skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have tens or hundreds of millions, I imagine you could find ways to do the stuff associated with billionaires without spending anywhere near as much. If you want to fly on a private jet, you can buy a fractional share. If you want a mansion, you can buy almost anything, you just don't buy a dozen and forget about them. You would just have to have a scaled up middle class budgeting sensibility instead of viewing your wealth as unlimited.

If there is anything that really is limited to billionaires, it seems to me logically it's going to be status, proximity, location, attention that are in limited supply. Not material things.
If I had a dollar for every time I crawled around a warehouse store room counting boxed of crap that hadn't moved in ages...I would have more than enough to invest in this product ;)
Hybrid vigor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis

It lets you create a sort of super crop... but it only works for a single generation. ‾\_(ツ)_/‾
The sheer number of big corporate backers, and standardization, is what will make it happen. That's really what is different here versus Java applets, Silverlight, NaCl etc. Those all failed because nobody was big enough to single-handedly push something like that onto the ecosystem. Now that they're acting in concert, things are very different.

Everything else is "just engineering". E.g. as far as being complementary to JS, and not being able to replace it - they are already working on access to DOM.
Transit is not something you look to make money on. That's precicely why every private transit agency has failed in the U.S. You invest in transit because it creates economic opportunities, it's environmentally responsible, and it's the best way to move people in and out of a congested city. You ever try driving into Manhattan or through downtown LA?
Barring the exemptions on certain industries/salary thresholds, I don't see how what these businesses do is fundamentally different than say, uber connecting you to a driver. They're distributed consultant firms, I could see an argument for Upwork et al needing to classify their freelancers as employees and cover benefits if they fit the criteria.
It looks very awesome! However, how does it compares with a tiered message queue like Redis as frontend and Postgres/MySQL as backend?
Would this not have been solved if the email addresses were stored as hashes? Besides this it would be an extra layer of security in the even of a breach. Why addresses aren't stored as hashes seems silly. Especially when stored in true databases that can be queried quickly.
To what avail? CEOs regularly make much worse decisions that create much more grave externalities (example - oil spills). There's much bigger fish to fry than for-profit hospital systems....

No offense, but this proposal is essentially DOA.
One more reason the best neighbors are those that are out of site.
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Fair enough, although you could I suppose run into issues doing that retroactively if you allowed `@` in usernames...
Probably need some evidence to back up your claims about their motivation.

Gun control on the state level will not stop the flow of guns across state borders. It's dishonest of you to suggest otherwise. Speaking as a gun owner.
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But doesn't eliminate hackers who do this type of stuff for the "lulz" (and if anything, makes it worse and potential a weapon for people who want to promote larger government). I understand the general premise of the proposal, but it's not a fool-proof check on game theory.
Alas it's the only way to get decent efficiency on certain cloud platforms. However, you often can't get the custom plugin and modules. On amazon bare metal ephemeral disk instances are decent high performance alternatives but you can't beat aurora for most pg usecases.
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I never took offense at victims lashing out. If my notifications were at all perfunctory, it was because time was of the essence, and on any given day there were multiple victims to notify.

I often spent huge chunks of my workday on the phone doing these notifications, and some were harder to track down just by Googling a name than others. I never faulted companies for reacting angrily or suspiciously to my calls; it's too bad that's the conclusion you come to from reading what I wrote. If I was ever bitter about anything related to these calls, it was that I rarely ever received so much as a thank you from the victim or their bank.

I generally welcomed the calls from police departments and FBI agents because in many cases it was an opportunity to educate them about a prolific and often hugely damaging form of fraud that they simply weren't aware of at the time. Some of these companies actually went out of business as a result of these attacks, and I did everything I could to minimize that outcome.

Anyway, I almost always found that the law enforcement person on the other end of the line genuinely appreciated my explaining my methods and how these schemes work.
Go to Kentucky and look at any still. Look at the inputs and the outputs. Does the liquor look anything at all like the corn or rye that went into it?
I've been a self-employed IC with numerous large clients and I currently work for a company that I'm an actual employee, but my company contracts me out to another company. I've done this for over 15 years and none of what you're describing has been my experience.

Did you even negotiate the transition or did you just accept what your company told you? How often have you gone through this?
I think, given the corruption which has come out from the investigation, that gambling on a quick fix was probably a sane choice. That only makes it scarier, though.
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> Computer Systems: A Programmer's Persepctive

Can vouch for this one. Provides a great overview of systems through the lens of algorithms they are built on.
In distributed databases with appropriate grace under churn... Sorry I wasn't clear in my earlier post
CEC is flaky though. Not everything is compatible. There’s little good documentation. It breaks randomly without obvious causes or predictable fixes.

