skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Uber had a woman complain about not getting a jacket in her size

That is a wilful and bad faith misrepresentation of the Susan Fowler situation to such a degree that I am skeptical of everything else you've just written.
But conversely, most people will never produce a masterpiece regardless of how long they spend at it.
Quite a variety of rules, laws and regulations. I'm fairly sure there are errors in this list but the effort to compile it must have been significant. Kudos.

Its so strange to think of rainwater collection as illegal. That is utterly dystopian. But there it is across multiple areas.

Rules against solar? Wow! That's backwards and just screams stupid. On the flip side, I fully get regulation for any connection to the grid as with some kind of permit for the house wiring in general. House wiring should be up to some agreed upon code so its not made of sticky tape and extension cords.
Using the screen as a light

Dimming the screen

Different colors on the screen

Calculation of how long light will last

SOS signaling

Strobe setting

Light in response to some kind of input, like audio or camera

Blinking light with adjustable frequency

Yeah, there's probably more features that could be put into a flashlight app.
No, you need to watch out for the -1x programmers. At least the 0.1x are moving forward,
You add it to your storage tank (assuming you have one). Also done if you collect rainwater.
So. Many. Shortcuts. And, if you use it as an extension to your IDE, say for VSCode, you can still use your pointer.

Delete to line's end: d$
Delete to next blank line: d]
Replace current character: r
Surround the next 3 words with quotes: ys3w" (non standard, but out-of-the-box on VSCode)

On and on
I've been doing something a bit similar with https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug/tree/master/entity/da... if you care about digging.

It's a generic distrubuted data structure in git, with identities and signature, and conflict merge. At the moment it's used to store bugs, more to come later.
And it's exacerbating those problems by driving out its taxable rich people (who both in the US and in France pay the vast majority of taxes already) while not actually collecting all that much money. I'm not ultra rich, but you can't imagine how quickly I'll leave the state I live in if it imposes a wealth tax of any kind. And I spend quite a bit of money here, all of which is already taxed _at least_ three times: business taxes, personal income / social security taxes (of which I pay not half, but the entire amount), and sales taxes. Taxing me 4th time? They can fuck right off with that shit.
That's true, on the other hand the fact that copyapps even copy icons and have very close sounding names in the same space would be a trivial thing to guard against.
> Cellular providers now have COWs and COLTs for reinforcing networks where the fixed infrastructure has been affected.

Cell phone network is very fragile, it's the first thing to go.

During hurricane Maria, cell covereage was the first thing to die and was out for many weeks (months in some areas).
Aand there’s a segue back to the current discussion. There was a thread about “people don’t actually like innovation”. :)
Tradeoffs, and also circumstances where the trade off is made. It is all very well to say "X is better than Y" but in practice there needs to be an "at task Z" qualifier.

The relational data model is the best model for arbitrary data - by definition we know nearly nothing about the data and that gets us schema control, guidelines for how to normalise data and joins mostly for free.

In practice unless there is a complete understand your data before starting work (ie, nearly never) the first attempt should be to model it relationally. Then if that proves unsuitable - or the scale is so large that even the relational model is too demanding - only then response is to fall back to something else.
Not really, in a free market consumers directing their consumption away from a sector does not make them complicit in the abuses or bankruptcy of that sector.

They don't have direct relationship to that sector anymore, after all.
They've done some pretty extensive studies on ability / achievement. The big driver being parents wanting to ensure their kids turn out great, or to make their kids smart.

Turns out environment can only really have _detrimental_ effects on outcomes for kids. You can't increase what they don't have, but you definitely can fuck them up. I thought it was pretty interesting.

So basically, the advice most parents get now is, don't drop them on their head :) Of course, that also means provide them with the opportunities to learn / use their ability.
I’m fascinated when one domain wanders into the expertise of another. In this case branding. I bet Ć has some fantastic technical ideas and may be a powerful tool.

But how much does it limit its own future just by having a name that isn’t distinguishable in speech from a much larger brand?

Though this makes me rather curious about products that succeed despite their branding. What happens if we make an unpronounceable language and it takes off? Would it just be given a de facto name by the community?
My MIL still uses a flashlight app on her iPhone, because she doesn’t know the difference between a feature and an app, and because each time she gets a new phone all her apps are ported over. Whenever she turns on her flashlight a huge ad blazes across the screen (and the screen doesn’t seem to turn off), and I keep meaning to tell her she doesn’t need that app.
The Most Advanced Computer Interface, period.
Jenkins Contributor Summit is today
I got my license during the pandemic, the class and testing were all done remotely. I've never physically met anyone else that has a license (to the best of my knowledge - maybe I walked by someone in a store).
aha, there's some interesting stuff in "productization of Stan" talks from stancon 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vfilYZ-F3A
I have already explained at length. You are not obliged to read any of it, and evidently haven't. Repeating it here would be pointless.

