skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I didn’t realize it existed either and that’s why I’m spending my time on the organization. I think most people just assume that people can use government benefits to buy diapers.

Here is another way to look at it:
Take your salary (or income from investments) divided by the poverty line to get a multiplying factor. The poverty line for a one person household is $12,880 [1]. For simplicity, let’s say you make $128,880 a year. That’s 10x the poverty line and a 10x multiplier. The simple approach is to just multiply everything by that multiplying factor - in our example, filling up a gas tank would be $500 instead of $50. I know that would make me consider getting half a tank instead of just filling up…

For a more complex thing - take an expense category for the month, like food. Multiply every dollar you spend on food for the month by 10 (the factor above). So say you spend $500 a month on food - set aside an additional $4500. $100 on alcohol, set aside $900. You will quickly see how fast money goes.

I recently had a child, so I am going to do this with diapers one month and donate the difference to the diaper bank. You could do the same with a cause you care about.

The thing that surprised me about the non-profit scene is how cut throat it is. There is a lack of funding, people compete on grants, and everyone is extremely passionate about their cause. So some people view it as a zero sum game and have the attitude of “I don’t care if a few babies have a wet diaper, my non-profit fixing cause X has a bigger impact” and they will use their altruistic end to justify some pretty crappy behavior. I’m of the mindset that we need to work together, and fortunately most others in the space are too. But a dollar is a dollar, and there are people that are very passionate with strong beliefs about how the next dollar given to the non-profit space should be spent to optimize the societal benefit.

[1] https://aspe.hhs.gov/2021-poverty-guidelines

* one can argue there are a lot of government benefits available to those near the poverty line, but the point of the exercise is to get in the same ballpark. Plus accessing those services isn’t easy - Millions of people spend hundreds to hire an accountant to interface with the IRS once a year so that they can pay the government. Getting things from the government is more difficult...
This is probably harsh but the description of their api gateway sounds like the description of corba from the late 90s… probably if you are just getting started and need something simple but powerful go with openresty… IMO it gives you all the benefits and it’s super fast/lightweight … you can get advanced with cookie sharing / signing or just do simple logging to statsd… it’s really good if you are starting out to get operational experience running nginx / statsd etc… IMO
I think a sane way of seeing it is that the variant was "first discovered in".

So even though this variant was discovered in India, it has now caused Germany to quarantine travellers from the UK over the Covid Indian variant.

https://www.thelocal.de/20210521/germany-bans-travel-from-uk...

An issue might be if e.g. another more serious variant is discovered in say UK. How should that be reported to the public, the second UK variant maybe ?

Otherwise i totally agree, India should be focussing on dealing with the crisis.
A possible translation of the initialism

WRGOABABD - We recently got another baby another baby [David/damn]

WTBIMPANETP - Whether this baby is mine Prosper's Alf's nobody expected this pregnancy

MLIABOAIAQC - My life is all but over and I am quite certain

ITTMTSAMSGAB - It's time to move to [Sydney/somewhere] as Moseley St got another baby

Some possible context: Dead man knew JE from Sydney. They had something there. He moved in to the street behind her house and they continued their affair, she sneaking out to the house behind. He was dressed as he planned to move. Hop a train to someplace else. She hated his comings and goings, either wanting him to stay, or stay away. With her pregnancy, her desire to settle into her life, she was terrified by the prospect of him leaving, then just showing up again in future. She couldn't bear this upheaval again. After their last afternoon/night together, she discovered him in the kitchen of his house fully dressed, about to leave, but he was hesitating. She offered him a cup of tea/malted milk. Intended to send him a message, but not necessarily to kill him, she mixed some poison/rat poison into the drink from under the counter. After finishing the drink, he initially intended to head away from the coast toward the station, but feeling unwell, he decided to take a walk along the beach first. He entered the beach near where the street his house was on (street behind Moseley) came to the dunes. He made it a couple hundred meters from there to the east, and lay down where he was eventually found. Overcome by the poison, he died of a heart attack/arrhythmia. JE denied knowing him to avoid scandal about the baby and implication in his death.

It's funny that people want to add a spy element to this story. I didn't look at that but while I guess it is possible, it seems less likely than to simply be a relationship issue. So JE's comment that it was known "at a level higher than police" could refer to that unlikely possibility, or to how she was interviewed by agents after that (for whatever reasons they had an interest) and she confessed to them after they assured her they could bring no criminal charges and were only collecting intelligence. Or it could have simply been her attempt to exculpate herself by implying a story that suggested his death was "spy related".
Ask HN: Would you please help me find an old HN post?
Url:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/05/first-mover-advantage-about-compound-interest-not-market-share.php

I managed to find some snippets of that post here:-
http://www.chencer.com/popular/tag/growth.html

Unfortunately, Internet archive and archive.today don't have a copy of this saved

It was previously discussed on HN at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=588813
They could have spent and wasted a lot of money, but if at least some of that money went into real estate that they still own, then they’re probably millionaires.
I’m referring to people who do not have anything or anyone, e.g. refugees or asylum seekers.
Not just someone, the "owner" of the network.

