skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also means poor people can’t get water or basic food, rich people can. Many people are not OK with that, so instead we have shortages and the early bird gets the worm (but no relation to ability to pay)
I'm running out of time - and I just signed up for Dithering which I think is well worth the money :-)
Why would you not use an accounting package like Xero to manage this?
WW2 gas rationing produced drive-by shootings. (There was quite a black market of gas that sprung up due to rationing.)
I know what you mean, that's the one feature I'm wanting for, as well. It's not supported yet, according to the YouTrack issues[1][2][3].

If you get a chance, upvote those issues and/or make your voice heard in the comments!

[1]: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/VIM-186

[2]: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/VIM-1310

[3]: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/VIM-1158
Throw away your Linux media and install OpenBSD
Kerberos is an underrated and underused authorization protocol.

(Last time I used it) V5 was reasonably safe to use on the open Internet. It integrates well with MacOS, Linux, BSD and other Unix auth systems and also with SSH.

I never really understood why we don't see more of it in "Cloud" models, especially given how decoupled a Kerberos Principal is from the underlying Unix UID.

Rather than using SSH keys everywhere and thus having to manage .authorized_keys files all over an estate, the users can `kinit` in a terminal (even on a stock MacOS) and they're away. The credentials are managed centrally. It has service/user and delegation properties similar to oAuth and friends.

I've not looked at it with a modern and critical cryptographic eye but, for example, there is (configurable) support for not giving out the initial set of tickets (which is encrypted with the user's password) until the client has proven it knows the user's password.

Many browsers (especially on the MS platform, but definitely also Firefox on all platforms as well) can be configured to use the tickets for HTTP authentication (like BASIC or DIGEST, but using a different scheme) at configured domains. Lots of web servers and web apps are easily configurable to put the correct things in the correct environment variables or HTTP headers so integration with random web services is straightforward.

Once you've got SSH and Browsing covered with a single credential, you're well on your way to a really versatile SSO scheme.
It feels like this was a concept I needed a name for and didn't know it. Thank you for posting about third places.
Apple’s goal for Swift is to be "the new default language for computer science." They see it as supplanting Java.

Whether you think that's crazy or not, pure server Swift is a thing, personally I love it. https://vapor.codes
This has been happening for at least 4 years already.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/the-rap...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/spies-in-t...
Reddit's "AskReddit" subreddit had a question recently hosted with a title something along the lines of "How did your college financially screw you over in this crisis?" The answers were varied and often ... "shocking" is the wrong word, because I have come to expect a kind of compulsive money-grubbing from many universities ... perhaps "flinch-inducing." Certainly the local subreddit for my city discussed similar money-grabs, nickel-and-diming, and general high-handed behavior interspersed with a general lack of competency.

Even universities with some staggeringly large endowments will cry poor and point to the endowments being tied up in various investments, which did take a turn down at the start, but looking at the Dow I see that the numbers are nearly back to what they were in May of 2019.

Many universities are staggeringly bloated, yet squeeze their faculty via adjuncts, then squeeze the adjuncts in turn. Why pay tenured faculty rates when you can throw in an adjunct? And then why pay the adjunct well? After all, we have these enormous administrative budgets. Having had access to some historical employer data and performing general tracking as part of a "make sure that the input is within historical limits" sanity check, I noted that staff, "important" staff, had grown massively over a decade.

Now the on-campus college experience, for which so much is subtracted from student accounts in funding various events and facilities, is largely remote, well, that "value-add" is now a "where's the beef?" moment.
It both is and is not different. It's different because of the obvious riots.

But it's not different in the long: we should be aware of mass surveillance, because it can affect freedom of association (chilling), and can advance government abuse.

Citizens should always watch the government, so that we have a chance to rein them in. Its our government, not the other way around.
This is exactly why agent provacateurs exist.
The constitution does not grant rights It merely enumerates some of the rights we have.

The civil rights act did not make up any rights - it created law to enable enforcement and protection of rights people already had, but which were being infringed - both by states and by private businesses.

The social media monopolies are infringing on our rights. There may not as yet be a legal remedy for that, but it seems likely that there will be, as in many ways these companies are more powerful and wield more influence over people than governments do.
I find it really sad that Target and other stores damaged in the protests may never return. Insurance and risk assessment may unfortunately decide reopening in a certain area is too dangerous.
The Neolithic period is around 12000 years ago. Anatomicaly modern humans have been around for 200,000 years plus and other hominids for millions of years before that. Carbohydrate consumption as a large portion of our diet is very new on an evolutionary time scale.
Normally we'd change the URL but that article was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23291589. So this one is more of a dupe than anything.
Power plants and water treatment coming from the PRC is a result of history, so one cannot just look at the current state of affairs and conclude that no other outcomes were possible. As with anywhere in the world, the water and electricity comes from where it comes because it's the most economical solution, not because it's the only solution.

