skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Redistribution is about giving everyone a stake in upholding a free society for everyone else. That's what actually makes for "freedom, as much as possible". The point is that we're doing it in almost the worst possible way; putting a lot of undue and costly burden on those who work, while not doing all that much for those whom we might want to benefit. UBI or NIT would be a vast improvement on what most developed countries (including the U.S.) are doing now.
I'm not sure what that means, but I can discuss the issue with LTO. LTO means that the normal compile step turns the source into an intermediate form. The final compilation doesn't happen until link time. The problem is this intermediate form which is a compiler (even compiler version) -specific internal format. GCC and LLVM use different formats so you cannot mix the two compilers on the same LTO program. I'm not certain but it might be possible to use ld -r to obtain a real compiled object from each toolchain and then link those together at the end, but of course that loses some benefits of LTO, especially cross-module inlining.
When the alternative is aggrieved mobs come and burn down your house / loot your shop while forcibly redistributing your wealth pennies on the dollar, a libertarian learns to make sacrifices.
Many people think the sonic boom happens when one breaks the sound barrier. It happens continuously once past the speed of sound. Back to the OP's question, once could simply only fly transonic over oceans
The intuition isn't clear to me either, but the calculus is fairly simple. At the minimum, the derivative of the aggregate discrepancy is zero:

0 = d/ds sum (x_i - s)^2 = -2 sum(x_i - s) = -2 [(sum x_i) - n * s]

Thus

n*s = sum x_i

so

s = sum x_i / n
I'm not saying it's a legal requirement, I'm saying it's likely a smart tacit compromise.

On one hand - even after end to end encryption, we continue to see WhatsApp messages quoted in prosecution including in SEC actions and prosecutors are clearly getting access to messages even pre-arrest. The ability of prosecutors to compell unlocking after arrest in US is questionable. So how are they getting access to the messages if there's truly end to end encryption? Also there are any number of Governments in the important non-US markets that would simply ban WhatsApp if they didn't have access against a warrant (eg. See BlackBerry cases from some years ago)

On the other hand, no security researcher seems to have found or at least reported a back door in the WhatsApp apps that supports MITM undetectable to physical key verification which is the obvious weakness in an end to end encryption system based on centralised key repository system.

On the gripping hand, all high profile cases trying to compell tech companies to provide evidence have been against Apple. I've not heard of one against WhatsApp.

Ergo - the most like scenario is that this feature is deliberately built keeping messages un-encrypted so that when law enforcement shows up with a warrant or a muzzled warrant, they can just hand over the archive without weakening their app. People are convinced to opt in because it's the only way to change devices while keeping your messages. To give people comfort that unencrypted messages ate safe, it is sold as as "it's in your own Google drive"
Because a physical lid is ugly and inelegant.
Pretty sure you've got it backwards there.

Surface transmission is what's supposed to be 'while possible, it's not too likely', and respiratory droplets are supposed to be the main way it spreads (with recently 239 scientists begging WHO to acknowledge it can be spread through the air also, not just the larger droplets, which fall to the ground a lot faster).

Here's what CDC says: "The primary and most important mode of transmission for COVID-19 is through close contact from person-to-person. Based on data from lab studies on COVID-19 and what we know about similar respiratory diseases, it may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this isn’t thought to be the main way the virus spreads."

https://time.com/5863220/airborne-coronavirus-transmission/
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0522-cdc-updates-co...
I have used a bit of rust and c. I found rust significantly easier since the std lib contains a whole lot more useful stuff. And C is starting to get a bad rep like php and cobal have. The next generation of programmers probably won't bother with it and seek jobs using newer and better languages.
My kids go to a microschool in Washington DC. They are developing a full curriculum with the idea that you learn from the resources around you (specific to your town city). They have developed an APP with weekly menus for the kids. During COVID thay crushed it, kids 4 ids learned more in three months than they have in a year. great for travel too www.mysaschool.org
<rant>

> blacklist/whitelist

Thanks for bringing race into something that has absolutely nothing to do with it.

As a person of color I also don't see how this is "inclusive" at all, like yeah, the only reason I don't commit to the Linux kernel is because of the presence of words such as master/slave...

Maybe I'm wrong but why do we have to shame everyone into changing things when there isn't proof that those things were actually harmful to minorities.

But oh well, I guess we'll call this a win and continue to ignore the root of the problem.

