skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alien Blue was great, I was a paid user to get rid of ads. Then Reddit acquired it and put back the ads.

For a few months of gold...
I'm sure about more regime chances but the KGB definitely did more volume of things like this. The mitrokhin archive is but a fraction of the history of the KGB and it details huge programs around the world.

The USSR was a prison for 300 million and it was run as such.
There is also the potential for inflation and artificially increased exclusivity, which likewise is not determinate from a temporary or short term project. In order to measure the impact on inflation the experiment would have to be widespread and longitudinal just like any other potential cause of inflation.
How do you define 'less healthy' though?

In the UK the warning was BMI of over 35 needs to be careful, >40 needs to isolate. That would be a hell of a lot of americans. Plus the diabetics, heart issues, elderly etc.
A proc macro would still need to be invoked as either

cpp_call! { fn foo() { ... } }

or

#[cpp_call] fn foo() { ... }

The former can be written even with a macro_rules macro. Regardless, both macros have to work by parsing the whole input tokentree `fn foo ( ) { ... }` and emitting it back with an `unsafe` prepended. The macro invocation cannot expand to just `unsafe`.
On of the problems with the lockdown orders was that to a large extent they were arbitrary with respect to what was essential and open ended with respect to time. Such a prohibition could be effective if the public trusted the people or process which led to the lock downs, but the people showed themselves scarcely worthy of our trust and there really was no process.

"We believe in science" is a fine mantra, though it doesn't directly lead to "liquor stores are essential". Our political elites were unable to resist politicizing every decision, gloating over others' misery and/or misrepresenting outcomes for political gain.

So, yeah, basically now it seems like many people are deciding for themselves.
> The wars continue and new ones are started.

What new wars have been started under the current administration?
It strikes me how little is the salary gap in Europe, even in the UK.

In Turkey, it starts with 2K and easily goes up to 15K as you advance in your career or have a profession that is on demand. This leads to drastically different lifestyles among regular people. The 3-4K people almost don’t meet the 8-9K except in work environment and there are a lot of both.

Restaurant and other venue prices almost act as gate keepers between workers of different classes. In Europe that might be said for super rich but mostly any place can be occasionally afforded by anyone.

The most striking that I’ve seen was in Cuba. In restaurants where regular people eat, a meal would cost about 0.5CUC, in restaurants where tourists and the ruling class eat a meal would cost 15CUC, which is about half of the salary of most people.

Also, Cubans with access to tourism are orders of magnitude more well off(bribes, contraband, dealing with tourists easily brings more than a salary per dealings).

Both in Turkey and in Cuba, drastically better income brings you closer to the western lifestyle, so the range usually means the difference between living like a middle class in a western country v.s. living a century behind in terms of tech and comfort.
I have a Samsung smart TV for work that has never been connected to a network. It insists on an identification check whenever a new device is connected to an input. It doesn't have access to the Samsung database so it just spins its wheels until you clear the overlay.
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200813/swedens-no-lockdown...

This from last week, cites studies. Short version: Sweden was wrong.
Source? That is an extraordinarily broad statement to make.

Central Banks' (the primary institutions behind monetary policy) primary goal is to promote a stable environment for commerce. This typically means maintaining a stable rate of inflation (2-4% for mature economies, 4-7% for frontier economies). This often requires performing a balancing act between managing unemployment and inflation. We have PLENTY of evidence to suggest that inflation is harmful for everyone, ESPECIALLY for low income workers. The stock market usually has ZERO consideration in the decisions central bankers typically make.
> For years, I thought the CIA was the prime mover of the coup, but I was wrong.

I think the CIA was indeed the prime mover of the coup, at least according to the CIA's official history. Derbyshire, the person who was in charge of SIS's Iran branch, came up with the idea of a coup, but the Brits had not the capacity to pull it off and so they asked the CIA for help. The whole operation was very well documented by the declassified report entitled "CIA Clandestine Service History, Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran, November 1952-August 1953", which is downloadable from

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/
Narcissism isn’t necessarily characterized by strength even though we imagine the quintessential narcissist people to be “strong” and “driven”. That may be true in their professional lives but not personal.

Narcissists are driven by external validation and appearance, yes. So much so that they forget the people most important to their lives are humans too, not tools or ornaments of achievement. When these relationships sour, there’s a lot of self-doubt, not about the achievements, but if the trade offs are really worth it in the end.
I was not surprised, but certainly disappointed, that this fact was not brought back to people's attention or even mentioned by the press when police brutality was at the centre of the news cycle.

