skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do I mean by financing violence and corruption?

I mean that the money these organizations make is then used to strengthen the power and reach of these organizations through violence and corruption, the means of coercion. Mexico is a perfect example of how criminal organizations destabilize a country through both.

About moral responsibility...

If carrots were the only food around and the choice were between starvation and buying them, then of course it wouldnt be the consumers fault.

But were not talking about foodstuffs or basic needs here, I’m mainly concerned with recreational drugs whose consumption is not a prerequisite for survival. In this case I think that consumers have some kind of responsibility here to exercise discretion. I just find it deeply ironic that people in 1st world countries are paying for fun times, while their money goes on to destabilize other countries. I’m not sure what it is, but it just feels wrong to me.
It's not just free pizza that med students and interns get! They get lots of equipment, supplies, and so on.

And it's a great investment. Because prescribing habits tend to persist after training, for many years. Sort of like Kuhn argued for science.
Indeed, I need my CPU for other things that browsing the web.
Couchdrop’s Cloud SFTP Server
They aired some scientific tests of this question on Squidbillies a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92wPOsuHZ9Y
An Experiment on Code Structure
Sounds lightweight in implementation but very powerful. Seems like it could be used by the likes of `npm` to filter out packages that do operations such as `prototype` modification. Then those would be flagged in `npm audit`.
they have this now: https://github.com/microsoft/wil
The company claimed to be profitable on rude sharing on an “adjusted EBITDA” basis. Which is basically a made up metric where they excluded over a dozen expenses.
This looks really nice...

... except like every other apps around there it only supports Markdown

Feature request:

Please add an option to convert the resulting file to a better format like Asciidoc and other better markup formats

Maybe using pandoc.

WHY?

I feel unwell with Markdown

Markdown deserve credits for having found a real important problem to solve

on the other hand, it's not a good solution to that problem

... but just good enough that its bad aspects are not obvious

Combined with its current popularity, this makes progress very hard

But there are so much things that are wrong with Markdown.

Nested lists? I get them wrong every time.

Images syntax is bad.

Tables syntax is worse.

No table of contents.

You can't have variables.

You can't include another file.

In the end, every website does its own markdown because Markdown sucks.

Interopability? Ah ah. Some have tried.
That's a rabbit hole to get into.

In the end, Markdown is just a starting point... To a real format like Asciidoc.
There are two major classes of applications for vehicle ram barriers. Both are common in the United States where I live, although the latter has become significantly more common over the past two decades as vehicle attacks have gained a higher profile:

First, retailers, particularly larger ones, have occasionally suffered a form of burglary in which the thief drives a vehicle through the glass facade (and perhaps metal security barrier) in order to gain access, loads up valuable goods quickly, and flees before the police or guards arrive (since this method is not exactly subtle and invariably results in a response). As a result, large retailers almost invariably have bollards or columns to prevent vehicles reaching the glass entrance. Target very visibly uses 'big red balls' while Wal-Mart is fond of a simple concrete bollard with a blue plastic cover. This form of theft was never extremely common, but the bollards are cheap to install and require virtually no maintenance, so it makes perfect sense. Because this is mostly a low-risk anti-theft situation, the barriers used are usually of simple designs (concrete-filled pipe) and would not withstand a large vehicle.

Second are counter-terrorist precautions. While effective against ramming attacks (e.g. driving into a crowd at speed as has happened several times recently in Europe and Great Britain), counter-terrorist ram barriers are usually intended primarily to prevent a car-bomb reaching an occupied area. They are not actually so much a post-9/11 precaution in the US but have actually been commonly installed since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, after which the federal government took significant measures to restrict vehicle access near facilities and private industry promptly followed.

