skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true. I have the simplest mix of countries possible (US citizen / UK resident) and getting clear answers from an accountant on various questions is harder than one might expect because cross-border scenarios aren't always clearly defined in the law.

A lot of it comes down to the accountant saying "our firm recommends X as more defensible based on recent changes in legislation, but if you want to do Y, here is why that might also be possible."
I had the same impression traveling to Bolivia. I am Brazilian and we generally smile when speaking with someone. But in La Paz people usually had this serious look on their faces and a kind of difficult to approach semblance. I imagined poverty could explain that, but Brazil is a bit poorer than Russia. Maybe instead of poverty, we could think about hardship in a more general sense? I find very hard to believe that considering someone smiling insulting is a healthy outcome of a culture.
> How can you prove that expanding the mine actually caused any damages to the environment?

How can you prove that someone committed a murder? It’s a difficult question, and there’s probably no method that makes mistakes impossible, but the solution is not to throw up our hands and say “there’s nothing we can possibly do to improve the situation.”
Where I live we have these booming housing prices and yes it’s fueled by low interest but also by extremely low supply. When I want to see a house, I’m usually too late to even get a chance. And then it’s a bidding war between 10+ parties. It’s no fun, but it’s also not really a bubble I think. We just need to build much more houses.
>* If there is 1 pipe/wire going into your house, and if the owner of that pipe/wire wants to extract as much out of you as they can, then you’re in the same position regardless of how big the owner of that pipe/wire is.*

...because the mergers eliminated their competition and loss-leader attacks on the market are still legal.
The judgement references 12 Acts and over one hundred cases were cited. The judgement would seem to indicate that this is legislated. Perhaps not explicitly, but Australia practices common law, so this is the normal process. That said, I'd expect something like this to be appealed to the High Court.
The heat death theory assumes life has zero impact on the universe.
Facebook is just a spout of propaganda paid for by the highest bidder and targeting the most vulnerable and gullible. The brain cancer of civil society.
Nah. The computer was created as a follow-on to the IBM 601.[1]

There's a whole line of development, the IBM 600 series, which gets no respect in computer history, yet led to the first mass produced business computers.

IBM 601 (1939). IBM's first multiplier. All electromechanical. Punched cards in and out.

IBM 602 (1946, World War II stalled development) Electromechanical. Added division. 6 memory locations.

IBM 603 (1946, project resumed from 1937) Vacuum tube version of the 602. At last, electronics. Only about 20 made.

IBM 604 (1948) A bigger, better 603. 5600 manufactured. First electronic computing product produced in volume. Things are getting serious. There are now one-off larger electronic computers, but they're too expensive for commercial use.

IBM CPC. (1949) An IBM 604 or 605, cabled up to several other IBM tabulating machines, allowed programming via punched cards instead of plugboards. About 2500 made.

IBM 650 (1953) Knuth's first computer. Tube computing, drum memory. This was a real general purpose computer, and the first one made in quantity. About 2000 made. Lots of accessories available - printers, card readers, card punches, and, in 1956, disks. Now we're getting somewhere.

IBM 608 (1955) A successor to the 604/CPC line, made with transistors.

That was the end of the IBM 600 line. Next was the IBM 1401 (1959), which was a quite good computer. Over 10,000 made. The mainstay of business computing in the 1960s.

These boring but useful 600 series machines were cost-effective, worked well, and sold well. IBM also did expensive one-offs and low-volume systems, as the 700 series (701 through 7094) that were more bleeding edge. Most early ones were for government-related "supercomputer" customers.

In 1964, IBM announced the IBM System/360, which brought together the "supercomputer" 700 line and the workhorse 600 series. That lives on today as the IBM Z-series.

And that's how computers became a volume product.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_601
OK, French is a bit weird. I'll take your English. A bit quirky, but manageable. No genders. Usually. That's neat. Quite concise. I can do this if you meet me halfway through. There's this color/colour centre/center thing where it does not know how it should be spelt (spelled? Screw your irregular verbs especially if they don't know whether they are irregular), but whatever. I will not comment on your phrasal verbs.

