skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in Canada, it's true that telcos are expensive here but $0.17 for 1.39MB is like $120 per GB which is absurd. I pay $40 for 8GB/month (USD).

Even additional data (if you go over plan limits), which is by far the most expensive way to get data, is less than that, it's $104 per GB with my provider.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/why-the-us-really-bo...

> “the vast destruction wreaked by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the loss of 135,000 people made little impact on the Japanese military.”

- Plaque hanging in the National Museum of the US Navy

> In its one paragraph, it makes clear that Truman’s political advisers overruled the military in determining how the end of the war with Japan would be approached.

> "the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan"

- Truman's chief of staff

> “the Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.”

- Commanding general of the US Army Air Forces

> “[Byrnes] was concerned about Russia’s postwar behavior…[and thought] that Russia might be more manageable if impressed by American military might, and that a demonstration of the bomb might impress Russia.”

- Manhattan Project scientist Leo Szilard, talking about Secretary of State James Byrnes

It doesn't seem like dropping the bombs served any military purpose.
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First let me say I think dang does an exceptional job (far better than I could) in moderating this site and I am very grateful for it. Anytime I have fallen on the wrong side of the rules dang has been very fair and patient.

I don't disagree with your comment however none of the rules dang mentioned were actually broken. I read through the link and it only raised more questions. As I see it either the rules need to be updated or an official announcement from YC stating their position on this ever returning topic will put this to bed.
That's the one and you're right, according to wikipedia they were doing magic mushrooms not LSD.

Great and intense movie. So far the only time where I can say with certainty that a movie changed my life.
>There's no definitive proof of this, either!

I really don't understand what you are saying. Weren't all the first cases identified around Wuhan?

Just because some other variant was found to be dominant elsewhere a
later point in time does not appear to suggest anything contradictory to me.
Well, it is a scholarly law paper.

[edit] To clarify: Being a scholarly law paper means that (1) it is well-documented and thoroughly researched, but also (2) it may employ words that seem to have a common-sense meaning but really don't. Things such as "fair", "bias", "access", "responsible" etc. have very precise legal meanings that are not readily apparent.
Reverse lamp post? We don't routinely take MRIs because of false positives, meaning we might have more questions than answers so we won't ask.

Seems like neuroscience is still in the phase of reducing misunderstanding.
Agreed, that opening line suits neuroscience poorly. "For decades, meteorologists have treated the environment somewhat like a Geiger counter: the temperature is taken as a measure of energy, just as a...", it's ludicrous!
People who are lucky enough to get the Oranges early in the game have an unfair advantage
Not a fan of cooking != doesn't cook

I'm not really a fan of cooking either but I still do it most days. It is possible to know something about a thing, have experience of a thing, have some useful insight into tools that are useful for it, all without enjoying said thing.
> They deal with other heads of states, and typically are in control of the military

No head of state is in control of the military. Head of state is a ceremonial role. They may be the ceremonial "head" of the military, as in "her majesty's ship".
For one, Tailwind has a minimal learning curve if you already know CSS. That's a huge thing going for it.

Secondly, UI frameworks are more suitable for full-blown applications, whereas Tailwind can be used for anything—applications, Wordpress themes, static sites, etc.
I always assumed the push to the app was to give them more control to push whatever content they want down your throat.
>Graph databases cause expensive writes and cheap reads. Something anybody typically never ever needs.

I find this statement really surprising, just about every application not dealing with money I've ever been on has had lots more reads than writes and would thereby benefit if the reads were cheap - obviously nobody wants expensive writes but if the benefit is cheap reads and the expensiveness of writes can be dealt with by batching etc. I guess it's an acceptable tradeoff.
That's probably the most exciting thing in the automotive world right now.
... with a larger, more expensive town down the road. I'm pretty sure that Sun Valley is more expensive than Ketchum.

Or were you referring to Hailey?
This is regarding the housing affordability of a small, isolated, mountain ski resort town 3 hours from the nearest big city (Boise) in the immediate aftermath of a global pandemic just so we’re clear.

