skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still illegal (and possibly dangerous) even without the amp - you're just much less likely to actually interfere with anything because the range is short. But you still shouldn't use it.
Enterprise licenses for on premise Neo4j are certainly for a specific customers with specific needs, but there is always the DBaaS (https://neo4j.com/cloud/aura/).

Or if you absolutely need on premise and are small there is the startup program for free enterprise licenses (https://neo4j.com/startups/)
I don't think you're actually supposed to use CE in a production environment, it's more there for learning and teaching, which is why it's free. If you want production grade then use the cloud offering.
The world economy is a ponzi scheme played out over a very long term
Copaganda was very funny. I laughed and related to our heroes in blue.

Funny they don't seem to shoot unarmed kids in the show at all, wish our cops took inspiration.
CVS Health Records for 1.1B Customers Exposed
Hey sureshdasari, this is probably against the rules for advertising.
Author here, any feedback is appreciated :+1
Let's start with the prisons about to be built, of which there are still many. A campaign to convince the Travis County (Austin) commissioners not to fund a new $80M women's prison succeeded this week. Next step is to get them to instead fund diversion and mental health programs.

You may find similar movements that you can join in pressuring local officials. The fun thing is that at this level of government, commissioners will often respond themselves, so you know even relatively few emails are making an impact.
Historically, graph databases did a passable job of supporting data models and queries that were not really possible in SQL (absent proprietary, vendor-specific extensions). That's all over now, because recent versions of SQL support recursive queries that can handle general graphs quite easily. No real need for a specialized solution, even plain vanilla Postgres is good to go.
Personally I think it had more to do with corruption than anything. The CIA was happy to profit off it. The anti-drug people loved it, particularly those who were against cannabis. anyone who hated hippies. Anyone working against the antiwar movements. Those against hemp were happy. That's a lot of money just there. Politicians could use it to demonstrate a hard line stance against crime. Or just use it to target particular groups.

Then theres the people lobbying for anti-drug laws to expand the prison population. Lawyers and respective district attorneys that were happy as well.

The drug war was basically a felony printer as well. This made all sorts of social problems including unemployment / housing even more problematic. It tore apart families and still does. Meanwhile other legal drugs (opioids in general) flourished.

Then there's the overdoses / poisonings because the source and distribution networks are utterly motivated to mess with the supply.

The truly stupid aspect is that drug use has not significantly decreased. The whole "war" aspect was a complete failure. So it wasn't a good investment anyway.

So many parallels with prohibition. Government poisoned that supply as well and killed thousands.

Just say no. Indeed.
Hiccup in Akamai’s DDoS Mitigation Service Triggers String of Outages
So... what is wrong with them? I've only had very good experience with ArangoDB.
First, it's been at 500 or so for a few weeks this is a substantial jump. The previous high record was $589 on the 14th. This has never been this high.

But more than likely you need to understand what Reverse Repo is and why it impacts all of us. Here's a great ELI5 On Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/1ixbwf/eli5_repo...

TLDR: More inflation and shakey times ahead.
My read is that your statement is incorrect, in that they were not simply 'acting like racists'. Instead, they were instituting racially motivated policies to combat the advances of the civil rights movement through the '60s. Plus ca change.
That's cheaper than my solution, which was to make the status of the door locks, garage doors, furnace, etc, all verifiable via home automation. And with backups for some of them, like auto-closing garage doors. I used to have a problem where I'd get a half mile from home and have to turn around and verify the garage doors were in fact closed. Never once did I return to find them open. But now I can just pull it up on the phone.

Pictures is a cheaper way of accomplishing that, not a bad idea.
The ability to generate a profit and investment rounds aren’t mutually exclusive, but if you’re focused on growth you’re not going to have profits because you’re going to be spending all of your money on growing. That doesn’t necessarily mean you couldn’t drastically reduce expenditures and become profitable if investment wasn’t an option (or just an unfavorable option)
That's the end of your professional responsibility.

Take your ball home.
Correlated Errors in Quantum Computers Emphasize Need for Design Changes
We showcase them already on the main repo (see other installation options):
https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer#install

Do you think it will be useful to be showcased more prominently somewhere else?
Given how addictive heroin is how do people supporting decriminalization suggest dealing with hard core addicts that can’t afford the drug? Giving it away for free in a clinic, hospitalizing hardcore users, letting legal dealers take on the risks directly?
Geek Squad Vishing Attack Bypasses Email Security to Hit 25K Mailboxes
People say it failed without recognizing how bad the crack epidemic was, and is currently only a shadow of what it could be had it been left unchecked.

