skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree wholeheartedly that php-fpm rapidly speed up nginx adoption.

Before nginx, lighttpd was a thing. It also comes with `spawn-fcgi` to handle fastcgi, but it's a little complex to set up. Back then people were also using `spawn-fcgi` with nginx, too. I remembered reading some tutorial and decided that I will continue to use Apache with mod_php due to complexity. When php-fpm come, I immediately switched.
> The smallest number you can safely go is 3 at a time - put them in a mirror configuration. This is expensive for the amount of storage you get, so few people are willing to spend that much.

You're talking in circles. You're assuming the limitations of ZFS, then providing advice based on those limitations, then declaring that there's no advisable use case for a filesystem that's free of those limitations.

On btrfs, you can start with two or three drives, then expand your array one drive at a time up to 8+ without lowering your redundancy at any point, and each time you add a drive the usable capacity of the array really does increase.
This is neither coherent not correct.
Agree. They clearly are lacking in test engineering skills. So the right solution would have been to hire somebody who knows how to do this well. Bad tests are simply bad code. So fix it!
I think the Federal government has allocated about $21B in rent assistance and the states have distributed about $8B of that through their programs so far.
> and better solutions exist, such as proof-of-stake

A far weaker security guarantee – when network security is the entire point – is certainly not better.

Bitcoin is irrelevant to your otherwise valid point that environmental externalities should indeed be accounted for in power generation.
Thanks.

I didn't address that part, mainly because I don't know specifics, only observations. In my area, they move in with family when they can. It's not uncommon to see 3 generation houses here. I have no idea what happens to those who don't have such a luxury.
Can it go by covers with the camera, instead of barcodes? Is there a way to see the books shelved, such as you can see the spines?
> But I’m correct no?

You're not correct - Apple can still scan apps installed from elsewhere. With a user opt-in, Android can verify side-loaded apps - no App-store exclusivity required.
Rob is a genius, who did busybox then wrote toybox so people(e.g. Android) can use it without concerning about GPL. It's a honor I know him in person.
Same applies to crypto.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58678907
> I could back up both of these statements;

That's what I did, Bernstein could be compromised.

> He's not Satoshi.

I sat on a panel with him at an Arm conference, he's a great guy and easy to talk to and doesn't write anything like Satoshi: but I could care less if he is Satoshi. FWIW, I, too, think crypto currency is a huge scam.
Test against API’s. Not implementation! Your API’s are supposed to be stable. If they are not then you are doing it wrong.
payID has KYC just the same as crypto but crypto is globally accessible, cheaper and just as fast

to receive crypto you don't even need KYC actually, just to on-ramp from fiat...and if you mine crypto you don't even need KYC - so again there is no category in which crypto loses and categories where crypto clearly wins
The USA might need to come out and say "we were working on a vaccine with Wuhan." EHA and WIV might need to say "we had an oopsies." I doubt China will admit anything though. So this is the circus we must deal with until people wake up and demand for answers.
The language in the ruling also suggests it was the length of time which caused the court to believe the motivation had to do with financial policy more than public health policy. It is not that the CDC has no authority, just that they exceeded it.
"Where do those people live?"

I'm assuming the renters.

Many will find another rental.

What scares me is the homeless clusters I see popping up in my county.

It seems like many just gave up--for good reasons.

I have noticed towns, like Sausalito CA, are doing everything they can to get the homeless to move on.

I have a feeling a lot of towns, seemingly Liberal towns, are are using that Broken Window Pane theory to get the down, and out, out of their lily white upperclass lives.

They vote Democratic, but don't want those people near them.

(In all fairness Sausalito created their own problem before Covid. For years, we had Anchorouts. Sausalito decided to get tough with the Anchorouts. Sausalito claims the numbers were rising, but I feel they pulled those numbers out of their bungholes. I have watched the Anchorouts for years from my office, and if anything it looked like the numbers diminished. They decided to demolish boats they deemed unworthy.

They gave that power to a angry, drunkard, otherwise known as the Harbor Master. (Just a citizen who decided who's going to stay, and who's going to go. No rhyme or reason to his decisions, and wealthy yacht owners could moor in the same spot for months. As to the Drunkard charge, ask anyone at The No Name Bar. (If ever in Sausalito, visit the No Name Bar. You will see some funny very personal pictures of Clint Eastwood scattered about.)

These people's boats were demolished. They had nowhere to go, so they set if camp on the shore. Of course, Liberal Loaded Larry didn't like seeing the free loafers, and complained.

The end result is a bunch of homeless land bound campers are being harassed by local law enforcment, like $500 citations for petty violations. The Cops told the IJ, these people will never pay, so who cares how much the citation is? Cops don't realize citations eventually turn into warrants?