But we can do nothing about its pronounciation. Sorry. A catastrophe. Nothing that can be fixed.

Spanish is very regular in its pronounciation, so let's use that instead of English's. Or German, actually it might make more sense to use it for pronouncing English, a germanic language.

As for the vocabulary, I'm fine if we keep English's. It's ours anyway.
Now do a research about commute, so the jobs that don't need to go to the office can just work from home
Yeah, at that age I worried about not overdrawing my account to pay rent and still having enough money to buy salsa, tortillas, and beans to last through the week.
Ah yes, Vidal, opposed to "The Property Party" yet owned luxury villas in Italy and the Hollywood Hills.

Property for me, not for thee...
This is great! I've tried to use Anki cards to remember fingerspelling after my first ASL class, but it's pretty hard due to the lack of detailed feedback – this is a lot better.
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The reality is that cellular data, satellite data, rogue WiFi, and fixed wireless all exist.

Transparency and Auditability are real, but they absolutely require endpoint security.

If you don't control the endpoint you don't know if it has an LTE chip, and if you do control the endpoint you don't care.

DPI security middleboxes for the enterprise are always and without exception snakeoil and/or checkboxware.
With masks being socially acceptable in most if not all the world now, I wonder if the lack of visible smile that causes will change the perception of a smile in places where people usually smile by default.
These are a valid issues that I will certainly resolve, thanks for pointing them out.
Aha, I think you may have been in error in your post, then.

Vaccines can be targeted to many different parts of a virus, usually different parts of the surface protein. Different vaccines for the same virus may result in entirely different antibodies.

Even the same vaccine may result in different antibodies in different people. The process of antibody creation is random, and involves recombination of specific DNA chunks. And it's different in T cells and B cells.

So to say that the vaccine and the disease generate the same antibodies has meaning, but it needs to be shown by evaluating the specific protein sequences (most likely by sequencing the DNA or RNA that creates the antibody).
God forbid anyone be multifaceted.

It seems the the rise of influencer culture led to everyone else feeling like they had to only be in a specific niche, and only speak about it or they weren’t going to serve their “fanbase”.

And you know they’re probably right that they wouldn’t serve that fanbase, but good grief has it made the net a generally much more boring place with space only for near-deified experts & influencers and perpetual newbs, leaving little room for anyone in the middle to have nuanced and varied conversations.
You definitely can. If you catch me poisoning your water and the water has been poisoned I will most certainly be charged with attempt to commit manslaughter. I wouldn't even need to actually have poisoned the water.
Well done! Can you please do Robotron next?
> because they have less available working memory

Tangential, but you contextualization ADHD as the lack of working memory is a light bulb moment for me.

I was diagnosed with ADHD this year out of other suspicions. (I've always suspected it, but avoided getting diagnosed because I thought I would use it as an excuse for being lazy).

My working memory also happens to be incredibly low, to the point that some of my friends call me a goldfish. (My long term memory is excellent in comparison)

I never put two and two together, but it makes so much sense.

I really should go for the long-overdue- prescription meeting I keep avoiding. :\
Atari 400 (cartridge).
Vaccination and the Transmission of Covid-19
And design the software to enable uncoordinated effort to make progress. It isn’t trivial to do this, and does take some ability to think deeply, but it isn’t rocket science. The speed of software development is proportional to how little I have to think about. If i care about fifty files to add one feature, then the productivity plummets. It I can just edit file small sensible file, and release it pretty quickly, then I can go so fast. And software development speed pays compound interest (tech debt eats interest compoundedly?)
I think he meant books to be written on the topic.

But yeah, that was one insightful comment.
"I guess this is their admission that you cannot monetize engagement if your community is highly toxic and mostly just produces shitstorms, lynchmobs, perpetually enraged morally superior idiots and professional victims."

