skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed my point: users will be more upset bv the change to usb-c making their lightning devices/docks no longer work then they currently are having to have 2 types of cables. Its not as easy for apple as "just change it usb c and everyone get a new charging cable" as many people seem to think it is.

as i said the last time apple changed the connector type people were Very Upset.
Why is the concept of juridical personhood, as against natural personhood, at odds with infinite duration?

The law doesn’t place a mandatory span on the recognition of natural personhood anyway. If someone did live forever, there’s no law or legal obstacle to them doing so and exercising their rights in perpetuity.
whether they're recording or not is one question

whether they can find a needle in a lake sized haystack is another
GPT-3 Honeypot
That doesn't appear to be accurate, because threads about V get deleted or shadowbanned. Those instigating the flamewar drama against V, appear to go unpunished. And the same tactics seem to be repeatedly allowed, in nearly any V threads.

Detractors and competitors of V will call it vaporware (which is clearly untrue and plain outrageous at this point), call the language a scam or the creator a scammer (clearly untrue, defamatory, and inflammatory), repeatedly spam 2019 xeiaso blog posts, spam old posts to sites where well known detractors and competitors are allowed to gang troll, etc... These actions often go unimpeded and without moderation, where push back or defending against such inflammatory posts get punished and moderator actions.

So now, it appears we have a defacto ban against a programming language, for the occasional thread about it. While threads of competing languages are allowed at even the pace of several a day. If they have an issue, it's handled specifically, and not against the entire programming language. To post a thread about V, should be no different than to post one about Python, Go, Rust, or Zig.
Guess what, the US military will develop even better balloons in a short amount of time.. if it's so easy, cheap, and effective.
Delaying retirement is an option for people with jobs that aren't physically demanding.
>they didn’t want to risk damaging persons or property.

In Alaska...please shut up.

>they wanted to shoot it down in a location in which it would be easily recoverable

Like yesterday the car sized ufo in alaska?
This seems unnecessarily dramatic, or at least outdated?

Why not just do this:

1. Make a free account on Amazon

2. Buy the cheapest portable bidet, which (looking just now) is $7 including shipping. Sure, that's 75% more than the standing weekly toilet paper budget, but surely one can find an extra 3 dollars in the couch cushions?

3. Once the bidet arrives, toilet paper usage will drop immediately. You could probably reduce that $4/week budget to, say, $1/week.

4. That means you'll already break even on the bidet in a little over 2 weeks,. After that you're effectively printing money.

5. After another 20 weeks of making it rain $3/week in pure profit over your previously massive and over-inflated toilet paper budget, you'll have $60, which is surely enough to head back to Amazon and buy all the toilet paper your heart desires, in bulk.

6. That'll likely bring the $1/week budget down even further to, say, $0.50/week.

7. That's a nearly 17% bump in your weekly recurring profit, from $3 to $3.50/week, which you can use to keep on pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Heck, those numbers are basically good enough for a Series A pitch deck.
Scala is a great language. Any time I'm programming in other statically typed languages it's like programming but with my hands tied backward: bumping into things and realizing there's no HKT, Type Class, GADT etc.

However, it's sad to see it's growth is likely to be capped - because JVM languages is not that fashionable like 2003 or 2007. What's in nowadays is Go and Rust: bear metal, small binary, fast startup speed, solid module packaging system (without all historical stuff or touching Maven), etc.

Even though Scala Native is there, the language was tailored for JVM and it will never get rid of that.

Maybe a ground-up Scala-like language like Go or Rust could fill in the market and gain popularity? A language with GC/runtime like Go but not as awkward on abstrations. But it's unlikely to happen - the compiler would be much harder and complex to implement compared to Go.
Similar example from Germany:

In one year I had some "extra income" besides my job and had to file a return and pay some extra money.

The next year they asked me what my "extra income" was for that year and when the letter got lost by me they just assumed the same amount as the prior year and sent me the bill for that.

After the initial shock and beating myself up for that mistake, I could simply file a correction and got it fixed with no problem.
Last week, the Internet blew up with the seemingly outrageous news that Musk fired a "senior engineer" over his saying that Musk's low view count was NOT due to anything wrong technically with Twitter, implying Twitter users just weren't all that interested in Musk. Here's that story: https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-...

So yesterday/today Musk is tweeting that Twitter Engineering is finding and addressing problems affecting view count.

