skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at this article.

10.8 Billion Dollars (not million, billion with a 'b'), of which 4.6 Billion, close to half of it, went to the Government as tax payments...

And yet the article seems to imply fault of some sort that various Sacklers moved millions (millions with an 'm') -- an order of magnitude less money of their post-tax-paid-for money, when 4.6 Billion, close to half of it, went to the Government as tax payments.

I mean, with respect to the people that paid for the opioids, the Government doesn't give that tax money they collected, that $4.6 Billion back to the opioid purchasers, does it?

Also, why is it that federal investigators seem to have no problems finding all sorts of ways that big corporate entities misspend millions of dollars -- but simultaneously overlook government misspending in the billions of dollars?

I for one (and I realize my opinion is in the minority!), think the opioid addicts should get their $4.6 Billion dollars directly back from the Government -- and in cash -- not in political promises, treatment programs, hammers, or government cheese...

You know, like give them all a "hey, you were an opioid addict and here's the money we took from you (as Sackler tax money!) back as an opiod stimulus package, an opioid stimulus check!" <g>

And yes, I realize my opinions are politically incorrect. <g>
I'm not sure it's a "trick definition". We define nature by observable side effects. You are simply your observable side effects.

That's the key difference to the lollipop. Remembrance is not an observable side effect of lollipops. That tree I planted is. That person whose career I helped improve still has an improved career. Etc.

That's one of the two ways you live. The other one is the experiences you have. Sure, you can optimize for that, but as far as we all know it pretty much stops when you die. So I prefer option 1.
This seems like just an implementation detail of the idea of 3rd party stores, I don’t really see how it’s a big distinction. And Apple’s opposition to this idea would clearly be the same as the reasons it has given not to allow third party stores.
Any recommendations on home networking?

I couldn't figure out what the established approach would be to having access to the infrastructure over a consumer internet connection and without exposing the rest of the network. All resources I've seen so far don't give enough background to seem reliable.
it's same as recommending Korean "Park" for English Chinese combination, recommendations sound like gibberish
If fuel were that costly and if a plane expended a significant enough amount of it taxiing that the its range is affected, then a taxi that takes the aircraft to its takeoff position would be a no-brainer.
Commit and push to GitHub more frequently for me. Don’t wait until the pr is perfect before committing.
BTW we named are son Eugene for family reasons. We chose the English spelling as for the time being we live in the USA. The Slovak version is "Eugen" and Romanian version is "Eugeniu".
Nice - if people steal videos how is that handled on the platform? Similarly for copyright infringement such as uploading full length commercial movies. Porn?
Registered company information and/or notarised identity cards.
OTOH, vomit bags would be a lot more popular.
> post offices of the internet. Government-run

I sure hope not, who would run it in US, NSA?
densify portland -> improve tax revenue -> improve transit.
nyc certainly benefited from aristocrats and lax labor laws when building the subway, but this isnt something that is impossible for portland. trimet is already huge for a city as small as portland. improving density will only help transit services.

it doesnt have to be subways -- the willamette flood plain isnt great for subways anyway. portland should continue to build out its bus service and cycling infrastructure. portland is already pretty reasonable for living without a car, it will only improve with density.
You can donate to the foundation - https://donate.mozilla.org/
In reality I tend to do both: write example client code to think through the abstraction (some call this “README-driven development”) and then write tests once the implementation is under way. Though you can get the first as a side effect of the second, I find that good tests aren’t really good example code (too fragmented, focus on edge cases, etc.).
Or Automattic/WordPress's popular Jetpack plugin, which I thought this was for a moment. (Another Gutenberg-like interface, again?? ;) )
Also it should be easy to cross-post to LBRY from youtube
Tech worker quarantined at home builds co-working space in Second Life
> I had to put a lot of time into it (downloading/getting the CD's) then hunt for working cracks and then later deal with the consequences of installing cracks.

