skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The demons seem like they're from Jonathan Stround's "Bartimaeus" books, and the rest from Ian Tregillis' "Milkweed Triptych" books.
It's called negative income tax.
The concept reminds me of the great book by Andy Weir, Artemis. (He of; The Martian, fame.) Audiobook is very good too.
I read an English language article which I wish I could find. A girl was traveling after the DDR collapsed between east and west Berlin, or Nuremberg and Chemnitz or the like. She said on the old western side there were Turks all over, and red light districts and that sort of thing, whereas in the east it was still in many ways like the Germany in 1949. That in a number of ways, west Germany was more left wing than east Germany.
Am I the only person who feels bad for her?
It (or similar programs) might appear to be a manual if it generates a feedback loop: it starts as a comedic exaggeration of actual truths; people see it and become jaded and cynical, assuming the exaggerations literally to be happening; and this expectation enables politicians to get away with more corruption.
Now I'm thinking telescope + QR code on the moon, who knows, maybe it'd be a set of lights that could generate QR codes
Moved thither. Thanks!
Thats a rather rosy way to present nepotism.
I kind of feel the same way. Like if our goal is vaccination, yea, republicans do have to eat some humble pie, but liberals shouldn’t make it harder for them than it has to be.
I guess it comes down to whether or not you believe that coercive force is only real if it's consciously applied by another person. But I don't think that distinction makes sense or that it really matters to most people. Freedom is closely tied to agency. If you don't have agency to decide whether or not you're going to work, then that's what involuntarily labor is, you're working because you have no choice.

In your grandparent's situation, they worked the fields because nature took away their freedom, they didn't have a choice about whether or not to work the fields (unless you count dying as a choice, but most people don't). There may not have ever been a person coming and holding a gun to their head and telling them to plow the field, but at the end of the day their situation was the same.

To someone being forced into an abusive job, it doesn't really matter to them why they're being forced into that job. If someone is blackmailing them or threatening them to do that job, then they don't really have a free choice. If a government has socialized the entire economy and is forcing them to work that job under threats of imprisonment, that's not really a free choice either. And in the same way, if the economy gives them no mechanism to move away or improve their life, and if they have no choice except to keep working or to starve, then they are still being forced to work. Their choice is still exactly the same as it would be under any other coercive system.

Natural systems can be coercive, there doesn't need to be a human deliberately forcing the system to work that way. It's about whether or not someone can realistically make a choice.

To me, it is very strange to describe a situation where a worker has no real leverage to choose to do something different, and to describe that person as being free -- regardless of the scenario that has put them into that position. This gets back to a previous criticism, which is that "nature" is very often neither fair nor free. If there is any major praise of collectivism, it's that humans decided to build systems that were more fair and more free than nature would be on its own.
> Some have even demanded that their children continue using it in college.

This seems like it needs to be fixed with legislation. Make it illegal to track others' location without their explicit consent (hopefully this is already the case, now that I think about it), and also make it illegal for anything whatsoever to be conditional on giving that consent (e.g., make it illegal to tell your kids "I'm only helping to pay for your college tuition, or letting you drive my car, if you install Life360").
None. Just get users first and if your app really blows up, you can always about that later.
And yet, torrents are still a thing.
Yes, and PCT compliance is actually fairly common, but its framework does not commit them to enforce foreign patents; rather the contrary.
>It’s not a fair market when people are avoiding those jobs because they can get paid for not working

This is not a real thing, this is a fake assertion you have invented in your mind. No one is getting paid to "not work". And no, workers who have lost their job, collecting their unemployment they earned during past labour, never counts as getting "paid to not work".

>Once the government spending stops, things will change quickly.

In most places, the paltry, tiny financial aid for workers ended months ago, and nothing has changed at all.

> For instance here our dog daycare can’t hire enough employees

They should consider paying wages. If they paid money for labor, they'd get labour. It's really that simple.

What most "employers" actually want is nearly slave labour, volunteers, like they had pre pandemic. Employers swear up and down that no one wants to work, and then you find out they pay just $15/hr or some other insultingly low slave-like wage (a wage so low that no human could feasibly live alone off of it, much less advance in any way in their life).

A single adult with no debt, and no dependents, in Michigan, "making" $15/hr doesn't even take home enough money to rent a modest 1-bed apartment in the city, much less eat or do anything else with their life. At this wage, the adult is literally poorer every day they show up to work, they are literally donating their labour to a for-profit company. And most people are not "perfect ideal adults", they have children, or student loans, or elderly parents, or a tricky medical condition, or any other totally-normal totally-reasonable life complication that they need money to help cover, so they can show up to do good work for you.

I don't know your local market, but I guarantee if your dog daycare was in Michigan and it started paying $25/hr, they'd fill those positions in just a few days. Their employee "shortage" is a fake problem they have intentionally created for themselves, not some sort of indicator of people's willingness to work.

