skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the article's mention of Rural vs Urban I lean towards the belief that this is driven by a sense of both conservative values in government and probably a lack of understanding in how the government of the people serves the people. More precisely how taxes and math work.

The GAO and similar offices should do a better job of preparing reports on where every collected tax dollar is being spent; both in the physical sense as well as in the sourced income sense. A citizen should be able to approach this from either the government side (pick a city or unincorporated area) or enter their zipcode and approximate income and see where the money is flowing from and to. Of particular interest would be trying to categorize areas with positive or negative contributions to a person's or region's productivity. Investments in infrastructure, such as education or for transport (of various things), should also be given special categorization as they are some combination of a shared burden and long term payoff.

Though I find understanding the deeply divided viewpoints in the US very elusive. My personal believe is presently, for lack of data that I can digest, that the far right is probably focused around emotions.

# Possibly religious, in that some interpretation of ancient values systems drives them to desire a simple world in which those are imposed upon others?

# Possibly anarchist, in the sense of some romantic fantasy of self reliance (minimal government) and true grit; while forgetting or being ignorant of how society and government provide benefits (E.G. civil services such as fire, medical, and security aid).

# Possibly just believing the lies of people that say things they want to hear.

Or maybe the driving force is something different entirely that I haven't realized because it's just so obvious to someone that believes in it that it doesn't get said.

Offhand I don't think it's likely to be religiously based, and if it's charismatic attraction based I'm not sure what siren song is luring the voters.

I wonder if the interactive report on government spending and tax effectiveness might help find a common ground, or at least salient points to discuss for those who don't understand the benefits of buying in bulk and enriching the commons.
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This is great! I just created a pen holding adapter for my 3d printer so I can do some plots. I still need to find a good way to efficiently convert SVG files to gcode, but this will be a good start.

Inkscape has a gcode generation tool, but it requires some tweaks to work on my prusa 3d printer. Still a work in progress!
I don't see failure on i64 -> i8 as beneficial here; it's harmful if anything. Integer conversions already happen in all sorts of constructs. Which is why compilers have warnings for them. If you don't like them, you can enable warnings (or even set them to errors if you want to outright prohibit them). If you think they should happen implicitly then there's nothing particularly interesting about construction sites vs. assignments or really anything else; there's no reason integer conversions should be treated specially for construction sites. If anything, that would make you feel safer than is actually warranted.

With T() being ambiguous, you can already syntactically disambiguate. With extra parentheses or whatever other construct the case may warrant. As people have been doing all these years. Again, it's just a minor syntactic inconvenience.
Idaho has become very expensive in the last few years. It's basically Western Wyoming, but for poors.
What about this?
https://github.com/rava-dosa/epub2pdf
Nezha is a $99 single-board PC with a RISC-V processor
Here's the official Chia answer to this: https://twitter.com/bramcohen/status/1393988621921701889
But if everyone agrees to prevent conquering-by-force, why wouldn't it work?
There are two possible mechanical analogies to electrical circuits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%E2%80%93electrical_...). In domains (electrical, acoustic, thermal, mechanical, ...) there are two kinds of quantities, sometimes called "across" (voltage, temperature difference, ...) and "through" (current, heat, ...).

My first guess was that the analogy here appears to be velocity is voltage and force is current, but I think I have that backwards. The battery, which I was taking to be a ideally a voltage source without internal resistance, appears to be a constant-torque mechanical device. Connecting it in series to different resistances means it spins at different speeds (different current is drawn).

But the battery will also spin if it's not connected to anything... so I'm struggling to keep the analogy straight while thinking about how these parts behave ideally and non-ideally.

Looking at the ammeter, it's definitely velocity = current.

Edit: and finally direct evidence

> But the most practical place for [ground] to be is anywhere there is zero force (i.e., voltage) on the chain.
I'm not surprised that it works poorly. I am surprised that it seems to work randomly though. I would understand if every Tweet that had a curse word in it was marked offensive, and that wouldn't be a very good filter, but it would at least be clear what was and wasn't "offensive" from Twitter's viewpoint. Here, there doesn't seem to be any way to tell.
We know:

a) Masks reduce transmission by physically blocking viruses

b) Vaccinated people can contract COVID by breathing in viruses

c) Vaccinated people can infect others by breathing out viruses

There's no reason to believe that the mechanism in (a) doesn't work for vaccinated people any more than it wouldn't work for people in Vermont or people named Jake, even if there hasn't been a specific study on those subgroups.

Yes, vaccinated people are significantly less likely to be infected and to infect others. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen or that a mask wouldn't reduce that risk further.

