skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of those three examples you gave, Western Europe still wins on 2/3 (higher life expectancy, higher quality of life). Granted the second is subjective somewhat, but I believe most would agree. The first is objectively lower in the US compared to Western Europe, you can check the statistics. Per capita GDP is only high in the US due to massive wealth inequality and a ridiculous concentration of billionaires. It's not "ignoring every contrary indicator", it's that most of the indicators that are used to support the idea that the US is "better" (e.g. per capita GDP) are fundamentally flawed in different ways, and don't amount to a proper comparison of the quality of life.
> he mostly wrote what he thought of as ideal and how we would like to see himself, but often failed to apply it in practice

Yes, most Stoic thought is about attempting to do your best to attain the ideals, not that you'll suddenly perfectly attain them.

Sort of like how meditation has the common misconception that you're doing it wrong if your thoughts wander. No, the point is acknowledge the wandering, bring your thoughts back to your breath, and keep trying.

Also, reading through that undergrad student's critique, I disagree with many of them characterizing his words as contradictions. I don't think many strong arguments were made that he was being very contradicting. One of them implies he was being contradictory by making humanitarian laws benefiting children. Because he had lost many children, and wrote that only "right and reason" should guide you, not the loss of a child. Like it couldn't be that the humanitarian laws were due to "right and reason" as opposed to emotion from losing his kids.
Curtis is trying to create a certain sort of dream state in which the free association of ideas takes place and you reframe your perspective on society.

I'd hesitate to call it even something that could be true. It's more like an abstract painting.

I went through quite a hostile phase, as it's clearly masquerading as something it isn't. It's more a work of aesthetic-political creation, than any kind of "history".

It's a made up history of a possible world view possible dead people might have had; for the sake of saying something about our world views today.
If my browser uniquifies my presence every time it is queried, then yes, I will always have a unique fingerprint.
Why would anyone think the gamer is important to this discussion?
Parents today are overprotective (this includes me!) and don't realize that it actually damages their kids. I was 5-years-old when my parents would just drop me off to the kindergarten and then I was on my own pretty much the whole day after kindergarten finishes in the afternoon. I would go to different classes kilometers away, crossing roads, etc. and it was common practice. I don't think kids get injured less today than when I was a kid. Also, my parents would send me to the store to buy them beer or cigarettes - all you needed back then to either bring a handwritten note from your parent or for the salesperson to know you and know your parents - I don't drink, I don't smoke. We always underestimate the power of the forbidden fruit! Leaving kids on their own makes them more responsible and independent.

I highly recommend Free-Range Kids [0]!

[0]: https://www.freerangekids.com/
It was supposed to take 6 hours using Finland's fastest supercomputer at the time. So said my professor.
The SEC has a habit of going after all sorts of small fry. My favourite is when they went after this moron who made $3100 off call options by performing this elaborate scam to make it seem like Fitbit was being acquired.

The guy is a class A dummkopf since he performed all this easily traceable nonsense for a miserable $3100. But it's still only $3100 hahaha. The only thing the press release is good for is for entertainment.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-107
Given what we have learned regarding the catholic church, boy scouts and penn state athletics program. I'd say young boys have just as much to fear if not more.

That said I'm with you on her walking to the park.
starting forth and thinking forth.
The study makes mention of potentially spotting icebergs, not islands.
The penniless American will keep their phone for longer than the average 2 years. You'd actually predict that the parents hand down the old phone to the child when they get a new one, and now we know why Apple recently extended the time they keep their phones in support.
It's a comic nod referring to the common description of the experience shared by the DDG converts
Can we come up with an example of an SEC official building upon an investigation of a "high-ranking financier" in order to obtain high office?
My mom used to take the bus into the city when she was 8, spend the day wandering around, and come back on her own time. This was in the 70s with no smartphones. If there was an issue, she could use a pay phone. Her own mother sent her out of the house to get some free time for herself.

When I was growing up, I did similar things, taking my 5 year old sister on the public bus with me to get to school when I was 10. If I had some pocket change we’d get ice creams from McDonald’s on the way home.

It depends on what neighborhood you live in, but the world is very safe today and if you’re on HN I assume you’re in a decent area.

