skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So am I right in saying that this money went to other players/farmers, rather than the devs? -> Yes

Did you manage to sell your account in the end? -> Nope, still have the account as a sort of trophy / reminder.

Do you intend to seek professional help about your addiction? -> Yes, scheduled something last month. But as I mentioned, the game slowly lost its appeal.

> it definitely seems this did not happen as a result of some addictive quality of the game, rather your own personality/current situation.

Putting blame the victim is always the easiest way to go. Good job.
The point is for someone to be lying their use of the word has to be inconsistent with how any reasonable person could use the word. My argument is that if you use the word in the way California law uses it your not lying. But also if you don't use it in the way California law uses it but the way U.S. law uses your not lying. Or if you use it in a manner that's inconsistent with California law and U.S. law but is how people use the word in everyday language your not lying.

"Did Gebru voluntarily quit according to California law?"

"Is it obviously lying to say resigned?"

These are two separate questions.

Also I'm not convinced that it says anywhere in the California statutes that a letter of resignation requires an end date to be considered a letter of resignation. (It might say that about voluntary quitting, it might say that in case law, but I don't think it says clearly in any statute that to be considered a letter of resignation it requires an end date (which is different from whether or not it was a voluntary quit)
I really liked this explanation of how the photos were transmit. I believe Don Mitchell was able to find the original data files for some of the transmissions and rebuild the photos in higher quality:

http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm
2nd law says heat flows from hot to cold. Mirrors are passive, temperature of target, (Earth), must be lower than surface temperature of source (Sun).
How did they recover the data? Was it transmitted through the thick atmosphere?
Wait is my whole calculation wrong then? I thought miners only got paid for receiving bitcoins.

They also get additional payments in fractions of a bitcoin for transactions and this is in addition to the costs I wrote above?
Well, because Brave is pretty much a renamed chrome with preinstalled adblock
I don’t know why — and forgive the potentially low value comment — but the headline alone made me recall the movie “Flatliners” from the 90s, which I saw way too young, and which thoroughly terrified me.
If you scroll down there is a section about blowing Earth up with an antimatter bomb made of a lot less antimatter.
Online Speech Is Now an Existential Question for Tech
> At a million tonnes of mass driven out of the Earth's gravity well per second, this would take 189,000,000 years.

I love how this takes an incomprehensibly large number (mass of the earth) and decomposes it into 3 exceptionally large but kind of comprehensible numbers (million tones / second, 30 million seconds / year, 189 million years). The earth is _big_.
As I said, "This data is from the National Crime Victimization Survey, which directly asks respondents if they have been the victim of a crime, and is not based on police reports or prosecutions." The NCVS results, as far as I am aware, match every other attempt to estimate the prevalence of crime over time. They are also consistent across property crime, violent crime, and other types.

You may be noticing these issues more, but that's because you're older and have seen more examples over the years, and perhaps have gotten more invested in your community -- not because they are universally more common across the country.
CT helps advance Denotational Semantics, so syntax is written closer to math syntax, which I think is approaching computation in a much more stricter way and therefore leveraging the "magic" of math. Of course the price is paid in complexity of the theory and learning curve to understand it, which kills its practicality.
Doesn't matter. If people sign those contracts then the floating prices would go even higher for the people who didn't, or the people who made the contracts would start offering to pay people money to shed demand (because they're still paying the floating price for what they're reselling), and the seller risk of having one of those contracts might correspondingly be high enough that people avoid them due to high fixed prices.
As far as sci-fi goes, the entire Culture series is about the sum of my experience, and I thoroughly enjoyed it all. I read Liu Cixin's Three Body Problem a few years back, but didn't like the writing style (I know of course it was a translation), and much of the story seemed implausible even in the world that was created. IIRC, I couldn't bring myself to complete the series.

If it helps, some fantasy authors I like are Joe Abercrombie, Terry Pratchett, Robin Hobb, Brandon Sanderson, Scott Lynch, Dave Duncan and Brent Weeks.

I like excellent character development, creative world-building and exciting stories that are plausible within those imagined worlds, wit that makes you laugh, good writing that has you marvel at the author's skill, and that special thing: immersive writing.

Beyond that, as a noob I don't know if there are sub-genres or particular styles of interest.

