skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Social Security is not funded by the government, it's funded by payroll taxes

This fictional accounting is a silly marketting gimmick, not a meaningful distinction. It's a government program just like all other forms of welfare.

Do you think that there were decades when lots of folks were contributing and no one was collecting?
The other problem is that prices have no relation to quality. The random private university that will saddle you with $250k in debt and no job prospects costs the same as Harvard, which will both give you more aid and give you a foot in the door pretty much anywhere. But the marketing to kids has been all about finding the right "fit" - not finding the school that will actually land them a job for a reasonable value.

And to top that off, career "fit" has been marketed so hard to kids that no one wants to go into specialized trades, which will both almost definitely pay way better and be way more fulfilling than the random inside sales job that they land right out of school
If you think the research done by the racists if unscientific wait til you see what's done by the antiracists:D
i’m self employed
How about a picture next to a banana? Jeez...
Get a job in tech, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.
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> To make the top left pixel red on a bare metal system or RTOS, you simply write `framebuffer[0] = 0x00ff0000`.

Really? In my brief experience it was more like sending a bunch of commands over SPI/I2C/UART to some LCD module. Which isn't thaaaat different from how an OS driver communicates with a GPU, only the commands are far, far more complex, so using an OS-level API avoids having to do it by hand.
> The biggest problem with organic is that it’s unsustainable for our population.

It's likely this is also true for the "dump millions of tons of pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and fertilizers on the Great Plains" approach in the long run.
I hope cases like this lead more people to understand that proprietors of private services do have so much control (even if they often wield it soberly), and persuade them to consider decentralised or protocol-based open alternatives.

As ever, Tony Benn's five questions are instructive: “what power do you have; where did you get it; in whose interests do you exercise it; to whom are you accountable; and, how can we get rid of you?”

=> https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1998-11-16/debates/db3...
> can't even protect the IP address of their customers.

Why even the IP address is both technically and law-wise on of the hardest thinks to protect. The only way to get anywhere close to it is by using a VPN, Tor or similar additionally to whatever protection the service provides, and surprise, they do have a onion site (I think).
That seems hard to believe, tbh, but now I'm really bothered that I don't have any definitive source.

But "high 5 figures" would be >50k. According to this: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/05/hurric... they are looking at 22k power poles.

Were homes twice as likely to be destroyed than power poles were to be damaged?
any lawyer defending the press in a defamation suit is going to argue exactly that
I imagine their point is people forgoing a post secondary education.
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> Seriously, how did we arrive to “textbook for a semester are more expensive than tuition is in other counties”?

Academic corruption. They get kickbacks from the publishers for forcing these (always crap) textbooks on their students.
To whomever downvoted this comment: Half the worlds transactions are now conducted in currencies other than the US dollar. The world has cottoned to the idea that we are inflating their economies by printing dollars.
They need options. I feel our current school system isn't set up for young men at all. A lot would prefer hands on work as opposed to classroom learning. Promotion of trades schools as alternatives that aren't "lesser" would help a lot.
I can totally see someone trying to set this up, then instead of any of the benefits actually working as advertised, photography costs $80 in etherium per photo.
> it's a deluded fantasy which 100 years of disastrous policy catastrophes have disproved

It's disrespectful to throw Chomsky in together with something that he's spent his entire life to very prolifically oppose, namely authoritarianism.
The FDP will fold in the way that lines their pockets, I don't have an ounce of trust in them - and I didn't forget their "besser nicht regieren als falsch regieren" either.

Regarding the tankies in our leftie rows... you are completely correct and I hope that in an R2G coalition the foreign ministry ends up at someone from the Greens. SPD botched it the last time with Maas and we have too many questionable comrades to fill that job with someone guaranteed sane...
> For a while I wanted to try a 'secret shopper' experiment

We did something like this! But we swapped slightly reworded resumes and the response ratio leaned even further in the white classmate’s favor. We just laughed, as if we couldn’t believe that what we half-joked about actually happened. I’m long past the point of being sad. I guess that’s life.
The same woke, leftist marxist propaganda the as is everywhere at the moment?
> So, it is logical that government finances don’t work the same way as the personal and business finances we are used to in every day life.

