skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you seriously propose that 'defund the police' has no effect whatsoever on the murder rate?

This is a straw man of the parent’s position. They say “ blaming it on the "Defund the police" movement is a lazy oversimplification”, not that it had “no effect whatsoever”.

It certainly seems plausible to me that having loads of people — particularly those in lower socio-economic strata - without employment for an extended period of time could certainly contribute to crime rate increases.

There’s no need for straw-manning/hysterics here, we can have a measured conversation or debate.
From one burrito-a-day to one bowl-a-day in my one meal-a-day diet
Except its not very decentralized and leaderless. It is dominated by a few ultra rich players, to an even greater extent than the stock market. And that didn't democratise finance either.
Yes. There have been many follow up interviews with these researchers. It's an early "is this interesting" proof-of-concept study. But, they are getting funding for a study which should generate more reliable data.
One trouble in the software biz is that we use "project management" as a paradigm, but a "project" has a beginning and an end. Real software development is often a "program" (running a web site that goes on indefinitely) or a series of projects (e.g. a large number of "sprints" that are individually projects)
> Nobody wants to create dozens of accounts for their local chess club, their local shop, their local pub and whatever.

> The value of centralised identity is enormous.

That's what OAuth is for. As usual, the technical problem has been solved but social problems remain.
Software Engineering Is a Loser’s Game
Your sources do not say that they traded based upon insider info.

In the case of the Fed, they only questioned whether they should be allowed to own individual stocks at all.

....and the selling of tech by NP's husband. That doesn't mean he sold because he had specific info that was secret. The article does not even make that allegation. Tech has gone up a lot - selling some is not unreasonable.
This moral outrage seems very convenient given the impending market crash. I wonder how many politicians will come forward announcing the liquidation of their portfolios in good faith to the public, conveniently ahead of the major dip.
Ironically that was not clear from your text.
Senators get paid pretty well, have great benefits, and lots of reimbursed expenses. Sanders is also older than dirt and still hasn't retired despite his age. I can't believe he's only worth $3 million.
I'd be more concerned that if a law maker had a million of Tesla stock and Tesla lobbied them, it would take someone with concrete morals to not factor in their potential gains. Humans are not great at making decisions without considering their own incentives - you can trick yourself and your subconscious can sway you.
Electric motor startup dissolves after Series B investment falls through
Agree - coming back from hibernation is very fast on these machines (XPS-13 9300 here).

I have Arch configured to hibernate on lid close, and it's only about 8 seconds from lid open to a working login.

It also means I don't lose 5%-20% of my battery each night.
Nginx Playground
So, to summarize:

- We shouldn't have focused on using secure http because it makes you more vulnerable to large scale attacks, such as state-sponsored attacks

- We should have left traffic unencrypted so that "We can inspect what is entering and leaving my network", especially because devices are now sending more telemetry

The first is utter nonsense. You are not more vulnerable to sophisticated actors, we've just upped the stakes so that only very sophisticated and motivated actors can read your traffic. Unencrypted, anyone could. This is an improvement.

The second is utter nonsense. Not pushing for HTTPS everywhere doesn't mean all communications are now plain text and inspect-able.
Yes, this is what I'm talking about. With respect to ARC, it gets along very poorly with the native page cache and memory allocator.

I would add that BTRFS has no such requirements for deduplication.
term limits

I think term limits would hamper development of long term relationships with lobbyists, and similar and in turn reduce the occurrence of these trades.
Not really - I work for a company in the financial space and my spouse is restricted on any trading they can do just like I am.
If becoming more comfortable aka having more net worth is your goal: freelance in your spare time from India while exploring your move abroad/switch jobs options.
Well, in all friendliness, discussions that start with "how do you define" generally end up in a discussion of semantics, which is rarely an interesting place to go.

I should preface this by saying I know very little about what's going on in US rhetoric and politics, except that it seems quite bonkers and distracted from the discussions that would actually improve people's lives.

