skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. Even if we're playing by the book, the Supreme Court can choose not to grant cert because they believe a compelling circuit split hasn't yet emerged, stare decisis, they don't believe the controversy is ripe, they think it's a matter for someone else like the legislature, they don't have space on the docket, etc. Not granting cert is absolutely not an endorsement of legal interpretation by a lower court.

Beyond that, idea that justices wouldn't, even subconsciously, use the power to choose their own docket to favor their own policy preferences is just naive.
You focus on "grifters" from the right and endorse grifters from the left by ignoring their scandals and the rumors about their grifting.

You don't like Rudy? Okay... now... why are you silent about Hunter? Joe? other stories about their corruption?

Why do you accept at face value rumors about the right - when many of those rumors turn out to be false or their "lies" turn out to be true? and then you'll support "biden wants" despite the fact that he's every bit the corrupt grifter you claim to despise in Rudy?

"all the evidence" This is about rumors and support/suppression of those rumors.

Again... rumors about Trump spend weeks in the news without facts - or against facts... journalists care about "all evidence" with Biden when that evidence has been proven lies time and time again.

If you support the hypocrisy, then you're a hypocrite. You'll push rumors against Trump and hide rumors against Biden because you don't care about truth.
The way to make flying cars (and let's drop the sophisticated terminology, we're discussing something called Jetson One) safe for the mass market is to make them available as fleet vehicles for taxi companies such that you can ensure all the drivers are trained and sober and all the vehicles are maintained and inspected. Even if the hivemind insists they'll be self-flying, it's still unsafe beyond normal bounds of unsafe to have ill-maintained flying cars trying to navigate three-dimensional traffic.
Black magic! I wish I could do the math like this, I wonder where one would start...

> But one additional way to gain more anonymity is through deliberate disinformation.

This is interesting to me because over the years various psychological models have emerged that show humans to be constantly misleading themselves and others with what could fairly be called disinformation. So I wonder if we could say that just by communicating from a position of less-authentic self-protection, let's say a typical hire-me oriented LinkedIn resume, one is somehow making oneself more anonymous...
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Fair point. Unfortunately, there's no helping some people :)
At least in the US, it's fairly hard to outlaw changing laws in certain ways since the people with the power to pass new laws are equally able to change past ones, including the ones that limit their power. The way to do something like this would be to put it in the Constitution, which isn't able to be changed through legislation alone, but it seems that for the time being, adding new amendments isn't really something we're doing as a country.
Well at 210 lbs you're either tall enough that you probably won't fit in this thing lengthwise or you are in fact overweight and losing a few lbs wouldn't hurt.
I guess if you really want to know how you'll die.
>"We are sorry to read that. Please clearly describe your problem to us so we can ..."

What makes you think I do not do those things?
Do you have a better explanation for the fact that each release seems to fix a few things that used to not work, and break a few things that used to work fine (like "not deciding there's an object right in front of the car when there isn't")?
Is 0.00001 of a bitcoin too expensive to buy?
My read of the trickle-down one-liner was that it was taking the piss just as much as any of the others, FWIW.
* Afghanistan pull out: Disaster. Many Americans STILL trapped in Afghanistan while Biden looks like cornholio on national TV

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56255613

* 100+ days of crisis at the border. No law and order. No enforcement of law. Massive crisis that didn't exist on Jan 5th.

https://apnews.com/article/business-economy-prices-inflation...

* Massive inflation under way. Unseen failure from the top

* Supply chain collapsing by corruption, shit laws and mandates

https://gallagher.house.gov/media/press-releases/gallagher-w...

* Fauci has been undeniably shown the liar we all knew he was before. Corrupt POS with funding lies and experimentation on animals.

https://reason.com/2021/10/06/ag-merrick-garland-fbi-critica...

* FBI ignores violence across America and instead goes after "domestic terrorists"... aka parents who don't blindly obey the gestapo tactics.

I could go on about the number of scandals, corruption and dumpster fire issues... but the collapsing poll numbers and cries of Lets Go Brandon speak it more than I ever could.

And I didn't say America was destroyed... I said Biden was in the process of destroying - and the above scandals as a starting point... they show an inept or corrupt plan that is in effect destroying America as we speak.

Lets Go Brandon.
They saved taxpayer money and slowed the growth of public debt.

Of course, and that's not even mentioned, public debt is a non-factor in this "research" because the abuse of the dollar by the Federal government and the Fed continues unabated. For now.
I used to contract in London, I still occasionally get info about contracts from recruiters, Kotlin largely replaced Scala, compared to 5 years ago.
> finite fields instead of numbers whenever possible

A nitpick: 32 or 64 bit integers are not finite fields. One of the finite field axioms is that any non-zero number must have a multiplicative inverse, which 2 does not have.

