skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is acceptable and laudable to include the name of a police officer engaged in unjustified brutality. Call if doxxing if you like, but in a case like this it has the potential to bring accountability, and to righteously damage his employment prospects. A policy that uniformly bans such identification, particularly by a public official with so much power and such broad immunity, helps perpetuate the injustice.

I don't think we'd be better off if we never heard the name "Derek Chauvin".
Lots of ad hominem here...
>I think this is a consequence of there being a female-focussed feminist movement, but not an equivalent movement focussed around male empowerment.

There is an equivalent movement for males. Unfortunately it's been entirely co-opted by red-pillers and incels, and rejects feminism and its arguments categorically.
Slate Star Codex: a peer-reviewed long-form article on depression and treatments
Almost everything is SSL-secured now. There's not very much an ISP can snoop on. DNS lookups and IP addresses, I guess.
A "hedge fund" seems unnecessarily charitable. The majority of their holding is apparently unspecified "commercial paper", which in all likely is near-worthless IOUs from linked entities like Bitfinex.
NASA Inches Closer to Printing Artificial Organs in Space
They're relying on me to keep my wifi up in order to provide their service.

They're relying on EVERYONE to keep them up in order to provide their service.

Essentially, people for a router and to keep it up and running, but it's google that can sell its service, but won't share the database of routers with the people maintaining them.
LuaJIT (which incorporates the Coco patch to PUC Lua 5.1) makes use of Fibers on Windows [1], because "None of the other methods [for switching C stacks] work for Windows because OS specific code is required to switch exception handling contexts." This allows the following very nice extension to Lua [2]:

> The LuaJIT VM is fully resumable. This means you can yield from a coroutine even across contexts, where this would not possible with the standard Lua 5.1 VM: e.g. you can yield across pcall() and xpcall(), across iterators and across metamethods.

This implies that if a Lua function calls a C function that C function acts like it's on the stack of the current Lua coroutine and can yield (suspend itself and the coroutine) and be resumed. Note that PUC Lua 5.2 added a different (more portable) mechanism for accomplishing the C-lua part of this: lua_yieldk, lua_callk, and lua_pcallk [3], which require the programmer to do all the hard work themselves. LuaJIT just does it by magic.

That PUC Lua and LuaJIT have suspendable C functions is something that IMO sets them apart as truly mature scripting language implementations; almost no other scripting languages can do this!

[1] https://coco.luajit.org/portability.html
[2] https://luajit.org/extensions.html
[3] https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#4.7
That particular wildlife was actually not local.
People will spend when they want to spend. It's utter horseshit that economy would die and we need government which forces people to spend.
They always said an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Why wouldn't you buy a Bugatti to take you to the grocery store? The "most powerful tools" aren't always the easiest or fastest to use.
It wasn’t speculation, they still associate with other people I know and I have heard the reasoning either directly or indirectly in every case.
The whole reason Reddit has worked at all was because it eschewed auto moderation in favour of human moderation.

If something breaks a law, fine. But if it doesn't, favour the moderation team.

In either case, a removal should cite which flags were triggered.
> By and large, it has not been the women who have been intolerant of homosexual men, but rather other men.

What evidence do you base this on? Women's attitudes have a big effect on social norms, so we certainly can't dismiss them out of hand. And women who seem to have negative attitudes towards male homosexuals obviously exist.
> I think this is a consequence of there being a female-focussed feminist movement, but not an equivalent movement focussed around male empowerment. It means that analyses like these are typically done from a female perspective with all the usual implicit biases that come from that.

Yes, in the last few decades we started to see some efforts to create this missing male empowerment movement, but they all seem to end up embracing and heavily leaning on traditional gender roles instead of fighting it. Initially the various efforts seem to run the gamut from conservative reactionary movements to liberal transformative, but as they grow, the more liberal ones seem to always evolve towards a more traditional conservative view.
Yes, you're exactly right about REPL-driven development and TDD being the same spirit.

I took to TDD pretty easily because I was already used to doing short run-it-and-see-if-it-works cycles. The main difference was that instead of checking via eyeball, I talk the computer to check it. This is slightly slower early on, but so much faster once a program is big enough that manually checking everything would take a while.
> The challenge with Tether is that it's basically impossible to prove or disprove their financial status.

It's impossible for outsiders to prove or disprove. It would be trivial for Tether to do, which begs the question of why they don't (their reserves pie chart does not qualify).

Tether claims that it's basically the only $60B+ institution in the world incapable of being audited. And given their ludicrously simple business model, it's mind boggling that they can even say this with a straight face.

Of course the real reason they can't be audited is because it would ruin their business. And thus, here we are.
OK, so if you're saying that the entire crypto world is operating on a giant fake dollar Ponzi scheme, then how can a US-regulated exchange like Coinbase (who operates another stablecoin, USDC) be listed on the NASDAQ?

