skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been known for a long time that immigrants in the US perform better across most every metric than the native population.

Sometimes this is seen by policy-makers as indicative of a problem with the native population. Sometimes this is cast as immigrants taking over.

The reality is rather straightforward, imo. The type of person willing and able to uproot themselves from their parent culture and set their sails for new opportunity is a huge selection event, in and of itself. It's no wonder that the most driven percentage of humanity turns out to be the most successful.

(This is also why I think the US would only benefit from much less restrictive immigration policy, but that is a discussion for another thread.)
Not UFO sightings, the main tourist trap was the Marfa lights. That was the primary draw in the 80s/90s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights
I lobbied for this heavily and was involved in the firing of CS lead who fucking sucked as his job (sorry for the language), it was always an uphill battle and one I was willing to die on. They still to this day do a shit job here.
I wonder how this meshes with GDPR as this seems like a huge violation of it. Law enforcement being able to dig into messages with a warrant is one thing, but delegating responsibilities to platforms to look for crime is quite another.
Assuming that they're referring to decimal degree notation, and not Degrees-Minutes-Seconds, and that the location is correct, and ignoring the spheroid vs perfect sphere issues: about 11.1 meters (36.4 ft).

http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/Decimal_degrees

If it's DMS, again assuming location is correct, ignoring spheroid vs sphere: something between 80 and 100 ft (24.4 - 30.48 meters).

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-much-distance-does-a-degree-mi...
America is built mostly on immigrant work ethic, vast amount of arable land, no bordering enemies and the collapse of the european powers. Not sure america is that special, just lucky - right place, right time.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-under-pressu...
Do they want everyone to switch en masse to end-to-end encrypted communications? Because this is how you encourage that.
> "healthy" french/mediterranean/home cooked meal and a tv dinner

Opportunity knocking, are you listening?
Oversupply of lawyers seems to be a better example.

Lots of lawyers in the legislative, constantly creating new laws that drive need for more lawyers ... but of course up to a point, and some of the graduates will find they cannot pass the bar exam or progress towards the coveted positions.

Suddenly you have some very unhappy people who know enough about the law to do some real harm to the system out of spite.
> it's disheartening that this essentially boils down to a failure of hype.

Maybe also, but not only. In contrast to Rust, Ada docs have been awful, and as long as you didn't get a commercial toolchain you had to play with some gimped version (and the really free version didn't come out until the language was 20+ years old), the build system was as “good” as C, people complain that Rust is verbose, but Ada was still a notch over, the memory model of Ada is a mere reflect of Rust's one, and (maybe I'm being subjective here) Rust's stdlib and philosophy is leagues over Ada's (Option, Iterator, closures, Result, ...).

Ada had the potential to be a Rust 30 years before, but it was never the goal of its owners.
This is a joke, right? right??
I'm not sure it's alluring. It's possible. I'm not sure our inherent psychology is sufficient to cause what's happening in the US.
>Binance may have violated securities rules when it issued the tokenized shares of Tesla, MicroStrategy Inc. and Coinbase, BaFin said in April.

Microstrategy Inc. So just to be clear, they're created a synthetic crypto-instrument to track the performance of a share that is something like >90% correlated with BTC (since MSTR is basically a leveraged BTC bet now).

This is absolutely snake eating it's own tail kinds of insane.

>Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, an enthusiastic and influential investor in DeFi, recently called for regulations to address the cryptocurrencies after losing money when one crashed in value to zero.

Sorry but Mark Cuban is the most sophisticated of investors, it should not be illegal for him to lose money.
it is almost certainly Bancorp that requested this -- not Chime itself.
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this is the only place where this can be found. Would love to know more from someone perhaps a little bit less involved.
I've said it in a few other comments- everyone has a very, very standard rat-race vision of what a "job" is. You, other commenters that are downvoting me, and the gentlemen you worked with all have the conception that a "job" must be a 40-hour/week, 261 day/year commitment to a set of tasks. (I'm not sure that you agree with them or not, based on what you said.)

I do not agree that society must be set up in this manner. Each job produces a good or a service. In order to produce that good or service, a certain amount of raw materials and a certain number of skilled labor hours must be expended to produce it. It is more efficient, from a scaling perspective, to hyper-specialize and make the same people do the same drudgery day-in-day-out, which is why those gentlemen were stuck in that job. The market makers demanded efficiency, and things fell into place such that those gentlemen were pigeonholed into being grass-planters.

