skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or making some "government efficiency" watchdog group scream in anger.

If Yellen were mostly interested in money, she has already chaired the Federal Reserve. 700K is a pittance compared to the millions she would earn in the private sector. Yet people begrudge her the 220K she does earn. Treasury Secretary and Chair of the Fed would be a multi million dollar a year jobs in the private sector.
Wow I never thought of this. I understand all the controversy over 23&me and DNA secrecy, but it seems pretty soon it'll be trivial to run DNA anywhere anytime.
It takes a profoundly ignorant view of historical facts to blame Stalin and Trotsky on foreign interference.
> Turning businesses around is HARD.

Not turning them round is harder.
GameStop clearly has brand recognition and games are increasingly social experiences. So that is where you pivot.
>Would we expect her to a) not speak at Citadel if asked or b) request less than market rates for doing so?

Yes
That's somewhat dependent on console manufacturers continuing to support physical copies. The current generation obviously does, but it's gotta be a serious concern for next gen and beyond (if your business depends on physical media).
Spoilers follow:

I had been thinking a great deal about the joke which was left unfinished early in S5 about what a Belter, a Martian, and an Earther would drink. I initially thought that it was never going to be completed so I was kind of happy when they did and was rather let down by the joke.

That wasn't the point of it. Delgado started telling the joke before the rocks fell and finished it well afterward. You might think that his views on Belters had changed after they attacked Earth, but the punchline reinforces that he thought that all Belters were complete trash before all of that.

Showing the human element is something that they do very well, and a lot of it is a thin projection of what we, as humans, often do between different races, countries, classes, and beliefs. It's somehow easier to discuss when it's Belters, Earthers, and Martians instead of black, white, etc, even though they really represent the same thing.
No, definitely not a thing at "all US high schools."

I can believe it's a thing at really posh high schools though.
Why people are undermining the physical medium for video games? Comparing it to Netflix/Blockbuster? What?

Stadia is currently on the verge of flopping and we're not even sure where other streaming services may go. Streaming video games are literally constrained by the laws of physics and the need for extremely responsive user input. It's exciting but it's also a whole different engineering problem than what Netflix solved in order to edge out their advantage over Blockbuster.

Steam, the Playstation/Xbox Stores are the correct comparisons. That said, I doubt Gamestop has been struggling these last few years simply because there has been a movement towards digital downloads.

People seem to forget that these digital stores have existed for the longest time and are not at all new innovation. Take a look at the sentiment towards digital only consoles - overwhelmingly negative. Newer AAA games require so much storage space that the progression of networking bandwidth aren't keeping up with the demands at all.

I'm not going to speculate where GameStop is headed because they haven't announced those changes yet. However, the speculation of evaluating their future based on digital downloads or the Blockbuster story is absolutely foolish.
Unfortunately this is more the norm than the exception.

On a tangent, something similar happened with a Canadian Charity called WE [1] and them being chosen to run a billion dollar grant program for Canadian students during covid. It later came out that the charity had paid speaking/appearance fees to the PM's family as well as to the finance minister at the time. After enough outcry from the media + opposition + people, the finance minister resigned and WE was stripped of the contract.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WE_Charity_scandal
>Let's say the coup had been successful.<

Why would anyone say that? It wasn't a coup by definition and, even if it had been, neither the people you'd need to bribe/murder nor the records you'd need to burn and replace were present.
#isp-oss:matrix.org
They expect her to recuse herself from the hearing.
There is a tax compliant way to accomplish everything he did.

Its interesting to me that they went after some of those things too: the prosecution agreement required Smith to not claim the deduction on $182 million donated to charity.

That’s a crafty way of getting money back. Kind of like a ballast system to provide balance.
'Evaluations of an economy's productivity performance are made using a measure of real gross domestic product (GDP), which represents the constant dollar income (labour income plus profits) that an economy generates through domestic production, with the volume or constant dollar indices being calculated from the prices'

'DP=(GDP/Hours)*(Hours), (1)

where Hours is the total number of worker-hours.

Chart 1 depicts changes in each of these components over time. For the entire 1961-to-2012 period, labour productivity advanced at a 1.9% annual average, accounting for slightly more than half of the increase in GDP growth. The rest is attributed to hours, which increased at 1.5% per year on average.

Aggregate GDP measures the returns to both labour and capital. Distributional concerns lead to questions about whether the share going to labour increases over time and, in particular, how productivity growth is related to real income.'

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/15-206-x/15-206-x2014038...
People are free. This notion of collective guilt - "the British are allowed" - is terrifying.
Before taxes.