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Everyone wants to work right now. No one is hiring at a liveable wage. Most reasonable people are not going to get out of bed and go to work all day, just to end the day poorer then they started. That would be insane. But that insanity is what every company seems to demand of labour these days.
That would imply that most people work more than they want to.

If they are truly happy with the basics, then they would be happy with working 16 hours a week on two days. The truth is that the earning opportunity that allows this, forces them to live in an expensive location that then burdens them with another 24 hours of pointless busy work.
,, because it would remove the existing guarantee that the runtime of all scripts can be determined and limited statically and because it wouldn't actually increase the utility of the system.''

While most of what you write is true (and I believe that the article was written in bad faith), as the article uses state changes in the Turing machine as Bitcoin transactions, it is trivial to statically check the runtime of a state change itself. Whether it's a useful addition to Bitcoin or not is another question though.
I like the fact that I can expose a machine using tor. Its .onion address becomes something analog to a public ip address[0]. It even works behind a nat, so I can ssh to a machine of mine from anywhere in the world. The problem: the other point must support tor to access it.

Anyone knows a way using these overlay networks, tor, i2p, freenet, to expose a service on a machine behind a NAT to be accessed through the internet without the need of clients needing special software?

[0] https://golb.hplar.ch/2019/01/expose-server-tor.html
The first watch on the landing page is video used as background with autoplay.

The second watch is Canvas on top picture. Once picture and canvas loaded, it animates time change on canvas.

Not all watches have precise time.
In what ways does maidsafe improve upon freenet?
not everyone is married
I wouldn’t count on it being a thin adaptation, particularly considering the director and his history of extremely thoughtful cinema.

As for the trailer revealing little plot, Dune’s themes are so detailed and nuanced that it should not be surprising if they fail to convey them in a film trailer and fall back on the more easily explainable plot points.
We definitely should not be normalizing this, but we also should not be building a panopticon just to try to stop it.
Stress Testing Clojure Web Servers
The food supply chain is already mostly automated. Food is not cheap because of the service economy. It's cheap because it only requires work from a very small percent of the population to feed everyone else.
Consider how quickly fads change on earth; I imagine the novelty of 'moonball' would quickly fade.
Maybe. But you can have that even if YouTube was just a frontend for torrents. I care about some of the videos, eg lectures interesting conferences etc,
This looks amazing, good job!!
This was a stroke of pure genius by this writer at Breitbart IMO. Spoilers: it breaks the narrative so it doesn't work.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/10/nolte-how...
Trustworthy - they will have access to sensitive information.

Articulate - they will communicate on your behalf.

A good dose of common sense.

Comfortable in the role of follower but not a pushover, they will be helping maintain your boundaries.

Willing to do mundane repetitive tasks, content in the knowledge that they are freeing you up.

Consistent, calm and predictable.

Process oriented - help keep things working smoothly.
I didn't know about the changes but actually wanted to reactivate my CS account after a couple years of absence. Now that the travel restrictions are mostly gone and me and my girlfriend finally have a flat with a nice living room I wanted to give something forward.

But I'm not gonna pay for it to an at this point frankly dubious middleman.
Because you can't force a 'free' market by introducing even more regulation and aggressive enforcement?
Well, with Green Dot, WalMart is making huge inroad into general banking.
Wikipedia: "In 1996 and 1997, Homendy worked as a government relations manager at the American Iron and Steel Institute. From 1997 to 1999, she was a legislative representative for the AFL–CIO Transportation Trades Department. From 1999 to 2004, she was a legislative representative for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. From 2004 to 2018, she was a Democratic staff member for the United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.[5] In 2018, she was appointed as a member of the National Transportation Safety Board. On May 19, 2021, it was announced that Homendy would be nominated to serve as chair of the NTSB.[6]"

Given that Tesla will put many autoworkers out of a job due to fewer components in electric vehicles, and given that Full Self Drive when perfected will put many Teamsters out of a job, its easy to predict NTSB obstacles to Telsa innovations.

Good for NTSB however to publicly advocate that autonomous vehicles will be safe when eventually available.
Whats happening when at the switch(es) the NICs are connected into?
Well, of course drinking the stuff is dangerous and stupid; the humans have had safer ways to disinfect water for over a century now. But the reasons it's prohibited in various places have to do with various supernatural beliefs, not sensible safety and health precautions for toxic volatile organic solvents. Obviously if you go around drinking organic solvents like an idiot you can die, but ethanol is one of the least dangerous solvents from that perspective.
A good reason to use a sandbox for untrusted code is so that you don’t have to vet the code. If it has security holes, the damage is limited to the capabilities granted to the plug-in.

The sandbox should make buffer overflows someone else’s problem, or at least an acceptable risk. You seem to be denying one of the most important reasons we have them?

