skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My reading of OP is that it's bad to have a goal of "more Black founders", etc. because it's "unnatural" and "goes against meritocracy". We should simply continue the status quo because OP believes the system that rewards them must be the best and most just, equal possible system.
Can't they simply tax the hell out of meat by how much it damages the environment? E.g. beef is taxed very, very high, chicken lower, etc?
Yes, in this case "literaly" means "figuratively", but still, what's the mechanism? I don't think he paid a bribe, and nobody is suggesting that. One may argue that the judge was somewhat subconsciously influenced by Levandowsky's wealth; this is also quite improbable, the judge in this case [1] is a very high profile judge. In particular he rebuked Trump on DACA.

In the end though, if anything, it looks to me Levandowsky's prison postponement makes his sentence harsher, not more lenient. He will still have to serve his whole sentence in an actual prison, and until he starts the prison sentence his liberty will be curtailed (for example it's very likely he will not be allowed to leave the country). A good defense team would've gotten for him house arrest during the Covid19 crisis, and his defense team argued for this. They didn't get it.

So, literally or figuratively, how did money buy Levandowsky a get-out-of-jail-free card?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Haskell_Alsup#Deferred...
The film 'Trading Places' shows this in action (although they're trading on frozen concentrated orange juice prices and not oil).

Both entertaining and educational.
The fire is off center because they only installed one of the three engines that it would normally use, but didn't build a custom, centered engine mount.
I use randomly generated passwords that are unique per site. It is more likely for someone to socially engineer the site support (or the registered mail account) than to guess it.

Another annoying thing is that some sites do not consider your password enough even if you do not have 2fa enabled and they insist on sending you a mail (thanks github! - I can't connect to my account there because the registered mail was in my old domain) or an sms (thanks google/twitter! I had not even provided my phone number yet somehow giving it to you will verify that it's me)
The legal history fueling high rates of Black incarceration in Louisiana
Pretty hard to compete with the free implementations in most video chat tools...
Prices do go down. Smartphones for example, or clothing, tvs, music and entertainment via netflix, etc. Even food is now more attainable than ever. Technology and efficiencies in production naturally generate deflation, but for some reason governments insist on enforcing an inflationary policy.
What would a global "financial system reboot" actually look like though?
What good do you expect out of this mess? Like, some other location fixed their storage strategy to avoid same fate?
You could, but unless you have tiny 1gm slivers you'll find it hard to buy food with it.

For total meltdown SHTF scenarios soap, alcohol, cigarettes, chocolate, and maybe seeds are much more practical as barter currencies.

Even without SHTF scenarios, physical gold is a poor store of value because selling physical gold to a broker is an expensive business.

A lot of prestige gold coins are sold at a price premium which brokers will just ignore when buying from you. Even on weight alone, you're very unlikely to get anything close to your purchase price unless the price has gone up by at least a double figure percentage.

The real question is how bad the Covid recession/depression is likely to get. If you're assuming there's a depression-scale downturn then "paper" gold makes more sense than a lot of other investment classes.
For this reason I’ve been dockerizing my builds for almost five years. I was late to the Docker party, but when I saw the benefits it brings to build pipelines, I was sold.

It's true that a dockerized build isn’t any simpler than its non-dockerized ancestor, but at least there’s a Dockerfile that lays bare all the black magic and special sauce which goes into each build. And it can be version controlled to watch for drift over time.

This stuff is useful in a corporate setting, but the other fetishization of reproducible builds is just a distraction that can stay where it belongs: open source mailing lists.
Meanwhile, Verizon FIOS here still doesn't offer IPv6.
Also just increased confidence that the build is working properly.

I think there's added security for the first party builder in their own process: they can better audit the process from source code to deployment.
Well the this article is obviously nonsensical to any rational individual.

Why?

Because they are taking and end result and, instead of trying to discover or understand the many factors which go into said end result, they are slapping the old "racism" sticker on it and inferring causation.

This way of thinking is pathological and it is infecting the entire tech industry, which is supposed to be reliant on science and reason, but is sacrificing itself to horridly formed arguments
"Gold and other assets"

Investors generally don't like gold and would rather put it into any other asset class. When the fear wanes, the liquidity moves from gold into other assets.
I gave this game a try last night, it was amusing all the different types of games you could potentially play, I was wondering who developed each one. It seems you can build your own games (game modes? unsure of the term for Roblox) and earn some income on it. I had no idea it was done in Lua, might give it a shot to see what is possible.
Krugman, the same fella who commented on the internet and on bitcoin?

He represents everything that’s wrong with government excesses and theft of its citizens via inflation.

