skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's really weird is they're getting interest to park their money overnight now (it's been zero interest for a while until today).

This is really smoke and mirrors though. Moving the cash into the repo market doesn't change anything, other than now it's an "asset" instead of a "liability." Yes, there are obviously legal differences here, but it's still the same amount of cash owned by the same entity, except now they're getting paid just to park it overnight.

I'm not saying the reverse repo market is nonsense. I'm saying the way the government has structured assets and liabilities in this instance is bizarre and seems like musical chairs. I've actually read up on this and am happy for someone to explain it to me further, but it really seems like they're just inventing new ways to kick the can down the road. I don't think they're actually solving anything; they're just making the problem worse and hiding the symptoms.
I don't think the kind of people that are overly worried about not using up their free trial generally make good paying customers.

Here was my experience: my team signed up, started using it, tried out all the different features (none of which were behind a paywall), didn't hit the 1000 block limit, and started paying within a week of signing up because it was exactly what we were looking for at the time.
Life is relative. Every economy worldwide has been using monetary easing.
Just a glance at maps.me makes it clear why a fork is needed. They've launched a cryptocurrency which seems like a pretty massive red flag: https://maps.me/token/
> But Ars is taking evidence of votes on the budget as a whole, and trying to make them say that Republicans are against municipal broadband.

If you voted for a bill containing a specific provision, it is entirely reasonable to supose that you support that provision, especially when you don't make a public protestation against the inclusion of that provision.

The counter claim is not as reasonable. Just because you vote against a bill containing a provision, that doesn't mean it is reasonable to supoose you oppose that provision (at leat without additional context.)

> What we need are the voting records on the amendment that added this stupid ban to the budget.

That would might give us additional information on who takes a strong stance against municipal broadband (or possibly who got their palms greased.)
This causes so many issues if you have installed php already... Stackoverflow is full of problems...
Rehab is more expensive than jail and convincing citizens to spend tax money on drug addicts who chose to screw their own lives up instead of putting that tax money into schools is a tough sell for politicians. Drug addicts are typically a terrible investment with near zero return. Better to spend money on people who choose to live their lives in ways that better their communities.

"War on drugs" was actually genius marketing because it conceals the fact that the government is actually doing as little as possible as cheaply as possible by just chucking people in prison instead of sending them to rehab.
We lost the war on drugs. Addiction is not a criminal problem. It is a medical problem that should be dealt with by the health care sector, not the justice system.
Are you saying that people only take surveys they find agreeable? Wouldn't some portion of folks want to share their dissenting opinion? The Right certainly has no shortage of talking heads and loudmouths...
Then the current ISP situation is not a free market, because they're constantly subsidized. States pick individual winners for broadband all the time, private companies get direct contracts and grants to lay wire, government works directly with companies to subsidize costs for lower-income families.

In general, the 'competition' we're talking about here isn't between individual businesses and the government -- it's between the entire categories of privatized solutions and public solutions. There are (at least) two theories for how to provide a service: to have communities pool resources in the form of a local town/city government and provide it themselves, or to have the service completely privatized.

By creating public options for some social services, but still allowing the private market overall to compete alongside them, we can start to determine which services cost more money to operate, and which end up providing better outcomes. There are some concerns, but many of them are mitigated by the fact that municipal Internet is only... municipal. It's not a massive nation-wide thing.

But in any case, this is all kind of a moot point because city-maintained broadband doesn't seem to me to be any more of an overuse of government resources than any of the other privileges and resources we're already giving away to private companies in the space. In a genuinely free market, I might be a lot more hesitant about this. But given the current state of the broadband market, I really don't see a problem with small communities and cities voluntarily deciding to try their own hand at connecting themselves to the Internet.
I have. And where it just didn't do it for me is how everything's locked up in that file. Again, the killer part for me is that I can use basic Linux file tools on it easily; e.g. I can either use the internal search, which is good, but also grep.
Yes. The performance is an order of magnitude better than Neo4J, but it lacks feature parity.
I actually have a triple buffered solution for this on my stove and water pump in the summer house (which has dodgy electric wiring and home made plumbing):

1) Manual switch with a light when on.

2) Timer (runs max 60 minutes, makes some clicking noise when on)

3) Remote switch that I can turn off with my mobile phone from anywhere.

That way if I forget to manually switch things off, I can turn the remote switch off and if that fails the stove and pump are powered maximum 60 minutes = wont burn the house down or flood it too much hopefully.

