skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's an example of the syntax of this? I remember seeing a graybeard do something like this to huck some files to another machine.
> What you're proposing is essentially a oligarchy lead by the Supreme Court.

Overall agree that we shouldn't be throwing members of Congress in jail over good-faith disagreements of constitutionality, etc.

However, "Supreme Court oligarchy" is a stretch. Even if their rulings could send lawmakers to jail.

Amending the Constitution is always an option, and that's a 100% Legislative (Federal + 38 States) action that neither the courts nor the President can block.

With enough consensus, the Legislature (and by proxy, the electorate) technically have all the power.

1. Constitutional + simple majority + Presidential support = law.

2. Constitutional + 2/3 majority = law.

3. Unconstitutional + 2/3 majority + 38 states = law.

But, broad consensus among the electorate is hard to come by these days, especially on contentious issues.

Instead, both parties rail against "activist judges", stack the courts every opportunity they get, and regularly pass laws/programs with debatable constitutionality to constantly push the boundaries.

This is likely the correct "play to win" strategy too. I just wish people played the game as intended.

So, definitely understand the appeal for some sort of "punishment" against bad faith lawmaking, etc. Even if untenable in reality.
Possibly this: https://www.vox.com/2017/8/20/16167870/aclu-hate-speech-nazi...
I can tell you the one time I ever worked on a subclassed React component (large codebase too-- so it was a unique situation), it was not a joy.
This is great :D
> IIUC the American President's pardon power is based on the British monarch's pardon power.

Perhaps, but there are parallels in other democracies.

>That would require every judge in every court up to the highest court to be bad.

Technically, only the highest court would need to be bad, and it can order the others around.
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It may be competing with freight, instead of fedex. Auto parts don't always fit in a Priority (Small) box.
> Conclusion ... monotonicity serves as the foundation of deterministic parallelism

That's what the recent CALM Theorem [1] paper uses as the first theorem:

> Monotonicity is the key property underlying the need for coordination to establish consistency, as captured in the CALM Theorem:

> THEOREM 1. Consistency As Logical Monotonicity (CALM). A problem has a consistent, coordination-free distributed implementation if and only if it is monotonic.

Unsurprisingly, this paper is reference 32 in CALM. Maybe I should check out some other papers referenced here... Thanks for the recommendation!

[1]: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/9/246941-keeping-calm/fu...
Is there a streamlike tool (a la sed, gzip, etc) that applies forward error correction? I've been looking for such a thing but can't find one that scratches the itch.
Democrats have been working on it for over a decade. Even George W Bush engaged in some consent decrees, under the auspices Joe Biden's 1994 crime bill.

It's only in the past 4 years that the Federal government stopped trying to reduce police brutality and started openly encouraging it.
Because the people with the same attitude as that guy are—mindboghlingly—in power.

There are plenty of people who reject that rhetoric. That's what BLM is, as a currently-relevant, specific example.

The problem is the aforementioned undermining and exploitation of selfish and self-serving attitudes and actions has led to an unreasonably large base on the other side, giving the illusion (at least to you) that nobody is rejecting it.
I share a name with a famous person and my first and last name are also my email address (@ a certain mail service) and I often get receipts for things he’s purchased as well as personal correspondence. When it’s a person I always respond and say that unfortunately I’m not the person they’re looking for just so they know.
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https://fortune.com/2018/07/05/aclu-membership-growth/

https://reason.com/2019/04/12/the-aclu-defends-the-rights-of...

https://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/commentary/the-acl...
Bike courier with checkered past, simultaneously on the run from organized crime clans and mercenaries working for retired spies, probably has mirror shade implants, lives in squat, punk haircut, etc.

Didn't realize there was another way.
I don't see how this isn't paid for by the taxpayer. You say the cops should pay for it themselves, but we give the cops every dollar they have so who is really paying when it's your dollar being given to the cop to be given to an insurance provider?

In truth right now, departments self insure for malpractice and spend a ton of money on litigation. They don't care how much it costs, the taxpayer always pays. You can actually get fired after being sued and you just get hired in a department the next town over, because malpractice insurance isn't going to do squat about the boys club mentality that pollutes American police departments. Doctors never protect their own over malpractice like the police routinely do, so we shouldn't even entertain using the model doctors use when it's apples and oranges to begin with.
The donate button at the bottom of the page is telling.
I'm thinking of raising the quality so that their next gen submarine will be on par with Russian submarine or even American.
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depending what you are doing, I find remote desktop solutions to be pretty good. However, multi monitor can be problematic.
Yeah I've got a 6 digit semi-common name Gmail account (from the invite-only days) and the amount of junk I get to it is mind blowing. Not "spam", that gets filtered pretty well by Google these days, but emails specifically sent to me but not for "me" personally like TFA talks about.