50 years ago an ounce of gold was $35/oz. Today that very same 1 oz gold coin is at $2000.
What kind of fuel? Everyone I know tells me gasoline/petrol will start to go bad in six months and will start damaging my car in two years. Crude oil will last millions? of years but we would need access to a refinery and like you said takes a lot of space anyways.
I think this is a poor take on floating point numbers. Read the classic article it references instead [1]. The IEEE guarantee is not that the result is accurate to a relative epsilon but instead is the closest representable number to the true result. This is a clear guarantee but requires the reader to actually know how floating point numbers are stored (which this article fails to say!). It is also rather subtle and it needs to be explored in more depth to be of any use.

[1] https://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf
It's either that, or some people really believe in the benefit of doubt.
The anti-fingerprinting in Firefox will flag that first site you linked.

The site is asking your FIDO Authenticator to provide "attestation". In theory this could be useful to require users to pick a high quality authenticator. It might make sense, for example for Big Bank to require customers use an authenticator Big Bank bought in bulk with Big Bank branding, because they trust it.

But, although countermeasures against tracking were incorporated in the FIDO design for attestation, it is unavoidably a potential privacy risk and so Firefox decided to flag it. Sites which try to ask for attestation during registration get a "Fingerprint" icon in newer Firefox versions. Click the fingerprint and opt either to press on anyway or to Anonymise the authentication (essentially pretend your device hasn't got any attestation) on this site.

For a site owner: Do not do attestation just because it seems cool and worked in Edge or whatever. If you don't need this sensitive information do not request it. You need to work out a policy, which authenticators are OK and which aren't - if that seems like too much then don't do attestation. If the answer is "actually any authenticator seems good" then don't do attestation. If you allow users to just not have an authenticator (100% of general purpose web sites today) then don't do attestation for those who want one. If you are throwing the data away because you have no idea how to process it don't do attestation.
The argument about tolerable complexity definitely resonated with me.

However, I think the author may have failed to consider that the people using Gatsby/Next/etc. for their personal blog aren't necessarily doing so because they believe it is the best tool for the job. It's might be a good excuse to explore some new technology. Other times it could be the tool someone is most familiar with.

As for the solution, I believe existing tools like make could have solved the "rework" problem.

For reloading, I'm not sure I understand the leap from "I need to inject some JavaScript" to "I need to be able to parse a HTML document". If you're already replacing placeholders in the template with your content, why not another with some JavaScript?

There's also an interesting trend happening with development tooling like Snowpack and Vite. Instead of recompiling your assets when things change, why not let the HTTP server compile them on the fly? You don't need to worry about dependency graphs because the browser will request the assets it needs. Your development server can send events when a requested asset is touched and some injected JavaScript can handle the reloading.
Krugman in his usual arrogance neglects to consider the price and indeed monetary history of gold. It is and always has been "real money" and most people either consciously or subconsciously trust gold more than the pieces of paper we call money, and its price is not a reflection of people chasing returns but rather people having less faith in the current monetary system (which is backed by nothing). The record physical delivery orders at Comex proves this [1].

If the dollar hyperinflates, where would people go? Crypto is obviously interesting, but gold is the supreme form of money that requires zero trust (while crypto is near trust-less, you still need to trust the cryptography to be secure).

[1] https://reuters.com/article/gold-cme/102-tonnes-of-gold-chan...
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Missed opportunity to call it Lau (Lua was sometimes called such jokingly in the Garry's Mod community)
“Rust isn’t afraid to be imperfect as long as we ship something useful”
Life will go on in other parts of the universe, and all life, no matter where they locate themselves, will have some kind of existential threat.

And it doesn't matter how many Dyson spheres are made, if humans aren't dedicated to improving the collective opportunity to live life without suffering, there's little real 'significance' to extending the project of humanity compared to any other life-form.
One interesting advantage for UK buyers of gold coins specifically, is that if they're legal tender they're exempt from (Capital Gains) taxation[0]. Even if the gold content is worth significantly more than their face value, which is almost universally true.

[0] https://www.royalmint.com/invest/bullion/discover-bullion/ca...
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More like whether the employees of the company who runs the vault realise that they aren't going to paid at the end of the month and simply run off with "your" gold. In a serious collapse it would seem the logical thing for them to do.
Maybe what the report of Tianjin is manipulated to look smaller?
This comic was discussed by the author on Andrew Gelnan's blog. Gelman hated it and posted his opinion. Hyde pretty much agreed, iirc.

Edit: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2012/11/10/16808/
> You often should use a list until you've identified a specific performance issue.

Identifying a JS performance issue is something that almost no company ever does unless revenue is obviously threatened (and even then many fail to act). So IMO it pays off to do a little bit of premature optimization in JS land.
This is not my experience. When you have to deviate, which has been quite rare for me, it’s all just ruby at the end of the day so you can do whatever the heck you want.
Spot on. Very well said.
How do you reclaim your account safely without some pre-shared unique/secret thing that identifies you as the "rightful" user?