I had a quick gander at your suggestions, and the stories of Singularity Sky and Quantum Thief both sounds intriguing - I'll add these to my reading list, thanks :)
Certainly. Just look at some of the people on Etsy. Some of them are pure artists who do what they do because they love it, not because they were hoping become a 100M brand some day. Some of them make good money because their products are so great and unique. But those same people are generally not looking to sell their company.
I find it interesting that BRK did not sell any SNOW in its latest 13F. They own 12% of SNOW...
I'd never run across any of that, and the Antimemetics Division series is amazing, just brilliantly creative.
Long live FORTRAN, the original BS-free programming language...sort of, if you ignore that whole messy global variables thing and the messy input/output stuff, and...ah never mind.
It also didn’t help that by the 90s the JNR was so burdened with Shinkansen debt that the government took on all the debt in a dedicated bad bank and privatized the rest.

Now Haneda is taking international flights again so the point is moot. I think there is enough demand for both to exist, but Narita’s current situation is just a touch better than Montreal Mirabel.
The story certainly didn't mention any attempt by any of them to advocate or help campaign for increased enforcement, prosecution, and restoring bail requirements for such crimes.

When nearly all visible agitation is in favor of zero enforcement or consequences against the crimes they're complaining about being the victim of, it's kind of counterproductive to not push back.
I have seen people doing this and it's deeply annoying to reframe criticism of the CCP as racism. Not everything is about race. I'm deeply annoyed by how much race is becoming a thing in general - that seems like it's going to end up being counterproductive to ending racism. I'm not going to go so far as to say it's purposeful by the CCP. But it could be.
No question here - just wanted to thank you for your always well-written and fascinating posts. I’m only a hobbyist with electronics but I’ve learned a lot from your tear downs.

As an aside it never ceases to fascinate me that it’s literally a tiny slice of quartz being used to create these precise timing signals.
re:factor is a nice blog for seeing how higher-level things can be done in a concatenative language. It's been dormant for a couple years, but the archives have some interesting examples of redoing well-known stuff in Factor.

https://re-factor.blogspot.com/

For example, here's a gopher server: https://re-factor.blogspot.com/2016/10/gopher-server.html
Big applications can be complicated and have some complex states. A destructor calls a function that calls a function that checks if an object exist. By chance with libstdc++, the half destroyed object was marked as "non existent", but not with libc++.

Destructor usually call function to unregister themselves from some other places, or free other owned ressources.
All this talk is probably going to force me to try it this weekend cuz science, right?

I don’t know if I’d really notice quality[0] degradation too much, my use case would be the local storage in my vehicle for long trips with dodgy cell coverage. I’ve been burned a couple times by Spotify auto-clearing previously downloaded playlists, only to find out after I’m without data coverage / in the air.

I have a couple ideas about making the process more efficient, as in process running in the background. You are essentially restricted to a 1x rip speed, but I shouldn’t think I’d need to babysit it much and the post processing can be largely automated, perhaps less time than I remember it taking to find equivalent torrents, dl and clean those up. I mean, duration would be longer but level of effort on par or less.

Will report back.

[0] https://support.spotify.com/us/article/high-quality-streamin...
It's also highly variable within the US. Bullying just about nonexistent at my highschool. At around 2k students, there were just too many kids for the bullies to get away with anything, so they tended to self-segregate and not really do much (at least, that's my theory - almost everyone I knew in college who heard of the size of my school was shocked at how large it was, and in my much-smaller elementary and middle schools there was a good amount of bullying).
They were obviously playing pre-recorded music otherwise it wouldn't have been a match, which is actually even funnier
To be honest, I am actually glad about this. Dynamic linking is the cause of a lot of complexity. First there is DLL hell on Windows and its equivalent on Linux. Second, having to maintain a stable ABI is a huge drain on language evolution. In C++, there have been many features that have been vetoed by the compiler/standard library implementers because it would cause an ABI break. Because of this ABI concerns, C++ is stuck with overheads for unique_ptr, map, unordered_map, and regex classes that are inefficient.

Secondly, a lot of the benefits of dynamic linking don’t make as much sense now.

First with regards to space savings. With modern disk capacity having extra copies of executable code is probably not that big of a deal. In addition with Link Time Optimization, you actually may not be saving space with dynamic linking since the linker can pretty aggressively throw away code that it knows is ever called.

Second, with regards to security. One thing to consider is that dynamic linking is so complex that it is one of the reasons why people use docker, to make sure their binary and its dependencies are stable. Once you have something in a docker, it has a lot of the same update issues as a static linked binary, only less efficient.

In addition, with security, Rust unlike C and C++ is a memory safe language. Given the vast majority of security issues are memory safety issues, I would expect Rust to have a lot fewer CVE’s. I think the experience with Go is likely enlightening in this regard. I am not aware of a huge issue of lack of security because it didn’t do dynamic linking and you couldn’t do security updates as easily.

Finally, Rust as a new language is embracing the new way of programming and deploying. We are shifting away from using binary artifacts (often closed source) that once built were rarely changed, to build from source and continuously build/deploy. Cargo makes it relatively easy to do this. In that model, updating a binary for security is just a subset of the normal building and updating of a binary that is done daily.

