skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One attempt to hack representative democracy is a party controlled by an app. It works like this:

An app is created which lets citizens vote on every issue in the legislature. A party is formed whose elected members vote according to the app results. Citizens elect members from this party. Once the party achieves an elected majority, the legislature becomes controlled by the app, and transformed into a digital direct democracy.

There’s a few projects that attempted this. The one that’s still active is Flux Party of Australia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_(political_party)
I don't understand what Epic is doing on that list. Your thesis seems to be that the platforms keep all the profit. Epic's platform is a giant pit that they're shoveling money into as fast as they gian.

If you're referring to Fortnite, I don't think it's that big of an outlier.
Nice. I suppose having arch linux as base OS helped a lot (<400mb ram usage). Also, isn't cpu model/frequency irrelevent in this case?
I probably want what you have now, mundane fixed schedule job which gives you the time and freedom to work on your passions post your office. Could very well go with wood working and infosec research. Those passions can (probably) be leveraged later for a different career opportunity or a small, bootstrapped startup. I know friends who were pure play project managers but worked on their passions after office hours (whenever they had time). Now they are working on their passions at a job that pays them to do so.
Japan is a highly populous nation. They simply don't have enough land that's far away from human habited area to permanently "store" nuclear waste. America has the Yucca Mountain, USSR/Russia has the Siberia. China has Gobi deserts.
If it were done temporarily, wouldn't it allow for the ocean to recover?

If you could farm fish cheaper than catching it, wouldn't that totally take away the incentive for dodgy fishing in 3rd world countries? And if that were done for a few decades, it seems like you could return to normal after that.
If something is tax-deductible if it happened in the same year, but not tax-deductible if it happened in a different year, you end up with a very uneven system (and a lot of pointless gyrations designed to turn one into having the structure of the other).

For your personal situation, it is not surprising that there is IRS guidance on the topic of education and tax deductibility. The rules have changed several times in the last few decades, but some is deductible: https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/qualified... https://smallbusiness.chron.com/training-costs-tax-deductibl...
The Road to Reality
> I also looked up Amtrak's speeds and found a report from 2016 saying that over half of their trains had a top speed of 160 km/h or greater.

This sentence can be interpreted in multiple ways. Maybe they mean that half of their trains could theoretically ride at 160 kph, but that doesn’t mean that they ever actually reach such speeds on their routes. Or, maybe, that half of their trains reach 160 kph on some fraction of their route, maybe very small one.

What I would be more interested in is their average speed according to schedule, weighted by the frequency of trains on a given segment, and same average but for actual ride times, including delays etc.
And you thought memory management was expensive _before_!
Oops, I meant to respond to the grandparent post. Sorry!
>When equities correct from the current Shiller PE ratio higher than 1929 I think you will find less people want to invest in a career token for someone.

The government is actively preventing a correction by minting new dollars at unprecedented rates [0]. In this environment, the Shiller P/E doesn't make sense anymore.

The pressure in the society is building up and it's gonna eventually blow up, but it will follow some completely unexpected path because the usual safety valve has been welded shut.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m0
> For example, if Elon Musk succeeds in landing the first person on Mars, his coin price should theoretically go up. And if, in contrast, he makes a racial slur during a press conference, his coin price should theoretically go down.

That sounds a lot like social credit system? I can't imagine a future where a small fraction of people not related to you can decide what you should do, even if they are not the government.
Technology gone berzerk.
I'd also take a look at Images.jl:
https://juliaimages.org/latest/examples/
Noise removal example:
https://juliaimages.org/ImageFiltering.jl/stable/democards/d...
That's an expensive operation.
It’s certainly both. “Anxiety” it’s your brains response to given sensory input and tends to trigger a release of cortisol and in more extreme situations adrenaline. While cortisol and adrenaline are normal responses it’s a very slippery slope and they can have extremely negative effects on the body.

The dangers of to much of these hormones come from both chronic exposure for normal sensory inputs like stress at work or school on a daily basis or constant instability like parents fighting regularly to single acute episodes like an extreme traumatic event. Traumatic events tend to alter neural pathways so moving forward even non stressful sensory input can trigger these strengthened pathways putting people in non stressful environments in chronic states of stress.

It’s helpful “not to think about it” whatever “it” is, but it’s often involuntary especially for those that suffered a trauma, as there’s always the risk that you are unknowingly responding to it without even thinking about it and it’s often hard to connect the dots.