Password reset email is great if you forgot your password, but this just means you can't make it more secure than your email account.
I know exactly what you mean. I made https://Write.wtf majority of it is just junk.
> Of course some demographics might have had a head start, but over a long period of time the numbers should equalize.

What on earth makes you imagine this to be the case in absolutely any situation?

How can one possibly think this is a given?
Also The Expanse isn't facts.
I believe this is homegrow from their photo background-removal tool remove.bg

Probably frame by frame, not real-time. But not less impressive.
The ageism in tech is actually worse than the situation in the NBA (which I wouldn't really call ageism). Nobody thinks that fresh college graduates are the peak performers in basketball. It usually takes many years of experience before NBA players hit their peak. You have to learn how to win. Michael Jordan didn't win his first of 6 championships until his 8th year in the league.

But somehow fresh college grads are highly sought after in tech, while experienced developers get pushed out of the industry entirely, despite the fact that physical attributes that decline with age and are relevant to sports are completely irrelevant to tech.

Everyone in tech is looking for their young "Einstein". Except there was only 1 Einstein, and nobody is getting him for their startup.
IMO: if you have tens of millions, buy 10KG of gold and 100kg of silver and bury it just in case. As an investment it sucks when compared to the rest but then a tiny percentage of your networth is nothing when considering that it may be useful if SHTF
You have to be careful about your errors though with this method, because you get higher-order powers. If the radius estimation was wrong by only 10%, your final answer will be wrong by almost 50%.
No, they will serve different customer segments and the market will split into the various strategic positions it can support.

It’s just a different business model. Less value, less expensive, higher volume. More value, more expensive, lower volume.

In your example, one of the restaurants become McDonalds and another becomes a gourmet restaurant. They compete differently.
This will sound weird, but I have no idea why anyone cares about the abstract "survival of human species". I care very deeply about the lives of people actually living here right now. But if Earth is wiped out, what does it matter that some humans are alive somewhere? Except of course that I'm glad for them that they didn't get killed. But we're talking about generations from now anyway, and there are more direct ways to stop people from dying here today.
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Because drones don't blow whistles, newspapers don't write articles about how drones are mistreated.

Not to mention lowering the overhead of HR, payroll, etc functions.
Nice work! I have built a similar system for an ios app called Pacemaker DJ, it might be worth checking out for comparison/inspiration. I learned a couple of lessons from that project:

- some music is super easy to mix (minimal house) while others are basically impossible (punk rock)

- vocals in two tracks simultaneously always sounds bad/annoying. I ended up including a vocal detector in the algo.

- incompatible musical keys can sound really bad in some cases, in other cases just fine. I think it depends on the saliency of the notes, among other things.

- very few care about nice long beatmix transitions apart from djs. IME djing is mainly about playing good music and keeping a flow/vibe.
Looking into blast waves might be of interest. The jargon of the difference between a shock wave and a blast wave somewhat depends on the sub field of interest.
It's people vote "I agree that things are really bad now and probably stay the same in the near future" by their own actions.
They don't have to stop eating meat. It's already good if they eat less. Americans eat nearly 100kg of meat per year per person. That's 30% more than the average EU citizen and twice what the average Chinese or Japanese eats.

There are various ways of making meat more expensive that are relatively easy to sell to the voters. For example requiring higher standards for animal welfare.
It's a different branch of the Red Cross, but I gave them some money back when the Philippines was hit by an earthquake and a cyclone in quick succession. I swear they spent more on sending me big glossy fundraising brochures every few months for the next decade than I'd donated in the first place. I later read that the Philippines only got a small percentage of their donations for that campaign.

Never again.
The problem of storing gold is the same as the problem of storing paper money, there is no difference. Have you tried storing a million dollars in your own home? It is not for the faint of heart.

There is no difference except that in a crisis gold will retain its value, and the stacks of paper money will only remind you of the better days.

Now, of course neither of them is optimal. The best way of maintaining your purchasing power is with a competent government. But that is even more rare.
Whoops! As long as it's less than the rate of return I guess?

I managed to find a company that offers "pool allocated storage" for free, with an option to "cast" it to a shippable product for a small fee. Perhaps it's worth you shopping around for cheaper storage?

I wonder if that's where the programming term cast comes from.
It frustrates me that the same applies to CPU power, RAM, and disk space. We have orders of magnitude more of each, but the responsiveness of apps remains the same. At least from my subjective experience.

If someone has a good explanation of what has happened, I'd love to know the cause and what can be done to fix this.

