skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the North, rich merchants socialized the costs of the guards they hired to protect their assets in port cities through municipalization. In the South, that wasn't the case, and the police are direct descendants from slave patrols.

From Time's "How the U.S. Got Its Police Force"[1]:

> The first publicly funded, organized police force with officers on duty full-time was created in Boston in 1838. Boston was a large shipping commercial center, and businesses had been hiring people to protect their property and safeguard the transport of goods from the port of Boston to other places, says Potter. These merchants came up with a way to save money by transferring to the cost of maintaining a police force to citizens by arguing that it was for the “collective good.”

> In the South, however, the economics that drove the creation of police forces were centered not on the protection of shipping interests but on the preservation of the slavery system.

With regard to police originating from strike breakers, that's also true.

> For example, businessmen in the late 19th century had both connections to politicians and an image of the kinds of people most likely to go on strike and disrupt their workforce. So it’s no coincidence that by the late 1880s, all major U.S. cities had police forces. Fears of labor-union organizers and of large waves of Catholic, Irish, Italian, German, and Eastern European immigrants, who looked and acted differently from the people who had dominated cities before, drove the call for the preservation of law and order, or at least the version of it promoted by dominant interests.

[1] https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/
That makes sense, yeah. I admittedly haven’t studied the pieces of the stack, but maybe something like PostgREST allows routing certain requests to master vs any replica, where you could make the atomic transactions needed for inventory based updates.

This is all completely outside the realm of things I’ll ever get into haha. IMO so what if the current app/db server boundary is “slow” or “adds too many moving parts” I already spent my entire career learning it, there is value in that to me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/technology/google-nlrb-fi...
Sure, not always. To clarify: I mean stocks are shares in companies, which generally generate profits. Yes, some companies may not, or may even go under, but none of this is an issue if you hold a diversified set of stock and bond indexes for the long haul (I'm talking about equities as an asset class, not any one stock). Stocks are stakes in companies - bonds pay a risk premium - crypto, gold, etc... don't generate income, which by definition makes them speculative.
> Its in the UN declaration of human rights

This is, legally speaking, a meaningless document.
The press release from last week https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301674&org=NS... says:

“During ongoing aerial drone surveillance of the Arecibo Observatory’s 305-meter telescope, engineers observed additional breakages on the exterior wires of the remaining cables attached to Tower 4. This is the same tower to which the failed auxiliary cable and the broken main cable were attached.”

“Engineers have been examining the Arecibo Observatory 305-meter telescope since August, when one of its support cables detached.”
You are correct, I've edited my comment to be appropriately hedged
Correct. Cannabis in coffee shops comes from black market and is not regulated in any way. Government basically gives organised crime tax free market of a highly desirable product.
@rags2riches I'm with you against these authoritarian structures built around redistribution. But one can (and you, too, can) treat some groups of people a little better without literally giving them stuff, creating weird power structures, or encouraging a culture of victimhood.

Say I was organising a poetry meetup. There are many aspects to making its attendees enjoy themselves, but evenly distributing my effort would not create the most equitable event. If I want the event to go well, most of my effort should probably go to people for whom the barriers are biggest. This could involve making sure the venue is accessible to wheelchair users, extra encouragement for the person who seems to never have heard that their poems can be worth something, or creating a speaking convention that benefits everyone equally, but puts the most burden on those who are bravest and loudest.

> Your remedy requires institutionalizing the sorting of individuals into groups.

> It will be very hard to get out of that situation.

Interestingly, not in the case of what the posted article is about! Facebook can decide on its own to give extra priority to checking comments for (what its moderators consider) anti-black racism, and it's also the kind of thing that will eventually make itself unnecessary.
Why is it an either/or?

I don't see how people can deny that people take you more seriously on tech stuff if you're a man. It's pretty obvious to me, honestly.

Equally obvious, you're not going to become a top AI researcher without being immensely talented.
I'm not reading it as criticism.

Considering Stripe forbids financial services in their t&c's, and this allows Stripe users to implement financial services, the question is, what kind of financial services are now allowed?

Would be great to hear a few use cases for Treasury that can't be done with existing Connect platform (and which fall within t&c's).

Genuinely curious.
The thing is I am without a doubt a person of average intelligence and what I don't "get" is how people whom I know are more intelligent that me doing the most stupid things.

I try to listen to as many different perspectives as possible, look up claims I hear being made, listen to experts in the respective fields and err on the side of caution.

Back in March when medical experts said masks are unlikely to help I was like "okay well that sucks but they know much more about this kind of thing so I will just keep my distance, etc". Then when some data showed that actually masks do seem to help I didn't argue. I listened to the reasons for the change in advice and it all sounded, to me at least, perfectly reasonable. Yet I still hear people saying medical experts are "flip flopping" on masks as if changing ones advice based on new, scientifically backed information is a bad thing.

Highly intelligent people I know have made comments to me about masks, 5G, Bill Gates microchip vaccines, "Plandemic" and all that kind of stuff.

Sadly I have a (second) aunt that has been sucked into the QAnon madness. She honest to god believes the election was stolen from Trump. She isn't even American! She is a lamb farmer in Wales that still believes Brexit is going to be the best thing ever. But that is a conversation for a different thread.

I am just mentally exhausted from it all. I miss the days of moon landing and what really goes on at Area 51 conspiracies.
Bitcoin’s ambition is to become the new gold: something that has been ingrained in human culture as “money” for so long that people accept it as such by habit.
> Which is, if I recalled correctly, illegal

Retaliation against employees is illegal. Shutting down a unionised facility is not.
What does this concept of Economic Majority look like of we consider it for the US Dollar, rather than btc?
I enjoyed my team and the work hours were reasonable. AWS wasn't the type of product work I wanted to keep pursing, but I learned a lot in my time there.

Amazon team's culture vary widely depending on the teams budget, management style and deadlines. Overall I enjoyed my time at Amazon
Are you disagreeing with the fundamental economics argument of supply and demand? More demand assuming a constant (forecasted) supply means the price will be higher.
Good luck debugging! Seriously. You can't attach a debugger to your DB.
severability is actually a really important and broad legal concept (IANAL). I can where you get to [the view you espouse above] but if you think a bit about it you'll realize that contract law would become pretty unworkable without it. If every clause and statement has to be perfect or the whole thing evaporates, it would be hard to get anything done. And even if it were ok today, legislative changes tomorrow could inadvertently nuke a bunch of contracts.

This is separable from the abusive nature of ToS of course.
I played with it recently, being a PostgreSQL extension I found it easy to implement a rust client [1] to test ingestion rate performance, on my laptop was able to insert ~600K rows/sec.

The documentation on their website [2] is also very good.

[1] https://github.com/vincev/tsdbperf
[2] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/main
The reason commonly given for living in the Bay Area is all the jobs available but you're pointing out that's not actually the case because if you want to live well in the Bay Area then you have few employment options. Is that the reality?
Ya, medium is slow and bloated without significant uBlock tweaks. Turning off web fonts is also good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

A judge ruled that a corporation was a person for the purposes of granting first amendment rights to run advertisements endorsing or attacking political candidates. The Koch Brothers could then spend an unlimited amount of money attacking any candidates who proposed environmental regulations, for instance.

It essentially shifted the power in America towards whomever had the bigger megaphone and more campaign financing.
I read the 1960s versions of the Hardy Boys and The Nancy Drew when I was ~9. I still own most of them. My mother read everything. The house was full of books. At some point over the years having my own family and moving around a bit the books got cut down to only the old stuff from the 1960 that are collectables, stuff from my grandfathers childhood (things with dates ~1900) and hardbacks of non-fiction type things (science, music theory, math, biographies, the classics). This still covers 3 bookshelves. Everything else is pretty much only in digital form. In this lock down I have come to realize how much I miss the physical book.
> three leading facial recognition systems were far more likely to misidentify women and people of color than white men.

I wonder why is this considered a bad thing.

I mean, if you oppose video surveillance, you should be happy if the leading spying systems are bad at identifying you.
There's something humorous about this. We're so suspicious to see order where we expect chaos. But 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 is as likely as any other combination. Order is a subset of chaos, not its opposite. In other words, even chaos produces order occasionally. And unless you believe in Creation, that's precisely the thing you owe your ass to. But it doesn't "seem random enough" to us. Seems like our experience/conception of randomness is kind of limited. Because we go around ordering things, we associate order with our intention, and extrapolate that if order arises frequently from our intention, therefore ALL order must be the result of human intention. Or going further, that all order has "meaning" encoded in it. But it's not true; order can exist "accidentally" without intention or meaning.
It’s HN. Every time there’s an article about FB going too far, everyone seems to chime in about how FB is evil and anyone who works there must be evil as well, “so what did you expect?” It’s the same with Amazon or any FAANG company, and it gets quite tiring sometimes.
How does that matter though? His machine isn't sitting on his lap or running on a battery. Electricity isn't that expensive.
Bitcoin specs change all the time and they could decide to increase the supply
I think you are misunderstanding me / underestimating students. The slide rule teaches in a very direct physical way how logarithms work and how they can be used. This is something that most people never learn, but is extremely valuable.

> This seems to imagine that the only thing being taught/worth teaching on the mathematics curriculum is number sense

First of all, number sense is extremely important. Probably the most important thing taught in primary/secondary math courses. But it is certainly not the only important thing.

Students can learn to use an electronic calculator in very little time. A person of average intelligence who understands the relevant math should be able to learn to use their calculator pretty much independently, and become fluent at it with a tiny bit of practice over a short time. There are very quickly diminishing returns to teaching “calculator skills”, because those are extremely shallow.

> And secondly, number sense is easier to teach without depending on particular algorithms.

I really have no idea which ‘particular algorithms’ you are talking about. Have you ever used a slide rule? It is a very flexible general-purpose tool.

> This is the same complaint as people grumbling about "common core" math, or saying we should go back to the basics of just rote learning times tables and long division.

No, it is precisely the opposite recommendation to those.

> A perfectly reasonable assigned problem might be: add the 7.1% sales tax to this ticket price, do you have enough cash?

This is a reasonable problem to teach students about for like 1 week at age ~10. If they learn how to do it using pen and paper, or a soroban, or mental arithmetic, or a slide rule, or a pile of loose pebbles, they’ll have no trouble accomplishing the same with a calculator. It is not a reasonable problem to spend 5 more years on. We are talking about exams for 15-year-olds.
The ability to query your car via the uniform OBD-II interface is considered to be a good thing by everyone except those trying to frustrate users, not a "hobbling" of the industry.

And backward-incompatible changes to an API should be considered a downside, not a benefit -- though which may (of course) be justified in the circumstance -- but which should never be trotted out, in and of itself, as evidence of superior engineering or progress, as you seem to be implying here.

Edit: One more thing: Requiring that certain information be provided through a specific interface/standard does not mean they can't also use other standards as an option or support other other features, so I don't know why all the new APIs are a point in your favor either.
No there isnt. I have only known of one person to get a PIP during my 3 years there, and it took way longer then it should've
Ravn X–a fully autonomous, air-launched rocket for small satellites
The whole Terminal code is open source

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/src/renderer...

The first comment in this function (DxEngine::StartPaint), for example:

// If retro terminal effects are on, we must invalidate everything for them to draw correctly.
// Yes, this will further impact the performance of retro terminal effects.
// But we're talking about running the entire display pipeline through a shader for
// cosmetic effect, so performance isn't likely the top concern with this feature.
And those 3 are?
To be clear for future context, you’re defending the now flagged & deleted comment that said all black people hate white people as “his life experience”. Do you honestly think that was his life’s experience - that every single minority he’s met has expressed hatred towards him? It seems pretty clear that you’re concern trolling here and not arguing in good faith.

Or maybe you’re not, and you genuinely believe that /rjkennedy98 has met every black person and knows us well enough to judge our hearts. Can you please explain if you think he’s met every black person, that he can pass group judgement?
"If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out." --Hammurabi
Though not an absolute parallel, the conversion of gambling in Nevada from being primarily a mob controlled business into a corporate controlled one might give some insight into how legalizing illicit drugs for which their is an existing underground supply infrastructure will go.
It shouldn't be called an investment. Investment supposed to be spent on the production of new value. Bitcoin, despite its good intentions, is a pyramid scheme — its price grows only because of newcomers. I wrote a blog post about why it's a bad "investment" — https://dandanua.github.io/posts/why-i-wouldnt-recommend-usi...
If you think of an investment vehicle as something that creates useful infrastructure in society and collects fees to pay dividends, then no. But then, look again, we are way past that. We are pulling Gold from the grounds to hide it again in the ground. We are trading weather futures. And people are buying apartments no to rent them or use them; but just to close them and leave them empty.

In this sea of non-sense economic reality, Bitcoin actually makes lots of sense.
> Your dog whistle is showing.

So saying that making anti-white comments is degrading our culture is a dog whistle? Got it. I'm sick of this whole schtick. Its impossible to argue with people who have set it up so that everything they disagree with is racism. I don't care. All it is is a cudgel to go after anyone who is an enemy, as has been proven time and again.

> Are you arguing that the bulk of modern political and social issues are caused by affirmative action?!?

No, I'm saying a society that doesn't care about merit (and that is part of what affirmative action and now the more scary move away from test scores and merit altogether) leads to a bunch of political and social ills. They don't do this in China, for instance. It would be considered insanity. Yet, now China has the top scores in the world (1) and China will be or already is the most powerful country in the world. Yet here we are in America having to mass import people because our cultural and educational system is so broken.

1. https://theweek.com/articles/488729/education-race-chinas-st...
Sure. the complaint here is not that Amazon shared anti-union messages. (and gets murky when it tries to force employees to consume said messages)
I'm planning to build my workstation and I'm settled on 5950x, but the fact that I need to get a gfx card separately is irritating, given that I'm in India and it adds a ton of money that I could be spending elsewhere!
The question is sarcastic.
> They don't have a right to combat them at all.

This is simply not true. Amazon have a right to argue against unionisation in order to combat it.
> What sales, they hardly had any stock available.

No one goes to Disney World anymore; its too crowded. And, no one buys AMD CPUs anymore, they're always sold out!
Your argument here makes it sound like people are using crypto for practical applications on a scale approaching banks. If that was the case I would be far less skeptical, but, aside form a few enthusiasts that make crypto transactions to make a point that "people use these" I don't know of anyone that uses crypto for practical, everyday financial transactions.

Can you provide me some evidence that people are using crypto at a large scale, and that that scales in increasing in a way that it is anywhere near competing with banking services? It seems that even after a decade of enthusiasm people are still mostly "investing" in it.
To aid in future investigations of the structural failures I would imagine?

As I understand it from reading various news reports and a video from one Scott Manley, the damage from the recent earthquake had this collapse in the “when” column not “if”.
You mean that Facebook is definitely tapping your phone's microphone 24/7?
I totally agree but if your requirement is just to have elastic for a standard search use case and don't need any new features it might make sense... out of date doesnt mean its garbage.

I am not against manual scaling anyway at some level you always need to do manual scaling on AWS whatever the product...
* Where do you draw the line with what a “human right” is?*

By looking into the declaration of human rights: https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
> Neither Google nor any other company should tolerate employees using the power of the company to advance their personal ideological beliefs.

Are you saying that this extreme "personal ideological belief" you just stated is applicable to every single company on the planet?
I think AWS teams are not generally hurting for funding. You see that more in retail parts of amazon
> It seems like a ponzi to me

A Ponzi Scheme relies on a central authority, BTC by definition has none.

Maybe you were trying to say "market manipulation" or "securities fraud?"
That is the wrong way to look at this. The only apples to apple comparison is miles/hours/people. How many miles over how many hours for how many people.
I would doubt that he wrote this article. There was no public appearance of him in the last ten years.
I mean, I don't know what "dared" has to do with it. It's unfortunate that we're working off incomplete information here, but that's not our fault - unless there's a recent leak I haven't seen, nobody's made the email available to read.
primer.io

Full time, remote

We're changing the way payments are done - since kicking off in January, we've grown to 24 people, onboarded a number of merchants to our platform, and just secured our Series A from Accel, bringing us to over £18m in investment.

We're hiring across engineering - back end, mobile, front end, infrastructure and testing - working with Python, React, AWS, Lambda and more.

https://primer.io/
https://apply.workable.com/primer-api/?lng=en
That would result in a certain fork. We had already had that and it seems the majority has decided to stick with the initial rules even though the fork wasn't about supply but something that will give bitcoin more practicality.
My life was transformed with the growth of WalMart and Amazon.

The quality, variety, convenience and price of goods available to me all improved. The Mom and Pop who had been financing their lifestyle on the backs of the rural poor were forced out of business. I feel a little bad for them, but it seems wrong to elevate them over the rest of the population.
I wish we used different words for domain and range. Like "input range" and "output range" or something. It's an endless source of confusion, especially since range can legitimately be used for the domain if you phrase it like "the range of values we can use for the input of the inverse tangent function is -infinity to infinity."
Currently, companies decide what is "right" and "ethical" using a standard - shareholder return - that has been proven time and time again to have unethical consequences.

Not infrequently the consequences are literally disastrous and/or fatal. (See also Boeing, Lehman, Enron. HP at its worst, and many many more.)

What exactly gives corporations the moral authority to act like this?

Is it simply that large accumulations of money somehow render other moral concerns irrelevant, as if by magic?
A deflationary asset class encourages hording, not spending or using in other ways. There's also no real limit to the number of crytocurrencies that might appear later (see: MySpace replaced by Facebook), unlike gold. As for inflation: safe government bonds have historically kept up with that over the long haul, so no big loss there.
Mos of the workload for my domain involved just a ton of Ram and CPU compute only.

Ofcourse there are related subdomains where I need the graphics, but we are talking about 1 in 1000 use case.

I just need the gfx card to drive the display only.
The same place we stood before, only worse.
Yes but it's a range... You can make something 100% legal, or just remove the huge penalties.

It's the harsh penalties that attract the worst people because those are the only ones willing to risk them. It hardens the entire trade.