skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you prove, or at least find some evidence of conspiracy? Gab is an unpopular service, and doing business with them would become news and risk their other customers, so it's not too surprising that payment processors and banks choose to not to business with them.

I think it's less conspiracy and more defensive business strategy.

I wish payment processing and banking were more anonymous, and I'm very interested in projects like GNU Taler[1] that seek to find privacy conscious ways of doing transactions online. However, if they can't even find a bank to do business with them (or start one themselves), they're kind of screwed.

- [1] http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/taler/
hopefully this works: https://ufile.io/yrmrx
This is not how the law works (or should work). For example, cutting in line is not illegal, despite the fact that people almost universally disagree with it. This isn't a failure of our political system: the social pressure to follow the norm works great, and we don't think people deserve to be put in jail for it.

Law is a tool to enforce societal norms — but it's not the only one, nor is it necessarily the best one.
You are very very naive if you believe that it's not very common that landlords do care, very much, about color.
That assertion - that the soda tax killed a small supermarket in West Philly - doesn't sound remotely plausible. Even if soda sales dropped, non-alcoholic beverages aren't high-markup items, the lunch counter and the magazine aisle is where profit is made. A retailer doesn't lose too much profit if soda sales drop (apparently sales did drop, Reason concedes that the tax was a success). Apart from that, the article is suspiciously scant on details.

On the other hand, obesity, especially childhood obesity, is a massive public health problem, and the costs on the public purse are immense. If the Philadelphia soda tax manages to put a dent into that problem, one can easily live with one Shoprite less.
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Asking for proof of white privilege in a single instance where we don't have all the facts is to misunderstand the topic.

Shitty things happen to people all the time. But for historical reasons, they happen at different rates to different groups of people. That's how our country started; e.g., only well-off white men could vote. We are slowly reducing that. Maybe in another hundred years we'll have it all sorted.

Your experience counts because it's your experience. But it doesn't say beans about privilege as a system. Your attitude, does, though. You're shocked and angry that a minor slip-up might end up with you out on the street. That's great! You're correct that it's unjust. But there are an awful lot of people for whom that isn't a surprise at all. They expect injustice, because they have experienced a lot more of it.
These make a pretty good cover _and_ support the EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set
Can we not have smart ethical people? When did getting away with unethical or unlawful behavior become associated with “smart?”
My job is technically docs; I do the community stuff because I love it.

I don’t think there’s anyone doing this in Rust that I’m aware of.
I myself am not fond of external dependencies, having had some projects merely obsoleted when the dependent resources that be decided to drop/revise their offerings.

A lot of businesses would be hesitant to have dependent outsourced critical technologies, especially if its their core service or product. Over the decades I heard of many failures, not due to the product, but the dependent technology either dropping out, changing api/usability, or highly inflating usage/licnese costs.

Here is a Joel piece on it:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-...
There are no free lunches. None of those examples work as well as pure employer employee relationship companies, otherwise there would be many, many more of them. A works with more cöops and partnerships would be poorer because they’re just less efficient.
The rich could avoid this by getting rid of the poor, but they need the poor: historically to do the work, currently to buy the stuff that makes them rich.

Perhaps autonomous robots changes this? Even, the need for private armies, via autonomous killer drones?

Fortunately, collaboration between equals remains the greatest source of wealth creation, so anyone who doesn't do this is poorer, weaker and left behind.
>There is a set of conformance tests to verify API compatibility. Nouveau fails them. It's not just buggy, it is literally non-API-conformant. You can't keep pretending its API conformant when it fails the API conformance tests. When Nouveau is actually API compliant, perhaps it will get un-blocked.

It doesn't matter. Nouveau is a buggy implementation but an implementation nevertheless. No one is going to blame Chromium for their desktop freezing up. It's the user's decision to buy Nvidia and Ubuntu's decision to use a buggy driver. They've weighted the tradeoffs and come to a decision which is theirs to make. It's NOT Chromium's place to make that call.

These bugs are not causing daily issues to Chromium users, or even frequent issues, for nearly all users. The blacklisting does affect all users, daily.

It is not Chromium's place to decide which driver their users will use. It's not okay to write vendor specific code. It is not okay. You write code for the APIs and if the implementation of those APIs is buggy, it's their bug, not yours. Changing your code to fix someone else's bug is the objectively incorrect thing to do. Fucking over an important upstream Linux driver in favor of a proprietary driver from a bad actor is outright morally wrong.
This is actually something I have been thinking about a lot recently because I was considering switching jobs and it led me to reflect on my position in life.

