skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I think it's great. If you're doing heroin or meth, you definitely don't have $100 lying around for a fine, and not paying it would just land you in jail anyway. This gives people who don't have or want to pay the fine a way to stay legal without doing so, and also gives someone a chance to talk to them and potentially help.

This seems really well thought out, however with sale still being as illegal as it was, I'm not sure crime/danger on that side of the transaction will decrease at all.
I read that sentence as saying “If you could afford the drugs but not the $100 fine then you probably have a substance abuse disorder and we will force you to get treatment.”
> You are implying that China would be producing the cars, or at least the primary components.

They already are.

Just because US doesn't buy all components from China doesn't mean that China won't develop those components for other markets or its internal use.

But electric cars are at the moment a minority in China, if US went all-in on electric cars (an assuming no tariff war with China), that would kickstart mass conversion of car manufacturing process to electric.

>Even ICE vehicles in the US overwhelmingly have the engine and transmission built in countries other than China,

ICE != EV

Yeah, because perfecting ICE takes decades of investment. Compared to them EV are easy and China already knows how to make them. Hell, they have entire logistic lines worked out for electrical motors.

https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2020/01/02/ch...
>> I almost want there to be some kind of test to see how informed people are that somehow weights their votes

Given the history of the US in voter suppression, you not seeing the irony, is just fascinating.
> There are a lot of legacy things you can put in Cloud Run (e.g. JVM application servers)

I wouldn’t call JVM application servers legacy. If you are referring to WebSphere and Weblogic, then maybe. But the open source JVM application servers like tomcat,jetty, netty etc., are widely used in modern applications
> the real figure is around 2%

This figure is meaningless, which is part of why they didn’t report it. You’re fixating on a number that doesn’t inform you.

Whatever their level 5 means, it excludes at least 90% of the people who wrote large technical and impenetrable documents just to graduate from school, not including all the practicing lawyers, doctors, engineers, scientists, and writers in the country.

There’s a disconnect between using the 2% number to represent any kind of literacy threshold, and reality. It may have measured something, but this “2%” does not represent a limit on number of people who have the capability to read Prezi’s terms of service.

> I stand by my belief that this terms of service is sufficiently complex that even fewer [than 2%] can understand it.

That’s unfortunate, I’ve failed to make a convincing argument. I was hoping to help you see more clearly that’s not what your data actually says, and is also contradicted by other data as well. The data isn’t wrong, but your interpretation is.
Slavery was very satisfying to users and slaves, as shown by how long it persisted. Q.E.D.

On the contrary, the average Uber driver lasts what, six months or so? Before they quit? Seems like they are profoundly dissatisfied, and only doing this work as a way to ward off starvation and eviction.
Building a Lightweight Blogging CMS in 10 Lines of Python Code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek#Reception
This is very hard because the actual research required you to use real accounts, and you would need to contact them to correct your account after you proved it was indeed an issue.
Tatamann
Sigh, it is actually there. My mistake.

// skip `Math.` to use methods

// and props like `sin` or `PI`
I don't buy that drivers would prefer to not have benefits, vacation time, over time pay, or any of the other things that come with being employees.
Got the ink subscription plan. Worked for a while. Lost the little bag to send cartridges back, but wait! you can order another on their web site. Got it, sent the spent cartridges back and ..... nothing. No more ink. Still paying, but not getting ink. Sigh. No button on the website to press that says "where the fuck is my ink?!"
Why would you involve law enforcement? Chase isn't doing anything illegal but you might be!
You just realized the people on Hacker News are no smarter than the folks on reddit!
Did you read far enough in the readme to see the screenshots of the projects using this already? Those look like very complex UIs, and at least one of them is open source for you to look at.
I've been testing out both the 8GB Pi 4 and the new Pi 400 overclocked to 2.2 GHz. For many things, both are perfectly adequate.

