skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just having reread what you wrote, and realizing you're referring to subject colonial classes in the 19th C as opposed to internal domestic lower classes in Anglophone countries today... there's another explanation. The British Empire didn't have enough manpower to administrate its colonies. So it was very adept at creating civil service bureaucracies composed of and managed by colonials at all but the highest levels. This is what allowed such a small maritime country to control such a vast empire. To do this, they had to educate and Anglicize a layer of colonials to a certain degree sufficient to run the colony, and had to give them elevated privileges. The bureaucratic classes created by the British are still in control of most former British colonies today. Naturally enough, they still play Cricket, speak English, send their children to school in Britain, and run the armed forces; the structure is their source of power, and their place in it is backed by their proximity to and familiarity with British customs. What you perceive as a narrative of inherent superiority of the British is really a sense of superiority themselves, versus the uneducated masses they rule.
De-AMP-ed link (mine was redirecting to the favicon):

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/22/subway-sandw...

I wonder whether it's canned, and whether sterilizing it can make the DNA unreadable (broken down).
A doctor nagged his twin brother to lose weight–but arguments can be destructive
If by trying to avoid aiding and abbeting the system described as:

> …giant banks and institutions received trillions of dollars in unprecedented bail outs [1] while 'main street' suffered with record unemployment, foreclosures, and destruction of small businesses.

> People rightfully realized that perhaps government should not have absolute and total control of the monetary supply and financial system.

Is defined as illegal in of itself by a government, then sure, there's no argument against dismissing it as illegal. Just like PGP falling under being illegal (from another comment) because it could exist as:

> digital copies of the binaries and source code were prohibited for export as a munition

There's no successful argument one can make against such illegality to said government. And I wouldn't bother, such people will never acquiesce if they haven't felt the lack of sufficient recourse to [1] (because they quite possibly may gain a lot of benefits by being indirectly or directly involved in [1])

Luckily, reality isn't so rigid as to what people (or even other traditional governments abroad) will actually accept (then and now) and have sovereignty over deciding what they want for themselves and side stepping based on what can actually be enforced in totality in practice regardless of what any given institutionalized jurisdiction may think of it.
I don’t own a car, don’t even have a licence. I bike everywhere. Yes I have a job.
Ha yeah libertarians are the kind of people who want to replace the police with private security.
I have absolutely no delusions about what kind of society they would create- and as someone who isn't a millionaire there's nothing in it for me.
The world isn't only USA. And even those percentages add up to be significant over time. I have known people directly that hold all their savings in cash for decades because they dont understand how to invest. It is catastrophic when you consider compound effects
"If your country is centralized parliament works best. If it is decentralized then any parliament is going to be toothless like the UN"

The Australian example undermines this claim.

Australia is a true federation. Similar to the US, the constitutions of the six states predate the federation and remain in force. The federal constitution gives the federal gvt constrained powers (e.g. military, foreign affairs) with powers defaulting to the states (e.g. police, health).

The country is broadly decentralised due to its constitution and geography.

The federal parliament is a Westminster system - prime minister elected by members of the legislature, head of state that serves a largely symbolic role, distinct upper house designed as a house of review.

The Australian settlement routinely produces stable government, workable majorities in parliament, is a true multi-party system, and has shown itself to be capable of big-picture reform.

Admittedly, some of this is down to strong good microstructure. In particular, the preferential voting system.

The Westminster system is also an strong fit for centralised countries, as seen in the UK and New Zealand. If there is one criticism of it, it is that it can be difficult to get enough of a gene pool together to form an effective executive when the population of house members is too small. Smaller Australian states often struggle to produce competent executives. There are similar problems in the almost-Westminster Scottish, Welsh and NI parliaments. These problems are further compounded by proportional representation, which favours chest-thumpers (small parties) and political hacks (large parties), all of whom are very poorly suited to executive responsibilities.
Just saying population 53 at present, so we are talking about like 8 guys? Doesn't seem reasonable to assume that long term history of this place will be defined by so few people.
They must use the USA Fact Check algorithm to purify state property objects.
I have same issue but i'm going to the holidays and I need it. And I have a lot of books so i dont want to upload them again.
If you disable Google's JavaScript the annoying fade out effect will be disabled, but it might make you do more than one as punishment
HN automatically converts to titlecase on submit, if you click edit and change the title to how you want it won’t mess with it again.
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

They changed the license but its still open source
I was replying to "Why would I use a unit of cryptocurrency to pay my rent today, if I think the real value of the cryptocurrency unit will buy even more rent next month?". To be honest I don't understand what you're saying at all, within that context

I do pay my rent with crypto, because I don't have any USD/EUR income and it is less friction for me. Why would I want to go through extra effort to get dollars? Due to my situation I see quite directly that whether individuals choose use it as a payment method has no direct relationship with deflation

>If you only make the minimum necessary transactions then your economy will be of minimum size.

