skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So here's some of the ways it's cruel. I assume you don't live here, or you are pretty well off:

1. Largest incarcerated population on earth.
2. No public health system until Medicare (60s).
3. Very difficult to discharge debt, for citizens, easy for business.
4. Impossible to discharge student loan debt.
5. Allowing of predatory loan practices to incur this debt.
6. Many public schools are absolutely horrible.
7. Mostly no recourse for violent and corrupt police.
8. Most if not all of the federal policies go to help the donor class at the expense of the citizenry. On the occasion where policies help the citizenry, it's a coincidence.
9. Systemic racism in many aspects of the government, particularly the justice system.
10. Very little social safety net for the poor. In fact, many poor are incarcerated.
11. Very strict justice system where just about anything is a felony.
12. No voting rights for felons.
13. Vicious drug war.
14. Patriot act.
15. Skyrocketing healthcare costs.
16. Skyrocketing educational costs.
17. MANY charities have a 90+% administration fee (meaning only 10% goes to the actual group in need). This is perfectly legal.
18. Many regressive taxes (gasoline, cigarettes, alcohol, groceries).
19. Many instances where regulation isn't even done, or done so poorly, companies can do whatever they want (see nutrition labels for an example).
20. Not much done in anti-trust laws.
21. An insane amount of tax dollars goes to the war machine and soldiers get a minuscule amount. They are treated pretty horribly afterwards.
22. Government fully supports offshoring of jobs to slave-like conditions in China and elsewhere.
23. Loophole system where the well off pay very little taxes while the majority of the tax burden goes to the middle class (by income).
24. Massive income inequality and therefore political power and influence.
25. The amount of state funding for prosecution dwarfs the amount of funding for defense in most states.

These are just off the top of my head. I could probably do 20 more pretty easily.

Regarding charity, that's the citizenry. By and far the citizenry are decent people, it's the state that's cruel. Also we aren't "by far the most charitable country on earth," we're slightly about Myanmar, but we are still the top. In really poor states like West Virginia, the citizens are extremely charitable to each other. I would guess because they all need it desperately. Perhaps being so charitable is actually a symptom of the widespread cruelty of the state's policies.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-char...
Privacy, except for thoughtcrimals.
> WTF happened to Australia? I was under the impression it was a "take no shit" kind of place. It seems like they've become some sort of clown world police state. The Government response is completely over the top considering the situation.

It’s because scotty from marketing is very literally worse than useless, wants to appear strong, and visibly brutalising minorities makes the lib and nat electorate very happy.
Yes! It's a nice benefit of TimescaleDB being built on top of Postgres.
Wow this is fascinating. I'd love to read more about this, do you have any links to articles discussing this behavior?
No one needs all of this. The man's fingerprints didn't match and it would have been easy to verify. They chose not to.
I'm not sure what's being suggested here. That we continue the current practices of preventing smaller fires? If the eventually of preventing smaller fires is creating a later megafire, aren't were merely delaying the inevitable--and doing more damage in the long term?
> And yes, I believe that if you have expectations on the availability of your website, it should be tested frequently enough, with automation or simply having the regular team working on the product or QA use newer browser versions on the regular.

This is so, so illustrative of the problem with the Chrome team's attitude - I'm not sure you could imply "the web is for businesses, amateurs should get out and just consume" any more heavily if you tried.
Also, about malicious software at the endpoint ... Ockam Vaults can be backed by Hardware and Vault implementations are pluggable. So Key Storage and Cryptographic Operations can be delegated off the primary the processor.

So far we've built vault implementations for the Microchip ATEEC hardware which is popular in IoT circles. We plan to have Vaults for Cloud HSMs, Cloud Secret Stores, ARM TrustZone etc.

That said, if an attacker in the primary processor of an endpoint. We could protect agains key theft (with vault) ... but its very hard (maybe impossible) to protect against the attacker using the key until they are kicked out somehow.
Yes, not no to mention the gulf that exist between american culture of what is innocent and acceptable and the rest of the world.
If we apply the american paranoid standards to the rest of the world, i am pretty sure we will have plenty of false positives.
We're no more "guests" than anything else on this planet. I'm all for keeping the planet nice for future humans but there's no need for some weird pseudo religious element about being caretakers.
Yeah, here in the PNW, I could point her to two companies that will give her work at her choice of hospitals for $65/hr, with "as much work as she wants".

Don't start me on EMTs working 24 or 48 hour shifts for $11/hr.
These discussions remind me of the people asking for a small iPhone. Apple responded but it failed to find enough customers.

Linux has 1% of the desktop market and even within that small number the majority are used to getting their software for free.