You'd think no one in the entire US government apparatus would let the SEC know?

> The next economic downturn will wipe out the whole exercise.

People have been calling the demise of bitcoin since 2008.
Firefox has had a load of conflicts of interests that people don't want to mention. For example, >90% of their funding comes from Google for being the default search engine. That means Mozilla doesn't want to upset Google too much.

As a result, what have we seen? Safari has added new privacy features, that should have been obvious, before Firefox. DuckDuckGo, which Mozilla staff generally recommend, isn't the default which is odd for how vocal Mozilla likes to be about how we're great for your privacy and an open web.

The point is that by receiving >90% of their funding from Google, Mozilla can continue existing. And also be a hypocrite in their actions.
The biggest problem with skill based matchmaking is that you eventually reach a point where you only win half of your games. There are days the struggle is appreciated, but some days that's just not fun - especially considering that it's an average and you'll have dry streaks. A lot of players hate it, they'd rather have a noob stomp, while others like the struggle.

The old days where you joined servers, got to know names, and formed communities offered a lot more than win/lose stats. Ultimately, I would say that is far more "engaging" but they neither want to run servers for us nor let us do it ourselves anymore.
I actually consider this the most honest critical reply, even if it runs counter to my values – so I upvoted it.

I don’t believe that the policies were unenlightened, or accidental, or coincidental. I think they were the result of immense effort and cunning, driven by a different set of values that are intrinsic to and still maintained by a certain class today. I believe they originated in the class system as a way to justify the privilege, and I don’t think they ever went away.

The level of ingenuity to pull off what was done, and then to create an ideology and a set of scriptures to justify and entrench it for centuries is absolutely fascinating at both a historical and anthropological level. It’s also a in a context of immense human suffering and loss of life that it cannot be separated from.

I find the woke culture an almost comical clash between the overt and implicit values of globalism and neoliberalism. I view it with a fascination, and it’s not from some position of superiority. I’d like to believe in the ideology, because I think I’d be so much happier, but I’ve always asked too many questions. Again, I consider the possibility I’m intellectually incapable of understanding some fundamental truth. The supremacist angle – not meant as a pejorative – seems the closest I can get to it, but I find that nearly all paths rely on post hoc ergo propter hoc, and it again puts me in a position of being better than others. And yet, fundamentally, do we all not have a sense of superiority: does our own individual survival not come ahead of another’s – outside of kin?

I don’t believe we are qualified to know the impact of imperialism without knowing what the world would have looked like without. From a cybernetic point of view, imperialism appears as though it can only have reduced the variety of the planet, and seems to me a negative – but this is assuming that industrialisation would have happened by another means. Imperialism also arose in multiple forms, leading me to believe it was inevitable, and I suspect other imperialist powers may have seized the opportunities left behind – but this seems a weak justification for what I consider amoral behaviour.

I wonder, however: if the asymmetry were reversed would maintain your position? Were you on the receiving end of might-is-right imperialism, would it still be a position you would hold? Kudos if so, but it’s not for me.

I realise that I was fortunate to be born into an imperialist country, and to be able to be an immigrant in another imperialist country. I drive a car. I can live with that and not agree with the things that ostensibly led to what I benefit from, and put me in the position of privilege to be able to even think about these things.
> All assets liquidated today, what do you think the true value of a Tether is? $.70 USD?

Given that only 3% of each dollar is backed by fiat, they can only guarantee $0.03 on each dollar requested.

In the case of a bank run, the commercial paper etc. would be considered valueless, and unlike a real bank, their deposits are not insured.

So the value of a Tether would theoretically fall to $0.03.

In practice however, it is plausible that it would result in them blocking redemption and fleeing the country to avoid jail, so the value would be much closer to $0.
I have walked 30km in 8 hours and it wasn't even that hard. A tough as nails hunter gatherer who has been walking and hunting and sleeping rough his entire life could probably cover hundreds of kilometers in a hunting trip.
Differences in regional naming and screen types are causing confusion in nearby comments.

A screen door can be a secondary exterior rigid door with metal mesh panels[1], or a hanging fabric mesh door[2]. A window screen can be a metal mesh, in a rigid metal frame, tightly integrated with a window[3], or a flexible add-on[4].

The polyester/fiberglass/etc fabric meshes can be more opaque than the metal ones.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Screen_d... https://www.lowes.com/search?searchTerm=screen+door
[2] https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEdK5h6smTU
[4] https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product...
My first ever job (in high school) was manually counting mosquito larvae in water samples for our local department of agriculture. IIRC the aforementioned technique doesn't really work for that, instead they collected samples regularly for several months at the same spots each year and used that for their forecasts.
Reminds me of the "load-bearing poster" bit from The Simpsons
Not very.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2001/01_72AR...

