skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey me too! :)

I think the overall issue is that what I personally think someone should do is that if they believe in paying higher taxes, it shouldn't matter what anybody else does, they should just pay higher taxes or even spend money to lobby for higher taxes via campaign contributions, lobbyists, etc.

It just seems like mental gymnastics that some wealthy people use to avoid feeling bad that there are poor people by saying if only they raised taxes you'd pay more while also not paying more. Of course you'd pay more if taxes were raised, except in the case where taxes were raised and then you found loopholes or deductions to not pay them... It's just a way to convince yourself to have your cake and eat it too.

But even if taxes weren't raised, why can't you self-fund social programs? Even at a very basic level - food stamps. You could just offset how much you think you should pay in additional taxes by donating to food pantries or just buying people groceries. You don't need the government to do that. You could make a huge impact in your own community. We all could!

Some of my friends and friends of friends got stimulus money when that first stimulus came around. Based on the previous year's tax returns we received a couple hundred bucks or something. I don't remember exactly. Could have used the money for something? Sure. We could have taken the money and bought something we felt like buying, then went online and said it was a terrible thing that others didn't get enough money and we were getting money. We could have went and did what my friends did and buy new GPUs or something. No. We just turned right around and donated it to the Mid-Ohio Foodbank. They all went on about how they didn't need the money (obviously) and that it was sad people were losing their jobs and on lockdown and all of that and that the government should do something. Like.. why don't you do something? Take that $1,000 you got and turn around and give it to someone who needs it.

Please don't take that personally or anything - I'm exploring this with the aim of a good discussion. I'm not quite as well off as you but we do very well for ourselves and probably need to donate more money anyway. It just always drives me up the wall when Bill Gates or Warren Buffet come out and say they should pay more taxes... they can just do that. They don't need anyone else to. Am I more moral or more of a leader than they are? I highly doubt it. So what's left? Game theory? Or maybe they just want to craft a persona? Idk. I don't mind that people are wealthy. We certainly are depending on who we are being compared to, but I just feel like people are being dishonest with themselves and others on this particular topic, even if it's not intentional.
This post is suspiciously ranked much lower than it should be (1216 points, 9 hours ago), lower than posts with < 100 points.
Netflow! My first "big data" project was getting netflow data from 100s of routers in a internet backbone and start to learn where traffic came and if it was worthy to do a peereng agreement with them.

It stopped working the day Google activated their proxies on mobile networks. I saw Google traffic increase 1-2% week-over-week during several months. I quitted the job when it was >30% of the backbone traffic and don't know what happened at the end...
The seasteading idea makes me wonder how much it would cost to run an actual state (with a military/sufficient protection) based on distributed platforms/boats. Assuming said state could negotiate deals with ports around the world, it doesn’t seem that absurd. A few billion, maybe?

There is something of a historical basis for this, although of course without the tech and still based primarily on land. It’s called a thalassocracy.

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

The Hanseatic League was something of a similar phenomenon and actually not completely alien to what I’m proposing. As were a lot of pirate Freeport-type cities in the 1600s Caribbean. Medieval/Renaissance Venice probably counts too.

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

In any case, the idea is fascinating and I applaud them for even considering it.
This reminds me of shopify's liquid dsl, a horror to work with, but you can just about make it do what you want, sometimes it feels like writing assembly to do string manipulation if they haven't built a function for your exact scenario.
Accurate, but this is a somewhat imperfect strategy in many contexts. You will probably find this article interesting.

https://snap.stanford.edu/conflict/
It has nothing to do with people owning a PC; that's absolutely irrelevant. I also never even implied either Apple or the subcontractor should be held in sympathy.

