skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read that and I'm not sure how his points eliminate the revolving door.

"Ban all legislators and anyone who works at a regulatory agency from working for a lobbying firm for a period of time after they leave office/their position."

Won't change anything. Ajit Pai isn't working as a lobbiest yet he revolved right into his next gig.

"Increase salaries for these individuals to make up for this limitation."

Legislators as it is today are not hurting for cash. If they are truly corrupt they will try and make as much money as possible by abusing their position no matter what they are paid.

"Provide these individuals with stipends for a period of time after they leave their positions to work in the public sector."

They already get a pension after 5 years of service and once again, they will just take the very same jobs that are the root issue and have a stipend on top of it. Corruption is not for lack of money. It's from people lacking a moral compass seeing an opportunity and taking it.
Germany doesn’t exactly have a good record when it comes to new governments. Nor does France. Very odd to use them as positive examples.

As flawed as the American government may be, the Constitution is still a more solid foundation than pretty much anything that has come out of Europe since.
The thing is that you could also use this kind of logic to show that there are more natural numbers than there are natural numbers. For example, you could associate 1 with all of the numbers from 1 to one million, and still have enough numnbers 'left' to associate each of 2,3,... with distinct natural numbers above one million.
It reminded me of "twirling towards freedom": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:The_Simpsons/Character_...

I hadn't realised just how much Macron's party materialized from nowhere. Must have been huge pent-up demand for an alternative. However I suspect that only works in systems that aren't FPTP in the first place, and I suspect Macron is going to the same nowhere that all American third-party candidates go.

Especially if he starts by aiming for the top. What might work is a third party taking a city and then a state. This is how third parties practically operate in the UK, they're all local - SNP, Plaid, the various Northern Ireland factions.
Well, I've called it what.

The code is what I'm committing; the subject is why I'm committing it; the message is (a continuation of the subject's why and) a description of how I arrived at it, how it applies to the problem, etc.

Of course it can be phrased differently ('code is how I'm solving the problem; subject is what problem I'm solving' etc.) - I really don't think it matters much what we call them. Point is that, IMO, the subject especially and to a large extent the rest of the message should focus on the reason for the change, not re-describe the change itself, and framed in a way that's not necessarily end-user oriented but is certainly more detached from the implementation in code.

Less ambiguous than what/why/how then: code - the change; subject - the reason for it; message - the explanation of it.
Not to hijack the conversation, but I though some people interested in replacing estimations could find this useful.

In order to replace estimation, we are trying Basecamp's Shapeup language and techniques [1]

In a nutshell the thinking is reversed, instead of asking:

- "how long would it take to implement X?"

you ask:

- "how much appetite (in weeks and people involved) do I have for this feature ?"

Then you work with a fix "dead line" and variable scope.

Instead of user stories, they call it Bets, and they give themselves 2 weeks to shape bets and 6 to implement them (these two cycles can happen in parallel), during those weeks is about leaving the design at the Mockup/sketch level, and identify with help of business and technical people all the possible risks, so the Bet safe becomes a safer Bet.

We are still in the first cycle, and still a lot of questions and doing our own little customisations, but everyone response seems to be positive with the way of working, curious if anyone else has tried succeed and fail.

- [1] https://basecamp.com/shapeup
This is like telling a poor person: Just earn a million dollars!

Then you can try with an smoker: Just don't smoke!

Finally you can tell an obese person to loose weight.

They are such high level statements that it is completely useless advice without implementation details.

Neither me or anyone on my team write significant bugs. We spend a very small part of our time dealing with bugs. But for this lots of knowledge, discipline and practice is needed.

You can fill several books just with that knowledge alone.

Rereading your code for me is completely useless. When I was a kid I reread code for days without finding the bug because I just make the same (wrong and most of the time subconscious) assumption over and over again. Then I learn better strategies.

A simple tool that checks for wrong assumptions finds those bugs in seconds.

You can log your bugs so you identify recurring patterns and can correct those patterns.

With just a team of three, I wrote a tool that gave an error for any "one line if" without parenthesis after fixing the nth time the recurring bug: People will write a one liner if without parenthesis and then a year from that will add an additional line to the if without adding a parenthesis because they were just so focused in the new problem they just could not see anything wrong while rereading the indented line.

We even use statistical Bayesian analysis of code that automatically highlights any code that goes against the style of her author. In that code she is not experienced and could make the wrong assumptions so must be careful.

Asserts everywhere in developer code that are automatically eliminated in production code(but remain in developer). We assert everything because bugs just pop up from the asserts again in seconds.

Also incremental tests between revisions is extremely useful. Your test work flawlessly in last revision, you changed 20 lines. It doesn't work, the error is in those lines. The smaller the increment, the easiest to find the problem.