“The plural of anecdote is not data” I repeat to myself after 4 of my 25-35 year old working/newly lower middle class (HVAC/RN/CBP) cousins have purchased homes over the past 6 months in an area where salaries, educational attainment, and life expectancy especially are still chugging along up the slopes.
This has been an incredible discussion, thank you all for contributing. I hope my original point was made, which was that there is often bias when the western world talks about “ancient”, and I place the blame squarely on the imperialistic british for that. The other issue I want to point out is that there is a certain arrogance that the linguistic academia has as it relates to traditional scholars by regularly discounting their knowledge and assuming their own superiority. Not trying to change anyone’s beliefs, just an opinion I am expressing. I am going to drop out not for want of willingness to engage, but because this discussion is devolving into familiar patterns of debate. All I can say as a practitioner is that when I was taught, I was actually taught the “correct way” and the differences so I was always aware. There is an academic rigor in traditional teaching that Western academia seems to be unaware of.
Large parts of XNU come from both 4.3BSD and FreeBSD.
I think this is only an issue because there is no public digital infrastructure. We need an "internet post office" whose only rules are the law, operates at-cost for users, and is completely free of liability. For example, you can't sue the post office if someone mails a pirated DVD.

Would it be used almost exclusively by extremists and lunatics? Probably, but I still think it's worth having if only in light of all the HN stories about how some account slip-up at Google utterly ruined someone's life. Everyone deserves an email address they can never lose access to.
Yes, the US economy is measured in US dollars. If you are trying to make a cryptic remark about inflation, I've linked some information on how GDP is measured.

Specifically, "The nation's gross domestic product totals trillions of dollars. Most often, the number you'll hear people refer to as "GDP" is a percentage. That's the rate of change in real GDP from the previous quarter or year. "Real" or "chained" GDP numbers have been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation over time, so different periods can be compared."

[0] https://www.bea.gov/resources/learning-center/what-to-know-g...
The usual story is that neuron were initially characterized experimentally using current injections to which their firing times are (in a certain sense) maximally disordered and thus the response is characterized only by firing rate.

This idea is also born out in most real neural systems, where firing rate is well correlated with various sorts of feature presentation.

But at faster timescales other things seem to be going on.
At some stage not taking a position is a position in itself, especially in matters of existential threat.
Or move elsewhere. Retirees will struggle when there's nobody to wipe their ass because they can't afford to live there.
what if it was just a single trillionaire ? What would you think of them becoming a benevolent dictator ? If the people could agree to an election where buying votes was allowed, how much would it cost to win the election if the people believed in such a dictator's benevolence ?

There are 11 million people living there. It would cost 3 trillion dollars to give each about $300,000 or about the mean wealth of an american. It would probably cost less than 3 trillion to win such an election.
> Having experienced that first hand, Deng implemented the term limit

No... the man had zero sympathies for the civil state.

He just planned to stay in power way longer, and organised it so that all senior party men coming after him will be in compromised positions.

Similarly, Jiang never left the power on good terms, but with a hefty pack of compromising info on party elites, and arranging for new coming leadership being very weak.

Only Hu possibly left the power unconditionally, and without any power left, but only because he was weak.
> How is it normal for a complete stranger to look at my ID and know (or at least think they know) what genitals I have?

Ignore naughty bits entirely! Everyone fixates on the naughty bits. Sheesh.

Imagine a 5'6" male. Imagine a 5'6" female. Imagine them wearing the same outfit. Do they look, stereotypically, different enough that you could tell which one is standing in front of you with high accuracy? Do you think this outward difference might be a useful identification tool to assess if a passport belongs to the passport holder? Must this indicator be sinister? Is it so sinister that the government should reject it for other, possibly more sinister indicators?
Building a successful automotive startup with no industry or business experience
What does "cheap capital" mean? $1 is worth $1, how can it be cheap or expensive in terms of itself?
NIST Prize Challenge Launches Research for Unmanned Aircraft in Search, Rescue
Just curious? What's the use case for breaking an international embargo with crypto?
There are no inexpensive towns near Ketchum.
I do wonder if a typed language shouldn't have distinct types for trusted vs untrusted strings and binaries.
Yeah, I don't feel the same pains though.
> Because the vast majority of our use cases for storing timestamps is to represent specific, unambiguous moments in time, we pretty much always want to use the timestamptz type.

This advice is not great. One needs to specifically know their data.

Postgresql stores the timezone numerically, and not together with the location the timezone applies to. This means it is impossible to deduce DST from a timestamptz alone, but this is neccessary because two different locations in the same timezone might very possibly switch to and from DST at different times of the year.

To store an unambiguous moment in time ( e.g. when scheduling an international conference call) one can store it as a timestamptz but this doesn't gain a lot over just treating all time in the database as UTC and then converting from/to local time for input/display.

To store a time that is unambiguous in a certain location (e.g. a doctor's appointment in 4 months time) one needs to store it as timezone without timezone and an extra field with the locality. It makes no sense to store the timezone, unless you also store the DST information or unless you think you can rule out unexpected DST changes.