The point that I am making is that there isn't any particular reason (besides an incessant demand for shareholder value in dollars) that the raw materials and skilled labor hours must be allocated in the caste-method that we currently use in modern society. Those guys have to plant grass all day every day because if they don't, they can't buy food, afford shelter, have a doctor look at them, or receive medical supplies. I am certain that we must find a way to look past this system to achieve any of the high-minded goals that people like to argue over, like the 4-hour workweek, or equitable education, or mass literacy, or an end to hunger, or...
No, that was not, in fact, the question I asked. I asked whether they were "particularly privacy averse." And, to me, it seems like they are not any more privacy averse than any other messaging service, given that they don't claim to offer any more privacy than any other service.

In fact, the only real difference I see between Discord and an IRC server is that Discord forces you to create an account and associates your messages with it. But, so does Github, and nobody complains about needing a Github account to contribute to FOSS projects.
I'd be curious to know what use case people have today for hardlinks, ever since symlinks became a thing.

I've been using Linux for more than 20 years and the only case I've found is for rsync incremental backups (--link-dest option), which is great for doing backups to an external USB hard drive and saving space. But that's rather niche.
Pretty sure Java is/was popular (and has enormous momentum) because "it just works" at a time when the Internet is taking off, not because it is some linguistic or technological marvel. It will definitely stick around, just like COBOL and C and Go.
It seems like legitimate questions from an outsider to me. As an outsider from both kernel and rust development myself, I also had the same questions going through my head. Specially given Linus' previous opinions in using other languages for kernel development. That, allied with how eagerly rust is hyped, does make one wonder how much is self-promotion and how much is actually the linux kernel community as a whole embracing the endevour (not just the subset of kernel developers who also happen to really like rust). I feel like they are honest questions. Someone more in touch with the kernel community should be able to answer them.
Seems like the same legal body that made these laws would outlaw that activity.
Cities and towns exist largely as economic, occasionally cultural or educational totems. Lacking a fundamental economic basis will doom any planned city.

There's a history of "intentional communities". Many are thought of as utopian communities, and as largely (though not entirely) failed, though this misses some notable successes lurcking in plain view. There are a number of successful intentional community models.

The first is religious communities which have sustained themselves. In the US, notably Menonite, Amish, and Mormon communities, though there are numerous others. In the case of the Mormons, the community is the size of a state (and strongly influences most of its neighbours).

The second is the college town. For the past century colleges and universities, even comparably small ones, have proved robust self-perpetuating instutions, as both demand for an educated population and funding for education (and research, and sport) have been generous. That tide may be shifting, along with a potential trend to decentralised or remote education, though I suspect it's got life in it yet.

Several commercial motivations have proved workable at least in instances, notably tourist, retirement, vacation, and (as noted, viz Marfa, TX), art colonies. Odds may be longer here, though opportunities also more numerous. The key problem is that fads and fashions are fickle. Retirement populations, as with college students, tend to move on after a few years, if to different prospects. Many of the advantages of a student population: youth, health, vitality, openness to experience, credulity, are lacking in the older set.

Government projects are another option, with some outposts (Los Alamos National Laboratory and its impact on Santa Fe, NM, Macdonald Observatory and Ft. Davis, TX, Cape Canaveral and the Florida coast) having a profound local impact.

Otherwise, a town is generally reliant on what's at hand for economic initiative. In what I presume is West Texas, that's some highway travel, a current boomlette of oil and gas activity, cattle ranching, a few notable cultural outposts, and some degree of border activity. There's also wind and solar development in the area (there's a notable solar technician training centre across the stateline near Clovis, NM), as well as possible other activity I'm unaware.

But lacking that, "build it and they will come" seems rather unlikely. The remaining possibility is that the vision Wrath Of Gnon espouses will appeal to the specific niche they hope to attract, in which case there is limited likelihood of success.

That said: expressing the plan in terms of goal, economic basis, architecture, and design principles would help. The economic base element is conspicuously missing.

Regulatory, governance, and conflict-resolution elements should also be explored.
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Would any email provider protect me from this, get my emails actually delivered and ideally work with my own domain? Not that I see myself switching after 15 years and 6 Gmail accounts but if I am to I'd rather know who I'd use.

And no I won't risk setting it up myself and risk missing on some portion of my emails like I've had happen at workplaces before we'd sigh and switch to Google.

For Chat tg/signal seem like they would but I am less sure what the best option is for email.
It's also how every supermarket in the neighbourhood in Barcelona I lived in worked. You could either buy pre-packaged produce (like two apples in a styrofoam based covered in plastic) or go to the produce section and point at what you wanted and an attendant would place it in a bag, weigh it and put a sticker on it which would scan at the register.

Another thing I hated about many European supermarkets were the one-way gates at the entrance (like subway turnstiles) and the only exists through the registers. Walmart started doing similar during Covid but at least you could exit through self-checkout.
I don't think CUB is doing decoupled look-back, the reference you want is: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/single-pass-parallel...