100+ emails a week in my primary inbox that are from people signing up to random stuff in my name, basically any/every service you can imagine where I don't already have my own account (large social networks and sites in countries other than me own, online shopping sites, etc).

The other interesting thing is I seem to get a LOT of email for addresses that "almost" match mine, as though Gmail is doing fuzzy-search for addresses? Eg lets say my email is "david@gmail.com", I get dozens of emails a week for "david.17@gmail.com" and "davidab@gmail.com" and stuff like that. I can't explain this one, and everyone I bring it up with says it shouldn't be possible.

It's gotten to the point where I've created a more normal fullname@gmail.com and then do some filters/forwarding on the old one for the more important emails, then just check the old one every couple weeks to see if I missed anything, because it's just not usable anymore with notifications on.
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Oops, in the above comment, I meant “I disagree that removing pre existing conditions was NOT revolutionary”.
It seems it would take about 15 minutes for a signaling mechanism to emerge. Cars that had a particular shield sticker left of the license plate would not be stopped. (The display of such stickers would probably be protected speech.)
A spouse making another 150k is a big assumption. It's mostly males living in such places.
I would flip everything around: At scale, doesn't a private enterprise run out of money to support large codebases?

This isn't a facetious suggestion. Every employer I've had in the industry has been drowning under their heavy codebases. They have massive amounts of vendored dependencies, and long tails of single-author modules. The bigger employers have to create special teams just for pruning codebases and cleaning up after old projects.

And they're losing the battles. Code sprawls between multiple cloud vendors. Services exist in ecosystems so large that they have echo chambers, network effects, and politics. New languages are slowly introduced and even more slowly removed, with most code being written in mid-level glue modules. Code ontology and navigation is primitive and limited to indexed search.

What makes FLOSS different? Political discussions have to bring technical justifications to the table, mostly; this is Linus' famous "talk is cheap, so show me the code" slogan. The openness of collaboration ensures that CI systems, code repositories, and other shared services are available to folks, although this is still a cultural situation that isn't quite uniform yet. (There's too many folks who only publish tarballs and don't share the rest of their infrastructure, which is fine but not very collaborative.)

The resulting ecosystem can directly and openly compare codebases, and deprecate code which is shown to be inferior or unsafe or otherwise undesirable. We have shown an ability to not just change code artifacts, but the protocols and languages which we use to communicate, at a very rapid rate.
Honestly many of them are in larger cities.
“Any questions class?”

“How do you sleep at night?”
Why not use Syncthing or Resilio Sync for LAN parties?
We used a birthing center, twice. In conjunction with medical insurance from a large local employer, the births and associated pre/post-natal visits each cost us $500 out-of-pocket roughly a decade ago.

The insurer, not surprisingly, was happy to have us pursue that route. Hence including pre/post-natal care in the bundle.

Now, the birthing center screened for low-risk mothers and we were indeed lucky. Still, a considerable fraction of the population should be able to to access, at low cost, "technology" that we have exercised as a species since time immemorial.
Or we could just eliminate cash bail, for everyone. It's been eliminated in my state for most crimes, and they are trying it out in other states as well. It's not perfect, but it results in a lot less people in jail because they can't pay, and it hasn't made us any less safe.

Otherwise, I don't think you're going to solve the issue of "people only donating bail money to people they like." Because people are going to spend money the way they want.
Possibly also considered a parody.
Right. I'll only add that it's not really an "internet idea". It's a highly idealized, cartoon version of science that has been part of my education since long before I was on the internet.
Laptops (and for that matter mobile SoCs) are smaller, so higher defect rates can be tolerated as you can still get reasonable yields. you need a mature process to manufacture large chips (economically).
How do you evaluate PayPal's competition? In particular, what is anyone's experience with Stripe.

I am trying to implement payments on my site. I tried PayPal but found Stripe to be easier to deal with.
Sorry to hear that. As a fellow 'OG' gmail user, I feel your pain, but between the constant 2-3 daily unsubscribe hits and many many Gmail filters it is actually manageable and usable.

Google's "targeted-journalist-level" Advanced Protection Program means I don't have to worry about password resets or account recovery stuff on the account.

Though I have lost track of the number of services I didn't have immediate access to since someone signed up using my email address, and reclaiming it can be a battle sometimes. The Apple ID was interesting - but luckily everyone's "first pet's name" was "Fido"... (Seriously... Please validate your emails everyone!!!)

Often, whenever a real mailing address is included I print out the email and send it in a real letter with a friendly (if just a tad passive-aggressive) note inside. But overall I try to do the right thing for important documents and correspondence.

I do shudder to think how many random accounts are just an email-password-reset away from having access though...
I should have said that it seems like the wrong fix to the problem. But I have since learned that limits can cause excessive throttling. And of course you may want your pods to be burstable, but that would just be a question of setting appropriate limits.

