skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That argument kind of makes sense? But a central authority can still squeeze on you just as much, by targeting who you would trade with though, right? The ledger is public, they know who you traded with, they can make life difficult for them until you're not a customer.

Ya, it doesn't make you totally immune from squeezing. It just changes the dynamics of how that squeezing works. Essentially, it becomes much less feasible to squeeze people in a scalable way for centralized entities.

> Noone's giving a simple explanation that makes sense and gives the killer app features. It's all marketing hype or five dollar words. It took me a good while to realize that "Stablecoins allow you to self-custody dollars" means "bank can't lock me out of my account"

Ya, I certainly admit the hype and everything else that goes with it around all this stuff is terrible. Crypto is nowhere near as useful as its boosters will tell you. But I do think there is a kernel of something very cool and interesting there.

Self executing and self-enforcing contracts and self custody is a real innovation, especially for people that live under less than stable governments, or have less than stable currencies. People that say this stuff is going to replace the legal system are idiots. It can never do that. But it can take a few superficial legal structures that are currently expensive and messy, and make them a little cleaner, more transparent, and fairer, I think.
So ... Sexism that favors women isn't sexism?
You can judge. You can get all the evidence available to you and make an assessment. You can update that assessment as you gain more evidence, and you can share that with other people. No one has to defer to your authority if you don't make a good case. Stop waiting for "experts" to tell you how to use your judgement. Listening to supposed experts is why we have had such a prolonged battle with COVID with so much non-disease related societal harm.
How else would you divide the work up? We all need to go look at the commits on this branch that touch our favorite driver and make sure that they don’t break anything.
> no true libertarian fallacy

The fallacy is about something specific. Not this. Is it a fallacy to say the Workers Party of Korea lead by Kim Jung un isn’t socialist? Or the PRC isn’t socialist?

> warmonger

Trump didn’t leave Afghanistan. After spending his entire campaign and presidency talking about how amazing he was for being against Iraq and seeing mistakes made this century.

Did he do anything to help out in the Middle East? Yemen continued being pillaged by America thru Saudi. Same with Palestine.

Trump did the pointless escalation of the Iranian general murder too.

That was my point. I said Trump was excluded in my last comment too.
I also said it’s not incorrect to say they are warmongers.

> I have no such belief.

You linked to the two sites with studies/data, no? You bring up that data in other parts of your comment. They combined everything listed as liberal. I questioned that and you didn’t have an issue with it.

I’d like to see any non tiny portion of socialists or any one more to the left, support Dems. Voting for is not supporting.

Dem[s] and especially lib[eral] are used as pejoratives frequently in those circles. makes supporting the Dem party contradictory.

You said many will describe Dem party as right wing. How would they be supporting the party then?

So again it’s not the same thing. Your words like “mental block” saying I am stubborn. I understand if you believe those things about socialists and communists then you will not believe IMO more accurate critiques and accountability of a number of the people who say they are libertarians

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Since it has been two days, a response might not happen. My tldr overall pt: many of the identifying libertarians aren’t as such. Prime example is some one brought up already - Rand Paul. The far left not wavering on their principles so much like supposed libertarians is telling.
I see, so you wrote your own solution which you have to maintain and extend for each different citation style… pros and cons to that obviously.

Why is it so important that a citation system works in 2003 and in 2021? Papers once published become historical artefacts essentially.
Wait, are you objecting to the abortion specifically? Or does it just bother you that people could have a conscious influence on the kind of children they do/don't get?

If this is just a coded abortion debate... Count me out

But if it's the latter... Parents have been "selecting" children of the "right" race, eye color, height, etc for millenia... It's called "being attracted to certain physical characteristics over others" and it's really quite pedestrian.

ADHD, depression, and schizophrenia all appear to have a strong genetic component. I think most people would definitely weigh the knowledge of their partner's family's mental health history when they decide who to have children with.

I mean, don't you think people should have the moral right to select their own mates, free from coercion? I think most people would consider that to be an absolute human right, and anything less would be morally condoning rape.
It's self custody in the sense that you can transact your representative tokens without consulting any intermediary, and without having to get anyone's permission.
except that bitcoin doesn't replace any traditional financial systems. in the real world, crypto holders also have banks and buy and sell cryptocurrencies with/for fiat.