Yes, there are still drug problems - but not to the common extent you saw in the 80's.

I think the issue is that people hear the word "war" and think that only the cops and military are the sole soldiers. There is only so much they can be expected to capture without some massive invasion of citizen rights.

The truth is that more must be done by the communities themselves. Whether you call it a "war", or by any other name, you will need more than just cops and TLA's to solve the problem.

And yes, we should spend more on education as part of all of these efforts. The concerned citizens of this country have been asking for that balance to change for a large number of reasons. Unfortunately the status quo remains.
I've been thinking about comics explaining different IT concepts, but so far only produced one :-) https://vlad.studio/wallpaper/?how_internet_works
Banks have a ton of cash, and they're worried about inflation. So, they store their cash with the fed (through a repo [repurchase] agreement) temporarily.

[0] What is a repo? - https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus...

[1] Repos in charts - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRPONTSYD
It's not specific to Python. If you want to do fine-grained "parallelism" on a set of complex shared datastructures, your cores might look busy, but really you're just wasting most of the time locking/unlocking stuff. That's not necessarily going to result in a speedup over a lock-free single-threaded implementation (that you didn't implement to compare against).

In the case of Python, the single-threaded implementation was already there, the implementation that removed the GIL in favor of fine-grained locking failed to deliver the goods.

If you want to actually take advantage of parallelism, you want data structures that are amenable to it, which is basically sections of arrays without a lot of potential read/write conflicts over multiple threads. If you're at that point, you probably want to use C/C++/Rust anyway, you don't want speed up something that's already 100x slower (the interpreter) by parallelizing it. Python offers that with C-extensions like NumPy.
>but it’s broadly popular.

In a "twist words, give people 4 option multiple choice and count 3 of them as support" sort of way.

The illegality of trafficking hard drugs is broadly supported and it goes down from there.
> Who does the government want to marginalize? I thought the government (and the rest of the world, really) was all about equality and inclusion as of late.

Only the moral & good parts of the government. There's plenty of politicians & forces out there whose campaign message & activities are rather the opposite.
Yes, govt bonds are looked at as not reliable and the fed is incentivizing the purchase of the bonds nightly with additional interest. Problem is this is to stave off excess inflation, but it ironically will create it.
love that the link is the text version
Just think of the the savings if they just removed Cannabis from the war and legalized it? I'm guessing a trillion $$ over the last few decades. Just think of how many peoples lives have been utterly destroyed by the system over low level Cannabis possession/use? Even now the Biden Administration and the Democrats in Congress are dragging their feet and not fulling an election promise to the American people by legalizing Cannabis. I predict it won't happen because of lobbying from some of the industries below and the 100's of millions given to to these same representatives over the years to keep the status quo.

Winners
1.Police System/Unions
2.Prison System/Unions
3.Judicial System/Lawyers.
4. Politicians

Losers
1. The American people/tax payer

Disclaimer: I do not use Cannabis or ever have.
Note that the Python version of pi requires an unbounded amount of memory and, more importantly, an infinite amount of time to produce pi to infinite precision.
A huge portion of them, considering just how much of our prison system is filled with first-time non-violent offenders. Also considering the socioeconomic effects of even a misdemeanor drug conviction at a young age, a lot more career criminals could've been prevented by not sending them to prison in the first place.
I don't know, it feels like many people understand ranges (but still not all). They don't need to understand what a CI is to get "somewhere between 1 and 3." The barrier I face is that while they understand ranges, they can't take uncertainty.
To borrow the quote from another post on this thread (which is still very valid): "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." — John Ehrlichman, to Dan Baum for Harper's Magazine in 1994, about President Richard Nixon's war on drugs, declared in 1971.
UDHR is not a binding law, it is a "declaration". An aspirational statement of common understanding made by bureaucrats in a big conference in 1948, and is one of many such "declarations". Thus trying to cite a certain passage of this 70 year old declaration as if it had legal force today in any country on earth is a pretty odd thing to do. A declaration isn't even a treaty, and of course a treaty needs to be ratified to be in effect. So not only has the UNDR not been ratified by anyone, it can't be ratified as it is not even a treaty to begin with.

Now some nations may have decide to take some of the principles in this declaration and turn them into laws. But you will find that there is great variance in the human rights laws today even between, say, Canada and the U.S., or Mexico and Japan.

