skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"disproportionately imprisoning minorities"

Go look at the murder rate of ethnic groups, against their own groups and then against other groups. If minorities are killing alot of people, its not a "racism" problem. Framing it as so is brainwashing. You are a political pawn

If you want to take it further, look at a break down of murder rate of ethnic groups by income decile.
While I disagree with the OP on the use of proctoring software saying something like "just design an online version of the course" displays a massive ignorance of academic workloads. Designing a new course, especially one which works online, is a huge amount of work, who is going to do all that? Most academics even in normal semesters work >50h (more likely >60h) per week.

Just adjusting your lecturing to online can easily take an additional 2h preparation per lecture, and often takes significantly more, because you have to also adjust all communications and how to make material available. That's even without redesigning the course for online learning. I know a lot of colleagues who got very overworked, because of the increased demand on teachers during the pandemic.
> Discord needs searchable dashboard that allows one-click removal.

The thing is there is no user→message mappings stored in their database. The data structures are designed for message→user traversal. Nothing like Facebook's user activity log.
> digitize the whole infrastructure and make transparent all the public spending with details of details of the details all the way down to where the money currently is, all that is including large loans.

This is a use case for Bitcoin/crypto I hadn’t previously thought of. The public auditability is exactly the reason I don’t think it’s good for citizen use cases, but it seems perfect for government use cases. There’s an issue of how revenues get accurately added to the ledger, but tying a transaction to say an ID generated when a return is submitted would make it possible to track one’s own payment.
He makes a lot of money pretending to be Satoshi, so it’s in his interest to stay with his fake persona. Since he can’t prove it, he doesn’t.
>“Fag” is most definitely a slur.

No one is being called a "fag" though.

>A slur you’re arguing it’s ok to use.

I've successfully argued that "Archfag", "oldfag", etc. are not slurs, and are therefore OK to use. QED.
perhaps you should consider getting a subscription one month per year and using the extension the other 11 if you think that's a more fair price to pay
No I wasn’t suggesting that. However in black populations in the UK at least smoking weed is more ‘normal’ than it is in white populations. By normal I mean accepted and not deviant, not necessarily to imply higher consumption.
Thanks for the feedback! Will add this option to my to do list. :)
No. Beanie Babies can be mass produced at will. And so can Tulips for that matter. That's why those are bubbles that will burst.

The whole thing that makes Bitcoin special is that you can't just ramp up the supply of it. The supply of Bitcoin is even better known than that of gold. It's also easier to store and transport. So Bitcoin is a better store of value than gold.
Not to detract from the whole point as far as Star Trek showing its social-commentary age, but AFAIK “Code of Honor” specifically was very much an early outlier in TNG history, including starting with a director who didn't direct any other Star Trek episodes.
You're quoting stats for all of New Jersey, not just Newark.

This sentence is in your linked source:

"In Newark, the state’s most populous city, 51 homicides occurred in 2020 as of Dec. 30 — the same number the city had in 2019, officials said."

Which seems pretty notable. The most populous city is flat, while the state itself is up 23%.
I used it back in the day. Also relevant at the time were VDOLive and VDOPhone: https://web.archive.org/web/20000520100808/http://www.vdo.ne...
There's also:

1. Pick a spot in the code

2. Figure out what you expect the state to be there

3. Check and see that the actual state matches

You can kinda binary search your way to the location of a bug by looking in different places
No, he wouldn’t. It would have been a severe (criminal) breach of government procurement processes.

Unlike most people commenting in this thread, I’ve actually applied for (and won) NASA contracts.

He could have had same-day notice, but that’s it.
> Speed of iteration beats quality of iteration.

Right. That’s why printf debugging sucks.

If you’re in a compiled language with a 2-minute iteration it can take an hour to do a binary search to track down an issue that would take 5 minutes with a proper step debugger.

Print debugging is great because it works and is the ultimate fallback. But it sucks and I hate when I am forced to use it.
One of the big differences between the US and Europe. Violence is way down here, as the nightlife is pretty much gone because of the covid restrictions.
> great little desktop machine for browsing and light development

Oh come on. You’re making it sound like a toy computer that’s nice for little Debbie who can now watch YouTube videos a little faster.

While my MacBook Air is unplugged, I can edit 4K video in full frame rate for hours and it doesn’t even get warm, let alone hot.
You’ve successfully exposed yourself as homophobic. QED
I first met Dan on Slashdot over 20 years ago. Over a decade after I first met him on Slashdot I got into information security and had the opportunity to share a few meals and hangout with Dan now and again. His natural curiosity about all technology is what I always will remember about Dan. He was such a good technologist. RIP.