I'd say the chance of a Linux version is effectively zero.
How is the hostility situation of Linux users towards non-OSS software?
Sounds like it is a defined term: https://www.rpc.senate.gov/legislative-notices/hr-3684_infra...
Location: GMT+1 (I'm located in Switzerland)
Remote: yes, 100%
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Rust (currently learning)
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UGOeH4N4v6MW2iglaDD7g3b-jxxDEgNJ/view?usp=sharing
Email: dhofstet@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Dan and I'm looking to return to software development after a very long break (~10 years). During this break, I worked as a self-employed investor on the stock market, but in the end I failed.

In my previous tech life I did a four year IT apprenticeship (Pascal/Delphi, Java) in the industry, worked two years as a software engineer (ASP) at a web agency, got a B.Eng. in CS (mainly Java), did some freelancing (PHP), was a core-contributor to two open source projects (PHP), and wrote a tech blog.

For my comeback I'm looking for a job as a Rust developer (if you have a "return to work" program, all the better). On the other hand, I'm also open for opportunities related to what I did the last 10 years.

Thanks for reading.
In case anyone else wanted to know more, there are, apparently, 2 official languages and the other is Spanish. https://www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/pa00000_.html#A140_
Gender doesn't matter, except when it matters. We just seem to not be able to agree where and when it matters.
Not (necessarily) a Trump voter, but a conservative nonetheless. I think it's a little more complicated. There's a style of propaganda that seems uniquely tuned to how technology has changed the way we engage with news. It goes something like "this thing you are saying is happening isn't, but if it was it's actually good, and if it's actually bad you deserve it". This formulation absolutely drives engagement numbers across the political spectrum, regardless of the "truthiness" of any of the preceding claims. That particular progression just didn't happen when we all dutifully read our newspapers with our morning coffee because it takes a few cycles to formulate. A lot of conservatives I know just don't engage with news anymore because once you notice these kinds of rhetorical patterns you can't un-see them.
I've been following this topic intensely for years and am very comfortable with these numbers but fair enough. I agree I should reference some official sources which I'll try and dig back up. Happy to discuss any assumption in closer detail though.
Zero AI involved? Simple hashes? Source needed. From what I read, you are making false claims.
I wonder if it makes sense to de-prioritize the unvaccinated.
Completely agree with you and parent comment, just wanted to add a few more references to peer-reviewed literature supporting these ideas [1][2].

[1] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf

[2] Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...
-we're creating multiple brands -each with their own identity. The common thread is premium. Target customers are restricted to those in a 10km radius of a kitchen. Aim is to build customer wallet share by understanding our set of consumers well and serving food to them across different food missions - meal to go , family meal, light meal, cheat meal. Efficiency comes as we consolidate the supply chain and infra at scale

-they scaled too fast because it would not have moved the needle for a company of their size otherwise. and its difficult to build brands customers truly love if speed and scale is the main focus imo, we focus on depth first, then breadth. -would love you hear your views too
I don't think that threat ever really materalized. MEV happened and then there was a suggestion by VB of switching to the PoS chain in response to a miner lead fork: https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/B1mUf6DXO
> subscription tier

One word: draft.

Would you die for your service provider?
It’s worth learning about. Fundamentally, computer processors don’t do anything more than add, subtract and bit shift, with comparison, GOTO, and moving numbers to and from memory to make all the magic happen.

The operators exist because they map directly to machine code.
Behind The Scenes: Practices and culture that led to Razorpay's new mobile app
It was on the Windows desktops in my schools.
1800/person/seat is a pretty minimal cost, at least in the US. Even if you're paying your people 40k per year, it's a 5%-ish increase in costs, at most. Probably much less once you factor everything else in.

I'd be interested to know how many non-hobbyist devs are seriously affected by this.
They’re stopping australian citizen living in other countries from leaving.

How’s stopping Jack and Sheila from going back home in not australia doing anything for covid in australia? Unlike scotty they’re not leaving for two weeks on the seaside or ”stopping off” at the pub on a business trip, they’re going back to their job and obligations.

It’s also completely untrue, the federal governmemt has bungled everything so far.
Agreed. I'm not suggesting a ban on what you can do after politics. Just pointing out who is on their board at the moment.
There are more black criminals (who get caught, insert caveat about financial crime here). Why is a contentious question, personally I think economics and culture pretty much explain it, and those aren't easy things to change overnight.
To keep the option open of coming back, and then using government services/paying taxes.
Not to mention MEV
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We might not work for Google, but we know a thing or two about web development and its surrounding ecosystem.

Pushing the implementation details for a replacement down onto web developers is terrible idea from an accessibility standpoint: It makes it highly likely that hand-rolled, inaccessible implementations will become common.

