skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone is having so much trouble that giving them money or monetary equivalents won't help, then the traditional american welfare apparatus won't be of much help either. It then becomes a question of what kind of living assistance those people need. If they receive nothing, then they end up in prison where we have to pay for them anyway. Most of these people aren't dangerous at all, but don't have anyone to help them, and can't afford mental health treatment. There is alot of overlap here with other endemic problems like our broken healthcare system.

The cost of incarceration in the us is over $30k/person/year, not including exorbitant and exploitative fees levied against inmates and their families for basic communication etc. Just providing housing and staff is much cheaper. The prison system in the US has also become a giant warehouse for these same mentally ill people, whose problems are generally exacerbated by an environment that isn't designed to help them.
1Password seems to have a better reputation for security among commercial providers.

But KeePassXC is based on the KeePass file format, and to my knowledge that has a better security story than commercial platforms--though it is harder to use.

For example, a couple of years ago Tavis Ormandy at Google Project Zero went through password managers and had unkind things to say (and reported vulnerabilities) about LastPass, 1Password, and Dashlane. He said KeePass looks "sane" or something like that.
Not #1 but definitely at the top of HN on that day :) https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-11-28
> Is that because this whole stuff is incredibly in fashion in SV?

Well, I grew in the rural South and currently live in Wisconsin, so I don't think I'm succumbing to some kind of SV hippie group-think.

The literature and instruction of Vajrayana is filled with warnings about using the techniques improperly. And they are very powerful, with tantra having developed during the peak of sophistication of Indian Buddhism in the 6th-9th centuries. The Tibetans have refined things further. E.g. the emergence of Dzogchen and Mahamudra.

Re: Hitler: Playing with the boundaries of self-identity as a form of daydreaming for the average person probably isn't harmful. But tantra combines a number of introspective technologies that hugely amplify the depth of concentration and effects of the exercise on the entire body-mind.

Weaving together ritualized breathing practices, somatic visualizations (i.e. energy work), external auditory stimulus (bells, etc.), chanting, internal/external visual aids (mandala), in the social context of serious vows to one's teacher, the Buddha, and all other sentient beings in the universe. . . well, it turns everything up to 11, so to speak.

Submerging oneself in an imaginal identity as a deity under those circumstances can provide a sudden, inarguable new insight into the boundaries and nature of one's self-construct, so the so-called truth of anatta. It can reveal in a flash the moment-to-moment fabrication of a particular kind of self-narrative you've been engaging in your entire life. And you can experience the incomparable freedom of being freed from that straitjacket.

Or if you're winging it without proper instruction, a similar exercise can deeply fuck you up, leading to weird somatic illnesses, grandiose thoughts (you think you _are_ the deity, or Hitler, or whatever), manic states because you don't understand how to safely bring down your psychological arousal level, etc.
Go: Should I Use a Pointer instead of a Copy of my Struct?
Good point, yes, it can be a way to get out of party A pointing to party B and party B pointing to party A. That said, I would hate to have IBM be the highest level contractor for anything that really mattered to me.

Their reputation is no longer deserved imnsho.
It uses WebRTC, which you disable in your browser. However, it's also used for in browser video calls.
You're positing that YouTube itself provides no value, but I strongly disagree with that. I find YouTube to be very pleasant to use, I have found a lot of great stuff through their discovery algorithm, and obviously the bandwidth and storage itself isn't free. I think it's worth paying for. Separately from that, I also support several creators on Patreon directly.

And yes, I use an ad blocker. You'd be crazy not to.
Cool progress from the Chinese startup LinkSpace
I think the middle way is going home to your family or SO, somewhere between 9-5 :)
Every year around the same time people have to work on Perf (internal performance review), maybe people were more focused on that rather than keeping the systems up.... or maybe they needed to push the latest update to be included in their perf...
Anti vax is very, very common across environmental/hippy leftist circles. Same thing for anti GMO FUD. Qanon is pretty uniquely dumb I agree, but I guess russiagate and the extreme "russians are everywhere" paranoia exhibited from some has some parallels. Yes, it's not (at all) as bad as Qanon, but go on twitter and you will see tons of borderline psychotic people accusing everyone of being a russian bot or spreading crazy conspiracy theories about a huge Russian total take over conspiracy that make 9/11 conspiracy theorists look sane in comparison.
> i would love to be able to say the same for my daughter

Are you going to tell her how you did it?

This seems like a real ends-justify-the-means dilema. I think what you're advocating for is fundamentally immoral. I accept it probably achieves the result we want, but we mustn't do it because it's wrong.
> Brigade still won't be able to keep the money.