So was Musk basically right technically and the Sr Engr wrong? Not at all saying it was right to fire the engineer on the spot or any of the outrageous behavior Musk reportedly exhibited around this technical issue, just the technical issue itself.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory - it’s Occam’s Razor.
Just to pile on here, the 2019-2021 refresh Intel Macbook Pro 13 and 16 have laptop speakers that rival good portable bluetooth speakers complete with shockingly deep bass, clear midrange and defined treble. They are by far and away the best laptop speakers I've heard. Nice decently powered headphone jack as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNUz-cqkjVA

https://youtu.be/LGOmbNRlZdM?t=215
> when I look around where I live I see people

That's not even anecdata, that's just first glance impressions!
Try having an early dinner rather than skipping breakfast. I've been doing it this month, going alright.
Not innovative or better? I don't guess you get in the kitchen often or spend much time trying to take care of your cast iron.
Like the bumper sticker/fridge magnet says, I'll believe that corporations are people (or insects) when the state of Texas executes one.
I came close to launching a weather-balloon with some simple hobbyist sensors for a school project back in 2011 but my team ultimately ended up going with something much less ambitious. Now I'm a little horrified that we came so close to picking the weather balloon because I realize how irresponsible it would have been (although I'm still more horrified at how we were going to just assume the parachute works with no testing or understanding of wind currents; this thing could easily have killed somebody if we had made it and it went down over somebody's house or place of business or a highway).

Another group at my school did actually end up picking the weather balloon project and it landed in a tree in Amish country in Pennsylvania after having been launched from northern VA (somewhat ironically, it was the only tree in a wide open farm of dozens of acres). I wonder how many hobby weather balloons there are up there every day?
Lol, no. Hardware support is only a piece of the puzzle, arguably the first one. Then you have to find suitable, well-performing replacements for every software being used, from generic to specific to custom LOB.
This is a deeply ignorant comment.
> Simplicity requires hard work to be obtained and education for its appreciation, and complexity sells much better.

See, e.g., the ascendancy of Kubernetes.
This analysis is not complete.

By the time the pipeline was bombed, it was clear that the EU wasn’t going to cave into Russian demands to stop supporting Ukraine.

So the pipeline sitting there usable but with no gas flowing would both create legal problems for Russia and also be a symbol of European unity.

Regarding the US being able to sell LNG, the capabilities to transport and offload it in the quantities needed don’t exist yet.

I don’t know who blew it up, the most logical would be the Ukrainians but they probably couldn’t have. The next logical are Russia and the certainly have the capability.
The USA may be the third logical option and they do have the capability but I’m not so sure they could have done it in this part of the world undetected by Russia.
Democritus and epicureans correctly conjectured atoms 2400 years ago. But it takes mathematics to build a nuclear reactor.
A good solution for people who are poor is to combine the two most important things: Making money and saving money.

You can do this by joining the merchant fleet, one of the military branches, or some other professional venture where your accommodation and other expenses are provided for you. If you take care with the choices you make with your money, you have the chance to dig yourself out of the hole.

To those already writing your responses with what about the guy with an injured knee, or what about the guy who needs to stay home and take care of their grandmother: This advice is not for everyone, but there are thousands of poor people who could turn their life around this way - thousands already have.
Sure, but rich people are more likely to buy more expensive toilet paper (name brand n-ply), while a lot of less wealthy people by the cheapest off brand toilet paper (Fiesta brand is popular in bodegas)

The convenience store is more convenient though and you're paying a premium for that convenience. It's really about money. You can trade off money for convenience. A middle class person has to pay for the car which they don't use 99% of the time, the gas, insurance, etc. It's not entirely clear that they're getting a better bargain when you factor in everything else.

But it's really about money. The article makes it sound like its about class or privilege as though only some people can fly:

> The social privilege gradient is also a time gradient: if you can afford a plane ticket, you can travel quickly across the country rather than losing days to the Greyhound or a road-trip. But if you're even richer, you can pay for TSA Precheck and cut your airport security time from an hour to minutes. Go further up the privilege gradient and you'll acquire airline status, shaving another hour off the check-in process.

Privilege has nothing to do with buying a plane ticket. Its open to pretty much everyone with money
This "X company has a fiduciary duty to turn a profit to shareholders regardless of the consequence" thinking is not true but shockingly pervasive across HN recently.

Fiduciary duty responsibilities are about putting the interests of the company in front of personal interests, and are mostly designed to protect shareholders. In other words, not doing things like signing up for a product you don't need just because you happened to angel invest in the company and it would benefit your portfolio. There are other fiduciary responsibilities as well, but certainly none of them are "return as much money to shareholders, or else."

Regardless, if we want this world where the government has publicly funded tax software that just works and is easy (and I personally do), the right way to solve it is through public policy changes.
No need to disparage Reddit, either. :)
So, the rich pay for convenience? Shocker, even more so when their examples for 'rich' include rhe working poor.

