skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a fair point, and I hadn’t heard of that Supreme Court ruling.

Without being too flippant, I believe the pro-Eugenics society the court came from would have found a way to twist any precedent or lack thereof to justify eugenics. Some of the same members of that court went on to sanction imprisonment and property theft from thousands of people without even the pretense of crime other than their race.

I also want to point out the current rules (and what most ppl are advocating for) aren’t forced medical proceedings. Truly involuntarily medical proceedings have almost exclusively been abused.

Everyone is free to not receive a vaccine, they just have some negative consequences for doing so.

It turns out the inconvenience of not being able to go to a restaurant was hugely compelling in France, for instance.

I’m sensitive to the fact that threats to livelihood don’t feel very voluntary. In the US, the threat to livelihood isn’t from the government. There is no national vaccine mandate - just an annoying testing mandate the vaccinated get to skip out on.
The life of humankind 2 millioms years ago
I think supporting linux drivers was already tried in other kernels (I remember a talk Andrew Tanenbaum gave at a FOSDEM) when he tried to incorporate them in Minix v3 and he and his team gave up in frustration.
The instructions we've used for years

1) Print it out
2) Cut out the parts you want to redact
3) Scan the paper

This might be more work, but 1) It's easy enough for anyone to understand 2) It's really, really hard to get wrong
Maybe you've already sold your conscience when becoming part of the 1%, so you don't need more/difference excuses when reaching the next levels.

Most people in my country's 1% have already made the choices that allow them to accumulate with no end. They're already placed in a strong enough bubble that they don't see the results of their actions, e.g if their investments/lobbying hurts the poor (e.g all law makers are from the same class, media sources are so personalized so you don't share the same experience with the rest of society, they starts presenting the poor as "lazy, dumb, evil zombies", your Uber won't let you cross anyone from below levels or make sure you avoid certain districts, etc).

There's a French word for that: l'entre-soi -- people choosing to live in their microcosm (social, political, etc.) avoiding contact with those who are not part of it.
This looks awesome. Thanks.
If you made as much as a nurse makes per year, but per day instead, then after a full career you would still not have as much as one of Norway's richest men.

Kjell Inge Røkke didn't have much when he started out, now he has close to 20 billion Norwegian kroner. Roughly 2.3 billion USD.

A nurse starts out at a bit above 400 000 kr (48 000 USD). If they paid you a years salary every day for a regular 5-day workweek, 46 weeks a year (to account for holidays) and you worked from when you were 20 and retired at 70. You would still only make 4.8 billion kr, roughly 1/4 of what Røkke has made so far.

414000 * 5 days * 46 weeks * 50 years = 4 761 000 000
If you look at the github readme, it becomes clear that this technique can't infer _real world_ locations from wireless signals (which is already very much possible and in widespread use), it's applying abstract labels to different regions of signal strengths. Someone has to train it themselves with those labels.

It just knows, "I am fairly confident you are in 'bathroom' given the current patterns of signal strengths from the access points I can currently see".

This might be useful as a low-power alternative to proper localization, for the cases that it's useful to know what room something's in, but not necessarily an actual position.

So, if you wanted to automate things in your house to happen when you walk into a room with your smartphone, this would be less invasive than actually trying to triangulate a position or doing visual SLAM :-)
Fantasy startup investing game Visionrare: What went wrong?
My SO had that problem with word limits at school. She would write 5 pages for a 300 word assignment, it was almost like a brain dump.

At college I helped her with her assignments after she was done writing. I didn't know her topic but just reordering sentences, deleting redundant ones and shortening others.

I started doing this after she failed an assignment and she asked for help. After we were done "post-processing" it, she got a B on it. We hadn't touched any of her technical points, just improved the language.

I now help my sister through something similar. She has the opposite. She'll write 300 words for a 1000 word assignment. Again I know nothing of her subject, but I'll do a similar post-processing. In the process I'll notice there are some gaps in her arguments perhaps, or things that aren't as fleshed out.

So I ask her about it and almost always she can tell me lots about the subject from the books and articles she's read as part of the curriculum. So I tell her to write it down, and after going through the assignment we're suddenly in the position where we have to trim some stuff.

I used to think word limits were somewhat silly, but now I see how they can help focus the unfocused or help tease out the knowledge. Both my SO and my sister improved over time, requiring much less help after a while.

Of course left to their own devices, it would likely be very difficult for them. So there's that.

Incidentally, language was never my favorite subject and I didn't do particularly well. However studying math helped me a lot with writing non-fiction, where things like consistent logical arguments matter.
Wouldn't the relevant analogy be operating income?

