skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pledge is like 100% easier to understand. FreeBSD has similar stuff and it is also super complicated and basically unused.. If you can't make this idiot proof, there is little hope anyone will ever use it.
Sounds like you’re talking about the subset of HTML+CSS used in ePub. Come to think, ebooks and emails have pretty similar “richness” needs.
For iOS YT users: hit refresh when the ad starts playing.
Watch the ad go away.
Voila.
> They could go after the leaders of the organized crime groups. I wonder why they haven’t.

The standard approach is to charge the lackeys and have them roll on their superiors. If the only threat to the lackeys is a slap on the wrist, they’re not going to rat out anybody.
Yes. I’m not sure exactly how geekbench implements it but that’s certainly a big downside. Perhaps geekbench runs it without any hardware acceleration (to just test a different type of workload) but it might just use whatever hardware available.

As an end-user I’m okay with that, because at the end of the day if things run faster I don’t really care how, especially for tasks that are ubiquitous.
That is how most grocery stores do it, but Costco offers GCs to local restaurants that I've never seen elsewhere (Armadillo Willy's!). It's quite possible that the GCs from these restaurants are not capable of being secured/activated in this way.

Or it could just be that they want to have a big display with cardboard logos that will catch the attention of shoppers.
for those who don't know. Here's some pics of colmados (convenience stores) in the Domincan Republic:

- https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GSXubTkd6ak/UxxWpzd4E8I/AAAAAAAAI...

- https://jetsettlersmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/dr1.jp...

- https://www.colonialzone-dr.com/images/Colmado-Pilona-Colmad...
Unsurprising outcome of systemic poverty and a complete lack of real social safety net.

People want the homeless to simply go away and die quietly somewhere, but no, people need to survive, and if need be petty theft is the way to continue living. People need food and people need to fed their chemical addictions. With the lack of services theft is an answer.

If people don't want to experience petty theft well then we need to ensure that every person has food and housing. Create a safe supply of free prescribed drugs so that people don't need to steal to get cash to buy drugs from the street.

These are simple solutions but of course they cost money, so if your top priority is keeping taxes low, well they're impossible and so the status quo of systemic poverty, misery and crime continues.
There are some reasonable suggestions in the document when you understand its purpose. But some of the suggestions are very ... creative?
The answer is often distro specific, but start here https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/

The issue is included in the main description and bugs section.
Thanks, I have updated my comment with the figure.
“ although you could argue that the accidents are rare and potentially worth the risk?”

I agree. I don’t know if they’re technologically feasible at the price point necessary to put them in a few billion cars. But this “safety” obsession has gotten old.
There are stores like this on the east coast. Items stocked in littke shelves up against plexiglass and you ask the clerk for each one.

In the case of Portland, there is a problem where there are virtually no independent mom & pop corner stores and rightfully no one really cares if the earth's 20th most profitable corporation gets looted.
That's not what's driving the dynamic here, particularly since the election of our current DA. He wants to hold the police accountable and they're at all out war vs him.
In his book, the former Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle claimed he sniped 30 Hurricane Katrina looters and a bunch of other probable lies. Some people find this to be absolutely outrageous. I argue that this doesn't ruin the value of the book because future historians aren't going to take Chris Kyle's accounts as fact any more than they believed what Caesar had to say about the Gallic wars. It is possible to learn things from a book even if the author is biased. Don't expect everyone everyone to be a self-hating globalist liberal.
That is exactly the same layout as many small convenience stores in Pakistan.
As I understand it, the gift card scam goes like this:

1. Perp steals the inactivated gift card, takes it home

2. At home, they scratch off the activation code, record it, and re-apply some scratch off coating

3. They reverse shoplift the gift card and return it to the store

4. They then set up some script to continuously try the gift card activation code

5. Legitimate customer buys and activates the gift card

6. Perp now gets access, and drains the funds before the legit customer can use them
It rings a little hollow when they fired members of/disbanded their nominally independent internal ML Ethics unit after a member published a paper raising some flags on the kind of models Google is betting its future on.
Some "left leaning folks"? Are you legitimately attempting to politicize theft?
The point is that had they worked well, containers may not have become as popular as they are now.