Storing timestamptz really makes a lot of sense for past events though - for example when logging.

So it really depends on what kind of timestamp you are trying to store, and I am not sure there is a general rule that can be applied.
Local sims in Beijing which will bust through the great firewall back to base for my 16 hour stay that I can just pick up for cash?
They are being paid to work with our money, if you do the same in your work you get fired. Some of them don't even go, also they should show more respect to the others. But maybe you think they are special and should have privileges.
Awful, awful take. I’m shocked people still say this.
"Nuclear batteries" aren't, strictly speaking, batteries. They're RTGs, and they have very low (and constant) power output relative to other energy sources.
> Do you think this might be a useful identification tool to assess if a passport belongs to the passport holder?

You mean rather than use the picture?
Those tweets are not just disagreeing.
But then they might learn how to make a buying decision based on its impact on some long term balance, not just based on "is the money available now: yes/no".

Sounds good, but at the same time they'll miss out on quite a bit of learning that almost everything (that a child might want) can be had if only they beg/negotiate/throw a fit hard enough. Life gives me the impression that in a ruthless-takes-all world the negotiation skills taught by the latter have far more impact than the being reasonable about money skills taught by the former.

(sorry for the sarcasm)
> I'm not totally sure why they are so insane

I think a big part of it is that due to much stronger pressure on bundle size than most other environments, each library tends to be small, so there have to be more to carry the same amount of functionality.

Duplicates are certainly a contributing factor as well, and small bundles compound with allowed-duplication to further increase the tree size. I think that small package size also probably makes it harder to require a single version for each dep, since there are going to be more edges in the graph and therefore more relations for library maintainers to keep track of (including what would in other languages be intra-package requirements), so you're more likely to get version incompatibilities.
I agree, but none of those tweets were directed at the authors. They were just talking about Tailwind in general. One was a poor joke.

My 3 blog posts were a genuine attempt at trying to dissect what I didn't like about the framework. Many people wrote in to thank me for that perspective.

I find it unfair to single out two historical tweets neither of which is directed at the authors.
Pretty much common knowledge...

Doc db -> very cheap reads / very cheap writes

Sgl db -> cheap reads / expensive writes

Graph db -> cheap reads -> very expensive writes

...for the type of data.
I don't think you need to be a philosopher to realize the trade-offs.

The issue is that if every community does this (as they pretty much have) then anyone whose family didn't have property 50 years ago will be stuck with bad housing and anyone whose family had housing 50 years ago will be able to fund their housing.

Its a coordination problem. Clearly a small town may be sacrificing something by decreasing their own values with building - but if every town in the same country individually makes the optimal choice for themselves then the result for the country overall is not great for anyone.
How on earth are they proxying through Fastly? I would expect Fastly only sends requests to their customers origins, yet Apple is proxying requests through them to arbitrary websites.

I wonder if you could abuse this to bypass ACLs on Fastly customers that block direct origin traffic.
There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

One of my high school history classes presented this view; we used A People's History of the United States as a textbook.
> [...] your claim is "how dare you prioritize reality over mythology", using the (also-incorrect) American founding myth to somehow support your point?

I made no such claim. Also "founding myth" is a term with a distinct meaning separate from "mythology" in that it is not necessarily untrue - romanticizing the truth and excluding any unflattering details is usually enough.

I really wish more people read biographies, especially by multiple people who where belligerents in the same conflict. When you hear the same story told from different perspectives, you begin to question if the history your were taught was in fact, the objective "reality".

What you called "reality" was just a perspective from a single point of view, which I can safely assume was European.
That contradicts my experience. Generally if you're not a dick and don't try to shovel your vegan stuff into people's throats, noone gives a shit about your views or orientation.

People may not talk to you about politics anymore, but anything else - work, kids, cars - is a fair game.
I see your point that even worse things can happen when dev machines are compromised. The point I tried to make is that even a DoS of your machine can be a big problem.

> There is nothing any attacker can do with the static files on the server that will trigger a RegEx DoS...

IIUC, an attacker could change my package.json to include inputs to browserlist that trigger a RegEx DoS. To do that, the attacker only needs to make a fraudulent commit. Given how easy most teams make it to commit code, this isn’t too high of a bar.
> Rust

This has not been my experience at all. Most Rust developers unfortunately seem quite happy to adopt modern programming bad practices. (There are many exceptions, of course.)

Example: I went with the first Rust program I could find installed on my computer, tealdeer. It's a dead simple program: run `tldr progname` and it will print a handful of examples of how to run `progname` in your terminal. Run `tldr --update` and it will download the latest version of the database containing these examples from a web server.

