skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with ping times varying from 3211 to 6389 seconds. I guess this is a new record for ping times…

Hmm, T-mobile's network comes close, but not quite that high, I think. /s

Somewhat more seriously, I have seen ping times approaching 20,000 ms on their network. Given the light-distance to the moon is ~1.3 seconds, this ping clearly went significantly further than the moon's orbit, and back; very clearly some routes need tweaking.

That or one hop involved a somewhat speedier avian.
Specifically, they use the Schulze method[1] with ranked ballots, which is far better[2] than the IRV method popularized by FairVote[3] and currently making the rounds in the U.S.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method

[2] https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/VSE/

[3] https://www.fairvote.org/
It's not, it's a runtime service locator. In my experience it doesn't scale terribly well.
I used it a few jobs back. By management decree we were supposed to be using Asana for everything, but it was extremely painful not being able to format snippets of code or cross-reference code or commits. Maybe Asana can do those things now, but luckily we managed to convince them to let us use GitHub issues.

It was a small company with a single small dev team, so we didn’t really feel a want for any JIRA-like features. But after that I’ve only worked for big multi-team JIRA shops. But I’m not sure if the whole JIRA bureaucracy is actually necessary or even all that helpful at scale.

It’s ostensibly a solution to the velocity problem, but even with a perfect burndown chart we tend to spend an order of magnitude more time than anticipated, only to discover in the end that we built the wrong thing.

I suspect that the real reason is that the devs and domain experts consistently fail to communicate, and when they try they rarely even use the same language to describe the same domain concepts. I think that if we can solve the domain communication problem the velocity problem will solve itself without JIRA style bureaucracy.
This seems interesting in many regards. I read through trying to find information about how to segregate e-cash as you might do with cash today.

“I’m going to buy an Aeron from a Craigslist seller. I want to take only $300 with me, so that if I’m robbed, that’s all I’m out.” “I want to give my kid $20 to go to the store and buy whatever they want.” It wasn’t clear to me how to do that (would I have multiple e-cash devices? One that stays at home and several that I can take with me?)
I don't think judges should be able to go off-piste like that. In this country, charges are laid by the CPS, and adjudicated by courts, and not vice-versa. In the US, I believe (based on TV courtroom dramas!) that judges have more latitude.

In fact my "judge" was a panel of lay magistrates. They must consult the Clerk of the Court (a trained lawyer) if they have any doubt about their decisions.

I like this system; I'm not keen on the idea of a judge being able to change the charges on me at trial. I think the prosecution were given the opportunity to go away and get the charge altered; but they gave up (it was 30 years ago, memory falters).

Look, I deserved to be penalised; I would have simply put my hands up, but I had to go to court to make a mitigation plea, because I risked losing my licence.

My point was just that a really good advocate is head-and-shoulders above the crowd.
What about Snowden? How he would prevent US 3-letter agencies from having access to servers located in the US or in London?
It's a good point; this article goes into detail about this issue in existing deployments, and potential solutions: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/04/02/round9.html
In F2P games you need to spend hundreds of hours to either grind to unlock basic functionality, or even if they don't have grinding, you still need skins or everyone will leave your party because they assume you're a noob. Skins drag down game performance. I've seen literal billion dollar games where it ran perfectly fine until they added waves of skins. Also multiple games where each time someone comes near you with a skin, the game freezes to load the skin (probably a blocking socket call in the middle of the main game client loop, as that's the quality you get in such games). And in most games, emotes and skins allow unintended behavior that gives advantages to their users. This is what happens when you focus all dev work on designing skins and zero thought goes into how they would affect the game.

Now, since you don't want to spend hundreds of hours unlocking the ability to play the game on a level playing field, you will probably want to spend money to unlock these things. This will costs hundreds of dollars, far more than you would pay for an actual real game. Even if you unlock them the free way, there's a high chance your account eventually gets banned. As, once again, the studio has no experience in anything other than skin design, and have no idea how their game actually works and will cave in to every single basic cheating allegation and social crap like "he was in my game therefore he stream sniped me". Again, if you have ever played a game in the last 30 years, you would be well aware that most people in charge do not understand very basics like how you could infer an enemy is near you because you heard him behind the wall, or he triggered something on the map somewhere that tells the other player that trigger was indeed triggered across the map.

> zero impact

Obviously false unless you have never played a game before.
See, this just doesn't pass the bullshit test. Look at Google's history and ask whether this could possibly be true. Could it? Really? Yes, but only if we posit that Google is hiding their nefarious activity from their own employees.

