skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little puzzling to see commenters treat this project as if any part of it was serious.

Every serious accounting of the project says the same: it's batshit insane.

The scale is ridiculously big (170km long, 500m high), the location is ridiculous, the shape is the opposite of what you want in urban design (a straight line means the opposite ends are going to be disconnected, no matter how good your trains are), and every single design element is made to look good on a video presentation before being practical.

Management is reportedly made of oil barons who get violently angry if anyone questions their decisions, and foreign contractors who know the project is doomed but don't want to speak up while the free money is flowing.

It's a huge farce.
You can definitely do well in SAT with just books. Definitely better than other metrics where the rich families can hire guys from outside to do it or arrange it for the rich kids.
On writing a good exception message
Makes sense given russians are at war against Europe
But now imagine the world of tomorrow, where despite the convenient availability of a range of wheels well optimized for specific roles you get told "that just adds dependencies: any artisan builds their own from scratch" and so you and your customers get to learn the unique quirks and paper-cuts of each wheel of every chariot you sell thereafter.
They're political, just not explicit. You're confusing political with ideological. And, even then, ideological is just following some -ism. Which are everywhere, apparent or not.

Personally, I'm not interested in a Linux distribution which is expressive about being 'anti-fascism', but I am very glad they declare they are. Its a sure notion (red flag) that I don't want to get involved.

And a distribution, by its very nature, is making choices. Which default for X or Y, which package manager, which kernel, which licenses, etc etc.

As software developed by neonazis: personally, if I'd know that to be true, I'd be wary of such software. YMMV.
>It makes it more expensive for people to say 'no' to it

It makes it cheaper for those who exercise and eat healthy. We use individuals' history of repaying debts to price their loans, we use individuals' history of driving and location of driving to price their auto insurance premiums. We use their history in school and work to price their work product.

Where is the line for pricing someone's risk based on individual factors vs pricing based on the collective risk?

>Not only this, but lifestyle data could be used to profile potential customers and either deny them coverage or jack up their rates

Per Affordable Care Act, health insurance companies in the US cannot deny coverage and premiums can only be priced using the 5 criteria listed here:

https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/
Right, I meant 6 digits.

I think I meant "3 digits before the K".
If you look the picture in the Webb's original rotation, there are 4 shining stars (?) on the middle-right of the picture. Now, if you follow down with your eyes, there's a structure that's eerily similar to the Pillars :)
> Maybe ShouldNeverGetHereException, but that may be seen as too whimsical.

In Delphi we have the EProgrammerNotFound exception[1]. I use it for code paths which should never be executed.

[1]: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Alexandria/en/Syst...
The pillars of creation are somewhere between four to five light years across. Unless the entire dust cloud moves at relativistic speeds it's going to take a lot of time for any change to be visible when zoomed out that far
LTCM enters the chat. Ruble falls. AI strats say buy all teh rubles. $4 terabucks margin call. Oops.
Stupid question, but can't they rename the txt to .html, put <html> on the front, </html> on the back, and use cloudflare to cache/proxy the content?
I’m amazed when people think that societal issues can be solved by better regulations. This time we’ll get it right and be benevolent! This time!

Completely ignores history / human nature.

The genius of part time politicians and limited government was that it protects us from ourselves. We are indeed our own worst enemy. The only incentive for public service should be public service. The lack of skin in game with huge upside leads to idiocy like million dollar bus stops, 10k toilets and anti-trust enforcers becoming m&a lawyers.

Career politicians and lobbying plus the “retirement” back door to Wall Street, consulting and big business in general has completely distanced the US government from those who it purports to serve. At this point it’s basically like an asshole king who uses the monopoly on taxes to enrich themself. Except that the asshole king is a cohort of a class of people and Wall Street.

In hindsight this is inevitable. At least the previous monarchy believes in noblesse oblige.
No it’s not worth discussing, that’s why you interrupt!
Even better, serve a file that blocks literally everything.
> Maybe a tradesman's tool chest screwed to the roof (if you have roof access), with a padlock?

Most apartments in Ukraine probably have a balcony (the Soviets really insisted on them for some reason), so that shouldn't be a problem.
In theory we don't need testers for program testing, we just need an AI to do it. But it is easier to say it, than to implement it.
Experimental indications of non-classical brain functions
The problem with this is that you still have to calculate the VAT for each customer manually and submit that to your tax agency and transfer those funds.

For now there are ONLY 2 (non stupid) alternatives that do that dirty work for you:

- itch.io for one time products. (you could make manual subscriptions here redirecting your users every month/year)

- gumroad.com for subscriptions.

itch takes down to card fees only.
gumroad takes more but it scales down as you earn more reaching parity at 30 cents + 2.9% per transaction if your lifetime earnings are $1+ million.