If Apple made a box or a set of them with a proprietary interface that competes with CEC I would buy in a heartbeat.

CEC is working well at my house. But for six months earlier this year, the Apple TV remote could no longer power up the sound bar. One day it started working again. But I live in fear of the call from my wife when it just stops working entirely and she can’t figure out how to turn the TV on, much less the sound system.
Yes, the back of the head is the hardest part. When I don't ask for someone else's help, I try to choreograph the movement I saw in a video: put my other hand horizontally to limit the range and move the clipper in a precise fade-out manner, bottom-to-top. I like it short. Use 2 mirrors and don't hurry.
Meanwhile, we're still waiting for VZ to put Fios on IPv6...
Pretty asinine of him to back off at that. Homeless people aren't paying fares already. There are also 60k homeless in LA while 1 million people ride ride metro a day; even if every single homeless person boarded metro one day it would be a blip on your radar compared to everyone else.

What fares hurt most are the working families in LA who pay $76 a month to ride the bus to work or school because there is no other choice. The fact that Newsom didn't connect this dot doesn't surprise me.
Alternatively, you can just repeal the second amendment. I’m unsure why anti-gun advocates don’t just argue this. The constitution can be changed. Justice Stevens argued this in an op-ed: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opin...
Prices for laptops and desktops are way down. Best Buy is selling a core i5, 256 SSD, 8 GB ram Dell laptop for $399 as of this writing. That's plenty of power for most used.

Where prices continue to be high is for business laptops, where people will pay a lot more money for a little bit more performance (and better build quality, lighter weight).

I remember a time when a half decent laptop was $1500.
Could be that they’re trying to turn fare collection into a revenue generator, but not sure. I recommend his book, it’s a pretty interesting read!
They also have a history of anti malaria bias.

Public health agency finds that guns kill people, recommends fewer guns, news at 11
Planes and boats at all levels are known for being a sink for money - no experience personally, but come on, you know operating costs are huge. Like, at an ordinary person's scale, you buy a used German luxury car for $10K, but it's still the same car that was $60K new, which means fixing it will be proportional. And if you can't personally pilot it...
On behalf of a technology team, looking to incorporate a messaging platform to our landscape: I am curious to understand the motivation behind implementing a messaging system on top of a database technology. There are robust offerings both for small scale and large throughput systems. What are the benefits of this project over other implementations(RabbitMQ, Kafka, Celery, ActiveMQ, ZeroMQ, SNS/SQS)?
It doesn't completely solve the problem, no.

But the stories of hospitals and other entities paying non-trivial sums in ransom I would expect are mostly professional criminals, not hackers doing it for lulz.
Right but what about the "well-regulated" part?
UTF-16 is way better for many Asian languages. You know, languages billions of people use.
I'm just going to note that in the responses, there are people saying that gun control advocates are abusing statistics when they ignore gang violence ("because it happens in high gun control areas") and when they include it ("because they can't tell the difference between a hand gun and assault rifle"), and of course it's not like you're being totally honest either: actual public health researchers who aren't some dude on medium repeatedly come to the opposite conclusion [0].

[0]: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-an...
That's more of a proof that regexes can't do everything, than a proof email is bad.
>and no one would freak out about if they had wooden stocks.

Yeah, this. It's sort of developed into a moral panic because so many in the media grow up in urban centers on the east coast and don't have much contact with firearms. The reporting becomes pretty tainted, and in some cases hilariously inaccurate.
Some people struggle paying for the monthly pass that they need. Other people have no idea how to pay for transit at all, and don't take it out of ignorance. Free helps both of these groups.
Not really, to be honest. I don't consider this 43" 5000:1 2160p 350cd/m^2 screen ( https://iiyama.com/gl_en/products/prolite-le4340uhs-b1/ ) to have a bad price @ 580 EUR. Unfortunately it seems to be limited by 8bit sRGB when it comes to using that contrast. They do have HDR screens though.
It's easy forget these days, but Windows had this thing called Active Scripting, that was basically a set of COM-based interfaces for scripting languages to expose their functionality OS-wide, and for apps to use any scripting language available on the system. And Internet Explorer, at the peak of its popularity, used that interface to implement the <script> tag - so long as the user had some language installed on their machine, it could be used to script web pages in IE. Active Scripting came with JavaScript and VBScript supported out of the box, which is why both were available in IE. But there were quite a few third-party ones - I recall seeing Perl, Python, Tcl, and REXX.