I understand that some of this has gone to programmer productivity and increased capabilities for our apps, but what we've gotten doesn't seem proportional at all.
And a lot of those papers saying that you "own" gold have similar issues compared to those that say you "own" stock/bonds… rehypothecation, leverage, liquidity, etc.
The dollar is the worlds reserve currency. It would start with the dollar being severely devalued. What happens after that is unpredictable. One thing holds true however, gold will still be valuable after that.
The most valuable asset in a collaped economy is a strong local community.
Google definitely uses IPv6 internally (ie office WiFi is now using IPv6 only (with the router doing translations to IPv4 if the site doesn’t support IPv6) and afaik most of the servers in the datacenter/clusters are IPv6 only now as they ran out of IPv4 LAN IPs for their clusters.

I just think that there’s little demand on cloud (and tons of other high prior work)
They insist on enforcing inflationary monetary policy because it is thinly-veiled regulatory capture. No matter what the academics say to try and justify it (it is not justified and does not hold up to critical analysis, see the Cantillon effect), inflation is phenomenon that redistributes purchasing power from the people to those who are relatively closer to the central bank and the printing press (they can purchase assets and spend money before inflation hits the rest of the economy).
As a mobile developer (and former web developer and even desktop developer going back to the 80's) I find terrible UI/UX embarrassing and unnecessary, but common. Sometimes it's the designers fault (pretty > usability) sometimes it's the product managers fault (same) but more commonly it's the executive's fault (I am more important than you and despite having zero clues about anything, my word goes).

Good design is freaking hard, but not rocket science; it requires the people in charge to understand how to say no and the people doing the work to be clear in why it's a bad idea when it is. While people sometimes revile Jobs for being an asshole, he understood this very deeply.

Instacart could care less, that's obvious to me.
This is a pretty good approach. I hope you're periodically testing/replacing that flash drive though. I lost a few thousand dollars worth of Bitcoin because I assumed a flash drive would be fine after years of laying untouched in a desk drawer.
It's a prototype of the lower half of a larger rocket, and it's not intended to fly very high or fast, so it doesn't need a nice nose-cone. The single rocket engine is mounted in the center, and it gimbals to the side to make the rocket move sideways. The on-board computer is balancing the whole rocket on that flame the whole time, adjusting it continuously to keep everything in balance and the rocket moving towards the landing zone; imagine balancing a pencil on your fingertip. The real rocket will have a lot more than just one engine, but for this test they only needed the one.
> Q. If a user has chosen to trust a platform where all binaries must be codesigned by the vendor, but doesn’t trust the vendor, then reproducible builds allow them to verify the vendor isn’t malicious.

> I think this is a fantasy threat model. If the user does discover the vendor was malicious, what are they supposed to do?

> The malicious vendor can simply refuse to provide them with signed security updates instead, so this threat model doesn’t work.

For me, this is one of the primary benefits of reproducible builds and the author's dismissal of it as fantasy is unconvincing.

Vendors trade on trust. If a reputable application uses reproducible builds and discovers that a platform vendor is modifying their application on their platform, that information is damaging to that vendor's reputation. That's extremely useful leverage against potentially malicious vendors.
There's a few companies already in this space, but all I'm aware of are of the "Contact our sales for pricing" type and require you to spend at least 100k annually. Many contracts go into millions - just for the apps & services, without media spend.
Exactly, CGI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface) was a thing once.
Some use it because it simplifies load balancing if you're thinking network-design in an IPv4-way.
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My first thought as well. Set up WiFi along the path, basically turn the machine into a laptop. But I think there might be a disconnect when you change base stations? At least when I move my laptop between rooms in my house there's often a momentary problem while on video call.

The other way I'd do it is more similar to described. Create redundant network paths to the server, then cut one.
Sinicizating XJ will be mostly cultural genocide, which of course is immoral. Though many Uighurs will still remain Islamic but with Chinese characteristics - promoting religion is key Chinese foreign policy to connect with OBOR cultures. No, I'm not blind to it, nor to dumb western media spins, i.e. mass sterilization = 2 child policy. You can ask 1.3 billion Han how immoral one child policy and family planning was for the last 40 years. Hint: very.

The original question is how the situation is communicated and discussed in China. And I answered. You know how the west can talk about lots of issues like actual wars where we're aggressors, systemic racism that kept minority down or in jails etc with nuance? That happens in China on various topics too. At the end of the day, just like the west, many don't give a shit. Unlike the west, they can't really protest if they do. But even if they could, most probably wouldn't, because people irrationally and massively overreact to terrorism.
I think this could be fixed by making each job be posted for a fixed block of time, say five minutes. Then it is randomly assigned to one of the shoppers that selected that job. This would remove the incentive around reaction speed and I don't think the customer would care about the slightly increased time for an order.