skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Why not just teach everyone to program?

I hate this ideology and I always have. Human civilization progresses in part due to specialization, that we as a society don't have to learn to do everything in order to keep things functional.”

Well, I hate your ideology :p programming is like language studies, math, sciences. It’s a fundamental way of living, interacting and, yes, functioning in the world. You don’t have to ask everyone to do it. There are plenty of people who communicate, but would struggle to write in their native language a few pages on a topic. Plenty of people say they’re “bad at math” and avoid the subject, and rely on the cash register to tell them how much change they should receive. You’re holding everyone to a ridiculous standard forming this opinion.

/rant

I love the topic. I’ve made scripts at work and trained non-programmers to use CLI tools to execute them.

We should be talking about protocols for user friendly APIs and yet uninvented data pipeline endpoints which require less technical skill.

For example, How can we let users create, try, fail with a database just as easily as they can with files on their PCs?
The Tyranny of the Hierarchy.
> The global crypto market cap is $2.33T, a 4.85% decrease over the last day.

not that bad...
Well, quite: if you add that code must run sequentially it's the Boehm-Jacopini theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_program_theorem
Appraisals indeed represent a best guess for what "someone else" would pay for the home, which factor directly into financing decisions by banks. Saying it doesn't matter assumes everyone is buying (or refinancing, or renovating, etc...) a house with cash.
Math is just writing on a blackboard. Equations and sets optional.
Off-topic, but:

> The couple, who is Black

Anyone else find this grammar jarring? I think it's probably technically correct, because it's one couple, but "The couple, who are Black" would read much better. Or just reword it to avoid it.
> It's essentially just a delivery vehicle to get low-level presentation instructions to the browser.

Nothing about HTML is low-level.

HTML (and most of web tech) suffers from being both not low-level enough and not being high-level enough.

You can't override the browser and provide your own rendering pipeline if you wanted to actually do your UI [1] You can't tell it to batch rendering/update instructions for a subset of elements on the page. You can't compose elements. You can't use existing building blocks to combine them and build a proper new element [2] You look at a web-page funny, and it does a layout re-calculation [3]. And that layout recalc? It's abysmally slow. That's why you can't even animate anything useful. And so on and so forth.

[1] It's now possible wit Canvas and WebGL, but this is not web tech, not really. It's desktop tech that has been around for ages, and is now being bolted on to browsers.

[2] No, not really. Try and make a full dropdown/combo box that is properly customizable, keyboard-accessible, etc. Many have tried, all are abominations.

[3] Even things like border widths and some times even border colors wil cause a layout recalc: https://csstriggers.com
This is what institutional racism looks like.

It’s rarely as cut and dried as “I hate [race X]”. Many acts of racism aren’t thought of as racist by the perpetrators.

Consider a traffic stop. Black drivers are pulled over disproportionately. We know this because the difference goes down at night when it’s harder to see. I bet the cops aren’t generally thinking “he’s black, let’s pull him over”. It’s one piece of information that feeds into preconceived notions.

Likewise, if an officer is relaxed at a traffic stop things will likely go smoother but they may end up escalating the situation by expecting trouble.

All of this is really what critical race theory is about. It’s not about making people feel bad for the Sims of their fathers. It’s about recognizing that the legacy of that still exists and that, as white people in particular, we continue to benefit.
Speak now or forever hold your peace
Yep, there were three appraisals, all of which they owned the home for (it says further down they bought it in 2016 for way less than even the lowest appraisal). The first one was for about the same as the third, except they didn't hide themselves.

The low appraisal appears to have been Jan 2021, and the first one early 2020. The drop coincides with everyone moving around during the pandemic.

Whole story is bunk, and there's an ulterior motive smell in the writing: All instances of "black" are capitalized, all instances of "white" are lowercase. This isn't normal, but is a trend among political activists.
Thank you for these. I didn't think anyone would read it, but since I've been proven wrong, I actually ran a spell-checker. (-: Wouldn't have (and didn't) catch the first typo, though!
Polygon's a pretty good chain, but I have had issues with it before with essentially a traffic jam where my tx got locked up in a queue and took 30 minutes to process. But it's nice to be able to use the chain and it is quite cheap.