These are intended against a higher-cost event and more motivated actors and so they are usually much more heavily engineered, and may use rather interesting designs since they are often retrofit. However, in new construction it is preferred to integrate the vehicle (and potentially blast) barrier into the larger landscape design so that it is more aesthetically pleasing. This is often done by designing a system of landscape boulders, street furniture, retaining walls, and steep berms into the landscape around a building which (possibly non-obviously) form a continuous wall to vehicles. Nearly any federal office building or courthouse designed since 1995 demonstrates this technique.

Counter-terrorist vehicle protections are becoming a standard part of the design of facilities that will attract crowds, especially when they are perceived as "public places." Such protections may be a requirement for government funding and incentives and liability insurance. And, ultimately, they are not very expensive in the scope of a large project, and may be funded by grants in the case of retrofit.
When you upload to GEDMatch.com, you are agreeing to make your DNA available to be compared against others for identification or research purposes. That's the entire purpose of the service.
Can I ask for anyone from AMD to sell a 4 socket, epyc mobo. Im looking for 256 (4*64) core desktop PC.
Ah, but nowhere in the description of the product being sold did you discuss unlocking superpowers and elevating global consciousness. That's the deception alluded to in the OP, as far as I can tell.
That looks like what an American would call a "full-size pickup", which do not weigh 7,200kg (~16,000lbs).
> That's also a way to not mention

I provided a link to an article documenting the evidence he was there and detailing that he was there when they were extensively brutally torturing the prisoners. Abu Ghraib is in the link title.
Will Julian Assange Die in Prison?
I know, but just like you fund the bombing of wedding parties with hardly a care, most people don't really care about the places you care about.
> Parachutes are hard.

I'm surprised to hear this. I've not heard much about parachute failures in Soyuz landings, except Soyus-1 in the 60's. Nasa had a good track record with parachutes too before they started using the space shuttle.

Are there technical challenges unique to SpaceX or Boeing that other systems didn't have to deal with?
Aside from the fact that it's relatively new compared to other engines, 3D performance isn't quite up to par with other engines yet. I think people are too critical about this, and to be clear, 3D is perfectly capable of doing good looking small-medium games, but you'll definitely run into issues if you're trying to do something very high-end.

Vulkan support is currently being worked on and will be added in Godot 4.0, which will come with many performance improvements as well.
I'd second that, I bought it a while back and it's good.
Appreciate the honesty!
At least when I took the SAT, there was a checkbox giving permission to spam you with emails. The wording is of course nondirect and the exact type of thing you would need good reading comprehension to detect.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act used in ordinary mortgage fraud case
>And what would be the point of that colossal exercise when we got a perfectly good planet right here

We do our best to change that tho.

Which is to say: we should focus our energy on keeping this rock habitable, not on making other rocks somewhat habitable.
They throttled the phones with bad batteries so the peak energy usage doesn’t exceed what the battery can provide and shuts down the phone. But unfortunately people just remember the click bait headlines.
Wouldn't dragon need the rockets to land on Mars? Parachutes aren't gonna do jack in Mars atmosphere.

I thought that was the bigger reason for the retro rockets.
Building sustainable microservices – our opinions and advice
That's really addictive
I went to UT Dallas, and I got a full-ride scholarship without even having to apply for it. I had no extracurriculars to speak of, and my grades were good but not the best (I was in the top 10% of my class, but nowhere near the top of that).

IIRC, it was the third-highest scholarship tier they offered at the time (started Fall 2003). Tuition + mandatory fees + a few hundred a month (forgot the exact number) credit for Waterview rent. No stipend, though, that's only in the two highest tiers.
It didn't like, round trip through them. But people's friends did authorize CA to read that data; otherwise CA wouldn't have been able to use the API to get it.
I believe Godot is still lacking an ads component, yes - it's an open-source game engine, and ads aren't really a priority for the development team. Which, of course, means there's a gap in the market for an easy-to-use capable ad plugin, I guess...
Ask HN: Are markdown editors the new to-do apps?
Offtopic:

I was looking for a decent AMD replacement for a Intel NUC and didn't found it then, wanted to suggest a new niche in the previous comment ( looked for it a month or so ago). I only found out after my comment it was coming and didn't want to remove my comment ;). As i'm truelly interested in a AMD replacement for my current slow ( and cheap ) Intel NUC

:)

And euh, looking at the top comments. I'm not alone, sarcasms aside

Ontopic:

If you order enough of them. They can address a custom team for you! You could earn money like hell launching this on the market!

https://www.amd.com/en/products/semi-custom-solutions

Build your dream!
I'm saying that your expectations of what pedestrians should do don't align with the reality of our infrastructure.

