively opt-out by adblockers. I dislike ads very much, and if my adblock is bypassed I feel angry and anoyed - you got to ask yourself what my emotional association for a brand or product becomes that is advertised this way. This is very much not in the interest of the advertizer.
Well, it depends. Over short distances and timescales, relative motion behaves pretty much as you would expect for objects in free-fall. It's only over significant fractions of an orbital period that counterintuitive things start happening, with orbital speed and height influencing each other. (You can think of this as a tidal or Coriolis-esque pseudoforce that appears to increase in magnitude as objects get farther from each other.)

In general, there are many possible paths you can take to achieve an orbital rendezvous, varying widely in how long they take and how much fuel they consume.
How? My best understanding of Uniswap is that it provides liquidity to exchange between cryptocurrency pairs. There is no evidence that it is providing liquidity for anything actually useful - with traditional finance, companies issue shares or debt to increase production lines, fund new R&D, etc.
Thanks for your feedback -- definitely want to make sure our landing page explains Ditto clearly. Any specific suggestions for what to improve on or what's confusing?
This is exactly my argument. I said that unless you have a policy of eradication, travel restrictions are useless.

Taiwan had a policy of eradication. So I don't see how anything conflicts with what I said.

I have many friends and family that lived in Europe. They did real lockdows in the first wave, and it worked. For the second, third and fourth wave, lockdowns were very light and allowed people to go to work and often children to go to school. So they didn't work.
Yes. And other methods supported on both desktop and mobile devices.
In Cambodia, people buy dirt to increase their property’s elevation so that their neighbor’s house floods when the monsoon comes. Then the neighbor has to pay for more dirt and so on throughout the whole neighborhood.

It seems like the attackers are finding the paths of least resistance. Beefing up security at each organization isn’t fixing the underlying problem. It’s just making the next entity the more likely target.

I don’t even know what the underlying problem is though...
> and to resolve this problem you'd have to eminent domain swathes of, say, New Haven.

This never seems to be much of a problem when highways are concerned however.
This is basically accurate but with an added problem. When devs do their job, the product is software. When security does their job, the product is “not getting hacked”, so if you act busy enough, it’s easy to appear as though you’re doing important work, until it’s too late.

Then, paradoxically, you aren’t actually punished, but usually rewarded, when you do get hacked. That’s the one time you’re needed most, and you get to act like the hero for saving the company.
Seconded. I read The Forever War and Ender's Game for the first time, back to back. The Forever War is superior in every way.
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Stringers in a plane seem akin to stringers in a car frame... Cars have moved away to unibody designs (where the shell of the car is also the structure) because it is stronger, lighter and cheaper. Unibody designs have been the norm for almost 100 years now.
It should be illegal on another basis as well. Paying it contributes to a norm that randoms will be paid that will encourage more randomware in the future against other companies. So you're harming other people when you pay it. That's an externality that won't be factored into the decision to pay the ransom.

Suppose god handed down powers that allowed you to smite from the earth anyone who ever paid a ransom with perfect accuracy and you made a credible commitment to do so. If this fact was well known, presumably random-paying would disappear overnight and ransomware attacks would soon cease to exist as well (ironically rendering the power to smite ransom-payers redundant). We won't ever live in that world but we can move marginally toward it by severaly penalizing clear cut cases where a company or individual pays a ransom.
Accreditation for the size of vehicle which affects number of passengers, not sure you can just jump right to the top. My understanding is that you have to start small, I could be wrong.
The next version of plotly should be more compatible with Pyodide :)
Switzerland has long been something of a playground for spies because of it's neutrality. Their intelligence agency basically ignoring what US and German spies were doing won't change the opinion of those in power, and the public opinion of their neutrality has already been tainted by Nazi gold.
Python has restricted lambdas, no tail call elimination and hardly and FP in the standard library.

It does not have the strong type guarantees of the ML or Haskell families; functional code in Python is fragile and complex.
> is that Musk is able to admit a mistake and do a 180

He's still hedging somewhat by saying "in the last few months" because it makes it sound like it was a sensible decision when Tesla decided to get in, then energy usage went crazy. In reality this was obvious long before Tesla bought into bitcoin. I'm sure many within the company were entirely aware of this but Elon rules all.