Arbitrum is pretty expensive per tx still though right? I haven't used the chain too much because the native bridge takes about a week to get funds over IIRC.

And Solana's only been down for a day like once I believe.
To me this is rhetoric that conveniently ignores the sole advantages of blockchain and distributed computing.

Blockchains don't exist to be fast, efficient, or scalable. They exist to be decentralized, permissionless, and censorship resistant.

> People are trying to move from a world in which compute resources are efficient and almost limitless to a world of scarcity because they want to build an economic system where you can trade your fortnite skins for online currency

Actually, no one's doing this. You've created a strawman argument. Netflix and Youtube aren't moving their hosting to the blockchain. Google's not storing database shards on IPFS. What people are trying to use blockchains for is the creation and persistence of digital property. Blockchains are expressly better at provenance because records cannot easily be altered, compared to a centralized service.

> Creating economic ownership schemes of things that nobody needs to own because they're not scarce in the first place.

Congratulations, you just defined western capitalism.
Yes La Niña conditions are expected to persist through the winter.

http://www.climate.gov/enso
Yeah I kinda just stick to ssh tunnel+ssh keys+VNC. Old school :)
> Historically, Microsoft didn't pay as well.

Microsoft minted millionaires of its employees like popcorn. In the 90s the newspaper estimated that 10,000 Microsoft millionaires lived in the area.
UB that just says "this is an axiom the compiler makes" is fine. Ignoring it as a possibility is fine. Lighting your program on fire when it knows you've done it instead of just telling you or doing something consistent is not.

Anyway, if this is basically just "C is bad", whatever, I'm not using C for anything. I'd use Zig or Rust.
No, because the declination of “be” refers to couple, which is 3rd person singular. The sentence is correct.
Your right it’s a confusing phrase, I was trying to remember the specifics at the time but couldn’t remember the terminology since it’s not something I deal with on a regular basis, thanks for clarifying with the correct terms, I did indeed mean a put option with a very long date in the future.

As for removal, as long as I didn’t have to pay if they de-list the option I’d still put it on the books. I’m quite convinced of my position. As for selecting a more short term timeline, I don’t see my short position happening in the next 3 to 5 years based on block mining rewards so I’ll just have to continue waiting and watching for the day it becomes viable to put my own personal “big short” into action on Bitcoin.
Imo people overstate how good the macOS UX is. It's fine if you're used to it, but when I started using it for the first time there were lots of little unpleasant surprises and inconsistencies. The way people talk about macOS' design gave me expectations that macOS did not meet.
The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project has some deep dives on the history of segregation in Seattle. One particular area of focus is on racially restrictive covenants -- when the law wasn't strict enough, individuals and neighborhoods put covenants on land titles forbidding sale to non-whites. Last time I looked, there were still neighborhoods in the Seattle area where these covenants still exist. They aren't enforceable by law, but soft enforcement in the real estate industry is still happening.

https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/segregated.htm
The white oppressor narrative is flawed. You wouldn’t know it because you don’t step outside out your pampered life. You can’t relate to the OP. Some people have a positive outcome, other people have a horribly traumatic outcome. I would suggest therapy but childhood PTSD is a lifelong process that the OP alone would need to work out. I don’t judge him for it. Not like you, liberal shill.
You could also have the hashes of the content on-chain, so that subscribers could determine if they are receiving only a subset of the posts on the feeds they are subscribed to.

The trade-off for this feature, of course, is that a publisher wouldn't be able to plausibly deny having ever written some archived post which later gets them in trouble, but if you're only sharing posts with your friends, and their servers respect your delete requests, this might not be a problem in practice.
Me, an economist: if it's better, why does nobody buy it?
Cloud Wars: The Attack of Snowflakes
> It's beyond time to retire the FAANG acronym.

