skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Accepting an infinite number of immigrants would turn the entire country into a slum. We're in the middle of a massive housing crisis.

I have a sibling comment, but wanted to single this bit out as well. There's a common conception that immigrants are harmful for communities, but the opposite is true [0]. Here's the good part:

> Studies conducted by Global Detroit—an organization looking to improve Michigan’s economy by working with immigrants—show that refugees and immigrants are almost twice as likely as the U.S.-born population to have a four-year college degree. Refugees are also more likely to be self-employed—a common metric for entrepreneurship—and many are educated in STEM fields. According to the Migration Policy Institute, two-thirds of refugee men are employed, compared to 60 percent of U.S.-born men.

> Cleveland, Ohio, has seen an influx of refugees from Somalia and Iraq, which brought short-term costs like food and shelter. But locals found that the refugees were not a long-term burden on the community and that instead, the economy had improved. Likewise, refugee-settlement agencies in Columbus, Ohio, estimate that refugees contribute $1.6 billion annually to the central Ohio economy.

[0]: https://archive.curbed.com/2017/1/30/14440160/refugees-unite...
To add specifically to the Lincoln assassination: One of the eyewitnesses appeared on a gameshow as mystery guest in 1956 (shortly before passing away)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4
Being on-call shifted my perspective. Good enough right now is always better than perfect next week.
Why would "ERCOT and Texas Republicans " want this?
Hardly. If a merchant accepts VISA, VISA isn't about to deny my transaction because the determination of suitability has been made before hand (assuming that I have the available credit).

There are certainly cash only markets and the unbanked, the latter a much larger issue than the former. But isn't the existence of crypto (digital currency) supposed to be the grand solution to the former problem? Or does the promises of crypto fall down when actually forced to be used as a currency in a mainstream sense?
No, it's not. The majority if US "money" is IOUs from banks. A central bank issued digital dollar would be an IOU from the central bank.Legally it's a very different thing. Practically it will also be very different, at least behind the scenes. It means you could have $10 million in digital dollars and not have to worry about your bank going under. It also gives the federal reserve much more power. If your money is in digital dollars, they can stop the settlement. Right now they'd have to ask your bank to do it for them. Your bank has lawyers and mostly won't do illegal stuff even if asked by the government to do so.

The Federal Reserve writes good papers. I wish all government entities were as thoughtful.
Don't forget Digg and Fark. I spent time on those post-slashdot / pre-reddit.
Viasat KA-SAT was used by Ukraine for some Military and Government communications.

The US, perhaps acting on intelligence preceding the Viasat attack, provided Zelenskywith an Iridium 9575A.

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-ne...
Steam Survey Results for February 2022 Put Linux Right Above 1.0%
He did actually keep quite a few of his campaign promises. Where he really got stymied was lack of cooperation from the house under Ryan (early days of the dossier hoax).

I made a habit of trying to count broken campaign promises starting in the Clinton years, and it is pretty much universal that presidents over-promise during the campaign and do the opposite once they get into office. I haven't really kept accurate numbers, but it certainly wasn't unique to trump by any means.
Old.reddit.com still works -- just use it. So far they're smart enough to realize that some folks like an information-dense display in their browser, rather than a fluffy echo of Yahoo's purple plague.

I watch slashdot via http://alterslash.org, and occasionally (very occasionally) drop into the main site to add a comment. Are they still adding hot grits to Natalie Portman? Watching just the top comments on AlterSlash, I don't have to care.
I agree, but as good as it is, this is not where people would like to find a good calculator.
Please don't post in the cross-examining style. We want curious conversation here.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
FWIW (and I know you're not making this claim) I don't believe Math 55 is a good example of how mathematics should be taught at large, nor do I think calling it an intro class accurately conveys what it is. It's effectively the compression of an entire undergraduate degree into a single freshman course. I say "effectively" because the material covered depends heavily on who's teaching it, but certainly anyone coming out of Math 55 can pick up any undergraduate math content trivially. For example, undergraduates who have taken it are generally explicitly prohibited in course descriptions from taking further undergraduate mathematics classes (because it would be free credit for retreading the same ground) and can only take graduate courses from then on out.