Whether or not it's worth the hassle of wearing a mask is a reasonable question, but that's a risk/reward tradeoff question, not a question of whether or not a mask reduces risk, which is what your claim is.
I think it's funny how the world as a whole just simply moves the problem (excess resource usage for something a lot of people have deemed 'excessive' like bitcoin mining) from one type of resource to another. Now we're going to see storage costs skyrocket, which will (hopefully not) affect cloud storage providers, datacenters, etc. etc. etc.
This really means a lot. I'm glad our work & writing came across genuine.
As best as I understand: light travels in space. Thus, if space is scrunched up, light can't escape. Gravity IS space. The scrunching up IS gravity. There is no "escaping", because gravity is literally the substrate.
$600 espresso maker. Used it every day during quarantine. It has already paid for itself and more, and now the average coffee shop latte tastes terrible to me.
There is another aspect beyond raw vocabulary and grammar, and that's unspoken cultural assumptions :not abbreviations and slang, but real misunderstandings caused by different understandings of what seems to be a set of perfectly obvious sentences to both sides .

A branch of my company went through a merger with another branch in a different country, and with a different language. Needless to say, it was difficult, and people didn't all take it well. The interesting part was that both sides thought the other side was being actively hostile, and were brandishing emails as 'proof'.

I was eventually asked to do something to reconcile both sides of the new merged team, since I am a native speaker of both languages and understand both cultures. I read the emails, and was flabbergasted. Side A could read email from B as hostile, but side B had genuinely sent something they thought was perfectly ok, and I could see why. The other way round was the same. To be more specific, some cultures are far more direct than others, and what seems offensive to one is perfectly acceptable to the other. The other way round would be saying something 'forcefully' but very indirectly, and the other side understanding it as 'no' when it meant 'yes'.

I ended up solving the problem by organizing a very nice lunch, where everyone realized the 'others' were actually nice and friendly human beings, and that email was not always the best way to communicate.
This isn't actually true as companies routinely acquire each other using mostly or only stock. However, the IRS does not consider exchange of stock for stock in mergers and acquisitions to be a taxable event.
What is the expansion of the acronym “GaMeR”? I’ve not seen it before and I want to be sure I understand.
Adam Savage went on and on about his favorite soldering station in a YouTube video, so if anyone wants a recommendation, search for that.
Ask HN: Matching Algorithm as a Service?
My Google search did not reveal any results.

I am looking for a service that I could train to perform matching using arbitrary dataset and weights (e.g. job posts to people profiles).

There are many low level tools, though I have not found anything that would allow to analyze previous matches, do matching manually to train the model, etc.
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Yep. I agree. It’s a luxury for me personally, but... I do assume there are people with things this could solve that also understand the risks and lean on the side of greater sacrifice/altruism.

Here is the thing, this is probably moot. The genie is probably already out of the bottle.
> The problem is that it then gives the developer weird incentives. If someone in the community decides to build the same feature that the main developer kept as a paid feature, then the main developer won't want to merge it into their version.

See VirtualBox, and to some extent Chrome. For VirtualBox, I'm sure that the Extension Pack could be covered with an open-source effort by the community, and in the case of Chrome, their refusal to accept *BSD patches.
You don't just move a farm. And there isn't a lot of extra farm land available in Idaho anymore.
Let's do this using the same approach, "find indices and assign over them in a copy of the sequence":

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 259.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on an empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
Do not operate heavy equipment or motor vehicles while using TXR.
1> (defun subst-select-* (list)
(let ((indices (where (op starts-with '(select *))
(cons nil (conses list)))))
(if indices
(let ((list (copy list)))
(set [list indices] (repeat '(_)))
list)
list)))
subst-select-*
2> (subst-select-* '(foo bar * select * fox select * bravo))
(foo bar * select _ fox select _ bravo)

(conses list) gives us a list of the list's conses: e.g in (1 2 3) the conses are (1 2 3), (2 3) and (3), so the list of them is ((1 2 3) (2 3) (3)).

where applies a function to a sequence, and returns the 0-based indices of where the function yields true.

(op starts-with '(select *)) yields a lambda which tests whether its argument starts with (select *). No brainer.

If we naively applied that to the conses, we would get thew rong indices: the indices of the select symbols, not of the asterisks.

The workaround for that is (cons nil (conses list)): we cons an extra dummy nil element to shift the positions, and process the resulting list.

Once we have the indices list, if it isn't empty, we copy the original input, and assign underscore symbols into the indicated positions. To do that we generate an infinite lazy list of underscores; the assignment takes elements from this list and puts them into the specified index positions.
Search- `from:handle term`

And there are other nice tricks.
in the UK it depends on the intent of the transaction

speculation is treated differently to full-time trading, which is in term treated differently to trying to make some money on the side
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A US company can be compliant. They just have to host EU user data in the EU.
My grampa in Germany was getting his Golf renewed every few years up until he couldn't drive anymore.
Should probably have a NSFW warning -- the "offensive" tweets I was randomly shown were porn.