In a future without insurance this is the only way to have a modern life without bringing the pump and stove with you! Xo

By the way I don't think she had OCD, I think everyone else is reckless.
Some answers:

The War On Drugs delivers a lucrative criminal justice system with great latitude including broad search and seizure privileges, an enormous regulatory appendage and high volumes of convictions which employ a vast number of people with professional incomes across numerous professions.

The War On Drugs also provides excellent fodder for entertainment, creating subject matter for countless serials and movies. Criminal drug dramas have served well in supplanting the classic Western in contemporary entertainment.
WoSD = "War on Some Drugs".

(Primarily used by drug legalization advocates, presumably to convey the arbitrary distinction between legal and illegal drugs.)
The colonized are always blamed for resisting. Mugger's logic.
I have no idea on where the 15GB either comes from. I also use pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv and my ~/.pyenv is not close to that.
Agreed. Author has done magnificent work on the illustrations and animations.

This prompted me to make an awesome repo to collect children's books on technical topics (which I have seen a few on HN).

https://github.com/searchableguy/awesome-illustrated-guides

I couldn't find a similar list. If there's one, let me know.
Yup. Absolutely the biggest thing that its missing.
I don't use a Boox account or sign into any cloud services on my Boox, FYI -- the device isn't crippled in the slightest as a result. While I usually use Snapdrop to transfer files for convenience, I also sometimes use a USB connection. Both are essentially "offline".
yes, it is really nice. personally, i hope "the web" will experience a renaissance over the next couple of years - with sites becoming as minimal as possible - like this text-only NPR page, where the only thing that matters is 'the content', without any distractions (social media buttons, "5 min. read", etc). All client-side SPA javascript libraries will be abandoned in favor of serving pure raw HTML (preferably with zero javascript and as little, if any, css as possible). my dream is to find people that have 'bloated' websites and to be hired to convert their pages into pages that look like they were made by hand in notepad.
This is really cool! Clearly a lot of thought went into making it.

That said, I feel like the otters could have just made a bulletin board to solve their problem
Colombia.
Frankly, it is a core part of one's identity. It's not just feeling sad sometimes. It's a chronic condition that colors everything about how you see and experience the world. If you forget that or ignore it, it starts to take over, and your grip on reality is liable to start to erode.
I think the otters should question some of the things that are meant to be axiomatic. Is tight coupling really a scalability problem? Otters should be prepared to defend these statements. Nixie's song might be the vacuous equivalent of "Mongo is web scale".
A few years ago I experimented with running a Pyramid/SQLAlchemy/Postgres app with PyPy. I was able to get it to work with https://pypi.org/project/psycopg2cffi/

I didn't notice any particular speedup for this app - manipulating lots of JSON Python data structures is not really PyPy's sweet spot. Whereas for some processing of large genomic data files I saw a substantial speedup.
> Engineer's solution rather than psychiatrist's - simply rig something that lets you check over the internet and close the door (but not open it!) if necessary.

Wouldn't necessarily work for OCD, as the obsession can easily morph into "Did the sensor fail?" I can see it being helpful though.
>25 most populous states contain nearly 84 percent of the 50 states’ total population. So 16 percent of the country controls half of the seats in the United States Senate

Not really, the flaw here is seeing each "blue state" as 100% blue and each "red state" as 100% red. A blue state can be simply a matter of a single blue city surrounded by red counties. The holdout states give a voice to the people in holdout counties whose lifestyles are at the whim of a super-majority in the city.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-electio...

I prefer a government that does as little as possible and leave it up to each local population to do what's best for themselves. This thread, after all, is about the federal government abusing its people with the war on drugs. Changing the faction in charge and making things even easier for them doesn't solve that problem as that faction is then subject to corruption too.
Also seems like CF jumped the gun on letting their servers serve content to their own servers -- seems like CF fucked up too.

Like, when you are CF big you can't just start resolving domains however you feel because folks use your DNS service.
So fun fact, we built this feature as a pretty low-grade experiment, but when we ran it by actual users we got such a positive response that we ended up putting it at the top of our new front page.

Like you, we thought (correctly, as it turns out) that it would appeal to people early in their career. What surprised us is that very senior engineers also told us they loved it - we didn't think it was as much of a concern for them, but sometimes your users surprise you.

It's also a great example of how obvious low-hanging fruit gets missed until you start thinking strictly about "what can we do to make job seekers' lives better?". It's not a particularly innovative or difficult feature, and yet major job sites with a dozen times our engineering resources still haven't done it.
Why isn't "the operator of the scheme" synonymous with "the central actor?"