It's strongly self-selecting and as a result can afford to cover a truly insane amount of ground. The overwhelming majority of people who take it drop out (the usual dropout rate from people who take it in the first week is probably > 90%), but the people who stay almost all get As. And you will need to be almost entirely self-motivated because a lot (maybe most) of your waking hours will be thinking about math.

There's a very small minority of students for whom this is an optimal way of learning. For most students this is the quickest way to make them run screaming away from mathematics even faster than they already do.
because it is ain't over in those countries not one bit.

How can you possibly even bring any data about South Korea or Hong Kong into this discussion when these place have the highest caseloads ever right at this moment?

The caseload today (March 7, 2022) in Hong Kong per 100K people is 5000 cases, more the double (!) of the highest caseload ever observed in the US. Same story with South Korea.

If anything, empirical data shows that using whatever measures they were doing lead to sudden, explosive caseloads.
It's ironic that some feel Russia is justified in thwarting the expansion of NATO for its national security, completely overlooking the fact that the regions other countries want to join NATO is for their national security.

I've yet to hear why Russia has a better complain to its national security, than say, Ukraine.
> I wouldn't bet Ukraine won't accept Putin's requests at some point in exchange for the end of the war

Except in the negotiations in Belarus whose content hasn't been disclosed, Putin has never released terms that Ukraine alone could meet; his ultimatum before the war had most of its terms directed at NATO, not Ukraine, though the gun was pointed at Ukraine.

Presumably, terms for Ukraine alone would be much steeper to make up for what he won't be getting from NATO.
Still looking forward to https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows .
You sure it doesn't? Look at for example the ashley madison hack... in some countries adultery is punishable by death. Buying gay porn means you're gay... death. Maybe not in "developed countries", maybe not today, not tomorrow, but those records stay... If you pay in cash, and the political situation changes, noone will remember when you were there and what you bought two years ago.

This is a thing that helps noone, except the people on top and wannabe dictators.
Great book.

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
Here's a good introduction to Special Relativity, which is what you asked about:

http://www.av8n.com/physics/spacetime-welcome.htm
I don't use Emacs, but I feel that people should just have access to a decent calculator without digging developer forums.
As good as Emacs Calc is, we can admit that it's unlikely to be seen as an easy-to-find lightweight tool.
That is true, fairness in society is an issue.

Here in the UK we went through a painful economic decline in the 70s and restructuring in the early 80s. Things were pretty rough for a while, but then we went through an economic boom in the late 80s as productive forces were unleashed.

I'm basically a capitalist because I believe capitalism is based on essential economic freedoms to own property, freely associate and buy and sell one's labour. But I also believe that there is a role for effective social services, public health care and a social safety net. You need a health economy to pay for it though, and that's the balance that needs to be struck.
Thanks, changed from http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/ above.
Also wheat, some rare metals and maybe even electricity soon if they are able to retain control over Ukraine NPPs (well only if EU considers them green enough).
> Russia was promised no NATO expansion when the Warsaw Pact was terminated.

Russia didn't even participate in international diplomacy then.

If you mean the USSR, show me the signed, ratified treaty.

If you mean the then-current Soviet leadership was given private assurances by the then-current US Administration, well, why would you expect that to bind anyone beyond the terms of those leaders and one of the involved states?
The Micropolis name was used to avoid hitting EA trademark, but it came from the original game's porting team:

https://wiki.laptop.org/go/Micropolis#History_and_Future_of_...

https://donhopkins.medium.com/har-2009-lightning-talk-transc...
I don't agree with this article, it as off-putting as the usual math eduacation it criticizes. I wonder how one can propose a curriculum to study math and not mention Euclid. One learns more mathematics from this article https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Russell_Euclid/ by B. Russell where he harshly criticizes Euclid than 2 years of calculus. Newton did not know calculus but he knew Euclid's Book 5, the book about ratios and proportions. Euclid's 5th Book must be the starting point for the study of math. When we say "math is the language of nature" we really mean that nature is proportional. Ratios and proportions are fundamental.
Anything besides a cursory layperson's outlook on a lot of these topics (besides basic logic and history/philosophy of math -- although not sure how you would teach the last two/what you have in mind as curriculum) requires calculus and/or linear algebra. There is a reason they say you can never learn too much linear algebra.

