skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada is currently struggling badly with a massive third wave. Cases are higher now than they've ever been, so these requirements are the opposite of madness.

Also note the only people that can come into Canada right now are citizens and residents. It's closed to foreigners.[1]

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
Amazon Has Released OpenSearch as an Alternative to SSPL Licensed Elasticsearch
I believe Apache solves the second bucket with respect to patents.
HN classic. upgraded its dyno a bit. Thought cloudflare would save me...
We’re talking about drug money, right?

In my residential California neighborhood, there were constant illegal drug dealers racing around in loud mustangs painted with their phone number and web site to deliver orders made on an app, and when I called the police about it because they were intentionally crossing the road to scare cyclists, they wouldn’t even take my statement.

So if this KYC/AML crackdown stops those assholes, then great, but I only care that it is reducing the amount of drugs that come into the country, and the profits for individual street deals are getting wiped out, and the gangs are disbanding and violence is decreasing. Otherwise, it seems like it’s just being used to exclude Americans from Coinlist.

Money tracing is an extremely valuable tool for criminal investigations. But I think the strategy around it is all wrong. You’re supposed to use the money trace to find more criminals. It seems that all resources have shifted to hunting down financial crime itself. This is based on the kingpin theory, which is questionably valid. In crime and terror, nobody works for anybody. Kingpins are essentially getting paid to increase the efficiency of the network in the highest-risk job. The network doesn’t need them at all; it just works a little better with them taking that risk. And if you think about it that way, you see the futility of simply restricting their ability to spend that money. There will always be somebody ready to take that risk just for the ego boost. Maybe it increases the amount that that position demands, like a small tax on the network.

I have experience in this (CO-IN, not drugs, although that’s where a lot of the money came from), and I could easily quantify big statistically-significant drops in violence by going after the physical product, and by local police presence. These operations were simple, cheap, and safe. But all anybody ever got excited about was the person-targeting operations. These are extremely dangerous, and it’s always a risky bet on whether more intel will be discovered in forensics/interrogation, or lost due to the network reorganizing.

Another problem with financial crime enforcement is that it’s looking for the money on the wrong side of the violence cycle (right of boom). Crime starts with clean money moving up the pyramid to pay for physical product, and only the top portions are targeted. At that point, it’s nearly irrelevant how it gets spent. Physical seizure is preventative (left of boom), and disrupts the network with real financial losses. Possibly most effective, is physical presence of local police.

Story: Alice pays Bill for a legal job. Bill buys drugs from Charlie. Denise kills Charlie for the money. Ellen sells a house to Denise. Who should go to jail?
That's fine, it's not like we have a shortage or anything.
Nvidia Making Science Fiction Real
I've often wondered how often NFC is unlocked like that.
Oh no, he was our top choice by the end of it but already had something else by the time we got the offer out.
What this article totally fails to mention is the new widespread reduction techniques from the Ephedra plant (also called Mormon Tea) which grows widely around the world and even in the south western USA!

The Iraq route goes Afghanistan -> Iran -> Iraq -> ...

https://cen.acs.org/policy/global-health/Afghanistans-crysta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedrine#Recreational_use

https://twitter.com/mansfieldintinc/status/13726706500291092...
Criminal charge requires criminal intent. A customer service representative being bad at math is not criminal intent. Again, it is not rich vs poor, it is "knowingly enriched themselves with other people's money" vs not that.
Let me explain how that would play out.

```

Employer: We want you to take an extra and unnecessary vaccine dose, which you, as an RN, likely understand to be most-likely useless.

Employee: That's useless and unnecessary. No, I won't take it.

Employer: You're fired.

```

What kind of magical world do you think people live in where their employer doesn't hold a stupid amount of power over them?
Side note, I know its a meme for other reasons, but "invert a binary tree" should be the poster child for "communicating badly then acting smug when you're misunderstood".

It's a horrible, flat-out wrong use of terminology, inconsistent with the use of the term "invert" in just about any other technical context. Using it should be grounds for shaming.
The way I understood it, you can designate your server, but if the admins come across a server that should be NSFW, they will mark it. I imagine it comes from user reports of content.
Honestly, I think modern (meaning wide, multiple instruction decoders, and designed today without back compat concerns) and byte-sized are sort of mutually exclusive. Most of those ISAs were designed around 8-bit data buses, and having simple ops only consume a single memory read cycle was pretty paramount to competitive performance. Without that constraint, there's probably better options.

IMO, you would either go towards bitaligned instructions like the iAPX 432 or the Mill, or 16-bit aligned variable width instructions like the s360 and m68k on the CISC side, and ARM Thumb and RV-C on the RISC side.

