skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Food distribution is already very good for the poor and hungry.

It is not.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/11/14/tho...

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-un...

> But when there are zero consequences to stealing, many folks will just steal in order to get more stuff/make more money.

I don't think there are zero consequences to stealing, even under a "cops won't show up for low amounts of theft" policy.

> You seem to believe the world is populated by nice, well-meaning people who would never steal were they not hungry.

Not the case. I believe thefts are almost finely tuned along with economic problems.

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/232084.pdf - see page 52, and 53.

The less people have, the more burglaries they do. Also page 53, the more income inequality in an area, the more robberies take place. SF is one of the places with the highest income inequality in the country.

To summarize: more poor people, more burglaries. Take the reverse, robberies are primarily carried out by poor people.

> They aren't hungry at all. Your view is just incredibly naive.

I would say your view is naïve about some inherent evil of people from a moralistic perspective directed at the poor. You seem to think its that people are greedy - sure, everyone is greedy to a point. Who are the most greedy in society? Who gets the longest prison terms? A white collar criminal embezzling a million dollars or someone who takes a coke from a convenience store? My view is its a condemnation of our extremely rich society that people must resort to shoplifting.

I'm not an idealist, I'm a realist. Broke people are gonna steal more often - that shouldn't be controversial. The study above, shows that places where EVERYONE is poor people steal less. In places where some are very poor compared to the richest, people steal more.

You will see some anecdote about some band of merry professional thieves who live in a nice apartment somewhere - that is the outlier, not the norm. Just like the idea of the "welfare queen", its time to stop thinking along jingoistic terms about criminal justice in the US. Again, we have 25% of the prison population IN THE WORLD.
And ISTR that just around the time I entered the medical device industry, that this is exactly what happened to Abbott and they were forced to remove some of their products from the market for months until they could bring their quality system back up to FDA satisfaction.

Hard to believe that it was so long ago. Man, I'm old :-)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-11-03-991103...
“Misleading statements” is doing a lot work here.

When we’re talking about organizations who exist solely in the realm of toying with people’s finances, a “misleading statement” is nothing more than a lie. They were misleading people. There is a reason some things come along with incredibly complex language to explain the nuances of what is actually happening as accurately as possible.

We can’t attempt to downplay “misleading statement” in an effort to misdirect away from why they were misleading people.
I wish they would release something like this instead: https://mudita.com/products/phones/mudita-pure/specs/
Free Dask cluster available to use at tcp://3.216.44.221:8786

tldr:
you can use our 4-computer Dask cluster (including two GPUs, a GTX 1080Ti and a Radeon 6900XT) at no cost. If you need even more computing power, message me (george AT lindenhoney DOT com).

FAQ

What is Dask?
Dask is a Python framework for distributed computing, designed to enable data scientists to process large amounts of data and huge computations on a scale from 1 to thousands of computers.

How do I use the cluster you created?
Install Dask (python -m pip install "dask[complete]"
from dask.distributed import Client
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Use it! https://examples.dask.org

Do I need to sign up?
No. You can literally just use it as above from any Python script or notebook.

Why are you making it available?
I’m looking to better understand how people use Dask and how to best make it available to data scientists as an easy to use service.

What can I use the cluster for?
Anything you want such as data science, web crawling (except spam, porn, illegal activities or DoS) etc. Please be nice.

Can I hack your cluster?
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What’s the catch? Do you track my usage?
None. These are my gaming/closet computers that I just want people to use.
I do track anonymous function calls people make and the total volume of data that passes through the system (bandwidth, disk usage, RAM usage etc) but I do not look at or save any of your data.

How can I add my own worker machines to the cluster?
Easy - set up Dask worker(s) and point them to tcp://3.216.44.221:8786

How about security and confidentiality?
These are computers I have at home so all you have is my promise that I won’t look/save/copy your data or code. Pinky swear. However, it is possible for other unfriendly users to look at your data if you save it, even temporarily, on the disk, since all Dask tasks run under the same user.

Who are you?
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What if someone else who uses the cluster messes up with my data, copies it or otherwise takes it down?
Use your best judgement. I hardened the cluster’s security to the best of my ability but I can’t guarantee that someone else won’t mess with them. If you work for the NSA/a bank/IRS/etc you should definitely not upload sensitive data to these computers.

I need more GPUs or a bigger (hundreds or thousands of computers) cluster!
Glad to help, just email me (see above).

I need a larger cluster but private (using AWS, Azure, GCP)
Same as above, email me and I can help.