Most of the country isn't walkable. Getting around on foot practically means walking on roadside and crossing where the isn't a pedestrian crossing.

Again, most of suburban streets don't even have sidewalks or pedestrian crossings.

You seem to be missing that point, which is why I'm suggesting you try getting around on foot for a month.
Seems like a great case to get that law struck down at least getting the seizure reversed/compensated. Seizing an entire home and pocketing all proceeds of sale over tiny debt seems like a perfect case for the seizure being unreasonable.
For anyone interested in this, I recommend following the Center for Humane Technology. Their podcast (https://humanetech.com/podcast/) talks about many aspects of this in a very intelligent and technical manner.

I particularly recommend Episode 3 with Yael Eisenstat - https://your-undivided-attention.simplecast.com/episodes/wit... - w/transcript - http://humanetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CHT-Undivid...

Short version - the algorithmic feeds that drive engagement should not be protected by CDA230 - storing and retrieving user data should be protected, but platforms should be liable for the content that they amplify and promote.
Building a Richard Feynman API with GPT-2
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000 Listed Early: 32 Cores, Up to 4.2 GHz
Sure. But what multiple do you expect?

If you expected 2x or 3x the volume, you were proven wrong in the 1st hour. Between 9am EST to 10am EST, over 40-million UBER shares traded, representing ~400% of the average daily volume in just 1-hour.
I'm gonna play devil's advocate and say this is actually not a bad thing.

> In each case, the property owners alleged that they were not given sufficient warning about their delinquent taxes. In some cases, that's because county officials were mailing notices to unfinished homes or properties without permanent residents. In others, like Rafaeli's case, the notices were delivered to tenants who failed to pass along the information to their landlord, mistakenly believing that the county would inform the landlord separately.

They were warned. If you ignore the warnings, what else is the county supposed to do? If there's no punishment for not paying taxes, nobody would pay taxes. Seizing assets is better then putting someone in jail, because it actually makes taxpayers money and it hurts the people not paying in a fair way.

If you don't live at a house enough to check the mail and you aren't paying property taxes on it, then it's actually good for society to give that house to someone who needs it and will pay taxes on it. This type of thing can reduce homelessness.

Finally landlords have no excuse for this, they're making money off these properties, it's similar to not using them. If you're gonna be making a profit off of collecting rent I think the least to ask is for you to properly pay your taxes.
We need to think about why advertising is winning.

A big reason is that advertising is a tax deduction. If I fund my content with advertising, the advertiser gets to deduct the money they spend from their income tax. If I sell content to users, the users don't get to do that. Between the employer and employee halves of FICA, federal withholding and state income tax, that's typically more than half the money. To make it even we would either need a tax deduction for purchasing content or to get rid of the one for buying advertising.

Then you have companies like Apple taking a 30% cut of the creator's revenue. The customer has to pay $1.43 in order for the creator to get $1. That's obviously making direct purchases less competitive against advertising -- and it multiplies with the tax treatment. If you're paying 50% in tax and then 30% to Apple, the customer needs to earn ~$2.86 for every $1 they want the creator to get. If two content creators start with $1 and use it buy each other's content, by the time the money goes to the other person and back one time, what's left is only ~$0.12.

