skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Conclusions: Early implementation of intense and sustained control measures is key to achieving a near normal social and economic life.
> They provided additional harrowing details of their experience beyond those disclosed in court documents, which include copies of e-mails and text messages of eBay employees that federal prosecutors say show how they conspired to terrorize the Steiners.
The couple met in the mid-1980s in Western Massachusetts at what was then called North Adams State College and is now called the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

ARRRGHHH. I want to know what happened, but for some reason the author decided I need to know their origin story. I completely zone out when this BS comes up. Give me signal. This noisy stuff is worthless to me. Keep the origin story for the eventual movie adaption or something.
Why are news like this these days?
I bet people downvote more than they upvote. That would be a cool stat to see next to people's usernames in posts.
Sounds good but you're preaching to the complicit here.
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At my work we have a system where dates are in a local timezone, where the timezone depends on the data ingress point, but times are in New York local time.

So many bugs occur when juggling 2 or 3 timezones simultaneously.
People also wonder how african americans can be so hesitant to take the vaccines here in the US when every school kid learns about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study...
I personally take moral issue with oil companies, but society as a whole has not decided that they are deserving of punishment, so I save my actions for campaigning, lobbying, and supporting groups that are pushing for change.

On the other hand, society has decided, via law making, that ransomware attacks are deserving of punishment.

With so many differing opinions it's hard to please everyone. I'm in favour of having a range of voices that I might not agree with represented in media, but criminals advertising their crimes and talking about how they're getting better at doing it feels like it's fairly clearly past a line.
Whataboutism. Let’s respond by bringing up a completely unrelated topic to justify the actions of criminal organizations.

These are organized crime activities akin to cartel kidnappings, Somalia Pirates, mob extortion, and kidnapping tourists for ransom. 21st century pirates/mobsters.

How long until ransomware becomes extortion or protection schemes? Pay us a yearly fee and we’ll not hack you and if someone does hack you we’ll hack them back.
The bad thing isn't the fire itself. It required multiple fire units to be on site at all times. That's resources you can't use anywhere else for that time.
I assume they're not putting batteries literally in the middle of bush forests.
>Do you also call it a "privacy disaster" when your bank account requires your name and address so they can report interest payments to the government?

Yes. Do you not? They have no right to that information. Why do so many in the "hacker" culture simp for the authority structure?
Every school kid is absolutely not taught this.
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Sales taxes can be done in a progressive way if you calculate total purchases for the year as (reported income minus reported money added to savings).

Though, of course, you then need even more reporting than we already have, but it would have the upside of no longer disincentivizing work like the current system does, and rewarding savings over spending too.
You can’t. The second law of thermodynamics prohibits it.

“It is impossible to devise a cyclically operating device, the sole effect of which is to absorb energy in the form of heat from a single thermal reservoir and to deliver an equivalent amount of work.”
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Given all you know about how unworthy of trust these institutions are now, why do you think this time is any different?
I'm well aware but I don't think this is an issue here.
One reason why you shouldn't host foreign intelligence agencies in turn for money.
So? There's no free speech exception for someone State calls "propaganda". Either something is allowed speech or it's not. We should not discriminate based on viewpoint in any circumstances whatsoever, even when that viewpoint is reprehensible.
FYI one method is to use CTEs (WITH) to force Postgres via materialization.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/queries-with.html
I love this idea! Bookmarking "Terraform Graph Algorithms" and "HTTPie Download Progress" for later. Thank you!
I would suspect that under the current proposed wording, yes. Facebook, Google, etc. all become brokers. This could be a means for the government to go after social platforms and get transparent vies on all the social media activities of U.S. citizens. It is scary.
Depends entirely on how the system was laid out I guess. If you're in a cold region, say Iceland, and water-cool your miners entirely by running the hot water against a thermoelectric system with the one side out in the snow, maybe 60%?
I'm curious if they took only the whole of Github after acquiring Github, or if they've taken 'all publically visible code everywhere'. Y'know, as an open source dev who's continued to use Github after Microsoft took it over. I'm curious if I walked right into that one or if it would've made no difference whatsoever.
That's of course a possible interpretation if you want to stretch everything to the extreme. OP thinks it's dangerous to publish a blog post with such an interview because it gives a platform to people who cause damage.

