skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a mathematical sense, special relativity is not particularly difficult. Undergraduate physics students often learn it by year two as it doesn't require much more than calculus and linear algebra. That's not at all to downplay Einstein's genius. If it weren't him, I'm sure others would've gotten there eventually, but he was the first there, and his insights were primarily physical (assuming both the constancy of the speed of light in all reference frames and that the laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames of reference).

General relativity was much more difficult. It took Einstein about a decade to develop it and he had to learn differential geometry in order to do so. This work was undoubtedly more profound and required much more advanced mathematics merged with deep insights such as the equivalence principle [0]. This was what made Einstein so successful: the combination of mathematics with physical insights that no one else had put together at the time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle
Think Knuth and a few others are good exceptions to the rule.
You have been duped by hysterics.

The US certainly has problems. Election integrity isn't one of them.

Read here about the Australian election. The official result can take up to ten days. https://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/elections/how-are-the-votes-count...

That doesn't mean it will always take long before a winner is clear. But it's certainly not a one day process!

Have you seen the distribution of seats in the Japanese parlament?
No wonder the counting process is not exactly nail bitingly exciting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Japanese_general_electi...

Brazil have an electronic ballot counting system. That comes with its own set of tradeoffs.

> One id, one vote

If a significant portion of the electorate do not have an id this is a non-starter.
> Since Qatar was awarded the 2022 FIFA World Cup, thousands of migrant workers have died

Uh, yeah? That seems perfectly reasonable given how many millions of immigrant workers live in Qatar.

Browsing through the site, I can’t seem to find any attempt to further explain this statement.
It's really clear that most Americans have very little idea about what life is like anywhere else in the world. Getting US citizenship is a golden ticket for people in most developing countries and the immense government support in housing, state welfare/support programs, small business support, etc. is incomprehensible to those of us that weren't with born with it.

I understand a big part of the problem is that many US citizens don't understand what's available, but some almost everyone has smartphones and Google these days, even infrequent attempts to casually browse the internet for self-improvement will yield very large returns for most US citizens in poverty.
The report does not use Indias poverty level indicators.
There’s a real possibility that pretty soon, most things on the internet are gonna be behind a paywall, anything that’s not will be riddled with ads and bots. I hope I’m wrong though.
I don't think you need man/woman in a language like toki pona either, it's supposed to be this deep philosophical language. If you want to talk philosophy, reproduction is the least of your problems. There's plenty of ways to indicate the sex as well. so long as you have the word for animal/organism, you can say animal + hole/stick, who nurses for the young, hunter, whatever. Its even better because its not exact. the more exact you get, the more words you'll need.
No issue on firefox macos
My Achilles heel for learning Chinese is typing and reading the characters, and I suspect they are two sides of the same coin - if I had to make the characters I'd be much better at memorizing them. All the learn-Chinese apps appear to gloss over this by letting you drag and drop the letters when writing.

How do you type Simplified Chinese on a phone? On a Linux/Mac desktop? I know it has something to do with an IME but this is one area of i18n that has never been explained to me.
Oh, come on. Nobody here is as born yesterday.
Speak for yourself, plenty of us are excited and optimistic.
Has it changed since then?
Not nit picking, just informing, population currently stated to peak around 2080-2100 at around 10.2-11.4b, depending on the estimate!
It is why they are blocked. Different ISPs have different EULAs so it is hard to tell which ones block it. It is a hate site run by trolls.
When it comes to physics, I think the issue is more that we are on the limit of what we can reasonably test. It's like trying to figure out how the body works before the invention of the microscope.

Newton's Gravity was known to be incomplete for many years, just by looking at Mercury. It took several carefully derived experiments studying light for 100s of years that led us to Maxwell's equations in the 1860s that became the basis for Einstein's special relativity in the 1910s. You don't need a billion dollar particle accelerator to come up Maxwell's Equations (2 of them were done by Guass in the 1700s!). 20 or 30 years (and talent!) studying calculus or physics could get you something.

Today we know Einstien's theory of gravity is incomplete but the only places it is incomplete is inside of a black hole (good luck running a test in a blackhole) or at very tiny scales where gravity's affect is minimal. Today, I don't know how you would even come up with a competing theory without having millions to spend on a particle accelerator. While einstein famously just did a thought experiment on what should happen if the speed of light is constant for all observers, most "discoveries" are done now by smashing particles in billion dollar tubes.
Even the http mirror only allows to browse, not download. Please consider uploading the files to Internet Archive so other people can have easier access.
InfernoJS – insanely fast, React-like library for building high-performance UI
C isn't used for defining ABIs. ABI's have content in them like which registers must be saved by a called function and which ones carry arguments. None of that is C. However, out of necessity, ABI definitions refer to some C concepts and must include details like how structures are to be laid out by C compilers.
This is one the main problems with our approach to information security: we disproportionately prioritize protection of our data against theft/law enforcement/rogue bigtech employee over losing it in any other way. That's why many have lost their thousands of bitcoins, because they secured their keys so hard against theft that their data has eventually become unrecoverable despite that there'd be no thief, officer, rogue employee perhaps for a decade.