To build this extremely basic CLI program, I need ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN distinct crates.
I started following some of my local politicians on twitter.

It’s incredibly embarrassing how much time these people are spending on social media.
Maybe, but you risk swinging too far in the opposite direction into under-reporting of vulnerabilities.
I am. Cars are a big hobby for me, a big part of my life. Chevy is the only company not going out of their way to make things too complex and locked down to repair yourself.

Chevy is the only manufacturer with viable aftermarket parts for many varieties of auto and boat racing. Like yeah, you see supras and Hondas and stuff at the strip on weekends. But serious racing is running Chevy Small Block derivatives.

Tech bros lament the death of open platforms for their hobbies, like the continuing lockdown of phones. The same thing is happening with cars.

Thankfully Chevy has proved you can have a modern competitive car that meets emissions standards using 60's engine layouts that are easy to modify and repair.

And pushrod engines aren't that bad. Overhead cam adds a huge amount of weight and bulk to the engine. This is the only reason Chevy is still able to fit 6 liter engines into their small sports cars. Everyone else has transitioned to small turbo engines because DOHC takes up so much space.

And the modern Chevy V8's shut off half their cylinders when you're not using them so they don't waste tons of fuel either
> just have things called “entities” which own things called “components” - are hard to work with, almost by definition (ie you have to be very explicit about data layout and dependencies).

My experience has been completely the opposite to this. In fact being explicit about data layout and dependencies is a hallmark of a OOP rather than ECS.

In compiled languages the dependencies in object hierarchies are fixed at compile time and can only support tree designs, so you have to plan ahead for all possible combinations to even build relationships with OOP, even with composition (because its static).

With ECS everything is decoupled so you can write a system that does X and it affects nothing else.

This leaves you free to design by isolated processes rather than by code structure, and entities naturally do whatever processes their data supports dynamically.

Makes iterating designs incredibly rapid and offers design options that are convoluted and fragile with OOP such as completely changing what an entity does at run time.

For instance you can move the keyboard input component from a player entity to a monster or even something as random as a building and it just works - you didn't have to design for it, you don't even need to change any code. Remove the health component, now the entity is invincible, remove the gravity component and now it can fly, add a homing component and now it seeks a target. All this is trivial and can be done at run time. Want flying flaming lampposts the player can control? Just combine the appropriate components. Need to drastically pivot the design? Vastly less work than OOP - sometimes just a case of changing the data in components or their combination in entities without touching systems. Don't need this flexibility? Still gives you a more modular and less coupled design.

As a nice bonus this flexibility comes with more cache friendly performance than static hierarchies to boot.
I still don't get Tailwind either but I found https://github.com/seek-oss/vanilla-extract recently which solves the TS/CSS modules nicely. All the styles are extracted at compile time so no overhead like most CSS-in-JS.
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Trump Sues Twitter, Google, and Facebook
Whether this is a good idea is seen differently in different countries.

Countries with strong public service broadcasters (e.g. the BBC in the UK) tend to consider state-run information infrastructure a good idea, at least in a dual system including private corporations.

Countries without public service media see private marked actors as perfectly sufficient.

Needless to say, the US is squarely the second type.
at 0% interest rates a lot of dumb investment ideas that could eventually earn money become surprisingly practical as long as the pitch that the firm could eventually become net profitable is even remotely viable.

0% interest effectively means there is no time cost to money - As a large LP you could probably hold open a money burning position in a firm for decades as long as each year it looked like you would turn a profit within N years (conveniently far enough away that its beyond the funds horizon). At 5% interest N years gets a lot closer.
My benchmark of "this thing is well understood" is that it's possible to build that thing, or a replacement for it, again.

Kidneys probably meet that criteria - we have dialysis machines which allow someone to survive without kidneys almost perfectly.

Yet the idea of replacing someones brain with something artificial and having them function as normal is still a LOOOOOOONG way off.
Nothing "solves" the demarcation problem.

But we can come up with something a bit more reasonable than the M/F binary.

> And I can see arguments for self identification for almost all passport fields.

This isn't relevant. The desire for self-identification is not a sufficient reason to let people change fields on their passport in the first place.

Think of it more like hair color. You can dye your hair any color you like, or shave your head, and your passport will simply reflect what hair color you happen to have. It's not necessary to know what hair color someone was born with. People can self-determine their hair color, but all that really means is that they can dye it, or if your hair is in the middle between blond and brown, you can write down either option (your choice).
Good. As someone who moves around a lot esp to countries where I need to use a VPN, this bullshit is the bane of my life