Edit: plus watching him and tqbf argue on Twitter about stuff was always fun.
Google recaptcha? I get the same problem continuously on FX desktop and Android :(
Similarly, trying to parse C++ isn't too interesting when you're writing your first backend.
As I understand, the samples collected by Perseverance and returned by Mars Sample Return will be taken at surface level. So they will not be able to tell that much about the sub-surface. Also of course that is just one small region that Percy is taking samples from, it can not provide proof about conditions of other regions of the planet.
I must say I don't understand that. That's about a 15 minute walk. Even a mile doesn't seem like something a healthy person (which a person riding a scooter presumably is) really needs a transportation aid for.
Actually he owned it for a few years [1] before liquidating earlier in 2021 [2].

* [1] https://medium.com/opacity/bitcoin-1537e616a074

* [2] https://news.bitcoin.com/black-swan-author-pulls-a-180-nassi...
First, that means ~99.9% of police officers in the US don't shoot someone, so that isn't rare, as the post I responded to suggested.

Second, I didn't say the police only kill tens of people over a decade, I said tens of incidents have made the national news. Only the noteworthy cases make the national news, which is kind of the point here. People's opinions are shaped by the most extreme incidents.

I think we should try to reform how policing is done to improve these issues. But I also don't think it's the crisis that our society has made it out to be recently.
Yeah. I've noticed the problem about the arrow pointing in the wrong direction.
Thank you for the detailed answer.

I have tinkered with PostGIS before, and it seemed great. Nonetheless, you make several good points about how a special purpose tool/format can be faster by avoiding certain work.

As for LMDB, I haven't used it, but I have heard about it previously. A full-text search server called MeiliSearch uses it internally.

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Separately, I think your broader project is really cool. Simplifying the whole end to end process is incredibly useful. I have previously thought "I would love to host a regional map, but I have no idea how".
You need to define what you perceive as harm.

The guy apparently believes that what is wrong with Facebook is ads. So, he is building Facebook without ads. If he succeeds, there is no harm.
Dan Kaminsky once found a flaw in DNS that would have destroyed the internet
you seem to have the whole time in the world to type all this...
As someone who lives in a city with a pretty active winter-biking culture, overcoming the problems of winter with an e-scooter is a non-starter. Riders here have fat bikes, studded tires, and gloves that slide onto the handlebars. Even converting a bikeshare fleet would be tough, but converting scooters with tiny wheels would be impossible.
Posting the links here so they're clickable:

the device and a few things I scanned - myself and the room I'm working in: https://imgur.com/a/kxSTn2J

gif of my beam: https://imgur.com/a/mLAhT2h
Ah, the insane early TNG episodes... For every Measure of a Man and Q Who, there's loads of this.

Here's more fun recaps:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StarTrekTheNext...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StarTrekTheNext...

Honorable mentions:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StarTrekTheNext...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StarTrekTheNext...
I don't understand how that would be feasible... wouldn't the battery need to be kept at a really hot temperature somehow to function?
> You’ve successfully exposed yourself as homophobic.

More delusions from you, not that I'm surprised. I am homosexual and fully support homosexuality. It is logically impossible for me to be homosexual. QED.

You've successfully exposed yourself as delusional here after getting owned. I won.
I had no hand in this. It's either what silasdavis said https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26927915 or someone else submitted the same ink what lead to a bumb or something else entirely.
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The shaky video could easily be fixed with some anti-shake algorithms. Well, "easily" in that it's already a solved problem.
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I met Dan at FooCamp in 2004. I was a college kid at the time and a weekend event of people like Larry Wall or Ester Dyson was super intimidating.

I was feeling a little isolated and lonely when I saw this guy in a black 2600 tshirt over by the “FooBar” bar and thought “finally someone I can talk to!” He was so welcoming and engaging it broke the ice and made the whole weekend worth it. We started talking about tunneling various protocols over DNS and ended up doing a midnight stroll with Fyodor all around Sevastopol looking for “interesting” things.

That’s the kind of guy Dan was. Everyone felt his warmth.

Dan was a rare mix of genius with an over the top personality. Seeing what crazy RFC-bending project Dan was doing was one of the best things about going out to Blackhat, DEFCON, or RSA. He is easily one of the best presenters I’ve ever seen: a perfect blend of compelling story, esoteric tech details, and those classic Dan mischievous grins.

I will miss you dearly Dan
Oh, so that's where Artichoke's machines ended up. That's their Sultan's Elephant, from 2006.[1]

[1] https://www.artichoke.uk.com/project/the-sultans-elephant/
For personal backup/archiving, there's replication to multiple clients, also described on the website.

Someone will create a web service that implements a TMTP client to replicate your account in the cloud. That's fine for many consumers, but must not be the default.
That's not skewed numbers, "extrajudicial crime fighting" that ends with someone dead is correctly categorized as murder. Lack of trust in the system is a problem, but retributive killings are not the solution.
Those are examples of fundamental differences in thought patterns, interests, and preferences. And you are right, but a lot of that gets baked into more superficial similarities like education. But, for instance, the statement, “I want kids” can be a massively different statement from rational versus emotional reasoning.

