skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but the integrity questions still remain.

For those previous elections? No, they don't. The elections themselves are settled. You are asking questions about something different which is future elections, that's an entirely different question and it's a mistake to conflate them entirely with past elections.

>I feel like too many people are declaring the suspicions as moot and settled without actually looking taking the time and effort to investigate fully and properly

I really wish you would stop coming at it from this angle, it's not a productive way to look at things. The suspicions are moot and are settled by the courts. That is a fact. The elections are over. No amount of investigation is going to change the results of those past elections. No matter how many more people you get to investigate this, it isn't going to change it. An investigation could change future elections, but we would only know about that if an investigation was conducted during the period of time when it's legally allowed to happen.

And just to make it clear, there is nothing wrong with having suspicions about holes in an electoral process and discussing what we can do about it. Where you going into bad territory is when you slip in things like "there are open integrity questions" and "the election needs more investigation and isn't settled" and other things that are sowing doubt about the validity of the whole process. In the best case, those statements are misleading, and in the worst case, they're completely false. We may not like that some concerns are dismissed for partisan reasons but you're leaving out how in a lot of cases, that is completely legal and is the system working as intended. I'd love to fix this too but engaging in this type of rhetoric on social media is not going to help there.
I disagree. You must enact a ban with a firm deadline, otherwise you end up in cryptoland where you're using country-level amounts of energy because someone, somewhere is willing to burn up fiat on it. This is of course expected in late stage capitalism where trillions of dollars are chasing returns, physical realm consequences be damned.

Countries are already enacting deadlines for banning combustion vehicle sales [1], it is straightforward to enact fossil combustion electrical generation bans in similar fashion. The communicates to the market to no longer fund or implement combustion generation facilities, and investment will flow away from existing facilities towards renewables and energy storage (whether that's batteries, green hydrogen and/or ammonia, pumped hydro storage, etc). Most new generation is already renewables (due to cost, see Lazard's LCOE [2]) [3] [4] [5], what I discuss in this comment rapidly pulls forward fossil generation retirement (from 2030-2050 to something more reasonable, such as no latter than 2030).

In short, outlaw fossil combustion, and investment will flow into clean alternatives. The planet doesn't care about your fiat and economic system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...

[2] https://www.lazard.com/media/451419/lazards-levelized-cost-o...

[3] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48896

[4] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46416

[5] https://www.irena.org/newsroom/pressreleases/2021/Apr/World-...
Regulation/prosecution is lagging way behind in this space. Even in traditional finance, Ponzi schemes and money laundering go on for years.

It's also important to consider the psychology of things like Ponzi schemes. A bright 12 year old can understand why a Ponzi scheme falls apart in the long run. But for most of the people running them, they aren't thinking about the long run. They're responding to short-term incentives. An investor wants money back? Well there's money, so let's give some to them. Low on money? Go out and sell more people on putting money in. People have concerns? Reassure them that everything's fine, better than fine, amazing in fact.

So the question of "do they think they can get away with it in the long run" is not really the right one to ask. 100% of their attention is on the short term. They carefully avoid thinking about the long run at all, because it's way too uncomfortable. As long as the problems are deniable enough in the short term, they're just going to keep going.
I don't think this is the case. A two week sprint should have about 100 minutes of standup, 1 hour of planning, 1 hour of refinement, half an hour of review and 1 hour retro, ish (I can't remember the exact timings). About 5 hours every 2 weeks. Saying that adds up to a full 2 weeks of work is just... pointless. So falsifiable.
I think some of it is the different priorities between children and adults. For themselves, adults might care more about convenience than learning, given that 1) they have many more important priorities than learning, and 2) adults don't have the ability to learn that much (compared to children). It's the opposite for children of course. Learning is the number one priority.

For me personally, I totally agree that remote work is worse for the learning aspect of the job, and is a total disaster for the social aspect.
How long ago was this? I ask because I see a Cancel Subscription button in my account. I've only been a subscriber for about a month.
> but we still don't have any scalable technology for storing weeks worth of energy

Why would we need to store weeks worth of energy? Wouldn't a more realistic amount be just a couple of days, or even less?
Ask HN: Is it possible to execute options but then sell the shares to employees?
More specifically, is it possible to leave a startup, buy the equity available to me through my vested stock options and then sell part of it back to current employees of the same startup?

I don't see a reason why not, but maybe I'm missing something. At the end of the day, once you trigger the stock options, you receive a physical stock certificate that you should be able to do as you please with...
This is encouraging! Don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any feedback: max@riverspirit.nl
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a text by Friedrich Nietzsche that discusses th (cont)
"Race" and embodied in US law and cultural custom has no biological basis.