Those things are obvious for experienced programmers, but for other people could be magic and sorcery, because there are many details needed to make it work.
Does anybody have any real scientific insight into the idea that Cryptocurrencies can harness energy from far away places that is already being wasted?

We need to send most of traditional energy to our households, cars, manufacturing facilities etc. This cost of transportation to me is the key difference.

Crypocurrencies don't need this. Imagine putting some mining rigs in orbit near the sun and harnessing the already abundant solar energy. All you need to send back to earth is a few bytes.
One thing that helps me a lot is: fail fast.

You program must break when something is not right because shitty lasts forever.

Immutable objects are great but you need to validate them when you construct them and throw an exception when something is not right.
And functions should return what you would expect.

For example, this:

function GetEntitryById(int id):Entity
{
var entity = [action to get an entity];
if(entity == null) {
throw new Exception("Entity not found");
}
return entity;
}

is better than:

function GetEntitryById(int id):Entity?
{
var entity = [action to get an entity];
return entity;
}
Nice, I just recently left a company where this approach would have been tremendously useful and fairly easy to build - we had all the required data already, but were just looking at averages of past performance to budgets and using that as a multiplier on the schedule rather than going through a distribution.

That being said, I also despise tracking time!

…Suppose you could move that technique to story points (or whatever unit of measurement) though you would lose a ton of precision.
This is probably running into a different issue, which is most people have a finite amount of programming (or intense concentration work) in them per day. For me that's 3-4 hours, for most creative people that number is pretty similar. Beyond that you get vastly diminishing returns and worse trying to do a "side project" involves a massive context shift that is mentally exhausting in of itself.

Once I accepted that after 3-4 hours (well realistically about 6 when you factor in breaks) I'm effectively done for the day my stress levels went way down.
So we would need 367 unique date identifiers … but we’ve only got 366 (Feb 29th being the non-annual one).

I get I may be being unintelligent, but isn’t the author confusing the rolling coin paradox with an obscure astronomical reference system and coming up with a ‘mistakenly technically correct’ result that doesn’t match experienced reality?
seems like it's already posted here, sorry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28770135
Green party has this plank and its not helping them win any seats or have anyone pick up their other ideas.
> Most of us Europeans fight very hard battles against concrete walls and using the right anchor is quite a thing.

I've mounted (and still mounting) lot of stuff using high quality, but ordinary plastic plugs & screws. Fsicher, or any similar brand will do. Drill the hole with correct diameter, put in the plugs, screw, attach.

Hardened concrete is really a battle to drill though.
Python releases do get an awful lot of attention on HN.
It's even worse now that multi-process is a thing even on mobile, because it means that tabs get unloaded not just when the browser feels like it (practical quality of actual implementations might vary, but at least in theory the browser should know which tabs have been recently used, which tabs might be playing audio, etc. and so make a somewhat reasonable attempt of prioritisation which tabs should get unloaded first), but also whenever the OS randomly decides that one of your child processes (containing a random set of tabs) should die.

From following the bug tracker this definitively seems to be a problem with Firefox now – I wonder how Chrome gets around that problem, though? Do they suffer from the same problem, have they found some neat workaround, or are they cheating and being specially whitelisted by the OS?
I don't know if it hops when nobody is connected but I certainly found mine to hop while I'm connected. It'd hop around until it finds a channel where wifi doesn't work, and then stays there.

I had to force a channel..
ykpersonalize -u -1 -o -fast-trig

(or some variation thereof)
> Yes, there are SQL databases out there that run on the client side or have replication, but not both.

Yes, there are. https://zumero.com for instance.
I think I'd rather fill 2-4 big holes than 180 tiny ones. Interesting idea though.
No love left for POET? :)
You can only stick to uncontroversial things until someone asks you a question on live TV. I don't think avoiding the questions will last long.
Well, the 5th French Republic is going well since the 50s, isn't it? As is the post-war BRD in Germany. Both used to have an Emperor at some point, Italy went from Kingdom to Facist regime to democracy. So yes, if the situation changes you can change your government form. Basing 21st Century politics on something written in the 18th century is... weird. Especially as it is more the interpretation of what the authors thought, and might think today, based on these writings. Just my outside opinion.
2,45GHz ~= 12,2 cm wavelength

resonance seems plausible
While I'm sympathetic to your anti-FB bias, I think it's pretty clear that by any reasonable definition Facebook is indeed a social network (which also happens to make gobs of money through advertising, and covets engagement because that increases ad revenue as well as a general sense of "platform health"). The question posed was whether "being bad for society" is an emergent property of social networks as they grow.
You mean without a deployment or statefulset? How would you connect to the DB without a service providing a persistent DNS name?
It's already happened unfortunately - looking at you Kendryte.
Watch out for this. We had badly installed top cabinets loaded with plates and glasses. Its been fine for years. One night i wake up to sounds of apocalypse... Cabinets falling one by one breaking everything inside. Just like some controlled demolition.

