skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay but using umbrella terms obscures the crucial aspect of being a slave: non voluntary, unpaid labor. Yes, it is technically correct in an extremely literal sense. But that's not the same as it being the right term in the context of teaching students about the slave trade. If I said "his great grandfather was a worker", it would not imply slavery, indeed most people would assume the opposite connotation, that his great grandfather was a paid worker.

I can't help but feel like you're confusing literal correctness with appropriateness. And while literal correctness is an easier judgement to make, there are many literally correct statements that absolutely miss the point. Saying that slaves were "workers" is one of them.
Excellent! I had no idea this was being worked on. Thanks for sharing!
No I'm actually pretty sure that I do. Get out of the way of progress.
> Don’t forget that all Congress members and former members get a fully vested pension after only 5 years in Congress

Fully vested, but at 1.0% of the top 3 years salary per year of service. So, sure, at 5 years of service @ 174K per year, they could draw pension at 62 – but that pension would only be $8,700/year.
I would honestly take a hefty payout to work for this person.
The kernel could use a different implementation of multitasking, e.g. keep the threads in a circular doubly linked list instead of a priority queue. This wouldn't be optimal for a general-purpose OS, but works for our custom O(n) sorting machine.
The SEC even in overt insider trading cases doesn't pursue criminal charges -- they refer it to the Justice Department.

Congress currently is exempt from insider trading that comes about due to executing congressional duties. They would have to pass a law subjecting themselves to it.
"The worse the vaccines work the more we need to mandate them"?

Herd immunity is not going to happen with Covid, it's a pipe dream. Certainly not with vaccines with a peak 37% effectiveness against the currently dominant variant which wanes after a few months (cf. the Nature article I referenced elsewhere in the thread), never mind ones that might arise in the future in response to evolutionary pressures created by mass vaccination.

The vaccine hesitant are not dragging out the "pandemic," the people complying with undemocratic diktats and mandates are. The people running this show have no intention of ever letting you go back to normal -- the draconian restrictions still being applied to 95%+ vaccinated college campuses make this clear.

If you need counterexamples to your baseless notion that mass vaccination will prevent COVID outbreaks have a look at Singapore or Gibraltar, or the case studies of outbreaks in 95% vaccinated hospitals and care homes. But I suppose there is no evidence that could possibly change your mind on this -- after all, the worse the vaccines are, the more we need to push them on people.
It's literally not their job, because elected officials made it not their job. If you don't like that, it's our job to vote them out.

But that can't happen. Because people are more likely to vote for a knowingly corrupt politician as long as they're in the right party, over another politician in the wrong party.

Probably - in part - because of conditioning by our politicians, scaring us that the other "side" is going to do something real bad if they ever "win". Nevermind the other "side" "wins" every 8 years or so.

I don't say this disparagingly. I think I suffer from it to some extent too. I just don't know what to do about it and it makes me sad.
The US doesn't make a lot of this type of battery because there is a consortium of patent-holders who charge enough to make LFP less economically viable that wasn't able to secure all the needed patents in China.
I feel the same thing can apply to cops too. I'm all for paying people in these positions market rate or even slightly above. That has to be coupled with effective oversight and higher penalties which are actually enforced. We need to stop treating white collar crime lighter than blue collar crime.
First, scald the pot!
Great read, thanks for sharing.

Water use is a bit of a misnomer though. It's not like agriculture where the water gets "fed" to plants and mostly evaporates.

Tesla plans to recycle/reuse most of the water at the Giga Berlin plant: https://insideevs.com/news/526187/tesla-minimizes-water-use-...

And yes, the positive impact of electric cars even considering all raw materials and water is unequivocal.
> The SEC can still pursue criminal charges

The SEC can refer apparent criminal violations to the Department of Justice, which is the only federal agency which can pursue criminal charges.
Virtually no one is concerned with the security of card payments on non apple processors. They have been typing their card numbers in to stripe/paypal/etc for years.

Only the tiniest % of HN idealists will pay 30% extra to have it go through Apple.
Gotta disagree with the title..
A twitter thread forces the author to condense key points thoroughly and present it in a way where fluff talk has no place due to character limitations. Even if it just consists of links, I prefer consuming good threads rather than poorly structured & fluff-stuffed blog posts.
That’s interesting because it just so happens that the example I gave in the post is actually a blog post and I think it works far better that way.