very few retailers of any quality/price/repute sell physical for bitcoin, let alone denominated in fixed prices in bitcoin, even at peak hysterical hype (right now)

apples priced in bitcoin would fluctuate wildly and you wouldn't be able to count on being able to eat any given day of the week buying food denominated in bitcoin.
the reality is that bitcoin is an unregulated security.
It's a volatile investment and it's fluctuations make 'fiat' currencies inflation/deflation pale in comparison.
Incredibly readable too!
There is no actual evidence for either, so both should be vigorously explored.
I don't know the answer but I think investors at the very least expect you to invest the money they give you, not just keep it for a rainy day. I don't know how much leverage they will have to make you spend it.
That’s nice. To do it on MLK’s commemoration is very off putting. It’s fine with the white washed MLK version. Not for the actual MLK.
Your idea for a coalescing overflow type has been explored in the document N2868 [0], a proposal for the C programming language. Instead of reserving a bit from the integer, each integer type is associated with a checked integer type, which holds an integer alongside an overflow bit. Checked integers are opaque and can only be constructed and deconstructed via macros; as I understand it, the idea is that the compiler can use the processor's preexisting overflow flag to represent the checked integer. In particular, the operations on checked integers have the property of coalescing overflow checks that you are looking for.

[0] Supplemental Integer Safety, http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2868.pdf
So many listed their search engines that I feel at this point we need an aggregater
I am in the same situation, for for word.

> But if you lose your own mental health you’re pretty much done.

I sometimes feel I am at the edge of this then somehow I do some work I am happy with, see a friend, ride a bike or go for a swim and I am back from the edge.
The gas-lighting is sometimes so surreal I am speechless.
A blade grinder is fundamentally incapable of producing remotely uniform particle sizes unless you're willing to sift the result and discard a substantial portion of the coffee. Stale pre-ground coffee will usually give better results and is typically the same price as beans.
My physics supervisor used to tell me:

"Write in Fourier space, starting at zero frequency and working your way up."
>> The interviewee's goal is to be evaluated inaccurately.

> Only if the interviewee doesn't think they should be hired.

Nope. The interviewee would always like to be evaluated as better than they actually are, regardless of whether they meet the notional hiring threshold.

> These aren't necessarily adversarial.

The goals you list are still necessarily adversarial, because the interviewee's goal is always to get an offer and the interviewer's goal is to stymie them.
Why? Github and similar front–ends top out at a few dozen commits or comments on a merge request before they start whining that the change is too big.
Use ListMonk. Its an open source software. Used and developed by a unicorn.
Surviving the desert by building a motorcycle from a broken car? (2017)
If you don't have an edge proxy (additional compute) you then accept all requests, or accept that a simple header is telling the truth.
I think the critical question is what is an acceptable rate to try to achieve equality, and what are you willing to sacrifice to achieve it. There are tradeoffs that can be made, and must be made if affirmative action is the tool selected to achieve change
Hah, that's really nice! I've been working on an editor for setting up Box2D scenes for the last month or so. I know there are a bunch of them out there already, but it seemed like a fun project. No Tcl/Tk for me though. I'm writing it as a web app, but in C++ with wasm/webgl and using NanoVG[1] for drawing.

I saw a comment here about undo/redo and I think it's a must have feature for something like this. I implemented something based on the command pattern first, but ended up disliking the amount of code needed just for undo. I eventually tore all that out and built my state model on the excellent immer[2] library.

[1] https://github.com/inniyah/nanovg

[2] https://github.com/arximboldi/immer
Maybe that was a bit unfair. Perhaps what I should say is that there is too much competition, such that no one can get the traction they need to truly accomplish their goals, with few exceptions.
I am doing research on a subject where almost all of the source material is in printed material, meaning that I have a lot of scans (photographs actually) that I want to reference. At first, I just extracted the facts, but then I discovered that I have to beter track the sources. What I would like is a process where I transcribe parts of the images, turn those text in some semantic format, describing the facts, and then have a tool to combine these facts and to resolve conflicts, because, yes, the source materials contain errors. I have thinking of developing my own tools for this, but if I could use some existing tool that would be nice.
>> In 1967/1968, Resolution 3 of the 13th CGPM renamed the unit increment of thermodynamic temperature "kelvin", symbol K, replacing "degree Kelvin", symbol °K.

Which is particularly relevant given the usage is within a quote of a 1962 paper
Meanwhile, I've noticed there are plenty of people who will downvote my comments if they are even mildly, vaguely skeptical of "lab leak", "vaccines/lockdowns cause more deaths than they prevent", or the other anti-establishment narratives that have become culture war memes. These meme narratives seem to be cherished as sacred by a significant percentage of HN.

Sorry guys, but I call 'em like I see 'em, and sometimes -- definitely not all the time, but sometimes -- I think the establishment happens to be right.

And HN is supposed to be a place for that kind of genuinely independent thinking. If you want to fight the culture war, you can do that on the other 99.99999% of the internet where it's everybody's favorite thing to do.
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You cannot achieve equality by discriminating against people. It may be cliché to say "two wrongs don't make a right," but it became a cliché for a reason.

That said, it isn't entirely clear to me that the facts are as stated. There appear to be some studies that support the idea that sex is being used as a preference, but I don't see any support for the linked tweet's apparent position that the preference is so strong as to result in clearly disparate outcomes half the time.

