skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure a large part of HN's audience legitimately qualifies. The majority of FAANG engineers are accredited investors. $200k income per year is the threshold and a college hire at Google can make that these days. Facebook's median compensation is $240k (across all roles, not just engineering).

Unfortunately even an accredited investor can't purchase SpaceX shares because they are not available. You have to be a really big investor to buy shares directly from SpaceX in one of their funding rounds. You can't purchase shares from employees because of trading restrictions. Your options are limited to participation in consortiums or funds and these tend to have really bad terms.
Starlink on non-huge boats is going to be a bit of a struggle for a while. Since the "dishes" are actually phased array antennas they absolutely chew through energy. They take >100W continuously, which is out of the realm of most midsized to smaller boats.
yeah real great "behavior" they got over there

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/
You are exactly correct here. This isn't about Microsoft or GitHub. It is solely about the .NET Foundation's actions.
UK’s National Film TV School to Offer “Industry First” Virtual Production Course
> This is incoherent - both oil and mining resources require labor to extract.

Again, what is special about oil is that profits from extracting oil are very large, but the profits from mining coal are quite small. Therefore a nation sitting on a pile of coal has a great jobs program for employing coal miners, but not a lot of surplus industry income that can be taxed to give everyone in the country an extra 200K. A nation sitting on a vast pool of oil can do that.

> If we lack the surplus income of Norway, how have we managed to create a pool of wealth 3x as big from surplus incomes, in spite of wasting much more of it on fees each year?

Australia's large retirement funds are the result of a larger population saving for retirement. They are not obtained by taxing excess profits of the iron/coal industry, but by individual households cutting their spending and saving for retirement.

> Norway's SWF is literally a pension fund, and explicitly has the goal of creating equally shared wealth.

This is a non-sequitur. I am saying that we shouldn't confuse the policy goal of fixed versus individual savings programs with whether or not SWFs are used - as one is a retirement policy and the other is funding mechanism. A nation may want a defined pension but shouldn't have an SWF, or vice versa, or neither. The fact that you keep mixing them is not some rebuttal. It's like when I point out you shouldn't confuse colors with gender of animals, and you say "False, this is a blue, male bird!" At this point I have to disengage.
This is upsetting. What can I, an ordinary civilian not involved with the shipping industry, do to help these people?
> Yeah I'd end up ripped off at some point but whatever.

I mean, that's why cashing checks has a fee attached, to cover that risk.
It's not disingenuous, it's a difference in magnitude and threat model. Owning your server gives you things that a hosted offering doesn't, and fails to give you other things. That may be a good trade off, but it is a trade off (ops isn't nothing), and it's not an absolute, both of which mean that dismissive statements about owning your own servers are less than helpful.
Do you have a link to where they said that?
1990.
The number of moths in the UK has declined by 28% since 1968. There are various causes, including use of pesticides and other changes in agricultural practices, destruction of habitat, and anthropogenic climate change. See https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/why-moths-matter/mo...

> moths are just butterflies

It's more accurate to say that butterflies are a kind of day-flying moth, those belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea of the order Lepidoptera.
> risk cost analysis.

Risk of vaccination is low, benefit good, seems legit.

> that's up to the individual

Sure, if and only if it's also up to the employer to choose as well. Individual choice without accountably for the consequences of that choice would be nice, but it's in short supply on account of the deadly pandemic.

> why not force everyone to not be fat while we're at it.

This is a pointless question. Do fat nurses harm patients thereby? No.

> why not force everyone to have a vaccine for every disease?

There are many contexts in which vaccinations are required. _shrug_

> why not just keep everyone in a jail cell so they can't be harmed.

You're not making rational arguments here, just throwing emotional words around.
because it would be a subpar product and because this is conspiratorial thinking.

It would only take one competitor to produce a long lasting vaccine and that competitor would take the entire market, so suggesting that all vaccine producers across national boundaries, not to mention all scientists involved are somehow in cahoots is absurd.
I understand that so-called "activist" shorts will send private investigators and paparazzi after CEOs, manufacture sexual harassment charges, and all kinds of really dirty stuff.
Are the hospitalizations actually from covid? Or did they show up to the hospital for a separate reason and happened to have positive covid test as well?
I was surprised that in my area (BC, Canada) this was not clearly expressed.

I have spoken with a few "anti-covid-vaccine" people who use this fact as a reason to not get it "It does not work, why should we get it?"

I wonder if this was better communicated at the start would have made more people, or less people get the vaccine.
Sounds like a response to crypto, now that its starting to become useful for unbanked people (e.g. El Salvador).
Data is not your data
This is also a problem when you're operating with inflationary currencies, and that's why bitcoin might be better, despite its high volatility.

