skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A world designed for persons needs a __massive__ overhaul compared to what exists literally everywhere I've seen. Even the nearby major cities are still begrudgingly designed for cars. They lack external interfaces and vehicle storage warehouses sufficient to break from that paradigm.

A city designed for humans would need to be far closer to Azimov's Caves of Steel world, where everything is closer together, beltways and moving sidewalks replace in city bus transit. You'd still need the vehicle layer for emergency services, construction, and bulk product delivery; those vehicles will probably be electric though, or possibly transported by in city dedicated vehicles.

Walt Disney World comes to mind as a larger area intended to have several hubs of primarily human scale transport. EPCOT has the well earned acronym 'Every Person Comes Out Tired' for good reasons; it's too far of a dang walk and the humidity around that lake is murder on a hot day. The inner facade stages are roughly at the sensible limits of human scale, but they're connected either by utility corridors or paths or direct abutment to roadways behind the parks. Even in these _designed_ areas, economics dictates both vehicle and human existence mostly at the same or similar levels and very few over or under passes; where there are it's often exactly two effective layers. Some might have multiple modes of transit. E.G. between EPCOT and Hollywood there's a boat and pedestrian system, which has bridges for the pedestrians, and is crossed in one location by a major road bridge.
They love to debit any linked bank accounts to pay any fees or clawback any money so they can freeze it.

And PayPal requires you link an account for verification now.

So it isn't really practical to use it as you describe - you're giving yourself a false sense of security.
Dan Luu (former Twitter employee) begs to differ:

https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1591963269077819392

> An interesting thing about this claim is that not only is the implication wrong, Twitter probably has better evidence of its wrongness than any other company in its size class could have.

> There are very few companies that have a better distributed tracing setup w.r.t. getting actionable insights on the backend and the ones that have a better setup are much larger (Google, FB, etc.)

> Twitter client tracing also punches above its weight.

> https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1267069847428411392

> Of course, the key people who did that work left or got laid off, but it's clear from the data that, if you're looking at why Twitter is so slow in, e.g., India, Uganda, etc., esp. on slow devices, tail latency comes from the network due to unreasonably large payloads + client.

> When leadership wanted to drive growth in India, they were into "visionary" stuff, e.g., "add features cricket watchers would like" when the app was unusably slow [on] a low-end device and the client performance team had been disbanded.

> https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1591507609651408896
>> You can't get banned from email

> Ask people who get locked out of their gmail account.

And, from the other end, ask people who actually self-host e-mail - not just own the domain, but also run their own mail server. The anti-spam measures of major e-mail providers are, in practice, banning insufficiently determined self-hosters from e-mail.
The majority of healthcare spending goes toward treating patients with chronic conditions primarily caused by lifestyle factors such as overeating, lack of exercise, and substance abuse. There is effectively infinite demand for healthcare services in that population. Depending on how you count, something like 1/7 of all healthcare dollars go to type-2 diabetes and related conditions alone.

There is certainly some inefficiency in the US healthcare system but mostly it reflects the poor health of the population. Switching to some form of socialized medicine won't fix that problem. Other developed countries are doing a little better at the moment but they're on the same trend line and will inevitably hit the same crisis. At some point if we want to prevent a systemic collapse we're going to have to get serious about emphasizing prevention over treatment.
Only if it's sufficiently successful.
How do you find a decent domain on a trusted TLD in the year 2022 for a personal website?
Yeah, except I can't run uBlock Origin, which makes an iPad a nonstarter for me.
Yes...I started playing and then realised none of the moves work...then the other player left the game but there was no way of me knowing they had left.
Title suggestion: "Chess, but moves are simultaneous"
On a scale of 0 (hiring at Twitter is as easy as possible) to 100 (Twitter can never hire anyone again) how bad is it now that Musk fired an employee in front of millions of users, especially since the employee was calling out obvious bullshit?
There are multiple exchanges in the crypto space. I spent 20 years working in conventional exchanges and where I work now is very much the same.

This said, we don't appear on the radar, as a conventional exchange is not as highly profitable because they can't make use of client funds or holdings. (We offer a few other unexciting institutional services that make more money than the exchange).

One day people will realise the value in conservatism in financial markets.
Employers who do happen to be desperate for developers can easily hide that sentiment amid big tech layoffs.
Star Wars did a horrible job at documenting the past, too! They invented laser beams and all the hokey religious dudes thought energy swords were better?
If many worlds is true, you took all options of every choice (if we assume, as seems likely, a non-zero probability of your neurons firing in a way that actuate each option).

But where does the "wanting" lie? What if it's an experience that is not physical, but real? I.e. it exists and experiences itself, but it does not in any way change our scientific description of the universe. It doesn't change how all of the many worlds are playing out.

