skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My little thought experiment supposes a person who is drunk evaluates, before deciding to get in the car, the potential outcomes of drunk drive, while entirely convinced they won't harm someone.

And just that last clause makes it clear that, at least at that time and place, that person is not going to be deterred by reasonable incentives against reckless behavior, because their judgment is impaired.

Basically, your solution (which is also, as you point out, the solution in place in our current society), is to put unreasonable incentives in place--unreasonable from the point of view of the person, because, in your hypothetical, they're 100% convinced they won't harm anyone, so to them this whole "don't drive drunk" thing seems like an unreasonable restriction. It might be reasonable from the point of view of society, but that very view of "society" is not really compatible with a free society of free and responsible adults. More on that below.

> I gather you think reaction is morally preferable to prevention in such cases. Is that a fair assertion?

The only moral principle I have stated is that one should not impose punishments on people who have not caused actual harm. But I did imply a corresponding moral responsibility for the people themselves: that they should exercise reasonable judgment when making choices. People who either will not or cannot take on that responsibility are not going to be deterrable by the kinds of reasonable incentives I am proposing.

Your position seems to be, basically, that in our current society, most people fall into the latter category: they either will not or cannot take responsibility for exercising reasonable judgment--for example, by making it an ironclad rule for themselves that if they are going to go someplace where they might get drunk, they have a plan in place in advance to get home without having to drive. If most citizens of our supposedly free society can't meet that standard, we have a much worse problem than drunk driving.

> Since it's a situation drunk drivers make for themselves I'm happy to punish it.

I don't disagree that being in a situation where you "need" to drive drunk is self-inflicted; I basically said the same thing just above. My point is broader: that our society seems to assume that most adult citizens, if not prevented by various nanny-state laws, will make such errors of judgment frequently enough for it to be a problem. Either that assumption is false, in which case our society is imposing huge restrictions on people that are not justified; or, even worse, that assumption is true, in which case I think our society is doomed.
No salary range = lowballer scum. Simple as.
That's business. Shifting sands to one degree or another. Sometimes markets change, sometimes strategy changes. If a project no longer makes sense, you drop it, sunk costs are sunk costs.
I am trying to compile a list of data structures (and algorithms and other stuff) into a kind of knowledge base: https://github.com/Dobatymo/data-algos/blob/master/data-stru.... There are few cool and obscure data structures already. Please feel free to help extend it!
If I understand it right this guy tried two different ways to register a domain with a blockchain based service. He failed at one of them and succeeded with the other one. It looked crazy expensive to reserve a domain for one year $80 but affordable to reserve for ten years for $120.

They wish they could serve domains like amazon.eth but you have to settle for amazon.eth.link because eth is not a real top level domain. Alternately you could do something to your web browser or computer DNS to make .eth work for you.

Do I have that right?
That seems almost asinine. It should be trivial to have a standard sorting algorithm so any implementation produces the same result.
They lived in Houston, probably drove to Mexico.
Steve Jobs used to talk about "innovating their way out of the downturn". Maybe they feel their positions are comfortable, safe, and innovation investment isn't required?
Truly a touching story of how a person can start out being suddenly displaced by a rent increase and go on, with lots of hard work, to directly become the reason that thousands have been displaced by a sudden rent increase.
> Which is an extremely trivial check to add - if you got assigned that ticket, you'd probably point it at like 2 or so hours.

Yep, totally a 2hr task for an engineer who works on homedepot.com to “check” that you bought a fridge from lowes.com after you first price shopped the other site. Also a two hour task for a Google engineer to know you bought one in person at Best Buy after researching online first.

Yes, there are basic cases (buying from same merchant as who’s suggesting) that should be handled, but let’s not foolishly pretend that’s the average case, let alone majority / all.
Apple is not Google or Facebook: https://www.apple.com/privacy/

You have to explicitly opt into any logging in apple apps and the OS itself (iOS or macOS). Apple clearly goes to great lengths to ensure that they cannot access your information and data, and very clearly distinguishes stuff that is inaccessible to them from stuff that is encrypted but that they can technically access decryption keys.

A result of this is of course that we get people complaining about apple not restoring their data.

What you're doing is demonstrating how effective Google, Facebook, etc have been in convincing you that real privacy isn't actually possible, solely to protect it from legislative action, because their business models depend on violating it continuously

Recall that Google deciding to trawl through the content of your email (assuming gmail) is why emails from amazon no longer include any details about the order.

