skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about hardware encryption but T-Mobile often offer new/refurbished TM-AC1900's for <$40, which you can easily flash to an RT-AC68U. I believe the RT-AC68U has limited support with OpenWRT: https://openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ac68u, but performance has been really good for me considering the price.

edit: disregard the above. It looks like Broadcom chips can only run on the 2.4 GhZ b/g spectrum.
Once again, defining cyberattacks as "war" or even "warlike" would have profound implications well beyond the confines of the insurance industry. These definitions are not left open to opinion for some very good reasons.

This insurance company is going to lose. It's simply unbelievable that people here are defending them, even on a site known for turning devil's advocacy into a religion.
we’ll considering the tremendous damage the opioid crisis has wrought I think it’s fair to say it’s not a triviality.
We were a long-time team. Well calibrated on each other. Fuzzy thinking was called out on a regular basis.
The Medallion fund has been restricted mainly to RenTech employees since 2005 as the firm took steps to keep its size around $10 billion. The fund has historically averaged annualized returns approaching 80 percent before fees, but such gains can slump when it gets too big. Even employees face annual investment limits, and Medallion also typically distributes its profits every six months instead of reinvesting the gains.

How is that even possible? even warren buffett only averaged around 15-20 a year
I've been diving headfirst into C for a project at work with no previous experience, while being quite comfortable in Rust. I couldn't agree more.
how do you know which are the "correct" activist groups to support? there are many different groups that could be considered activist in most large countries. if you just pick ones that largely align with Western values, it doesn't seem much better than being uninformed.
> “if Uber needs to “pad” their drivers wages $2 per hour and Lyft needs to pad $4 to reach minimum level due to Uber being able to use its size to get higher utilization, then that seems like competition as it should work?”

The problem is that Uber’s higher utilization is an arbitrary metric, and if we’re picking arbitrary metrics, why would we pick one that intrinsically entrenches the current market leader?

Just because Uber’s utilization might be higher than Lyft’s, that doesn’t mean either one of them is operating with a satisfactory utilization or an unsatisfactory one. What if Uber operated at 99% utilization, and Lyft at 95%. At that point, offering any financial incentive based on ranked utilization would be a huge waste of taxpayer money.

Meanwhile, if Uber and Lyft are at 15% and 10% utilization, it’s equally a waste to reward because those are such bad numbers that society is enduring major congestion costs.

Here’s an analogy. Suppose in the US that the government decided sports teams are a morally bad influence on society due to executive and athlete behavior.

As a result, they will reduce your team’s roster size unless you donate money to charity.

Suppose they were to “unlock” one new roster spot for every $1 million of charity donation. That seems possibly fair. Teams can each decide if it’s worth it, and it’s a flat fee affordable even by the least financially well-backed teams.

But instead suppose they tallied up all the donatioms to charity and ranked each team. The top team gets all roster spots, the next team gets most of them, and so on down to the teams that did not donate, which get no roster spots unlocked.

What’s the problem with the second model? It seems like a nice auction sort of way to do it, and that’s fair right?

Well one problem is that the whole point was to raise money for charity to offset ethical problems, and the auction method does not necessarily cause much donation to happen, only enough to be the winner, say. The winning team might have only donated $500k total, but they are still rewarded like they did something awesome. Society loses out.

The second problem is that it intrinsically favors teams with more money. They can buy the roster spots just based on their size, regardless of whether it is addressing the underlying ethical problem. For big teams it’s just a cost of doing business and the players can keep on doing cocaine in the hotel room, who cares. But for the small teams, even if they want to reform the underlying problem, they may not be able to afford to unlock roster spots, which reinforces that they won’t make as much money from winnings, which keeps them unable to buy future roster spots, and so on.

The utilization reward policy is like this in many ways. It doesn’t reward based on absolute levels of utilization or improvement of utilization... it intrinsically rewards based on your ranked utilization, which just reinforces the market share of existing operators.
This is why I blog. It's not perfect (a journal would probably be better) but it does let me look across the years of my professional experience and contemplate them.
What is the best argument for anonymized tracking being malicious? I don't understand the alarm over this.
The cameras on phones are already so much better than what I could pull off with an old snap camera in the film days. To me the improvement of camera systems isn't in an of itself that interesting -- but the degree to which it can give more/better data to software that can then produce a photo I'll enjoy more than I could had I "done it myself": that's what matters.