They are, however, commutative rings.
There are many like firecracker vm, polkadot, linkered proxy, tokio, hyper etc. And these are the one I know and I think there are too many good quality application code in Rust.
And even with all of that, humans still get confused while driving. Think about the last time you came upon a construction zone with unclear lane markings, or a traffic pattern change in an area where you drive frequently, almost unconsciously.
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Yes, there was a time in my life decades ago in Montana when going to Sizzler was the top dinner option there was. More than anything else, I remember going through the door and taking in the scents. True nostalgia
Any idea what "card consumption" is? I don't think they mean punched cards.
Compaq Commercial 1988 [video]
There is high probability that it can hurt runtime perf. Because less passes means less optimization (in general)
I used web.py heavily in the early days on many small websites and one large website at work (well after it was relatively unmaintained). It was an early "microframework" that was really nice to use, and simple to hack on as needed. I liked its KISS approach to pretty much everything, including database handling (a thin, Pythonic wrapper around SQL, not an ORM). It was quirky in places, though -- I suppose not unlike its original author.

I'd probably use Bottle now, for equivalent simplicity and hackability, or maybe Flask (though that's significantly larger).
Or just constrain the problem to support only [-2^N-1, 2^N-1].

This gets you an extra bit of precision when multiplying two signed numbers, because you no longer need to leave room for two sign bits in the product.
What you're describing is a lot like this picture: https://www.danielbowen.com/2012/09/19/road-space-photo/
Well don't let your car run so low. Same thing applies to ICE engines.
This is also true for .NET, especially modern .NET where performance is critical nearly everywhere. It's representative of perf-sensitive code, but not general purpose C#.
It actually sounds like the sort of lineage that is very common among Americans.
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> Our eyes suck. Our attention spans suck. Our reaction times suck. To paraphrase my one of my favorite xkcds, “There is nothing in our evolution that could have prepared us for driving heavy boxes at high speeds”.

I disagree. Our brains have massive plasticity, even into adulthood, and can quite literally rewire themselves for how they're being used.

The first time you really get on the throttle on a sportbike, the effect is almost universally a "Woooooaoaaaaaaah!" sort of thing - the universe around you "goes plaid," and it feels like the hand of God has grabbed the horizon and yanked it to you. Hard. And then you get used to it, and people who ride powerful motorcycles or race them are perfectly capable of doing so for long periods of time, at high concentration. Go watch some clips of a motorcycle race, if you haven't. That's not born, that's learned.

Same goes for driving cars, for flying planes at Mach 2, for... really everything humans do. I wasn't born knowing how to use a keyboard, but I've been using one so long that I don't even think about it anymore.

The human brain is insanely adaptable, which is how it works well in all these cases.

And I'll also disagree that our eyes suck. The human visual processing system is damned good at handling a 3D world. It's got a few quirks, but overall? It's properly impressive.
All good questions. IMO the government, cost benefit analysis needs to be conducted.

My perspective is inherently Dutch. I think the roads here get replaced quite often anyway.
Just turn off self view. It's distracting and weird to see yourself in a meeting.
Why is that wrong? A language can be multi-paradigm while the “official” documents are written in a specific style. Like human languages, they evolve with their use (or fork into another language completely), while the high literature is the last one to change.

Together with that, I agree that one should read the high literature before inventing a new writing style.
> Why are Amex customers higher value? Is it because they're typically business cards rather than personal?

That's probably a part of it, but the real answer is because an Amex is a charge card, not a credit card, which means that whatever is spent on it MUST be paid off in full at the next billing cycle. The net effect of this, is that if your customers are shopping with an Amex, they're people who /have/ money, or in the case of business cards they are acting on behalf of an organization that has money. Without writing an expository essay, it seems to be simply true that those who are more affluent also have networks and can bring people by word of mouth if you meet their expectations.
Figuring out what problem to solve is the most difficult part for most side projects. Unless you personally have an unsolved problem that by chance many other people also have, finding something good requires either luck or talking to many potential customers.
5 years isn't that long, software notwithstanding, when it comes to life-critical systems in the physical world.

5 years may seem like a glacial age if you're 25 years old. When you're 50 it seems like a month sometimes.
Well, what other people alluded to was the performant part. That's also salient in some Black Mirror episodes now that I think about it.

While it is a first impression, it's just a first impression.
Do you remember the name of that processor?
bukkit tools worked kinda like this where you could rollback chunks
Idea to 350k
> When the house burned down, people figured out a way to be judgemental about it.

This is just insanity. IMO in the future this kind of thing will be one of those "I can't believe we lived through this level of abusing each other" topics.