In other words when you need a bailout because you made some stupid financial decisions due to greed the govt wont bail you out but if you are a too big to fail institution and have friends in high places, the govt will bail you out even though you made some reckless decisions, you just have to tell everyone that its very complicated.
>To achieve this strong union, we must take the next step in European integration to create a Federal Union

Lost me right there. The thought of sharing a country with western urbanites makes me shudder.
good luck to them
Actually using these products suffices. Especially confluence, which regularly reduces me to a stream of particularly foul profanity.
Are there projects/organizations that are switching from openssl to these rust based projects?

rustls - https://github.com/rustls/rustls

ring - https://github.com/briansmith/ring

If yes, then what is their experience?
Read “How to be an Anti-Raciat” by Ibram X Kendi. It was a top selling book last year and he is a leading figure of the progressive left. His academic work is cited heavily in other progressive academic literature.
I've been expecting the unikernel approach to catch on more too - although not the "no OS" it can be pretty stripped down compared to a regular OS. Now that unikernels are starting to gain more traction in the DOD I expect this will continue.
> If they went old-school they'd get another order of magnitude savings. Many veterans know of systems doing 10x that in 10x less cost. Remember C10K was in 1999.

How to learn more about the old-school way without getting a job related to it? Like, topic or book recommendations.
Originally, it is a nice book for children.
Organic and permaculture are very different things. Studies have shown organic farms use more fertilizer than non-organic to produce the same yield.
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>Would they maybe be confused? And think it is an overly complicated approach to serving webpages with comics on them?

To be fair that seemed to be the reaction of several HNers, too
Yes, they make registering burner addresses a breeze for potentially spammy sites, but thats basically their only USP for me.
Organic farming also uses less energy. That is incentive enough.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/renewable-agricultur...
" If you are a desktop machine and run out of memory, don’t try to recover from the panic, quit the program or even shut-down the computer."

Taken at face value and without additional context, this statement displays an appalling lack of respect for the user.
Ah cool… I also took a stab at something similar several years ago: https://github.com/ecausarano/heron

Also at the time I was considering IPFS.

But I guess the real trick is implementing a WOT to implement peer review and filter out the inevitable junk that will be published
That is a stage 1 proposal[1].

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching
If you are hosting your PI data in Switzerland and you think you are hosting it in the EU, you already have a problem.
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> This makes it highly resistant to censorship

We should probably stop using this phrase as a feature

Instant thought was "ok so other than this channel it's all racism"
I would assume a shock to the system as happened until the farmers adapt to something different.

To call it more primitive doesn't seem honest. Modern farming practices destroy the soil quality while using shortcuts to get higher yield in spite of that. From what I've read I think the jury is still out on which is better. Obviously organic farming is bad for the fertilizer and pesticide business.
This is one of the things I was looking into, thank you!
All and all it is a non trivial problem. You have at the very least have to attach some kind of form of reputation system into the verification process. Even with that you will still have the "misunderstood genius" issue, or the "excellent reputation professor" that everyone trust without (enough) verification.
> For me it's persistence/perseverence

Which is also horribly unfair, as that's done almost entirely to upbringing, genes, sleep and food. Only the last two can be changed by the individual.
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> While it's not as simple as a Go program on a VPS, there is certainly a lot of unnecessary overhead here. I think you underestimate just how much poor and wasteful engineering there is out there.

I don't under estimate poor and wasteful engineering at all, but that's not what I saw in the article.

Serving traffic is a single element of their design. They also designed for security, redundancy, and observability. All with their own solutions because using a service or a cloud provider would be too costly. With that in mind, it's not a charitable view to think they didn't explore low hanging fruits like "make the server in Go". If you think you can do better, detail in depth how and solve all of their requirements vs. the single piece you're familiar with.

And if you can do the above holistically, for an order of magnitude below their costs, it sounds like I need to get in touch to throw money at you.
You still do defragment HDDs today
Internet poker is heavily regulated in the US.
Yes there are also "genuine" things on the CB's balance sheet. But notice how small they are, except in some weird cases (like the SNB, the Swiss National Bank, which hoards a ton of equities).

My overall point was that the central bank, the public pensions system and the treasury are all a part of the federal government. When they "trade" with each other and maintain separate balance sheets that really means very little. What's the large scale difference between a tbill and base money if the Fed maintains an open market operations center and guarantees to trade them in unlimited quantities (repo and reverse repo) to keep them priced 1:1 to enforce their monetary policy? I mean I know you cannot take a tbill to a drugstore, but you can trade it back to a spendable private bank account balance in an instant, and you will always be able to.
Elon is a citizen(subject) of the US, as well as his enterprise.
Modern disks use Logical Block Addressing, so block numbers do correlate with head position but there's no detailed info at the level of cylinders/heads/sectors. Block remapping is a theoretical possibility, but if you see even a single block being remapped in the SMART info it means the disk is dying and you should replace it ASAP.
Malta-based startups that are continuing to grow fast during 2021
I think I see what you mean: There's a lot of potential for better (free) software, especially outside the "software for software developers" domain. Compared to that, a "quirky thing" seems insignificant. But consider the following: The author of a quirky thing probably learned a lot about the tech and working around the constraints they put on themselves which is, in a way, education. Plus, quirky stuff probably attracts other people to learn about its tech more than something "serious".

