skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to take an English 101 class again a couple of years ago because otherwise I would have had to pay for some extra bureaucracy to skip the class.

I remember getting answers wrong on some tests like:

a) How is 12:45 pm read? I said "twelve forty five pm" but the only valid answer was "a quarter to one"

b) What is the ethnicity of Laos? Which may be Lao or Laotian depending on who you ask. The teacher only accepted Laotian.

c) On one test he also insisted that NK and SK were "one country" and also had that answer marked as wrong. Which may or may not be depending on who you ask.

I tried to appeal some of those answers in the tests but it only annoyed the teacher.
It’s simply that lower childhood IQ at age 5 is an indicator of conservatism in adults.

One might interpret this as people who find it hard to understand the world are often easier to fool into thinking their problems are because of someone else, or to scare into believing that what they do have is at risk from “others”.
I drove through a few of the counties (eg. baker) mentioned in the article to visit a dog breeder, and the breeder had (nearly) her own highway exit. Complete with 2 overpasses. Must cost millions to build and maintain.

Her house was the only one visible for as far as you could see from that exit. All i could think about was how much better her life was for that exit and how all her total tax income forever could never ever come close to covering the costs society bore to build that exit.

I have always lived in very liberal, expensive, coastal cities and have always heard talking points about waste on welfare to cover poor inner-city americans (typically by rural/suburban conservatives), and all i could think was how backwards this was, and how many families could be fed by the cost of this one exit ramp.

Does this mean that society shouldn't build that ramp? I don't know because rural farmland obviously needs to access the rest of society (to ship food), and everyone sorta deserves to access the road system
I fail to see how this would be a 'bad precedent' or 'problem'. Why is keeping arbitrary borders established over a hundred years ago more important than better representation and sortition?
Firefox does nothing to prevent Google from shaping the web; the users of Firefox are largely irrelevant to the web.
> In early 2012, Microsoft divested itself of Tellme Networks' interactive voice response (IVR) service and the majority of its employees to [24]7 Inc. The service was moved to a non-toll-free number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellme_Networks
Not sure what they've done in practice here from what you wrote. Are you implying that they made a public declaration that they would simply choose to ignore such a law?
> Chia absolutely destroys consumer SSDs.

If they are used to produce many orders of magnitude more plots than could fit on them. His point is you don't need SSDs to plot, and can reasonably make them directly on the spinning HDD on which you'll store them. I know, because I'm doing this. I make one plot in about 10 hours on the 7200rpm commodity drive in my home media server. It may take me longer to fill up my space than it would with an SSD, but compared to the amount of time in the future I'll be able to farm the plots it doesn't really matter. Cranking out plots as fast as possible probably only helped for the first week or two.

People are burning out SSDs since they're buying into the arms race and trying to get/stay ahead of the netspace growth, hoping for some "easy" XCH, but that's a choice they're making, using poor (or more likely no) ROI calculations and outdated information.
How do you do ramen? We use it a lot for stews, never tried it for lighter broths.
Ok I see you point - I have read an solicitor opinion that this may be a valid defense, however, you could likely be expected to prove that you have a medical condition or history of forgetting things. I am pretty sure you cannot just say "oh I forgot, my bad, sorry."
Billions are lost in crashes as well... There are a number of billionaires and hundred-millionaires who were undone in 2008. It's not like they all got richer and everyone else got poorer.
As a primary source of income? Not really.

You could spend weeks looking for bugs and find nothing and not make a dime.
Of course the big Transit. That would be my preference. But it feels a little more sensible environmentally for me to keep an older truck going for my purposes. I am simply not that demanding a user.
You're in the wrong frame of reference here and trying to balance out some sort of America that I think is likely to not exist all that long.

The senate thing though wouldn't be relevant based on what this article is saying. Oregon would have 2 senators as it does now, Idaho would have 2 as well. Potentially could have an effect on the house though but that depends on the population demographics.

> If the senate were proportional to population, and if the electoral college were likewise apportioned via popular vote, then maybe you could be more flexible with state boundaries.

Well no I don't think that would change much. But I also view the senate as it currently exists as good. Frankly, legislation was intended to be difficult to pass - it should be even more difficult to pass. If something doesn't have broad consensus then getting a slight majority and ramming it down the other side's throat (why are there only two sides anyway) is a lightning rod for partisanship.