I'm just trying to make the point that had an empire still been in control of HK, things would have looked very different, but that's not the case so they don't. There's nothing inherently with HK's connection to mainland that makes it impossible for it to be self-sustaining, but there was never a point, or an economical or political will to do so.

The most obvious comparison to HK is Singapore, which is now a free state and has its own military, together with being one of the top financial spots in Asia. Yet the history is not that different from Hong Kong.

The different outcomes are not down to the simple fact that HK Island is a barren rock that would be technically impossible to sustain independently, but a complex result of geopolitics which today makes it impossible to release from the grasp of China.
>> And that's a bad thing, but I'm sure you'd agree the right solution isn't for the police to permit lots of crime in poor neighborhoods.

I'm not sure if your comment was satire or not. But if it isnt satire -- it is exactly why so many people are so angry.

The privileged attitude is best summarized as: yes, i'm doing something criminal, but so is that PoC, lets go after the PoC [while ignoring my crimes].

This is injustice because true justice is blind, not a tool for selective oppression.
Correct, hollow-point ammunition is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions. This has always baffled me since large caliber and high explosive munitions (120mm HEAT rounds from an Abrams) are regularly used against soft targets in combat, not to mention things like hellfire missles or JDAMs. That's the rules of war for you.
> Most people would interpret that phrase to mean "you better think twice before looting because I'm not going to sit idly by and let you do it"

What do you base the knowledge of how most people will have interpreted this statement on?

The historical experiences of different classes of people can have a profound impact on the perspectives they have in relation to the government. An 80 year old black man might have a very different relationship with governmental authorities than a 30 year old Latino, or a 40 year old Caucasian.
Look into the history of the phrase he used - and you will realize that you are wrong.
Sure but it is not an acceptable level of latency when the product is supposed to respond on user input. When the app or the feature is new or obscure it would fall in this state all the time.

Last time I checked I wasn’t renting a server, it was supposed to be a service that’s fast at any scale.

A 5$ DO instance would provide much better experience. They should give an option to keep it awake albeit at a cost.
How do you suppose you increase accountability for police officers (or any other police reform) without public support? And how does increasing accountability give police officers the special skills that they increasingly need, for example, to for interacting with mentally unwell members of the community? "Figure out how to be a mental health professional or face jail time"? To use your "doctors" analogy, we also have a system that adequately trains doctors and filters out the unfit.
The Mexican Federal Police operate 6 Blackhawks provided by the US CBP. But it would be fair to say they serve a more militarized role than say Seattle PD.

https://youtu.be/mBTs6BGMa3U
Because it slows down anyone looking to crack/reverse the passwords? The only thing protecting your high entropy password is the cost of the hash. If you could run infinite attempts in 2 seconds then even your high entropy password would fail.

Anyways, most people don't use high entropy passwords, so there's little point in arguing against this IMHO.
There's a bigger story here. There are a lot of loop holes this article doesn't bring up that people were doing.

For example, Chinese garbage thermometers - ones that don't work and cost under a dollar to produce - flooded the marketplace when fever was announced as a common first symptom. Sellers took existing, somewhat well rated products like SD cards and used those listing to push their cheap garbage as $85 premium products. If you didn't look too far into it, it might even look legit.

Every related category had Chinese companies performing various scams. Frankly, until Amazon has a county filter it is going to continue trending towards being a bigger wish.com clone.
This comment is all sorts of wrong.

Military "bullets" (they're called rounds, actually) are designed to be optimized for performance in a warfare environment. That means accuracy, and range. A hollow point round is design to expand and be a stopping shot - with one round - and not continue to travel large distances, which puts other people at risk. Cops can carry those because if they're in a crowded environment firing a hollow point round at a threat means less risk to anyone else who isn't a threat.

>There are all sorts of international agreements on not using certain types of things in war - types of bullets are no exception.

Yeah no one will care about this once an actual near-peer war kicks off.
I just flew out of this airport yesterday, only 5 passengers onboard a Bombardier Q400.

Thankfully there are no nearby hills for this bug to kill anyone there.

Unrelated, but how many carbon offsets do I buy?
Feel free to link
There's already a "colony collapse disorder", and nobody does anything. But when it comes to the Third World, suddenly we have to do nothing because something might happen (nobody even has a mechanism. We're supposed to sacrifice millions for delusions). This is unacceptable. Fortunately, there are enough good people in the world to ignore the callous.
Look up Andrew Matushchak's entry on evergreen notes [1].