The other issue is everything in the body is a feedback loop and hard to break or change. For example even just sitting in a chair all day will shorten you hip flexors, causing unnoticeable discomfort but your brain will notice and respond with release of cortisol which will in turn cause tightening of muscles and myofacia, that will further release cortisol in response to those bodily stresses, and on and on it goes with all kinds of “referred pain” (I hate that term) you do notice in maybe your neck or shoulder(s) or back. And good luck at that point you’ll be treating the area in pain that’s not even actually causing the pain only leading to more chronic stress over the inability to make the pain go away. If you work in an office my guess is you have physical pain, and you can ask anyone else in the office and odds are they have physical pain, and my bet dollars to donuts from arthritis to bursitis to joint pain the vast majority with simply blame it on getting old or some posture issue and not a single one will realize the physical pain and bodily conditions are directly related to stress.
I think there's a difference between anxiety and "worry". Anxiety has acute, uncomfortable physical effects. Things like heart palpitations, sweating, shortness of breath. Those are real things that can often be attributed to different kinds of panic disorders.

It's not the same as chronic "worry", or chronic "shame". These are things that live in the mind. Social media, the news, even local news, all contribute to this perpetual state of worry and shame. The "news", even (or maybe especially) local news, will never make you feel good. It will only ever make you feel worried, scared, or disheartened, or ashamed.

I've stopped this daily feeling of worry and shame by:

* Stopped watching the news

* Got my ass off Facebook

That's basically it. In the 3 years since I've done those 2 things my daily mood and outlook on life has increased dramatically. Your mileage may vary.
The metal detectors at the airports I've been to can't seem to pick up small pieces of metal eg. metal usb sticks[1], or small coins.

[1] something like https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91fbTWqCoiL...
La Hague site incident was a INES Level 1 incident. Fukushima disaster was a freaking Level 7!
Going off of the quoted bit because I haven't watched the video, he isn't necessarily suggesting that is the mode of action, just that the mechanism of Valium does both. The mention of GABA enhancement from the comment above alludes to that.

Behavior and attitude can influence each other. For example, happiness makes you smile, but smiling can also make you happy (to some degree). The same works for anxiety in which your mental anxiety can make you physically anxious and vice versa. What he is suggesting here, especially considering the James-Lange mention, is that Valium's mode of action is targeting the behavior side of things for anxiety, but does not exclude it from influencing more than just muscle tension.

I think the general consensus in psychology is that it's neither the mental state nor the physical state (James-Lange) that create emotion, but rather both. Both can instigate responses from each other. Valium simply influences part of the CNS to affect both, but because it's a drug, it inherently affects the "physical state" more directly.

Normal muscle relaxants aren't as effective for anxiety as Valium because they don't have any action on the central nervous system, just the neuromuscular mechanisms. Valium does much more than simply relax muscles. It affects GABA throughout the whole body.
So Denmark would forcibly take more than half of my income to invest in stuff I don't have a say on, while no one is held accountable by competition and economic incentives.

I'll pass.
Obligatory link to the Frink data file: https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt

Any source code where the simple declaration "candela := cd" comes with a 171 line comment ranting about the inadequacies of various international standards organisations is a must-read.
Leverage into sanctions and political sidelining?

Great strategy.
Ask HN: What is your pain point when using Firestore
When working with Firestore, I see many issues with its UX. Eg someone like me on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Firebase/duplicates/mm01b3/was_this_filter_option_there_the_whole_time_im/

How about your? Let's talk about those
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Ok, thanks for clarifying this, I feel like I understand better what's going on now and feel more comfortable with it.

Thanks again
I disagree on most of your points but I am trying to read your entire comment favorably, but my personal experiences do not line up with almost any of this.

>>> JPA/Hibernate is still the best way to actually produce working applications if you have to use an SQL database for some reason...

This statement makes me think that you either do not prefer to use SQL RDBMS, don’t have to use them very often, believe they are some dusty piece of tech, or all of the above when my experience has me believing that RDBMS are absolutely the most common persistence layer I encounter in JVM, .NET, PHP, and Python codebases.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard a senior JVM based engineer proclaim that JPA/Hibernate are “the best way... to produce working applications”. It simply isn’t. For basic CRUD applications you will AT BEST barely write fewer lines of code with JPA than with native JDBC queries and ResultSet mapping and have all the lock-in and performance drawbacks of JPA.

Lazy loading will inevitably wind up with Session scope problems with any kind of concurrency, forcing nasty internal list enumeration to force a faux eager fetch to work around the problems.

Fetching just the columns you need for a particular projection will have you writing either SQL or Hibernate “SQL” in annotations.

If you have a mix of JDBC and JPA in a codebase you will inevitably wind up with enough consistency and visibility issues as to either ditch one of them or ditch the entire codebase.

Vanilla SQL is so pervasive and CRUD operations are so simple that I would have serious doubts about the credibility of a JPA proselytizer that didn’t know SQL.