I'm just pointing out that oil companies have caused way more damage than this guy and they have had a massive platform for decades, why shouldn't we stop giving them a platform as well?
> and only leech off huge companies. I cannot argue against it?

Médecins Sans Frontières is a huge company. Their annual budget is around $1.6bn. Are you ok with them being subject to ransomware attacks?
Yes, technically, kinda. Aside from being much more expensive the Index is also not wireless (at least not without an add-on?) and requires a (beefy) PC.

Personally, if it weren't for the Facebook account requirement I'd probably opt for a Quest 2. As it is, I don't think VR is worth the investment of an Index to me so I'll stick with my second hand not-updated-since-before-Oct-2020 Rift because it is perfectly adequate for Beat Saber.
I'd agree that LFP is becoming conventional in stationary storage, but it's still relatively unusual in passenger vehicles outside of China. As far as I know, Tesla is unique amongst "western" automakers in using LFP cells in some of its cars.
> Just stick with TAI and convert times to UTC when displaying them.

That may not be suitable when you want to represent an exact point in time years into the future. You’re usually not interested in the exact number of elapsed seconds (TAI) in that case, but want to represent e.g. 2031-08-03T:00:00:00Z exactly.

The solution is to use different data types for elapsed time and for calendrical/time-of-day time. Software developers need to learn that those are not equivalent, and libraries, databases etc. need to provide appropriate data types that make the distinction clear.
The history of moving parts in space missions (RTGs) is why Kepler's mission is degraded: keeping reaction wheels and other spinning things lubricated and moving when you can't get in there and service them is hard.
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Misleading to call it a "fake vaccination program", it's rather a "covert DNA collection program".
If the resulting code works the same way, it’s still a transpiler. If the resulting code works in a different way… then I have to ask what exactly does it do and how’s that supposed to be useful.
I also must throw in the fact that IRS enforcement is disproportionately against "regular" people. The IRS doesn't go after enormous tax dodging billionaires very often, because going after some small business owner who mis-reported something or is trying to squeak something by is a better way to make quota.

It results in yet another area where "laws are for little people."
If they actually do have many fires to deal with (which I doubt, most firefighting departments don't) then they can just put a barrier around it and leave it. No need to babysit.
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I'd argue you still have responsibility for your government's actions, regardless if you voted for them. Your responsibility as a citizen is to hold your government accountable, whether that's by voting, writing letters, talking, protesting, or (in the extreme case) civil disobedience or rebellion.

Unfortunately, the more important it is to hold your government to account, the harder it is. I, personally, don't have the strength to do that, for all I talk of it.
I think it is a problem but it's not the biggest. A wealth tax on bank deposits would do a lot of good.

Before you say they will spend the USD. That's the point. It's like dodging CO2 taxes by not emitting CO2. You haven't cheated the system.
We've been using MM for about a year now as a company group chat, and it's pretty great! The only gripe I have now (besides collapsed threads looking awful: which seems to be fixed in the latest beta!) is that the data (i.e. chats) is stored unencrypted in our MySQL database. Being a tech company lots of ours engineer 'theoretically' have access to this database. I believe MM suggests to some higher level db encryption to solve this, but this is not ideal.
It could be done anonymously if you calculate purchases implicitly as income minus savings. This would de-anonymize savings of course, but they’re not really that anonymous right now anyway since most methods of savings have to report interest/dividends/etc.
Copilot is a cool tech demo but it’s a very bad idea to have low skilled developers wire boilerplate code that they can only edit once.
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> Physics and chemistry impose some serious constraints on all life forms.

What are those constraints? Can you enumerate some of them?

Also, physics and chemistry change under certain environments.
Yeah, I thought when I opened HN without the downvote option I was so happy (compared to browsing reddit). But then I just realise that button will appear aft 500 karma lol.

So same same thing
Russia's policy is to leave cybercrime alone as long as they don't attack Russia.