Link if anyone is interested - https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/16/sociopathic-monsters/
Fun fact, when you consider the bits required to contain p, this is equivalent to bucket sort with a bucket size of 1.
YouTube drama doesn’t belong here.
I don't think that's what OP was getting at...
It should be that low only if you get the dedicated 3050ti nvidia gpu I think, with the integrated intel xme it should be double that value
UK Anecdata: xe.com says $155k is currently £112k which is, at best, two maybe-high mid level devs in, e.g., London (outside of FAANG.) Maybe 3 mid or low-senior levels outside of London but even then it'd be a stretch. I think.
I was under the impression that this document exists to have -a- standard such that if followed before performing some sort of experiment whether directly tea related or not, you could more easily exclude preparation differences as a confounder when comparing results with people who'd also followed the document.

Certainly this is how the old coworker who had a paper copy pinned up behind their desk explained it to me, and that understanding was why they found its existence so amusing even if their preferred cuppa's preparation process was substantially different.

This could of course be entirely wrong but seeing the paper copy pinned to the wall always did make me smile.
Well this would have been nice to know when ordering - although luckily I ordered a 16+Max anyways

I wonder if this is priced in to the public M1 Max benchmarks we've seen already? (Presumably it was in their own presentation benchmarks)
>"You could simply have said, "I can't come up with any examples," and skipped all the rambling text."

This attitude is part of the reason why I didn't feel the need to paste a bunch of links. Not only am I certain you'd dismiss them as biased interpretations, you didn't even pick up on the fact that I was disagreeing with his premise. And, that I did provide an example with Maxine Waters calling for Trump Administration staffers to be harassed in public.
No. Writers often use allegories and metaphors. It’s not exclusive to Western writers.

We’ll just agree to disagree
Cache-Control: max-age=0, must-revalidate

Sounds like what you want (presuming your server handles 304 logic correctly)
A lot of software engineering techniques are more about managing mediocrity than fostering excellence. They go overboard with the prescriptions. This may well produce better results when you have an army of mediocre developers.

It tends to frustrate excellent developers though, so it's a tricky weapon to wield.

Of course, it also tends to frustrate those who only think they're excellent.
I joked in the past that politicians should only be allowed to buy index funds. In their local currency and from their country of course.

Basically, do a good job for the economy overall and then your net worth will increase.
In most countries, anti-vaccination positions are found in crazy sub-groups with both left and right tendencies and so can reasonably be said to have nothing to do with any mainstream political party. The serious opposition parties in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, or Canada, would have different policies on the minutia of the pandemic, but they aren't opposed to the vaccinations the government bought.

But in the US that's a tacit Republican party position. Most senior Republicans have of course actually been vaccinated, but watch so many of them carefully choose their words to avoid endorsing vaccination. And the more junior Republicans, hungry for voter enthusiasm and maybe less scared of dying themselves, will outright say it, e.g. Lauren Boebert.

Result: Dead Republicans.

And I really don't have a partisan point here, it's usually Kang versus Kodos, it's just that the Republicans decided to go, as they say "full retard". You don't need to have a partisan dog in the game to know that the point of Democracy isn't who wins an election but the fact of peaceful transitions of power, and who did we see trying to prevent that peaceful transition of power in the US? Exactly.
Because another company will offer the same product for slightly cheaper now that their fees are lower.

Google One already charges you less if you subscribe via web or android. They just haven't been allowed to advertise this fact in the iOS app.
puts on sanitation engineer outfit

> Men are 20% of human trafficking. The idea that's not a massive part of the asset is garbage.

Yes, that's what I said. 20% of human trafficking is the minority. Not irrelevant, and I never said that. I said that when you want to prevent attacks you start with the asset you want to protect that is most frequently attacked.

> The reason men are left out is because the UN is a political tool used to promote careers over good policy. And from your two comments it works.

Huh? My comments have nothing to do with the UN, my comments are based on the notion that I have worked for more than 20 years in various information security roles, including government, finance, open source companies, cutting edge technology firms. Before that I was a soldier. I am very open about who I am. What expertise do you have besides shitposting on social media sites?

> The reason you would target women and children, is men are generally labour which is generally less harmful to the individual. (Ignoring the complexity of boys trafficked as soldiers)

The reason I would protect, not target women and children as a priority is because they make up the largest community of vulnerable people. As I said in my original comment, raising the standards of protection and care for vulnerable populations has the effect of raising the bar for every group of vulnerable people. Finally, trafficking in child soldiers is a different issue entirely, and is the reason that I make donations to organizations like https://dallaireinstitute.org/ What actual good work have you done in your life, by donation, or by actual work?

> Of course for organ transplants that makes no sense. But that's back to the bureaucrats and the commentary on OP question. People are not good. They are in this to feel good about themselves. Hence white knight the women and children.

No, you are not a good person, and you are projecting your awful perspectives and assumptions about people onto others actions. I have seen some shit people over my careers and generally they come in with attitudes like yours calling people liars and assuming that everyone who takes a positive position is virtue signalling or white knighting, or whatever language of the day is used to hide the fact that your cynical views of people are largely based on your own inadequacies.

