skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im with you on this. On top of that, urban living would make many of my skills and livelihood either absurdly expensive or straight up impossible. I can't put my vehicle up on blocks to work on or repair it in a city, my woodworking woodshop would be absurdly expensive and with my wood having to be shipped in from hundreds of miles away rather than cut within a few miles of me, people would complain about me hammering or grinding metal at 9 PM or later or likely in the middle of the day in many cases, I certainly couldn't burn wood for heat that is completely sustainable from the surrounding land, I couldn't grow the 50% of my own food myself, and storage space for the many materials that are required for anything I build or grow or repair would be an absurd expense.

Basically all of those skills would become worthless and living my frugal and resource efficient lifestyle would be impossible.
>Another thing might be considering having more columns for nuanced topics, and also have icons below each statement that has a counter-argument from another column.

I like this, thank you.
Math Poetry (2015)
Yes, but is that correlation after controlling for IQ and work ethic? Because family income correlates with IQ and work ethic...

As far as I can tell, the thing the SAT really correlates with most is the thing it's actually designed to predict: ability to succeed in college, as measured by college GPA. (In particular, the correlation between college GPA and SAT score is higher than between college GPA and high school GPA.)
That’s how it works. Legally they are the ones who authorized the tow through their contract.
That depends on what you mean by "close" and "viable", imo. We know that tokamaks will work if we build them big enough. So it's essentially a matter of dumping sufficient billions into large construction projects, i.e. ITER and DEMO. There are of course some open engineering questions, but afaik, they mostly concern economic viability, e.g. durability of materials involved.
> It's a place to vent, not to decide

When the ballot process can be done in the morning with your coffee and toast, maybe more people would be inclined to apply judgement and vote in good faith.

And I think I speak a truism when I say that more deciding power for each citizen is a better kind of democracy than representative democracy. What I'm hearing from you are just hypotheticals that nobody can be sure of without actually trying a system like this. Basically that's all I'm saying, the current democratic process leaves a lot of citizens without proper representation and probably we need to move in a direction where that's not true any more. We need to look at alternative ballot systems which would allow that. If the current political strata are wrecked in the process, all the better.
Commissioned by an ATM provider...

Additionally, I would say this is actually fairly low opposition compared to the popular buy-in in Britian for any other sort of change. People fear everything new, all of the time.
somehow we only experience the superstitious dream of new

learning programming felt exciting but the more I know the more I realize the underlying principles were older than computers (ordering, algebra, physics)

there was nothing really new in learning java, haskell predated it yet I only got to know about it in 2004, people in the 50s did monoidal modeling of computing
Someone needs to make a movie: Wargames 2

In the new version a super AI computer is ready to launch a massive automated cyber war. While trying to get the 16 digit “launch” code it runs thousands of simulated scenarios. As things look dire, the hero has the machine play tick-tac-toe with itself…

Just before launching the attack it learns: The only way to win is not to play.

Seriously. What the hell is the world devolving into?

Here’s what I think an alien species watching earth from distant orbit would think: The people are OK. Their so-called leaders are insane. Every single war was started by their leaders. How odd.
HB11 is proposing to use an "avalanche" mechanism where alpha particles from the fusion run into and accelerate protons to energies > thermal to continue the reactions (a chain reaction).

Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to work, by about two orders of magnitude.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/abf255

Their proposed direct conversion scheme is also problematic, for several reasons (electrons would short out the spherical capacitor, the necessary ion current greatly exceeds the space charge limit on the current, and the alpha particles from p-11B are not monoenergetic, meaning that ions would either not have enough energy to reach the collecting electrode or would reach it with so much kinetic energy the surface of the electrode would experience too much heating.)
Exactly; I prefer rich expats who (or their company) pay multiples of the average rental price for that reason. They don’t complain, pay on time and usually even fix stuff themselves (for free) as they don’t want to wait for anything. And there seems to be an abundance of these people currently as well.
Maybe having devs paying from they own salary the business costs of buffer overflows, stack corruption, and use-after-free isn't that bad idea, good move.
There is a logic here that's visible with salary talks in the EU: people only care about what they receive, not taxes; so all salary talk ignores taxes, all raises ignore taxes, all tax increases are irrelevant as long as they get in-hand the same amount. This is basically a population that sees taxes as magical money only the employer pays.

People should definitively understand how much taxes they are paying so that they demand some accountability for their money.

How do you accomplish that?
John Wayne and the Plot Against Hollywood (2021)
> It's economically inefficient for Grandma to continue living in Palo Alto in a $4 million home

Not everything is about economic efficiency and maximizing investments.