Did you enjoy the process? A lot of people do it for fun.
in the denser parts of portland it already is!
Seems like a top signal.
> Finally we ended up with Riya for my daughter (which is pronounced the same as the English name Rhea) and Aarav for my son, which is pronounced the same as two of the most common English words, "are" and "of."

Native English speaker from the Pacific Northwest, I would pronounce those "Ri-yuh" and "Are-rov"(I think your intended pronunciation) or maybe "A-rav", depends upon whether I knew they were of Indian decent, i.e. Rohan is "Roe-hon" not "Roe-han".

Forgive my "colloquial" phonetic annotation, I don't know how to do it properly.
These discussions always surface something: The problem with the terminology.

If you look at the arguments (including my own posts in this thread), people are basically talking about different kind of tests, with different costs and value propositions, and dumping them all under the same umbrella. The term "unit test" has been badly overloaded to mean a whole lot of stuff.

Without first categorizing type of tests, and defining what we mean by unit test, we can't even have the discussion about if it's dead, useful, whatever.

Even after defining that, there's a couple of sub groups that strictly define the value of testing based on specific criterias and ignoring others (eg: "the goal of tests is to know if you're breaking something when you refactor").

Tests have a LOT of benefits, and different type of tests get a different subset of these benefits, at varying cost. Without those definitions and associated tradeoffs, the discussion is basically a waste of time. You can see it in this thread: people are going "TDD is XYZ and the purpose is ABC". And you have about 6 variations of XYZ and ABC. Everyone is sure their version is the right one. Myself included.
You're right! I package public trained models for natural language queries (https://github.com/paulfitz/mlsql/), and the models are bad at saying they don't know. I'm optimistic though. There's significant year-on-year improvement (driven by real progress in NLP), and the training datasets are getting more interesting. There are now conversational datasets (e.g. https://yale-lily.github.io/cosql) where the model is trained to ask follow-up questions, and an explicit goal is "system responses to clarify ambiguous questions, verify returned results, and notify users of unanswerable or unrelated questions". That could be a big win.
You can have a searchable index of content without blockchain. The web has searchable content indexes without blockchains for almost my entire lifetime. What does a blockchain actually solve here? Without a blockchain, at a bare minimum, all you would need is for creators to post signed content to an index, and anyone can verify the content with the creator's public key. Whether a piece of published content has a hash that precedes the previous one seems irrelevant.
Army robo-teammate can detect, share 3-D changes in real-time
They'll probably continue to co-exist: Flutter is a Declarative UI product by the Dart team, Jetpack Compose is a Declarative UI product by the Android org. Google has no problem having multiple competing products by different orgs unless one org manages to absorb the other.

Dart has survived this long so that doesn't seem on the cards.
The work has come much down by many orders of magnitude. It's possible to have digital ocean/cloud type experiences locally.. pretty reasonably.
There's support in hardware tokens to consider too.
fuck facebook and fuck their implications ... I really, really hope this is finally actually a change that puts a dent into ad monetization.
The fuse replacement is super interesting. So you’d basically have a user space utility that provides NFS<->fs bridging? Would you support the existing fuse API? What does NFS not allow that Fuse would, if anything?

Thanks for your contribution!
I was referring to the app that didn't have Slovak nor Romanian...
Yeah, most Christian names are going to have similar names across Europe. Victor is a good one since it varies very little, I think it's Victor or Viktor in most European languages.
Elephants vs. trains: This is how AI helps ensure they don't collide
But what's available on the network isn't permanent.

How do you handle when a video stops getting hosted? Does it just keep showing up in search results, and then give an error whenever anyone tries to view it?

And if that's not the case -- if an unhosted, missing video can be removed from the blockchain by adding a revoke transaction or something, then how is it censorship resistant? If entries can be removed from search results when they go missing, haven't you just created a shared database where objectionable content can be removed from search for everyone at once?