In my opinion, this is a graver offense than, say, someone using an exploit or similar to take over a channel. This person is supposed to be in a position of power and trust.
> Don't give 2 weeks notice

If they want you gone too, then sure. Otherwise, consider if and how that move may affect your next job's reference or background checks.
I don't think anyone but the most uninformed would argue that fail2ban is an actual secure measure, it's more of a log file annoyance reducer. Obviously if you leave remote root enabled and the root password is one of a few dozen thousand common words that exist out there in public-domain password data sets, fail2ban isn't going to help much. As with the example of all the random botnet things out there that randomly try a popular list of dozens of common usernames (admin, root, webmaster, etc) with common passwords.

With things other than SSH it can also be effective in the most rudimentary first level filtering out of spam, various things that attempt to relay mail through my server get themselves first banned, and then banned for a longer time after they keep re-trying. Again with primarily the goal of having less cluttered postfix logs.
They have a Windows app to go with it, which mentions “simple authentication” and “machine learning ransomware detection”

So all the real work is done by regular windows software, and I bet it could be adapted to work with any type of SSD too. The fancy disk drive acts as a “dongle” to enable the software.

(To be fair, there are mentions of things that drive firmware actually does - it can lock out some of the disk partitions, for example, which could be useful to thwart certain kinds of kernel attacks. But it is not clear how this is different from regular SED functionality, and most ransomwares don’t attack kernel anyway)
"Prior to receiving her congressional paycheck"

This was right after she was first elected, before she took office.
This is a great article, and does not deserve the flagging. It is a well-written, and -linked, dispassionate treatment of important material.

That said, let me respond to:

> II. Capitalism has made us spiritually much worse off.

Not Capitalism's task. Economics is an external, aggregate concept. The notion that it is somehow responsible for internal, personal results is novel. Capitalism is a system, and as such is amoral. It is frequently and perhaps accurately attacked for bringing out the ugly carnivore in humans. But that seems like attacking the street for the drunk driver.

These attacks are often delivered by those favoring Socialism. I would suggest that perhaps the difficulty stems from the tendency toward aggregation, externalization, and materialism in human thinking, at the expense of the individual, internal, and the spiritual.
It's possible that people who haven't spent time in private schools have the romantic notion that they're privileged havens where everything is easy.
Nothing (or a probabilistic electron cloud? I don’t think it counts as “being made of” something in a meaningful way)
This is great. I was suggesting a similar feature for search HN literally only a couple of weeks ago:

https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/207

Looking forward to using!
Having $1 million in retirement savings only lets you spend $40-50k per year during retirement. That's a pretty solid amount of money for not having to do any work, but doesn't lend itself to luxurious lifestyle that people think about when you say 'millionaire'.
I’m confounded by moralizing an effort to define terms. Why does clarifying what “private” means in context have anything to do with virtue? Why is that the framework you think muddies the water?

The same context in which the usage was defined celebrated capitalism as a liberating development from feudalism. It critiqued capitalism as well, and certainly arrived at a moral judgment against that as a societal goal.

But in that jargon effort it didn’t make a moral point to distinguish personal versus private ownership. It expressed a set of terminology to distinguish things.

I’m not even especially intent on reinforcing the jargon. Only in clarifying when it’s being referenced outside the spirit it was defined in, so perhaps the conversation isn’t scattered around different things.
This is the rationalisation I get every time when I tell companies that their data model is a mess. Never mind that neither I nor the parent said anything about doing it up front.

Of course they have to iterate, the problem is that there is no deliberate effort anywhere, it’s just piling more crap on top of old crap and deluding themselves that they are some kind of lean, agile visionaries because of it.
So this is the ‘semantic web’ from ~15 years ago?
You said 90%. The 90th percentile income in the US is $125,105 / year for an individual[1]. The kinds of things he's talking about include "open an investment account and invest money", say in an index fund. Are you telling me that every single person making under $125k in the US has no access to open an account at Vanguard and buy index funds? I know from personal experience that that is not true.

[1] https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/
Stock Market: Pros and Cons
Dillo still exists, if you want a fast, lightweight browser with only vaguely 90s rendering capabilities.
I added the edit about 2 minutes after I made the original post.
> It was absurd, to the point the sentencing judge made his displeasure known.

