skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The RICO laws permit private citizens suing other private citizens where it can be demonstrated there was a conspiracy.

If the conspiracy is for barratry, and this can be demonstrated, then the case should be able to move forward.

RICO means suing directly the conspirators, so there is no option for any sort of organizational protections or "corporate veil" meaning all of the personal assets will be up for grabs.

I suspect this would send a lot of fear into the conspirators because a case like the one linked here will likely draw more sympathy than the plight of a handicapped person being blocked from accessing some more common venue (grocery store, hospital, etc.). This is very important because as a lawyer-acquaintance would put it, the verdict is ultimately "what 12 idiots decide."
In terms of political economy we could easily tabulate the money paid to lobbyists. For example, it is much cheaper for a coal fired power plant to pay politicians to implement their desired environmental regulations.

Instead of being liable for damages caused by their pollution, these energy producers can simply claim that they are within the regulations set forth by the EPA. The price discovery mechanism has been hampered by the victim's inability to collect damages.
This was a hard lesson my wife and I learned on our wedding night.

For pictures, instead of a Polaroid style camera (which I had bought originally for the purpose but we decided against it later) we thought it would be great if people could use their own phones to take their own reception pictures and then print them off a Bluetooth photo printer we brought, and then put those pictures into a photo guestbook.

Instead, no one could get the app downloaded or working (well almost no one) the night of, and one person in the wedding party had to act as a technology liaison and get pictures from other people, then print them from his phone.

We ended up with around 14 pictures in the photo guestbook.

If we had just gone with the polaroid camera we probably would have had 3 or 4 times that many pictures.

All because we assumed the technology would work as easily as we were able to get it working at home, for everyone else.
the original will never die! :-)
You don't see much evil in the absence of strategic intelligence required to avoid terraforming your own planet to make it less habitable?
Respectfully, I disagree with the spirit of all of this excluding how peasants lived. I think saying "tech will solve it and we'll have great lives where everything is cheap" is equivalent to saying Jesus will come save us all.
Oh awesome, well if you need someone to test out a draft of the post let me know. I'd be glad to help
In MySQL, NULL values are useful when using CONCAT_WS (concatenation with separator) or GROUP_CONCAT because NULL values will be ignored - so you don’t get e.g., “one,,two”.
and urbit :)
Dictate our own immigration quotas, dictate who can fish in our waters, not subsidize Southern Europe, etc.
He is comparing a multi-threaded haskell version against a single-threaded C version???

"...There’s also a parallel version that relies on the monoidal structure of the problem a lot, and that one actually beats C"

coreutils wc is single-threaded, just checked.
Rigging is not the right term for what's happening but you have to admit that if Pete or Bernie end up winning Iowa and Biden ends up 4th, delaying the results will dampen the impact of the outcome. Nate Silver just pushed an article about the impact of timing of the primaries on the outcome. Then you have to so factor in the Des Moines poll getting pulled, which supposedly showed Biden coming in 4th.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/iowa-might-have-screwed...

https://theweek.com/speedreads/893477/sanders-reportedly-fin...
It's not as easy as you think. I am from Kenya and we speak and write good English. with the aid of Grammarly premium, all grammatical mistakes are easily spotted and corrected.
You probably live a comfortable life and is mostly satisfied with what you have so you see no need for more growth. Now imagine someone had the means to implement this same idea 200 years ago. We probably wouldn't have water and sewage treatment, fast transportation, modern medicine, electric light and all the appliances that come with it, internet, etc. I find it disingenuous to dismiss all these as trinkets.

This would be basically limiting the possibilities of all future humans in the name of some "greater good". That is textbook evil for me.

I think the main problem with this kind of thinking is that it is always based on what you know now, and not on what is possible. The world we live today, our technology, and the way we use resources would be unimaginable 200 years ago. The same is true about our knowledge of what will be possible 200 years from now.
Does it handle multiple files, and stdin?

Anyway, destroying Haskell with 100 lines of C :-)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gdevic/minix1/master/comma...
I believe weather is why the industry moved south to the then minor city of Los Angeles, but many early films were filmed on stage sets anyway. Plus NYC had financing, actors, culture, etc unlike the boondocks of California

There’s a lot of historical analysis of this.
At which point they laugh at your tough guy act, decline, and welcome you to call the cops. When the cops arrive, they say your oral agreement was for twice what it was, and on top of that they demand that you get your stuff off their truck and renumerate them for the costs that arise in terms of their time and money for canceling the agreement they claim you had.