I still have a snap (digital) camera to shoot things I can't with a phone. The pictures aren't as good.

As a side point: what do I mean by can't shoot on a phone? On a whitewater raft; climbing; on a multi-week backpacking trip (only one small, spare battery needed); sleeping in the snow; has controls that can be used via feel while wearing gloves; non-digital zoom. These are all niche applications and while adaptors (cases) can be found to use a phone in these situations they are much worse than just getting the right tool for the job. Which sits unused on my desk more than half the time.
People have said the same about the Internet in the past have they not?
Well, if I understand correctly, you are arguing against the phrase, "Capitalism is an elegant system for resource allocation". But I still haven't parsed what your argument actually is, beyond, some people have gotten left behind, which is certainly true.

I also don't understand the mindset that it's somehow somebody else's fault when a person accumulates student debt. Like, I'm sorry you made a poor choice, but nobody physically twisted your arm and made you take this loan. Protecting people from their own bad decisions is not, in my mind, proper regulation of capitalism. It's the infantilization of grown adult citizens. Butt I'm open to having my mind changed.
Not practical for many reasons, but: Ban plea bargains and automatically exonerate anyone that sits more than 30 days awaiting trial. The system would probably adjust to fit crimes worth going after.

Maybe there's some less drastic version of this that forces the state hand.
There's definitely an art to setting yourself up for suprising and interesting adventures in your life.
It adds a lot of affordances and interface requirements that add the cost for everyone and more opportunities for something to go wrong.
In big companies, 95% of apps are still old school: firewall -- load balancer -- 5 front ends -- 3 back ends -- two database servers. And the people who developed most of these apps left these companies long time, what these companies have bunch of managers and some developers who maintain that code.

People of this kind are extremely conservative, because they are not in a position to fix major issues if something goes wrong--esp new architecture. So, they want to lift as is to aws.

A decade ago, I was involved in physically moving three solaris servers that were running un-supported BEA weblogic instances. When I powered on these three servers on a different rack, weblogic cluster failed. No IP change, just moved machines to free up racks in one row. And the people who developed the app, and the dev architect behind it were so mad at us. In the end, they gave up on that app.

That's how it goes.
> Enlightenment (including the Founding fathers of the US). When we say we are getting less and less superstitious we usually compare ourselves to some version of the "cavemen" we know absolutely nothing about, that we use as a straw-man.

So you think 23% Enlightment-era peasants were religiously unaffiliated, like 23% of Americans are now? Some European countries are even majority atheist. You're also claiming that these countries had exactly these demographics even 200 hundred years ago?

> Secondly, "actively fighting deeply held beliefs" is probably the only way to go, because if we don't, then said beliefs simply win over.

That's speculation for one, and two, "actively fighting" can mean many things, some of which are constructive, some of which are not.
Sounds like you just obnoxiously interrupted a conversation that didn't involve you.
It is quite easy to use "consumer" to create a seemingly plausible argument, which is interpreted quite different by many if you replace consumer with any one of the other words suggested.

It is probably because very few has consumer as a part of their self perception, hence many are likely to identify less, and empathize less with a group or person described as such.

It's not wrong in a technical sense, but it can be used to avoid a stronger public reaction to e.g people getting hurt by a business practices.

One might frame it like this: If my business transaction as a consumer ends up with the loss of an arm, I'm still the one who has to live with only one arm.
Reading the first part of this post reminds me that Cloudflare should really get into email security as well ;)
So pretty much like every other website on the Internet. Got it.
If you think he was a rough god, check out Xipe Totec, ala “The Flayed God.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xipe_Totec