Granted, I have the Twitter "adult content" filter off, so perhaps that's just on me. Was just a bit surprising :)
7 years? It's still brand new!

Just wait until your kids get their hands on it. Mine is literally inherited from somebody's grandmother and it's awesome. Though sadly, its sibling died doing what it loved -- making bacon.
> Glasses were converted to UK units as follows: red or white wine = 1.7 units; fortified wine=1.2 units; pint = 2.4 units; spirits = 1 unit; other (e.g. alcopops) = 1.2 units. Amounts were also converted to grams pure ethanol (1 UK unit=8g) to aid international comprehension and comparison.

Can someone explain these numbers to me? They claim to measure one “standard drink” (all of which are equal), yet each variant is a different number of units? Furthermore, wine is more (stronger?) than spirits? I must be missing something.
is there any hard evidence of this or is this just from anecdotes?

I have my own anecdote - my swedish coworkers use more english slang and speaking shortcuts than many native speakers I know.
Yeah, but it's not like this vote is going to accomplish anything. It's just symbolic. If they really want to live under a more conservative government, well, there's one right there to the east.
It’s a synecdoche.
Would you be interested in online live fitness/wellness?
Simple yes or no would be great!
Hmm so you're telling people what to do and telling them to think for themselves at the same time. You only listed illegal drugs, what about medications, food, etc? Humans evolved because of mutagens in our diet. The paper literally points out that even if you try to preserve your body, age is the biggest factor in degradation - in the end there is no "safe".
They really get it. I think their product people are as good or better than Apple. If you are a producer, I get why someone would use something with more features and options, but for someone who just wants an instrument in front of them as a way to be musical and expressive, without trying to replicate genres, I could see these becoming classics.
Then you shouldn't drink any, being as it's a drug that makes you (general you) happier and more social, and that's one of the primary reasons it's consumed.

Possibly you are confusing momentary happiness/qualitative enjoyment of a given experience with overall life happiness/mental state?
While I agree with that, I think it's better to start from a "better safe than sorry approach." It is much more likely that a study like this would have been published about alcohol than about 100% pure water.

So in that sense, the comment I made is not so much about the facts, it's more about strategy for optimal health.

Everyone has their own strategy of course.
Because whoever has the largest force wouldn't agree to it. For instance, if these counties chose to ignore all the rules and join Idaho, the U.S. has a very large force that it can use to prevent this from happening. In fact, it doesn't even have to use the force, simply having the force is probably enough.
Because you can break cities into boroughs and boroughs into neighborhoods and neighborhoods into blocks, and where does it stop?

At some point, a tribe has to use force.
I mean their statement can be generalized to both but they are talking about the urban centers in Oregon.
No, the C standard doesn't say that "undefined behavior can be ignored" (which would mean what, making it defined?).

It says, "NOTE Possible undefined behavior ranges from ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results, ...".

It doesn't say that the behavior can be ignored. It says that the undefinedness can be ignored. The implementation doesn't have to take notice of the fact that the behavior is undefined.

Let's take a simpler example:

printf("%d\n", INT_MAX + 1);

The behavior is undefined. The standard does not guarantee anything about it. A conforming implementation can reject it at compile time, or it can generate code that crashes, or it can generate code that emits an ADD instruction and print whatever the hardware returns, or it can play roge at compile time. (The traditional joke is that can make demons fly out of your nose. Of course it can't, but an implementation that did so would be physically impossible, not non-conforming.)

An implementation might define the behavior, but it's still "undefined behavior" as that term is defined by the ISO C standard.
Well, remember, what you are dealing with are basically very small robots with limited programming and a few specialized sensors. "Oh, it is flicking its wings at a certain rate; it must be a female waiting to mate."

And so you have a subroutine where you target the basic shape, go in for a landing, clamp on, and start prodding about with your nethers. They're like state machines in many ways.

Consider that you can put a single chemical on a live ant that makes other ants think that it is dead. They pick it up and take it to the graveyard. Now it can thrash around and wiggle during this but -- nah, smells dead, is dead. Therefore, pick up and carry to designated graveyard location.
The current evidence suggests that Prohibition in the US was far more successful than most of us have been led to believe: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibit...

> Across the Hudson River, in Manhattan, the number of patients treated in Bellevue Hospital’s alcohol wards dropped from fifteen thousand a year before Prohibition to under six thousand in 1924. Nationally, cirrhosis deaths fell by more than a third between 1916 and 1929. In Detroit, arrests for drunkenness declined 90 percent during Prohibition’s first year. Domestic violence complaints fell by half.
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I recall a bug-report discussion that I sadly have never been able to find. It contains a pretty bad side-effect of this.