Apart from that, I think a lot of commercial software development is even more "useless". In the sense that, a lot of software is reinvented without any real improvements or much "educative benefits" for its developers.
They could notify the user after the username is entered to say the ip with this account is being logged are you sure you want to login?
That's the fair point among the objections here, re: HK, because you've identified a state actor doing arguably a wrong thing, but would such a state actor be able to satisfy Swiss law to compel the email vendor here to act?

The other objections are about whistleblowing on private parties, discrimination or in one case a corrupt petty politician/magistrate. None of them would generate a safety concern to someone protected by Swiss law.

Seriously, the folks working the privacy angle on this story need to distinguish themselves from gangsters and organized crime syndicates. One person doing the wrong thing is bad; an organization doing it is a serious public concern and everywhere and always will generate a public response.

If you substituted Substack or a public-facing communication medium I'd be more sympathetic to the outrage at an email vendor complying with Swiss law. Here, however, we're talking about discovery of the identity behind private communications of an undetermined nature in compliance with the law of a mature Western democracy. Sorry folks, you've sometimes got to work within the democratic system to achieve your goals.
https://techflashes.com/top-upcoming-futuristic-technologies...
Know the law if you want to avoid being harassed by bad factions of it.
My opinion is that generalist interviews are difficult but not 'extremely'. For example, here is a problem I came up with at one company:

Given a list of chapters in a video course, and a list of user bookmarks, write a function that groups the bookmarks by chapter. Chapters and bookmarks are defined as millisecond offsets from 0 (the start of the video file).

I'd specify the data structures for junior devs and let the more senior people work those out.

Your average developer that gets hired can solve and unit test the solution in less than 35 minutes. Those who don't might be having an off day, or I didn't do a good job at explaining the problem and details, or they didn't ask the right questions or who knows. The point is, a thousand things can go wrong, but the problem itself isn't that difficult. A few loops and a hashmap gets you an acceptable solution.

This and the other problems in the interview question databases at FAANGs are typical of what's in the Cracking the Coding Interview book. Whether someone's ability to solve these types of problems quickly is indicative of their skill level is a hot topic of debate, but if one wants to join these companies, then hacking the process by learning to solve algorithm and data structure problems is acceptable and not a particularly complex process. It's high overhead for the candidate, but at the very least it proves that they can learn, and learning the custom tools and code quickly is about half the skillet required to be successful at a FAANG.
Does this detect elevation too?
You can be forced to collect the data.
PulseAudio is already replaced by PipeWire[1] at Fedora Linux:

[1]: https://pipewire.org/
DOING api’s, what does that mean?

leetcode interviews do not test if a person can reasonably code. they expect people to give a specific optimal solution to a specific question which you can only provide if you have solved the question before, in the way it is expected, within max 2-3 minutes. the process is broken.

the moment you ask a candidate to build something you could use in your codebase you should pay them.
I didn't quite determine if you have a solution or are looking for a solution, but a Raspberry Pi 4, 4GB with a passive fanless heatsink case can run Pi-Hole and Home Assistant without breaking a sweat. I use a FLIRC case.
>If you look at some CS graduate making $200,000 a year and assume they'd have made $50,000 without the degree

This is the problem with assessing how valuable college is: you don't know how well off the person would've been if they had chosen not to go to college. You can't just compare all the people who went to college with all the people who didn't. You end up with a selection bias. You need to compare people who went to college with people who could've gone to college, but didn't.

Also, there might be (is) a difference between what's good for the individual and what's good for society.
(That is to say: hanging things from the rearview, legally speaking, is against law in many jurisdictions — and distracting, for many humans!)
I believe Apple's private relay do not work with WebRTC protocol by design; it is intended for HTTP(S).

As proof of concept it shows that there may be a viable commercial privacy-centric communication mechanism which works by not letting the service providers know their clients IPs.
> their development team in Bulgaria.

I don't see them having offices in Bulgaria. However they have offices in North Macedonia.
You can't hord if you don't have money. The local Rupee was depreciated a lot, and the food prices have gone up 20-30% to a point that it is simply too expensive to hord things.

There are some loosely imposed rules that one cannot buy more than 5kg of rice per turn, etc. But I don't see people actively hording things. The long lines are likely because a shop is only allowed to bring in 2-3 customers at once.
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> The biggest problem with organic is that it’s unsustainable for our population.