For most people a house is not an investment to be maximized, it is home. Particularly for someone elderdly who has lived there most of their life.
"Rent seeking" is a very specific economics term which has nothing to do with landlords. In fact, in this scenario, the tenants exploiting government restrictions to capture the landlord's value were the ones engaged in rent-seeking.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rentseeking.asp
75% down from 80%.

Millennials are not buying anything. They can't. The very few I know who have bought a house is either because they had help from their parents or bought an old house in small towns far away from everything.
Step #1, sign up for twitter.
Step #2, get offended...

whoops. took care of this at step #0. Have a nice night, y'all. Problem solved.
Severance Prop Terminals
For a subset of CS that most developers will never need, sure. Nobody is arguing math is never needed for CS, but most developers, and indeed a whole lot of CS researchers will never need much of it.
Can't tell if this depends on certain user code - does one have to use SerializationUtils or JCache explicitly in order to be vulnerable, or does the vulnerability exist by default?
I use vim key bindings on IntelliJ
Check out my project https://github.com/Thopliterce/transformer-arithmetic. This is a concrete implementation based on GPT-2 model that does multiplication accurately, digit by digit. It does so by generating a dataset that tells the model how to do multiplication step by step. Doing arithmetic actually works with just GPT-2, without an oracle.
I was waiting for the arrival of WiFi 6E APs from competitors before ditching my Ubiquiti setup, but may have to accelerate my migration away from them. I had already replaced my USG with an OpenBSD firewall and blocked all Ubiquiti devices from being able to connect to the Internet as a mitigation.

Being cloud-free is a hard requirement for my network equipment.
Change the Code, Not the Climate
Ah, glad to hear it's not in conflict after all! Thanks for clarifying.

As to the source of my confusion... I think I was skimming and about to turn back to work and not thinking too deeply.

At the time I wrote that edit I had just gotten as far as "pagerank values links whereas marketrank values upvotes" (heavily paraphrased interpretation of 2.1 here: https://dkb.io/post/market-rank). My reaction was "oh, maybe that means links are bad... that's an interesting perspective but I don't have time to digest it right this moment. I'll put a pin in it and return to this article later to better understand, and hey I should add an edit to my comment to signal reading comprehension."

That last thought seems pretty ironic in retrospect.
The usual argument, health inspections don't destroy the little business selling sandwiches on the corner, or street regulations and those doing their own home made car.
> Still, in the past, when you made a mistake and got a bad tenant, the option was eviction.

I think a lot of landlords see renting as easy money and then when they do have an issue like this they are looking for anyone to blame when they really never did their due diligence. There was relief for landlords during the pandemic for landlords as well, especially those that still had a mortgage on properties.
The "expensive preparatory courses" offer something like a 10-30 point benefit over checking out an SAT prep book from the library, if you control for the time spent on preparation, last I checked.

What the courses do offer, of course, is the structure to force indifferent students to sit through the preparation.

There's a lot of bad statistics, whether by accident or with an agenda, being done around the SAT....

But more important than all that, as the MIT post says, pretty much all the other measures elite colleges use for admitting students correlate even _more_ with income than the SAT does.
>I stopped in my tracks when I saw this Instagram Post shared by a friend via Facebook:

I can't even see the post.
I see your point, but there is nothing in the above which protects against "nefarious admins". My business account was previously on GSuite where the act of transferring data from a deleted user was to simply check a box and specify a destination email address.
Make being a landlord too onerous and people will stop being landlords. Take Sweden for example, landlords are selling off their rental apartments at an increased rate as the profits of renting are decreasing and the risks increasing. The end result is that there is almost nothing available to rent at any price and it can take 5-10 years of standing in line to get a halfway decent rental apartment.

Having a liquid supply of decent rental apartments on the market is important for a dynamic economy.
I don't know if you realize, but you moved the goal posts a little. Yes I agree that an electronic system would be more difficult to wrap your mind around as a layperson, but if you go now on the street and you ask someone how paper ballots work in their district, I bet that even though they know the big picture, they will fail at the details.

So the common person will probably not understand the cryptographic underlayers of this theoretical new system, they need to have confidence "in the science". I know that doesn't sound as good, but we're heading towards a world where computing literacy is increasing, so in some years that could be possible.
Drug 'em up, mask 'em up, make 'em face their darkest fears.

That's the enduring pattern of a lot of "coming of age" initiation rituals across many different cultures. I'm not shocked to see this is the approach an unaccredited drum-beatin' hippie looking couple in beautiful British Columbia tried to carry out.
Security incidents are still security incidents regardless of who was behind it. Putting it in scare quotes doesn't make it any less real. Why should paying customers feel better about any of this mess?
Why would the incentibe to build be high?
when you know the number of elements you'll be putting in the list, you can save on resizing and copying. A comprehension doesn't always know how many elements it will require.
> So the answer to people not paying rent is for small landlords to..not own land?

