skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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>We don’t criticise Julius Caesar for taking Gaulish slaves

The Roman Senate absolutely did. Caesar was to be put on trial for the atrocities he perpetrated, which is why he decided to seize power in the first place.
> The article is about the UK though and I’m a Brit and we do have a fairly well developed social welfare system compared to the US and many aspects of it such as the NHS are much less controversial than in the US. This comes from our experiences in the world wars when the entire country was expected to come together for a common cause. It became untenable after that to throw people out on the street with no support and just say “Thanks for the help, see you in 20 years for the next world war. Until then you’re on your own.” It was also about national security. Far too many people were unfit for national service due to malnutrition and disease. Ensuring a fit healthy population became essential to our military preparedness.

This

Enemies of America had zero resistance in co-opting both extremes on income scale of American society to turn against it.

How many will be ready to fight when the time comes, will they fight for a broke country whose elites put them into misery to begin with?
This is very useful! I have to look up this combination every other month when one of my systems starts thrashing.
Ah, that's fascinating. TIL.
This confused me also. Perhaps default to the image.

I also would love a sensitivity setting and a number of images per second to capture setting. I would be interested in using this overnight but curious how quickly I would fill up memory.
It's going to be tough considering the major players already cloned their service.

Twitter: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-spaces-idUSKBN2B3...

Facebook/IG: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/10/22276645/facebook-clubhou...

TikTok: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-china-clubhouse-copycats-...
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- I've never seen xrdb used outside of terminal configuration

- You have to link against X11, dwl (dwm for Wayland) implemented in 2500 LOC [1]

Plan 9 /dev/draw is simpler yet, somehow it was not reason against X11.

[1] https://github.com/djpohly/dwl
>“an alternative financing program that was aimed at slow-growth, bootstrapped founders”

I have always understood 'bootstrapped' to mean self-financed by savings/profits. I.e. pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. Have VCs started co-opting that term as well now?
Ok, so Jamie Dimon says not to worry and Jerome Powell doesn't see the US exceeding 2% target rate for an extended period of time.

Your Guardian link is about the market (!= economy) and quotes "Andy Haldane, warned that an inflationary “tiger” might be on the loose"... so one "might".

Your Forbe's link says, "Could this debt buildup and related deficit spending push inflation and rates significantly higher? Developed economy experience suggests the answer is no. Over the last two centuries, wealthy democracies have generally succeeded in preventing capital flight." And it has a sub-section entitled "Corrosive Inflation Is Fairly Rare".

Your third link has a quote, ""The market's still trying to figure [this] out, myself included," said Dominic Nolan, senior managing director at Pacific Asset Management". Ok... so a money manager admitting he's still "figuring it out".

What is the point of these links?

Does anyone have a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation which shows that $1.9 trillion is "wrong" for inflation? If so, I haven't seen it. Instead we just get to read about the id of money managers (and probably classmates of the journalists).... barf...

And I would ask you to do your own calculation. Is a few thousand dollars per family going to materially change the nature of their chronic underpayment (relative to productivity increases of last 40 years)?
Have you considered AlgoVPN [0], I've not used it personally but heard positive reviews from those who have. They claim to be "set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal WireGuard".

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Every art buyer has a financial interest in increasing the value of the art they've bought.

One reason that Christies can charge substantial fees is that it serves as a guarantee that the transaction is somewhat real. If an artwork changed hands privately between friends for $1M, there'd be no reason to believe that price. But when they're paying a 15%+ fee to an auction house, there must be something valuable.
Unless you want RF materials, or something other than G10/FR4. The cheap prices of aggregating everyone’s boards comes with the lowest common denominator of material.

Even the 4 layer board processes are not set up for good power integrity. They have a center core for layers 2 and 3, with 1 and 4 as foils. It ought to be two cores with prepreg between, giving the low impedance for internal power planes.
Ok, let’s say not meaningless.

Let’s say it has (my guess of my particular case) a 30% error. What happens to CPI if the weighted average of housing is off by 30%? Assuming housing is a third of CPI, that puts CPI up to 10%.

Look, I’m actually looking to buy a home out in the country and remote work from there. I’m actually living the problem of “should I sell my home or rent it out?” It’s not a survey question, that’s for sure!
I never claimed otherwise. If you want to enforce invariants in your DB API you'll have to implement them yourselves, Rust won't do it for you because Rust doesn't know what a database is. Still, it's perfectly possible to design a DB API is such a way that it would prevent some issues, such as for instance doing changes without an active transaction.