That seems strictly worse than Peertube. At least on Peertube if you want to remove a video you'll need to target all of the instances that are mirroring it; you can't just attack one ledger that everyone is forced to use.
Your electricity usage footprint might outpace the savings that appear to be the case up front.

Separating your storage as an appliance/service (dedicated NAS with low power usage) is worth running a comparison on.
you need to consider headwinds which could make it much slower than 1/3 the speed.
Reading Strategy: Write Down a Question per Page
Great idea! Was just doing something like this manually, so this is a neat resource. I'd love to see the intersection of three languages, though.
> I've yet to encounter a single Flutter app in the wild. I'm not aware of anything mainstream using it.

In their showcase page they have a bunch of popular apps: https://flutter.dev/showcase
Norway may be scarcely populated but if you piss out the few people living there they will make pressure to their government which will forbid flyovers. I don't think it will be hard for them to argue that entitled business people having to quickly travel the other part of the world have no right negatively affecting their quality of life.
Potential Unseen Cause of IPO Mayhem
Airbnb, Ant, Asana, Snowflake, Palantir, and more are all going public. They are probably chasing after a hot stock market and who is to fault them. But for years these companies have been able to remain private and raise ungodly sized Series E, F, and Gs and so the public markets weren't interesting. Especially as these companies ran deficits in the hundreds of millions (looking at you Uber). Now in the Covid economy financials have taken even more of a back seat as public companies thrive despite the existing macroeconomic conditions. If this latest IPO batch is chasing after that same financial ignorance that is a problem for our financial system as a whole. It almost seems that the public market is actually more risk seeking than the private one in the Covid economy! Don’t these valuations have to come back down to earth eventually and could that eventually break something in the system?

Analysis of these new IPOs still has to be done on a case by case basis and I'm sure the wonderful investment banks of our world have a plan to get all of these stocks to pop on their first day. I wonder if this is also the end of the trend of large venture backed companies staying private for too long. Is it really a good thing for companies to come out before they are ready?

Maybe I am harping on something that is not actually that big a deal but it's at the very least an interesting thought.
I think you're right in the short term, but in the long term, if everyone does it, I think it runs the risk of actually providing enough supply to drive the rents down by a significant amount. Maybe enough to reduce profits vs the original $4000 ranch. I feel like this is as significant as the other reasons why denser housing has been opposed.
The latter is the key point. Considering all the controversy there is on Youtube about individual videos getting demonetized, I don't see why creators would move to platform that doesn't even pay to start with, or even worse you have to pay to use (Vimeo).

Those platform definitely have a purpose, but replacing Youtube is not one of them. They're fine for putting fun video to share with friends and family, but if you want to be a content creator and make a living from it, there isn't an alternative. If you already have a huge following and make most of your money from Patreon, maybe you can move, although you'd lose a lot of viewers.
Ah Vim, one of the root causes of my imposter syndrome. (The others are CSS Grid, and Kubernetes)
Integration, E2E, and smoke tests are generally slow, flakey, hard to write. They should not cover/duplicate all the cases your unit tests cover.

They are good at letting you know all your units are wired up and functioning together. In all the codebases I've ever worked in, I would feel way more comfortable deleting them vs deleting the unit tests.
I track hurricanes near land using phone barometers. This is Dorian- Laura next
A traditional router can be enough to start with depending on what you're after.

If you want a local VPN without too much fuss, Ubiquiti gear is popular, including the EdgeRouter X gear for off the shelf configuration.

A lot of this stuff is pretty neat these days, set it up once, forget it as long as it's supported and updated from the vendor.
In the german Bible the name is actually written: Sem. But I havent yet met a person named Sem.
> But I think asking the user to signal agreement before installing and especially allowing another app store is the right way, given how sensitive it is. Maybe it should be made easier, but it's far less onerous than the Apple case.

