skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve definitely noticed this teaching the guitar. If students first have a really good run at learning something, particularly something mechanical when you’re working on a piece/exercise, if you stop at some point and chat about/distract them with something briefly, subsequently when they start playing it again it’s sometimes as if ‘magically’ what they were working on previous to the break has been ‘digested’ on a more sub-conscious level or something, and afterwards they play it much better… I wondered if it was because initially the conscious mind was over-thinking and grappling with mapping a task from individual pieces (bit like:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant )
…or even self-sabotaging, and the break helped somehow to reach a more ‘flow-y’, confident state where the brain has a starting point to work from - some sort of pre-prepared mental ‘map’…
It's rather amazing to see so many people complaining about being told that the rich aren't paying their fair share of taxes. That's the central premise here and it gets lost through all this muttering about technical detail.

The richest Americans aren't paying their fair share of taxes. That's the story. That's the central truth we should be talking about, but instead we want to spend time complaining about a bunch of periphery minutiae.

The privacy angle is also distraction. Public figures should enjoy less privacy than the rest of us. That's not just my opinion, it's basically a given in societies that care about holding their powerful to account.

Was the Pro Publica piece a hit piece? Maybe, but I don't care, because once again the central premise is indisputable. Rich Americans don't pay their fair share of taxes. We should be 'hitting' them.
Well the same problem exists there not many types of advertisers to go in for YouTube content.

Some of it is conservatism from brands but product fit is also a problem.

How else do propose creators make a profit or even cover their costs?
Fractalrabbit: Simulate realistic trajectory data from sporadic reporting
https://chessgoals.com/rating-comparison/
I built an air quality monitor with a Wemos D1 and some parts from ali express. Now I open my window, and air my home office way more often. It's also interesting to see how concentration and air quality are related.
> Your cash in the bank is guaranteed to not be erased tomorrow, up to the FDIC coverage limit.

Until a hyperinflation period hits.
Is Bitcoin dead or is it just going through a transformation?

... should I stay or should I go?
I hadn't even thought of tab tiling as a feature I might need until now. Just took a look and seems incredibly useful!
> also somehow people forget chips these days are really powerful.

Only powerful ;-) ? Just found out some FPGAs have embedded processor cores with them (no need to generate them like in 2000) just because their customers already need that and they have enough gates to use.

Other recent stuff like in the RPI2040 microcontroller is a way to code your own "independent" IO sub-programs that run in parallel by a dedicated procesor that does not interfere in your code.

Hardware never stops to amaze me.
Systematic database migrations do feel complicated, but how would you automate the process in the general case? You need to coordinate changes to two systems: your application code and your database. You can be doing anything with either. You can't update all relevant instances/records instantaneously, so you need to allow for intermediate states where both old and new code or data are in use while the update process itself is running. I think the article here does a pretty good job of describing this and a systematic way of dealing with it. At least you only need that many steps if you're making a breaking change to your existing data model rather than just extending it, which still requires care but is quite a bit simpler IME.
How to Make Private Phone Call Without It Showing on Phone Bill
An obvious solution is to have more CDN providers. But because this requires big investments this is not very likely to happen spontaneously.
Restrict how? You'll never restrict it to Eastern Europe, for example. Eastern Europe has almost no high speed rail, so if you cut off "short" flights, travel that would take 4 hours by plane (1 hour to the starting airport, 1 hour in the airport, 1 hour flight, 1 hour from the destination airport) would become 8-12-16+ hours by train for many places.
> HN has a lot of 1%ers who despise the concept of paying taxes.

Let me correct that statement.

"HN has a lot of wannabe 1%ers who despise the concept of paying taxes."

In other words, HN is full of people who identify with rich people and their problems while not actually being that rich. The proper term for these kinds of people is 'bootlickers'.
Those top at 2.8GB/s these days, so about 6 theoretical minutes for 1TB drive. In reality it's probably more of a half hour?
You choose what extensions are filtered in SRP settings
It is useful educationally. People aren't born experts.

It's also a breath of fresh air in an industry whose practitioners can't distinguish technology from magic.
This way, if any one of them has problems, you get incident management practice. Win win!
Reload was up/down.
Can’t have a sovereign wealth fund while simultaneously issuing the world’s reserve currency!
You know, I try to not be biased but that's what I thought inside. The average Joe has zero understanding of what's going on and this indeed is a strange unexplained change that also brings zero feature. For some older folks it's mind boggling I assure you.
it seems down for me, archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210609102038/https://www.londo...
One of my favourites features in Python are named parameters. I even wish Java could be more verbose in that manner.
Imagine walking around a pyramid and you find a power plug. You plug it in and the pyramid executes everything etched into it as a software program.
Yea this article sounds like a good strategy on how to get correct answers on a test of things you don't understand.