I really hope that a variety of new audience interaction models are going to be part of online-community-next-point-oh. They are the future of not being associated with exposing your platform's creator community to negative mental health outcomes, which ought to be enough incentive by itself. This video is a great example.

People get online while carrying pure emotion out of who knows where, and the current context into which they arrive ends up either being an emotional spigot opportunity, a moderated emotional spigot opportunity, or no opportunity (comments disabled for example).

There is tremendous room here for growth and only escalating downsides if these issues are neglected. Kudos to the creator here for being open about it.
Competition?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200115/23550443741/why-i...
You bought a car from PT Barnum.
That's a good depiction of how diabolical this addiction is. I'm happy I don't have it, but I recognize this in others.

I wish I could help them. I've tried. And while I studied psychology, I'm not a psychotherapist.
I did, you're not entirely wrong, but not right either.

https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/sudbury-hospital-s-mri-fu...
> the creation of the Java version of that application was due to complaints from Linux users

Is this a fact? I too remember something along these lines but I wasn't sure. If that's the case, it's amazing. Those Linux users are still citizens and they pay taxes too, they absolutely deserve to be supported even if they are 0.1% of the population. The government has nor should have any profitability excuse.

> for a while, most banks required the use of an horribly invasive "security plugin" for the browser

Yes, the Warsaw plugin. It's even on the AUR.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/warsaw/

I HATE that thing. I tried to reverse engineer it once to see what it does and why it slows everything down so much. I caught it intercepting every single network connection. I actually switched banks to get away from this stupid software. Literally malware.
I'm a big believer in 'when in Rome', not just in languages but life.

If you don't like language X, don't take a job writing language X.
While I’m sure there’s definitely a team handling the obvious cases, there are a lot of people who sell these schemes packaged as “training” or advice of some sort. And the number of titles in the self-help category is infinite, so it simply isn’t going to be possible to stop them.

If you take a look at some of the top grossers on Gumroad and Stripe independents (Tai Lopez comes to mind) they’re all selling an multimedia version of a self-help book. Maybe they work, maybe they don’t, but I have a strong distaste for the genre in general and don’t like that most of the success stories are people selling dreams.
After reading the article I realized the photo is actually a depiction of two new maps being tested side-by-side and not a comparison of a new map to an old map (as I would have expected from the headline).
I googled this too, it's USA.
When I spent time in Japan, I noticed many that many maps were topological, though perhaps this is because I was looking at tourist maps.
Ptcollab Kitchen Sink Edition
You might want to meet some football players/wrestlers/gymnasts etc before you tell someone to lose some pounds, just based on weight alone
It absolutely would be, if our entire stack wasn't in Go.

One was a JS guru who literally threatened 'I can walk across the street and get another job, you know.' And we let him, and both of us are happier for it.

So I do agree, don't join a team writing a language you hate.
ptcollab (pxtone collab) is a music editor where you can collaborate with friends.[0]

And as part of this release here is music album released by its community.[1]

[0] https://yuxshao.github.io/ptcollab/

[1] https://pxtunes.bandcamp.com/album/pxtunes-5th-anniversary-m...
If you're rich enough, then perhaps fitting into your own flying car is good motivation to hire a personal trainer ;).
The Infinite Hows (2014)
It has a pretty good graphics interpretation engine too. But it's not only the brain that's awesome. The cameras of the human body are also of quite good quality. I can't quite understand yet what the sensors on the tongue are made of. Nevertheless, it really makes this whole "existence on earth" thing feel quite real!

Sometimes I have to take a step back and not feel like I'm reading into hardware specs when I see titles like these. But then it becomes so fun to pretend that this is all just a hardware sleeve for our own spirits/souls [1].

[1] Pretending they do exist is quite fun :)
That they could be significantly better does not mean that they are terrible.

It's not necessary to sacrifice security, as I explained earlier.
Correct. That's why we need the ability to manufacture hardware at home. So we can be the outlaws with the illegal computers that run software not signed by the government.
I'm a subscriber. Really interesting videos. I heard he used to work for MI6. Not sure if that is just a rumor to try to get more subscribers or what.

But there are some more Youtubers who seem to travel around to hotspots. I am a little suspicious they work for the CIA or something. Seems like the perfect cover. It may be some of them just get paid not to actually spy but just to verify that westerners can travel and film in those places.
Without denying any of the misconduct detailed below:

A prosecutor deciding that he or she will NOT charge someone (like Jussie Smollett or the Portland rioters) is equally bad. If someone clearly did something, they should not skate. That also breeds contempt for the law.
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I wouldn't call that a nitpick; I'd call referring to these a serious misuse of terminology! Finite fields are altogether quite different.

There are finite fields of of order 2^k for each k, but they work quite differently from the integers modulo 2^k.