Either:

1. I'm trying to dodge the label "Ponzi scheme" for a reason you haven't provided (maybe you think I have millions invested in this shitcoin?)
2. This isn't a Ponzi scheme, and you don't know what a Ponzi scheme is

Which explanation is simpler?
A fine principle in theory but there are serious status quo effects with governments. Governments rarely ever roll back benefits that don’t pencil out. The reason being that people are loss averse.

Knowing from behavioral economics about loss aversion, it is reasonable for us to want to avoid placing ourselves in a situation where it forces us into foolish policy decisions.

For what it’s worth, I am generally in agreement with you, except that majority rule to extract money from some people to provide for others strikes me as poor taste. If the ones who want the service want to collectivize to pay for it, it makes sense to me that the government run that enterprise.

The difference between a market and the government is that if a product is unviable with 50%+1 but viable with 99%, that 50%+1 population can force it upon the rest. That difference to me is significant enough that I don’t think claiming voting as equivalent to market spending is reasonable.
You cannot win a war against yourself.
Are you advocating for the violent destruction of government property? Is that allowed on hacker news?
Ok, what about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:John_Ehrlichman#San_Franc....

> NIXON: [...] Let's look at the strong societies. The Russians. Goddamn, they root 'em out. They don't let 'em around at all. I don't know what they do with them. Look at this country. You think the Russians allow dope? Homosexuality, dope, immorality, are the enemies of strong societies. That's why the Communists and left-wingers are clinging to one another. They're trying to destroy us. I know Moynihan will disagree with this, [Attorney General John] Mitchell will, and Garment will. But, goddamn, we have to stand up to this.
Best GUI? Finder is atrocious, and overall experience is far worse than even cancelled Unity. YMMV, of course, but I hate every second spent with this 'best GUI'. The only reason I ever use macOS is because I occasionally run Sketch.
I am also in academia (a PhD student), and this resonates with me a lot. I got into major depressive episode by the end of last year (having had a few before that) , and was pretty unproductive until the end of March, which is then I took a month long vacation and moved back in with my parents to get back on my feet. Which I was able to do because I spoke openly about my mental health with my advisor and collaborators. And like this person, I shared my experience in a public blog post (https://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/life/covid_depression...). I tend to agree that normalising being honest and open about depression is good - even just saying you were less productive and went on vacation due to it is good, because then others might see that as the healthy thing to do instead of as something that they can't consider. Granted, 'never not talk about depression' seems like it's overstating things, but on balance I think this blog post makes a good point.
I used to have depression from early to mid adulthood that I could not shake off. Many times, it felt like it would never go away, almost like it was an integral part of me. When I was deep in my hole, I thought thoughts like "don't kid yourself, you're always depressed, this is how it is", and I certainly did not have any reason hoping I would some day suddenly not be depressed. But while it was not sudden at all, I am happy to say that I am now, by all means of assessment, not a person suffering of depression anymore.

I think in my case I was "lucky" that I did not want to take medication against it, any at all, and that my causes of depression did not require it. With a very big warning: It was lucky for my situation, and my apparent causes of depression. I do not want to assert that medication cannot help. My reasons for not taking medication were partly misguided, partly right (again, for my specific case). For example, I had the fear that medication would change my "personality" beyond removing depression, and I did not want to change my personality, because I liked the "good" part of my life, in the intervals where I was not suffering from depression too much (I say "too much" because I'm not sure I was ever really happy during that time). I don't think that's how the medication works, though.

So that left talk therapy, a lot of it. Years of it, sometimes interesting, often difficult. And through all of that, I discovered that I had reasons to be depressed, but I was very far away from seeing and understanding those reasons just on my own. They manifested as "generic" depression instead. Getting to those reasons and talking about them straight cured me. Part of it might have just been understanding my emotions at all. I am probably very lucky in that regard, going from "almost always depressed, sometimes too much to properly function" to "basically cured" by finding out what actually bothered me.

Not everything is rosy now, life does not work that way. Sometimes life situations make me sad, overwhelmed, even desperate, and may still send me into a depressive hole for some time. But when that happens nowadays, I can always attribute a specific reasons to it. I am then depressed because depressing things are happening, and it is an "appropriate" reaction. To go back to the beginning, understanding the obvious reason why you are currently depressed entirely removes the "this is a part of me" aspect. Nobody thinks a person mourning for a loved one suffers from "depression" as a condition, for example. I think I learned a new skill.

Second disclaimer: I can only speak for what I went through, and I am not a professional. It is entirely possible that your depression has other causes, and cannot be fixed by talk therapy. For some, knowing that it worked for me might instill hope, though.
> I wonder how much making being depressed part of your identity prevents you from getting better.