I'm sorry about my rant. I live in Marin County, CA, and my neighbors are unbelievable hippocrates, and this issue has been bothering me for awhile. Marin is home to our Governor, and his spoiled wife. Leave her Gavin. You know you want to.)
Interesting piece but these substacks throw me off - just assume a 'newsletter' is recent. Like you received this in your inbox recently and thought it was worth sharing.

But nope it's from June. :/
Perhaps fewer would be behind in rent if more of the rental assistance funds were released to those in need? The percentage of obligated funds vs. used funds is pretty lopsided at the moment, and time sensitive:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/09/24/august-e...

As the OP article states over 40 Billion has been obligated but states have not been fast enough to create systems to disburse (or were unwilling)
Even if it were true that societies today are more complex, why is that inherently more special than a time in the past when life was simple? How come so many people today long for a much simpler life, like in the past, as if the past was special? The point is, special is highly subjective and you really should be doubting your own notions of it.

In any case, I think that the original commenter really referred to how there’s nothing so drastically different about the experience of being human in the present and in the past.
Obviously the E2E tests were really badly implemented. Implementing solid E2E tests is a skill that needs to be learned like any other software development skill. Most developers don’t know how to do it well.
The first statement may be referring to the Cramer-Rao bound:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cram%C3%A9r%E2%80%93Rao_bound

But it only applies to estimation (like how well a population parameter can be estimated) in certain regimes, and not e.g. expected risk (like how well one can do at prediction), so I’m not sure how it would apply here.
China's top regulators ban crypto trading and mining
What's that, undermining rule of law and the integrity of the system? The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I think GP has a misunderstanding involving the difference between 'government' in the American English sense versus in other countries[0]:

> In the United States, "government" is considered to be divided into three branches; the legislature (the House of Representatives and the Senate) which makes law, the Administration (under the President) which runs sections of government within the law, and the Courts, which adjudicate on matters of the law. This is a much wider meaning of "government" than exists in other countries where the term "government" means the ruling political force of the prime minister and his/her cabinet ministers (what Americans would call the Administration).

I believe usually in countries with a parliamentary system, the government refers specifically to the executive branch, and neither the legislature nor the judiciary.

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/government#Usage_notes
This is indeed bad for usual cases but in general you can't say it's always bad. For example, if you need to call 1 million asnyc methods, you will benefit from batching them and running a small number at a time.
You're on the right track and don't even know it! ;-P

That's why the current Tesla has like Five LIDARs, two radars, 16 cameras, and lots of traditional algorithms that aren't NNets. (I don't know the counts, but my point stands.)

I've spent 5 years on this with tier 1 automotives, I don't think ADAS5 will happen in my lifetime, and it definitely won't be due to neural nets: It is FAR more likely autonomy will be achieved by billions of IoT sensors in a mesh, guiding vehicles: e.g., lane sensors, weather sensors, c2c (car-to-car telemetry), c2i (car-to-infrastructure telemetry, like traffic lights), rather than some fancy in-car brain-emulation.

Some of my favorite tesla fails:

[1] https://techstory.in/tesla-autopilot-tricked-by-yellow-moon-...

[2] https://jalopnik.com/tesla-autopilot-glitch-makes-for-someth...

[3] https://www.theregister.com/2019/04/02/tencent_tesla_hacking...
Ah ha! Ok, I wouldn't have called that split tunneling myself (but maybe I should have: I am totally willing to believe that I should). (That sane issue happens with Orchid's tooling by default--on a desktop it is somewhat easy to fix with another manual route, which you can probably also use with Mysterium, but on mobile as a user you don't have many options. I was actually going to be fixing that for our next update because one of our key people told me they don't run it on their phone because of this; in his case, it disconnects his phone from his baby monitor.)
Looks like there is at least one other person interesting in such a thing, but no hits on it existing already: https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/43635/ocr-in...
Natural occurrence is how almost every known virus exists.

Given that prior, "can you disprove the lab" is the Russell's Teapot hypothesis. No, I can't. I also can't disprove it rode in on a meteorite or was beamed in by aliens. And I'm not about to start.
"Prof. Xiao is keen to caution that this study does not account for the opportunity costs of leadership, such as reduced family time and increased childcare burdens."
Populating the galaxy isn't that hard? Care to explain?
README doesn't explain what it is beyond "all-in-one Linux command line". Here's the about page: http://landley.net/toybox/about.html (including comparison to busybox). And here's the list of commands currently supported: http://landley.net/toybox/status.html.
It also reminds me of .hack too, specifically the antagonist Morganna Mode Gone.
Hedge funds don't spend money... at the end of the day, a human being who wants to reap the benefits of this investment will need to realize gains and pay tax.