The through message though seemed to be that anyone reliant on government services will be expected to pay a price and that anyone not dependent upon them is rewarded to some degree. Rather than misconstrue captlitalism as a cause of bureaucracy perhaps they should have considered replacing government t services with market drive solutions since they tend to be the ones providing the savings.
I did not know that, thanks! Looking into it, according to Wikipedia it's "operated by a private organization, the Free File Alliance" [1], which is a "public-private partnership with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide free electronic tax filing services" [2]. The Missouri company you list is one of the "7 participating Alliance members" [2].

I honestly don't know what a "public-private partnership" means, or how that's different from the IRS just contracting a company to build a product. But it seems awfully integrated into the IRS's website, so there's clearly a "partnership" -- it can't be total randos (hopefully??).

I don't see any obvious red flags in the privacy policy, is there something to be worried about?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_File#Free_File_Fillable_F...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_File_Alliance
"the end" sounds like a destination.
Only one's testing stuff that might be a threat to them?

"It is a feature of the present invention to provide a craft, using an inertial mass reduction device, that can travel at extreme speeds."

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en
The outcome was not unintentional. The current moves overtures to privatize Social Security will seal the complete subservience of labor to capital. "If our share price drops, retirees will freeze to death on empty stomachs - not even the government can help"
> Subject to the certification only procedure outlined in the Constitution, as was recently vividly demonstrated. (Originally, under Article II, Section 1, Clause 3; since 1804, under the 12th Amendment)

This stance is nonsense. Bush v Gore, Jackson v Adams, and Hayes v Tilden prove it wrong by vesting in Congress, through prior case law, the power to choose Presidential appointment and nullifying both individual state Electors AND collective certification (depending on which of the three you're pointing at).

Congress itself dictates who is President and Supreme Court Justices through a de-facto oligarchy. Further, the 17th amendment mandated a popular election for Senators in 1913, so to say that States run their elections as they see fit is - generous. Plus, need we mention the upcoming conflict of independent state legislature theory? We'll see how that cooks up.

Also, people make the mistake of believing that direct-democratic elections for members of Congress means that such a superior-leveraged branch of the government is still technically structured as a republic in political theory. This position is scrutinized when considering that the democratically-elected members of Congress conspire to derive additional power amongst each other by sitting the utmost authorities in the branches of government that are also intended to be chosen, by the people, as a check and balance to the very members of Congress they voted in. It's a very complex edifice, but it sure isn't what it's advertised as.
How is "" truthy? I just double checked and `bool("")` is `False` as I expected (in Python 3.9 at least).
And those people are free to sell their google shares.
There is a huge difference between merely observing something or describing a phenomena vs. writing down the theory that describes it.
There is plenty of serious controversy about it.

Should corporations be capable of holding religious conviction? Various evangelical Christian business owners and a number of conservative judges say "of course". Plenty of other serious, well-informed people say, in relatively quite voices, "absolutely not".

Should a corporation organized for the purpose of making a profit be permitted to freely spend on political campaigns? SCOTUS thought yes, plenty of other people think not (even if they would allow non-profit corporations to do so).

Plenty more like that.
Christians absolutely dominated US tech for most of Don Knuth's life.
The actual title is: It's impossible to know what you're buying online
This addon (or something like it at least) has been around for 10 years at least for Kodi. https://github.com/PseudoTV/PseudoTV_Live

Probably the best channel I found was playing a random comedy from a list you provide. You could have it follow release order be random if you want. Most media players have a similar feature though usually called something like a smart Playlist, and that really solves most of the issue.

It is an interesting problem though, but also probably a very real sign that you really need to find a hobby.
It's hardly a "bad hand". If this continues, look for the US, and the rest of the West, doing direct flights over all of China.

Eg, retaliation in kind.

There's zero difference, as said balloons could have any manner of nefarious purpose. Chemical/bacterial/viral, or just plain spying, airspace is airspace, protecting it is a thing, and China has the bad hand now.

What they were/are doing is well thought out, and technically a good way to spy. But the political aspect shows (again) just how poorly China understands the West.

To burn so much political capital, over so little gain, is immensely stupid, a diplomat's nightmare, and completely incompetent.

I feel for China, I do. A huge chip exists on its shoulder, it spent centuries bowing to the West. The betrayal during WWII likely still stings.

So it wants to flex, to be the big man, to strut its feathers, but wings made of wax only take you so far...
Perhaps you've never heard of Doctors Without Borders, pro bono, community theater, or the Creative Commons?

There is more to life than merely maximizing one's bargaining leverage.
The corporate fiduciary duty to maximize profit is a discredited myth that unfortunately has been propagated for decades by persistent misinterpretation of bad case law (Dodge v. Ford), compounded by simple inertia, ignorance, and (I speculate) the partnership of unenlightened neoliberal ideology with the cynical short-term self-interest of wealthy corporate shareholders.

