skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>I was arguing that the event could be considered more than nothing, possibly something like manslaughter due to possibly analogous events being considered as such.
If you're arguing that casework from manslaughter-at-a-distance exists in the United States and that such case work would be applicable to KiwiFarms, I'd disagree with both points. The first point has already been explained. As to the second point, such a case would involve interstate commerce. That's under the purview of the Supreme Court which has already classified what is considered unprotected speech. "Cyberbullying", however it's defined, is not among those designations. Defamation seems to be closest category, but that's not a criminal designation.
Another point to address is that calling for someone's death or suicide is not in itself illegal. Otherwise, plenty of people would be imprisoned over their opinions about Donald Trump. There must be a mens rea and a credible threat or act for the purpose of objectively harming the individual in question. Composing a slanted and abhorrent commentary about said person does not qualify as or is not comparable to setting up the noose or pulling it.
But they are cringe in the way a Pixar movie is, its kinda meant to be hokey at times to humanize the presenters without trying to be too smart. They understand the image they are presenting really well whereas Microsoft has no idea what they are fumbling into.
The majority of people in the world can't get a credit card.
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Reminds me of a quote from someone at work in regards to a big bug: it is a self correcting problem - people will stop using and paying for it and it will no longer be a problem!
I love Lao Gan Ma, but was devastated to learn that it has a non-trivial amount of trans fats in it (it's right on the nutrition label). Now I need to find an alternative.
The other benefits of Pro for Workstations is a higher RAM limit (2TB vs 6TB) and socket count (2 CPU sockets vs 4 CPU sockets), NVDIMM-N support, and SMB Direct. Not normally features that would be missed on a normal PC.
None? I have no clues what marketings goal are and frankly I don't care. If they want to insert some junk.js into their web page they need at least to ensure it is legal.
algorithm could not be based on that. what you described is highly personal and doesn't make sense when optimizing for profits. When optimizing for profits all that matters is value created/delivered (or loss reduced, risks averted).

One can speculate about possible (and/or highly personal) correlations while not realizing that the outcome is completely fair.
Yikes, this is one time I really hope benchmarks don't reflect reality. Imagine you have a DB server that typically peaks around 30% CPU. You reboot one night to install patches, the next peak the server is suddenly completely maxed out due to this performance hit, causing application timeouts. Your update logs might not even help if you're on a cloud VM, since microcode updates are handled by the hypervisor.
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My information is from 10-K filings with SEC, and my statement is referring to net profit margins, which are what they are. Unless there is massive fraud going on, managed care organizations are not earning massive profits. If their PBM divisions are, then they are simply subsidizing the insurance division, but it would make no difference to people. The total expense for premium plus out of pocket expenses would not change, it would just shift from one to the other.
That is exactly the point of the comment you’re replying to.
You're too worried about the underlying implementation. Think a bit more about the runtime expression in terms of the resulting Entities and how the set of components linked to them defines data and behavior and what you could do conceptually to extend that.

> That's not to mention that the main benefits of ECS have nothing to do with language paradigm. ECS main advantage is cache coherency and easier parallelism.

ECS is not data-oriented by default. :)

I have a long post explaining things in this thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27663218
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One huge difference between them is that UTC is, well, universally used, while GMT is switched out for BST (an hour ahead) in summer months on client machines. Not that you should be assuming anything about the state of the client machine but this is an extra footgun.
It most certainly does need to rise to a level of provable criminal conspiracy. Gut feeling doesn't hold up well in court.
> A lot of doctors will prescribe the most expensive drug simply because they believe or know that it is better in some way without regard to it's cost.

This is so obnoxiously common across every profession.

People are willing to piss away other people's money on "the best" without even telling them what the options are.
It's pretty straightforward: conspiracy videos generate a lot of views, which is ultimately profitable for youtube. Videos which point out that the conspiracy videos are garbage have the potential to adversely impact their astronomical view counts and by proxy their profitability. So of course youtube would ban accounts which attempt to undermine their revenue streams.

It's despicable, sure, but not at all surprising.
I've been using Linux Desktop on and off for 2 decades now, have contributed to open source projects on Linux, have built my own Linux distro, and was once president of a LUG. It is my personal opinion that it isn't a good desktop operating system. You're free to disagree, but don't assume that I have no idea what I'm talking about.

And you might have been slightly more persuasive by not being a condescending ass, but that's asking a lot of a Linux Desktop evangelist in my experience.
For those who are old enough to have used the original Visual Source Safe, they'll remember that "Get" and "Delete" were right next to each other in the context menu (edit: or at least very close by) of the code tree.

My first week at a game studio, I right-clicked the root of the tree and... yep... chose delete. And it "just worked".

