skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mr. Banyai, a stocky man from upstate New York with a bushy, untrimmed beard, presented himself to Pawlet’s development board in 2018 as “a veteran who is passionate about guns.”

lmao

> He was mysterious about his past, alluding to overseas service in the Middle East but refusing to offer any details.

Fascinating. I'm sure he done seen things you ain't gonna believe.

Q: Why do all these tactical-weapons types fail so hard when it comes to strategy?

If you want to live on the east coast and consummate your gun love with any kind of long-term freedom at all, it seems obvious that you have to maintain a baseline good-neighbor role. For starters.

Prediction: This guy is going to get metaphorically sniped by normal, persistent, non-gun people who already own his glaring blind spots.
> You’re assuming they own the property outright with no mortgage, which is pretty unlikely.

If they own property in New York City and were able to qualify for any sort of mortgage on a working class dual-income, then it's highly unlikely that they bought that property at any point within the last 30 years, in which case - if there was a mortgage - it should be long paid-for by now.
Sounds like a great experimental candidate for automation by something like GPT-3.
Curious to see how this plays out in law schools — UPenn and UVA have seen 40%+ bumps in applications (guessing it’s even higher at HYS) while schools like Duquesne or Belmont are struggle busing.
Noise cancelling headphones are a godsend. Someone needs to design ones that can be comfortably worn while sleeping, though!
>Some may point to the existence of the Raspberry Pi as a counter argument. "Here is a computer built by a small company that is designed for tinkerers," they might argue

LOL. the Pi? its entire SOC is controlled by Microsoft ThreadX. if there were ever a better example of how the war on general purpose computing was won its the Pi. You only ever emulate or virtualize linux on it. the kernel is never aware of the threadx hypervisor and no open alternative exists. the officially supported OS developer just recently back-doored a repo and GPG key onto every one of them during an upgrade.
> * I would love to see MSNBC airing opposing viewpoints on controversial issues.*

ME TOO.

Something that drives me nuts about the current political climate is that some people are so sure of their views on seemingly every hot topic. I think this is because of a complete lack of discussion of any opposing viewpoints, which I believe is fundamental to actually understanding an issue. If you refuse to consider why people think differently, how can you possibly engage with them? Isn't the goal of any sort of political activism to get more people to vote the way you do?

Unfortunately I don't think it would work out very well, given the current media machinery. I find cable news completely ridiculous as a whole, but the rare cases where they do bring in someone to discuss an opposing viewpoint are really something. (one that comes to mind was Fox having a "union leader" on sporting a full track suit, big cigar, and several giant rings on his hands like he was a Sopranos character.)
I know that you didn’t mean to completely throw the conversation from Firefox to Expounder, but you succeeded.

Mozilla who? That’s where we are now.
At the time it would have served pretty much all normal users enough, so I don’t see what’s wrong with the statement. It’s like today telling a home user 32GB should be enough for just about anything a normal user would do with their home PC.

I wouldn’t advise anyone to get 128GB (or more) “just in case”. If they have a special need case, then, sure , otherwise no.
Google-linked smart city plan ditched in Portland
I don’t switch it off, so that I can have remote access to
It, but 20TB in 10 days sounds a lot.

Also worth noting that I see my swap fluctuating from 6-8GB almost all the time (granted I have multiple browser tabs and windows, maybe like 10-30 ish ?)
> most citizens would rather have whatever it takes to have no riots

Isn't it a brilliant tactic deployed by the regime, making people think that freedom of speech equals riot on the street. Like the USA is burning in hell with all the black live matters protest and the capitol protest/riot?
> Of course in the West its companies not politicians who call the shots, but the language to justify the actions is certainly similar.

Almost identical. "Terrorist" viewpoints/content and "hate speech" are banned and censored in most Western countries.
I love this title.
Meh, I hate the idea of individual devs signing up for clouds like AWS, GCP, or Azure. These are huge cost machines and are designed to serve fast moving startups and hulking enterprises. The best you can do is setup account limits and alerts.