It's usually not a problem for a business to incur a short term operating loss.
> Not all whistleblowing is idealogoical

Is it true that not all whistleblowing is idealogoical? In order to be idaealogoical, it must be motivated by idaealeogoy. Whistleblowing is definitionally motivated by opposition to the leaked activities, making it ipso facto idaealogoiacal. Why do you think it's not idaealaogoiacal?
That’s by design.
So if tax avoidance schemes were focused on and they were taxed appropriately then tax burden could be reduced on wage earners and the likes. People like you....Which in turn makes it so they have to charge their employers less for their labour according to this zero sum economy you envision.

Which then of course would impact consumer prices.
Take Back MIT: Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman
> I wouldn't be surprised if they would simply turn to unsafe if they had to write it in Rust, errors are apparently to be worked around not fixed.

They probably would. But it's easier to find usages of unsafe through grep or the like than it is with C because Rust's syntax and requirement of marking unsafe make it easier to find. To use one of my own codebases for example, I can look at the instances of the following regex patterns:

* "\bfn\b" (function declarations), 138 matches.
* "\bunsafe\s+fn\b" or "\bunsafe\s+extern\b" (unsafe function declarations), 23 total.
* "\bunsafe\s*\{" (opening an unsafe block), 41 matches.
* "\bunsafe\s+impl" (unsafe trait implementation), 0 matches.

We can also look at the total lines of code written (2269), and ask if this these numbers feel reasonable for what it's doing. Obviously that will require familiarity with Rust, what's being implemented, and the expected amount of unsafe based on previous usage in the kernel, but it would at least give an overall feel. And, of course, if you want to examine any of them, you know exactly where they are.
Yeah using the gold standard limits the pace of progress of society to the pace of which gold can be mined, which is a completely arbitrary unnecessary limit ever since printed money was invented.
Seconding this. The idea that rich people have a target (after-tax) income and will charge whatever it takes to hit that income is absurd. The target is infinite, and they are already doing everything in their power to make their income as large as possible under current conditions. The fact that their income ever got so large is an indication that they already have too much power to increase their income at the expense of others (not least by convincing a share of the population that their wealth/income is inevitable and/or a necessary condition for the prosperity of others).
Windsor, CA bans natural gas in new homes (2019)
Rational Wiki, another totally unbiased source.
It's funny how the time of the gold standard was the other time in US history where it was a banana republic but I'm sure that's a coincidence and not a collary.
If the FBIs complaint is accurate this is a pretty simple matter

He was an amateur spy who was caught using good old police techniques. Whether they knew before shouldn't matter.

COUNTRY1 turned everything over and assisted the FBI in their investigation (signaling the suspect). I'm certain they'll send someone to testify in court if needed.
by the way this fits well with this.
https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2020/09/24/wtf-happened-i...
How do I do x, is very very different from in my custom environment with custom code sometimes foo doesn’t happen when bar is triggered

Personal experience, some very nice bright people there but also work for a company
This is the free market. Using cryptocurrency is also the free market.
Good Tests Don't Change
Go-log: Opinionated, modularized, structured and production-ready GO log library
Merck seeks FDA emergency use authorization for antiviral Covid-19 treatment
Trust me, I know what I'm doing is exactly what every C programmer thinks when writing code.
So jobs never lied to advance his company? Or is the message more like to not lie at the wrong moment?
Ask HN: What would you teach your younger sister/brother about finmod?
Say you have an younger sister or brother who is a first-time entrepreneur and would like to apply for a bank loan when there is a need in the future(assume they are not very keen on venture capital).

They want to have as much insight as possible into their business from the financial perspective. This is for their own sake(e.g. to make better decision) as well as to be well-prepared for future loan application(s).

What would you teach this younger sister/brother of yours about financial modelling, forecasting and credit risk analysis so that they are able to generate their own data for analysis before making a loan application?
Mine started with a very weird feeling that something was off in my vision (usually triggered while working on a screen). I would notice after a while that a tiny portion of my vision was going missing and then the shimmering would begin and spread out.

I've also not had auras for several years though I do get headaches still. I had extremely low vitamin b-12 levels and I think the auras disappeared after I took shots for b-12.
Show HN: Sdr-modem. Modem that is available over TCP
Oh no, somebody is richer than me, eat the rich or something... right?
I know. So? How does that change anything?

A doubly-linked list is already space inefficient, it adds 2 pointers per element.

Using Rc + Weak adds one extra word per element to store the two (strong and weak) refcounts. So for a 64-bit type, a Vec takes 1x space 1xN, a list takes 3xN, and a ref-counted list 4xN.

Performance wise, the extra space doesn't change anything, since that word is allocated with the element in the same cache line and would have been read anyways (even if you don't access it, the hardware does access it).

If you are using a doubly-linked list, you really don't care that much about any of this, and the only thing that makes a real difference, is the guarantee that your list implementation is correct.
As already mentioned this is highly dependent on why you want a VPN and what's most important to you. That being said, an internet hero by the name of ThatOnePrivacyGuy researched and scrutinized a significant number of available VPNs using numerous data points and compiled them all into a spreadsheet for easy comparison.

