skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If tech companies and nation states started enforcing/obeying laws based on the Nationality Principle, then FB/Google/AMZN and other data collecting firms would be allowed to ignore GDPR on the principal that the developers are in the US and thus they don't have to follow local laws.

The developers are in the US. They don't have to follow local laws anywhere else. This is a fundamental principle of international relations dating back to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. This international order is a major reason why we can have nice things, like peace, instead of unending war.

It is, of course, possible for the nation to ban these entities from conducting business in their jurisdiction. If such entities preferred to stay out of Europe and lose that business, it would be further possible for the nation to ban its citizens from accessing Facebook and similar businesses via the Internet; the general pursuit of liability consequences which Europe has attached to the GDPR has produced a sort of soft-ban, as any European who has seen a notice from a US newspaper can attest. This is of course quite ugly, but typical GDPR-boosters sometimes seem to think that anyone who doesn't kowtow to the European order is fundamentally Evil and would like to distract you with this fact, while they seek stronger ways to protect their citizens from treacherous foreign newspapers.

We are able to maintain a stable global system with international trade in no small part because most jurisdictions don't try to do the same, legislating what foreign actors may and may not do in their own countries as a condition of their business. This system is eroding — the GDPR didn't actually start it, the US did — and it is likely to have many unfortunate consequences in years to come. Among other things, Europe is of the opinion that GDPR and its fines must be enforced in future trade agreements, but it is fundamentally incompatible with the US Constitution and its first amendment (the "Right to be Forgotten" in particular).
I'm sure Armstrong would have posted the shout out in the alternate reality in which the agency privately and professionally requested it, but I prefer the reality where he looks like an absolute tit that got shamed into doing it.

Not because I care about crediting creative agencies, but because of the cheesy LinkedIn-style fake story about how much they'd achieved by rejecting unimaginative agencies, when actually they commissioned an agency which come up with the core idea and all the implementation. Nothing wrong with not naming your contractors until you start telling marketing stories about how you didn't use any because they couldn't possibly achieve what you achieved in house! Sure, it wasn't professional to call it out, but that doesn't mean it didn't deserve it
> Sure, but there's no reason why the IRS couldn't have a website where everything it does know is pre-filled, and then could ask you about things they don't know about (and even hint at the kind of things that they wouldn't know).

What about the fact that such a thing would certainly start to eat into Intuit's profits?

You're right--there's no technical reason this couldn't be done. And it should be done. But too much money is greasing too many palms.

As to the OP's question, I don't know why more people aren't steaming mad about it. We're getting taken to the cleaners.
The author here!

Thanks for these links! I tried to track the origin down, but there's only so much digging one could do. But I think it safe to say that Jekyll _popularlized_ the YAML-style frontmatter.
Jam is very dark, but also undeniably brilliant.
I've read the interview guides at some of my past organizations. The total outcome of the behavioural questions was essentially making sure they were not an ass. Interviewers frequently did not bother to write anything down for them.

Everything else hinged on the leetcode/Java or Python trivia.
"Less is more" is a religion that is very easy to carry far past the point where less begins being less.
The POSIX specification requires data to be on stable storage following fsync. Anything less is broken behavior.

An fsync that does not require the completion of an IO barrier before returning is inherently broken. This would be REQ_PREFLUSH inside Linux.
There's a lot of shitty "single creator with all the power" software out there too, obviously...
paypal down -65% since last september, it must be out of suckers to scam /s
Markdown is mostly a failure. Yes, it's more convenient than writing your README in docx or txt, but if you want to do anything with it off the narrow beaten path, you'll inevitably have to extend it or give up.

For example, let's say you want something that's not supported by Markdown's syntax, such as dictionary lists, but you want to be able to use Markdown's text formatting syntax with it:

```markdown

<dl>

<dt>*foo*</dt>

</dl>

```

Most Markdown parsers don't apply Markdown parsing of text nodes within HTML elements. This is why the argument that Markdown supports HTML doesn't work, because it literally doesn't work for why we are using Markdown in the first place... which is to avoid the verbosity of HTML.

This kind of thing really bugs me. No matter what, whenever I've tried using Markdown as a tool for constructing webpages rather than snippets/comments within pages, I end up having to write a custom AST transformer to either get the parser to produce the right output or to prevent it from adding <p> tags around block elements that shouldn't have them in the first place.

Maybe a formal standardization could be the first step to actually addressing such issues, but it's questionable whether it's worth the bother.
Might just be the nature of internet communication, but your comments are coming off as not in a good nature and are a bit misinformed. This will be my last reply.

Vanguard has this stuff across many different webpages managed by different groups. The usefulness is that this info is all aggregated in one page, and also includes info not provided by Vanguard.