Obviously not just my fault alone, but yeah, that was a pretty rough first week.
> You should be able to read "misinformation" and easily discern it as such.

I'm afraid this is equivalent to saying "You should be able to be offered high-sugar food, and avoid it to an appropriate degree." This may be true in the moral sense, but practically speaking most people will fail this test.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting the answer is censorship, but just pointing out that large numbers of people cannot meaningfully deal with misinformation.
Because (1) no one else can and (2) after a ransomware attack, they get the blame.
There's actually a well-funded, VC backed startup pursuing this very strategy if you're interested in checking them out! https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/16/spinlaunch-spins-up-a-35m-...
It also should be noted that Oberon's UI (which you can try out by downloading the emulator from here[0]) might be an initial culture shock if you are used to a Windows-like interface, but when you learn how it works it actually is both very powerful and very consistent - which helps into usability since everything works the same way.

AFAIK Oberon was actually used by "regular people" at ETH Zurich for a long time.

(and a lot of people ran and still run their programs maximized anyway)

[0] http://www.projectoberon.com/
I’m not espousing a legal model at all. I’m just pointing out that literally no government in history has ever said “you can send whatever you want into our country with no restrictions.”
This is such a lie. Anyone who peeked at Byuu’s thread yesterday when the news dropped would instantly run into replies practically excited over it, there’s plenty of screenshots to go through being posted on Twitter before the DDOS. You can try to minimize the language being used here all you want, the intent is clear.

Did you make an account here just to make this comment?
All these performance neutering patches, made in the name of 'security' that in certain situations has no value whatsoever, should only be accepted if also conditioned by the "mitigations=" Kernel boot option.
It would be nice to see what was flagged. I'm guessing this was gamed by their opponents.
Critical thinking is the best strategy.
Censorship is paternalistic, imperfect, often nefarious and in many subtle ways far worse than having an unreliable brain.
Probably 500 Million in China alone running windows.
Ask HN: Leaving company, how to make the most of vested options?
Hey everyone,

I have vested options which I'd like to turn into some liquidity. The company I work for apparently doesn't allow employees to sell shares (after exercising the options) to any of those third party marketplaces. Additionally, the company probably won't go public for a few more years.

The company is profitable and growing, but for a variety of reasons (mostly personal) I do not wish to stay at the company.

The vested options are definitely worth something, and I would like to extract at least some of their value immediately. However, I cannot afford to exercise all of the vested options, and so would want to seek financing.

The only option I've found thus far, which seems to be what I'm looking for, is SecFi. They apparently offer a product to both finance the purchase and provide immediate liquidity without actually selling the shares.

Does anyone know of any other options that will give me immediate liquidity without violating the sale prohibition mentioned earlier?
The code doesn't know whether the terms of the agreement have been fulfilled.
Yes, I do take issue with the government granting monopolies to private entities with taxpayer funded research. But not all of the funding for all the treatments I mentioned, which are clearly cures and not meant to bleed people until they die, came from government.

Sometimes the pendulum swings too far towards cynicism.
There's no way we could ever stop the world and get everybody to use a new protocol overnight.

Attempting to change the format of an existing protocol in-place in a way that existing hardware and software cannot handle, would be an effort that's dead on arrival.

The global transition to ipv6 is already hard enough, and that's with it designed as a separate protocol so that existing equipment that doesn't understand it can at least gracefully discard it instead of mishandling it.
I've just published my third eBook, and the first one on Go, but I've been writing blog posts on Go for years, several of which are top ranking on Google. That was part of the driving force putting the book together.

> It's a compilation of practical examples, lessons and techniques for Go developers. The topics cover the software lifecycle from learning the fundamentals, to software testing, to distribution and monitoring.

There's been 280 copies sold so far, and I'm open to feedback and improvements, having already incorporated changes received over email from readers.

If you're a Go expert, this might be one to recommend to a friend, but if you're starting out, or want to level up in unit-testing, Goroutines, or metrics/instrumentation, it may also be for you.
This stuff always has the vague feeling of pirate treasure type stuff. Like you’ve got a map with a red X on it and you then go look for the treasure and it’s got all these traps and stuff and then bam! Treasure! But then the pirates come after you.
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Sorry, I was also quoting a number of other sources. They may have done the analysis the same way of course. [1] You certainly do raise a good point however, I'm open to retracting that since to your point it's probably not possible to know for a fact. My bad!