</rant>
Ha. Using Foundation, Swift and SwiftUI I can write an app that doesn't require a trip to GitHub or Node.js in order to work properly. I can prototype my UI right there in Xcode, and if there's something I need that hasn't made it into SwiftUI yet I can bring in things from UIKit without very much effort. Best of all, I can build for macOS as well as iOS from the same codebase now. It's really hard to get more developer-friendly than that, unless you mean "web-developer-who-doesn't-want-to-learn-iOS-friendly".
French parliament passes porn age-verification legislation
I sell cheaper things (<£200) on eBay for whatever I get in the auction, even if I only make enough to cover the postage.

More expensive things I try to find friends and family willing to give me something for them. eBay scammers for macs and iPads are a nightmare as it’s easy for them to win an auction and then disappear when they see you’re not gonna get screwed over. Then you have to start all over again.

I see it more as reuse than selling. The money I make from selling covers the effort of selling it and is a reward for keeping the junk from piling up.
r/stocks might be a better place to ask (or search for a similar post).
> putting a lot of undue and costly burden on those who work, while not doing all that much for those whom we might want to benefit

I suppose "all that much" is the key term. Is European style redistribution (aka a nice flat, utilities, TV and smartphone, clothing, health insurance, food and cash money to spend on whatever you please) not all that much?

It's not like we're wasting 90% of taxes on administrative overhead, so I'm not sure what could be improved there, without adding more "undue and costly burden" on those who work, unless you're suggesting taxing e.g. capital gains rather than income.
perhaps they are wealthy but they expect the much-more-taxable middle class to pick up the tab.

Which is in fact the most likely outcome.
German physicist Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle states that the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be predicted from initial conditions, and vice versa.
(Edited Definition from wiki)

I want to posit that secrecy and security have the same relationship as the uncertainty principle ascribes to electrons.
The law that applies/ought to apply is the one against fraud in the beef example.
> That is, of course, the model that Nordic social democracies have followed for many years now.

Not really. We still believe in market regulation like any sane approach to market does. Well functioning markets are made, they don't just emerge if you remove regulation (except when conditions are just right by accident). Liberaltarian approach is ideological approach to markets that ignores all research into markets.
The UK and Republic of Ireland.
It's worth noting that if you go with a less known TLD, some websites will not recognize your email as valid. I use .world and have had to use my Gmail as backup for signing up for things.
Total tax wedge (which includes taxes paid by the employer) for an average Swedish citizen without children is ~43%. For one with children it is lower.

Total taxes paid by the employee for an average Swede is closer to 25%.

The highest marginal rate for someone on an average salary in Sweden is around 48% for the total tax wedge, but someone on the average is not paying that marginal rate.

For the same categories the total tax wedge for the US is 24%, and the total tax ~18% (for comparison the marginal rate for an average earner in the US in the same category is 40.8%)

Source: OECD Taxing Wages 2020
What is the new name for the dark web?
Avoid the .ai TLD since it does not support DNSSEC http://stats.research.icann.org/dns/tld_report/ . Even if you don't care about DNSSEC, your clients will and it will come up in security reviews.
meanwhile, Stefany Allaire put an end to the C256 Foenix project :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv9KELroAeo
Historically, there are a lot of cases were this turned out to be a huge problem. A lot of the German system, voting and otherwise, is influenced by the Nazi regime and it rise to power.

That's why we have things like the 5% margin for parties to get seats in parliament. During the Weimar republic, one of the reasons why it was close to impossible to form stable coalitions was the high number of parties with seats. And the list goes on.
Great job folks, you did it, you solved 1000s of years of racism.
Surely not a single POC will be killed by a cop with these changes.

Such ineffectual liberalism. So much effort that fixes nothing.
ebay is the easiest but if the item is going for less than £10 don’t bother.

Freecycle is also good as are forums like: https://forums.servethehome.com/

If you have a LOT of gear - ie. rooms full of the stuff as I found in a hoarder family home I had to clear recently you can pay £200 to have a professional IT recycling company to take it all and wipe all the disks on your behalf. They provided certificates for all wiped hard drives and recycled items.
CVAA: US legislation affecting communications functionality in games
Get a Radioddity GD-77 and an MMDVM hotspot and install https://github.com/rogerclarkmelbourne/OpenGD77

Should keep you busy and learning!
I paid $99 for my SNES (with one controller) and $69 for SF2
News like this is why I don't support services that don't allow downloading a non-DRM copy of the data I would purchase. No Kindle, no Spotify, no Netflix.
It's even more different: Vine videos were only 7 seconds long
The Asymptotic Complexity of Sorting
thanks for your nice comment syspec
Note: This thread was removed from the front page of HN, presumably by the mods. I guess this topic is too spicy for them to handle.

Great, now everyone can pat themselves on the back and relax now we've fully embraced cancel culture and find instances of these very naughty words to be outraged about.

