skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Can you post a link to an overview of these positive local effects?

To be clear what I mean by "local" in this case, is "within a sub-economy" not necessarily local geographically.

There are a few examples already in this thread, but I'll add a few of my own:

1. Workers in the US often send money back to families in third-world countries. Doing this with BTC is less expensive and faster than with wire transfers.

2. Transacting in Bitcoin has made the illegal drug trade safer, which primarily benefits the poor. Less violence, higher quality products, less risk of being caught.

> 2. Are there enough of these local effects to counter-weigh the global negative effects?

> AFAICT the answer to (2.) is negative, but I suppose I could be mistaken, since I don't follow BitCoin use closely.

I tend to agree with you here.
Bellingcat Guide to Using Reverse Image Search for Investigations
Radiation can turn boring old HDPE (milk jug plastic) into amazingly strong PEX. A case where ionizing radiation actually provides super powers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linked_polyethylene
If you want chrome and facebook you go to an american shopping building and get a chromebook or a rebranded mass-produced bottom-shelf el cheapo laptop with whatever it has preinstalled. Heck, normal users don't see a device in terms of hardware and software, it's just "the flip-open-thing that gets me cat pictures".
Anyone remember the 90s-era Windows rants about how it was simply objectively better at <x>, as demonstrated by a lack of competition?

Good times.
The author did a good job and hit the spirit of the times in the former state. The Spectrum and C-64 raised hundreds of IT pioneers in the 1980s. It all always started with pirated tapes but most after a year or two switched to writing code and trying to create their own software. Good times with the exception of politics.
There was a great concentration of brainpower and capital from the industrial revolution, from the age of sail, and from the victorian era.

That hasn't lead to the UK being a leader in railway construction or shipbuilding - despite the vested interests.
thank you for sharing! The core of memory management is abstracted away. All of the query execution logic is unaware of the source of memory pointer. That said we are still learning and really appreciate your feedback. There are some places where we could not beat aggregation of julia, but the delta wasn't very big. This could have been down to mapped memory. We will definitely try things with direct memory too!
I think there is a word for this: duality
Definitely, yes, and you do need to be careful about those outputs. Still, the sandboxing guarantee here is very useful!

This isn't theoretical, Firefox does this approach in production (using RLBox, which is mentioned in the post),

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/securing-firefox-with-weba...
I think the meme is to apply the yiddishification only to the first word.
The first and only Otto I think of when I hear the word is Otto Von Bismarck.
That's awkward because parsing ASTs can't usually be done with a regular language (for most programming languages), so a language-specific parser would be needed on top anyway.

This stuff is useful, though, and easy to do in lisps and schemes.
This might be helpful: https://www.quora.com/Why-should-I-use-DuckDuckGo-instead-of...
> I’m not a consumer, these tricks don’t work on me.

So you're typing this comment from your yurt using a borrowed computer or something?
Depends if it's fixed-rate
I love amazon for the ability to buy unbranded cheap clothes. Tshirt costs me 10 bucks, and they are better quality than anything I find in a brick and mortar store for double that price. All I wear is plain tshirts so they are great. Same with the basketball style shorts I wear sitting around the house all day (I work remotely) I still buy branded jeans though, but 1 pair of jeans for $100 lasts me 5 years. I will probably try an amazon pair of jeans one of these days.
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I don't like the comparison though. If you build stuff the cement mix you'd been using for 10 years isn't suddenly changed.

I'm not trying to imply that writing software is harder, but it's a lot more finicky and shifting. Also you're the architect, the bricklayer and the person taking out the trash - all by yourself and usually getting alotted time for a 1/3 of it.

I'm actually often surprised software works at all..
We've already been over that. There is no security system which exists which has a zero percent chance of failure.

It's clear you're more interested in winning an argument here than in discussing real-world security, so I won't be responding further.
Including cash.
Thanks Jerome!
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Would you think it's a big deal if the cops pulled you over, and arrested you for grand theft, took you into booking, finger-printed you, took your picture, etc, then tossed you into a jail cell for a few days because it was a weekend and no judge was available, so you couldn't post bail?

Even after you go through the rigamarole of proving your innocence, you still have to live with having been roughed up by the police, having your mug shoot plastered all over the internet, and having experienced county jail first hand.

And that assumes that you're not charged with something else that happened during the course of the arrest.

The problem is that these systems are deployed in communities such that they implicitly target black people, yet plenty of research shows that they aren't even remotely effective at identifying black people, at all. And the criminal justice system doesn't care.
Even McDonald's and other fast food is extremely expensive compared to the cost of other goods in society. I would love a deep-dive on why eating out is so expensive in the US.