Or they could commit to just staring at imaginary numbers in a bank account forever I guess, but then you start to ask existential questions about what inequality actually means if nobody ever spends money.

And yes, 401ks are tax-advantaged... that's the point of the account. It would be equivalently tax-advantaged if companies were paying dividends instead of running buybacks.
This comment is somewhat disingenuous. The full text of the statutory provision (42 U.S.C. § 264) is :

"The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary, is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the States or possessions, or from one State or possession into any other State or possession. For purposes of carrying out and enforcing such regulations, the Surgeon General may provide for such inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of animals or articles found to be so infected or contaminated as to be sources of dangerous infection to human beings, and other measures, as in his judgment may be necessary."

While it's true that the majority wasn't willing to separate the first and second sentences, the decision was along party lines, and it just does not seem reasonable to me that a federal law intended to give the HHS "responsibility for preventing the introduction, transmission and spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States" would limit the authority granted in the section "Regulations to control communicable diseases" to nothing more than fumigation and pest control.
Yes, they really should have removed people of rent obligations if they lost income (in tiers) and bailed those people out instead of big corporations.
Any such move by Congress would also be challenged as an unconstitutional violation of the Fifth Amendment (Takings Clause).
Water and TP? You don't know how to use the three seashells?
Not great, not terrible..
Pi-Hole for Android
Flat fee of 20c/10k sounds cheaper than crypto to me.

No on-ramp, because payID works for any fiat account that can be linked to Mastercard or Visa sounds more accessible to me.

No specific KYC as its backed by existing banking infrastructure.

I do not see how crypto possibly wins this one.
Agree. I wouldn’t be able to confidently deploy my code into production without solid tests. I haven’t had a production bug for years because of those solid tests catching it early.
15.9 million per The Economist
Well, thanks for explaining.
You don't 'pragmatically' step outside of your constitutionally and/or legally defined boundaries. That is definitionally not pragmatic.
There are absolutely some % of people who are so poor at financial management that they used the last year as a chance to not pay rent and instead buy luxuries. These people have dug themselves a huge hole.
I agree, it’s contradictory. Here’s a hot take for you: people generally have a preset agenda that they want to push and will use anything they can to push it as long as it makes sense on a surface level because it’s just a means to an end and their intended audience doesn’t care because the audience wants to hear about things that conform to their opinions. Yeah that’s pretty cynical and I’m not usually that way but I just took that train of thought to its logical end. I guess people like to be told what to think and don’t care if it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny
Are you thinking of something like a short squeeze? That only happens because shorts would be forced to buy shares to cover their positions. I don't see how that would apply here. Who's forced to buy people's tether if the price goes to zero?
In reality, everyone who holds tether would just be screwed. Their imaginary token would be worth nothing and they wouldn't be able to exchange them for anything. The value would just disappear in to the air
I think this follows your general thrust. Apéry's constant was mentioned on HN earlier, and to me it links the underlying nature of the vacuum to trees.
Australia did it better by just providing a regular income to everyone who lost their job. That way everyone keeps paying their bills/rent and things return to normal after.
It is curious that satoshi chose to use an uncommon, non-NIST curve for bitcoin. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1
> A study of DNA extracted from the leg bones of extinct moa birds in New Zealand found that the half-life of DNA is 521 years. [1]

So at most ~5.6% of DNA could have survived. It would be interesting if researchers would be able to detect a fraction of that amount, but it seems implausible.

[1] https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/how-long-does-dn... | https://archive.is/S39fv
Matt Amodio, the Latest ‘Jeopardy’ Star, Breaks $1M
s/hippocrates/hypocrites !
Well, it typically voids your warranty entirely for one, and the terms of service usually use scary language telling you to never modify anything.
Absolutely. Julia is amazing. All of her work on Wizard Zines is so positive, helpful, approachable, and yet has enough depth that everyone from beginners to experts can learn something. She is an Internet Treasure for sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_hexafluoride#Greenhouse... :

"the collective contribution of [SF6] and similar man-made halogenated gases has reached about 10 percent as of year 2020". But reading more closely, it seems the SF6 by itself is much less. The rest, I guess, must be CFCs and HFCs.
I know multiple people who just didn't pay rent last year. They didn't need to and decided they weren't going to. They took trips to Vegas, bought GME, etc, etc.

I also know landlords who haven't been paid in 18 months. They don't even want rent, they just want them to leave.

Based on what I've seen, I strongly suspect there are people who legitimately couldn't pay. I'm also confident many (perhaps a majority) chose not to pay. The landlords I know aren't trying to recoup their losses (one landlord I know has ~100 families living on his properties and 1/4 haven't been paying him and it's nearly bankrupted his operation).

