skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strategy is to maintain control of the global financial system, and therefore control of the entire world.

They don't need to worry about people or organizations already within the realm of arrest/extradition/freezable-assets, they can squash them whenever. It's only the people and orgs outside that realm that pose immediate risk...especially when the org's product involves holding large chunks of wealth.

I think binance was allowed to run a separate USA-specific operation, but this was simply to keep everything within the mentioned realm.
Ok this is really cool. I had no idea content like this existed. Now if only I new anything about general computer architecture.
Why Michigan city spends millions to heat its streets during winter (2019)
I meant more like using tools appropriate for the job. Hint: JavaScript and friends isn't anywhere near an appropriate technology choice for a desktop app. Assembly is inconvenient, unforgiving, and tied to a particular CPU architecture. Object-oriented paradigm is well-suited and stood the test of time for making GUIs for example.

And I don't mean stop inventing new things — I mean stop using stuff without understanding how it works under the hood. Stop embracing that kind of thinking and lowering the barrier to entry by wrapping everything into layers upon layers of "simple" abstractions and making it obscenely inefficient in the process. Stop "moving fast and breaking things". Stop making everyone think that software sucks, that that's its default state. I hate this "developer time is more expensive than machine time" saying. And there's no "premature optimization". Performance isn't a feature you can add at a later date whenever you feel like it — it's a function of the overall design of your product.

Also, I can't help but feel like most of programming these days happens for the sake of the process itself, and the resulting product is more of an unintended side effect.

> and play games in DOS

Not necessarily a bad thing tbh.
Senators and congresspeople get their own very high quality insurance. They have no incentive to fix it, their own health care is world-class.
This type of shit is why I've left SF a decade ago. It's by far the worst run city I've been to. Super expensive and money wasted left and right with nothing to show for it.
Can you elaborate on mapping a keystroke to opening a meeting link? Outside of google cal + google meet calendar apps don’t typically recognize meeting links as something to promote.
I had the pleasure of using a 35-50 year old high-pot tester when I worked for a rental company in the film industry.

It was horribly dangerous but still nobody seemed to get hurt.

Enough current to explode one’s innards in two wands you just go and touch ground pathways to make sure they don’t leak on high voltage/high current portable distribution terminals and lamps.

That job was a really fun experience.
I had to shut down a company and lay off a dozen people, losing most of my savings and several years work. Friends have experienced much worse.

These might not compare to the worst horrors of war, but they rank among life's agonies with getting divorced, or losing a parent. They can cause something like PTSD. It can take months or years to be ready to try something big again, and some people never bounce back.

Most people who haven't experienced that kind of failure can't appreciate how much it hurts. So it's worth seeking out people who have gone through big failures to commiserate with. There are lots of them out there. Few will post details online, because it's sensitive stuff that involves other people. So you have to talk 1-on-1.
Load balancing redundant gitea over clustered postgres and clustered fs provides a resilient read-only stack.

The trouble comes when the system receives two simultaneous pushes to the same branch. When ceph goes to merge them, which one wins? There has to be a distributed write mutex. Perhaps this mutex could be acquired in a pre-commit hook on the gitea nodes, but it's absolutely necessary (in addition to the other clustered services) to prevent silent data loss or corruption.
I did read the article which is how I found the chart at the very bottom.

Income inequality compared worldwide is useless information.
The nuc is better when you want to use a PC for real work. The pi is better for when you want to drive random sensors and displays as well has general tinkering. I'd hardly call one better than the other.
Really good write up. If you've ever listened to an episode of "How I Built This" from NPR, this is the opposite of that. But still equally informative and useful.
It seems like they are more concentrated in West-Germany. There are apparently none in Berlin, for example.

https://staples.de/filial-finder.html
I actually have this at work for a repo where we want to both push to the server where it'll be deployed (so this server doesn't need some sort of access to another system, trust relations going only one way) as well as to the source repo where we actually collaborate and have an issue tracker etc. Works great for us. Yes, of course you can setup some limited access for this server to pull from the original source but... small team with high security requirements, so this low-tech solution is quite perfect.
The Quest for the Real-Life Treasures of Atari’s Swordquest (2016)
> what of the case of local baker versus the multinational? They sell the same thing (often the local store will provide better quality), but one can clearly outbid the other in order to muscle out the competition

There's no magic there. The multinational was a local baker once - they figure out how to scale and deliver more bread at lower cost or greater quality which is what allowed them to get big. They serve more people, better.