My dad was very similar to the person described. Smart as all get out, just never presented with the right opportunities, and ended up working an assembly line for his entire working life.

The difference between a factory job and a more professional field like software is that in a professional field, your employers benefit from you growing. It is worthwhile for them to invest in you because it makes business sense.

In a factory, you're a cog in a machine. Often the management goes out of their way to ensure you know your place. A lifetime of being put down like that leaves scars that are hard to get past.

"What you know is right" means working to get past that baggage and the other baggage in his life, because the person has the potential to be more than he currently is but has been conditioned their whole life not to see it.
> But how would you draft that such that it wouldn't eliminate libraries and museums?

That's easy! You just make the law only apply to stadiums.

I am sure it would be perfectly possible to include a detailed description of what a stadium is, in the law.
By comparison, yes. Sweden's top tax bracket kicks in at just 1.5x the average income. The 69% tax bracket kicked in at $38,000 in 1955, about 8x the average income. As the article I linked to explains, deductions were much more extensive back then too.

The result is that the average tax rate on say the 1% has actually not dropped that much: https://almostclassical.blogspot.com/2011/03/90-tax-rate-myt.... It was 40-45% in the 1950s and 1960s, and has fluctuated between 30-40% since the late 1980s.
Would you consider changing pip to pip3 in your command? Lead the way with good practice?
You could also do the inversion yourself:

dst += (src[i] != ' ' && src[i] != '\r' && src[i] != '\n');

(This also misses some other whitespace, like '\t', '\f' and '\v', which if you included might change the balance between the vector and scalar versions).
Depending on your source it ranges from ~33% to over 50%. SAMHSA stats out it over 50%, others like this out it lower around 48%:

https://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/addiction.pdf

https://sunrisehouse.com/addiction-demographics/homeless-pop...

https://mentalillnesspolicy.org/consequences/homeless-mental...

In January 2015, the most extensive survey ever undertaken found 564,708 people were homeless on a given night in the United States. Depending on the age group in question, and how homelessness is defined, the consensus estimate as of 2014 was that, at minimum, 25 percent of the American homeless—140,000 individuals—were seriously mentally ill at any given point in time. Forty-five percent of the homeless—250,000 individuals—had any mental illness. More would be labeled homeless if these were annual counts rather than point-in-time counts.

https://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/addiction.pdf

Although obtaining an accurate, recent count is difficult, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2003) estimates, 38% of homeless people were dependent on alcohol and 26% abused other drugs. Alcohol abuse is more common in older generations, while drug abuse is more common in homeless youth and young adults (Didenko and Pankratz, 2007). Substance abuse is much more common among homeless people than in the general population. According to the 2006 National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 15% of people above the age of 12 reported using drugs within the past year and only 8% reported using drugs within the past month.

https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/fixing-the-system/fe...
People would be highly incentivized to save almost nothing (or if they did save, to work very hard to hide it).

That seems bad.
What you're observing might be your operating system's behavior. There is a privacy feature of IPv6 called "privacy addresses" (or sometimes "temporary addresses").

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4941

Some (most?) operating systems rotate the v6 privacy address daily or more often. The benefit of this is a) address not transparently based on permanent ethernet hardware MAC address and b) changes over time. Both are meant to hamper tracking.

If you're on a Mac and using IPv6, you can see these temporary privacy addresses stacking up over time if you type `ifconfig en0`. Old ones don't disappear immediately when rotated out since you need to be able to receive packets for a while. They are marked "deprecated" for some time before they disappear.
The difference between tax and fees is that with fees you can opt in or out of the service they're for. Taxes are compulsory, in most other interactions the exchange of money is voluntary and can be negotiated by the parties involved.

That is why we should take care thinking about tax changes. You are forcing someone to provide money. It's obvious we have to force people to pay for somethings. But how much should they have to pay for? At 70% I think there has to be a solid discussion about the moral implications not just about the feasibility.
Does it really? I had grotesque lag when installing Fedora on a System76 laptop with an Nvidia card and had to switch to X manually.
The true story of civilization was the story increasing carrying capacity, so population needn't be managed through warfare, famine or infanticide. Which through contraception, TV and the internet has now become a different story of population management.
In that case just put on a few more layers. Shot noise is fairly random.
Yeah I don't understand aggression toward long time residents. Like... On what basis is anyone wanting to move I to an area and opposed to... Exactly what's good about the area. More population density in SF sounds like a deal breaker to me.