What about the interest accrued from keeping the money for a time?
those extra newline characters slow down the page load :)
I had a girlfriend in high school that learned about feminism, and developed an annoying habit of playing "gotcha" with anything that could be spun as chauvinist. For instance anyone saying "C'mon you guys let's go eat" would get a lecture about how using the word "guys" to a mixed sex group was being oppressive. She didn't say "patriarchal" only because that word wasn't in currency yet. Years later her gotcha shtick became her profession as a college professor who taught it to a new generation, year after year.

I think the events at those meetings are more about the joy of the gotcha than anti-racism versus non-racism. It just feels good to catch someone out, to be the one who sees it first. Like most pleasures it has addictive power.

It wasn't because the anti-racists were actually racists that they were triggered by a white man bouncing a black baby on his lap. It was because they were scanning desperately for a gotcha to feed their habit. For a target that you disagree with, a behavior has a much lower threshold to become a gotcha. If it wasn't for the baby it could have been his supercilious smile or hair style.

In modern anti-racism, not only does a gotcha not need to be justified with argument, any criticism of the gotcha is another gotcha. What I have written here is just more evidence of my own racism and sexism. They've got me.
False and irrelevant. False, because there's way more than one kind of sugar - glucose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, and more, not to mention cane sugar vs. HFCS. Irrelevant, because there are other non-sugar things in commercial food products that cause you to want to consume the products more, which causes you to consume more sugar. Finally, who says that I put more sugar in my pastries than Hostess does?
I agree that i haven't quantified how careful people are being though. There has to be a way to do this. I know there was some drone plan to see how many masks were being worn in parts of the country. It might be worth getting some numbers for this.
Recovering a Discord Account with No Security
A while ago, I made a Discord account without an email. I initially didn't expect to do much with this account, but over time, I met more people and did more things with it than I had intended. However, I made a really dumb mistake by making a typo when I changed my password and then immediately logging out of the account on all of my devices, making it so that I can't access the account anymore. I've done almost everything I can to regain access to the account; I actually created the email the account is associated with retroactively and using the "Forgot your Password" button, I've tried a number of variations of the password, and I'm currently waiting for a response from Discord's support team about why I'm not getting anything when I click the "Forgot your password" button(although I'm not sure they'll actually be able to do anything about it, since it seems like they can't actually change what is causing the issue, and can only give me information or suggestions).

Honestly, I'm not a very tech-oriented person and I don't know a whole lot about how websites interact with emails or online security, so I'm having some trouble with how to go about this. What kills me is, I feel like if there was an actual hacker dead-set on getting into this account that had everything I had, like the information that the account is unverified, a corresponding email that was created retroactively or knowledge of what the password is SUPPOSED to be, this would be extremely easy.

Does anyone have any suggestions, or is the account just gone?
you’re right. We don’t live in a hellscape yet. But slow drawdown of environmental capital could bring this about. Climate change is the foremost example of this.
Not strictly true, but overall I'd say it is accurate. There are more and more companies in Germany that are becoming tech aware even though the tech is secondary and they realize there are productivity gains to be had from giving their tech employees proper tools.

Still, that's yet another version of the beancounters perspective.
Can you give an example where median([a, min, max]) is not equal to clamp(a, min, max), given max >= min?
There is a queue (7 or 8 years) to order a plane.
Both for Airbus and Boeing.

So people who ordered Boeing are stuck with it now.

If you order another plane type, you end up at the back of the queue.
I've spent significant amounts of time in left-wing circles and I've never seen anyone say anything close to that. Perhaps there are a few people on the extreme fringes who think so – you can always find one or two nutcases – but they don't represent anything near the mainstream.
I like this very neat. How did you build it?
I mean, this seems fair to me. If you want support, you have to pay for it.
It’s because heat stroke and dehydration can kill during the summer.

Punishments granted for health violations shouldn’t make the situation even more dangerous. This won’t stop parties.
You found anyone who actually believed in it and weren't just trying to scam someone?

I always though these were prank/scam videos?
Yup a lot of Age of Empire is used in the documentary. Finding that Observer material in Microfilm set them down the merry path. My father was excitedly telling me about it when they discovered it. He really couldn't believe it.
You need to fix your content. You can move to a different provider but you're just going to get blacklisted again if your emails are getting flagged as spam by automated systems or the folks you're sending email to.

I worked at a place that got blacklisted. First I looked up the list we were added to using MxToolbox. The list we were added to did not have anyway of disputing so I put together a list of email best practices for our sales people and it cleared up after about a week.
https://archive.vn/czNKW
I largely agree with the gist of your comment. I am not sure average user sees that much of a change from either of those corporate powers.

Now, there may be some interesting changes for the players and I here I am genuinely unsure, which one is least bad .

I am watching this fight unfold and see no one I am willing to back here. But.. the resulting fight may end up having good results for the customer.