Antartica has a place called Wolfang. Lots of solar energy 24 hours for months half the year. Minus fifteen degrees centigrade temperature for the data center stadiums. Near zero cost real estate property prices. Uplink to satellite mega constellations. Two thirds of humanity isn't served as futuristically as Silicon Valley and they don't have a $50K Boxable for their inside. WOLFANG global services oriented market has yet to shine?
"U+1F346 is an eggplant" and other oddities from the tubes we build modern society on
It benefits the rich, powerful
Washington Amazon employees don't have to pay the heavy SV taxes, either.

At least until lately. Washington is working overtime to raise taxes to California levels.
BRIC was basically up and coming geos. (Obviously an oversimplification.) China became something much different (ADDED: and more complicated) from the other three. And the other three arguably didn't grow as much in relative economic importance as the acronym implied they would.
https://github.com/zudochkin/awesome-newsletters
It's gone too far though. It's to hard to get a loan. Of course the wealthy, including foreign aliens, have no problem collecting homes.

The only thing Bush ever said I liked was "Everone should have a shot at buying a house.", or something like that.
Yes, yes they should be allowed. They should be mocked and argued with, but they should be allowed.

Banning these things is the worst method of dealing with them, for many important reasons that frankly should be obvious.
I squint at a screen and push buttons. But which buttons in which order matters.
Liability.

Same thing happened to my wife and I asked why I couldn't just put her in a wheelchair and push her across the parking lot. Since she hadn't been discharged, she was still in their care so if anything happened, they would be legally liable. However, either insurance took care of it somehow, or the hospital never charged for it because it didn't show up on the bill.
When did private money / store of value become 'unchecked Kapitalism'? Is gold also unchecked Kapitalism?

Seems we both can agree USA-funded murderer Lon Horiuchi did an evil thing when he pulled the trigger and killed an unarmed mother using an assault rifle.

https://lmtribune.com/northwest/fbi-sniper-is-at-the-center-...
'which Horiuchi said was aimed at Weaver's friend Kevin Harris, instead killed Weaver's wife Vicki. It then hit Harris, lodging in his chest.'
Both are correct but it’s also regional to an extent. Bands/music groups are a good example.

US says “Ace of Base is coming to the States”
Versus UK “Ace of Base are…”
it says they bought the house in 2016 for 500k, put 400k into it, had it appraised at 1.5, then at 950 and then at 1.5 again (with the hidden identity).
Banting and Best came up with the idea for synthetic insulin, tested it on themselves, tested it on animals, tested it on comatose diabetic children, developed and released a commercial product, and won the nobel prize in a span of 3 years back in the 1930s. Doing things on this kind of timeline now would be totally illegal and they would have lost their medical licenses and been thrown in jail no matter how well the whole thing worked.

Longevity science overseas is embracing this no rules, we want the future now, kind of mentality. It's amazing what Bioviva has done with adult gene editing. It's probably some of the more underreported science news in modern history. I could see Bioviva getting shut down by the feds and gene editing for longevity going back to the realm of stuff we don't have anymore like the Concorde or a moon landing capable space program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JntDcqOxMsM
Microsoft already reversed course on the browser changes, already in the insider builds.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-re...

With GitHub, I doubt much of anything will change. In 5-10 years then yes I forsee massive industry changes...think of commiting your code in the meta-verse or in VR using Apple Glass. Git as a protocol arrived in what 2008, surely by 2038 we will all be using some different protocol. Change happens.
Someone downloaded 80k Winamp skins and is now selling them as NFTs
It's like when years ago it was speculated that web 3.0 might be a semantic web or some IoT web. I guess both technologies have some strong niches now but what drives everything is still web 2.0 and native apps that wrap any extra features. But I'm sure the crypto-everything hype will still be there for some time.
Adobe ? Why not Borland ?
Agenda in search of a headline.

