skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banks are complicit and profit immensely from helping criminals launder huge amounts of money.

They helped Mexican drug gangs launder $378 billions for example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico...

And they just get slapped with a small fee, then continue with the same behavior.
Obviously the energy waste and general inefficiencies of bitcoin / current crypto implementations are valid points, but I have some thoughts on some other points here:

> The ability for the government to censor transactions to terrorists, rogue states and oppressive governments is a good thing.

While that statement is true, I think it's important to keep in mind the context of how current "terrorists, rogue states and oppressive governments" are using fiat currencies. Governments do currently have the ability to censor those transactions, yet they are still operating.

> Inflation doesn't affect people who own assets, including real estate and equities, so long as wages keep pace with inflation. They have.

I don't know how valid the statement of "they have" is here. At least in the United States, real wages have not [0]. Besides, to my knowledge there is no rule in cryptocurrencies that says inflation does not or can not exist, so I don't think this is a counterpoint to the benefits of cryptocurrencies.

> I want my currency to be subject to "government coercion" when the courts say so.

This is a personal desire of yours.

> I for one do want the government to be able too regulate, control and trace transactions.

While this is also a personal desire of yours, I think I will also reference my first point of how governments are not doing a very good job of this today with fiat currencies.

Overall I think its obvious there are downsides to the current use and implementations of cryptocurrencies, but I think the value of them not being tied to any central agency is the key ideal and make them worthwhile.

[0] - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
Does anyone know enough about Stripe's product lines to comment on what the following paragraph means?

"My view on Stripe’s business prior to joining was “Stripe is basically a B2B SaaS company with extremely reliable capture of upside when users succeed.” I believe that substantially underappreciates the actual business. Large portions of Stripe’s business add another loop on top of the B2B SaaS loop, where Stripe is effectively indexing on its ability to grow the count and success of customers who are themselves structurally equivalent to B2B SaaS companies."

The "reliable capture of upside when users succeed" seems to be referring to the fees charged by Stripe. More revenue for the user means more revenue for Stripe as well. I don't know what the "effectively indexing" sentence refers to. Is there a network effect at play here, where being on Stripe encourages a user's customers and suppliers to also be on Stripe? Or is there a product offering that somehow creates that effect?

And then there's another loop mentioned later, which is presumably a product in development, and not something anyone involved with can comment on. (But I would love to hear about it if you could.)
Amazon unveils its Rivian-made electric delivery van with cool interior
Yeah, I think is the one I have too - it has S90V, right? Not a huge fan, I need to sell mine.
I would not go further than associating an October exit date as someone who took a buyout, and anyone with an exit date in the first half of 2021 as a sucker.
I have not, only since the latest "health supplements" scam of our time is exactly these kinds of "healthy mushroom boosters". Claiming all kinds of insane health benefits from "mushroom extract" etc. But wrapping it in an earthy Goop-esque marketing cascade targeting rich house-wives and wall street types. You'd be surprised how much BS wall street types fall for (even when something is just priced idiotically high), for instance Molekule air purifiers (literally fake science and work half as well as a $12 HEPA filter) and anything made by Dyson haha.
But what if Polish government will abuse its position? I propose to add the Kazakh government to the council to balance things out a little bit.
It's crazy what we need to do these days just to surf the web!

I do this:

VPN on at all times

Firefox as the main browser

Firefox enhanced tracking protection set to Strict

Firefox containers enabled to isolate specific sites when I do want to log into them (Google...)

Everything set to be deleted (cookies, cache etc) when I close Firefox

Allowed cookies for a handful of sites I want to keep being logged into

DuckDuckGo as the main search

uBlock Origin on with default blocklists. I really love the "element picker" feature which allows me to remove annoying elements
> A software engineer paying for full price for high premium plan on COBRA would be spending around $400

Last time I continued health insurance via COBRA, I paid nearly $2k a month in premiums alone.
Apple made ProtonMail add in-app purchases, had been free for years
No, actually i think when Trump gets voted out (most likely) we are going to all see the power of American Democracy on display. Idiot got in who won the vote, and then he got voted out by the people and left without a hitch. No other large country in the world would be able to handle that
the link you provided is talking about business loans, not mortages.

the original claim was "women couldn't even sign a mortgage in the US in the 70s".

that is a false claim.
Not using your business as a political platform is not the same as supporting the status quo. The "if you're not with us, you're against us" stance is definitely polarizing and is not making things better.
Rust doesn’t support object inheritance (only traits). It also doesn’t have function overloads or default arguments. Qt relies heavily on all of these C++ features; inheritance is fundamental to how Qt works (for example, it is impossible to respond to mouse/keyboard events without subclassing to override virtual methods), and function overloads with default arguments are used everywhere. As a result, it’s a struggle to shoehorn this object model into Rust.

