skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They do that because at scale it's enough for them to get a tax incentive for charitable donations via other people's action. I refuse to help an international corporation cheese tax law.

This is a myth. They can’t claim this on taxes because they don’t have the associated income. To get that using your money, they’d have to claim your donation as income and pay taxes on it, making moot any tax savings (and committing fraud against you to boot).

What they do use your money for is marketing. All the money goes to the charity but they get to say things like “Our program raised a gazillion dollars for those in need.” Which has the effect of positive associations of a giving company which hasn’t actually given.
The international code is also defining the key distinguishing factor of insurance: it makes the insured whole against a risk that they actually have.

There are ways to bet on things where you don’t have that underlying risk: gambling, derivatives markets, prediction markets, etc.

These aren’t insurance and aren’t regulated as such.
I've said before, I'll say again:

We should have the $0.1 and $0.5 coins and everything should be rounded to that.

There's no reason to have $0.01 or even $0.05 precision. The value of the dollar, these days, has inflated to the point where there's simply no practical difference between $0.01 and $0.03 or $0.08 in everyday life, when dealing with cash transactions.

You could certainly track $0.01 in digital account tracking, but the coin is silly.

And -- with payment processing fees, places dealing with cash or card processing would still see less cost in "rounding down" than paying for card processing.
Ok that's interesting. I profoundly disagree with your tone, but would really like to hear with you regard as good approaches to the problem of missing data (particularly where you have dropout from a study or experiment).
In Sweden, I’m guessing it’s government backed greenwashing. This article (state sponsored site) strongly suggests biofuels have significantly reduced their carbon output:

https://smartcitysweden.com/focus-areas/mobility/biofuels/

But the numbers don’t add up. Instead, it looks like they’re simply burning less gas (biofuels or not):

https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/sweden
Another possibility: "The register says 99 cents change and I am not paid enough to give any more of a damn than that."
The coins proposed are all prime, which makes sense to me intuitively. You'll always need a 1 coin. I'm curious if it's generally true that optimal coins for any given range starting at 0 will be primes?
This seems very bad, but what will the actual long term effects of it be? Does this mean lots of important people will soon be blackmailed by China? How would we ever know? (It could explain some of the behavior of congresscritters.) Does it mean security keys and passwords were compromised across the board? Does China now own US infrastructure? Did they install their own backdoors everywhere? Maybe we're in a mutually assured destruction scenario, it's been known the US has been penetrating foreign network infrastructure to preposition malware for a long time. The US might be a lot more vulnerable though with more infrastructure networked.

And what is the fix? Turn off CALEA associated systems? What will that impact? Tracking down everything that might have been compromised seems like it will take a very long time.
For one show I went to, I needed the app to be able to get in the door, because I had no option to print the tickets, have them mailed to me, or pick them up at will call, and the web site didn't let me see what they needed to scan.
Open plan houses are the noisiest places to be. And for some reason the same people who like open plan houses also hate carpet and love high ceilings. Meaning you get the plate reverb effect on everything you do. How living in a place like that doesn't give you tinnitus I'll never know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

I was unfamiliar and that was the wildest Wikipedia article I've read in a long time.
> Planetary rings may be one of space’s many spectacles, but in our solar system, they’re a dime a dozen. While Saturn’s rings are the brightest and most extensive, Jupiter and Uranus and Neptune have them, too,likely the dwindling remains of shredded asteroids or comets.

Reading "The Ring Makers of Saturn", Dr. Bergrun suggests something very different.
I actually enjoy my job (well, mostly anyway). I would probably do it for free tbh (except for some of the BS parts)
Two obvious problems: the fractional part of the price is not uniform over [00..99] and the system has 5 coins, since in 2021 minting for the half-dollar coin was restarted.
Candystand! What a blast. Billiards, bowling, golf, pinball...great stuff. Yahoo came out with a similar set of web based games years later but they didn't have the same feel as candystand.com.
There is a 800kb font file loaded from the css. Can reproduce in dev tools by disabling the cache. The shift happens when those fonts are applied.
Depends where you are. In some European countries (Germany) mobile data is expensive. And mobile coverage even in cities can be kind of shit.
>To have sex for you or play games for you so you're not troubled by the effort?