My point was that someone who e.g. says "if you don't take the covid vaccine, you should be denied a bank account and never be allowed to travel anywhere in your car" has an extreme opinion in the sense that it's shared by very few and the vast majority disagree.

So if you're discussing policy, it's sensible to just filter out this loud but tiny minority. You can find any stance among the world's 8 billion people, but representing a tiny minority as relevant just serves to derail the discussion. One could certainly label them nazis or facists, but if you filter a large population enough, it's not hard to find people holding literally nazistic of facist opinions.

If these groups become large enough to threaten approaching relevancy, however, that's an interesting and dangerous development.
A lot of people in this thread seem to have made up their minds about why more people are killing each other in America.

I read the article and still haven't made up my mind. Thought I'd post a comment for anybody thinking the same.
Another visualization, not as nice, but it's easier to spot all the landing sites: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
How is that tweet related to whether the money is paid out to officers?
“I pitched the idea of created an app that people would want”

“Not saying apps are a sham”

… I don’t understand how those two sentences are contrary in your thinking. What do you see?
If you don't propose an alternative then people will see you as just an irritating contrarian.
You are under the impression, I think, that this is something that happens. It does not -- this is already illegal (all the things you mentioned) and against ethics rules in both houses.

Lobbyists, for the most part, wield power not because of the money they give to politicians, but because of the votes that they implicitly command from the constituents on behalf of whom they are operating. They also command considerable power because they have research organizations that are better funded than congressional staff allocations for doing things like authoring bills.

Way more fishy is the revolving door when politicians leave office; that is done openly and without shame. Somewhat fishy are implicit bribes (like buying 1000s of copies of a politician's book), and sometimes preferential terms on loans, or employing family members (or buying their art for ridiculous prices).

But lobbyists and vendors are already very tightly locked down -- the things you are talking about simply do not exist; politicians and special interest groups have found better ways of buying votes.
Rank and file civil servants have very strict rules around what they can and cannot accept from a vendor. Same for investing actually, the rules around who can in invest in what depend on their decision making responsibilities. I'm baffled why we don't hold elected officials to the same standards.
Database operations should be async, you shouldn't consume them synchronously, as they do IO. Async/Await came out in 2012, almost a decade ago (and with great first party library support, I might add).

Moralizing aside, sometimes you do want to call async APIs as synchronous code. I don't think there should be a synchronous version of the API implemented as well, you just need to do

var myValue = DoSomethingAsync().ConfigureAwait(false).Result;

which will avoid deadlocks, and execute your call synchronously
>This feels a little disingenuous to me. This is a distinctly RAID-1 problem. This doesn't feel like a BTRFS problem. Everyone knows RAID-1 = 1 drive loss.

That's simply not true. I can do a RAID-1 (mirror) with 3 drives on ZFS or mdadm and lose 2 drives. I can do it with 10 drives and lose 9.

https://www.thegeekdiary.com/how-to-add-a-3rd-disk-to-create...

>There are many use cases for RAID-0, but the author is acting like this is some kind of problem with BTRFS.

Sure, but for a novice the default advice needs to be: don't do that. And he's writing for folks with all sorts of levels of technical knowledge. Someone who knows nothing about RAID reading the article should be scared away unless they have a very, very good reason for doing RAID-0.
I don’t see more policing or better militarization as the answer. These crimes are symptoms of core problems, that run like currents through society.

We’re not served well by the constant prideful “we’re the greatest country in the world”. There are some wonderful things to be proud of.

However, the fact is, we’re a rather violent society. We’re a society that loves alcohol. We’re a very insecure people. We don’t get to the root of the problems. They are in the psyche.
The Solaris memory allocator is not contiguous either though
(2019) ?