rust-qt[0] doesn’t support inheritance at all, so you can only connect to things in Qt which accept callbacks using slots. It requires `'static` lifetime on those callbacks, so as far as I can tell you are also forced to use `Rc`s whenever you are doing something with a rust-qt object even if you should be able to use a plain reference. The code is auto-generated, so all APIs are `unsafe`, and no function overloads means names are gross because the function signatures must be expressed in the function name (e.g. the `QMessageBox` constructor[1] becomes `QMessageBox::from_icon2_q_string_q_flags_standard_button_q_widget`). This could be improved by using `Option`s for arguments with defaults, but right now this is what it looks like.

qmetaobject-rs[2] has some support for inheritance but as far as I can tell it’s limited to a couple of base types only. It’s also designed around using QML, so it doesn’t actually expose most of the Qt API. As such I don’t have too much experience with it.

I’m unaware of any other usable Rust Qt bindings right now. I currently make things work by using rust-cpp[3] to create C++ subclasses and smuggle events, but this sucks because it also means the objects on the Rust side need to have the Qt API re-exposed manually since AFAIK there isn’t a way to have Rust handle that without using a code generator. (There might be some hackier ways to make this work, or maybe someone with more Rust experience than me knows of something smarter that could happen, but in any case the ergonomics right now are not good for the average developer.)

[0] https://github.com/rust-qt/ritual

[1] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmessagebox.html#QMessageBox-1

[2] https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs

[3] https://github.com/mystor/rust-cpp
This is a strawman. The argument wasn't that no left-leaning people would treat things as property, but that most conservatives would. As such, you're not attacking the actual argument with your point.
I don't think so at least not in the short term. Demand in major metros is much higher than supply. Google will never be able to expand fast enough, in terms of getting approvals from cities, getting the tech right to be able to handle cities, and just the amount of cars on the street. We are probably looking at awhile before it is an actual threat to these other services. Who knows what will happen in that time.
Can you elaborate on what was deeply disturbing about your experience? Your comment has me curious.
> Where is this in a monorepo? You make it sound like the company itself must invest in assuring that the rules are not broken.

My argument, as made in the original comment, is that a monorepo is not a git repository. It is a git repository, a build tool / dependency graph manager, and a continuous integration system.

In the same way, a statically-typed project is not a collection of source files. It is a collection of source files, a linker, and a compiler.

The linker and compiler do not come "for free" any more than a build tool / ci system do, although they have been around for a very long time so you might consider them part of the background. In a well-structured monorepo, the build tool and ci system are as much in the background as `gcc` or `go build` might be.
Cool hack, however i agree with the poster, since it appears to only have a 500KHz usable bandwidth(less than rtl-sdr) at an albeit faster (5x) sample rate, i probably won't have much use for it. Definitely a great reverse engineer and discovery journey though.
You can do very well with just Google Colab. If you prefer local compute, the higher-end NVIDIA gaming cards (GeForce series) will do pretty well.
Plex works so well with Ubuntu that I have become a huge proponent of this method. I’m not sure if it’s their developers having a bias for the OS, but the Ubuntu version always seems to work well.
> What a wonderful advertisement for working at Stripe.

Exactly, which is why some of this should be taken with a grain of salt.

By all accounts, Stripe really is a good place to work and their success speaks for itself. Yet, it's important to remember that this article is at least one part advertisement. I'm not suggesting anyone dismiss the contents, but keep the context in mind. The article goes to great lengths to speak about the positives of working at Stripe, but the section about terrible work/life balance is written vaguely enough for the reader to dismiss it as a personal quirk, for example.
I think that's unwarranted and actually quite offensive. Of course there have been many incidents of hurtful and abusive behaviour by some individuals in a position of trust in some Catholic schools. There are also many, many gentle, loving and supportive people working in Catholic institutions around the world. Please take your lazy prejudices elsewhere.
Having an opinion doesn't make that opinion fact. But if you say that one opinion is in any way superior to another opinion then you are recognizing that there is something to measure those opinions against. There is some truth that we are trying to discover through reason.
> Yeah... I'm genuinely curious how many people actually quit over the "apolitical" stance, vs employees that were just unhappy with the job in general and took this convenient opportunity to leave with a pretty sweet deal.