The default on iOS is a 6-digit PIN for which you get ten attempts, with an increasing penalty after the first few. iOS really really pushes you to set a passcode. If you bypass that, then that's on you, even more so when your device contains anything you wouldn't like others to see, be it lost or stolen or submitted for service.
Not quite PICO-8 but you can try https://arcade.makecode.com/ (esp. the TypeScript not blocks) - you can run these games on in-expensive (~$30) hardware [0]

[0] https://arcade.makecode.com/hardware/
Also Gdash[1] and many others

I agree with your sentiment though.

[1] https://github.com/ripienaar/gdash
Amazon (like a lot of others) use several CDNs for redundancy. You can see from dig that it resolves to combinations of cloudfront, akamai, and (presumably, based on your reported experience) fastly.

dig +short www.amazon.com
tp.47cf2c8c9-frontier.amazon.com.
d3ag4hukkh62yn.cloudfront.net.
65.8.70.16

dig +short www.amazon.co.uk
tp.bfbdc3ca1-frontier.amazon.co.uk.
dmv2chczz9u6u.cloudfront.net.
13.224.0.89

dig +short www.amazon.in
tp.c95e7e602-frontier.amazon.in.
d1elgm1ww0d6wo.cloudfront.net.
13.224.9.30

dig +short www.amazon.co.jp
tp.4d5ad1d2b-frontier.amazon.co.jp.
www.amazon.co.jp.edgekey.net.
e15312.a.akamaiedge.net.
104.71.134.162
Can someone explain the appeal of CSS-in-JS? I've used scoped styling in .vue components extensively, at a quick glance it seems to offer similar benefits (lives right in your component and is scoped to it), but most importantly it can be extracted to a plain CSS file when building frontend assets.

Is there something extra these React libraries do that prevents them from doing this?
Of course, some professors try to be helpful to students. But of all my professors in 4 years, i probably averaged only one per semester that cared at all.

There were actually probably several more that cared, but they were easily swayed by the campus bookstore's pressure to get the newest edition. The managers at the store don't own it, so they just want the easiest path, which is always newest edition. Because they can get them all sent in from one place and then send back any that don't sell. So the managers generally tell professors that they can't get old editions, which is a lie, and the professors just believe them.
It's a question of opportunity cost of electricity, not absolute numbers:

- You live in a place where the "cost" of mining = Electricity + Amortized cost of mining rig.

- Someone else lives in a place where "cost" of mining = (Electricity + Amortized Blackmarket Rig Cost) - (5% Inflation per month - 30% reduction in remittance fee -etc..)
LOL, yeah the banks have been so great at leverage in the past couple of decades in the USA that they have to get bailed out repeatedly.
I always hear this argument that baseboard is "way more expensive" than gas, how much are we talking? 2x? 10x?
You can just read the Efail paper and see how faulty this argument is. Because PGP treats authenticated ciphers as a "cargo cult", the Efail team could plausibly have broken almost 40% of Facebook's PGP-encrypted password reset mails. Further: they were able to abuse MIME encoding to get multiple guesses per email.

At any rate, none of this is something that anyone would accept from any modern cryptosystem, and the fact that PGP has you so backfooted that you'd feel the need to defend PGP's behavior here is a telling indication. "PGP: it's fine, as long as you don't use it to encrypt password reset emails. But for other emails it's fine, as long as the first 11 bytes of the email aren't guessable." Ok. Good note!

Maybe we should just put 128-bit nonces at the tops of all our emails. That just seems like common sense good engineering practice.
If you sink a ship registered in Panama, you have made war against Panama and transitively against the United States of America and all other signatories of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance.
What really happened: Google fired a toxic employee that was a net negative and liability to the company after she gave them an ultimatum. It's as simple as that.
That's not a lot of requests.

My hobby website serves more traffic for a 1/4 of the cost and is easy to configure.
I read the three page disaster and it was a disaster. However, it was from a recent graduate.

The response was written by a CEO. C level positions carry a certain duty and require tremendous skill. In this case, Amjad responded to a poorly written email in such a way that every investor and employee has to fear or they’re not paying attention.