Forty days before the festival of Xipe Totec, an Indian slave who was captured at war was dressed to represent the living god who was honored during this period. This occurred in every ward of the city, which resulted in multiple Indians being selected.[32] The central ritual act of "Tlacaxipehualiztli" was the gladiatorial sacrifice of war prisoners, which both began and culminated the festival.[33] On the next day of the festival, the game of canes was performed in the manner of two bands. The first band were those who took the part of Xipe Totec and went dressed in the skins of the war prisoners who were killed the previous day, so the fresh blood was still flowing. The opposing band was composed of daring soldiers who were brave and fearless, and who took part in the combat with the others. After the conclusion of this game, those who wore the human skins went around throughout the whole town, entering houses and demanding that those in the houses give them some alms or gifts for the love of Xipe Totec. While in the houses, they sat down on sheaves of tzapote leaves and put on necklaces which were made of ears of corn and flowers. They had them put on garlands and give them pulque to drink, which was their wine.[34] Annually, slaves or captives were selected as sacrifices to Xipe Totec.[35] After having the heart cut out, the body was carefully flayed to produce a nearly whole skin which was then worn by the priests for twenty days during the fertility rituals that followed the sacrifice.[35] This act of putting on new skin was a ceremony called 'Neteotquiliztli' translating to "impersonation of a god".[36] The skins were often adorned with bright feathers and gold jewellery when worn.[37] During the festival, victorious warriors wearing flayed skins carried out mock skirmishes throughout Tenochtitlan, they passed through the city begging alms and blessed whoever gave them food or other offerings.[6] When the twenty-day festival was over, the flayed skins were removed and stored in special containers with tight-fitting lids designed to stop the stench of putrefaction from escaping. These containers were then stored in a chamber beneath the temple.[38]
This is so well written and beautiful. Thanks for putting it on this perspective.
Default gopath was just a way to let newbies get up and running quickly; it originally required you to specify where to put it. I imagine they put it at ~/go so it would be glaringly obvious. Hopefully modules will render it all moot anyway.
i'm not sure he is. the point of each generation being successively more advanced would also allow for the rich to receive the most cutting edge tech ahead of everyone else. even if everyone has access, i don't think it would be a level playing field. especially because costs may be covered for things like disease prevention, but probably not for things like intelligence, strength, etc.
Berkshire Hathaway has two orders of magnitude more assets under management than the Medallion Fund.
It's worse than embarrassing, it's disgusting, it's shameful, it's kind of indicative of the breakdown of our societal norms - see politics for another area. A lot of those people were minorities, all of them must have been poor. We don't have equal rights for people who can't afford a lawyer. If you are a juror in a case, you have to consider if this is the situation. It never really hit me that I could be one of the people who could be faced with a situation like this - could I detect that non-existent defense lawyer, could I be strong enough of character to discuss that with the other jurors. I'm sure that for our entire history this has been something faced by poor and minority defendants, but I think it must be worse than in the past because of the plea bargain hunting by prosecutors and the increasing prosecution and filling of prisons.

We have maybe 3 levels of criminal justice in America. The larger group of people who can't afford a lawyer and have an overburdened public defender, regular people who can afford a lawyer, and then rich people who can afford endless money to challenge even reasonable evidence - think any celebrity accused of a crime. Prosecutors try to plea bargain cases, and poor people probably are told by their overburdened public defender to go along with it. If a lot of those people didn't plea bargain but went to a real trial, then the public defender wouldn't even be able to go to that many trials.

One of the presidential candidates this year was a prosecutor (Sen. Kamala Harris), and she was one of those who in some cases at least didn't seem to intervene in cases where there was proprietorial malfeasance.
I’m assuming this meant ‘the UNIX desktop’
Why do you like Tcl? I worked at a place that used it for their general purpose web servers... and most of their programmers complained that it was like using Fortran for modern web development. That's the only experience I've had with Tcl professionally in the field.
"citizens"? "residents", "tourists", "non resident aliens"?
Are you saying you have no ethic at all ?

Are you comparing yourself to an independent carpenter ?

An independent carpenter would be like a mercenary, who first works to earn money, and then eventually selects his/her clients according to his/her own vision.

A carpenter working for a big corporation would wonder what is the vision of the company, what is he contributing to, beyond the delivering of the building, imo
How to save money on your AWS bill
I think you're being pedantic. "Consumer" is more descriptive than your other words.

Edit: I appreciate your concern about consumerism and the effects of being treated like cattle, I just think more descriptive words create better conversions.
Looking at some of the comments here, I'm surprised at the hubris on display, discounting experience. Of course, 20 years of experience will look like 20x 1 year of experience if all you look for is ability to whiteboard algorithms, or crank out lines of code in language/framework X. But that indicates more of a flaw in being unable to evaluate experience.

I wouldn't be surprised if it takes someone with N++ experience to reasonably evaluate the value brought by someone with N experience (cue: Blub paradox). So, yeah, a bunch of people without experience can easily be blind to the value being brought to the table by experience.