This is a very complicated situation, but from what I've seen the government should have stayed out of it. The checks could have covered peoples rent to a degree, landlords were / are pretty understanding in many cases, unemployment should have been more than enough... If not, unfortunately, that's life.

Now, we have these sob stories and the cascading issues to landlords. We also have a mass movement all at once, WITHOUT them having unemployment or much support, etc.
Strongly agree with this. Sure seems like a lot of people have become duck experts overnight though.
I think this applies in most cases. That said, many more startups are now bootstrapped, and don't go on to raise beyond a Seed or Series A, if at all.

If you're an early employee at one of those startups (with a very low strike price), and know that the company has a strong balance sheet, I would early exercise to lock in the long-term capital gains tax rate.

This is even more true if the startup has novel IP, which could be worth a healthy sum even if the business were to go kaput.

Also, as others have said, if startups weren't lucrative, VC as an asset class wouldn't exist at all. It's rare, but making millions as an early employee is something that definitely happens.
Well you know, now that Amazon wants it…
Class actions start because someone sues a company and the lawyer realizes there are many folks with the same issue, and starts a class action. So if you want a class action, contact a lawyer and sue Facebook. A lawyer can't just sue someone in a class action, they have to have a client who has damages.
> not pay rent and instead buy luxuries

Seems highly unlikely and also fine. If you want to introduce moral arguments, you can dig your own hole.
"The Other" strikes me as a distinctly anglophone construction. I think you may be reading too much into French's use of adjectives as nouns, meaning people to whom those adjectives apply.

In English, we are okay with "the young" and "the old" but shy away from doing the same with other terms, especially in the plural. "The poors," "the gays," "the olds" are all considered derogatory trolling.

Not so in French. The best translation of "les autres" really is "other people."
You need to research lightening network for bitcoin if you think that sounds cheaper. I'm sorry, but that's just easily not the case.

80% of the world is not more accessible when the alternative is practically 100% of the world.

also there's no on or off ramp for crypto when you can use it as currency, which is the direction the world is headed.

edit: I'm googling and apparently payID isn't even international. This isn't really even a comparison. I don't know why you believe otherwise.
Google Earth wasn't until 2004? What the hell was I using before that (2002-2003)?
Okta and Auth0: Results, Challenges, and Opportunities
According to the Supreme Court's summary [0], the CDC was arguing it derived its authority primarily from US Code 42 section 264(a) [1]

> The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary, is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the States or possessions, or from one State or possession into any other State or possession. For purposes of carrying out and enforcing such regulations, the Surgeon General may provide for such inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of animals or articles found to be so infected or contaminated as to be sources of dangerous infection to human beings, and other measures, as in his judgment may be necessary.

There is also 42 CFR 70.2 [2]

> Whenever the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determines that the measures taken by health authorities of any State or possession (including political subdivisions thereof) are insufficient to prevent the spread of any of the communicable diseases from such State or possession to any other State or possession, he/she may take such measures to prevent such spread of the diseases as he/she deems reasonably necessary, including inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, and destruction of animals or articles believed to be sources of infection.

The main legal arguement is weather the second sentence of 264(a) should be read as expanding or restricting the authority granted by the first one. Even without that question, it is not clear that the first sentence on its own should be interpreted so broadly as to allow an eviction moratorium.

It is also weird to say that no one challanged it. It has been a controversial action from the start. And has been succesfully challenged in the courts.

[0] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/21a23_ap6c.pdf

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/264

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/70.2
Evictions are handled in state courts.

Bankruptcy is handled in Federal court.

It might be interesting to see what the consequence of a moratorium on bankruptcy proceedings in states failing to distribute rental relief funds might be.
Landlords will be extremely cautious from now on and only selecting tenants that they believe will continue paying through laws like these.
Just wanted to chime in and thank you both for an extremely interesting discussion. Carry on. Being a fly on the wall is fascinating here.
The US did the same thing through the unemployment system. Back in 2008 you could be on unemployment for 2 years and get bonus payments on top of what’s standard.
WTF was the point of pay people unemployment and stimulus checks, if not to pay their bills/rent?

I can't believe we as society just laughed and robbed all the landlords. This is truly shameful.
Does it seem unlikely? the rise of buy now pay later services for non essential retail shows the average person is fairly financially illiterate and will put present comforts ahead of future finances.
There must be a percentage of people that attempted to exploit the protection afforded to genuinely impacted people, there must be a ratio that cautiously intentionally reserved the rent into a just in case stash

I heard form a realtor that they had 30% applied for rent hold but the number dropped (maybe 18%) when asked to fill forms provide documentation… etc

Re-reading, I’m so cynical
Edit: sometime between posting other people have chimed in with speculation on how rent money was spent !
SQRL seems like a good option that incorporates public/private keys as an alternative to passwords