The original site is now defunct [0], but has been merged with SafetyDetectives, and so now the full comparison can be found here [1].

Without any other details, that is your best place to start looking.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/user/ThatOnePrivacyGuy/comments/jmuty...

[1] https://www.safetydetectives.com/best-vpns/

Edit: adjusted formatting
Tax deferral is not tax avoidance. If Elon Musk gets a loan backed by his Tesla shares to diversify his holdings, that isn't actually a "tax free" cash out. The tax is just deferred to if/when the bank margin calls the loan, or he dies, etc. But the taxes do get paid, eventually.

These Forbes articles and such conflate different issues and really confuse this point.
But where is checkers!
This kind of hyperbole is just virtue signalling. You want to tell us what a great person you are because clearly you think about all this and you've fixed it by not exploiting anyone else.

In your rush to excoriate someone for being a part of the 1%, you've forgotten that you're easily in the 1% of people living on earth and we're all connected thanks to global trade. All the things you've said apply equally to you. You can't tell us with certainty about the living conditions of everyone who made your shoes, your phone or your means of transport.
I don't think that's completely true. Generally, housing and SNAP have work requirements for most people. Medicaid generally does not. There's a recent waiver process that allows states to implement a work requirement, but most states have not taken advantage of that.

I have a relative that lived in free public housing, recieved SNAP, and is on Medicaid. I know they still get food from the food bank, but I'm not sure if they still get SNAP. They moved out of the free housing into an apartment (inheritance). They refuse to get a job.
Show HN: Ruck – Genetic Algorithms Inspired by PyTorch Lightning Modules
When Imitrex (another migraine med) was new, it was an expensive injection, too. They got it to pill form later, and it got cheaper. These things take time. It isn't ideal, but it how it works.
Haw haw. Try and get on public housing in the US, I dare you.
The boom bust cycle was much worse on the gold standard because when it busted, there was no way to stop it, and it could be manipulated by anyone with enough gold.

We had the gold standard during the Roaring 20s, and we had the gold standard during the Great Depression in 1929.
Yes, effectively turn it into a plutocracy, where laws are decided by how much you can pay for them. I'm sure this is the type of fight the poor want to get into.
Formats for Great Team Retrospectives
Totally agree. While not using DBT specifically, I've done this on tables with billions of rows and it works perfectly. And even this can be combined with a Lambda view giving you the best of both worlds. Combining overcomes any latency from the incremental process since it can take time.

But I did end up questioning why I needed to continuously microbatch when the lambda views are able to bridge the gap. It turned out that the lambda views were good enough that we could reduce the microbatching back to ever 24hrs, and that was just being overly cautious. 48hrs or more might have been good enough, maybe more.

It turned out that the costly part of the microbatching was really merging (inserts and update, not append only) the delta data back into the prepared table. Selecting, combining and consolidating new and historic data is extremely fast.
> Tell me about the times your own board tried to oust you or the funerals you missed for a biz dev meeting that went nowhere and maybe I'll take you seriosly.

This comes across as gatekeeping and I can only wonder what has riled you up so much about the author's experience to go on this kind of attack.
Regardless of anything else you've said;

The weak form of Sapir-Whorf is obviously true with respect to human languages.

No, it's not. Nothing is "obviously true", least of all a pretty grandiose theory, and I can't find any source that empirically backs up the idea that the weak version of the hypothesis is true at all.
> This year FED started to manipulate inflation rates:

Inflation is calculated by the BLS, not the Fed.

> Instead of 12-month base they used 18-month base.

Not sure what you are referring to. There are many different time series, and year over year is still one of them.

> They removed 31% of goods with highest inflation, but only 24% of goods with lowest inflation.

Again, I have no idea which time series you are referring to, but the CPI basket is regularly recalculated according to standard methodology and according to fixed schedules. The basket changes otherwise we'd be measuring inflation based on the cost of 8-tracks and shag carpets.

The methodology of updating the basket according to pre-specified criteria has not changed. The only issue with the current recalculation is that the basket may have been distorted due to unusual consumer behavior as a result of covid (e.g. less money spent on dining out, plane tickets, more money spent on home delivery, etc). But if they would have skipped the recalculation then there would be even more conspiracy theories about the BLS changing their methodology.

However I can tell you that it is not unusual to drop more expensive items from the consumer basket and replace them with cheaper items, provided that the substitutions reflect observed consumer behavior. For example, we don't include home milk delivery prices or handmade shoes in the consumer basket anymore as people have substituted away from these products to cheaper alternatives. It is because of these substitutions that the basket needs to be regularly updated to reflect the basket of things that people are actually buying rather than what they used to buy 20 years ago.