Domingos' cited support:

- "preference for women among identically-qualified applicants found in experimental studies and in audits does not extend to women whose credentials are even slightly weaker than male counterparts" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4611984/

- "men and women faculty members from all four fields preferred female applicants 2:1 over identically qualified males" but no analysis regarding more-qualified males. https://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360

- With identical CVs, women chosen 2:1 over men. (Silent as to outcomes when men have the more qualified CVs.)
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/women-twice-as-likely-to...

- (No relevant summary available) https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12062/gender-differences-at-crit...

- "We find the evidence for recent sex discrimination–when it exists–is[,] occasionally, bias in favor of women." https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/108/8/3157.full.pdf
Without AdBlock or browser like brave, Google search is a joke..
Supporting huge military? Right immigration control?

The Liz Cheney stuff was about working with Don Jr. The reason why is unimportant.

The entire point of all this is for there not to be one smoking gun. It’s a collection of everything.

The entire way the right has obfuscated things is by getting by with “no one thing proves I am or am not X or Y”
Thanks, too late to edit but appreciated!
Making ridiculous bank by doing big presales of virtual plots of "land" on the basis that they are going to turn into big UGC-based platforms to rival Steam, Roblox, etc.

The key words being "presales" and "they are going to turn into". That's an investment.

Back in 2018, the SEC started bringing the hammer down on "initial coin offerings" to US persons. They apply the "Howey test" [1] to determine whether something is an investment.
First the SEC went after the total scammers. Then they sent letters to every ICO advertising in the US, asking them why they hadn't registered with the SEC for an initial public offering. Where's that prospectus and S1 filing? Many ICO promoters frantically returned the money. The SEC continues to go after the ones that didn't, as you can see on the SEC enforcement page.[2] About one ICO per month gets heavily penalized. Some promoters go to jail. Glenn Arcaro, who was behind BitConnect, has his sentencing hearing on Friday.[3]
We don't hear much about ICOs any more.

NFTs were invented mostly as an attempt to create "collectables" which were not regulated investments. Now, that's OK if you're buying something that already exists, like a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT. But if you're buying a ticket for something that doesn't exist yet, like virtual land in a virtual world that isn't actually running yet, that's an investment.

So far, the SEC hasn't hammered any NFT operators. The SEC is complaint-driven. They wait until the complaints "I lost my life savings buying land in ..." start coming in.

Probably the first promoters who get in serious trouble will be the ones who overpromised what their nonexistent virtual world would do, and delivered nothing.

[1] https://www.howeycoins.com/

[2] https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/cybersecurity-enforcement-acti...

[3] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/56-million-seized-cryptocurre...
"OK Google, navigate home" has never failed to work for me for a couple of years now. Maybe you had opened the app to a profile that doesn't have your home address configured? Maybe you had been logged out?
energy usage is RISING with increased difficulty of proof-of-work, as intended.
> July, 2019: 11,000 dead

> July, 2020: 16,000 dead

> But it's still a 45% increase, so that age group was the worst affected, in terms of the increase in death.

You can't draw that conclusion at all with, effectively, one data point while assuming the other is a baseline. You need to develop a proper statistical profile, determine the mean, variance/standard deviation, standard error and then try to understand the numbers to make inferences.
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I agree. I have several times solved hard problems in something like Lisp or Haskell, only to have to port the solution to a more common language for integration later. While I would expect the port to take less time than figuring out the solution in the first place, it generally takes longer because the target language is riddled with gotchas and inefficiencies that make the actual programming more difficult.
I got tinnitus from a bad illness I caught from a friend’s sick kid several years ago, and have since noticed the effects of other illnesses more carefully. I feel that all these long COVID symptoms are no different than lingering symptoms that perhaps all illnesses have. It’s just that we are so focused on COVID that we are only now broadly recognizing this phenomenon.
My judgement such as it is, says we need a lot more time to be confident about the root cause and its premature to judge based solely on what is known at present from primary sources.

I also judge most people's opinions are being formed from at best secondary and probably tertiary sources.

I personally think your clarion call isn't helping.
> Unfortunately, the Facebook bridge is very broken and no longer maintained.

True. There is no maintainer for FacebookBridge.

