skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot of space to play around with outside of "pure" communism, feudalism, or ancient capitalism. For example, the EU seems to be making a strong attempt to balance consumer protections with corporate-friendliness.
If you have a bunch of matter (dead stars, planets, interstellar dust) is there some fundamental reason this can't be dumped into accretion disks, etc. in an energy-positive way?
Where are they looking it up? Is that source secure? If it's just on a website, that could be easily corrupted.

There's a huge number of systems across the US. I am assuming that a centralized system would provide better security overall compared to the many small and often neglected local systems. This would also standardize the process, reducing the possibility of some locales practice insecure processes.
Absolute nonsense. Your food contains calories in the form of carbohydrates, protein and fat. None of those macronutrients are metabolized in a way that is likely to lead to obesity. Obesity comes from consuming more calories than you burn. It doesn’t matter at all where those calories come from.
Is hackernews cutting off links now. Neither of your links work. End of line contains "/http://wired/"

Congratulations to both of you for uninstalling TikTok :) Facebook is next.
This seems like a neat idea! I like it too.
They lie to parents and misrepresent the school usually. When parents go to visit everyone is acting to some extent. That being said it's usually narcissistic parents with money who are looking for an easy solution. There were quite a few fairly famous children there. Most of the kids there had issues for sure, including myself, but it was still in the realm of normal teenager issues.
Ah yeah, there's probably not any blogs that talk about video editing. The index is fairly small right now and does better for tech/business/politics queries at the moment. Will work on increasing the index.
So I looked at the paper and it seems interesting. Basic idea: Instead of the operations to consider being "insert", "delete" and "copy", one adds "reorder" "contract subtree" and "duplicate" (although I didn't quite get the subtlety of copy vs duplicate on a short skim); and even though extra ops increase the search space, they actually let you search more effectively. I can buy that argument.

The practical problem, though, is that the Haskell compiler is limited/buggy, so you couldn't implement this for C, and you settled on a small language like Lua. If you _do_ extend this to other languages (perhaps port your implementation from Haskell to something else?), please post it on HN and elsewhere!
> And how do you identify the real government for some small town? There are many that don’t even have websites

(Sorry to have to ask) but are there [m]any towns in the USA without telephones?
You also want to be able to check if your vote was falsely counted, lest an unscrupulous election operator simply reassign all but a handful of votes to its preferred option.

Vote selling is a pretty nasty problem to work around.
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Price of a Roku, Chomecast, etc are pretty trivial compared to a price of a TV. Just get one of those and don't bother with your TVs "smart" features.

Recommending against a certain brand because their smart TV UX is bad doesn't seem like a good advice anymore because you can entirely replace the "smart" experience with a cheap streaming stick and ignore whatever smart features your TV offers. Some streaming sticks these days are pretty integrated so you can control everything you need with just one remote and don't have to bother with the TV's original remote anymore.
For anyone using Okta... how are your companies reacting to this? Any general anxiety, are they following new details actively, are they doing some due diligence and hoping this goes away?
Quadratic voting does not require the credits to be purchasable with real money. Many implementations simply give every voter a fixed number of credits to spend with no way to gain more.
This sounds like another nothing. It doesn't pass the shit test.

For example, they have the phone logs of everyone, so if Trump were using a burner phone, it would be easy to see because of the metadata of who is getting called on the other end.

Because of the lack of supporting assertions, I assume this is another story totally made up.
More teaching/guiding and less judging. About time. School always felt like mostly a waste of time, doing rote things not because they would provided value but instead "because we always have done it".

So much "we had to eat shit at your age, so here's your shit sandwich too"
> Assuming things have always been kind of shit and are likely to just get shittier takes us all off the hook far too easily imo.

I've seen this same mindset that you're pointing out.

However, I don't think that it is usually used to "let people off the hook" - most of the time that I've heard it used (a bunch of times in real life, not just on the internet), the subtext is "...and so we should replace the current government with another [highly authoritarian, non-constitutionally-limited] one that can fix these issues, either through voting for an extreme candidate/party, or straight-up violent revolution".

That might be just my experience, though - I went to a university with a significant anarcho-communist group in the student body.
You are absolutely wrong. The whole reincarnation thing probably came from Brahmanism, but Buddha tought impermanence which is absolutely the opposite of any form of reincarnation. There is no soul to be reincarnated.

Yes, there are some Koans and such which use stories involving reincarnation, however these are not literal teachings, they are just stories used to make a different point (usually, something about non duality).

Do some buddhists believe in reincarnation? yep. Some are also christians, or Scientologists, or atheists too. We don't know what comes after we die so it's really up to whomever to think whatever they wish.