But you're right to point out that Rust won't magically solve all your possible sources of crash and data corruption, it just does make it a lot easier to enforce arbitrary constraints. For instance if you decide that in order to avoid these issues you want all your DB stuff to only run in a single thread you could design your API in a way that would prevent DB handles from being shared between threads, all that enforced by the language. You couldn't accidentally leak a DB handle to a different thread.
> Someone from Apple is on the board of the people invested in Clubhouse?

Almost certainly. Or someone from Clubhouse called Apple board member "Al Gore" and told him to fix it.

https://247wallst.com/technology-3/2020/08/04/who-is-on-appl...

He's been a "fixer" for many Apple issues, including getting Steve Jobs deflected from a back-dated stock option scam. (Jobs paid himself $1/year to beat payroll and income tax, and was compensated in backdated stock options, so he'd only have to pay the long-term capital gains tax rate)

Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/steve-jobs-haunted-by-back...
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I see three problems with the original posting. First is the presumption that repealing 230 will damage the internet in some way. I think that would have to be demonstrated in some way. tech companies already must have a strong legal department in 2020, especially the smaller unpopular ones fighting for basic banking and internet connectivity. Donald Trump the big defamer as the OP claims, only had one defamation lawsuit, from Stormey Daniels, which went no where. so I don't see how all of a sudden more lawsuits are going to jump in just because they can add twitter as a defendant.

the second problem is the misunderstaning of what conservatives want. while it is correct to say that we want the terms of service to be applied consistently, and we disagree with vague labels of hate speech and disinformation, that is nothing like the fairness doctrine which is about balance. the core of what conservatives are asking for is that discussion over what government policy should be should not be censored by these platforms. when we have serious concerns about lockdown policies, election integrity, keeping predators out of girls bathrooms, preventing illegal immigration, these very discussions are censored by these platforms. this is dangerous, of course, because it allows our elected leaders to ignore potentially widely held views, and only see types of conversations that the left leaning heads of media and big tech permits.

the third problem is the presumption that the left wants more censorship. while its true that the advocates for more restriction of potentially harmless speech because it is potentially harmful are on the left, there are studies that show people on the left feel more restricted about what they can say and see repercussions on. while there will always be some on the left that truely believes removing dissent is would be an improvement, that isn't widely believed, as anyone can figure out by talking to people with differing political views.
When Police Don't Knock
Can you find the snow leopard in this picture?
> If you have a steady income and significant savings

Only the richest have 6 months expenses in savings. Majority live paycheck-to-paycheck
without the overhead of completely containerizing them up front.

What overhead? `docker run --rm -it -v $PWD/untrustedprogram:/untrustedprogram:ro ubuntu:latest`, done. Use x11docker if needed.
It wasn’t meant to be dismissive or arrogant. You can’t handle a bit of jest?

The slippery slope argument has been used many times to avoid making any changes at all. Maybe your read is based on propaganda? Maybe mine is? I don’t believe Democrats would ban all guns in the same way that I don’t believe fuel economy standards were intended to ban trucks as was argued by some on the right. Though there is a constitutional right to own guns where the right to drive an F150 sadly does not yet exist.

Restrictions of guns does not equal banning guns and Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and many other prominent politicians on the right also favor restrictions on guns.

The entire situation would be better if reasonable discussion could be had.
Of course he "supported many socialist and even marxist leaders". That's often been the direction to go to support actual, suffering, real people practically. It doesn't mean he thinks that's the ideal. Yes, compromises are made constantly.
I get the point of it, but I think it's a distraction from the solutions we really need. The whole idea of app firewalls is "do/don't let an arbitrary network communication happen unless I know about it". The problem is, what if what you allow still involves an attacker? Say you allow some network connection from application A to site Z using protocols B,C. And say that you even inspect the connection using DLP. There will come a point where the attacker will position themselves to appear exactly like legitimate traffic.

Ultimately, all firewalls are just a very poor hack around a complex problem. The best solution to the problem is to ensure the connection is genuine and that the data being passed is genuine, and you can't do that with an arbitrary monitoring program. You need strong end to end authentication, authorization, and integrity, and sometimes also privacy. But we don't have the tools to do that right now because the protocols were designed for a different time.