Zero. Zilch. Genetics research indicates no such clustering.

As the clearest example, someone can be Hispanic with 100% German ancestry, or 100% African ancestry, or a mix of those with indigenous American cultures.

Therefore, it makes no biological sense to have a bias based on being Hispanic.

Similarly, the genetic diversity in Africans is much higher than that in Europeans, so Black Americans from the African diaspora can't be lumped into a single biological category.

Even if it were, as the article points out, the old system ignored multi-racial categories. Is someone with a white mother and a black father "black", or "white"?

Further, "empirically" is hard, given that many the major historical factor seems to be lack of access to good health care, rather than anything genetic which might be associated with the human construct we call "race."
Tracking is happening. It's the goog after all. As for
Chromium-based ones, perhaps the goog thinks that it already
knows enough about them?
Not sure what your point is. Restaurants are a Lower priority than schools. If Covid is out of control, close the restaurants and open the schools (assuming both are disease vectors). If the disease is too dangerous then of course there can be circumstances where both must remain closed (especially if it was a disease targeting young people like H1N1)
Think again. These rails you seem to favor need energy to be built: Steel needs to be made, a track has to be cleared, machines need to operate, workers need to get to the construction site and so on and so forth.

Unless you propose to decide top-down which projects deserve cheap energy and which don't, you cannot avoid the fact that building roads and allowing car ownership is under certain circumstances more economical than building lots of railroads.

On top of that, imagine how commuting 10km by train vs. car work out: By car it's a 10min ride, assuming no congestion. Whereas the door-to-door train trip will take the better part of an hour.

There is a similar advantage for flying. Yes, kerosene is comparatively cheap. But flying has an even more important advantage over trains and that is flexibility. The network of airports multiplies the number of potential connections whereas train stations can only lead you along railroads. In a region with fixed, medium-range traveling routes, say France or Japan, the train wins, otherwise the plane is just more efficient.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding. It's just lines like this:

> The text-orientated design of git reflects...

> The current version of git is also able to find differences in binary files.

> if we were storing information as ASTs, rather than lines of text

These all, to me, show a gap in the authors understanding of how git works. And that's okay- git is often easier to use than is to understand.

But if they had a better understanding, they could make their point far better. And without understanding, they won't be able to implement this idea.
JSON is often hand-authored as small config formats (in which your use-case (a) is relevant*), but I have never seen it hand-authored for readable "content".

Firstly longform content is often rich-text; if that's hand-authored in something that's not a wysiwyg UI, it's typically a dedicated separate file (.html or .md) which may-or-may not be later programmatically compiled to JSON.

For longform content that's not rich-text, and doesn't warrant a separate dedicated .txt file: how long is it? Do you really need multiline strings?

The only real use-case I've seen is i18n string map files, where some translations can contain a newline or two, but these are an exception; the majority of strings in those files are short.

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* On use-case (a), this is a personal preference but I tend to prefer referencing single independent executables in these use-cases, to the modern trend of having long unreadable bash one-liners in config files.
This study only looked at people playing for up to 18months, and not focused on elderly, not the years you'd need to prevent cognitive decline.

Also, not a randomized controlled study, so didn't check for confounding factors like non--brain-gamers engaging in other thinking activities. And apparently didn't check for how much time was spent per day on brain games or other thinking activities.

Also, pet peeve, article ends with the researcher exposing her anti-braingame bias and making uninformed speculation unrelated to the study, presenting it as fact.
> Or people who live just across the border where there previously was none continue to commute to work daily, now across a border.

The checks are at the ports in NI, the whole point of the agreement between the EU and UK was to avoid any checks at the land border between NI and the Irish Republic.
I give lots of people lots of chances (you too, it turns out!). You're right that that's not always the case, but it is not nearly as arbitrary as it might appear. The trouble is that there are so many factors that it would be hard to write about in general. If you have specific questions I can try to answer them.

(But please let's try to avoid the lobbying-to-get-specific-person-banned direction - I don't mean to project that onto you, it's just come up in other contexts lately and there's always something distasteful about it, especially when it's clearly for ideological battle reasons.)
I think it's spot on that they want the regulators to block them now. Without that there's two options at this point, either they tell all the drivers they're not good enough, i.e. only 100-score ones get FSD for now, or the PR disaster of FSD accidents, extremely likely from the videos on YouTube.

Government stepping in would give all the customer angst an outlet that's not Tesla. Their marketing materials have always blamed the government (see "driver is just there for legal purposes" on tesla.com/autopilot) so this wider release may just be a way of forcing the government to make it true.
If you don't have money for fuel, I warmly recommend learning about hypermiling.