Would this "wanting" have to inhabit every branch of the unierse? Perhaps it only exists along the path of choices that it "wanted".

Then everything that can happen, happens, but your consciousness only experiences what it "wanted".

Mechanistic action and free-will are both preserved.
Quantum time superposition of photons moving forwards and backwards in time
Did you even read it?

> Accounts with zero balance won’t be impacted by this fee and this charge won’t result in any negative balance.

> If an account no longer has a positive balance after being charged this fee and remains inactive for another 60 days, this account may be closed after the 60 days have passed.
Wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Webrings were ok, but what I really miss was people just having a page of links to other websites they liked. This was the feature that drove most of my web browsing.

Today the web doesn't feel like a web, it feels like there's a few large social media hubs that point to every other website, and those sites only point one of two places: to themselves or to an Amazon affiliate link. Years ago I remember getting frustrated on some news site because all their hyperlinks just linked to other barely-relevant articles on their website. I didn't understand at the time what they were doing.

If you have a personal website, consider adding a page with links to your favorite sites. Search engines just don't capture that type of browsing.
Even my dedicated Apache server threw errors for static pages every now and then, when serving gigabytes per hour.
A lot of the cons are a matter of personal taste, such as the whitespaced block (like python), or the weird variable case management (only the case of the first letter is case sensitive and the variable are underscore insensitive).

The biggest objective cons are the small community, and possibly for some people the usage of a GC The GC can be not used but I don't know if it's really practical since it's not something that I need, I just saw people complaining.
I installed an app. A 3rd party app. To occasionally obtain useful info from that site whose designers are hostile.
> there's a movement to view Category Theory as the definitive underlying field of math

Category theory doesn't have much to say about most of analysis.
We have seen multiple firms and individuals breaking rules and regulations in a heavily regulated capital market. How do can things go by rules in a unregulated environment?
The Demoralized Mind (2016)
This quote that gave me an aha moment:

> This culturally generated demoralization is nearly impossible to avoid for the modern ‘consumer’.

> Rather than a depressive disorder, demoralization is a type of existential disorder associated with the breakdown of a person’s ‘cognitive map’. It is an overarching psycho-spiritual crisis in which victims feel generally disoriented and unable to locate meaning, purpose or sources of need fulfilment. The world loses its credibility, and former beliefs and convictions dissolve into doubt, uncertainty and loss of direction. Frustration, anger and bitterness are usual accompaniments, as well as an underlying sense of being part of a lost cause or losing battle. The label ‘existential depression’ is not appropriate since, unlike most forms of depression, demoralization is a realistic response to the circumstances impinging on the person’s life.

I imagined for a long time that I was depressed. It had never occurred to me that my condition of "existential depression", in the form of the Psalmist's Ecclesiastes, could be anything other than depression.
The company and the position, so a good idea for an employee #1 position, less so if you're the tenth IC on some random team at some random company.
I have one particularly baroque data path that I think passes through three layers of cache. The same people worked on it the whole time, and I'm 90% sure that at least one of those layers is doing absolutely nothing, except making the code harder to read. Once they're added nobody takes them out. Like all global state it's problematic to be absolutely sure it's not being used anywhere.
Can someone outline the benefits vs Node?
For specifically calling him out on a probable lie
NASA’s sulfur-selenium battery exceeds 500Wh/kg
It's super short sighted they will make a few bucks at the expense of lost customers and their reputation.
Excel and Google Sheets can both be connected to data via APIs. Click a little refresh button and it'll pull in the latest data, run the formulas, and update all the sums and charts. This stuff goes back to the 1990s, and I've seen non-tech-literate secretaries set it up. It can be as simple as dumping CSV files to a file share and just loading that into a worksheet or two.

The fact that a company managing billions of dollars couldn't even do this much is very, very telling.
I just played a match and it said "Checkmate" when there was no checkmate, maybe a bug? https://cloud.arent.net/s/osQT8eMtPXHeBWQ
cool concept, but as another commenter mentioned, the squares aren't set up correctly. the white king should be on the right of the queen
In the 1980's, a 61yo Australian potato farmer won an 875km (544m) race between Sydney and Melbourne in 5 days flat without ever stopping to eat or sleep.

He used a radical low energy shuffling technique, which was a slower pace then his competitors, but he made up for it during the 5 or 6 hours they slept each day. He ended up winning by 10 hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)
You are kind and smart
>> Keith Packard

> Now, that is a name.