I doubt any of the integrations this open-source project offers will be so much better that it makes it worth the global VAT overhead?
> And then there's the transportation issues caused by it being a line instead of a circle

Actually because of the line concept it makes it easier to reach any part of it using a single high-frequency and high-density transportation line. With a circle design you need a lot more transport lines to reach all areas, and not all of them can be high-frequency and/or high density.
cvise is another tool for test case reduction, similar to creduce mentioned in the article:

https://github.com/marxin/cvise
To be pedantic, it's one way to solve combinatorial optimization problems :)
Have you read Ioaniddis’ reply? It is worth the effort.
We don’t have to blame AI for metrics that do not include comfort and job satisfaction. The effects you described are not inherent to AI but to goals that upper people impose on lower people through a pyramid of management. Everyone there cares about profits and efficiency, nobody gives a fuck about workers living on the edge. Maybe stripping this paradigm naked is a good thing and a way to something else.
That's insane. I've been holding back from using Pocket Casts precisely because there FOSS alternatives like Antennapod and Podverse - but I wasn't that happy with them.

Props to Automattic for being an incredible force for good!

Edit: Wow 12$/year is a nice price for the Plus plan (vs. Podverse's 3/month, though that's not terrible either). They just got themselves a new subscriber. I'd skip the trial if I could. Take my money!
>There are plenty of counter examples of other people who are born in the same month than me who are totally different.

That's irrelevant though. He didn't say it is a law of nature that forces development in the same exact way. Just that it's a factor.

What is the concern is how a statistically significant part of those born at X months are affected, compared to those being born at Y months.

Not whether there are exceptions. Of course there will be. People being the same in both groups might even be the majority. But one group (say "born in spring-summer ) having 17% more of something compared to the other is a big thing, and that's whats considered here - even if the rest 83% are the same on that aspect.
Maemo Leste might be right for your PinePhone
Yeah, but they also like price fixing and exploitation. Look at the transport industry how it implemented surveillance. One participant extracted more from their employees by putting them on a tighter schedule so that taking a leak became something relevant. Others have to adjust to these measures.
Ah yes, my bad. /etc/nsswitch.conf (which is also a Linux-ism but BSDs have something similar) supports LDAP. However, an advantage of /etc/hosts is the low latency since its not networked, while LDAP would result to overhead. Still, I believe that would be a suitable alternative. There's some non-bloated alternatives to OpenLDAP, and also an option could be caching.
But the video is 43 minutes that I don't have today and probably never. I skimmed through the transcript and I didn't find the point (which dead programs?) So I better find the time to watch the video or read the transcript or do something else, like I do for most content available as video. I prefer short to-the-point blog posts.
This is what people here do not understand: This function is "natural" because it's a continuous function over R, which is not defined by explicitly referencing computability. Certainly you can come up with less interesting examples which are discontinuous, or which reference computability, but people in the area wouldn't be surprised or care.
This example is discontinuous, so it's not interesting. Discontinuous functions f:R->R or f:CR->CR (where CR means Computable Reals) are always not computable.
AntennaPod offers a database export (and import). While not ideal, it's better than nothing.
In fact I think it is harder for dark matter to collapse into black holes because it can't easily shed momentum (angular of otherwise) and 'spiral down' .
We used it in a project that performed document recognition and analysis. It was useful for aligning the fields to be extracted from the source image as we formulated it as an optimization problem.
It was straightforward to use and it contains some neat loss functions that reduce the effect of outliers (e.g. CauchyLoss).
Parler Accidentally Doxxed Its Most VIP Members
The last line is logically ambiguous. In Europe, I believe in 2019, they found two effects: a significant _underdiagnosis_, offset by a tiny over diagnosis; now you could argue phones and screens artificially raise the genetic baseline, or that America is inherently different. But I will tell you ADHD meds calm me down, or when measured with a heart strap monitor over a full day fairly meaningfully lower my heart rate.

It’s perhaps a meme now that adhd is over diagnosed, but I’d guess the majority is pill seeking individuals looking to compete at school or at work and less false positive diagnoses such as yours.

Net net you seem to have solved it fairly quickly so at least that’s good: even when you get the diagnosis wrong if you can backtrack without significant cost then maybe it’s not absolutely horrible.
Shouldn't you be able to get the data by requesting it via the GDPR (technically only EU, but most companies probably don't care).
They don't, and they haven't. The flaws, like being able to add servers without every participant trusting them, require a deeper redesign.
If you believe someone is trolling you should flag the post instead of reply to them or call them troll or flaming them. That's not done here on HN, see the guidelines.
We have been using KillBill for many years for our SaaS product.