> "Only during dust storms on Mars is there enough wind energy to operate a wind turbine," said Michael Flynn, another NASA Ames scientist. On Earth about 10 meters (33 feet) per second wind speed is needed to make electricity with wind turbines; on Mars about 30 meters (98 feet) is needed because of the extremely thin air, according to Bubenheim.
If the Bugatti is free, why not use it? Unity is very easy to use, and it gets easier over time. They keep making paid features free, and once ECS is mature (in the UI, I know it's production ready), I think it's going to have a huge positive impact.
Next step is to set up a grid of ESP32s with MEMS microphones and a FFT routine, stream that data to a server and apply some neural network to get to know the real amount of flies by tracking them individually. Then compare this to the model, and keep improving it until it fits.
It's all broken down in the video. A very large chunk is on "commercial paper" which is unsecured loans to...?
We can thank Jack Welch of GE for that attitude. I thought the same thing in the 80’s when GE was shedding thousands of employees. That those employees should be useable for new endeavors. Turns out retraining is a cost the company can externalize with firings
Yes. I guess I don't really consider those an equivalent, but something else entirely. While feminism is all about self-reflection and questioning traditional narratives, these movements seem to be mostly about doubling down on them.
>I can't think of a single benefit of a function over a comment for a piece of code that's only used once.

The call stack becomes very organized and readable when debugging.
I don't think "@dang" does anything. Please email hn@ycombinator.com as the guidelines recommend.
Tests != TDD. TDD encourages an architecture with lots of indirection so that it can achieve the necessary polymorphism for injecting dependencies in test.

I can assure you the linux kernel is not TDD'ed.
I get the impression that YouTube do not really put any effort into breaking youtube-dl, YouTube Vanced, etc. It seems that mostly when these break it's accidental.

The last thing YouTube wants to do alienate the technically literate minority who use adblocking, because these are the people who could establish an actual competitor. These folks still put money into the creator ecosystem anyway, through patreon and direct sponsorships, which funds creators to make more content. YT wins either way, honestly.
Statistics Gave the Allied Forces an Edge in World War II
All death penalties are not equal.

When was the last time the USA killed a child for a photo they didn't like? If you were to be a child and got killed in the US, you surely deserved it. If you were a child and got killed in Saud, you probably just pissed off some little fascist.
> you need to provide your SSN and Driver's License to a third-party (Uphold) if you actually, you know, want to cash out.

This is the government's fault not Brave's. There are laws that enforce the requirements. We do not have the freedom to move value or money around freely any more.
The broader historical observation is: given a large amount of money, a requirement to keep it continuously invested, and a cloak behind which to operate, what financial institution in the history of humanity has made good choices?

At best, they're choosing investments incompetently. (Chance Tether's team is equivalent to professionals at major banks?)

At worst, they're choosing investments to maximize personal gain.

Or to put it another way, what sort of company do you think is knocking on Tether's door, offering a good deal in exchange for a few billion "worth" of notes?

It ain't Coke.
I really want to add this bit:

cut -d delimiter -f fields
sort -t delimiter -k fields
awk -F delimiter
The same way your bank account is <3-4% backed by dollars, and the rest in the form of Treasury notes, bonds, credit, and loans. Just like Tether.

Welcome to fractional reserve banking. It's been this way, with every single account, for decades now.
I didn’t say homosexual men, I said bisexual men.

Which is more common in your experience: men that won’t date bisexual women or women that won’t date bisexual men?
There is the Hutter Prize for English text compression (http://prize.hutter1.net/), I wish there was an equivalent for the https://oeis.org database: https://github.com/void4/notes/issues/72
And this is why you should be careful with "funny" test messages/placeholder names/dummy products etc. This could be a lot more trouble if it weren't obviously a technical thing, although a clear sentence along the lines of "if you are a customer and received this email, sorry, please ignore it" would maybe be a slight improvement.
It is somewhat comforting to see a court of a entity show it is fair and honest when they don't always agree with the entity they serve. For me that is a good metric of fairness.
We have layered Hasura over an existing set of SQL Server databases to provide a public facing API for our product. [1]

Overall the experience has been fantastic. The performance and authorization scheme is very good. It has allowed us to wash our hands clean of bespoke endpoint writing for our enterprise customers with complex integration requirements (for the most part... waiting on mutations!).

One thing I wish was handled differently would be Same Schema, Different Database support.

We have multiple multi-tenant databases as well as many single tenant databases. All share the exact same table structure. As it stands, we have to maintain a separate Hasura instance for each of these databases as the table names conflict and there is no way to rename or reference them differently. That leaves us with the minor annoyance of needing to instruct users on their appropriate server prefix (server1.fast-weigh.dev/graphql vs server2.fast-weigh.dev/graphql... etc). Yes, we could proxy in front of these and route accordingly. But that's just one more layer to deal with and maintain.