Two of the three games I play on a daily basis largely play themselves, so... yes, actually. I still have plenty of fun watching them.
> my bank websites work fine on my phone, too.

But don't they disable some features if you don't use the app, e.g., mobile check deposit?
No worries. Your intent was obviously good, and you didn't start these conflicts anyway.
The Sovereign Citizen crowd are indeed nuts. When I was a law student I spent some time when learning how to do legal research practicing by thoroughly debunking Sovereign Citizen claims on Usenet, and continued to do that after I had mastered legal research and no longer needed extra outside practice. As a result I've seen pretty much all of their arguments.

Their inability to understand basic logic and the breadth and depth of their ignorance of history was astounding. It was only exceeded by their inability to understand even the simplest aspects of how the legal system works--they often for example cited documents as being decisions of a court when in fact the document was a brief from the losing side stating the argument that the court had found to be incorrect.

So what I find amusing is that in the particular situation you brought up they have out-reasoned you. :-) It is one of the few situations where they are actually taking a rational approach.

If someone actually believes that they are truly sovereign and not subject to the license plate rules it is in fact rational for them to put fake plates on their cars when driving through an area where the police will harass them over a lack of plates. Even if they were right and that harassment is not actually legal it is still a pain in the ass to deal with and a fake plate might prevent it.
I can only get behind this if there’s a fixed exchange rate between two coinable metals that doesn’t change with their relative scarcity.
This sounds like classic burnout. You just need to take a break from work, try 3 months or so.
Do you understand that copyright is slavery?

If so, then what are you doing about it?

Are you retarded or morally weak?
Already added to the route-map. I share it here in case you want to add more proposals: https://github.com/brisa-build/brisa/issues/197
I keep myself in check by exploring software -- and most things in life -- from a first-principles perspective.

Last few weeks I've been writing a software 3D renderer from scratch not because there isn't countless of great engines out there ready to use, but because I need to understand the base principles of 3D rendering much better than I did before I tackle the technologies that have presumptions and bias towards specific problems baked in.

For my intended use case, my own 3D software blitter in JS is probably going to be good enough, but if it isn't, at least I know why it didn't work for me and I can make a much more informed choice.

This is how I approach programming as a senior developer at my job as well. And I find that asking the right questions and reframing problems before looking for technologies to solve them is one of the key benefits of age and experience. It's also why the last few places have hired me, specifically because I reframe questions and break down assumptions before I start typing away at the keyboard.
One point of feedback: it's not clear from the webpage what happens if you put a todo on Monday and then don't do it.

Will it still be in your list of to-dos on Tuesday? Will it have vanished?
I think this is a curse that gets inflicted on far too many “gifted” children. While young they get lots of praise for their accomplishments and outcomes and it can drown out any intrinsic motivation to do things that make them happy.
Low orbit satellites are unnecessary for emergency/comm. Fewer, dimmer, satellites at higher orbits are actually cheaper, but LEO constellations are now subsidized by the military industrial complex (there is other value to be low).
I had the same experience at my previous startup and I ended up going down a rabbit hole of research and testing. I discovered there is this concept of "payment orchestration" which allows you to retry failed payments on other payment processors.

I learned that Stripe is one of the most conservative payment processors (to protect its reputation with card issuers like Visa and Mastercard), and typically has a higher payment decline rate than other processors. My recommendation is to retry these failed payments in another payment processor like Checkout.com, Airwallex, or Adyen if you're big enough.

Side note, after learning how big of a problem this is, I started a company called OpenPay (getopenpay.com) to solve this exact issue. We've helped hundreds of customers like yourself reduce their payment decline rates. Feel free to reach out to me at lance [at] getopenpay.com
Musk didn't claim to turn anything off.

