skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abstract

> Money has been a polarising and unresolved socio-economic issue for more than 300 years. In this article, we explore how the state became increasingly involved in money and, through the words of prominent monetary theorists, identify the problem of the state in money. We analyse Bitcoin to see if it is a solution to this problem but move on to contend that the political dimension needs to be the focus of theory in the 21st century and that control of the supply of money, and the power that it gives, is the root of contention.
The US often skips many many chances to help our fellow new worlders in the south both in the caribbean and mexico on down. It will definitely come home to bite us in the future.
Yep. Three taps in and I'm already hitting "premium" screens. No thanks.
Here's the fatal flaw in this article:

> Wouldn’t all those rays also raise rates of skin cancer? Yes, but skin cancer kills surprisingly few people: less than 3 per 100,000 in the U.S. each year

This is like saying "Don't people who slather themselves in honey and walk bare naked to the woods get eaten by bears more? Sure, but bears kill surprisingly few people, just 59 out of 1,000,000 yearly"
The problem is that everyone has their own oppinion on the matter, and will block anyone from trying out any other opinion.

At some point, you just need to build. If some ideas don’t pan out… then people will move, investors will lose. At present, even in densely populated Boston, any type of housing will command a high rate.
I can't believe Contact wasn't mentioned
> While there is evidence that hungarian notation + camelCase is better for token usage - eg variables

What evidence? Where?
For the Elixir equivalent of Jupyter (called Livebook) I've been keeping the markdown files in a `livebooks` directory so diffing them is as easy as `git diff` or any other existing text-based diff tools. It's been pretty successful.
I agree that the current patent system is broken, but there are a lot of situations where I think protecting an invention for some time is warranted.

Let's say you invest 10 years of your life trying to develop a new cure or drug, but some other company reverse engineers the formula and sells it for cheaper, preventing you from even recoup your investment costs.

This might not be a problem for large corporations, but nobody else would be incentivized to try to create or develop something cutting edge, which might have a high risk of failure or take a long time to see through.
Without entering on who is winning and things like that.

With the capital controls in place today idk how much the price of the ruble means.
Perhaps pay a little more and don’t buy Chinese products if you want to alter a trans-oceanic trade process? Or, be glad to save $$ at Walmart and dollar stores and don’t sweat the details.
HOAs effect the members living situation, so they have the potential to generate some real horror stories. But it just seems like a particularly dramatic version of "people with happy situation don't post about them online."

My neighborhood growing up had a HOA that just maintained a little shared beach. They had a couple rules for yards, but nothing too onerous (don't have someone stay in a camper in your front yard -- a rule we actually broke, but just for a weekend or so, family visit with not enough rooms in the house). Annoying neighbors will find a way to be annoying, reasonable ones will find a way to be reasonable, the HOA is just a medium for this sort of behavior.
Yes. Blender has some volumetric operations. You can take the union or intersection of two meshes, or use one to cut out part of another. But it's a bolt-on to an underlying mesh system, and the resulting meshes have lots of ill-chosen triangles.

Serious modern parametric CAD (Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, etc.) does constructive solid geometry well, but is not well suited to animation. Making a face via CSG is terrible. Although it's gotten better; you can now do sculpted shapes in CAD, because people design cars in them. That has both sides of the hard problem - the smooth shapes must look good, and the bolt holes for the stamping dies must line up precisely.
There’s a housing emergency in most places people want to live. If society wanted to have moderate solutions, they should have tried these conservative solutions before crisis point.

It’s like saying pouring water on a house fire is too extreme, maybe try an ABC extinguisher instead. The time for half measures is long past. If NIMBY home owners don’t like that there’s an apartment in their neighborhood, they can choke.
It might feel that way because acne is just much less noticable on darker skin. Acne effects skin of all colors. The one year I was tan was also my year I had my bad bacne episode.

Even my cat had an episode of acne.
Are there any simple software things that are actually very simple?