The fact of the matter is human rights are a social construct and they very much differ on what society your are in and what that society has decided are the rights it will observe. Looking around, we find very different definitions and intepretations of rights all around the world.
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This story sounds like it should be posted in the subreddit "and everyone clapped." Any therapist worth their salt would consider both practical solutions as well as treatment of the underlying cause. If your depression were triggered by job loss, they'd urge you to look for another job as well as figure out how to prevent/treat the depression itself. I'm skeptical that the other psychiatrists thought the practical portion of this treatment was scandalous.

The only reason the other psychiatrists may have objected to his 'treatment' is if the psychiatrist who recommended this solution considered the problem solved after just applying the practical solution. The OCD is likely to find another way into this person's life, whether it's checking lights or the stove or something else. It's a pathology and pathologies don't typically resolve themselves by making a minor life change.
So, I'm reading the description of "The OZ project" in this article... and all the time I'm thinking: "have they heard of table top RPGs at all?"
> the fed is looking for ways to incentivize financial institutions to take money

Right, the current situation is a money market "plumbing" issue; there are more deposits than banks can handle due to GSIB balance sheet regulations.

Here's some background info: https://fsforum.com/news/fixing-whats-broken-the-gsib-surcha...
I see the failure of the War on Drugs and the resultant human toll as an indictment of the big government idea. Its an attempt to central micro-manage an issue that should be addressed at the state or even community level. The federal gov often involves itself in much more than it should.
Probably a sizable number of them. Because the people in prison are still people, and there's no good reason to keep most of them locked in a cage if they're not posing a risk to other people.
The impact isn't the same, but I've been guilty of doing exactly the same thing with software bugs. "Sure, we could just do this little workaround and get you back up and running, but there's a reason for this and we would be better off in the long run investing in a real fix."

I do have a limit, at least, after which I'll go for the quick fix and then try to follow up with a broader investigation. Depends on how severe the issue is, too.
And the Canadian government did nothing?

That's not very surprising considering the Canadian government recently paid 10M dollars to an enemy combatant and terrorist who murdered and wounded several US Soldiers [0]. And of course, received full apologies from Trudeau.

[0] https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-veteran-blinded-in-omar-khadr-...
Isn't that exactly how you'd expect racists to act?
> Founded by Sophie Schmidt, the daughter of Eric Schmidt (co-founder of Google/70th richest person in the world). Just FYI. I like the idea of the publication but I wonder how unbiased it could be with a background like that.

Good to know, but I think it's taking it too far to say that Sophie couldn't be unbiased. Are children so bound to their parents? Are you so bound to think like yours? To support your parents' endeavors? Some do, but many don't.
If you haven't heard of him before, you may want to read up on Harry J. Anslinger[0]. Joe Rogan also has a really in depth episode on him. He was deputy commissioner of the federal department that oversaw prohibition. when that ended, he went on to narcotics enforcement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger
My City Was Gone by The Pretenders

I went back to Ohio
But my pretty countryside
Had been paved down the middle
By a government that had no pride
The farms of Ohio
Had been replaced by shopping malls
And Muzak filled the air
From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls
Said, ay, oh, way to go, Ohio
Google Cloud probably does too, even in this case. Or I'd put my money that way rather than on the client. The fact that you are thinking of trying to set up a new account despite the possible consequences to your business, is a tell of who you are working for.
It really dependa of your ip. If you're in a block that has a bad rep, you'll have the captcha every single time. This seems legitimate but this is definitely not applied per ip, it's apply per ip block.
I have a server that i rented for more than 10 years now, used only as a mail server and a vpn endpoint, i get captcha everytime when I use my vpn.

Now, for someone who lives in a country where ISPs have a bad rep, this makes part of the web horrible. People are then considered as bad actors by default with no way to improve their experience.
When I was younger drugs (meth) ruined a lot of friends and some family. While I believe in personal responsibility, availability was a big factor and drug pushers are a thing. I don't mind if they were incarcerated to stop or slow the damage they caused/exacerbated
> Without passing the minimum bar, how does Triplebyte distinguish itself from other 1000 platforms where people post resumes?

We still have the quiz, and we still show performance on it prominently on your profile (provided you've chosen to share those scores). In fact, we've put a lot of energy into improving the trust companies place in our quizzes over the past year precisely because we think that skills data is important.

> Also, dissing those who have passed the bar as "engineers who like tests" is disrespectful. When they first launched, passing the bar makes you (in their words) a highly qualified engineer, and now passing the bar means nothing except that you only "like tests"...lol

Heh, yeah, that's fair, at least to a point.

Our quizzes are predictive. We know this from a lot of objective data, it's what you'd expect subjectively, and companies do tell us that they trust and value that data. That does not mean that our tests have no bias towards certain personality types. Different people respond differently to testing, and that does have a differential effect, not because our tests are bad but because testing is inherently somewhat artificial.

