skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any resources for how in-dispute the (eventual) currency adjustment part is? As you probably know, there is never 100% agreement among economists on anything, and no matter how narrow the opposition is you can often count on politically-motivated groups to find and promote it relentlessly.

The main data I have is both Mankiw and Krugman (both highly eminent economists from different sides of the aisle) seemed to think it checked out (and the idea is over 20 years old at this point, so it's not that new). Krugman in particular got his Nobel on trade and, uh, is not normally inclined to say nice things about Republicans (this was proposed in the US as part of a Republican tax reform initiative).

So that's enough for me to presume that the math is probably OK, although I admit I'm not capable of checking it myself, and it would be nice if a more comprehensive survey was available.

If the currency adjustment does balance out I'm not sure who the (eventual) losers would be aside from internationals that profit-shift to low tax jurisdictions (which was the whole point).

Of course if the currency adjustment wasn't immediate you could see winners/losers for some period. I'm sure there would be other transition costs, the tax system is already pretty complex and thinking about all the edge cases while switching between two completely different tax regimes seemed rather headache-inducing.
These articles that make it seem like there’s a way to change your emotions through thought seem so sus. Life is complicated, biology is so complicated, just study yourself and see what works for you. But I bet you are better off changing your environment than thinking your way into better emotions. If you’re rational you can find your own answers instead of looking at essentially a self help / meditation article
This kind of faking scientific results should be a crime.

In many cases, it already is -- generally falling under misuse of government research funds. However it is usually only pursued as such in extreme cases. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong-Pyou_Han
What's a use case for "units-east-per-unit-north"? Proportions of a room? Call it 3:2 or whatever, makes perfect sense. A direction? Use an angle. Like some other commenter said having to deal with "units-east-per-unit-north" is like code smell.
Original video triggering the bet for context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyQwgBAaBag

Video discussing the bet and going over criticism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsgoLc_fzI

Veritasium is a great YouTube channel.
While you got an answer already, there was also a time where 8 bit wasn't standard yet, and computers existed in all kinds of word sizes. 18 bit, 36 bit, and even "variable size" (i.e. IBM 1401). The further back you go, the more it shatters what we consider "normal" and "essentially fixed" in today's computer world.
A base 10 with symbols only for 1 through 10, where zero is represented with an empty set is a Bijective Base 10 numeration. The columns in excel are bijective base 26.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijective_numeration
Please think this through.

Businesses don't go to China because they want to. They do so because they have no other choice. When the combination of regulatory, tax and labor regulations makes it so it is impossible to compete you are left with two choices: Embrace China or close the doors.

While "other business would fill up that place" might sound like a nice heart-warming idea, it is a fantasy. The only businesses that will fill that place are Chinese businesses selling directly in the US and Europe (an ever-increasing category, just search Amazon) or US and European businesses who have outsourced enough of their operation to China to be competitive.
The fact that Nvidia and AMD are having trouble highlights that supply chain financing is a risky business where even professionals lose their money. Requiring customers to take part in it as a condition for (eventually) buying the product feels icky to me.
You already had a bond.
Technically it is MoarVM that handles graphemes as synthetic codepoints.

We call it NFG for Normalized Form Grapheme.

The JVM and JavaScript backends currently use the built-in string handling features. Which means that they are just as broken as the rest of the code running on them.

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Of further note, you can use ignorecase in regexes to match "baﬄe".

"baﬄe" ~~ /:ignorecase BAFfLE /;
There is a type of visual programming which is applied to virtually everything around you of some mechanical complexity: interactive geometric constraint solvers.

In CAD tools like SolveSpace, SolidWorks, Inventor and several others, the dimensions of objects are not described directly, but instead through a set of constraints such as “these are orthogonal”, “these have this distance”, “this is a tangent” etc. If you have never used it, try SolveSpace, which is free.