Time will tell.
I feel it was just logic: nothing existed, but what is nothing? To define nothing you have to define what "something" is. So there should be something to allow the existence of nothing.
You may not be required to pay the full loan if your company goes bankrupt. A loan is a series of scheduled payments which are likely but not guaranteed to happen.
Linux has really come a long way in terms of polish, support and stability. Give it a try again!

I use Linux Mint and love it.

MS Teams, Skype and a surprisingly good list of software runs on it natively.

A Hackintosh inside VirtualBox IS a pain to setup, but pretty cool when it works. Windoz inside VirtualBox works better than ever, thanks to MS new attitude on embracing Linux.. which is still hard to wrap my head around.
> Snowden is still under the 'protection' of this dictator today.

Honest question, what do you think would have been a better choice, besides "be a hero and go to Gitmo for your service"?

Obviously, all European states are out of the question, as they wouldn't have granted Snowden political asylum, and went so far to deny Bolivia's president safe travel through their airspace on the suspicion he might have Snowden on board and then went on to search the plane after they forced them to land. That whole affair really opened my eyes to the American empire and its European provinces.

Should he have stayed in Hong-Kong, or gone to Beijing? North Korea?
The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes into View
Fun seeing that pretty much everyone else finds that idiom confusing too. Half-serious, over breakfast:

(case [(> n min) (< n max)]
[true true] n
[true false] max
[false true] min)

(Side note: Clojure's `>` and `<` are kind of unreadable to begin with. Turning `if (> n min)` into "if n is greater than min" takes some work for me, still, after more than a year.)
Buddhism often has an idealistic approach to reality. The world as separate things and individuals is considered an illusion. So the flag and wind are products of the mind individuating from a singular reality. Or something along those lines.

Or at least it means the process of knowing about the flag and the wind is a mental one.
Do you have a ballpark idea of the price?
> Do you have concrete experience for that?

Yes.

> NVIDIA driver updates (or kernel updates while using nvidia) - caused black screen... I dumped nvidia... these are due to crappy nvidia.

This is a legitimate dispute and I'm not really counting it because as much as I think Linux should have a stable driver ABI, NVidia are being needlessly obtuse.

> Ubuntu deciding to remove old libraries/apps that are not maintained. That's fixed via docker or just keeping an old version.

Which is not a simple task. Why can't keeping old software be simple? It is in sane operating systems. Hell, even Linux can do it right, as AppImage proves, but the Linux Desktop community is so hell bent on making everything as complicated as possible that they pretty much ignore AppImage.

> Major version upgrades (ubuntu 18 to 20) - here I just re-install and it's expected, I wouldn't upgrade windows 7 to 10 either...

Ubuntu LTS receives 5 years of support, but most new software will not be backported to the repository for anywhere close to that long in my experience and instead you're getting about 2 years. Windows 7 was supported for nearly 11 years and it was rare new software didn't support it for that entire time.

> you only get annoyed by those if you are a power user anyway

Precisely. Linux Desktop people seem to think that targeting people who only need a web kiosk is somehow going to make them popular, but if people who actually know about and need the features of an actual desktop computer don't like it why would they ever recommend it to anyone?
This is how you end up with poorly architected code that will be so difficult to change that development will eventually slow down, stop, or begin going backwards.
except when you're using a smart TV, or a chromecast, or the yt app on your phone, etc etc
Rocket Lab took about 7 years for Electron: for the first ~5 years after founding they did some sounding rockets and DARPA/ONR-funded non-orbital-rocket propulsion tech before pivoting. Can't remember or find when Peter Beck said they started on an orbital rocket, but they got NASA funding to do a study of the concept December 2010 [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110723113333/http://www.rocket...
Mass surveillance has a huge potential for abuse. Mass mask usage has what potential for abuse?
> One feature D stole from Ada that is an absolutely inexcusable omission in a modern programming is contract programming.

Incidentally, Walter Bright considers contracts to be a low value feature of D that he considered removing. [0][1]

[0]: https://youtu.be/p22MM1wc7xQ?t=1h34m30s

[1]: https://digitalmars.com/articles/hits.pdf
I think this is a bit of a jump

> Let’s consider how this should likely play. The loss here of Citi isn’t materially that they lose the money. It would get rolled into a loan to Revlon at the same rates. Revlon still has to pay it, just Citi has to float the time.

Neither Citi or Revlon have agreed to lend/borrow money from each other. Citi isn’t party to any of the loans Revlon has taken out (other than as a financial administrator). So why would Citi suddenly just taken on this loan to Revlon?

It would like if your bank accidentally paid off your credit card (we’ll ignore how that might actually happen). You wouldn’t suddenly have a loan agreement with your bank.

How would that work? Neither party agreed any terms. What would the interest rate be, repayment period etc?