Look at stuff like this:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/28/google_data_privacy/

Is this the Google you left? If so, one really needs to ask is whether we should be even more worried about a company that hides its evil from its own employees than about a company that's just plainly shitty.
Mastery obviously isn’t the only point. Engineering firms probably to want people who Learn the material in 4-5 years not 10
In the United States, does <area code> 555-1212 not work anymore? It certainly seems to:
https://www.businessinsider.com/555-phone-number-tv-movies-t...
https://www.nationalnanpa.com/number_resource_info/555_numbe...
but nobody is pushing legislation that would gradually coerce more people into the rural life

Sure there are, at the federal, state & local level. Here's a few examples that a quick search turned up:

https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/all-programs

https://www.ahfc.us/buy/loan-programs/rural-programs

https://www.kansascommerce.gov/program/taxes-and-financing/r...

https://www.harmony.mn.us/index.asp?SEC=022F2A6B-7FAA-4E0D-8...
My favorite is RFC 6919, "Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels"[1], which adds more keywords in the same spirit as MUST and SHOULD, such as,

> The phrase "OUGHT TO" conveys an optimistic assertion of an implementation behavior that is clearly morally right, and thus does not require substantiation.

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6919
looks like a named entity recognition tool. Send some language and it parses it into actionable tokens
SMS is like email for me, these days: only used for transactional messages that I'm expecting, and spam. Both are almost exclusively ways for computers to send me messages.
It's a simulation software that allows you to animate the systems you are modeling, so you're right that it isn't a CAD program.
“ In the year 2081, the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic.”

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
There are several endemic coronaviruses that typically cause common cold symptoms. Viruses aren't "creative", and coronaviruses adapt slower than some other viruses such as influenza.
Interesting idea, but the skeptic in me can't see how a bunch of politicians will allow this through without watering down the privacy stuff to the point that it's completely not private.

This is the same august body that has repeatedly pushed for breakable encryption, backdoors, and surveillance requirements on technology - give them a chance to start with a new technology completely from scratch, and they'll likely do the same
Hypermedia APIs vs. Data APIs
Stated differently, this makes states matter and rural voters matter in direct proportion to the number of people living there, because all people are equal.

It's not right that a voter in Maine or New Hampshire, which have 1.3 million people and are roughly even between the two major parties, has a high probability of changing the outcome with their vote, while a voter in California or Texas - which have 30 times as many people - is essentially irrelevant to the outcome.
Data and its (dis)contents: A survey of dataset development and use
Please forget whatever idea you came up with. America was never under a coup attempt. Hard to even attempt to call it a coup without weapons. Don't worry America is safe from farmers rallying at the white house.
It obvs depends on what you're trying to do. In general we aim to use well documented, well maintained, and popular dependencies if we take them on at all. We haven't run into any issues where it felt like we were doing more work than necessary to get HTMX up and running.
The government pays farmers not to grow crops all the time. In the past we've done it to raise the cost of corn in order to shut Mexican farmers out of the market. We can totally do this if we choose to.

I grew up in the Central Valley. The places that currently have almond orchards used to be mostly cotton fields.

Almonds are far more water-intensive than any other crop in the Valley. Fruit orchards, vegetable farms, and cotton use far less water.
I agree with you in spirit, but I believe open voting is a better "ideal" system; Debian as a group just doesn't have the time/motivation to deal with the issues inherent in open voting, and I can't blame them for that.
Fine is the new tax.
Apple Silicon native release of Beekeeper Studio
More than first aid, you need trauma classes. Stop the bleed, things like that. Then you need eq. Does your org have TQs? Israeli bandages? Celox? Rolls of gauze to pack wounds with?

If things get awful, you need all those things.

Personally, I carry a TQ, and have taken trauma classes.
One time I got a bizarre (anti-Trump pro-Biden) text from the "Czech-American Voter Outreach" group, which I had never been involved with. They probably inferred (correctly) from my last name that I have Czech heritage.

But I have no idea what our coherent interests are as the Czech-American voter block. The only things I can think that would cover, are like, unfair taxation of kolaches, or required subtitles on Czech porn.

Fortunately, there were only two of them, around the 2020 general election. If I got a lot more spam texts, I'd be pretty pissed. The voice calls alone have made my phone useless for receiving calls from randos, and much less useful for day-to-day operations.
Thanks! I did a little research and it seems like there are some Kotlin coroutine to nio mappings (it looked like some were experimental though) and that OkHTTP is aiming to use coroutines, so I wonder if these will converge in the future.

What wasn't clear to me was if the coroutine/nio mashup still used threadpools because coroutines do.
A different way to think about it: if you play soccer (or any game) with too much empathy, you will make own goal after own goal to please your opponent. Nobody wants that, of course, so in reality you're not being empathic enough.