The real answer is that if you have an understanding of networks and systems, then the cloud is just a data center with different considerations. Your company should be giving you resources like sandbox accounts that you can play in. This is how you'll really learn.
>I think this is generally a good thing

I don't think it's a real trend. You only need to apply to one or two safety schools while you can apply to any number of good/reach schools. Those schools have made the admission process much more random. Used to be that your grades + SATs mostly determined who would accept you. Now it's whatever impressed some random admissions drone and who knows what they really want? So you shoot your shot with 40 reaches and hope one of them likes you. If you're a strong candidate you have to apply to more schools in case you get randomly rejected.
I had a 75 MB (yes, MB) drive in the first computer I bought. It was top of the line at the time. I remember telling my wife that I couldn’t imagine ever filling it up. Ha! Now I feel like a pauper if my phone has a 64GB drive ;-)
I always recommend to my HN friends to enable the showdead setting on their profile. There is definitely some garbage, but it’s not that bad. This isn’t the first post I’ve seen that definitely adds valuable context and was inexplicably censored away.

Edit: you jinxed it! The post is no longer dead it would seem.
The first two in here[1] are reporting 3% of a 2TB drive in a couple months. And speculating what that would look like for a 256GB drive. So, not definitive, but if it does mean 24% in two months for a smaller drive, that's not great.

[1] https://linustechtips.com/topic/1306757-m1-mac-owners-are-ex...

Edit: I suppose it makes sense that the people seeing lots of wear are the 2TB drive buyers. People that are willing to pay for that much NVME probably use it a lot.
Yup, I agree women and minority groups are often targeted with online harassment. That also doesn't mean a white gay male doesn't benefit from inherent biases elsewhere in society.
I agree Big Sur is a big step back. They've changed all the icons in System Preferences again, and the new sound-levels UI in the menubar is very confusing.
In my comment I was referring to the article's approach to classifying the "trolls".

According to the article.. the [implied numerous] people they classify as the enemy are there because of her "ground breaking work".

The average person doesn't get a huge wave of trolls by just being there. Being the focus of an NPR puff piece interview, I would say she is a minor celebrity.

Does she deserve the hate? The person no, the celebrity image: hesitant yes. (I have a hard time saying no to the second part due to the influence and analogues .. i.e. public figures/politicians)

I believe that people are probably fighting with the celebrity image/influence. I mean why would you care about some individual that had some opinions as is with the person in the article.

----

On to what you mentioned:

Yes, there are unhinged people. The levels of "abuse" (their definition, which I disagree with what's classified as) between someone that agressively tries to influence others and an individual. There are probably many reasons for their behavior, but I would agree that they aren't acceptable to society. Are group block lists a good reason for these individual 1 on 1 interactions? No, The Travis scenario is not healthy. (Scala reference right there.. it's a guy who maintains blocklists based on you who follow)
The Ami costs 6,000EUR to buy, a Porsche Taycan or Tesla S depending on spec easily 100,000EUR. Why you even compare those? They're not even in the same world.
This is a good example of overlitigiousness.
I can't speak for Tunisia but people in China generally don't have such worries. I'm really trying to compare two relatively stable governments, with one employing centralized censorship and power preservation and one employing decentralized censorship and power preservation.

If you throw say a less well off and also oppressive government then it's a different matter.
This is it. Relative economic prosperity, at least as long as it's somewhat widely distributed among a large proportion of the population, usually seems to be quite helpful in smoothing over any roughness of the general political situation for most. In any place, one might disagree ideologically with the way certain things are unfolding politically, but people will usually be much more likely to accept it so long as their material situation is improving, be it real or perceived. Of course, if that economic prosperity or general perception of it goes into decline, the situation can suddenly become quite ugly politically.
I am interested in constructing new housing and renting it out, comments like yours make me wonder why I should even bother and even if I did why would I have any reason to give an antagonistic tenant any favors if it will bite me in the ass?