But also, why would there be states in a hundred or two hundred years? Maybe nuclear weapons will keep the nation state together like it has Russia. Idk.
Like the scrunching comment says about the shape. Light travels in straight lines. It just happens that all the straight lines from inside a black hole curve back in on itself. So the light travels as far as it wants but only within the confines of this curved spacetime.
To better understand this consider LVM - it does not understand the filesystems on top of it yet it can still restore from a snapshot. Unfortunately LVM snapshots suffer from performance penalties an SSD could avoid.
Mysterious fast radio bursts traced to spiral galaxy arms
They are only tax free if you are older than 60 and wait a 5 year holding period to prevent this exact evasion.
You could add some kind of security manager to sand box it and have little apps running in the browser. Maybe call them "applets".
Yeah, I love next.js. I'm much more willing to go that route than fight Webpack.
Show HN: How we slashed our DynamoDB Spend by 75%
Truly heartwarming. Hope in humanity is returned!
It’s a combination of a few things:

(1) Tech demands a lot from its employees. We are dedicating a significant portion of our waking hours. They expect us to believe in their mission, and so we also expect that mission to align with our values.

(2) Technology itself is much more far reaching than any other industry. These corporations are massive, and with them massive budgets for lobbying etc. Not demanding that they reflect the values of their employees and customers would be a massive waste of that power or worse — letting them actively use that power to make the world worse.
Or they assume "param + 16" will never overflow, so they emit an ADD instruction and use whatever result it yields.

Saying that a compiler "assumes" anything is anthropomorphic. A compiler may behave (generate code) in a manner that does not take the presence or absence of undefined behavior into account. If you just say it assumes something, that doesn't tell you what it will do based on that assumption.

Generating code that yields exactly 16 iterations is one of infinitely many possible consequences of undefined behavior.

If the mathematical value of `param + 16` exceeds `INT_MAX`, then the code has undefined behavior. The C standard says nothing at all about how the program will behave. A conforming compiler can generate code that iterates 42 times and then whistles Dixie. The non-normative note under the definition of "undefined behavior" does not constrain what a conforming implementation is allowed to do.

"imposes no requirements" means "imposes no requirements".
My personal pet peeve is golang. No language is named like that. The language name is Go. Calling it golang because of the domain name of the project is like saying typescriptlang instead of Typescript.
Eight kids. What I would give to have eight kids. You’re a living life right, that’s all I have to say.
I built out the basic home gym over the pandemic, but gyms in my town have dropped the mask mandate and I can't wait to get back in. I'll continue both, and the home gym improved the last year of my life immeasurably, but I've always like going to other gyms. When I lived in the city, I made the rounds among the different gym locations available to me.

I guess I'm back to having the best of both worlds.
Would be great if you could open a Github issue describing the problems you ran into when using your existing Babel config. That should still work just as before
Not exactly "random," I am sure...
American English is to English as a Second Lanaguage as Typescript is to Javascript. We claim it is a superset, but the rules are different and it is unnecessarily verbose in all the wrong places.
This reminds me of the fact that Firefox, by default, allows anyone to view stored credentials – no authentication required, as no master password is set. It boggles my mind.
I noticed that I mixed up "implementation-defined behavior" and "unspecified behavior" a bit. Here are the actual definitions:

implementation-defined behavior: unspecified behavior where each implementation documents how the choice is made

unspecified behavior: use of an unspecified value, or other behavior where this International Standard provides two or more possibilities and imposes no further requirements on which is chosen in any instance
Native speaker: repetitious usage of stock phrases by other native speakers has begun to bug me recently. Some examples:

* Listening to market business analysis one will often hear "And this way the customer tries to gauge the value of THAT bag/watch/car..." where the word 'that' is emphasized with an almost implicit nod in the direction of the object. It's not so much grammar usage (which v. that). Rather it's a cloyingly emotional hustle (as I see) it to both magnify, mystify, and focus on the object in question.

* "... That said ... " / "...that being said..." appears often in writing, and even HN.

* Listen to any pitch in the software world. See if you can get through one without hearing any of these words or phrases: "... experience ...", 'actually' as in " ... Now press OK and it actually [does XYZ which was the whole point anyway]"; or "All we wanted to do was simply [some in, in fact, quite complex task] ... so we set out to [save the world]". More abstractly modern marketing emotionally plays on the feelings of connectedness or family in an insincere way. If you know Absolutely Fabulous you might know the Patsy line: "Get your dry cleaning back and it's a revolution" ... you know because the dry cleaners are practically your close loving family looking out for your chores so you have time to save the world / be a teacher ... so now everything is practically either an act of magic or Old Testament level miracles.

* In verbal conversation the word "like" is used far too much

* Finally, I have a number of friends for whom Portuguese is their native language. I don't understand it. Still I have tried to listen carefully for the parallel in English when we say "ummm" or "ahhh" to buy time while we think of the next line or the "like" example to start a sentence ... or the rising intonation to make a statement, and not asking a question. For a great example of rising intonation: look for the Noon dieting TV commercial and listen for the African American Lady who's got a line: "It's amazing how the little things ...". By the time she's done she's talking quickly at high pitch. I don't hear this in Portuguese.
Gml4gtk – show the GCC or Clang compiler graph data
It sounds more to me like these ants were treated the way we treat disabled humans.
To do the same thing Google was doing that year when they launched GOOG-411:

Using the interactive phone calls to train their speech recognition systems, so that they could eventually use what they learned to develop things like Google Assistant, Cortana, Windows Voice Recognition, etc.

