skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>pay the vendor directly

That's exactly what India's UPI payment transfer does. Instant, Direct, Secure, no fee
> The CCP is 100 million people, FYI.

Are you trying to say that all 100 million of them have meaningful influence on CCP policy? Like some sort of great big Athenian democracy?
Southwest Airlines agrees to buy 100 of Boeing’s smallest 737 Max model
We sold our VW and bought a Model 3. We had a serious look at VW’s EV lineup for my wife’s next car though. All manufacturers with a genuine EV programme have my support.
Really? You run something knowing that it's going to file invalid claims; how is that not intent to commit fraud?
Raku is a significantly higher level language than most languages. Which tends to lead to slowness.

Really it's faster in many places than it has any right to.

@a[1];

Is just shorthand for a subroutine call.

postcircumfix:< [ ] >( @a, 1 );

Which ends up calling a method.

@a.AT-POS( 1 );

Actually that is also a simplification as AT-POS is probably a multi method. Not to mention inheritance.

There is even a level under that, NQP. (simplified example below)

my $reified := nqp::getattr(@a, List, '$!reified');
my $result := nqp::atpos($reified, $pos);

All of those levels of indirection have a cost associated with them.

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It just Rakudo on MoarVM has a bunch of optimizations to remove the needed complexity at some point. Either during compilation, or after it's been running for a while.

So with those optimizations it can sometimes beat other higher level languages.
(For some specific uses it may even sometimes meet or exceed the speed of low level languages like C/C++. Mainly for algorithmic reasons.)

More optimizations would always be nice though.
What about it? No vehicle will do it from the factory, so I don't see how it's relevant here. It's the result of running a diesel massively, massively over-rich (with aftermarket tuning), and it's absolute hell on the engine - that amount of diesel in the cylinder washes down the cylinder walls and wipes off the lubricating film, so the cylinder wear is insane from even fairly short periods of it.

Even in diesel truck circles, "the other 99.9%" of truck owners think it's just as stupid as everyone else does - in addition to being engine abuse, it tends to attract an awful lot of unwelcome attention, and there are people who won't distinguish between "You've modified your truck to belch a column of coal black smoke for attention" and "An older diesel puts out a bit of brown smoke if you get on it hard suddenly," which can lead to some nuisance emissions testing.

My truck (24 years and change) will smoke a bit if I stand on it and the fuel flow outruns boost coming up, but it's also entirely emissions compliant and passes the tests cleanly - it's just something older diesels do under certain conditions. I try my best to avoid it, but if I need to get a trailer up to speed (especially quickly, if someone is coming up hard behind me), it'll put out a bit of brown smoke until the turbo gets spinning.

None of that has anything to do with VW, though. They were burning clean, which any sort of modern high pressure injection system will typically do, they just had really high NOx emissions for their emissions tier.
Octavia Butler is now officially on Mars
"Using the landing site to honor Butler is completely fitting, given the scope and power of her work. 'Butler’s protagonists embodied determination and inventiveness, making her a perfect fit for the Perseverance rover mission and its theme of overcoming challenges,' said Perseverance deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan in a press conference. 'Butler inspired and influenced the planetary science community and many beyond, including those typically underrepresented in STEM fields. The fact that her works are as relevant today, if not more so, than when they were published is a testament to her vision, genius, and timelessness.'"
I like both the authenticity and the anonymity of the web. Of course, those two things are often in substantial opposition to each other.

The best solution I can think of at the moment is simply to not pay much attention to political speech on the internet.
As Bad Information Spreads, Florida Schools Seek to Teach 'Digital Literacy'
Tablematic: Server-driven UI for highly configurable accounting software
> once unions disappeared in america, the working man lost wages

I've worked the same role in union shops and non-union before. Non-union paid more and had less deadbeat co-workers to navigate around. Depends on your profession and skills, honestly. Probably a benefit for amazon pick and drop workers.