Corporate leaders are expected to act in the interests of shareholders, but their legal obligations are satisfied if they can argue that their business judgment supported their chosen direction. And business judgment can consider the long term, it can consider the value of a thriving society in general, it can consider much besides short-term maximization of profit. Fiduciary duty exists only to curb overtly abusive self-dealing.

For more on this, see The Shareholder Value Myth by Lynn Stout. She has written a gloss on it here [1]. Her seminal 2008 legal review article, "Why We Should Stop Teaching Dodge v. Ford" [2], is a delight to read and I highly recommend it.

[1] https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

[2] https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
I had to give up on e-filing with Free Fillable Forms last year because it claimed an arithmetic error where none existed and it would not allow me to e-file until that non-error was corrected.

The same forms I ultimately generated with both TaxHawk's and H&R Block's software were identical to those I wasn't allowed to submit with FFF.
I would guess something on the productivity paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox), so more that office productivity didn’t improve with automation in the same manner it did in manufacturing.
How to Efficiently Reorder or Rerank Items in Database
I agree, and I would add the Iranian drones also add to this new facet of war equipment. The really cheap, effective and hard to deal.
He wasn’t asking if we should, he was asking if we could.
If the US wanted mutual spying, it could have allowed Huawei to continue operating in the US.
It does seem like there've been more self important randos in the past few years - they give the most arrogant, presumptuous review feedback, but then you go and look and they've got 10 or 20 commits to their name.

Just something to watch for.
It’s a tit for tat escalation. The Russians do the same thing with bombers. The difference is this is a novel event so people are freaking out a bit.

Key thing is to let it play out and not get freaked out by theatrical political people.
No, that is not my theory. How similar is 16:8 for mice and humans? That’s all we are discussing here and all I’ve talked about! I’ve reread my comments and I really can’t see where I start talking about all biological similarities or not. I’m talking specifically about 16:8 fasting. Can you tell me how similar humans and mice are in this regard?
I support progressive taxes and that is not my motivation or reasoning at all.

It is a recognition of an increased share of discretionary income and the diminishing returns of higher incomes on quality of life.

We have to fund the government services, so it makes sense in my mind to do it with discretionary income and income that has diminishing returns in the quality of the life of the taxpayer. It is solid public policy IMO.

Second, the terminology is strange, because everyone is treated equally. No matter your race, sex, age, you are progressively taxed more based on your actions/earnings for the year. [Outside of carveouts for all the various tax credits and deductions, but within those carveouts it is equally progressive.]
Only an afternoon?

When I traveled freelance, it was an easy 40 hours. If I'd hired a bookkeeper and an accountant I might have saved most of it but it would have cost me more than I saved.
If Postgres is enough, why do all other databases still exist? I've never used Postgres so I don't know much about it.
Do you know of a type checking algorithm which is likely to deal with something like the second case? I'd say it would need to decompose the function body into cases and typecheck them individually - I think typed racket called the pattern occurance typing.

Push it a little harder though and you're into the domain of automatic theorem provers. Which is indeed an answer to how to write a dynamically typed program that doesn't need manual proof annotation - a great trick to have, but not one that exists yet as far as I know.

For what it's worth I quite like abort and apologize for a type check that takes too long. The termination requirement is probably flexible in practice.
> You could argue that the cost estimation is a worst-case scenario.

It probably should be. What might improve the bill is trying to get a similar bill passed in a few other state legislatures and working with them as a group to lower costs.
Heh. Aren’t the Chinese saying _they’ve_ detected a UFO flying in their airspace as well now?
But what’s the end game? China floods the U.S. with these surveillance balloons and then…?

The US can retaliate in other ways, sanctions, actually bombing China or perhaps the factory making these, going to war, etc.

The US can also easily develop a weapons platform to destroy these balloons.
There was one over Costa Rica.
It's not true that it "must happen". We can restore human rights for women in Kentucky.
The fantastic irony of using archive.is to remove the paywall on an article about the supposed modern lack of consumer sophistication.

Aside from that the article seems to completely fail to take notice of the fact that Amazon enjoys a rather extensive monopoly across most of it's operation. Of course the seller will always have more information than you, but if there's a large selection of sellers to choose from, then there's zero incentive for them to use that information _against_ me or to prevent me from having it.

Consumers don't lack savvy, the marketplace lacks options.
A theory I heard (on HN) that resonated with me is that the Chinese did this to provoke a response. Now they can take out US spy satellites in orbit over China in retaliation without it looking unprovoked. The degree of escalation is less than if they'd started with that salvo themselves.

Another theory I heard is that they're poking the US to see what responses would be employed, how quickly detection happens, the radio signal / signals intelligence environment, etc.
How is this any different than a mature tool such as SWIG (https://www.swig.org/)?

I've used SWIG extensively with Python to call C code and import C headers for testing/tooling purposes.