Be well, and stop stinking up the neighbourhood.
It’s pretty easy to integrate Stripe as a payment processor and they only take 3%
This needs to happen for congressmen also.
Indeed. It's hard to come up with use cases where a chosen, long-term low entropy secret is more suitable than alternatives like:

1) Factory paired devices

2) Pairing via ephemeral key pairs with out-of-band verification of a low entropy hash/fingerprint to prevent active MITM.

3) Straight up TOFU (trust on first use) pairing (and just praying MITM doesn't happen on first use).

The only case comes to mind is one where one device, although still physically trusted, has no persistent memory at all (and so can't store any keys).
I definitely think the ugliness of modern art is related to the economics. Why invest a lot of time or thought into something, when you can convince someone to believe that those don't matter?
> It has been said that Microsoft's failure to fix these issues is really what drove web application development.

Nah, what drove web development was 100% ease of deployment. No more dealing with installers that don't work and people who don't know how to use them, the browser is already there; no more dealing with the pain of rolling out updates, you push to your own server and it's done. And you don't have to care about Windows stack vs Mac stack with completely different teams, a few css/js tweaks and you're done. Sun understood the issue and tried to put up a fight with their Java Web Start, but in the end the JRE still required an installer, with all the related issues. MS eventually got something like that working seamlessly, but it was 15 years too late.
Add Austin, TX, although there is a ballot initiative to restore the funding being voted on right now.
Two nice coffees per month, not so bad. Can fund it by canceling a rarely-used streaming service.
Even better, our fund is indexed against the positions of members of congress. Members can paper trade and we index against their decisions.
They absolutely should not make above market when they also get a locked in pension, benefits, as if this is some Nordic socialist state.

Chuck in qualified immunity and baby, you got a state effectively assuring police loyalty while tossing the rest of us into the ring.
A battery discharging does not recognise flowers. The sun does not recognise flowers. I do not create an excess of energy by splitting atoms, these things are not equivalent at all levels of abstraction.
This doesn't apply to Congress

>The ban includes top policymakers such as those who sit on the Federal Open Market Committee, along with senior staff.
> I think the heyday of personal blogging is mostly over.

Couldn’t agree more, and I also agree that it’s a real shame.
I hold the unpopular opinion we should pay elected officials waaaaaay more.

Like 1B/year for President or something.

Some amount that would attract the best, and make being corrupt seem so very counterproductive.
There was a miscommunication. I meant that one of the biggest differences between Democrats and Republicans is the level of tertiary education, and this gulf has been widening over the last 20 years. Scott Alexander has written on this demographic shift
If Roku really did spread lies about Google then I doubt Roku would win the lawsuit. Google just needs to show the paper trail.
There's a simpler protocol SCRAM based on just a hash function and similarly doesn't send a cleartext password.
I didn't realize GP was using that number too make it sound low. At first I thought the 175k number was an attempt to show how much better paid that position is compared to the rest. The fact that the average position in the source is just under 200k/year and people are reading it as a bad package seems incredibly out of touch.
A study conducted by two fucking industry trade groups and the USDA Forest Products lab?

> FPInnovations is a private not-for-profit R&D organization that specializes in the creation of solutions that accelerate the growth of the Canadian forest sector and its affiliated industries to enhance their global competitiveness

Did you read the fucking introduction? It's an industry-paid-for shill study:

> Financial support for the development of this US edition of the CLT Handbook was provided by
the Bi-National Softwood Council, US Forest Products Laboratory and Forest Innovation
Investment. Financial support for conducting the fire resistance test series on cross-laminated
timber (CLT) was provided by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) under the Transformative
Technologies Program, which was created to identify and accelerate the development and
introduction of products such as CLT in North America. FPInnovations expresses its thanks to its industry members Julie Frappier, Eng. from Nordic
Engineered Wood and Andre Morf from Structurlam, Dr. Nourredine Bénichou of the National
Research Council of Canada, NRCan (Canadian Forest Service), the Provinces of British
Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Yukon Territory for their continuing guidance and financial
support.

I guess it must be the steel industry planting astroturfers in reddit comments pretending to be firefighters talking about how they're seeing new construction buildings with engineered structural wood fold stunningly fast, huh?
I didn’t mention anything about gene therapy or whatever other bananas theory that can be inserted into literally any conversation nowadays.

What I did bring up is the fact that people are willing to deny themselves, their families and neighbors the ability to leave their own homes to get food and medicine in order to “own the libs.”

While this sort of Markov-chain sounding word salad about… whatever, must indicate that people are passionate about… whatever, the fact of the matter is that sabotaging your own infrastructure out of ideology sounds kind of suicidal.