Plates and glasses can be quite expensive :((
My impression of the US media is that they are for-hire mercenaries, rather than journalists in any meaningful sense. They ganged up on Yang, Tulsi Gabbard, and Bernie, despite most of them having policies they claim to support.
I'd love to hear a post mortem blog post on a project that was ran in this way in real life & what the pros/cons at different stages were.

The author first talks about the waste of time that is upfront analysis/planning or adding a buffer for contingency and how Monte Carlo simulation fixes for that, but then the caveats seem to be based on an established team, of a fixed size doing similar style work.

For me, this stage of a project has never faced big hiccups in estimation & our teams are normally quite good at knowing "what's a 2 vs a 5 point story" — if there _is_ a big discussion in a planning meeting at that stage, it's normally because one person has overlooked a key requirement (or the other is assuming a requirement that doesn't exist) so it's a good opportunity to solve for that.

To use the analogy, we're probably quite good in established teams at estimating how long it'll take to write 10 blog posts. The trouble comes when someone says "The latest blog posts aren't generating enough interest. Can you estimate how long it'd take for you to write 10 poems instead? We want a mix of iambic pentameter and maybe some trochaic tetrameter (TBC). We've gotten budget approval to increase the size of the team, so we'll have 5 new people (off-shore) joining next week so we can go faster. Also, some of the old blog posts seem to be getting lots of visitors in South America, so we may need to translate these to Portuguese/Spanish too. When can you give me an estimate for all that?"
Israel’s promising Covid drug successfully passes II Phase of research
There's also a Singaporean project in Batam Indonesia for a solar power plant (it's only 50km away from Singapore).

https://www.sunseap.com/SG/newsroom/2021/sunseap-signs-MOU-w...
I really like that guy, I hope he does well.
When I was a user of public libraries it used to be awkward to get to them, after work, before closing time.
So I paid a lot of late fees. It used to bug me that late fees were waived for people on benefits then. There are just so many situations where something like this is the case.
I often wonder how much the value of all these hidden benefits amount to. They're never considered when there's a discussion of benefit rates.
Your analogy has flaws. If you get oil on yourself, you didn't break anything in the car. If you fix your car but use a wrong part or install it improperly, that's a bug and that's on you for being careless.
A permanent but senile supreme court is an ideal substrate for permanent government; in 2100 the justices are the same ones from today, all bodies in vats, whose decisions are delegated opaquely to key party donors.
Wow. Is there at least some capping ? I've never been late to childcare but there are so many reasons I could have been that your $15 are frightening me. I'm not even sure that late fees where I am are above 1 or 2€ per 15 minutes.
>The thing with being poor is that any additional expense will mean you have to make difficult trade-offs. Which is to say that even if someone who is not poor is much more likely to be late to return a book the late fees just don’t matter to that person, while they do matter for someone who is poor

Exactly. I'm not sure why you thought I felt otherwise.

Rather, I took issue with GP's assertion that if you're poor, you aren't socially responsible. Which is both absurd and offensive.
The problem is, FB stock would drop 90% in an instant if they were to announce this.
(for dry"wall")
Also, the correct answer is this:

https://www.fischer-international.com/en/products/standard-f...
Even with ranked choice the US will remain mostly two partied like the UK and some provinces in Canada. The parties are both so dominant already and well whipped, and not much chance coalitions form in this climate when these two parties aren't even in agreement of the same facts of reality. Maybe a centrist coalition designed to spoil dem votes.
Spacehey: A Space for Friends
You forgot to mention how to check that the "website of the company that makes" is that. Claiming to be a manufacturer is really simple. I am the manufacturer of the chair you're sitting on, trust me, you know I wouldn't lie. If you still are distrustful I can use some photos from gettyimages on my website. Do I look like a liar? Doesn't my factory look real, too?

And even if it is the real factory for a real company, how do you tell that the products aren't "as sturdy as paper party favors", as the article quotes?
Is there any reason we don't genetically modify trees so that they grow huge? GMOs are some of our most advanced technologies, yet it seems no one has thought to modify trees to grow more.
France has FPTP elections, but in two rounds, so there is room for tactics.
No, it isn’t weird, it’s simply rejecting the frankly naive notion that you should change everything all the time according to the whims of the populace. History and human nature didn’t begin in 1950.

Again, the US has never had anything remotely as horrible as the French Revolution or Nazi Germany. That’s likely a consequence of a constitutional government with limited powers.