No, it's quite simple. Being a landlord is being a business owner. You are providing a service and in exchange you get paid enough to make construction of housing worthwhile. Except, most landlords break even and only get paid in the form of building equity. It'll take decades to pay the mortgage off.

>The moratorium is, in part, tacit recognition of this. Everybody knows that a large slice of rental income is completely unearned - even landlords.

>Few would seriously believe that the sky high rental incomes derived from these is really earned, for instance

If nobody is paying for the house then there will be no house for you to live in. It's that simple.
>Reframing the question at hand around this metaphor: What would an effective vaccine look like for these thought viruses? I'm not at all sure, but I can't imagine any kind of partisan response that would work, since these viruses infect left and right alike, and many people will bend over backwards to argue otherwise. Until we can face that fact honestly, I don't see how we could even begin to have a productive conversation about a solution.

Actually, there are effective ways to identify the credibility of information. From the well known CRAAP.[0] test to "lateral reading"[1] and a host of related [2][3][4][5] methods to clarify the credibility of online (or offline, for that matter) material. There are even curricula[6] that addresses these issues.

And no, none of these methods are partisan. Rather, they give the reader tools to help them determine the validity and credibility of information.

That many folks don't do so is definitely a problem. One of the less involved methods is "lateral reading" as described in [1]. I heartily recommend it, as well as other methods.

[0] https://researchguides.ben.edu/source-evaluation

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/fake-news-media-a...

[2] https://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-guides...

[3] https://paperpile.com/g/find-credible-sources/

[4] https://libanswers.tcl.edu/faq/6286

[5] https://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm

[6] https://www.schrockguide.net/critical-evaluation.html
But why did they miss it? I believe they did so because this kind of speech is not unusual. So even though it was out in the open, likely reported many times as people do on social platforms - it was missed because it was regarded as people saying extreme thngs but not going to act on them. In other words, there's a lot of this kind of speech in modern times, but it doesn't get censored and so actually dangerous speech gets missed.

And then they actually went through with it - so many private organizations took action. And yet, the government did not force their hand.
You make multiple false, assertions in one comment, backtrack those assertions in other comments, and then pretend your position has remained unchanged the whole time.

It comes across as dishonest and makes me, an outsider, wonder how much tether you own.
I'll take a bit of your NiceHash and add some water [0] to that and make you something tasty. A bit more turnkey and a middleman if you don't mind.

[0]: https://www.753.plus/
btw. this is my macbook pro 16gb 2019 (intel) with ~800 hours:

Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 91,665,449 [46,9 TB]
Data Units Written: 88,819,714 [45,4 TB]

heavy usage, with vm and i've written to the 1tb nvme disk multiple times and needed to clean stuff to get free space (multiple times)
Yeah, although in this case it takes me back to ~10 years ago. I didn't think 8GB was a lot back then either, and we typically tried for at least 16.

Its pretty disappointing how little advancement has been made in RAM in recent years. It seems like everything should come with at least 16GB now with 32GB being readily available, but I guess noone is working on the cost of desktop/laptop memory.
Dpp: Include C headers directly into D programs
QQ: can DO k8s cluster scale up automatically with load ? And ,more importantly, can it scale down automatically when the load goes down.
> It’s not surprising that when it comes to their investment strategies, that the “you only live once” philosophy and a preference for high-risk high-return investments is preferred. What has this generation got to lose?

That is pure irrationality. IMO The real issue is a crap education system which gives neither opportunity, nor good advice-- instead of training rational actors w/ valueable skills it focuses on building activists before they have any life experience and smacks of marxism.

What's the path out? Free education for socially profitable degrees might be a fix (ie STEM). Not wasting the first 18 years of a person's life might be an alternative (eg: why are we memorizing dates permanently recorded online, why arent we teaching (personal) financial and programming expertise?).