By avoiding dynamic linking, I think, Rust positions itself best as the no-compromise, high performance, modern, systems programming language.
I'm no crypto apologist, but dollars are hardly less digital than bitcoins at this point
Tangentially related to this post: I am surprised at the infosec’s love of file checksums, like MD5 here.
There are endpoint tools which collect MD5’s, network scanners which collect MD5s, and I have heard about actual infosec directors who, upon seeing a blog post like that, would carefully type the hashes in their endpoint management interface to make sure their org is not infected.

How on earth can this be effective? It is trivial to create customized binaries in the installer, so no two users have the same file checksum. With a bit of work, one can rig their download server so each user has a completely different installer checksum as well.

I remember reading about polymorphic viruses back in the 1990’s - not only those had different checksums for each computer, they also had no long-ish substrings common between two versions, making signature analysis ineffective. Did malware authors just forgot about all those and went back to trivial “everyone gets the same image” strategy?
On the other hand, I will totally call the police if I see people are breaking quarantine laws, just like I would if I saw somebody driving with a liquor bottle in hand. I don't really want my mom to die because some idiot with a self-indulgent definition of freedom sneezed at her.
Yes, One of Scrooge MrMurducks money bins is a little low
> People need and want something like that to exist where they have complete control over their assets without any worries about government or institutions.

Are you sure? I have never in my life met anyone who thought they didn't have control over their assets or that they needed to have more control.
Coca-Cola Confirms Training Employees to ‘Be Less White’
I didn't say they were universally more common across the country. I am talking about my experience with living in New York. I am talking about seeing people constantly masturbating in the subway, having not seen that 10 years ago when I moved to New York. I am sure I would have noticed that.

If you take the stats you cite as truth, I don't know how you square these stats with the contents of the original post itself.

As you know, stats represent a sample. Beyond the sample, there is reality.
That reputation doesn't come from Hollywood, it comes from Texas. Anyone who's been to the state knows how proud the culture is of its wild-west rural outlaw image.

You're right that it isn't entirely accurate, because Texas is a diverse state bigger than some countries, but being the quirky cowboy state is a lot better for tourism than being the... like... corn state or... whatever the hell a "Sooner" is. Some sort of groundhog I imagine.
Agree this is the way forward, but I don't believe for a second the Democrats would implement it this way. It just isn't political leaders' style to help the poor in America.
>We know you hate us. It's the main message we receive every time we turn on the TV or any mainstream silicon valley website, including this one, again. That's why I post with a throwaway name. I don't expect people who hate us to represent us fairly.

It's unfortunate that you paint most of the the US with such a broad brush when complaining that those folks are painting you with a broad brush. I hope you can see the irony there.

I learned as a child that treating others as individuals is incredibly important. Mostly because it became clear that most folks (of every stripe) are decent human beings, but that there are a small number of people who are assholes.

The big problem with that small number of folks is that they aren't one particular group (whether that be geographic origin, ethnicity, melanin content, gender or profession, etc., etc., etc.). Rather they are pretty evenly distributed throughout society.

That allows people to point at those very few and ascribe their shortcomings to everyone in a particular group or groups.

The long and short of it is that, no "we" don't hate "you." In fact, most folks don't really care much (except in a general, "care about other human beings") one way or another about you or your fellow Texans.

Having spent time in Texas (I'm from the Northeast), I've found that just about everyone I've met in (or who is from) Texas are decent, kind human beings.

I suspect you'd be much happier if you were less concerned with what other folks think about you, and focused on living a decent life instead of shitting on people you don't know.

Just a crazy thought.
Twitter, Google and Facebook are all publicly held/traded companies. Should they be held to a slightly different set of rules regarding the 1st Amendment vs a privately held company?
I doubt there would be many GUI apps that eat less than 100 MB — if only that would be the maximum.
Given that the message was

> The upcoming musical performance is subject to copyright protection by the applicable copyright holder

(emphasis mine), this was configured manually by a human before the performance even started.
I think the real arbitrage is between crypto exchanges.
If we start a little smaller, setting our sights on just wiping out most current terrestrial animal life including humans, look to what happened with the pesticide DDT. DDT did not come anywhere near wiping out more than at most a few species, but it illustrates what could happen if we got unlucky (or someone deliberately set out to do maximal damage).

The problems with DDT were that (1) it could last a long time before breaking down, (2) it spread much more widely in the environment than was intended, and (3) it was not narrowly targeted to only affect pests.

When you are making a pesticide that is not narrowly targeted [1], you really want it to break down fast and to not spread much beyond where you specifically apply it.