I expect every single one of my backend engineers (on any tech stack) to understand the fundamentals of SQL INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.
I agree with enthusiasm for Graal. Related to it are efforts like Project Valhalla and Project Panama, which will continue to do a lot for the current drags on performance. For example, by adding value types.
Yeah this isn't really a bug or even an issue with the library. If you instantiate an RNG with a seed and then fork your process, well duh of course the RNG will be repeated across the forks.
More likely Epic themselves would offer source control. I run my indie studio off UE4 on git lfs, which I can do since we are small.

Perforce and Perfoce centric workflows tend to be broken not because of UE4 but because of bad workflow design. Take our parent poster's example: using source control for binary build distribution. It does not matter what engine you use if you abuse the source control to distribute full builds your workflow will have pain points.

Same deal with the example for iOS binaries. This is related to Perforce locking those files: "Doctor, it hurts when I stab myself, but my workflow requires it". Don't checkin build files is the "no duh" answer. Such "no duh" answers from indies usually result in "but you do not understand our unique insane required workflow" responses from big team engineers.

In the future when you hear a weird non-sense workflow from AAA teams keep in mind part of the pain is self-inflicted. Big teams try optimizing for different goals, like not requiring artists to compile code. Yet do so in weird half-measures.
The only thing that the argument clarifies is whether George Floyd told the truth or a lie at that particular moment in time. The drugs were in his system, and the amount of fentanyl in particular was not an insignificant dose, even for a person of his body weight.

> No one deserves to die because they abuse drugs.

Perhaps, but people do die due to their drug abuse often - whether through first- or higher-order outcomes of those choices. If someone ODs on drugs and dies, I'm not sure saying they "deserved," it would be appropriate or fair, but it would not incorrect to state that their own actions did not lead directly to the fatal outcome.

Is it appropriate or fair to force people to conduct themselves in such a way that arguably avoids a fatal outcome in the special case of drug abusers? What about in the case of self-defense or law enforcement?

I've watched the full unedited body cam footage. Cops approached Floyd in a running car, making his intoxication a significant public safety risk that could have led to injury/death. Especially after several viewings of the footage, there's no reason to believe that was not the origin of the heightened tensions and the anxieties that led to the chaotic police work carried out by Chauvin and his buddies.
To say one's ability to think rationally is severely hindered, suggests impairment in (for example) considering short term versus long term priorities, or being overly impulsive, or being overly controlled by emotions.

Whereas "crazy" suggests an absence of sanity.

Rational vs irrational. Sanity vs insanity. These are not interchangeable ideas.
Do you have more info about this setup?
> many things I learned designing gearboxes to the D programming language

I'm curious about what are some of those things :- )

(embedded software for gearboxes? Or physical design things that were translatable to software?)
That isn't what we've seen in practice.
I’m too ignorant to know the origins of some of these ideas but this reminds me of a segment from a podcast with Joscha Bach. I’ve posted it here before, apologies for that, but i just like the way he describes it.

https://youtu.be/8mixT5_U0hk
In .NET Core they actually fixed this thank goodness https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57905143/did-microsoft-c...
I prefer Cessnas.
I had tried both a couple of years back and at that time s5cmd was significantly faster when downloading multiple (100s) of files, hence my loyalty to it. Of course both are actively developed projects, so things might have changed since.
Maybe try setting up one of the game emulators. That would help with an understanding of how you can have different OSs and explore how emulators work while having games to play when it's set up.

Another simple thing could be sensor hats. You can use something like an enviophat to read tempature and flash the LEDs based on some condition (written in python).
To think of it... how viable such a "computer" would be? Would it be prohibitively inefficient? Or the other way around? What about parallelization - very easy, impossible at all, or something in between?
My buddy recently did a really nice video overview of the MiSTer project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IP0k3GatHE
While Mr. Buffett is liquidating a fair bit of his holdings.
That’s not that bad considering 3 months of the year the air in the Bay Area is smoke.
Bad idea. You want the system to be viscous, to respond slowly to pressure put on it. Too fluid, and it turns into populist-driven mob rule.

If you want to argue that the system currently is too viscous and needs to move somewhat toward liquid, I might agree. But it is dangerous and destructive to go all the way to liquid.
The first is that some prefixes are "mandatory prefixes"

If you look at the structure of the encoding you'll see that the 66 prefix, which is traditionally known as the "operand size prefix", is quite sensibly used to select between different register widths, e.g. between the SSE/SSE2 wider (128-bit) registers as opposed to the 64-bit MMX ones for the same instruction.

https://www.sandpile.org/x86/opc_2.htm has a nice summary of this.
my 2 cents is that it's really tough to market high quality audio despite a clear market willing to buy high quality audio.

There are dozens of ostensibly high quality brands selling 500 dollar headphones with drastically different audio quality. The audiophile community would often have you believe that all such headphones are junk and a random small brand has the best headphones of all.