The rest of your comment is just commie slogans, not sure how it's connected to the topic so I'll just leave you to your views there, but let me know if there's something you think needs a response.
Arch changes too much, and change means risk. In my opinion, for production, boring is always best. If the latest flavor of X is absolutely essential for the business, there are typically ways to get it for most LTS distros (back ports, third part repos, etc).
Instead of having to buy another board, I'm planning on detaching the lid & flipping it backwards like a tablet. Then only using it for reading PDFs in portrait & hook up Leap Motion controller to it.
If you don't mind US small towns and rural life, there are many lovely college towns dotted around upstate New York, Vermont, and Maine that are cheap. And I'm sure there's plenty more across the South, Midwest and Great North.

Mexico City is also definitely a contender - amazing creative energy there.

It really depends on what you mean by "intellectual," I think.
That's too easy an answer. They get basically the same options for health insurance as other federal employees. And that insurance is not materially different from the insurance you'd get from any other major employer.
It won't be a great person who saves us.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/performance-reviews-for-s...

The above is a great post that should get you 90% there. Having a good career ladder in place makes performance discussions relatively easy and plays into the larger picture of setting expectations and giving feedback. If your overall organization doesn't have a career ladder, you can call it an expectations framework within your team. At the end of the day, you just want to be able to articulate what the expectations of each level is and have discussions around that.

The goals you've listed work well. For instance, in your expectations, you could have a "Quality" section that outlines all engineers must have tests for their code. The hard part here is thinking through the reaction your expectations will have. After all, any metric that can be gamed, will be gamed. You also want to make sure that you're creating expectations on things engineers can actually control. This will be the single best thing you do to communicate what is important to the team.

As for individual performance metrics, I've never found anything that made me feel good about it and I've since stopped trying to create any type of measurement. Individually, I look at meeting/exceeding expectations and leave it there.

One more thought. As you're new to the team, I'd involve the team in the conversations around raising quality. Their buy-in will be important.
Meltdown and Spectre are serious. But we need clarity on what they do and do not threaten. To address the widespread confusion on this topic, and to demonstrate a completely different approach to mitigating these, we wrote:

https://agoric.com/taxonomy-of-security-issues/
and
https://ses-demo.netlify.app/demos/challenge/
France is unique in the West as one of the few countries that unapologetically holds on to its colonies which it still regards as French territory. It continues to actively permit white settlers to migrate to New Caledonia and French Guiana, subtly ensuring the autonomy referendums are defeated and indigenous populations continue to be suppressed. It will come as no surprise that the French military are also actively involved in these overseas 'training' bases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_France , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_military_bases_of_Fra...
Too bad the screen is usually the first thing to have issues.
I feel like I live in the opposite bubble where google pays me and I would never pay for a google service.
>very time a company advertises "bank-grade security" it lowers the bar in my mind.

It should!

>but their security is mostly via the legal system.

Exactly! It's why I hope we eventually replace them with some cryptocurrency (math) based currency that cuts them out of the loop. They're parasites on society.
She doesn’t think this paper is very promising compared to MOND according to this twitter discussion https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1370113520998699013
Cool, you’ve said all you needed to. You can now safely be ignored by our entire industry as far as I’m concerned.

Enjoy your lack of vertical mobility!
Kind of pointless unless you have an actual holographic device.

Better thing is a NERFie with eye-trackers
How Were Soviet Computers Programmed?
This is indeed cool. A lazier and less efficient solution for those that don't want to take apart the computer is synergy (https://symless.com/synergy and https://github.com/symless/synergy-core) which lets you share keyboard/mouse and clipboard over multiple computers.
The issue here is both the linear no threshold and threshold model are indistinguishable with our current data.

The problem is cancer is really quite common and has many sources so it’s hard to say what if any level is actually safe to expose X million people to. At least with medical X rays there is some benefit to offset risk, but without that it’s much harder to justify.
There are many people who understand Ethereum and the larger blockchain / cryptocurrency ecosystem. I have made my career and wealth in this space. What you won’t find are tons of people like me on Hacker News. This website has a toxic reputation in the crypto world given its intensely negative attitude towards this industry.