Getting people who are unhappy (politics aside) to leave sounds more like "the severance package was a nice move" than "the severance package was too good."
I always thought it was pretty clear that Waymo wanted to license out the tech.
Or it may mean that they just took advantage of a severance offered and found another job
Is there a timex of knives? Rock solid, works forever with no/little maintenance but a bit dated and ugly?
IBM failed to leverage their silicon designs for driving down their cloud costs. As long as the IBM cloud runs mostly on third-party hardware they have no sustainable competitive advantage.
By the same logic then no government enforcement would matter if we're talking about coins and bills, because they too are untraceable.
Can't you use many Java libraries on Android? Interoperable doesn't mean "exactly the same".
Well, that's not exactly fair; it does make testable predictions, which is nice, and they should be the kind of thing that we would notice anyway (IIUC) as we get bigger and better tools, which makes it cheap to test, which is also nice.

I agree that it's probably not THE ANSWER, though!
House reports on tech monopolies: Here's what it says about Amazon Web Services
the link you provided is talking about credit cards and needing cosigners.

there is nothing in your link that says that women couldn't sign a mortgage.

the original claim is that "women couldn't even sign a mortgage in the US until the 70s." this claim is false.
The opportunity costs of weight bias at work
But Coinbase is using their business as a political platform[1].

[1] https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?...
Deaths are probably more instructive – just to get a ballpark number. If only because deaths are less likely to overlook too many people.

If the IFR is around 1% we would expect around 1,000,000 deaths if one third of Americans have to be infected for herd immunity. So that would suggest the US is 20 percent of the way there.

Given the haphazard way of calculating these numbers I would, however, put huge error bars around some (something like ±15 percentage points at least).
SICSS Computational Social Science Curriculum
GPU Benchmark puts the 1660 Super at +35% benchmark speeds, and the 5500xt at 12%.

I don't really see the point in upgrading for that level of improvement when I can spend a bit more and get a much more significant upgrade.
What part of their reselling open source software is unethical?
A certification group that allows a good marketing point could also achieve. Just making up a name, "Our APIs are certified by Open API Association" might encourage developers to develop with A given company's API.
I won't contest that history is not replete with examples of management failing to listen to warnings from their employees, but the leadership model most places employ is effective because history is also replete with management staying the course even when under doubt and achieving some measure of success.

Also, if the consequences to decisions were always attainable a priori, I doubt management would make bad decisions. It's easy to look at Microsoft and say Ballmer dropped the ball on mobile, but then again they still don't have a competitive product to iOS or Android and are doing well. Was Ballmer wrong/right? Is Nadella wrong/right? It was hard to say in 2007 and it's still difficult to say in 2020.

The Audi example is only a good example in that management is listening to a group of employees who are advocating for a position in which the market is already trending (which also happens to have substantial environmental benefits). We wouldn't applaud BP if they opted to do more drilling at the request of their oil rig workers.

For whatever reason, who ever was responsible for putting your manager in place trusts that person; you can appeal to your manager if you think they are making a bad decision or you can appeal to their manager that you think they are ill suited to their position. After that, you've exhausted your options at that company and aren't owed anything further. I would strongly suggest to any job seekers that if having a seat at the table is important to you, assess that when you are interviewing. Find or start a company in which that is the culture.

Now I do have to caveat all this with that I am 30, no kids, and live in decently sized market for tech. I may be more cavalier with my "if you don't like it, then leave" attitude. I find the ombudsman position interesting and was unaware of the history around it and HR. I will have to look into that more, thank you for the knowledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution

>the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences determined that at least 4% of people on death row were and are likely innocent.

Keep in mind that death penalty cases get a disproportionate level of attention and process and ought to be the least erroneous.

In many lesser cases people are threatened with sentences that are many times more punitive than the average perpetrator receives in order to inspire them to take a plea deal for a sentence that is merely life ruining instead of life ending.

Wrongful convictions in these scenarios are liable to be much higher than the 4% innocent we murder in public.

In America some jurisdictions are corrupt to a legendary degree. Recent years saw footage of both one corrupt cop staging a scene after murdering a citizen and another literally caught on his own body cam planting drugs during traffic stops.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/11/florida-cop...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-south-carolina-shooting-s...

Countless other examples abound and I omit them only for brevity.

Tech like facial recognition, geo fence warrants, and fishing expeditions that begin with search queries are inherently designed to cast a broad net that criminals will increasingly avoid to the degree possible by you know using VPNs, not googling stuff you plan to set on fire, not googling how to whack your wife etc, not bringing your phone to the crime. Whereas criminals will do the minimal work required to avoid scrutiny it will continue to pull in normal people who will be threatened with decades in prison in order to steal mere years of their lives.

Logically exploratory usage of new techniques is liable to be carefully considered to establish useful precedents. Pretending that American cops would plant drugs but wont imprison black folks that happened to walk down an adjacent street in the 3 hour window where we think the rape happened seems disingenuous.