Edit: by financial I meant personal financial skills, not wall street skills. My apologies for the imprecision.
Where can you buy these in the USA? ATV stores seem to be all ICE. Golf carts are way overpriced and often not enclosed and have little cargo space. The only way I can see to get a small electric utility vehicle that costs under $3000 for packages and yard work is to order one shipped from China on Alibaba and similar web sites. There are $15,000 UTV's in the USA, but that is a ridiculous price.
> Griddy warned its 29,000 customers last week of impending price hikes and encouraged them to seek out other electric providers.

I’m surprised how much Griddy is in the news despite having so few customers.
Do you think the results of the Harvard Kennedy School's study were fraudulent? https://ash.harvard.edu/publications/understanding-ccp-resil...
Yes, in a vacuum maybe, but given the context of the world and history, I personally do not find it offensive for a woman to complain about men in a generalized way, given... you know all of human history...

Punching up vs punching down
Of the things you could sue Griddy for, price gouging seems... silly. They're literally just passing along the wholesale price, not taking a profit from the spikes.

You could try to sue for negligence or not informing customers or whatever. But they simply are not gouging.

Edit: Also, I didn't appreciate that this wasn't even a market spike. The Texas government literally set a ludicrously high price, to try to boost supply:

> Texas’ Public Utility Commission, appointed by Abbott, raised the wholesale market price of electricity to $9 per kilo-watt hour — a 7,400% increase over the average 12 cents per kilo-watt hour — in response to rising demand. The hope was power generators would be enticed to produce more electricity.

So the charge is even more ridiculous that it first appears. Griddy is literally passing on the price set by the state government — and which they in turn were paying to suppliers.
I don’t agree. You are suggesting that liberalism was just a mirage for a different underlying ideology. But I don’t think that’s what was happening. People really believed in liberalism. Live and let live is not a very profound philosophy—nor a very self-preserving one, which is why it fell so quickly—but it was real.
This is why the us vs them dichotomy is so important to those in power. Dividing us is the only thing that keeps them in power. Unfortunately there are so many values of “us” and “them” now that it’s obscured the only definition that really matters.
First-world problems.
When people have suggested a Hippocratic oath for technology workers in the past I've laughed at the idea.

I think I've changed my mind.
USDT, USDC and DAI each have their own set of counterparty risks.
USDT is regulated somewhere sunny, USDC somewhere that could be hostile if given enough power, and DAI is backed by digital assets such as custodied Ethereum.
The sooner there are more solid options in more jurisdictions, and more certainty around USD stablecoin regulation, the better.
I will be very glad to see Tethers go away.
I Can't Stand Fox News, but Censoring It Might Be the Dumbest Idea Ever
Well they don't understand they were gouged by the grid itself.
Another way to display JSON files in a more readable format is catj (https://github.com/soheilpro/catj)
Doesn't just about everyone outsource their judgement on a regular basis? Most people rely on others to do tasks they either cannot do at all or as efficiently because we trust that our doctor, lawyer, programmer, sysadmin, carpenter, electrician, auto mechanic, etc. has better judgement than we have time to acquire.

What makes that work is what the person you're replying to asked for: sources. I don't get medical advice from random strangers on the street, I get it from people who have credentials or organizations which hire those people. When I get a contractor, I'm looking at their licenses to assume that they at least know how to install a dishwasher to code.
Classic. People like floating rates when rates are low. News at 10.

It will be interesting to see how the courts treat this. She’s suing over price gouging, which is a grey area anyway, but seems very difficult to prove when the grid was on the verge of collapse. Power prices are volatile because it’s (for all intents and purposes) an immediately perishable good.
Wow, that sounds disheartening. Thank goodness nothing like that could happen with tech companies in the U.S.A.
"We didn't have enough Uyghur language data points in our system, and the most popular livestream rooms were already closely monitored."

This deeply saddened me. They reason why the Uyghur dialect wasn't banned wasn't for ethical reasons, but base operational ones.

It's like when the bloody Franco dictatorship forbade the Catalan dialect decades ago.
Nice! I loved the Mega Drive one [0].
This series is so cool! Its full of details on sprites and architecture. I admire the work that was put on this.