I notice I’m sounding like Myers-Briggs, and I hadn’t thought about the validity of that.
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The Visual Studio debugger is great, but there are some limitations. Anything very serious is going to be multithreaded, and if you block a thread poking in the debugger, other things are going to start timing out and the real flow of the program is interrupted and impossible to reproduce.

Log heavily, and log systematically - imagine you're going to need to grep through days of logfiles to find the needle in the haystack - you will eventually. Build in runtime switches to dial log verbosity up and down. Err on the side of providing more context than less. If something throws exceptions, catch them, log exactly where it was, what it was supposed to be doing, and any relevant parameters or state.

If you can get them, process dump files are unreasonably effective, too.
I’m more concerned what happens when we bring some microbes from Mars.
If you want to take a coal plant, you have to compare it with something that's comparable.

A coal plant is a 1000MW machinery. A wind turbine is in the order of 10MW. Also, turbines have a very low capacity factor so you have to double them to guarantee their output and combine them with storage. So it's 1 coal plant vs 200 turbines at the very least.
That wouldn't be very credible though. They would have had to explain why stock keeping and accounting was so much less accurate before. They would also have to explain why their staff was supposedly far more delinquent than staff at comparable shops.

Of course they can claim anything they want, but it could have weakened their argument considerably. As a defense lawyer I would have asked for those numbers to raise some doubts, not because it's incontrovertible proof.
RIP, Dan. I work with a lot of very smart people. So, I've gotten a bit used to it and don't normally find myself in awe of many people's intelligence. Dan was a person that I was absolutely in awe of. The fist time I met him very long ago (almost 20 years), he showed me code he wrote to share movies through abused DNS slaves... building a p2p network like Napser/Gnutella from the technology. No one had ever thought of such a thing. I don't think anyone else in the world knew DNS well enough to be inspired to think of it. He was so kind and friendly to everyone. It was fun to talk with him about tech/security because he had such enthusiasm and excitement... like a little kid on Christmas or a puppy. :) I learned a lot from him. I have nothing but great memories of him. I remember once when someone hacked him. He even took that in good humor and didn't let it bother him.
Very often, yes. But the sand needs some very expensive preparation first.

(The first step is to turn it into silicon and make large very high quality crystals out of it, which you slice into wafers.)
That must be it. Thanks.
I upvoted, if nothing else it's a perfectly reasonable comment with an interesting hypothesis.

HN karma is a little weird. IMO, if you've never been downvoted to -4, then you've never said anything really interesting. It's easy to just tell the crowd what they want to hear, saying true and important things doesn't always go down so well. Don't sweat it too hard. Sometimes posts do acquire downvotes at suspicious times and rates. Makes me wonder if some external orgs managed to build downvote bots for HN or are directing voting somehow.
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>What's a fiat equivalent, because it sure doesn't sound like a $?

Government bonds
The whole space of analogue computing (circuits) did get a big boost in recent years (people had been doing it for years, but it never amounted to anything), largely because of the requirements of deep learning, which is essentially large matrix multiplications. I guess many of the recent ML accelerators fall under this category in some way.

There's also been quite a bit of work on using optics (mainly integrated optics) for these tasks, but it's still very open if that will amount to anything.

All that said, I really would be hesitant to call this computing in the traditional sense, it's more like an accelerator card if anything.
OK, clarification: most of our fleet has a LOT of supermicro machines, where it's impossible to identify the drive unless by serial number. There's on UID light, the machines needs to go offline, plus some 10 screws needs to come out to open the chassis, 4 more by drives.

The amount of downtime this would generate for a single machine plus the operation cost doesn't worth the hassle unless the machine loses a significant chunk of drives.
IIRC GPU mining is something like 100x faster, so you're unlikely to ever make any money.
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Maybe this is completely off base but my line of thinking was based around fractional reserve banking: let's say I have 10 dollars and I put them in the bank. Then let's say the bank lends out 9 out of 10 of the dollars to someone else for a mortgage. The net wealth is the same ($10), but there are now $19 in circulation.
With lldb you can do that, basically you have the option of running commands when a given breakpoint is hit, so you can just make it place another breakpoint, and it will be placed only if the first breakpoint is hit. I assume you can do something like this on gdb as well.
Maybe you should base your opinions on data: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

Violent crime in the USA has fallen dramatically in the last 20 years.
An elegant way to validate MediatR commands and queries
Perhaps that would be a benefit, it could spur action to focus more and create L5 colonies faster.
I’ve used it to buy things.

Back in the day, I wanted to support bitcoin so I paid 1 Bitcoin, equivalent of $150 at the time, on a single night at a hotel. I learned my lesson, at today’s price, that one night stay cost me $60,000.