Yes actually. Well, in part at least. I would put it in the non-reformist reform category. It opens up the possibility of actually doing something about renting in this country, unlike the status quo where people speculating on property demand law change whenever governments choose to keep people in homes instead of protecting their investment income. Of course, folks can own land if they want. But we should absolutely discourage treating what is at its core a shared resource critical to human existence as an investment vehicle.

> And having Amazon rent you an apartment is somehow preferable?

Yes. Regulating Amazon and regulating Ms. Jones who rents out her second floor are much different propositions for the average voter.

> How about we do the critical thinking, fix zoning laws where necessary, allow tenants to be kicked out for…being shitty tenants, and make an effort to put laws in place that make it easier for people to make a living wage and pay their rent.

It is interesting that in your formulation, critical thinking can only lead to a conclusion where the makeup of the rentier class and how we regulate housing investment are irrelevant. Are you a landlord?
There’s a qualitative difference between having a couple thousand RSUs and having a voting stake in a company. Tech workers are well off, but they’re nowhere near as well off as C-level execs and even less well off than major shareholders in the companies they work at. It’s the difference between being upper middle class and rich.
Haha. yes, nice one. Fits in line with Albert Camus's viewpoint which puts a positive light on it, in similar fashion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQOfbObFOCw

But I am also coming to a conclusion that we shouldn't really let the scale of universe come in way -- but if we can let it affect things positively, great, no harm.

Reason being: For anything to make sense, it has to have some context (example: these words make sense to you, but not to one who doesn't know English). When we make the context (or space, or time) unfathomably larger, things we have control over lose their meaning, their impact, it literally becomes nonsense? And so we should probably keep it away. Good as a thought exercise & fun, but impractical. Now you can counter-argue saying what's "practical," but that defeats the point :)
This hits home. 20+ years of being a sysadmin, writing software, I've written and rewritten the same shit over and over. I'm disgusted by the world that was created around these network apps and I'm disgusted by my own minor role in helping the vultures build that world. It's nothing I wanted or imagined. Every time I think about it, I think of the Leonard Cohen lyrics:

Your servant here he has been told /
To say it clear, to say it bold /
it's over, it ain't goin any further.

And now the wheels of heaven stop /
you feel the devil's riding crop /
get ready for the future, it is murder.
For the latter two not everybody, but many - especially the ones doing consulting - will have a very visible public face and status. Which is not a b ad thing per se, but you should always read any claim/suggestion with a grain of salt, as there might be some conflict of interest behind them.
He honestly reported the facts as were made available to him.

Which is a more than adequate defense. See New York Times vs. Sullivan.
Then why the complaints about high housing prices?

You cant pick and chose what to be outraged about when its those very policies causing the problem
> So if you bought a house in the 1970s for like $30,000 and its worth $2,000,000 today, you are only paying taxes on property worth $30k.

That is not at all how California Prop 13 works, although it is an often repeated myth.

Under prop13, the property tax goes up 2% every year (technically up to 2%, but unless you're in an economically depressed area it's always 2%).

So it is a damping function, essentially equivalent to rent control, to smooth out the swings in market price and replace it with a fixed yearly increase you can predict.

In practice, however, the property tax goes up more than 2% per year because counties and cities are allowed to attach all kinds of fees under the umbrella of property taxes and those don't count towards the 2% increase limit.
no mention at all about the indigenous people of those islands - the Chagossians who were evicted from their home in 1967 and 1973 by the Brits in order to allow the US to build a military base in Diego Garcia, 7000 KM away from the US mainland. But of course, China Bad!
About 10°, depending on what kind of accuracy you'd like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-angle_approximation#Erro...
> Doubtful. For one thing, renting from individuals is far more pleasant than renting from giant housing conglomerates. With an individual landlord everything is negotiable and flexible, it's a person you can talk to. When renting from a corporation, there are strict rules enforced by teams of lawyers and zero flexibility.

I've had the exact opposite experience.

> You got that exactly backwards. Yes, there are more individuals renting out their single properties each, but those are ordinary people who have no lawyers and no lobbyists and they don't have any coordinated voice and no influence with politicians.