As for now, the only way to fix FacebookBridge that I see is:
1. using existing Facebook account
2. fetch pages using Selenium (simply speaking - web browser)

This is mentioned in https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/issues/2400
Right- you would give them a lift or call them an ambulance!
I was mistaken. Sorry. I only knew of this article primarily right now. Where it was showing the prosecutor saying that.
Is it possible that the efforts to defund police and go soft on crime in other cities simply drew away criminal activity? If you’re a criminal and you have cities like SF excusing all property crime below $1000 or Seattle tolerating CHAZ for weeks, why go conduct crime in a place where the risks and consequences are greater?
> # Performance counter stats for 'make -j96 vmlinux'

-j96 ...you flexing bruh ???
> it appears someone injected a malicious script into BadgerDAO’s frontend after compromising an API key for BadgerDAO’s Cloudflare account

This looks like a Badger failure, otherwise we’d hear about a lot more problems with Cloudflare. If Badger is indeed at fault, the company Trail of Bits is not making themselves look good.
We've come full circle and we're going back to mainframes. It's an interesting idea and removes the need for a cloud server. Why would gamers want to pay for more latency though?
Next time, take your laptop and hit the road! Enjoy some national parks. It seems you’re in USA - and if that’s the case, know we’re blessed with a lot of well maintained parks to visit and experience. Do some hobby coding at night when you’re done exploring :)
> - Eat junk foods

Isn’t that a side effect of lazyness?

> - Spend all their time on video games, YouTube, TV shows, social media

And loneliness?

> - Take substances such as caffeine or other recreational drugs

Doesn’t everyone drink caffeine? Asking seriously. I am depressed but I believe computer addiction sucks my liveliness, fortunately with programming instead of gaming, so I was able to make a career out of it, but it’s been the bane of my life. I prefer caffeine because it bumps my mood and I can still do sports, as opposed to meds which cut my libido and break my will to do sports and make me want to eat fat (so basically cuts my manliness), but could caffeine be the cause of anything and do most people do without?

After 39 years old, I just conclude people hate people who work and invent values to break our life (preferring some people to others, celebrating other people’s deeds (meanwhile I’ve donated thousands to charities, in hours and money, who cares?), now locking us down with covid psychosis, it sounds very fun to them), I’m done trying to better myself, ideology of favouring the weakest turns into hating the “rich” and plain bullying. If the world didn’t revolve around making our life difficult, people like me wouldn’t spend our life at work and they wouldn’t be able to fund their awful “social” (social but not me) projects. The economy of the nation revolves on stable bullying.
Sorry. I haven’t seen any evidence of anything you said.

There have been 0 deaths from FSD and as far as I’m aware only 1 crash. Do you mean autopilot? Or navigate on auto pilot?
Not this will help you much at all, but I'm in a similar position. The pandemic has exerted some pretty unexpected effects on me career-wise and even though I enjoy the freedom of working from home, my ambition and productivity have taken a hit. I still do my best to make sure I am not taking advantage of my employer, after all, they pay me to do a job, but my lack of enthusiasm and drive this past year or so are very uncharacteristic as I too have a history of exceeding expectations. I don't have any advice, just letting you know I feel your pain.
When I got my test results, they were clear that the odds of having a disorder were (for example) 1/144, even with a ‘positive’ result. This was through Natera. The problem is that this information is sent directly to the provider in most cases, so parents are left interpreting someone else’s interpretation of statistics. My midwife specifically told me that the test isn’t often wrong, even though the actual odds were there in the fine print.
This writing advice -- recycled from newspaper house style guides -- to use only simple and common words in efficient sentences is becoming almost universal, and yet "good writing" doesn't always obey these rules. Sometimes you need a certain obliqueness and sesquipedalianism to convey a certain effect that simple directness can't achieve. To paraphrase Mark Twain, sometimes you need the right word and not its second cousin; even if the right word happens to be polysyllabic and relatively obscure. Why should literary fiction have all the fun?

Oh, and the author misspelt "sesquipedalian".

edit (added): The Urdu humourist Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi was often accused of using overly difficult words and obscure literary references from Pashto, Sanskritised Hindi, Persian and Arabic in his Urdu writing. He admitted to favouring "mushkil-pasandi" ('a preference for difficulty') and exhorted readers to raise their standards continuously. And IMO with this device he raised the quality of his own writing from what would have been only a series of somewhat funny observations and gag jokes to masterpieces of the genre.
gotta try this, how long before a G{U version is trialled I wonder, it seems it can be sharded and then recombined.
> The first outbreak was literally a few feet from a lab studying this exact virus.

Fact check: false. The early cases in Wuhan almost all cluster near the wet market, not the virology lab, which is on the outskirts of town on the other side of the river some ~30km from the market. (And to the extent they don't cluster near that market, they do favor quite strongly the market's side of the river, not the virology lab's side of the river.)

> Biden called for U.S. intelligence to figure out if the original virus came from a lab

Because a government has never, ever called for an investigation or an action to be taken because of political pressure despite its internal knowledge bases saying there is no need to investigate it.
I'm not seeing anyone mention obesity.

Sitting around at home all day can also cause weight gain. Is there any data on this?
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Probably very, very quickly. git-format-patch is very fast; all it has to do is diff the files involved in each commit, which is already heavily optimized. No syntax highlighting (your email program can do that if you want it), or line numbering (ditto).