jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> No one is arrested, nor warrants (search or otherwise) issued on behalf of litigants in civil cases.

Election offence is criminal offence, afaik that's true for all (all english-speaking nations?) bodies that inherit the English model of the rule of law:

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/election-offences

https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes...

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/file/1029066/download

> Due process means that if you’ve raised a legally cognizable claim, then you get the chance to have the (legally admissible) evidence your investigation has gathered for that claim heard by the court.

> Specific fact claims (which is not “Something funky might have happened, we’d like it to be investigated”)

It's always been more than that, since the affidavits from witnesses have detailed particular locations, times, people, and the means used by those people, that the witnesses suspect to be instances of election fraud.

Consider there's a burglary, you suspect a person and you've obtained sworn statements from your neighbours witnessing seeing the person entering your house. You are in no power to enter suspect's premises in search for facts of him committing the burglary, unless you have a warrant from a court issued to the police to do so. And you cannot have that warrant until you get courts start the official process of hearing from witnesses. That's exactly the scenario of the alleged election fraud by mail-in ballots, where votes were (allegedly) stolen by some suspected actors with some suspected means.
Well, thanks for your comment! I am not native and I had assumed a fortnight ends the next morning.
It’s pretty obvious that this is the fate of the US and Europe too in the next 6 months. Unless we lock down hard. People are still in total denial though.
I'm a bit late in answering. I brought up the decentralization and deregulation of taxi transport (via Uber / Lyft) because I believe the impacts - significantly lowering cost and improving availability of transportation - are a net societal benefit, despite reduced wage stability. This improves public safety, creates incentives against drunk driving, creates affordable alternatives to lengthy public transit rides.

Grocery delivery is a similar case - for many, reducing the cost and improving availability of grocery delivery is a significant benefit. Instead of being the domain of the wealthy, it is massively more available to the average person.

"Living wage" is used to argue that people are owed wages higher than the market would actually pay. Lots of jobs pay vastly higher than living wages - not for fun, but because the supply of workers is more scarce and the economic output of the job is higher. Minimum wage is how we as a society have defined a floor for what is an acceptable job, which I think is intimately associated with the construct of a living wage.
A lot of things only get noticed if/when Apple does them - high-density screens, multitasking etc - and then they become 'revolutionary' and 'magical'
that's great advice and I've anecdotally noticed that when I have breaks in between meetings, I'm basically waiting for the next meeting to start. So you definitely have a good point here, thanks
Learn Javascript. Not just learn it, master it.

Then learn jquery, scriptaculous, prototype and exjs

Bonus point for node.js
Capital gains is messy, the UK has been doing a review on it and I don't think there are any easy answers. Ideally you'd want to exclude inflation but that would become a bureaucratic nightmare.

Having said that I think there is a good case for treating it and dividends as regular income.
The data was used for this article: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/police-misconduct-costs...
Curiously, Safari asked me if I want to allow Facebook to track me when I clicked on the video. When I declined, the video stopped. (Clicked again, let the video play out in the background, then declined. Oh well.)
In many countries including the US, yes. There are analogs and prodrugs that do not, however. Just to add Adrafinil is probably the most popular. It’s a prodrug metabolized in the liver. I’ve read about slight hepatotoxicity, but I’ve never had any issues when I took 600-900mg for a few weeks. There are also a number of related RCs I unfortunately cannot recall the names of (some of them sound a bit strange though). Not sure how much I’d trust them. I’ve always been weary of RCs for a variety of reasons.
Clearly black children are not achieving at the rate that white children are, but that’s no reason to suspend the gifted program. Yes, the white kids are getting more academic and overall support at home, and this can only be fixed by getting all of the kids this kind of support, not by kneecapping the white children (who are not super privileged or they wouldn’t be in Boston Public Schools to begin with).

Ridiculous policies like this are why we sold our house in the city and left for a $2 million house in the suburbs, where the price of admission means that every kid has lots of support at home, depleting the city schools of one more kid and dragging them down even further.