Containers are only somewhat used for scalable microservices. They're mostly just an easier way to deploy software than creating your own RPM package and using orchestration tools to deploy it on VMs.
It's crazy how quickly these things have changed. 1920 doesn't _feel_ like all that long ago, objectively speaking.
That's true, and it's because our prisons and jails have been beyond capacity for years. Elevating a bunch more crimes to felony status isn't going to change that fact.
There are stores like this in Connecticut, USA.

The West coast is lacking in small independent convenience stores. Something like the land got parceled out and ballooned in value before the thrifty shop owner types were able to set up at a cost accessible to a private citizen. Thats my guess at least.
I think you're being completely unreasonable. They didn't have a hissy fit.

You're trying to moderate discussion that you don't like, because it's not about IRC. Matrix is relevant in a discussion about IRC because it's a valid alternative. You can't police natural and useful discussion you don't like.
Ford F-150 Starting Under $40k; also act as home battery
Now that I think about it, I've never been there or seen one in person, but some of these stores are shown in The Wire, in a particularly troubled part of Baltimore. Sort of like an armored bodega.
I feel like the main problem I have with Google results is that they never surface anything interesting or old. There are a lot of searches where it returns nothing useful, but if you add "reddit" it becomes useful.

Besides that, they haven't fought SEO enough on image search, since Pinterest took it over for years.
For sure. But every cop has to deal with those thoughts, and most do it for far less than $95k. At the very least it seems enticing enough to attract a sizable pool of applicants.
> Some left leaning folks like to say "oh it's Walgreens, they're a corporation and the losses are immaterial."

What a ridiculous strawman argument. If you feel the need to generalize and attack entire groups of people, put a little more effort into it please?
commenting to get back to this later. very interested to read that.
> As if is not stealing if you are a druggie or homeless.

It's arguably a different thing if you're stealing out of necessity or because you're systematically stealing in a large fashion for personal enrichment. Yes, both is a loss, but the latter one is arguably more malicious.

That being said, if stores need to close down because your homeless/addict population is so large that they're basically raiding the stores, you have a far bigger problem on your hands.
It's surprising that human society has survived, given that half the population was artificially excluded from many intellectual pursuits - or many pursuits full stop really - and the other half perhaps underperformed as they wallowed in feeling of superiority form their position of privilege.
Bay Area cops can make a decent chunk of change. I was surprised when I saw a FB announcement by a local officer who purchased a $2M home in Millbrae.

He's in his early 30's and may have some sort of residual pay from his time in the armed forces. But I think a lot of it comes from overtime pay, which can really add up.
Isn't the activation code scratch off area covered with a very hard to counterfeit zigzag/special material moire pattern?
> The Electric Reliability Council of Texas activated a program that pays large industrial power users to reduce their consumption during emergencies. But the grid operator, known as Ercot, didn’t know who was being paid to participate in this program and what type of facilities were getting shut off.

Gas processors' input providers were on the list.
Gold is a real thing. Crypto, no matter the stake, is a figment of our collective beliefs. Collective opinion isn’t something that can be split or analyzed, otherwise we’d already know everything.
This strikes me as the real question here.

The world is (one hopes) just beginning to emerge from a global disaster of a known variety, for which there has been longstanding scientific and technical understanding, as well as existing paybooks for dealing with the situation. Response by the most capable and technologically-advanced countries has often been abysmal.

The coming global energy transition is going to be orders of magnitude more complex and fraught than the COVID-19 pandemic has been. And this is uncharted territory, with no tested playbook (the IPCC guidelines and publications are at least a playbook), and ongoing dissent within and among countries as to measures to be taken and how costs are to be allocated.

William Ophuls studied this question beginning in the late 1960s. His PhD dissertation in political science at Yale was published as Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity[1] in 1977 (it's been revised since), and the question has been Ophuls's life work.[2]

In particular, Ophuls's assessment of the global situation in the 1970s, the likely developments in ensuing decades, which 44 years on we can compare against history, and likely sticking points yet to come, stand out. Ophuls is a realist, but an optimist (perhaps somewhat less of the latter with time). He does see a path out. But it hasn't been the path chosen over the past five decades.