Or how "AI" required Google and Facebook, et al having access to everyone's pictures and information.

The fact that G and FB have taken a "fuck our users" approach, doesn't mean that's how every company operates. The fact of the matter is that >75% of google's revenue comes from selling you out, and >90% of facebook's. >80% of apple's revenue comes selling hardware, the remainder from selling services and I assume store royalties (I'd be interested in the break out). You don't have to invade everyone's privacy to make money, it's just G and FB have chosen that approach every time the option is presented to them.

In fact, if a company can decrypt your data then it becomes possible for a hacker of said company to also decrypt that data - a fairly solid reason IMO for either not collecting, or ensuring only the user can access info, unless absolutely necessary for functional or legal reasons.
There's a lot of inertia in the system to design that which gets approved from above, as the article says, rather than to solve local issues locally. You can definitely do it - there are examples across the different states of various design choices - but federal funding may be contingent on following the existing rules.

This relates to a general issue with society(in the US, and to varying extents in other industrialized countries) that has gradually crept up over time: in the post-war period, one-size-fits-all bureaucracy was normalized across many institutions. The rules were necessarily kept simple and strict, using a small amount of data, so that they could be followed accurately. When an exception was needed you talked to an appropriate contact and hoped you were listened to. It was under this system that you got things like the interstates, redlining and urban renewal projects, because there was arbitrary power to decide what was built where and all you had to pass to get a shovel-ready project was a routine checklist.

Then computerization took over and every bureaucracy started adding more complex data models and rulesets. More choices appeared, forms got bigger, more rounds of approvals were added and everyone lost track of who to talk to when things went wrong. You are more likely to be addressed as a categorical minority(e.g. gender or ethnicity) but aren't allowed to be singularly exceptional because there's too much automation in the way.

And when we look at the state of road infrastructure now there's absolutely a case of that phenomenon: The design premise remains locked in "first design for cars at speed" and then other modes are the exceptions that are harder to access: you have to make exceptions to have less parking space, exceptions to add bike paths, exceptions to try a different intersection design and so forth. Major cities are undergoing reform to a lot of these rules, but at varying rates and levels of pessimization. Once you have an established rule, it's not a career-ender to follow it blindly, so you have to take a risk to not follow it.
Type->Value Lattice

https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/logic/
I have relatives like that too. They always want us to pick them up at the train station. I have never seen a Canadian passenger train arrive on time.
German church, richer than the Vatican, risks schism w/ Synodal Path
The real reason is that they don't want the paparazzi hanging around and they really don't want the scrutiny into the club's details (like membership lists, past member affiliations, etc) that Ms. Swift would bring along. It's not really a new vs old money thing, but that does make for a better story.
Yet another person that has to ask about this, lol.

I like to do a lot of different things. I'm currently building basic web-apps for clients part-time and love it. Get to work on 2-3 different projects every month, since its usually coming down to basic CRUD apps.

I could build these apps in my sleep but finding the ppl that need them (or a good client) seems like a full time job.
That’s rough, but when a business is no longer economically viable it’s probably time to close up shop.
Checkout Gemini PDA, Cosmo Communicator and Astro Slide 5g - https://store.planetcom.co.uk/collections/all ... while they do come with Android, you are not limited to it and can also install Sailfish, Linux (Kali, Debian) and multiboot.
I’m waiting on China and India for direction. They don’t seem to be worried, and test scores indicate they are much smarter than Americans.
Laser Marking on Mars
The Aho-Corasick automaton [0]. You have a bunch of strings, and you want to know if and where they appear in a longer string. You build a search trie from the strings, but add links back from each node to the node representing the longest suffix of the string it represents that is also in the trie, so you can skip backtracking as you scan, yielding linear time complexity in O(length of string being searched + number of results found).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aho–Corasick_algorithm
The implicit grid data structure from there is a personal favorite of mine. I used it in a game once and it performed incredibly well for our use case.

It's a bit too complicated to totally summarize here, but it uses a bit per object in the scene. Then bit-wise operations are used to perform quick set operations on objects.

This data structure got me generally interested in algorithms that use bits for set operations. I found the Roaring Bitmap github page has a lot of useful information and references wrt this topic:
https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/RoaringBitmap
If you’re willing to use moderately more memory, you can get much better cache locality using a blocked bloom filter. The basic idea is to use an array of bloom filters that each fit into a cache line, and use some bits of hash to determine which sub-filter each item goes into. Suddenly each lookup or insertion has at most one cache miss!
(Note: I spent years writing a book called Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar, which is about this topic)

Although there are many good points in this post, it is strange and unnecessary to speak of books or lectures “not working” because transmission doesn’t really exist. I, too, am a constructivist. But books and lectures work just fine, thank you— because they help me construct.

