skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...maybe we should block all their access to money supply so they and their family can starve.

Well, no, remember that asylum is legal immigration and asylees and claimants are free to use the banking system. A properly and fairly executed asylum system actually threads the needle here nicely.

Of course they shouldn't exist, we both agree.

Given the system is imperfect what should we do, is the question you're asking I think.

My answer is not "build circumvention tools" but instead "advocate for reform." In the same way I think drugs should be legal, but instead of building a darknet marketplace - which solves zero existing problems and creates 10 more new ones - I instead advocate for drug decriminalization and prison reform. And safe injection sites. This makes the world a better place.

> As are banks and fiat.

Of course, but that system tries to stop them with the things you rail against, like AML and KYC rules - whereas crypto welcomes them with open arms.

That's a fundamental difference. Whatever is built upon it is fruit of the poison tree, rife with adverse selection.

I maintain that building tools to circumvent constitutional laws you happen not to like is a bad thing. I think that energy is better expended advocating for better legislation. It's hard, but it's infinitely better.
How a farmer would benefit from learning how to code?

How an actor/actress would benefit from learning how to code?

Barman/barmaid, TV host, politicians, journalists, archeologists, ...

I can think of many more professions were coding would bring nothing.

Yes, every one learns basic math, reading and writing. Did you learn how to draw? Did you learn how cultivate land? Did you learn how to build a house? Surely to someone out there, this would be basic skills that "every one should learn".
Free vs. Available Memory in Linux
I didn't imply it couldn't.
It takes a special mindset to work that hard / that many hours at any company of which you aren't a majority owner.
Why can't we just clone individual parts? Why would we need to do a whole human and would it have to grow from baby to adult in the normal life span?

Do we think any "mad scientist" types doing this, or is it just easier to use condemed prisoners?
Don’t be daft. The intent and result are identical. It’s not “very” different at all. It’s nominally different at best, but almost equivalent in practice. It’s intellectual dishonesty to suggest otherwise.
Nope, there are 2 parts of this problem:
1. What do customers perceive.
2. What does it cost to run this software for Netflix - Companies are continuously trying to improve this while maintaining or improving 1.

Being done, is not what a tech company ever thinks of. Look at all the innovation coming out of Netflix as OSS products and blog posts.
This is a fantastic read. And, I totally agree - the parallels are quite obvious.
"Democratize".

lol. It's now a weasel word used by start-ups. Merits an eye roll before moving along.
Eurex/XETRA EOBI no longer uses FAST. It is about 8 year old t this point, but IIRC some products are still on the older protocol.
Ask HN: Would anyone in the Bay Area (not SF) be up to try a new dating app?
Hey, my friends and I started a new dating app because we all pretty strongly dislike what the market currently offers, specifically the time we spend from swipe --> first date.

We're looking to learn how folks use our dating app, and get a more objective view on what the experience is like. Would anyone be up to try it? Completely free, all we ask is that you have a brief convo before and after using.
HBO Max, continuous crashes, recommendation algorithm, massive latency even above the fold, I've learned the failure modes and I know how to fix this.

This in on a modern Roku TV, released 8 months ago. 0 problems like this from Netflix.
Wonderful concept but whenever I hear the term 'democratize' in a description I laugh a little inside. It's hugely overused, to the point where lazy marketers of all kinds are using it willy nilly.

We need better lingo.
This is not too far off what experimental systems already do.

My lab has equipment that collects data from 288 electrodes in the brain, each at 16 bits/sample x 30,000 samples/sec. This works out to 140 mbps, not counting overhead or other types of data we collect, and it’s not abnormally large. If we had a research question that required it, the vendor sells versions with up to 512 channels—-and you can gang them together for even more.

However, this probably isn’t the direction BCI is headed. A lot of the signal is redundant. Some of this is because nearby neurons tend to do very similar things, and some of it is because signals propagate pretty well through the brain so electrodes pick up the same signal in different places. As a result, most non-research applications don’t need all of that data and it’s increasingly possible to do some preprocessing right at the brain: folks at Imperial have made all kinds of cool ASICs that extract spikes.
Compulsory voting does not imply a politically engaged populace. I believe the majority of voters do not enjoy the requirement to attend on polling day, and treat the whole affair like supporting a football team. Except they care a lot less about the election results than their football team. Mandatory voting probably has the effect of protecting the two major parties more than anything else.

There was a surge in minor parties in the Senate about a decade ago. In the (very large) Senate ballot you were able to vote for a single party, and their official preferences registered with the Electoral Commission were automatically applied to the entire form. Minor parties with similar policies were obviously preferencing each other, and preferencing major parties very low. (The whole point of a minor party, sometimes a single issue party, is a significant deviation from the uncontested policy agreed upon by both major parties). So the process was changed and now the voter has to manually nominate at least 6 parties on the Senate ballot form. The effect of this is even the motivated voter with interest in the policies of a minor party cannot usually name 6 that they prefer over the 2 major parties, and so one (if not both) will end up getting a reasonably high vote preference when the previous scheme would have seen them near the bottom. This further secured the position of the two major parties.
The economies of scale of industrializing farming means that cutting the planting and harvesting by 25% doesn't cut the cost by the same 25% (i.e., the same economies of scale works against you when you try to decrease your scale!).
Water bottles, hats, shirts.