Albeit highly declarative, it is absolutely a programming language for a specific domain. It doesn’t try to be good at describing imperative programs or flows; instead it presents a paradigm which is very different, but fits perfectly in the problem domain of mechanical designs.
Though there were multiple solutions where the MMU sat outside the CPU, on the bus between 8086 and memory. That setup was common in general, but a bit less common for the 8086 specifically. Support wasn't perfect, often paging wasn't a thing, but isolation and protection in general worked somewhat reasonably.
Well it provides a very very useful negotiating position, but there's no sense in which they are coordinating what to offer you with other potential employers.
Why the downvotes? Just pointing out a fact, I’m not supporting any conspiracies.

Here’s an excerpt from the linked article:

> The company also said it is under investigation by a series of regulators, state attorneys general, the SEC, and the U.S. Department of Justice in proceedings associated with the trading restrictions; the company said its CEO Vladimir Tenev has also had his cell phone seized by federal attorneys.
Does all water resistant proofing that causes issues?
> Sarah Bromma, Pinterest’s head of policy, said in an interview that the rule change prioritised Pinterest users’ “emotional and mental health and wellbeing, especially those directly impacted by eating disorders or diet culture or body shaming”

What about their physical well being? Morbid Obesity is no joke.
Ask HN: How do you feel about ubiquitous mobile devices?
Honestly, I’m starting to see them as a plague on humanity. Just looking around at my immediate environment (a train), there’s 20 people in my field of view, and all of them are staring at their little pocket computer, no doubt reading one of a thousand news items, or playing silly videogames.

I am (obviously) just as guilty of this, but I have no idea how to stop.

Every week my phone reminds me that I’m spending between 4-6 hours each day looking at it’s screen. Some of that is responding to work messages, but most of it is just faffing around on HN, which I tell myself is valuable, but…

I find I don’t notice the world any more. Or daydream much. Any extra time is automatically spent with my tiny screen. I can’t even stop it. Grabbing my phone is as near to a reflex as it comes at this point.

I don’t really have a point, or a solution, I was just curious if anyone had any thoughts on this ‘evolution’ of society. And if possible, let me know how to kick the habit.
They already do by the fact that 200mph speed is much more fuel consumption per unit of distance traveled than say 60mph.

There is no vehicle I know of that uses the same amount of fuel at 60mph as it does at 200mph for unit of distance traveled.

Include the tax in gasoline per unit of volume and the people going 200+ will pay much more than those going 60. (Much much more)
America's $6T concrete repair bill
Are you sure? Linux doesn't require hardware floating point. Are you thinking of an MMU? The EC SKU 68030's didn't have them and could be provided externally.
No one should ever write code like that and no experienced LabVIEW developer would find that anywhere close to acceptable. And there are no doubt analogs in the text-based world, except you may not even know it because the structure isn’t as visible.

Also, there are certainly test frameworks for testing LabVIEW code. NI has a few but then JKI, a third party company, has multiple testing frameworks including Caraya, which is similar in philosophy to something like FsUnit for F# or Elixir’s ExUnit.

https://github.com/JKISoftware/Caraya
All marketing emails are spam, most spam is marketing emails.
I think concern about “ability to hire” is a bit overblown: I’ve worked at a couple places now that have taken the “hire people that know what they’re doing and they’ll figure out the language” approach, and it’s generally successful for most business applications: this is true even when the team is using unusual languages like Clojure.
England didn't annex Scotland after an invasion. Scotland agreed to a union after their economy got rekt by a failed colonisation scheme and a famine.
It's entirely possible to draw an arbitrary line, right through a gray area.

For instance, tobacco products are illegal to sell to someone under the age of 21. It's not because people magically become responsible on their 21st birthday, it's an arbitrary line drawn in a way to balance personal freedom, public welfare, and the need for cigarette manufacturers to make billions of dollars.