Really not sure why there are so many CPI-truthers out there. The BLS and the BEA are transparent and professionally run organizations, yet they are punished for disclosing their data and methodology as it gives people even more fodder for wild speculations. There's something about government time series that brings out these tendencies -- like how all those H.6 releases regularly trigger panic about the dollar collapsing.
The way the economic system is in the US and many other countries each year the ratio will keep getting worse till the system breaks. If the economy grows 2-3% and 80-90% of the growth is captured by 1-2% of the population each year more and more wealth moves to the rich.
Taxing the rich is just 1st part of the solution the 2nd part is getting that money into the hands of the actual poor where as currently larger part of government taxes go back into the pockets of the rich. Food stamps subsidised health care etc are the bogey man created to hype up the right and the left but majority of that money also goes back to the rich.
I think it's the other way around : due to past propaganda, Russians really like tanks. As a result, tank games come from Russia.
Almost all Hacker News readers will be part of the global 1%, of course most people in the 1% don't consider themselves to be in the 1%.
ZeroHedge is a pretty nasty propaganda outlet to find it's way to this website. You should read the comments, it's mostly Q-ANON and radical far-right trolls, and their batting average on their economic predictions nears 0%. It's doomer media and totally unfit for this community IMO.
Hard to get excited when I already feel like I have more tech than I need. I feel like we've reached all the low hanging fruits of quality of life before the 90s (health/medical care, electricity, fridges, central heating, running water). Computers are nice, smartphones are convenient, google map is the 8th wonder of the world, but I feel like we're now going backwards, products are becoming more and more unrepairable, unreliable, complex, made to be consumed and discarded. We're in an age of infinitely small incremental updates to existing technologies.

It's also hard to get excited about gadgets when most of the real world issues are social or economical.

When I want to dream a bit I open an old book about medicine/chemistry/woodworking/metalsmithing/1900s inventions. Back in these days a single person could still take giant steps, nowadays progress is extremely slow and requires huge teams if not megacorps with unlimited amount of money.
We helped a relative get in. So yeah, I know a bit about it.
An addenda for anyone whose interest was piqued by that quote -- the book is a truly delightful anthology of pithy/laconic/dire observations, conveniently sorted into alphabetical order -- and related to the above (filed under Bretton Woods) was this gem, under the heading HOLY TRINITY - LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY:

"The main tenet of faith in the last quarter of the twentieth century has been the promise of a rational paradise reached through devotion to competition, efficiency and the market-place. In this fashionable and remarkably intolerant Holy Trinity, the role of the Father is taken by competition, of the Son by efficiency and of the Holy Ghost by the market-place.

"If these three mechanisms could be presented with both their strengths and their flaws, they would be valuable tools in a stable society. Treated as absolutes they quickly drag society into a confused and dangerous state where conventional wisdom is reliant on our denial of what we know to be wrong.As with our earlier worship of saints and facts, there is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. The message of the competition/efficiency/marketplace Trinity seems to be that we should drop the idea of ourselves developed over two and a half millennia. We are no longer beings distinguished by our ability to think and to act consciously in order to affect our circumstances. Instead we should passively submit ourselves and our whole civilization—our public structures, social forms and cultural creativity—to the abstract forces of unregulated commerce. It may be that most citizens have difficulty with the argument and would prefer to continue working on the idea of dignified human intelligence. If they must drop something, they would probably prefer to drop the economists."
>Using unsafe is like providing a "proof" that the code you write won't cause safe Rust code to exhibit undefined behavior

It is more like providing an "axiom" as the compiler won't be able to check it and instead has to assume that it true.

I wonder if there is scope to extend the language in the future to actually add machine checked proofs.

Normally full machine checking doesn't scale to large projects, but if one had to restrict to writing proofs only for the small subset of unsafe code and let the simpler type/lifetime system handle the rest of the code it might be manageable.
Hyperinflation is usually a forex problem: the country needs to buy imports in hard currency, especially oil and food, but the export industry has collapsed, so it can't find dollars to pay for it.

Which is why I find Americans worrying about hyperinflation in the present day very odd: you have oil AND food AND dollars all domestically produced in adequate quantities, what are you expecting to happen?
All that stuff in your last point is for telemetry, isn't it? That is, fingerprinting.
You are probably in the global 1%. What is your solution? You speak of violence. Will you give away all your savings and possessions to an impoverished Chinese or Indian peasant?
Tuning a guitar (or other stringed instrument) so that the strings are more or less in tune with each other is a really basic skill that even very amateur players can mostly do. Being able to tune to an absolute pitch without any kind of reference is kind of freakishly rare.
I always love the hand-wave of Conspiracy Theory to label everything these days

It is not "Conspiracy Theory" when you have actual evidence, video evidence no less, and official statements from national organizations, and paper records all supporting the claims.
Ah, Mr Bond. I was expecting you – to entertain me