Tellme was taking 2 billion calls a year when they were acquired. They had all the training data Microsoft could want to compete with Google in that area.
It shouldn't be, but there's always been very healthy industry niches around pulling data from one system and putting it into another one. Nothing ever lines up exactly, and there's always some idiosyncratic remapping or futzing that has to be done manually or with some one-off custom code, so it remains an expensive contract business.
Realistically, when parents get old, it is their children who become responsible for them. I feel like this is quite common sense... especially seeing as children inherit from their parents...
The friction is in salesforce's favor.
I'm German. I've had an Arabic colleague translate (=dumb down) my English to another German colleague. Vocabulary was the issue. "I think I spider."[1] It felt like having to rewrite a map-reduce to a loop in order to pass code review.

[1] http://ithinkispider.com/
so twrk doesn't handle coordinated omission or you found a different way to do it?
Financial neglect of one's parents is bad though...
We're starships for mitochondria. :)
Yeah you install Virtual Desktop on the Shadow PC and then your Quest can connect directly to it.

You do need something other than the Quest to start up the Shadow PC and keep it running (it will shut down automatically if an official Shadow client is not connected for too long). I use my laptop or AppleTV for this -- both connected over ethernet so I save all my WiFi bandwidth for the Quest.
> Yeet them into the sun

Wow, gen Z lingo has come into HN faster than I expected. Can someone translate this to traditional English? The definition I find for 'yeet' ("an exclamation of excitement") isn't particularly enlightening...

Update: I see, thanks all!
More interesting in the context of an f150 are fleet vehicles that never see anywhere near that requirement before parking for the night. Fleet sales are going to be the dominant variable for this truck.
I suspect mask wearing increases social distancing. That would explain much of the data but satisfy neither political party.
The balance of seats in the Senate
Take a look at:

https://techdows.com/2020/04/enable-dynamic-first-party-isol...
Thanks for the laugh - The fact that we look to greedy corporations for politics and ideology is absolutely ridiculous
Does America have a concept of walking distance?
So that basically says that essentially no one in the state of MA is rural and that almost no one in the state of CA is rural. Which probably doesn't correspond to how average people think about rural vs. urban. So the fact that I can look off my back deck and see nothing but trees is a reasonable urban environment.
It's simply some kind of easing function, and if the universe does have a designer, it's obvious to see that said designer prefers smooth transition and curves for most macroscopic phenomenon.

Also by defining the inverse square law you can maintain a cohesive interaction model between different objects and regions. Their sphere of influence (which can be described by gravity waves) will now just be superimposed on top of each other without extra work.

Or even crazier, maybe it's a combination of both, maybe there is a hard cutoff after all once you pass the event horizon.
To yeet is to throw enthusiastically, happily and without care.
Block-based programming: does it help students learn?
Having just tried them: I'd put the noise canceling at "a solid contender for second-tier". Not great, but substantially above the comparative-trash that is "everything but Sony and Bose".

Like, if I had to put it on a graph, from the dozen-odd sets I've tried (most ~$300+):

silent notice conversations reduces low frequencies noticeably no effect
------1--2-------------3-----------------------4------------------------------------------5---------

Sony is 1, Bose is 2, Airpod Max is 3, all decent alternatives are somewhere in 3..4, and a million others are around 5. The Max is immediately obviously nowhere near as good as Sony/Bose, but it's pretty good. Spending a premium elsewhere will usually get you 4 instead of 5, but that's about it. And a 4 is a noticeable improvement for mechanical sounds during a commute / flight / etc, but it's FAR from "silent".

Airpod Max's "hear your surroundings" mode is stellar though, I'll definitely give them that. It sounds much more natural / "real".
One interesting thing to note is that there are lots of internal tools (CLI, web UI, etc.) that are REALLY slow. Things that are heavily used in the fast-path for development (e.g. code search, code review, test results) are generally pretty quick, but if there's a random system that has a UI, it's probably going to be very slow - because there's no budget for speeding them up, and the only people it annoys are engineers from other teams.
My grandma runs an online web store. She wants to know how many customers are converting and what products are popular, so I put Google Analytics on the site. Despite the issues with having to collect data, it's all she can afford to do (and quite frankly, cannot afford not to).

The infrastructure to do analytics this easily does not exist - unless you expect a 65 yr old to trawl through Apache logs on the command line? Extrapolate that to everything from audits, logging, anonymization of data and of course it's going to push people to use centralized solutions.