Though I supposed the latest commit is to use live data from Telegeography
Concurrency does not require multi-threading. Maybe you mean parallelism? Concurrency can still be really valuable in the context of a single threaded application.
I have to charge my Macbook using the port on one side and not the other because its thermal management isn't good.
I've always enjoyed Hurricane Electric's 3D network map [1^], it includes a submarine cable filter view which always [2^] blows my mind.

[1]: https://he.net/3d-map/

[2]: of course, today the desktop I'm using doesn't support WebGL and I can't see the submarine filter on my phone. YMMV
It's only "bad" if you believe in democracy and equality. Markets are great for those who benefit from them. I just don't see cryptos benefiting the majority of mankind. They pretty much reinforce or retain existing power structures.
I don't think Biden campaigned for unlimited QE and unlimited bailouts

In any event even if this was true an ambitious organization such as the government can't be satisfied with 52% confidence in its financial planning
> it's antiquated because of the assumption it is possible to get contiguous RAM for that mapping.

source on that? (and even if that's the case, wouldn't that be an implementation detail? E.g. implementations can spill it to L2ARC, but somehow not to different memory locations?)
This is the most disingenuous form of misinformation imaginable. While certainly true that murder is up everywhere, it is not true that it is up the same amount.

As the article says, murder is up more in cities with pop >100k. Under 25k, the murder rate rose 25%. In larger cities, up to 40%.

That is a substantial difference.

No one is claiming that some places had fewer murders than before. People are claiming that policies make differences (in this case, population size is a good correlate with party).
I for one, only like money that there is no proof it was worked for.
@dang could you give "world.hey.com/foo" URLs the GitHub/Twitter treatment where it shows the first segment of the path?
> For example, before last year Australia had gone almost 30 years without a recession [0], in large part because their central bank's inflation target is a few points higher than the US's hard 2% ceiling.

Australia has gone 30 years without recession because we're supplying commodities like iron into the most miraculously productive miracle in all of recorded history, aka mainland China. And because we've got one of the highest rates of net migration in the developed world.

On a per capita basis Australia has had recessions, and it is a stretch to say that our inflation target did anything relative to all the other countries that have inflation targets.
I think you're right. I've double checked their FAQ, which states that you can upload your preprint to Researchgate, but then they only explicitly mention arxiv for swapping the preprint with the accepted manuscript. I guess I'll just have to swap over to arxiv.

For the benefit of those who haven't submitted a manuscript before: the accepted version is just the preprint with improvements from the peer review process - and no "other publisher value-added contributions such as copy-editing, formatting, technical enhancements and (if relevant) pagination". Assuming the associate editor is a volunteer (true for the journal in question), Elsevier's only in-kind contribution at this point is their awful submission system, and the Chief editor's time in accepting the associate editor's decision... although the chief editor might also be a volunteer.
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Add Starbucks to that list
Apparently they are good answers too. Talk about giving back to the community!
He's also 80 and still working. $310/month invested over 60 years is about $3 million at 7% annual growth.

Or assume he had nothing until being elected to the senate in 2007, then started putting 60k/year into an S&P 500 index fund.

That also gets you to about $3 million.
What would it take to lay down a fat pipe to Antarctica and finally connect all the continents?
Sucks that people here are downvoting you for speaking the truth. Seems the HN userbase has its own ingrained biases.
Related discussion from earlier in the year about the latest submarine cable map:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27410133
The Lead Wallet
Lead Wallet is the simplest and most secure multi cryptocurrency wallet that allows users to store, spend, stake, and swap cryptocurrencies seamlessly at any time, and also support easy DeFi and NFT access. Most crypto wallets are just doing the same thing but we want our wallet to be much simpler to use without extra learning curve and still cater to the same audience of multi-chain crypto wallet traders (as well as dapp browser and swap feature).
China, nor the USA nor Sweden is creating a cryptocurrency. How is such nonsense on the top? No wonder misinformation is running amok.
That’s an interesting point. Ive seen CPMs rising, almost like people were spending more, but wasn’t sure why that may be.