Facebook seems to be doing just fine
The terms being bandied about pertain to intent or culpability.

But, there still must be an actual harm. That’s a separate element.

Western legal systems do not do very well with hypothetical future harms.

If I build a big tower on my property that is rickety and liable to fall onto my neighbor’s house, there is nothing he can sue me for (with some exceptions explained below) until the tower falls and causes harm. When the harm occurs, we then get into whether I need to have been “negligent” or “reckless” or “malicious” or even “strictly liable” to be held responsible: different torts have different standards.

That being said, the legislature can step in to address future harm. In my hypo, it may be through a building code which gives neighbors the right to petition the structure be removed before it hurts someone. There’s also the concept of “nuisance” which night give the adjoining neighbor the right to go to court arguing that the tower — due to its rickety nature and likelihood of causing damage — is reducing his property value.

But, generally, future harm is a legislative concern. A legislator can outlaw drinking and driving due to its propensity to cause harm. But, a citizen can’t sue a driver for racing through his streets while drunk unless and until he smashes into you.

(Finally, there are some remedies for “imminent harm”... protective orders and the like. But, by “imminent” we means an immediate risk of a serious injury. Climate change does not cut it; a deranged ex-boyfriend making threats, however, might.)
What's Wrong with Finance
The new rulers?
I use (10mbps by now, I think) DSL exactly so I won't have to give the dickheads a penny. I do fine, websites themselves are much slower than my connection.
Those someones nearly always seem to be a small group of angry white people on twitter and rarely the groups supposedly offended.
In addition, there is cultural conditioning towards overworking. The problem will likely continue until this changes. There are progressive movements like UBI and 4-days work week but the inertia will take its toll for some time to come I reckon.
Freenode was founded in 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode
> Heavy Oil / Light Oil / Petroleum gas looks like it forms a loop at first. But it turns out its just a tree

Don't "worry", Angel's Petrochem fixes this, and IIRC all the products can be reduced to syngas & produced from syngas. If normal oil ever gets too easy, Angels will literally melt your mind. No flare stacks that's cheating ;-)

More seriously, this is why I enjoy some of the mod packs. The loops in things makes things harder, so now you have to really manage the by-products better. E.g., Bob's has a nasty challenge with sodium hydroxide, a by-product of chlorine production. In the early came, it can stack up, & become a real pain. In the late game, LDS production eats it alive, so much that you actually need to appropriately vent chlorine.

I also appreciate playing Bobs/Angels in a sort of "try to waste/vent as little as possible", which means I need some more complex designs, normally to say "if we have waste by-products, use those, else, generate the product directly".

I wouldn't want it in the base game, though, that's a bit much for new players. But the challenge exists.

There's also a bit of fun w/ sulfur dioxide/sulfur in Bobs. You get both as products, and you need both as inputs, and you have to balance the production. (Or, you can just turn sulfur into sulfur dioxide & vent it, but that's boring.)

The other bottleneck that bites me (and that has bitten me in my current game) is pipe throughput. We're going to have to re-layout some stuff, as we've hit the upper bandwidth of our current pipes, I think. Rocket fuel just eats hydrogen like crazy in ammonia/hydrazine production…
IMO, you are overestimating how big a deal static compilation is. Yes, there are usecases where it's important, but acting like a language shouldn't tag version 1.0 without static compilation just sounds ignorant and self centred.

The world is bigger than you.
isn't this what hashtags _should_ be used for?
There are plenty of situations where it isn't absurd at all. I'd like for it to be criminal for someone to set a bear trap in a children's playground. Even if spotted before a child got hurt, the behaviour should still be criminal on the basis of "future harm".

> How far does this protection from the future go on?

That's a subjective decision. The judiciary is experienced at dealing with subjectiveness. They make a judgement call. This situation is no different. The fact it's subjective does not make it absurd.
Athena Glaukopis

Well, it's complicated. Glaukopis could also be translated as "blue eyed", or "grey eyed", not just "owl eyed".