A hacker group in Russia declaring to only target companies in the USA and Great Britain is like a US group that only targets Iran and China. US agencies probably wouldn't find time in their busy schedules to go after someone targeting Iran either.
According to the dictionary, murder is

> the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
Assuming London exists in the future ;)

Yes... this way leads to madness. Time seems to be in a special class of problems that is easy to get wrong and hard to get right. I think we just have to aim for "least wrong" and try to keep our sanity intact.
I seem to share a name with a beef farmer in Australia. I get regular emails about prime Aberdeen Angus sperm I can buy, and once I even got sent details of his farm financing with an Australian bank.
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You have misunderstood what we're talking about.

Nobody is justifying anything, I'm just saying that if it's wrong to give these people a platform, why is it ok to give it to oil companies? The latter have caused way more damage than a random ransomware group.
dot being an ignored character

Don't remind me. I spent forever trying to figure out why I was still being charged for an Xbox account I'd already canceled. Turns out Microsoft had one account with the dot and one without.
Agreed, there is zero use cases outside of currency and unfortunately, most of the currencies are little more than gambling, pump/dump and pyramid schemes. The cryptos always crow about it being so censorship resistant. I guess we'll see how resistant it really is.
I can say we're one of the companies that have successfully embraced event-driven design. We're Vaticle and we're not a microservice shop - rather, we're building a database software called TypeDB. The internals are quite event-driven mainly realised with the actor model and event-loop concurrency.

It has allowed us to scale mainly in two ways: maximising parallelism with respect to CPU, and doing other works while waiting for an RPC call to return.

Event-driven architecture by nature is more parallel and efficient, but comes with a weaker consistency guarantee when it comes to the ordering of events coming from multiple parallel sources.

In my experience, people tend to fall prey to these pitfalls, and ended up resorting to inappropriate workaround such as global locks and ad-hoc retry mechanism. These are most commonly done when trying to aggregate works coming from concurrent producers or when needing to handle communication failures.

In fact, communication failures and downtimes are the most prominent problem in microservice particularly when you need your data to be inserted into multiple data sources in an atomic way.

This is an inherent issue in distributed systems and you have to think what's the atomic unit of data that you wish to insert, and design your system based on this hard constraint. Making the operations atomic, idempotent or revertable are some of the solutions you may want to investigate, but the moral of the story, is that you need to make sure these additional complexities are justified.

For us as a company, we decided on the event-driven architecture after knowing not just the benefit, but also the cost that I've outlined above.

For simpler applications that don't need to be a) real-time and b) handle crazy amount of loads, think small internal applications, small business ecommerce website, I would resort back to good old non-event-driven system since it's the more pragmatic option.

I've seen several companies building an event-driven architecture even when they know there's no way they would need to scale beyond serving several thousands of request per hour in the next two years. I think they would've been better off with a simpler, synchronous model.
I love my streamdeck. But these are great ideas. I never thought of doing the function keys. That will be a game changer by itself.
I don't think you get a pass on the basis of "I just work here" unless you're in a position that you can't afford to lose that job. And if you are in that position, you can at least feel an appropriate level of shame for what you had to do.
No, there isn't. Murder has a specific meaning, and being unlawful is part of it.
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Definitely. As much as I dislike supporting PHP, the interface is great for users and keeps getting better.
Let's see:

A Public keychain

IS no the implied definition by itself not privacy based?

I just do not see how more tracking on public info somewhat gives us less privacy when we did not have privacy on public keychain in the first place!
I figure you can make them progressive by taxing luxury items and not necessities. Obviously there’s a ton of gray area but it could still help a lot.
In the US, CC has, by law, almost no liability for fraud - it's capped at 50 bucks, and is 0 bucks if you report it before it gets used.
They are also easily replaced, so i think many wouldn't go as far as you are.

Debit cards are weirder in their liability (and are extracting money from your bank account, which is harder to get back).

If you report them lost/stolen before someone uses them, it's 0 bucks
Within 2 days of learning about it, it's 50 bucks.
More than 2 days, but less than 60, 500 bucks.
More than 60 days - unlimited liability.

So i'd be a lot more careful with debit cards, at least in the US.