I love HN. Probably the website I check most. But I have tried so hard to understand why the community here is so virulently against what I have devoted my life to. It’s very sad. My conclusions are numerous, but I think it’s death by a thousand cuts.
Ironically, I could only get this to work in Edge (the new Edge which is Chromium underneath) by turning down the "Cache timer repetitions", the thing which is supposed to make timing differences more discernible. At only 500, it works every time. If I crank it up to 5000, it doesn't work at all.
After 50 days as president, Biden still hasn’t given a news conference
It doesn't actually tell us what they were saying.

A lot of 'religious' speech, can be straight up hate speech. Something tells me they weren't preaching not to eat meat on fridays?
Ah... the problem here is not that the pharma companies aren't getting paid.. The problem is there's a bunch of banks and government subsidies and a lot of middle-people creating cost on top of enabling the funds flow. I am not sure what's the solution, but there really are a lot of administrative middle-people involved..
Hmm I also do not like R, mumps, bash, php, and perl. Am I some kind of Lisp supremacist?
Does it run on an Elektronika?

https://youtu.be/O0gAgQQHFcQ
I got the impression the assumption is the laptop is otherwise dead (fried motherboard perhaps) and the screen is the main salvageable component.
As someone who runs a small anime convention, there's a long tail of anime conventions that just barely sit in the black, unable to pay much to anyone. Those only really exist as passion projects.
Something unprecedented in the last 100 years...

If people would stop voting for the oligarchy's two parties we might get some actual progress up in this country.
Someone said something somewhere is not actually evidence of anything. Also, the answer is "yes", because new patients are always being born.
I had to check myself out against doctor's wishes after a serious heart incident. They kept sending doctor after doctor in to "consult"—each one adding a huge fee to the final bill. The hospital's "billing assistant" was NEVER available, after days.

I became informed on additional tests they considered doing, and eventually arranged for related tests outside the hospital to determine if the tests they were going to do were necessary. They were not.

Bill was just under $60,000, ~$8,000 deductible, paid the deducible in one lump sum and negotiated a 25% discount. A partner at a medical firm told me they are only paid 75%, so it made sense to him that I could negotiate a 25% discount.
Another example of how bananas the system is: when I go to order prescription refills through my health care provider, it is currently unable to tell me how much it's going to cost me. You're expected to say "Ok, charge me whatever these cost" and then, I suppose, call customer support if you don't agree with the price you were charged that day.

I don't know if there's some kind of a "price of the day" marketplace calculation that needs to happen for the provider to find out the current prices, but that's pretty odd. It's like buying stocks or a Dungeness crab dish at a restaurant.
> but in Ulbricht's case it was pretty white collar

Ross tried, on multiple occasions, to hire hitmen to kill people he didn't like. I think once you get into wetworks, it no longer counts as "white collar".

Thank goodness he didn't actually succeed.
We dismiss a felon's voice at the polls for life. I don't agree entirely with this as they did their time, but that's not the case here.

In this case, Mr Ulbricht is doing time, doesn't mea culpa (quite the opposite -- he and his supporters think he's a victim), and is now commenting on yet another technical topic (first was bitcoin) the impacts of which are detrimental to him in his predicament.

If he were to have been an ex-con at the time of writing who took responsibility for his actions, I may have had a different opinion.
Renting is Terrible. Owning is Worse
In other words, the pre-ACA individual insurance market.
As someone who's done this, I can 2nd this comment.

Fire damage.
Seems they are following the nigerian price playbook - buying customers not technology. The worse the tech is, the better are the customers still using it. And divesting suse when they realized it has enduring value.
Mostly true: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/members-congress-health-ca...
Relevant https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood
Nonsense, its not in a tent. Its a dedicated building to house the press. See it being constructed here:

See: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0173/8204/7844/articles/3_...
is the entire developer tool market bad, or just the db sector is bad?

developer tool market seems to be the only one I'm familiar with as an engineer. If I were to start a business, I will probably also do something for this market.
I’ve had batteries die on 2 laptops, motherboards on one. Never had a screen go bad. Off the top of my head this is on a herd of 10 laptops over 20 years.
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You should see how tiny the MicroLine diamond is on my Audio-Technica MM cartridge. 90% of the cost is in that replaceable, fragile part of an MM cartridge: the stylus.