Take DLP for example. Almost every major company in the world is starting to implement traffic inspection, because how the hell else are you going to ensure security of your IP with 10,000 employees using TLS 1.3? The inspection you force on the users is its own security hole, to say nothing of software bugs. And you can't even just lock down the network to only protocols that use OAuth or something. None of our security solutions are holistic.

We need a revolution in network security that takes each part of a network communication and its individual security needs into account, not just what we imagine is end-to-end (but never actually is). We can't rely solely on a facile "privacy or nothing" approach to internet security that the TLS mafia has been pushing. We need more flexible methods that allow us to fine-tune security at each level of the protocol stack, across multiple organizations and use cases. Nothing like that exists currently for the web.
> You should contribute these improvements upstream then.

You honestly think they'd accept changes that would break literally every single library using these functions? Somehow I find that hard to believe.

> The Arudino developers are not trying to write slow code on purpose.

Of course they didn't. No reasonable person goes out of their way to make a terrible API. That's why I'm confused and irritated about how they managed to do such a bad job.

All the inputs are bare integers, pins and mode/state, so you get no warning whatsoever when you get it wrong. I've seen posts from people confused because they tried to digitalWrite pins A6 or A7 on a Nano which is accepted by the compiler and runs, but doesn't work correctly because those pins aren't on a digital port. The other analog pins are on a digital port, so work fine.

It gets better. Let's say I digitalWrite with a pin number higher than 19 on a Nano, what happens? Well, it will start off by doing lookups in its pin tables [0]. How does it do the lookup? It just adds the user's value to the lookup tables' addresses [1], and reads that address. On the Nano, these tables are 20 items long [3]. It's going to read god knows what from your flash, and use whatever gibberish it received to decide what to do!

And, because of the need to use inline assembly for the lookups, the compiler can't reason about the data in the tables, and so can't optimize out the lookups, nor can it properly optimize code that relies on those lookups. So the result is it ends up needlessly consuming your limited flash space.

And this is an API that's supposed to be used by beginners! Beginners are the ones most likely to get it wrong because they don't know better.

They're using a C++ compiler in C++11 mode, they're not stuck in the dark ages! Why use a bare integer to represent the pin, a pin's IO mode, or the pin state, or the analog reference voltage source (which, by the way, also makes no attempt to ensure it's a valid value [4])? At the very least they could have used enum classes instead of bare integers so users get a compiler error when they fuck up.

[0] https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/blob/master/cores...

[1] https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/blob/master/cores... [2]

[2] Because of the separate memory spaces, it has to use inline assembly to do this. The pgm_read_byte macro from the AVR header is what does that here.

[3] https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/blob/master/varia...

[4] https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/blob/master/cores...
Yeah sorry, I've gotten asked this question a lot. The issue is that building a production grade regex engine---even when it's restricted to regular languages---requires a lot more engineering than theory. And these particular features just don't really pull their weight IMO. They are performance footguns, and IMO, are also tricky to reason about inside of regex syntax.

If you get something working, I'd love to look at it though! Especially if you're building in a tagless final interpreter style. I find that approach extremely elegant.
Actually, as a user of the fisher-price interface, I'm glad that it can bind to C and FORTRAN libraries, so my numerics are based on the highest quality code.
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What part of geography you have been taught?
> Edit: now sitting at -2 without even an attempt at a rebuttal.

Ah poor criticized you. The reason why you're getting downvoted (and the reason why nobody bothers to write a reply), is because the analogy you try to pull is obviously wrong, and it makes you come across as a troll.

Society has always ostracized people that do morally egregious stuff. The concept of 'Cancel Culture' has always existed in the form of social stigmatization, laws, religious rules (10 commandments, etc), etc.
The only difference is that now racism is seen on the same level as something like being a rapist.

Also why would anybody be against anti-racist sentiment? Do you think anti-racism will come at
some cost? I really would like an answer to this.

> The main opposing power is (shudder) China. This really feels like a choice between Sauron and Saruman.

So you actually think China and US are about the same on level of oppressiveness? Really?
> 2. Browsers. The state of browser memory management is atrocious. Just about every time I've run out of memory (other than compiling some complex software with -O3) it's been because my browser is hogging a huge chunk of it

> Modern browsers are not good "desktop citizens", if you will. They hog memory to the point where opening anything new will create a pressure stall.

I went the ballistic route: most of my browsers run inside local Docker containers, on which I put CPU and RAM quota.

It's my machine: I decide how "citizens" behave : )
I'll see if I can do something with this. I kept myself to the viridis color map and just log + clamp because I didn't want to misrepresent the data, but I think you're right.
> Can you ever?