That being said, you're definitely thinking about it the right way. Modern Istream bandwidth conscious ISAs absolutely (and perhaps unsurprisingly) look at the problem from a constrained, poor man's huffman encoding perspective similar to how UTF-8 was conceived.
As far as I know, under the Taliban in the 90s there was by far the lowest amount of drug export from Afghanistan. Now its basically a pure narco/military state, far more then Columbia ever was.
The clinical trials have been for months on limited numbers of people. Given this seems to be a 1 in a million situation the odds are against those trials discovering them.
> How is making it safer to do drugs manage addiction?

It's easier for a 15-yo to buy weed than to buy alcohol (where weed is illegal, I should add).
From what I can deduce using CDC data my chance of hospitalization is 0.5 to 2%. Assuming linear relationship of obesity in the population and assuming the same risk at the top of my cohort to the bottom.
> The correct way to think about snapshots and diffs when it comes to cherry-picking and rebasing is to realise that diffs are always derived from snapshots.

Ironically, git snapshots are themselves derived from diffs. Creating a snapshot without diffs, would require making a full copy, which git most definitely does not do.

So would you rather think of cherry-picking as diffs derived from snapshots which are derived from diffs? Or as simply diffs? I find the latter better as a mental model.
Parrot was always intended to support multiple languages, from Simon's original April Fools joke to Larry's dual desire to run both P6 and Perl in the same process on the same VM as well as to make CPAN available to all dynamic languages in the same process on the same VM.

That's why Dan and Guido had a bet that Parrot would run Python faster than CPython, and that's why Parrot attracted contributors like Sam Ruby.

It's definitely true that, as P6 dragged on and burned out a lot of contributors (including multiple project managers), many Parrot contributors thought that coupling Parrot's success to P6 was a mistake, but I can't see that as a change in focus because the multi-language focus was a goal from the start.

Granted, Parrot did wander in the wilderness for a while waiting for the P6 design process to proceed, and Parrot did evolve in some unfortunate directions because of that. The rest of this comment covers 2007 onwards though.

Your question about components is particularly interesting, because of what really happened.

A couple of P6 developers wrote PCT, a set of tools and libraries to make developing compilers and languages on Parrot easier. This was a good thing, and Parrot users and developers started migrating their language implementations to that toolkit.

The PCT developers refactored and revised this a couple of times, and to make that easier, eventually they took the code out of the Parrot tree and started syncing PCT into the Parrot tree on a semi-regular basis.

I was working with them weekly to fix Parrot bugs, improve Parrot performance, and add Parrot features to reduce the amount of code necessary in PCT. Thus it's difficult for me to believe that the Parrot developers were designing and implementing Parrot away from P6.

Toward the end of 2010, the P6/PCT developers said they were going to rewrite PCT to support multiple VM backends. I argued this would create a lot of churn in the language implementations actively using PCT (ironic, because the PCT developers spent a lot of time before and after this complaining bitterly that they couldn't keep up with Parrot churn) and would provide very little value for Parrot (PCT was out of tree already, and syncing in code designed explicitly to undercut Parrot seemed like a stupid idea). These discussions all took place in the public Parrot IRC planning sessions, which were logged.

I also had concerns about yet another rewrite undercutting P6, especially coming six months after the underwhelming Rakudo Star release, but it was clear which direction the winds were blowing, and that's when I stopped working on both P6 and Parrot.

Five years later, P6 had its first official release and Parrot was well buried.

I know this contradicts the official Raku hagiography, but I've gone back and read the primary sources a few times over the years as people have asked about it, and I'm confident the record backs up what I've said.
I think polarization across the country is mostly a consequence of too much centralization. The federal government has too much power, so the political parties organize themselves in that way. Everything becomes zero sum.

If states had more variation, I think you'd see less polarization, because the threat of a federal decision applying to everyone is far less of a worry.
The FSF being taken over in that way is actually quite likely, given long enough time frames. It'll be interesting to see.
Without commenting on the content itself, this is nice public messaging. It's clear, unambiguous, quick and easy to read, and preempts most follow-up questions people are likely to have.
Data-labeling company Scale AI is worth $7.3B after new funding round
This looks interesting. We use 1Password, and I always thought it would be useful to programmatically pull values out and use in our cloud infrastructure.

Currently we end up using the secret managers available in AWS or GCP, which seems pretty half baked. In GCP, for example, secrets are stored at a project level. It's not unusual to have certain secrets that are needed by more than one project, which means they get duplicated. The granularity also prevents me from controlling which secrets are visible to a given user.

I'd love to have one centralized source of truth for all infrastructure secrets.
You do get free Krispy Kreme, but you don't need four lines of the card.

https://krispykreme.com/promos/vaccineoffer
That's a valid concern all over the world I would think. If some people start walking around normally and people question them and they just respond "I'm vaccinated!", that'll spread like a wildfire.
Punch clocks were standard 100 years ago. The nightguard was supposed to press the button on clocks dotted around the building when he passed them. No app on the personal phone required.
Avoid leaking sensitive information with a tripwire
Honest question, does this mean you will be doing a self-imposed lockdown for 5 years until you see the long term effects of vaccination?
> I think there are other more specific things we could worry about, like house prices out of control, nobody is paying to clean up the waste they produce, governments baling out rich people etc.

> Talking about "inequality" in the abstract is not worthwhile.

I thought the connection between the problems you state and inequality was obvious. I guess it has to be spelt out: inequality means the super-rich become literal rent-seekers by buying houses - not to live in, but for speculative investment purposes - hence current cash-only offers at ridiculous, above-asking prices. They don't care about negative externalities because they want more money now, and there is nothing to act as a check on their desires (since that requires money) so there's a lot of uncleaned waste. Lastly, the government bails them out because they are king-makers and politicians come to kiss the ring during election fundraisers. Elected positions are at risk ever so often during election season, but being wealthy is usually a lifetime "appointment", and wealthy people have more solidarity than politicians - and that's to politicians disadvantage.

Inequality results in power imbalances; the societal problems are second-order effects of the power imbalance. It is not "abstract" to point out that the first-order effect is problematic of, and by itself.
It depends on the specific meeting, but yes, some of them are religious cults. Both my parents converted to evangelical extremism while attending AA. This has had a profound and negative impact on my life, as they forced me to go to an abusive mennonite school, among other problems too private to share.

I know some people have great experiences with these orgs, but I'd also caution people about how there are sometimes people with agendas exploiting the trust and vulnerability within these groups.
>We demonize people who create things. We demonize people who want to form communities, and we even demonize people who might dare to suggest that The United States is rightfully an example for the rest of the world.

>a school where they learn that math is racist, the united states is completely racist, white people are racist, trees are racist, grammar is racist, and that they should be skeptical and distrustful of their parents.

uhh what? that's a lot of background beliefs that you assume readers believe/know about.
In the introduction to the book, Hawkins says he makes many gross oversimplifications for the lay reader, so maybe this is one of them. He seems well versed in neuroscience research, so I would be surprised if he truly believes the simple model.
It depends, in China drivers are being tracked with face recognition cams and they receive warnings if they start to slumber. Saw it in some TV documentary so I don't remember the sources to this.
As someone who's been there, I strongly recommend asking for help (maybe posting this on HN counts?). Bashing your head against the wall against Rust without some correct code to look at is not (IMO) a great way to learn the language... I definitely get the appeal, as someone who hates asking for help, but it's just not worth it in this case, especially when you're starting out and aren't even sure what terms to look for.
I have to concur with the author on Rust. I remember when I read the book a few years ago I had just spent several years doing professional development in C++ and Python, and had recently discovered the GIL much to my dismay. After reading the Book I felt like I stepped through some proverbial door and could never go back. The features by themselves aren't really that remarkable but all of them together in one package - every time I use Python or C++ now I want Rust syntax, tooling, etc.

Now, my biggest critique - because of Rust's emphasis on static dispatch and monomorphization (good decisions all around if you ask me), plus the fact that lifetimes provide their own type dimension - I find that open source projects can have absolutely monstrous types, impossible to reason about. It's tough because I prefer the WYSIWYG templating Rust offers over C++ duck typing any day but many of these crates' types are too complex. In fairness, most of the most egregious cases were due to the lack of const generics and those cases are quickly improving.

As an example, I've been playing around with websockets recently and ran into this type: https://docs.rs/websocket/0.26.2/websocket/server/upgrade/st...

Note 4 different impls, each with its own generic requirements! I'm sure each case makes sense somehow, but it sure complicates my life when I want to use a function and find it isn't implemented for _my_ WsUpgrade.
I work at a US high school that's currently engaged with antiracist training for staff, and it's not like that where I am. The training we're doing basically amounts to how to not be a jerk, and some staff members, including sometimes me, need that kind of training. We have some more conservative leaning staff members, and they're broadly accepted.

Can't speak for the whole country, but at least where I work this type of training seems to be a positive thing.
All troops to leave Afghanistan to leave by sep. 11
It's because we're too worried about participation trophies, gender pronouns, and PC garbage culture. It's become petty culture without any spine or backbone, whining about everything instead of doing anything. Minding everyone else's business instead of minding your own. Add to that all the misaligned government spending and cognitive dissonance. Factions upon factions of petty hedonistic groups. I also would not say this is not reversible.
> Ex-Muratreis was purchased from Turkey by the city of North Little Rock, Arkansas on 25 March 2004 for US$37,500.

So for the cost of a down payment on a house, you could own a 90+ meter submarine.
The one thing you miss, what is the risk of dying of COVID, as a healthy person under 30?
No, there are many.
I like that phrase, "Sparkfun spaghetti". I shall be stealing it.
Thank you for these comments. I didn't know about this at all!

I'll read up on it until I understand it, and then add something to the article that covers it.
That's the entire point. If you're running a company and can't comply with U.S. laws, then you simply shouldn't operate in the U.S. and will need to find another country that allows you to engage in your business practice.

It's not important whether other countries issue fines. Other countries are free to implement laws that suit their population. What's important is that companies operating within a respective country obey the laws of that country.
Disservice to the society at large but unscientific? Isn’t it going to very marginally improve effectiveness, like from 95% to 95.5%?
But optimization is decidedly not intelligence. We’ve known this for decades and have clear proofs this is the case. This is just a collective dance of burying our heads in the sand. I’ll quote this guy called Turing: “If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent”.
Microsoft wasn’t selling the computer.

Anyone is free to buy an iPhone, install apps on it, and resell it.
So the vaccines don’t actually work?
We'll never be "there" whatever "there" means. All signs are pointing towards this becoming endemic in humans like the flu.
I don’t know where this myth comes from or why it’s so prevalent but it’s completely false. Methamphetamine and amphetamine salts (e.g. Adderall) are not at all the same drug. One clear distinction is that methamphetamine is serotonergic while amphetamines are not.
I think most pro-legalization people recognize that drug addiction is largely the result of trauma, and that legalization is but one component of a holistic approach which also treats the underlying trauma (through therapy, other medications, housing and job access).
Sigh yes this is a well recognized risk which even the FDA has guidelines for: "The administration of a DNA vaccine exposes the patient to foreign DNA or its fragments that could be inserted into the host’s chromosomal DNA [70]. In the case of incorporation into an exon, an insertional mutation or a frameshift mutation occurs. Such mutations can cause a gene to malfunction or inactivate (i.e., a tumor suppressor gene). The insertion of foreign genes into the host genome could also lead to constituent expression of previously silent bacterial/parasite genes that have been inserted."(1)

To date, there is no licensed DNA vaccine for use in humans, which is my whole point we aren't testing for this and instead just using the whole US population as test subjects without informing them of the risk.

(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7105045/
This is one of the psychological traps I've experienced writing Rust: in Python or Java you can't hope to make things more efficient at a certain point. You couldn't get clever with string re-use if you tried, etc. So you're content to just move forward and be practical.

Whereas in Rust you know that it's probably possible to use a &str there instead of a String. If you just bang on it a little longer, you can make it just a bit more optimal. The clone()s and the Vec::new()s are all explicit, making them feel heavier than those other languages, when in reality they're still quite a bit lighter.

You usually don't have to optimize them out! Your code will probably be faster than Java even with a bunch of clones, etc! But there's this temptation that's really hard for programmers to resist, to sink hours and hours into making things just slightly more optimal given the opportunity. You have to consciously talk yourself out of that if you want to be productive.
In this case, the numerator lags the denominator.

> All six cases were in women aged between 18 and 48, with symptoms appearing six to 13 days after vaccination.

Presumably, some of the 7 million people who have gotten the vaccine did so in the prior 5-12 days. It is reasonable to expect to see more cases over the next 6-13 days from the moment we pause J&J vaccination.
Why not just in orbit? Can take products back to earth on returning rockets pretty much for free, or drop them in disposable vehicles if there is more traffic going down than up.

People might ask why do that at all. There are lots of metals in space in concentrated form, solar energy is uninterrupted, and if a large part of your market is off earth it starts to make lots of sense.

Not anytime soon mind you, but one could imagine a future like that pretty easily.
It's in chapter 12 https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch12-03-improving-erro...
> It's a breach of the employees privacy which doesn't even further management's goals any more than my privacy-respecting scanner solution.

One of my businesses is currently involved in a lawsuit by someone claiming they suffered a loss due to injury from stepping on a landscaping rock (about 3in x 2in x 1in) in the parking lot. They apparently took a picture of the rock, which was adjacent to the curb. The lawyer is claiming the business is responsible for ensuring the parking lot is clear of obstacles.

The crux of the case is not about whether or not this event even took place or if this person is faking it, they don’t have to prove that without wasting a lot of my insurance company’s money. The important part of the case is whether or not the business took reasonable steps to ensure the parking lot was free of obstruction.

For this, the plaintiff’s lawyer has deposed the facilities’ manager, the landscaping company, and any staff working that day. All incredibly costly procedural tactics to try and get a settlement. Which they most likely will get from the insurance company.

However, these legal costs might be avoided if I could produce electronic logs proving the facilities manager performed routine inspection duties. This is one example of when breaching an employees’ privacy in the manner in question can further management’s goal (and bottom line).