We do not teach it, however. And the Buddha did not either. Zen teachers would all agree that reincarnation is a wrong view. Back to Dogen, even. It's literally the opposite of what we think about the nature of self.
One point to make is that suburban is not the same as rural, but suburbia wants to pretend to be both while being neither.
I was 80% done with my taxes this year when TT suddenly demanded an additional $119 to list deductible expenses on income. That’s on top of $140 to file Federal plus 1 state. I’ve been using TT for 20 years. Never again.
> I just don't buy the "you might need to make your app an SPA some day to you might as well take on the technical burden from that decision now" idea.*

I'm not selling that idea. "Boil the ocean now in case you want a cup of tea tomorrow" is a fantastically effective way to fail.

>> If your problem and requirements are such that you will always be outside the part of the solution space that SPAs are meant for

> That seems like a very very strong claim.

By that wordy garbage I was trying to contrast the very extreme, where HTMX is an obvious fit, with points further down the spectrum where it's not so clear. You could go full SPA on an HTMX-shaped problem, if you wanted to, or full progressive enhancement on an SPA-shaped problem; I can't think of any technical thing that would stop you. There would just be consequences and it's up to you if they're worth it.

> Like what do you think actually needs to be an SPA?

I think a move to SPA gets more attractive when you have 1) ad-hoc client-only state 2) that shouldn't be explicitly reflected in your server-side data model 3) produced without coordination by different independently-enhanced components sharing a page 4) which causes unexpected interactions between them.

SPA is not the only way to solve that, solving it is not the only benefit of SPA, you could just ignore it and accept the combinatorial growth of your state space, a hundred other caveats. It's an engineering question which should get an engineering answer maximizing benefit by balancing tradeoffs, but IMO that's not the treatment it usually gets.
sure, the known set of rules causes some types of voters to be more likely to vote, and other types less likely.

The point is that you can't possibly know how all those interactions among voters would play out if you did in fact update the rules
The FCC has the authority to regulate how federal funding for telecommunication is used.

Those who do not use federal telecom subsidy funds are not affected.
But am I correct in thinking that is at worst a 0.5 ulp error in this case? The lesser term in double-double can't be more than 0.5 ulp of the greater term and sensitivity of both sine and cosine to an error in the input will not be more than 1.

Also, in case of confusion, I was specifically commenting on the function over the [-pi/4, pi/4] domain in https://github.com/ifduyue/musl/blob/master/src/math/__cos.c , which the comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30846546 was presumably about.
Thank you for the helpful feedback and suggestions on the UI. That's something we're working to improve.

Quick question: had you used Andi before? We actually cut all the intro text completely before the post yesterday. So I'm thinking you might have seen it beforehand. The progressive web app (PWA) updates in the background, so after reloading the page, you don't see the changes until the next time you quit and restart your browser (much like Chrome itself).

So I'm guessing you might have visited earlier :)

If so, that means you will still be accessing the old back-end without the new Q&A features. So if that is the case, please reload the page, and then try it out again after the next time you restart your browser.

With the questions, shorter questions should work well for traditional-style web search results. But for the complex questions, having specific information and enough detail make a huge difference on the quality of the answers.

With semantic searching, even if the top results are a good match, unless the system has enough signals to have high confidence in the factual accuracy of the answer, it will display a snippet or web results instead.

So better and more specific questions definitely help it to produce higher quality answers. We're working on adding heuristics and context to help so you can ask shorter questions, but a lot of work still to do to make that work well and we don't include that yet.

Thank you again. We're grateful for the feedback and for you trying it out.
Freetaxusa is so great.
I find the big problem with async is the libraries, not necessarily the async piece itself. I looked at Webflux (Project Reactor)/RxJava/etc. years ago and discovered that the composable async components unexpectedly maintain state, and that's really the piece that makes it hard to reason about.

I've since switched over to Scala + cats-effect. I found that to be a huge learning curve, but the payoff for me has been library support for easy-to-use and easy-to-understand concurrent and asynchronous programming. I cannot recommend it enough.
> If you can get an erection in the morning, while you're sleeping, PDE5 inhibitors won't help.

Did you mean to say can’t?
Yes, interestingly with Ethereum it's not the individual block size that's holding it back (they're around 80kb), it's the protected size of all blocks for people running validator nodes. You don't want to require node operators to have 100TB in SSD storage because your blocks all pile up too quickly (this is one of the main concerns about Avalanche scaling).
I think the "thread-only" feature is the biggest selling point, it's niche-y by default.
Zulip is the meeting point of a hackernews/reddit-like board, real time chats and mailing lists. UX and UI needs work, but the base concept is its main feature.

I participate in two different zulip's, the microsoft rush one and the functional programming one and I always felt Zulip was the best choice for technical discussions.