Where I live I pay roughly 34% tax on my income.
As of a few years ago, they are still popular in Korea. They do well in metropolitan areas with small apartments where a gaming PC, desk, and chair might not fit comfortably.
What’s the desktop application you are using? Sounds interesting
You're right but that wasn't my point. I didn't say you can't recover easily from Linux, I said it's just as likely to break your shit through an update as any other OS.
Scheduled sales are not required, only recommended. If an unscheduled sale is made, there might be insider trading issues, and might trigger an investigation. That said, it would be easy to argue the sale was due to public information, i.e. the stock going up 100x in 6 months.

See Rule 10b5-1
Question: I don't have much interest in plot line of season 4. If I skipped it (and just read Wikipedia summaries) how lost would I be if I went straight to season 5?
A nice technical writeup! The daemon approach sounds particularly promising. Have you also thought about a Wayland protocol extension? espanso is not the only program that will want total keyboard access, and it's one of the last big obstacles for a lot of X11 users.
> purely on ideological criteria.

I agree that ethics should only be part of the equation when picking software, it's a bad idea to pick only based on whether software is free.

Kindergarten promotes sharing and kindness. Do you consider sharing and kindness "ideological"? Those are the same values free software promotes.
'Speaking Fees' are absolutely the new form of fraud/bribery/kickback.

It's the most arbitrarily thing imaginable, and you can just throw up any number for 'services performed'.

After Obama completed his term, he was immediately on the 'Speaking Fee' tour, including several million paid by a group of Italian banks in desperation [1], totally insolvent - for a a 45 minute speech (!). I wonder if what they needed was a 'Pep Talk' from a 'Former President' ... or perhaps someone influential to put in a good word with the ECB to push for loser monetary policy that might help save failing Italian banks?

I don't think speaking fees imply some kind of bad behaviour, but they are definitely smoke and often represent a conflict of interest.

It's a little bit funny that people don't recognize this: $700K (or whatever large amount), this is a material amount of money, you don't just spend this for no reason, you 'get something' for it.

As Hillary Clinton was about to win the 2016 presidency, masses of cash flowed into the Clinton Foundation (Norway and Australia were pumping in 10's of millions) but just as she lost - 'charitable donations' dried up. Have a look at this chart [2].

Just stare at this chart for a minute: massive cash flows to the charity someone expecting to be the most powerful person in the world, and then those cash flows completely evaporate as soon as we found it she wasn't going to have that power?

So, did Norway, Australia and all these international agencies and governments magically decided to be 'less charitable' in 2016?

Or was it that they were 'expecting to get something in return' for their massive charitable donations?

Let's not be naive.

It doesn't mean there is criminality or even excessive payments, but it's obviously a conflict of interest. If may be something as simple as 'The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund wants 10 Minutes with the President, to get an introduction to some agency' - and that's it. A very expensive call, but possibly worth it.

And this is not 'political' and certainly not 'one side of the aisle' it's just business.

[1] https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/802063/Barack-Obama-spe...

[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/12/clinton-foundation-...
Shohreh Aghdashloo (Avasarala) was a voice actress in Mass Effect 2, so there's some additional relationships.
A very related difference is "Product Manager vs Project Manager". It may sound obvious to some, but I still encounter many people in the industry referring to Software Products as Software Projects, even though there are relevant ramifications when thinking in terms of Projects vs in term of Products.

I recently decided to dig into that discussion in my post: "Software Projects vs Software Products": https://www.romenrg.com/blog/2020/12/30/software-projects-vs...
Her speech is surely not worth that much to you.

$700k is not a material amount of money for Citadel, especially if it may contain information that can give them an edge.
It all depends upon your needs.

If you were originally an Excel/Word user who switched to Docs/Sheets, for reasons other than cost, you would probably be better off sticking with Google's product. This is particularly true if you use Google's products for collaboration.

LibreOffice is better for people who are looking for a powerful office suite and primarily deal with printed documents (or handle electronic documents much like printed ones). It is best compared to Microsoft Office: Writer is very similar to Word, though Writer is better thought out in my opinion; Calc is very similar to Excel, though Excel seems to have better options for data visualization.
> Meanwhile, a 20-something engineer at a six-figure salary can tell you how much of that they get to keep. (hint about half here in California)

This is patently false. Before even counting any deductions a married couple with a joint income of $300k in CA pays an effective income tax rate (Fed,State,Local) of 29%. Single at the same income pay 38%.

Once you add 401k contributions and the variety of pretax spending benefits, it goes even lower.

Go ahead and model it:

https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator

You have to be earning $3 million a year before you hit an effective tax rate of 50%.

People making that kind of money and more in SV aren't usually making it via regular income but rather via tax minimizing deferred compensation plans taxed at much lower rates.
Prosecutorial discretion is a different than checks and balances. C&B describes the interrelations between branches of government in furtherance of good governance. Only a single branch of government is involved here - the executive.