Its like looking at 50s cars through currently informed eyes and saying we need to see twisted bloody metal before we prove that seat belts are necessary.
LOL, when I meet some people working for banks they usually complain about all the regulatory compliance they have to do and how pointless it is. Doesn't seem to me like working at a bank helps to see how necessary all that is.
Something being a political statement doesn't necessarily mean it is directly in support of one pole or the other. It's still political.

Saying "my business supports whatever the current US government's stated opinion is on all issues" is a political stance. It may not be partisan, but it absolutely is political. Those aren't synonymous.
> who?

That's an interesting question. Perhaps K&R? Or maybe their employer? Or perhaps by now the copyright may be with ANSI/ISO?

But this does raise an interesting point, about who would own copyright on something that was not believed to be copyrightable for much of its history.
I'm thinking more along the lines of say external attacks / fraud etc. Not sure Google Nest is a big space for that kind of thing.
Facebook/HHVM: A virtual machine for executing programs written in Hack
I'd recommend getting out of CA while you can. The schools aren't that great, housing prices are through the roof and if you have to commute more than an hour to work you likely just can't afford to live there.

I've had friends making $400k post tax realize this.
And yet, most of the troublesome parts on my diesel car aren’t related to the engine or transmssion.

It’s mainly electrics and the front suspension.
I expressed no opinion on Brexit. It isn't relevent to an objective retelling of the CA history and the resultant media circus
I assumed the slowdown is due to wire delay (a larger cache has longer wires) not gate delay but I could be wrong.
If you care about your kids’ education, home school them.
There is some truth to what you are saying: 95% of people really don't need a fancy knife with a high end steel. On the other hand, I think there's more to it than just wanting to "carry around an expensive item." I enjoy the craftsmanship and engineering that goes into making a nice knife. I find that a three-inch knife blade is useful in a way that a one-inch box-cutter blade is not, for example when I want to peel an orange or sharpen a pencil. I also carry a knife since I believe a knife may be helpful in an emergency situation - imagine, for example, you are in a car accident and your seatbelt jams. With a good knife you could easily cut yourself out - much harder to do with a boxcutter.
You're absolutley right about GTS, but it's clear that the services offerings from IBM aren't what top level commenter here is praising.
I don't buy this repetitions argument at all. A computer and machine learning go through billions of driving scenarios more than any human could if the data is available.
The AMD software to control CPU doesn't work with virtualisation enabled. They have been ignoring requests to fix it for years.
You are correct in your "understatement" claim, though I suspect unintentionally so. Yes, "avoiding politics" cuts into time you could be spending advancing progressive politics. So does writing software. So does watching a movie with your spouse. So does sleeping. So does every single thing that isn't literally "advancing progressive politics."

"No politics = politics" is an utterly vacuous statement.
You should probably contact the EFF, so that could improve it.
> reusable code that is DRY (don’t repeat yourself)

Do people think this is a good way to write?
One question from a judge was that if “API is copyrightable” is bad, why didn’t we see sky falling in last 4 years since federal court decided so?
Have the creators of Doppler not used Vault...

Comparing FTP and Dropbox to Doppler and Vault; there are several logical fallacies in their marketing material.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal

I'll take Vault+Nomad+Consul, because I'd rather run Nextcloud than use Dropbox, kthx

Seriously though, if you can't market your product on its merits alone, don't try to misrepresent your competition.
Logically, it is. Just not in a way that's meaningful or interesting.
Alito/Thomas/Kavanaugh are clearly on the wrong side of this, big freaking surprise there. If Oracle wins this is going to be catastrophic for our whole industry (in the US at least). Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
You forget about 5k of Toyota brand premium that’s not accounted for
> Not all functional languages have static typing.

Even the multi-paradigm, late-bound languages that are adding functional programming are adding static typing, e.g. TypeScript and mypy.

> No type checker will catch this error...

Sure, math is hard. In the domain of structural transformations, one's intuition combined with a decent type checker really does work, though.

Especially, I've done large refactorings of complex transformations, tracked down the typing errors, and then been pleasantly surprised when my test-suites passed the first time.

> sqrt :: double -> double

I can use QuickCheck[1]:

prop_Sqrt_Sqr n = sqrt n * sqrt n == abs n

Because it can exploit the type system, it can then plug in various values of Double to see if squaring my square root squares properly.

[1]: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/QuickCheck/manual.html
Way back in the day particularly the Athelon / Applebread days and chips had the first on-die memory controller for consumer processors. While they had fairly significantly lower IPC than some Pentiums (remember the Pentium D egg cooker?), they had much better memory latency. Hard to prove anything - but some people claim they were quicker
That is definitely an interesting take but I think any right-winger that goes that far is more likely to be caught up in a grift than going to Coinbase where they have to send in their government-issue ID and link their account to a US bank that reports to government if they notice suspicious activity.