skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not philosophical, it's the law.

All of these are considered crimes in all jurisdictions I know of in the USA: theft/burglary/robbery, violence or threat thereof, and reckless endangerment. If you commit one of those acts, you have definitionally committed a crime, even if you are not convicted in a court of law.

> dismisses the overwhelmingly higher rates of arrests for non whites as not being a systemic racism issue

I encourage you to re-read what I wrote, because that isn't what I said.

My post raises a question of causality. There are several common proposals for why arrest rates for blacks are disproportionately high:

1. Police are racist, so they arrest black people at higher rates than other people, regardless of criminality.

2. Criminal law is written specifically to target black people.

3. Black people, due to systemic racism elsewhere in society, end up committing more acts-that-are-legally-defined-as-crimes, and this eventually leads to a greater number of arrests.

4. Actual racist ideology, which is generally vile and I will not repeat it here.

The reality is probably a combination of explanations 1-3, and there is surely mutual causality among them.

Any serious attempt to understand the problem must attempt to disentangle these explanations from each other.

> assumes that white people commit fewer crimes with no data to back it up

I said that we specifically don't have good data, but it's not safe to assume that all demographics commit crimes at the same rate. See above.

> Sorry but that is gaslighting and victim blaming. Tell the parent of a black teenager to not be overly fixated on police reform.

This is a bad faith misrepresentation of what I wrote.

If anything, the media getting stuff kinda-wrong but still raising awareness is a net positive.

Also it should be obvious that police reform is necessary, and obviously people will care the most about the issues that affect them personally.

Moreover, nothing ever seems to get done without single-minded people focusing intently on a single problem. We need people working on all aspects of the racism issue, including racism in policing and law.

But you simply cannot look at the arrest numbers and assume that the discrepancy is definitely and entirely because of police racism. It would be fallacious to do so, and if you intend to put forth policy based on data then you should try to avoid logical fallacies in the process.
Oh, you mean the part of town where an apartment is so expensive that it is out of reach even to London bankers?
One pretty obvious piece of evidence for faulty software would have been if there were significantly more such accusations after the introduction of this software than before. I wonder if anyone asked for these statistics.
A cultural (but sadly not unique) preference for order over justice.
Every CGI toolset has its strengths and weaknesses depending on the project. Also while the knowledge transfers between each software, they each have their own unique implementations for just about everything. It's hell to learn a new CGI toolset.

For work and also hobby I create 3D animations and experiment with all sorts of things in Maya. A recent turning point was using Redshift to render everything and suddenly I can do overnight GPU renders at high quality. Here are some of my projects released using a CC license -

https://www.jasonfletcher.info/vjloops
Agree 100%. It sort of has something for a lot of different groups which I guess is part of the reason for its success.
Has much information come out from the Fujitsu side yet? I guess the inside story of what it was like developing Horizon is too much to hope for, but (as a software engineer) important to understand.
And in particular the defining characteristic of a Ponzi scheme arguably holds for BTC: the "investments" of late investors allow the early investors to recoup their money (and then some).
You said exactly the same thing as I did. When the App Store started, the model was device-specific stores or Steam, all of them taking 30%. It was entirely unremarkable.

Now, is there a law saying that you are allowed to take a cut only on non-general purpose computers? Where is the line between specific- and general-purpose? Is it defined anywhere? Why would app stores selling games be meaningfully different? Is a feature phone “general purpose”? At which point did smartphones become “general purpose”? Since when the character of a device is determined by marketing (other than for the purposes of fake advertising)? Have you got any concrete examples of phones being marketed explicitly as “general-purpose computing devices” anyway?

Until there is a definite answer to these questions, the argument boils down to “I don’t like it” or “I feel it should be different”. It might make you feel good, but that point of view is unlikely to be shared with courts.
> That plus its scarcity guarantee

How does Bitcoin scarcity compare with the availability of other crypto products ?

Are these analogous?

