skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone want to fund me? I’ll test the every living heck out every smart car in existence in every condition from perfectly flat straight drag steps to dirt roads in the mountains with a foot of snow and white out conditions, to unmarked pot holes riddled roads in torrential down pours. I’ll also test the usual stuff like does the car detect the kids playing in traffic, or the dog darting after the squirrel. I’ll video the test from numerous angles, cut in awesome music and sounds effects and upload everything to the internet. I’ll also write long articles about the intricate nuances of each vehicles responses to the tests and create scoreboards for categories like least likely to run over children, or most likely careen off a bridge if there’s a sign at the perfect angle.
Texas is every 2 years from what I understand.
I was like that for a long time. About 3 years ago, my spouse convinced me to go to a sleep doctor. One of the first things he checked was my nose: it turned out I had a severe deviated septum. He referred me to a surgeon who was able to fix that with a very common procedure. I now fall asleep more quickly, and wake up naturally after about 7-9 hours depending on physical activity.

You probably have a different thing than this, but it's pretty easy to have checked. Totally worth it for me.
> The US supported coups in Guatemala (1954), Brazil (1964), the Dominican Republic (1965), Chile (1973), and Uruguay (1973). Moreover, the US put some pressure on the democratie government of Peru right before the 1948 coup, and Ameriean diplomats sympathized with military inter-ventions in Costa Rica (1948), Panama (1948), Colombia (1949), Ecuador (1963), Bolivia (1964), and Argentina (1976). In these seven instances, a case could be made that hegemonic demonstration was at work. Previous work has shown that US signals that it would accept coups were associated with their occurrence. 11 However, even taking such US signals into account - whieh often did not entail any agency on the ground -at most, the US favoured coups in 12 out of 27 democratic breakdowns. The waves of authoritarianism that rocked Latin America from 1948 to 1956 and from 1964 to 1976 were not a result of consistent US indifference toward democracy or support for authoritarianism; Washington opposed many coups.

This article does not refute that the US supported multiple coups in the US. The claim is simply that, since the US supposedly also aided a similar number of democracies to the number of authoritarian regimes it backed, it is therefore unjustified to say "US only supports authoritarians". This is not nearly as strong of a claim as what you seem to be suggesting.

Also, citing one single article on a complex matter such as this really doesn't prove anything. Anyone could cite plenty more articles with alternative takes.
I also have a copy of P. J. Plauger's Draft Standard C++ Library.
That's not correct. Analogies are a good way to help someone you're talking to understand where you're coming from. The post that originally drew the analogy for you was succinctly explaining why unequivocal support for an organization's budget, particularly one like the US military, is not a good idea. It was quite successful at conveying that point, you're just calling it invalid. Doesn't make it so.
This is exactly why I've never been on the GNU-train. The radicality of RMS's writings and philosophies paired with the subtle condescending and childish tone in all of the guides, licenses, articles, blog posts, etc.
Valuation and debasement are two very very different things with very different effects.

The US created 20% of all the dollars that have ever been created, ever– last year. This is infinitely more harmful than a reduction in price compared to another currency.
This guarantee surely helped quite a bit in Zimbabwe, Venezuela and hundreds more similar cases. /s
How Kin is shaking up the home insurance market
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I did APL programming on an IBM mainframe on a co-op work term (in 1986) and later found an APL interpreter for a Z80 CP/M machine I had (a Superbrain) and strictly for nostalgia reasons, hacked together a character ROM for that machine so the thing would display properly.

At which point a housemate walked up to it and coded the Sieve of Erasthosthenes prime number algorithm in something like 11 characters and out came a list of primes. Holy. And I thought I'd grokked APL.

This is so long ago, that I had to google it. Here it is, OK, more than 11 characters but maybe the code is not exactly the same.

(~v∊v∘.×v)/v←1↓⍳100 ⍝ primes to 100.
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97

Taken from here with explanation how it works: https://dfns.dyalog.com/n_sieve.htm

It might be added that when the ratio of human:computer processing power was still more in favour of "human", insanely cryptic "hero languages" were popular. Thinking about the lowest-level of scripting in text formatters, APL, the vi macro langauge, and the nastier aspects of Perl.

