skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thing that often gets missed with online speech is that, if you're Millenial or older, you went from an Internet where the stakes were virtually zero and almost everyone was anonymous, to the Internet today, where the stakes (real or perceived) are higher than ever.

Socializing and doing business over the Internet used to be a punchline or a fictional conceit in the 1990-2005 era, but now many things that previously only mattered in meatspace are only realized online. Personally, I haven't really gotten my head around the social implications of this change.
An interesting economics exercise would be to evaluate the perverse incentives that could be created when the existence of a company is tied to turning one-time vaccine purchases into subscription revenue, and how to prevent/control them.
Is crypto necessarily a zero sum game? The stock market in the US has appreciated at an average of 7% over the past 50-100 years. I'd assume someone has "lost" in that scenario, but it probably isn't (on average) someone participating in the stock market.
That's why the Australian legislation giving everyone 4 weeks off, that is paid out at termination of employment, makes sense.

Plus public holidays obviously.

Employers are free to offer more if they want to attract more workers, although this rarely happens and 4 weeks is the norm.
I recently found this article, which probably repeats the same points, but with a very concrete example (Linux kernel development): https://blog.ffwll.ch/2017/08/github-why-cant-host-the-kerne...

It was an interesting read because Linus has repeatedly dismissed github for kernel development, and he never explains why in detail (as a consequence most news reporting his soundbites are not very informative either)
Canada is 80% white (so considerably more homogeneous than the U.S.), enjoys somewhat lower levels of inequality, and doesn't have a long, porous border with a developing nation that has endemic corruption, violence, and organized crime. It's really different.
So, if guns are in both places, what accounts for the different outcomes? Could it be something other than guns?
Presumably investing by buying stock in companies that are economically productive, as opposed to engaging in purely speculative investment like owning land.
Thank you for the detailed response.
I guess my dreamed up scenarios were more vague "shooter/assailant in the area" whereby I figured I'd want to "make myself less desirable to bother with". Hence small caliber, lots of noise/attempts and if - god forbid - anything connected it would still hurt/slow them.

I never really contemplated a "someone intent on killing you" scenario. It isn't something I think of much and I appreciate that clearly people have.

From your comments it seems clear that "stopping power" holds more of a place in conversations.

It is interesting that 22lr hasn't really been technologically updated. But I guess there would be interoperability issues and a "chicken(gun) and the egg(ammo)" scenario to overcome from a commercial point of view.
Thank you, marc_1,

This is a good point. Perhaps there is some logic to finding a price that lets us hit the next milestones and get customers two and three onboard. Even if it is less than what the material value might be for customer one.

That is a good link, I appreciate the reference. My primary takeaway is that according to the survey on SaaS ACV we would be on the very high end even at $120k/year. I think this is part of the challenge I face - the customer is not used to seeing SaaS billed this way.
> It's doubly ironic because of course a large swath of the guns in what is bordering on civil war in Mexico are supplied by the US, made possible through the (lack of) gun ownership regulation.

If the cartels can ship large amounts of highly illegal cargo transnationally and setup infrastructure like their own private cellular networks, I think they'd be able to acquire all the guns they need even if the US had strict gun control. It's not like they're that hard to make, especially if you're not above kidnapping some machinists.
More than just that; the block diagram and a lucid explantion of floating point mathematics that has lasted me for 40 years.
We'll I'll eat Baby Spinach, Cos, and Iceberg, and that's about it, so I'll take your word for it.

I don't mind alfalfa and bean sprouts but they seem to be out of fashion here in Australia.
Don't worry. I'm definitely on the fence with this.

I am not the kind of anti-software purist. But I am definitely against fake elements in a photo, which there are more than plenty in Instagram and other photo sharing platforms.
Had a similar experience happen to me many years ago.

But if I was doing it all over again I'd make sure to have a signed one page agreement on some points like this:

- Both agree to work a minimum of xx hours per week on the project

- Both agree on a reasonable hourly rate for each others time and then track your hours while working

- If theres no venture capital then the hourly rate you both 'earn' is in credits towards future profits or equity

- If one person isn't meeting their expected contribution requirements over a reasonable period they forfeit their stake in the business
> Again Japan is a great example: there are pretty much no guns allowed, anywhere, and guess what? There is almost zero gun crime.

