skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, you're wrong.

In general, fascism distinguishes itself for its intolerance of political opponents, suppression of freedom of speech, and lack of respect for the democratic principles of a majority vote as well as exclusion or isolation of other democratic parties and the use of violence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_fascism
> Warren Buffett said that US gov can never go bankrupt because it owns the printing press.

Hyperinflation is one way to throw more fuel on the dire that is American society right now. And Trump said the quiet part out loud during his campaign[1] that we don't have to repay the whole debt (normally something that the most powerful people in a country don't say in public).

Neither of these ideas works in practice without significant tradeoffs. The US dollar only keeps its value because people around the world have faith it is worth something. A spike in inflation or a debt default would have investors scramble to move their assets elsewhere.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2016/05/09/477350889/donald-trumps-messy...
Hi, does igalia take smallish dev contracts (about 10k) ? This would be from a french free software not-for-profit.
Sure! Top is Postgres, bottom is pgx, after running each 5 times...

test=# SELECT count(*) FROM (SELECT generate_series(1, 10000000)) s;
count
----------
10000000
(1 row)

Time: 399.630 ms
test=# SELECT count(*) FROM (SELECT srf.generate_series(1, 10000000)) s;
count
----------
10000000
(1 row)

Time: 478.194 ms

Thanks for the reply. I'm not surprised there's room for optimization in pgx, especially in the Iterator-->SRF path.

edit: PS, thanks for the idea of putting what I assume is the backend pid in psql's prompt. I need to go figure out how to do that right now!

edit edit: hmm, I guess that's not the PID.
A Steve Jobs masterclass from a decade ago
This website shows a good 40 downloads from my IP, and I don't recognize a single one. I have torrented some files recently, but they're not in the list. And so far I've never used a VPN, it's unnecessary where I live.

Not very reliable.
Not sure what else is out there, but the TMCx accelerator program is specifically designed around biotech startups and was created to build up the (bio)tech startup ecosystem around the texas medical center (largest medical center worldwide)

https://www.tmc.edu/innovation/innovation-programs/tmcx/
I'm running DokuWiki now, although as a PHP application it is somewhat irritating to integrate with the rest of my server setup, especially with the nice URLs mode requiring a bunch of rewrite rules. It is backed by plaintext files, has a decent permissions system, is decently lightweight, and has a fairly simple UI.
CUDA is night-and-day different from Intel's nightmare.

CUDA in particular hides the exact width of the processing elements from the programmer, so you don't have to rewrite your CUDA applications to take advantage of the next generation of GPU the way you have to do with AVX1,2,3,...

Mind you, NVIDIA's drivers compile your shaders to their proprietary instruction set, which is a path not taken in conventional CPU architecture even though it keeps coming up. (e.g. the belt)
Right, when millions and millions of people become infected with an illness there will be a wide range of edge cases. But if reinfection within 6 months was anything other than exceptionally rare it would be obvious by now.

Now if you had a peer reviewed study to link instead of media reports, I would be very interested.
Agree, I like this article because it makes an interesting study of how our work shapes our culture, and if we're looking for parallels to tech, this sounds a bit like Conway's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

The way you grow crops helps determine the social structure of the society that grows the crops, and vice versa to an extent.
> Former bound slaves are now employed as salaried servants, free to leave at any time. Except if they want to earn enough to feed their families, that is.

I mean, I certainly have "issues" with the system we have, but at least most people get to choose their 'master' these days?

(Assumption being that there are multiple competing employers vying for the opportunity to employ 'servants'. Of course, if all 'masters' are equally shitty, the choice doesn't matter, but...)
> Practicality can take second seat to art;

Architecture was supposed to be the conjugation of both, not a way to put together pretty façades.
IIUC, and I may not, that's slightly too strong and there are some circumstances where evidence that's (shall we say) barely inadmissible doesn't necessarily invalidate later evidence.