A single sensationalist anecdote makes it less likely that real, legitimate claims receive the attention they deserve, especially in a more progressive city like San Francisco.
Curiously, I looked up the appraiser...

https://www.millerandperotti.com/StaffProfiles.aspx?ID=53209...

https://www.yelp.com/biz/miller-and-perotti-san-rafael

Her reviews on Yelp were already pretty bad (and now getting spammed because of this article). I'm curious why they picked her to begin with.
Nothing to do with colonialism. Present day right wing will characterize Sanskrit as word of God
> number of people with the skills necessary

I repeatedly run the experiment to pitch a low-tech solution to a high-tech fund and aim exactly there:

Reduce the required skill to 1) signing a hosting contract and 2) copying a single file to that webspace. Really!

So that's several orders of magnitude more people than today. Instantly.

But got it the 3rd time officially now, that such would have no societal impact and isn't considered innovative, either. The time isn't here yet.
Omicron has unique insertion mutation of putative viral/human genomic origin
Those are selected stats to make the point they want to make. Class is more important than race - nobody understands how rich rich people are.

The median net worth for middle class Americans is ~$20k.

To put it in perspective, I was consulting for a payroll system for a hospital where the salary of the CEO was about the same as the sum of about 2,000 employees. (Most specialist doctors are not employed by the hospital)
No snow yet in Denver, first time since 1882
What literature/books would you recommend to know more about the subject to be able to apply it to practical programs?
Reflection – Living in My Past
Sure, but the original discussion wasn't concerning the rare exception to the rule the gold standard hurts the poor (a brief period between 1958 and 1971 in the US which started with half the world's gold supply, and so growth and inflation took occurred as normal).

The original discussion was concerning the insane fantasy that the US economy would be better off backed by a deflationary cryptocurrency than the US dollar.
Well, this should be common knowlwdge: don' t keep personal data on devices.
The CentOS Project is delighted to announce the availability of CentOS Stream 9
As a non-US based individual, I find it fascinating that the news outlets there go out of their way to capitalise all usages of “Black” where it refers to skin colour, and lowercase any mentions of “white” skin colour.

For an outsider, the obsession with race as a primary identity is bizarre. I can’t help but wonder, if you focussed less on how to treat people differently to make up for the past and instead just removed skin colour from the equation, whether a lot of this divisiveness would disappear.

Their first appraisal was fine, second one was low, third was fine. Normally, anyone would assume the second was simply a poor appraisal - yet they immediately made it a race issue and sought to generate the conditions to ‘prove’ it. All sounds a bit manufactured, to make a good story and to stir racial tensions.
> I don't know the answer to why local government can't function on a fixed percentage of the tax base everywhere

That seems pretty obvious no? Town of 100k people each making $20k a year, taxed at 10% (just making a number up) means you have $200 million in taxes. Vs another town with 100k people each making $50k a year means you have $500 million on taxes. Further, probably (maybe) the town with people only making $20k a year, the residence probably need more government support (examples: free meals at schools, free child care, more policing (lower incomes correlates with more crime). etc...

Given that more services are needed in a town with lower-income people it makes total sense to me at least that the taxes would need to be higher. Heck, even if they didn't need more services, a 100k people need the same services but the tax base of the lower-income people is lower so they need higher taxes to pay for the same services for the 100k people. The alternative is the higher income town pays for the services of the low-income town. That happens to some degree via federal grants in the USA but I suspect most people in the high income town would not want to be paying for the low-income town's needs.

I don't see any racism or discrimination here. It just seems like fact. 1 < 2. There's no racism or discrimination in that fact.

If there is any discrimination, it's why that low-income town has low-incomes, not why it's taxes cost more.
Exactly, it’s an absurd headline. Their influence over growth has gone back to more-or-less normal. This article says very little of value.
> Can anybody explain how did this ever make it into the official spec and the default implementation?