Bitcoin is volatile in short-term, but long-term deflationary. Fiat currencies are stable in short-term, but long-term inflationary. It's a trade-off, and it depends on your circumstances which allocation works for you.
Ask HN: Cheapest but Highly Available Managed Postgres Hosting?
If you are trying to find a balance between cost and production ready/high availability, what are some of the services you would recommend ? I have done some googling like elephantsql etc but wanted HN's opinion.

I can self host but would prefer not to.
I am not sure why mechanical_bear's comment has been flagged. They have a point. We romanticize such misdeeds via content that we create, or publish or share. Then when a problem arises because of it we try to find a way around the problem instead of resolving it.

Stealing another's property is immoral and wrong. Despite all circumstances or history of the victim or the thief, theft is not right. Rather than condoning such acts we have movies or tv shows (content consumed by the general public) on this topic where the participants of such acts are glorified. Thus giving the impression that if you are not caught for your misdeeds, it is alright to commit them as much as you want.
The hugo theme I use on my blog gets these warnings from Google. Things such as font is too small for mobile. Can anyone recommend a theme from this list that meets all the checkboxes for a blog and does not have any issues raised by Google?
The point is it's only complicated in Python. In other languages, like Rust, it's idiomatic.
That's just providing that your point is about pedantry. It is commonly accepted in life that there are many events which are not completely impossible but are so low probability that they are not worth considering. Just as we do not commonly go around accounting for the possibility of a meteor strike or alien invasion, we also do not commonly describe the risks of common medical procedures involving the discovery of a previously-unsuspected immune mechanism with a time delay measured in years.
Agreed on that point. A failure mode we're all familiar with -- more dependency arrows, more problems!

But why did Vivint and Sunrun succeed when SolarCity failed? Sunrun apparently had a similar business model and economics. The linked analysis raises this question, although I don't know enough about the solar industry to say whether this is reasonable to ask, or fundamentally an apples-to-oranges comparison.
"because that part of Texas is inefficient" doesn't seem like a great answer
This. I'm a doc covering our ICU and I'm seeing an endless stream of Delta COVID-19 patients which are 95% unvaccinated and younger than in 2020.

There are many socio-politico-scientific issues/stories surrounding SARS-CoV-2 but, in my opinion, the most dangerous impact of this virus is the ability it has to massively deplete medical resources in a region. In real-time, SARS-CoV-2 is saturating our beds/resources and burning-out staff. No staff have been dismissed from our healthcare system (~20 hospitals) due to unvaccinated status and nurse staffing has been critical since spring of 2020. Considerable effort is expended daily just to find staffed beds for patients within our hospital (or within our region if we are at max).

(Have been a long-time reader of HN and this is my first post. Just want to thank everyone for a great community over the years. Well done.)
> There is no reason a check can't be verified almost instantly thanks to advances in technology, thereby reducing the risk to the check casher to zero.

How? How do you determine that the document hasn’t been altered or forged? How do you determine that the person is who they say they are?
It kind of depends on the definition of complete. If it's actually complete I suppose I'd go running and read a lot and see if I can serendipitously run into some interesting people to make plans with out and about. If you didn't actually mean complete, then I'd try to make plans with friends and family on top of exercising and reading. Depending on what else is going on with me at the time I'd probably clean a lot, or reorganize, or decorate. If I can coordinate it while disconnected, I might try to volunteer somewhere.

This is assuming I wouldn't be working of course, since work involves connecting more than anything else I do.
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Fun point with iron, but I’d probably start with the high purity platinum asteroids :-)
Yes. And we are using that information to better target those bots.

But guess what? iMessage adds Facebot and Twitterbot to its User—Agent when getting a preview when you send someone a link.

So, as ever, shit’s complicated in the real world.
Maybe software engineering isn't for you? Not judging you but if you admit to being 0.1x, why continue to do it?
> The package ecosystem leads many to choose Python, which has both maintenance and performance scalability issues

My guess is that easily 95% of Python projects will never hit these issues. In all my years of professional Python programming we didn't hit them.

Most projects simply do not need to scale, and will not benefit from it.
Hospitals are a business and will expand capacity if it is profitable.
Nothing really relevant probalby.
Nerdwallet S-1 IPO
Interesting, and I can definitely see this for tetris, but I doubt you'd get the same result throwing a veteran with PTSD into an FPS .. probably needs a few more experiments to yield conclusion in the title.
> I think that the illegal (ish) part comes from Apple making macOS free if you're installing it on Apple hardware.