But, of course, other browsers didn't have that. And even at the time when some websites really only cared about IE, they couldn't assume that people had any third-party runtimes installed - so you very occasionally saw VBScript, but pretty never anything else.
My TV will never be on my network. I will actively seek out, and pay a premium for a "dumb" TV.
I have not actually used Ink myself. But from looking through the introductory documentation, the world model seems fairly simple and more like the branching narrative type you mention -- and nowhere near as sophisticated as Inform 7 which can essentially do almost anything and parse any phrase. Which makes sense given the very different needs of a CYOA system like Ink (with restricted choices). However, Ink does support some state variables (like whether you visited a location) so it can be somewhat more complex than just a branching narrative. Ink may also have other features that were not obvious to me at first glance though.

I agree with you that a simpler approach can help someone focus on the story -- which was part of a conscious choice to limit StoryHarp's possibilities via only support simple rules. Although another aspect of that limitation was to make the GUI easier to write and to use -- especially by not having to support editing arbitrary logical statements and not supporting state values that could be other than booleans. While the StoryHarp map is most obviously used to map out locations (or "contexts"), the framework is flexible enough so that these contexts could be any sort of general states like, say, moods (angry, sad, happy, etc.) or general situations (desiring a pet, talking with pet shop owner, inspecting parrot, talking with pet shop owner again, etc.).
A DC solution is WAY overdue. Put your hand on your AC->DC converter, or your wall-wart. Above ambient room temperature? Wasted energy. "It's only 2-10 watts." Multiply by 5 units (underestimated) per 100 million households. That's >= a gigawatt. 8700+ GwH / year.

That's aside from the environmental costs of making & disposing of these pernicioius devices. Time for that decades-old solution to retire.
TV's have been dropping in price for of 70 years. There's no conspiracy.

Here's someone who made a list -

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/10/why-is-tech-getting-c...

https://imgur.com/gallery/W3ouE

Every year everyone gets richer and better off, although it'd be nicer if the true poor got a little more sped up.
To clarify this is just open source fpga code. It's not an open chip. Yet. It does however get us one step towards open silicon. An open source root of trust would be the most useful application for open silicon initiatives. I'd argue anything that touches key material should be auditable.

Put another way, you wouldn't trust a proprietary cryptographic algorithm, why would you trust a black box chip?

Current chips (including OpenTitan) still need to be fabricated at third party foundries using that foundry's proprietary process design kits ('PDKs') and signing two layers of NDA's. As multiple talks at CHES showcase every year there are a number of shenanigans that can be pulled off between a company like Google releasing verilog code for tapeout and the foundry handing back a 'compiled' chip.

The state of open silicon is somewhat analogous to GNU's efforts to create an open source operating system prior to Linux coming along and implementing an open kernel. We still lack open pdk's though it looks like there have been some recent breakthroughs with two foundries in the US and one in Hong Kong.

Recent advances in open FPGA toolchain environments at least let us simulate open solutions here like OpenTitan even if we can't yet tape them out transparently.
Having Airbus “fly by wire” as the only alternative? No thank you. AF 447 shows what happens when you let computers make all the decisions. Boeing gets the scrutiny, but Airbus is extremely corrupt.
It’s a common contention of the gun advocacy community that it’s ignorance that drives awb, but that flies in the face of the evidence that veterans are disproportionately represented in elected officials, police officers are consulted when drafting the legislation & its a subject that is easily researchable.

I think it’s more likely that the people who are politically motivated around this issue represent the extremes and that leads to weird compromises.
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To match the reliability of something like an aws managed service, you usually need two or three managed DC's.
Speaking of C# and wasm, take a look at Blazor.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor
It's not just Unicode weirdness, it's the whole concept of string operations. Examples:

1) Naive CSV libraries that break when given a field containing a comma itself. Same for injections.

2) Indexing things by strings (file names, user names, etc) relies on humans typing and reading with 100% accuracy.

3) Control characters are still present. Try to generate a file name containing every ASCII character (from 0x01 to 0x7F), then try to delete it in different ways. It's really frustrating.

4) Even string templates can cause problems. MMO's used to have game masters identified with "[GM] Character name", until scammers started using the same pattern. The sin here was to concatenate "[GM] " with the character name, which is spoofable, instead of using a badge or different color.
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Portland avoided that by busses running through their free ride zone continuing on to non free zones making them not really work as homeless shelters.
Maybe these services run the compilation in a docker container? shadow and lsb-release exist in many images.
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Also try the amazing flowbee https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowbee
I think the argument was more that the bus system was already a pretty terrible experience, and making it more terrible would discourage even more people from taking the bus and create a downward spiral of quality.