Humans have thousands of years of experience processing trust. It takes a life to build a good reputation and one email chain to destroy it. C level leaders genuinely have to be a lot better than this, especially when faced with difficult emails.
When going into a cafe to order something, they leave their child (in a stroller) outside with the (allegedly justified) expectation that nothing bad will happen to it. (To be fair, babies aren't especially easy to liquidate if stolen, and strollers are inconveniently bulky, so this arguably says less about the amount of crime than about how petty, blatant, and asinine the criminals are.)
Tutorial on how to do bulk invitation in Microsoft Teams
>“What is courage?,” Socrates asked Laches, who replied that if someone was willing to defend themselves against an enemy, standing in their assigned spot and not running away, they would be courageous (Laches 194e). An examiner would mark a red cross here: the man didn’t reply to Socrates’ question

I think this emphasis on precise definitions is actually not that helpful.

Humans don't really learn from abstract definitions so much as from seeing a bunch of examples of what is and what is not something. We ran into the same issue with ML and trying to do image recognition. Turned out that trying to define precisely what a "car" and using that to recognize a car is much less helpful than training with a lot of examples of what is and what is not a car.

Although not precisely like an ML neural net, our brains are enough like one that that this is likely to be similar as well.

I think that the guy the Socrates is examining is actually doing a better job of having someone learn what courage is by giving examples than Socrates is by trying to state a precise definition for it.

As an aside, you see the same thing with "monads". There are a ton of articles trying to define a monad. However, a much better example is to take the student through the problem and then through a lot of patterns and show them the various patterns of monads.
Seconded about loading all the comments. Or at least change the color of the “more” instead of “reply”, so that you can quickly see from toplevel where the additional comments are. But it’s a tricky problem.
PyCon US 2021 videos are out
I would argue this has more to do with the infancy of America as a country. It's arguably only been a true world-aware power since WWII.

So the US only knows how to exploit anti USSR sentiment because that's the only sentiment it has institutional knowledge of.

Europe however has multiple millenia of various institutional knowledge and history.

It is fascinating to me how the generations transfer, but these strong institutional and cultural memories continue in such seemingly vivid fashion.
Is that the same error message as it gave in 1974 though?
ISS is old, leaving was economical decision. Russians can get better and cheaper station. Now they are just milking it for political points.
I never followed this chain of logic. The whole point behind the stock market is to treat any commonly traded stock as a liquid asset. Why do you think that this fails with respect to Bezos and Gates?
Has Progressive changed their stance on WFH? Last I heard it was WFH or office until 2021.
I came across your article on security updates when I was researching this. Thanks for writing it - it was super helpful. One of the sub goals for us is to quantify the lag that you've observed here. We're also reviewing an automated check that would flag times when an apt upgrade would be material. This is very much based on your bad arguments 1 through 4.
The Linux source (!binary) compatibility target is exciting. Will be nice to carry over Linux modules/drivers + software. The initial PS/2 keyboard support just landed (https://twitter.com/v_language/status/1402193052941312002).
I agree with you 100%. Almost all of my EE group of friends weren’t able to find jobs right away! Even internships were limited. Almost everyone learned coding languages in demand around Silicon Valley and were able to find employment! 4 years of EE went to waste. Sad.
> So let's figure out a way to make this study happen so that the drug can be given effectively (if it does indeed work) rather than have a blanket approval of a drug that lacks any proof of efficacy at all.

It isn't a blanket approval, but it does sound way too generous in terms. From the linked article:

> The agency seems to have approved it based on its demonstrated ability to clear beta-amyloid, and is asking Biogen to run a confirmatory trial to show efficacy.

> They will be absolutely overjoyed to do that, of course, because the whole time that’s going, they will be selling the first drug that (in theory) targets the etiology of Alzheimer’s. The backed-up demand is going to be gigantic, and Biogen is going to make enormous amounts of money. They have nine years, as it turns out, to get this trial done, and I feel safe in predicting that it’s going to take alllll niiiiine loooong sloooow years to get this done.
James Sligo Jameson and the “Wacusu Cannibals”
Yes it is, but most consumer drone hardware doesn't do a very good job of it. Also, most drones require a a couple of RF/EM sensors for position and heading which can't exactly be Faraday caged.