I think parents have too much time and energy today to spend worrying about their frankly very competent kids. The smartphone thing is a good idea but I really think it’s best to push your kid out of the nest to discover the world themself, lest you end up with a grown up daughter who’s afraid of the world.
IBM first quantum computer outside USA unveiled in Germany with 27qubits
Free-Range Kids – How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow
I'm sure that's some of it, but the trend seems to be moving away from leveraging OS-level tools anyway. As long as your containers (or jails) and the single important binary in each one start up OK and your network tuning on the parent OS isn't completely screwed up, the rest barely matters anymore.
China's Economy: Visualizing 40 Years of Soaring Exports
In an odd twist I see this being beneficial to Amazon and co which do not have the issue of shoplifting. I would also not be surprised if Amazon and co were for this kind of decriminalization. This is yet another burden on retail stores which online businesses do not have.
Is there a method of flagging papers in scientific journals that have been criticized or refuted, e.g., by later studies or proven inability to replicate the data?

In legal research services, like Lexis Nexis or Westlaw, many cases are "flagged" when a later case or statute reverses, narrows, or otherwise affects the earlier case. This system warns lawyers that they may not be able to cite the flagged case in their current work. Of course legal research services also come with their own issues and costs; some of which are likely associated with this system.
22-year drought is drying up America’s largest reservoir
The point of a title is to be obvious to everyone (to the extent possible) -- the fact that we found it obvious doesn't remove their confusion.
The nightmares that normally come with govt stuff in this space I'm seeing.

1) Long passwords - govt loves these - think 12 characters or longer. Think "EhKx~9RDmPMCW7"

2) Failures to specify allowable characters or blocked characters - very annoying.

3) Hard lockouts (rather than more nuanced rate limiting etc) requiring password resets.

4) Password reset options are weak and not protected.

The backdoor is usually the password reset option.

Ie, agency will do crazy long password + SMS code to login, but you can then reset your password with just SMS. So the long passwords are often just for show.

They often also don't time delay anything. So they'll do things like immediate reset. For high value apps you should have a 4 - 24 hour delay on reset to allow legit user to react.

They'll also often not have good ways to report bad password reset attempts other than via phone which goes no where.

They also often actively block password managers and cutting and pasting passwords. So annoying.

The IRS is currently requiring 90 day password rotations as well which are a nightmare. Coupled with hard account lockouts you have another nightmare.

The list goes on. For the millions to billions they spend you really wonder who is giving them advice.
Probably posted because of today's Technology Connections video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tURHTuKHBZs

Watch it, it's good.
If there's "good social science" that can't be used to make predictions, what differentiates it from bad social science?
You of course know this already but it's not the machines that are wasteful, but rather the software we run on them and - by extension - the developers who create that software.

UI latency is a never ending source of frustration to me, in large part, because it simply shouldn't exist with the computing power we have at our fingertips.

On the other hand we have Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Teams that are both absolute bastions of waste and instability. And not just in compute terms either, but in terms of my time - the finite number of breaths and heartbeats I have left - that is squandered in waiting around, restarting, rebooting my machine, because of these unstable, crashy behemoths.
I saw the name Rauch and my heart sank!

Thank goodness it didn't go the way I thought it did for a second there.
Australian Cops Spy on Covid Check-In App Despite Privacy Promises
cough Electron cough
No, an experiment should not be set up to prove a hypothesis, it should be set up to test a hypothesis. In one the hypothesis is falsifiable, and in the other it's not.
I'm not disagreeing that abstraction can be useful, but the overhead of a VM is unnecessary if utilizing the full potential of containers. Afterall, the Linux Kernel is acting as the hypervisor already, so might as well trust it enough to properly sandbox containers too and use the right functionality to do so. I also think that running a virtualization layer adds quite a bit of complexity, so while it is cool that projects and companies have made it work and integrated it with a container solution, eliminating the VM layer altogether seems more ideal IMO.
Astronomers find more clues behind 'Great Dimming' of giant star
I thought this particular anecdote came from a recent authoritative biography of Law and thus not likely to be exaggerated.
Telling when this has happened can be less trivial than you would assume though. People (scientists even) were sure that phrenology produced verifiable, testable, actionable results for a generation or two.

In the long run it usually comes out, but the run can be longer than you think, and you may not be where you think in it with regard to any particular current theory. I wonder what things we know all "know" are proven by science will be dismissed by later generations. (I personally guess a lot of genetics-related stuff will be).