This is completely unrelated to the decision making of individuals
It's definitely challenging to set up an LND instance. I'll try to find a good one and link to it from our readme!
I was about to tag you on facebook about this being on HN! :)
I love Ruby too, but "/" giving integer results when both sides of the expression is integer is a frequent source of error, and I'm not convinced it's a good choice - in my experience at least it is rarely (though sometimes) what people want.
You can try to flip genders and try to make it sound sexist, but obviously that doesn't work here, as the post suggests. A successful 50yo man can easily find a partner; A successful 50yo woman cannot (as easily).
The valid comeback would be that it is a very ugly process. At least out in the open we can have the parable of the blind men and an elephant.
That's what concerns me about Apple's hashing + human verification scheme - what are the values of the humans? What do they consider a positive? Nude pictures of kids are ok in some cultures and not ok in others.
Happy to answer any questions to learn more
Funny. The way I imagine NSA’s and FBI’s secret cooperation with Google is exactly this: Provide a search API that gives access to anything.
The fact that you couldn't restore no matter what without the key speaks for pgp rather than against, in my book.

By comparison I have very little trust in modern IM software.
Out of curiosity, did you think about the use case for authorities to deal with people selling forbidden images? I'm sure you already know which kind I'm thinking of.
And I'm telling you you can answer your own question by examining what the delta is between what is considered bullying between students in K-12 and criminal activity.

Do you believe that bullying between students in K-12 is criminal activity. That's what I'm getting from you asking that question. Either that or you don't believe bullying is even a real thing.
I’m not sure where or how you inferred something akin to “No one should do anything.” from my comment, but it is absolutely not what I said and absolutely not what I implied.
The main reason people complain about gc is cargo cult about stuff they don't understand.

1. Then don't do GC, use the language features for stack allocation, native heap allocation, RAII

2. Just like most malloc()/free() implementations, where you don't control how they talk with the actual OS heap management APIs, as you mention

Naturally not all GC enabled languages provide such features, so one looks at Python or Java, and thinks all GC languages were born alike.

Examples of GC languages where you can do exactly the same stuff as in C/C++/Rust, Common Lisp, Oberon, Oberon-2, Component Pascal, Active Oberon, Modula-3, D, Nim, Eiffel, C#, F#, Swift.

Also note that on my earlier comment I wasn't referring to OCaml in particular, rather languages of the list above, yet Cisco might be relatively happy with their MirageOS research.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3264560.3264561

Here is a little gem of what happens when the low level coding features of GC enabled languages are taken into the hands of people that actually know how to use them.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/grpc-performance-impro...

.NET 6 is bringing even more C++ like features into the managed world for .NET devs.
That's potentially very big, but it needs some plumbing. Can you use a Visa card to refill a "lightning network account" or whatever you call it? Can the seller get proceeds to a bank account in $s?
I do, but the good thing about OTT apps is that I can switch to another every time I want :)
We switched from well funded journalists to platforms with guaranteed readership + extra promotion if a publication triggers the [platforms] desired emotional response.
Why doesn't a phone/web delivery service outcompete them?
I suspect it is that there are a lot less abstractions and the thinking is much more moored in the material. In this profoundly technical article there is barely even a mention of computers or algorithms, and the vision is of a more analogue world (of paper bills, phone companies, physical wiretaps, human agents).

The modern internet is almost entirely clashes of abstract concepts. It also shows up in the slight breakdown on the internet of basic, verifiable facts. Nobody is relying on real-world stimulus to form opinions. It is a bit draining to keep up with.

That and there is less optimism because it is clear how slowly the world changes. Consider the "The government has a track record that does not inspire confidence..." paragraph. Written 30 years ago, part of it could credibly be talking about Assange, have names swapped for Trump, etc. At some point intelligent people are going to get jaded pretending that this is new based on the overwhelming evidence that the internet gives us access to.
Critical infrastructure using Exchange Server? LOL
I think this is actually the case.
You can easily test this yourself. Just install the Tor Browser and visit any website with captchas. Most Tor exit node servers are semi-blacklisted, which means that a Tor user will receive multiple captcha challenges in series, even if they have been answered correctly.

If you are especially unlucky, you might even get denied entirely after solving captchas for several minutes.
Over the past iterations of Firefox (mobile), especially since they launched their new UI, I've noticed the performance of features such as CSS animations, etc. have particularly degraded. I have two versions on my Moto X4, Firefox 68 and the new Firefox 92. I use both to test some of the web apps I develop and to my surprise the older version of Firefox performs much better! There's a noticeable jank on the web app (transitions, animations, etc.) on the newer version. The browser itself is much slower than the older Firefox 68.
Frankly I don't see any performance improvement.
>>Not a lot of public sectors earn that much, so it's not a significant fraction.