The main ideas are not to step on the gas pedal more than say, 30%, and use the smallest car for the job.
I've been running openwrt on switches for a while.

I originally had two mikrotik rb2011* switches and a rb750gl, now I have two rb3011 switches.
I get that point, but I was asking for what is then the real reason. The only two I've seen proposed are money laundering (perhaps by collusion with the miner) or mistake (accidentally confusing the transaction amount with the tip - still meaning the intention was to pay $100k in transaction fees).
Actually looks like if you pass multiple files to zstd it'll compress them individually, it won't create an archive, so tar or sqlite format would still be useful there.
Getting critical thinking training (or not) is part of life/culture.
If you work for the CIA, feel free to grow a backbone and quit.
I agree, it seems like an energy tax would be more directly addressing the environmental impact, and the cloud services would in turn be forced to raise their prices to a something more accurately reflecting the cost of cleanup.
If we fix the issue with the H1-B system by letting them become permanent residents quicker, wouldn't that fix the problem faster?. The consequences would be that there is no longer a motivation to only hire H1-B workers.
You are correct that they both work very similarly. In fact doge was heavily inspired by BTC. Both have PoW and coin minting as a result of block resolutions.

Granted I'm not an expert on doge, but one big difference that I know of is the limit of coins that will be minted – bitcoin caps at 21 million, dogecoin is uncapped.

That's a rather important fundamental when talking about a currency.

I would then point to the communities that hover around either BTC or Doge. From personal observation, BTC is more serious about digital currency as a possible store of value future, whereas doge is a joke / meme focused coin.

At the end of the day, a lot of it is marketing, which is why I actually thought Doge would be a possible contender for a 3rd place crypto coin around the time when Elon Musk was tweeting about it. I believe the fact that it is uncapped and that is really is more of a meme coin than anything serious (see the community around it) led to its downfall. It didn't have solid enough legs.
Thanks for catching that. I had used the feminine elsewhere, but left one "he".
This is a tricky balance. Developers can also get overwhelmed with requests for estimates, automation tasks, etc etc, and get annoyed that people have so much contact with them. But it is a tricky balance; there's no obvious solution.
It is nice if you are lucky and the installers weren't cheap. I've seen a few of the places that use Cat 5 to service phone cabling do crazy things in the walls like split twisted pairs to different wall plates and bad cheap phone transformers (that grossly bleedover noise across the twisted pairs, entirely removing the benefits of twisted pairs in the first place in some cases) in long Cat 5 runs.

There's a lot of things that made Cat 5 cheap for running phone lines in houses and most of them make Cat 5 useless for Ethernet, unfortunately.
Japan breaks world record for fastest internet speed
Yup, tax carbon use of energy on the way into the data centre, let microsoft, google, amazon etc work out how they want to charge it.

Data centers in say south island new zealand powered by hydro will have near-zero carbon cost and thus be cheaper

The biggest issue with a carbon tax and data centre usage is how to charge tax on the 'import' of services.
This is exactly what happened during the Colonial pipeline fiasco. They themselves said if things went normally, there'd be no shortage. Of course the media had a field day with that one nationwide. Florida, who doesn't even get gas from it, saw outages and long lines for gas. I wish there were more controls for prosecuting media companies.
Most of the poor energy footprint is not optional: commuting (most can't live in expensive districts), heating a single small apartment, basic food, buy a few leisure things.

Almost all the wealthy footprint is discretionary: air travel, luxury purchase, package holidays... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-020-0579-8

Your "statistical anomaly" is not anecdotal, it's the very symbol of a broken system that was designed not to care.

In this situation, I cannot expect the non-wealthy to make big efforts to reduce their consumption while the ultra rich continues to casually destroy the environment. We're letting the rich take almost all the profit but we ask the poor to work harder only because they're more numerous. This can only end with violence or a catastrophe, IMHO.
I dunno, this site probably disproportionately represents the kind of demographic who just orders all their groceries on Amazon Fresh and hasn't set foot in a grocery store in months anyways. Maybe some people do need photos.
He addresses all of self-selection, demographics, and discipline directly in the book, if I remember accurately.

First, to address self-selection as a primary cause, Sowell specifically compares the outcomes of students who won the charter school lottery versus those who didn't, and shows the performance gap between public and charter schools remains even when only considering students who entered the lottery.

Second, Sowell purposely compares schools that have as similar demographics as possible, including racial makeup and economic status. He also attempts to control for location differences by comparing schools that are co-located in the same building or are located within a small distance of each other.