But, to be clear: 1. There is nothing wrong with Rust, or with coding embedded Rust. 2. Rust brings nothing new to the embedded table, beyond what it does with ordinary programming; 3. non_std has been found by repeated experience over many decades to be a failed idea.

I don't like people promoting falsehoods on the internet. Instead of apologizing, just don't!
> I don't really know where this moral panic about woke culture in tech is coming from. It's not something I've experienced in the workplace.

Same here - it's an easy agenda to outrage about that's destroying the quality of discourse here on HN
Cuz in the tech eco system there are just blue whales, baby blues and krill.

Its not exactly the serengeti of diversity required to build a berkshire zoo. Software is just bits.

Hardware and the pipes are a different story. There you can build a zoo.
The story is bigger than just in-person payments, it's also about remote payments, cross-border transfers, and savings.

Sure "conventional" paper currency is already a good solution for in-person payments, but it doesn't work for remote payments, international transfers or savings.

Cashapp has compelling answers for remote domestic payments and savings in the US, and TransferWise is great for international transfers among wealthy nations.

These three are the use cases we're seeing blossom in El Salvador where Cashapp and TransferWise aren't available.

I suspect this is an Innovator's Dilemma situation, where crytpocurrency solutions are honed and adapted in emerging markets, then eventually compete with established players in rich nations.
is it at all possible that practice and study are insufficient to create further growth? What I think faizshah is talking about is that there is enormous complexity that goes into creating skill.

what sort of community do you leverage for their knowledge? how frequently do you expose yourself to new ideas? do you practice abstraction in places other than code? do you practice effectively and take notes that you review? keep a journal? meditate? are you in good cardiovascular shape?

all of these are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to contributing factors. a plateau is a sign of stagnant processes.

I apologize in advance for what I'm sure is a frustrating tone. I'm sympathetic to your situation.
You can find the agenda for the summit at the bottom of this page https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-contributor-summit-oc...

or

In the google doc for the event https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QLWXNG23ui-LvQXth3UREzOv...
Not just one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_J%C3%A1n_Kuciak
Its pretty well known by now that billionaires pay an effective single digit tax rate in the US.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...

Hell, the person who used to be president was paying that or less. They have at least 60% of congress paid for in order to not raise taxes or close loopholes as well. Then you have so many otherwise smart people believing that taxation is theft, when they're just not rich enough to pay the good rates.
One of several possible responses, yes. Better, offer to hold (and refrigerate) the ice cream until the customer is ready to pick it up, as that would entice them to the store twice.
Looks like the parser is hand crafted using recursive descent method: https://github.com/pfusik/cito/blob/master/CiParser.cs

I did not look closely but writing parser without any tooling is asking for troubles, from parsers that enter infinite loops to not handling parse errors properly. ANTLR is way better for writing parsers for simple languages.
Philosophy and theology student here, former military. I have a passion for history and dabble in Latin.

I'm here because I pay for my masters and academic hobbies in other fields with my tech day job.

I believe in the Renaissance model of trying to understand and succeed in many fields.
MS-DOS filenames were too short to be useful, but the systems once up and running, tended to run until they were obsoleted. MS-DOS itself is mostly just a program loader, with a bit of file system API to make programming easier. The nice thing was that it was simple, could be backed up easily, and stuff worked as expected, for decades, if necessary.

The other thing is we didn't have to worry about security (much). Because everything could be backed up, and a known safe system state was achievable, and you could even write protect non-hard drive based machines, you could run ANYTHING, and there was nowhere in the hardware for malware to hide if things got squirrely and you rebooted.

You could always just reboot from a write protected system disk, and get back to work. This is a level of security that hasn't been matched since, except for mainframes with their fixed assignment of resources.

I wrote a system that recorded inspections of equipment, involved hand held computers, and a weird Emulex serial card to talk to them. The code was all in Turbo Pascal, with PL/N running on the handhelds. I supported it for a decade until Windows and Networking made things obsolete. It was a great job.

I was a big fan of 80x50 or 80x43 character screen mode.
What exactly is the issue? Why do not you just use submodules? Or you might want to associate the SHA-1 of commits to files outside git? Ugh, I need sleep.
Please define what "woke" and "SJW" means. Whenever I see it being used on HN especially in contexts like this, it's a strawman for "anybody with a political opinion different from mine"
How does the invention happen if not through day to day productivity?
Do not be phased when a co-worker offers to show you their gun collection.
No, we didn't - I've very deliberately avoided making any allusions as to what group may feel impacted by this, because it is applicable to any outgroup.