Yes, a significant fraction earn that much. According to salary.com, the median compensation of a public school teacher in New York is $100,000:

https://www.salary.com/tools/salary-calculator/public-school...

A significant fraction of those above the median would be receiving compensation above $110,000.

salary.com may be undercounting pensions too, given a USA Today FOIA request found that 3,800 NYS teachers earn over $100,000 a year for their pension:

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/alb...

>>Overall, 3,800 educators in New York got more than $100,000 a year in pensions in 2019, according to the data obtained from the state Teachers Retirement System through a Freedom of Information by the USA TODAY Network New York.

And that the average pension for NYS public teachers is $44,859:

>>the average pension for school officials was $44,859 last year for the 160,960 retirees in the system, the records showed.

This is significant given NYS public school teachers can retire at 55, and that pensions for NYS teachers have increased since many of the current retirees were employed.

Another report shows that a NYS teacher with 35 years of experience receives a pension of $87,945 on average:

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/pensions-retired-n...

Now consider those pension payments, amortized over their career, are on top of all the other benefits, and an average base salary of $71,501 for public school teachers in NYS.

And this doesn't capture the value of their job security. It's incredibly hard to fire New York state public school teachers:

https://www.the74million.org/article/investigation-nyc-tried...

>>Also you started by mentioning unionized workers as a whole, not just public sector

Approximately half of unionized workers are in the public sector:

https://www.epi.org/publication/2019-union-membership-data/

So whatever fraction of unionized public sector workers are in the top 10% by compensation, we can surmise that the proportion for unionized workers as a whole is at least half that.
It's not out of 'communication range' with personnel aboard the station.

An ultra basic integration of alarms and communications would be the minimum requirement to allow personnel to monitor and modify mission critical systems.
Defi News
> (...) but none of those are a meaningful threat to American democracy.

Jam 6 was literally a coup attempt ordered by the president to disrupt the session in Congress that formalized the election results to avoid stepping down after losing the elections.

Exactly which part of this do you believe is not a threat to any democracy?
I think Britain has for a long time been less classist already. Article reminded me immediately of a NYT piece from a few years ago (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/stop-prete...)

"The American myth of meritocracy allows them to attribute their position to their brilliance and diligence, rather than to luck or a rigged system. At least posh people in England have the decency to feel guilty.In Britain, it is politically impossible to be prime minister and send your children to the equivalent of a private high school. Even Old Etonian David Cameron couldn’t do it. In the United States, the most liberal politician can pay for a lavish education in the private sector. Some of my most progressive friends send their children to $30,000-a-year high schools. The surprise is not that they do it. It is that they do it without so much as a murmur of moral disquiet."

The US has a sort of Andy Warhol style egalitarianism of "a coke is a coke and rich and poor alike drink it" going on but not much else. In the US progressive tech workers live in secluded suburbs, in London you see the poshest banker taking the tube without much concern. Exception in the US is maybe only NYC.
Why do we have to spread beyond the earth?
History of Arab Slave Trade
From your link:

> About 12 Sky News videos questioning the effectiveness of masks and lockdowns or promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin as treatments for Covid have been removed from YouTube.

These are all perfectly reasonable propositions with a great deal of evidence in their favor. You (and the Guardian) have simply defined as "misinformation" anything which contradicts your Covid dogma: "Masks work, there's no treatment, the only thing to do is lockdown until some unspecified number of people get the vaccine, at which point the virus (and restrictions) will magically disappear."
You can now use Siri to SWAT your enemies
Some new info in this article.

>>> Apple is also enabling Siri and Search to surface helpful resources if a user asks about reporting CSAM; both will also intervene when users search queries relating to CSAM, informing the searcher of the material’s harmful potential and pointing toward resources to get help.

>>> If you do not make a Siri inquiry or online search related to CSAM, nothing will change for you.

Sounds like a good way to fuck with someone if you just pick up their phone and ask Siri what to do about all this child porn.
Don't obsess over who looks sexist. Focus on the main issue that having a supportive partner is priority #1.
What on earth is in a Cheeto? Far more mysterious than this snack, which is clearly some plant matter with some salt and spices that other people eat regularly without falling over dead.
Does Oil Come from Dinosaurs?
> In recent news, Biden lawyer shopped

It's worse than that. Biden admitted on video that it was unconstitutional - it was a bizarre experience listening to what he was saying since if he doesn't have to follow any laws, why should anybody else?
Word is the worst for accidental manual edits screwing the whole document. I cannot count the number of tines I've watched my classmates manually adjusting dozens of graphs and images in as many pages one by one because they shifted something in inititial pages.
Thank you for explaining your understand of the issue presented here with a wide view.

