skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The lender is paid for the service of lending money out (which incurs risk). You want to incentivize this behavior.

Not all forms of payment are ethical or moral (e.g. prostitution). This is an exploitative practice, and should definitely not be incentivized as we've seen time and time again the destructive effect it has on society and the economic system.

> This would keep people who aren’t already rich unable to access capital.

This is why Islam has Zakat laws to ensure the poor are lifted out of poverty. We keep seeing the dems trying to solve the problem by increasing taxation, but to no avail. Islam solved the problem over 1400 years ago.

> I think Islamic law (or really any religious framework) has very little of value to say on the topic of morality or running a productive society.

Morality does not exist without religion. Secondly, Islam has proven to have run one of the most successful societies of all time, and definitely the most moral since Islam came. We still benefit of the discoveries made during the Islamic Golden Age.
I'm working at a particle accelerator, and we still have a few VME racks, but we plan to get rid of them next year. Industrial and scientific control systems are full of really old stuff.
> Presumably that means there are some issues where an average citizen doesn't get a vote?

Look up Shura laws on how these things work. Topics are delegated to experts in their respective fields who have the obligation to act out of interest of the society, a form of "meritocracy" if you will. This doesn't mean that average citizens cannot be consulted.

> for example, a man being stripped of his possessions because his caste is not allowed to own property. Does that illustrate my point?

No it doesn't, because Islam does not prohibit non-Muslims from owning properties. You have not shown what issues you have with the Islamic system so far other than conjecture.

> the next verse says that certain taxes should only be leveled on non-Muslims

Because non-Muslims are not required to pay Zakat, Muslims are already "taxed".

I feel that the discussion went on a tangent. The fact of the matter is that it is perfectly not only possible to build a society without the dangerous practice of interest, but it is in the benefit of the entire society to do so (except a relative few who stand to benefit extremely from interest and other similar practices). We've known about it for a long time now.
If you paid $10k toward a $100k asset, most of that $10k actually goes toward interest because of how the loan is setup.

Islam never denies that time and money are related, it just places moral restrictions on how money can be used in society without exploitation.
CIOs commit random acts of cloud in 2021 as adoption becomes mission-critical
if today's BBs had HTC quality keyboards, I'd be using them. I'd readily throw away so much just to get a good keyboard, but BB keyboards are just not well designed for touch typing like HTC ones were.

My kingdom for a new HTC T-Mobile G1/G2 successor!
Outside the Apple ecosystem, for easy home curation of both video and audio with access on the go for the whole household, readers may wish to consider Plex, which I highly recommend as making it easy to curate, serve from your own home NAS, and (most importantly for family acceptance factor) frictionlessly access:

Plex Music: https://www.plex.tv/your-media/music/

Supported Devices: https://www.plex.tv/apps-devices/

(I recommend a Lifetime Plex Pass for $120, as after three years that will have been the better bet and one tends to stay invested in a curated library. Also consider the subscription Tidal integration for a high sound quality streaming library of 60M tracks.)

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To your point about stories of unique recordings, yes, first release was pretty sketchy but it didn’t replace the origin computer recordings. Many people tried using it to “upgrade” found rips or bootlegs, and lost things that way as its early matching was considerably worse than that era’s open tools.

My hand curated library was around 25,000 tracks. It initially matched only a minority, mostly mainstream. Through time, it’s matched more and more tracks, more and more accurately. By now I’m surprised when it can’t match something, and it’s rare if gets confused between releases of the same song by the same artist.
> we should all stop what we are doing and fight child trafficking immediately.

Are you doing that? If so, how are you posting here?
Nongoloza’s Ghost: The legacy of violence in South Africa
While I share your concerns about the government, and was suspicious of the numbers (heck, more than suspicious, I dismissed them out of hand), the more data that we see the more reasonable they seem. Using two different adenoviruses was, in retrospect, a pretty brilliant choice to increase the boost give by the second dose. I think it's entirely reasonable that this would give an additional 10-20% efficacy over other adenovirus vaccines.

I don't pretend to know how involved the Russian government was in the process, but it's a shame the scientists who designed this vaccine are tainted by the corrupt government of the country they live in.
If Google Search becomes unavailable in Australia it's going to be a disaster for many, many people.

I honestly can't believe this is happening.

I do not want to be forced to switch to Bing :/
> that you can have someone disconnected from the "builders" lay out the whole building and then hand over the designs to be "built"

Agreed that this isn't going to work. I wouldn't write off the whole notion of having architecture and architects, though; I've known a handful of architects who absolutely improved the systems they worked on, but they were deeply involved in the whole process and part of their job was precisely to alter the system as needed.
Second Childhood
yay, code is just like facebook. This won't end badly
The big question is, does Google consider gcloud so core that it will never give up on it? We are not there yet but it will only take the smallest whiff and Google's reputation for abandoning products will utterly destroy their viability in the enterprise cloud computing market.
The free market and rent-seeking
Thank you, am reading his Strategy in the Missile Age, which is surprisingly a very enjoyable read. Brodie was evidently a cultured guy and a good writer. There's quite a bit of history and philosophy, and the first 2 pages are entirely about Paradise Lost!