I don't think so. That's mostly FUD in my opinion, since apps installed from Google Play can do the exact same amount of evil stuff as anything downloaded from an external site. Since Android/iOS already have sandboxing and per-app permissions, the only benefit to having a single distributor is the potential of having that application scanned for malware before you downloaded it. The same thing can be accomplished without a separate antivirus app, like you'd see on Windows. In fact, I think Windows Defender is a good model for how Google and Apple could provide the same (purported) security guarantees while still allowing third-party stores. Play Protect (I think) does that already, but it also mainly functions as a wall of scary warnings/deterrent to competition.

> Steam doesn't do the API review/sandboxing component of App Stores. An installed game technically has access to everything. Even Linux packaging has API review (due to open source) and modern packaging often has integration with AppArmor/SELinux. Steam are essential for Linux gaming, but I wish they improved their deployment to be more secure.

True that Steam is kind of questionable when it comes to security, but that's more the fault of the desktop operating systems which don't have sandboxing built-in. I too would like to see increased usage for things like SELinux/AppArmor, but that seems a bit hopeless. Valve can't just ship a kernel module alongside Steam, and I doubt Canonical is going to start shipping SELinux with Ubuntu Desktop (the support forums would explode).

I think Microsoft added sandboxing features to UWP apps, but that's its own can of worms. If you make a UWP app, you need to distribute it through the Microsoft app store, and you need to deal with a lot of the same BS that Apple and Google are being sued for.
Fascinating!

>I have never in my life heard anyone talk about having 'more or less police'

I've personally known quite a few homeless people (and been one!) that had been repeatedly displaced by police that spoke at length about how they'd prefer fewer police, since the demolition of homeless camps are often perceived as being for show or just something that happened because officers were bored and simply had nothing to do that day.

They perceived it as being for show since they'd often be able to reconstruct the camp the very next day and largely be left alone for weeks or even months afterward.

I also know a woman that had a seriously dangerous stalker that had friends in the local police that somehow had the clout to send officers to her home on a whim. She's been arrested multiple times without ever being convicted of anything, usually not even charged at all. One time, she was 5150'd (mandatory 72 hour psychiatric evaluation) while in the middle of serving cake at her son's birthday because the stalker (who was about 300 miles away on that day) called his buddies and said she'd threatened suicide. She was able to produce proof on the scene that she hadn't contacted him at all, but was taken in anyway.

She has personally expressed on many occasions that she wished the police stuck to a more strictly defined set of duties so that there would be less opportunity for an abuser to use his connections to use them as his own personal harassment squad, which includes a reduction in total numbers of police presence.

I suppose we just know different people!

Re: My thought about posses.

>This has nothing to do with anything.

I felt as though I explained the connection in the next paragraph, but I'm more than happy to explain in more detail how a person could in some situation prefer the presence of trained police than state-funded posses that have considerably less oversight and accountability. If you could clarify why you think this is incorrect, I am more than happy to discuss this further.

> most Black communities are actually under policed, not over policed.

Can you expand on this? I'd love more data on this point. If you're referencing the poll itself, you'll see that I already am skeptical about how it should be interpreted.
You should take a look at "Founding Sales: The Early-Stage Go-To-Market Handbook"[0] by Pete Kazanjy.

I haven't read the book myself, but I know some of the other books Holloway has published are high quality and filled with great advice.

Disclaimer: I am writing an unrelated book that will be published on Holloway early next year.

[0]: https://www.holloway.com/b/founding-sales
My preferred solution is UBI + no gambling with the UBI rule. Similar effect in this area (ignoring all the other wonderful benefits a UBI has) but without the nastiness of a net worth rule.
I appreciate Alan Watts' perspective, loosely summarized as:

eons passed before you were born...

you'll live maybe a handful of decades...

... and eons will pass after you're gone.

Most people aren't freaked out by the "before", so why not take a similar attitude towards the "after"?

This only relates to existential dread per se (vs eg entirely rational concern for the well-being of your surviving dependents, for example), but I like it.
Amount of times this has been an issue with using Winrar for 15+ years : zero.