One of the things that worries me most about Tesla is the extent to which a billionaire with an absurd fondness for memes can do whatever he wants. Giving himself the title "Technoking" and his CFO "Master of Coin" is pretty harmless but it's also pretty stupid and makes it seem like there are no adults in the room. The bitcoin thing is the exact same dynamic except with actual damage involved.
People like to complain about testing and what they really measure, but what alternative is there? Even a "real world" problem is still a test, just a really hard, open-ended one. The tests that we subject students to represent somebody's honest attempt, at least, to create questions that an intelligent person at their age can come up with an answer to without access to any external material.
> The divorce rate of married people who get these government regulatory approved BCI interfaces is also extremely high.

Divorce rates spike after diangosis of and successful treatment/recovery for/from all kinds of chronic health issues, as they do for all kinds of major life changes. Disruption in living patterns changes the context and patterns of relationships.
to resolve this problem you'd have to eminent domain swathes of, say, New Haven

I was a bit skeptical until I saw this user map of the Northeast Corridor:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1dH5vJWx6lwBlBv...
Tesla helped MicroStrategy to acquire $15M Bitcoin at -11% Discounted Price
The problem I see is that there are tradeoffs between security and usability, and again between developing security vs developing features. Security doesn't make money next quarter, while features and ease of use do.

Any software engineer can do security if they spend time learning and working on it. But executives don't seem to care about it.
This is the main (and perhaps the most important driving factor) - if you build a rail line from empty land directly into the heart of a major US city, that empty land will develop relatively quickly over the next 10-20 years.

Instead we've done the same but with sprawling highways, which doesn't do much for density (and requires cars, and once you have a car you just use it for commuting).
Go absolutely has doc strings, I'm really not convinced you have any idea what you're talking about

(For comparison I've been writing Go professionally for six years)
Ethereum’s Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Donates over $1B to India
In the USSR, when it still existed, retail prices were stamped on the items at the manufacturing plant, because of how stable the prices (and the economy in general) were. After the collapse, this practice had stopped entirely for obvious reasons.

So the fact that such a thing as "manufacturer's retail prices" still exist, in the USA of all places, and that they apparently has some legal weight was a surprise to me. TIL.
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RSUs and such don’t have capital gains treatment like you might be imagining. If you sell the day you vest, you get income taxed. If you sell a year later, you get income taxed. You will only get capital gains on that which you earned above what you got when you vested. (No different than just selling the stock and buying it again immediately - you will owe income tax even if you still hold the stock btw) Only ISOs and other private equity will get that preferred treatment. (Which is far more risky and the stock is not tradable after all and typically bordering on worthless anyway)
Explained: UK Online Safety Bill
Indeed. The Pokémon Company is running a children's casino: it's hard to imagine a business model less ethical than that.
The problem is that this overthinks the problem. There are basically three classes of people in play here:

- The jokesters that manipulate the vehicle with a foot or something. There are very few of these in general, as there really isn't a benefit to the operator.

- The sleepers - These seem to be happening too often with Teslas. It seems like face/head tracking could fix it.

- The movie watchers - These can trivially defeat both the eye tracking style approaches and the possibly a camera based approach as well.

- The unfocused, tired, or otherwise slightly distracted. This is by far the biggest group.

To maximize safety, these things need to focus on shaping behavior, not on stopping determined and willfully dangerous adversaries.
Curbs can help stop accidental inattentiveness that would cause a person to drift off the road, not someone intentionally trying to hit people. The driver deliberately circumvented safety measures. We have sidewalks next to plenty of interstates. Here's an example:

https://www.google.com/maps/@61.2297735,-149.7217745,3a,83.7...
A bit of an aside, but I'm wondering if anyone is applying some of these ideas to genetic algorithms?
You can work around it by embedding data into HTML files but it's really not recommended https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/pull/606
Like Floridaman except not a poverty-stricken heroin addict in a state with no safety net.
(separate post for politics)

> democratic voters that want high speed rail, but lose interest when experts say that there need to be lots of intermediate stops

A few do. Based on the people they elect most don't actually care about high speed rail. They care about workers - the more the better, and even better yet if you can make those workers minorities. High speed rail is only a proxy for spending lots of money on something that gets people working, if the rail is never finished that is so much the better because they can keep paying those people to build the line.

Rural voters won't benefit much. By the time they drive to a big city where they can catch the train they may as well fly. The amount of distance needed to get to the train station means that there isn't very much in range by rail that they are not better off driving.

Note, there is rural voters and hobby farm voters. The hobby farm voters live and work in a big city, and go home to their small farm with a little bit of livestock to farm for fun. They might make money on the farm, but it isn't their day job. The only difference from suburban voters is they are just a little bit farther out. There are a lot of these voters who don't see how HSR will help them, even though it will once they realize how much faster it is to get to other cities.
How do you explain that he was focused on iPhones in 2014? Was that somehow Apple's fault, too?