I actually taught test prep before joining Triplebyte years ago, so I've been this first-hand: it was not uncommon for a student who'd been doing well in practice sessions to crumple under the pressure of the real thing. That doesn't mean the test is bad, it just means that some people fare better on tests than others for reasons other than just their raw ability. When we say "likes tests", that's more what we mean: not that that's the only reason someone does well on a test, but that people who perform well in isolated, pressured environments do better relative to their skills than others.
"Everything looks like a graph" is more damning of the idea of a graph as storage than it is praise. The whole point of a database is to impose _additional_ constraints on the data to ease subsequent application development or data analysis.

Relational data may be a hassle but its a hassle you end up having to deal with anyway at some point.

I can see a graph database as being a useful place to stash a ton of shitty data as an initial place to start an ETL but I can't imagine using it as a system of record except in very limited situations.
One example taken directly from my life is that the exterior of older buildings offer dramatically more shelter from the elements to both passerby and the homeless. Modern buildings will rarely have doorways or awnings to shelter in.

And when they do they are often built to a gigantic scale that is drafty and relatively exposed.

Nooks and crannies vs 90 degrees of flat concrete.

Brick, wood, stone vs stainless steel and glass.

Window sills with moulding you can sit on. That's warm because its made of wood.

Which buildings look closer to a prison?
Meetup on Sunday at Dolores Park in SF
If you're in the SF Bay Area, come hang out with me and my internet friends this weekend :) https://stuff.li/cIDJnQqX

There will be plenty of programmers and other startup types, plus miscellaneous charming weirdos.

(I'll drop the event link in the comments as well so it's clickable. Pretty sure I found Stuff — the listing platform — on Hacker News, as it happens!)
Its not an uncommon thing in history either. One of the incarnations of the KKK supported prohibition because it gave them an excuse to persecute catholic irish immigrants.
Clickable link: https://stuff.li/cIDJnQqX
Perhaps the point is to move the Overton Window, so that a compromise can settle to the left of empty gesture, for a change.
level 2 of that game, tho':

"Is the list I made to know what to take pictures of complete? Did I really take pictures of everything? What about that thing I'm not remembering right now and wasn't on the list but I'm pretty sure I didn't turn it off, either ..."
Interesting post.

Can you please flesh out the following? I don’t quite follow it..

> having infinitely many states would require them to be infinitesimally similar, and hence indistinguishable from each other within a finite amount of time
Organicmaps: Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers
Justices scuttle lawsuit against Nestlé, Cargill alleged aiding slavery abroad
Take a look at another comment on my thread, I think this person gets it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27537891

The most important value is in the depths of the thing once we have committed. This makes the commitment all that more important. Good or bad choice, the real value is uncovered with that further digging.

Maybe the question of what's the best thing to be doing is missing the point?
> I thought the government (and the rest of the world, really) was all about equality and inclusion as of late.

They're certainly all about talking about it. They don't really take a lot of actions to back it up.
Perhaps some instigators had ulterior motives, but many who jumped on were part of the grand miscalculation. Though perhaps they should have looked at Prohibition for guidance too.
Indian Microfinance Reforms by RBI
I love this kind of high-level introduction of what a thing is. Sometimes very hard to find for technologies. Also otters are cute.
Doctors are just tech support for the human body. They listen to your complaint and offer up their best guess diagnosis based on what's helped previous customers with the same symptoms, but they have limited information on the system they support, the documentation is spotty and sometimes contradictory, there's a ton of bugs, and they have no escalation path because the engineer who designed the system quit ages ago and left no contact info.
You don't even need sub tropical.

Massachusetts, in the Northeast, is showing a real-world strategy for solar.

Massachusetts incentivizes homeowners to have their own solar installs. My house, for example, has solar, as do many houses in my town. Yesterday it produced about 50 kWh, meaning I was sending energy into the grid.

You might ask, what's the point of solar if there's no storage? Going 100% renewable would be amazing, but reducing CO2 is a win. If electric load declines because more and more homes can produce their own electric, that's a huge reduction in total CO2 that needs to be produced at the power plants. It doesn't mean we can throw away the gas plants, but they can be run at lower capacity. Storage isn't really discussed yet, but maybe one day we'll get there.

We're also investing in a huge offshore wind farm.
And considering the problems he seemingly has with the state of US parks is worse in Europe in those same French national parks, the black forest, the alps... Well, I suppose he already declared crowds weren't an issue in Europe, but I'm surprised to see him bring it up against US parks given the state of the "wilderness" he has been to.