MC cartridges typically don't have replaceable styluses. Bust an AT-ART9XA, and get ready to lay-out 1.3k clams.
They say it'll fail as a replacement for fiat, which seems true. I haven't seen anyone say it'll fail at being an outlet for speculation and organized crime.
Very real and have experienced it. There is a lot of privilege in running a startup, even a failed one, and few people who have gone through it. So finding help is hard because many people won't be sympathetic and nearly nobody will understand your trauma unless they have also run a startup.

There should be more startup mental health groups, or awareness, or something.

End of a startup can also end friendships and relationships and financial security and all of those things together can happen at the same time and honestly be very traumatic.
Again: I will not be shamed out of a liberal position by exceptional strawmen. Please make a real argument for why you think democracy is flawed. Appeals to emotion only degrade discussion.
The administration & C suite.

Non for profit is a nice smokescreen. Nonprofit status is a nice little windfall fir the permanent bureaucrat class at payors and hospitals.

Starting from cancer children's hospitals that do all kinds of tricks to energize fundraisers and draw donations.. which amount to a paltry 30% of their CEO's salary....

To payors colluding with hospitals to raise "gross" prices in order to get more government payments for medicare disproportionate share funding (DCH) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disproportionate_share_hospita...

THe profits go to the permanent administration.

Is it any surprise that admins then balk at putting prices online, with an argument that can be summed up as "OMG, you make us put online the price from 2000 contracts!! Its too hard! "

Here is a little nugget. Nonprofit designation for hospital is a recent development. It didn't exist before 1900. The designation was effectively "compensation" by the government to hospitals, so the latter would agree to admit patients regardless of ability to pay. Quid pro quo.

Dont feel bad for hospitals and their "curse" of nonpaying patients. They got their pound of flesh.

Nonprofit status its not just federal exemption.. its ALL Taxes (state, local, real estate, commercial, etc).

Imagine your life if you didn't have to pay sale tax? Property tax? State tax ? FICA, FUTA SDI?

That is the life nonprofit hospitals enjoy.
Actually, it should be Lisp.
Yes, absolutely. Any traumatic situation or event can cause PTSD. I don’t think it’s in doubt that some people find their startup experience to be traumatic in some way.
This is what we use now as well.
Anybody else willing to admit playing Uplink back in the day? I sure played it and miss it haha.
This has literally has nothing to do with batteries.
This seems like a great way to make one of the most opaque and unpredictable languages even worse in those regards.

I already don't know if someone has monkey-patched any global symbol. Now I won't know if operators are going to do something unpredictable.
Well they were expensive... like 30€ a disk. cassettes were easy to duplicate and cheaper.
It keeps showing a modal pop up every few keystrokes.

Firefox on macOS.

Also, my preferred one: https://hackertyper.net/
paywalled. Alternative link?
> Am I the only one who thinks

No, there are plenty of blockchain snake oil salesmen out there promoting the same misleading talking points while bypasssing legitimate concerns.

First, you have to understand that at least half of the concepts you're talking about have completely not broken through the barrier between the mindshare of the Blockchain community and the rest of the tech industry. Your post was the first I've heard about OVM, Dex, Defi, and DAOs.

That's not the fault of the tech community, that's the fault of the Blockchain community by allowing itself to be overrun with quasi-technical charlatans who promote world-changing revolution while yadda-yaddaing past the technical details.

Every other digital revolution was embraced bottoms-up by geeks - from The PC, to The Web, to Linux, to The Cloud. But Blockchain is primarily embraced by money-hungry Type-A salespeople, and it sets off ALL SORTS of alarm bells for most of us.

I think I fundamentally agree with you - Vitalik IS a Genius. Like Satoshi. But I am extremely concerned with the direction most mainstream adoption of this technology is taken, and the glee with which boosters like you allow it to be.

The one item on your list that has a lot of familiarity for the technical community, and even the rest of the populace today is NFTs.

You listed them in the other list of concepts I had no familiarity with. Yet I do know a thing or two about NFTs from what I researched. And I think it's one of the most apalling ideas to have been invented in this domain yet. Masquerading as a method to liberate artists and promote new opportunities for income, it is so clearly a giant money laundering scheme for the wealthiest of the world. That's before we get into the environmental impact.

So....that's what I think.
They failed because they focused on marketing features instead of essential ones like data compression.
Probably not. Nitrogen is roughly the same density as air. It would just get dispersed into the atmosphere before it could do much, unless you had insane amounts of it.
The Biggest WTF in Design
User flow is the new wireframe