What are the computer specs?
Two of them are AMD processors with 8 physical cores each, the other is a quad core Intel and the last one is a Mac (Intel, 4 cores). The dedicated graphics cards (GPUs) are on the AMD computers.
The way they are advertising snap in a completely unrelated product is so weird. Their marketing team needs to learn that it would only push the developer's mind into thinking it is forced upon and not actually useful. I would expect similar push by companies like Oracle to their clients not Canonical to free developers.
> Half a year ago, when I looked into it, the answer was a clear: no. And there were not many things that did work reliable, without frequent freezes and crashes.

It's gotten much better since then. Now phone calls are reliable. If you install and configure the upcoming MMS support, messages work reliably.

Most of the freezes and crashes have also been ironed out.

Source: daily driving postmarketOS with Phosh

> I doubt that fundamentally changed, so if you are looking for stability and reliability right now, than better look somewhere else.

I agree that full stability is a work in progress. But so much progress has been made in the last year that it feels almost like a different OS.

I can't wait to receive my Pinephone Pro!
> Epic didn't fundamentally offer anything different from Steam

And for the vast majority of gamers, neither does crypto.

> the people who play it... only really play it

And the same would apply for a crypto friendly games store that had a big hit game.

One thing I wasn't aware of, which I only just learned/realized from seeing worried conversations from a game I follow (that incorporates crypto) is that because of all the negative news about crypto, the general public view crypto quite negatively.

I feel like crypto will need to spend a few years as "boring" before it can truly shine.
The "consumer welfare" standard is a fairly recent (1980s) reinterpretation, and the switch to it happened because of large business lobbying. The original intent of American trust-busting laws was very much to prevent capturing so much market share that competition becomes irrelevant.

https://promarket.org/2019/09/05/how-robert-bork-fathered-th...

And that original interpretation was what worked on the original monopolies (oil etc). The sooner we get back to that, the better.
Banks do not have enough cash on hand to meet their liabilities (deposits), but they are for the most part net-positive over all assets and liabilities. They aren't just burning depositor's money, they're putting it into mortgages and riskier loans. So while they cannot afford a quick payout above 10% of total deposits, the assets are there in the form of loans and securities.
The steel mill was probably going to want dollars instead of Bitcoin regardless, so the only difference is that they do the trade for dollars on a black market exchange. This is likely to get folded into the money laundering process anyway -- the Bitcoin goes to unspecified offshore location to get turned into dollars that come back as a clean payment for "consulting services" or what have you.

There is no need for additional "cover" at that point because the illicit transaction is already illicit. If someone just took that Bitcoin and bought a house, the IRS would have questions. It would have to be laundered first. The output of the money laundering process is clean dollars regardless of whether the input is illegal because of the illegal source or illegal because of the illegal source and currency.
Ask HN: How to work effectively at a typing-based job after breaking my wrist?
I'm a developer and I recently broke my wrist. I now face weeks of typing with a single hand.

You'd assume removing one hand would mean you'd type at half the rate, but I'm finding I'm typing at maybe a quarter as quickly or slower.

I'm dreading this coming period of my life, but it could be worse, so I'm staying positive. At any rate, I'd appreciate help.

Has anyone here gone through a similar experience? Do you have advice / tips / received wisdom that I might benefit from?
> But how about you put aside the statistical nuance of this for 10 seconds and acknowledge the fact that real people, when asked, actually consider Facebook -- a piece of software-- harmful. They are saying that. What does that mean?

It means exactly nothing, obviously. You can substitute literally anything else for Facebook without affecting the truth of that sentence in the slightest.
There is a case to be made either way. The point is that it's yet another quirky difference that pops up sometimes, and using python3 keeps bringing up a stream of such issues.

It does seem in the spirit of Python's duck typing to be able to say '616263'.decode('hex') and get 'abc', and that does work fine in py2. Try it in py3 and you get a type error. So ok, convert the string to bytes, e.g. by saying b'616263' instead of '616263'. That doesn't work either, but I'll leave the experiment to you.
If you come from a 2013 MBP to an M1… you will think you're in a different galaxy.
That'd also go for TERFs (or GC people or whatever), right?

I sort of agree, in that the groups are composed of individuals and it's not entirely fair to hold them responsible for things they didn't personally do. I also think if you see a political community as having some sort of problematic culture it's reasonable to say so.
> May I ask why you do this? Do you not think that others would want to discuss/debate/argue about the topic?

Because unoriginal political flamebait is off-topic for this site. From the site guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Certainly this story is neither interesting nor new. It's just Sticks and Stones redux.

Given the quality of discussion associated with these topics they actively diminish my experience of HN and make me want to avoid the site.