From my perspective open source communities seem to have an ideological issue against analytics and business data, so very few solutions exist outside of big tech. What am I to do?
That study also focuses on influenza which does not transmit quite the same way as COVID. A bunch of these links were the same thing being shared in the early days of COVID by doctors claiming that masks did not work. Obviously most healthcare organizations have changed their recommendations in light of new evidence specific to this pandemic.
Really amazing work, well done! Having something like this when growing up would've made electronics so much more accessible.

I can't think of anyone I know close to me that would really appreciate this gift, so I'm with another comment on here that gifting it online somehow would be something I'm interested in. I'd feel happy knowing I'm supporting a great product and helping the less fortunate of the younger generation get better access to fun educational tools.
The Mitsubishi Zuba system is a good example of this type.
I imagine the logic here would be developing a passive income to compensate for the free labor you put in in the first place, and cover whatever future free labor you might want to do.
Well, the way to respond to it is “wait, no, Apple as a company is a much more direct contributor to working conditions at Foxconn than it is to violence against Palestinians. You are concentrating on an empty statement from management in lieu of demanding corporate actions that would actually have an effect. Your priorities are misordered.”
s/yeet/toss dramatically/
I can only agree and sympathize with what you say. One of the few advantages of being our age is that we've experienced both era and we know what has been lost.

You hit the nail on the head with your earlier comment in that the 'national dialog needed to improve'. It's extremely difficult to have one's children listen and respect one's point of view when the national dialog among their peers is very different.

One needs the zeitgeist to change but from what I see around me I remain pessimistic.

Hopefully my view is myopic and I'll be proved dead wrong.
I am in awe of her paragraph: “ Every time I read one of the Russian greats my life transforms into an eerie mirror of the work. I had already experienced a year of obsessive relationship analysis (Anna Karenina), six months beneath the thumb of a powerful boss whose political maneuvers were far reaching and whose requests quickly spiraled into the hellish and fantastic (The Master and Margarita), a week on the run with a depressive whose obsessive psychosis ended in a prison sentence (Crime and Punishment), a much-too-long friendship with a man whose preoccupations with his father were borderline incestuous (Fathers and Sons), and, after I finished War and Peace, years stuck in sprawling disillusionment that, unlike many characters in the novel, I have yet to overcome.”
Because that's how the simulation is configured?
"Hmm, how can I get people to start using IPFS..."

Edit: Not sure about the downvotes. Joking tone aside, that actually seems like an ideal application for it.
You reckon Slack and Teams don't do any of that?
Honestly I see this failing in Oregon not because anyone is particularly against it, but because the Republicans in the state legislature have no power and the issue would never be brought to the floor.
Little known fact: the bullet holes from that skirmish is where we get the phrase “Holy Toledo”.
Yeah, on display is not only her individual heroism to rally her town, but her entire community's selfless assistance of those in need. It's important to embody that.
My 20 girlfriend informs me it means to fling or throw but with a comical or exuberant effort.
I don’t know enough physics and haven’t put in enough effort to understand https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.10478.pdf but it seems intriguing.
As I am solidly a millenial, I guess I'll take it that I'm keeping hip to the lingo of kids these days :)

My definition of "Yeet" is to fling/throw/hurl something, typically with great vigor. Urban Dictionary defines it as "To discard an item at a high velocity." Derives from the Latin Iacio, From Proto-Italic jakjō‎, from Proto-Indo-European (H)yeh₁-‎ ("to throw, let go"). JK I just made that up, but it's actually plausible.

Never heard the "exclamation of excitement" definition.
There's nothing about culture that ties it permanently to race, if that's what you're insinuating. Racial diversity does not imply cultural diversity - which is an incorrect shortcut that I've seen most people who deploy the "but the nordics are not as diverse" argument - especially American whose media consumption tends to be more insular.

I think there's a fallacy at play - not sure which one it is, whereby a person sees a lot of nuance, variation and detail in the minutiae of what they are familiar with, but the unfamiliar is painted in very broad strokes, lacking nuance, and based on surface-level understanding.
Yeah, personally, seems worth it. I've had a lot of good times drinking, and if it means my brain degrades 80bps more, well then so be it!

Everything has a cost and nothing is free and it's up to you to decide what decisions you are going to make. It really infuriates me when people think that a long and healthy life is something that we all should sacrifice everything for. As if the whole point of existence is to maximize those two metrics.
> Rules that the major cities deal with, like not being allowed to put up a specific kind of fence because the bureaucrats in the city look at .1 acre plots of land and don't like how certain fences look - where out here we're dealing with 5 to 100 acres (and in some cases a 40000 acres of land).

Wait, these rules aren't something that are enacted and enforced at an individual city / town level? These are state-wide zoning(?) rules being applied universally to all jurisdictions in the state? If so, that does seem obnoxious..

(I don't own land so I am very unfamiliar in how zoning regulation plays itself out, so apologies ahead of time.)