(You are never liable on either for unauthorized transactions when your card is not lost/stolen as long as you report them within 60 days)
This. And it is much more effective to lower the birth rate in the industialized countries than in the poor, because of the hugh difference in resource consumption. Instead, the industialized societies are so much concerned about a decline in population that they try to mitigate it, instead of encouraging it.
So New Zealand and Australia ranks highest, with Ireland one point below
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Allegedly BlackMatter is not.

> It would not extort healthcare, critical infrastructure, oil and gas, defense, non-profit, and government organizations
The comment you reply to does not claim that there's a causation between fun ownership and suicide.

It merely notes that the gun violence in Switzerland is largely suicide, which is probably simply because the share of gun suicide among suicide overall is higher in Switzerland than elsewhere.
> Have you considered the possibility that existing regulation is one of the barriers to use of cryptocurrencies?

Cryptocurrency has been largely unregulated since its inception and it's almost exclusively used for speculation and criminal activity. The barrier to use of cryptocurrency is that it provides nothing of value outside of those use cases, not regulation.
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I find this line of reasoning weak for one reason.

Things want to be as simple as they can be. DRM adds cost and complexity, it will _always_ be fighting an uphill battle. An electric drill is just an electric motor + chuck, MOSFET + pot, and a battery. Anything added on top of that has to justify itself.

Take a look at the printer industry, for example. You can buy the cartridge cartel inkjet printers, but most people already know that a laserjet is way more reliable -- because it's so simple.
The rich people in that neighborhood have acquired their wealth in an unfair injust way.
> The reason is that Copilot requires running software that is not free, such as Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE or Visual Studio Code editor the FSF contends, and constitutes a “service as a software substitute” meaning it’s a way to gain power over other people’s computing.

Hold up a second. So if people have already made the choice to run software that is not free... enhancing their chosen tool set is unjust? (Besides, VS Code is free.)

I'm honestly interested in understanding their perspective, but I'm not following the leap from using an extension in VS code to gaining power over other people's computing.
Is this transition happening for their home battery products too?
Swatch tried to do this ages ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
I would assert the already powerful gain more power from the absence of regulation; forcing them to set rules — imperfect a process as that is — is less bad than anarchy, which seems to often degenerate into handing all the power very quickly to the worst people.
I'm not sure when did this become about typing systems promising you'll never write tests? IMO nobody says that.

Let me give you one example.

When I'm coding in Rust and I forget to match on one of my sum type's variants, the compiler will immediately yell at me.

When I'm coding in Elixir, the compiler doesn't care if I do exhaustive pattern matching because it doesn't know all possible return values. In these conditions it's extremely easy to not write code that deals with a return value that appears rarely.

That's one of the values of static typing for me.
Remember F-Zero for SNES? This looks kind of like that. If only we could dump 100 miles range of charging over 300' of "moving road pitstop". Hopefully Supercaps become more energy dense over the coming years because they could take that style of energy dump without wear and tear.
> we have digital aids for that

Like a clock that you can adjust so that 0:00 is the middle of the night?
Thermodynamics -- you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't even leave the game.
This is like reading that Apple is transitioning to ARM desktops and asking who will pay for it.
Absolutely. Vanilla Wordpress, mostly, not the mess you can build by adding a heap of plugins.
Yeah, about that...it's now real. I don't have the source but I remember seeing either Sony or Microsoft actually having filed a patent doing this very thing: reciting an advertising phrase (or doing some mocapped thing) in order to continue using the platform.
I am not challenging that Wireguard is a great technology, but I disagree it is faster than IPsec: it is fast compared to slow IPsec implementation such as the one you have in Linux.

However, AES is hw-accelerated in most systems those days and as a result, using IPsec with AES-256-GCM is usually much faster than Wireguard [1]. Note that if Wireguard was using AES instead of Chach20-Poly1305 I am sure it would be on par, plus I am confident we'll see hw acceleration for Chacha20-Poly1305 in the future too.

So I'd say right now if you need absolute max performance, a good IPsec implementation is much faster than Wireguard.

[1] for example, just running 'openssl speed -evp chacha20-poly1305' vs 'openssl speed -evp aes-256-gcm' on my laptop gives a ~2x speed advantage to AES.