PDF: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/commercial_books/...
Huh, this sort of rhetoric seems like it will only provoke the opposite of what they wa...

wait a second...
You can't access this high speed trading. This is the toy of billionaires that can afford microwave link between New York and Chicago and have dedicated teams of FPGA developers to write high speed network stacks with trading logic embedded in them.

This is what the parent comment was talking about.
So you don't think the problem is social or psychological or related to sitting alone in one room all day, just like... zoom could have a better interface?

Maybe that question is enough, but I don't have anything else to say that's not incredibly rude.
The timing here is actually the most important detail. What I am saying is: It is not the case, that r/wsb decided today to drop GME and invest in SLV instead, like the reports suggest.

I am actually relieved, that there were indeed stories about it and it was not totally made up. I still find the timing worth noticing.
Beware the Rise of Far-Right Environmentalism (2019)
Facebook was founded a decade after Amazon. 2004 vs 1994. Google was already dominate and it IPO’d the same year. They’re both old at this point but Amazon is in a whole different class of “early internet”.
Society has been destroyed thousands of times over and has still survived. We think of the past as glorious and fair. Reality is that this is foolish optimism fed by historical revisionism and survivorship bias.
Not only that but as every sports fan know the compensation in sports team vary tremendously, even for similar "roles". People in tech would be shocked (with reason) if that were the case in the IT world.
Many AUR packages have a binary package available for install.
> moving away from Xorg as a display server really needs to happen eventually

"It has to happen because it has to happen" is classic logical fallacy anti pattern.
Users of CSS frameworks do it to cut corners and follow whatever the framework suggests.

“The small breakpoint is 768px wide? I guess below it it’s a phone, I hope you like burgers”
I don't think there's any major production Google service actually running on GCP (which, IMO, is a problem and likely one of the reasons for their trouble).
> Simply: does revenue exceed cost of running it?

Cost of running it includes engineering salaries, so isn't a good measure to include when you measure productivity of engineers. A productive engineer would be worth a higher salary, but if you include the cost of that higher salary reducing his value would that also reduce the salary you want to pay? Doesn't make sense.
I think this is universal. Most of the crypto are not owned by regular people ( whatver that means for you). You need to have some basic level of competency with tech to play around with crypto. If you forgot your password for your Stonks broker, your not SOL. Even computer/tech literate people have lost potential millions due to forgetting passwords or crashed drives. That guy in the UK is still hoping to dig out his laptop in a landfill for what could possibly be hundreds of millions of dollars/pounds in BTC. They know exactly where it is in the landfill because they kept track of where, when and what went in the landfill.
No question that Russia has some of the best minds in the world, still. But a big headline product like this would be incredibly tempting for the regime to exaggerate the efficacy of for propaganda reasons. That’s not to say the vaccine is not brilliant. It’s just that I’d say we still have insufficient evidence to assert that it is.
> Except if he's a direct male-line descendant

Would direct male descendants have more common DNA? Why is that?
I’m curious to see what the actual effectiveness (vs lab efficacy) is of all these vaccines. The gaps can be quite large.
Boring is also by far the stupidest with putting cars in tunnels about the least efficient thing one can do with a tunnel.

The fundamentals of TBMs aren't so drastically sub-optimal to make that misallocation easy to compensate.
If we had a statute of limitations like this, treaties with other countries would cease to hold all meaning.

Humanity has already walked down this path before: The kings of England would routinely invalidate treaties made by predecessors.

Let’s not retread our steps, yes? The world is much calmer and safer for it.
> People are told to wear surgical masks, which say on the side of the box that they do not protect against viruses, because it is something they can do.

It likely has some protection, and it inhibits the onward spread of the virus. If enough people wear them, it has a protective effect on the entire population:

“The preponderance of evidence indicates that mask wearing reduces transmissibility per contact by reducing transmission of infected respiratory particles in both laboratory and clinical contexts.”

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118
Thanks for this! While the provided clip offers some widely applicable advice which transcends music, it’s also a nice gateway to a pleasant 45 minute documentary.
> Glushko... started demanding all future engines to be hypergolic

I think Glushko owns a big share of Soviet problems with the Moon.