Gold > Silver > Bronze

Bitcoin > Ethereum > Doge

(Edit: formatting)

Is it all about mindshare at this point? What prevents another crypto product from sprouting up?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-019-0604-5

Those studies reported higher coffee drinkers had 31–65% decrease in the risk of AD dementia, which is quite comparable to about 65% decrease of Aβ positivity rate in higher coffee drinkers (27.14%) compared to lower coffee drinkers (17.61%). Furthermore, the relationship between higher coffee intake and lower Aβ positivity was prominent for lifetime coffee intake than for current coffee intake. This suggests that the protective effects of higher coffee intake against Aβ pathology involve the chronic effects associated with prolonged exposure rather than an acute or short-term effect.

Note: "coffee drinkers" not "caffeine"
This function takes a `query` of type `string` and a variable-length list of `args` of type `interface{}`, which is anything, (real implementations would have code to determine if the type is correct), and returns `(sql.Result, error)`

In this mock version, he's returning a nil for both. I take this as example code, because if the results are actually checked in the test, then the first result would have to be non-nil if the error was nil.

It doesn't really matter, because the author is saying not to do this.
I always hoped we were running in a VM written in Rust rather than python or javascript. But it's hard to explain the platypus with a rust based one...
Isn’t this an accessibility concern for someone who isn't able to interact with a touch screen?
I might have misread or misunderstood.

In that case, sorry for that.
Because they don’t need to.
In recent Python, it's even easier -- just put `breakpoint()` in your code.
Exactly. It's laughable to think that only ~900m people have the right to access new technology.
RIP Dan. Dan was one of the great reasons to attend in person the Vegas security circus (B Sides, Black Hat and Defcon). My other favorite presenters ranged from Barnaby Jack (also deceased) to Moxie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Jack
H was a wonderful person who was always generous with his time. I’m so sad that he is gone. It isn’t hyperbolic to say that we as a tech community are better because of him.
> a ponzi scheme requires that $ from ealier investors is paid out to later ones.

(the other way around)

A BTC is worth nothing unless you can sell it for something (such as USD). It is the later "investors" who buy BTC for sky high prices that allow earlier "investors" and miners to cash out.
Peak HN 2021: No black bar, and downvotes for the suggestion.
Its not silly, its just a division of responsbility: delivery vs. dleivery archiving (probably not usually needed outside of enterprise) vs. user reader support & user archiving (the last two out of scope).
> Once again, the questions are just policy questions. They don't mention anything about "liberal" or "conservative". They ask policy questions, which is exactly what you seem to have wanted initially. If you read the study methodology, then you should be aware of exactly what the survey respondants are asked.

Then you should be able to list one policy qustion they asked in 2014 and 1994 that doesn't use the word "liberal" or "conservative"?

> If you believe that, then the coming years are going to be a big surprise to you. The GOP of Reagan is on its way out. People like Hawley, who are happy to work with Bernie Sanders on certain fiscal policies, are on their way in. You may well still hate them because they are populists, but they have a different outlook on multinational corporations and the ultrawealthy than the old GOP.

I'm not sure why you started thinking I hate people for being populists, or that you think Hawley has even a modicum of support from the Republican party as whole (both voters and politicians).
Zoning is the big problem in the US. It is illegal in most cities to build a tiny house, or a decent shelter to sleep in, even if you follow all the safety codes. Zoning says you must have a minimum of 1000+ square feet (100+ square meters), a kitchen, a bathroom, a minimum lot size, minimum setbacks, minimum parking in some areas, etc. A sheriff with a gun will show up eventually to evict you. You either can afford city rent, or you are kind of screwed.

It's a shame that most places won't even allow these people anywhere to pitch a tent, somewhere with bathrooms and access to a bus stop.
I'd be happy to. A good place to start is the excellent, nuanced commentary on this topic from black professors Glenn Loury and John McWhorter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0H4M5uP_y8

One thing they reference during this podcast but don't talk about in much detail is the case of Tony Timpa. Many of the things many claim only happen to black Americans are in fact more general issues of police brutality, poor training, or hard realities of policing. And that means yes, it happens to white Americans too.