This is why I read slowly, and I read few books, yet own thousands of them (about 5000). Because a book is not full of knowledge bullets that are shot into my head. Books are full of clues that I use in my sensemaking process. I own books in anticipation of needing to binge on them when I encounter certain problems.

What I wrote about in my book is designed to help other intellectuals put the clues together to construct their own education. That strategy depends on agency. Reading a book using your agency means you are in control, not the author.

Anyway just because some dumb theory about how books work is wrong doesn’t mean books are broken. Search the term “swashbooking” on youtube for a different attitude.
Some Thoughts on Zig
They could have given me a million dollars and I would have happily made this for them.
I've seen a terrorist propaganda video on Diaspora a long time ago. It had gore.
Well, they say imitation is the best form of flattery, and Freshworks, another successful company, was pretty much a copy of zendesk when it started. I haven't used either in a while, so I don't know if/how much they've diverged now.
This is one of the reasons that the things I work on most of the time (healthcare-associated infections) are so insidious.

At any given institution rates are usually quite low, and infections a rarity. But when you project that up to every ICU or hospital in the country, you suddenly get something that causes more deaths than drunk driving.
Any introductory calculus book worth the paper it’s printed on would gladly tell you that the differential of the function y = x at a point x0 is nothing more than x - x0 and that you do not have to think about it as something that is “infinitely small” or anything equally mysterious. (Some would even go as far as saying that “the differential of a function of one variable is a linear map of the increment of the argument.”) So, with dx = x - x0, you can do with it anything you want, even divide by it (assuming that dx stays non-zero).
> Because both parties operate at the behest of the capital-owning class.

The push to regulate big tech has come from within the capital owning class (and particularly from the traditional media.)
Well, first they usually roll out a 40 year old "partner" (and that's the end-goal here- you want to be made "partner") who will show some diagrams in a PowerPoint or even diagram some stuff on a whiteboard, and never seen again. When shit hits the fan, they bust out a "SWAT Team" which is a few people with actual experience in an attempt to unfuck whatever those 24-year-olds screwed up.
Consultant nonsense is what convinced me the Pointy-Haired Boss popularized in Dilbert is the true IRL face of management.
Wasn't meant literally, but sure. It's a big enough deal that it having its own store app is potentially something to take note of.
I can’t recall the site but I remember seeing a drone that had some sort of pneumatic seed launcher that could shoot the seed deep enough into the ground.
Bluetooth 4.2? Wifi 5? For a device shipping in 2023 it certainly isn't competing for recency points. Pretty much it's only saving grace is a quad-core CPU that would probably perform fine all things considered, but it's most tragically hampered by Windows. What would it cost if they didn't pay Microsoft per-unit? This is an OS that is really only going to perform amicably on a pared-back Linux distribution, so why even disguise it as a usable PC when it can't put up more than 2gHz of clock oomph?

All I'll say is that these folks must be making an awful lot of money if these are what they're selling for $150.
This is stupid.

Brad Pitt not existing does not mean 12 Monkeys does not get made. It means that if it does get made, Brad Pitt does not appear in it. Due to not existing.

Sony is a brand, Caesar's Palace is a real place, as is Las Vegas, as the Coronation Egg a real object, etc, etc.

Just because there are parallels to real life, it does not mean that it exactly mirrors real life. It's like assuming that just because certain products/corporations are referenced in two different franchises that they somehow exist in the same universe. If that were the case then all television shows and movies also occur in reality by that logic.

They obviously don't. So obviously in these television/movie universes, sometimes things happen similarly. Although not exactly.
Sailfish OS is still competing and Russia has made it its "official" mobile OS ... Many devices support it too - https://jolla-devices.com/sailfish_devices/ ...
If you haven't done FPGA work before, you certainly want to start with something small and cheap - it will keep you busy for a long time learning a completely different type of development process.

Lattice ECP5 is popular with hackers because there is a reasonably well supported open-source tool chain via Yosys. As tempting as an open-source toolchain is, it is NOT friendly for beginners. You can also use the Lattice Diamond software which includes ModelSim for free (it needs a license, but you can get it by registering for free). If you go that route, I really like the Orange Crab dev board https://1bitsquared.com/products/orangecrab.