A consequence, though, if the code is genuinely untrusted, is that you have to revalidate any requests after they’re sent to the system outside the sandbox. (Just as we can’t trust client-side validation on the server.) It seems like that would be duplicate work.

(An exception might be when an authenticated user is modifying their own files and you don’t care what they do.)
What the article is describing-- explicitly unrolling operations in advance and checking them in script-- has always been possible in Bitcoin and doesn't have anything to do with Turing completeness. It's only being promoted as something new or inventive as an element of a very strange con.
They're not delusional, they're sarcastic. Like hyperbole, this isn't conducive to good discussions. I'm so tired of internet discourse where people are constantly trying to one-up each other.
> Ok, I get it. You're against free speech.

Another day, another person confusing 'free speech' with a private publisher not wanting to publish hate speech.

You're entitled to print what you want, you're not entitled to force someone else to print anything.
Why would you want advertisers? Advertisers are part of the problem.
Anything = politics
I went to Oregon Institute of Technology, in Klamath Falls, OR., in the early 90's. Much of the campus was run on geothermal. From heating the water to heating the dorm rooms and campus buildings, which was great as KF experiences some pretty cold winters.

https://oregontechsfstatic.azureedge.net/sitefinity-producti...
To be clear, the issue isn’t the HCL syntax. You could similarly use Cue to generate HCL. The problem is using Terraform’s dynamic features which were poorly designed.
> As a conceptual shortcut, I'd want to understand what immigrant and first-generation Asians do, and do that.

It's pretty simply actually. They try to hold a steady job, save a high percentage of their income, don't have expensive hobbies, buy some property in the best school district they can and spend a lot of time on their kids education to get them into good colleges and elite professions like doctor, engineer etc.

Kids learn good financial habits from their parents, and repeat the cycle with some additional knowledge (index funds, rental properties etc.) until they "make" it.
Take a gander over to ZeroTier, Tailscale, and Headscale.
The other huge benefit to symbols is that they are compact, and recognising patterns or performing symbolic manipulation is much easier when everything is shorter and closer together. Mathematics also uses a two-dimensional layout in some places (integrals, fractions), with very well-chosen and suggestive notation, which would be lost completely going to words.
> It’s really unclear if Israel has thermonuclear warheads, or even how many warheads they have in general.

Israel has had nukes (reportedly) since 1967. Thats a 52 years (and counting) before Iran. Anything from delivery to the weapons force will be much better on the Israeli side. Trying to attack Israel with a nuclear weapon hoping somehow Israel has no way to retaliate is simply suicide.

This whole scenario was researched btw and anyone with half a brain could see it would be devastating to both countries, which to me at least sounds unsurprising.
https://conflictandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...
Yeah I hate this. Speed of delivery is way more important than having a developer spend 80% of their time doing QA.

I don't want to pay developers to find a tester, watch them use the new feature using full story/posthog, etc etc. That 1) delays the feature because it still needs to get formal QA treatment and customer feedback. And 2) halves the volume of work an engineer can actually deliver.
Considering what happened with the monadic promises, that was to be expected. I hope we'll at least have the immutable records and tuples so that the JS engine can implement them efficiently. This way JS will become an even better compilation target.
> Alternatively, if 1000 people all start the same episode of Stranger Things within the same minute

It would be fascinating to hear from Netflix on some serious details of the usage patterns they see and particular optimizations that they do for that, but I doubt there's so much they can do given the size of the streams, the 'randomness' of what people watch and when they watch, and for the fact that the linked slides say the servers have 18x2TB NVME drives per-server and 256GB.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Netflix logo opener exists once on disk instead of being the first N seconds of every file though.
It doesn't. Merely a comment towards the state of electoral affairs.
The off-the-shelf plotter is called Axidraw, by Evil Mad Scientist: https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/890
because people want to download illegal movies and porn, or host linux isos as a service for the commons. There's practically no commercial activity around torrents because it's an incredibly inefficient way to serve large amounts of data.
That is a weird way to tax property.

I still don't understand why you needed this autograph pencil?
Step 1: Change the name.
Ask HN: My child is being bullied at school, how should I deal with it?
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Please don't reply.
Cannot confirm. Saw it a few days ago (in France) and every major scene was straight from the book.

The movie is good. Somebody not „in the know“ might read the book after seeing the film and not even know which came first.