A name and a whole lot of history

> Can this library be used as a replacement for glibc ?

glibc doesn't generally do well on "smaller embedded systems with limited ROM and RAM", but ymmv, depends on what "small" means for you
Microsoft hosts teams for their customers. So if they modified the code all their customers users would be entitled to see it.
Yes but those people were a minority. People condemned genocide against native americans and slavery of africans in their time as well but a democracy means the people consented to the atrocity by plurality. Humans do evil stuff, it is in our nature, even now to think otherwise would only lead to more atrocity we must learn and work hard to resist the evil in our very nature and be strong to resist other evil people, that was the essence of my comment.
They are still easy to build if you want to build the same site you would be building back then.
Those aren't caching. They're dynamic programming. There's a profound difference and it's about scope and reachability.

Edit: and about who's driving.
I was wondering why these anti-woke types are always climate change deniers too, and found this interesting report:

> The remaining key influencers in the ‘Anti-Science’ group fall into this contrarian set, sometimes
branded as the ‘Intellectual Dark Web.’ While their focus is on social wedge issues, climate change
also plays a role in such ‘anti-woke’ messaging. Jordan B. Peterson, the fourth most followed account
in the overall network, falls into this category and has a track record of both climate-sceptic and
climate denialist statements (covered below and in other sections of the report). Peterson’s central
placement in the network emphasises the role such influencers play in amplifying and sustaining
a climate sceptic community. Another member of this group, Peter Boghossian, collaborated with
Shellenberger on the abovementioned ‘Woke Religion Taxonomy.’

https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Summati...
Your opponent may have disconnected, giving you the win by default! I've gotta make that wording a bit clearer... right now it always says "checkmate".
Serious ask HN: re; 'QUANTUM' --

I hear "quantum" used in so many various orthogonal ways, and I cant tell if they are all correct, or only one is.. but if only one is, I don't know which one it is>

May you please define "quantum" for me ELI5?
Use nofollow?
It seems to be most European countries and Canada (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33602832)

> I wonder if a creative lawyer could argue that the users with a PayPal card effectively have a gift card - which would make this illegal in the US for at least that specific subset of US users.

Maybe that's why they refrained it applying to US users?
Just played my first game; the dynamics here didn't take long to get used to and it's brilliantly fun to play. Bugs aside, at least.

A few people pointed out that the king and queen are in the wrong positions, but if you think it through, you'll also note that this is entirely cosmetic when both players move at once. If anything, it might be easier to fix this by swapping the assets and mirroring the board rather than swapping white and black, at least depending on how the game's written.
https://www.callingbullshit.org/
That too. Corrected ;)

(I'm multitasking and on phone; pardon my terseness)
> I would point out that the concept is really no different from how ISPs work, and yet the public seems to have wrangled with that one.

Geographic locality helps. At any given location, the choice of ISPs will be severely limited. If my experience in a major European city scales, there will be between one to three ISPs able to service your areas, plus a few more niche/specialized ones. The actual choice is usually made based on ads, or asking a tech-savvy acquaintance for help.
Why is the board setup backwards? Very cool idea though, and fun.
As with any of the other solutions proposed, it would take a huge organization level shift for everyone to standardize under one RPC standard (including monitoring).

It is not for the lack of solutions in hindsight, just the constant feature creep and microservice development blind sighted everyone to large organization problems.
Common myth.

Income based health insurance is available via every state govt.

Most low income people pay nothing for health insurance in the US.

Additionally, COBRA lets you continue coverage using your old plan under your employer. But that may be an expensive option.
No chances, because there's just too much hardware to support.

The only real chance is to get behind brands like Faiphone.
Whatever is keeping PayPal in business, it's definitely not their reputation.
I-90 ends in East Boston.
> So realistically, at the same scale of ore extraction as coal mining. How much power is available?

This article estimates that regular supplies is enough for 230 years at the current rate of consumption:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glo...

If we triple the the number of plants, that would be approximately a 75 year lifetime for existing plants.

Beyond that, the main directions to take would be to use breeder reactors, which would be enough for 30000 years at today consumption, using regular fuels or to extract uranium from seawater, which would provide enough uranium for 60000 years at present rates (and much more if combined with breeder reactors).

In total, there is enough uranium to last thousands of years, even consumption goes up 10x or more.

Obviously, costs will gradually go up, or at least the extraction will require more advanced technology. Even just 75 years is a long time, and a lot can change by year 2100. Thorium or fusion power could be solved by then, or we could have space based solar covering our needs.
If it's really no state it should be a compilation step.

After watching some coworkers play keystone cops for 5 years I'm preparing to do just that to the last project they were responsible for. Their new project should have been that as well, but no it's going to be cache.
Microsoft was late to the Internet, too. Gates didn't decide to really jump in with both feet until 1995, which... OK, not hugely late, but not exactly leading the trend, either:

https://lettersofnote.com/2011/07/22/the-internet-tidal-wave...

Of course, it ultimately wouldn't matter that much, with IE6 destroying Netscape and what MSN eventually became turning into an important portal.

