skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m pretty sure it’s all about $. How much tax Amazon pays Italy. Italy can then disperse some of that to provinces to reduce tax burden on local retailers - who’ve taken a beating after Primes rollout.
StrongPity variant hides behind Notepad++ installation
> There is no good faith reason to be on Twitter's side unless:

Where did I say I was on Twitter's side? That's a whole loaded comment full of completely unfounded assertions.

Y'all are raising pitchforks when you haven't actually heard Twitter's side, just their automated message responses.

Personally, I think Twitter is a net negative for society, but there is an implication here that there is some totalitarian government control (i.e. anti first amendment) which is simply not true.
Piggly Wiggly, the First Self-Service Grocery Store (2017)
International number dialing is confusing as hell. I've got a BSEE and law degree and I can't figure it out 80% of the time.
You don't need cellular service to call 911, just signal.
> If you are not running Android 10 or above, you are not impacted by this issue.

9 and below not affected. It's not the clearest phrasing, I had to do a double-take while reading it.
> Bells's monopoly was instituted by the government

What actions the US government took to "institute" Bell's monopoly?
You do need to pay capital gains on gifted asset using the cost basis the gifter acquired the asset at. This is a stable coin though, so if you’re in the US there should be little gain/loss if the stable coin stays stable.
CLRS is great, no doubt about it, but I think Sedgewick is probably friendlier to someone studying on his or her own. Note that there are several versions of Sedgewick, which use different languages (I think there are at least C, C++, and Java versions).

I'd go with Sedgewick, then get CLRS and Knuth for use as reference material.
>“I’d be surprised if they didn’t make 60 percent,” said Bill Brooks, chief of the Norwood, Mass., police and a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police board of directors. He said a key problem is that many agencies that have no force incidents are failing to input “zero reports” each month, so the agency is counted as not participating. The IACP has long supported the data collection, and low participation numbers “make us look like we’re hiding something, when in reality I don’t think that’s the case.”

Doesn't seem like there's anything malicious here. Looks like a misunderstanding. The FBI needs 60% participation in order to publish their numbers and they're currently at 57%. I see no reason that they won't easily exceed that threshold.
I’m not really sure this is a VA specific failure. Lots of people fall through the cracks with mental health care, cliched century old Smedley Butler quotes or not. I’m not seeing anything specific about the VA failing him.
The book mentioned is really good if you haven't read it.
What happens when they grow up and make something illegal for you in return?
“Just licking food” is a super disingenuous way of putting it. These aren’t people licking ice cream while in line at the checkout. They’re intentionally spreading an infectious, deadly disease for internet points.

There are plenty of other examples they could have chosen to make their point, like police brutality against minorities. How about Botham Jean who was shot in his own home while eating ice cream?
Eric Schmidt just joined ChainLink as a Strategic Advisor[0]. If crypto is such an obvious scam like so many hn readers believe to be the case, why would someone like Schmidt ruin his reputation by joining a crypto company?

[0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/former-google-ceo-e...
Raising awareness about web accessibility and WCAG
Learning from Failed Intellect (2016)
Ah so this other guy worked for a different place so we shouldn’t look to closely at Cooper.
Makes total sense.
Oh, but this isn't for the Russian people! It's for the so called "oligarchs" and their families who - surprise - don't actually live in Russia! They like America and western Europe much better.

And if you don't realise that Russian government / KGB is VERY MUCH behind Facebook and its initiatives, I'm afraid you have quite a bit of catching up to do.
Sure, but is this any more interesting than a partnership where WhatsApp lets people PayPal money to other WhatsApp users?
I'll second this -- just hack on things that motivate you and you'll learn along the way. But working through at least the first third of an algorithms course will pay dividends if you're doing stuff with VR. Fortunately you can do these in parallel -- work through one lecture or a half lecture of "broccoli" and then go back to the meat and dessert of domain-specific hacking/reading until you're ready for more veggies.
The virtual boy was a failure by any measure, 64DD, the Wii U sucked, and the 3DS wasn’t very popular compared to the DS, and wouldn’t have had any success if it didn’t have backwards compatibility.
Not last time I tried. That flow (i.e. you are not part of/logged into an institutional Teams account) is completely broken. Teams makes you go create a free Microsoft account, which then doesn't work to log into Teams.
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I fully support this, but sadly there will be kids to whom possession and the smoking of cigarettes will be even more a sign of the utmost coolness. And, as I understand it there will be a time when a 35 year old can buy cigarettes but a 34 year old can't. That's going to be interesting.
"Foundations of Computer Science" by Aho and Ullman might fit your bill. Its focus is more on the concepts and principles of computing rather than math-centric CS theory. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html

Another nontraditional intro to computing worth mentioning is "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson and Sussman(s). It teaches programming concepts using the Lisp/Scheme language (seldom used any more), but does so brilliantly.

"Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" by Downey might provide the right mix of computing concepts and programming practice.

If you do want a traditional intro to CS theory, two books that cover that topic well are: "Introduction to the Theory of Computation" by Sipser, and "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation" by Hopcroft, Motwani, and Ullman.

Three very good books that introduce algorithms are: "Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach" by Manber, "The Algorithm Design Manual" by Skiena, and "Algorithms" by Sedgewick and Wayne.

Remember that CS theory doesn't age, so buying a used early edition of a textbook should serve your needs just as well as an new up-to-date edition.
All that thread was screaming for that quote.
Thank you forever for posting it!
https://www.tesla.com/model3/design#overview

I'm seeing $44990 as the base price right now.

There's no $35k Model 3, not in 2021 dollars, not in 2017 dollars. Not in inflation-adjusted dollars. Not available at all in any capacity.
I will accept some lies for desperately needed progress. And, as you mention, lying works. Where would we be without Tesla succeeding? Definitely not where we are today. Legacy automakers are still making half hearted efforts at electrifying transportation while Tesla increases production 100% YoY. Legacy auto would’ve made no effort without Tesla coming at them hard, versus the little bit of effort they show today.

Are you willing to sacrifice morally or ethically if the change needed to mitigate climate change is going to require some less than total honesty? Consider we, again, as you mention, live in a post truth world. One must adapt to the operating environment to increases chances of success.
> Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones

Apple messed up the explanations and messaging on that incident big-time, but I'm convinced that they made the correct engineering tradeoff, and I feel like not enough people (even techies) really understood and appreciated that.

As this thread illustrates, a phone is a life-saving device. The priority must be to function when you absolutely need it. You will literally die if you can't call for help when you're stuck in a blizzard and need to call for a rescue.

Apple slowing down phones with weak batteries so that the CPU always has enough juice and doesn't crash is 100% the right engineering tradeoff for a life-saving device.

The last thing you need when you're bleeding out on the kitchen floor and dialing 911 is for your battery to not supply enough power and then force a phone restart or worse when seconds are counting down.
That's toxic environment. You should quit that company.
> you do need to have a natural talent for "coming up with stuff"

Where do you see that? Watching the documentary I see people who have been, for years, putting in the work. This is them going to work. Most people I know who have not met their songwriting goals do not put in the time, day after day, year after year.
ah, it's an excellent point. window management is the key. I'm on a Mac - but i3wm has some good ideas in it. who know, maybe my answer is in linux. I'm currently pushing MacOs spaces to its limits and hitting certain frustrations ...
> is a problem for all of us.

Not for those of us that don't invest our money in banks/stock markets, and don't take out loans. Private businesses meeting the above criteria would have boomed under those conditions, as there competitors were wiped out. The world is addicted to banks, and it really needs to treat the source, not the symptoms.
Scarcity will exist until we become a type-2 society. That's not happening for hundreds or more likely thousands of years. If you want to perform the intellectual exercise of speculation then I'm on board but let's make it clear that's what we're doing.
Ask HN: Should US Leave NATO?
The purpose of NATO was to to provide collective security for Europe against the Soviet Union. Now the Soviet Union is gone and unlikely to be re-created.

Putin is beating the war drums b/c he views NATO as a threat. Given Russia's quite consistent and long-lived historical fears (some might say "paranoia") about possible invasion, I do not understand why NATO is fiddling around in the Ukraine.

Is there justification for the US remaining in NATO?
It’s an exponential, it’s going to look vertical for any sufficiently long time scale, but if you look at it over the last 20 years instead of 60 it’s not vertical anymore.

That’s what inflation does over the long term, nothing nefarious there.
Mumble isn't exactly P2P. It has a server (murmurd) that handles all the streams. I think it could work as SFU. And, actually, there is a web frontend: https://github.com/Johni0702/mumble-web

Your use of Opus and the option to run a SFU makes this a suitable replacement of Mumble for meetings, like in the Pirate Parties around the world. We are heavy users of Mumble.
There are only 5 languages. JavaScript, C++, Java, Python, C#

This is basically the same set of languages people were writing 20 years ago and will probably be the same set of languages people will write in 20 years from now.
Also haven't used it, but this link from there [0] regarding intro to CS-style discrete math proofs seems somewhat lacking.

There doesn't seem to be enough focus on teaching proof techniques, and skips straight to discrete math content.

Could be a decent beginner resource if combined with something that teaches proof techniques though.