I just think the categorization of "textbook" is nonsense to start with. Of course you want a book with text as opposed to a picture book.

You have to start with the right book. The variability between books on a subject is so huge and probably even different person to person based on prior knowledge.
Difference Between Functional Testing and Non-Functional Testing
I am archiving subreddits on Github in plain-text org-mode. If you have some subreddit in mind, open an issue, and I'll create an archive repo for it.

- https://github.com/NightMachinary/r_HPfanfiction

- https://github.com/NightMachinary/r_rational
For math textbooks, one technique I've settled on is essentially summarizing main points and (importantly) drawing diagrams from the text. It's more work than just reading but I find the concepts stick very well especially for subjects like differential topology and category theory, since you remember writing it down and see it in your own handwriting.
Could somebody who understands this stuff explain it for me?

I'm pretty sure I've heard of the Southern Ocean before. It also seems a little fishy that this is being heavily promoted by the magazine that (presumably) these 'Nat Geo cartographers' work for.

Is this a PR stunt? Is there an official body that classifies oceans?

Edit:

I guess this bit of the article explains it. There is no new ocean, it's been recognised for a while.

"'The Southern Ocean has long been recognized by scientists, but because there was never agreement internationally, we never officially recognized it,' says National Geographic Society Geographer Alex Tait. "
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Same experience with Rocket League. A few years ago, I had a couple months between jobs, and my brother was in a similar spot, so we'd hang out and play Rocket League a fair amount. I slowly got better, but I only improved significantly after some time away from the game. Now, we might play once every few weeks or once every few months. Takes a bit to knock off the rust, but once we get going, I almost always notice some unexpected improvement - dribbling, positioning, and transitions from ball to car cam are the areas that seem to improve the most. Love the game, but it's not high on my list of areas I want to improve, and I'd definitely improve more with shorter breaks (days instead of weeks or months) and more time playing.
Realistically speaking, most people do NOT have access to the tax loopholes that the 1%+ does. I didn’t realize this was an actual argument, because it’s well established.

Using meme stock millionaires as an example is hilarious. That’s maybe a handful of people in comparison to the rest of the normal working class population.
To be fair, NWS does a poor job at presenting their own data. Some services do add their own models to NWS but the vast majority just re-wrap NWS forecasts. NWS data visualizations and the websites aren't the snazziest things but they do work.
UK presses for City of London carve-out from G7 global tax plan
There are also second order effects. Higher wealth taxation combined with clamp-downs on tax evasion, money laundering, and other illegal and semi-legal-for-now activities would stabilise money markets and keep Grandma's money safer.

Extreme losses are caused by the manic-depressive boom-bust cycle which is in turn caused by plentiful money chasing fraudulent opportunities that don't really exist. (See also, S&L crisis, securitisation failures, and many many more.)

Damping that cycle and turning it into an engine for national profit sharing would raise collective prosperity, increase social mobility, and create new opportunities.
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/flight-rail-four-hours-...

Right now it's still only France, but German politicians are talking about adopting a similar strategy.

The French model actually aims to ban flights that have a sub 4h train connection. Meaning the Eastern European nations without high speed rail would have fewer flights affected if this becomes EU policy.

It would cut a lot of flights to neighboring countries, and domestically in Germany.
Sure, but you have to stomach the 6% commission you’re paying to the brokers, which really limits this situation to transitory market conditions instead of a get rich quick strategy.
it's amazing what people will do to avoid writing a novel
Advancing Excel, the most successful functional programming tool, using Haskell
I don't expect every CEO to do what I described, but if your CEO doesn't want to listen to you when you're supposed to be the head of sales and marketing why would you continue to work for them?

The guy raised possible issues with the CEO's plan and was ignored. If he's worth his salt, why wouldn't he be looking to find another company where he's valued more appropriately for his role?
I dunno, I've submitted four bugs. One solved within a day, one after 20 days, and two still unresolved as far as I know. It could of course be better, I don't think it's quite like you describe.
> Even if Lightning worked (it doesn't)

That hasn't been my experience. I agree it is a "complex" system and has its own limitations, but when I took some time to test it, it worked well.
Concentration of what?
So called drugs lords were relatively low level.
Maybe a misdirection operation to convince everybody they cannot break encryption... :-)
Well the first release of Opera with chromium was 2013 so it was clearly being abandoned at that stage
This could be a catastrophe. Since BTC is still too unstable to use as an everyday currency, citizens will likely use BTC only as a payment rail and convert to USD. The government will end up net long BTC. Any BTC whale in the world could dump BTC and destroy an entire countries economy. They are trading being beholden to the US for being beholden to anonymous BTC whales. Some fucking VCs just took over an entire country. My heart goes out to Salvadorans, i really hope im wrong and this works out well.
Why would it matter?