It would be a lot easier to sell content if the creators actually got the lion's share of the customer's money.
SpaceX's and Boeing's crew capsules just passed crucial tests. Boeing’s Starliner completed a pad abort test, showing it could ferry astronauts away from a launch-site problem by reaching 650 mph in just 5 seconds. And SpaceX successfully tested Crew Dragon's parachutes 13 consecutive times.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/11/spacex-and-boeing-comp...
I love zine culture and zine fests. People trading zines and sharing joy. I don't know anyone who makes reasonable money off of zines, which is both sad but also keeps the culture oriented away from money.

I have a short zine series on engineering management here: http://staycalmcomic.com/intro

Starts with a stand-up scheduling joke and moves on to participatory decision making. Includes some easter eggs for Steven Universe lovers.

Feel free to read online or print out and fold into little 1-page booklets to give coworkers \o/
No, it is NOT the dumbest thing imaginable!

If your server is not reachable from untrusted sources, and you are running only what you trust, it is prudent to disable mitigation’s and make use of the extra performance.

Example, I run many compute nodes (only private network) in my HPC cluster with mitigation’s off. If an attacker could reach the compute nodes over the network to push the attack payload, I’ve already been heavily compromised that these attacks are just insult to the injury.

If you run a database server that can never be reached directly by an attacker. You may spend your time watching your application server and let the DB server use the extra oomph.
What will you use that many cores for?
I know about the Unicode hack - where you could basically encode DOS commands in the url window and it would run on the server. We got lucky. It renamed all pages using the default names. We didn’t have any.
Do you have a suggested improved syntax for images and tables? I think Table of Contents exist in some implementations of Markdown but it’s not common.
There was a proof-of-concept included in the whitepaper:

https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf

That's a working exploit, not a hypothetical.
Why would they care about saying it and not care about doing it? Obviously they've identified that their customers value those protections, so if they were demonstrated to be lying about it or changed their policy in the future don't you expect that they'd risk losing the customers who made the choice to use 23andme based on their progressive law enforcement policy?
And if you're reading this, I'm waiting for a very decent mATX PCIe4 board for EPYC, please make it happen!
Awesome step forward for folks at neo4j and community as well.
I've made a web-based one called Elltwo where you can toggle between plain text and rendered markdown on a line-by-line basis. I've found it to be a good midpoint between full on WYSIWYG and just editing raw text. It also supports equations, references, footnotes, etc.

Demo here: http://dohan.io
Watch the awesome Brit show “Utopia” which has a similar plot line and explains how the GMO foods are the link in this
Dallas is one of the most diverse parts of the US. The sheer amount of different ethnic food I regularly eat here is mind-boggling, and it actually made it very hard to pick a place when I was considering moving a few years ago (I wanted a place that was both just as diverse and just as suburban as Dallas; I ended up deciding I'd pick Vegas in case circumstances drove me to leave), and I've interacted with so many people from so many different countries and cultures.
The rides business is EBITDA profitable and very close to generally profitable. Uber may be valued too highly, but their core business is not going anywhere.
> It's part of a team effort - testers, marketing, management, investors, HR, finance, even the janitor who keeps Orion from taking a day off to vacuum the office and clean the toilets.

Doesn't it portray more of the company's value rather than Orion's value?
With Free Shipping on $1 Items, Amazon Aims to Expand Its Reach
Most recent submission to HN about this paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21405583
Perfectly spherical cows will seek their own level in Switzerland.
Checkout EPYC 3251. Getting ready to do a home buildout with kvm vms.
This is a very clever externality attack. The benefit to the institution is described in the article.

But it costs the institution nothing: the recruited, unqualified applicant pays an application fee which presumably completely, or more than completely defrays the cost of dealing with the application (a significantly under qualified applicant can be removed from the pool very quickly, at low cost).

The applicant not only pays the cash fee but invests some actual time (and emotional energy)*

Really little different from popular contemporary business models such as Amazon not paying for the time spent in loss prevention queueing, Macdonalds and Walmart paying "wages" so low that their employees need government financial support, not paying drivers wait time or door dash et all stealing their employees' tips. Now these colleges are shifting the externality onto people they don't plan to do business with!