Arguably the overall societal gains are higher from turning a future accountant into a future scientist than improving the 25th percentile student’s outcome anyways.
This is a really hard subject. I can remember growing up as the only black kid in an all white class of kids in elementary school, and all of my friends made it into the "advanced" cohort. I knew I was just as bright as any of them, and that given a chance I would thrive there too. But for whatever reason I didn't make the cut, and this removed me from my peer group for the rest of my school years. They grew apart and I ended up mostly friendless. I don't think race really had a lot to do with it. But if you're going to separate kids, at least have a whole other school to send them to, rather than creating a distinct hierarchy among the classes. I think that really messes with kids' self esteem.
I can afford to pay double rent for a while if necessary. But from the looks of it, the lockdown rules will be generalized in the upcoming weeks.
I am just trying to learn myself so take this with a grain of salt but I have found the github of Antirez:(https://github.com/antirez) - the author of Redis - to be an amazing resource. The code is incredibly well documented and to my eyes pretty well written. A good place to start I think is Kilo:(https://github.com/antirez/kilo/blob/master/kilo.c) - a 1000 line text editor with no dependencies.
Naturally some Finns seems to have registered kos.su (kossu is Finnish slang for the Koskenkorva vodka), even seems to have functioned as an url-shorterner for a while. :)
Are you suggesting that discrimination against African Americans and against Asian Americans are equal in severity?
I always wished Evernote would store my text as text and Alternote seems to be the first tool that (at least tricks me---in the good sense) that I can use Markdown to enter my notes.
I actually can remember a password like the d07 one easier because of keyboard pattern matching. That's how I generate passwords is I draw patterns on the keyboard. It's so unpopular that nobody creates tables for keyboard patterns entries.
Aren't the refugees suffering enough already?
Like code camps exclusively for gender/race/socioeconomic/etc groups? I thought exclusionary practices were the pinnacle of progressive reasoning.
I don't think that's what the comment was saying at all. The things you quoted don't appear in the comment.
Let’s first remove the misconception that it is anywhere near a Ponzi scheme. If it was, the news and Settlement will be mentioning that P work again. No mentions, no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing in the Settlement.

Contrary to FTC statement and CNBC reports, the timeline is the following, and Beam had the paper trail to show that this is factual —

1) October 1, 2020 - Beam's ACH service provider's API service stopped working. Funds locked in banking service provider.

2) Early October - Beam began proactively working with its ACH service provider, banking service provider to unlock the funds help at bank. Service providers initially refused to unlock funds unless Beam indemnifies them. Months long disputes with ACH vendor who locked up the fund.

3) November 16 - All of $2.6 million except around 80 customers who Beam was not able to reach had been refunded in full by Beam and Beam's service providers. The remaining amount of these around 80 customers accounted for <$90K in aggregate dollar amount.

4) November 18 or about - FTC, knowing that Beam had returned vast majority of the $2.6 million, still filed a lawsuit against Beam. CNBC article came out around the same time misstating that Beam had not yet returned the funds and it was FTC who “made” the fund return happen or to be happened.

5) By January - Beam had since then contacted all remaining 80 customers and the return of funds had been complete for all where customers can be reached.

FTC admitted explicitly to Beam on an internal call that they have not reviewed all the evidence —and that they WILL NOT review the full evidence proving Beam's innocence—which is against the principle of due diligence and fair justice.

Beam offered full review of the facts and full disclosure of all facts and evidence, but FTC refused to examine the facts to rectify false allegations by FTC. This is clear evidence that this case was NEVER about truth-seeking, but a PR chess piece for FTC.

About Settlement
1 - There is zero conclusive evidence of finding of wrongdoing. Nil. Only false allegations.
2 - There is $0 penalty. When was the last time you saw FTC taking on an scrappy SME for months, only to come to a $0 settlement? Shows there’s more to the story.

‪To be clear, Beam as a company is not shutting down. Stop the misleading headlines just like when people call Beam a Ponzi scheme. False “entertaining” frivolous news comes and goes, but the damage on good people and startups is a permanent injustice.

If the “System” can take down any small, defenseless SME with explicit refusal to review the FACTs, simply sensationalizing a false make-believe story to paint a picture of the “System” being glorious, fired up by fake news, is this the world we want to leave to our children?
There is a tab at the bottom. If you can't see it, there you can trigger using Alt+F12.
What cool projects are at Google?
I agree they don't care about their users, but the reason there isn't a communication is more likely that they have to filter all of this through their legal team first.
And they gave a free copy of AC: Odyssey to everyone who tried the beta.
"The keyboard should not be required to move between exercises" ... did you mean "mouse"? Otherwise I am not following you.

In the very near future I am planning to add some kind of hands/fingers graphic, with the appropriate digit indicated in some way. That might cover your other suggestion about a predefined color.

Thanks for the feedback!
Here is another highly critical article:

https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/the_17_mev_anomaly_...
It seems like they tried, but no blockchain expert would go near it because it was so clearly a Ponzi-type scheme. Just look at the website: http://web.archive.org/web/20150302021347/http://www.onecoin...
Benefit recipients and their landlords. Fixed that for you.
> at one point tried to load-balance the traffic across _30_

> machines efficient blocking rules, I was saturating their

> connections.