You need so few subway drivers/conductors that does it really matter if you need one per train?

Taxis are probably average a driver per 1.5 ish customers. Subway/train is hundreds.

This reminds me of optimisation of non critical code. Sure its nice, but the cost/benefit is just not there.
I am wondering how the long running migrations are done. Are they running as a scheduled job outside the app? I can imagine it can't be part of the app itself as that would block deploying a new version of the app (/docker image)
One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown
Hackernews should also provide account deletion option.
In case of accounts getting doxxed for people who do not want it. Account deletion will help in saving fallout.
Tell that to giganews or dejanews whoever the F it was some usenet service I signed up for once, who had no way to cancel the account on the site, required a phone call during business hours in Sweden or somewhere, and I think I even did the first few of their hoops like sent an email to the special address, but when they didn't simply honor the request, I just stopped paying.

I think either the card was expiring naturally or it was google pay or something that I could shut off. (it was years ago by now so thats why the vague details)

anyway, they actually tried to say I owed them money for years and I even got emails and calls from collections companies for a few years.

If they had been in the US I bet it would have been harder to just blow them off like that.

Simply stopping payments is not the ultimate trump you and I both thoight it should be.

For my part I decided I was on record as having requested to cancel the service, and had not used the service, so do your worst. Go ahead and try to convince a judge that I owe you anything.
Security researcher says attacks on Russian government have Chinese fingerprints
So cash based merchants must accept bitcoin? Who decides the going rate for conversion between bitcoin and USD? The merchant? The government?
We don't know much about the specific client configuration change that triggered this condition yet. It doesn't necessarily have to be a big company wide infrastructure change.

To me it sounds plausible that an SRE team in an alternate location made a change scoped to their permission level, following company-directed playbooks, which eventually triggered the faulty condition at Fastly.
In the future you don't teach GPT, GPT teaches you. Imagine GPT replacing teacher in school, power of intelligence of all intellectuals in the world in the hands of every kid.
https://kapeli.com/dash also has the ability to download offline archives of SO. Its interface is very good.
Exactly. What they were doing was not legal and an audit ruled so. But yeah, ends justify the means
>99.99% of the example code

Orelly's Perl books from the CD bookshelf still work.

Just declare a variable with "my =" in front of it (just once), and everything will work as usual:

old:

$num = 3;
print $num;

new:

my $num = 3;
print $num;
> But property taxes aren't a tax on capital gains

This is getting tautological though. The point of the ProPublica piece (generously read) is that there’s no reason we have to tax capital gains — or more to the point, wealth broadly — the way we do. And that the article isn’t “wrong” (as the link for this HN post seems to suggest) just because it seems to suggest that reality should perhaps be changed.

Overall you seem to be reading my post as an argument to literally replace capital gains tax with property tax. That’s not the point, the point is there is precedent for taxing assets that have not sold. Issues like how to handle falling asset values under a wealth tax or how a wealth tax would intersect with any remaining capital gains tax would be policy mechanics subject to robust debate IF a decision was made to do a wealth tax.

Update - oh hi Seth we met when you were at Berkeley and made a stand on the loyalty oath. Fan.
Dumb question, couldn't the rich invest their money in their children's startups who then have "an asset that they can build , maintain to then borrow against ("their wealth") doing the same for their kids ad infinitum..? (Ponzi scheme?) Considering that interest rates have been going lower and lower seems like a great scam ... I mean historically it's nothing new the have's beget the have's ...there is an illusion of self determination and simulacrum of democracy but maybe where it hurts is that people feel shocked seeing "le roi nu" (or feel stupid yet trapped for putting up with such blatant truths..)

But to diverge, why not simply increase interest rates for people putting their money in the bank (so they stop buying multiple houses to increase their wealth ( making home ownership unaffordable for most of us) and instead give them similar returns for leaving their money in the bank to lend it to these people who borrow against their wealth...

Is it because higher interest rates leads to the boogeyman inflation?
I think it has more to do with the emotional investment into learning a programming language.

If you are a bit experienced and/or educated, you can learn most languages fairly quickly. I'm fairly confident that most programmers will become reasonably productive with using a new language in under a month.

The issue is however that many of us don't want to be just "reasonably productive". We are nerds who really love what we do and take pride in our craft. So we want to dive deeper and deeper, reach competency and expertise and increase the fun we have continuously.