The Right Way to effect this change is to spec out and implement an alternative API.
They failed him repeatedly. This wasn't a one-time screwup, this was a systemic failure across multiple organizations.

And when they realized they had wronged this man, they did whatever they could to sweep it under the rug and avoid consequences, or reparations for their actions.

The system doesn't just "look abhorrently cruel", it IS abhorrently cruel, and this incident is a clear example of that.
> What advice would you give Apple if they’re faced with a legitimate government asking it to comply with the laws they have instituted in the society Apple wants to do business?

It is good advice not to carry around huge amounts of money on your wallet. Someone might want it and have the power to get it.

Same with megacorps constructing and bragging about tools for oppression:

Better not do it.

Otherwise just be prepared that China will demand that you also upload their hashes of extremely bad photos - and one or two guys they want to get hold of.

It is kind of a Manhattan project for digital privacy - it is meant to bring a quick end to a actual real problem we have - but it has the potential to become a shadow over society for decades if not centuries to come.
This is how most people go through life whether they believe it or not. In fact certain people will actually search for contradictory evidence in order to construct a logical scaffold that supports there current viewpoint.

Nobody uses evidence to construct a conclusion, everybody uses evidence to support a conclusion that was likely already made with little evidence. That's how the world works. This is 100% what the parent poster to your reply is doing regardless of whether the evidence he presents is biased or true. In short the parent poster likely already had a huge time investment or actual investment sunk into crypto BEFORE he started gathering all this info to support a pre-made viewpoint.

The question is, how do we present valid and logical arguments to the entire population when most of the population are too lazy like you and me to look stuff up or completely flip a viewpoint due to new evidence?

+1 for being self aware.
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Sure except one side gets a much larger benefit and the other side must enter into this style of contract with _someone_, or starve to death (in the typical case). Just to sidestep the debate over differing dictionary definitions of exploitation (to show my hand a bit though, I prefer the ones that are useful in describing how things have become the way they are, rather than the libertarian ones).
Yes, or at least not with a @gmail.com domain. Running Google Apps with a custom domain you own and Google can't snatch away is fine (well, apart from the privacy implications of giving Google free rein to read your emails, of course). That means not using Google as your registrar, obviously.
> (C) developing digital assets or their corresponding protocols for use by other persons, provided that such other persons are not customers of the person developing such assets or protocols.

The last qualifier seems poorly worded and becomes too broad. So (extreme example) a consulting agency developing a value-exchange platform to be run on a private chain in a customer corporate network would not be exempt. Bringing the act of building and selling software (or a SaaS, as long as the service itself doesn't custody user funds) is nonsensical. (B) is also a bit too narrow to address this.
I disagree with this - bitcoin is advertised as mathematically unbreakable (which it currently practically is, on a technical level, due to the cryptography) - but this level of bulletproof security is promoted as extended to all properties of the blockchain - which isn't, on a technical level, true.
I don't think she's currently on the board.
Updated my comment to clarify a bit: this wasn't a tax on crypto, it was about tax reporting requirements for certain actors in the crypto space.

(Because Bitcoin is psuedonymous it would have effectively be impossible to comply - functionally it was a ban on crypto mining in the US)

Even with the original language, this provision generates no revenue. It's only about data collection.
>And ain't nobody alive today that can choose to not ingest microplastics, PFAs, pesticides, many can't avoid lead in their drinking water, and none of us can avoid air pollution.

If it is important to you, you can find ways to avoid those. It is just not a priority for many people, because their own health is secondary to something else.
> Isn't crypto a direct threat to their power?

I don't know where this meme came from. If the U.S. government declared Bitcoin legal tender tomorrow, it would be monumental. But practically speaking, not that much would change. The Fed would buy Bitcoin the way e.g. the Swiss National Bank buys dollars and euros. And the Treasury would issue Bitcoin bonds or something, I don't know.

Cryptocurrencies currently make it easier to evade taxes, which benefits the rich, and easier to make money in a host of new financial activities, which benefits those near those activities, i.e. people with money and banks and first movers in the technology.
Now you get it! The vaccines were NEVER going to eliminate Covid. Only 2 viruses in the history of humanity have been eliminated.

Consider reassessing blame to Politicians/China/Scientific community/censorship and narrative control
I read it as ironic.

If it is not then: Wow.

Ridiculous statement: "It just goes to show, it's never about gender, just about choices, ambition and how brave you choose to be."

Followed by: "Fuck yeah!"