Really sucks at mixed union and non-union tech companies, though. At my current company programmers aren't even allowed to move our own computer between desks because only union people are allowed to do that, and getting the union people to do it will take over a week and be done at an inconvenient time interrupting work.
The data that you posted shows two extremely clear trends, gun violence in Philly is commited overwhelmingly by men, and overwhelmingly by black people.

Why men? Well I think its pretty obvious. Men are genetically more aggressive, and genetically much more prone to commit violent acts. Does saying this mean I am sexist and hate men? No, it's just an obvious observation from the data. An observation does not imply anything more.

Ok, so why black people? This is where people's brains start freezing up from social conditioning. Nobody will let themselves analyse this in a logical manner, even though the data shows the exact same pattern and rationally the same factors should apply. You will only ever get name calling, knee-jerk responses and purely emotional, speculative arguments here.

I encourage you to look at the data you yourself have posted and to draw your own conclusions.
«US likely to ban crypto soon»

I have been hearing that for 11 years.
Very nice. Especially kicked you've used Svelte/Routify to for the management app. I've been looking for a reference app for this setup, so thanks for that :)
Sad to hear. I just deleted all my photos from there and closed my account.
That's part of the problem. It has to come from the top, and for management working is meeting. It's how they get information and delegate. It's why in most companies that kind of approach is not brought up.

If I could have a half day work, half day meeting breakdown it would increase my productivity for sure. What grinds me down is if I get done with a meeting, and I have another meeting in 25 minutes it's simply not enough time to waste energy to get to the right headspace just so that I can stop right after I get there.
I guess, the time for PGP has finally come.
>The web was supposed to be a democratizing platform

It is. The problem is that democracy is messy. It means you get to hear from communist and qanon wackos as well as paid shills. Now we're pulling back on this democratization so that we have 'trusted' gatekeepers to tell us what we should and should not be exposed to.

>But if there's no way to control for authenticity,

And that's how it starts ...
MaxMind offers a small version of their database API for free:

https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/

In practice it's good enough for many purposes. It's actually the version of the database that ifconfig.co uses.
It's relatively common wisdom that you don't become a billionaire without fucking over a lot of people. You can be CEO just fine, but billionaire CEO is probably not in the cards for you.
AFAIK OST is no more, and the company behind them pivoted to make an online fitness course portal[0]. I think there are some projects that were building things using their OpenST framework and continue to use that.

[0]https://moxie.xyz/
Which seems to shore up the hypothesis here a little bit more. The Little Ice Age is a really interesting phenomenon to me in terms of climate study. We really take the stability of our climate for granted. I'm sure future generations will not have that luxury.
AT&T is a 20th century company that doesn't see any benefit to advancement. They are fine with their dividends, it will take regulations to drag them into the 21st century. Hopefully we can get some stuff in motion boefore 2022 when the republicans probably come back into power and actually listen to the lobbyists.
Syringes would be easier to adulterate, are made of plastic (could have substances that modify or mess with the vaccine compounds, glass is inert and clean) and would add several extra problems in the manufacturing part like leakage, disassembling when filled or breaking.

Following the same reasoning an even better way to do it would be a big bottle connected with a machine that would deliver the correct dose. Such machine should fulfill at least the next points

1) Assure the vaccine integrity and identify. Grant that the product has not been modified at any point (closed metallic bottle that can't be pierced or manipulated with an official seal difficult to duplicate or fake.

2) Keep the product refrigerated and watch its temperature all the time.

3) Travel. A metallic bottle would stand transport much better than glass and would need less packaging materials.

Autonomous system can be just put in a pickup and moved to places without accurate refrigeration. Not need to build expensive rooms or hospitals and reaching isolated areas

4) Assure the same dose to everybody and change automatically the needle without the need of any human hand near the needle's boxes. Avoiding injuries and diseases

5) Discard safely the used needle and trow it into a secure recycling compartment.