I have a slightly more complex "load-balancing" method, as long as the network bandwidth itself can hold out (hosted in the cloud) I've been able to deal with all attacks so far. My current method is to have a "whitelist" and "blacklist" look up table to quickly begin filtering incoming connections. If you end up on the blacklist (reasons include too many connections over a time period, bad requests, too many requests without authentication, etc, etc) then you instantly get killed - not a single byte gets sent. Being on the whitelist (reasons include being an already auth'd user, low traffic density, unique requests, etc, etc) then you shortcut some additional checks. Connections not in either list (potentially either attackers or new users) go through an additional per-generated (the check and answer is statically generated, so it's not added to connection overhead) check to "test for humanness". Both lists are decayed over time and connections on both lists can be re-assigned if they start behaving badly. The additional checks are mostly only activated under high load.

After that there is a resource management layer that is essentially "service temporarily unavailable" on anything too heavy (large file GET/POST, large database read/write, non-essential database writes are dropped, etc, etc).

This is all then run through a high-level network simulation to test where the bottlenecks will be. Each "release" goes through the test before making it into production.

I can't give too many details, but there is also a slightly malicious protection layer - if we detect somebody using a known/obvious bot (which is harmful) we have a few methods to crash them (based on known vulnerabilities). Some of these also act against aggressive search bots.

I have a beautiful graph sitting somewhere showing an attack ramping up and then mostly disappearing when the defense was triggered. It was quite worrying at the time because we just assumed our system went down or we had accidentally started blocking real users.

> That said, I strongly suspect cloudflare probably works

> hand-in-hand with the NSA or some shit, and it's a dangerous

> trend.

I also highly suspect this.

> But I just don't think there exists a viable alternative, unless

> you're a multi-million dollar internet company

I agree and that is a massive problem.
That movie is really interesting, also because of the Dotcom-era history it includes too that I never really knew about.
Sure -- Flask-Security is really excellent. I should have included it in the first part of this series.

Essentially, Flask-Security is doing the same thing as Flask-Stormpath, but is a lot more flexible -- it allows you to store users however you want with Postgres, Mongo, or whatever backend database you like. It also comes with some good examples (of how to create a users table for Postgres, etc.).

The benefit to Flask-Stormpath is a few things:

- You have a pre-defined user model that is really flexible (you can do email or username login / auth).

- You get greater security for authentication stuff (we use a really secure digest authentication method which prevents various attacks: MITM stuff, replay attacks, timing attacks, etc.).

- We also provide a flexible (and scalable) key-value store for all your user data (up to 10mb of data, per user account, completely free), so you can do cool stuff like this:

>>> my_user.custom_data['blah'] = {
'something': {
'more_stuff': 999.999,
'woot': 'hiya!',
},
}
>>> my_user.save()

All your user information (and user data), is hosted, backed up, encrypted, and provided via a fast, REST API.

This means that you can do cool stuff like:

- Access your user data from many parts of your stack (without sharing databases, or doing other hacks). This is really great if you're building a service-oriented application.

- Scale your userbase up from a few users to millions, no issues whatsoever.

And lastly, Stormpath also provides a really complete permissions model:

- You can encapsulate users in unique containers (directories), then map those directories to applications to make them 'active'.

- You get out of the box email verification and password reset stuff.

- You can require passwords to have various levels of complexity (length, types of characters, etc.).

- You can put users into groups (many-to-many), which scales particularly well on our backend -- a great way to build complicated authorization hierarchies.

Hopefully that helps answer your questions.

SUMMARY: Flask-Security is probably the very best possible, purely open source, and flexible, application that exists. Flask-Stormpath is built on top of the Stormpath API, so as a benefit, can do a lot of stuff that isn't possible for Flask-Security to do.
I've seen similar arguments for cycles of pacifism and militarism in populations as a whole over a longer period of time -- a couple of generations typically. Interesting observation.
By that definition nobody creates technology since all they're doing is iterating on work done by other people.

He may not have written code or laid out circuits, but the work he did is extremely important in the process of creating technology. He wasn't just a promoter, he was also a shaper, he would steer the engineering team towards the types of solutions he was looking for and push them to achieve beyond what they would ordinarily do.

Having a vision of some kind of technology and then driving a team towards that goal is, undeniably, "creating technology".
> The global supply of gold did not increase 3x.

The government's gold reserve increased 3x.

> The Fed kept a fixed exchange rate for gold, while inflating the currency supply.

"inflating" the current supply of what? dollars? As noted the reserve ratio did not decrease. As there were more dollars there was more gold backing it.
Candy is indeed uncommon here, but not unheard of. You'll find it on confectionary packaging to describe the contents. There's also a chain of stores in London (elsewhere now?) called Cyber Candy that sell exotic (OK so mostly american) candy.