By the way, there is a good documentary by CBC about the G20 summit fiasco and it is freely available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX0BbLc_PIk

Personally, the thing I found most blood-boiling was when one of the persons the police had wrongfully arrested was saying that they are pressing charges against him, unlike most others who were released without charges, because they had used so much force during arrest that he was suffering from permanent injuries, so the police wanted to make it look like the arrest was justified.
My grand father, born and raised in Western Europe, never left the continent, fought in WWII, etc., used to say that money can't buy happiness but it sure helps in getting it.
But if you follow that logic further, which you should, it's also true that part of that capital is "human capital", or what some economists called variable capital. I can't think of any increase in productivity which has not been the result of human labour (whether technical, scientific, in discovery of new natural materials, or otherwise). Non-labour ("constant") capital is inert (literally, as physical goods, it just sits in a warehouse) without labourers to work on or with it.
Much is clarified once it is understood that Germany lost WWII due to lack of oil:

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/How-Oil-Defeated-The-N...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/oil-denial-p...
Well, I'm happy to hear your arguments, then...

It seems obvious to me that alcohol and cigarettes are not the same thing as telling people what to eat or feed their children. I'm happy to hear your take on this.

It also seems obvious to me that people in fine choose what to eat and drink. No-one ever put a gun to my head, for example. I absolutely agree that marketing influences choices, but only up to a point. Certainly the quantity is a personal choice. Giving Coke to your children for breakfast (I have seen it here in England) is a personal choice. A crap diet is a personal choice.

I also think that parents are responsible for their children. Marketing targeted at children is beside the point. Of course it will work, but again only up to a point: in fine it is the parents' decision to let anything go or to impose limits. I am a parent, I know but I'm also happy to hear your views on this.

And finally, it is also clear to me that blaming corporations (and behind them capitalism) for people's bad diets is a political stance because it fits the view that people are oppressed and victims of the system. But it's also the politically easy and low-risk thing to do because you don't scold people you want to convince to vote for you.

I agree that parents and children should be educated, that's even what I wrote in my previous comment. But let's also acknowledge people's responsibility in their life choices.

My take on the situation (at least here in England) is not that people don't know or that they are victims, it's simply that they couldn't care less.
There is no evidence to come to such a conclusion.
Whatever helps you sleep at night. Just don't be surprised when you wake up tomorrow and can't afford to buy a loaf of bread with your american monopoly money.
They are making $0, actually. The charge for the data is only recovering their cost to provide it. Probably there's slight room for error but their target is to break even.
Thanks, great to hear you like it!
Will it? People will just say we need better mental health treatments.

I don't think there is a good argument against UBI that they'll accept. But of course, they don't answer the real question which is who's gonna do all the producing?

The ones producing are clearly gonna be the ones being taken advantage of on UBI, even if it works 100% as expected.
I wouldn't judge how well the countries did until it's all over. Plenty felt the situation was handled, only to have another wave.
The first automated trucks won't be able to handle everything. There will still need to be a "driver" to ride along with it, at the very least to handle paperwork. Many truck drivers own their own trucks, and I imagine many of these people would be the first adopters of the technology.

The point is that change will still happen gradually, and people will still be necessary.
Change is a process.

It has been my experience that to change anything with an organisation takes a while. First you present your proposed change or new process. No one understands or pay attention. Once you implement and showcase the new process, expect objections as it dawns on people they might have to change how they do things. Don't take offense at the objections (which should have been aired at first meeting but no one was paying attention). Just agree to note them and then a week later present same thing you presented. Now you will find most people have processed the change and might even have tried new process or read the documentation. Now the change begins. It's a process.
Most non competes are more psychological than actual. When challenged they usually do nothing. When they go to court they usually fail. One of the big rulings is the non-compete cannot prevent you from working in your field.

That said, if you were the lead designer at a company and held multiple patents, and another company offered a lot of money because they wanted to steal the secrets ... well that would go to court.
That’s not the case at all. Everyone has electricity at their home. You can charge basically any electric car from a domestic wal socket and higher power chargers are easily available. Commercial charge points only really need to be used for long distance travel. Most EV owners can do the majority of charging at home.
Assuming your thesis that taxing wealth encourages riskier investments for a minute. Why is that a problem? Isn't putting money into riskier assets a good thing for long term advancements in asset classes with high potential reward?

It doesn't seem like low risk investments like sticking money in the bank to be lent as mortgages or investing in government bonds are as good for humanity over the long term.
Target sets sales record in Q2
Yes, while WSL2 has some filesystem quirks, it works pretty darn well for what I do (ruby development). I picked up a 5 Y/O 2 CPU E5 v4 Xeon workstation for 300 bucks. I've sunk in an additional 400 for an SSD, RAM and GPU, and when paired with Microsoft Remote Desktop, I've got a solid setup that allows the best of all worlds.
I think it is important to separate the several technical failures in wafer scale from the commercial one: Sinclair's Anamartic worked exactly as planned but the prices for conventional hard disks began to drop and that caused investors to pull out.