6) Allow people to enter their own personal data and ID card in a keyboard or card slot before being vaccinated. then, keep this data safe stored into a database far from curious eyes

7) Share the number of vaccines used in real time or almost with the other teams. Thus the government could know what machines must be refilled and how many old needles boxes should be replaced in real time and plan according. If a place is not getting enough stream of people, the machine could be recalled to the next near place that is too busy

8) Avoid the human factor. Machines are tireless and fast. Don't need to make breaks or sleep as humans, don't care about skin color and can be bribed by local corrupts or the hate department.

Automatic vaccining machines could made a bigger difference than vaccines prepackaged in syringes, for sure, I wonder why nobody has created one still.
Germany Probes Astra Vaccine After Berlin Partly Halts Use in People Under 60
What liabilities did the Russian oligarchs take on?
Nestup, a Language for Musical Rhythms
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick
>Getting paid less on the basis of your disability is generally considered to be disability discrimination in the US.

I mean, I get what you're saying. I work in Disabilities quite a bit in my profession - and your view is generally correct. But there are literal, specific carve-outs for employers to pay people with disabilities less.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/39-14c-subminim...

>Section 14(c) of the FLSA authorizes employers, [. . .] to pay subminimum wages - wages less than the Federal minimum wage - to workers who have disabilities for the work being performed.
Zero points made. Zero answers given.

The answer: a huge number of foreign citizens, possibly agents, nobody knows, working in the US tech sector, and several domestic agencies that each separately and secretly compel those companies to pay those employees to install back doors, and then kick them out of the country in exchange for a new batch of younger and cheaper employees.

I remember when I used to think that hackers ‘found’ bugs. Silly.
When the battery needs replacement, what do you do?

You toss the car in a landfill and stamp out a new one in the factory.

So probably better for drones and things that have a short lifetime anyway.
Snowflake supports interactive analytics at scale
Good question.

If you can't force the issue (i.e Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Cyprus, Crimea) via a force of arms or diplomacy.
This is very elegant and you are very creative. I also visited your website and love your interactive sketches:
https://www.grgrdvrt.com/sketches/
Chain pizza probably contains preservatives. I wonder if homemade pizza is less safe if it's left out overnight.
like everyone else. skip the tests and docs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Amazon ad revenue jumps 51% to $5.4B as marketers eye online shoppers
Mikrotik definitely doesn't have a flashy UI if that's what you care about, but the configuration for those things you list didn't seem all that different to ubiquiti's edge line from my research. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm also happy with my choice and had no problems setting it up
Reverse Engineering Course
on the other hand, see the Hawaiian missile alert fiasco where excessive friction prolonged the issues.
The contrary position is public housing.

If you desire non-market rate housing, it's the only solution. Because by definition, the market will always produce market rate housing.
They're actually hard capped at $10B, up from ~$5B a decade or so ago. But you're right, they are thoroughly capacity constrained. Pretty typical for quant strategies in general.

Based on what I see from quant prop trader friends of mine in the Chicago area, if Medallion was an order of magnitude smaller they could probably juice their returns up to 150-300% pretty reliably.
> Where does that leave people like doctors who earnestly help their patients?

In fiction?

Back on the original topic, Erik Dietrich's "Developer Hegemony" has a less extreme view of the corporation; worth reading IMO.
Maybe could be a sandbox project in LF AI & Data?
I don't really understand the question.

The fundamental right is the right to not have force initiated against you. All other rights are derivative. For instance, the right to have property, freedom of speech, freedom of movement, etc.

John Locke did good thinking on this, but I suspect a lot of his ideas were already implicitly enshrined in common law (but I'm not an expert on that).