The obvious correction is to make the bus experience less terrible, but I’m guessing that’s hard w/o increasing taxes or fares, both or which come w serious political and real world costs.
> Banning research funding is a decidedly more political act.

Possibly but not probably. Once a situation becomes politically interesting any action or inaction could potentially be the more political act.

If only highly political actors are asking for more research then doing nothing is simply fiscal prudence and not an especially political act. I expect a lot of research on violence has already been conducted and the answers to any questions are probably already known. I don't normally see people in this debate saying 'we don't know X', they say 'we know X' and someone else says 'that is true but misleading/not important enough to justify Y/think of the children', etc.
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How do you prepare it?
> If that's true, why do they keep raising the fares and upgrading the fareboxes!?

To pay for the new fareboxes, of course.

Just as Uber is a way to get away from "bus people", fares are away to get away from "free bus people".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-iWBCL12Qg
Past couple of decades? Hardly, prices have gone through the floor in that time. That's not to say more expensive models can't be found just as with TVs but your typical home user computer is most certainly a bargain these days. Enterprise/workstation/gaming are still premium though.

Ad revenue includes preinstalled apps, they are getting upfront money and then income over time. On a product that $300 dollars to the consumer and additional $100 is a huge margin increase to just be blowing off like this.
Apparently Google phones and some Chromebooks have a Titan-C chip [1], although it's not clear how it's more secure than the Intel secure boot architecture.

[1] Google managed to build a chip with an un-Google-able name
I hope they can get $100M of power out of it before they have to decommision and bury the whole thing.

Doesn't seem likely, though.
This seems great.

For someone who already knows Kotlin.
... This is reeeeally suspect. A lot of these accounts were created as long ago as 2017, but only have a handful of posts from 0x65.dev within the past week or so. Could these be old compromised accounts? Granted, there's a lot of legitimate activity here too, but usernames "trisch", "gfawke5", "nikk699" all match this pattern.
>> not to collect fares from anyone that declines to pay

In LA, the bus driver doesn't want confrontation so just stays silent. People just board without tapping their card, although sometimes in rush hour you can't get to the tap reader so it's not always malicious. Security is only present at larger subway stations, not all, and is just there to break up fights. They don't ride the busses or trains, either.
Did this use the latest 36% higher performance EBS systems on AWS?

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-ec...
I'm guessing you are referring to the "config needs a hostname" problem. Been there myself.
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A simple rule of thumb is just that the further you get from a natural state, the worse it is. Fruit from a tree beats fruit in a smoothie. Grains in a whole state (i.e. oatmeal) are better than flours (i.e. oat flour). A whole chicken is better than nuggets. It’s really not that hard of an idea to grasp, as long as you assume that everything that’s written on food packaging is meant to deceive you.

Some things need to be processed to a point where they are edible, but not more than that. And before anyone goes there, yes, cooking is essential — that’s not considered “processing”.
Why is the phrase "well-regulated militia" in there then? Is it just fluff that can be ignored?
You can certainly try to do that.
If you click through to the lecture she links by Tim Palmer[0]it becomes clear that he's got to deal with this on an even worse level, because he works on both this topic and on the physics of climate change. The comments there are just painful to read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-IHJbzRVVU
Space-wise, yes, but the size of our user-entered strings is rarely a concern. On the other hand, UTF-16 is often mixed with UCS-2, which is not really Unicode, and lulls developers into a false sense of security by almost never needing two code units for a given code point.

It's a partial fix that makes bugs harder to catch. There's also the BOM issue, and not being ASCII compatible...
> We should pay to give them a place to sleep, and punish them just like anyone else if they choose to set up camps in public spaces.

Good luck with the former. The NIMBYs will fight it tooth and nail, every millimeter of the way.
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How so, can you expand on what would be terrifying on a personal and existential level for you?

I've encountered a few people that will cite quantum theory when it comes to discussions about questioning if one has free will. I cannot even imagine how quantum theory gives a us true free will and without one's will just being the outcome of the system we reside in.
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You’ve forgotten the single most important factor. When it comes to intentional deaths by firearm, mass shootings target white children at a much higher per capita number. If white teenagers were getting killed by gun murders at even the rate of black kids killed by cops we’d have a national ban.
If you look at a chart of TV prices over 50-80 years, this has always been a trend [1]. Institutes using this as an argument for declining poverty are missing the point that while most goods have gone down in cost over the years, services (childcare) and things of value (education) have gone up substantially [2].

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-the-incredib...

[2]: Elizabeth Warren's classic "Twin Income Trap" talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A
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Keep on chugging, would love to see this on the east coast one day!