Not that I need to justify this post to you, but Vanguard does not talk about: heartbeat trades on mutual funds, 529 on unborn child, megabackdoor, SEPP, amongst many other points.

"no one who retires early uses a Roth IRA."
This is just patently false and I would recommend researching schemes like ROBS to benefit yourself. Peter Thiel and Mitt Romney are famous examples, the former literally has billions in his Roth.
Also, as mentioned in my post, you contribute to your traditional 401k tax-free in your high-earning years and then convert to a Roth Ira in your early retirement slowly.

"If you were planning on exotic types of investment strategies, you're better off doing that in your actual investment choices versus the vehicles you plan on using to do so."
If you have a high edge investment strategy, you actually would want to do it in a Roth.

"Tax advantaged accounts are for people who plan on retiring at traditional retirement ages. Brokerage accounts for everything else."
This is false. If you have 10M at 25 and will never make a single dollar ever again, you'd still want to contribute to your retirement accounts, albeit in a smaller rate.

"Most people who purchase healthcare do it for healthcare purposes, not investing. Turns out most people don't like high deductibles." Key word: "most". If you are young and healthy, you can take it. In the case of an absolute disaster, you'd quickly hit your deductible limit (e.g. my HDHP has a $3k deductible. Easily handled).

"Who actually says to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm going to set up a backdoor or mega-backdoor tax advantaged account,' but also wants to retire at 67? It just sounds insane to me that you'd put in all of this effort to screw yourself."
Look up the SEPP exception.
Yes, definitely.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mlock.2.html
On very recent Linux kernels you can open the raw NVMe device and use the NVMe pass thru ioctl to directly send NVMe commands (or you can use SPDK on essentially any Linux kernel) and bypass whatever the fsync implementation is doing. That gives a much more direct test of the hardware (and some vendors have automated tests that do this with SPDK and ip power switches!). There's a bunch of complexity around atomicity of operations during power failure beyond just flush that have to get verified.

But the way you tested is almost certainly valid.
At best ZFS could detect the failure but a file system can’t save you from drives lying about whether data is actually on the disk.
I see a ton of papers about kernel-based stuff, but zero real applications. Feels like that whole subfield came and went before I got into ml.
Thanks for the clarification. It's interesting that we see the same definition so differently.

The Python example has two concurrent accesses of the same memory (the global counter) where one of them is a write. That seems to meet the definition.

We're also seeing the telltale symptoms of a data race. Note that we don't need to see slicing to qualify as a data race; as plenty cache-line-aligned data races don't exhibit slicing (not implying you were claiming this, just mentioning it for anyone curious).

The Rustonomicon definition also adds "they are unsynchronized", perhaps that's the part we disagree on.

I see this code as unsynchronized; there is no mutex or atomic increment happening around this operation. One could reasonably disagree, depending on what level they're looking at: statement-level, instruction-level, opcode-level, assembly level, uop level, or a higher "logical" level.

Either way, the point of the article is to help debunk a common misperception that the GIL helps users with their concurrency in some way.
How to Transition into Retirement
LD50 casual reading, not very casual. Carcinogens - who can say with all the confounding factors? Endocrine-disruptors ? people are overly sensitive.. right? 


zero trust in big Ag here, truly
I was thinking about a DYMO to upgrade from my low-endish Brother P-Touch labelers (my side gig: I string tennis racquets to HN standards).

I guess I will need to think twice before committing to the brand.
The linked video has ~750K views and features Benjamin Dichter, one of the 3 convoy leaders, outlining 2 very realistic demands:

1. Abolish federal vaccine mandates for border crossing.

2. Abolish ArriveCAN - the app used to track health/vaccination status during border crossings.

Both are very specific demands. Both will have close to zero effect on the actual COVID deaths. Both are within the federal government's jurisdiction. Both are extremely hard to defend in the public's eye. So what does the government and the news agencies do? Completely ignore the reasonable take, pick up much crazier demands made by a different person, that are easier to refute, and play the usual guilt by association game, implying that everyone against the mandates are supporters of the nuttiest imaginable cause.
I think there also is a conflict between interfaces that have a flat learning curve on one hand and interfaces that work extremely well once you are used to them. I think the second category gets too little attention. It's also much harder to user test the second category but for certain types of applications it's what should be preferred. Ideally you can have both a flat learning curve and high efficiency for experienced users. To me the JetBrains IDEs are an example of this compromise. Examples that are fabulous for experts are of course Vim and emacs
I also ported it to use malloc instead of treating the heap as a single giant array, though a quick look suggests they did it rather more competently (though admittedly given my C code that's really not a high bar to clear).