Team: "What are we accelerating to meet?"
PM: "Just because, do I need to talk to your manager?"
Team: ...
PM: goes home at normal hours
I'm not sure how anyone does 84 hours a week of one thing. I mean 42 hours of programming plus 42 hours of physical work I could understand. Even then it's got to be tough. There must be something in the brain chemistry of people who can pull it off.
It won't protect you against three letter agencies - it is more my double middle finger to everyone who thinks SMS verification has value, or somehow the gateway to marketing to me, or being able to harass me if they wanted. I have the telco turn off voice mail on the number so that nobody can produce phone records showing a completed call and say I was contacted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mewYpU5OSUM
> ed. note, wow you added a lot as I was typing out my response to this

I only spend, like, two minutes editing a comment after I post. You must have had a stale browser window open.

> If you're finding bugs in code that isn't covered by tests, I'd take that as evidence that your coverage isn't sufficient.

That's an extremist viewpoint. It's unreasonable. It's a waste of time and money.

You have tons of tools at your disposal for finding bugs in your code. You have automated tests, manual tests, unit tests, integration tests, type systems, static analyzers, linters, code review, logging, analytics, and bug reports from production. Use a mixture. As you increase the sensitivity of any one tool, the cost of development increases.

For most projects, if you don't see bugs in production, you are not shipping soon enough. The cost of shipping late is, at some point, going to be larger than the cost of shipping bugs to production.

> In some codebases, 100% test coverage is equivalent to solving the Halting Problem. Don't sweat it.

My experience is that there are only a few explanations for why you would see a code base with 100% test coverage:

1. The code is so critical that high test coverage is justified (e.g. SQLite),

2. The code is so trivial that high test coverage is easy, or

3. The engineers in charge are just fucking nuts.

I'd like to share this recent quote from @tef_ebooks:

https://twitter.com/tef_ebooks/status/1434706902366228480

> trying to work out how to impress on people that i'm an incredibly masculine programmer, and although people have suggested comparing it to hunting animals for food, as far as i can tell the most 10x macho behaviour that programmers do is working unpaid overtime

> the best thing about being a macho programmer is that you can do it by saying one thing like "write 100% test coverage" or the opposite "i don't write tests" because nothing shouts status like extreme viewpoints in a land of tradeoffs
And now they changed their mind, since 2008. Perhaps it was due to the real nature of a pandemic that killed a large number of people. What is the problem?
We don't vote on every bill, we vote on preferred parties every 3 years. It's still a predominantly 2-party dominated system though, and there's basically zero difference between the two on issues like this.
Just watched the WeWork documentary last night and it makes me question the validity of every money raise now.
The more I read comments on subjects I am intimately familiar with, the more I realize most people who comment on HN don't really know what they're talking about and mostly make things up.

To answer your question, you can't find these servers because they don't exist. A server with 4T of RAM will cost you at a minimum $20,000 and that will be for some really crappy low-grade RAM. Realistically for an actual server that one would use in an actual semi-production setting, you're looking at a minimum of $35,000 for 4TB of RAM and that's just for the RAM alone, although to be fair that 35k ends up dominating the cost of the entire system.
HERE BE DRAGONS.

From the article comes this nugget of knowledge.

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This problem combines two of latter-day Windows' most annoying tendencies. First, the operating system relentlessly promotes and prioritizes Microsoft's first-party apps and services. Second, the operating system talks to Microsoft's servers in the background to report diagnostic data, fetch advertisements, and even download Windows Store apps without asking. As Aleksandersen correctly points out, these non-essential background processes shouldn't be capable of breaking core functionality.
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Hey, your https://bsrender.io/ is really really awesome! The very large generated images are mind boggling.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28425849
I think it’s one of the standard architecture for games. You can do ECS or hierarchical objects any times you need to build a lot of similar objects.
And now we’re back to the original commenter pointing out that this new browser lacks such extensions
Don't they try this currently?
https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs

I think during a gold rush, it's good to sell shovels even if can't be the leading shovel sales outlet in town.

I think we're at a point where new NLP techniques will create a lot of value, but it's still hard to tell in advance which cases the current techniques can do well enough to be worthwhile, and in which cases they'll be kinda cool but not effective and so we'll continue to require humans to be involved catching errors. While we sort that out, a lot of companies will need to take a few stabs at trying to get some new model to work for their problems.
Consider what happens when you have a bunch of uninformed voters that are forced to vote...