I think the relevant counterfactual example you're looking for here is, "If Japan had much more liberal gun laws, would murder rates go up?" I don't think anyone's specifically concerned about gun murders.
Subs on twitch have other benefits though, both ~tangible (most depends on the channel I guess, but they all do) and social. What would twitter even have? If it's just a paid adblock, that's not exactly compelling.
It seems that at some level, that is exactly the purpose of (publicly-funded) basic research on the academic side. For example, the idea of messenger RNA therapy has been around for decades in the academic literature, and of course this idea was only possible with preceding advancements in general biology.
Pieces of Shit
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest made $1.07bln global revenue. So Moderna made roughly 4 Dad Man's Chest's of revenue this quarter for their incredibly innovative mRNA vaccine, given to tens of millions of people, saving tens of thousands of lives. A truly sweet deal for society at large.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films
His statement "Well, if the cops are your threat actor, then don't use biometrics! Instead, just sit in jail..." sounds a LOT like "If you have done nothing wrong, then why do you care if there is mass surveillance? Are you hiding something?"
Remember the time you could get a machine with this desktop/window manager at Walmart in the US? Good times.
Obviously anecdata, but on point:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/25/us/feral-hog-death-trnd/index...

Woman in Texas was killed by feral hogs.
“zmessenger-dev” is, I believe, the “alt account” they lost the login info to. Their main account, presumably tied to their identity, was used to author a commit that was pushed the DMCA’d repo. They later lost access to the alt (zmessenger) and so cannot remove the repo.

This is possible since GitHub attributes commits to certain accounts based on the email that authors the commit, so they used an email tied to their main account to author the commit. Only the email is actually attached to the commit though, GitHub just associates the account based on a lookup. They then push the commit to the repo using their ssh or password authentication for zmessenger, which they later lose, and so they can no longer alter the repository and remove the offending commit/email
I don't necessarily see that happening. No other country came in on the side of the Confederacy during the US Civil War.
You are correct about ESnet. Before I quit LANL last year, I ran traceroute from my LANL desktop to my house. I found that the packets went through Sunnyvale. If LANL is serious about WFH, they will address that.
As a guy who's blog and email consists of .xyz domains, I can only say two or three times in ad many years has it ever been a problem (that I'm aware of, at least), and then it was a website not letting me create an account using it for email.

I suspect I'm either lucky, or something.
Yeah, I’m generally tolerant of UI redesigns, I was fine with Windows 8 even, but lack of “never combine” is a bummer :(
> I think it won't be too long until they can dust your fingerprints, take a picture of it, then have it 3d printed on a substrate that will fool a simple fingerprint scanner.

I'm struggling to find good references right at this moment - but I've seen reports/video of this being done using more basic means, years ago. But I may be misremembering details.

It seems that it's already possible to produce usable fingerprints using a laser printer, printable transparencies (i.e for overhead projectors), and some glue.

The idea is that you print the inverted fingerprint on a transparency. Because the transparency doesn't allow the toner to absorb in, it remains on the surface as a 3D structure.

You then apply glue to that structure, and wait for it to cure. After it cures it can be removed and trimmed to fit your finger, and then applied to your finger.

This apparently is reliable enough to fool basic fingerprint scanners, even ones with 'liveness' checks for conductivity/pulse because the glue is conductive and transparent enough for those basic checks.

Examples of similar things:

https://blog.lookout.com/why-i-hacked-apples-touchid-and-sti...

https://www.instructables.com/How-To-Fool-a-Fingerprint-Secu...
There's no best way to architect anything. It's always a trade-off and depends tightly on your situation.

Here's some practical advice. I would just look at loads of starter projects by googling "express typescript starter github" then explore each project. Things to remember when searching:

- Most starter projects have too many use cases, so you can actually delete parts you don't need.

- You don't need to use a single architecture, it may be better to combine things you like about a few different types
Well that explains why he didn't want it linked to his main accout then.
My last workplace had "unlimited vacation" policy which in reality was a no-vacation policy. Everyone was constantly stressed and on the edge of burning out - would not recommend.
But literally nobody is proposing removing all guns from a society. Rather, even the most aggressive proposals merely confine them to government actors, usually a standing army. Confining guns to government actors means lethal violence is monopolized by the government. And there are many, many examples of how terribly that can go. Yes, if we could eliminate humanity’s ability to inflict lethal violence, the world would be a better place. We cannot do that because we’re humans.
They didn't defeat the us military lol , there was just no political will to continue a war on the other side of the world with no real value to the American establishment. But in your scenario where the American establishment goes rogue and decides to launch a punitive campaign against its own population that won't be a problem
Depends on the product. The Rails architecture is fine for CRUD apps, and Heroku will happily take more and more money for more and more database capacity. As long as your ARPU is solid, you're fine scaling like that.

But there are more things in the world than CRUD apps. I'm building tools to track hate on social media, and there's a lot of social media out there. Rails, or any RDBMS-centered architecture, won't cut it. And if you're not using Rails, then I think the case for using Ruby isn't very strong these days; Python has a bigger community and is much stronger in important niches, like ML. So we picked Python as our default language not because the Python runtime is vastly more efficient than the Ruby one, but because the ecosystem is a much better match for our needs.