I suspect that once I untangle my somewhat hacky version of that the remainder of my patches will apply just fine but there'll still be at least a bit of mental effort involved.
The GIL helps users protect against data races, it does not protect against race conditions. In Python, due to the GIL, it is not possible to concurrently access a memory location and hence there is no concurrent access to x. There are concurrent threads of execution, but they are interrupted either before accessing x, or after accessing x. At no point is a thread of execution interrupted right in the middle of an access to x.
Really? What is an unhappy ad agency going to do to you? Charge a little extra for the next contract?
Yeah, site was a paid shill, "FOSS" name is basically a joke. I would not trust anything that they write.
One of the future capabilities will be auto-generating base images. It'll require several images to figure out the right base image. The easy version of it be will be available in Slim SaaS (it'll have enough data for it). Happy to chat more about the details.
we've noticed you use the gas pedal significantly more than the brake pedal - in the next update we will be removing the brake pedal.
That looks like a cool resource; thank you! We’re pondering making a move at some point in the next year or so, and this is gross for that particular mill.
This story is one of the reasons I consider the idea of immortality to be terrifying. Never ending life means the possibility of never ending pain.
But that was not "revolutionary new", there were tablets previously.
They really should issue Apple a 27% fine on all sales in the Netherlands. That isn’t too much, right?
> Maybe a formal standardization

In practice, that's what pandoc is (and it includes definition lists as extensions: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#definition-lists )

You also have commonmark (an actual standardization) from the same author: https://commonmark.org/ (but DLs are not part of commonmark yet)
As far as I know, there's not much evidence that physical exercise can influence visual acuity on humans(other than reducing it due to general body fatigue), though I'd love to read more on that if someone happens to know of a study on the subject. Diet, on the other hand, may influence it. Generally speaking you can't consider a part of the body as if it were it's own isolated system: the general state of the body will influence them.
To give a practical example, contraceptive pills change the tear composition making it hard for women taking them to use contact lenses.

Most of the issues related to lights/monitors, apart from the effects on the eye development due to prolonged near distance focus, are related to the quality of the tear film, not so much about the actual visual acuity or the refractive capacity of the eye. For example, the ambar-colored night mode that most OS have now not only decreases the brightness, which helps with visual fatigue, but also stimulates the production of melatonin, which is essential to enter "night mode" and make it easier to fall asleep, in contrast with blue lights, which reduces melatonin production and puts you on alert mode during the day.

In humans, cataract is mostly(not accounting for birth pathologies or trauma) caused because the crystalline, since we are born, never stops producing collagen, the substance it's mostly composed of. At late ages, the crystalline has produced so much collagen that it loses transparency, thus causing cataracts. It's also the same reason people develop presbyopia as they age: the collagen production reduces the crystalline elasticity, making it harder and harder for the eye to adjust it and focus on near distances.
The answer should have been morse.
I think the other poster has a point -

The marginal utility of the second marshmallow is lower.
Then there is added cost in the time spent waiting. Even if you have to wait in the room regardless, I think it’s fair to say there is a cost to delaying the gratification.

Why one extra? What if I just give you 5% of a marshmallow? 1%?

A coherent argument can be made that the extra costs are not worth it. I don’t particularly like marshmallows, but maybe I’ll eat one. Maybe two marshmallows in the future would be higher utility or whatnot than one marshmallow now, but that isn’t always the case.
Here are two scenarios when a heat pump is harder to deploy: 1) Heat pumps need access to the outside cold reservoir, for example they don't work entirely inside a closed room, where an space electric heater would be fine. 2) If the temperature gradient is too large, heat pumps are less efficient than a regular heater. So many heat pumps fall back to a regular heater when the outside gets too cold. If it is very cold all the time, a heat pump would not make any sense at all. This is why they are deployed mostly in places with mild winters.
That grammar simply matches 2^(n-1) a's. Not mind-boggling from that point of view
* ... apparent "need" of some people to be able to conduct substantial financial dealings without any government being able to either see what's going on ...*

And crypto mostly fails in this regard. Blockchain maintains a permanent record of everything that goes on for anyone to see.
I agree with you largely, except for one thing - Doing the right thing for their team is the right thing for their career, whether current management sees it or not.

There are hundreds of companies who will happily have you be a great PM or leader at their company if your current leadership team is more concerned with promoting sycophants.
"but it's not representative of the electorate"

The two parties supporting this measure got 8,862,977 votes. Every other party together got 8,287,006. And the best part still is that the Conservatives and BQ get to vote against this measure specifically because they know it will pass. It's a free vote where they get to claim overreach while also not suffering by defeating the measure and the ensuing problems end up being placed in their laps. That's how adversarial parliaments function.

So your claim about the electorate was simply wrong, even if we ignore that it is fundamentally ignorant in the way Canadian government even functions.
> I would say most modern code is not the kind of code written with the absurd platform assumptions that old code used to do.