> Do you have an example of one of these? (Genuinely interested in what you mean by this)

A very common sentiment I see around here and elsewhere is imagining some secret, organized sjw cabal that's out to get people:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28883427

"The context is there is a playground game being played at scale. In order to be accepted in certain circles, one needs to discern who the thought leaders are, display the proper deference to them, and above all adhere to approved talking points. "

I could probably find half a dozen comments in this thread alone expressing similar sentiments.
Your public post is, unfortunately, being judged by hundreds to people (at least).
He very clearly did not say that not putting up error bars was what makes people lose faith in the media.

According to passivate's commentary, what makes people lose faith in the media is when they report a study that notes "our findings cannot generalize because we used a nonrandom sample" in the terms "most Canadians believe...".

itsoktocry is just putting up a low-effort bad-faith nonrebuttal.
Attacking the poster is not moving the discussion forward!
> am I going to choose Python?

IMO most of the additions to Python in the past decade haven’t been aimed at people choosing a language, but at people working on large existing Python codebases who have too much inertia to change languages.

The cause of this is that the people in charge of language design (first Guido at Dropbox and now members of the Steering Council) are in exactly that situation.

The effect is that Python has lost focus on what it was originally good for (executable pseudocode for scripting) in favour of adding mediocre support for concurrency, static typing, and now pattern matching.
But there are healthy connections and unhealthy connections. Is it possible that there might be a way to encourage the healthy ones and discourage the unhealthy ones?

Just because social media works the way it does now doesn't mean it has to always work like that. These things are constructed by humans and we can change them if we want. There is nothing intrinsic in Facebook or YouTube that says they must promote "engagement" above all else.

Maybe they might make a few less dollars, wouldn't that be sad.
It seems like there's a standard format "I quit social media and everything is great" post. Usually the poster implies they stepped into ready-made in-real-life contacts and maybe they did. But the implication that this is generally viable strategy for everyone seems wrong.
According to the founders of Ridgeback, Molnupiravir is being tested prophylacticly. They suggested that hopefully by sometime next year, if someone you’ve been in within close contact tests positive, you get on the cocktail of Molnupiravir + the upcoming Pfizer antiviral.
Never saw fit? I'd assume the US tried and failed in 1812, and the failure was bad enough to not try again
Not since the change, no: https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail...
wild guess here -- MacOS had given way to MacOSX, but commercial printing and publication workflows had not. Windows via market mechanisms (plus assorted dirty tricks), had a lot of installed desktops by that time in the print world, with a much smaller set of the artsy people and some others still championing Macs. When MacOSX got stable after the first few releases, the NeXTstep postscript handlers were there, and Apple wanted to compete to get users to buy new Macintosh hardware for print. Anything and everything to attract print people was definitely included.

Forms were appealing to some businesses and I dont have insights on that part of it, other than noting that odd media formats and bolt-on web'by things were being added to PDF at the time, and as for common forms solutions, apparently fifteen years later its still not settled.
> when is it going to deliver on its first actually useful to humanity milestone

Technologically speaking, most cryptocurrencies are utterly useless. Bitcoin included. There are some good projects though.

Monero, for example. It allows people to transact without anybody knowing anything about the details of the transaction. Where the money came from, where it's going, how much money was moved. Everything is obfuscated. Block chain analysis is at the very least hard and inconclusive, if not impossible. So it essentially works like digital cash.

This is an invaluable achievement that allows people to reclaim their financial privacy in a world where governments think it's acceptable to surveil everyone.
Is my Facebook activity fucking my finances?
And Guido van Rossum himself was working at dropbox at the time, contributing to that port. Imagine how much harder it might have been without him.
YMMV, I guess.
I also am not strongly on one side there, but I can think of a few incentives for Walgreens to not say admit that certain stores are being closed due to lack of profits (indicating perhaps to investors that they've overbought in many areas and that their overall revenue will be going down, and hence their stock prices and the C-suite's bonus).

However I also agree that there's not enough info here to be definitively in one camp or another - hence my ploy to say hey these folks at least have data, to try to get the other side to put up their data. The interesting part would be how far off that data is, and then someone's got some 'splaining to do, either to voters or investors.

1. Walgreens is correct - the SF DA is vastly undercounting thefts. This is very much of the public interest

2. Walgreens is lying - this is very much in the interest of walgreens investors

3. Middle ground (probably likely here) - those particular stores had a lot more theft than the average in SF and were particularly targeted. Neither is lying, but walgreens assertion that theft is rampant is somewhat weasel words.
My link below says they stopped doing gift to email address, has it been reinstated again?
Or those without decent banking access
With minor modifications I frequently feel that way about various current writers, analysts, bloggers, vloggers, podcasters and influencers (of all genders)
I might have a controversial or unpopular opinion - I do not think python should try to be concurrent or any more performant than it already is.