[1] https://medium.com/cryptocurrencies-ups-and-down/top-ten-bit...
Every day the largest wallet is confiscated, divided into ten equal portions, and each piece is randomly awarded, lottery-style, with every transaction from the previous day serving as a lottery ticket.
I remove most centralized control so that private companies have no power to censure, but governments could if they chose. I think private companies have vastly too much power over the internet, something that is unlikely to change.
That’s not even close to the main flaw. The main flaw is that it incentivizes crime, human trafficking and accelerates environmental destruction. None of these are huge problems if you can afford a private bunker in New Zealand. It’s a major problem for ordinary citizens, especially those of poorer countries.

Everything involving code has bugs. Bugs aren’t a reason not to use code. Bitcoin isn’t a problem for the very small fraction of the population that use it. Bitcoin users are super rich tech workers and finance guys, by and large.

The people hurt most by Bitcoin are all the people who don’t use it. It benefits the ultra-rich at great expense to the other 99% of humanity.
“ “Time Difference” (“Zeitverschiebung”) lists time zones for cities etc. – for example, the time zone for San Francisco is America/Los_Angeles.”

Does anyone know how the canonical cities/regions associated with a time zone were determined? It seems kind of arbitrary. Wouldn’t “America/California” or “America/Sacramento, CA” make more sense?
Many of the chemicals generated actually do exist.
So nice, I hope it drops to 0.
That works great when every interaction you make with the data is in JS. But less so if you want to, say, run manual SQL queries from time to time.
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Funny you should mention the Model T. We did the exact same thing with roads as we did with IPv6. We created a new type of road (highways) that the Model T could not go on. But the new cars can still use the old roads, albeit slower than their max speed. This is the same as IPv6 going through carrier grade NAT.

Slowly over time the roads were upgraded, so now you can use mostly high speed roads to get between places and you don't really see Model Ts anymore because it's not convenient to avoid all the high speed roads.
Anybody managed to create or organize a group of people proactively changing their lives (energy use reduction, waste reduction, more reuse etc).

If so how difficult would be to spread it a bit.

I strongly believe that if you make just enough of these simple apolitical day to day groups, it will flip the rest due to follower effect
but they can get and use {meme}coin?
This is true, but with that said 54 countries have instant payments [1] [2]. This number will only grow, as you’re just pushing messages around queues. Once Congress lit a fire under the Fed, it’s only taking ~4-5 years to roll out instant payments in the US. This is very fast for such endeavors.

Your average financial consumer in most countries is going to trust their bank and government to protect their fiat vs cryptopunks, blockchains, “smart contracts”, and “stablecoins”. To compete with fiat, you need to sell trust and recourse, not speed, and that’s something crypto inherently doesn’t support.

(No need to point out Venezuela and the like about where crypto might have a chance, ground truth shows those folks overwhelming used Zelle and clandestine US deposit accounts to circumvent government monetary controls [3] [4])

[1] https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/real-time-payments-ar...

[2]https://empower1.fisglobal.com/rs/650-KGE-239/images/Report_... (pdf, start at page 30)

[3] https://www.coindesk.com/venezuela-is-a-testing-ground-for-d...

[4] https://mobile.twitter.com/jp_koning/status/1254009112263868...
Not the same thing as contracting employees, especially in the eyes of the government.

Plus cancellation terms are likely codified in terms of the license agreement.
Maybe they do not have a dedicated device. It seem 65% or 4.7 billion people have access to the internet.
I'm gonna be honest I don't know what the audience is for a product where you risk losing your entire life savings because you typed a wrong word in a smart contract rather than paying a middleman a fraction of a percent.

It's almost like a sort of willful ignorance of division of labour and the concept of pooling risk.
Unusual, no. Unjust, yes, and impractical besides. If (unlike me) you accept the legal fiction that a country's government "owns" everything within its self-proclaimed official borders, with all the corresponding rights of a property owner within that domain, then they can either block the communication at the border or impose requirements on those living within, provided that anyone who doesn't care to agree to those rules is free to leave without further penalty. In any case, their jurisdiction does not extend to any party (or parties) to the communication outside their physical borders.
1NF is defined in terms of attribute domains on the logical model.

It all comes down to if the value is atomic with regard to relational algebra. Can you project attributes or insert tuples in the value using the standard relational operators? Then it is a relation, and you have a 1NF violation.
I have to disagree with the sentiment you express here.

Your metaphor is bit confused. You are comparing individuals tools to methodologies. For example, object oriented programming is a methodology which involves the use of a variety of the tools like inheritance, composition, interfaces, dependency injection, etc. So, object-oriented programming does not correspond to always using a hammer in every situation. It rather corresponds to particular theory about which tools to use in which situations.

There have been a variety of methodologies of framing buildings. There was traditional framing, then balloon framing, and now platform framing. These different approach to framing are what would actually corresponding to things like procedural programming, objected programming, and functional programming, not the individual tools.