I feel like tons of the very basic things that have been core software tasks for ages still have surprising amount of complexity and depth to them when you'd expect them to be simple. Stuff like text (basically anything), math (real numbers), 2d graphics (efficient high-quality vector graphics still seem like a pipedream), sorting (we just had a thread about improving sorting in postgres!), files (infamous fsync issues), color, etc just seem to constantly come up as problems when you'd think we had solved them already 20 years ago.
IIRC, we call it racist without the scare-quotes because of it's disproportional effect. That's how that word works.
> Technically, these are beliefs that you have formed, not facts demonstrated by your example.

technically democracy is all bout that.

millions of people forming beliefs based on the action of those in power.

Virginia Raggi has constructed her reputation of worse mayor ever by herself, you should investigate what she's done, if you really are interested.

> How would him providing proof change the epistemic state of underlying reality that you are allegedly describing?

by proving the thesis that "liquid democracy solves that"

I presented a case where it didn't.

It's enough to disprove it.
Look before you cross.
Hydra: A Real-Time Spatial Perception Engine
Remember the good old days when this sort of thing was unlikely due to the "eyeballs on code" theory?
This definitely does not have the desired effect for me. The uneven contrast made me read slower since I found myself re-scanning the same words again to confirm their spelling. It's only slightly less distracting than reading rANdoMlY CaPitAliSeD tEXt.
So what? Those other people aren't obligated to do things that lead to your enjoyment. Please.
Our human ancestors were not nocturnal. Sleep patterns were probably different, sure, but they went out during the day to gather and hunt for food.
Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Effect? (2020)
!remindme 2023-08-01
The US Trade Representative publishes a naughty list of countries every single year pointing out nations that aren't conforming to american intellectual property laws. These reports are riddled with language such as "our stakeholders say", implying rich corporations and industries are telling the US government what to do and who to target. As a result, countries with high crime rates and without universal basic sanitation have to waste resources policing imaginary american property within their borders.
Yea, let's repeal Prop 13, our state needs to collect more money. As if they high gas prices and income taxes aren't enough... let's get the taxpayers once more, through their property. Does anybody actually think raising property taxes will make homes more accessible? It will create a further divide and will get passed through to renters anyways.
My name is Don, so every time I see a column called "createdon" I think it's a boolean flag that you can set true to create me. I wish the db designer would use snake case instead of mashing all the words together. But then again, I keep my ssh key in a file called donkey.pem.

The "big-endian naming mould" suggests naming it orders_per_month_max, since orders is the object (most significant), per_month is a count of orders (secondary significance), and max is a constraint of the order per month count (least significant).

Then you can use other parallel names in the same big-endian pattern, like orders_per_month orders_per_year orders_per_year_max orders_per_second_min refunds_per_year_average etc, and they will all sort next to their closely related names, instead of the "inline max" or "prefix max" scrambling the alphabetical order.
Code is not a company.
> That's how that word works.

Incorrect. In ordinary usage, “racism” means prejudice based on race. There are efforts by some to muddy its meaning, to encompass both racial prejudice and “disproportionate effect,” but that’s not the common usage.
I would argue that DokuWiki actually implements its own little custom database, with its metadata, metadata indexes, fulltext indexes etc., adding complexity and doing it probably in a shittier way than a "real database" would do.
> Isn't ko just simple forbinding of board state repetition rule ?

In sensible rule sets, yes.

For technically-minded people, forbidding of board state repetition is easy to understand. For children and less technically-minded people, ime they often won't understand what it means and will worry they'll repeat the board state accidentally and it takes a whole lot of explaining and examples. Everything very much depends on who you're teaching.
The funny thing is that they can keep the low tax rates if they live in the home!!

The just can't rent it out and continue the low tax rates.
The comment was about tax ebing raised by the state, illusion or not it affects taxes the same
A bunch of things happened.