People who advise not using cloud for backups, suggesting cold wallets and whatnot as blanket advice have been harmful by giving way to the orders of magnitude more likely but the catastrophic scenario that is simple data loss.

Some people bash on Microsoft for backing up your drive encryption keys in the cloud for example, but it's the most common failure mode they're trying to address. No thief would access your cloud, no state-level actor would be deterred by lack of cloud (see: xkcd wrench), no rogue employee could make use of your hard drive encryption keys.

Get your priorities based on your threat model, and get your threat model right, people.
Right, I dunno why I said layout. If you’re interop is with C libraries then the layout is kind of picked for you. And defined by the platform. Super great times.
For some life choices, starting over might seem daunting for a reason. To embark on certain journeys might require resources that we do not have (mental, physical and health resources).
Haha it's not a bug, it's a _feature_
when I initially made this submission 41 days ago the un-archived page looked like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20220212091844/http://www.cix.co...

but now that I've resubmitted it from the Second Chance Pool, you're right, it does seem to be back up. I had assumed the page had been taken down permanently.
>Serious Question: Do you think that all software should have to be completely and constantly open-sourced? Do you think that all blueprints must be made public? Do you think that all recipes for food must be made public?

Of course! Maybe that's because in the sciences this is a normal thing in order to get published at all. If you present findings with a black box reviewers will want to pry in. And what do you know, the sky doesn't fall with all of this sharing of knowledge. People who put time into their findings are still considered experts and are rewarded. In fact its probably a lot easier to point to your accomplishments when things are actually public and you can talk freely about them, versus layered behind NDAs and whatever else other threats designed to keep you from talking about the work you do to other people who might do something generally useful with that information.
I'm passionate about learning more about sustainable and regenerative agriculture. I've been volunteering on a hobby farm this year and we're just coming to the end of harvest season and getting ready for the winter - spreading compost, broadforking, mulching with wood chips, etc.

Nothing like getting away from the computer to play in the dirt once a week :)
I started moving my things out of Apple two years ago. Two years on, I'm still entrenched in a few places. I can tell you, Apple does everything they can to keep you in. Slow download rates, surprisingly frequent failed downloads from iCloud.com, requesting your data from Apple takes at least a week while they put it together, etc.

One of last form of lock-in that I'm struggling with is iCloud Photo Library. A service that has been a blessing and a curse. I've been saving my photos there for the better part of a decade.

I'm working on getting my photos out (first by requesting my data from Apple, then from iCloud Drive on Windows) and I'm appalled - everything gets dumped into one directory. Inconsistent file naming. Timestamps not always accurate, and "Date Taken" seems to have disappeared from a number of my photos. Albums are not included (unless you count them being a list dumped into a csv). All of that data is kept inside iCloud.. only for them- not for you.

So what comes next is a long journey to re-organize all of my photos by year, month. I'm not even sure if my Hidden photos got copied over.

This is all 100% a dark pattern to keep users locked into Apple. How many people would get this far? Not many- my wife would have given up at having to request her data from Apple. Then how many would stop when they find out all of your photos get dumped into a single directory (30k photos!) if you try to leave?

All of this is to say, I'm done with Apple. I want control of my data, not this circus show.
While technically true it would be more accurate to say that no features are _planned_ in advance and it’s entirely up to individual contributors to decide what they work on.
There are a few input methods, but as a native English speaker and complete novice, I found that pinyin input was the easiest for me. Basically you type the pinyin and you get suggestions for characters. Super easy if you know the pronunciation.
I live in India. Well definitely there is a change in last 15-20 years. People have money to buy phones, bikes, tv along with DTH connection, etc even in poor villages. Electricity situation is much better. Roads are much much better now. Access to baking is much more prevalent. Digital services has brought much needed access and corruption is lesser. We have many brands, malls, restaurants etc. Air travel which was elite in 2005s is now common place and accessible to many more (but not all). Rail travel has improved marginally, I would say. Water and sanitation has improved marginally.

Education has though largely remained where it was i.e. cities have very very good schools, colleges (but expensive) etc and higher eduction (colleges etc) is much more prevalent but primary education in rural areas is still a concern. Same with healthcare. It has improved drastically in cities but not in rural areas.