And yes probability and statistics are fundamental. I was shocked a bit when I learned it was not taught in highschools world wide (i.e. not in the U.S.A.). But then again I had gotten numb with the current average level in the taught topics people arrive at undergrad at.

Note there is a lot of interconnectivity. To understand a new concept you might need concepts in another. E.g. number theory and probability.
This feels like a non sequitur. Their project being open source or not doesn't protect their mental health spiralling. This could have happened to a paid lib, and you'd be out of luck due to vendor lock rather than just picking a fork.
> a small island nation.

That is to say, an island with extensive scope for offshore wind.

The real question for a well-populated island nation is how much area do you have to write off if a nuclear reactor suffers from a major accident (or attack)?

For reference, the Fukushima exclusion zone was 311.5 square miles, and Chernobyl's was 1,600 square miles.

https://www.britannica.com/story/nuclear-exclusion-zones
How to get the most out of your 1:1s
Unless it comes with safeguards regarding anonymity and protection from seizure, I feel that this will give the government too much power and surveillance. What will prevent the government from holding individuals accountable for making transactions deemed immoral or dangerous? It seems all you have to do is characterize a movement as terrorism and you can seize assets at will.

A world with physical currency has a builtin "privacy mode" in that you can conduct business just using notes and keep it in notes.

The US stopped printing notes larger than $100 in 1969. That $100 note in 1969 had the buying power of roughly $780 today due to inflation. I think it's well past due that the government print larger notes, allowing more economic freedom, but I understand why they don't. Even a $500 note doesn't bring us back to cash buying power parity with 1969.
Does anybody know if this solves the S3/Hibernate/Sleep issues users have experienced with Ubuntu on the Framework laptop? I've heard some tales of serious battery drain overnight, but it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the article. And I can't CTRL+F on the website because apparently that button combo brings up...

forum search? Somehow? How and why on earth does Framework override CTRL+F on their forum? Is there someplace I can disable their ability to override this in Firefox?
Honestly, I haven't found many ingredients where you do it to the gram. A few like spices, salt or baking powder you just do it to taste or assume a tsp is enough, for that one item.

A scale still beats measuring cups n things.
In Soviet Russia, pirates ban YOU!
NFC (as far as tap-to-pay goes) works great for me, it's pretty much the only way I pay for things if the card reader supports it.
The bank can bankrupt. So your money in bank has credit risk and liquidity risk. But central bank(federal reserve) can "print" dollar, so they will never bankrupt, hence your CBDC has no credit risk or liquidity risk.

However, it puts the central bank being the only bank that handles the clearance/settlement. So it has higher political risk for holders. For example, you can store your dollar bills into a bank which does not follow the order from US government. But if you have CBDC, the federal reserve can simply freeze your balance.
The History of Random.org
Potential climatic precedents of Nuclear winter
> USB 2 uplink limit of 480 MBps.

That should be "Mbps", usb 2.0 max is 60 megabytes per second. Odd that even hackaday gets this wrong from time to time.
Since so many distros seem to lag a good ways behind on packages, and this vulnerability (in it's easiest exploited form) was introduced in kernel 5.8, it would seem a fair amount of Linux installs wouldn't actually be vulnerable to this. Is that somewhat correct?
You started the semantic debate with GP.

> So while you are correct that I cannot assert "Atheism is X"

Yes, that is my point. You said "Atheism is (not an assertion that there is no god = X)"

> you are wrong that I am wrong.