That being said, I really would recommend Xilinx for a beginner. The reason is that the toolchain is the least nightmare-ish and they have by far the best documentation and tutorials. Vivado is also free and contains a good synthesis tool and simulator as well as everything else you need. These are going to be much friendlier to the beginner.

Good boards might be: $249 Zybo-Z7 https://digilent.com/shop/zybo-z7-zynq-7000-arm-fpga-soc-dev... or $129 Cora-Z7 https://digilent.com/shop/cora-z7-zynq-7000-single-core-and-.... Both of these also contain a pretty good dual core ARM9, but if you don't want to mess with the software for the ARM, you can still use the FPGA fabric as a plain FPGA.

All of the boards above contain USB based JTAG programmer and require no extra tools for debug and loading.

> My understanding is all FPGA toolchains are a nightmare, and I'm guessing I may have to pirate the software, no chance of me affording a $10k-a-seat license

Well, FPGA design is different than software. For small and medium-size parts, all the vendors have free or very cheap development tools now. All EDA software is very complex and less standardized than software tools. A lot of that is unavoidable. So certainly the toolchains are extremely challenging to learn. The quality of documentation ranges from pretty good (Xilinx) to useless (Microsemi) with most clustered around bad-to-useless. The tools also crash and misbehave in ways you'd never expect visual studio or GCC to do. But again, some of that is because it's comparably a niche market and because of poor vendor support. But a lot more of it is due to the very different and very complicated job the tools are doing, so try not to get overly frustrated - hardware is several layers deeper than software.
https://digilent.com/shop/all-products/

These guys target the education market and most of their boards are compatible with the free version of the Xilinx toolchain. The boards have a modular expansion connector and they sell lots of compatible expansion modules for different I/O mechanisms, both electrical and human (lights, buttons, displays, etc.)

This one checks your boxes: https://digilent.com/shop/nexys-a7-fpga-trainer-board-recomm...

I bought an earlier version of this product 15 years ago in college...now I feel old.
> As a side note why won't apple make it's watch work well with android

This is the way Apple works. You don't own enough products so you aren't worthy of full functionality. Last time I checked you can't update Airpods firmware without another Apple device nor can you change settings on the pro XDR display without a device running macOS.
Trackpoint was so vastly superior to touchpads for the majority of the existence of the laptop that it's only natural that people that were computing when that was the case just completely eschew the touchpad on their laptop, even to this day. That plus the fact that there's little impetus to change (unless you force yourself by purchasing a laptop without a nub).

With that being said, I think Apple finally nailed the trackpad. It's far better than those original trackpads that came on ThinkPads that was so comically small you couldn't really use it on top of absolutely horrendous drivers. I think for the most part trackpads on Windows laptops are pretty competent as well, at least on the higher end models. Windows precision drivers went a long way to matching the experience of using a trackpad on the Mac. On Linux the basics are mostly fine though it's still kind of a mixed bag.

I thought I preferred trackpoint; turns out I don't.
For most of my life, I didn't live in the bay area. I lived in a place where Asians are less than 5% of the population, which is like most of the US. Disfavoring Asians in such a place is ineffective, as there aren't enough to have an appreciable effect. Are you claiming affirmative action doesn't exist in such areas?

There's a bunch of other nonsense in your post (like suggesting $400 and $30,000 are equivalent, or the completely made up claim that managers were being encouraged to pay women more), but like this feels extra egregious.
raise rates to what? from $260 per hour (USA) to $300? there’s only so much a client can optically tolerate, the proposals are already fine tuned to the same maximum as everyone else. same problem in legal industry, you can’t get the partner bill rate up to $5k/hr (how rude) but you can bill 10 associates to “research” at $500
I read an article (decade ago?) about talent agents for software engineers. It was a thing, for a bit at least.
> Bruce Willis may exist in the Ocean’s universe, but the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys, which co-starred Brad Pitt, does not. Movies like Fight Club, Seven, Batman & Robin, The Perfect Storm, Saving Private Ryan, and The Untouchables can’t exist.

This is horrible logic. Just because the actors may not exist doesn't mean other actors weren't cast for the parts. There is no reason to believe the movies don't exist, just in a different form.
Base model is 1700 Can$, which is about 1300 USD. But take with a grain of salt as those numbers are from apple canada's website. Inevitably, cellphones and consumer laptops, something makes them cost more than advertised.