I was shocked when I got the results shown here and thought of times in the past were I copied and pasted formulas (and sometimes did some small changes to be accepted by the language I was using) without thinking that any language would interpret it differently without warning.

Other good worth replies in my opinion:

amichal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28100036

hinkley https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28101243

hansvm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28100156

I believe that most of us are acting in good faith most of the time and we need some common examples/tests like basic math expressions that we could use to check/evaluate any/most implementations in programming languages to try prevent or minimize divergences like the ones shown here by a random generated expression that has no other meaning than a uncommon valid? test case to show an issue.
Different incentives, I assume? Otherwise, it would be easier to form insular groups promoting questionable science, especially in the softer sciences. Tit-for-tat reviewing, promotion through citations, etc. While programmers (in companies with well-run engineering environments) are incentivized and rewarded for reviewing code, a group of them can't just form a cabal that mindlessly "approves" of each other's shitcode for long without someone finding out none of it actually works. The same is not true of a lot of science. See; 5-HTTLPR [0]

Just a guess; I'm not plugged into the environment.

[0]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/07/5-httlpr-a-pointed-rev... is a good run-down of the controversy. TL;DR, a seratonin transporter gene was suspected to be involved in basically every mental issue and hundreds of papers were published in agreement. All of them are basically bullshit.
Ex-Tesla Employee Called Racial Slur Wins Rare $1M Award
New Authorisation API
Hi everyone,

I recently created and published my first API. I would love for people to check it out to get some feedback.

It is a simple authentication API to add user authorisation without setting up your own database.

Check it out and let me know what you think.
I wrote a blog post about using Zig with CGo, the main problem is that CGo doesn't expect the CC command to have a space in it and the workaround is to wrap the Zig invocation inside a bash script.

https://dev.to/kristoff/zig-makes-go-cross-compilation-just-...

As a related note, it seems that Go 1.17 won't have the fix as the relative patch has not been merged (see https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/276412/ ). Would be awesome if somebody from the Go team saw this post and made it happen :)
Gotta love how much time on their hands people who work in corporations have. It's a paradox how corporations generate so much wealth while simultaneously having internal cultures that rival parliamentary democracies in time wasting bullshit.

I actually read the entire thing (it was painful) and all I could think was "I'm glad I got out".
In a truly silly defense: Wikipedia is a wonderful resource! Yes, useful information is "thrown away" right in front of your eyes often enough. You click on the user name. You look at his other editorializings, what else are you not suppose to know about? Who else is enforcing the agenda? They have edit history too!

Enjoy!

(There are more tricks but if disclosed they could patch those.)
It's not a question of the competency of academics.

> So why is there still doubt about the identity of this snack? “Which species of agave is it—Sisalana or Americana or any other?” Dr. Shimpale says. “We can’t conclude until the vendors show the plant to us. They keep this as a business secret to create curiosity around it.”

The vendors won't give them access to the source, so the academics can't practice their botany.
Could it be agave and other smaller plants shredded and pressed into this log shape?
Thanks a lot, I was trying to use it all day yesterday and just couldn't get it work. Zig and Go are a great match it seems.
It's actually pretty easy to get into and out of Bitcoin. river.com, is a US-based service that allows buying and selling bitcoin with USD, making USD transfers to and from a linked bank account, and making and receiving Lightning Network payments.

So you could set up an LND instance, get inbound liquidity with a service like Bitrefill*, and then withdraw any funds via the Lightning Network to a River account, sell the proceeds for USD, and transfer them to your bank account.

I use River as an example because it's my favorite, but there are many other services that you could also use.

* It's slightly subtle aspect of the Lightning Network, but in order to receive funds, you need inbound liquidity, i.e. a channel with your Lightning Network node with funds on your counterparty's side of the channel. This can be accomplished buy buying inbound liquidity from a service like Bitrefill: https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/lightning-channel/
As far as I know apple plans to put up 2 systems, one focused on phones of people age < 13 which filters "more or less" any photos and uses AI to detect explicit photos and one which looks for known child pornographic photos and for now seems to not necessary apply to all photos.

But I haven't looked to closely into it.
That reduces the maximal extent of the problem if something goes amiss, but increases the total risk of at least one launch going amiss.

In practice, if something like that happened, environmental organizations would lobby hard to put a permanent stop on launching radioactive fuel from Earth, regardless of the actual extent of the contamination.