That is a pretty bold claim. I would be surprised if any nontrivial "modern" program would be bug-free on a platform with nonzero NULL, non two's compliment ints, big endian an non IEEE floats.

The assumptions we make about the platform just don't feel like assumptions anymore because every machine is the same nowadays.
My experience has been that most people stop, but certainly not all. If they always stopped you would never have to look both ways before crossing at a zebra crossing - but doing so has literally probably saved me from being killed or severely injured multiple times. Certainly there's no place I've been where it's only cyclists who are poorly behaved.
Sad state of affairs. I hope the actions of any of my possible fakes won't cause grave consequences, like some insurance going up.
> Do you know if the childhood developmental component has any relation to above average vision?

Unfortunately I don't know, I'd like to know more too :)
Either that or the NSO Group.
These things are running concurrently with each other though. Concurrent operations can happen one after the other, and Python's threads are more about concurrency than parallelism. If these definitions instead mentioned "simultaneous" or "in parallel", I could agree with your belief.

(Edited in response to your edit)
Well my thinking was that the investment in automation will only be made by the very large chains initially, so there won't be room for smaller players to undercut them. Eventually I guess it will become widespread but this will take a while, and by then the economics of a lot of other things will have evolved. So I can't picture one day McDonald's saying "Hey, our prices are now halved" but it could take the form of the prices rising slower relative to everything else over years.
> This was a real problem until US Gov mandated "PRND" shift order

Automakers also equip automatic transmission cars with paddle shifters, which really give you no tactile feedback to let you know what gear you're in. They also make it difficult to shift while turning. A traditional manual with the HH shift pattern gives you that feedback that allows you to know what gear you're in and doesn't limit your ability to shift while turning.
The real harm of pesticides is rarely talked about. The impact on human health, while important (particularly in the third world), is minimal compared to the ecological devastation its done to our soils (and therefore the quality of our food).

Today, one would have to eat eight oranges to derive the same amount of Vitamin A as our grandparents would have gotten from one. A study tracking 43 different types of vegetables found "reliable declines" in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin, and vitamin C in the past half century for all 43 of these vegetables.[0] Estimates say mineral levels in our vegetables have dropped by up to 90% since 1914.[1]

Over 90% of all plants rely on mycorrhizal fungi for the MAJORITY of their nutrients. Our obsession with sterile soil has driven countless numbers of these species to extinction and continues to drive one of the largest, and most overlooked, ongoing mass extinctions today. It's not just pesticides either. Artificial phosphorus fertilizers impede the complex plant signaling dance necessary for plants to make this essential connection with these soil fungi

Even if you're not worried about the direct implications pesticides have to your risk of cancer or other diseases, you should absolutely be aware of the nutritional impacts they are having on our produce

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163803/
I see your point as we own a Hololens2 and quickly realized that yes, the wearable tech is still light years away from being practical. What's not light years away, however, is the device that everyone has sitting in their pocket.

If you can pull out your phone, point it at any asset, and immediately see equipment specs, SOPs, and guided procedures, there certainly is value in that. If you're trying to find pump a32 in a massive facility, and can type it in your phone and be directly guided there, surely there is value in that as well. These use cases go on and on.
The best business / sales guys I met were genuinely social animals and doing what they did.

I think to some of us introverts it is easy to assume they are being “fake” or something like that.
Nicer X-ray observations: it could be a relativistic tidal disruption event
Agree. Kalman was designed for this use case (radar) and still performs admirably well for how simple it is.
This seems like it would only work with with an external enclosure setup. I wonder if a test could be performed in the usual NVMe slot.

Of course, it seems it would be much harder to pull main power for the entire PC. I'm not sure how you'd do that - maybe high speed camera, high refresh monitor to capture the last output counter? Still no guarantee I'm afraid.
Is Martin Agency really dissimilar from the agencies that make other superbowl ads? What is a "traditional ad agency" anymore, even? And what's with the weaselly "I'd be remiss"? At this point, many hours after he failed to acknowledge them, he pretty clearly is remiss. Just apologize already!
So too low to stimulate an immune system response based on a typical diet is what this appears to be saying?
I do find some Vitamin RDA's to be pernicious!
Is it possible the next write was incomplete when the power cut out? Wouldn't this depend on how updates to file data are managed by the filesystem? The size and alignment of disk and filesystem data & metadata blocks?
With one big difference --- centrals banks are motivated by overall economic benefit rather than private, personal gain.
The comparison to Mercury's orbit is mildly inapt. A hot Jupiter is much closer to its host star than Mercury and subsequently orbits in a matter of a handful of days rather than Mercury's ~3 months.
I strongly agree, if only for the readability benefits. Using uintptr_t vs uint64_t vs long long are all technically equivalent, but they convey information to the reader about your intent