--> Ironic in my world, but "the other side ("feminists") seem to have adapted to also address / talk to (deceive/decept) 'more conservative' people with their speech. We try to include/reach each other.
Neanderthals had bigger craniums than homo sapiens (and thus bigger brains), so it does indeed seem like size isn't the biggest factor. Granted, that size difference is much smaller than elephant vs giraffe haha.
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It’s not an equal relationship, but governments failing their side on wide enough scale end up failing.
The whole network is a political facade, EEA controls the morals of the system so they can and will do whatever they want.
> CPI identified about 430 individuals working in journalism who contributed to either candidate between January 2015 and August 2016. Of the $396,000 they contributed, 96 percent ($382,000) went to Clinton, and 4 percent (about $14,000) went to Trump.[4]

https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Do_97_percent_of_journali...

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I'm concerned anytime media outlets have such close ties with politicians and political parties. Fox New included. But to me, one media outlet that leans conservative is way different than the other 5 or 6 major media outlets that run liberal.

> I think the culprit is people like yourself, who post a link to the government sending ventilators a month later, and pretending like it happened at the time New York was begging for them. What ACTUALLY happened was after 3 weeks of unending negative press, Trump finally caved and released ventilators.

Just because they were begging for them, doesn't mean they were entitled to them over every other state. In the end they got over half the federal stockpile. For one state. Those were taken away from allocations that would have gone to other states. Every state was facing ventilator shortages (my wife worked in an ICU at the time in VA and saw the same daily). NY just got more because they screamed the loudest.
Agreed.

In my view the Bitcoin community has only further entrenched their position as they taken on new users in a toxic Eternal September.
"The system should be better" can coexist with "the system cannot be perfect".
Too late to edit my post but this quote from Frank Herbert's "Chapterhouse: Dune" says it well:

> All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
>It isnt about money, I am juwt ashamed to have an American passport and know my tax dollars are being spent on war and murder in the name of christ and oil profits.

You know Bush isn't president anymore, right? That hasn't been a a popular (and I would say erroneous, even when it was popular) talking point for more than a decade.

I do find it interesting that expatriation trends seem to pivot in years with presidential elections, according to that chart.
Both you're points and the gp's are good, but yours aren't refuting his, only pointing out that the master grew more generous.

What's worth refuting in gp's post is the notion that humanity is "plundering" nature. Humanity is nature, that's what there's no escaping, unless you believe in the supernature.

I really don't think PoS or PoW are going to change what you guys are talking about.
From that article:

"The wording of the statute is embarrassing. How can an alien renounce U.S. citizenship? In what capacity would said alien do so officially? One assumes that a court of law would find the language incoherent and unenforceable ... This is the way we legislate at 5 o'clock in the morning 4 days before adjournment."

Nice to see lawmakers falling to the specter of trying to get that commit in for the next release, along with the rest of us.
> this provision generates no revenue. It's only about data collection.

I would want to see an independent analysis of this claim.

Increasing reporting requirements can generate revenue. There is a lot of unreported income. Given the culture around crypto, it isn't unreasonable to assume there is more of that going on there than baseline.
> For a start, Postgres is simply an incredibly powerful, robust, and reliable piece of software, providing the best implementation of SQL.

Why is it better than MySQL? This article wasted my time. Is there a better article which explains why Postgres is better than other free and opensource SQL implementations?
It's also indicative of the unhealthy relationship these giant semi-monopolistic companies have with the government(s), that they implement the government's supposed will out of the fear of anti-trust actions/legislation, without any need for the government to pass legislation. Same goes for the demands to curb "misinformation" of various kinds, which basically constitutes government mandated speech regulation, even though the standing jurisprudence clearly forbids it.
The article says that Apple calls this system neuralMatch. I'm not sure why that name gives you confidence that there is zero AI involved?
>But in my opinion the best solution is to have people bring their own cups and just reuse them, and unfortunately only a small percent of people do that.

It's also systematically/institutionally discouraged at most places. It was before 2020, and even more so now.

Most places (e.g. many Starbucks) will not let you use a reusable cup when you actually try, even while advertising their "green" policies.

Go ahead and try it, most of the time they'll suggest you pour it into your own reusable cup right after they pour it into a disposable one for you.

There are many other reasons to avoid letting a corpo make your drink.
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I'd just like to say thanks for wasting my time by linking to a paywall.
The simple way is to add some cross-channel antiphase to both channels. So R = (R - cL), and L = (L - cR) where c << 1.

This is very cheap and easy with opamps.

It does indeed sound magical, and makes the stereo image expand beyond the speakers.

It also does weird things to a mono mixdown and if c is too big you get a hole in the middle. But if you keep c small and use it as the final effect just before the speakers that's not a problem.

You could also use BBD[1] chips to add a ms or so of analog delay, but that's less likely because it would have been more complex and expensive.

Digital audio delays had appeared in studios by the late 1970s, but they were still more expensive than BBDs in the mid-80s, so unlikely for in-car use.

[1] Bucket Brigade Delay