But in any case, whether the principle applies to a given instance is something that needs to be tested in court, and parallel construction is deliberately depriving the court of the ability to make a determination.
Enforcement is the state forcing its will on you eliminating the individual’s ability to evaluate risk. Eric Garner is dead because of government rule flexing you suggest.

The government should buy ads showing the efficacy of face masks and use the ad council to pretty it up.

If you have politically connected individuals flouting the rules, people will salami tactics their way to not wearing the masks.

*edit: thanks for the word correction suggestion.
Software has long tried to copy the EE model of selling "components", but the market has never really worked - most libraries are either written on zero budget by volunteers, or are forced on you by the platform.
I'm very grateful for the rollbacks.

I was against Newsome but how he's handled this pandemic is better than both Dems/Repubs. I understand he felt he was too 'heavy-handed' in the beginning but it was the correct decision. But...he's trying to appease the 'center' by allowing counties freedom to make decisions. Regardless, he's doing the right thing and I'm glad I moved here a few years ago.

In conclusion, I hope Gavin tries to get a real deal on masks (buy them for Californians and give them away at steep discounts) and mandate masks THROUGH THE LEGISLATURE or fear of automatic fines. Japan is doing great and they work indoors but the key is they all wear masks. We need a robust mask policy, asap.

P.S. Since I can't reply to the [dead] comment below, let me do that here. The reason why Gavin should do it through the Legislature is for permission and buy-in. It only needs to be temporary but in the same action, one could reduce the price of compliance by leveraging the size of the California govt, heck he could even get businesses involved too, make a really large purchase. This isn't about fines, it's about preventing the spread of covid19.
honestly i don't think you will from Gen X upwards.

i think mostly it's millennial and below just wanting to change "something" that they have control over. i see how millennial and below are feeling the "squeeze" of the society that they wanted to not be apart of (renting instead of owning, freelancing instead of corporate job, code camps instead of college) and now realize that they completely screwed themselves.

this whole movement is there way of lashing back and trying to have a voice. personally i (and probably most Gen Xers and above) could care less which is why there isn't really any "push back" not to go along.
> Even as the number of cases goes up, deaths (the more important number) keeps coming down.
> We keep hearing about how this trend will reverse soon, ("two weeks from now"), but that hasn't happened yet.

Your graph shows an increase over the last week. A rolling average shows that more clearly:

https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-daily-deaths

If you look at the currently worse off regions / states you can see the rise in deaths more clearly. E.g. in the south and west there's a pretty clearly recognizable rise:

https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/regional-deaths

Here's a link to per-region stats: https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/all-metrics-per-state
and some example states with pretty clear trends:

AZ: https://public.tableau.com/shared/6GDK353C7?:display_count=y...

CA: https://public.tableau.com/shared/GKK6SFGNR?:display_count=y...

FL: https://public.tableau.com/shared/P2SSPXC3Y?:display_count=y...

TX: https://public.tableau.com/shared/M8KY224BR?:display_count=y...

> deaths (the more important number) keeps coming down.

Deaths are important, obviously, but they are also a severely lagging indicator.

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Bitcoin is part of the same problem we have with other asset classes like real property.

The biggest challenge for the next decade will be mitigating stagnation.
Keep it running cold most of the time so it can Turbo when you need it.
Yes and this gets into some very difficult questions of population ethics. What is the right amount of people for the world? Is it 7 billion or 70 billion or 700 billion? Or is it 700 million or just 70 million?

Increases in economic output, agricultural and industrial, make it possible for more people to survive. If further and further specialization lead to more and more efficiency with ever growing population, is there a point where we decide things have gotten worse? Or do we slide down the slippery slope into some hellish future dystopia with 700 trillion people, crammed into skyscrapers full of capsule apartments, subsisting on genetically engineered bio-protein sludge and pacified by neuro-electrical stimulation? Not far off from The Matrix.
It correctly identifies my torrent client version and the fact that I have a static IP, but none of the things I know I have downloaded are on the list, and a bunch of stuff I haven't is (EDIT: it correctly identified one torrent).