I don't think it's true since the phrase in question was present also in Mac OS X when we had to purchase each version. Apart from that, this part of the license is not valid in several European countries. When you think of it, it's quite reasonable: how could anyone dictate how you are using something you purchased? It makes no any sense.
It would be interesting to compare the suggested EQ curves here vs. commercial offerings that claim to introduce a neutral response like Sonarworks. In theory I think they should be doing quite similar things, but curious if there are any real differences or if they land in the same general area.
I've been toying with the idea of writing a protocol for Git as a "Blockchain" for bank interchange. Require signatures on all commits, include a protocol for how to push commit proposals to other peers for signing, verifying commits before they're merged, etc. No mining, just a distributed transaction log via git.
This, maybe

```py
x = [xx for x in [1, 2, 3, 4] if xx < 10]
```
Official announcement: https://www.oecd.org/tax/international-community-strikes-a-g...

List of countries: https://www.oecd.org/tax/beps/oecd-g20-inclusive-framework-m...
Definitely agree.

I used to go hunting with my dad every year. Then I realized I had a freezer still mostly full because, well, deer meat isn't that good. So I still go, just without actually shooting anything.

It's a cathartic experience. When your sole focus is spotting a deer, everything else kind of fades away. Starting in pitch blackness. Every little noise makes you turn your head and stare at...nothing. Or is it? Hard to tell. Sun starting to rise - good, you're freezing...but why isn't it warming up yet? You listen for every little crack or grunt. You watch the squirrels chase each other - are they fighting or playing? You start to appreciate the beauty and joy nature, that you've been ignoring for years, can provide.

Well, you could write a book about the experiences, but it's definitely something I highly recommend - even if you don't want to shoot anything.
i would argue that it isn't the type of music that affects you.

it's your familiarity with it.
> There is no reason a check can't be verified almost instantly thanks to advances in technology

This is what an EBT card is, which is why so many government payments have shifted to them...
It's a shame that TFA has no mention of Indenture, which for all of it's associations with indentured servitude, was a very pragmatic solution for document authentication

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indenture
stripe has a lot of restrictions about what you can and can't use stripe for. I don't see stripe ever being a stripe for crypto - it's just nice ux with all the restrictions of visa/mc plus more restrictions to avoid the darker sides of some crpyt - like here's some crypt option with added regulations, plus more added rules and regulations from our overlords and some other overlords.
> This is like claiming -- why it would it NOT be in the best interests of tech companies to create software that is extremely buggy so that people need to stay with them for upgrades?

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
Interesting, but makes sense. want to do previews, look like a preview bot - presumably there's also some sites that serve preview metadata only to such user agents.
I paid money to cross the Pacific Ocean on a Maersk line, 300 meter cargo ship (us_en here). Many people asked me if I worked to be on board, and the answer was "no", Maersk did not allow it. The officers were mostly East Germans who needed a job, while the strictly segregated, "A-Bs" were almost all Pacific Islanders of some kind. The conditions were clean and professional, but I got the feeling soon that this was not a desirable job. The officers would spend at least 60 days on duty, often more.. without a vacation day, but had a weekly day "off" or two, except the Captain who is technically working at all times.

I enjoyed the travel and had a good voyage, with many small things to say about it at another time. As I learn about "business" and the world, I understand more about labor abuses, even with "respectable" companies. And, your outrage does nothing, because people who mistreat others professionally are quite used to the complaining, including yours. I am not at all surprised at this article.
Ok, I will say I first start building small things on the web in the late 90s, so maybe it was easier in the early 90s.
None of what's outlined on that blog has anything to do with Rust. And wgpu has to validate code for undefined behavior because it needs to run in browsers, as well as translate it to other backends that aren't SPIRV--it again doesn't really have anything to do with Rust. In fact according to the Rust memory model, most UB on the GPU would technically be okay (though obviously not ideal) but not in the context of a browser. So just saying "eh that stuff is undefined" or "this is just Rust stuff" doesn't really address the issues outlined there.
It’s successfully pushed me to Firefox. I love safari and how gentle it is on the battery but I’d rather have 6 hours of functional browsing than 10 hours of dealing with Safari’s nonsense.
I could see some people finding it in bad taste, but since all names are obscured, what specifically is bannable about that community?
Herd immunity only applies when the people in the set seldom/never meet people outside the set.

If the people in the set go home and meet others once per day, then that's not herd immunity. And a lawyer may reasonably argue that some patient definitely should get $256 million, and the hospital may reasonably want to avoid that liability.
The downside of this approach is that you have discarded the original error information. It’s also somewhat verbose at the error-handling site.
SolarCity is still alive and well as Tesla Energy.
slow

golf

clap

Really well done, I was amazed initially. But a series of drawings... ok. Buses. MWAHAHAHAHA
On the one hand it looks interesting.

On the other hand Spanner must have a perfectly fine distributed lock manager on its own. It seems odd to implement a lock manager on another lock manager (which just happens to be a database too) just because you can't directly access it. I'm sure that must cause unnecessary overhead.