And this is why people don’t use it as a currency.
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Hey everyone! Thanks so much for checking out my little project. Hope you find something new. If anybody has any suggestions for the directory or any feedback on the site itself at all I'd love to hear them! I've worked hard to make sure only quality (imo) resources feature in this directory. It is not just a scrape of everything I can find.

I know there are quite a few of these style sites, but I have tried to improve on them by including real up to date website screenshots (a websites hero says much more than an icon!), a bit of pricing information where available, favourites functionality and some better organisation.
The (inofficial) next part of Civilization: fight for life of mankind in space
I wonder why cops in the West don't use man catchers? It's a great tool to subdue any non-gun wielding person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-2SpSMZtyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4z-gzkb6s4

Pepper spray and stick don't work against someone who is strong and aggressive.
I found this to be the case on CloudFront as well. As far as I can tell, it's not possible to direct the request to a different, custom origin based on the Host header. Only the URL path.

The recommendation is to use a Lambda@Edge worker to do it. I find this very annoying.
but if they're not filtering BGP announcements for those ranges (however unlikely), and the GFW isn't blocking traffic out to those addresses (even more unlikely), and the internal metrics were high (super unlikely), I guess it'd slurp out all the traffic? maybe this was a weird smash-and-grab.
The great filter is that tech is to easy, but self-awareness and self-discipline is hard. So life presses onwards, demanding exponential energy density from tech, to not be forced to limit itself and self-discipline itself.

Thus ever more potent tools are handed out to avoid confrontation with the "overcome" animal nature - and once that equation reaches the end of the line (easy energy and resources exhausted), a nearly unchanged animal with exponential power tools in hand, reverts to tribalistic warfare.
Nothing recovers from this.

The greatest damage done, is the lie that life can learn and change, which never holds up under stress. The most valuable achievement to escape the filter, is investigate our nature realistically and apply controlled technological crippling, while testing the tools to calm the evil spirits of our nature, even under stress.

So technology is the problem and the solution, if applied with a real effort to understand humanity, beyond the "I wish for X and by the magic of wishful thinking it becomes reality instantly". Its hard work - similar to somebody diagnosing ones own mental limitations, and building a limited operating system for that crippled system.
In a way- its the ultimate hack.
It’s a replica AFAICT [1]

[1] https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_éléphant
A sobering article to back up @logicslave's point
https://www.city-journal.org/media-silence-on-black-on-black...
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"100% of people who'd put their entire net worth into crypto reported relationship problems"

Correlation != causation, film at 11
I'll break bread with Conservatives. I'll break bread with Christians - even Evangelicals despite my deep disagreement with them. I'll break bread with anyone who denounces Donald Trump and his poisonous right-wing nativism, regardless of creed.

But Republicans who still support Trump, who voted for him twice and would vote for him again in 2024? Forgiveness starts with repentance, and repentance starts with self reflection, and they have demonstrated no capacity for either. Civil discourse presupposes belief in civil society and my place in that society - beliefs they don't share.

So I will never break bread with a Trumpist, because I value my life and liberty.
I imagine immigrants self-select for traits like conscientiousness, ambition, and drive. Comparing them to the general population won't yield useful results.
I had a girlfriend that was from Ukraine and visited the country in summer.

Ukraine has probably the most fertile soil in the world. Like Egypt it has fed Europe and then Russia for a long time.

It is also one of the most corrupt countries in the world, like Russia and China.

Most Westerners just can not imagine what corruption is at those levels. For decades the grain was put into trains and half the grain had "disappeared" in destiny. This happens at all levels.

Nobody goes there to help the country. Like lots of countries in Africa the big guys (Russia or EU, or USA) go there to plunder the country. It is too rich and too strategic.

It is also the playground for big countries to fight. Instead of fighting WWIII and fucking the entire world with radioactive waste, the big guys play on playgrounds like Ukraine their power games.

The US does not want Europe to dismantle NATO after it is not necessary anymore where Europe can arm itself. It also does not want Europe and Asia to integrate further because that means the end of USA hegemony in the world.

Also the military industrial complex in the US needs a reason to exist. If threats do not exist, they will create them in order to survive or "their money" will be redirected to things like social welfare. Americans need to feel unsafe all the time so they agree to pay for new weapons in new taxes.

UE wants to expand to get the wealth of Ukraine resources and Russia does not want to lose them.

That is very bad for Ukraine. The people that can, like my ex girlfriend, just leave the country.
The important point is the temporal decoupling between the time where the error is detected and the time where it is handled.
Finding other ways to exercise can be difficult when it is cold and rainy out. I'm a month past having my 2nd dose of Moderna vaccine, covid is not really an issue anymore apart from people still being afraid of it/antivaxxers.
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