It had code like:

int *p;
// lots of code

if (p != NULL)
return 1;
// use p

Then a later refactor wrongly added a single line before the if statement:

int *p;
// lots of code

int a = *p;
if (p != NULL)
return 1;
// use p

This meant the null check was optimized away, since de referencing a null pointer is undefined behavior, so the if-statement can be assumed to be always false.
This then lead to actual errors (perhaps even an exploit, I do not recall) arising from the removed null-check.

I think in general the "sanity check" cases are the worst. It is hard to determine whether an expression causes undefined behavior if you cannot try and evaluate it. Perhaps a compiler intrinsic that checks (at runtime) whether an expression causes undefined behavior could be useful here. Though I can imagine such an intrinsic being essentially impossible to implement.
Great example of terrible journalism around a novel technology. Here, let's extrapolate a trend in a completely absurd way for an attention-grabbing headline. Throw in some pictures, some irrelevant data about cryptomining in browser, now you have enough for an article.
Only because there are more notable, or influential people as some would put it. These are always going to be the priority and they happen to be individuals or organizations that tend towards the mainstream.

Giving General Motors a blue check mark is a no brainer because they are likely to be spending ad dollars. Giving celebrities of almost all levels, including short-lived ones, a blue check mark is also helpful because it has an impact on impersonation which is an attack vector on social networks.

The problem is that there are likely others in this celebrity bucket who are attack vectors, but bring reputational problems. Some pornstar might fall into this category. Twitter are much less likely to want to give them a blue check mark than a less well known comic. Someone can impersonate and attack a larger segment and Twitter's security team would probably advocate for reducing the risk, but the corporate arm of the organization won't go for this.

There isn't really anything nefarious here. It's just a case of the demand being so high and Twitter working out what they want to endorse. If they can get past some of the awkwardness of improving the posture around celebs like pornstars then I'd expect they'd extend the blue check mark to others who struggle. There are a lot of parties left out in the cold here. Things like this tend to be slow to evolve in corporate America.
Ok, let's dig in.

> ... everyone has to participate in the rigged game.

In what way exactly is the current system of separating a long-term store of value and a short-term medium of exchange a "rigged game?"

In what way would fusing the two change that?

Are you not able to replicate that which you desire by simple purchasing an asset that does that? For instance, let's say you're a coiner and think that's a better way to store value - does the current system prevent you from backing your personal economy with bitcoin? How about gold? Why would you force me into the one of your choice when maximum freedom dictates giving me the choice on how to store value?

Further, how would you propose keeping the unit of value at a specific pegged constant value without managing the supply actively? When the population changes? Productivity changes? Transient shocks like COVID leading to massive drops in velocity? After all, a constant supply does not mean a constant value.

You realize the fed literally avoided a catastrophic deflationary spiral and held the value of money to within +/- 0.6% last year. That's a heck of an accomplishment.
Ditherit.com might do a decent rough approximation
Money has definitely become inflated since that 10k figure was originally established - but I don't think it passed a significant threshold societally like, say, five dollars passed.

Five dollars was enough to get a modest lunch pretty much anywhere in the 70s and is now, in the affluent parts of the country, around the expected cost for a coffee.

10k, in my mind and opinion of course, went from being "Hey, that's a lot of cash" to "Hey, that's a lot of cash". It remains an amount we (most people at least) don't trivially deal in on a day to day basis and that's where I think the cutoff for this reporting law should be. If most people are going to trigger a mandatory report then LEOs have a lot more data about transactions that are common in society which may be a privacy concern but certainly lowers the usefulness of that ledger - if these transactions are still "rare" then there is a volume of data that can be hand-sifted through to produce interesting insights.

With computers and everything in theory we could probably now handle the volume of tracking the full list of every person's transactions but that would lead to normalizing refusing to report large transactions and we'd only end up seeing the transactions that are made by completely innocent people.
This is a good way to make your adult kids hate you. Trust me, I know.
> Last night I watched this video on loop for a long time,

Sounds like you found a different kind of wormhole :)
A related post with a similar claim: "How One Word Broke C" (https://news.quelsolaar.com/2020/03/16/how-one-word-broke-c/). HN comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22589657
Trump is a central facet of the story because those counties wanting to join Idaho favored Trump in the election.
> Alcohol should be no different, but the social and cultural pressure around it makes it different.

I don't think it's just that. I think it's also that (potentially in quite modest quantities) alcoholic drinks are an important part of/accompaniment to some cuisines, providing a balancing sweetness, acidity, and so on.

I find the idea of steak without a glass of robust red wine terribly disappointing. Seafood soup without a crisp white wine, ditto. Crêpes or galettes without dry cider ... the list goes on ...
Heineken's domestic formula differs from the export formula (primarily due to the amount of hops added to the export formula, IIRC), which is covered on the tour. The domestic Heineken really is much better than the stuff we get in North America.