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/3043/Anamartic-Wafer-...

The problem is that the real project was a massively parallel computer just like the Cerebras (scaled to 1989 technological limits) and the disk replacement was just a way to develop the needed techniques and finance further developments. If the investors had had a little more patience then computing in the 1990s might have been a bit more interesting.
Apparently he did in 1988. Things at NeXT must have been desperate: https://www.wired.com/2012/06/steve-jobs-security-clearance/

Edit: It actually says he got the clearance because Pixar was doing some government work at the time.
Nope, Android sucks too - it either does the same thing (links to Google store), or deep-links to an incorrect page.
Saw a similar Product, but with direct impact training. A partnership with https://joinfightcamp.com/ might be a great thing, especially, if you added sensor pads for the feet to record leg kicks.

With your product, I'm reminded of Wii Boxing.
Why does this story keep recurring? Oh right -- rage-clicks are good revenue.

This isn't news, and it isn't specific to CA. All 50 states sell DMV data. I don't know about other states, but for CA it is required by law.
blind faith in governments; institutions; or authority figures will get you pwned.
It isn't a straw man. The theory states that inflation will continuously increase at an accelerating rate as long as employment is above the "natural level". For any definition of hyper-inflation, proponents of NAIRU believe that we will meet that definition at some point if employment stays too high.

> Only with continuously accelerating inflation could rates of unemployment below the natural rate be maintained. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAIRU#The_natural_rate_hypothe...
No matter how many times I cut, it is never long enough.
i mean it does sound kind of jerk-ish because it's not like telling someone who is obese right now to eat better is going to drastically reduce his pandemic risks in a week.

I'm generally sceptical of tying this kind of advice to crises anyway. It's a social and long-term issue. We ought to eat better not just so that we are better prepared for a pandemic but because it's the right thing to do in general.
Ask HN: Infrastructure Diagrams?
Recently, isoflow.io was on the front page. While, I found it useful, I also noticed that it lacked a few features (many of which were pointed out in the comment threads).

What are the recommendations for diagramming an organization's infrastructure?
DeepMind&McGill Employ Operations Generalization to Conquer Complex RL Problem
> We're approaching the total death toll of World War II[3].

We're really not though. World War II killed somewhere in the ballpark of 75 million people. COVID-19 has a bit under 800,000 known deaths. Even if we say that for every person who is known to have died of covid, 5 additional people died and were recorded as deaths from other causes (and it's not that high, you can check the excess mortality stats to confirm for yourself that it couldn't possibly be that high), the number of covid deaths _still_ wouldn't even be 10% of the total number of WWII deaths.

Unless by "approaching" you mean "getting closer to because it's currently below that number and increasing" in which case the number of people killed by vending machines is also "approaching" the number of people killed by WWII.

Hyperbolic statements like this just serve to undermine trust, and trust is already in pretty short supply, especially around the pandemic. Messaging around the pandemic has had a pattern of people making whatever statements they think is most likely to get people to comply with public health guidance, even if those statements are false or misleading.

For example, there's a great deal of news lately about how COVID-19 can cause Multisystem Inflammation Syndrome (MIS-C) in children, and that 80% of children who develop MIS-C require intensive care, and that the existence of MIS-C as a possible complication of covid means you should worry more about kids getting covid. What these articles neglect to mention is that only about 300 cases of MIS-C have been observed in children, out of what is probably low-millions of children infected with covid.

When you make misleading statements in order to induce compliance through panic, it'll work the first few times, but eventually people will start noticing, and stop trusting anything you or anyone who sounds like you says, even if it's true. This is the moral of the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" story, and it's been seen again and again in real-life contexts as well (see for example how DARE actually _increases_ drug use).

Making false-but-alarming statements about public health sucks the air out of the room for true-and-alarming statements about public health, and is the moral equivalent of crying wolf except with millions of lives on the line instead of just one village.

Please stop crying wolf.
Jobs had a top secret clearance.
https://www.informationweek.com/desktop/steve-jobs-the-fbi-f...
You train people how to treat you.
And there was a real shortage, several health systems that I work with had their staff reusing the "blue paper" masks for several days at a time.
People with disabilities are in a protected class. Being immunocompromised qualifies as a disability.

Here's a brief definition, from a government site about equal employment:

https://www.eeoc.gov/disability-discrimination#definition
Apple is now worth $2T
> (I cant speak to the statistical truth of this, but that’s beside the point)

Is it beside the point? It's false. Lightning kills about 50 people a year in the US [1]. It's frankly fairly rare to get struck by lightning [2]. More people under 34 have died from COVID-19 per month since April than die from lightning in a year [3] (quick note that the breakdown is 25-34). That's to say nothing of long term health impacts from the disease. If you are going to argue that it's a rational choice, you need to be working from correct assumptions.

