skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar reaction to this news as I did to when the Federal Reserve President of Minneapolis called Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme:

"Ponzi scheme operator calls Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme."
> This is a great overview. I don't remember having to put in padding instructions to prevent the pipeline issues mentioned here; maybe we just never ran into that. (I wrote pretty much all the R3000 code for Crash 1 and just do not recall problems like that coming up.)

If you were using the GNU assembler, it automatically fills branch delay slots with nop instructions unless you prefix assembly code as using `.set noreorder`. GAS would also handle load delay slots as well.
The problem is the hypothesis was dismissed without evidence and any suggestion for further inquery branded you an anti-science. The irony is unbelievable.
Ah, you mean like how the "free market" would police itself if they just got rid of those pesky regulations?
Same here. This instant I saw that I thought BP. Have it also.

Sounds like we've gone through some similar experience of pulling out of a spiral.

My therapist told me I should back off on caffeine but I don't want to. Haha
At least rat poison serves a useful purpose, if you need to get rid of rats.

What is bitcoin good for?
Work part time.

Been doing it a decade, never going back.
The lantern certainly does sound like it would require a bigger cave.
This is wonderful, any thoughts on about doing this in another country?
Mysterious Lights over Salisbury, MA
A degree holder in any field in 1970 could open many doors. Today a degree by itself could land you at Burger King. You need more education to obtain less now.
If you are interested by Hasura, don't care about the graphical interface and want more control over permissions, take a look at Postgraphile: https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/ I've been using it for a year on multiple projects and it's awesome.
I've used Hasura with GraphQL's client lib generators to generate an Elm client (which is then fully type safe in building queries). I'd consider this "full type safety over the API barrier".

It worked so well (all fully dockered, including the generator, not need to install anything locally), that I decided to publish it as a project of it's own. First time I actually achieved a zero-server-side-code setup that works for me. Enjoy:

https://github.com/cies/elm-hasura-dockered

(it should be easy to extend this to use another client language than Elm; but obviously this get cooler the stronger the language's type-safety net)
> But digital communication, especially when encrypted, would completely blend with the background noise.. right?

Not exactly. The important part is that how the signal is modulated, or more precisely, whether the spread spectrum of the signal has been modulated or not. Every signal modulation has a unique power spectral density graph, disambiguating it from random noise.
However spread spectrum modulation gives a twist on top of that.

Frequency hopping (FHSS) slices the transmission in smaller fragments, transmitting them in order at pseudorandom frequencies. Spectral diagram would show a bunch of spikes, which still could be identified as the output of some civilization or burst transmissions of a star. For example, Bluetooth uses this technique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qNWQxRKoss

Direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) distributes the energy of a channel on a wider bandwidth, reducing energy to background noise level, making it hard to disambiguate from random noise, unless you know where to look at and what to look for. Used by older (802.11b) Wifi, GSM, ...

Newer (g, n, ac, ...) Wifi uses OFDM signal modulation, which again has its characteristic spectral diagram.
This sport is my downtime activity, again, after about an 8 year break when I hurt my back a bit (not by playing the sport mind you - just being out of shape).

I can't say enough how much I love playing it. There's just something about flinging a disc a hundreds of feet around obstacles, walking around with your friends chatting about whatever that's a nice break from basically everything that's not disc golf.

It's had a serious effect on my overall happiness.
> it is considered a "professional" field and is exempt from the requirement.

Legally that is true. However practically only a very few tech companies don't exceed that standard. (the exceptions are mostly startups, which if things work out will make the people taking the risk worth far more in the long run - I don't think the risks are worth it but enough people have made millions on those deals to call it completely stupid)
> Secondly, I'm not sure I understand the point about strength of preferences. Since everybody has the same range from within to assign preferences, it's all about the relative preferences among the candidates. Doesn't matter if I hate candidate X with the heat of a thousand suns, I can't give that candidate a score of -1000, only the minimum, just like everybody else

Are the relative preference intensities expressed real? Everybody has the same range to vote Uber drivers, but apparently they're all nearly perfect.
If a very successful campaigning organization convinces people that they have to give the Judean People's Front 0 for the People's Front of Judea to win even though the parties have similar policies and lots of Judeans strongly prefer them to the Romans, is the resulting distribution a real or artificial expression of the intensity of preferences?
This gets repeated every single time someone merely suggests that they should look into mental disorders like ADHD. Psychiatrists don't just throw stimulants after you. In many places it's even a legal requirement that all other options have been fully explored.
Or, you know, they were asked if they agreed with the view. Which is what the article states near the end.
Yes, but that's beside the point.

People take the train in the same situations when they drive a car, and travel time isn't always the most important criterion.
I like how something is “auto-healing” when it’s like… has `Restart=on-failure` in systemd.

Anyway, it’s always DNS. Always.

“Unfortunately, that allowed something as simple as a corrupted file to crash down multiple layers of redundancy with no real way of bringing things back up.”

You can spend many, many millions of $ on multi-AZ Kubernetes microservices blah blah blah and it’ll still be taken down by a SPOF, which, 99% of the time, is DNS.

Actual redundancy, as opposed to “redundancy”, is extremely difficult to achieve because the incremental costs of one more 9 are almost exponential.

And then a customer updates their configuration and your entire global service goes down for hours ala Fastly.

Or a single corrupt file crashes your entire service.
Also, graphql-codegen! Makes it easy to keep the api compatible with the front end (and saves you work).
Bending other people's higher level solutions to your needs
I learned Objective-C this year and I love it.

It is a fantastic language to use because the tradeoff is obviously evident in the language.

You can use Smalltalk for a day. Understand the history. Understand the compromise.

And Objective-C captures a beautiful moment in the trajectory to ever more high level abstraction.
If you want to gamble with your own money, that's your business. Don't gamble with the firm's money.
Data transformations are a small subset of business logic. Talking to microservices, third party integrations, and email, for example, are other pieces.
No. Schools benefit from economies of scale like almost everything else. If you have a school building designed for 2000 students and you have 600 attending, do you think it will be cheaper, the same, or more expensive per student to operate the building?

It will cost more per student, which leaves less money available for teachers so the student/teacher ratio would get worse. The facilities will not be kept up as required. Programs will be cut.

Also ignored in your analysis is that generally when school choice is available, the students most likely to leave a school are the high performers and the most likely to stay are the low performs and students with special needs, who are more expensive to educate and were previously subsidized by the high performers. If you compare the services provided to special needs students at a school in a wealthy area to the services provided to special needs students at a school in a poor area, there will be a massive difference in quality.
Good. The next time some CIA man-in-black speaks up about the need to ban strong crypto we can rest assured that nobody will understand what he is talking about.
I think most people would put X in first place, then D or R in second just in case. If X can't get enough votes, then they fall back on D or R
>A train that leaves Paris the day before at 1347 and arrives at 0655 the next morning (current schedule) isn't as useful

That's with several transfers. No way a direct train would take 17 hours for that connection. Most likely it'd leave late at night and arrive in the morning.
> FAANG, for any reasonable definition of success, you've made it

Is it? I've never heard that about Amazon, for instance. At Google or Facebook or whatever sure but the fact that they're using the acronym and not the company implies Amazon to me.
Show HN: Check your website for UX issues before release
Part of the conflict over “values and culture,” however, is over things that affect human capital.

As a Bangladeshi immigrant who married into a white American family, it’s really hard for me to not notice the devastation mainstream American culture has racked on the ability to develop human capital. My younger siblings in law, who are in their early 20s live in towns (these are mainly white, working to middle class towns) where everyone’s parents are divorced, drug use doesn’t get you a beating from your dad (who often isn’t there), etc. Kids can’t get their feet under them because their home situations are always changing. For boys this is particularly bad, because their natural inclination is to cause trouble and the only thing that can keep them in control is a network of older men. (My dad grew up in a village in Bangladesh and remarked that he couldn’t do anything anywhere in the village without word getting back to his father.)

Money can paper over a lot of problems, I’ll give you that. But it seems to me that if Americans were as poor as Bangladeshis, their society would totally collapse. The culture isn’t suited for survival or upward mobility.
London's Underground will have mobile coverage by 2024 across its entire systems
I'm concerned about becoming dependent on medications I don't need.

I'm worried that if I go to any sort of medical professional they will succumb to "if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail" and I will end up on some sort of meds that I don't need.

I just have this impression that 80% of people could walk into any psychiatrist's office, describe their experiences, and walk out with a prescription or three.

I'd like it if someone could convince me that these are not legitimate concerns.
It technically was?
PostgREST[1] also comes to mind.

Both this and Hasura are build in Haskell. (I rather not expose someone else's service to the internet if that is dyn-typed/javascript and has full access to my database -- hence I like Hasura)

[1]: https://postgrest.org/en/stable/
The web is literal hell when every damn site you visit wants to know your location, enable notifications, and all this other stuff.

Switching from Chromium based back to Safari was nice for me.
Doesn't seem to work on Firefox Android for me
Coming to this realization would have required reading the article.
> You don't get locked up to work in order to afford healthcare, food, etc. - and are thus more free to take chances.

If Europeans are more free to take chances, why is there substantially less innovation in Europe?

I don't think Europe is "worse" than the US. I think Europe is optimized for the poor whereas the US is optimized for the middle class and above. There are good arguments for both of these situations. In the US, it is widely felt that the system should serve the tax payers. Europeans, on the other hand, seem to have a lot more solidarity with the poor who, for whatever reason, don't pay significant taxes. Additionally (and controversially), I think a significant amount of the European attitude comes down to ethnic solidarity. European countries are ethnostates and the US isn't.

One interesting thing is that Europeans benefit from American innovation. They have iphones, windows pcs, use google, etc like everyone else.
Disabling js doesn't make it hang anymore for me.
Yes. I've seen this recommendation [and also to use UBO in 'medium' mode]. I'm not sure where the settings are to switch these modes. Does clicking the 'More' button to present the expanded popup window do it?... or do I enable it elsewhere? I can't find anything in the settings
As there should be! I have no problem with you taking 10% of your net worth and betting it on moonshots. Hell if you really want to drop 100% in (I have some extended network folks that did) then go for it, as long as you know what you are doing. But my 401K? Bitch please. Thats not a moonshot. I'm not trying to get rich and sip pina coladas on the beach. I'm trying to make sure I'm not homeless from 60 to dead when I can't produce. I want slow, steady, measured returns. I don't care that I missed out on the 1 in 10 moonshots as long as I also missed out on the 9 in 10 rug pulls.
Right, you'd use your API backend and tie them into Hasura with actions if you wanted them tied to Hasura. Of course you can't have your whole app in Hasura, and I don't think they make that claim? Maybe they did before they added actions, but I think they knew that a bit bogus so they added actions and before that had remote schemas.
As usual Snowden, America’s Freedom Laureate in exile, gets right to the heart of things. I do worry that his laser focus on the philosophy of things —and concomitant lack of specific (contemporary) detail/examples— will result in readers simply affirming their own dogmas rather than searching themselves for complicity. I hold out hope that, in the aggregate, the deeply subversive undercurrent of his writing pulls those dogmas under and drowns them to death.
Imagine if you had to disable one feature toggle though? Better yet: imagine if they were only optionally enabled when you added the PWA to your home screen??

Seems like we could both easily have exactly what we want.
Ah, of course, how stupid of me, thanks.
> Both correct, but the latter should be labelled as an instance of the former.

No, it should be labelled as an subclass of the former. Instance would be a specific piece of borane.
Oil would be a threat to a coal baron but how is cryptocurrency a threat to investment bankers? It's easy money for them if they thought it was worth anything.
Ok, so lets imagine that Btc/Eth fall back to pre-COVID levels.

This means that a huge amount of people will have lost money, and electricity and hardware will have been burnt up for minimal or negative gains.

What is the point of maintaining the legal status of crypto at that point?

Specifically, by maintaining its legality, we still have to deal with the huge problem of ransomware, and some residual mining activity (and fraudulent/wasteful use of electricity, right at the same time we are trying to save the climate).

Why not just ban the formal legal exchange of crypto for fiat now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

The parent is referring to trying something that has been used for centuries before trying something that has been used for years.
Boxers and wrestlers are also separated based on sex, because even at the same weight males will dominate.
>The 80-20 rule tells us that it takes 80% of the time to finish the last 20% of a project

No, it's not necessarily the last. Just that 20% of the work in total will take approximately 80% of the time. Tasks/projects aren't "sorted".
The point isn't to line up with physical traits, but to prevent issues such as some XY beefcake who identified as a man for 35 years using gender politics to impose perself into the XX category.

This doesn't replace trait-based subcategorization. E.g. the category XX wrestling still has weight classes.
More over, a way this can actually play is that there's a third candidate Z who has policies many people strongly agree with, but, since they aren't a member of the big parties and don't attract mainstream news focus, few believe they'll win. Under RCV and several other systems, many R and D voters will put Z first, because it can't hurt. They expect Z will be eliminated, since they "know" R or D must win, and their R or D second choice is what they expect to matter but at least they made their preference clear.

And then Z wins with 55% of the vote. Even though this is a surprise to Z's voters, it's a pleasant surprise. They wanted Z they just didn't expect it to be possible.

Under FPTP this can be made to happen, but you have to persuade people Z can actually win, because they're worried they are "throwing away" their vote until it really happens. Consider Brighton Pavilion in the UK. In 2005, Brighton was held by a Labour Co-Op incumbent, and the Green candidate came a close third. The Greens had to really sell the message that when Lucas stood in 2010 they genuinely had a chance to elect her, if only people who supported Green policies looked past the Red/Blue split and gave Caroline their vote.

They made it happen, but it was close, turnout was up considerably, and much of that new turnout voted for Lucas. If you voted for Lucas despite vague Tory leanings, and she hadn't won, you've have been devastated because right behind her was the new Labour candidate whereas even a modest fraction of Lucas' votes going to the Tory would have won them the election.

Once she'd shown it was possible Caroline Lucas never looked back, and she now routinely secures a clear majority in elections not the mere plurality required to win.

But this has been hard for her party to replicate elsewhere, and while Lucas is an especially personable candidate that can't explain the entire phenomenon. There are likely other constituencies in the UK where Greens could secure a majority if the voters believed the Green candidate has a chance and didn't vote their second or third choice to prevent their least preferred from winning.

I'm actually not bullish for RCV, but this sort of problem is exactly why it makes sense.
Can't say I am eager to try that one out, but yeah, people who do coke are usually slender.

That said, when they do coke, they do at least half chalk. Pure cocaine is not easy to buy on the other side of the Atlantic.
Good chance you have 200k+ saved. Stop working for a while. Travel, live somewhere new. Start learning about things outside of software... Pursue projects for anything that moves you regardless of whether you think you'd be good at it or not. Do that for a few years and see where life goes.

Life is too precious not to live it, not to explore what could be, esp when current path becomes unbearable.
>So how do you prevent schools either going into a vicious or virtuous cycle?

I expect that you have to try it and add controls as necessary. Not only are these systems too complicated to model in any simple way, but have multiple players each with their own demands. It's a strategy problem as much as simply channeling some money.

It seems to me that the end game always becomes one of segregation of 'good' vs. 'bad' students. The teaching part isn't purely an aside, but matters less than you might think. So, you have to ask how important it is for the good to drag along the bad (or visa versa) and how detrimental it is to produce schools that are, in essence, jails.
For me this feeling comes when I am under deadline or just being micromanaged. The fix is to start a play project to reignite my passion.

Play more and work less to get your juices flowing again. Also, read about what people are working on, eventually someone will trigger you into passion mode.
In today's language (in the US at least), gender is a state of mind, precisely because talking about the mental aspect of gender/sex is very useful both for talking about transgender people and for studying how mental gender identity affects people's lives. As for "feeling" a certain gender, I get it. What you say makes sense, but humans aren't creatures strictly operating by logical principles. Sometimes, what our brains tell us doesn't make sense. But, if you spend every day of your life fighting the nagging feeling that you don't actually identify with gender you're "supposed to" identify with, are you going to trust logic, or your own experiences? You can't just say to yourself, "guess I'm being illogical, I'm gonna stop feeling this way now". I recently happened to watch a video by a trans woman where she summed up her experiences with trying to understand why she felt this way as:
"And why am I a woman? Because I'm a woman. That's it. I mean, I can describe my experiences and my feelings to you to help you understand better, but I can't logically prove anything. And I'm super fucking sorry if you can't handle that mankind was set adrift in an absurd world. That must be super fucking hard for you. Tell me all about it."
This was after spending years of her life trying to find a more satisfying explanation and failing to be convinced by any.
As far as reinforcing the gender binary, trans women are just as able to be girly girls or tomboys as cis women are, and the same goes for trans men. On top of that, there are plenty of non-binary people, which depending on who you ask, either fall or don't fall under trans.
Gender is confusing, I agree, but the fact that there are so many people feeling this way means that we can't just simplify and say "you can't really know what it means to feel like a woman" when the lived reality of these people is much more complex and something they've been struggling with for a while.
There is clearly non-zero utility in BTC for certain individuals. But it's also clear that a large portion of BTC is held as speculation. Have there been any formal attempts to identify fair market value out of BTC or other crypto assets based on their current use cases?
Glamorous Villa in the French Riviera
System 76 are just various rebranded OEMs with official Linux support. I'd say the are nothing spectacular in parts choice, nor engineering.

Very cost-centric like virtually all OEM space is.
Save some money and switch careers? Nothing in physics says you have to stay in a field you don't like your whole life. Lots of places are hiring, try something outside?
How so? It provides us with no new information whatsoever. "The CCP does everything in its power to block any kind of substantive outside research on the origins of Covid-19" has been known for over a year now.
Sounds like some PR stunt for a video game or something.
Abigail Shrier is a writer and not a scientist, and it can be clearly seen even from the title of the book that she has an agenda. The thesis of the book has been "rejected by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreversible_Damage

If you have a peer-reviewed study, that would be much more worthwhile to look at.
I tried finding examples of other sports where women are roughly competitive with men at the top level: archery, shooting, curling, ultra-marathon, gymnastics, climbing.
Have you checked your testosterone level?
I already feel that way everytime I see that floppy disk "save" icon.
Same with "wiki" and "wikipedia". Wikipedia is an instance of a wiki, damnit!