My point of reference is traveling through Germany recently and realizing that I could have a sit-down meal in an amazing cafe in Munich for less than a meal at Panera (which is like McDonald's for sandwiches except they charge more because they use more wood in the decor and more words in the food descriptions). And the waiter in Germany doesn't suggest a 25% tip, unlike the self-serve computer terminals at Panera.
Interesting! Congrats on the launch.

Would you mind comparing it to Google's CEL?
https://opensource.google/projects/cel
The future is certainly Google as a frontpage for basically everything, from search to maps to shopping to whatever is thing still independent from Google today. That's inevitable if Google is allowed to continue like that. Google needs to be broken up.
Hong Kong property tycoon pitches new city idea to Ireland
When it comes to picking things you are spending your free time on, movies, dining out, video games, books, etc. you are more likely to immediately not even consider stuff you strongly dislike. Its really frustrating to see things in lists you wouldn't even consider. You lose any hope in that system being able to help you find something to escape reality for a while.

What is needed is a movie pick service and that starts with asking what genres you hate. Then get into specific movies you hate to further refine the list of things I don't want to see but at the same time clarifying questions to narrow down the like/dislikes because there are movies that combine elements from different genres. For example, The Joker could be considered in the #superhero, #sad, #mind-fuck categories and if you like #superhero movies but strongly dislike #sad and #mind-fuck then those should be weighted higher and the system shouldn't show The Joker on any personal lists.

The service should have an unfiltered search so people can just find stuff too.
Isn't the average monthly payment in germany over $800?
Well Microsoft did supply the facial recognition tech to keep order in these camps. [1]

They seem totalitarian enough to suck up all that telemetry, what makes us think they wouldn't be totalitarian enough to sanction its use against us?

So you know the BBC has spent the last two months race baiting. They were once a most treasured institution of my nation now they've lost respect and their future is in jeopardy - you only have to view the hash #DefundTheBBC to see how they're actions have sullied them.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-china-muslim-crack...
I hope they then give up that utterly useless and confusing branding style ;)
The Treachery of Image Files
Same here. My REI Hobitat and Kingdom tents are 10 years into being the last tents I buy. High enough quality to break the 3-4 year replacement cycle of everything else I tried.
I mainly use DDG, but when I look at a google page, it is just gross. We've gone well beyond contempt for the consumer, deep in to plain-old tacky.
I also use Windows for music production. I built a Ryzen PC for around $1500 which is more powerful than the $6000 base Mac Pro. Thank god I left Logic years ago.
Initially I suspected that the most likely reason was that the _Deutsche Physik_ babble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik) somehow had got out of hand, but evidently that wasn’t it.
Still in active development - last release was just under a month ago! There's a mobile version now, too.
The prevailing ethic promoted by culture seems to be against acting as a "Karen." In childhood there are admonitions against being a "tattle-tale." There are popular alliterations like "Snitches get stitches."

Let's say if in the case of Mr. Floyd another one of the officers had said, "get off him, this submission hold is not in line with department policy" and the officer got off Mr. Floyd and Mr. Floyd had not died. What then? One might realistically imagine that the above negative concepts would be applied to the officer who said something. Maybe by hearing those words Mr. Floyd could pursue a complaint against the officer.

There are probably lots of reasons why an officer and probably most people in that situation would feel pressure to avoid speaking out in that moment.
Thanks for the advice. I'm far from being a good guitarist but I've been playing for over 15 years now so thankfully I've managed to learn a thing or two about at least the minor improvements that can change a lot of things, so I've adjusted the action myself as well as any problematic fret (thankfully there weren't too many - it's easy to overdo any adjustment when it compounds..)

In the case of this guitar though, it was really the cheapest thing out there because I am on a budget (and a really tight one), so any real work done on it would cost more than a few times the guitar itself and more than I can afford to dedicate to it. My actual guitars are an ocean away for the time being, but I'll still get them back eventually. In the meantime I have a nice decorative thingy I can pick up sometimes, and I try to remind myself that now that I'm "more experienced" I should take this as a challenge rather than an excuse.
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If you think political takeover is so easy, then certainly the entire structure of the republic should be blamed. Why do we blame corporate lobbying and not the electoral college or bicameral legislature? At the minimum, it seems much more important to fix the latter than the former.
I've been using GitHub for code review (both open-source and commercial projects) for about 5 years. It's improved a little bit, but for PRs with >100 files changed it's obviously lacking good UX.

For me, the biggest improvement would be the tree-view you get in Fisheye/Crucible. It's so hard to get a grasp on large refactoring PRs on GitHub.
...an activity that takes up 1/3 of your time.

Averaged over the year standard work hours in my country, 37.5h/week, is less than 1/5 of your time.
This conflates different problems. Notwithstanding how meaningful work is, we'd benefit from reduced hours and more leisure time.
A Golang boilerplate with back end API, front end, tests and CI/CD
The first one that I tried also failed for the same reason, FWIW. Cool tool! :)
>> no longer a need for meetings of the suffragette movement

Suffrage is clearly defined, "fair participation has been reached among equally skilled and trained participants" is extremely fuzzy.