However there is still a 20% population which lives below the poverty line. This, in Indian context is still a very large number (250-280mn). Government cannot put their foot off peddle here. Education, nutrition, healthcare, roads, safe drinking water, santitation, electricity, social equality etc are the goals that they need to continue focusing on.
C++ did this, what, 40 years ago? Then V, Zig, now D. I agree, in ten years most compilers and even interpreters will do it.
Airbnb Adding Cleaning Fees to 'Total Price' in Search Results
Generalized property tests for ERC4626 vaults
I am just giving you the typical tagline toed by the party in question, I literally just made up the list of countries as I was writing it. It does not matter what names I list there. That's not the point in the slightest, see quotation marks. The point would still stand if no other nation out there were better than US election system. The idea is that election counting process should be quick and the results should be evident on the same day. If no one else is doing it, we should be the first ones to build a system that can count votes in the same day.
The report does not use any numbers your provided. They use Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). From the report:

The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is a key international resource that measures acute multidimensional poverty across more than 100 developing countries. First launched in 2010 by the oxford Poverty and Human development Initiative at the university of oxford and the Human development report office of the united nations development Programme, the global MPI advances Sustainable development Goal 1, holding the world accountable to its resolution to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Android sucks, but until we get a good pure Linux alternative, that's all we got...
Central AI alignment problem: capabilities generalization and sharp left turn
What Happened to Instagram?
Just have a look at the account @instagram and what content is being pushed forward. I just might be getting to old to understand the current wave of "creators" and their way of expression. Is this what people want to see?

As a photographer, designer and visual storyteller, I have a feeling that Instagram has become the opposite of what it was first intended to be and is not a place for us traditional creatives anymore.

Related to the topic, iGen: On the topic of narcissism and neuroticism, a great interview with Jordan Peterson and Dr. Jean Twenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CJt2VwDuLE
That's a seriously great deck. Did you do a public post-mortem of why you think you were unable to raise?
Easily searchable? I thought you said you were using Confluence.
I cook a lot. I enjoy cooking with gas and I appreciate it’s benefits, but I avoid/minimize it because it is so plainly inefficient and frankly more hazardous than a modern electric or induction burner.
My favorite has ( and will) always be MartenDB on PostgresSQL

Have a look: https://martendb.io/documents/

How to query: https://martendb.io/documents/indexing/duplicated-fields.htm...
> Applying AI to education should supercharge the smartest.

What does that mean?
The town square part of Twitter was always the worst part. This is the first announcement that sounds like it might make Twitter better and more useable.
Imagine how history would have changed if we had to wait for the patent on the wheel to expire to use it
1900 is even weirder to be honest. The shorter your time scale the more debatable the shift. Since 1800, despite abolition of chattel slavery, slavery has been constitutionally protected as punishment for crimes and along with it came the carceral state. Since 1900 there have been many voting rights expansions, and a continuous program not just to curtail voting rights but to undermine the concept of the validity of elections themselves.

On a short enough scale, the trend line is probably what we’d call “leftward” today. But on a longer scale I don’t think that’s the case. Not that Marx would approve of this appropriation of his analysis (because it wouldn’t support his theory of progress either), but it was a “primitive communism” which came before feudalism and eventually capitalism.
It is a feature of US elections that they are far more decentralized than any other country. To your point, the people conducting the elections in Oregon and Nebraska do so as employees of their respective state governments and not as Federal representatives.

I suggest that you and other commentators in this thread read the Elections Clause [1] and historical background on it. You can't just address flaws in a system that has been running for 200+ years with a flippant "stop complaining". It would require Congress to pass a bipartisan voting law, and recent efforts to that effect have failed because of lack of bipartisan support [2].

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[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/sec...

[2] https://www.vox.com/22736509/freedom-to-vote-act
Did a quick count just now and it looks like 1:10 (non-mac:mac). About 80% of our company is engineering and our codebase is fairly cross platform so anything ends up working. That being said, the M1s have mostly been a boon for us other than when it comes to some virtualization issues (and testing of Pis).

In your case though that definitely sounds like a huge waste of money. For that reason, we order from the following matrix to not waste too much.

Engineering/Developer Advocacy/Product:
Macbook Air - M2, 16GB RAM, 500GB Disk or Linux/Windows, Framework 14", 16 GB RAM, 1 TB Disk

People/GTM/Facilities:
Macbook Air - M2, 8GB RAM, 250GB Disk

Granted there's probably money to be saved on the non engineering side but those folks tend to be comfortable with macs already and those purchases will last a very long time.

The other note I'll make is IME macbooks are significantly easier to maintain via MDM tools.
Signal is not P2P. Signal servers relay messages to/from clients.
That's one way of looking at the West. One way to curtail illegal immigration to the states and Europe is to have a way for many people to get out of poverty. When people make a decent living, they won't uproot themselves to move to the US/Europe.
A ton.