Live and learn!
r/Chodi wala ho kya?

I've always heard they ban people. Never seen any proof.

They ban people that abuse directly at a user I think. Or do personal promotion/spam.
Not if it causes them to spend more on costlier healthcare in the future.
This is incorrect. It becomes impossible to say "no" 100% of the time. It's very possible to say no occasionally. Indeed, if everyone said "no" when not overly awkward, it would make a world of difference.

If everyone was willing to pay even an extra buck for a microwave based on free software, market economics would push for 95% of microwaves to run free software.

And if everyone picked banks which ran on free software, being willing to give up just 0.1% interest, every bank would run 100% free software.

If everyone who could afford to pay for a free Google Docs clone did so, we'd have nice alternatives. I don't know the adoption, but it'd be enough to sustain a company.

And for video conferences, I'd never move a business meeting, but I do pick freedom-preserving technologies when I set up meetings, and many of my friends do as well. No one has ever commented on it.
OMG some guy has signed me up for EVERYTHING from Home Depot to every dating site, to porn sites to cheating sites. It's absurd. I get daily emails from these services still even with unsubscribes and blocks. They're insessant.
Agreed, I was also looking into DDC/CI for input switching my 2017 XB271HU, and mine works for brightness but definitely not input switching. Meanwhile my 2019 HP Z27 supports the full protocol, so I had to drop the idea
I have played with Voicemeter for this. You can stream the audio back and forth between machines. And one of them is always connected to the speakers. And you can mix between the two as well.

https://www.vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/vban.htm
The Hurdy-Gurdy would also be interesting to see in such songs.
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A federal court issues the actual order to appear, after 2/3 of a committee or a majority of the house or senate votes to compel a witness to attend.

The witness cannot plead the fifth but they also cannot be prosecuted for anything they say.

And yes 2/3 of a committee is a small number of people.
This assumes there are equivalent free software options each time, at only slight disadvantages. That's pretty frequently not the case.

Even if you want to claim there exists a stable configuration with all those true, there's still a bootstrapping problem to get there, and we're certainly not past that point right now.
We have tons of preferential treatment in our justice system, it's not really a secret. For example, economic preferential treatment. If you have lots of money, you can get out on bail easily. If you're poor, you may lose your job, maybe your kid (social services), etc, if you can't afford bail. If you get arrested on some minor charge and you have $80 cash in your wallet, you can be released immediately rather than wait overnight for a judge to arraign you in the morning. Did you know foreign nationals can buy residency in U.S.? Not citizenship, but residency; I think it's ~$300,000.

Unlike Lady Justice, cops are not blind at all - they can pick and choose when to enforce the law. I forget what it's called, but the police are literally given the option for some laws to just not enforce the law if they don't want to. If the cop is in a good mood, they can decide to just let it slide. If they're in a bad mood (or they don't like the color of your skin) they might prefer to enforce it.
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> Do you have a source on this?

This is a late reply so you might not see it, but:

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-lego-made-a-huge-turn...

> The only reason Lego survived during this difficult time was due to the success of the Bionicle and “Star Wars” series. The first “Star Wars” Lego kits launched in 1999 and represented the company’s first foray into licensed series, many of which became integral to the company

Infographic showing the revenue curve before/after licensed sets were introduced:

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2024/01/in_lego...
I experimented with Windows Remote Desktop for a couple days, it worked fine for coding, even with multi monitor. It was definitely a noticeable lag but didn't bug me too much. But I probably should have remoted into the desktop from the laptop instead of the other way around.
Ask HN: How to protect private group chat from corporate or state espionage?
That's people getting scammed into migrant labor. Hardly a choice they'd make if they knew the facts.

I don't see a parallel to someone buying a premium device, at a premium price, expecting—and getting—a premium experience. Apple respects the trust their customers have afforded them, and rightfully keeps potentially-hostile third parties from detracting from that experience.
I have considered it. The one thing about Syncthing is that there is no true readonly way to sync. For example, someone may accidentally extract an archive in the Syncthing folder and it will sync everywhere. If Syncthing gets this feature I think I would be 100% onboard with it for LAN parties.

Resilio I believe supports it but I would prefer an opensource alternative.

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/62
That may be more likely with limits, but it doesn’t require a limit. I’ve had lots of fun with that in Elasticsearch pods with no limit. And then you get to enjoy a nice cascading failure.
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I hate to say it but free software has eaten everywhere many programmers want to work. If you want to work in operating systems, frameworks, databases, editors, tools, compilers, etc, you’d better be willing to do it on your own time. If you’re like top 10, you’ll get picked to work for the big leagues and make money doing it. Meanwhile the paying gigs are the things that either are services or can’t be open sourced.