These days, readable code trumps all, and it's the compiler's job to turn it into incomprehensible gibberish.
Then the solution is simple. Make the metric production. If you can sit around in your PJs browsing reddit and do the odd hour here and there and still get the same results as people that are 9-6 bum in seat, who cares?
I dont assume that bitcoin is only powered by coal. Some website mentioned 85%. With its 150 TWh it uses thats a 130TWh in from coal power plants. Thats about 24 Coal power plants that could be shut down, if bitcoin would disappear today (usa has 241 coal power plants with approximately 1300 THw produced). I do think that will make a difference, especially because the power demand of bitcoin is getting worse.
Protected classes aside, you can't tell a business whom they have to do business with. That's freedom of association and also in the First Amendment. For example, you couldn't force someone to sell a Coke to a Neo-Nazi.
>clearly there’s a market for Facebook hardware—look at the success of its smart display, Portal.

Is that a joke? I haven’t heard of anyone buying that. Only people balking at the mere idea of it.
I agree. Once Wall St becomes your landlord, something is irreparably broken.
Show HN 500+ Remote companies recruiting people worldwide and in other timezones
A Tale of Three Docker Images
certified geek seven days a week
Usage examples up front would be great for devs
On Having Whiteness (From Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association)
… and crypto fluctuates wildly all the time, with the electricity on for no reason whatsoever other than random whims of speculative investors.
> WAV files in 24-/32-bit resolution downloaded via Bandcamp may not load instantly and require quick supplementary treatment. Simply opening the respective file with the freeware Audacity and then shutting down the application without any further action resolves the issue.

wtf, whats the issue? And why does Audacity (apparently) modify files without asking?
Obviously using a dedicated instruction is fastest in normal cases.

But if you need to implement popcount or many other bit manipulation algorithms in software, a good book to look at is "Hacker's Delight" by Henry S. Warren, Jr, 2003.

"Hacker's Delight' page 65+ discuss "Counting 1-bits" (population counts). There are a lot of software algorithms to do this.

One approach is to set each 2-bit field to the count of 2 1-bit fields, then each 4-bit field to the count of 2 2-bit fields, etc., like this:

x = (x & 0x55555555) + ((x >> 1) & 0x55555555);
x = (x & 0x33333333) + ((x >> 2) & 0x33333333);
x = (x & 0x0f0f0f0f) + ((x >> 4) & 0x0f0f0f0f);
x = (x & 0x00ff00ff) + ((x >> 8) & 0x00ff00ff);
x = (x & 0x0000ffff) + (x >> 16);

assuming x is 32 bits.

I think this approach is a classic divide-and-conquer solution.
They don't have to be colleagues, but going out with the guys at lunch was a lot of fun :)
Weird, I just had this happen, too. AMZN recruiter reached out, I politely declined, got another message from the same person 2 days later.
The americans spent last year calling everyone who pointed out these data points as a racist and xenophobe.
Unless you were born into the ranks of a few kings or priests, this is the first time men have been allowed to opt out.
Me too. I've never understood it. I just went back through the clang-format documentation and looked at some of the examples for the GNU style and was reminded at how utterly unreadable the resulting code is.
That is incorrect. They are available for emergency use authorization. The FDA doesn’t designate that status[0].

Only Pfizer, IIRC, has even submitted a request for approval, and that was just last month. Minimally FDA approval takes ≈6 months, but it could also take several years.

As mentioned above, the vaccines being offered in the US are unlike any other that have been approved previously for use in the general population. I don’t think other vaccines (except the Ebola vaccine for specifically J&J) are reasonable analogues.

0 - https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-...
Once companies make the organizational changes to succeed with work from home, it will be trivial to offshore the jobs.

Be careful what you wish for!
> Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility.

...

> There is not yet a permanent cure.

Not clear if the author has tried procedures where the skin of the "white" person was removed surgically, or maybe altered in appearance to be less "white", would be interesting to see follow up research on the matter. Hopefully they can get access to some funding to do further research on these important questions as part of the US infrastructure plan once the republicans stop being racist and finally pass it.
These men are not being supported by their wives, they just don't go and form a new family.

Women in that age range are generally more educated than their male counterparts and they earn more, so this statistic makes sense. They also have trouble finding a male partner, especially because one of their requirements is that they should earn more than them.

This sounds like an impending demographics / societal disaster.

I guess if this trends continue we'll get to a point where basic necessities will all raise in price because they can't find workers until some of these men go back to work.
Going by the dates in the file and the listed values of the physical constants it also hasn't been updated in a while.
No good reason :) Unix is older but yes Windows has all the complexity problems to a much worse degree.