________________________________

Notes:

1. Ophuls: https://archive.org/details/ecologypolitics00ophu

2. Bibliography: https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=au%3Ao...
Well it doesn’t seem to be flyover rednecks voting for politicians who support this kind of behavior, so it does lead to some conclusions.
> People tend to forget that it's the value of the fds you pass to select() which can't exceed FD_SETSIZE

Is that true? I have a memory of working on systems where you can pass larger arrays in if you want, you just have to allocate your own bitvectors instead of using the convenient struct. A quick look at the linux kernel makes me think that this is true for Linux; the kernel doesn't appear to reference FD_SETSIZE in its implementation.
I've found that every new technology that solves problems, also comes with its own set of problems. :)
California is anything but a low tax place to live, but they also have tons and tons of property crime.
I used a similar entropy-based image cropper in 2009 and saw a slightly different result – it had a foot fetish.
Those chasing the fastest lap times would race near the steepest, highest edge of the bank —circumstances under which staying in contact with the ground is, according to conventional wisdom, a good idea.

I love the understated humor of this article. And for different reasons, this is another wonderful bit from the piece:

This left only the logistical problem of how to get the restrictors to Fighter Command airfields in good time. Shilling organized a small band of engineers to assist, though inevitably she travelled up and down the country solo, and by her preferred mode of travel: her trusty Norton motorcycle. By then she’d made the small concession, perhaps under duress, to detune the Norton somewhat to make it more suitable for public roads.

“Her appearance at airfields with a bag of tools and a brisk manner became something of a legend,”

I'm also really happy to see these bits:

It was due to these ongoing narrow margins in battle that we can be sure Shilling’s innovation saved lives.

“Beatrice Shilling helped us to win World War II —of that there is no doubt,” he told the BBC in 2017. Her war efforts weren’t limited to improvements to the Merlin engine. She also contributed to a range of engines to improve starting in freezing conditions, and operation at higher altitudes.
Twenty four points in two hours and no one knows what to make of it.
Unless you're cackling like our VP I think you're fine.
You also get armed guards in bigger malls in DR where shoplifting might be possible.
I am so excited about Libera.chat. I am excited to go on the next step of the journey with all of you!
Decades of research in management has shown that money is not the sole, or even major, driver of workplace motivation. Workers of all type, including cops, are motivated to put in hard work when they feel like their efforts are recognized and contribute to making a tangible difference.

Generally that's the exact opposite that police in SF have faced over the past few years. Rather than being recognized and respected, they've been repeatedly told, by their own superiors, that they're abusive, reckless and part of a system of oppression. Rather than making a difference, they're participants in a Kafka-esque circus where the criminals they arrest in the morning are released and committing crimes by the afternoon.

I agree that criminal justice reform is important. But there's no politically viable route to that end if it means a mass decline in public safety. And there's no way to ensure public safety, unless police officers feel valued, empowered, motivated and proud to show up for work. You can't just repeatedly demonize and bureaucratize the police, and not expect their performance to degrade because you throw money at them.
I think the closest thing right now is actually Fortnite. For how crazy it sounds when Tim Sweeney talks about Fortnite as a platform, I think it's as close as we've come yet.

The early game is all about grinding up your gear. Looking for chests, looking for ammo. Everyone is marking good gear for each other. Everyone is on the lookout for the odd group getting too close.

Then the late game is more like a hunt than a grind. Where it's time to put your gear to use! Head for the centre of the map and see how far your team can get.

The biggest problem for me is that 4-person teams aren't quite enough. And matches are done within 5-20 minutes which is both too short for a good raid but also too long just to pop in and grind for a bit. So it's like the perfect MMO, condensed as small as possible in both player counts and time. I just think maybe they condensed too far.
When I set up a product deployment system, I want:

1. IaC for the network, database, container definitions, and other cloud things. I use terraform here.
2. CI/CD for the application software, which ultimately builds a container image from version control, tags it in some well-know way, and tells the container scheduler to redeploy. I tend to use CircleCI, but any CI solution will do.
3. Configuration management for my container definitions, injecting environment variables for config/secrets into the definition or runtime. I tend to use Ansible or Terraform here.

For me, the main criteria is whether the product has a large number of components with configuration that needs to reuse common structures. If I'm just deploying one or two components (e.g. your typical early-stage monolith), Terraform is fine. Bt if you have many users contributing to many components and want to provide higher-level tools, I vastly prefer using Ansible; you just have more control.