Women entered the workforce in large numbers almost doubling the labor pool across the 1970s. This instantly stagnated wages. Meanwhile, all the things those women were doing at home weren't free, so cost of living also skyrockets. Pretty soon the reasonable "right to work from home" becomes "go to work or go broke"

Welfare state kicked off in earnest and corporate taxes were increased to compensate while it was removed from your pay via wages not keeping up with inflation.

Related to welfare, 60% of people pay ZERO or NEGATIVE income taxes. Rich people are paying for all those negative taxes and taking it out of YOUR paycheck. Then, because they are paying most of the taxes, they are the people politicians actually listen to.

You are outright lied to about inflation. The calculations were changed in 1980 by the incoming Reagan administration to make it look like their policies were more effective than they actually were. CPI indicates that inflation from 2000 to 2020 was right at 50%, but if you look at price comparisons for stuff in 2000 and stuff now, they've generally gone up 100% or more. You can see these shenanigans represented in things like how the wholesale inflation index is currently 2-3% higher than the CPI rate. When your employer says "we're giving you a 2% cost of living because that's the CPI" and real inflation is actually 4%, this adds up over the years.

Finally, even after accounting for everything, almost everyone is STILL getting screwed relative to inflation. We as devs think we have "the good life", but we're generally making LESS than median salary adjusted for inflation compared to programmers 30-50 years ago despite being massively more productive.
Thank you for pointing this out. I do prefer to be more accurate than I was.
I’m distrustful of them. I’m not sure what version will be approved and what version has been ruled out, invalidating some swath of libraries.

Can anyone provide a succinct summary?
It's true that 2021 saw the highest rate of GDP growth in 30 years, but that came immediately after the largest GDP decline in 30 years during 2020. So that can be explained as an aberration due to the pandemic shutdowns and subsequent rebound:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/188165/annual-gdp-growth...

At any rate, GDP growth is currently negative for 2022 and China's economy is still projected to overtake the U.S. in a matter of years.
I honestly agree with you on all of those points. Those are very good things to have.

At the end of the day though, people _are_ weighing the pros and cons and deciding to leave. Perhaps it’s not the right conclusion but it’s not like people are leaving due to mere “rumors” or “bad press” - Texas/Florida have been punching bags for the past two years and people keep moving there.

My personal opinion is just to live where you want to live. If the cost of regulation is too high for you, move to a less regulated place. You’ll lose culture and entertainment but you’ll gain freedom.

If you prefer the regulations, stay, at the cost of some freedom.

But honestly, if everyone is happy in their own state I consider that a win… now rn I’m “stuck” in the “actual” worst state, hands down, which is Virginia ;)
I saw this pop up on Twitter a couple of days ago and made a JS version with a variable font. https://codepen.io/onion2k/pen/qBxmVpR it's a fun idea, but I don't really find it helps me read things.
Afaik these transfers are not from prop 13, that's some separate thing handed out afterwards (to buy votes, etc).
The farm my father bought in rural Ohio for his retirement had a house that started life as a basement house. It was built in the 50s, and the basement had a kitchen, full bath, a very nice fireplace, and a few other rooms. Plus the garage. The ground floor basically re-did it all. My father's theory was that they did the basement first, then built the rest of the house later. I hadn't realized such a thing was common.
The pull a gun over trash scenario is kind of ridiculous because the gun puller would be arrested. And it just doesn’t happen.

It would go like this:
1) I leave trash out
2) Neighbor yells and pulls out gun
3) I put up trash
4) I call police, neighbor is arrested and gun is taken away forever.

I think there’s a perception of “crazy people owning guns” means they are just randomly doing things. Gun owners are typically pretty responsible or self-destructive.

Half the US owns guns and there aren’t many crimes percentage wise. So the vast, vast majority just never do stuff with their gun.