Your bank won’t even know what agreement you had with your credit card provider, so they would need to rely on you being honest about what you owed and the interest to pay. And no they couldn’t just ask your credit card provider, that would be a massive breach of privacy.

That’s ignoring the fact there’s no guarantee that your bank can support such a loan. Even if they have the cash, they might not be able to continue meeting their regulatory capital and liquidity requirements. Especially as it would be a high risk loan (both in your hypothetical scenario and in Citi’s real scenario).

In short there are many reasons why you can’t just go “oh it’s your loan and your problem now, good luck with the hot potato”.
Sure. That is the technical definition. My point is that the rate at which cases will drop is proportional to the percent of the population that is immune. It's not a binary.
What's do you mean by "Sweden is doing it wrong"?
PeerTube's reasonably good browser interface and federation features are good reasons to use it.
The skyscrapers are what makes Central Park unique. There are millions of acres of parkland around the world. There is only one place where a park is surrounded by the most iconic skyline in the world. That contrast between the urban and the "natural" (there's little to no true wilderness in Central Park) is what makes it beautiful to me.
I'm confused why Brigade isn't being charged criminally. Any time a individual receives a transfer in error and doesn't return it, they are hauled off to jail for theft of funds.

Example:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49643015
The Suspected Poisoning of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Prominent Adversary
How to make $1M a year without a budget in B2B niche
Agreed. Though they hold their value/worth extremely well, which means you should be able to work with older, used models for quite some time.
Everyone wants Heroku but at AWS prices.
This is also nice because it gracefully handles the case where `max < min`.
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80 Questions to Answer When Starting a New Business
Part of the point seemed to be that

> free for life

tends to be for the life of the service (so typically 1-5 years), not for the life of the buyer.
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That sounds like a lot of work. Can scanning software really do that effectively and fairly without a lot of false positives? Suppose for example you post a video debunking wacky anti-gravity claims, and the AI flags it because of keywords. You'll need to appeal, waste a lot of time, and maybe eventually it'll get straightened out, but the friction will be a disincentive to even produce your content at all.
These articles about the issue were both interesting:

Matt Stoller (Journalist specializing in monopoly)
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/epic-games-kicks-off-the-...

iA (App developer)
https://ia.net/topics/monopolies-apple-and-epic
Beauty being in the eye of the beholder, 432 Park Avenue's one of my favourite pieces of contemporary architecture.

*shrug

It's so wonderfully unfussy - I particularly like the 'service floors' which are emptier to aid air-flow, reducing the swaying.

Admittedly, the skyline might be a bit dull if every building was so bluntly utilitarian, but as an exception, I find it refreshing.
They are referring to Sweden's decision to pursue herd immunity instead of a lockdown. Most countries tried or pretended to try lockdowns. Only a handful of countries have opted for Herd Immunity, so it is a controversial decision (esp because it sacrifices some people (mostly the elderly) for the good of the whole)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
So, as someone who spent a lifetime in IT, I actually enjoy the work. It gives me a way to give other companies, many more than I could normally work for, a way to benefit from that experience. Our little crew is composed of veteran IT people, all with lots of real world experience, we get the privilege of looking at lots of different companies, both the good and the bad. Which in turn gives us more knowledge.

It is anything but boring to me.
You assume that any malware that is in a position to log keyboard and clipboard events is somehow not in a position to do things like install its own trusted certificate, perform dll injection, or otherwise intercept the password anyway. Not to mention that with all the other things it has access to it might not need said password to fuck up your life.

Its a poor argument for choosing browser extensions over cut & paste because the circumstances where it has an advantage are incredibly specific.
So the vision behind operators is not what is managed but who is managing. The idea is to move operations and provisioning from humans to machines.

What should exist, is a set of standards that defines generic cloud resources, and than each cloud provider would implement a translation operator from the standard to its own CRD. Of course, the leading cloud provider has no incentive to do that since this would reduce lock in.

For example, there should be a VirtualBucket CRD which would map to AWS Bucket, Azure Container etc.

Terraform was first into this area, but terraform is still manual in nature.

I think that Pulumi uses that same code generation as Arc.
> Scenarios where aircraft strike fixed objects and remain airborne are virtually unheard of

A cable car cables are not properly fixed, still quite an impact:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_%2...
The CYA component is definitely present.
On the other hand, wifi routers could do this. Plug in a USB external hard drive, fiddle with some software, boom. (Asus includes a remote accessible file storage; other options are possible with 3rd party firmware, etc)
Yes, this exists. it is called the "Natural Number Game" and interactively teaches you to use the Lean theorem prover to prove simple theorems about addition, multiplication, and so on. It runs in the browser.

https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/xena/natural_number_gam...