More information:
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/individual_rights.html
Simplicity in Go is one of it's most loved features. For the most part, there are fewer ways to do the same thing and I love that.
And then there's Instagram, who only did square photos and nothing else for years
Right, but then that number would have been even more off with NEDC, since that would give them higher range / lower consumption figures.
They can also just check your PayPal account balance. And your blockchain. Every transaction using Bitcoin is public.
Your works are worth mentioning here on HN:

https://www.grgrdvrt.com/works/
I would highly recommend looking at something like kubectx [0] to manage switching between kubernetes contexts! I've been using this for a while now and have it aliased to kx. It supports tab completion, as well as fzf integration if you have it installed [1]. There's also kubens in there which does the same for namespaces!

[0]: https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx

[1]: https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx#interactive-mode
> the prisoner's dilemma variant here is the iterated one, and there are more than two players.

The assumption there is that you're all guilty. I agree, when you're all cheating, it's hard to safely get to a point you're not cheating and can inform on others, but the solution to that is simple, don't cheat in the first place. An actual rational actor would realize that cheating opens you up to this situation where you've exposed yourself to a prisoners dilemma that you can't easily extract yourself from, and all for the chance to just have the same advantage as everyone else. Not cheating in the first place and making sure all the cheaters are punished seems a far better strategy.

That said, it's possible this was an emergent phenomenon, where none of them initially were sure the others were cheating, but felt they had to cheat themselves to compete, and by the time it's obvious they are all cheating, there's no chance for one of them to benefit by being clean and calling out all the others.
It's a mobile palletizing robot. Palletizing robots have been around for years, but not, usually, on a mobile base.[1][2]. Fanuc (Japan) sells large numbers of robots for this. Handling uniform cardboard boxes is routine. Systems which handle a larger variety of items are rarer, but do exist.

Automated truck loading and unloading robots are already available. It's neat that Boston Dynamics made a mobile one, but they are not the first to do that.[3]

The real frontier in this area is fully automated order picking of miscellaneous objects in fulfillment centers. Nobody has that in volume use yet, although there are many demos.

[1] https://youtu.be/QfbdVboVNUM

[2] https://youtu.be/HtXneHWMg3c

[3] https://youtu.be/UeEB-nmMrBw
Chipotle is giving away $100k in Bitcoin
No it doesn't. I and others have used it many times, and it does not actually do that.

When you receive mail that you've been BCC'd on, it does attempt to figure out what address was used to get it to you, and displays that as a BCC (useful if it came to you via a mailing list that was BCC'd), so perhaps you're confusing that for showing the addresses of everyone to everyone, which isn't the case.
Starship launches are documented very well. Tons of live coverage from dozens of cameras, both from SpaceX and third parties. There's plenty of great footage of the prior explosions. Today happened to be foggy, but SpaceX doesn't control the weather. In fact they wanted to launch yesterday but couldn't because the FAA didn't have its act together.
The difference is that we got to make mistakes when we were young.

Did you once have a myspace page or live journal where you said very controversial things or vented angst in a manner that you'd rather your co-workers didn't see? Well sorry but all that stuff now goes into your facebook feed where it will be with you forever.

It takes real determination to stay actually anonymous on the internet today and someone trying to stumble into it is likely going to screw it up - when we millennials were growing up that personal data you accidentally leaked onto a forum (maybe during a spicy exchange of direct messages) can't follow you since that forum no longer exists - it was probably hosted on PHPBB and either an admin accidentally deleted the DB at some point or the whole server was chucked in the trash - even if someone had access to those messages it would be harder to definitively tie it back to someone since user fingerprinting was so non-existent.

That all said, I was in the middle of University when folks were learning that bong-shots on your facebook page might hurt your long term job prospects so we did get to see it start to emerge as a concern.
What a ridiculously useful and easy-to-use site, thanks!
CarniDIET 1.0: A database of terrestrial carnivorous mammal diets
> Accidents happen. Even if it was a lab accident, it's not a reason to be outraged with the Chinese government.

It really is though. If you're going to experiment with viruses that can be lethal to humans, you'd better have a damn good set of safety protocols so they don't get out. If you can't do that, don't experiment on the viruses. Given the infectiousness, there are even theories they were experimenting with making it more virulent.