Oral agreements may be legally binding, but it's pretty hard to prove they exist, or what the terms are.
Unfortunately Québec do not have a working skilled immigration system yet. Québec do not follow rest of Canada's immigration system. The CAQ govt. of Québec has completely messed up the immigration system of Québec. Québec focuses on knowledge of French rather than other merits for their immigration, so they get a huge chunk of unskilled immigrants who speaks only French with no employable skills.
An HR functionary doing a preliminary phone screen might dismiss a candidate who asks $135k for a position with a $100-130k range.

A hiring manager, after having offered $130k, would never do something that stupid.
Ask HN: What do you do to rest?
I'm becoming more than slightly aware that all of my "hobbies" involve doing/producing something (e.g. walking, writing, going to the gym). This is great from a mental stimulation point of view, but I don't feel like I'm always resting and recovering outside of work.

What do you do that gives you a proper "break"?
That is what exactly what is suggested. OP presented a small subset of the entire article outlining how this should work. Highly recommended read.
I wholeheartedly agree with what you propose. Serious question: what do you think that certification looks like?
Currently using it in a commercial project to control microscope lights form a web-app. Works on Linux and MacOS. Not on windows because Windows cannot see the device as a Webcam and a generic USB endpoint at the same time (my old StackOverflow question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44942495/getusermedia-an...). In the beginning the project was born to run on vanilla Google Chrome but now is distribuited with NWJS. I would really love to see a definitive good WebUsb crossbrowser API spec.
You do realize that the Iowa Democrats who prefer Bernie or Pete are the SAME DEMOCRATS running this process right?

There is no national party there. The people running this are Iowans. If they, as you say, prefer Bernie or Pete, then why would they be intentionally hurting their own guys?

I wish people would learn about these processes so they could think through their own disinformation! What you're saying literally doesn't make sense.

Why would Iowans who you claim are mainly Pete/Bernie followers help Biden by sabotaging their own caucuses?
The UK has very simple ballots, though: one bit of paper, one pile to count. America has a whole raft of issues voted at the same time, which complicates counting sufficiently that machines are more attractive.
> Actually it's super easy, barely an inconvenience

Wow wow wow.

Your references are TIGHT.

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The main RAM / CPU issue is latency: it takes over 100-clock cycles to communicate with DDR4, which a CPU could process ~400 instructions if they were lined up just right (modern CPUs are super-scalar, executing multiple instructions per clock tick).

Only once you have sizable caches + data locality will you solve the latency problem.

Without locality, I'm not sure if the latency problem can be solved at all. Fortunately, many problems have an element of locality that can be taken advantage of.
The post is very insightful and well written. The title is provocative which is very common nowadays. However, there should be a "serious" section that puts things into perspective. As others have pointed out it leaves a bit of a taste otherwise.
There should be, but it’s not just a case of “build it and they will come”. The major parties would need to actually use it (in at least a few states) and for that to happen I think it would need some prominent backers (which could be the parties themselves).
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The CEO's compensation is usually determined by the board of directors at large public companies [0].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2015/11/18/...
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I can't find it in the paper. In which page it is?

This is a huge. Spin rules have a very strong experimental and theoretical support. In this case they should write that in at the top of the article with all-caps, red color and blink.

It is almost as big as breaking the conservation of charge. (Almost.)

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The condensation at the big bang makes no sense, because the particles are created and destroyed constantly. But this requires some handwaving and estimations.

The use of gravity here is very dubious, but this requires some handwaving and estimations. Try to read more about the "standard model" and about this, and compare the results. A good question is why there are two missing particles in the figure "B.1"?
Pretty sure Akamai does not front Google, they are more than large (and competent) enough to do that themselves.
I think that the problem is that many resources that people care about are limited:

- desirable land

- desirable mates

- equipment for certain hobbies (e.g. sailboats, machine shops, etc.)
Daily reminder that "well it works locally" is an entirely different animal than "it works at scale".

Scale, especially efficient scale, is hard.
In my experience, your level of customer service largely depends on your skin color in Québec.