I'm amazed at all the comments calling for 7zip as the one and only. winrar works just fine so does windows zip function. If you have an edge case, yeah then you need something that can handle it.
Over engineering
It’s English in the sense that it’s a common name in England and other English-speaking cultures. Just like “them” is an English word despite originally coming from Norse.
I imagine these people under indictment thought the same way as you.
SpaceX will launch Masten’s first lander to the moon in 2022
Aren't those closer to Netflix, where you have to be a cherry picked creator to have your content on there?
Yes. https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al...

(Disclaimer: I work at YT)
What about trilingual? :)
It already had more orders than required to break even. Development on the aircraft was also completed (and it was FAA/EASA certified) when Airbus took over.

I'm failing to see how this wasn't a sure bet...
You're right, apparently Concorde used bottled oxygen for the passengers and cabin crew too. I didn't find any information about how long that was meant to last though.
iOS 14 has a prompt for third party tracking.[1] It isn't off by default.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/22/apple-ios-14-ad-tracking/
> 90% chance we'll have AGI* in 50 years? I would bet money against that prediction if I could.

You cannot make a bet on a statement of probability. It's unfalsifiable (unless, within the next 50 years, someone finds a way to take a random sample of the multiverse).
Depends on exactly what type of observation you're doing and how big your telescope is. A lot of telescopes use CCD sensors which are more sensitive but have a bad side effect in that once a pixel saturates it starts to bleed into adjacent pixels causing massive horizontally or vertically oriented blooms that white out a bunch of pixels.
Salesforce Fires 1k on Day Its Stock Soars to All Time High
- English name
- Jacobo

Ahem...Biblical names can be traced to almost older than English, at least in romances.

jacob <-> Jacobo, Santiago

Noah <-> Noé

George <-> Jorge

Also, Martín is French origin I think.
What about blame for the DEA and the classification of stimulants that cause doctor to fear losing their license?
Pirating GPL-licensed software is explicitly allowed by the GPL. That's kind of the whole point of the GPL, to ensure that that stays true.
BSD is a unix-like operating system the same as Linux. They're unrelated in the same way two brands of skateboards are unrelated.
Novel 3D-printed device demonstrates enhanced capture of CO2 emissions
How can you do that? Don't you need a proper static IP from the ISP unless you have some sort of a mega business connection?

Edit: thanks for the responses, I didn't know this was even possible.
Copyright Office Adds DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games
Off-the-shelf rack servers are the worst with noise level, so I personally don't recommend that for a homelab. With my latest upgrade I went custom for this reason. You can build a quiet ATX-based NAS with fairly cheap consumer/gamer-grade components these days.

Using a Rosewill 4U ATX enclosure (RSV-L4312); replaced the stock case fans with Noctua NF-A12/NF-A8 (120mm / 80mm). It's extremely quiet, and now I have a full custom 4U with hot swappable drives, while still maintaining plenty of airflow.

My only gripe is the quality of Rosewill case isn't what I'm used to with enterprise-grade or even gamer-grade chassis. I really wish other companies would get into the homelab space and start making quality ATX rack-mounted chassis. I think there's a decent sized DIY market for this.
Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

Or unions.

While teachers unions have been great for teachers, they've been lousy for teaching.
I stayed active on CouchSurfing from then on, and was also able to host in Japan and Taiwan! It's a great community, with meetups as well if you're not travelling but still want to hang out with interesting people.

In May 2020 though, CouchSurfing started charging subscription fees. The community is outraged, and most people are moving to BeWelcome.org and Trustroots. BeWelcome has some online meetups as well, if you feel like coming and chatting.

So yes - I am still doing hospitality exchange, and would certainly try to do so on a trip like this.
If you've ever seen someone good at a Bloomberg terminal it is incredible what they can do. Think of it like vim for finance.
Non-obvious remote work techniques