I had the same thought recently when Bikepacking.com posted a short video documentary about two obese women doing long-distance cycling. The women claimed that their goal was to end fat-shaming. Yet maintaining such a heavy weight while engaging in such physically demanding activity is difficult indeed. I therefore got the impression that they had so made being overweight a part of their identities that it was no longer a condition they just happened to be stuck with, rather they were deliberately maintaining it at some half-conscious level.
> There is no argument that the advent of blockchain democratised access to finance.

You’d think MySQL would have been the tool to tackle this obvious use case over all these years if you read this forum
> You almost certainly I occupy a bubble in this. I hate the War on Drugs with every fiber in my being, but it’s broadly popular.

Question: to what degree does this influence your overall satisfaction level with government in general (both at the object level, and abstractly) in the United States?
> “In this country we’ve had incidents where these UAPs have interfered and actually brought offline our nuclear capabilities,” he said. “We also have data suggesting that in other countries these things have interfered with their nuclear technology and actually turned them on, put them online.”

Umm... what?
> working

Not after Google and Apple get their hands on it.
Is there lot of use for <4Mhz bandwidth channel at 6GHz? Seems pretty narrow/imbalanced spec to me, but then I don't know that much about SDR.
Back then the risks of not integrating Russia were massive.
Their scientists could move to China, Iran, or even North Korea.
US would like to avoid that.
Sure, but the quote seems to deride the other medical professionals involved. They were likely not idiots: they were likely thinking longer term.
check OpenCrux and TerminusDB - both time traveling graphs which specialize in temporal data modelling
I am a big fan of the idea of using citizen assemblies as you can end up with not just proportional ideological representation but alse proportional geographic representation.
What Ericson2314 is referring to is the coordination + prisoner's dilemma problem. It appears that if every state enacted this at the same time, almost everyone would be better off. That being said, any state that is strongly one party or the other is incentivized not to do this.

California's legislature can choose between giving a high percentage (63.48%[1] in 2020) or 100% of it's electoral votes to the democratic candidate. Alabama's legislature can choose between giving a high percentage (62.03%[2] in 2020) or 100% of it's electoral votes to the republican candidate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...
You can use io_uring as a synchronous API too. Put a bunch of commands on the submission queue (think of it as a submission "buffer"), call io_uring_enter() with min_complete == number of commands and once the syscall returns extract results from the competion buffer^H^H^Hqueue. Voila, a perfectly synchronous batch syscall interface.

You can even choose between executing them sequentially and aborting on the first error or trying to complete as many as possible.
It is definitely a neat feature. And just scratches the surface of what workers and durable objects can do.

To what extent though, would such a feature be necessary if the application had been designed properly from the ground up to scale? That could still mean using workers and durable objects.

Having the logic handled on workers themselves rather than some inherently unscalable legacy stack may be a better solution. Bottom line, if your application needs a waiting room, you have more fundamental problems.

This is a poor use of the engineering talents at Cloudflare. Probably something pushed for by the sales team seeking to satisfy potential clients using legacy stacks. Going forward, hope this does not skew the objectives of the engineering teams.

What would a better use of engineering talents at Cloudflare be while addressing the same root problem of overload? Exploring the ways in which the needless complexity of kubernetes can be supplanted - most notably with shared multiple tunnel instances.
The argument is that Richard Nixon, a disgraced and impeached president, is conveniently responsible for all of the world's drug control "because racism." That sounds a little too comic book villainy to me. Nixon was such a failure that his successor could've immediately reversed that decision. To say that China is still to this day executing drug dealers because Richard Nixon was racist(which is true, I don't dispute that) is missing the forest for the trees.
A correlation with war on drugs is possible but the correlation with lead exposure is much stronger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis#....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5703470/
> British imperialism (as export of capital at usury rates) is still heavily invested in India and communists winning in other states would threaten profits.

What?
thank god for the wayback machine ;)
You may want to see this:

https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/voter-restoration/...
Does it explain the proof itself in it's full glory? I had read "Godel's Proof" by Ernest Nagel et al [1] and it fell short.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Gödels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/08147583...
> This might be an unpopular opinion, but the economy we have right now feels quite fake, for lack of a better word, in the sense that the official numbers that are reported don't seem to reflect its actual health.

opinion - feels - seems ?

Do you have any sources for your unpopular opinion?
It's really beautiful.

Surprising too. I would have expected a far darker approach to this subject!

Perhaps something like 60's horror comics genre, or better, like those Jack Chick religious tracts where people end up in burning in Hell forever as an immediate consequence of a sin against god.