On the other hand, at the time the leading idea in USSR was that hydrogen is a rather advanced fuel (which, by the way, Glushko also supported at a time), and given good existing engines, rocket designers wished to use proven fuels. In general, and to compete with hydrogen in particular, Isp was an important goal, so rocket designers set goals to engine designers - make rocket engines with good Isp. There was created a conflict between high Isp/high pressure engines - as required - and large thrust engines, as was needed for big, Moon rocket. Glushko had the opinion that they won't have enough time to create large thrust high Isp engines with kerosene, only with UDMH/NO2 . Kuznetsov could only create relatively low thrust (1500 kN) high Isp kerosene engines, and those were late.

If Glushko tried, those engines could possibly work. At least Glushko experience with large thrust chamber of RD-270 helped later with large thrust 4-chamber kerosene RD-170.
During a short squeeze, assets are "mispriced," and their prices have high volatility. Having a "correct" and "stable" price for assets is fundamentally important to any market as the market's intended purposes are to allow society to "efficiently" allocate capital and let participants hedge risk. "Wrong" and highly variable prices inhibit both goals.

Of course short squeezes (like any asset mispricing) can be good for individual market participants: but on net for all participants, they are not. That's why regulators step in when assets are mispriced, and they have attempted to/successfully prosecuted those who have intentionally created short squeezes.
This is super interesting. Are you familiar with Yottaa? (https://wwww.yottaa.com). I worked there briefly and there basically isn’t competition outside some CDN script “optimizers”, but none of them really help Core Web Vitals, which seems to be all e-commerce cares about these days. Sounds like your solution does.
In general you can say that on average a child has 25% of their genes from each grandparent. But in the case of the sex chromosomes, we know that a male has 50% of their paternal grandfather's sex chromosomes and 0% of their paternal grandmother's sex chromosomes (and vice versa for a female); the Y chromosome is passed on whole or not at all (you can't get half of it from your mother).
Oklahoma Lawmakers Introduce Computer Data Privacy Act
Apparently the reason Robinhood halted purchases of $GME was because they received a middle of the night call from the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) demanding $3 Billion immediately[1]. The NSCC refused to explain exactly how the $3 Billion was calculated, and they eventually settled on a much lower number in exchange for RH (and other brokerages) agreeing to halt purchases of specific stocks (the stocks that were shorted by the hedge funds).

After some research into the NSCC, looks like they're a very opaque & private company ran by a bunch of former hedge fund guys[2]. Also, their board of directors appears to include some active hedge fund guys. Considering this is all it took to block millions of retail traders, I'd say we have a very serious situation that needs to be investigated. Especially considering the trades involved were extremely time sensitive (e.g. put options set to expire worthless unless the stock dropped dramatically, stalled purchase momentum, etc).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M7X2dsW_Xw&t=5m25s
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/15236Z:US
Full agreement, but I think danudey's version captures it better than yours as it better captures the current ruleset incentivizing bad behavior.

Screw them: Get stuff -> Net Positive

Screw them, get caught: Return stuff -> Net 0

Don't Screw them: Gain nothing -> Net 0

Given these rules, a rational agent would pick to screw them over 100% of the time.
>I don't get why everyone gets so defensive for Wayland

Red Hat blogger marketing budget.
I don't need to be able to access high speed trading to access the benefits!
Kia Motors Shares Jump After Report Apple to Invest $3.6B
SEEKING WORK

USA/Central
Remote only

Mathematical coder with over a decade of python experience. I've also been coding in rust on the side and occasionally as part of my job for the past few years.

I'm looking for an interesting project and have a little time (say 10 hours per week) that I could carve out for an interesting project.
> A sports team has a play book, does your team? A sports team practices together, does your team? A sports team works as a unit, does your team?

This is why I like XP. Their teams really are teams like you say.

Though I think in many dev shops you can be team like. Someone might like refactoring and cleanup. Someone else is good at rapid prototyping. Another architecture. Sometimes a great dev is just the one who can take the unglamorous tickets and get them done at a sustainable pace. Or someone who is good at devops, teaching, or morale building. Sometimes just communication.

Everyone has different strengths. No one would ever say "who's the best (American) football player?" because you'd have to ask "who's the best kicker, tight-end, defensive lineman". They are all different roles.

To think that football would have the level of awareness that it cannot be measured as a single dimension makes it sad and laughable that people reduce programming skill down to one most of the time.
Honestly, death comes to us all. My dad died five years ago this week. Death is tragic, but the world keeps moving.

The main thing I've concluded based on people's reaction to the death tolls is that much of our population has not come to terms with their mortality and hate being reminded of it.
Pyramid Selling: A Threat to the Direct Selling Industry
Location: Austin, TX

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AWS, node.js, javascript, MongoDB, PHP, Java

CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sridhar-ramasami-76a226117/

Email: leisenming AT protonmail DOT com

ex-Facebook, Indian Institute of Technology alumnus, experience in USA and China looking for technical software management positions.