Being the goddess of wisdom and handicraft (among other things), perception was a crucial attribute. Having big eyes (like the owl) could be interpreted as having good visual perception.

But it's not just about the size. She's also described as having "bright eyes", or "flashing eyes", or "darting eyes". It's more about the acuity of perception, than about some emotional aspect.
This point is totally valid but in the case at my work it is actually both. The old saying in marketing is "I know i'm wasting 50% of my marketing budget I just don't know which 50%." It still holds true for companies with large budgets. We have applied XGBoost to produce many and better models for how to best allocate these budgets. The results are both better and cheaper outcomes.
I've always been heavy but while working in the gaming industry I put on enough extra pounds to develop full blown OSA (obstructive sleep apnea) from pounding down sugary coffees in the mornings I felt exhausted (eventually every morning, because OSA).

Working 9AM-8PM regularly has real health side effects and, honestly, it can get a lot worse than 11 hour days in the gaming industry.
> 10% the mass of the sun

Where could we source so much mass? That is far more than the mass of the earth, and surely altering the mass of the sun by 10% would have catastrophic effects.

> physically possible

Does an element exist that is dense enough to compress 10% of the mass of the sun into a 620m sphere? If not, how can the claim that this is physically possible be supported?
Did they count only office workers? I bet way more people die in cobalt mines in Africa to make our electric car revolution affordable.
Trash article like the majority of stuff that comes out of PC gamer.
Is it really so hard to make the counterfeit device that emits specific RF spectrum around 90MHz?
Truly, while the web also now being better than at the time of activex and flash etc. I’d wager the only rescue for a new free non-WebKit would be simple ways to use external programs - maybe yet a challenge for language design.
If you won't post a link publicly, could you at least contact the julia community stewards [1]? If there are community dynamics that are pushing people away, the stewards need to be told.

For what it's worth, I've seen some nasty (though well meaning) pile-ons in the julia discourse, but for the most part it's a pretty nice place. I find though that the Zulip [2] and Slack communities are generally more friendly and relaxes places though.

[1] https://julialang.org/community/stewards/

[2] https://julialang.zulipchat.com/
Because switching a mail client that has a very specific workflow and set of features is a huge shift and you have to change a ton of habits and relearn muscle memory. It's worse than switching browsers because browsers don't embody as much workflow (and tend to be fairly similar to each other)

Been there with Google Inbox. I want one client that is going to stick around and works on all my devices.
With regard to people of a third country seeing one astronaut as the capitalist and the other as the communist, that goes way back. Consider these lines from Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou (shot in summer 1965). As a man and woman look up at the moon, the man says about the Man in the Moon:

"He's fed up. He was glad to see Leonov land. Someone to talk to after an eternity alone! But Leonov tried to stuff
his head full of Lenin. So when the American landed,
the guy fled to his camp. But the American right away
crammed a Coke down his throat, after making him say thank you first."
What do you all see on your explore tab?
lool I got pissed just imagining this happening
> the idea that you have to protect people from "future harm" is absurd

there's a lot of very logical, legalistic, explanatory, replies refuting this, but i feel like a moral reply is also due here.

of course the government's job is to insure the welfare of it's people. not just today, not just for tomorrow, but ongoingly. the whole purpose of government is to serve the welfare of the people, and, thankfully, people care about their children, and their children's children.

preventing future harm is very much the point of government.
It's been a while since I've seen an unironic "and that's [a] good [thing]" title.
Show HN: Golang GraphQL Library
And the idea with stolen art is that "dirty art" should theoretically always trade at roughly the same discount to "clean art," and in fact, over time, as gaps in the provenance become easier to patch up through fabrication, the discount should reduce. In that sense, "dirty art" is an investment, so the immoral of the super-rich are fine holding it forever. Also, no need to pay estate taxes if it's already an undisclosed asset on a yacht somewhere.
The other part of this is that smiling when you don’t really want to, at people you don’t really like, as part of your job, is really exhausting. In the United States labor and especially service sector labor is very disempowered so they don’t really have the option to refuse to smile. In places where labor has a bit more leverage they might be able to. There’s also a special voice you put on, the customer service voice. Culture is often downstream from material conditions.

https://youtu.be/A47SSXdUdvw
Here's another great resource on the topic: https://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cry...
I want someone to just make Google Inbox UI again. The best thing was grouping by dates where I could select and archive or delete an entire month once I had reviewed what was in it.