If we're talking "generally": Yes, we can trust that charts aren't cherry picked by reading the analysis. A proper analysis would include argumentation for why this metric is critical and why this chart is interesting.
The total mobile phone shipment in China for 2020 is 326 millions. You are telling me there are a huge industry outside these numbers. I don't know what to say to be honest. Mobile phones are the last to have knockoffs, because the price range is so large you can get something decent at any given price. I wouldn't trust some random documentary more than real knowledge on the ground.

One industry I won't disagree with you is brands, clothing, Nike/Adidas for example. The problem is still affordability. The consumerism has educated people to value brands, and they will buy counterfeits when they cannot afford it.

I don't blame people buying counterfeits to be honest, people make financial decisions based on their circumstances, either setting a trust to avoid taxation, or a shell company, to buy some counterfeits product they cannot afford.
Easier and better to just omit the decimal part: €4 per user per month.
But Fortran is case insensitive, so it should be no problem if you spell it Fortran or FORTRAN or fORtRaN.
One person could still require significant capacity - imagine an API with flight info, and your one person SaaS that does some magic with it by getting the data real time for all flights around the world.

> And no HA doesn’t mean “down for a month”. It means I have no issue with enduring a few hours of downtime here and there

No HA means downtime is expected and frequent ( baring crazy luck, but let's not base business on hope). If your invoicing, or project management, or note taking or whatever SaaS is down and you need it now to do something for a client of yours, how many hours of downtime can you accept?

> And HA and backups aren’t even related, so...

You said scalability and reliability, good backups are a part of reliability. If a SaaS cheaps on backups and HA for small time clients like one-person companies or small startups, and then a fire burns it all ( but not entreprise customers, because their backups are replicated to another DC), is it OK because they were small?
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Money printing makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. The world consists of stuff. Money is used represent it. Make more stuff, prices go down. Print more money, prices go up. If you already own stuff, it's worth more money. If you don't, you may never be able to afford it.

If you're lucky enough to ever get a raise, your income tax may rise, whereas, the capital class has their gains tax deferred, only paying at sale, and at a lower rate! Join the capital class as soon as you can, because it's the best way to get rich and stay rich. By the way, the concept that inflation benefits most those that receive it first is called the Cantillon effect.

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps? The good news is, saving and investing is how the rich stay rich, and they don't have any better access to the best assets in the world than you do. Thanks to cryptocurrency. Bitcoin, Ethereum and even one I founded have all given thousands of % returns. If you're tired of people printing out of thin air, that which you have worked so hard for, we've got p2p open source solutions for that which do even more than just raw accounting.
> I suppose criticize here means to declare morally right or wrong? Of course both were wrong. That goes without saying.

Not really, morality changes, and slavery was hardly immoral in the 1st century. It was the law, and laws were divine. In fact, the whole idea of personality morality was framed differently, good deeds and moral behaviours weren’t rewarded in the afterlife.

You probably couldn’t debate Cesar about the morality of slavery, he simply wouldn’t understand you.

> In any case historians should probably avoid dabbling in morality.

Like it or not, history is moral. Without the judgments of narratives it is just record keeping. Early history was indistinguishable from the myths that epitomised the morality of societies: most of us are familiar with the Homeric epics, they were taken as historical until the Middle Ages. The British claimed for a long time they were the descendants of Brutus of Troy (and so did the Romans).

> It doesn't mesh well with their subject, because morality is subjective and by letting it seep into their work they give their findings an expiration date.

Have you read Livy, Gibbon or Carlyle? They’re certainly not current, and all have enormously different moral viewpoints (which all would be objectionable today), but none are ‘expired’. When you read these you get a first hand insight into the moral viewpoints of the historians, which is as important to our civilisation’s development as the past itself.

History is as much the study of the past as it is the study of history itself.
Not a financial expert, but that section is talking about how they are forced to account for many of their investments at the price they paid, even if the underlying company has grown significantly in “likely” value, they haven’t triggered any action that would allow Indie to adjust the value of their investment on Indie’s books. So Indie’s reportable returns are muted in an accounting sense.

The “as converted” IRR seems roughly to mean “if we take our best guess as to our investments are really worth, our IRR is much higher”. (Now, what an illiquid investment is “really worth” is always dicey, which is why the GAAP accounting rule is in place, so the truth might be in the middle, but it’s pretty clearly not on the left edge.)