I think the best short term for describing how machine integers work is to just say "modular arithmetic".
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> For the current pandemic, they did not initially recommend masking because they could not justify it for the general population over the medical community. They wanted to avoid a tragedy of the commons of PPE.

Then here's what they should have said: "Masks work, but health care workers need to be prioritized. So we have asked the President to exercise the government's eminent domain power to ensure that adequate supplies of PPE are available to health care workers. That may impact availability of masks for the general public in the near term, until supply chains can respond to the large increase in demand."

What they actually said was: "Masks don't work so don't bother trying to buy them."
The commenter above you isn't talking about IEEE754's abs() function, but rather the code from the OP, except applied to floats rather than ints.
In the other hand, I look at myself. I place the selfview close to the lens and it appears that I am looking directly at the other party.

Idk why it works but I find it smoothing and allows me to control how I am being seen. Just my personal experience.
You said, "Section 230 is just a way to shortcut litigation." And that, "There would be one case, it would go to the Supreme Court, and would reinforce the key components of Section 230."

One of your sources says: No, that is wrong. CDA 230 is a superset of First Amendment protections. I agree with your source. However, I think these additional protections are a bad idea because they absolve YouTube and the like from certain responsibilities:

"Because we [YouTube] are not in a position to adjudicate the truthfulness of postings, we do not remove video postings due to allegations of defamation." [1]

That absolution is ridiculous.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6154230?hl=en&co=G...
Crypto and Fiat Currencies
Does anyone else wonder why economists, central bankers and other market commentators talk so much about exchange rates, and inflation targets; and never talk about the half-life of currencies?

I find this quote from a central banker sobering… 1 Based on consumer price data, an item that cost R1 in 1960 would today cost R96.79. The rand has effectively lost 99% of its 1960 purchasing power. Given the high inflation in the second half
of the twentieth century, figures for the major currencies are similar but not as extreme: the US dollar has lost 88%; the Swiss franc has lost 76%; and the British pound has lost 95% (based on the World Bank consumer price data).
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Protocol Buffers and other similar formats can already be serialized to/from text, and are also schema-first. This is solution in search of a problem.
When disagreeing with someone, it's usually courteous to explain why you think they are wrong.
Having been a medical student in NZ attached to an infectious diseases team, the idea that NZ research (or even our ideas of best practice) are not heavily dependent on R&D and standards institutes from the USA isn't plausible. I find it likely that Australia is in a similar position.

We are lucky in that NZ and Australia have sufficient political will to create and maintain socialized healthcare systems independent of the approach the US has taken. The shortfall in global leadership during this pandemic is, in part, from philosophical differences over whether -and, to what extent- it is a duty of "the state" to respond to phenomena like pandemics that tend to kill a large amount of people without a state-level response.
Exactly.

It needs to become a habit so that he can release at greater velocity. Regulary thinking about new ideas and the writing code 1-2 hours everyday is ideal.
"Vote with your wallet" is crony capitalist-speak for don't complain to the government to protect your consumer rights and / or create a fair market for small businesses too.
Blackstone published his Ratio in 1760's England:

It is better that ten guilty persons escape
than that one innocent suffer.

According to wikipedia, the sentiment expressed is much older than Blackstone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio

> This is a particularly prescient idea today. We tell people to trust the legal system to protect their rights.

I was prosecuted for 'trespassing' and 'misdemeanor assault', after my failed attempt to use a granted court order to free my friend from illegal confinement in a hospital emergency room (ref: my comment history).

I think the prosecutor realized while I was testifying that I was not like the other people he prosecuted, and attempted to elicit truth with his cross examination.

I was convicted by the city court judge, and sentenced to 2 years of unsupervised probation. My attorney said the problem was my accuser was a retired police officer who works for the state's largest non-Walmart private employer.

Still furious at getting steamrolled. Aside from the first judge, who granted habeas corpus on my pro se petition, I've gotten screwed by most the other judges who've considered my subsequent petitions over the years.

I think the Justices in Washington DC will have to do their job on my next petition to their court. Previously I asked to file under seal, which gave the court of appeals and the justices a convenient way to avoid having to deal with my petitions.

edit: typos
I didn't read the content, but I trust the HN voting process to get the juicy comments on the top :)
Why is it absolutely terrifying in comparison to the many other more commonplace diseases that can kill you at any time?
I haven't turned my camera on in meetings for over 8 months, I don't think anyone really cares that much, and I find some people like it because they feel less pressure to keep their own cameras on as a result. That's been my experience at least, I'm sure some people have bosses that require it for whatever reason which might make that not an option for everyone.
It does seem she is more interested in a career in government than being a "whistleblower". It is a wrong statement of course.