Oh, and I find subordinate offensive, just because.

Congratulations to the Linux kernel for fixing a systemic issue by changing some words, now we can pretend the issue doesn't exist at all! :-)

Maybe we should just replace Linus Torvalds whilst we're at it with someone black, just like they did over at Reddit, which clearly fixed all the problems when a white man retired in protest.

(How can I flag my own post before anyone else does? By tomorrow I'm expecting to come back and see this text replaced with [flagged] as you can't post anything controversial anymore. I see as of this edit I'm on 12 points, that'll be -10 I am sure when the dust settles. Feel free to cancel me and my account if you want HN crowd, I'll just make another).
Array testing is an improvement over Dorfman, but this has been widely known for decades. Blood banks regularly use high dimensional arrays for testing. Here they test the hypercube planes in serial instead of parallel, but this increases latency and decreases sensitivity.
I wonder where does that leave derivate words like greylisting (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting).
BlackBerry Work (for iOS and Android) can work with solely the clipboard inside the app
Well it just needs to hold it until it's inactive, right? The virus doesn't seem to stay active on surfaces more than about 3 days at room temperature, so it just needs to hold it for that long.

That's something I never really got about mask reuse either. People kept saying these masks aren't reusable unless they use UV light treatment or something, and it just seemed like if it's considered safe to touch mail after letting it sit in the garage for a few days after getting it, then shouldn't you just have to let masks sit for a few days for them to be usable again (hell, wait two weeks, even).

I'm sure there's good reasons for it, just haven't seen it. I imagine some masks are considered one time use because they degrade enough after that use that they might not protect as well, but then why are people trying so hard to find methods to make them reusable that seem to mainly just involve disinfecting them?
People joked after the Florida disaster, when George W. Bush was elected, that maybe the US needs international election observers. You know, like developing countries.

Not sure if that's still a joke now.
If “some kind of natural disaster might happen” is your only argument, then you’re basically being a prepper.
Really nice writeup. Love seeing the speed/mem tradeoff so explicitly.
The Sylphyo – Electronic wind instrument
> In the UK, beer is measured using pints but its alcohol by volume is measured in SI.

Small nitpick here: unless I am mistaken, ABV is dimensionless, it's simply a ratio volume of pure alcohol per unit volume.
>The mutability comes into play when you want to serve the content.

True, good point.

>That partial sync is pretty much Dropbox's technical advantage right now

I think OneDrive can do that as well now.
I see the vote so far is unanimous on iPad - any folks have opinions of the Surface lineup as well vs the iPad?
What does colocation mean in this context? Did you buy the servers and AWS hosted on their premises?
Temporal Database
Equivalently those people on average salaries will tend to think one shouldn't pervert justice to cater for people like us on well above average incomes.
Is it possible to get verification and not have coercion?

I was thinking that the verification would show you a list (with per vote random letters)

Jones : D

Vivek : J

McAlan : C

LaRousse : Q

and you'd remember the letter next to your candidate. You could just lie to a coercer, "I voted Q" and actually have voted D, say.

Not sure how you get from there to a confirmed vote though. It seems to require someone at some point to hold a key that can de-anonymise one's vote.

That said de-anonymising votes in UK elections seems pretty easy, ballot papers have codes on; name and address is checked prior to vote.
I hope you will do that. Please put it on solar :-) and blog.

We ran the web on pentiums, a Pi - especially the 4 - should be able to do this without problems.
Literally no other online service (or their security engineers) have arrived at this conclusion. Changing password has always required knowledge of the password, and disabling 2fa has always required a 2fa check precisely to defeat token attacks.
I spent my teenage years copying pictures of Street Fighter II characters from C&VG magazine, I loved the art and music. However I was terrible at the game. I didn't truly enjoy a fighting game until Tekken.

I miss arcades, although I only got to visit them once a year when we went on our family holiday. Can you imagine waiting a whole year to play Outrun, Rygar or Smash TV? Arcade games were so superior to their home conversions that to an obsessive gamer like me, it was like going on a pilgrimage to see a painting that you'd previously only seen in a photocopied reproduction.

My finest gaming moments were playing Golden Axe and Michael Jackson's Moonwalker with a whole crowd of people watching.
“Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune
Can you share some examples of what you believe to be toxic or exclusive behaviour? Personally (as a young bloke) I find IT to be extremely inclusive for those who want to learn, there's so much freely available information and material on the internet it's literally unbelievable. That's how a lot of us young blokes got into this space, and I don't see why minorities would be less likely to go down that path as well (although empirically minorities and women obviously are less likely to do so because they are massively underrepresented).
Says who? You are subjectively observing yourself and reality from the inside. How can you be so sure?