I wish it were the other way, as honestly I like Ruby better as a language. But my personal tastes are ultimately a pretty small factor when I'm picking the tooling for a project.
https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-stalled-population-gro... . A clear majority of California's population growth in the past 1, 2, and 3 decades is natural growth, not migration. What's interesting is that it is a result of international immigration into the state and domestic emigration from the state. Regardless of that, though, an international immigrant or a native californian still consume housing. The housing shortage is not caused by immigration.

Certainly you could make the argument that if not for immigrants to the US settling in California it would result in less population growth here, but I think a housing policy which can't even keep up with very little net migration is broken.
I believe IBM (or Intel) plus some other Western companies have seen caste-based discrimination lawsuits emerge, whereas a couple decades ago that wouldn't have been the case.

The idea that the diaspora doesn't keep this stuff alive is false.
That is correct. You enable it with the manifest and then you handle the scaling in the application code.

> something assumes Pixels or DIP incorrectly.

These are exactly the types of problems legacy applications run into.

They will contain hard coded assumption in their code and many of those will be 'pixel based' assumptions.
Just to clarify, fully automatic rifles ("machine guns") in the U.S. cost tens of thousands of dollars (and have, thanks to gun control legislation, been an absolutely amazing investment). For instance, an M-16 would cost you maybe $30-35k plus the regulatory hoops.
Would you leave early if you got a $120k signing bonus? Some companies will make up for surrendered equity, you might ask to be made good for surrendered severence. Interview practice is probably good anyway.
> A million or so crimes, murders included, are deterred/stopped every year - most without firing a shot.

The data don't really suggest that this is the case. Compared to other western countries, America has the same rate of crime. The difference is, of course, that criminal activity is more likely to involve firearms and thus death.
GitHub identifies commits only by their associated email addresses, and it is easy to manipulate them. This has a consequence that anyone can masquerade as any others.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10005577
In crypto, if you are winning, someone has to lose. There is no intrinsic value unlike stock market. In stock market, most of companies are growing and thus creating positive sum game.
the inaccessible alt account contained some identifying information this person wanted to remove, so as the copyright owner they issued a DMCA takedown request
Yes exactly I'm trying to continue living in a world without violence, the way to do that is to reduce easy access to guns.
Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale
Maintain what though? Hashmaps don't need to be secure, and as long as you have a hash function and an array, that's all you need.
RosettaCode has examples of the Shunting-Yard algorithm for parsing infix notation ((1+2)*3)^4 to an AST or just a stack of data and operators such as RPN: [ ]

Parsing/Shunting-yard algorithm:
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Parsing/Shunting-yard_algorithm

Parsing/RPN to infix conversion: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Parsing/RPN_to_infix_conversion...

Applications: testing all combinations of operators with and without term grouping; parentheses; such as evolutionary algorithms or universal function approximaters that explore the space.

For example: https://github.com/westurner/notebooks/blob/gh-pages/maths/b... :

> This still isn't the complete set of possible solutions
At a company I worked at in St. Louis I was pairing with the owner on the PTO system when we noticed I was at the cap that day... we were using my data as the test. He made me go home right then and there. We implemented the system emailing HR when people were nearing the cap so we could make sure people didn't work too much and lose vacation.
Which doesn't mean other banks didn't. Just haven't been caught that much. (For now)

Also, since 2008 the point is mostly moot. See Bad Banks.

And there we have politics. Let them crash and burn, or try for another turn, in the game of boom and bust?

What is to earn, who is to trust?

Nobody knows anymore. It's all yearn and lore.
Oddly, this DMCA report is a straightforward (though harmless) example of perjury, since one literally cannot infringe one's own copyright, and the report alleges a self-infringement of copyright under penalty of perjury as required by the statutory DMCA regime.

Being therefore self-evidently invalid without needing external information beyond its text, the notice certainly doesn't impose any takedown obligation stemming from the DMCA even if GitHub wants to stay within the DMCA safe harbor.

GitHub can, of course, still choose to respond to the perjurious invalid notice by voluntarily destroying the repository as requested. That seems like the right thing to do in this case, so I hope they do it.
What does Facebook mean when it says it supports “Internet Regulations”?
Seems to me whether you like this or not probably boils down to whether you like SQL or not.

For someone who spends most of their time writing type-safe functional code and loving the expressive power of it, the idea of voluntarily injecting SQL into my life seems horribly retrograde. We write whole frameworks to try and avoid having to manually code SQL(!) and every time I have to do it I sigh in frustration at how frustrating, verbose and repetitive it is.