I guess I’m just sad that all the tools conpanies are gone or shells of their former selves. Borland, Symantec, etc. New ones pop up but there’s no money in support.

Companies are making huge money on their services that are 90% open source and 10% special sauce that they don’t contribute back. We’ve seen how they’ll spend $300,000+ per programmer but won’t pay $10,000/year for a tool or framework. It’s like the economics are messed up now.
> Why would you prosecute people who were given permission by the relevant authorities?

Because the “relevant authorities” didn’t have the legal right to give that permission.

No one is allowed to decide to torture people - it’s illegal even if your boss says it’s okay.
You mean auto body parts, right?
They can retire at 55 and get paid that salary for the rest of their lives. You also appear to be incorrect: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/04/23/polic...
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The other option that Matt Levine has been writing about more lately is no longer having integer number of shares (jedberg’s precision question is similar).

Amusingly, there are folks who take the other side of this argument, and very drastically like Scott Kupor at Andreessen Horowitz [1]

> How did this happen? Because decimalization reduced the “tick size,” the minimum increment in which stock prices can trade, to a penny (from its previous level of 25 cents). Thus, a trader who previously might have purchased a block of small-cap shares knowing that a $0.25 tick size likely represented his minimum profit potential on a trade now found his minimum profit potential reduced to a penny. Facing this uneconomic situation, small-cap traders simply abandoned the market, killing liquidity for these stocks.

More recently, that was testimony to the SEC [2]. It’s certainly true that small-cap / illiquid stocks are illiquid. But it seems like the argument is “we should intentionally have market inefficiency for market makers to collect so that we have more liquidity”. Maybe someone here knows more about the tick size pilot mentioned?

[1] https://blog.pmarca.com/2013/03/26/unshackle-the-middle-clas...

[2] https://a16z.com/2019/06/20/capital-formation-smaller-compan...
Talk openly about wanting things to improve.

Contact your local representivies.

Encourage others.
Sure, it would be transparency.

Why don't they just break down how every percent is allocated?

How much is food? How much is electricity? How much is grey-market nootropics?
Thank you! This is great.
Story time: I never considered my email to be OG as it contains at least two digits after firstLast but I've experienced the same thing. A man very well off man from Texas has assumed my email as his own, shared it with his entire extended family and booked hotels and flights using it.

At some point both his wife has asked me what I thought about a forwarded message from their mortgage broker and his brother in-law asked me my input on buying a 30ft yacht and what to name it.

I always ignore the serious ones for obvious ethical reasons but can't help myself with the more innocent cases. I've found I quite enjoy giving non-commital responses to these emails that won't give up the gig but also don't help them either, things like: "that seems pricey" or "cool! What are you going to name her?", and "she's a beaut!".

I suspect it will go on for a while.
So I own a domain that is very similar to a ballet company for children in Florida and once, a mid-sized CEO emailed me PDF images with credit card details!

I tried reaching out, but my email was probably ignored because they thought it was a scam.

I'm sure that sending that info insecurely at least... violates mastercard agreements? I dunno. I just hope people checked and double-checked what emails they send.
To be honest, it seems like if a tow truck had to be called out to tow you, the tow company has earned something even if they didn’t tow you to impound.
I have an uncommon last name OG email address. One time, I got someone's rental car reservation. A few months later, I got something from the agency about the car being in a crash. A few months after that, I got an email from a collection agency.

Luckily, I didn't have any issues. I just wrong a short, blunt email saying this is the wrong email address, I have no relationship with this company, and they realized the mistake and left me alone. That said, this was a European rental car company (and a European collector, I assume). The American ones might have been more aggressive.
Some are "loan-translations" like war paint, peace pipe, great white father, paleface, firewater.

Mario Pei in "The Story of the English Language" estimates that 1700 English words have an American Indian origin.
A market maker tries to keep market neutral, but obviously that's impossible to do continuously. So they try to limit their exposure by being hedged all the time.
The simplest hedge is obviously to hedge a stock against itself and thus not hold any inventory, but that is often impossible. A different way of hedging would be to hedge against correlated stocks based on a model you have.

For example, a market maker could see stock A and B be quoted at a certain price, and because they have some correlation with stock C, the market maker can quote stock C based on the price of A and B; knowing if they get filled on their quote with C, that they would be fast enough to get a hedge in A and B. Conversely, if quotes for A or B move, they know they can be fast enough to adjust their quote for C.

If markets did not trade continuously, there would be no (soft) guarantee to the market maker that if they got filled on C that the quotes for A and B would still be there, and thus you would see less liquidity in all stocks because of this.
RobustProgramming.ps[0] is a great presentation by Stratus
Computers about error handling for writing reliable systems.

I posted it to HN[1] a few years ago.

[0] ftp://ftp.stratus.com/vos/doc/papers/RobustProgramming.ps

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13678251