My great-grandfather was an indentured laborer in Malaya. My great-great-grandfather's family properties were seized by the British Raj, and many of his relatives and family imprisoned after a rebellion. Our family has not been able to recover from that up until my father's and uncles' generation, when many of them were able to go abroad (mostly the Middle East).

On the other hand, on my mother's side, many of her grandfather's businesses were forcefully nationalized in the few years after Indian independence.

Funnily enough, life has been good so far for our extended family. We have 4 dollar billionaires who have extensive properties in the UK today. And one of them owns a stake in the British EIC.
A New Perspective from Abroad
Surprised to hear that Asciidoctor tooling is challenging. If you're ok going extension-less, then something akin to `brew install asciidoctor` is enough.
Set priority for your policy routing rules
Leap years were started by Julius Caesar.
I think the complaint is that it shouldn't hijack the button in the first place.
Huh you can easily get breakfast for 40 Rs. Even in Bangalore.
C++ did it the other way around. It added C++ to a C compiler.
I think it will never get to that. As the frontiers expand, new ways of travel to the frontier are opened up, and the old meandering roads that took so long are left to history.
Hmm. On one hand I like dodging having to learn to write it - I can memorize wǒ and ren. On the other hand I'm still stuck having to learn the characters, ha. What do native speakers prefer typing with?

I'm never going to be a Chinese author, I just need to navigate chip documentation and message boards.
Such a license would not meet the Open Source Definition, in particular items 5 and 6:

https://opensource.org/osd
The downvotes without refutation are a pity.

The Left is effectively absorbed by civil liberty issues (LGBQT+, abortion, and immigration come to mind). Those issues are worthy of support but they're pathetically easy to demonize by the Right.

And there's the fact that Trump broken countless political norms so the Left is still stuck in "the old ways" and has effectively brought a knife to a gun fight.
I wasn't asking you, but okay.
My First Computer Was A LGP-30 at age 14.

5 bit Friden Flexowriter punching paper tape for coding in machine language. Coding sheets. Weird hexadecimal digits 0-9fgjkqw (it took me a while to adapt to 0-9a-f when I first saw them!) Ordering instructions so they'd appear under the drum reader when it was time to execute them. Spending hours debugging code to the point where I was flagged in the weekly publication as the person most likely to be on the computer.

The most amazing thing I ever saw on the LGP-30 was that someone had managed to implement floating point on it -- we got a chance to try it out near the end of our summer course. The second most amazing thing was a program to compute e to several thousand decimal places.
Not to deride your comment, but

> Steve Jobs

> the voice of reason and ethics

Honestly, I never expected to see that in one sentence.
I don't know what to tell you. It's not a literal statement. At Best it is a heuristic and more often, a platitude.

It's like don't talk to Cops or corporate HR works for the company and not you.

If you were to take it at face value and debate it against it, you would be making the fallacy error of secundum quid. If you want to have a real discussion about how much good and or bad the government does, you need to find a real human to have that discussion with. The saying alone is a not complete self-contained philosophy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secundum_quid#:~:text=Secund...
People still use a limited form of echo navigation. Hearing sounds can give you some information about a space - compare listening to music in a room versus headphones, or the deeply unsettling feeling of a sound-dampened phonebooth.
However, land is the most politically charged investment in India which is controlled by vested and powerful interests once over a certain threshold. It is not that straightforward. Compared to income , houses are very expensive. FSI is very low in India even with Transit oriented development finally becoming popular now. We may not have US style suburbia , however the GINI coefficient or anything similar calculated for per person area availability to live, is going to be significantly skewed.

For example, in Mumbai average people barely find more than few sq ft to live in whereas families like Godrej control land worth approx 10 b $ in the city itself. Moreover the Godrej family do not want the entire land to be used for development per se and are unwilling to part with some of it for developmental infrastructure projects. The moral of the story is that it is the same (if not worse) as any other country.

The rental yield on houses in India can be as low as 2% (source: Personal) which should in theory lead to crash in housing prices, but that is not happening as population in city will constantly increase with rural to urban migration.
Google Search is completely dysfunctional now. I use Github own search (as bad as it is) to search for code. Searching for an exact code text (with quotes) yields no result despite having multiple results in Github; and these repositories are public.
Yes, I got on https://mastodon.sdf.org/. So far so good.

Edit: the reply is now deleted, but someone asked why I picked this server. I researched sdf.org and found they've been around a long time (20+ years) and the server rules seemed reasonable and not overly narrow or restrictive. Also, I actually got the registration email from this one, I tried some others and never got the promised email.
Been feeling similarly about Spotify lately. I pay, yet still they’ve been trashing the UI with full screen ads every day.