As an outside observer looking in, online ads for weight loss products seem to be 70% scummy, 25% outright fraudulent, with maybe 5% of them selling something of value. I don't believe beauty and fashion products have a similar ratio.
The I in ISO stands for international mein lieber freund.
That seems to have all the same problems as having parts of the document in different encodings - e.g. if you move a section of text from one part of the document to another it will suddenly change behaviour.
You have to almost cheat to get an LTSB license as private person. This would be an option, if I could buy a such license official.
Swift 5.5 Brings Async/Await and Actor Support
Where is this hosted?
I’m guessing that’s after they lower it again
Well, that distance is a classic road trip right there…
I was hoping the pandemic taught people something about business. I guess it didn't.

Society does not benefit from businesses operating on vapor-thin profits. When (not if) anything goes wrong these businesses trigger a job-loss chain reaction that is impossible to avoid.

What you want are businesses who make enough in profits to build a solid safety net, evolve, compete, provide security and upward mobility to employees, suppliers and the entire food chain that surrounds them.

Profits are not bad. They are an absolute necessity for growth and stability.
I maintain a small fee tool for creating API endpoints to trigger email alerts for yourself (varmail.me). Since it's very basic and has no marketing, it doesn't get too many users. You have to click a link in an email to even log in, but I still get bots stuffing my login form with known bad email addresses (I've googled and some of them appear in honeypot lists). There is no chance they can get in, but this is bad because my login verification emails look like spam, since a large percentage of them are sent in response to these bots. So I definitely see some value in a way to pre-screen the emails there.
You keep implying the fair use factors are evaluated separately. They're balanced together. And the other 3 factors are against the officer.
> At one point, they demoed dynamic formatting (reflows the diagram as you add/move nodes without any manual management). This really needs to be made the default.

Do you by any chance have a link to a video or article where this is shown or discussed? I’m a heavy user of LabVIEW, and I am also convinced in my own explorations of creating visual languages that dynamic automatic layout is the way to go, but it is a very hard problem.
For email confirmation.

The practice of email confirmation is still widely used, but the change in email deliverable rules has make it a pain to properly validate them.

Even if you are using a 3rd party provider like SES or mailgun, they have a email bounce limit. A considerable number of real world users give fake email address(which is even sometimes encouraged on HN) which triggers those bounce limits.

To fix it, there are paid services but they does not work very well. Fixing it yourself take a lot of engineering time, that is better spent elsewhere.

Providing an open solution to this problem (which is given in the github repo) is a double edge sword. As this gives a edge to spammers who created the problem in the first place.
> next to the MIT logo
Very neat concept. Love to see biomimicry in action. More great stuff available at https://biomimicry.org/.

And for anyone wondering — these pipes don't leak water, they leak air and other gasses. Title is a tad bit confusing.
It's no joke, but I'm pretty sure it's not going to be cured by "one weird old trick Discovered By <zipcode> mom that doctor's don't want you to know about".

Which is what a large fraction of the advertising in this space looks like to me.
I was quite poor so only had old computers growing up, so I used Minix on everything. These days there is still ELKS which runs on the real old hardware, rather than inserting a Pi into the case.
I guess big in this sense means he has a very large number of fans who agree with his opinions who are mostly young single men in the 25-40 demographic with disposable income.
Random people or ads telling fat people they should feel bad and go on a diet does not work.
Switching emails every N years would really piss off my cutomers. I need one email for as long as the company exists, you see.
You need to understand the business equation of a Chinese export company in order to understand what I am talking about. Books have been written on the subject. I can't do it justice here. Let's just say things don't run like they do in the US and Europe. Not even close.
This question is as meaningless as a question could possibly be.

Because answer doesn’t change a single thing.

Not in the real world, nor in theoretical implications.

If the answer is no - whatever.

If yes - all relevant issues are just delegated “as is” to the next level (im simulated, mkay, but who is simulating me, i.e. who am i? Whats the meaning of his life? Etc.)