That is, I believe in Ansible as a tool for applying configuration from source control to some other system; I would no longer use it to provision cloud resources.
> We are easily fooled by the devices we attach to CPUs into thinking that the CPU is "computing" the device output. It isnt. We have just created an illusion: the keyboard button says '1', '+', '2' and the LCD says '3' and we think the CPU has computed 3.

> But, looking at the CPU itself, it has actually "computed" an infinite number of things. The '1' signal could be interpreted abitaribly.

That's not really true. We could very easily connect up the CPU to flash a light 3 times, or use a speech synthesizer to say "three". The reason we call these systems "computers" is that we built them to compute like (human) computers, that is, to evaluate mathematical expressions. Understanding computation is useful, even essential, in understanding the behaviour of these systems, just as understanding language and grammar is useful in understanding the pattern of sounds that a person might make under particular circumstances, even though the relationship between particular sounds and particular meanings is arbitrary or at least underdetermined.
Considering consumer tech like Apple Airtags exist, it seems like it’d be easy to tag some frequently stolen goods and track them back to where they’re fenced and resold. They should punish the buyers of stolen goods since they obviously aren’t going after the thieves.
It would be beneficial in total labor today, especially in a store with employees picking for curbside exists. Stocking is a big effort overnight. Restocking is problematic during the day, and costs sales. These normal processes (busy people doing stocking and ordering, and inventory existing in 2 places) makes ordering harder. If customers would accept the change it might happen. The rub is studies show customers don't like it, and no browsing means lower sales.
Sure, but now you have to train your checkout staff to be experts in scratch off coating design. Retailers are definitely adding training material to help, but it still happens.
Iron and nickel vapours are present in most comets
The one example I usually give people is the one that led me to the realisation myself.

Try searching "how valve index works" or "how valve index controllers work". My interpretation of "how it works" is "technical information on how an item operates". Google will interpret this instead as "how well it performs its intended functions" and flood me with both links to purchase the Valve Index as well as endless reviews. Results on Google are not tailored toward retrieval of factual information anymore. They're tailored to ordinary, garden-variety consumers, and obviously designed to sell you a Valve Index.

To this day I still have not found really good information on how the controllers in the Valve Index actually work. All I get are pushes and nudges into getting me to buy something.
maybe in a western democracy. wouldn't fly in the wild-west where the store owner would shoot you or in a fascist state where the police will.
> But let’s assume there is indeed enough time, and that we suddenly get serious about planning. What should we do?

In the United States public planning is typically limited to figuring out how to prop up the private financial system for one more quarter. In the U.S. most money is created through real estate mortgages. Although people like to talk about gold, crypto, consumers, producers, and government spending the mainstream financial system in charge of allocating the resources is really a mortgage based system.

Suppose someone has an estate with buildings and structures with replacement cost of $200,000. A broker says the estate has a comparable sales price of $600,000. In a loose money system we just trust the banks and brokers to do all of the planning, publicly guarantee mortgages at the reported $600,000, and have federal reserve buy assets to prop up prices at whatever number private finance has fixed upon.

In a slightly tighter system, we might cap real estate loan guarantees at 200% of replacement cost of non-land fixed capital. So if property has buildings and fixtures worth $200,000 public loan guarantees max out at $400,000 even if broker says property is worth $600,000. In order to write up price to $600,000 the owner would need to install $100,000 more in fixed capital, the effect of which is to redirect a larger share of the money created through mortgages to other sectors of economy.

How to use this to promote green energy investment?

Suppose instead of a replacement cost cap of 200% there was a replacement cost cap of 150% for normal capital and 250% for green capital. Then in order to take out a property loan for $600,000 the owner would have to install at least $400,000 of normal capital (structures, fixtures, equipment) or at least $240,000 of green capital (solar panels, wind turbines, lifted mass storage systems), regardless of how high the land values in the location had been written up.

In our current system the incentive of brokers is really just to write up asset prices as high as possible until the financial system collapses in order to generate some nice asset gains during credit bubbles. We can take advantage of this greed and use it to promote green energy investment by tightening up rules for lending against speculative land values using fixed capital replacement cost caps, which are slightly looser for fixed capital which is green.
See also: PAM, probably a much more enticing target.

I wonder if something like the eBPF compiler could be repurposed here, to generate lightweight "binaries" for a configuration that can be linked without needing to dynamically link their own dependencies at runtime.
Why you should read Master and Margarita creator Bulgakov