Python is the tool I pick for quick scripting, not for highly performant systems - there are languages and run times for that.

Sometime highly productive software does not need to be highly performant, and that does not make the software any more or less valuable. And sometimes speed of iteration is more valuable than speed of run time execution.
> 1. You have to have USD to pay taxes, which most Americans have to do.

61% of Americans paid no federal income taxes in 2020[0], up from 47%[1] in 2019 and the long term chart seems like the non paying number will get higher regardless of what people "have to have" and "have to do".

> 2. The feds will bail out depositors in banks that have screwed up badly.

Ignoring the moral hazards at play, this really only considers on shore dollar denominated deposits, not dollar denominated deposits held overseas and will only work if its only a few banks and not something systemic.

So none of this really means anything to in the tail risk scenarios people are opining about because its all just SSDD at the margins, crypto or non crypto (because everything is connected and getting more so everyday).

[0] https://taxfoundation.org/us-households-paying-no-income-tax...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2019/08/06/remem...
> If you do anything on the CPU or if you have any I/O which is not async you stall the event loop and everything grinds to a halt.

But that's always going to be the case for single threaded code. If you're ready to use threads, then that integrates pretty seamlessly with asyncio by using an executor task.

> asyncio doesn't give us any tools to protect the event loop from getting stalled by your code

Again, check out executors: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-eventloop.html#asy...

Asyncio in Python and JS are very different beasts.
I'll add that it's different when I'm coding and have full autonomy - I could practically go all day on personal projects.

When I have to yield to hierarchy, maintain "agile" processes, and put up with other bs, it drains the work drive and gets tiring real quick. It's not just toll from hard mental labor but also from bad environments - which can exist in any industry.
> Then President Xi will want to know who has photos of the Dalai Lama, or of men standing in front of tanks; and copyright lawyers will get court orders blocking whatever they claim infringes their clients’ rights.

According to reporters in Xinjiang, this is already the case. Ethnic minorities in the region are subject to phone scans by the police that search for "dissident" material, like the Quran. Not only that, they have to run government apps on their phone that do the same thing, in addition to constantly spying on them.

Here's an article about the app that tourists to Xinjiang must install[1]:

> The app gathers personal data from phones, including text messages and contacts. It also checks whether devices are carrying pictures, videos, documents and audio files that match any of more than 73,000 items included on a list stored within the app’s code.

> Those items include Islamic State publications, recordings of jihadi anthems and images of executions. But they also include material without any connection to Islamic terrorism, an indication of China’s heavy-handed approach to stopping extremist violence. There are scanned pages from an Arabic dictionary, recorded recitations of Quran verses, a photo of the Dalai Lama and even a song by a Japanese band of the earsplitting heavy-metal style known as grindcore.

Xi's regime is quite literally looking for people who have pictures of the Dalai Lama.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/technology/china-xinjiang...
I spent a dozen years as phones became more and more manageable and light, from the almost-bricks of the very-late 80s to the small, shirt-pocket 'chocolate-bars' of the mid-noughties.

Just when I was happy with the size of my mobile phone, they started getting larger, less-manageable, and heavier again. I fully expect them to become as heavy and large and unmanageable as the half-bricks of the 80s in the near future.

At the moment I am refusing to upgrade my iPhone 5S because that's the largest size I want to go to.
The US has successfully conducted a lot of policy through violence and the military. As you point out, the purpose of the US military is not nation building, and it has been those steps that failed.
The rumor is the backer is using the reserves to trade crypto. You won't ever see an attack on Teather during a crypto bull run as the reserves will be strong.

In the depths of a crash, the potential is definitely there. Last time Bitfinex bailed out Teather when its reserves came up short. So to really see Teather fail, we probably need a crypto crash and a weakened Bitfinex.

This is why people still use Teather. Even though it is risky, the current market dynamics make a failure unlikely.

IMHO failure due to embezzlement (Teather reserves stolen by an inside man) is a real possibility. The management team has already proven to be very shady...
Not defending automotive touchsceeens, but there’s a fairly sizeable difference between being “worse than drunk” for a few seconds and being actually drunk for the entire journey.

Most people are not terrible at judging risk and generally limit use of touchscreens in moments of elevated risk (e.g. intersections).

If it really is a problem we should be able to see it in real world crash statistics.
> What should I do?

Get over yourself?