And more importantly than that, getting struck by lightning does not mean you will make other people get struck by lightning. Making a choice that makes sense for you does not mean it makes sense for society. That's why we have laws.

[1]: https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-victims

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata.html

[3]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
In the US, mere declaration of support for a terrorist organization isn’t illegal. It is free speech after all.

Without being able to prove that you have given money, or undergone training by terrorists, or support or plan to commit a specific act then it would be otherwise difficult to remove someone from the country.

However asking on the form grants two options.... first they can simply deny entry, and second they can deport you for lying if it turns out you are the press secretary for the IRA for example.
Ask HN: How does your org handle PII storage/access in a microservice ecosystem?
A lot of this has tiebacks to GDPR/CCPA/etc.. but I'm interested in the technical implementations more so than the regulation side of things.

For those of you working places with a microservice-ish based ecosystem and a fair amount of PII (e.g. names, emails, addresses, phone numbers): how do you provide/distribute that data to internal services if/when they need it? Do you allow services to store copies? Do you centralize all that info in a user/profile/etc... service and make everything ask for it when required? etc...

(I'll respond in a comment with what we do internally as to not derail responses)
Arvind Narayanan, who did that video, is amazing. It's astonishing how he's achieved such expertise in computer science, machine learning, cryptocurrency, and technology policy.
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
We decided to upgrade our JavaScript curriculum to use React hooks
To add some context to the side-note, for those unfamiliar with the story, the BBC used that word in an editorial/journalistic context, quoting the racial abuse a man suffered after being intentionally hit with a car while waiting on the bus. The victim's family were determined that the BBC show pictures showing the extent of his injuries and quote, in full, the racist tirade he was subject to during the attack.

Whether or not you agree with them using that word on a news report, I think the context and intent are really important.
Reminds me of the short story "The Adopted Son" by Guy de Maupassant.

> Then the boy said, roughly: "I'd rather not have been born than be what I am. When I saw the other, my heart stood still. I said to myself: 'See what I should have been now!'" He got up: "See here, I feel that I would do better not to stay here, because I would throw it up to you from morning till night, and I would make your life miserable. I'll never forgive you for that!"
You could make the same argument about the normal flu, pre-covid, which kills many tens of thousands of people in the US every year. The normal flu has killed many multiples the number of people that WWII did. And we never completely locked down the country for the flu. We never explicitly destroyed the economy for the flu.

What about how many people other infectious diseases kill? What about how many people other sources of preventable deaths kill? Why haven't we thrown away our civil liberties in the past, or destroyed our economy, to tackle those problems?
Thinking without interaction may as well be useless. Even the type of people I believe you to be speaking about wrote and shared their writings to influence others.
> Oxis recently developed a prototype lithium-sulfur pouch cell that proved capable of 470 Wh/kg, and we expect to reach 500 Wh/kg within a year.

Meanwhile, gasoline / petrol / benzin (wherever you are in the world) has an energy density of 12200 Wh/kg.

In other words, even in a world where all petroleum is perfectly depleted, we would still be producing synthetic gasoline for high-demand applications and capturing 100% of the emissions for recycling — essentially using gasoline as a battery. It’s just too good an energy storage to ignore.

I’ve been looking at cars and geeking out on internal combustion engines for the past few weeks since I had to buy a car, and for the usual Silicon Valley guy such as yours truly whose standpoint on cars hadn’t been much more than ‘I want a Tesla’, it was an outright revelation.

ICEs are real technology — and for a software guy it is easy to understand because the complexity is bounded by physical dimensions of parts (i.e they don’t work past a certain small size) so you literally see human-size machinery with human size movements. It’s been a refreshing change from potentially unbounded complexity of software.
Protections for labor have been stripped await as Capitalism has become more and more hegemonic over the last 50 years. Profit seeking corporations have always looked for ways to cut their wages. Combine this with the fact that we have become an increasingly globalized world, where labor standards are much lower in third world countries, and you have many factors that play into wage stagnation.

It is ultimately a race to the bottom when you have a globalized economy, but do not have standardized worker protections across said economy.

Immigration has plenty of benefits on society, and we should not use wage stagnation relative to productivity growth (which can be stopped) justify isolationism and protectionism. Whether we like it or not, we live in an increasingly globalized economy and we should fight to have broader labor protections and give more power to workers to be able to protect themselves and fight for fairer wages. The alternative is, as I previously stated, a race to the bottom.
Apple reaches $2T market cap