It's already not worth any money to me to move between SF and mtv. Tried it for years. It's terrible already .
Sure in an ideal world you would not need affirmative action or whatever they want to call it these days. Also in a perfect utopia communism lets everyone share everything equally and is clearly superior to capitalism. Unfortunately we don't live in perfect utopia, and thus need practical solutions like capitalism, democracy, and even affirmative action. Which reminds me of Churchill's quote: "Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried..."
No, you were right. The XMPP protocol is awful.
Seems pretty rare. Most people want the money and prestige that comes from working for Facebook or Google. It's easy to be a rebel when you've got nothing to lose.
If I were to speculate about the outlines of the “shell company” loophole you describe - I figure you would form a company to own the property, and then sell the company instead of the property directly? Is that right, and if so, any reason you can’t do that for a house?
> It doesn't really follow that tax policy should be different because a diverse population disagrees more.

I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that people are more okay with giving the government more control of their money in societies where people tend to be similarly situated and have similar values.
The fundamental problem in my opinion is that these EMRs were forced on providers and hospitals rather than emerging organically by choice.

I fully support the use of EMRs as some ideal, but it should emerge as the best option not as something that was forced. The result was a lot of EMR systems that would have never been adopted if there wasn't added pressure from government regulations. I strongly believe that EMRs would look pretty different if they were adopted organically without regulation.

It's really astounding to me that the elephant in the room of healthcare regulation isn't discussed more in public discussions of cost. As a result we end up with EMRs where the tail wags the dog, lack of transparency, lack of competition, lack of choice, etc. etc. etc.

I keep hoping the weight of the edifice will cause the thing to implode as it becomes so obviously unsustainable, but it's as if more regulation just births more regulation.
There's a contradiction between your two statements:

> I would find the story more convincing if there were also examples of "talents" who didn't go anywhere.

> I find it rather likely that people with his talents would always find a way.

The latter is basically the just world fallacy. [1] It assumes that the outcomes are correct. If you were offered examples of people who the writer said were talented but didn't go anywhere, I think you'd just just bring the just world fallacy to bear, believing that their bad outcome was proof that they weren't really talented.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Can you go into more detail with how that worked?
You don’t need to use the constructor syntax to have an object inherit prototypes from another.
It may be coming back though.

IBM's new and rising supercomputer architecture, POWER9, supports hardware IEEE binary128 floats (quad precision). Their press claims the current fastest supercomputer in the world uses POWER9.

The ppc64 architecture (still produced by IBM) supports "double-double" precision for the long-double type, which is a bit hacky and software-defined, but has 106 bit mantissa.

And ARM's aarch64 architecture supports IEEE binary128 long-doubles as well, though it is implemented in software now (by compiler). Maybe they plan a hardware implementation in the future?
It would be nice if more cities were able to own the teams like Green Bay does but the leagues have made that impossible.
Is Taler in active development? Do you know anything about the status?

Looks to me that it's 4 years old, has 3 members, and is still "pre alpha".
Companies were smaller. Pay difference between the top and bottom of the corporate hierarchy is greatly affected by corporation size. We mostly stopped breaking up corporations long before we had those higher tax rates, and the technology changes since that time have made very large corporations easier to manage.

We dropped our tariffs while increasing our regulations, which caused outsourcing. Americans lost their jobs to foreign countries.

We increased the supply of workers, particularly low-skilled workers, by failing to apply our laws at the border and with visa overstays. As a simple matter of supply and demand, the price of labor plummeted.

We increased the cost of living with regulations. It all adds up: zoning, car safety, building codes, etc. This is great if you are not poor and you can't bear the sight of poor people living in conditions that are not as nice as the ones you can afford.

Large numbers of women entered the workforce. The extra family income let the dual-income couples bid up the price of housing and other things. To keep up, others felt forced to do likewise. With that being the norm now, prices are higher and so people generally aren't financially better off.
It is a similar concept like used in Go and Erlang. Don't use shared memory and locks, instead, send messages between processes.

It works great with embedded real time systems as well. It can be easier to get right than the alternative -- because without locks, the performance is more predictable.

Less chance for race conditions and deadlocks as well.