Something interesting - I did a 10 month 5000 mile hike of the Eastern Continental Trail :-)
No user in their right consciousness would click allow tracking. And Facebook knows that. So Facebook by showing a pre-empt message is essentially trying to picture personalized ads as good. Plus, by saying “support small businesses” they’re simply playing the victim card and diverting the attention away from data privacy. Facebook’s sole aim is to get users to click the allow button. If this isn’t gaslighting then I’m not sure what is.
They run those tests with like 1Mb/s connection though.
That piece of report doesn’t have us numbers. Gb looks totally in line with what had actually happened. 2.2M doesn’t sound unreasonable either since we are already almost at a quarter of that (assuming you even trust florida numbers). So she was wildly wrong, more so than other researchers, still clearly wrong but doubled down. So what’s your point exactly?
> Also, the privacy is unmatched

Unless nation states or mercs are in your threat model, that is.
And here I am just trying to learn sed and awk THIS YEAR. Granted I have other stuff on my to-learn-list, but still.
> You can assert that believing people can't make choices in a true sense of free will causes other to suffer.

I didn't assert anything about "believing people can't make choices in a true sense of free will". Nor did I assert anything about individual cases.

Since you are apparently unable to properly understand statements that use terms like "choice", I will rephrase my assertion using your ultra-physicalist language:

There are causal processes that happen inside human brains. Those causal processes have effects outside of the particular human brains in which they take place. Those effects can include effects on what happens to the particular human in whose brain the causal processes are taking place, and effects on other humans besides that particular human.

The question is whether the causal processes that happen inside a particular human's brain have a much greater impact, on net, on what happens to that particular human, than causal processes that happen in other human brains; or, by contrast, whether causal processes that happen in other human brains have a much greater impact, on net, on what happens to that particular human.

My assertion is that a society in which the former is the case will have less human suffering, and more good things, than a society in which the latter is the case.

Note that the effects the causal processes inside human brains have outside those brains, whether on that particular human or on other humans, happen regardless of the beliefs held by the particular human in whose brain the causal processes are happening, unless you count the beliefs themselves as part of the causal processes. Which is fine with me personally, but in fact, in your ultra-physicalist language, the word "belief" is just as out of place as the word "choice"; in your ultra-physicalist language, people don't have beliefs any more than they make choices. But the causal processes happening in their brains have the effects they have regardless of what language you use to describe them. Using obfuscatory ultra-physicalist language to describe them, instead of the common, intuitive language of beliefs and choices that everyone understands, just makes it harder to think clearly about what is going on. It's like doing arithmetic using Roman numerals; yes, it's possible, but it's just making things much harder than they need to be for no good reason.
I happen to be a white male from the US and during my PhD I was my Advisor's only native English speaker. Also, at most of my jobs, I've been either the only or one of two native English speakers.

While I don't have the numbers, it would not surprise me that for at least CS/Software and likely other many other professions white male is by no means the run-of-the-mill applicant.
So it’s working? Presumably you are doing something to cause them.
Honestly I don't think most engaged developers who care about their work need the carrot of going home early to develop more robust systems. Most developers who care about their work want to build robust systems, especially if they're responsible for handling outages.

The challenge is whether the organization prioritizes robust systems and devotes resources to making things more observable, reliable, and resilient. The team can want with all their heart to engineer fixes to common failure modes but if the decision makers are always pushing full steam ahead on new features it can be really difficult to improve the app.
Exactly. It's always annoying to use, sometimes I just give up. This is why I never feel comfortable using Linux.
Well, it seems a bit pointless debating whether billions of dollars is not much/tiny or a lot.

>> the armaments manufacturers who actually control our society

> You can’t control society with 0.17% of US GDP!

That doesn't seem fair. The companies involved are involved in a lot more than nuclear weapons, as I guess you know. (see my last 2 links)
From some links I saw over the weekend, the idea was to buy physical silver. Some coin places over the weekend were all out, however true or not that may be. The SLV stock may be someone else trying to fly under the guise of r/WSB's growing mass confusion to buy-low-and-HODL anything.
It seems like amazon was started around the same time as lycos, yahoo, altavista. Pets.com was started 3 years later.
There were several terrorist attacks by Uighur separatist groups. The Chinese authorities use Western War on Terror rhetoric to justify the ethnic cleansing, warrantless mass-surveillance and censorship.

It's a shame Western states institute the repressive laws that they do, as for the most part, the Western states are vastly better than the CCP on civil liberties, and the few deviations from an otherwise strong commitment to liberal democratic principles prevents the West from having the kind of moral high ground it would otherwise have.
Why would there be? It has been tested on 20000 persons from all age groups
I'm not surprised someone used them together, but in my experience most people don't deal with PPE a daily basis, so a lot of folks seem to use don (a common word I guess) but I've rarely seen doff used.
Or mental illness