Also the article missed a few big points.

1) There’s really not much you can do in diversifying your channel mix - this change affects any paid platform.

2) what you can do is spend more on Android, which hasn’t (yet) lost the tracking

3) Facebook is working on work arounds, like a conversion API, where the data is matched on hashed PII. Other platforms without that rich, accurate PII will struggle a bit more.
Not necessarily, but to be honest I haven't seen a single cryptocurrency that made sense so far.

I wrote about how misleading the crypto ecosystem is a while ago here: https://henvic.dev/posts/bitcoin/
The art world itself in some ways could be a sham. But also there is real art and business happening.
Regulation is a poor substitute for criminal prosecution. Law enforcement at the Federal level needs to investigate and prosecute cases where members of Congress have even apparently abused their position for personal profit.

Banning stock trading will just push things into more indirect methods; giving law enforcement the power to enforce the law means that the very fact that they attempted to use indirect methods are an indicator of consciousness of guilt.
Yeah, I mentioned bsdiff in my original comment. I don't think Android uses it for operating system updates, though, as far as I can tell. I believe that page is describing APK updates (i.e. app updates).
I really appreciate the work and innovation you are doing, but these other alternatives exist because not everyone is starting a project from scratch, not everyone is able to rewrite their project, and not everyone is building a team with the required skills from scratch.

At a previous company I worked for, a decision was made to move to other platforms not because Elixir was bad, or LiveView was bad (it was good!) but because it was really difficult to hire for.

It is difficult to find people with elixir experience, and we didn't want to have production system built by just people learning a language, platform and architecture on the fly.

Also, that's considering "backend" developers. It was *TOTALLY* impossible to hire frontend developers wanting to work in this setup. No single frontend developer wanted to learn Elixir, and all the backend related stuff. This doesn't happen for example with Node... yes, it might be a terrible choice for the backend, but most frontend devs are happy to work with it.

Regarding to the solutions in other platforms not having the Erlang VM to power them, etc,etc.... not everyone is at google/twitter/facebook scale, 90% of companies out there can be run perfectly fine with run of the mill django/rails/laravel setup.

Premature optimization is as bad when doing an unnecessary SPA as it is using the Erlang VM when rails was enough.
I'm still rocking mine from 2016. It's been a stellar little linux laptop. Hopefully this gets sorted before I have to upgrade but I'm really good at stretching hardware on linux.
They’re likely referring to the digital yuan project which is very real and is already being tested in certain parts of china.
Unless you have a dead dragon
when will you be releasing?
Yes they are. I don't see it as a problem though. People also spend fortunes on designer handbags which have little intrinsic value.

Personally, I wouldn't waste my money on this stuff, but I don't get the anger. Perhaps people feel upset that others are making significant money from this and it doesn't feel 'fair'?
"cervical mucus quality" sounds like it fits that definition.
The digital yuan is not a cryptocurrency, furthermore, digital money is not cryptocurrency.
Only in small arrays. In larger zfs systems RAID-1 you divide the disks into chunks of drives - 5-7 is typical. If you have 10 drives, any one can fail without issues, but even with that one failure, a second can fail without losing data 50% of the time. This puts the odds more in your favor. If you are like the typical single person 5 disks is enough and so this doesn't matter at all. However if you a larger organization with several hundred disks odds are you have more than one failed at a time on a regular basis, but the odds that more than one failed drive is from the same chunk is still low enough to not worry too much.

I personally have zfs-z2 with 6 disks in my NAS. This any 2 drives can fail. If I want to expand my NAS I would need 6 more disks, but not only could any 2 fail, many combinations of up to 4 can fail without issues.

If you have a small number of drives this doesn't matter, but BTRFS-raid1 is not acceptable for large number of disks.
I just signed up to prolific. Their onboarding tutorial/example survey references prescreening and eligibility. I'm guessing it was on researchers to filter the demographics to what was relevant to their study.