It is also basically the same thing as hooking up different processors with a bunch of serial ports. UARTs typically have a hardware ring buffer for send and receive. So basically, you simulate a bunch of separate processors all communicating. You could do it in hardware, or within software. Both work equally well.
Hyundai's Automated Valet Parking System
So the profitable part is owned by the private financiers, and the city only pays for all the externalities?
I designed a product once using a Parallax Propeller. I loved it because it had 8 CPU cores that had rotating access to shared memory and no interrupts. If I remember correctly I did implement a ring buffer to handle communication between cores. I think the Propeller 2 is close to being released now that I think about it.
That is a "should" based on your feelings about Nvidia, not about what is the correct decision for users. They are falling back to software rendering when the GPU driver does not properly support the hardware acceleration. That's not uncommon, and it's certainly not the outrage you are trying to make it out to be here. Everybody gets it, you disagree with Nvidia's decision to not have open-source drivers. Not everyone else shares your views there, and it is not their obligation to support your views.
What I read in this article are 2 things, the urge of getting all you can get out of life and risk aversion.
These 2 things are a sure way of getting stuck with a real depression/burnout.
My generation (gen-x) has learned to let go of things that you are not able stear, things like corrupt structures around you that try to manipulate you to participate in it and play along.
At the same time my generation (gen-x) has learned to try to do yourself things that are interesting even when those structures around you tell you that those things you persue are not relevant to the world.
I say my generation in this case because of recognision that my peers of the same generation generally feel the same as I do with this.
Myself and my peers have very much the punk ethos of taking care of things ourself without being overtly reliant on society and when society tells us we are wrong then we very much raise our middle finger against society.
With younger people I mostly see the oposite, they too much play along and do what they are told to do by society and are afraid to "not fulfil the way that others see them as they should be".
To millenials I would say, take more (calculated) risks, and stop being afraid to make mistakes as they enable one to learn and become a better version of oneself (at least a version that is not afraid to look into the mirror).
Fun fact: Americans of Swedish descent have a 55% higher income than Swedes in Sweden.
Isn't this a problem if you're fed these two inputs:

{mystring:"Hello World!"}

{mystring:"Hello World !"}

They aren't the same JSON.
Or ham ;) “Until you figure out where the no free lunch theorem has stashed the ham.”
You don't cut off part of your cats' feet so they can't go too far from home.

Edit: as pointed out elsewhere, wing clipping is not permanent. That's not the point.
I majored in math and physics. In math, our version of the course was called "numerical analysis," and we covered those things. In physics, the behavior of floating point math was covered in one of our lab courses.

I don't know what's taught to CS majors, and as others have pointed out, programmers don't necessarily study CS.

I believe the issue is just that the pitfalls of floating point are not apparent without a certain level of math education.

But there may be one more pitfall, which is that those of us using FP regularly, also happen to be "scientific" or "exploratory" programmers who haven't learned a lot of formal software engineering discipline (including me). So we understand the math but might be more prone to making mistakes with it.

I do kind of like the idea of flagging any number that is potentially exposed to a FP issue. We all make mistakes. Displaying all floats in exponential notation by default would be a good enough warning to the wary. We only display them as decimals for readability.
There's is a mathematically correct answer for this problem given their decimal representation. That's the correct answer for the math, period. What "good enough" behavior is for a system that uses numbers under the hood depends on context and is only something that the developer can know. Maybe they're doing 3D graphics and single precision floats are fine, maybe they're doing accounting and they need accuracy to 100ths or 1000ths of a whole number.

The appropriate default is, I would argue, the one which preserves the mathematically correct answer (as close as possible) in the majority of cases and enables coders to override the default behavior if they want to specify the exact underlying numerical representation they desire (instead of it being automatic). That goes along with the "principle of least surprise" which is always a good de facto starting point for any human/computer interaction.
I believe some folks get that drive to dive deep because they are not "included". When someone doesn't fit in well, perhaps they take refuge in working with things instead of people. Building stuff, learning to code, etc. Just a thought. They'd be hard to find for the same reasons they're good.
Result for all versions of PHP: https://3v4l.org/JYlrp
And with bcmath: https://3v4l.org/AmOQt
Could you please give us examples of propaganda in chemistry (or any other hard science) class?
Not only that, a big reason people watch sports is to witness peak human performance.
Your argument seems to center around you conflating various traffic calming measures. If you look at the pictures in the article you will see that they are depicting a speed table, not a speed bump. Speed tables are longer and gentler than a speed bump, and designed to slow the vehicles down less than a speed bump or speed hump. I agree that 35mph is a bit high for most speed tables, but 30mph would not be out of place for such a device.

Obviously hitting a speed bump at 35mph would be a very bad experience, but that's a different device than what's represented in the article.
Wrongful convictions
Their actions have a moral cost and the people who pay those costs aren't the tech transplants, they're literally every other kind of person who slowly finds themselves unable to live in a place that is just as much their home as the owners of property. Schoolteachers, firefighters, garbage truck drivers, restaurant workers, people who lost their job, people in temporary unemployment and in need of retraining.

I understand that the problem feels intractable, but it's because we treat the people make it so like something that simply is. It is not a thing that simply is, it is a moral choice made my hundreds of thousands of people over and over again and it is their failure.
It works on my machine, ship it!