The last thing I want to do is distract from the issues. I want us to move past these surface level discussions that we are inundated with in both the professional and social media realms. Please watch the Glenn and John episode above for more on what I mean.

Edit: Apologies. To be clear, Tony Timpa was a white man killed by a police officer in Dallas a few years ago via knee on neck. No media attention or mass protests.

Edit 2: For those more textually inclined, here is McWhorter's most recent post on the topic
https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/the-victorians-had-to-a...
I think pyramid scheme is what he means
Basic professional ethics. Don't do or participate what you're not comfortable with. Hold your ground and let them either do things right or fire you.

This happened to me at a Big Name university where they wanted me to rush punching major holes in a secure private network for credit card processing to make it more convenient for a contractor to be able to remote in. I told my boss "it's not going to happen on this timeline without a security review" and was told to do it or resign. That was it.
> There's a pretty big overhead even if you're not using any 3D features.

Graphics cards haven't had 2D acceleration for decades so you're always using the 3D features.
Private Eye is a national treasure. Britain would be much worse without it.
I just lost my shit laughing as soon as I read this. Then I thought an hundred grand for just a tin of turds? Paying top whack for an old master I can understand and appreciate but tinned turd? No.
Banks don't benefit from these schemes. Nor do they sell these loans to third parties either in bulk or in tranches. In India, major banks are partly owned by the government, even though these banks are listed on their stock exchanges.

So, it is a form of collusion between bank executives and powerful loanees. Who holds the bag? Usually the government in the Indian case: for instance, Indian govt has 61.23% ownership in State Bank of India, a large bank in India. In India, many politicians are also businessmen--real or fake; these people with dual masks (politician and businessman) are so good at scamming the govt, banks, public works contracts.
December 2019. I flew out to SF, and we hacked for ten days.

He saved our company from extinction. I won't discuss the sequel to that, because it doesn't reflect well on some people who don't deserve that in this eulogy. But I will say that we retained our friendship through it all.

I'm absolutely gutted at this news. What a shining human being. A terrible loss.
OBD2 is what I'm talking about. Required by law. But guess which auto manufacturer has the port accessible, with the pins only outputting power and ground today ( no data )? It's a new trend. Data now is sent wirelessly over a proprietary protocol.
What kind of auditor if you don't mind me asking?

And, do you hate Lotus Notes?
Sorry to go on a tangent, but I am surprised how many TNG episodes have 'alien species that is thinly veiled stand-in for some human race'. And this is a show that would have been woke for it's time.

[1] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Up_The_Long_Ladder_(epi...

[2] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Code_of_Honor_(episode)
Two situations, how do you distinguish them?:

1. The username/password form of your bank, as shown in your browser.

2. A pixel-perfect fake of your bank as it would look if you were to go there directly in your browser, including the browser UI, except you’re actually looking at a full-screen image displayed on a random scammer website, and you already were in the fake when you typed the bank domain name into the fake address bar on the fake UI.
I don’t think it’s a question of money. The main constraints are:

1) No one wants homeless shelters, supportive housing, mental institutions, day program facilities, etc. in their neighborhoods.

2) Well meaning but naive people constrain the solution space.

For example, there’s been a movement to reduce arrests for various things. An unintended consequence or that is that homeless people that victimize other homeless people (including theft and assault) are less frequently arrested and so homeless shelters become less attractive to the homeless.
You do not want to live your life by the average of what “the world” finds offensive. There is no one on the world who would want such, and thinking that one want such can only come from a grave lack of realization how much cultural values can differ around the world.
Quite a saga, and entertaining writing; but all of this was easily avoidable with a little bit of research.
Apart from the DNS cache poisoning attack, Dan did some vital followup work on the Sony CD rootkit discovered by Mark Russinovich. Sony's early defence was that it wouldn't affect the Internet. Dan showed using DNS caches that it had already affected over half a million networks on the Internet:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080423212131/http://www.wired....