White French > White Anglo > Rest
Hold a three question interview with the claimed author. Ensure that only two questions are based on the paper's claims, eg, So, Professor Newton, is rate of fall linearly or exponentially related to mass?
The source code of GNU wc:

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/wc.c

The word counting algorithm does seem to be much more complex.
In my graduate program (Neurosciences) the students with a computational background usually realize after about two years that all of our colleagues desperately need a basic orientation for how to actually use a computer to do real work. The only institutions that I know of that teach the kinds of courses we need are community colleges.

The curriculum presented here is an enormous community resource and I hope the other institutions recognize the desperate need for a course like this and allocate the resources to teach it.
With poor governance, there can only be opportunities for corruption and theft of government resources and not for improving the lives of citizens.
In Kenya, those in government steal and invest that money in real estate, building malls and posh estates that don't help the normal citizens in any way. If those were invested in startups then the story would be different
Empirically, economic growth has always been related to consumption of energy and raw materials. One explanation is the Rebound effect[1]

Maybe theorically they can be decoupled, but we have yet to see that in the real world.

More about it: https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)
Yes that is true, but Finnish people speak quite good English and many job positions does not really require perfect Finnish skills.
Same. I see more job listings, yet salary are not moving up. Hardly any boom.
This is an interesting thought experiment. I think it's conceivable the cost of many things one needs would fall as a result of automation - but there are many things which have limited supply and that there would still be competition for, many of them consumable - so you would still need a source of income for these.
The third party doctrine.

Unfortunately, it's unlikely that we (at least in the US) will find the political will to change the law that says if you give your data to a third party, it is no longer protected by the fourth amendment and doesn't require a warrant to obtain.

So self-hosting your own data seems to be the only way you can keep your data protected by the fourth amendment.
The major deficiency of the two-party system is that the parties have to resort to this kind of second-guessing the "average voter" instead of just presenting all the options and letting the voters choose for themselves.
A few times, I did what you described. I was working and experimenting for couple of days and after I was satisfied I "brought project up-to-date". But this caused me headaches a few times. It's hard to revert certain changes, hard to understand what was going on a couple of days ago.

Right now, I wouldn't work for 5 days without a single commit. Those "best practices" were invented to address concrete problems.

My advice is not to worry about commit history when you are starting. But definitely try to commit as often as possible. Group changes in logical chunks. Try to use meaningful commit titles and messages.
Yes, your skimming was inaccurate.
There have been a few big Canadian success stories - Shopify being the latest.
It’s no surprise that internal polling numbers, when reported, favour the candidate that collected the numbers.
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Claim 1 is 100% true if we're talking about end-to-end encryption where Dropbox doesn't have the key. That is more likely what the parent meant.
Even if you get a CSQ from Québec, the Québec govt has made it such that you have to wait 2 years at Federal stage. While rest of Canada will get your permanent residency within 4-6 months with skills more in demand other than speaking French which your can learn anyway by immersion.
But that post left me wondering: is it possible to do better without resorting to parallel processing?
Turns out the answer is yes.

From the introduction
Nothing in this article explained how this advertising could actually be dangerous. It "collects the IP address and user agent string." Is there something serious or not?
It's a firefox bug. I needed to add a very fine rotation for it to render subpixel, so you can try again. You can also see the repaints if you open up the dev tools: https://i.imgur.com/A8btxpu.png
No! How could that be?
What kind of job requires so little human interaction to be outsourceable without anyone noticing?
Ranked choice voting is already used by multiple countries with no problem
You’re right, a relatively large influx of foreign workers of any skill level is harmful to all people, but especially the local people if it causes a reduction in wages.

If the cost of goods increases, it won’t likely be severe since it serves the entire population while only a small percentage of the population produce the goods. Also changing prices affects demand independently from cost of production.
The rate of shaking would appear to be different due to general relativity.
I'm a tech worker in Canada and can agree that the tech salaries are nowhere close to the US. Housing is pretty high as well. The better paying jobs are in government.
If resources are plentiful than why is growth a problem?
Iowa has a law that it holds its primaries 8 days before the first state. Not sure how you can change that without having them change that law.
Why do higher stock prices make the middle class feel more wealthy? Is it really that common to own enough stocks to make up a significant portion of your wealth?