EDIT: the MIT book also listed is actually good [1]

[0]: https://cims.nyu.edu/~regev/teaching/discrete_math_fall_2005...

[1]: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf
I remember Hamachi as one of the nicest pieces of software I have ever used.
"A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors"

Explain how pump and dumping penny stocks doesn't apply? I agree that it's a bit different in nature than most Ponzi Schemes due to lack of central entity orchestrating it, but the net effect is the same in the end.

You get in early, you win, you get in late, you lose.

Even if we call it something else, it's clear the underlying mechanism and unsustainability of returns is the same.
I never worked directly for an official bureaucracy, just indirectly. I have to say so, you find the same kind of people in all organizations being large enough to need more than one pizza to feed everyone.
I do notice that even the nicer side of middle-class houses use worse finishing materials now. I've got relatives in ones built in the 80s and early 90s (and I lived in such myself, for many years). Solid wood doors, actual wood trim, throughout. Even cheap houses then at least had hollow wood veneer doors and real wood trim. Now? Hollow particle board (so, basically heavy cardboard) doors, particle board trim, even on a half-million dollar house (in a market where that's still pretty damn expensive).
Harvey also has his own book, which is sort of an "intro to SICP". Available free online:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html
> Humans, as well. 38,000 dead and 4,400,000 injured every year in the US due to car accidents.

Found the Tesla fanboy.

Your numbers include drivers aged 15-25, the most dangerous driving group.

Yet, Elon compares the Tesla autopilot driving demographic (age 24-35) to the teenager-biased number. It makes Tesla look good.
There are lots of interesting HN-specific browser extensions, if you know where to look.

One I came across performs automatic voting. On pageload, it scans for comments starting with "So..." or ending with " lol" and downvotes them. I'm not sure who this is for. "Communication peeves" comes to mind, but doesn't quite fit. I'm don't know what the word is for this.
Ask HN: Do popular UI programming ideas like React influence new web standards?
E.g. like how jquery might have influenced document.querySelector, has popular UI programming patterns nowadays like React influenced web standards anyway to make it possible to use some of its good ideas without dependencies in the future? Does stuff like customElements count?
What does "tribal" mean in this context? Would any Ghanaian at that time have been considered "tribal"? If not, what made this particular woman "tribal"?
Instantly? I’ve come to expect that from Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, etc.
I have encountered CEO boardroom thinking that, for instance, suggested that data scientists were not necessary because AI would replace them.

I have experience in adaptive education where massively expensive teams of engineers missed the point that the “smartness” of the system needs to be based on improving outcome measures (namely, learning outcomes) and instead focused on massive, complex modeling initiatives with no feedback loops to indicate whether the models were doing anything useful.

If more people understood why a steam governor or a 1914 autopilot or a corporate bylaw were primitive forms of AI, they wouldn’t be looking for magic. “If I can understand it, it must not be AI”
Again. Don't care. The damage is localized compared to what op is talking about.
I fully support the spirit of this legislation, because I'm a recovered nicotine addict and I wish I had never been granted access to nicotine when I first experimented with it.

> Some people will never receive the access in the first place

This simply isn't true. People will purchase nicotine from older people, while that's still possible, and then there will be a blossoming bootleg nicotine market.

We've seen prohibition fail enough times to know that it simply doesn't work.
Neutralized
Yes, 78 is considered old age. In fact, the US life expectancy at birth is 78.
>"our society was trending in a direction where it was acceptable to utterly destroy the lives of men so that a few may profit"

Not trending. It's always been this way. And not limited to military. Plenty of examples when human live was ruined without any recourse.
>If we take Bernstein at his word (and there's no reason not to), basically all the US media has secretly cooperated with the CIA. Is there any reason to think this isn't going on right now?

There is a reason. Controversy which began in 1973 and spurred Congressional investigations and this very article led to the CIA to sign a 1977 directive that prohibited them from recruiting or impersonating journalists, peace corps, and the clergy.

There was a loophole discovered in 1996 that allows the agency to waiver that directive in extreme circumstances and must notify the president, and a couple others (cant remember).

This prompted a clause in the 1997 authorization act which codified into law that the CIA must notify both the house and senate intelligence committees and get a written sign-off with reasoning why its necessary from either the President or CIA director before impersonating or recruiting a journalist.
Yes, PGP is not a trustless encryption scheme. What does that have to do with anything? I say, "2 + 2 does not equal 5" and you say, "yeah, well 3 + 3 does not equal 7, but that doesn't prove anything about what's in my pocket".

Nobody--who is informed--has given me any coherent description of what value add NFTs provide, period. These ever shifting sands of never-enumerated benefits.