It doesn't use the word "spin" but repeated polling (step 4 in the algorithm presented in section 4.1, particularly when the flag is X) is basically the same.
I don't think that's true. Most people use Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp; privacy isn't really a selling point for the majority of people. "I've nothing to hide" is the common response.
With regard to “automated customer handling” (I.e. intentionally wasting customers’ time and energy in the hope they give up) - I can’t help but feel that society has lost a critical social regulatory mechanism, in the form of being able to physically beat up people who repeatedly exhibit scummy behavior. If some airline or bank puts you on hold for 4 hours, there’s no way to throw a few punches or whatever at the people who are responsible. For most of human evolution, there was always someone you could hold personally and physically accountable. Now that this check no longer exists, it’s no surprise that kafkaesque bureaucratic bullshit has exploded in popularity with customer-facing megacorps. I don’t really have a solution to propose here - maybe encourage people to vandalize corporate HQs if they’re egregiously wronged? It doesn’t feel like a very good solution.
I am proud to live in a country that is not doing this. Openly. Yet. At least now they have to build a parallel construction to prosecute you for whatever they find, which takes some effort. Yay team.
The problem is that efficient systems are built to remove middle men or processes from transactions -- this 'get paid whenever someone sells / uses / blah' is just rent seeking. everyone wants a passive wealth generation system without work, but the universe shuns this idea.

the emergent, more efficient systems will remove the rent seeking behavior, and allow capital to flow more easily.
Everything significant in this space is open and infinitely clone-able in many contexts. The only thing that isn't clone-able is value -- we have digital scarcity now in a world of efficiency maximizing code and systems. something about passive rentseeking as damage and routing around it.
I agree.

I sometimes wonder if we will ever have the quality of films Hollywood made in the 60's, and 70's.

(On technical note, I'm waiting for the day dubbing is perfected. I will watch a good subtitled movie, but prefer not to.)
> In the next 20 years I expect Go will be supplanted by a language which is a lot like go (automatic memory management, simple, easy to learn & write and performant enough) but with the addition of algebraic data types, named parameters, and a slightly higher level of abstraction.

I'd love for this to be Crystal: https://crystal-lang.org/

> I haven't seen server work being done in Java in ages.

In the meantime, I've been doing a large amount of Java backend server work for the past 10 years.
the user accounts are def segregated from corp

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I'm in the same boat, with half my checking in the brokerage and half in the credit union. Some recent changes to the credit union(merging/renaming/ui changes) have been frustrating me and I've thought about rolling everything to the brokerage's offering, but the redundancy is nice for a situation like described here. Knock on wood though since it hasn't happened yet.
They would be considered mad and certainly not educated; an educated person of that time would have a good command of Latin, which we do not teach anymore.

Standards for "looking educated" shift all the time.
>A few complaints like this aren't all that weird, bigger banks have way more complaints and do way worse things.

The article directly contradicts what you're saying. Do you think the piece paints an unfair or inaccurate characterization of the complaints? (from the article)

>Of the 920 complaints filed about Chime, 197 were tagged as involving a “closed account.” The CFPB’s complaints are labeled inconsistently, and many of the other 723 also detail problems involving accounts that were closed against customers’ will. By comparison, Wells Fargo, a bank with six times as many customers and a lengthy recent history of misbehavior in its consumer bank, has 317 CFPB complaints tagged for closed accounts over the same time period. Marcus, the new online bank created by Goldman Sachs, with 4 million customers, has generated seven such complaints.
Lol. These "old wealthy families" caused the "migrant crisis"
> I chalk this up to their massive size (well over 12,000,000 customers) and a large portion of refusing to scale up Human Resources and instead trying to use to tech to deal with a lot of this.

This is the unfortunate side of disruptive tech. It can't - and shouldn't - replace people. But it seems the allure of cost controls is too strong even if it hurts customers, and eventually the business.
Must be Trump's fault
It mentions in the article that even apps like Signal would have to install backdoors that they can use.
What about carbon capture?
This is funny because modern Lubbock is an exact antithesis of what the article praises as good city planning.
He could just quote or reference the particular part of the bill/law in question instead of asking the reader to read the entire thing.

He also does not respond to simple yes/no questions. Does the law relax the restrictions on child labour for family businesses- yes/no? Several paragraphs about programmer brain, but no answer to simple yes/no questions.

How absurd is it that several dozen media articles cant be trusted, but an hn comment about programmer brain debugging the law, with no citations, must be trusted.
How does a legitimate user clicking on a link inside an email generate a POST request?
What I miss is the good old days of IRC. There the meeting of like-minded folks use to happen gradually. People use to come to know who is who and what their capabilities are. And that built friendships. People discussed projects, problems they are facing with the project, ideas etc. That magic is missing in most of the co-founder dating platforms.
YC founder here from S20 here.