While it is very nice to own our data, we have had a huge lot of issues with it too.

Beware that this is an "industrial" tool, meaning that it is very complex, written in Java, with a lot of quirks and sharp edges. The core team also seems to mainly work on some closed-source version of it, for some not-very-clear-what big corp(s). They let you know sometimes that there exists a more feature-full closed-source version when asking questions in the support google group or on github issues, but it's not very transparent.

If you are a startup with a small team or small budget and no real Java development skills, you'll probably want to be careful in considering to use it: many custom things you'll want to do will require contracting with one of their partners because it's too complicated to do yourself, and support will be limited, and debugging issues will be hugely complicated if you are not used to that tech stack...

Just this week, we have had a major issue with it: after doing an `apt upgrade`, docker was updated and restarted. It restarted KillBill's docker images fine but KillBill itself restarted only the Stripe plugin, not the Avatax one, for an unknown reason. So the tool happily generated invoices and payments for a few hours without any taxes (!), until we noticed and started the plugin manually from the interface. This is the kind of issues we regularly have to deal with, and while the tool does a good job most of the time, it is mindblowingly annoying sometimes.
> Imaging two coworkers standing in the company floor: - "so about feature X?" - "arg ... yep ... I'll get it done by next week" - "Computer!?" - <beep boop> - "Create a reminder for [Coworker] to finish feature X by next week" - <ok human, I have created a reminder for Coworker>

More like: " - "Computer!?" - <beep boop> - "Create a reminder for [Coworker] to finish feature X by next week" - <Creating a Redmine server for [Coworker] > - "No! Stop!" <Are you under threat? Should I call police?>

This is roughly my experience with current "smart assistants"
This is a bit different though. You are basically taking away a main revenue stream from websites, your main clients. That sounds like bad optics for them.
Tech Books you have to read, to be a better Software Engineer
Nobody becomes great overnight, it takes years to gain the knowledge and experience to be at the top in your field. These books would help you get there faster.

Here are some of the best tech books I read recently that I believe will make everyone a better Software Engineer:

System Design Interview — An Insider’s Guide

Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People

The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Black Death survivors gave their descendants a genetic edge
Lysenkoism was the denial of evidence-based genetic science motivated by political concerns. It elevates what powerful people will allow you to believe over an investigation into the truth free of any ulterior motives. I’m not sure that example demonstrates what you think it demonstrates. If anything, Lysenkoism held back the Soviets in competition with the West.
In the archive link, I could not see the original response from TMobile 'Andrea'.

On twitter, they deleted their response https://twitter.com/c_pellegrino/status/981596868709961728

But you can see it here : https://archive.ph/O7K0s
Which field is that? I thought healthcare but it must not be it because you said there was only one person at the evening shift.
It is not expressing a tautology, it is saying the universe is a single quantum field. Basically, a single coordinate in some Hilbert space.
Every time I’m at the dentist I’m fascinated by the software they use
I mostly try to be amazed at what has survived (and the unlikely ways it did).

One thing to note is that there seems to be a compounding difficulty of preserving records. Eg we don’t have much science or mathematics from anything like late antiquity but somehow the Hagia Sophia was built in 537. If you look at the evidence that people were still capable of the kind of analysis required to build that structure it seems plausible that much mathematics or science was still happening (in the eastern Roman Empire) but not being recorded. Perhaps if you are copying books you’re more likely to be copying the important ancient foundational texts rather than more advanced narrower more recent things. There’s like 7-800 years between Apollonius and the construction of that church. I do wonder what mathematics was done in that time but not recorded. But it also may be that the culture around mathematics was somehow limited with no (evidence of anything like) algebra or calculus or coordinate systems which are pretty important to the developments in the last few hundred years of mathematics.

Early western Christianity was pretty bad for preserving ancient texts (a silly and likely exaggerated way to phrase the attitude is something like ‘if it’s compatible with the bible it is unnecessary and if it disagrees with the bible it’s heresy and should be destroyed’ though it also seems the New Testament is somewhat Aristotelian) but the eastern empire kept many of them going (in their original Greek), and the Muslims ended up with Arabic translations and Western Europe then got copies or contemporary Arabic works through what is now Spain and translated them into Latin (this could be somewhat tricky for mathematics but worse for anything more philosophical which would have likely been changed first to be compatible with Islam and second to be compatible with Roman Catholicism).[1] Eventually scholars in the west also got access to the Greek texts from the Byzantine empire and the attitudes towards censorship had changed (I guess it was less necessary for things that were not in the vernacular) and it was perhaps lucky that this happened before the fall of Constantinople.