Imagine how elections would shift if only the elderly voted or middle age.

Imagine if only those with children could vote (as they have a reason for the future).

The voting base is important. Forcing people to vote sets up conditions where propaganda as opposed to an informed population is making the decisions.

That’s what happened to Australia
I just Googled [servers with 4T of RAM], but apparently no, it does not include the RAM itself. Came up with this (about $4K base, another $44K to max it out with RAM):

https://www.broadberry.com/dual-amd-epyc-rackmount-servers/a...
My eyes were opened to the "real world" when I worked with a project manager who made the company a lot of money and was paid a lot. He didn't deliver any software. It was purely about finding out all the ways the customer had tripped on the contract.
> I want to focus on the other aspect: intolerance. Intolerance of anyone who doesn't fit in.

Even in the article the Superintendant left in part due to receiving assassination threats...
related discussions:

ZeroTier - Simple Software Defined Networking
(111 points, 5 years ago, 38 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11699122

ZeroTier: Network Virtualization Everywhere
(107 points, 7 years ago, 50 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8235702

ZeroTier 2.0 Status ( https://www.zerotier.com/2019/09/24/zerotier-2-0-status/ )
(98 points, 2 years ago, 47 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21066821

LF: Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store ( https://github.com/zerotier/lf )
(191 points, 2 years ago, 46 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20579868
(related blog post: https://www.zerotier.com/2019/06/30/lf-announcement/ )

How we moved to Google Cloud using Consul and ZeroTier with zero downtime ( https://tech.channable.com/posts/2017-10-25-how-we-moved-to-... )
(105 points, 4 years ago, 21 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15548642

.

Ask HN by the zerotier founder:

Ask HN: Critique my startup: ZeroTier One
(6 points, 7 years ago, 12 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8193250

Ask HN: Single founder startups: real data and experiences?
(3 points, 7 years ago, 8 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8723931

(maybe api can now tell us about his own experience as a single founder)

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the zerotier blog also had a few popular posts (with fixed urls):

The Horror in the Standard Library ( https://www.zerotier.com/2017/05/05/the-horror-in-the-standa... )
(830 points, 4 years ago, 216 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14275805

The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem ( http://web.archive.org/web/20160528080607/https://www.zeroti... )
(323 points, 6 years ago, 196 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11136739
(i could not find this article anymore. was it intentionally deleted? sorry, api)

since this post seems to be controversial, you may also also note the followup: Followup on IPv6 Notation Usability Concerns ( http://web.archive.org/web/20160305151134/https://www.zeroti... )

The State of NAT Traversal ( https://www.zerotier.com/2014/08/25/the-state-of-nat-travers... )
(189 points, 7 years ago, 96 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8229327

Introducing Network Containers ( https://www.zerotier.com/2015/09/29/introducing-network-cont... )
(82 points, 6 years ago, 22 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10319747

AES-GMAC-CTR (SIV) ( https://www.zerotier.com/2019/09/04/aes-gmac-ctr-siv/ )
(74 points, 2 years ago, 45 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20878207
Someone in Seattle said this to me once when I was sitting on his front stoop. I was on the phone and saw him walk up and I jumped and hurried off his steps. I will never forget his words because I was high af at the time
China has enforced coercive quarantining in their SARS-CoV2 response, and these measures have been picked up in the West (via "shelter in place" orders). To their credit, they seem to have successfully contained SARS-CoV2. So maybe the ACLU was proven wrong here.
Clean Streets: People taking San Francisco’s trash into their own hands
IMO it’s the latter, plus a sprinkle of COVID-19 lockdown distraction (source: I’m Australian).

We haven’t had a prime minister see through a full term in quite a while (they keep getting shuffled out mid-term), and right now everyone is so focussed on lockdowns impacting ~60% of the population that it’s hard to stay up to date and focussed on some of these more important bills being put through the system.
I would suspect that someone on the Bing team woke up one day and thought to themself "I know exactly how to increase our search metrics"
Color-Blindness is not the same thing as Judging the Content of Character.

Of course, we all deserve to be judged based on the content of our character and not on superficial markers like skin, gender, etc, etc, etc.

However, broadly and statistically speaking, people from different economic and racial groups tend to have differing experiences, largely because of systems and not really because of any individual experience.

This is the core thesis of Critical Theory (and it’s subset Critical Race Theory): in the court of law, one must consider all of the details and context of a person, as they necessarily have an impact on an individual’s experiences.
My Skills Visualized in a Network Graph
SEO has gotten so bad. One other factor was the majority of the old internet was hand made. Someone took the time to either build the page from scratch or to type it in to some blog software. While now when you search for something very particular, you get pages with identical keywords but you click on them and they are auto generated and show generic content not exactly what you wanted.