So it is in some use, but not that common.

Personally I object to anyone that tries to trademark a single word of our shared language. They shouldn't be able to fence bits off like that, they should have to make up their own word if they want it trademarked.
I gotta try this out when I'm wearing my wearable Hadoop cluster ;-)
I second the recommendation for Ben Rich's book. It's a great history lesson and explanations behind the thinking of some of the greatest aerospace hackers & out-of-box thinkers.

I thought the passage about "600 mph birds" was particularly humorous because that was the first thing my young hacker mind thought of during a training section on the radar cross-section of the aircraft I was working on. It went something like this:

Instructor: "So the radar cross section is reduced considerably to approximately the size of a small bird"

Me: "So why don't they just look for a small bird going 600 mph?"

Instructor: "..."

Some years after, an F-117 was shot down during the Kosovo War, reportedly using this method (I had nothing to do with it :). I think this was probably a big learning lesson in regard to stealth technology.

And no disrespect to my instructor, he was a professional and a god of his domain.
Looks good, but there's no thumbs or visual ways to identify documents. If I'm looking for a specific image in a batch, for instance.
How would San Francisco be better with 2 million people than with 1 million? Should it grow until it is as crowded as the cities people are fleeing in order to come to SF? What will happen is not that increased supply will have any effect but demand from talented people will drop as SF becomes as characterless as any other cheaper US city.

As crowding rises the value of labor relative to land will fall, something very beneficial to the wealthy and harmful to the employed.

On a site where conjecture about immorality pills and "the singularity" abound, how is it supposed that population density can grow forever and everyone be better off for it? Mega-cities are the characteristic of the third world and they are paragons of failure. Or will SF uniquely continue to grow infinitely owing to killer apps and the innate superiority of its people?
did anyone see the presentation?

I noticed the mention of guy decoux (a great rubyist who died years ago), and remember he had an optional typed ruby fork, but it's hard to understand why he was mentioned in context.
Nvidia doesn't need more money for R&D, the limited supply has absolutely nothing to do with lack of resources to invest in manufacturing capacity. They have a combination of two things:

There's no planet on which they are going to base their future plans on crypto mining. End of story. The market is far too volatile for them to bet the company on it. Another couple million in the bank from auctioning off cards isn't going to change that. You're talking 10s of BILLIONS of dollars for fabs all to meet crypto mining demand? And oh, by the way, the faster they ramp up supply, the faster demand for the GPU goes down due to increased complexity of mining.

They have yield issues with the current generation chips. The only way that solves itself is through time, money won't improve the process, experience is the only fix.

You also failed to address what happens to all their retail partners who you've conveniently decided should be cut out.
Limit to 1 card per person and requiring a deposit might help address that.
I didn’t think it was possible but the anti rust crowd managed to become even more obnoxious than the Rust evangelism strike force
> So is your argument that we just haven’t been through a cycle or else the hedge funds would have come out ahead? If they didn’t come out ahead after all of the turmoil, they are (on average) worse than an index fund.

No. The proposition of most platform hedge funds is not to beat the market. It's to generate returns in any type of environment on a risk neutral basis.

So if you invest in a hedge fund, do not expect market returns. Expect range-bound returns in any type of market environment.

Hedge funds are risk management vehicles for institutional money.
Every year there are hedge fund managers that outperform the market. The trick is knowing at the beginning of the year which manager that’s going to be.

Absent that crystal ball, a portfolio of hedge funds is a strictly more expensive way of investing than an index fund.
"Hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles was the world's most popular television program on personal technology during the height of the personal computer revolution. It was broadcast for twenty years from 1983 - 2002. The program was seen on more than 300 television stations in the United States and in over 100 countries worldwide, with translations into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic. The series had a weekly television broadcast audience of over two million viewers."
It seems other parts are more modern. Yes, the main processor is a RAD750, but the peripherals can use modern components and there's some USB and Ethernet here and there (like the cable between the sky crane and the rover)

Reliability is very important and space is harsh. I assume on the surface the radiation levels are low enough for Earth systems to work (maybe playing a bit with voltage/clock frequency helps, not sure how much shielding they can add, probably not too much).
It's much more robust to have a dedicated build step that is separate from your deploy step.

The build step is where you install deps, do compilation, etc. Then it saves the output. The deploy step can just copy all the files from the last known good build to the new/updated servers.

This way you can always deploy a last-known-good release quickly and without external dependencies.

It also lets you take advantage of package caching on the build server so that as long as your deps don't change, you can deploy new releases to old or new servers without hitting any external services.