As far as I can tell its essentially just a useless hobby unless you have significant savings. The only people I know that are into stocks are also into things like horse racing etc, and they make/lose about as much from it.
As entirely anecdotal evidence, I upgraded from a 2500k (that I'd been running at 4.5GHz) to a 3600 and the perceived difference in speed is phenomenal. At ~€400 for CPU+Motherboard+RAM it's also great value.

Every day work just feels more snappy and compile times are down by a lot. Single thread is a lot faster and of course having 12 threads instead of 4 makes a huge difference (of course that effect might be less for you since you already have SMT).

Paired with a 1060 I even notice quite a difference in gaming. Even though I didn't necessarily have 100% usage on the CPU, I was 10-20FPS below benchmarks for my GPU. This didn't really make sense to me, but after I upgraded I indeed got those extra frames.

I haven't done any scientific on the performance improvement, but according to PassMark, I am getting roughly a 120% performance increase on parallelizable workloads, even when taking my OC into account.
"Simply to show growth"? People like generally money, what's changed?
We're using Appsignal and it's been great. Fantastic support too.
Does git have code to detect whether a hash prefix is ambiguous? I know that if you use a short prefix (which is more likely to be shared by multiple objects), git will output an error message staying that the object reference is ambiguous IIRC.
Just a heads up, in Firefox with remote scripts blocked using uMatrix, the JS on this page goes into an infinite loop if I don't allow the Stripe script, which I wouldn't normally bother allowing unless I was about to pay for something.
Not to mention the sheer amount of people you have to convince if you want to have any meaningful impact. And not just to cheat, but also keep quiet about it lest you get caught.

What's that old Ben Franklin quote, three people can keep a secret but only if two of them are dead?
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Beating Textbook Algorithms in String Search
Rebuilding the Test Pyramid
I'm getting voted down for mentioning this in another section of this discussion, but, is this not the perfect use case for open source? The certification is anyone and everyone can double check the source code. If this is a bad idea, I would appreciate the feedback, because, it is my understanding that a big draw of using OSS is transparency.
CAQ govt is working on that. Soon will come a bill which mandates all employers to exclusively recruit French. Currently the ruling govt of Québec is anti immigrant and showing signs of a future separatist referendum. I won't be counting on Québec to stay in Canada in the future.
The DNC literally argued in court that they have no obligation to conduct fair elections, can just do whatever they want with back room deals and call it legitimate, so I don’t see that happening:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/08/reminder-dnc-lawyers...
There are advisers at universities here in Poland who are basically happy for you to write your PhD on your own (with zero supervision), as long as it meets the required quality standard (which can be rather low). This way, he fills his quota of mentees without devoting work to it.
There's a nifty service for deaf people who sign called video relay - you just call any number without having to deal with operator, and you will see a sign language video interpreter pop up and they'll translate the call. It's insanely great and it's all free/sponsored by FCC.

one example of such service:
convorelay.com
I don't like these "Destroying C" titles.
Isn't work done for environmental protection counted under 'growth'? (provided someone is paying for it) - it's adding value, after all.
Or maybe it worked as intended. The only candidate to make a "victory speech", Buttigieg, was also the only candidate to have paid money to the company that made the app and then kept the app and its security secret.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/buttigieg-campaign-p...

I wonder if Buttigieg knew something we didn't and this is why he was so confident.

The American election system is such a joke, in a dozen different ways. You'd think something like that would count as a conflict of interest, but no, conflict of interest is the name of the political game in the land of the free these days -- in both (and basically only) parties.
He lived in a quite small town (< 10 000) people. Just few generations ago nobody locked houses in small Finnish towns. They just set a broom against the out door to tell everybody that the house is empty and door is open.
There area couple of distros that look familiar to windows.

One of them is Zorin OS
I don't think it is very "hard" to "destroy" most of these programs, they were written a long time ago, they evolved with backwards compatibility or portability in mind, these can run on pretty much any system. It does seem a bit unfair to compare it to a quickly hacked together program that you test against one use case.

Like the other said, the second article will probably be more interesting.
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Not unimpressive, but this a bit of a hot take. If I'm reading it right, a single file benchmark (Big O who?) against a fully fledged production C program is not a complete measurement
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Yes, but Goldmont is not particularly awesome. :) Presumably goldmont would be a downgrade for many people.

(On AMD the first generation zen have sha-ni, FWIW)