What, exactly, did you mean when you said "the value-add of NFTs... is namely that there's a trustless, verifiable record of transfer"? You responded to my assertion that NFT ownership is not trustless by saying that wasn't the value-add, the value-add was that they were trustless.
Quantum Computing 40 years later and 4 years later [pdf]
Agreed. Are you aware of any recorded lectures / assignment sets for a course based on Sedgewick? I tend to suggest CLRS because the OCW lectures are so high-quality and most learners want at least the option of watching lectures.
I’m not really knowledgeable about DeFi, but here’s a simplistic model (would love to be corrected by someone with deep DeFi knowledge):

1. You put $1 of ETH into a new protocol, let’s say a new Decentralized Exchange on Ethereum that is paying a high amount of interest in order to attract liquidity to their protocol. The high interest is perhaps paid in ETH or maybe in a new token for the protocol.

2. Users flock to this new DEX, and actually use it, generating trading fees for the DEX, which drains activity from CEXs like Coinbase. If in step 1, the payment was made with a new token, perhaps that new token either earns a cut of trading fees, or gets governance rights over the DEX.

3. You either earned another $1 of ETH, or of the new token.

In the above example, it’s not a closed system anymore than the US economy is. A new company was created, which created real value by creating a better exchange which attracted users over CEXs. The company has value now it can payout because it generates trading fees and the equity/governance of the company is valuable. It bootstrapped that with protocol incentives.
There is a huge risk to kids. My friends Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas recently compiled research on this topic. Especially of concern is long-term effects of COVID on children.

Rachel says, "research shows we downplay long-term effects of Covid on children"
https://twitter.com/math_rachel/status/1454242957259800578
https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1420981223535517696

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01935-7
I can believe it's an honest mistake. Citizens don't always know this, but in many states, law enforcements officers have a monthly quota they have to try to reach. That quota is usually around 15, split between their duties. Therefore, if they spend 15 or 16 bullets on a teenager, that leaves them 0 reports left to make. Efficient system, huh?
Self correcting fits, as in the feedback mechanisms are arrayed in such a way that disobedience is punished without outside pressures.
Simple loss of access to scoops cascades through the process until news company makes less money, so dissent would be swiftly taken care of.
I did my phd in experimental physics and I have to say my realisation of this large point, that papers are little more than resume padding to lock in an achievement was a significant contributor towards destroying, and I use destroying seriously here, any faith or trust that peer review or publishing has anything at all to do with the scientific method at all.

Your results replicate, or they don't. Your calculations, equations, and models predict experiment. Or they don't.

Writing papers about it and getting the feedback of "peers" is nothing more than an old fashioned circle jerk for padding resumes, CVs, and persuading other people in that academic hierarchy that you deserve funding. It is a game that is divorced from actually learning, researching, understanding, measuring, and predicting the world.
"something" that can cause lung cancer? I guess it's just going to save lives.
Whistleblowing in general tends to not end well.
It was demonstrated, it’s just longer ranges plus fast charging made it irrelevant. The logistics issues of not owning a battery are also significant, you would either need to bake in a battery replacement charge to the service which is fine if replacing batteries where a regular thing, but batteries can last the lifetime of the vehicle.

And frankly the rest of the industry agrees battery swaps sound great but it was abandoned as unnecessary.
Fair enough. I've got no skin in the game for Oracle. Simply omit Oracle from my list.

As for "A lot of red in MariaDB column can be green", please say more. Are you referring to features it supports but is reported wrong or features that simply aren't listed?
It doesn't need to be perfect but it needs to be a lot better than the "average" driver which includes intoxicated, fatigued, young, old, etc. drivers in all sorts of weather with many older vehicles with fewer safety systems and possible maintenance issues.
His boss during Watergate was a mate of Angleton and had been kicked out of I believe France
Even Bernie Madoff had highly respectable people working with him.

edit: removed my comment about Schmidt not really joining, I see it announced on his Twitter.
That's the least of the reasons it wouldn't work in the USA. It would be a civil rights issue. Age discrimination.
Europe tends to have stupid ideas about privacy. The simple transmission of video between the camera and the computer is considered a privacy violation by a lot of privacy hacks.
It's huge because PayPal and Venmo have abstracted away a ton of complexity under the hood. Don't believe me? Try building a PP/Venmo as a mental exercise.

With crypto under the hood, it becomes quite easy for competitors to build a remittance product.
This is the intention, but history
has shown this to be false.
Or the US could introduce sane rules. Like right-hand drive and proper driver licenses.

Regards from Germany.
> All algorithms class and data structures are best understood with a mathematical intuition.

It's funny, I like to say I program by intuition. Trying to go through algorithms now, many years after college, makes me realize some math shortcuts really help, and I no longer have an intuition for that.