* Perhaps the new common application reduces or eliminates the wall clock time?
Why do we have to take a stab at how much we owe in taxes when it’s known by tax collectors?
I found it strange that the title would mention Python 3.8 specifically, rather that just "Python". The README mentions that the project uses the new := operator. I wouldn't enter production with 3.8 specific features until at least 3.8.1, but it's cool for a small project.
Less than $10 from miscalculating interest owed and the subsequent bills do not show any outstanding balance?

That's atrocious. They seize the property and keep the entire proceeds of the auction. That's outlandish. It goes on to say in the article that the properties often go on to speculators who rent them or leave them empty.
> So either we regulate that or nature will do it for us.

Then let nature do it for us. There is so much uncertainty surrounding the question that no one can say what the "population limit" is. We could have already passed it. It could be far larger than what people might think. And there really isn't any reliable way of determining which is more likely. So it would be a terrible idea to use this asa basis for creating population control measures, which at worst would be draconic, and at best could have potentially dangerous or unforseen consequences (like they did in China).

We should absolutely seek solutions to ensure the future health of our planet and humanity. But we also need to realize that some "solutions" aren't actual solutions and are well beyond what we can and should do.
Socially conscious bookseller BWBooks acquired by InternetArchive
>if you can find a way that is not restricting the car driver.

And why not the other way around? What is it about driving a vehicle that should give one priority?

I don't necessarily disagree with your vision. But in practice, that means blocking off cities for cars. Drive all you want on the highways, nobody will restrict you there.

The idea that drivers should not be "restricted" by pedestrians is the entitlement I am talking about.
In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas
> California also has a distinct burden: Proposition 13, a measure approved by voters in 1978 that limits property-tax increases on homes until they’re sold. That’s been a boon for Baby Boomers who’ve lived in their houses for decades and aren’t assessed at anything close to their property’s market value. But it’s especially unfair to their children, who are in effect subsidizing their parents’ generation.

yup
I normally steer clear of these articles as I long ago realized the "perfect distro" was like the best flavor of ice cream: contentiously debatable and variable by individual.

I got sucked in tho and actually enjoyed the article, despite it concluding that there is no perfect distro.

For me I've settled on Fedora and am extremely happy. I went the Arch/Gentoo route for years and also went the Ubuntu/Mint/Debian/Elementary/etc route. I learned more about Linux/open source using Arch than anything, and loved how customized and hackable my system was. The rolling nature was great until it wasn't (breakage and unpredictability paired with Murphy's Law). Ubuntu et al were too slow moving. Old software, strange hacks in the kernel that made custom kernels/modules difficult to use (it's gotten better the last couple of years ftr), and PPAs were a must but often broke upgrades requiring nuke & pave.

What I found was Fedora is the perfect middle ground: quite bleeding edge in many ways without being a rolling distro and upgrading your gnome suddenly without warning, but fast enough moving that I rarely notice any outdated packages. It's a "just works" install but super easy to tweak and customize in any way desired. Much of the Arch wiki (my favorite thing about being on Arch next to the AUR) is also mostly applicable to Fedora since they follow similar conventions. If you manage RHEL/CentOS servers in any way for work, it also gives you a chance to get intimately familiar with the next round of improvements coming your way in enterprise Linux.

Disclaimer: I work at Red Hat but I've been a Fedora user much longer than I've worked at RH
If you're interested in zines and tech, I'd highly recommend checking out Julia Evan's work: https://wizardzines.com/
Tensor product vs. direct product vs. Cartesian product (2016)
SpaceX has no plans to send Dragon to mars
And please have at least two server quality 1gb nics. :-) My home router needs an upgrade.
That’s the wrong way to look at it. Velocity of money creates value.

If you have everyone money, they would buy and sell goods and services instead of hoarding it.