I honestly don’t get how I could personally rally behind people that would celebrate my righteous death from being stranded in the snow because I’d died owning the libs because uh… my ideology will have prevented theoretical vaccine deaths in the future? My actual, concrete, current life is literally worth less than… what? Some bogeyman that I read about on Facebook?

If I were genuinely that concerned about all these conspiracies and thought that my thoughtless death would make a difference, I’d self-immolate like the monks during Vietnam. Somehow curiously, these folks rather than doing that are taking the mighty stand of keeping kids from going to school, their neighbors going to work or their doctors, local business owners from opening etc.

Ironically, not plowing the streets creates the exact same (if not considerably worse) lockdown situation that these people have been mad about for 18 months. Ironically, it’s not the reduction of peoples freedoms that matter to these conservatives, it’s who gets to be the ones taking the freedoms away.

People will literally kill themselves and everyone around them in order to feel Right About Stuff.

“Love” isn’t an answer here. It’s a completely meaningless word put in a context to sound nice on a podcast to sell books to people who will never change their minds about any of this.
Too many comments on here about Congress. Congress isn't affected by this:

>The ban includes top policymakers such as those who sit on the Federal Open Market Committee, along with senior staff.
Why's that a joke? Sounds like a good idea on the face of it.
Index funds are typically passively managed unlike mutual funds. I'm not saying what you are suggesting is impossible, but generally it would go against the definition of an index fund.
I guess preexisting availability is important when you don't know what you'll want to use, and you're also interested in trying a lot of things that you may not want to keep around for long
One important point made is that leaders should build environments where people aren't afraid to look stupid. I worked at a place where a senior developer would laugh after "winning" an argument with me[1]. I have to say that's the only work environment where I wanted to punch a member of my team. It was also the environment least conducive to dialogue and learning. Even if you're right and the person is genuinely being stupid, you don't need to rub it in. Chances are they'll already feel stupid from their own judgement.

[1]: A lot of our arguments boiled down to us debating stuff where neither of us knew what we were talking about, but I was the only one willing to admit that.
Yes. I'm doing it right now and was for the previous year at my last job.

That said, I do have a suite of hardware development tools since I've been doing this a long time. But the only times I've needed to turn on an oscilloscope recently was because I was doing some low-level hardware debug.

Once you get past the really low-level stuff like measuring signal levels or debugging a weird PWM behavior, i.e., the hardware is pretty stable and you're building out functionality, you really won't need anything more than a JTAG or SWD connection and the hardware for those is trivially cheap.
The entire post is peak /r/iamverysmart material and I'm not surprised it is popular here because a lot of the HN crowd fits into that category as well.
When a Twitter thread is 50 tweets long, there’s just as much “fluff” as a regular blog post. Plus, the example I use in the post is actually a blog post, so just reposted to a mahoosive Twitter thread.
Programming is hard to grasp for some people. Local scope is the least of their worries and is altogether not that hard to understand. The County::State::City analogy where every item is a Place is an easy introduction to the concept.
In my experience the best way to have a vulnerable conversation is just to put yourself out there. And have a back up. Once in a while, I'll say something and clearly it's not desired, so it's always nice to fall back to 'Hey did you want some more cookies / can I get you another beer?'.
Let's take a look at pg's most recent essays:

1. This one, which is basically saying one of the most important things for society is coming up with new ideas. Not hard to see why someone who built his life around startups would think this.

2. "Weird Languages", touting the benefits of Lisp among others. Kinda feel like "nuff said" on this one.

3. "How to work hard", which I read basically as an overview of "how to work like you're running a startup".

4. "A project of one's own". How you should work toward your own goals, instead of someone else's.

Again, I don't really disagree with pg's essays, I just no longer find them interesting because I think they are now utterly predictable at this point.

I'll give you a concrete example: while I was definitely a tech and startup fan boy through the early 00s, I definitely have some amount of disillusionment around the whole startup ecosystem, and its effects on society. I never hear pg talk about really any of the downsides or regrets about the startup ecosystem that he helped unleash.

If I already know pretty much exactly what someone is going to say (and nearly all of it is self-serving), I'm not going to be that interested in listening.
> The problem is them preventing you (the developer) from allowing the user to use other forms of payment processing within the app itself.

One major kink in this idea is that it breaks the free tier model, since paid apps are essentially subsidizing free ones. If you can use any payment processor in-app, then developers will make their apps nominally "free" for App Store purposes, and then use the payment processor of their choice in-app, circumventing Apple's ability to collect any fee whatsoever. So how do you address this problem without charging every developer, even if they were otherwise willing to give away their app?
I highly recommend Will Prowse's channel who extensively covers batteries, solar panels, invertors and other home solar stuff: https://www.youtube.com/c/WillProwse
Mastodon recently hit 1 million active users. It has about 2.89 million total users among 3,400+ servers.

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