[1] apart from destruction there are also things that are lost due to there being a lot of texts and not that many people looking at them. Eg I think there’s a big library associated with the bishop of toledo (maybe a cathedral or seminary library; maybe in a bishops palace) which is full of Arabic texts from before the rechristianization of Spain. There may be texts there which are unknown to modern scholars.
For sure it's anecdotal, I just wanted to point out that at this age it is by far not next to impossible to have a child. I wouldn't rely on it, but it's also not a "1 in 100/1000" kind of situation. There are various sources that are extremely discouraging to women of this age, as if getting pregnant and having a healthy child at this age was somehow akin to winning the lottery, when it is not.

Of course, it all depends on the woman's egg reserves and general health; but there, like I commented in another subthread, personal biology definitely trumps statistics.
> So you’re saying we need an open-source Avalara alternative

The problem is not that Avalara costs money. The real issue is that most companies that claim to "deal with tax compliance issues" actually don't. I tried using some in the past, and none worked correctly for my region (EU/Poland).

The second problem is that you can't really "outsource tax compliance", because there is no clear cutoff line that you can point to. Taking my region as an example, I need invoicing with not just correct rates, but also compliant SAF-T export (JPK Faktura) and soon an interface to the electronic invoicing system that is being built by the government (KSeF), and an export to some of the formats used by accounting companies. And compliant invoicing here (especially on VAT issues) is no joke. You really need this to be perfect.

I run a B2B SaaS and I wish I could outsource all of my subscription billing and invoicing. It's causing me tons of pain. But I haven't found a way to do that.

On a side note, I don't even consider doing B2C sales, because VAT compliance on those in the EU is such a nightmare.
> VS code at Google

MS have done a fantastic job of getting developers everywhere hooked on VS Code, whether they are writing for the Windows ecosystem or not.
What is niche? Any application cr4nberry hasn't heard of?
Public Cloud Prices to Surge in US and Europe Next Year
That’s not at all helpful and in fact it’s confusing.

Going to a place of work is the status quo with one of the exceptions being bubbles in IT. Some offices are nice, some not. Some are within walking distance, others are not.

You are not locked in to your office unless you work in a literal sweatshop. The lunch hour is a legal right in Europe.

It’s your task to check that you have a reasonable commute before accepting a contract. Why should a company care that you picked a job on the other end of the city?

Jesus, I can’t believe how spoiled and entitled so many people are. But that will resolve itself once remote developers start getting replaced with cheaper workers which can develop apps or websites just as well.
If only we had some standardized and ubiquitous kind of format, a markup language that allows hyperlinks. If could have embedded pictures and interactivity!
fyi - Pocket Casts is now part of Automatic, not neccesarily a start-up still
China Summons Chip Firms for Emergency Talks After US Curbs
This sounds like a similar issue as Linux distros used to have, I'm not sure how many still do this, but use alternative sites.

On download.easylist.com have it shuffle and send a redirect to a mirror to download the list. I wonder if Universities are still offering these small amounts of space for Open Source projects?
Certainly it cant be applied as effectively to every domain but it's already spreading.

In some domains I'll bet it will mean that middle managers will simply have the tools to be able to effectively manage 60 instead of 10 workers. In others perhaps it wont change much. In others like taxis the middle manager will be made entirely redundant.

I dont think it's necessarily a good thing either but that doesnt mean it's not going to happen.
> This may sound esoteric, but I really think there is some deep truth in attributing personality traits to astrological signs.

Then it ought to be provable, no need to guess.
I haven't found the original article yet, but from the summary: using a special MRI machine they found MRI signals that resemble heartbeat evoked potentials, a form of EEG signals. Apparently, these signals are only detectable if they are entangled. Hence the brain is a quantum computer.

That there are entangled particles in the brain is no surprise. Any cup of coffee will have a million. That the brain uses quantum computing is a bit of a reach it seems.
It is a known issue with social science that culture will bias research focus and conclusions that align with where the researcher lives. A typical finding is that US researcher tend to find research data that demonstrate individualistic virtues, while places like China and Russia tend to find research data that demonstrate collectivism virtues.

In general there are a few conclusion that should be drawn from that. One is that researchers tend to focus on research subjects that align with their own cultural biases, so while the data might be unbiased the choice of research subject is not. It is that naturally those researcher will have a harder time considering alternative explanation for a given set of data, even if that data itself is unbiased.

The key is always to consider culture into context of research and understanding how it limits the ability of the researcher, especially when politicians take such conclusions and runs with it.
It took me less than a week to understand the main problem is tooling and licensing :)
That's not even going into the Norman conquest of Italy.
I am following up internally. Looks like there's a combination of this data not being cached, our systems thinking a DDoS was happening (which it sort of was). But getting the full story now.