It would be an almost impossible task to filter these out because they are specifically generated to look exactly like the content you are looking for.
Agreed - the tile for Brooklyn Nine Nine when I'm signed in is Jake Peralta but for Mum it's Rosa Diaz.
In America, money is speech-- especially in politics, so unfortunately maybe this is a "fitting" use of the word.
Are you saying that, in their original argument, they never considered the scenario where an epidemic killed a large number of people?
The Sensory Neuron as a Transformer: Permutation-Invariant Neural Nets for RL
Yes. Kotlin is great for both front and backend.

For that particular use-case (or related financial ones) I'd consider Rust, which was a bit too immature when I was working on this but would give you some extra speed. HFT is winner-take-all and the bar has risen significantly even in the last couple years, so if I were putting my own money at risk now I'd want the absolute fastest processing possible.
The two parts you quoted aren't as different as you claim, and are still more correct than the one they're responding to:

>They are using lightning wallets.

If your real intent is to improve discussion, maybe you should address that instead of erroneously invoking the "move the goalposts"
fallacy. Moreover, I think both comments had substance to them, especially when compared to, again, the original comment
about the lightning network.
Always in tandem with propaganda I feel. So it would censor criticism of the regime, and any opposite viewpoint, while replacing all voices with the pro-regime voices instead.

I'm not sure this is the same as letting one freely voice their hate of another and propagate lies and falsehoods about them.

I guess you see it as let's just all use propaganda and defamation against each other, and hopefully that evens out where we all meet in the middle through constant bi-directional propaganda and hatred.

But I see it more as let's not allow the use of propaganda and hate anymore, because those things are at the detriment of other people's freedom, and you should only be free to do what doesn't take away freedoms from others as well, unless it has been agreed between both parties through a contract and a system of laws.

I don't really have a proof that one would have better outcomes over the other, but personally I find having a civil debate in good faith with rational arguments is more pleasant than to have a demagogue debate in bad faith using appeal to prejudice, emotions, desires, falsehoods and defamation. So I'd rather we as a society needed to engage respectfully, rationally and in good faith, and I wouldn't mind this to be enforced both culturally and by law.

I've heard the "slippery slope" and the "what if that just radicalizes demagogues even more" arguments, and the latter one I find more possibly valid. I feel the slope isn't that slippery personally, like the slope would only slip if the person in power was again a demagogue ruling in bad faith, and at that point it be too late anyways, since they'd already be in power.

Now the argument that it could radicalize demagogues further, by giving them more ammo to justify themselves, I think that's a more plausible prediction. I'm not too sure about this bit yet, so I could be convinced here, but I'd need to also be convinced that letting demagogues continue to have large public reach isn't itself a bigger threat.
I’m not sure China is a great example of a country where this type of activity hasn’t harmed civil rights.
I hope they don't start pushing this shit towards users in the next major windows update. It would go well with the nagging recommendations to use their browser.
I was under the impression 8314 was a "done deal". IANA have listed 465 as submission over TLS since december 2017.

(The previous iteration was submission over SSL in the late 90s on the same port.)
That really depends on the configuration and architecture used for the future telescopes.
I don’t see how the GUI makes Windows less important. Windows is everywhere.
Some slab allocators are type aware, because some of them reset "freed" items into a type-specific initialised state ready for re-use
Democrats and republicans alike, let's make sure we don't do this in USA. Please donate to EFF, FIRE, ACLU, etc. I feel like both parties are becoming more authoritarian. COVID-19 is here to stay for many years if not decades. We're not going to be able to wipe off the virus from the planet. Governments will continue to use this as an excuse to erode privacy.

This whole clampdown feels completely anti-Australian to me. Australians I've met are all very open minded, free spirited folks and they are always flipping a birdie to the government.
So I started playing with Godot in early 2020 and remembered reading an article on ECS and why they don’t do it. I just found it again and they say this pattern has been around in the game industry since the 2010s feels like 1) it’s good Godot doesn’t implement this, just to not deal with any potential Unity BS 2)this patent would fail if you’ve got deep enough pockets and time. Here’s the article: https://godotengine.org/article/why-isnt-godot-ecs-based-gam...
It also sets up conditions by which people have no choice but to make a choice which is in their own interest, rather than having a political process built on vote suppression, non-participation and the kind of clientelism which arises when politicians are more concerned with energizing their own base than expanding their appeal.

Quoting political scientist Waleed Aly:

"In a compulsory election, it does not pay to energize your base to the exclusion of all other voters. Since elections cannot be determined by turnout, they are decided by swing voters and won in the center... That is one reason Australia’s version of the far right lacks anything like the power of its European or American counterparts. Australia has had some bad governments, but it hasn’t had any truly extreme ones and it isn’t nearly as vulnerable to demagogues"

I think your point about compulsory voting creating ripe conditions for more propaganda is not borne out by reality - the USA is just as flooded with fake news as Australia.