Just make a pesticide that like DDT spreads far and wide and persists, but unlike DDT make it so one of the things it kills is nitrogen fixing bacteria. That would wipe out almost all of the base of terrestrial animal food chain.

[1] You make a narrowly targeted pesticide by basing it on the hormones that control the target's life cycle. You find some specific behavior of the target, such as its "mate and die" behavior, that is triggered by a specific hormone, and make your pesticide trigger that. Then all you need to do is apply the pesticide when the insect isn't yet sexually mature or when the weather is too cold for eggs to survive, and the insects mate and die, with no offspring produced.
In what way did it blow up? You must have hit a bug, using .pg_service should work. Would you care to open an issue on https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli/issues or just dump the error message here so we can investigate?
The problem with electronic cash is the dependence on internet and electricity. That's a very complicated foundation to build your society on. At a minimum you would need to provide free internet access to banking apps and free access to banking devices for it to be a solution for literally every citizen.
As artists, why shouldn't Metallica get paid for their work?

I can't believe the audacity of people thinking they should just be able to steal others' (by virtue of copying) music.

The people I know in the music industry are some of the hardest working that I know...

And to be clear, Metallica was never against online streaming / downloading, only illegal piracy.
Scanning Frustration
What browser incompatibilities do exist are case-by-case basis, not all at once, depending on business domain and solution design, and even if, like you point out, you can just carpet bomb the issue with a poly/ponyfill.

The infantilization in frontend is accelerated by its veneer of supporting Product's sole mission in life to ship products ASAP, and I fucking hate it, and I've been some frontend engineer somehwere unimportant for 5 years now.

I wager, generalizing from my quite limitde experience, that a concerning amount of frontend devs just know how to schlep bags of data around and eventually get a desirable outcome with a framework keeping things narrowly from getting out of control when they are obvious re-factors, massive simplifications, that would get just as much expressiveness with less code. You will have bossess who only understand technical discussion in the form of "what framework or library should we use for this new epic?", like, bro, let's model the problem and see what we need from there maybe before we start thinking about writing code? You can almost just ask a frontend dev, "How would you refactor this or that code? to find out if they're just a baggage handler trying to minimize any concerted thought on their part. It's like frontend is corporate's proving ground on how to flatten all thinking and passion out of software engineering

Sorry, end of rant. I came to frontend from academia naively thinking people wanted to think about problems and put effort into solutions
The Problem of CryptoArt
Lived in Singapore, Caning is absolutely barbaric and an atrocious way of punishment.

They have special people who are trained in caning and the culprit will get their 30 lashes or whatever regardless of whether they pass out at lash 19 say. They'll heal you up and back you go for the next 11 lashes.

This is what they did in medieval times, not today. Singapore is barbaric in this aspect and this is enforced in middle schools as well. It turns kids into obedient robots.

Whatever solution is proposed, caning is not one of them.
I don't understand how this is not considered blatant racism.
How can I be less white? Maybe blackface?
I'm confused. The current banking system is money as a service.
Sure, and the same applies in those cases as well.

But for most products it's rather easy to tell if you're getting the value you expect out of them, not so much here.
"In addition to the rolling blackouts" still implies rolling blackouts. If you have rolling blackouts at all then people pay $4000 instead of $9000 and there is that much less incentive for anyone to have built adequate capacity.

Also, this:

> And as blackouts spread across the state, power was cut not only to homes and businesses but to the compressor stations that power natural gas pipelines — further cutting off the flow of supplies to power plants.

Regulatory action exacerbates supply shortage; market blamed.
Appreciate the help - I've had a quick look at your suggestions, and the stories all sound intriguing, so I now have a growing sci-fi reading list, which is just what I need to discover authors I like!
I’m not an expert at these decentralized technologies. How does this compare to Bitchute or Peertube or LBRY or DTube?
Maybe the problem is not related to size of the school but only related to the fact that kids have no choice in going there?

In the adult world, in most cases you aren't forced to go anywhere and only do so because you have a good reason, whether it's the workplace (earning money), universities (learning things because you need that knowledge), etc. Most people go into an establishment with a goal in mind, work towards that goal and have little time nor motivation for things like bullying.

School is different because kids have no say in the matter, so even if they aren't interested in learning (because the coursework is boring, irrelevant, etc) have to go there and waste ~8 hours a day and need to occupy themselves. Typical sources of entertainment (television, video games, etc) are forbidden so bullying, or similar anti-social activities happens to fill the gap. This results in a lose-lose situation; kids that aren't interested in the coursework are having a miserable time and entertain themselves by making the environment miserable for everyone else (both other pupils as well as the school staff).
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