I'd love to have some tell-all book about what the heck was happening inside Microsoft which prevented them from doing a good phone OS.

Instead, I found this:

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsofts-terry-myerson-and-...

1. Bad base OS from Windows CE.

2. Industry moved too fast.

3. Damn Android treating carriers and hardware makers better than us.

It's a blatant Microsoft booster site, sure.

Another view is from here:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/10/16452162/windows-phone-h...

Which posits that Google did unto Microsoft what Microsoft did unto Digital Research: Locked it out of important apps, like a YouTube app. Plus, Android already had a more vibrant ecosystem in general. Again, Microsoft was a bit slow, but this time, it cost them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
Seniors are tougher to manage? I see some ways how, but this seems wrong overall.
It feels like you're stretching here. If I cut squares of paper and call them Ponzi Coins and then mark them in my books as 100 Million in assets, well, I'm stretching that definition. I've also created more "assets" than the average crypto coin. Maybe it's as simple as adding a word, fake. The coins are fake assets. Otherwise, the words lose all meaning in the context of finance (assets and liabilities).
That would explain charging in Europe, but PayPal also impose this to Canadian users.
JPMorgan: “crypto collapses have been from centralized players not protocols”
Binance’s Billionaire CEO Casts Himself as Crypto’s New Savior
What really seems to characterize Nim is its ability to be used as glue language between different codes. C/C++/objective-c/javascript interoperability is native, python interoperability seems to be pretty good. It makes me think a lot to python before it exploded in popularity with machine learning and education
And how big is the fool who sold at $100?
Yeah, server completely fell over when we all slashdotted it. This is the sort of thing to bookmark and then try to remember it again tomorrow.
> The moment you become unemployed, the countdown clock to deportation starts ticking.

I am NOT 100% sure about this, but to the best of my knowledge, this is not the case in Canada. Work Permits are issues for the duration of the expected work and are usually at least one year long. If you lose your job, you can still remain in Canada until the expiry date of your work permit. You cannot simply start working elsewhere, but if you find a new job, your new employer can start the process of applying for a work permit for you while you are waiting in Canada. So this developer should be good to stay for another 11 to 12 months, if not even longer, while searching for a new job.
> even such as Noam Chomsky arguing for ostracizing undesirables and withholding food from them.

wow, when was this?!
Is there actually a material cost for them to host inactive accounts?

Even if the end goal is profitability, seems they are very eager to throw their goodwill/brand into the wood chipper, which is going to be counterproductive in the end.

There are already tons of PayPal equivalent services that anybody can use. Not even sure what the differentiator is for them, or why they are relevant anymore.
It’s Mutually Assured Chess.

It’s a curious game. The only way to win is not to play.
I have only ever used paypal to pay for things with a credit card. I was tricked into having the account at all by a fraudlent and misleading UI built by ebay and that's the only reason I had it in the first place. I did use it to pay for some things so I guess their plan worked.

Paypal recently, after a decade or so of use, demanded I hand over multiple forms of ID. I refused and said close the account. They refuse to close the account because I have not handed over ID documents that I don't want them to have on their files because they are untrustworthy both ethically and in terms of competence as you guys know well.

So the account is there ready to be hacked. I've pointed this out to them on about 20 separate occasions and they refuse to close it.

Paypal are crooks. It is in their dna. They're crooks for no reason, just from force of habit. You cannot trust them in any way. Society allowing them to have any market power whatsoever is completely insane. Yet another case of a cpu attached to a network being on the critical path of what some company is doing preventing otherwise intelligent humans from thinking a normal, critical fasshion about what they are doing and forming a minimally appropriate response, trapping the rest of us who literally cannot act at all.
Some cities have various regular developer meetings, often devoted to programming languages (e.g. Perl, Python, Java) or areas (web development, embedded devices, even scripting languages).

It might be worth going on a city group on Reddit and asking about any, and otherwise try to start one.

One thing to keep in mind is that different times of day are good for different people.

Evening meetings every month in pubs are popular, but for many reasons a lot of people don't like to go to pubs or drink alcohol with strangers.

Meetings during lunch or morning "techie brekkie" before work are sometimes popular, but ideally in a central location where it's easy for developers can easily get to before work or during lunch.
Help the Garden:)
Greetings, dear people!

The Garden aims to be a union of:
Values, roles, rules and resources

All in a symmetric tree structure!
(It's as a tree so you can zoom in and read/download what you need)

Are there some links to a similar resource?
Is there a way to help build a community for this?
As true as this is, it's also immaterial to the game itself. Since both white and black move simultaneously, the only difference in gameplay is literally which side your king and queen start on.

So yeah, it should be fixed, but it's also a purely cosmetic bug. And I imagine it's probably safer to fix it by swapping the assets and flipping the board rather than actually remapping white and black pieces.