A quote of the tweet is there in the article.

If you go to Sebastopol, with your starlink dish, it won't work and it has never worked.
There was this thing called the Jargon File. Then it was taken over by a rogue person who removed some things which didn't fit his personal liking and put in some other things. There was a lot of drama, but the end result was a skewed file that emphasized certain parts of hacker culture over others.

It might be good to know that you linked to the version which one person had outsized influence of, and should probably not be used to write history from. Except history on early Internet drama, perhaps.
Recognizing when life is more important than work? Did you miss the part where his wife died BEFORE "tuning the dial to life"? The lesson you should get from his post is not to make that mistake.

This forum is absurd. I don't need a cancer diagnosis to tell me I'm not living to complete OKRs and quarterly goals.

I'm a good employee and a dedicated worker but my goal since day one has been to do the least shitty job I can land, retire as fast as possible, and get on with the good parts of life. I've had the dial as far to life as possible forever.

But I'm working class, so I can't just retire when I realize the value of my life due to a medical emergency. Being able to do that is not a virtue that should be praised like this forum is doing, it is a gift that should be appreciated for the privilege that it is.

I only pray I can earn enough to turn my dial all the way to life, sometime before my body gives up on me
I love that AI negativity on HN is so strong that we reclassify whatever work AI can do into “busy work” as soon as it is possible.
yep, this is what have found so far.
> Now, i just have to ensure my costs are down so i can weather any salary hits.

That’s the key.

I have always lived extremely humbly, and haven’t carried any personal debt, beyond a mortgage on a very small house, since 1995. I maxed out my savings, and deferred stuff I couldn’t afford.

I’m still doing that now, and my savings generate more than I spend (for now). I’m hoping to have the ability to help my family, after I pass. They'll need as much help as possible.
We're Entering Uncharted Territory for Math
How fucked is that reef, now that a 5.7 tonnes of modern ship is sinking in the middle of it?

Also, this was a neat bit of the article; imagine fleeing a sinking ship by walking to land:

> Most of the personnel were evacuated from the life rafts onto rescuing ships. But one small boat capsized on the reef, so the personnel walked to land.
not true in my experience - of course you have to work within its capabilities but i find it to be a capable partner across large segments of tasks
Yeah, grandparent post should just take a year long sabbatical and come back when they’re feeling it.
The front page there has examples like “÷3/+∿⊞×⊟×1.5.220×τ÷⟜⇡&asr” - is that closer to noise, or does it actually look more readable than K once you get used to both? I’m kind-of intrigued by the built-in multimedia output, but still this language looks scary and impractical at first glance. How does it compare to using numpy & jupyter? Do a lot of people prefer the extreme tenseness over using typeable keywords? I’m curious why it lets you type the readable operators but wants to turn them into glyphs; wouldn’t it be more approachable, more readable, and make more maintainable code, if it just used the keywords instead of glyphs?
That doesn’t necessarily mean you can trust government reports though. Take this Bush-era propaganda piece, for example:

https://www.energy.gov/articles/biofuels-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Which is totally orthogonal to the original statement, and my reflection to it, which was on one hand statig that seemingly array languages tend to be letter soupy, for which I replied that a selection bias is at play, as array languges are used widely, most notably Matlab is used widely which is not a letter soup. It is simply not regurgulated on the site as it does not seem so hardcore.

Nevertheless you are right, array langueges have been around earlier, for example Matlab itself dates back to the 1970s.