Typical Occam’s razor case.
If you identify it's the right code, why not ?
1.1.1.3 for Families (2020)
So reputation is the word we're using to mark sanctioned applications these days. Funny, I always think of reputation as a scale, not a boolean.

Also, this remains a constructed industry with only marginal benefits and major issues. Anyway...
I mean, it's a stock image of "open source". There's a CC on there too…
Big false equivalence there. You are looking at millions of preventable deaths because of this lobbyist's action. Possibly also your own: watch out for the next flood, don't get caught outside with broken car AC in black-flag heat, watch out for tornadoes, dengue mosquitoes...
There’s an alternate way to calculate DE franchise tax which disarms that alarming share-number-based tax scenario, btw. It’s based on gross assets, it comes to the minimum tax if your gross assets are <$1MM, according to https://corp.delaware.gov/frtaxcalc/

But yeah, I remember the pit in my stomach the first time I did franchise taxes and the first method came out to some obscenely high number.
If you use Amazon SES and have a high bounce rate they will just block you. So, Eve could flood your registration with invalid emails that would cause bounces, that would stop all your emails from getting delivered. A DoS you can only recover from by switching to a different email provider
In my opinion, LabVIEW is the most general purpose and powerful visual programming language. Others I know of are vvvv gamma where the recent update basically makes it a .NET language (although LabVIEW also has .NET integration) and Pure Data. Other tools are Simulink, TouchDesigner, Max/MSP, and Grasshopper for Rhino. After that, it drops off pretty rapidly to a collection of barely used or even known about tools pr highly specialized node-based tools.
A reasonable compromise would probably be to require that discrete parts be available for sale, hopefully with some reasonable price standard, not requiring that devices be designed to have more parts. If it's economical for the manufacturer to move to a SoC, fine. They should at least let people buy them. Any R2R law should incentivizes manufacturers not to make disposable unrepairable products, because business is about making money, generally opposed to acting responsibly in the best interests of the public and the world. Again, opinion.
Climate Change.

Cardiovascular health has been improved because of CO2 emissions.

Or, if not playing the blame everything on climate change game - Less smoking, less PM 2.5 pollution, better climate control in buildings have all also helped cardiovascular health.

(Missing from the article - declining incidence is more pronounced among men than women)
There's a lot of truth in this. I retired recently on not a lot of money because of poor planning, but I am wealthy in time and the option to say what is on my mind. It's not bad.
Use your own domain and your customers will notice nothing.
Is this making use of Bernoulli's principle to avoid busted pipes? Small holes in the pipe when water is running would not leak since σ > p for high speeds and small area. When water is not running, the water leaks out due to increased pressure and avoids potential busted frozen pipes. Although I don't see how this maintains water quality if the pipes are underground.
Then you really should be using your own domain, at which point you can replace the service at will.
409a valuation.
And yes, people learn, humankind evolves, things are getting better etc.

You just should take much wider perspective then few years of a single country’s (or even planet’s) life
Pinterest isn't condoning morbid obesity. They're stopping adverts for things that are pretty much always a scam.

Besides, unregulated weight loss pills bought over the internet aren't a solution for weight loss. For a start you have no idea what's in them. They can range from ineffective fake medicine to actively harmful and dangerous amphetamines. If someone wants to lose weight there are better, safer ways to go about it. Banning adverts is a good start to prompting people to seek better solutions.
As a former Uber employee, I assure you they do not become more accurate. It’s all based on funding rounds etc. The stock market is a different beast altogether.
Board members are voted for by stockholders
Doesn't Fortran 90 have the MERGE(IFTRUE,IFFALSE,CONDITIONAL) function as standard which is similar to the XIF used here? (as usual, Fortran chooses some weird names for its functions).

Perhaps the difference with the conditional discussed here is that in a function all the arguments are usually calculated before evaluation, so the conditional may avoid an error if one of the arguments can be invalid depending on the condition. It's a bit unclear from the proposed language addition, however.
how is 1 mU more cumbersome than 1e-3? The whole point of the prefixes is to avoid those cumbersome exponents, isn't it?
Do you have data to back that up, or is it conjecture?
Does this update potentially make Swift on the server side more viable?