You are wrong that GP is wrong. Everyone is also right.
idk, but it seems like it's not involved in this case as these are just independent Twitter threads from an account that isn't referenced by any of the Wilson Center's own verified accounts which are busy posting their own analysis...
> Every side thinks the same

Does that matter?
There's gotta be someone at the end of this chain getting the shrift
if it ain't broken, fix it til it is
Mini-ITX modding culture came a long way. Last I saw was someone revamping a Hot Wheels PC from the 90's with modern parts [2].

[1] https://www.mini-itx.com/news/archive.asp

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLGfeiMdi1Q
Think you're right, it's a mistake by the journalist. Here's a tweet[0] from Anton Nell, Andre's partner according to the journalist, saying what GP is saying: yearn.fi is shutting down but yearn.finance will continue to operate.

[0]: https://twitter.com/AntonNellCrypto/status/15004054752962969...
Yes, give Putin this idea. I am sure he did not think of it!
Is native encryption available on the send-capable accounts?
Having a deep (proof-based) understanding leads to more "real world" insights. So, there may not be a clear distinction.
As a public librarian, I was sort of thrown by the title. It's for things like image libraries, or presumably other media. Not related to lending libraries.
Navalny, defacto Russian opposition leader (jailed), has an organization that has been doing internet polls on the support for war. See [0] for recent results. As it's an internet poll, and skews young, urban and liberal, it should provide a lower bound for the support of the war.

[0] https://navalny.com/p/6615/
Geometry uses a deduction-only basket of proof techniques that don't prepare students for proofs done afterwards. I would like to see it replaced by elementary number theory which naturally uses a lot of induction/recursion and has some uses for proof by contradiction.
One joke is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, and Brits think 100 miles is a long way.
$40,000 is an incredibly low amount this type of severity finding.
I wonder how much statistics someone can understand without calculus. For example, how do you explain what a continuous probability density function (such as the Gaussian) is without calculus?
"Hey, I gave real money to this guy who sold me what falls under SEC regulation as a security due to the Howey Test [1] [2]. I would like them investigated for securities fraud."

It's easy. I've filed such complaints myself. I've bought securities knowingly defective to file the complaints when I was aware fraud existed. Bitcoin and Ethereum fail the Howey Test, but if someone steals them from you, you can still legally pursue for the theft of your digital commodity (or tangentially, the laundering of those funds if the theft and laundering are done by separate parties [3]).

The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/corpfin/framework-investment-contract-an...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/peirce-how-we-howey-050919

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30260787
At 100 Watts output, it would take 800 hours of biking to fill a tesla battery pack.
Hydro emits less carbon per unit of electricity than solar [1]. And drastically less than the renewables + natural gas mix that's used in practice to accommodate renewables' intermittency.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emis...
I love Society of Mind. I read it concurrently with A Thousand Brains by Hawkins. It seems like modeling the mind as a multi-agent system is a productive approach.

I was also recommended Minsky's later Emotion Machine, which I'm reading now (thanks DK for the pointer!).

Open to other pointers for related work!
How the DC-3 Revolutionized Air Travel
Pretty fun! It crashes reliably for me right after I build a police station, however. Console says:

micropolis.js?f750f1ad7f255ea64b6a:1 Uncaught TypeError:
A.Position is not a constructor
at micropolis.js?f750f1ad7f255ea64b6a:1:242246
at De.mapScan (micropolis.js?
f750f1ad7f255ea64b6a:1:243311)
at Object.Wi [as _simulate] (micropolis.js?
f750f1ad7f255ea64b6a:1:272893)
at Object.bi._simFrame (micropolis.js?
f750f1ad7f255ea64b6a:1:269927)
at Object.bi.simTick (micropolis.js?
f750f1ad7f255ea64b6a:1:269535)
at ys.Us (micropolis.js?f750f1ad7f255ea64b6a:1:350146)
"While Delta’s focus on providing customers with a seamless, transparent experience is admirable, our analysis suggests that this strategy could be dramatically increasing the public exposure of their negative customer interactions, and is thus likely having a significant negative impact on their stock price and brand image."