(Note that something doesn't need to be verifiable, reliable, or true to be "actionable". You can act on anything...)
The implementation of `fs::copy` uses `copy_file_range` on Linux, which does allow reflink optimizations.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524853.
When I was a deeply unhealthy teenager (about the same time I was regularly going through a 30-pack of Coke in a week) I would frequently also drink a gallon jug of orange juice in a day. I still (decades later) have to keep an eye on myself around that stuff; all the variants of sugar-water are reserved for special occasions these days.
I had the same reaction when I saw OAuth 1a. I wrote some code that called NetSuite's REST API, which also uses that; it was more than a little annoying.
Super fun, and it's quite challenging at first to beat the blue hard AI. I've found my personal "joseki" that wins every time by a large margin: one of the two center points, then press blue's response on the other center point by playing one of the two points that attaches to both of your stones. When blue pincers this latest stone, pincer his original stone. Blue will pincer your latest stone again, and you then respond by pincering blue's second stone. From this position it seems like you can do almost anything and win--probably because blue is over-eager on pincering. I usually win with 30+ points this way.

Seems like blue is at a big disadvantage even with green's first stone being weak. I've only found one path to victory: play adjacent-towards-the-edge to green's first stone in the middle, and green will do what seems to be a bad move (a diagonal pincer even further into the edge). From there just capture green's first stone and things start to be more do-able.
IMO it's easier to just call them "surveillance companies" and be done with it. Regardless of whether they're collecting, storing, or processing surveillance data, they're all in the same business as Equifax, Google, Lexis-Nexis, and NSA.
> Basically, export regulations from that era implied that you had to make your algorithm weak intentionally

I think the question then becomes, is the regulation still satisfied if the specifics of the intentional limitation/weakness/exploit are undocumented? It's likely moot these days, but curious nonetheless.
> It may not be a "disorder" but no one is sure whether it's biologically "normal."

This is not a legitimate question to be answered and therefore has no scientific or research merit, so stop dragging biologists into it. How do you define “normal”? Once you have picked a suitable definition, what do you intend do to with that information?

Your linked article asks the questions about the genetic origins of homosexuality, which has fuckall to do with your own invented concept of “normal” or “disorder”.

Your whole premise is bollocks. You’re convinced that you have some enlightened thought exercise here but you really need to get your head out of your own ass. We get what you’re trying to say - but it’s too stupid to argue against.
It’s interesting to watch Tesla’s valuation as a slow motion train wreck. Their earnings are steadily growing and the valuation of the company is slowly dropping, so maybe we’ll eventually see on a longer timeline the price of the security approach fair value. As of writing its a bit above $150 a share based on free cash flow analysis.
I've used readme.com with mixed results. TBH, wouldn't recommend. It's easy to setup but the cost of maintaining and updating it becomes more and more with every new endpoint. And if you've got a lot of them, it also tends to slow down.

docusaurus.io is the next tool on my list to try out, it looks promising. I think it's better suited for smaller projects, with a lot of things out of the box. I haven't seen an API company using it yet though.

Station is something I've used in the past, because I was working for Nexmo at the time. The team at Nexmo / Vonage won a few awards because of it for the best Developer Portal a few years back. It's open source now, and the cost to setup might be higher than the other two, but a lot of the design decisions make sense for an API portal. It's also super fast once deployed, and that helps a lot with developer perception. https://github.com/Nexmo/station
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Personal attacks and name-calling will get you banned on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. If you'd please read the rules and stick to them from now on, we'd appreciate it.
Followed a couple links from that and came upon this doozy of a story on insider trading tradecraft:

https://archive.is/zYj0R
(spoiler alert, if you want to watch Soylent Green and you haven't already, don't read my message. I recommend this movie)

Well, maybe it was a joke but I'll take your comment seriously for the sake of the argument.

I don't think so, if your premise is that since it's made of human, it must contain everything a human should need. You need the input, not the output (and the output is not the same as the input here). Moreover, let's hope they don't include brains in Soylent Green, because you would rapidly get prion-related diseases.
like bitcoin
you can optimize for both. obtain directory entries, sort by inode, do a batch stat (ideally via io_uring) and fiemap and then sort again by extent order.

And if you only need the `d_type` instead of the full stat struct, then you get that for free from getdents(2) on some filesystems, this is what platter_walk does.
Even back when us kids were 'free range' there were more restrictions placed on the girls, my older sister couldn't get up to as many shenanigans as I could at the same or younger age -- cultural norms and whatnot.
White collar crime can be punished very severely if it agaisnt individuals. Wire and mail fraud carry stiff penalties. Insider trading is somewhat different becase it's more about being it being unfair than theft or exploitation of another person or company. It is somewhere in the grey area of a victim vs. vicmtimless crime.
I’m taking issue with the lifetime of the civilization, not the rate at which they send out colony ships.
Fed holds rates steady but raises inflation expectations sharply
“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” - W. Edwards Deming.
You’re “protecting” yourself against Starbucks monitoring you by establishing a secure connection to a grey market entity with more of an interest in your activity.
This does look interesting. I might give it a shot sometime soon
I'm not even sure you need sophisticated data analysis.