I suspect - but cannot prove - that he might have something to do with a stock manipulation scheme, targeting companies with high public profiles. If you read the article, he has a rich father. This is intriguing enough to justify further investigation.

EDIT: apparently this is happening now https://www.thefocus.news/celebrity/param-sharma-parents/
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Traditional thinking says if you earn more per hour than you're paying for stuff like that then it's a net win, but again that is a business idea (opportunity cost) and doesn't work for individuals. If it were true, everyone earning more than minimum wage should be paying someone to do every single thing in their entire life... but that doesn't work because you can't just earn more money when you're on salary, and you don't have infinite hours to work endlessly more.
What? No, the ransomware people truly do send a decryption tool, or the decryption functionality is built into the ransomware. Do you think they are sending people some AES key and then everyone goes off and builds some python tool to decrypt his data?

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the ransomware business. The whole reason people pay up is because the hackers don't run and leave you hanging; if you pay they will decrypt your data. Trust and convenience are essential to making this work.
I'll point out that Fresno, CA has roughly the same population as Nantes and Nice, France, both of which have dedicated TGV lines specifically to reach those cities.

Do you still think that qualifies as "empty spaces"?
I wasn't imagining the Owner reprinting the card, but that the publisher is providing the reprints as a service to those who own the nft.

Specifically, I'm imagining a case where people still go to the store, buy a card, and each card comes with a QR code or something. You can go online, scan the QR code, and have the NFT representing that physical card transferred to your NFT deck.

You could play games virtually with only cards that you have Proven you own, and if you ever lose the physical card the publisher will send you a new copy.

A key idea here is that every Instance of a card would have a unique identifier and thus a unique NFT; two people scanning the QR code for the same card shouldn't result in them both getting the NFT.
Basically the same understanding here (in the US). It's domain specific. I work in finance, so I can't build any investment apps or anything that would potentially compete with my employer. I am allowed to run an unrelated LLC, build a website for it, etc.
I don't know that much about current crypto technology, but enough to know the majority of comments in this discussion have not been keeping up to date with block chain innovations, the surge away from proof of work to proof of stake, the massive increases in transactions per second through innovations in both Level 1 and Level 2 block chain tech. Moreover, there are real applications: Look to Vechain for supply chain authentication, and Theta, a project by a founder of YouTube, that is live now and enables efficient delivery of 4k+ hidef video streaming.
I discovered recently that eventually they catch you through persistence. Like YouTube ads, I was busy in another window and couldn't skip the add without interrupting something I was doing which couldn't be interrupted. So I wound up inadvertently listening to the ad, and they said some interesting stuff that make me pan back to the ad and watch it. Eventually ads catch you at an inopportune time, which is inopportune for you, but opportune for them.
Where do you live?

In California - if you don't have a ton of mortgage interest deductions and you count state income tax - you're above 39.5% on $400k. If you count both sides of payroll tax, you're in the mid 40s. And even if you own a home, if you count property tax, you could be close to or above 50%.

The median state income tax is about half of California's at $400k - and property taxes here are somewhat low. Most places - you're gonna be above 40%.
Isn't that how Fortnite did Project Liberty?
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While poor diet is certainly the leading hypothesis, the universality of the effect across both Human and Animal populations is worth further consideration.

The poor are vastly more likely to live in areas of higher industrial runoff, to use older materials/homes/appliances, have poorer water quality, and have fewer resources to counteract negative effects in the environment.
Do you plan to sell the prebuilt systems with linux preinstalled (or with no OS)? I have no desire for my money to go to Microsoft, and no desire for Windows, but the prebuilt model is intriguing to me.
> not to mention, you'd have to block all git commands that can rewrite history

Okay, so use mercurial or fossil.
OK, great, but this is not a new idea; in 30 seconds I was able to find three "Python in the browser" sites. Executing

import sys
print(sys.version)

in each produced,

https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/online-compiler...

"A module you have imported isn't available at the moment. It will be available soon." Really? sys?

https://www.online-python.com/

3.8.5 (default, Jul 20 2020, 23:11:29)
[GCC 9.3.0]

https://replit.com/languages/python3

3.8.9 (default, May 3 2021, 02:40:41)
[GCC 7.5.0]

The latter two, certainly, are adequate for class exercises and demonstrations. No idea if they are good enough for production of course, which Pyodide seems to be claiming.