I think this is actually the right approach. Some 'balancing' algorithm would have to make assumptions about what's normal, then then the excluded participants wouldn't even show up in the research data.
But if those owners want to do anything with that capital they have to sell coins leading to more distribution. Plus you also have to pay taxes on staking income leading to more sales. But yes those shennanigans of many chain founders are certainly a problem.
Just to be clear, the rating is NOT how well they work but how easy it is to get the game up and running. That said, in a majority of cases, the quality of the runtime of the game is usually correlated to the rating given on ProtonDB.
I'm fascinated by that Gulf of Mexico cable.

Is that for oil wells?
Thats not true at all.
I have the same problem on my new Thinkpad. I found a setting in the BIOS for Linux mode and that seems to have fixed the problem for now Windows has S3 available again. If I switch it to Windows mode, then modern sleep prevails and the fans run all the time.
Basics section of their language guide: https://grain-lang.org/docs/guide/basics

Grain GitHub Repo: https://github.com/grain-lang/grain

Tiny example: https://github.com/grain-lang/grain-web-example

*NEAR example: https://github.com/grain-lang/near-simple-counter

*This is related to one of the new features in this 0.4 release announcement.
Money was the entire point...
There's a couple in here that are the absolute safest things even though the alternatives can be done safely. Async void, for example, is for dealing with event handlers.

Just like returning Task directly, if you take care with the exceptions, you'll have less problems.

Said another way "...unless you know what you're doing" could be added to a few of these.
Morals, or a different risk/reward ratio
Most mining has already shifted out of China, and Bitcoin mining is a very small percentage of electricity usage on the scale of "all electricity usage" - there are plenty of bigger fish (the argument then turns, validly, to the usefulness of said bigger fish in comparison to bitcoin).
Freelancing is something that I've thought about.

My current job unfortunately doesn't allow me to freelance. It's explicitly mentioned in the terms.

However, you kind of explicitly mentioned what I've been trying to get at — having more net worth.
XPS (And the precision equivalents) overheat even outside bags, if you just leave them on long enough. I have had 2 in a row now that don't work properly after being powered on for a few months. The battery must be LiPo or something (Which would be a completely terrible idea in a laptop because it changes size with charge).

Just build the damn things to work when plugged in for long periods of time. I'm not going to power it down every week or even every month. I just want it to run quiet and cool, and I'd be happy for it to be twice as thick and have half the battery if that what's needed.

Or why not just make it work without the battery so I can keep the battery on a shelf until one of the few days per year I need it?
> This feels a little disingenuous to me. This is a distinctly RAID-1 problem. This doesn't feel like a BTRFS problem. Everyone knows RAID-1 = 1 drive loss.

The point he's making is that classic RAID-1 is pairs of disks, of which you can lose one of the two, whereas btrs-raid1's (admittedly very neat) feature to bolt multiple disks together means you can end up with a situation where you can only lose one of N drives, which is significantly riskier.

> There are many use cases for RAID-0, but the author is acting like this is some kind of problem with BTRFS.

I read the "anything specific" as them being clear that it's not remotely btrfs specific and is, indeed, exactly a limitation of RAID-0.

Plus over the years I've definitely run into a lot more cases where people have misused RAID-0 and ended up with an unexpected virtual woodshipper than cases where they were actually right to use it (even those do absolutely exist), which does have a tendency to colour one's experience. I think "Avoid" is the safest advice to give in a general-audience article, people who will genuinely get advantages out of RAID-0 in spite of the failure modes are likely to be able to figure that out themselves anyway.
Transferring huge amounts of money between accounts, specially when you own both is not a problem unless you live in the US. For most of Europe, Asia and even latin america this problem has been solved almost two decades ago. Around the same time the banks on those countries retired their fax machines.
Given that the CCP has a monopoly on violence and has been known to disappear those who cross them, it’s not far fetched to imagine crypto miners having the same fate.
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