Given blank slatism and any difference in outcome, there's an infinite retreat using a "God of the gaps" argument saying any difference must be due to systematic racism.

Even with blank slates it'll never work. If innate ability was equally distributed, but preference is given to a group in university entry, or job opportunities, then that group will have lower innate ability for a level of training or job position. The non-preferenced group would then do better on average!

>> Nobody is punished for anything

In a zero sum game (like competing for a job) giving some an advantage is the same as giving others a disadvantage.

You are suggesting giving someone a penalty, not for something they have done, but because of what group they belong to.

>> privileged white male

Are all advantages unearned privilege?

I chose my mate carefully, worked hard, spent less than I earn and spend time educating my kids. If I give them an advantage in life, should they be handicapped back down to average?

I'm a piece of replicating DNA, and I work hard, delaying gratification so my DNA does well in the future. Society is an artifact built on top of this reality.

Similarly, my ancestors sacrificed for me. They picked mates with care, followed laws, built societies... They both built a society for themselves, and were shaped by that society. All that work to make me do well, and you want to make us all equal? Why bother working hard or sacrificing for the future?

>> members of the group ... resist giving up that advantage

You admit above it can "create temporary local unfairness".

Then you wonder why people resist it! Especially when they disagree that it's temporary!
And Samuel L Jackson.
I have a pair of Oakley Juliets that must be on their fifth set of lenses - as far as I can tell the frames are effectively indestructible (and I've put that to the test with the aid of dinghy booms quite a few times).

They were quite expensive, but have turned out to be pretty good value 15+ years later.
CES is going online-only in 2021
The fact that people don't feel free to enjoy leisure activities when their future is uncertain.
Yes, every once in a while there is a product that does not need advertising or aggressive marketing, where it's value is immediately and plainly obvious to everyone watching.

Buying one of these things does not enter you into the consumer-product-churn-rat-race.
Under the hood webpack: core library behind the event-driven architecture
Google Wavenet is a Scam, You will be surprised what Synthesys has done
Stories like these help a product to get traction. Every founder/creator must come up with a story related to the product.

Congrats!
How to watch the tech CEOs' collision with Congress – POLITICO
Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago
I started digging under the hood of webpack. Please check out my first findings about how event-driven architecture is build: yeah, webpack architecture is heavily based on events, each plugin is basically a set of event listeners called during compilation. See how webpack uses `tapable` library and learn some code insights in this interactive article on my blog.
This article claims that they are able to isolate live virus from stool, which seems to contradict the observations here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2196-x
Keep in mind that $700 a month private personal health insurance isn't going to cover any of your week to week/month to month expenses. You'll end up with a $10k deductible or higher
> Beginner runners/bikers/skateboarders/whatever will not really feel the difference between equipment that cost $100 and $1,000, so get the cheap one and use it to (its) death.

Back when I used to go to mountain bike races, I noticed that you could roughly divide the people who rode $6000 bikes into two groups: Novices, who had no need for such a bike, and professionals, who get all their equipment from sponsors.

The take away for me was that it never actually makes any practical sense to buy high-end equipment for myself.

(Granted, I'm not self-employed.)
Another way to look at it is that many people who were previously ignorant regarding most things we know about viruses are learning quickly and because they are novel to them, they find them sensationable.
> I hope Rite Aid and the companies providing these solutions get the shit sued out of them for racial discrimination.

Technical limitations != racism

If tomorrow we cured cancer for all women would you try to stop it from coming to fruition because it’s ‘sexist’?

That would be ridiculous. I’m not saying I disagree with the sentiment, I’d prefer we not live in such a surveiled society but using racism as a prop in this situation is is just stupid and it does not follow.
It's not spelled out clearly, but I'm understanding that the main rationale here is to:

- have an Ubuntu dev environment,
- while benefiting from Win's RDP
- AND also having access to native Windows for testing.

Because Clojure runs perfectly well on regular Windows, it's not like WSL is required. So otherwise the author would have to have a separate Windows install just for testing.
Most interesting bit for me was to hear

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Most of our sites use the following as a base:

Nginx

PHP

MySQL

Memcached and/or Redis
Well, you don't win the point. But the bigger question is, why would anyone want to talk to someone who just wants to win the conversation?
Global Hydroxychloroquine Studies
Yale Professor of Epidemiology claims HCQ "key to defeating COVID-19"
That is an exceptional name. If you still want to build it, we have a real-time API. Love supporting apps :) (Density cofounder here)
Passed by some of the finest Congressmen money can buy.
FWIW I did an accounting elective at college and ran the books for a small business for a couple of years. I'm comfortable with the conventions :-) I was just saying OP was choosing to encode the conventions differently internally and display them a different way to meet the external convention, like GMT+TZ. You need never known your computer stores time in GMT and most people don't, even the accountants.
Damn, thanks for this. Absolutely genious.
Makes sense, that's what I also guessed.
When you cry, “racial discrimination”—“these systems don’t work on black people”, you have implicitly accepted that these systems would be fine if only they worked on black people as well as they work on white people.