Threads discourage spam and off topic, searching discussions and topics you care about is simpler. If you come from 3 decades of IRC it gets time to get used to, but it's great in everything IRC is unfit.
Do individuals have standing against FTC if they don't action ?

Lack of FTC action is causing you material harm , or is there immunity against FTC as well?
Same, love Zulip but slack seems too entrenched at the moment. I'm hoping that OSS communities continue adopting it and using it instead of slack though.
Pretending that there is no place for objective metrics in school is just as silly as pretending there is no place for objective metrics in society at large. Grading may not be the perfect way to measure learning, but it is far superior than no objective metric at all. The fact is that schools exist to instill certain basic minimums of competency. We must have a way to measure whether or not those basic minimums are being met.
What is more meaningful?

A letter grade with no context, or written feedback/commentary on your work? A dialog around improving your work?

Seems like a far superior concept than simple letter grading.

Also as you get better, the need to revise goes down dramatically. Seems like a pretty good incentive to focus on actual improvement and not just now to get a better grade.

Meaningful learning - after having dealt with "education" I can see why the concept puzzles you.
Hey, thanks for creating this! It's nice to see more products in that space.

Off-Topic: How did you create your blog? It's seems like you developed it yourself? I'm currently contemplating on how to create the blog for my product, since I want to have it integrated into the main website as well (as subdirectory). It's not really possible when using third party providers. You always have to use subdomains there.
ha ha opsec sounds so cool

but its actually the opposite of civilization lol not your kek not your jejeje
> "only" 2x bigger relative to a 256b one

4x bigger; avx512 has twice as many registers.
@davidbauer your motivation for doing this seems honourable, but I think it's unlikely to be useful to either yourself or your co-workers. We're going through a cultural moment where communication-via-words (especially written words) is widely regarded as canonical, but human interaction is much richer than plain text. For someone who wants to get to know you the time spent reading and understanding your article would be better spent just hanging out with you
Who has more practical power to force code into a security product that runs in a privileged context, without anyone finding out? I think it’s not the NSA.
This is exactly why crypto is such a disaster. Every week there is yet another scam where people losing their money. The feedback from crypto enthusiasts is well look at those idiots for putting their money into some scheme <insert unintelligible jargon filled insanity statement here> or you are not smart enough use this thing. Look "nobody" understands what you are talking about. These financial systems are inscrutable and the problem is getting worse. You are building systems that are ruining peoples lives and making things worse for everyone. Please think about what you are doing and create system of value and meaning which improves humankind.
I'm sure note confused. The message is clear: the guy says: you'll work my way. 'cos you see, there are probably as many "user" manual as they are persons. Putting yours forward, full of imperative is exactly the opposite of mine.

If you want to work with me, never, ever, use the imperative, just ask gently and unless what you're asking is dangerous for me, I'll most of the time help you.

I had a boss who told me he was looking for the manual to work with me. He was actually looking for user manual, to use me (in his word it was not "use", it was "I'll help you to get the best of yourself")

Since then, I'll never RTFM again :-)
> I think these government ones are more about keeping a consistent style and look across departmental websites, than advertising a product for general use.

And how long will this last? Until the next administration who hates the association with the predecessor's style?
> If it's just on a website, that could be easily corrupted.

Back in the day we had things called "telephone directories" (I'm showing my age somewhat)

Is it beyond the wit of man to have the CIA/FBI/NSA/$TLA publish a "list of places to phone" when you receive an Emergency Data Request?

If the source isn't on the list, you can ignore it. If it is on the list, phone the number on the list to verify it?

This really isn't rocket science. At least not for those of use who grew up in an age where you could step into a phone box and open up a printed directory and look up someone's phone number...
This is one reason to keep at least some accounts with a large national bank or credit union. If you need to prove your identity or deal with a lost card while traveling you can at least walk into a physical branch and talk to a manager.
Meanwhile in Europe, where Slack never made much of a dent, Teams seems to be eating everything.

... which is frustrating, because its Linux desktop app is still quite poor and buggy in the basics.
Well, in this particular case, the keys got stolen.
Which is a massive crypto UX issue.
>We must have a way to measure whether or not those basic minimums are being met.

The teacher tells them. In written feedback. Far more nuanced and helpful than just a letter grade.
> I respond poorly to being told what to do (“Rands, do X.”)

This is a joke, right?
that's great, but what if I want to add a role to my user to do something like send an email with an extended schema (when that lands). What if I'm not familiar with "row level permissions" and I have a SaSS app where different users can access different rows based on column content? Scenarios like those are where the docs fall short. PLEASE think like new users and not like seasoned engineers with prior experience with the feature set.
Facebook has been a blessing for my aging (74) mother, who went from fearing computers to using a tablet and a smartphone to keep in touch with distant relatives. As technophiles we tend to forget how much value these modern curses bring to non-tech people.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706715377/man-pleads-guilty-t...
> Paved roads and sewage are probably least important to me. What's wrong with a septic system?