I do not understand the awe some are giving them in the comments, they are an easy to understand paradigm, which is very well suited for certain types of problems. Some having overly terse syntax is a thing, but I do not feel that only geniuses can comprehend array programming, anyone who did learn some university level physics or signal processing has the tools in their belt.
What a story! Most people probably would just give up. Dealing with storage units is why I try to eliminate all the extra "stuff" in my life... George Carlin had a great bit on stuff: https://youtu.be/MvgN5gCuLac
At this point I think most jobs have good days and bad days and there's some enjoyment/pride in being productive and valued in a job environment. I'm not full r/antiwork or anything but when you take a 10k foot view and realize almost no one on their death bed wishes they had spent more time working / on their computer it's hard to not feel like it's all a big miscalculation on our parts.
https://github.com/py2many/py2many/pull/653

Transpiling the python version in the blog to mojo gives me a 4x speedup.

Had to hand edit a couple of things:

- List to bytearray conversion is not working yet
- Can't iterate over SIMD. So a "for x in list" loop has to be rewritten as a range based loop.

With a bit more work, the manual edits won't be necessary.
Back in 2018, I ran a little test to see if I could push Google Cloud Vision to recognize objects, shapes, or patterns in clouds. No matter how I treated the images ahead of time, the answer always came back: clouds.

Would be interesting to see how much free-association and hallucination have "improved" the results with the current generation.
> Believe it or not, blocking pings at the router prevents said router from responding to pings, and this eliminates 50% of the problem on symmetric connections (and >50% on asymmetric connections).

But if your downlink to clogged, it probably won't matter that much that your uplink is clear.

I've self-DoSed when 'downloading Linux ISOs' because the downlink was 100% saturated and I couldn't do much anything else because the ACKs for TCP packets couldn't get down easily (this was for something as basic as SSH sessions that suddenly got laggy when typing). I had to tell the software in question to only use ~90% of my downlink speed (DSL at the time).
Why is a 11-cent coin ridiculous? With nine of them you could pay for these X.99 products and not get a penny in return.
I doubt that every member is on a list, and even if they are, there are fake ids. Maybe the airport in Beirut would be cooperative? And it also doesn’t say that they tested every device this way.
The article says they probably swam across the Johnstone Straight, from the mainland. There's no mention whatsoever of introducing grizzlies to any nearby island.

If you're asking hypothetically, I'd guess it comes down to whether the islands were separate ecosystems, but Wikipedia would be a much better source than me.
The strict aliasing situation is pretty bad (2016)
> don't learn anything

I don't think this is true. We learn a lot: Deference. Dependency.
Entitlement. Impatience. Conformity. Distraction. Overconfidence.
Intemperance...

If something "does the thinking for you" it has a much deeper effect
than simply being a "crutch for the mind". It changes our relation to
the world, to knowledge, motives, ambition, self-control...

"AI" is going to change our minds, but from what I've seen so far the
outcome is a really quite awful kind of person, a net burden to
society rather than a creative and productive asset.
I’d go farther and eliminate all but the quarter.
> Its only ridiculous if you view it as a subsidy for ethanol fuel

I.e., what the government claims it to be.

Hence my sarcastic comment about trusting the government and its "experts".
The Feds said they were proactive. It's not SpaceX that claimed that
Google turns up a CNET article from 2007 (probably because eEye was "pumping press releases left and right"):[1]

> Researchers at eEye used a standard process of code auditing in discovering the vulnerabilities, [eEye CEO Ross] Brown added. He noted that Microsoft either did not do a 'good job' with its code auditing, or it may not have had enough people working on such a task.

I don't really get this culture of racing to find a bug in another company's product, then strutting about finding one (in Microsoft Publisher of all things) and throwing shade. I guess we should all be so lucky to have a company whose "standard process" is to pull a week of all nighters testing our product.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/flaw-found-in-office-2007/
> My daughter is 10 and she is learning factoring, long division, and other things that a calculator does very well with. But she’s not allowed to use it at this stage because she can’t learn while using a crutch.

Which seems silly to me, but what do I know, I'm not a teacher. Nobody does long division in real life after K-12 school. It is not a useful skill to have, and it is not a useful concept to know. If I have to divide two numbers I just use a calculator like 99% of the humans on the planet.