It's a bit like those odd nesting cases that happen in networking, like PPPoE over Ethernet. Maybe that's the eventual fate of computing as it evolves, more and more layers everywhere, that are more and more redundant but still exist for some odd reason, with low level facilities being reinvented.
>Diversity means increasing representation. In a situation with limited resources, increasing representation for all means decreasing representation for some. This is the natural conclusion to pushing for equality/representation.

Except the problem isn't with the gifted/talented programs in NYC. And it isn't with the SHSAT[0] either.

The problem is that public elementary and middle schools in majority black/hispanic neighborhoods have measurably much worse educational results.

What's more, those schools don't even consider preparing their students for G/T programs or the specialized high schools.

There are many reasons for this and fixing it is hard. As such, instead of giving minority students a better education, some activists are calling for (and succeeding) removal of gifted/talented programs and getting rid of the SHSAT.

As a product of the NYC public school system, I have no illusions that fixing these problems will be easy.

But removing the G/T programs instead of directing poorly performing schools to bring all their students up to educational levels which allow the best of them (as in every other school) to participate in G/T programs and increase their numbers in the specialized high schools.

IMHO, this is completely ass backwards.

And De Blasio is gone in January, leaving this mess to his successor.

As a NYC resident, I'm glad I don't have kids here.[1]

[0] https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learning/testing/specialized-hig...

[1] I could go on and on about how ridiculous this is, but I am so disgusted with De Blasio and the NYC Department of Education about this stuff that I'll just stop now before this becomes an all out rant.
Uh... you didn't get it, I'll break it down to you: according to the parent comment it would be the US Weapon Industry that were causing the wars.

That's the conspiracy theory.

Being surprised that companies have better results when their products are in high demand seems odd that's all.
Infrastructure Observability for Changing the Spend Curve at Slack
Umm exactly? I’d rather get my own red flags out of the way rather than waste 8h of everyone’s time to find out the company has a shitty culture. I also checksum the compensation and on-call and other things in the first interview
> Wait, no it doesn't work that way.

It kinda does, in a lot of cases. But sure, use extreme examples that don't do anyone any good. There's lots of reasonable examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
> factual

Nope. Just because it says so in a book doesn't make it true. When you make a statement of the form "X does not exist", a single counter-example is sufficient to prove you wrong. Lucky for me, many such counter-examples exist, and many have even been discussed in this thread. I'll add one to the list: tourist (Gennady Korotkevich). He's a competitive coder that's several orders of magnitude (e.g. 1000x) better at coding competitions than the average competitor. And the average competitor is a few orders of magnitude better than the average professional programmer who doesn't have algorithm experience. All of this is measurable (at most we can quibble about whether the skill differences are 100x or 10000x or infinite). If you don't believe me, please go and take a simulated Codeforces competition right now and see how long it will take you to solve some set of problems that tourist solved in under 2 hours (or if you will be able to solve them at all - I certainly won't be able to solve the hardest Codeforces div1 problems no matter how much time I put in).

I have a feeling this mountain of empirical evidence was insufficient to change your mind about this. I would appreciate if you could take the time to explain why? Why is this evidence not enough?
Nothing wrong with that, although you could use ‘map_err’ instead of ‘or’ to preserve the original errors as well if you want to.
I'm not entirely convinced that fully disconnecting is necessary, although it is nice. Instead, I take an old phone without any work stuff on it, and go moto camping. Occasionally, messages will come in from friends and family, and I can respond to them.

But the most important thing, imo, is not attaching yourself to outside responsibilities for a few days.
> In celebration of Steve Job’s life and his inspiration to many, I wanted to show a passion project I’ve been working on that I think Steve would be proud of. Something that wasn’t possible 20 years ago but is now.

Steve Jobs didn't strike me as the kind of person who'd be proud of a fan doing something like this.
I'm not worried about them doing it deliberately, it's the accidents that are the problem. This incident, for example. What if it were a Chinese mine that they hit? And the Pentagon mistook it as prep for an invasion of Taiwan?
Have you considered using a cypher mode like AES-CTR [0]? That might reduce the need to buffer because later packets are no longer dependent on the encryption result of previous packets. Of course that would only work if clients support CTR, and if the NIC supports it, and depends on how much you trust the encryption, but if it applies it could help a lot and eliminate the whole issue of retransmissions causing IO spikes to rebuild the TLS state.

To be clear, I just wondered if such an encryption mode existed and found this after spending 2m googling it, so I have no idea what the adoption rate of such a cypher is or what the consensus is on its security. And for all I know you're already using it and it doesn't solve the problem because something else is forcing the NIC to rebuild state.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tls-ctr-01#...

> AES-CTR is capable of random access within the key stream. For DTLS, this implies that records can be processed out of order without dependency on packet arrival order, and also without keystream buffering
It most definitely is, you are signaling your self-awareness and making yourself seem more approachable by a certain category of people.