I would expect experienced folk to better understand people, have figured out how to work effectively in a team, strategically prioritize what needs to be done, nudge meetings/conversations in the right direction, and mentor younger team members and help them out with advice in tricky situations. If your mental model does not value that, of course you would not value experience. You need a critical mass of experience in an organization to do this effectively -- it can't just fall on the shoulders of one person in middle management with a few years of technical experience and an MBA.

If you step back and defocus, the above qualities look a lot like leadership pixie dust sprinkled liberally throughout the organization -- the lack of which correlates with several repeated failure modes one might see in young Silicon Valley companies today.

Addendum: I'm not fond of the headline as it stands; it robs the dignity off age/experience.
I wonder if it builds on Amazon's weird version of Linux they use on EC2 machines by default
Because I believe I can learn. Because I have grit.
Because I am passionate.
Because my back is against the wall.
Without knowing more, my default assumption would be fraud with returns driven by ponzi scheme.
Better educated, but probably not in the hard sciences. I would be surprised if those with graduate degrees in biology don’t vaccinate at the same rate as those with graduate degrees in history or business.
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I agree that when there is no time to do anything for the case, that this should be a strong aspect of a challenge to a conviction. I don't know about the same budget though, what about OJ Simpson's huge defense team vs the state.

Those people basically have no defense, and I think if there is no budget for adequate defense, then you cannot prosecute them. I need to find out how my own large city fares in this scenario of public defender time.
People are human. No mistakes astound me anymore. They simply fall on the range between "they haven't had their coffee yet" to "you're going to need corrective surgery for that not to be permanently debilitating" to "you might need a great attorney to get you out of this".
A user can override any environment variables set by a distro.
At least you can go to a local CC two years for (almost) free.
“Black people, including kids, use Black English alongside standard English rather than exclusively.”

Okay, so it’s solved. Since according to the author all black people can communicate in the standard English dialect, I would suggest to use that when speaking with court employees. This is what I do. I do not address police officers as “dog”, for example, and expect 100% positive results. I would say “sir”, which is also in contrast to how I speak to my peers in daily life, despite the fact that I am white.
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There are already various options, many using Emscripten.
The N.Y. Times’ Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America
Yes, but the point of sweeping seems to be to add energy to a traveling wave front. You can still amplify the wave by sweeping faster and bumping the power at the appropriate time, but you would gain fidelity because you're not limited to single square waves.
maybe it's market making. they act as a middleman between buyers and sellers of options and other financial instruments
> The only reason we even comply with it at all is not a sense that it is creating peace and order in society, but simply that the people who administer it are hellishly violent to people who try not to comply (or, in some cases, even people who are just merely critical, as evinced by, for example, retaliatory actions taking by police departments in response to facebook posts).

There's another reason you missed, for why people comply with the "justice" system and may not necessarily think the system needs overall. The belief: It will never happen to me, I'm a good citizen and people who put themselves in situations are the ones punished. Basically, persons who put too much faith in self determination for life outcomes and failing to understand a lot is outside our control.
Well the northeast mountains have a ton of iron in the rocks is my theory. It makes it almost line of sight for signal. I use to live in Connecticut and it was HORRIBLE. Living in PA it is so much better.

When I travel through to my In-laws in WV we get no internet signal for about 2.5 hours. That has to be due to the low population in Western Maryland.
Backdoor and Mega-backdoor Roth conversions do not allow unlimited contributions. They allow an unlimited conversion of (limited) contributions.

As for whether it ought to be legal, my view is that multiplication (of which both income taxation and compound investing returns are forms) is commutative and taxing an amount now (the conversion) and then having it grow for 20 years is no different than having it grow for 20 years and taxing it then (traditional IRA), assuming growth and tax rates remain the same.

A Roth conversion is in essence a bet on your marginal tax rate at withdrawal being higher than your marginal tax rate today.
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It's part of a respectable body of science researching the effects of heat shock protein release on autoimmune driven conditions. Both hyper and hypothermia cause the release of heat shock proteins, which trigger the immune system to dial down inflammation. This is co-option of the body's natural process for recovery after serious illness, where heat shock proteins are released in response to natural fever, triggering tnf-regulator cells and other processes.

The twist is that we are starting to appreciate and investigate the use of heat shock protein release induction directly on mood disorders. A sizeable portion of depressed people, specifically the anhedonic subtype, respond to treatments that target the immune system, or it's effects on the brain. These people tend not to respond to most classes of antidepressants, aka treatment resistant depression, or cognitive therapies, since (on the whole) you can't think your way out of an autoimmune disease.