Being too empathic has different problems if it also makes you shy. Shy people are scary, because people can't read you. It is important to internalize this. Again, this makes shyness not just your problem: it's their problem too. So you have to be more empathic about it.
IMO this is in the context of ad personalization so it's still valid, and it illustrates that they scan email for Workspace as well to provide useful features (like the 'designed to prevent you from threats' point on this marketing page[0])

0: https://workspace.google.com/products/gmail/#:~:text=Designe...
This is a hilarious/sad generalization of a country of ~330 million people masquerading as an investigation into stress. I get the impression that you started with the point you wanted to make - "never trust an American" - and then stumbled backwards from there into a very rigorous exploration of the the cause and effect of stress.
Congress knowingly rejected evidence that he colluded with Putin to defraud voters and steal the election.

You shouldn’t let your personal animosity towards Trump lead to believing misinformation.

Mueller finds no collusion with Russia, leaves obstruction question open

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...

You should take this opportunity to consider what other things you know to be true about Trump may also be misinformation.

The Washington Post corrects, removes parts of two stories regarding the Steele dossier

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/media-washing...
This will be a much needed and great source of revenue for the pharma giants. Especially now that the pandemic is receding.
Depends on the country. Unlike Russia, the government in the USA is not all powerful.
If you grade improvement rather than mastery, you incentivize feigning incompetence at the start of the course to game the system.

The closest thing I ever saw to this was my high school weightlifting class. Your bench press single rep max was a high percentage of your overall grade, and was tested several times over the course of the semester. You were graded on improvement. The teacher made sure not to mention this before the first test, to keep people from cheating, but a few kids were in the know and faked a low max.

From a philosophical/values point of view- what is more important for education- incentivize all students to try to achieve the mastery level expected, or incentivize all students that as long as it looks like they're making progress, that is enough? I'd go with mastery. The appearance of progress is too easy to game, too subjective, and not easily applicable to varying courseloads.
I think that is exactly the problem with Flask. Look how simple it is! Except, as you say, you almost always need at least some of that stuff, and wiring it together yourself is/becomes an unholy mess (IME). And getting set up with Django is just as simple, so I don’t buy that argument anyway.
My point was that test suites should give you a heuristic on what corrections are good and which are bad. A source code change that turns a test fail into a test pass should be considered an improvement.
Agreed. I live in a major US city, and I'm eager to move away. Not only are cities cramped and noisy, but they have a lot more crime, they're dirty, they're congested, and it's often difficult or impossible to get any regular access to nature. Similarly, regarding commuting, a car is a lot more pleasant than being freezing or else drenched in sweat/rain/snow 90% of the time, and it's also a lot better than being packed into a small box that smells of urine, vomit, BO, and cigarette smoke with a hundred other people for an hour and a half each day. Rideshare is better than cycling or public transit but more expensive and typically less convenient than owning a car.

Overall, it's not really surprising that living in cities is associated with a sharp increase in depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders.

I'm sure there are ways we can improve our ecological footprint without trading off everything that makes life worth living (maybe we should ship less plastic/electronic trash from China?).
I have some trouble seriously buying that last part. I understand if you're a small business owner or trying to become an influencer, but otherwise, my wife and I both don't use Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, and it doesn't feel to me like living in the middle of the woods. We have normal jobs and interact with people, live in the dead center of a major city, maintaining functional, unimpeded lives. I don't feel particularly isolated, lonely, or out of the loop. The only major web service I've had to use is Venmo since there are quite a few contractors I've wanted to do business with that wouldn't take payment any other way.

This is nothing at all like boarding an airplane and driving a motor vehicle. Given I travel for work, our families both live out of state, and we're a foster family that has to be able to take children to appointments to maintain our licensing, we really do have no choice on those short of opting out of society.
In my math department many professors said that as long as we can do well on the final, that will be the heaviest-weighted of our grades.

It seems sensible, at least at the college level, to have 90% of the grade depend on the (cumulative!) final.
Yea exactly. Maybe we can give it a name, how about multi-factor authentication? So you verify who you say who you are through a different factor/channel. And making a phone call to actually talk to a person in real time.
What functionality do they rely so heavily in Office that makes it irreplaceable? Some VBA monstrosity? Or is it just muscle memory?
Fifteen or twenty years ago most people had never even heard about almond milk. It got popular because of an intense marketing campaign.

So what if it raises the cost of almonds? That would get people to stop doing something stupid like using a huge amount of water in a state that really doesn't have enough.
Because ultimately there is a conflict of interest between you as a search user, and google actual customers, advertisers who are often spammers themselves. Someone needs to pay for google search and since it isn't you...