Edit: Could this be due to me having a static ipv6 range, would my ipv4 address that this is looking at be shared by other people?
Very much agreed!
Guys, this is really really cool. Been looking to learn Rust and it just so happens I need to write a Postgres extension in the near future so two birds and one stone.

Btw - Also, I've seen ZomboDB and while I've not used it I must say it looks EXCELLENT. So congrats on that too.
I did not suggest herd immunity has occurred. You seem to be confusing the idea of herd immunity with the similar idea that any immunity in a population will reduce the transmission rate by some amount.
The rest of New York has been in phase three with indoor dining for a few weeks now.
This is the point that so many people miss.

We’re also 1/3 of the way to WWII deaths in the US.
I was going to mention Python 3.8's audit hooks[1] as a possible way to catch some of these issues, (like web requests, for example) but when I went to Google to find the link, it also came up with an article explaining how to bypass the audit hooks[2]...

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/audit_events.html

[2] https://daddycocoaman.dev/posts/bypassing-python38-audit-hoo...
bitcoin -> ham radio
ethereum -> computer
chainlink -> internet
Obesity, walking pace and risk of severe Covid-19 [pdf]
It's definitely done commercially. It's "niche", in the sense that you'll have to go where the jobs are, but those niches can be huge. Audio, power, and RF electronics all need analog design.
"Brick" homes are common in the US too, but most made after WWII are simply veneers over a structure of a different material. Are you sure that's not the case there? I did an image search for "uk home construction", and all of the instances on the first page also appear to be veneers.

Example:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/615000-new-...
dyscalculia?
The problem with this strategy is that it's been incredibly confusing; I'm getting whiplash from all the back-and-forth. The news reporting has been bad, as well, not clearly distinguishing between statewide and per-county (or for counties on the "watch list", which changes daily).

My friends who are in the service industry have to figure out from day-to-day what they're going to be doing. This is just a giant mess.
Well, most people have never heard of "parallel construction" in the first place, and chances are they mostly have no interest in learning about it.

So combatting willful ignorance would be the first step, but my optimism meter broke a while ago.
We actually tried this. The Go runtime really does not like to be embedded in Python. When Python forks, as for example Celery likes to do, Go deadlocks. Also had serious troubles with provenance, versioning, and compatibility of the C artifacts. Somewhere along the line there were magic hex numbers. It was a nightmare. The project was scrapped in favor of a sidecar.
This is a first world problem too.
This was one of the discussion forums. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23584241
The linked NYT article says that deaths are up 28% over the last two weeks.
Short of a massive coordinated effort to shut down COVID spread and a herculean effort by Congress, I agree with your assessment.

About 20% of renters and homeowners in the USA are worried about evictions/foreclosures in the next 6 months[1] and that number only goes down if the economy makes massive improvements or if Congress stops playing brinksmanship.

[1] https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/july-housing-payments
I'd say that's an extremely crude understanding of what computers can actually model. There are ways that humans stream through thoughts that depend on tacit knowledge and unconscious connections, and there's no reason why those can't be modeled by a computer. And the equilavence betweeen "rational" (in some informal, human sense of the term, as in talking out loud like spock), and "computable" is just a misunderstanding. Computable contains much more than this naiive conception of what is rational.
Interesting question. In theory everyone could drag it into court but most states don't provide much protection from being evicted if you can't pay your rent so such moves are merely delaying actions. The property owning class loves to share horror stories about tenants that took months to get out but renters have remarkably few protections in reality due to an imbalance of money.

Homeowners will probably find a way to catch up before losing their rear but renters could trivially find themselves in very quick perfunctory hearings where they are quickly told to put up or get out. Many with relatives with a spare couch or even a spare floor to sleep on might see the writing on the wall and get out before they are humiliated by being put out. If most evictions are carried out without a trial or hearing of any variety simply with a note on the door the courts will be able to keep up with the few that contest.
My kids did not learned to read nor write just by interacting with world. Nor basic math.