There are at least two related principles behind prosecutorial discretion. One is that the system should be biased against prosecuting people because putting people in jail shouldn't be our goal. Another principle is that law enforcement, from the local cop all the way to the US Attorney General, has to have some discretion in how they do their job - e.g. do we really want cops pulling everyone over who is 1 mph over the speed limit?
Revisiting this subthread to confirm you're probably right, based on this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013821

Robinhood could not have anticipated the clearinghouse requiring 100% collateral for a single named security due to the high FTD (failure to deliver) rate. Robinhood handled the situation poorly (PR and end user communications), but it's possible the clearinghouse would've tied any brokerage's hands with drastically increased collateral requirements when their model indicates a possible insolvency risk.
> long thought there was room for a private network

MyFamily.com was essentially this in the pre Facebook era. IIRC there was a modest annual fee for a private site/feed that let you share posts, photos, and recipes with family members.
Use argon2 or scrypt for password hashing. PBKDF2 or bcrypt are also acceptable, but prefer the first two in new systems. Make sure to use appropriate complexity factors.

A good starting point when trying to decide what crypto algorithm to use is https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-a...
Yes. 6% have COVID as the only cause. That doesn't mean the other 94% weren't COVID deaths, just that their medical histories involved other conditions as well.

> He noted that the 6% figure includes cases where COVID-19 was listed as the only cause of death. “That does not mean that someone who has hypertension or diabetes who dies of Covid didn’t die of Covid-19. They did,” Fauci said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Half the country has hypertension. Half the country has obesity. These fall in the 94% category, but chances are they weren't imminently dying of these things before getting COVID.

As for funding: https://www.factcheck.org/our-funding/
Show HN: Pairagraph – our attempt to build a new high-quality discussion forum
Hey HN! I’m Jonathan, co-founder of Pairagraph.

Pairagraph is a platform for written dialogue between pairs of notable individuals—politicians, CEOs, philosophers, novelists, technologists, religious leaders, and more.

We love Twitter, but it can be annoying. It’s loud and noisy, it’s replete with echo chambers, and 280 characters is not enough to make a real argument. Pairagraph is our attempt to push back on these trends and build a proper town square for the digital age.

We’re still fairly new but already have hosted 60+ dialogues, with contributors like Niall Ferguson, Joe Lonsdale, Balaji Srinivasan, Francis Fukuyama, Martin Gurri, and Om Malik.

In the short run we’ve decided to keep our community closed—only certain people are able to participate in dialogues. The idea here is not to exclude anyone but to establish a track record of quality discussion before opening it up. We think that if we start with quality and move gradually to quantity, we’ll have a better shot in the long run of preserving both.

The good news is that we are discussing opening it up, so there is some chance we will do so soon. We're also contemplating allowing dialogues with >2 participants.

To recap: For now, Pairagraph is gated, but we’re wary of elitism and committed to including as many people (and perspectives) as possible. This is also why we have a ‘Suggest’ page on the website for readers who are interested in recommending future authors/topics.

If you’ve read this far, here are a few of our favorite exchanges:

https://www.pairagraph.com/dialogue/354c72095d2f42dab92bf427...

https://www.pairagraph.com/dialogue/77d7e5451ea3467eaed19686...

https://www.pairagraph.com/dialogue/5e569e6fbc944e998c795028...

Along with adding more content, we’re focused on three things:

(1) Improving retention and expanding reach

(2) Polishing the site’s design/UI. Neither Carter (my co-founder) nor I are expert designers, we’ve done almost all of it ourselves, recognize that it needs help, and are working every day to add polish and professionalism

(3) Eventually turning enough of a profit to make Pairagraph sustainable

That’s our grand vision, but ultimately we’re just two friends from college working on a project that we think matters. What do you think?
Video Libraries with Bunny.net
Good to know! Kind of crazy they work as trilogies, too. (or maybe I'm just seeing things that aren't there).
...slapped ALL the content inside a directory named used the password hash. So you basically have to know the password to get to the right directory.

You could attack the site by cracking the password to get the hash, or you could work out a way to make the web server list all the available directories instead. Historically that has always been a very common way to attack servers. You've changed the thing that's protecting the website from password hash to a web server config. It only takes a simple mistake on the part of Github to enable directory listings and everyone will have access.

FWIW I trust that Github won't do that and I think you'll be fine, but as a method of securing something on the web using an obscure directory name is a terrible idea.
Google Plus circles
Yeah, because the efforts to switch all over was constantly messed with, from Balmer cancelling his vacation for a immediate visit with the Mayor, to people complaining that their random exe cannot be installed (which was mainly due to newer stricter policy and every admin can tell you that this is a general complaint).

Oh and did you actually read the links?

FYI: They are switching to Linux again.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-i...
The first season is a bit slow, I only got hooked on my second try. Which is a bit odd as the first book is quite fast-paced.