Knowing what division is, and what it means to divide one number by another is valuable, but can you just teach that without teaching the mechanics of "divide the partial dividend by the divisor, then multiply the partial quotient by the divisor, and subtract from the partial dividend, extending to the next blah blah blah blah"? Are we really training the next generation for a world without electricity?
> Leave old signs alone, but whenever new signs get built, build them in both units for a few years (65mph / 105kph) allowing you to gradually transition to metric.

Road signs last around a decade. So you're talking 10 years to replace with dual-unit signs (which are more confusing) and then another 10 years to replace again with metric-only signs.

Is it worth it? Is it really that important to change driving speeds to metric? What's the benefit?

And how does it help to say "hey can you pick up 3.8L of milk?" If packaging sizes don't change then we'll still call it a gallon and we won't have "converted" at all.

Conversion is a massive, confusing, expensive effort, and it's reasonable to wonder whether it's actually worth it.
This may be why the practice was invented but I bet there are plenty of teachers who see it more as a way to keep them busy
Agreed, and so far the replies to your question are (for me at least) deeply unsatisfying. We already had SSR back in the CGI days, and it was awesome when we moved a lot of that stuff to the client. I know this is all a giant Wheel of Time, but I'm not ready for us to go back just yet. :)

SSR to help with page loading seems like a poor reason. I'm sure there are exceptions, but so many sites make gobs of requests for bazillions of elements (trackers, ads, etc.) anyway. Seems like there is lower hanging fruit we should check out first.

Doing it for SEO just makes me sad - a major architectural change just to try to keep up in the never-ending chase to make Google happy is depressing.

The big upside in moving dynamic rendering to the client for me was that it then made it far easier to have a cleaner separation of duties between a web designer and a developer. You take a graphical designer and have them master HTML/CSS and they can then create the initial design, make it into valid HTML/CSS files, be responsible for things like site responsiveness on different screen sizes, browser quirks, most of accessibility tasks, etc. The developer's job is to "wire it up" - things like populating the data, making the site react to user input, and so forth.

The big win was that this division of labor is not only enabled at the outset, but it is relatively easy to maintain through the entire life of the site. We had tons of sites where there were design refreshes with little (and in a few cases, no) developer work. When I see SSR tools now (as well as client frameworks that chop up the HTML into chunks and then intertwine them with code) my first impulse is to wonder how that gets maintained and updated. Like, when the UI is redesigned and reorganized, does all of that code have to be rewritten? When something doesn't work right on Safari, can the web designer help much or is it all on the shoulders of the dev?
Abuse ZSH Parameter Expansion to Expand GNU-Style Arguments
I wonder how much further along we will get creating human-like intelligences until Occam's razor suggests that the (in evolutionary scale) sudden emergence of human intelligence ~20,000 years ago was the result of the efforts of an intelligent force
A lot of the benefits of BOLT come from fixing the block layout so that taken branches go backward and untaken branches go forward. This is CPU neutral.
> Your distro has packages that are guaranteed to play well together…

I’ve never worked in an org that had all machines 100% unified on a single distro from dev to prod.
Good guide, but IMO it is missing one crucial recommendation: Use prose only to provide motivation, connect ideas, and guide the first-time reader. Any definitions, lemmas, theorems, corollaries, and proofs belong in typographically clearly separated sections and, most importantly, they should be fully self-contained and mention all assumptions! There should be no implicit context, no implicit assumptions from 5 pages before, no "drive-by" definitions and proofs in the prose.

Math papers written like contiguous novels are absolute hell to read & understand & use as reference. (Is the author assuming the same properties here as in the other argument on the previous page? What is that symbol again? Am I looking at an example here or is this already the proof of the the general theorem from the previous page? Etc.)
"printed in gold, 'cause plaintext makes the folks sweat"
Which was precisely my point (and I agree with all the responses in this thread), though my wording and light sarcasm seems to have been a bit too dry, and didn't quite take up as intended.