Google might have been better in the past, but since there is absolutely no serious competition whatsoever from a market perspective, Google technically doesn't really need to care about the quality of its search results anymore, only maximizing profits.
Better than codes are metrics: if you come up with a way to measure the sound conductance between units, it could be advertised (or maybe require labeling) with the unit, and I believe consumer behavior will strongly encourage the construction of quieter housing.

As for cramped/yard, the square footage and presence of a balcony are easily determined by the buyers. But building codes should accommodate balconies by exempting them from limits on floor-area ratio and building footprint.
The secretary of state for that state can provide that information.
Accurint
Does Google not deserve the hate they've cultivated through their actions over the years?
Create a fake small town?
> In contrast to ledger-based systems (including those that use a blockchain and/or distributed-ledger rather than a centralized ledge), which prevent double-spending by verifying unspent balances against a common record of all previous transactions, e-cash devices verify funds locally via a dedicated or trusted computing environment located on the device itself.

This document is admirably clear about what they're attempting to provide!

But I can't help but think this requirement is very demanding - most stored value cards these days are for small amounts, and can mirror transactions to a central database, if they suspect cards are being tampered with.

There are a handful of devices that are hardened against tampering by the person who possesses them (game console antipiracy features, iphone activation lock) - but most of them took several attempts to get right.
> Conversely, if someone was a math wiz, they could use the extra time not spent studying math to study literature, or whatever else.

If a math wiz can ace their math class without studying I'd question why they're not taking a harder math class. Alternately if the math wiz want to focus more on literature (or whatever else) this semester wouldn't it more efficient to skip the math class entirely?

Maybe in high school or mandatory undergraduate courses I could imagine a rationale for deliberately taking easy courses, but I've encountered students in graduate-level courses at an expensive private university that could have passed the final exam on the first day.

I can't fathom why anyone would waste so much of their own time and money on a class that isn't going to teach them anything.
Supreme Court to Review Warhol Lawsuit Involving Prince Portrait
Devils advocate: that efficiency is one important reason why we're rich enough to be able to afford so much else. Like, CO2 emissions are best controlled by societies who are able to shoulder the greater expense of avoiding coal and such. If we can't count on these efficiencies, we're going to lose a huge amount of positives.

This sounds to me kind of like the fallacy of "if it saves even one life, it's worth it". That's of course ridiculous, because saving that life costs so much that we'll be unable to save countless other lives. In reality, the balancing of costs and benefits is much more subtle and complex.
It is rewarded, simply by the fact that they then have to put less effort into the class.

Why should it be graded? The point of the class is not to learn quickly and effortlessly, but to learn the material completely. If by the time the class is over the student has learned it well, they should get a grade that reflects that learning.

I mean, by your logic, should we give extra credit to the students who never show up to office hours in college, since clearly they're learning it 'faster and (more) effectily(sic)'?
I'm someone who has regularly recommends Jetbrains software (including IntelliJ and Resharper) to others in comments, and now I'm wondering if they forgot to send me my check.
Show HN: Search Engine for Blogs
Hey HN,

Blog discovery is a problem [0] due to the decentralized nature of online writing. Everyone writes on their own site or platform, and there’s no central place that brings everything together. Google results prioritize large media publications over blogs, so we need something else.

Blog Surf is an attempt to organize all of the great online writing done by individuals. I launched this project last year as a directory of personal blogs [1], but have now rebuilt it from scratch into a full-text search engine for blog posts.

You can search for blog posts, and filter by publish date and reading time. Blogs are manually reviewed before being added.

Posts are sorted by MarketRank [2], which is a measure of popularity across various online communities. Most projects that have attempted to organize blogs lack any way to measure the quality of a post, reducing their utility. With MarketRank, you can expect the top results for any query to be something you’d want to read.

The mental model for searching Blog Surf is “I want to see the best essays on X”

There’s also a directory so you can browse blogs by category, if you want a throwback to the Yahoo days.

If you’re a blogger yourself, you can check out the rankings page to see how your blog compares to others.

If you want to play around with things, we have a search API, and the full post dataset is also available for download.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28591880

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26506126

[2] https://dkb.io/post/market-rank
It’s interesting that you focus on the positive upside of that, when really what you’re saying is you want the student with poorer initial understanding to be punished with poorer grades.

Are you seeking signal and view this change in grading style as noise? Do you really believe this style of grading captures merit? What does the grade represent? What is the point of this exercise for you? Are grades just for deciding which student to give the best spoils to?