I wouldn't exactly call it hard sci-fi, but it at least makes an effort to keep some parts realistic, with the obvious exception of major plot elements like the protomolecule and all stuff derived from it. You can certainly nitpick many details about how gravity is handled, they make an effort to explain it without resorting to magic, but in the end simulating microgravity just isn't feasible on a TV budget.
The Builder's Hierarchy of Fulfillment
Canadian Schools to Open Again
Which is a brilliantly entertaining balance imho. I love it.
We want (expect) her not to sit in judgment of the hand that feeds her.
Say more? Why would a financial expert on the staff of Brookings not speak at Citadel for market rates?
user supplied read addresses -
when a process does a write() it makes sense for it to supply the data as it filled it in. but it almost never makes the same sense for a read(), and using the user address requires a copyout. i'm convinced that having the read() results show up in a kernel-allocated buffer in userspace is a better idea, but this is somewhat subjective

getpwent(), the whole notion of users - we dont use computers the same way we used to in the 70s. talk, write, finger, wall - they aren't very fun anymore since its either just me on my laptop, or one of the 100s of virtual machines floating around. more importantly, the attempts to glue unix system user identity to distributed identities (PAM) have really turned out to be a mess

filesystem permissions - these are clearly insufficient given the number of system-specific addons here.

signals are so riddled with constraints and incompatibilities that they are basically useless - except you have to fiddle with them for things like SIGPIPE

ttys were already kind of broken when they were relevant,

errno is actually a property of the libc, but the status interface is pretty broken - have you even grepped the kernel code to find out what might be issuing an EINVAL?

why dont you mail me at yuri tenuki org? i love these kinds of chats
You're not wrong, but don't forget that there are plenty of physical goods in gaming. Every nerdy IP has merchandise and that's why GameStop acquired ThinkGeek. There are tons of nerdy merchandise and collectibles to sell. Instead of massive clearances on items that don't sell, they could offer subscriptions services like LootCrate and when you get there you're not too far off from monthly cat food.
A retail company, who hasn't made money in 5 years, hit hard by a pandemic. Gaming consoles going entirely digital. "Common sense" here is not well defined when most of the valuation is because Michael Burry bought into the stock and Ryan Cohen joining the team.
They are a fun tool, great for doing molecular work in the field. The error rate is still very high compared to short reads, but if you know this and plan for it going in you should be fine.

Flowcells last for one sample. The machine should last indefinitely. You can sometimes add more of the same DNA to a flowcell after one use to get a bit more out of it, but the quality degrades quickly. 500-1000 dollars each for flowcells, depending on how much you order.

My experience in field use, I was using Oxford Nanopores software which does processing remotely and was able to run the the platform on just a regular 2015-era laptop.
I used to use LibreOffice all the time because it was free, but then Google Docs overtook that for me

Nowadays I don't even have an office suite installed because of Google Docs
I think given the naive algorithm of both implementations, and the fact the python and cpp are near transliterations of each other, the article isn't really trying to make the literal statement of the words of its title. Of course the relationship between language semantics and actual raw performance on real hardware is probably a neverending topic.

I guess the article is more trying to make a statement along the lines of "here's how you benefit if you know python and pretend that means you know CPP too", (which seems like a fairly valid way to suck people into learning CPP to me)
You're not wrong. The parts on Earth from season 5 was from "The Churn", a novella.
If you are in NYC and making a livable salary it certainly does stand up to scrutiny.
Making the Spark DataFrame composition type safe(r)
I think the real reason goes farther back. The environmentalist movement grew out of the peace movement, which was anti-nuclear because all they saw were the military applications. A few decades down the line, they've forgotten why they don't like it, but they still don't like it.
I've always wondered the same about a vehicle carrying around 15 - 20 gallons of highly flammable and explosive liquid fuel. What happens in an accident, where a spark in the wrong place with the correct mixture of fuel and oxygen can cause an explosion or hot burning fire?

There's been a few times I've driven by a car fire, and even from the opposite side of a divided 4-lane highway, the heat I felt was impressive.
Even though I know very little about vaccines, this article has a paid PR smell. These kinds of technocratic problems have short and long answers. He skipped one, and danced around the other.
I don't know anything about this particular instance, but it is generally believed that speaking fees are that high because they are a form of legal bribery.

Bill Clinton also had his share of critics because of that.
> I had a little difficulty getting back into Persepolis Rising for some reason.

I can see that. It's a bit of a reset (without giving away the plot) but it sets up 8 extremely well, which was a great book. I'm really excited to see how they wrap up the 9th and final.
Imagine the media response if this was a Trump appointee.

Imagine the billions in property damage due to peaceful protests if a Trump appointee didn't recuse themselves.