I'm also wondering if Swift introducing async/await so late will end up like C# in having to support both an async and sync version of legacy APIs, creating an awkward mashing of async and sync code in some code bases.
Having been subjected to 10 years of Notes, Verse feels like heaven no matter what.

The latest version from Notes I happened to use was Eclipse actually cross compiled to run on the browser (Notes nowadays uses Eclipse underneath).
I could have written your comment.
I sometimes think that it's not that children learn faster, it's just that they are used to be totally lost and keep trying
Thank you for posting that.
I've never read this story before and I love it.

It so perfectly captures the tension of gender and turns a common critique of gender transition on its head. What is it called when you fill the straw man with rebar and concrete?

I am also unsurprised that it generated controversy.

There was an article yesterday about the Cassandra project using sentiment in fiction to track social change and conflict. This piece is a great bellwether for conversations around gender.
If I pasted a scrt.link to a friend over WhatsApp or Messenger, and the little link preview pops up, does that trigger a visit count, resulting in the message already being destroyed before the friend gets to click on it?
> common sense is worth at least as much as a medical degree

I had to read that twice.

The only way someone can have that thought is if they have no clue --at all-- about what a medical degree entails. Sorry my friend, you don't know what you are talking about.

Try this: Next time you need serious medical care...don't go to the ER or any doctor for that matter...just use common sense. Let's see how far that takes you.

Doctors are human beings. They are not gods. They are not perfect. And yet a medical degree --the knowledge and perspective that comes with it-- DWARFS even the most informed common sense.

Don't confuse politics with science.
Balanced ternary is extremely cool and I wish it were viable to reinvent computing using it.
12m east / 3m north does not make any sense, since vector division is undefined. You might be thinking about the derivative which has no units in this case.
They were lucky and had the orders for the chip in before the shortage. If they didn't the delay would be a lot greater than 5 months.
This is the correct idea. It maximizes competition while minimizing barrier to entry. Micro IPSs become extremely affordable, and all you have to do is have each ISP pay a set fee for each customer for line maintenance and expansion.
40% of the world’s electricity is from coal, which is also a very large source of CO2 emissions
Spam filtering is by SpamAssassin. How is it these days?
AWS us-east-1, it looks like:

$ dig mx purelymail.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
purelymail.com. 86400 IN MX 50 mailserver.purelymail.com.

$ dig mailserver.purelymail.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
mailserver.purelymail.com. 60 IN A 18.204.123.63

$ whois 18.204.123.63
OrgName: Amazon Technologies Inc.

https://awsips.co for the region information
From the website:

> our infrastructure runs on the highly reliable AWS cloud,
The price is right, but the polish isn't.
$10/year is not bad but I already have more email addresses than necessary.
If I wrote something like this, I'd try to be as transparent as I could be as to who I was, and how you could contact me. Hopefully that would create some small level of trust.

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As an aside, I know you are trying to be funny, but your username is tad offensive.
What is good to you may not be good for someone else.

These I consider good:
- Acting to increase the health and resilience of earth’s ecosystem (air, water, land, life).

- Capping personal wealth so any big projects must be done in cooperation.

- Ensuring education, housing, and healthcare for all humans to reduce childhood trauma (and avoidable suffering in general), birthdate, and us/them mentality.

- Switch to a stewardship or reciprocity model rather than domination of life and living space.

I’ll stop there, since these are just my values due to my genetics (?) and life experiences. Change is going to happen and none of this is permanent. Working towards these things gives my life meaning. I can imagine a dystopia in which all the above is earnestly pursued. I can also imagine a world with ongoing conflict but which enjoys some amount of stability under this value system, until another shift occurs.

What sci-fi might you recommend about this?