The actual argument is about the extreme outliers who murder people and commit mass shootings. There’s 20M firearm homicides [0] so that’s still super rare as a rate but the impact of each event is super impactful.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
Do you really need more than 1s and 0s? Maybe go back to blinkenlights and toggle switches, those are simpler and even less bug prone to implement. You can still perform any computation you want, but it sure will not be as pleasant as having nice ux.
I've heard the idea to zone for one level above the average in an area, to avoid the wild west situation. Doubtful that would fly with some very rich single family neighbourhoods near cities, but perhaps it's too late for the gradual re-zoning and a more blunt approach is necessary.

Aside... where the heck is tech in building housing faster? Where's the prefab and automated assembly? Too many building regulations? Entrenched interests? Incredibly hard problem for large scale engineering?
usually it's saved to bail out their existing investments in down rounds....
Just a singular data point from my side, but is there a chance you may have AD(H)D or O(C)D? I likely have ADHD myself (official dx pending), and I also have a very similar "I'm interested in everything!" feeling. My inbox has ~4k mails, and I likely have 2k tabs open across different devices/browsers/OSes.

If this is the case, I'd recommend taking a long, hard look at the things you want, and what you'll regret if you don't do. I love the idea of an FPGA but I won't regret not knowing how to code for one. Though ironically I can hardly say much to you in my current situation without coming off as hypocritical.
It's funny to me how I have about the same things than you. Changing your Honda to a mountain bike, and also adding "repairing things to prevent trashing it", and I would have my list.
I've learned a little -- but not a lot -- about Rome's civic problems, and would like to understand more. What are the mayor's policies/actions that have caused most problems? Some of the difficulties may have been inherited, as I understand it.

(also: since founded? that's a while :))
This very common Internet take seems self-fulfilling, to a degree. And like many Internet takes, I've read it a million times without seeing any data.

> driving out stable tradional businesses

What is that based on? It's hard to believe all demand for local services doesn't have anyone supplying food, entertainment, construction, etc.
> Hey, Yanks. It's your beloved capitalism and free market forces.

Hardly all Americans are libertarians. And even those who are, would probably want to be aware of this troubling development - especially when caused by a country that is not shy about state intervention in the economy itself.
I agree. I am all for helping struggling nations move forward but when I hear reparations, I just change the channel. Come back and talk to me when you remove that from your vocabulary. Reparations just beget more reparations and don't fix the rot at the core of the Haitian government or any other. Just like removing all college debt would just be a bandaid and the problem would still be there. It requires fundamental chance to fix things, throwing cash at it and changing nothing won't
I'd expect if this were true, then the USA which has the highest per capita concentration of guns anywhere in the world, should also have the least amount of crime, but this isn't the case.
Not during wildfire season when the weather forecast is "smoke"
Instead he recommends vitamin D pills and hypertension drugs as safer approaches.

I suspect anybody who recommends medication over natural resources has a bridge to sell.
> seem to be ‘much more likely’

I'd expect something more solid than "seem to be" as evidence from someone demanding I not wear a cycle helmet.

There is evidence that some drivers are less careful around cyclists wearing helmets meaning there are more accidents, but if you look deeper into to those stats most of the extra incidents are relatively minor and on the major ones significant head injuries are more common. So more a few more incidents, but the survivability rate is still better overall with a helmet.
I have this issue and I think the only fix is to stop reading / consuming
It isn't a binary thing but a rate.
It absolutely is pretty bad, but a world where your only protection from scams is being smarter than the scammer is a world in which you (and everyone else, not singling you out) get scammed, too.
Groceries aren’t that good in NYC because they won’t allow enough warehouses to be built; IIRC this leads to produce being older and sometimes spoiled in stores.

Other places on the east coast do have better groceries than NorCal and proximity to farms doesn’t seem to matter that much. Which makes sense; “eating local” and “farm to table” are not actually real things, wouldn’t be good for the environment if they were, and are mostly products of green meme boomers’ wishful thinking.
I realize that the submission is about this weird math stuff and how it apparently relates to politics. But neither the original commenter that I replied to nor myself interpreted the word “truth” correctly and so I went off on a different tangent.