I was being somewhat facetious about mounting a microwave auto-turret on your house, but the technology has been toyed with for years as a man-portable solution to consumer drone intrusion.
tl;dr hacking is allowed, abusing gov't authority to compel is cheating.

I don't think it's really the same as "what they were asking for" at all.

a.) they didn't compel a company to secretly do it for them

b.) the back door is targeted, I.e. not mass surveillance

As far as I understand, they did the work themselves (modified android OS), and their methods were targeted. A "bad guy" could only get this special, hacked phone, from other "bad guys". This wasn't the same thing as, sending a mole to get work at Cisco and install an undetectable zero-day in all communication infrastructure switches world-wide. And it's definitely a far cry from forcing apple to make a modified iOS on their behalf.

No, they pretty much did what hackers do, and as far as I'm concerned, that's fair game.
As for the battery life, I would have expected this to run for days, literally, but they say only 8h active. It can only power its real-time clock for 14 days. What did they do wrong? Does it scans for networks every 5 minutes?

Besides that, could be a good 5-15 minutes killer while avoiding the smartphone vortex
Imo TV is so much worse than the kind of entertainment the person you're replying to listed.

The cable TV I watched as a kid was just garbage. I know it's still all ad driven, but the stuff kids watch now seems much more useful. Roblox is programming.
Exactly my thought. Surely, if you're a criminal and you're actually successful, then you want to use open source privacy. Heck, if only to hide your usage with everyone else's right? It's not unusual to have Signal on your phone. It's pretty weird to have Anom or whatever else exists
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As an anecdote, I am an artist and I am barely able to visualize anything. I talked with many other artists about this, and it seems that most artists are able to visualize images in their minds eye, but nobody mentioned to me that it felt like this ability improved as their drawing skills improved.
I actually feel the opposite. I think we should make tax returns public, as they do in Norway:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2016/apr/11/when-it-c...

We'd need some small adjustments to make them not useful for identity theft (remove SSNs, stop using specific values from them as authenticators for the IRS, etc.) but with that done, I think it would be a great improvement in transparency.

My public sector salary is already a matter of public record, and that has worked fine.
So the solution to the problem of doctors and medicine makers not being able to figure out what's gonna be safe and effective for whom is to just tell the patient to try to figure that out on their own?
In most places, "geothermal" is just a "ground sourced heat pump". Circulate a liquid underground so that it keeps that 50-degree temperature, run a heat exchange with that as the source instead of the air.

(In other places and to a larger extent pop culture, "geothermal" refers to tapping into actual heat sources underground.)
Here we go again. My lord, what a blood thirsty crowd here, baying for the blood of the rich.
You cannot rely on strictly taxing income if capital gains and asset inflation are free rides.
Is that true though? "Ordinary people" also have to pay additional fees (ex. Mortgage insurance), have higher interest rates, and have access to fewer high-interest investment opportunities.

I mean, I'm glad I didn't HELOC my way to a few Bitcoin last month, so maybe it's best we leave these tricks to the rich folk anyway.
The state of it in Firefox:

"Opened Apr 2020"

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/330

Then in October added "Insertable streams is worth prototyping"

Also: "I will remind people that this isn't the place for advocating for what gets implemented in Firefox. This is something that the media team needs to work out."

then "closed 26 Oct 2020"

But, hey, it's June 2021, you just got a new UI redesign which nobody wanted (I guess, except the managers who invented it), and which uses up more vertical space. (Hint: about:config browser.proton.enabled false helps at the moment).