A smart man and a nice man. RIP.
There was a time when I disliked bing and Bing-based engines because Google was just always superior. Nowadays, Google is so often trying to decide what it thinks I actually mean (e.g. Straight out removing search terms and asking if I really want to stick to them), that I feel Bing is often more straightforward and more successful...
Yes, you face an uphill battle if one forensic “expert” has decided you were guilty. It is actually quite similar to non-falsifiable pseudo-science forensic techniques that are used to impress jurys. Being innocent is not enough.
That's my point. They did ask them, and they said no.
Does that matter though? If it is weak to extract energy with gravity, then it should also be weak to “charge” the system against gravity. The weakness may push these systems to less “instantaneous” loads, but I don’t see why it would necessarily be bad to use gravity storage (as opposed to another mechanical method like pressure).

I’d love for someone to explain more though.
The person ordered an expensive Dell System but didn't check all the drop down menu when he was buying his Desktop / Workstation. So he ends up buying a Dell that doesn't have any WiFi and came with a HDD.

Tldr; Nothing really wrong with Dell. Basically all his own fault.

Edit: Not sure why the downvote without explanation. I am guessing some fat fingers.
"Facebook is as much to blame for this as Gutenberg is."

The invention of the printing press is a good analogy to Facebook; it catalyzed the Protestant Reformation which caused centuries of persecution, war and unrest in Europe. Communication media are very powerful tools that have far reaching effects. It's not about "blame".
We've been putting all of the "slack alternatives" and federated chat stuff through its paces, and while it's still young and annoying, the matrix ecosystem seems to err on the side of "simple for users". If you're in the same physical location as someone you're in an encrypted room with, you can choose to visually verify that person through the interface on the client, it displays a one time verification code on both clients, and that pair of keys (yours and t'other) will now be trusted, even across clients. It is in line with PGP, but there's no library of public keys.

Some things Matrix does (at least via Synapse server and Element client) on a federated "home server"

- 100% E2E from first message, if that's what you need

- automatically resizes images, but can send "full size" with a checkbox when uploading. Encrypted at rest on the synapse node. Tested up to 108MP images this way.

- URL previewing can be shut off if you consider that OP-SEC

- you can dump all new users into a specific room, or not. Depends on your stance on users using your "home server".

- Can make public rooms visible or invisible to the federation or specific federated servers (such as the matrix.org home server)

- Decent integration with irc.freenode.net (yay!) - you show up as "MatrixUsername [M]", other federated matrix users can see you in their clients and establish E2E with you directly. The only downside to this one is the "threading" features that probably came from Slack could be disruptive in IRC channels if you overuse them.

+ As part of the above - if you send an image normally, to an irc bridge, it gets made into a public image and the link sent to the IRC channel(s) you're in. It's both cool and disconcerting.

As I said, it's early days yet, but it's lightyears ahead of rocket.chat for ease of encryption, the user interface is more spartan than Mattermost. I would prefer mattermost, even though it's not E2EE - except matrix can use coturn/TURN, fully encrypted, to make and receive voice and video calls in the client, across the entire federated servers. And it sounds great. Did i mention encrypted?
> My understanding is that cryptographic token systems are properly taken to be lindy on priors

What priors are there for a "currency" such as bitcoin? Genuine interest, not sarcastic tone here btw.
There are auditors who are supposed to scrutinise this stuff. Audit trails with counter party ledgers, receipts, reconciliation with bank statements can easily bring out any such fraud.

To claim the miscarriage of justice happened due to “bugs” is wrong. It’s due to bad auditors. I think this is poor journalism.
One of the downsides (or maybe double-edged swords) of kinetic energy storage is that it's relatively easy to accidentally get all of the energy out at once.