This and service workers. Both are... weird, to say the least
Why not generate them from the manpages [1] or from the output of the --help option [2]

[1] https://github.com/nevesnunes/sh-manpage-completions

[2] https://github.com/RobSis/zsh-completion-generator
Genuine question: what has private key authentication to do with blockchain? I've been using this for my ssh connections for almost 15 years now.

And the second question: what happens if you use your private key? Every website that uses password has a mechanism to reset your password. Take that feature away you'll lock out millions of users.
Neutron Rocket: Development Update
That's pretty much how I've done the Conda transition too. Switch to using Pip inside the Conda env to suss out what the non-Python deps are. Also a lot of packages are distributed on PyPI as binary packages now, so as long as you aren't using Musl in production you should just be able to use those instead.

> Also, it sounds like you know a lot about python packaging, please by the love of all that's holy, write this stuff down somewhere other than HN. There really isn't a lot of good docs around this.

Believe me, I want to! I am pretty bad at managing my "project/writing wishlist".
The telephone cable coming into the house is 50volts DC is not AC like a powerline. I know radio waves are just that, waves, its how things like noise cancelling headphones work. Different frequency's give you different ranges or distances for 1 watt, which is why you can bounce Long wave around the planet.
These things are not mutually exclusive, right? I use both to great effect.
Perhaps they would think twice before they make BTC an official currency?
Actually they’re taking it one step further shouting all white people are motherfuckers who need to die. Hard to tell when it’s releasing sentiment vs an actual rally cry for white genocide.
The statement is too strong, but I think there is a point to be made, using facts not in dispute.

The de facto segregation or concentration of minorities in urban areas, in say, the northeastern US, and the progression to having the highest tax rates in areas with declining tax base, without a doubt, produces a substantial correlation between higher tax rates and minorities' property.

Is that an excuse for anything? Of course not. But it's institutional racism that does not require specific human beings to look at skin color and discriminate.

Institutional racism hardly rules out there being also regular discrimination. But when a problem is pervasive everywhere, and intractable, shouldn't institutional racism, the way the system produces outcomes without individual intent, be a primary focus?

Both because it might be a larger contributor to the problem and because, while difficult, reforming it might be easier than changing the nature of individuals.

[P.S. Other people in this thread are making this an either/or, to try to dismiss evidence of ordinary discrimination. I'm not, just saying I think institutional racism should be a priority]
They're catching up with their new pay bands, SDE II is starting to get offers in 350k - 400k range. Can even go higher by Q1 next year.
The problem is that none of these posterisation algorithms (reducing bit depth of channels and optionally dithering) match the quality of somebody placing the pixels by hand. It always looks more like 'deep fried' images as opposed to pixel art. None of the samples are appealing (except for perhaps that one with palm trees).
Sadly even Panini’s contributions are always presented in s religious context which is such a shame. The man invented Buckus Naur form 2000 years ago and that’s how we honor him
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/bonhoeffers-theory-o... FULL TEXT
Apple is not going to sue you because you accidentally broke a $1000 laptop. (Or a $10000 laptop, still not worth it)

They will just write it off, maybe make an insurance claim.

They probably wouldn't even sue you if you went into the store and started deliberately smashing stuff. (Then you'd face criminal charges, of course)
Not an isolated incident, either

https://abcnews.go.com/US/couple-faced-discrimination-home-a...
Polar bear capital of the world turns to electric buggies to save the bears
I used it in my old and free iOS web browser to put translation (Spanish, French…) or Pinyin on top of English or Chinese words https://apps.apple.com/app/id932996489
See my comment upthread about my wife being attacked. I can assure you that having been choked almost to the point of unconsciousness had her stress levels through the roof. But alone at night in a dark parking lot in a rural town, your solution is that she should not have been allowed to run to her car and drive off?
Agree with this a lot. In other words, don’t be too clever. That leads to an unmaintainable codebase. There is value in simplicity and not overly using abstractions that take you farther and farther away from bare metal.