It sure would be nice to have a single instance to maintain that could handle database availability based on the role of the incoming request.

Even with the minor inconvenience of multiple instances, I 10/10 would recommend. It's a huge timesaver assuming you've got the data access problems it seeks to make easy.

[1]: https://fast-weigh.com / https://docs.fast-weigh.dev
Thank you for linking the old.reddit.com version of this post. What a sight for sore eyes.
Series F = they haven't found a sustainable business model yet?
KYC, AML, CYA, IANAL
That book is really dated (1994), but unfortunately there aren't much better options.

It is unfortunate because the understanding of the field has improved dramatically over the past decades, and explanations from a more modern perspective would benefit even novices.
Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]
I don't know for US Ids, most modern official documents (e.g. passports, resident cards etc.) have coatings that look different depending on the angle.

You can sure still fake it somehow, but it goes beyond just printing a card.
... it doesn't just "rely on" that stuff, but it explains the fundamentals of them really well!
In my experience, internal competition in a sufficiently large organization is inevitable. This may be a hot take but I think it can be healthy. Also trying to eliminate internal competition can often be worse than internal competition.

Why? Because management ends up anointing a "winner" when there are competing proposals before anyone has built anything. This rewards people who are good at getting projects approved rather than execution. And I've seen so many bad projects, late projects and projects that fail that come out of a process like this. More often than not, those who started the project have long since claimed credit and moved on to other projects or companies so any failures get blamed on execution.

Additionally, the process of anointing a winner takes time and resources you don't necessarily have. Those decisions are typically based on factors that don't matter or wrong assumptions you'll only find out when the rubber hits the road.

Look at iOS and MacOS. A certain breed of manager would've decided this internal competition was "bad" and would've spent a year figuring out which one to invest in because "two OSs are bad". Rather than getting paralyzed with indecision, it's nearly always better to ship earlier and figure out what to do later.

Look no further than Windows to see why. Steve Ballmer, who came up as the business head of Windows, saw everything through the lens of Windows everywhere. So when smartphones became a thing, what did he do? Adapt the Windows OS to phones of course. Microsoft lost time to market and Windows Phone went nowhere. Years earlier Microsoft bought the then popular Sidekick and rather than rolling with it they spent years figuring out how to move it to Windows.

This can of course go wrong. Anything can. But in a sufficiently large organization your attitude should be how to handle internal competition not how do you eliminate it. The latter is a fool's errand.
No, it's not the same at all. Tether is not a bank. Banks are audited and bank deposits are insured. Banks can't print money unilaterally. Tether doesn't have the same regulations apply to it.
As a man, I certainly don't think masculinity is toxic (although of course it can be in extreme forms, like anything). Male empowerment movements on the other hand I have found to be incredibly toxic in practice. There are definitely pockets that aren't, but those seem to be few and far between.
I think I spot several mistakes of reasoning in your comment, but they essentially boil down to this: it sounds like you're too confident in your personal experiences to generalise to humans as a species.

I think -- like you describe -- that many people will go through life only ever motivating their work with money. I think this can happen for any number of reasons, some of which are just personality traits, and that's fine.

In other words, I won't contest your experiences because I fully believe you share them with many other people. However, I also don't think they invalidate the general results that a lot of people could be paid enough in a good enough environment to remove money as a motivator, that would be cheaper for companies, and society would be better off for it.
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May you reveal what culture is it?
Or loaned large amounts of cash to an exchange to help them avoid insolvency.
Not sure why you are downvoted.

I guess users could also send the tokens elsewhere to try and find an exchange that doesnt care about money laundering laws - but governments get quite involved in crypto.

Or is transfering tokens not possible?
Just a few thoughts.

> I think a much better argument is to point at countries that decriminalized drugs and didn't see an increase in crime.

I agree.

> we've already concluded that it's okay to prioritize safety over freedom

Who is "we"? A majority telling a minority "we" know what's best for you at the expense of your freedom is very dangerous rhetoric.

> we have seatbelt laws

In this analogy, I would argue drugs = cars and seatbelts would be some safety measure on where drugs could be used (like no heroin injecting within 100 ft of a school, etc...) which seems like a reasonable restriction. But banning cars because a majority of the population thinks they are dangerous and people cannot drive them responsibly would be absurd.
That's not true. There is iosubmit on Linux which is used by some database systems. It's hard to use and requires IODIRECT, which means you can't use the kernel file buffer, writes and reads have to be aligned and a multiple of the alignment size (sector? page?)

Iouring is a huge improvement here.