What does this have to do with my provisional definition of “democracy”? What am I supposed to concede?
Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5
Who is "themselves"?
The pandemic isn't over. Assuming that it is will lead to rather unpleasant outcomes.
I wonder whether he was demonstrating this: https://youtu.be/w0sz5WbS5AM?t=1168
Because real people like to go to the beach or go running or a million other outdoor activities. And some people even like the look of a tan, or want to show off their bodies. Or people don't want to spend their time thinking about that stuff and have other priorities. That is my point about the narrow advice. People have diverse goals, and there is a lot more to going out in the sun than optimizing your vitamin d levels. Treating people like we're all farm animals that need some standard, dictated care formula works for nobody
Patriotism involves sharing the burdens of your country and working for its betterment. Among these burdens are moral burdens. If your country does something wrong the patriotic thing to do is to contribute to making it right. Calling this "collectivism" is bizarre. It is simply what it means to be patriotically committed to your country: you wish your country to thrive, not merely yourself.
You want to avoid sunburn, while getting enough sun every day, so this wouldn't work if I understand your suggestion correctly.
Agreed. When dealing with real values, it’s favorable to explicit the units: weight_lb, length_cm.
Lack of sun exposure or lack of “large environments” where your eye can focus further distances? While they’re extremely hard to separate in real life, it’s different from what the article is suggesting.
Hanlp – Natural language processing for the next decade
Just the politicians in power and their entourage, please
The root issue here is that you frame it as you paying something for him. What is actually happening is that you demand that everyone else pay for your mortgage by subjecting themselves to your restrictions.
Consistency Is Proficiency
Can you elaborate on “you cannot be made to unlock anything”?

Jail time, denying entry, a gun to your head are all potential ways I can think of.

For manufacturer & government; it depends on which government. If we are talking of the US government; you are right. If we are talking about most smaller authoritarian regimes? Not so much.
Mmm yeah I'd take a look at this photo before deciding to skip the sun cream.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trucker-accumulates-skin-damage...
I already knew how to play when watching Hikaru no Go, and am surprised there are people who didn't know how to play before and bothered watching nevertheless. Is the story that interesting even if one can't follow the games?

[Edit: I guess the answer to my question is contained in your "dont think that I know anyone who saw hikaru no go and then not started to learn go"... though I wonder why people haven't just stopped watching!]
https://archive.ph/xhhRo
Coinbase Grew Headcount 33% in Q1
are there enough of us that are not beneficiaries of Prop 13 to repeal Prop 13?

No. Repealing Prop 13 is a third rail, ask our last republican governor. A common suggestion is to implement a so-called "split roll" system where non-residential property gets no Prop 13 protections and residential (ideally only the primary residence) maintains the limits. Unfortunately I doubt that'll ever pass within my lifetime.
Unironically, yes.
JFYI, Here are my SolveSpace showcases (models & videos).[0]

[0] https://git.io/DailySolveSpace
I appreciate the explanation, thank you.
Yep, about 7000 miles out. :)
California girl Eileen Gu wins two gold and a silver medal for China?
If there is a comic book villain in modern leaders then it's Putin; belligerent, racist, sexist, using religion to justify his white supremacist policies, referring to Stalin as his favorite leader, etc. I mean there is literally nothing "good" about him.
> it is good intuition that we survived for thousands of years

Well, all those people in the past are dead, so no, they did not survive.
Well you have your sources and I have mine. But my experience is completely the opposite of yours.
You can do so in lab environments, not in real world situations.
While number of crashes are likely getting reduced, head injuries to drivers may increase or be fatal.
it's a misnomer to say "property tax", as it's some hidden version of government provided utilities billed as property tax.

We get a city utilities bill, but its itemization shows trash, recycling, and water, but does not show police, fire department, road maintenance, which is lumped inside property tax.

seems really illogical to me too.