But I'm guessing there's a whole crowd of people out there thinking "finally I can just use SQL and none of these ridiculous programming languages to manage my infra ..."
I'm under no illusions about HN either. It's my guilty pleasure, but it's also largely a waste of time. It's blocked on my computer, I only use it from my phone and I keep my phone out of reach when I'm working.
Yes I'm sure the 20th century would have been much more peaceful with guns in everyone's hand. You sir have solved all political problems , just give everyone guns !
it’s definitely relevant background.
This story is almost seven years old. These guys settled their dispute and moved on. Frere Jones now has a very successful type company of his own. He's not exactly living in a van by the river
They got rid of Fleets when it became clear they weren't working out. Spaces on the other hand have gotten some traction. I don't think it's a bad thing that they're experimenting with features.
This is a chapter of an academic book, and a survey of constructions and attacks on the various DLs (the most notable two classes of those constructions are multiplicative group "classic" Diffie Hellman and elliptic curves --- ECDH and ECC signatures). I'm less† familiar with Granger, but Joux is one of the most famous research cryptographers working on curves and discrete log problems more generally.

This is a pretty neat survey and includes a lot of stuff you're not going to run into in practical, deployed, conventional systems (it'll also give you some pointers to background behind things in SafeCurves).

A choice quote:

Progress in cryptanalytic algorithms, just as in science more
generally, usually evolves by small increments but with occasional
revolutionary steps forward [54]. One example of such a step
forward could arguably be the rapid development of efficient
algorithms for solving the DLP in finite fields of fixed
characteristic, that took place from late 2012 to mid 2014, thanks
to the present authors and their collaborators. Between these
times, the fastest algorithm for solving this problem went from
having complexity L(1/3) to being quasi-polynomial, rendering such
fields entirely unsuitable for discrete logarithm-based
cryptography, including pairing-based cryptography over small
characteristic supersingular curves. These events constitute a
perfect example of Prof. Lenstra’s (perhaps jocular, but no doubt
in part quite serious) contention that no problem based on number
theory should ever be considered truly secure, even if it has
remained impenetrable for several decades.

† ie: not
What a sad affair. Interviews and documentaries clearly demonstrating their relationship as partners, without a hierarchy. Then one baldly asserts his ownership rights, and the other realizes the naive trust he'd put in his colleague was vapor.
If only WSL2 wasn't half baked dogshit that breaks all networked features over VPN and this release didn't spin up my work computer's fans to max at all times, windows 11 might be usable.
I mentioned Steampipe [1] above, it has an open source OCI plugin [1] to query resources (no support for write operations). It's a Postgres FDW under the hood, and uses subset of Postgres types (bool, bigint, double, text, inet, cidr, timestamptz and jsonb) along with their standard operators. This approach has proven very simple and effective for us.

1 - https://steampipe.io
2 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-plugin-oci
Not even an adversary, any malicious actor with a boat could go and interfere. Sea Shepherd with pilfered missiles?
> ability to fight

but not to win. You realize how ridiculous it sounds to go against the US government with rifles? It's worse than bringing a knife to a gun fight.

Sometimes I can't help but feel like most of you gun loving folks are dreaming that you're in a Hollywood movie, where you're the hero and you die in glorious battle protecting your freedoms and family. But it's ok, because at least you put up a fight and credits will roll.

The reality is that you will do nothing at best, and die at worst.
The incriminating info would show up under Insights -> Contributors but it doesn't seem to load on the archived page
They can't promise that but will explicitly advertise their VPN to work with Netflix.

https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-service#streaming
“The jailbreak is not 100% open”
Sadly, Robert Steele passed away Aug 29th. (https://phibetaiota.net/ )
You said stations charged by solar would not have the tax. That was the questions context. Also most commuting would support at home charging only, so where are the taxes there?

If there taxes at the station and that costs more, then you know people will charge at home where it is cheaper. Same might apply for Amazon delivery trucks, they would certainly optimize on that variable.

So ii seems you need to know how much a vehicle travels and charge taxes based on that and some other variables.

Alternatively expanding a wide spread tolling system seems like the lowest political cost.
I would expect drunk-driving deaths to far exceed firearm homicides, and it's honestly shocking that firearm homicides are that high. I think the stats show that it's not blown out of propertion.
Why would anyone pay when there is adblock?
Yep their public account likely shows up as a contributor to the furry side-project they were working on at the time.
I’ve always wondered whether legal copywriting was covered by copyright (it certainly is, but to what extent), and therefore whether you could take down someone else who is showing your legal letters in public (or using your contract as a template to write their own).
In my experience, conservative and moderate-leaning people do not require a priori confirmation of ideological alignment with a person before they try to know them. Especially if they live next door. In conservative places, where you would expect to find more armed households, you would also see more neighborly relationship in my experience.