Finally, he specifically calls out charter schools' ability to enforce stronger discipline and even expel students as a distinct competitive advantage, one that the teachers unions recognize and are trying to undermine. He also believes that relaxing discipline in the name of reducing disparate outcome among identity groups has a direct causal effect on worsened education in public schools.

To me, with regards to discipline, the lesson to be learned is that public schools need to be empowered to enforce stricter discipline as well. There is no justice or fairness in allowing a small minority to disrupt the education of a willing majority. A few of the discipline-related anecdotes Sowell shares in his book are heart-wrenching, including one story of a student punching a pregnant teacher in the stomach, telling her he was going to punch the baby right out of her, and finally returning to school the next day with no imposed consequences for his violent behavior. I don't know how any student could learn in an environment like that.
I remember reading about the development of Baldur's Gate II - around 2000 I suppose, a rather big game, especially for its times - and they supposedly tracked all bugs using some kind of physical board and paper notes. I'm not sure if that is true of course.

Pinball Fantasies was likely developed probably around 1991-1992, so 8 years earlier. We are really rather spoiled by nowadays tools (when we are not complaining about Jira etc. of course). I also still remember rather horrible crudeness of tools like Bugzilla or Mantis which were one of the first tools in this area I worked with.
Link is 2 years old article.
Some (most?) tools that output data in columns and fit each one to the largest value in that column need to scan the whole file as a first pass just to start displaying data.

Not only is it the case with this tool, but from what I'm reading in main.rs it looks like it's also loading the whole file in memory. I was going to say that scanning the file was a deal-breaker, but if true this is much more resource-intensive.

This looks like a nice tool, but these design choices seem to limit its use to relatively small files. It could be updated to have a read-ahead buffer instead and adjust its output as new lines are discovered with values of different width, although doing this without a jarring resize could be challenging.

Could someone with better knowledge of Rust than mine confirm this?

I see the full dataset being loaded here[1] and the column widths being computed here.[2]

[1] https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/blob/main/src/main.rs#L183-...

[2] https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/blob/main/src/main.rs#L218-...
People make decisions at the margin. What you'll actually get is that a lot of people will become a small percentage less likely to buy it. Some of those people will be driven over the edge, since they were just barely going to buy it and now just barely weren't. But none of those people, when asked, will tell you "the stupid name was why we didn't buy it". At best they'll point to a lot of reasons of which the name is only one. At worst, they'll just point to a general sense of distrust that is 5% caused by the stupid name, and not even be able to analyze their own motivations well enough to answer the question.

In other words, "would you not buy/not vote because of this problem" is a bad method of analysis, and will tell you that it had no effect when it actually did.
Hell Is Other People
Whenever I speak to people who would do that, I leave the lower end of the range unspecified. (I.e. instead of 90 % between x and y, I phrase it as 95 % less than y.)
The thing is, these schools in some cases do not charge a lot more than the funding allocated to the local public schools.

What they do have obviously is incredibly flexibility and there really was no option in folks mind to cancel all in person learning. So they just do everything they can, small pods / cohorts, split schedules for recess, split day schedules even and all the other steps.

So I wouldn't say money, but the time and decision velocity was there. Teachers WERE going to be teaching, and the admin (with teachers and parent council) basically said, how do we make this work.

The secondary win was that this let parents work from home! So they could stay home in peace and quiet and avoid spreading stuff around.

I'm seriously curious what the larger model of learn from home was in public schools? How do these parents work and progress vis a vis their colleagues who send their kids to in-person learning?

The folks I know with kids in school actually did very well career wise, they were 100% on it for remote work, got lots done without commute or kids or if on an in-person job were 100% there (usually with an N95 mask if school demanded that).

If anything, if folks were struggling you'd think in person would be even MORE critical for both parents and kids.

Note that my local suburban public school has TONS of field space outside to set up some tents and outside classrooms.

Some links as to what this looks like sometimes:

https://www.greenschoolyards.org/covid-learn-outside
So they should market those measures for what they really are, i.e. regressive taxes/measures that, by definition, have a bigger impact on the poor than on the wealthy. The “let’s save the planet!” discourse controlled by the wealthy fails to mention that (with few exceptions, lately).
I’ll take it off your hands if you’d like ;)
There exists a world beyond your experience. A world in which people on low incomes have to chose between heating and eating. Sure - there are those that fly to meetings but there is also a world less represented/vocal here on HN for whom this could be (probably will be) a crisis.

Yes, Global Warming is a problem but the people trying to keep themselves from freezing contribute a much smaller amount than Big-Tech and industry as a whole.

Trying to shift the blame from corporations on to people just trying to survive the winter is a tale of corporate white-washing/green-washing/hand-waving/lobbying.