It’s the sucker half of the dialect.

And you are a sucker.
Their newer firearms are nothing to write home about. But my Remington 1100 20 gauge from the 70s is my favorite firearm I own.
With large community support and coperate backing, I think Next is well setup for the long term (5-10 years). I can't think of any direct downsides, however Next does "force" you in a way of writing application, which I personally think is a good thing, since it provides standardization and structure to projects (for example, routing).

Next can still be very flexible, with things like catch-all routes, you could even add another router on top of Next. It also supports customizing the Webpack configuration if needed, but there's plugins for almost all cases that I have needed to use (PWA/service worker, CSS/Sass which is now built-in, etc).

I think Next is one of the safer option for new projects.
Why shouldn't a teacher have a high pension? I can't think of a job that's more important to the long-term viability of a country than that of a teacher.
Shotguns being the exception, the 870 and other models are popular and reliable shotguns that many of my gun-owning friends have in their collection, as do I (two of them).

And, I agree with your comment on the ammo. Have gone through many green and yellow boxes of Remington ammo. Good stuff.
Is there a good self-hosted open source platform for this? I’m new to all this, even though I’ve been computing since I was in grade school. Coding is a new discipline for me, and it’s hard to know the territory without a guide. I’ve seen you around and would trust a recommendation from you.
I think you misinterpreted the quote. You counter by saying people have 4 hours of time to spend watching TV.

But the quote never mentioned insufficient time, only insufficient energy.

> This results from the fact that their active energies are fully taken up with work;

This lack of energy makes people passively consume, e.g. listen to the radio (as the quote mentions), or watch TV (as you mention). Rather it's the notion that people's energy's are so drained from (often seemingly meaningless) work, that they have no desire to do anything but just consume idly. I don't know if that's true or not, but I personally do feel it is. When I'm doing 40-60 hour workweeks, I've got no desire to do anything that isn't largely passive. Whereas when I worked 20 hours at most, I was always busy teaching myself something or building something.
I pay $800/month on top of what my employer covers for our health insurance. And it's still worse insurance than what most of my friends and family have. If you work for a small company or are trying to buy off the marketplace, health insurance is insanely expensive.
Thank you, I agree! My focus is mainly on the parts downstream from all of this, once counts & count deltas can be uploaded to the cloud. When I joined, the focus on advanced hardware, anonymity/privacy, and edge-computing all struck me as very forward-thinking, and it's been really cool to see the product mature and find its market in the past couple of years.
tin foil hat

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the anti-mask campaigns were started by parties that have vested interests in facial tracking (I don't have any evidence to support this assumption).
Most of the time Jenny's phone number works xxx-867-5309. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny. Someone already registered it.
> That's the thing I don't get and that is the most upsetting thing to me about this situation: why aren't police officers speaking out more against each other?

There's a word for this: solidarity.

This is what it looks like from the outside.
Surely it wouldnt be hard to get this data. Every apartment I’ve lived in ran a credit check and asked for months of paystubs, bank statements, any verification of income at all.
From density.io:

> Unlike other systems, Density is anonymous at source. We can't fingerprint or track you if we wanted to.

I wonder how true this statement is, given how accurately we can now identify people based on just their walking gait – see "Human Gait Recognition Based on Gait Energy" paper[1].

The 'sensor' view on density.io that attempts to illustrate this point appears to convey just as much as the sample images in the paper.

[1] https://ijsr.net/archive/v5i11/ART20163043.pdf
The comment to which you are replying does not refer to the OPCW report itself, but instead to leaked documents regarding the report:

https://www.france24.com/en/20190613-chemical-weapons-body-p...

If you search "OPCW leak" you will easily find the leaked documents as revealed by wikileaks and much analysis from many points of view.
It sounds more like they made the choice to take out less in loans than they needed than hopeless poverty. I would love for what I'm paying back not to include my food from college, but it does.
Can you please share a link or a Youtube search phrase?
I've seen extremely cheap guitars that will noticeably fall out of tune after playing them for only a few minutes.
I wonder if it's simply not working as well now that everyone is wearing masks.
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New LFE (Lisp Flavoured Erlang) Website
"But it's way clumsy and hard to edit when you need to change the text and move the boxes because of that, making it... not the best tool for the job."

Original article says "I’m not doing this completely bare-knuckles. Emacs has tools like artist-mode that make it easier than manually positioning every character." See: https://youtu.be/cIuX87Xo8Fc?t=149