The judge is free to dismiss the charge, if he thinks it's absurd. How did she end up with a conviction?
No, spiped also encrypts data.
First of all every political party lies to stay in power. The idea that this is unique to the Republican party is ridiculous. The Democratic consistently lie and bend the rules as well.

If you think Republicans are supporting fascism then you either don't know what fascism is or what Republicans support.
If I understand the article correctly they didn't even have evidence his credentials were used. All they had was a shared IP address. Given that his teachers testified in his favor I have to wonder if there was some specific grudge against the kid. Alternatively they were incompetent about the IP thing from the beginning and as soon as they realized they might be wrong went into full cover-up & deny everything mode.
I attempted to bridge the language from a “this appears to be lay usage, introduce a Marxist distinction” perspective. You’re outright using Marxist language and reasoning and doing a much more effective job communicating it. I appreciate your contribution. Thank you for jumping in where I failed.
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I feel like there was plenty of pettiness on both sides here.
Malichi and an independent teacher both corroborated that there was someone shouting racial slurs, so by taking this side that actually the school is only going after the abusive screen names, are you saying that there were two separate people Zoom bombing this class, Malichi and someone else?

The school clearly knows they can't go after him for the racial slurs because he was on camera that whole time, so they chose not to focus on that. But it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Do Carbon Prices Limit Economic Growth?
Lullaby of the Artillery
In the east, students kept the grudge. Grown-up and then hire assassins and have the targets and targets immediate family members assassinated decades later. For example, when jogging or car just drive out from the driveway and randomly get pop or sliced. If the grudge survived that long the ends are as gruesome as the movies.
I think there's an extremely subtle difference in length, plus in American english you might pronounce "writing" with either /d/ or /t/ (probably /d/ in casual speech).

I think if you said "I am riding a book" almost every native english speaker would hear "I am writing a book."
As far as school punishments go this one seems a relatively benign and actually almost reasonable? You chose not to do the homework, so the teacher assigned you a mandatory time during which you could complete the homework without being distracted during lunch.

From the details you provided,my understanding is you could've just completed it during lunch detention and that would've been the end of it, that seems pretty fair to me. You were aware of the consequences of not doing your homework and chose to continuously not do your assignments either at home or during the lunch period.
In the three European countries I've lived in (2 in EU + UK), licensed engineers must sign off on new building construction plans, and take responsibility for the suitability of the design.
Waterford is leaded glass, often just called “crystal” because of its clarity and to not call attention to the lead content which is minimum 25% lead oxide powder by weight

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_glass

> In a study performed at North Carolina State University, the amount of lead migration was measured for port wine stored in lead crystal decanters. After two days, lead levels were 89 µg/L (micrograms per liter). After four months, lead levels were between 2,000 and 5,000 µg/L. White wine doubled its lead content within an hour of storage and tripled it within four hours. Some brandy stored in lead crystal for over five years had lead levels around 20,000 µg/L

For ref the EPA limit is 15 µg/L and even that is prob on the high side since the human body has 0 use for any level of lead
You can certainly do very well speculating on real estate, but in most places and most of the time you are better off investing in the stock market.
India’s Covid-19 Crisis Tests the World’s Back Offices
At the time of W95 Microsoft still thought they could replace the internet with their own MSN lol. So glad they failed. It would have been worse than it is now. Or at the very least, it would have become what it is now a lot sooner, with a handful of tech monopolists, pervasive tracking etc.

But W95 was pretty great yeah. Much better than 98. Except for the half-baked USB support.

95, 2000 and 7 were my favourites for sure. Out of those 2000 the most. It was the first workable NT desktop, 4.0 was still too compromised. And it didn't have the UI mess of XP or vista. It was clean, lean and fast

And the worst? Windows ME of course! That was such a POS.

And yeah I remember the Weezer video too. It was so cool, playing video on your computer! Of course it was only available on the CD-ROM version. You could also get 22 3.5" floppies IIRC.
Not to be too meta, but I kinda like that this just has [flagged] in the title, without much else changed. Hopefully it serves as a challenge to discuss the topic while following the "interpret each other generously" rule, and discussing reasonably. Ever since I got called on being less than charitable in a past comment thread, I've really come to love that rule here.
> I think there is still a bit of a perception that IC levels higher than Senior are about "Senior but with more interesting technical problems". This is largely false.

Anyone know of a career path where this is actually the case? Lately it seems like everywhere I turn it's meetings and PowerPoint. Ideally I'd like to keep working on harder and harder engineering problems until I die of old age.
Moulton said the school district’s technology employee who investigated should have been able to tell that many of the IP addresses in the Zoom report were wrong.