There are almost 3,000,000 deaths globally. That's equivalent to launching a Little Boy at a city the size of Hiroshima every day for 42 days. It's a third of the number of soldiers who died in WW1.

There is no conceivable way that this could be declared an "oopsie" moment. This is a colossal fuck up, even by international scales.

It has nothing to do with it specifically being China. If it was the EU, I'd be pissed at them too. Lab leaks aren't particularly uncommon, which is a problem basically everywhere. I'm concerned that Russia is allegedly messing around with anthrax, but at least they seem to be able to keep it in their labs. I would prefer that no-one in the world was working on biological weapons, but I think that's a pipedream.
I've been using ifconfig.me for a decade or more.
“Valued” by whom?
An important aspect of voting systems is that, while you want to authenticate that each voter is allowed to vote, you also want strong protections against discovering who voted for who. I understand why it seems like cameras would be a good idea, but it's very easy to imagine how such a system could be abused.

Can you tell a camera's field of view by looking at it? Could your grandparents? Trusting systems that secure the vote is much easier when they are designed resist being changed to abet oppression.
I'm amused that these web pages are from 2008 which feels like the middle ages of the internet.
Please, I remember we would all die a horrible death due to a nuclear armageddon.

When that didn't happen, we would all suffocate because all the forests would die due to acidrain.

Then we would all die of skin cancer due to the ozone-hole.

I actually remember the nuclear effects from Tjernobyl, glad I didn't die then.
How many small niche businesses have been created around hyper targeted ads? I don't know why everyone wants to go back to a million ads for mortgages and feminine hygiene products.
I don’t know. This doesn’t seem dramatically better than the Unimate industrial robot, which is over half a century old. It even used the same kind of suction tool:
https://youtu.be/VdolSBpyCaU

I mean, Boston Dynamics’ new robot is on (Mecanum?) wheels and it has some basic machine vision capability, but it really doesn’t seem like a dramatic, exponential departure from the 60 year old Unimate robot.

(Boston Dynamics’ other robots are much more impressive from a technical standpoint, but I’m not terribly surprised a company that has been struggling to get profitable is turning to more mundane but practical robotics applications.)

Which doesn’t mean I don’t think something like this isn’t practical. It just goes to show there’s still a ton of fairly virgin ground out there for increased automation and productivity growth just deploying technology from half a century ago and adding some minor tweaks. And I think part of the reason we HADN’T deployed this kind of automation tech earlier is because wages have just been too low, with wage growth fairly stagnant after the 1960s.

Every day I’m less and less worried that automation will get rid of all our jobs and more and more frustrated at the slow uptake of productivity improvements we have just sitting in front of us, perhaps because companies don’t compensate their employees enough for it to be worthwhile.
I really enjoy reading anecdotes like the above. Programming languages are how we express intent to systems, and a complex enough domain where quantifying the tradeoffs is sufficiently difficult.

Teams can succeed or fail using any language, but there is a tangible factor somewhere between the language, available libraries and practitioners.
> Turkey and Russia could be a problematic situation though. They're similarly sized economies, although Russia has a serious military advantage.

Russia's GDP is twice the size of Turkey. Russia is more similar to UK/France/Canada than Turkey.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
> It's similarly grating to Germans to hear their language mispronounced by others.

Americans are generally very tolerant and patient with non-native speakers butchering proper english. So no, it's not nearly as grating to an American to hear people mispronounce english words than it might be for Germans.
It is still quite likely he won't be repeating the mistake though. Prison is something else than just money.
I haven't used Windows in a loong time, so I guess it is. ;)
There are five lights! You have 20 seconds to comply.
hilarious -- i came here to defend our feline friends too! :) meaning, it was definitely not a cat...
In US I can imagine that the exported transactions can be imported to a software that understands Bitcoin taxation. But outside US? It's a crazy world....I rather stay with big buys/sells/borrows until taxation is resolved.