A stick of butter and an 2-tonne truck at 216 km/h both "contain" about 1 kilowatt-hour of energy.

The butter could maybe burn your house down but the truck could easily kill a couple of dozen unprotected humans in a fraction of a second.
Lucy – A DSL that compiles to XState
Sounds like you would have appreciated a reliable mesh from Apple. I certainly would.
I’ve tried that approach of moving users to a “deleted_users” table but ran into the problem of losing the foreign key references to any records pointing at the user.
What good is a database schema if it doesn't have data and isn't used by any applications?
take your hydrogen tank with you.... plus you can generate hydrogen anywhere using solar power.

using a ICE engineered for low gravity? with your own supply of oxygen?
The Parable of the Rod and the Rope
It depends on the distance
> Then you should be able to list one policy qustion they asked in 2014 and 1994 that doesn't use the word "liberal" or "conservative"?

Read them all here:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/wp-content/uploads/site...

Those are the actual questions they ask. They "grade" them as liberal or conservative as shown in the columns (they mention that in the methodology section).

Also, it's not just 1994 and 2014. They've done it at 3-5 year intervals since 1994 up to 2017. Look at 2017 in particular, since that explains a lot about where we find ourselves today.

Personally, I'm glad there are people like Hawley. GOP has been in the pocket of big business for far too long. And now the Democratic party is thoroughly embedded there, too. There is a strong grassroots contigent with more reasonable fiscal views (read: much less plutocratic) coming up in the local and state GOP (unfortunately, some of them are also conspiracists, which is very bad). They may lose in the end, but there will be a fight for the party between the old wing and the new wing.

Edit: Those have been the questions all along. I've followed this poll for a decade. I'd pull up evidence of that, but I suspect you'd put some new requirement in for being convinced. I mean, you thought that the questions included "liberal" and "conservative" in them initially. And I'm really not interested in continuing a debate with someone who feels the need to ask me to "stay on task" with how he feels the discussion should proceeed (Hawley came up because you said right == fiscally conservative and he's a counterexample). So I'm out.
Well, then reality is a direct contradiction of your point of view. The Post Office is actually a private company, and yet here we are...
Why is this such a rarity these days?

My grandfather was an AP (MP) for decades and never shot at anyone, despite handling uncountable hairy/critical situations with individuals trained in killing.

Shoot first and ask questions never? Deescalation and self-control should be job #1 along with verbal/social skills to solve problems before jumping to the nuclear option out of fear.
Perfect example of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI_effect
If you really want something really hard to brick, I'd recommend going pinetime with wasp os, that has a bootloader that doesn't even need a working os to be able to flash.
I wish there were more details on the kind of money they were able to pull out of this scheme. All of the dollar values in the article refer to the amounts stolen in Ukraine, moved through she'll companies, and used to purchase properties and businesses.

Traditionally, we hear about money laundering involving low-overhead, cash-oriented businesses where money can be injected and extracted by falsifying volume.

But these were large capital purchases into an industry in destress with numerous facets of regulatory exposure, from the industry's risk to the environment and the high potential safety risks for workers to the special status of the industry to national security - it invites scrutiny of lots of alphabet agencies, especially if your scheme involves ignoring all of their requirements to juice profits.

This leads me to believe the "masterminds" only ever saw it as a short-term play, so back to my original bewilderment, how much were they able to extract in just several years compared to the large upfront costs? And were they skimming so much from neglect that it wouldn't have been worth it just to run these as legitimate, sustainable businesses?

I wonder if the had just maintained these steel facilities and avoided the safety and environmental problems, and made it into Trump's presidency intact, would they have just been able to sell them off high on the back of Trump's protectionist, domestic steel revival rhetoric and made a killing and be sitting pretty today, given that all the legal pressure on them for this is from the US and they seem to have already been given a pass for stealing $5.5 billion in Ukraine from Ukraine.