I do, however, think we both know exactly what you mean when your condemn this behaviour - but very explicitly call out only a particular group for it.
> the upshot will be to drive global wealth towards secrecy jurisdictions in the US such as Rupert Murdoch’s preferred haven of Delaware.

Delaware as a secret tax haven? What?? How?
There aren’t all that many “wonderful businesses” in the world.

But, there sure are a lot of fools parting with their money.
The only point I care to touch on is the Adderall usage. Europeans, I think, would be shocked by the prevalence.

From the New York Times: "In the 1990s, an estimated 3 to 5 percent of school-age American children were believed to have A.D.H.D., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; by 2013, that figure was 11 percent."

There's a stigma to these prescription drugs, so you co-workers will likely conceal the truth. And you won't be able to perceive they're on these substances.

Americans have a more competitive work environment than Europeans. They're raised to succeed, as the stakes are higher (less of a safety net, student debt, housing prices, etc...).

What's interesting, is that I suspect Adderall abuse is higher amongst those raised in upper middle class households. Adderall is common amongst my privileged friends, yet you would never know unless you were very close to them. In fact, they'll lie to others. The types from elite schools: Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley. The types in MD-PhD programs, FAANG companies, and "big law".
Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: This 120 kW China electric pickup truck
> That's absolutely possible with the HAM bands, especially shortwave.

Such things already exist (Winlink, SailMail, etc) but you don't like them because there's no encryption and they don't have buzzwords like mesh in the names.

You seem to think encrypted transmissions on ham bands will let you play secret agent. All encryption will do is increase the noise floor on HF to the point its unusable by anyone. HF is already a noisy band but a bunch of people playing secret agent will swamp the bands over huge areas.
Remember I tried looking for it via a quick google search and didn't find anything. But I wasn't too invested in finding it, so didn't spend much time looking. Thinking about it now - he would probably reply to an email - that should be the quickest way of finding out.
Just playing devil's advocate:

So I or someone else can continue to effectively make the computer do work.
I honestly would really like to know what you think and feel about this. I'm so curious because your perspective seems like it must be so different from mine, so I'd like to understand.

How serious do you think the problem really is? How much of it do you think Facebook is responsible for? What would you do if you were in charge?
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First, USPS is a viable business, even at current low (set by Congress) prices[1]. That's how it gets its funding[2]. If it has a loss during a certain year, it dips into its cash or sells assets, like any other business.

The reason it sometimes looks badly unprofitable is because of an attempt by Republicans to kill it by imposing unique and crushing financial obligations on it that don't apply to any other business[3][4].

By making it look unprofitable, they can argue that it's costing taxpayers money and then propose privatizing it[5]. It's part of a long-term strategize to run government organizations into the ground in order to justify dismantling them.

From Barron's:

> The USPS loses money, but cash flow has been more stable. That is because as mentioned above, the USPS has some unusual expenses, imposed by Congress, that artificially depress earnings.

> In 2006, Congress essentially told the post office to set aside $110 billion over 10 years. That, by our math, is $11 billion a year. The annual free cash flow reported by UPS, for comparison, was about $6.4 billion in 2018.

> The requirement hit cash flow until the post office could deal with the expense no longer. Now the Postal Service just records the cost on its books, cutting into the bottom line, but without setting aside any cash.[3]

1. https://news.nd.edu/news/postal-service-losing-money-because...

2. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/usps-funding-crisis...

3. https://www.barrons.com/articles/usps-louis-dejoy-post-offic...

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service#R...

5. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/16/902977021/the-history-of-poli...
Signing packets is not a new idea.

The problem still is that you have no way to authenticate on any layer above the hardware.

Ham radio as is is stuck in the 1960s which given the age of the people on it isn't really surprising.
yeah, but i think it's a good hypothesis.
Can you link to these? I'm interested in what they found out, if a little skeptical about how thinking can be precisely measured.
This is a huge list, and surely interesting, but which methods are the best?

Going for everything there would be time wasted.
All this chat about spoken and nothing about legal systems.
I don't know if Florida is apt. The state has one of the strongest economies in the US.

In terms of GDP, the ranking goes California, Texas, New York, Florida, and then Illinois.

As much as Florida gets dunked on in the US, it's still an economic powerhouse of the region. Orlando is a major financial centre, there's a number of major ports, there's a strong agricultural base, and the state has a considerable amount of high tolerance manufacturing industry (primarily electronics, biomed, naval, and aerospace).

The state gets ragged on a lot (justifiably so for some of our political leadership) but it's still one of the strongest states in the US by a pretty healthy margin.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...