This is just blatantly false.
Would love to read about some examples / strategies in a blog post some day!
Comments like these reminds me how huge number of vegan recipes went from word 'vegan' to 'plant based' because of omnipresent harassment. And I already saw Rust project here that instead of mentioning 'Rust' in title went for 'oxidized'.
Certainly makes sense - though the piper needs to be paid eventually though - loftier valuations eventually need to be justified, else companies eventually suffer a down-round or worse, founders get kicked out or the entire company gets shut down. Seems like a Russian-Roulette way of playing business - hope you can exit with strong wealth before you find the chamber with the bullet in it.
Nuffield science project
The good old days were measurably better than what we have now. Decade by decade, software bogs down.
Digital models preserve game show history
I second this recommendation. The article is basically just a summary of Karl’s video.
Dark mode can be very challenging, especially alignment-wise if the design system is used in applications that also use some custom components or styling.
This is downvoted, but imo, kinda yes. The culture of business management is exactly as parent implies.
Where I'm living, the government does the taxes for you and then sends you a notice to check them.

That last bit? That's important - you get to check them. You can adjust if you should need to. Guess what most folks don't have to do? Check them. This works because most folks have simple returns. They work, might or might not own a house, might have a bank account, might have a retirement account - and that's about it. The government already has what it needs for most people. But you can check them and adjust if they are wrong. Of course, you can just not bother, too.

Is the system perfect? No, but it doesn't need to be. It merely needs to have better overall tax compliance than another system. When taxes are easy for the vast majority of your population, the governement has a better collection rate and can spend manpower auditing those that need audited (perhaps audit more complicated returns from the well-to-do instead of Ordinary Married Citizen that makes 50k jointly) and they can generally spend less money doing things like printing forms and manning question lines that don't give answers that constitute legal advice.

And seriously, in these systems, hiding income is still a crime. So those folks that just "used the IRS figures!" still have the chance of going to jail. Even if they never get caught, the automated system still wins because of the other benefits.
> Until then, she is free on a $1 million bond.

The fact that you can buy your freedom in the US is laughable
A Roadmap for Big Model
That's... Disturbing. I'm surprised I didn't hear about this before.

Honestly, fuck those people.
> the later sometimes have little tap to pay machines

Its interesting how these have started to crop up more and more recently as cash has declined, for instance my local Gurdwara (Sikh temple) which traditionally takes donations in cash has a little card machine you tap on as you go in.

I wonder if when we get to a point where homeless people get them too, if people will trust them enough to do carded donations.
I just discovered that apparently that is exactly what they’re doing, not metformin presently. And there a planned shift to GLP1s - but the injectables present some interesting administration aspects
LTT has something to say about this card that was worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDcA0c-Ahq0
Call it the uncanny valley, but I find this mildly disturbing… and absolutely fascinating.
Why stop at GNU/Linux? Why not Firefox/GNOME/X11/GNU/Linux?
I guess that's a justified case for Schadenfreude ...

But on a more serious note, the battle for transparency and accountability (and ultimately democratic resilience) relies a lot on the hard work by many, many NGOs (many of those listed towards the end of the article, such as the wonderful Citizen Lab from U of Toronto).

I find it scary that such important monitorial tasks are left to underfunded volunteers which may go away at any second. Well, the same applies to journalists to a certain degree ... In both cases, we need to care more about sustainable funding of these institutions.
'Middle class' is a blip in human experience caused by fear of a real possibility of socialist takeover made possible by highly progressive taxation.

There are only two classes comrade
Did you ever see http://revj.sourceforge.net/ ?
The invasion of Ukraine is not the first social media war, but is the most viral
Neat! Next stop: One Million!
Most of the time the amount is sufficient for small claims, and usually those records, especially if given a settlement, are not so much public record.
Professionals never could have achieved what WHATWG did; professionalism was responsible for the catastrophic pre-WHATWG logjam in W3C. What WHATWG needed was a hacker. And it wasn't an anonymous "someone"; it was specifically Hixie.
Space Engine also does something similar but takes it one level above, it has billions of galaxies too.
Any software which allows you to start from limited set (dfjk) and go progress to all 4 rows.

For me it was Stamina (for Windows) and it works great. Consider to look at Dvorak or Programmer Dvorak, but since you are working on QWERTY for so long, relearning will be painful. If you can not say that those are genius layouts then do not try. I think 5 hours of traning on any layout will give you significant change in your typing; consider not to finish your exercises until you start touchtype your passwords. Good luck!
If you’re given letter grades throughout the course, you can easily predict your final grade, by computing an average (perhaps a weighted average, as specified in the course’s grading rules). In this system, you don’t know which grade your collection of vague and fuzzy feedbacks corresponds to until the very end.
Delta is a pager that does Syntax highliting, better diff highliting and improved outputs of existing git commands. Highly recommended.

https://github.com/dandavison/delta
Havr you considered the possibility that these laws don't protect anyone?