[1] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4SDCZQeRo4xFEQ8H4qrSqd68ucp...
This book is in a genre I like (microhistories) but I found it pretty dull reading. It's basically a very superficial history of "the world" (mainly Western Europe) that posits malaria to be the cause of pretty much every world event. I'm sure there's some truth to this, but the plodding military metaphors and oversimplifications really started to wear on me.

I haven't read it, but a recent review (https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n11/steven-shapin/drain-the-..., possibly behind a paywall) suggested Sonia Shah's The Fever to be a better book on the topic.
Sorry to hijack but would you know a way to run Darwin from sources as an OS for testing Mac builds (backend and command-line apps without GUI)? Clang and/or gcc would be a plus to have. I've looked at the PureDarwin project but that doesn't seem to provide anything I could use. Apple's update treadmill, notarization, SIP, and other tightening makes Mac OS an increasingly annoying and expensive/time-consuming platform to port software to.
Simplifier – Optimized Solar Cell
I think we are in agreement. I don't want Twitter meddling with content, regardless of who runs it. My opinion is that the outrage would be different if it were run by a conservative. The American two-party system seems to require us versus them, even in how twitter is run.
The difference is in how people interpret the carriers ability to adjust/moderate content. 230 is inadequate for the scale of social media platforms.
Thanks for you work on this and making it FOSS. This is the first I've heard of QuestDB. Is it production ready? Whats the scaling story? Thanks
>sense of the relationship between violent actions and their consequences

exactly. Whatever you use in warzone you're risking that the same can be used against you, thus all the conventions on warzone weapons usage and prisoner treatment. Thus all the training, so that your soldiers wouldn't cross [too frequently] the redline to trigger the response.

I remember reading for example that in WWI new young soldiers, i think in Russia, were sometimes issued old style non-flat 3-edged rifle attached combat knives. Whether the knife is flat or 3-edged wouldn't make any difference during the actual stabbing and the immediate time after that. Where it makes all the difference is outside of the immediate combat situation - those non-flat knives would make for unnecessary horrible very hard to heal wounds, and thus if you were found with such a knife on a battlefield you'd be killed right there instead of taken POW. So the older soldiers would make sure that the newbies would promptly lose the knives.

The situation is similar to hollow-point bullets - they create those horrible wounds without any tactical benefit on actual battlefield.
That's what we've outlawed -- we've outlawed all gas stations and supermarkets from raising prices regardless of monopoly. They have diverse ownership.

Tripling prices of TP so you don't hoard during a shortage seems less detrimental to society than locking generations of working class people from being able to ever join highly-productive areas.
I have a range I stay in. I have a SOW that I just use a template, pull things out, put things in, depending on the scoping call/requirements. I don't do MSA's.
We're still working on defining the exact pricing, but it would be a usage-based monthly subscription model, since our core costs are related to infrastructure scaling.

The good news is that if you had to switch workflow tools, our product design makes your code easily portable (no proprietary config files, no packages to add to your code). You would just lose access to the scaled workflow and execution logic.

I'd love to discuss more with you to see what your team would see as reasonable. Happy to work something out.
Apple has shipped out-of-band security updates quickly — they must have an internal process for weighing severity versus the user fatigue from shipping frequent updates.
When supply is fixed the price gouging serves as an important mechanism promoting efficient use of it. If a 30 oz bottle of hand sanitizer costs $50 then everyone would ask themselves: "Do I REALLY need 5 bottles of it?"
If the Internet companies want common carrier protections like generally not being responsible for user actions, they have to act like a common carrier.

I'm saying this as someone who thinks Twitter in general is stupid, Trump behaves like a clown on Twitter and the best outcome would be if everyone stopped using Twitter.

But you cannot have it both ways, and in that particular issue he is right.
you worried they might get the email address they just emailed you on out of you?
Taleb's position in a nutshell:

http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
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Unfortunately, online education isn't popular because folks don't want the experience, especially if you are returning to school later in life. The reality is that many colleges are geared towards a non-working, single, young adult student. This is reflected in classroom times and coursework. (I had a class require volunteer work and short-term participation in college groups). You simply cannot work a 9-5 job and attend most regular colleges.
Thanks, I missed that in my search (!hn <url> DDG bangsearch / Algolia).
Why is everyone acting like every school charges Ivy League prices?

Most state schools are affordable. Mine is a top school and charges $9k a year in tuition for in state.

You can get all of the social, in person experience at almost any state school. You might not get a job at Google or Mckinsey but you also won't take on 6 figure debt.