The movie spans only the first half of the book. The second half will be more difficult to cast into a movie script. A lot of that is Paul’s spiritual experience and inward looking stream-of-consciousness…
The one with the time and running chronograph has drop shadows on the subdial hands and some reflections of the chrono seconds register off the dial, but no reflection of the chrono seconds off the hour and minute hands.
And exactly why did the city just buy thousands of apartments? Who exactly benefited from this?
So keep it in the car. Don't leave it turned on. There's a lot of things one can do to keep a computer from recording when they don't want it to. You're just trying really hard to come up with excuses of not trying and to just sit back and let it happen. It's pretty disgusting.
You never heard of anyone using shellac with denatured alcohol from big boxes? Very interesting.
Who is this Qc Na master? Is that a story from a book or a legend from a forum board?
I recall when I was at Intel in the 90s and 3MB of L3 was a big deal.
You're paying them for access to the ISPs network. For an internet connection, this also comes with access to other networks through your ISPs peering and transit connections.

If you know of any ISP that would give me 100+ Gbps connectivity for my business, please let me know as I'd love to eliminate my bandwidth costs.
It is, I agree.

We used them to write the addresses on the envelopes.
I think the idea here is that macros are neat in any language, but in CloudFormation they can help automate stuff that is only difficult because of CloudFormation, and the macros themselves are harder to use than those in a normal programming language. In all cases, I think it’s strictly less nice than generating your CloudFormation YAML with Python or similar.
Keeping it in the car would work, but not turning it on wouldn't unless the battery is removable. Modern computers can be set up in UEFI to power on at a certain time.

> You're just trying really hard to come up with excuses of not trying and to just sit back and let it happen. It's pretty disgusting.

That's definitely not my goal.
Hm, maybe what we really need is a new entrant in hyperscale clouds that is built from the ground up for IaC and just does away with the split between state and reality. I would love to see one, anyway.
Freenet feels very similar to IPFS, but it differs under the hood. On Freenet the network itself is the data store, you don't host your own files, you upload them and they spread over the network. If you go offline, the files still remain on the network. On IPFS on the other side you are storing your own files and the network is just used for lookup and caching. Everything on Freenet is also encrypted, so you don't get the content-addressability benefits (e.g. dedup) you get on IPFS.
Definitely. A lot of Russians hate Putin's guts. For Russian enterpreneurs living outside Russia, you have to prove that.

It's the difference with e.g. Chinese expats who, as I expect, would usually be reasonably loyal to Chinese state.
You are distorting the numbers for political ends.

Will you please listen to yourself?
People who are shit are probably excluded from many social circles, so I don't think that's a great indicator.
No I do put most of the blame on conservatives. They're the ones who aren't taking vaccines or wearing masks.

It just doesn't excuse some liberals from encouraging this left/right divide and just being nasty. Things like r/HermanCainAward, being proud when vaccine deniers get sick. At least understand that when someone is literally putting themselves in danger, they're not evil or selfish, they're delusional and misinformed.
Sounds more and more like Liz is going to be spending her golden years wearing a striped jumpsuit and peering through iron bars . . . .
Nope, signed up on the web - wouldn't let me see hosts info otherwise.
That just doesn't add up. Even without progressive taxation, if you give everyone a flat increase in income then lower-income people come out ahead relative to where they were before wrt the average. It's directly a wealth transfer from classes paying more taxes per capita to those paying less taxes per capita. There's no hand-wavy economic argument about how, actually, lower-income people would be worse off if we gave them money.
How's it inefficient?
I use Mint on my Thinkpad P53. Everything works out of the box.

I also use Mint on my M93P Desktop. Ditto likewise.

I used a Unix Desktop from 1991 to 2001. Since 2001 to 2021 I've used Linux as my day-to-day system.

I've never used Windows as my day-to-day system. There never was any need to.

I don't think I'm an exceptional genius, Linux just works.
There's a bit of a tradition of writing such koans for software topics. This one is from here: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
Why is that a problem? As long as they're on the basics, and I have the same option to not work as well, it's harder to be jealous of them. If the 'basics' TV is 32", and with my working I've got a 85" TV that dwarfs theirs (if my self-worth is wrapped up in the size of my TV, that is). If I don't want an 85" TV, I can similarly not-work.

If I work hard and then win the lottery playing $2 tickets (so it already doesn't matter how hard I work), I can already not-work for the rest of my life. So the question isn't if this is possible, it's how many people can be supported at a 'basics' level with current technology.
And how invariably, some groups find away to spy on children in a sexualized manner
They do both, but revoking the lease allows for far greater control I believe
> However, you'd need awesome shoes with good ankle support for landing those jumps.

How does that work?

The energy (force times distance) your legs can impart pushing the ground up, must match the force time distance the ground will impart on your feet while you land. So, if any of that is significantly different from the dynamics in Earth's gravity, the same effect should matter on liftoff and not only on landing.

I assume the biggest risk on landing is that you risk losing balance, is that what you need better shoes, so you're more tolerant to a bad foot position on landing?
I think the hard part of that is socializing the definition of "areas of importance"

Also getting everyone to accept one worldview. Maybe the most important area of importance would be educating people to see things the way you see...