But the slight bit of missing performance (compared to a $300+ low-end celeron or AMD laptop) becomes apparent when you do things like make a video full screen (takes 3-10 seconds), scroll on a JS-heavy page, or have a number of apps open at the same time and switch between them while one of them is doing some heavy processing.

It's definitely tolerable and for the price the Pi is a great little computer. Also as soon as I get a few more CMs, I'm going to run some of my web stuff on them from my home since they're silent, power efficient, and adequate now unlike previous generations.

But it's not necessarily a standard more expensive desktop replacement for the majority of people yet. As it stands today I think this would be a great computer for a family, a kid learning how to type and use a computer, that sort of thing. Additionally, it would be an excellent computer for those who can't afford a $300+ laptop but already have a TV or can pick up a $40 monitor off Craigslist.
think you would get popped for wire fraud if they caught on to it
Apparently some drivers did not want this.

“Drivers and labor groups opposed Prop 22, saying it would allow companies to sidestep their obligations to provide benefits and standard minimum wages to their workers even as they make billions.” From https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/04/california-e...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Takes Biggest Drop in Nine Years
Lobbyists. The fault lies with lobbyists. The politicians they bought are just the middlemen.

No, wait - the executives that sent the lobbyists. The fault lies with the corporations that have built and hijacked 'the music industry'.

Yes, I have a pretty easy time blaming a lot of social ills on greed.
it's the same thing, the tax increases the price for the buyer.
The US is a net importer of CO2 emissions if you account for trade. Goods that cause CO2 emissions in China and Europe are imported, amounting to about 7% of the US domestic total emissions in 2017 (edit: while China is a net exporter, about 14% of its emissions are for goods that leave the country). So reducing emissions only matters if they're not moved to somewhere else. [0]

Also, China emitted about half as much CO2 per capita as the US in 2018, still ofc more in total, with about 4 times as large a population than the US.[1]

Edit 2: If you calculate in the trade, the US ends up with almost 3 times the emissions per capita of China.

[0] https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-largest-co2-import...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...
I've assumed that there is a kernel voodoo magic happens, but it seems that the reviewer is also confused by this.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201104014915.45tbmnrqvccbrd2k...

Might be copy/paste from another driver or they will implement it later.
> I absolutely think the 19th century factory workers had it better than the 19th century plantation slaves.

The step below "19th century factory work" is subsistence farming.
Slavery is still categorically different.
Nice I didn't know that! I still like to add |> on top of it.

"foo |> bar |> baz" just visually parses easier than "foo pipe bar pipe baz"
Right. Some of the drone delivery services are going this route. Set up a pad with a little clearance and the machine will spot its marker. You don't need a ton of clearance.

It's far different than a 1000m runway with all the support infra.
Took me by surprise as well
For some, it is “as developers get more mature they start to prefer static typing”.

Almost all of your “whys” have sensible, practical, answers. The practical bit is the sticky bit that gets set when you get “older”.
Dear ImGui is not some half-baked experiment. It's used in tons of real world projects right now. The main way I've seen it used is for developer-facing GUI (debug views, tool/editors, etc)
"because employers like to force their employees into certain ecosystems"

In some paradise of the supremely competent users, an employer could leave it to the staff to choose Libre Office, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, who knows, maybe Word Perfect Office from twenty years ago, and to exchange documents in some common format. In the real world, good luck.
Which is fine, because that's progressively taxed. The alternative is higher prices which flatly burden everyone equally.
Looks cool! Wonder if they'd do a collaboration with iNaturalist?
The Paris Agreement is useful in creating goals for emission targets so countries can work towards them. Sure, the goal posts can and will change, but they'll always be pointed downfield.

If the US creates an alternative to the Paris Agreement that has more teeth, there might be an opportunity cost. Until then, this is the best thing we have.
1.5% is a quite a lot for a specific state tax. oregon already levies a 9.9% tax on incomes over $125k. this is a ~15% increase to the highest bracket.
They’re probably a crypto person that views the SEC as a real police and arbiter of reality
Modular Controller Design Strategy Makes Upgrading Power Grids Easier
That has the advantage that the drop in power demand during the night is extremely predictable, so everyone knew that they could reliably get cheap power for heating just by shifting their demand by half a day. (Also, the UK had and still has a fairly large nuclear power fleet which generally runs full-out 24/7, and this kind of demand shifting is a good match for that.) The trouble with renewables is that a lot of the drops in supply are both unpredictable and relatively long, which makes them hardre to deal with.

Also, storage heaters are a real pain to deal with. They're inefficient and not very controllable in terms of the amount of heat they produce.
Yeah the way token permissions are implemented totally baffles me every time. I never know if I’m creating a token for read or write or both.
I found a positive correlation between someone’s tax obligation and their understanding of tax law.
I can imagine that something like this happened:
1. Based on the disclosure, usage of multiple sessions was marked as possible fraudulent activity
2. When a new signal for fraudulent activity is added, accounts and transaction in the past are checked as well
3. OP's account comes up as fraudulent activities (ofcourse it does, he's the one who found it)
4. Nobody at Chase takes the effort to see what exactly happened here and that this account (or at least the specific transaction) should be excluded from positive results

Remember that Facebook reported the BBC to the police for telling them there was CP on their network [0]? I think something similar happened.

[0] https://gizmodo.com/bbc-tells-facebook-about-child-porn-on-t...
Healthcare costs per capita are generally higher in the US than they are in Europe. I am curious whether or not you think we should focus on increasing spending to increase medicare coverage or if we should focus on decreasing healthcare costs for the country as a whole.

The right answer is probably "both" but you can't exactly vote for "both" political parties. Its a boring answer anyway :)
No, you can't. First of all, it's not China that's going to be the problem, but the rest of Asia and Africa. Secondly, if we deny them the comfort, they'll do it anyway, and we'll have to either let them or go to war.

Wouldn't it be better to instead let the developing world leapfrog fossil fuel energy generation, and go straight to renewables (and possibly nuclear)? By e.g. donating technology, IP and expertise, and otherwise incentivize them to skip the dirty tech, at no loss in QoL improvements of their citizens?
It's also a product if writing good laws is really hard because the people writing them are outside the industry, different from the people enforcing them, and often different from the people it affects.

Better to remove barriers and things that silo and centralize power.
> It'll probably have little effect on "us" in the west

I believe this is a very dangerous misconception. In our globalized interconnected world nobody will be spared. "We" might suffer a little less then other parts of the world, but effect on "us" will still be huge.
Caching in Python Using the LRU Cache Strategy
The oversupply is coming, it seems almost inevitable by now. But a massive oversupply requires a large fall on the prices of electricity conversion and generators maintenance.

Even then, I do really expect a category of "peak demanders" to appear soon (storage is one kind, but there are other things one can do with intermittent almost free electricity). That will help increasing the spare capacity.
See this image from my tear down [1]: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/sites/default/files/images/4-pi...

You can see it's hard to find a good path from one side of the board (where the usb controller is located) to the other (where the HDMI ports are located) without using some vias or some crazy routing. The HDMI ports could be relocated probably but at the expense of more layers on the PCB (higher cost) or rotating the SoC, which would then necessitate even more of a redesign.

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-400-tear...
I have some friends/colleagues who use kotlin in personal projects and they enjoy it. But I've never heard them talk about those features. And they certainly aren't enjoying it now because of soon-to-be-released features.

But I am interested to learn more. Do you know any good resources?
I'm from French Canada and I could easily imagine someone being in the US and saying "I am from Louisiana" while actually meaning "my ancestors are in Louisiana".
Looks cool, but the author should test this with different terminals and different settings. I have gnome-terminal with white background and black font, and ox uses its own dark-grey-blueish background with the black font from (I presume) my settings, making the title and the text of the file itself completely unreadable. I'm glad that there exists a system to customize the settings, but I'm too lazy to bother, and it should work by default anyway
Irrespective of who wins, the close nature of the election has shown that significant part of the U.S. lives in a different reality which thinks exactly like that.

It is unlikely there is political capital to make significant changes to reverse the damage.
It seems like you are wrong.

"Contrary to what has been widely believed, long-term romantic love (with intensity, sexual interest, and engagement, but without the obsessive element common in new relationships), appears to be a real phenomenon that may be enhancing to individuals’ lives—positively associated with marital satisfaction, mental health, and overall well-being. [...] long-term marriage does not necessarily kill the romance in one's relationship"

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1037/a0014226
Good timing. I just ended my moving from Chase to Ally as my main bank account.
> try to do as much web browsing as possible in Links2. It's a fast, lean browser with zero support for JavaScript and CSS. The latter means some sites look a bit funky. The former means some sites won't work at all. My usual strategy for sites that won't render without JavaScript is to simply ignore them. If they can't produce something worthwhile without scripting, it's probably not worthwhile at all.

Honestly, I have a huge problem with this mentality even if I can agree with most other stuff. There is a lot of features and apps that are very useful that won't work without javascript. C'mon, this is a really bad point. It is not javascript itself that is bad, it's how people misuse it. Why would native apps be any better? People include tracking and alaytics in those as well and it's just even harder to block / know what actually gets monitored since the application is likely not sandboxed.

I use many apps that require javascript that is really good and privacy motivated. Apps like, Fastmail.com, DI.FM, podd.app etc. I use adblockers and a pihole to take out the worst offenders and tracking scripts.

The solution is not to go back in time and try to convince people to use sites without javascript, that will never work because there is a lot you cannot do without javascript. Drag and drop for example, video conference, photo editing etc etc. There are so many examples of apps that weren't possible before but now is. The web is clearly the best platform to be on since no one company can block you and you can self publish whenever you want. You are in control, not some shitty american company. I have a hard time actually believing that this person never use anything else than that shitty browser. I just don't buy it because the user experience is horrible.

Instead, it's better to lead by example. Build apps that challanges the modern overuse of javascript and tracking / analytics. Don't be the old guy that simply complains how everything was better in the past, you couldn't do shit on the web in the past and now 80%-90% of the applications I use on a daily basis is web based.
If Apple doesn't step up now to fill the gap I have to stop supporting the osx/darwin platform for all my projects. All my 5 personal Apple laptops stopped working some time ago already.

Now Apple looks like a legacy platform similar to Intel.
Ouch, that's rough. Did that impact your credit score a lot?
> Yet-another login to manage before I am get to sample the data... window closed. I am not their target demo anyway.

My understanding is that eBird is only for recording sightings, and not for doing identifications. For identifications you want the Merlin app/page[0]. I don't think eBird/Merlin distinguish that clearly enough. But I think what you're looking for at this point is Merlin, and not eBird.

[0] https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/merlin/id
I would say that you have to review your assumptions. Maybe lifelong love that we've been thought was the norm was actually a minority throughout history.
Hope you cited that incident as part of your reason leaving.
It is open source to the best of my knowledge. (I know one of the developers at Guardicore which develops it.)
if you like this you will probably also enjoy birdnet:

https://birdnet.cornell.edu/
I’ve used daily eBird alerts in my county to spot some neat visitors. I haven’t had the time to go look, ID, and contribute, but that’s the beauty of crowdsourcing!
The person you responded to is asking a question. I don't get why you need to be so weirdly sarcastic. (I have theories, but they're quite denigrating towards you, so I'll refrain from airing them)

Anyway, I look forward to your explanation, and perhaps we can find a way to help you interact more successfully with human beings?
Mimicking Moth Eyes to Produce Transparent Anti-Reflective Coatings
> DRM is a part of life now.

So is piracy^Wcopyright infringement.

> Without it, you would not be able to enjoy the rich variety of content available on today's internet.

Why not?
Hello Matt,

For a small developer I believe the whole topic seems quite overwhelming. To attract fringe GUI toolkits it would be useful to provide easy-to-chew accessibility samples based over 3d graphics technology (say: take a DirectX11 samples drawing a few text and buttons and make it accessibility compliant).
A good friend of mine actually ended up going that route. The father lives in a foreign country though but they're friends and wish to collaborate in the process. Once Covid is behind us they'll resume trying.
Looks like it’s licensed under GPL v3. Here’s the repo:

https://github.com/guardicore/monkey

It sounds like it’s self contained, because according to the FAQ:
“The Infection Monkey does not require internet access to function.”

My guess is the author of the Swimm article got confused or mis-stated the proprietary aspect. Perhaps they were thinking of a paid GuardiCore tool with additional functionality.
> exceedingly hard to do consistently and well

We hardly even agree on what that means. An ISIS terrorist grown of a family of ISIS terrorists would be “job well done” from the parents’ perspective.
Cursors are done with hardware cursor sprites on the video card and so run perfectly at the full frame rate of the monitor. In game cursors will be different.
Yep, some drivers and labor groups wanted to unionize drivers. That was the end goal.
Unfortunately we're still at this point where someone doesn't know how to do something on a computer and it's their employer's/coworkers' responsibility to teach them. Instead of "I can't figure out how to do this thing for my job, I better figure it out so I don't get canned!" it's "How am I supposed to know how to do $BASIC_THING, I'm not a 'computer person'"

Until we start pushing basic search/investigative requirements onto "non-technical" users it's not going to get any better.
> But, obviously, the intent of a county-level map is not to show electors, it's to show something about the demographic makeup of voter preferences.

Exactly: The map is meant to show "where the votes came from" without distorting any shapes.
Maybe it is still VBL related, in the DX11 sample you will see this when presenting the final frame:

g_pSwapChain->Present(1, 0); // Present with vsync

//g_pSwapChain->Present(0, 0); // Present without vsync

So you can control this by setting the first argument to 1 or 0.
Company managers become upset because this makes them look bad. Most corporate security depts spend a lot of money on salaries, devices, etc. And then some hacker kid comes along and embarrasses them. They retaliate and try to 'kill the messenger' to save their reputation (internally) and continue to 'play security' with big budgets and vendor conferences. Really, all they do is CYA. That's all that matters to them.

Edit: This happened to me when I compromised a Windows Active Directory (got domain admin on all the domain controllers) and it has happened to my colleagues as well. The default corporate response is to threaten, marginalize or try to fire the security researcher.
What would Chinese tech ‘self-reliance’ mean to the world?
> I recommend the education to anyone who will listen.

I think the point is a reality check on the value of education and the burden of education debt.

Education is wonderful; and I value mine. I just don't recommend it when the consequence is crippling debt.
This was addressed in the post:

"Some folks have asked us why we did not fit the Raspberry Pi Compute Module inside. The reason is that above a certain scale, it generally makes more sense to go with a custom PCB rather than a module with a carrier board. With hundreds of thousands of Raspberry Pi 400 units in the first instance, we are above that scale."
I wouldn't legalize all drugs. Meth is one hell of a drug. Same for heroin.

I like how they approach safe injection sites to make up for not legalizing everything.
This appears to suggest otherwise: "about a week later they followed up with an email which legally I cannot disclose as they have been quite hostile with me."
You haven't noticed any fires in Colorado yet? And as I recall, we spent about twelve hours without power our first autumn in Colorado long ago--an October snowstorm, or maybe the lightning that accompanied it, saw to that.

I liked Colorado, don't get me wrong.
Its more like saying: I need to cut some paper ( i need to program): Swiss army knifes (scala) are too complex, I just need a pair of pair of scissors (lisp / other languages).
What Is a Void Operator?
Couldn't those ignored lawyers invoke the power of the court somehow? E.g. a subpoena or similar? IA(clearly)NAL.