I use Unix every day but rarely Windows so I sometimes don't remember it. Our industry self-congradulates on not using Windows like those untechnical normie companies or whatever, but then forgets that other than being FOSS (most of the time), Unix has all the same problems just to a lesser degree.

Maybe this is the transition plan we need; first ban Windows in prod for things important enough that government is going to take on the costs if something goes wrong.

Then, at some later point, ban Unix too for all the same reasons, just less magnitude.
I've been toying with the idea of starting a side-business of setting up home offices.

I'm a WFH software developer, and I have some experience with residential construction and soundproofing. I'm considering teaming up with a full-time building contractor to start targeting this niche market.
Also really important, police will show up if you are counterfeiting USD. One of the neat things about cryptocurrency is that the supply is not protected by threat of force unlike fiat.
Oh boy, OWL, MFC and VCL were used in the 90s, with their ComPtr smart pointer for COM/ActiveX/OLE 2.0.
I feel the same way every time someone references Paul Krugman. The man is so often wrong and yet still revered by the press because he once won a "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences", which isn't even an actual Nobel Prize.
Yes they might be the target demographics, now only 40000 of them is needed. Arbeitsamt is printing the letters probably ;)
> Fiat is slightly different in that the government can guarantee a certain level of demand for it by requiring taxes to be paid in it

Until they switch currencies. For instance Brazil did this

> The cruzeiro (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɾuˈzejɾu]) was the currency of Brazil from 1942 to 1986 (two distinct currencies) and again between 1990 and 1993. In August 1993 it was replaced by the short-lived Cruzeiro Real, itself replaced less than a year aftwards by the Real.

India also demonitized a certain denomination of their currency

> On 8 November 2016, the Government of India announced the demonetisation of all ₹500 and ₹1,000 banknotes of the Mahatma Gandhi Series. It also announced the issuance of new ₹500 and ₹2,000 banknotes in exchange for the demonetised banknotes.
They pretty much ransomwared all the digital records on the E Corp servers by encrypting them.

The paper records they destroyed by blowing up a whole building, with hacked UPS systems. [0]

[0] https://www.geekwire.com/2016/mr-robot-rewind-pwning-battery...
Thats another industry that uses lots of energy for something with no tangible value.

Will the same people asking to ban cryptocurrencies be content with it or will they move towards banning other unapproved energy consumption activities?
seems to have some overlap (at least conceptually) with https://remotestorage.io/
You can turn your power off too whenever you like.
I think the affect allergies can have on sleep are underestimated. When I was having problems falling asleep and/or staying asleep I paid attention to what I ate that day and at what time. It turns out a lot of sleep difficulty I had occurred when eating foods high in tyramine - particularly processed meats. Moving these foods to lunch instead of dinner or just cutting them out of my diet made a notable difference in my sleep quality. As always YMMV.
Google offers UK watchdog role in browser cookie phase-out
Convince me why I should want to contribute 10% of the money I earn every year to keep these countries I've never visited from being controlled by a different (in Ukraine, very slightly different) set of people. Also, as a bonus, for my money I get bombs dropped semi-randomly throughout the middle east. Two for one!
The size of the federal government, as measured by spending, is larger than it has ever been. In what sense is "Big Evil Government" gone?
China says US revoking of China apps ban a 'positive step'
CDN edge servers maintain a warm pool of TCP/TLS connections to origin servers, which eliminates the need for a handshake and significantly improves performance.
“What Does “MFA” Mean?” –Jeffrey Goldberg, 1Password (2018) [pdf]
First, accept that a negative is the inverse, or opposite of something.

We can intuitively understand that multiplying slices by a negative inverts them - turns them from slices given into slices taken away. (Distribute the multiplication into addition if necessary to drive the point home.)

So it follows that multiplying negative slices by a negative inverts them again, turning them back into slices given.

It’s not a convenient visual, but if a negative slice represents the “taking away” of a slice, then a negative negative takes away the “taking away.”
Pretty good. My team is scattered up and down the east coast (US) and heavily uses Zoom to collaborate. For most work, this is fine. The two places I find tools lacking are...

1. White-boarding new systems/features. I find value in having the team in the same conference room and being able to use an actual whiteboard. So far, I haven't found a virtual whiteboard that was anywhere near as usable. I don't mean for pseudo-coding, but quickly sketching UIs or system architectures, where coworkers can walk up and edit each others work in real-time.