[0] https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/mega-drive-genesis...
I looked into this and it seems like no, these are not static binaries at all. They dynamically load stuff, and cython seems to be embedding very specific headers, including linux specific ones (asm/errno.h). I tried to build using musl-gcc but it was too different.

When I say build static like a Go binary, I mean that the binary contains everything, and is not allowed to dynamically load anything at all. Also, preferrably it doesn't need a C standard library, and does system calls manually.
Oscar Health’s initial IPO price is so high, it makes me want to swear
That's a trade, not a withdrawl. You cannot withdraw 1USD for 1USDT.
> As the Chronicle reports, Ferlinghetti "will be buried in the family plot in the Druid section of the Bolinas Cemetery, beside his late ex-wife, Selby Kirden-Smith."
I wonder how likely are code invariants found in the training set preserved in GPT-2/3. In other words, if I train GPT-2 with C source produce by Csmith (a program generator which I believe produces C programs without undefined behaviour) would programs produced by GPT-2/3 also do not exhibit undefined behaviour?

I understand that GPT-2/3 is just a very smart parrot that has no semantic knowledge of what it is outputting. Like I guess let's take a very dumb markov chain that was "trained" on the following input:

a.c
```
int array[6];
array[5] = 1;
```

b.c

```
int array[4];
array[3] = 2;
```

I guess a markov chain could theoretically produce the following code:

out.c

```
int array[4];
array[5] = 1;
```

which is undefined behaviour. But it is produced from two programs where no undefined behaviour is present. A better question would be, how can we guarantee that certain program invariants (like lack of undefined behaviour) can be preserved in the produced code? Or if there are no guarantees, can we calculate a probability? (Sorry, not an expert on machine learning, just excited about a potentially new way to fuzz programs. Technically, one could just instrument C programs with sanitizers and produce backwards static slices from the C sanitizer instrumentation to the beginning of the program and you get a sample of a program without undefined behaviour... so there is already the potential for some training set to be expanded beyond what Csmith can provide.)

EDIT: I don't know how to format here...
I prefer to subscribe to "punching up vs down..." as my simplified take
> And so we see Gamestop story fall out of that. In a nutshell a bunch of retail investors (possibly with help from institutional insiders) decided to pump a small cap stock far beyond what the valuation of the company should be.

This completely ignores the fact that the stock was shorted over 100% of float, and people knew it was going to squeeze so they bought in hoping to ride the wave. And that did in fact happen, although timing is everything.

I could go on, but this philosophical piece is incredibly lazy with its historical accuracy.
They did actually try and warn customers - though the efficacy of that warning might be debatable.
A big fallacy is that the "Chinese government" is this big monolithic entity. It's not. Supporting the Chinese government does not equal support censorship.

Do you support the National Park Service?

Do you support the Federal Aviation Administration?

Do you support the USDA?

Do you support Donald Trump?

Do you support the FDA?

Do you support NIST?

Do you support Joe Biden?

Do you support NIH?

Do you support public schools?

Do you support Guantanamo Bay?

Do you support the Environmental Protection Agency?

The Chinese government, although not democratically elected, is similar in one aspect, in that it is a very multi-faceted set of institutions that do a whole lot of things well that the majority of people support, and a few things that the majority of people secretly do not support but are unlikely to be vocal about.
"should apply"

It depends on whether the simulation itself is conscious, which is an open question in the philosophy of mind (is our wetware the only feasible substrate?) with much debate. If the answer is no, it's therefore not capable of suffering and not worthy of ethical concern, but as of yet we don't know the answer. We may of course wish to assume that it is conscious, just for the sake of risk aversion.
I still keep a machine running Snow Leopard, these days it's mostly relegated to playing old games that never got ported to Intel since it was the last OS that supported Rosetta.
If you want to know where American governance is headed, look to China's regime for a foretaste. Big Tech and its ideological and political allies are taking us there, inch by inch.