The co-founder search is difficult if you have nothing interesting to say and if you aren't prepared to make the jump.

After my personal journey for 2 startups, (both venture backed and non-venture backed), I find it's important to:
1. have at least 2 years of personal savings ready
2. know what things you're exceptional at doing and what things you really suck at
3. be ready to bare all in terms of personal/biz life goals and transparency with your co-founder
4. proactively go to places where you and your co-founder would both enjoy doing (hackathons, startup events, conferences, online forums about startups, etc.)
5. have a "trial" period, where you make things together or work on the startup together with set milestones in mind
6. be ready to challenge a co-founder's ideas, be weary of people who agree with you 100% of the time
7. Not everyone has to be the "visionary" founder, some people are looking to join an existing idea and that's equally as important
Whatsapp is end to end encrypted.
3rd paragraph:

> In this report, we describe the decoupled-lookback method of single-pass parallel prefix scan and its implementation within the open-source CUB library of GPU parallel primitives

The CUB-library also states:

https://nvlabs.github.io/cub/structcub_1_1_device_scan.html

>> As of CUB 1.0.1 (2013), CUB's device-wide scan APIs have implemented our "decoupled look-back" algorithm for performing global prefix scan with only a single pass through the input data, as described in our 2016 technical report [1]

Where [1] is a footnote pointing at the exact paper you just linked.

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> It doesn't use the word "spin" but repeated polling (step 4 in the algorithm presented in section 4.1, particularly when the flag is X) is basically the same.

That certainly sounds spinlock-ish. At least that gives me what to look for in the code.
I have ridden a motorcycle, and know about the forces involved very well.

And the Snell Tests don't say anything about if Sikh turbans will come off at what speeds. Asking for data is a way to counteract "everyone knows this, it's just common sense" drivel that isn't actually true.
Your neighborhood isn't globally accessible in milliseconds with near complete anonymity. To expect that there won't be attacks is fanciful. To be operating in the 7 figure revenue range without even looking up best practices is negligence.
What's a "test curve"? How does it make 23/100 be an A grade, is it some kind of CDF-based transformation that makes certain % of students pass the test?
What we've seen in many cases is startup banks coming to the market with a streamlined onboarding (open your bank account in 5 minutes over videochat), and then realizing that many accounts are used for money laundering. They eventually get a warning from the financial authorities and subsequently implement fraud detection algorithms that might be a little too trigger happy, to be on the safe side.

It wouldn't be an issue if you could appeal and talk to a human, but challenger banks are, by design, understaffed, and they have no legal obligation to explain why they're terminating your account.

However I haven't heard of any bank (proper bank, with a license, challenger or otherwise) keeping your money in such case.
We also use Ocado, and I have noticed this exact same side effect. Still a great service overall though.
The Myth of the Expert Reviewer
It seems then the worst from both worlds: accept cookies popups and GDPR bureaucracy with mass surveillance.
Hannah-Jones is a staff reporter for the New York Times who launched the 1619 Project, a piece of long-form journalism which reframes American history in terms of the plight of Black Americans and enslaved people. Despite controversy in conservative circles, she won a Pulitzer Prize for this work.

The Hussman School of Journalism and Media at UNC (her alma mater) invited Hannah-Jones to become the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism. Notably, previous Knight Chairs have been granted tenure, and Hannah-Jones was similarly recommended for tenure by a committee within the department. However, all tenure decisions must be approved by the UNC Board of Trustees. The Board, unlike school faculty, is ultimately beholden to the (Republican) state legislature: 4 seats are appointed by the state legislature, 8 seats are appointed by the NC Board of Trustees (who are all appointed by the state legislature), and 1 seat is afforded to the student body president.

Rather than grant/deny Hannah-Jones tenure, the Board initially ignored her application, effectively preventing her from receiving tenure. Due to the Board's inaction, the school instead offered the position as a fixed five-year contract, with an option for tenure at the end of that term pending review. Unsurprisingly, Hannah-Jones found such a deal unsatisfactory, given that she expected to receive tenure and a future tenure review could just as easily be blocked by the Board.

After a great deal of backlash by students and faculty, as well as threats of an impending lawsuit by Hannah-Jones, the Board eventually acquiesced. She was granted tenure by a vote of 9-4.

Of course, Hannah-Jones has since decided to accept a tenured position at Howard University instead.

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[1] https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/05/nikole-hannah-jones...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/business/media/nikole-han...
Well bye bye European tech industry. Why the hell would anyone want to do business with such a risk in place?
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