2. Onboarding new employees. Both for "water-cooler" socialization and ease of having the new team-member access other team member for whatever questions they have (Slack and other tools are most of the way there for the latter, but there's still something to be said for reading facial expressions and getting a "feel" for somebody).

And I freely admit some of that may just be my own biases. I've hired remotely and locally, both successfully, and with my company spread across 3+ continents, I'm used to remote collaboration.

I've worked with remote team-members for 20 years now. The tools today are light-years better. Heck, when I started at this company, many of the remote employees didn't even have stable internet connections - that was "fun".
I don't care about the value.

What's the cost?
Reviewing someone's code you had not seen before, involving a third party vendor you know nothing about, that only happens in production environment and only randomly fails and otherwise works—does not shock me at all. No process no matter how thorough can still fail. Code reviews in my prior experience solved nothing as people were expected to work full time and yet still review code continuously; unless you give engineers sufficient time to do both without overtime effort, one or the other will be affected, and usually its the reviews.
FWIW I hated mornings, never felt rested, dragged myself out of bed every day- turns out I broke my nose as a kid, and eventually discovered my non-functional nose was causing sleep apnea. Fixing my nose was life changing.
At El Salvador's Bitcoin Beach, a glimpse of crypto economy
That's exactly what I do! I slowly switched to listening to an audio book with my eyes closed.

But I am with you, old tv shows where I already know the ending are distracting enough not to think about tomorrow, but since I've seen them already I don't stay awake to find out what happens
Why did you write this one?
Are big governments less corrupt?
How can you charge time of use without collecting time of use data?
Energy Secretary says US wants 'responsible' lithium mining
I'm not an expert, but if the TLS handshake occurs closer (as in latency) to the client and the actual request/response payload is small (or if the CDN's network is better), then it seems like terminating in a CDN could certainly be better than not.
Interesting, any skin cancer risk with that?
What heart rate makes me most vulnerable?
Before bed
I'd like to mention that remittances are great. For a poor country to catch up with a rich country there has to be a technology/skill/money transfer.

Either the rich people are coming to the poor country (export oriented economy) or the poor people are coming to the rich country (remittance oriented economy).

If your economy is suffering from high inflation then remittances are a balancing force that is fighting against high inflation because people abroad are exchanging their USD/EUR for the inflating currency and thereby support attempts to peg the inflating currency to USD/EUR which are currencies with low inflation.
That is why Turbo Vision was written in C++ for MS-DOS, Mac OS transitioned from Object Pascal into C++ and Quake made use of Watcom C++.
It has one of the only truly cross platform UI toolkits.
The irony is, as a buyer, I trust unknown Johnny's Little Online Store as much as Klarna. Maybe even more, since I can give a Little Johnny the benefit of the doubt.

But in practice it's either invoice, PayPal or CC. Even if Klarna process that payment in the background, I can still object to my CC company and let them settle it, instead of having to deal with them.
You appear to be under the impression that there is a strong causal/correlative relationship between the value of a security and some measure / function of the value or potential value of the underlying business.

I would argue that there is an increasing amount of evidence that statement has gone from "plausibly true" to "pretty obviously not the case, for many securities."

The underlying problem, regardless of the terminology or metrics being used to estimate value, seems to be that those with $10b in cash seem increasingly inclined to use it to speculate using various financial instruments, rather than e.g. building a manufacturing plant or a new housing development or apartment building. The growing size of the financial sector relative to the rest of the economy is the evidence I would put forward that "the returns on securities are exceeding the returns on actual business."
this seems like a good starting point: https://gitlab.com/wildland/wildland-tutorials/-/tree/master...
When that someone enjoys disproportionate advantages in so many different ways, typically accumulated unjustly, and forces the world to follow certain rules in order to entrench such advantages forever, there is an ethical perspective where defying such rules is an act of resistance.
I suppose one could immediately counter this by asking - how much of your medical history would you willingly share with random people on the street? And how about if you knew they wanted to gather it up and sell it? Maybe for yourself, you don't care about that, but I think most people consider this sort of thing deeply personal and private.

In a more practical sense, it's not a big stretch to imagine a future where there are all kinds of insurance penalties associated with certain health conditions, plus the potential for hidden discrimination in multiple areas like job applications (maybe they did reject you because of your health condition, but how would you prove it?). I'm sure there are other potential problems.