I don’t think the education sector is going to attract many high caliber IT people. The school shouldn’t have had this rest on the shoulders of a low wattage tech.
Yeah I remember the cool boxes with the rounded corners. And of course there was some reason, it was the first new windows in a very long time. That honeymoon didn't last long though lol.. A few days of UAC popups was enough to drop anyone's opinions. And the gaudy widgets or whatever they were called...
Something's weird with that. Gwinnett County schools are out for the summer starting late next week. Most of the "three months" will be when school isn't in session, unless he was planning to attend summer school.
There are two major uses of the term "atomic" in CS. The sense is either that of database transactions, in which either everything happens together or nothing happens at all, or that of concurrency, in which... really, it's the same thing, but with a focus on whether an intermediate state can be visible from another thread/process, as opposed to whether an intermediate state can be written to persistent media. An atomic operation is one in which, whatever method you use to observe the affected state, you will only see the state from before the operation begins or the state from after it completes.

It doesn't matter whether the CPU does the operation by magic or by some physical process involving the passage of time; that's not part of the concept. The operation is not divisible; it isn't possible for part of it to occur.
> Unfortunately, every state has the blood of innocent people on their hands.

Yes, but that doesn't mean they are equal either. Some are worse than others.
It’s no coincidence - the names for Cockroach and GIMP were coined by the same person https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Kimball_(computer_pr...
"I was once on a flight with a CEO – he let everyone know that’s what he was – who lost his mind after we had to change gates twice."

He wasn't much of a CEO if he wasn't on a private jet.
And doesn't work without javascript.
Crypto vs. Stocks
Try in hn.algolia.com
My last experience with Uber was horrendous. I had scheduled a trip for early the next morning. The app seemed to error out and didn't give me any conformation that my trip was scheduled or confirmed. I went to try again and received an error message that I already had a trip scheduled at that time.

It's virtually impossible to contact Uber customer service. The best I found was some in-app chat which I had to lie to get to as their support options had no selection for what my issue was.

I then gave up after the 5th or so canned response I received asking me to all but wipe my iPhone and return it to Apple. Never mind the fact that the issue also existed on uber.com and was reproducible.

That was the last trip I ever used Uber for. It's one thing to have bugs in your product, but it's something else completely when the company does everything in their power to make no attempt whatsoever to understand or even entertain the thought that maybe, just maybe, it's not user error this time.
Air India Says February's Data Breach Affected 4.5M Passengers
I played with a similar concept years ago for more general secure transmission where each endpoint would mux traffic to/from multiple addresses from their respective /64 as an added layer of obfuscation. It included optional dummy traffic and intentionally out of sequence transmissions to complicate inspection.

It makes more sense when used broadly by the majority of traffic across a link, by multiple clients, but it could be a useful application for IPv6 in environments an intermediate network is untrustworthy.
8 MB (and constantly swapping)
There's a guy on YouTube who goes by "nilered". He does various crazy chemistry projects. He has a video where he makes uranium glass.
> This is a blurry line as a sibling comment noted. If I want to start raising chickens on my property, do you take it away from me? What if I start selling the eggs from the hens to my neighbors, do you take it away from me then?

No. So far what you’re describing is personal property. It’s one thing to own a toothbrush. It’s similar to make toothbrushes for your neighbors for their benefit. It’s another thing entirely to capitalize on that, making toothbrushes a vector for personal gain; making people pay more for that formerly shared endeavor, compete to provide it, engage in legal disputes around who may provide what.

> Somebody will eventually have a more efficient production idea compared to the big government, and then they want to build it on their own property. Should their property be seized? Should they be imprisoned if they attempt it again?

It’s similarly disappointing that the competition you have in mind is what it is. The goal in defining private ownership isn’t to distinguish it from public ownership! It’s to distinguish it from personal ownership. The distinction isn’t between state and people, it’s between people and organizations. Nobody should be put in prison for making a more efficient machinery of any kind. They should be blocked from either preventing other people from doing so, or from depriving others from the benefit of that improvement existing.
My rule is "make it easy for us to fix our mistakes".

Even when we've spent a bunch of time planning out data, but we still got a lot of things wrong in hindsight. The reality is we didn't know enough about our product direction to make any truly informed decisions.

In general, poor decisions seem to stem from working in ambiguity about product, rather than poor technical decisions.
This is true but you can't really tell until your a couple years past puberty so it's important to last that long and give it your all after you finish growing. To many kids burn out before then.

I went from a decent junior athlete to top ten in country in that amount of time to compete on world cup. Was really lucky. It was apparent by then that it'd be a continuous grind with little to show afterward. Left healthy and coached for a few years while completing university. I was the old kid in all my classes but way more focused than I would have been straight from high school.
Same craze for radioactive vintage lenses.