The two people who did the biggest trades:

- weren't involved in the finance industry (a school teacher and an equipment leasing business)

- had never traded options before

- did the brokerage know-your-client process to get approved for options 1-2 weeks before quarterly earnings came out

- profited $884,000 and $175,000

A SQL query looking for people who made > 100K within 2 weeks of opening their account would catch these people, and probably have relatively few false positives.
Does anyone else feel like the current climate is partly a by-product of the lazy “think of the children!” Rhetoric that so many law enforcement agencies and politicians use to get their legislation and budgets passed? It’s hard to let kids be unsupervised if the only thing you hear from politicians, police and others is that kids are in so much danger we need to pass otherwise ridiculous laws just to protect them.
Obviously you can't threaten other users. We've banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A couple of things I omitted for brevity:

The async server response doesn't contain the data. It contains a link to retrieve the data. So make a request and then wait to for a link to be sent to your server that you can use to retrieve the data for a limited time.

The responses sent to the server don't correspond one to one to the requests. One response may contain data for many requests, and many responses may contain data for one request. Each response contains data for many UATs.
But how secure is encrypted pages and PDF? My understanding was it is not useful against a determined attacker and anyone able to access your iCloud will be in this category.
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They could track most anything on radar including projections.

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Why bother with new technology?
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I just want ONE option - ACCEPT ALL COOKIES.

Seriuosly, I reserve the right to expire, delete, manage and otherwise deal with cookies on my device myself.

Can anyone create a different standard with ONE flag - ACCEPT ALL COOKIES - SHOW NO BANNERS*

*User reserves right to delete, purge, modify, expire etc cookies on their device.

That's what I want.
Yes, I believe you need a varied diet, vegan or not. In a vegan diet, you also need B12 supplements because it's absent* in a vegan diet and it is an essential nutriment. Lacking B12 is bad.

*except B12-enriched food if you happen to have it, but you still need to make sure your B12 intake is okay.
This article really points out that nearly anything can constitute an addictive substance, if abused. Which isn't a very novel observation, but it does make one wonder- what is it about modern society that leads to so many addictions? Why are we so stressed and depressed? Or is it just the availability of these substances makes it easier to self-soothe, whereas in the past people were too busy surviving or lived austerely so they had to meditate or embrace stoicism.
> Insider trading is somewhat different becase it's more about being it being unfair than theft or exploitation of another person of company

Unlike wire or mail fraud, there is very little statute to stand on [1]. It's mostly common law, which makes the prosecute-or-not decision more challenging.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#United_States_...
This is an interesting point, what does it mean when it is gray?
This really is a great thing about living in Utah with young kids (one of the states mentioned in the article with laws explicitly protecting parents from these randos.)

In my neighborhood the street is literally full of neighborhood kids almost every day, ranging from 2-3 years old to teens, out riding bikes and playing games. There's a park a few blocks away that my kids (3yo-10yo) walk or bike to unsupervised.

Obviously as a parent you still worry - for me I worry more about someone getting hit by a car than being abducted - but it's nice to know at least that child services isn't going to show up just because the kids are out playing.
The author might ridicule the notion of children being raised "like veal," but calling them "free-range kids" just makes me think I'll be paying a hefty premium for cub scout sirloin.
Blind is if all the animals on LinkedIn took off their masks and showed their true sociopathic self. So, always read Blind if you want to see the darkness, and then look at LinkedIn if you want to see masquerade.
(DevRel at Timescale)

The resurfacing of this article today is particularly interesting as I work on a new blog post and video talking about managing all aspects large-scale data, specifically geared towards time-series, but certainly applicable otherwise. Fast ingesting, compressing data, partitioning, pre-computed aggregates, etc. which shadows (unknowingly) a lot of the sound advice in this article. Nice work Petr!

Timescale recognizes that time-series data is often a particular challenge in many of these areas, which is why we're primarily focused on bringing time-series superpowers to PostgreSQL. Sometimes we're fortunate enough to include enhancements like SkipScan[1] that work on any ordered index, regardless if time-series data.

TimescaleDB addresses many of these scaling issues by providing functionality to auto-partition data, natively compress it into columnar form (which often improves historical queries saves upwards of 97% of storage), create continuous aggregates to pre-compute data for reporting and downsampling, set up easy data-tiering functionality, data retention, and straightforward horizontal scaling for time-series data.

It's great to see confirmation of many of the features within a related context.

Thanks again for the article and getting it in front of folks today.

[1]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-we-made-distinct-queries...