I would have to consciously manipulate them into situations for them to "naturally" learn that. Same for stuff like vocabulary, foreign language, about nature or space. Or anything history. Or general what to do when accident happen that they learn in a school too. Naturally by playing they don't learn any of that unless I consciously set up situations.
Thanks for the link! That's the first time I've seen an analysis like that in terms of the time it takes for a crossover event. It'll take longer to read through their full report. Although, it does exclude the environmental impact of the battery disposal problem, at least in the summary article.

And yea, I'm not looking forward to the self-driving "utopia". I feel it's solving the wrong problems and will create wholly new problems.
Where the legal money use case really shines is in micro transactions. If the amount you want to send is really low it makes a difference if your fee is 30 cents on paypal vs a fraction of a cent with bch, bsv, or ltc. The problem is that it is very hard to monetize apps with micropayments: you need a massive user base because you only earn a fraction of each micropayment. It is hard to convince a massive user base to go through the hassle of obtaining Bitcoin.

I do not want to discourage the use of Bitcoin for that, I think there will be awesome businesses built on micropayments and payments in general. I just want to point out that there is an opportunity to use Bitcoin to make application development faster and cheaper.
> We keep hearing about how this trend will reverse soon, ("two weeks from now"), but that hasn't happened yet.

It hasn't?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/10/coronavirus-deaths-tick-up-i...

You're mixing those states together with New York, for which cases and deaths are strongly positively correlated:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/new-york-coronav...
> there is already an Enemy Property Act, 1968 to more or less support grabbing Chinese investments

No. The Enemy Property Act, 1968 is specifically made for Pakistani Nationals after the 1965 Indo-Pak War. It is not generic. To declare China as an Enemy a proper War should take place between India and China. Is China ready for such a misadventure?
Yes, there's a blip at the end of the chart.

But the headline is clearly that deaths have fallen ~70% even as total (reported) cases has continued to grow exponentially.
> Meanwhile real estate prices are rising fast (in desirable parts of the country)

Mainly just the west coast and that's because their cities are built in valleys with a fixed amount of land, restrictive zoning on said land causing a fixed amount of housing and thus the bidding up housing prices.

For the rest of the country, inflation adjusted price per square foot hasn't really changed [0].

> the stock market has been on an epic bull run. It's obvious that the inflation is in the asset prices.

Inflation adjusted Annualized S&P 500 Returns with Dividends Reinvested for the past 15 years are 6.738% versus 7.690% for the 15 years before that [1]. Albeit, if you just started in 2009, it has been quite epic considering it was the longest bull run in US history.

[0]: https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/

[1]: https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/
What about maize?
My reason: movies and TV shows are a form of storytelling and the execution is often very bad if you care to think about it. Storytelling doesn't need to cost much. Poor storytelling should cost even less. Shows from the 80s were very enjoyable but cost only a fraction of current shows. With current distribution systems, shows should cost even less. And I never asked for a team of 100 CGI artists. I just don't want to contribute to the absurdity of all this.
Personally, the first thing I do is to install vim and remove nano. Problem solved.
I do calls with client teams multiple times per week. Developers, ops, project managers, etc. I would peg the number at 5%. I say 5% because on one recent call with 20 people there was one person using a camera.

Additional of all the people I know - friends, family, parents, children, etc., only one of those people use the camera on their laptop. Some use facetime on their phone. But even for the mac users, it's a complete rarity.
This doesn't sound like I want to go the herd immunity route: https://twitter.com/DaniOliver/status/1279155358666305541
They might well turn to speculators willing to buy out the property even at less than current price. If you own a 250k property and haven't been paid the rent you expect for months 50%-75% on the dollar so you can pay your own expenses might look attractive.
In general, you can always substitute a high-quality, expensive op-amp for a cheap op-amp.