This part of continuous learning and refinement is rewarding but also really hard. A particular language can get in the way of that or help us to become better in some dimension of expertise. There is a mindset behind a language that might fit ours like a glove, it just flows more naturally.

But this emotional investment can sometimes hinder us in the long run, when we invest so much time and effort into something we don't like to hear that our choice was arbitrary or even bad in some way or another.

The antidote do that is to keep learning new languages and technologies at a reasonable pace. Suddenly the emotional attachment fades.
Clickable - https://www.axios.com/global-debt-gdp-898959ed-f96a-4c4d-85a...
> Anyone who has been there will struggle to explain what's so mesmerizing about it, but they'll all agree that the glaciers are bluer, the air colder, the mountains more intimidating, and the landscapes more captivating than anywhere else you can go.

I was hoping to see a photo of those blue glaciers, intimidating mountains, and captivating landscapes. And there’s none. (Yes, I know how to Google images of blue glaciers.)

I hope more editors ask the question: based on article text, what photos would a reader likely want to see?
Even better - like fusion power - theoretical possibility but with rather a vague timeline for a practical deliverable.
Yes, and what I always wonder about is that while I can understand the crappy sites that want money for an otherwise freely available documentation, I cannot understand the reason behind those sites (they are not only related to electronics) that come up in search (as they do have the very specific keyword/part number searched for) only to say "Sorry we don't have any of these, nor anything related".
Wow, I've always wanted to visit this airport, glad to read that they're not going to tear it down.

In 2016 Conan O'Brien went there, because the airport was being used to house refugees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j39oTM2DLGs . According to the German Wikipedia article of the airport, this use would only be limited for 3 years until the end of 2019, but there were also a lot of protests against it.
> Pinboard's Twitter hasn't been updated in aeons

You must be looking at the wrong thing. He tweets constantly.[1]

As to your question, it’s up for me. If it’s still down for you, ask him on Twitter or send an email, Maciej is quite responsive.

[1]: https://twitter.com/pinboard
And it has been wildly successful because it allows people to make and distribute applications without an army of volunteer packagers or forcing the user to compile from source. It wouldn't be a problem at all if Desktops had gotten around to the idea of sandboxing everything by default the way mobile did.
I love the tiling capabilities of Vivaldi, it's been impressing people over videoconference too.

I tried to use built in mail and calendar, but unfortunately my (work) life is too dependent on the little integrationa of Google calendar and gmail
I'd rather take break intentionally than having to context-switch due to somebody else
Interesting that they are doing the "Waterloo and City line" first and for background, that is a isolated line/train that just goes from Waterloo station to the City central. I used that many times in the past and out of all the lines, was more civilised - would have commuters line up along the platform were the doors would appear once the train stopped and really a contrast to other tube/train stations.

So for a first trial/go of converting existing stock/track - that I will agree is a perfect choice.

Now when they get to the circle line - that IMHO will be the hardest and as a commuter.

I just hope they build sensors that can handle that environment. Many memories of commuting and having my ears and nose covered in a layer of black soot. But then that's best read up about here: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/london-tube-dust
It is difficult to remember something that you don't understand.
Remove Google Redirection
I got "Wozniak" more than "Jobs" from it, given the technical nature of the job.
Not just any 1 person, a driver, who must have years of training, if they don't turn up to work 1000's other people don't get to work. It's not so much one person as a single point of failure. If there were enough drivers with redundancy then it would not matter.
Article is rather light on substance. What nodes, expected output, etc.

Still though, I wish them good luck.
This is a strange way to say "stubbornly use an editor that is inferior to vim". :P
To me the easiest way to understand social media is to read Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. It is a brilliant book as it is really just Freud commentating on
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon.

The most basic idea is once you join a psychological group you stop being fully rational and mostly act on emotions driven by the group.

Everything just makes sense after digesting parts of that book.

The part you mention about organized religions is also just the group.
Uber Surge Pricing requires Real-time Streaming Analytics. There's a better way
CO2 I guess?
This looks like a cool project but there's something I'm confused about.

Is the goal of this project to allow people to run realtime software? if so, isn't using lua a problem because of it's memory management causing GC stalls?

It doesn't appear to be addressed in the README of the github. One other explanation is that I'm missing the point, and it's just using RTOS as a small embeddable OS on which to run lua, is that the case?
TBF though, weather is like the worst example of rent seeking. The people that provide the most value to weather reporting and prediction is the federal government through the a National Weather Service. Private companies usually just repackage the free government provided reports, or they do some analysis on top of the government provided data.

That’s what has always made AccuWeather’s attempt to “privatize” (in reality stop having the government publicly publish forecasts, but continue the hard work of data collection) the weather service transparent rent seeking.