The United Kingdom is in a very similar situation, although their specific version is different.

—-

Editing because apparently I am “posting too fast” and can’t reply. What a passive aggressive move.

Responding to your comment:

The American Revolution preceded the French one by a decade plus. Your chronology is backwards.

The French Revolution also didn’t pave the way for much at all. It failed, led to Napoleon, that failed, led to other monarchic systems until WWW1, another disaster, which led to fascism and WW2, an even bigger disaster.

And the US isn’t a democracy and never has been. The founders set it up as a representative republic for a specific reason.

My thesis still stands that the US is infinitely more stable and has been in comparison to Europe, largely due to its adherence to the original constitution and legal setup.
>Building homebrew maps in foundry might be fast, it still looks like crap. We're in 2021.

Your attitude towards your competitors is pretty gauche. You dismiss features and the pricing model they have, etc., while they have been incredibly successful.

I'm always looking for interesting advancements in VTT, particularly because I've got a box with a 55" TV mounted in it I can put on top of my table for using them even when playing with friends in person, but as a potential customer, the dismissive attitude you've displayed towards your competitors has turned me off pretty significantly.
Gwynne Shotwell Became President of SpaceX
Very astute observation, as always, Daniel.

The interesting thing about Rome’s fall is that it was Rome’s success that planted the seeds of self-destruction. Equitable wealth distribution and loyalty to the republic produced very powerful armies, producing a corrupting influx of wealth for the rich and the army and an impoverishing influx of slave labor, destroying the very two factors that allowed it. The republic thus succumbed and lacking loyalty the society fell into a never-ending series of coups and back-stabbing, sabotaging Rome’s ability to wage war and peace.

Looking back one couldn’t have foreseen the Huns dealing the crushing blow, but the destruction of the Roman virtue was on display, and decried by Cicero among many.

I have to wonder what are the seeds of destruction in Facebook itself that are results of its success?

Petty, patronizing censorship can be both the product of success and the poison that takes two decades to cause atrophy.

Another candidate is the Eternal September, the influx of different demographic that will mold the network to their ways and expel the early adopters, who will move on to the next hot thing. Zuckerberg knows this, hence why he keeps buying up all competition, akin to using the blood of virgins to stave off aging.

Regulations could be another, obvious option.

There is also something in the outrage and clickbait dynamics, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

Any other ideas?
But What About When You Fail?
OK, let's assume you have 75% elemental resistance. You also take 15% reduced damage and 10% less damage. You have 5% chance to avoid elemental damage and 10% to dodge it and are under the effect of Elemental Equilibrium and Gluttony of Elements. How much better is it to just kill everything before it can kill you?
I do hope all of this research will bubble up to solid advice and / or legislation though; saying "just fix your diet!" has big "thanks I'm cured" energy because it's a pretty vague statement. Plus, especially in the US, getting 'good' food is a challenge; there's many "food deserts" in the US where the only source of food is the local fast food chains. And - from an outsider's point of view, correct me if I'm wrong - things like fresh fruit and vegetables are reserved for the 'elitist' grocery store chains like Whole Foods.
The solution here is better, as i've read above. You are still charged for late fees but they are canceled/refunded as soon as you return the book.
I've had the complete opposite experience.
Linux kernel is the most sucessful free beer UNIX clone, but it is by no means the only one, and if the trends on IoT and cloud infrastructure are any measure, in a couple of decades we might still live under POSIX monoculture to some extent, but Linux most likely won't be the kernel underneath.
The difference with optics is that they are solid, unlike sound/RF waveguides which are hollow. A fiberoptic cable just doesn't seem very pipe-like and isn't normally called a waveguide.
What is Reverse DNS (rDNS) and how does it work?
Exactly that, and depression is rarely just the one issue, or rarely has just the one cause; if you're depressed because of e.g. poverty, just taking pills won't solve the root cause. I mean it might break a cycle and be a first step towards a better life of course, but that cycle could be broken by better circumstances as well.
What measurable test could I do to verify I would have improvements enabling timescale on those two tables?
Two things to add:

1. There is a pdf, which you can download here: https://www.finewoodworking.com/membership/pdf/405146/W291_C...

2. While reading this I wondered why we don't have specialized quality magazines like this in Europe? I guess that America only has two big languages (Spanish and English) whereas Europa has many. So writing any article for a wide public is impossible without an army of transistors
Nest Renew
UK Home Secretary outlines measures to curtail disruptive activists' travel
In theory, it's 1 in 20. In practice, it's much, much higher, closer to 2 out of 3:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
whatsapp used to have a "status" page in their app, they removed it years ago though.

That said - yeah, i figured there's an issue when hard refreshing whatsapp web (sometimes has a kink that needs to be refreshed away) didn't work.