From the perspective of a hobbyist with limited space: you want to minimize the SKUs that you stock in your personal shelves. Buying a higher-end op-amp and spamming it everywhere (even when its specs aren't needed) is far simpler than buying 10x different op-amps at the $0.50, $1, $1.50, $2, $3, $4, and $5 price points.

Just keep a supply of higher-quality $5 rail-to-rail low-bias op-amps at the voltage-level (3.3V for most Arduino projects).

Yeah, there's probably a $0.50 op-amp that does the job. But do you really want to keep another SKU on your shelf and keep track of it? There's simplicity in just buying over-specced parts for personal hobby projects.

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Well... maybe keep a stock of the $0.50 stuff too (EDIT: Ah right, LMV358. That's the cheap part I keep around). But I think you get my gist. Personal-supply closet management is certainly a problem for the personal hobbyist.
The article keeps repeating the mantra that the quakes, or at least quakes in this model, add to the stress already there. That runs opposite to my (admittedly lacking) understanding of geologic forces. Wouldn't quakes indicate a reduction in stress has occurred, or would it be dependent on the "type" of the cause, i.e. a separation or a compression?
It's a well known problem that many languages (Python, Ruby, Node) have notoriously insecure trust chains in their dependency management frameworks. If more malware is hitting the Python ecosystem, I think it's just a matter of time until someone manages to publish a tainted version of `requests` or some similarly popular Python lib.

I know for a fact a lot of cybersecurity automation mind share is in Python. Curious to see if this new wave of Python malware will make it into any big cybersecurity vendors. I've performed due diligence on a number of cybersecurity vendors that I wouldn't qualify as having good security posture for stuff like this.
Agreed. I am not saying that rust is best for everything. I think, that languages are just tools, and you should use the best tool for the job, there should not be fanboyism in this. The bigger your toolbox the better.

I just don't agree with statements about memory safety and speed. The thing is much more complex. I think simply stating "Use the best tool for the job" is much better than showing bad examples.

Because everybody needs memory safety and wants speed. Nobody wants to write unsafe slow programs (Well, I HOPE). Nobody wants to drops either of those requirements. When you drop those requirements, it's because of tradeoffs (I think memory safety shouldn't ever be dropped, yes use GC lang if you want to, but in 2020 memory safety should be a very hard requirement)
There is nothing inherently wrong with parallel construction, it just means concealing a source. It seems like you have probably leant the term in the context of illegally obtained information, but that is orthogonal to concealing a source.

Parallel construction is a completely normal and legitimate process. People who use it like a spooky term akin to "enhanced interrogation" or "extraordinary rendition" are just loudly signalling they have little firsthand knowledge of law enforcement.
Our undestanding of psychology is not all that great.

But what we know is that kids are social emotional animals. The relationship with teacher and other kids matter a lot. Interactions matter a lot. Own activity matter a lot.

There are fun and engaging lessons to watch, if you know where to look. The above is missing.
> My Illich-worship hit a bump when talking to an Aussie English Phd who was much cleverer than me. After my first sentence she said "the problem with people who like Ivan Illich is they just want to talk about Illich". Touche

Because he was basically right, and not that many people are right (Rousseau was another one, Hobbes and Machiavelli too) so it's worth talking about those who are. Of course most of what he's saying is not "workable", but we tend to forget that the not being "workable" part is specific to a technological society like ours and thus maybe the "technological society" part is the problem itself.

Yes, if you want to keep nuclear power plants running you need a technocracy [1] that you need to have educated before the fact, but maybe we've been looking at all this the wrong way all the time and we don't actually need nuclear power plants and we don't need super-sonic flights.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fibDNwF8bjs
To me it would be extremely rare that the identification of a problem is unique. A particular solution? Sure.

On the other hand, lots of people are solving problems which are not real.

I agree that finding a unique problem is possible, but it is more probable that you are missing something.
CPU is poor analogy. Don't make it.