Do you have a source on this? I've read things that are mostly good when undertaken in a thoughtful way at a reasonable pace.
I am no lawyer, but there are over 180 countries in the world, and there is not one that will let you open a company that don't have to log user IP addresses?
I call this complete BS.
Protonmail has just become one of those providers that is only about making money and is probably getting money kickbacks from law enforcement under the form of legal processing fees or even something else, who knows..., really sad...
It coincides with the election of Donald Trump. This ideology already had a foothold in some departments and Trump was the accelerant that made it spread everywhere.
Longread if you want a more detailed explanation:
https://newdiscourses.com/2021/04/rise-woke-cultural-revolut...
How Long Does It Take to Learn Python?
Does this means node will create binaries?
Football referees didn't review replays in 2013.
But what individual can afford to think 50-80 years in the future? People have to do what is best for them in their life time.

To be able to think 50-80 years in the future is just an incredible luxury most do not have, particularly most small farmers, and particularly, I would think, most small farmers in a developing country.
I think liberalism cares about liberty not equality.

Pure equality is not possible while people have parents.
You can't expect Elon Musk to solve your woes regarding your being under the jurisdiction of your government. Elon and his companies, sattelites, etc. are subject to regulation, despite his marketing.
Ultra-famous accounts with zillions of subscribers are likely on a first-name basis with the youtube admins who cater to them. The move out of the platform will of course start from below.
These results may be skewed by use of non-GMO/GMO crops, which tend to correlate with organic/non-organic farming. Organic farming methods can be used with GMO crops, however.

Important note: not all GMO is done to vendor lock farmers, most of it is actually beneficial to food quality and availability
Can you define "more" here?

Manure weighs more than than an equivalent bag of fertilizer, sure. Is that bad, though?
Modern file systems do not need defragmenting. It was something that was only really done with FAT.
Kenyan social media campaign designed to undermine the country’s judiciary
According to that article, Rose Island was also in Italian territorial waters, and was invaded and destroyed by the Italian navy.
Well, if that matters, nothing stops _any_ email service provider from doing those things. And I would prefer a provider that at least tries to be clear about what to expect. One thing that PM failed to account for is how many people live in an imaginary world where it is possible to run a business that is stable, profitable on one hand, on the other hand fights for other people's freedom at own expense and is constantly in conflict with local authorities.
Some men with guns can easily change the case of sealand.

Technology itself has to be law-prone && gun-prone.
Sorry man, I just don't buy it. Expensive housing is a solveable problem. Six figures isn't that much when you're still spending half your paycheck on rent.

As for the cultural capital of the world? New York used to have a thriving art scene when it was cheap to live in. Now it just has an expensive art scene.
Very nice tool. I've long spoiled myself with Powershell's:

Invoke-WebRequest

eg. # what is the latest release of apache-tomcat?
$LINKS=$(Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi' | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Links)
$LATEST=$($Links | Where-Object -Property href -Match '#8.5.[0-9]+').href.substring(1)
$FETCH=$($Links | Where-Object -Property href -match "apache-tomcat-${LATEST}.zip$").href
Exactly the problem that I have. Many edge cases too.
A decade and a half ago I was at Microsoft when the interns were all invited to BillG's house for their annual picnic.

At the end of the picnic Bill comes out to answer questions. Some eager young intern raises their hand and asks, "Mr. Gates: What qualities are most important to success?"

Bill laughed a little bit and said, "Well, it helps to be smart."
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I'm a swimmer and I watch a lot of swimming videos on YouTube. I wanted to curate and collect all the swimming videos. So that's exactly what I did.

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Videos are categorized by events, strokes, gender etc. I find and curate ~20-30 vidoes a day. Hope some of you also enjoy it!
> I think there is a market for datacenters in open seas

You might escape the laws constraining you, but you will also escape the laws protecting you.

So if there is a datacenter in the open seas either:

- It's operated by some government, potentially indirectly through some straw mans.

- It's undermined by some goverment using it as a honypot or similar.

- It's so small that no-one cares about it.

- It's gone.

So IMHO, realistically speaking there is no such marked, if you want to escape the law it's properly easier to do so inside of an country instead of escaping onto the sea and then trying to somehow connect internet.
The author here. I actually am a lawyer. I just wanted to make it clear that I'm not "your" lawyer and therefore can't give advice on your specific use-case. Thanks for feedback. Might want to clarify that.
> The story i've heard is that the olden days, operating a computer was seen as clerical work, just like being a secretary, so ideally suited to women.

The fact is that in the old days, there really was plenty of clerical work around computers that just disappeared. Like rewritting data to punched cards and swapping wheels with punched tapes. My grandmother worked in 'data-processing facility' in a communist country, the facility employed many women, but they were (from whay i heard) essentially clerical positions without much CS/EE knowledge.