At least tvs have color accuracy/size/price. Headphones are not measured with any clear metric of quality as far as I've seen..
It's not that ridiculous. Securing stuff on computers is more important due to the scale at which attacks can occur. On the internet, you can gather information on millions of users in little time and without putting yourself in a place where you could easily be caught. And for a machine that isn't connected to the internet, it can still give you far more data than you could get by stealing paper that takes up the same amount of physical space.
Mindfulness has been removed from its traditional context, and some fundamental concepts and practices have been abandoned along the way. This has severely weakened most western mindfulness practices.

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/mindf...
I find it unfortunate that some of the responses in the mailing list amounted to "don't worry about being discriminated against because of your 'real' name; I pinky-promise that we're all nice people". Members of a cryptography community should know better than to demand that someone explain why their distrust is justified.

Obligatory link to two articles I think everyone implementing a name system should read:

1. "A Model for Identity in Software" [0] describes how people often have more than one identity. Different identities might have different personalities and names, especially on the Internet. For example, one person can go by "Johnathan", "Mr. Doe", "Jonny", "NoobMaster69", and "Dad" and react differently when greeted by each name.

[0]: https://christine.website/blog/identity-model-software-2021-...

2. "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" [1] shows that nearly every assumption you make about names is wrong, and it's therefore best to rely upon as few assumptions as possible.

[1]:https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

Personally, I find my non-anonymous online pseudonym "Seirdy" to be more "real" than my real name. In real life, my physical counterpart doesn't really have anyone to talk to about the things he's most interested in; that's something only I (Seirdy) can do.
> 1. work off of external power directly

> 2. charge the battery to an optimal level (possibly 60 to 80 percent?) and STOP charging

Asus Rog phone 3 & 5 actually have this bypass charging, and to restrict charging level(but can only set between 80%-100%).
Ask HN: How would you choose a penetration test provider?
My company is a financial service company (<20 ppl) and we use pretty "traditional" tech, meaning almost no cloud related infrastructure, and the tech is mostly powered by self-hosted servers.

Any advice on choosing a pentest provider for a company like this? What are the good/bad stories you had with pentest providers? Thanks a lot.
I was always terrible at Bolo. Though I always had fun playing it nonetheless.

If I could get my hands on a faster Radius Rocket (mine is only 25 Mhz), I wondered about getting Marathon 2 up and running.
> Wyoming is generally considered to have the "most advanced" law

This is a novel opinion. In my experience, non-Wyoming residents self identify as being unable to afford Delaware’s franchise tax. That, combined with its shallow bench, means one can blast an adversary out of the water by retaining the majority of Cheyenne, Casper and Laramie’s legal talent before pressing your cost advantage.
Most of Amtrak's routes are likely to be on the NEC, where the top speed is I believe 140 mph (~200 km/h). Outside the NEC, the newest of the diesel fleet can probably reach 100mph (or 160 km/h), but the actual routes are unlikely to support that kind of speed with any amount of routine. Instead, the effective speed limit (again outside NEC) is going to be closer to ~60-70mph.
ΠΑΣ Γιαννενα vs. Λαμια, μονόπλευρο βαθμολογικό ενδιαφέρον
Ολοκληρώνεται στους Ζωσιμάδες αυτή η αγωνιστική με την αναμέτρηση ΠΑΣ Γιάννενα – Λαμία. Ο γηπεδούχος είναι άνετος βαθμολογικά και έχει το μυαλό του στον ημιτελικό επαναληπτικό στο Καραϊσκάκηγ, ενώ η Λαμία, μετά τα αποτελέσματα του Σαββατοκύριακου, έχει τους βαθμούς, αφού ακόμα είναι σε δύσκολη θέση και δεν είναι εξασφαλισμένη. Μην χάσουμε άλλο χρόνο, πάμε στα σημερινά ΠΑΣ Γιαννενα – Λαμια προγνωστικα στοιχημα.
9 years feels like a long time, but it's important to remember that it's not even a quarter of the way through your career.
> because of sanctions Iran has lost lots foreign investments

> could've made a deal with a foreign company

Pick one.

Look at what happens to middle eastern countries -- actually, ANY country -- that doesn't have a nuclear deterrent and doesn't support the Western mode of governing/economics. Hint: it's what happened in Iran in 1953.
This only works if you have a reasonable population growth rate. And this isn't happening anymore. So we are boosting population numbers through immigrants that will never afford the kind of housing and retirement the previous generation had. And we are boosting the stocks through printing more money, that also drives real estate prices insane.

That's a recipe for a social conflict. Once the majority can't afford a house and a pension comparable to yours, they won't just stand aside and let you enjoy it. They will label you an oppressor and will come and take it. And the laws won't help you if the majority finds them unfair.
Well of course presenting three seperate people's ideas, some of whom are refuting each other, as one continuous argument will come out looking ridiculous.
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