Edit: forgot to mention that the state is surprisingly progressive once you get through all the election suppression. There's quite a bit of gerrymandering (not quite as bad as Texas), the state makes every effort to strip poor or predisposed people of their voting rights, and we have a lot of other issues but the state by and large despite that has been considered a split/swing state. And despite the voter suppression, the state continues to grow a strong/dedicated voting populace particularly with focuses on environmental protection.

Edit 2: Sorry if this seems a bit defensive.
https://twitter.com/bch_t/status/1446693597093384193
Vacations. I miss those so much.
I think he intended the whataboutism part around assange as guilt by implication - does that count?

In any case, he buried the lede at the very end of the story, after briefly mentioning in the beginning that he worked with the director of the program:

“

Who is calling the shots? One man apparently, Gerard Ryle. In the wake of the Panama Papers, when we asked Ryle on a number of occasions for an ICIJ log-in to analyse the data, we were denied.

“My path, my call,” said Ryle. We already have our media partners, he said.

“

This reads more like his feelings were hurt by not being included.
It’s probably not important whether the talent is encoded in someone’s DNA or whether it was formed during their childhood and early education they got. But by the time people are teenagers, there can be large differences in learning ability that are impossible to level anymore. You can push through those differences through “belief, drive, focus, grit,” etc, but the baselines are different.
That's a scenario I considered but the size of the document trove made me think it was unedited, without much real knowledge of what it contained beyond its origin. Perhaps it is the goal of ICIJ and Co., though, I can believe that.
But they’ve always send them to third parties.

Why do you trust google with this data over Mozilla?
American who’s lived and worked in Europe for a decade. Were I returning to the U.S., I would brace myself for:

Bogus management cargo cult culture. All of those junk books you see at Hudson News and similar when traveling, a lot of people try out that pseudoscience stuff or talk about it.

Cover-your-ass (CYA) decision making policies. CYA runs deep in the decision making process whether you know it or not.

At-will employment. Look that up.

Extreme asymmetric rights and obligations tilted strongly in favor of the employer over employee.

Equal amounts of inefficiency and ineptitude as in Europe, though some of the most tyrannical business leads I met were Americans.

They won’t understand nor care about time zone realities. In fact, a lot of aspects of your life will be alien to them. Americans have a poor substantive understanding of life outside their country.

There can be massive regional variations in work culture and dress code. I found the Midwest and East Coast to have required a modicum of shitty business attire and the West Coast to eschew it. I know you say remote, but don’t forget this for in-person should it arise.

Lastly among American men there is often a strange communications dynamic: calling people “buddy” or “bro”. Sorry. This faux camaraderie is out of place.

Good luck. I aim to not have to ever be dependent on a full-time American job again. FIRE if it all possible. My experience left me scarred.
I tell them that I think they're immoral, and then proceed to not call for their shunning.
Is that not the case for most companies? At FAAMG I've seen yearly stock grants be in dollar figures and not number of shares.
There's a lot of weird accents here in the UK. Even cockney sounds odd, and that's local to London. In the same place you'll meet people from Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham, Scotland and so on, all with distinctive accents that are not so easy for your ordinary American or second language speaker.
there's still long distance radio, seeing a random midwest american connecting with a random russian dude up in siberia was mind blowing, SF like IRL
> guarantees the leaker will be denied whistleblower privileges and presumptions

If you're leaking something genuinely upsetting to the ruling class, none will be on offer anyway.
What I wonder though is how useful the distinction becomes.

Maybe I'm reading into it, but I feel some people want to say that it's their fault, because their culture doesn't value education and intellectual pursuits and honesty, and hard work, etc.

And it seems to become a justification why they don't deserve any help or support or special treatment.

But to me, it seems to be exactly why something would need to be done. You don't actually choose your culture, you're born into it, and that seems unfair if by culture we imply those essential things that matter for success in life.

Especially if we talk about certain races, where other races probably directly contributed to that culture by forcibly curbing their interest in education, intellectualism and ambitions.
If you're interested in a federated Reddit clone, check out Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
React useRef
this will push most countries to compete towards 15%, and 'legitimizes' 12.5% corporate tax that other countries in the EU have. If it s no longer seen as punishable offense to move profits to malta, cyprus, bulgaria etc, lots more companies will do it.
Moving to IPFS, Dat, BitTorrent, or the like sounds good to me! I like how many Linux distributions are using BitTorrent for their ISO files. :)
It is not that it is a walled garden that is a problem. It is that it is the only garden.
there are differences between any two people anywhere ever, though. Is there some reason that being over 20 means you're done developing?
These things tend to take a long time to mature.

We are just getting to the situation where WebGL 2 carrying the GLES 3.0 feature set works in all browsers (Safari delayed it many years).

GLES 3.0 was released in 2012 (edit: fixed year) and WebGL 2 in 2017.

But apps take a long time to mature too of course, so good that developers can get a taste of WebGPU already.