Even the iOS version of Firefox got an UI redesign. One has to care for the priorities! The color of the shed is always the biggest impact a manager can bring!
Isn't it good.
Your very first words to me were an attempt at an insult, so please save the crocodile tears from having your hypocrisy mentioned. I accused you of bias and reactionary tendencies, although I was intending anyone who reacts to the existence of social media this way.

I'll attempt to be clear. I believe your bias is your agreement with the author on this topic. The reactionary tendency to which I referred is the one I believe you and the author share, that social media inherently diminishes discussions and people involved into an unthinking mass. There's no evidence of this, so I assumed it was simply a delusion borne of reaction to seeing something you didn't like. These are clearly unproved assumptions on my part, but you've done nothing to indicate otherwise.

To address the rest of what you said, it's largely false. The phrase "Flame War" originated on usenet and other early message boards. The undesirable human communication styles existed prior to any internet medium and certainly will differ in form medium to medium.

On Twitter, the people who interact with a post are a small fraction of those who see the post who are fraction of the people using the medium. Of those who interact, there are likely to be various opinions. It is quite literally the few. It can still be an easily recognizable phenomenon while being perpetrated by relatively few members of the population.

Yes, the scale of communication between individuals has continued to increase as time progresses. The internet has revolutionized that. That unfortunately does mean that you will come into contact with more individuals who say or do things you dislike. Broadly condemning people as unthinking or other baseless assumptions is not a reasonable response to this phenomenon. It's lazy.
Given the post-war history of banning psychiatric medications the moment they appear to be effective (because they happen to feel good), the opposite heuristic is if anything more useful.

Shouldn't be like that, but it is.

At least sanity is starting to return to the world: MDMA for PTSD and ketamine for depression are starting to become valid treatments, to the great benefit of those fortunate enough to be able to find and afford to take them inside the system.

But it's the same ketamine. A clinic gives you an IV infusion in a dark room with some nice music; the difference between that and taking a line on your own, in a dark room with some nice music, is less decisive than people who haven't tried it seem to think.
My girlfriend is one of those. And I’m one of the opposite.

I can visualize building an engine in my head step by step. Even going to get the parts if I want to.
My girlfriend can’t even visualize the car. Or the garage, or anything. She thinks in concepts, and understanding stuff like abstract things is much easier for her than for me.

If I don’t see the process or make some visual analogy, it’s hard for me to get it.
(CNN)A microscopic animal has been revived after slumbering in the Arctic permafrost for 24,000 years

Not a real animal ;)
Some things Taiwan can learn from India:

- A "Lockdown" is a very blunt weapon in the fight against COVID. It is effective in temporarily containing COVID but comes at a huge economic cost. A complete lockdown should only be done when the healthcare infrastructure is near breaking point. In fact, the whole point of a lockdown is to provide a temporary relief so that the healthcare infrastructure can be upgraded to deal with the predicted increase of cases in the future.

- Mandatory masking, social distancing norms and reasonable restrictions on people's movement and gathering should continue till the Pandemic is over (remember, the vaccines do not prevent COVID, they only ensure it doesn't become serious enough to warrant hospitalisations).

- Vaccination of the population needs to be priority number one and needs to be done quickly. Once the virus spreads, it also mutates at a faster rate and thus current vaccines may not work on future mutations of the virus. Thus, if any country can manufacture the vaccine on its own, they should use their emergency powers to disregard vaccine patents or license and should manufacture it.
I checked this on Windows and macOS with the latest version of Firefox and I have no issues opening the page
Apple Brings 3D Scanning to macOS Monterey with Object Capture
Was this indeed for criminals, or was it for suspects?
Not at the 500k level most of them aren't getting capital gains. Or is this "anyone can be a multimillionaire - just play the lottery and get lucky" level of technically true?
It’s funny that he wrote this now living in the UK. As an American living in England for the better part of a decade now, it still shocks me how much grades matter in the hiring process for professionals with many years of experience. If you don’t get a first or at least a 2:1 in uni, and/or do poorly on your A-levels, it will hold you back for the rest of your life here