It seems to me that it is pretty clear that there is something usefully termed data-oriented programming or functional programming. Neither is appropriate to all scenarios, but that doesn't prevent them from being useful concepts.

Crucially, though, your thrust seems to be that we should use the right approach for the task at hand. That's true to a degree. But what remains is that some paradigms are either bad ideas or frequently get applied in domains they aren't suited to (I'm looking at you OO!).

The consequence is that I don't see it as particular helpful to say "use the right tool for the job." Yes, it is true, you should use the right tool for the job. But I think its also true that some paradigms are better then others, just as some framing techniques are improvements on anothers.
> Are you able to do this?

Yes, but everyone can, I'm not special.

> If so what methods led you to having that ability.

As corny as it sounds I first learned it from a pamphlet on "How to Read Minds" that I ordered from the back of a comic book.

There's no specific method to it, your brain already does it, you just have to practice and develop your "psychic" muscles.

> I catch peoples thoughts sometimes, it's like they're being yelled into my head.

Yeah, if that bothers you imagine a reflective egg surrounding your body, that should help.
> it's most useful with services where the startup time is less important than

So now it's not about startup time at all?

> please consider submitting bug reports and patches to help the project,

Who says I don't?

But systemd needs a few full time adults, not just a patch here and there to fix the launch-while-brainstorming culture that gave us the current situation.
the increased demand for insulin is not why the price is higher.

Insulin is made in massive facilities in large batch runs. Making 5X to 10X is basically cost of materials, which haven't really increased enough to justify the price increase.

This is (mostly likely) a rent-seeking situation where a few providers who are allowed in the market are milking it for all the profit they can.
Unless culture marks overconsumption as bad
yeah I was going to say Tim Cook puts on an excited hopeful demeanor that can also be interpreted as being terrified, which is probably true.
Personally, I have always held USDC in high regard. Their attestations (not audits, which they have also never done) are now roughly 3 months late and they have recently changed their wording from being 1:1 backed by dollars to being backed by various approved investments. [1] It was right at the time they made these changes that growth went parabolic.

I'm also suspicious that right as the crypto downturn hit they suddenly went out to raise $440M - something I wouldn't expect a stablecoin with billions in the bank to need to do. [2] However, personally I would assign them a risk score of 3/10 ("Hmmm") as compared to Tether's 11/10 ("Oh sweet mercy") - a sentiment echoed by the Fed [3].

IMO there's a few things propping up USDT, including multi-stablecoin liquidity pools doing automatic arbitrage against other stablecoins.

[1] https://www.centre.io/usdc-transparency

[2] https://www.coindesk.com/usdc-builder-circle-raises-440m

[3] https://www.coindesk.com/us-fed-official-calls-tether-a-chal...
This implies there isn’t any contract obligations/fine print at the point of link to real world / real identity (exchange).

In a hypothetical world, if coinbase made you sign things at signup and later demanded money for the upkeep of the network caused by your own transactions, I don’t think you can say no to that easily.

Compare this to an HOA demanding a $100k payment from each condo owner in the Miami condo repair / collapse story. Now let us assume that condo is worth less than $100k. I don’t think you can just walk away and abandon your condo.

It is not about storage cost and transportation - it is whatever contract you agreed to when taking the investment or liability.
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It is not strange, but it also contradicts claims about managed care organizations earning tons of money. It is not a business you go into to get super rich.
I don’t disagree with you, but I think the only fallacy here is that it’s an extremely zero-sum way to look at things.

Are we perhaps better off for many — maybe even all — of our status quo legal contracts not working like software programs? Sure.

Is there a class of legal contracts — either already in existence, or made possible by crypto — that’d make much more sense if ran like software (with different requirements/constraints than the error tolerance you described)? I don’t see why not, and why this would be mutually exclusive with the first premise.
Who is "they"? Maker has nothing to do with USDC. USDC is a Coinbase product.
Every time I’ve dug into it, modern nations which enjoy a much lower cost per capita coverage (which the US is a major outlier) basically have a government mechanism to set prices for drugs and health services.

There are no free market health systems in leading economic nations (unless maybe you take a very small niche corner of the systems)
A point that most people miss is that the world is slowly being eaten by algorithms. One example would be trading floors being converter from mosh pits to electronic ledger books. Another example would be slow advent of self driving, sure it's not here yet, but I think we can agree it is possible.

So, is it that much of a stretch to assume that some day a significant fraction of contracts will be more algorithmic? "The best way to predict future is to create it" - unatributed.
The default Windows file-picker has let you paste in a path for decades. The address bar at the top can let you paste in a path and the "File name:" prompt at the bottom supports several different kinds of paths.