That is a pretty big claim to end this paragraph on. I would be interested in seeing exactly how their analysis connects twitter to stock price, if for no reason other than that it improves brand image for the sample set that is me.

I appreciate the candor and flying is a tough business, so of course there are going to be problems. What matters to me is how you handle those problems. Allowing these to be public lets me judge that behavior for myself.
I'll second this. "How to Prove It" gets recommended a lot, but I couldn't get through it. I found it terribly boring and unmotivated. Some people can power through dry material but I'm not one of them. I found it much easier to learn to write proofs when they were related to topics I was interested in.
It was renamed to Freecode, you're right (EDIT: indeed I found I complained about the renaming being a sign it was all over in the HN thread about Freshmeat closing back in 2014...)
You're looking purely at the theoretical possibilities of crypto while ignoring the reality of a situation in which major sanctions are enacted. Who are the people who are going to be selling their services to Russia in a situation like this? You can already see companies that haven't chosen to suspend business in Russia (even though there are no sanctions forcing them to stop) suffering major reputational damage.

Just because you could theoretically get around sanctions doesn't mean that any serious number of people would do it. It also doesn't mean that you can't get caught - it's not like you can untraceably provide services, so there's very much a nonzero chance you get caught.
> Is there a plausible explanation for who would do this, besides Russia?

Any engineer could accidentally do it... I can totally imagine the release engineer accidentally pushing the dev version, only to realise later that the dev version doesn't have quite the right config to connect for example.

Blaming it on a cyber attack is a lot less bad than saying "whoops, we bricked everyone's modems".
Let me get it straight…
Is the quality of the code still checked manually? You’re a startup setting up interviewing environments, then.

I thought there was some sort of machine learning involved.

“fake it till you make it”

Who can guarantee that your “reviews” are aligned to my goals and not just outsourced to the cheapest contractor available?
do articles have to have real meaning to be worthy of writing? the arts and philosophy are rarely a dry instruction booklet to do X, Y and Z.
In 2019 I was setting up my new computer at my new job, and the Ubuntu installer had btrfs as an option. Figuring that it had been ages since the last time I'd heard about btrfs issues, I opted for that.

A week later, the power failed in the office, and my filesystem got corrupted. In the middle of repairing, the power dipped again, and my entire fs was unrecoverable after that. I managed to get the data off by booting off a separate drive and running a command to extract everything, but it would never mount no matter what I did.

I've never had an issue with ext4, xfs, or zfs no matter how much I've abused them over the past 10+ years, but if losing power twice can wipe out my filesystem then no thanks, I'm out.

(Plus: non-recursive snapshots? No thanks.)
My understanding: Like you mentioned the main difference is that digital cash is an abstract type. With our current cash we can very easily convert to/from an int currency to physical cash.

With digital cash it might be more difficult, potentially intrusive or costly to convert to physical assets (look at crypto). If I take $20 out of my bank account and buy donuts, it's going to be very hard to the government to trace that. That will not be the case for digital cash. They will know the exact wallet that came from.

I also believe the need for the Fed for a CBDC is forced onto them because of the inevitability of a negative interest rate on savings accounts (which carries negative consequences). Indirectly, CBDC solves that for them. This person explains it practically: youtu.be/UP0e9MGjyD4
Depends entirely on what sort of hardware you have. IIRC, I usually spend around 5 minutes when compiling Linux on my desktop, so not instant but not horrible. The agonizing part would be to have to manually install, boot and test those kernels, or to create a setup involving virtual machines which does that automatically to use `git bisect run`.

But yeah, incredibly impressive persistence.
Read this thread too: https://twitter.com/ProfPaulPoast/status/1500097922788175879
It's quite a bit more than 5 years[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive