skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure whom you are referring to when you say "these people".

Intersectionality (which btw refers to almost the exact opposite of what most people think of as "identity politics") is absolutely compatible with (and arguably necessary[0] for) leftism.

Class reductionists OTOH certainly think of themselves as leftists and can be instrumental to leftist politics. They however run the risk of also being useful to other political permutations (e.g. they might be more open to "red-brown alliances", which generally lead to non-leftist "red" ideologies like national bolshevism and ultimately fascism).

Not every intersectionalist is a leftist (e.g. liberals often acknowledge intersectionality to some degree but don't see private property as a social power structure) and not every leftist is an intersectionalist. I would argue that leftism without intersectionality is leftist, but in an incomplete form. That said, "leftism" is a somewhat arbitrary label as its original meaning simply referred to opposing the monarchy in France, so policing who gets to call themselves that is probably pointless.

[0]: An example for how racism and class warfare can intersect is how the widespread racism in the early 20th century US prevented Black workers from joining unions, resulting in them becoming strikebreakers and thus undermining the collective bargaining power of those unions.
I'm sure I remember an Asimov story where a reporter is hiding one of these in his pocket and taking notes unobtrusively, hoping nobody will notice the small hand movements.
Ideas aren’t unique, execution is
The US printed and spent tons of money during World War 2, and the postwar period was one of, if not the largest economic expansions in its modern history.
Why not put all versions of Java, including the master branch build, into your CI, then you can instantly see what it's possible to upgrade to, and instantly see when incompatibilities appear.

I don't really get what migration issues people experience in practice.
If I’m set on wireless is there a better option than low quality Bluetooth? Something proprietary with a dongle?
In my experience Americans sort of take for granted the breadth and depth of consumer protection you enjoy. I'd wager that in an insignificant portion of countries Apple expanded to, they have had to significantly cut back on refunds/warrantees they offer to combat fraud and abuse.
I think good return policies is good for business IF the business is operating in a society that generally behaves ethically on that matter.

If the majority of returns are good faith, just swallow them and keep everything moving smoothly with happy customers.

If you have a critical mass of customers who disregard right vs. wrong and just see a mark to be exploited, you're pretty much forced to behave adversarially, and everyone loses.
Maybe you can help explain this transition from hating, to loving, because of software. This concept is completely foreign to me and I honestly struggle to understand why anyone signs up for Fitness+ which - as far as I can tell - is basically a glorified list of workout tapes just like we used to get on VHS in the 80s.

I'm not trying to degrade anyone here, I am genuinely curious. Is Apple+ more than that? Is there some magic sauce I'm missing?
Yeah and a sm58 isn't that expensive, I just bought a mic to have one. When I start recording out an amp I'll probably get a 57.
OP sold one macbook after 3 months, bought a second one with the same defect, and tried to get that one serviced immediately. That second macbook should've been well within a reasonable returns policy.
limiting energy use, for bitcoin or not, is a dead end. We should be incentivizing clean energy and penalizing dirty one. Carbon taxes/quotas would be a great start.
Yes, but then you have to have a DB embedded in your application, which is a crap design for serious distributed systems with HA requirements and high load.
"Sales Policy" at very bottom of footer.
Avalanche is running and the Ethereum 2.0 merge is coming.
What strikes me about your comment is that you think that a cruise ship company and their army of consultants and engineers would not have done the required calculations to figure out that they would make substantial profit on this over the long term.
Especially if you can belong to multiple 100,000 people groups. It doesn’t take very many until you can find an individual by looking at the intersections.
I just saw this in real-time this past month with cat food.

A 24pk of Rx Renal cat food went from 5.8oz to 5.1oz[1]. I buy two packs at a time and what used to cost $113.76 is now $114.72
Effectively they're charging me an extra buck to keep 33.6oz (5.7 old-cans / 6.5 new-cans) of cat food from me.

[1] https://www.chewy.com/royal-canin-veterinary-diet-renal/dp/2...
This might sound obvious, but it's not always apparent which applications uses SQLite.

I had lots of weird issues with Plex until I found out that uses SQLite, and moved the config directory from a shared NFS directory to a shared iSCSI volume.
Whatever, the point being that since the last couple of releases OpenJDK and Oracle JDK differences are mostly about support, and license of using JFR in production.
Yes, in the long run you are right.
In the timeframe that matters, Bitcoin IS an ecological disaster. I don't understand why people ignore that just because they like the idea of crypto - which I do, too.

edit: well, actually of course I understand. But wouldn't it be honest to say "I care less about the environment than I care about my wealth" instead of claiming that Bitcoin will incentivise green energy?
If you go to Iran, you certainly can go to the USA after. You just need to ask for a new passport, and the US will never know what happened.

These sanctions aren't about influence. It's really just about trying to weaken Russian economically. The US government seems to think that Russian and Chinese influence is not that big of a problem, and they are probably right.
You can experiment with something kind of like this yourself pretty cheaply. Here's an example [0] user-space filesystem that stores its data in an in-memory sqlite file.

You could just as easily replace those in-memory calls with a networked DB (perhaps with speculative pre-fetching or something, I dunno, I probably wouldn't try to make a python filesystem too performant).

The salient detail here is that as far as your kernel is concerned a filesystem is an API for interacting with data (whether that's with a daemon process like the linked example or with raw function calls built into the kernel). Those APIs can and often do interact with structures physically stored on a local disk, but that isn't a requirement.

[0] http://www.rath.org/pyfuse3-docs/example.html#in-memory-file...
Crypto millionaires are really not smart
For example here in germany it is mandated by law that you have 2 weeks grace period to get your cash back, no questions asked.
"Barely effective" (specifically against the local variant) is why South Africa stopped using AstraZeneca:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-safric...

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2102214?query=fe...
I didn't say they are mutually exclusive.
What do you use for headphones? (I'm assuming the Shure is just a microphone)
That is ~$33 USD for an inspection. What if you have AppleCare+?
I did return an iPhone when I was in US. It was really easy just walk in and return it for a full refund or credit. I ended up buying a 128gb one instead of 32gb because the experience was great. But this is insane that I can't return something from Apple's own store for a refund.
And the fact that it is pure payload as well as two restaurants. 100% of the ship's length is much more than the payload area.
This strikes me as hysterical. Bitcoin miners tend to co-locate with the cheapest sources of electricity, which tend to be places where electricity is abundant and hard to export. Like hydro power, geothermal, and flare gas at refineries.

To assume they're using the same mix of power generating processes as average, or as everyone else, doesn't make any sense. They aren't. They're effectively finding a financial means of exporting cheap electricity that is more efficient than literally exporting it via high-tension wires or turning it into products (like aluminum, as Iceland does) on-site.

Could it be better? Hell yes. And I wish proof-of-stake and all the other ideas well.
I only use Chrome for Google stuff and everything else is split across Brave, Safari, Edge, and Firefox.
You received a defective product. Why would you be expected to keep a relationship with a party that didn't meet the expectations from the get go?
Yes. If you read up on the history of the credit card industry they solved the incredibly huge problem of small businesses extending loans to individuals.
In vain hopes its a bad apple and not the whole harvest?
What's your desired process for earning trust?
Every use of power is incentivized to use the cheapest energy source. So the only way to solve CO2 climate effects is to make renewables be the cheapest.

Solar is getting cheaper following a learning curve, where every billion dollars spent makes it a few percent cheaper. It’s possible that an increase in power demand will get us to fully renewable energy faster. Solar competes well with coal for new capacity, but not for existing capacity. So growth in demand may cause a faster transition.
Data scientists would rather buy data to work with big data sets than sell their own data for money. It's the marketers and people with P&L obligations that usually want to sell.
There are 18 century texts in tibet showing yogis doing yoga poses. They also learnt from Sokol who came a hundred years later?

This tendency to claim any thing good eastern as western is a very old trope which dates to 18-19th century ideas of superiority of Europeans. I think in the 21st century we should let it go?
USA simply lost to Taliban. Taliban won, USA lost. Sad.
Depends what you mean by recent.

For me recent means JDK 14 or later.
> as value creation is what actually matters in the “real” world.

I guess this is the thing that people are having a hard time coming to terms with - we no longer live in the real world.

All of these surveillance-advertising tech giants, all of these financial instruments, all of these media-induced bad feelings and ideological trends, everything that defines our contemporary era - none if it is real.

If it all simply stopped, wiped out from a solar flare - for most of us here, nothing "real" would change. We'd all sit for a moment looking at dead black rectangles, then we'd have to go and find something else to do. My bet is that we'd all be happier for it.
> Reuters provides facts, and very little opinion.

It's perfectly possible to provide facts in a highly opinionated way. The world we live in is a messy smear of mostly-contradictory evidence [1], so media can influence perceptions enormously by being selective in its reporting of that evidence.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAy7jujW4AAHhuu?format=png&name=...
> How do I know what environment variables of mine may have been available to the actor?

Isn't that a tiny portion of what you would have to worry about? They seem too confident that they know exactly what unintended code was in the bash uploader script for the entire duration. Is there something about the setup that gives them that confidence?
Here’s a blog version of the paper for anybody who isn’t into 12 page double column pdf files

https://twitter.github.io/pelikan/2021/segcache.html
Germany stops recognizing special UK passport for Hongkongers
He made the decision to buy one that works, if there's a flaw it's perfectly reasonable to be reimbursed.

Most countries also have laws to give consumers a time period where they can return whatever they bought, no questions asked (as long as the product is in good condition)
Idk if it's necessarily more than that, though it has the potential to be.

One thing I do like about it is the monitoring of the Apple Watch with the fitness app. If you have an Apple TV for example they have the ability to see in real time your heart rate and cardio burn. Maybe down the line there are AI instructors? Idk.

Compared to a VHS tape that's static.
Automate Everything?
I an on HN news since 2008. This is not a joke but serious. US has a right to cut themselves from Russia, but just do it. Stop playing stupid games.
You’re right, I confused the 3 months bit.
A friend of mine (Canadian) uses piracy sites a lot for one reason: all the content they are interested in is geofenced to USA and completely unavailable in the country (Hulu)
You have to run the app with dedicated UID, then

iptables -I OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner <UID> -j DROP
ip6tables -I OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner <UID> -j DROP
Does Apple Watch integration even matter? There's a big HD screen right there on the bike.
The proprietary nature of Peloton is a big reason why I didn't get one -- if you want any fitness tracking at all, you have to pay their $39/month fee. Plus I didn't want a bike with a big expensive display that's going to need to be replaced some day.

I went with Keiser, which I pair with my Garmin watch for tracking.

But Peloton still gets some money from me since I use their $14.99/mo (edit: the app is $12.99/mo, with tax I pay $14.30) standalone app for workouts.
Apple had a lot of trouble with the Indian market back the early 2010s. They had to pull AppleCare+ out of the country because people were abusing it a lot. [†]

Same goes for the country's biggest online retailers, both Amazon and Flipkart also switched to a replacement-only policy in India.

"Most analysts agree that many many buyers were abusing the company's refund policy. With many buying latest smartphones, and returning them after a week after trying them "[1]

I've seen return abuse in the US, not sure if it's higher than what I have seen in India. I tried to research this topic back in high school for a paper, it was hard to find concrete data to compare the two countries.

[1]https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech-news/amazon-ends-re...

[†] edit: I feel like I need to clarify what "abusing" really was.

AppleCare+ used to cover two incidents of Theft, Loss and accidents.

Third party resellers essentially activated an iphone and marked it as lost. Then, after getting a new replacement iPhone from Apple, they would go on and sell it to customers.

Nowadays, you can only get AppleCare (not the plus) in India which does not cover theft or accidental damage.
// incentivizing people to contribute to open source//

That is the problem right there. As Alan Watts used to say "It is double bind". Kind of saying "you MUST love me spontaneously"

open-source or closed-source
1)volunteers will do volunteers using their own "free will"- You don't have to do anything
2) If you want "influence" 1 then it is not 1 so hire professional and pay money to do work.
For me it went from 30% FB, 60% Whatsapp, 10% Signal in January to 0% FB, 10% Whatsapp, 90% Signal today. I might get rid of the 10% after May. So it's possible. That said I'm only talking about maybe 15-20 contacts, so small sample size.
We instinctively add on new features and fixes. Why don’t we subtract instead?
That. Then, add all the energy consumed by the 24/7 monitoring and safeguarding of every single one of those facilities, and for good measure add to each cost line the energy cost of the whole chain of processes that selects, sets up and maintains enough of both humans and machines to accomplish that task at scale.
>Crypto is exploding because people are looking to get rich via speculation, that's it.

No, that isn't just it. Like other assets, there can be multiple narratives that explain cryptocurrencies rising prices.

Yes, pure speculation is one of them. But another reason for some is deliberately shifting wealth from an asset ($USD, euro, bolivar, etc) they believe is deteriorating.

E.g. a multi-billionaire like Ray Dalio is already rich. He's the one saying "cash is trash" because he like many others see the M2 money supply growing very rapidly which erodes future purchasing power. (The "cash is trash" also means not holding US Treasury government bonds because of inflation.)

Yes, the Fed + US Govt can have all sorts of rationale to justify $2 trillion stimulus checks and printing billions to buy corporate bonds (Home Depot bonds), bail out banks, etc ... but economic actors can also counteract the money supply expansion by taking steps to retain future purchasing power. E.g. Shift wealth into real estate, tech stocks, gold, bitcoin, etc.

That fact that nobody uses bitcoin to pay for Starbucks coffee is irrelevant to the wealth holders looking for alternatives away from $USD liquid assets as long term holdings.
These were around as far back as the 80s IIRC - and when I was at Intel in the late 90s - there were stories of this one engineer, who would a recumbent bike down San Thomas Expressway to the SC campus, and he had chorded keyboard he made attached to the handles on his bike - and the legend was that he had a sat phone on his bike and he would code on his way into Intel while just keeping track of everything he typed in his head. He didnt have a display...

There were also some pants in the early 90s that had some of these built into the thighs of the pants.. so you could type with your arms basically at rest on your lap or at your side.
> the wise guidance of Satoshi is regularly ignored.

They are basically producing a competing product. Why should they ought to copy the exact formula of their competitors? How can they hope to be better than Bitcoin by doing everything the same way?
> You look at something like Peloton and your natural instinct is to compare it to other equipment manufacturers, but that's wrong. Consumers aren't spending 50% more of Peloton because a Peloton bike/tred is 50% better than their nearest competitor. People are spending that money to be in the Peloton ecosystem. To work out with friends in Peloton.

Did you just say 'Crossfit' without saying 'Crossfit'?

'Gyms' without saying 'Gyms'?

I agree, these products realize that the physical movement via machine is only one part of the greater whole... if these companies can replicate the rest of the Gym/CF/WE experience, there is a great win hiding in plain sight.
I think that selecting the "right" people may be key here.

Some time back, the child of some friends died, rather badly. This was a child I knew. They asked me to go through the police report because they could not bear to do so, just to see if anything was missed. In the interests of shielding them, I did. I had to detach in a peculiar way, and that may be while I have been able to attend autopsies and such.

Could I do it forty hours a week? I don't know, I won't claim to it, but I think looking for some kind of quality like that would be where to go until AI takes this over -- and frankly I think that will be a long time coming.
Looking forward to tomorrow to have more details about the keyboard. :)
Financial elites have been gambling for decades. They seem to be really upset that the plebs now can also do it.

When brokers did it it was OK, when algorithms did it in milliseconds (when common people can only operate with delays of hours and days, and with deterrent fees) it was OK, but now that there are platforms that allow more or less anyone to speculate, we start publishing moralistic pieces in the media and calling it "gambling"?

Yeah, I'm sure people are going to listen... next time they want to promote values based on work and effort, maybe they should try not to create a system where workers are punished and gamblers are rewarded.

PS: I don't even speculate myself, at most I buy and hold, but I'm disgusted by the level of hypocrisy of those who suddenly started saying that speculating was bad when common people started doing it. It almost makes me want to speculate just to do the opposite of what they say.
No, PoS is an insecure trick that reinvents TradFi power structures. PoS bitcoin has been tried, and it is worth very little (like other PoS coins). Bitcoiners dont consider energy usage a actually a problem, infact, it is one of its greatest strengths!

PoS is not the path forward. Reducing energy is not the path forward. Clean energy generation is the only way forward.
>> Sounds like the issue is that the "blue collar industries" employers need to offer higher salaries?

> I'm sure their customers will completely understand, pay the higher costs without complaint, and not at all go and find alternative suppliers.

The real issue may be that the investors won't understand, and won't take reduced profits without complaint.
if you're corrupting sqlite files you're for sure going to corrupt other formats in a force quit situation.
You mean the receiver is billed? I've lived in many countries (but never in North America) and never encountered that. Bizarre.
Is this a time machine? I’m gonna apply
DARPA picks Lockheed Martin and Blue Origin to build nuclear spacecraft
Can geth provide the same traces that OE does? I need to be able to detect when some internal tx sends ETH to one of my accounts and learn the txid...
I'm kinda confused what constitutes as tiny and experimental here if it includes items like Blender, GIMP, Reaper, VSCode and other big names
Don't get me wrong, Bitcoin is an ecological nightmare and I think it should be shunned accordingly. But the "fun-fact" that it consumes more energy than solar produces is false.

"Power generation from solar PV is estimated to have increased by 22% in 2019, to 720 TWh" [1]

"Bitcoin miners are expected to consume roughly 130 Terawatt-hours of energy (TWh)" [2]

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/solar-pv
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/21/the-debate-about-cryptocur...
Just as useless as Bitcoin, but at least not eating a country worth of TWh.
Tell me more about how 'working out with friends' works on Peloton.

I've only tried online exercise classes once or twice, but there hasn't been much social interaction - everyone's on mute, and a few feet away from the screen and keyboard to have space for their activities.

Or is it more the Strava-style 'log your exercise and get likes and gamified motivation' asynchronous model?
Any century now.
I don't think most stores would offer returns, except it is often forced on them buy credit card companies to protect their consumers.

American Express, Visa, and Mastercard all have some kind of requirement that the merchant allows returns (usually 14 days minimum). Otherwise the consumer can file a chargeback and the resolution will go to the consumer in most situations.
This is interesting. I am curious, which PoS coin implementations do you like?

If an attacker wanted to not raise the price of a coin, couldn't they use crypto OTC markets to buy large amounts while not raising the price (i've seen OTC at least marketed that way)?

Aren't cryptocurrencies also only a scarce resource if they have a hard supply cap? Or do you figure in something like inflation vs coin burning to this as well?

I do understand your point that the incentive to follow through on the attack decreases as the attacker accumulates more tokens, since it would be in their interest for the network to function properly at that point due to how many tokens / how much stake they have in the network.

The only reason I could see the attack making financial sense at that point would be if it was a competitor who was trying to kill a competing PoS network and it was worth it to them to do so in order to promote their own network (or maybe it could be a government trying to protect their fiat currency)?
Man, reading this thread makes me feel like I'm on some pro-christian, fringe, conspiracy-theory subreddit. This is what HN has become? How weird.
Core Web Vitals: Google starts ranking according to user experience starting May
Some epic replies to my original HN post looking for a co-founder in 2012
This looks like a duplicate to me
these people you mention aren’t looking at this content 8 hours a day under the same conditions for the duration of the job, they have other tasks, other cases, other responsibilities... and are universally paid better
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