I am getting older.
I was born in 1987 so I am already 30+.
With my sedentary lifestyle, I am pretty much guaranteed to have health problems well before I am eligible for Medicare and there is no sign that we will have medicare for all in my lifetime.
Therefore, I can only afford healthcare as long as I work.
Long story short, I cannot afford to be airlifted out of the middle of nowhere when (not if) I have a major health crisis in the next thirty years.

If we can use a septic tank for sewage, we can also use solar (and batteries) for electricity, a state of the art in-ground heat pump for heating (and cooling) the house, satellite Internet for remote work. We can do all that but we still need paved roads.

I think (please don't quote me on this) this is the thing that the stronger towns dude keeps saying. We can probably afford to build sparsely populated suburbia and rural utopia ONCE where everyone has half an acre of backyard and where you aren't woken up in the middle of the night because your neighbor decided to do laundry at 3 AM on a Tuesday. However, who is paying to keep up all these roads?

> for example, a representative cost in 2014 for reconstructing an existing lane of [...] a collector street in a small urban area would have set you back $1.5 million per mile

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/1/27/how-much-does-...

I wonder if building out railroads would be cheaper than building out paved roads to everywhere. Thoughts?
> Is your salary also determined by a clear function of years of experience?

No, it's determined via negotiation, which is fine by me. If there was a clear function, I'd be even happier.

> Do you know what your manager makes?

No, and I don't care, I just care about making as much as I can get away with and knowing what to expect. If there was some formula, I'd be even happier with that.

> Has anyone explained exactly how the number of days of vacation you get was determined?

No, and I don't care if they rolled a set of dice to determine it, I just want as much as I can get away with, and to know how many I can use. If they

> What's the process if you're unhappy with that?

I suck it up or find another job, which I'm fine with

> What looks like clear rules, once you dig a level deeper, rarely is.

Which of my rules do you think are unclear? I can assure you I take off the time I'm entitled to and my paychecks so far have added up correctly.

> opaquely decided by the people in power in ways that disadvantage people not in power. Unfair rules are rarely changed or removed but generally just appended with more complex, opaque additional rules.

We seem to be discussing different points. In settings like university or work, I don't care how rules are determined, I just want them to exist and be clear. You seem to care a lot about how they're determined, which I literally couldn't care less about.
Helicopters are subject to single failures causing a fatal crash. Hence helicopters rely heavily on rigid, thorough, and very expensive maintenance.

As my dad (combat pilot) said, an airplane wants to fly. It can suffer considerable damage and still make it home. A helicopter, however, wants to crash. It's a constant struggle to keep it in the air.

I've never ridden in a chopper, but I doubt I'd feel safe in one.
Double rounding can still bite you. You are forced to incur up to half an ulp of error from your polynomial, so taking another half ulp in your reduction can lead to a total error of about 1 ulp.
Have economists led the world’s environmental policies astray?
That's interesting, I did not get that from the article. It talked about voters who wanted less air pollution had to pay the economic costs of voters that didn't care about air pollution, but wanted lower electricity bills.
This is hyperbolic. We could sandbox browser plugins, and did, but this broke a ton of things than used plugins because they expected not to be run in a sandbox.

Are you afraid of JavaScript in your browser? Perhaps you are, and that's fair, but WASM is no more dangerous than the JavaScript that everyone already runs.
This seems to be literally true.
Yes, LN is different. The Lightning Network consists of channels with funds held in a 2-of-2 multisig, so the only way one participant can have a quorum of signatures is if they already own both ends of the channel. There are Bitcoin sidechains that have a similar federation of validators, such as Liquid.
I've had some weird behavior from them as well--I get a letter saying I owe something like $35 for some reason...

I decide to pay it, go to the website, it says the ID number given is invalid. I couldn't get anyone on the phone. I gave up on trying to pay it.

Then a few months later they sent me a check for about $200 for no reason I can divine.

Then a month ago I got a 1099-INT for 14$ of interest (on WHAT?!) from the FTB.

I honestly don't think they have any idea what's going on there.

I've also had the same behavior from the IRS. They're sending me bills for taxes I've paid-- and they've cashed the checks.

I truly hate them. I've spent weeks trying to sort this stuff out, and literally just got another letter an hour ago saying I owed something I have already paid.
In my opinion, that's the right way to look at it.
>If you get paid, no matter how badly you did the work just to meet contractual obligations, is that all you care about?

For many people, yes.

>Imagine you got paid on a scale, awarded by the client, with an A being the full amount and an F being $0.

For many others, this is how it works. You are compensated basic on metrics of performance.
and a lot more DIY