The problem is everyone wants to go to the private/out of state schools with sky high tuition and only marginally better academics. Then there's majoring in unemployable fields but that's another story entirely...
I actually pitched this exact idea to YC and was part of W20 - but I very quickly pivoted away from it.

If anyone is wondering about this, the basic business challenge you have to solve is being in the right place at the right time. This kind of thing is very sticky once its in place, and most startups don't realize the complexity in the domain early enough for a stand-alone service to make sense to them.

I think as far as startups in this space go, the best path forward would be to nurture an open source project in the long term.

I ended up open sourcing my work after the pivot here: https://github.com/affiga/scaledger
Somewhat agreed but this seems to be a side-effect of companies trying to lawyer their way out of the law

Not necessarily. One of the main criticisms of the GDPR was that it was vague and ambiguous on several very important points, and in theory deferred to more concrete guidance from the national regulators, which in turn was then either inconsistent or absent in some of the most important areas anyway.

The GDPR penalty regime was also heavily stacked against smaller businesses: for a large business, the costs are capped at the 4% level, but for any business earning less than half a billion each year, the absolute cap takes precedence and means that a regulator can literally threaten the very existence of any business earning less than probably 100M.

In that environment, you need proper legal advice on interpretation and possibly, as absurd as it seems, just to show that you have made a serious, good faith attempt at compliance, as a preemptive defence if a regulator does subsequently take a different view to yours.
Philly, 1985: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing

"There was an armed standoff with police,[5] who lobbed tear gas canisters at the building. The MOVE members fired at them and a gunfight with semi-automatic and automatic firearms ensued.[32] Police went through over ten thousand rounds of ammunition before Commissioner Sambor ordered that the compound be bombed.[32] From a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, Philadelphia Police Department Lt. Frank Powell proceeded to drop two one-pound bombs (which the police referred to as "entry devices"[31]) made of FBI-supplied Tovex, a dynamite substitute, targeting a fortified, bunker-like cubicle on the roof of the house.[29]"

Police helicopters are modified civilian aircraft and yet they have been used by the police, through improvised means, to bomb people. The drone over Minneapolis is a MQ-9 reaper, aka "predator B", hunter-killer UAV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper

"In 2006, the then–Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force General T. Michael Moseley said: "We've moved from using UAVs primarily in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance roles before Operation Iraqi Freedom, to a true hunter-killer role with the Reaper."[6]

The MQ-9 is a larger, heavier, and more capable aircraft than the earlier General Atomics MQ-1 Predator; it can be controlled by the same ground systems used to control MQ-1s. The Reaper has a 950-shaft-horsepower (712 kW) turboprop engine (compared to the Predator's 115 hp (86 kW) piston engine). The greater power allows the Reaper to carry 15 times more ordnance payload and cruise at about three times the speed of the MQ-1.[6] "
Remembering the MS Scandinavian Star Ferry Disaster
Xero is an accounting app, and it has a ton of features. This is a simple API to validate money movements, it can be used as one of the pieces to build a dedicated accounting, billing, and other systems if existing solutions like Xero doesn't work for you. It's general-purpose, where Xero is more a dedicated app for accounting.
Allowing price gouging encourages speculative hoarding which makes markets less stable and less fair. For essential items this is very undesirable for almost everyone.
I would check out https://frappebooks.com/. They are building an open-source accounting system like Freshbooks. It can also be used for personal accounting like Mint.
https://archive.md/zNO8z
Eh, you can make it tinier.
Let the data be a buffer filled with x elements of random length.
Let the computer be a system with multiple cores.
Let the property to sort for be the length of the datums in the buffer.

Each core, takes one "cycle" to process one length unit of the datum.
Each core copies a "finnished" datum to a common shared pointer in a buffer. Once the buffer is completely copied, they cycle repeats, until no more elements are moved.

"Ocean" sort kernel code is hyper trivial, side effect free (except for the pointer) and sorts all the "sand" by size, purely with the "data physics" properties of the system.

https://github.com/PicassoCT/CompScienceExperiments/tree/mas...

Lousy implementation and esoteric rambling about the systems properties.
My understanding is that (c)(2)(A) is only about liability for the act of moderation itself, e.g. suing Twitter because they banned you. If they did that in bad faith you could hypothetically maybe sue them for it, but there would need to be a cause of action, which there normally wouldn't be.

'gnopgnip may be referring to the much broader liability shield, for the content that you do not remove, which is provided by (c)(1) and has no good-faith requirement. That is Twitter's main "legal protection from defamation and libel" that you mention above.

Trump's executive order suggests that the (c)(1) liability shield could go away if you don't meet the (c)(2) good-faith requirements, which I gather is not considered a strong legal position.