There is no proof, or we would not be having this discussion over and over again.
We still study the number of comparisons for sorting in introductory CS, although other factors like locality of reference may be more important in practice. Common topics are the log_2(n!) comparison-tree lower bound and the nearly-matching log_2(n!)+O(n) merge sort upper bound. Better sorts were known but still with an O(n) error term. Now Sergeev has reduced the error term to o(n).
My hope is that stories like this help to educate non technical users about what a clipboard is and does. That in turn might result in improved clipboard privacy.
Yes, when I work in python, I do that too. It certainly works ok.

The place I would start from a critique perspective is around lifecycle. Python has encouraged carelessness and overwork at module load and init time, and there aren't common protocols (that I have seen) that involve standing up a graph of objects across an application after a single module reload. So when you reload a single module and the names in the module now point to different data and code elements, all the downstream dependencies on those names have to change as well, and Python doesn't have patterns for organizing and managing at that level.

This also impacts runtime introspection, which is a key benefit of a repl oriented language. One implication is that there is not at all a pattern of "repling into" a running python application to poke around and see what is going on. To most python programmers this is a foreign concept.

Related others involve code style, and implicit vs explicit ways of referring to and moving data around, which also impacts runtime whole system introspection.

Python has all the pieces to have a very nice repl-first programming model, but lacks patterns for key parts of that- explicitly standing up the graph of live objects, and using a repl to interact with a live system with live objects.

Hope that makes sense.
It does sound horribly risky. I suppose in theory you could mandate basic levels of insurance, a bit like mandatory car insurance, but you'd probably end up with a costly, patchy mess like the US health system.
> it was only Berners-Lee’s corner-cutting impatience that recast it as a read-only platform with its editing keys jealously kept by a new high priesthood of “Web Developers”

Not accurate; this comes off as very Nelsonian. WorldWideWeb on NeXT had read-writability baked in from the beginning (same with all the the W3C's reference implementations, from Arena to Amaya). Andreessen is the one to blame for the Web being effectively read-only. His investment in RapGenius was his penitence. The mainstream browser makers are all carrying on the Netscape tradition.

> Markdown? Please. WYSIWYG exists for a reason.

They're not fundamentally opposed. Believing they are is a failure in your assumptions. ProseMirror.net.
Thanks this is a great way to extend and generalise OP's post. Thanks for sharing. I don't think I would have been able to understand the wikipedia argument without the more intuitive explanation in the original post.

As an aside, I wonder if math is sometimes difficult to understand/explain because the language is so constrained. Obviously, careful use of words is important for translating mathematical definitions verbatim, but I think a more relaxed approach to word translations of math equations would be beneficial to everyone below second year math/statistics at university. Even if they are left with a technically incomplete/incorrect definition or intuition for a given concept.
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> Handing that inefficiency off to someone else doesn’t do well for our overall carbon footprint.

Instead, they will go ahead and buy a new item for themselves. Its increased efficiency is unlikely to make up for the cost of manufacturing an entire new item from scratch, carbon-wise.
I wonder if/when GCC will have a Rust frontend

There seems to be some discussions but not sure if it's a goal
European-style redistribution is extremely costly for what it achieves. It means that the government has to take or transfer a sizeable fraction of GDP via taxation, while also burdening the economy as a whole with excess regulation (e.g. the firm size regulations that were mentioned elsewhere in the comments, and many others). It would be very surprising if there was no way of achieving comparable results with less burden on others.
That's why you count locally and centrally. And you keep paper records for the counts at each level. And the ballot boxes.

With observers from all parties being allowed to witness the counting.

Again, paper ballots and mail ballots are solved problem in almost every western democracy. Multitudes of solutions out there. Just pick one.

Not having anonymous votes is the first step into totalitarianism, if you ask me.
Dont you worry, at some point google will switch to re-encoding every session in real time with hardcoded ads. Even today they dont care about cache-ability and their official player keeps refetching same data every time you decide to rewind more than 5 minutes, +video stream TTL is set to something like 60 minutes last time I checked. Btw Chrome will happily write that data (twice) as cache on your SSD, to never be used by anything ever again!
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While India is a leader (currently #2 behind China) in units of smartphones sold, their value is only ~20 billion of the ~500 billion USD smartphone market. I don't see extra sales in the superpremium tier being a strong motivator. In India, iPhones are luxury goods, where the higher price makes them more attractive. The sort of person who can afford ~8x average monthly earnings for a phone can also afford a ~6x multiplier. (That's why iPhones are popular in movies for villains and corrupt politicians.)