No other email experience has let me get through my backlog as fast as Inbox did.
This is awesome, we were doing the same thing for a bit at first but ultimately moved away from it in favor of focusing on a product more in our wheel house, but I think this has a lot of potential to be very big. Very much rooting for you!

One thought we had that was different was to let users create communities but auto populate the communities with links that we've crawled, to solve the link gaming issue. And then let them choose how things would be ranked and curate the links we auto populated.
So the laser is dmging the photo sensor?
A First Introduction to Statistical Significance
> The Mozilla Foundation works to ensure the internet remains a public resource that is open and accessible to us all.

> The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation

> The Mozilla Corporation's stated aim is to work towards the Mozilla Foundation's public benefit to "promote choice and innovation on the Internet."

That's why; it's not so 1 + 1 = 2. There is a ton of discretion and leeway baked into their mission on matters like MDN.

I'm conducive to the possibility that Mozilla has, as another commenter has said, "lost its way".
> The other bottleneck that bites me (and that has bitten me in my current game) is pipe throughput.

Pipe throughput is a pain the first time you come across it. But the solution is as simple as "Belt throughput" issues.

Run a 2nd pipe. And when that's not enough, run a 3rd, or 4th, or 5th, or 6th pipe. Don't overthink it, that's the solution.

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There's a "Trap" called pumps. Pumps can bring the effective throughput from 1,200 fluid/second to 12,000 fluid/second, making you think that you've gained 10x more throughput per pipe. But this costs power and causes pollution in game, it makes it difficult to "branch" pipes while keep the 12,000 fluid/sec your pumps support.

Furthermore, the "state" of pipes is factored into the equation. Momentum plays a role, and therefore the "order" that you place pipes, and where things flow can increase, or decrease throughput. So playing at the 12,000 fluid/sec throughput levels is only possible if you get everything perfectly correct (momentum and all).

In contrast, you can just run 10-pipes in parallel, each supporting 1200/sec fluids as long as you're under 17-length. This is slow enough that the momentum calculations don't really affect you.

This is only an issue on nuclear setups in vanilla (the only item that uses so much fluid / water). All other designs are petroleum / light oil / heavy oil, which is used at small fractions of what water-usage does.

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With the new UPS optimizations from 0.17 and 0.18, independent pipe networks are calculated in separate threads. So "parallel pipes" with no pumps are the most UPS friendly design you can get.
If anything this number is too conservative, since the study looks at just stroke and heart disease. When you start getting into mental health and other less obvious health conditions resulting from overwork, the results are sure to be devastating.
Ask HN: What Microsoft word browser version is built with?
What stack are they using to build the browser version of microsoft word ? Are they planning on moving to canvas too like google anytime soon ?
I work so much that I do not know what to do with my freetime, and become really bored. So I just go back to work. It's a vicious cycle. It's brutal.
Fine if there was a field there. This is creating a field where there was none.

And it's the browser itself rather than an electively installed plugin where you asked for it.

It's outrageous. By rights, modifying the content this way should be seen as utterly outrageous by both site authers and users, not just some quirky glitch that it's not smart enough and doing the modification in the wrong place sometimes and will shortly be improved to false-positive less often.
Considering that downvoting and flagging have karma thresholds - coupled with the vouching mechanic for dead comments. I honestly think HN has a pretty good setup for this. We've also got something miles better than Reddit - a limit on how much Karma you can lose on a given comment. I think that works wonders against echo chambers by allowing objections and clarifications to be raised without any real fear of being karma bombed for it.