skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m trying to find the statistic, but it’s something like 75% of crime reporters in the US end up facing prosecution - i.e. if you report a fire, there’s a good chance you’ll face arson charges - if you phone the police to report an assault, there’s a good chance they’ll arrest you for calling them. Made that mistake as a kid when I saw a guy dragging his girlfriend down the street by her hair - turns out the guy was a local politician’s son, and I ended up facing a civil suit for her emotional distress caused by me interfering.

I’ve found vulnerabilities in US government technology, and I know that the sensible and sane thing to do is just move on, ignore it, let it be someone else’s problem - I have no desire to end up in prison for being a Good Samaritan.

If some greater fool can deal with it, let them deal with it. People don’t want help. They want someone to blame.
Analog computers had networks: people sent each other maths problems by post and tried to make them work.

Analog computers drove gunnery and ground assisted landing and approach, they had to use networks. simple networks you understand, but things didn't fit inside one box. cables had to run signals. Gun setting had to get from the computer to the gun or bomb to arm them. even one bit is a signal sometimes.

1950s computers absolutely had networks. Fax machines pre-date digital networks as we know them, and audio-to-digital conversion was a thing in the 50s: singing computers. computer research was being done in the telco (Bell Labs) in the 40s and 50s. from day one, they had networks because the teletype (ASR33 and precursors) pre-dated them

remote connect of punch card and punch tape was a thing. Baudot code predates 7 bit ASCI

Airline flight control and booking systems existed across the 50s/60s.
Silicon Valley companies find remote work is a one-way door
I was accused of hacking when I used the "netsend" DOS command to send the letter "Q" one time to the other computers in the lab.
33% of Cognizant Employees Quit in 90 Days
Oh look I made a comment and party officials deleted it within a minute because it reflected badly on those in power.
My god, you stole the bunny and left an egg? What kind of monster are you? Put the bunny back or face prosecution.
Curious to know your journey to viably being your own boss
Oh look I made a comment and it was deleted within a minute by party officials because it reflected badly on those in power.
You can't judge these things by upvotes alone. Indignation and flamebait routinely get upvoted, for example, and are obviously not what this site is for. The system is complex and upvotes are just one factor.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

As for 'the community not disappearing' - this is a freerider argument. You're benefitting from the contributions of all the people who aren't behaving this way.
>"NSO and a competitor, Tel Aviv-based Candiru, were among four companies added by the commerce department on Wednesday to its so-called entity list, which would restrict exports of US hardware and software to the companies."

What is going on in Israel where there are this many companies engaging spyware for sale to any customer who simply has enough funds to buy them? What's the commonality here? Is these NSO stories in in Israeli media?

Lastly what is meant by "military grade spyware." That sounds like marketing fluff.
Using adsorption chillers [0] you can use the heat to also cool down your office.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/03/30/196054/using-hea...
I'm sure I remember reading as far back as I first heard of ITER, literally about 15 years ago (I'm currently 30), that the power was only ever expected to net to zero and they planned a demonstration plant to be built subsequently called DEMO [1] which would generate net power and operate continuously. So I'm surprised to see these claims of net power production from ITER itself...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstration_Power_Plant
My 4 year old inherited my old Thinkpad X220 and uses it to play a game where she opens up emacs and types interesting patterns.
not to undermine the message, but as a fervent "no soap" washer these last 3 decades, I can attest that I smell. So do all the others who like me, don't use soap. And my clothes smell. I know this, and my workmates know this.

What we're trading on, is we smell no worse than anyone else.

What matters here is the "bad" part. Man, there is smells, and there is smells bad. I can tell the difference.

Some body bacteria is just too far down the path.

Had there not been confounding problems with illness from casual contact, which Soap is surprisingly effective at stopping (soap breaks bacterial membranes down because of the lipid-water thing) I think the sell might have been harder: cleanliness is next to godliness actually has it wrong: you meet your maker later, if you wash frequently.

I may be "no soap" but I'm not an animal. I wash my hands and face a LOT. I just don't use soap in the shower.

Pears soap adverts did very well. They paid a LOT of money to get "bubbles" [1] out there. John Millais was a major artist of his day in the UK: he co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Not surprisingly, the Unilever foundation which owns "sunlight" soap, and had Port Sunlight as a model town, has some of the biggest pre-raphelite works in their art collection [2]

in some ways selling soap is the birth of selling at scale.

Not to put too fine a point on it, Britain did it first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbles_(painting)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Lever_Art_Gallery
Not only you can use the excess heat from the miners to heat your office you can also use adsorption chillers [0] to cool down your office using the heat.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/03/30/196054/using-hea...
Backup Ubuntu in Windows Subsystem for Linux
https://archive.md/CJuac
1200w is pretty insane even for a gaming rig unless it had dual GPU in SLI. any normal rig will be fine with maybe a 750w psu and even at full benchmark power it would only draw 600w of that

my 5800x and 3070 when benchmarking draws ~540w, playing any games draws ~350w so that is the max i would realistically ever use at a constant rate

oh and "idle" is a disgusting 200w draw, desktops are crazy
New fund targets struggling unicorns
How and when has the US made it clear that targeting dissidents, journalists or activists is fine? Can you elaborate on specific incidents?

Isn't this black listing a shot across the bow?
It's not a preference to Google, but I already have an Google account and it's in my Thunderbird. So it's simply the easiest way for me to use email, that's all.
Discussed at the time:

I introduced my 5yo and 2yo to startx and xmonad. They’re delighted. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4141993 - June 2012 (193 comments)
A big blue whale is about 190t 16t is 8.4% of your body weight. That’s a 200lbs person eating 16lbs of food. Is that impossible? I’d love to see a breakdown of macros of humans and whales. I think 16t wouldn’t seem so crazy.
You might have some luck with Librivox. There are Spanish recordings[0] that you could use to practice your comprehension. I did this with French, and it was very helpful. Years ago when I naively tried to learn Japanese, I listened to Oku no Hosomichi[1] over and over again, which I still to this day find to be a beautiful listen, though I gave up on trying to learn that language.

[0] https://librivox.org/search?primary_key=5&search_category=la...

[1] https://librivox.org/oku-no-hosomichi-by-matsuo-basho/
Stay strong, trains is hard job. https://i.redd.it/ayn3rx657eo11.jpg
Flying cars drag race in outback SA as testing for aerial grand prix continues
Obviously all EML-using corps are working under CIA oversight.
> Peng says Zhang did not contact her for several years after the initial assault. But in 2018, the year Zhang retired from the government, Peng claims he got back in touch with her and the two began a tumultuous but consensual romantic relationship which ended when he cut off all contact.

The story is a bit confusing. Sometimes it’s romantic, sometimes it’s not. There is also consent mixed in, that fluctuates.
Applying through company websites is usually a black hole. For whatever team you’re applying for, try to find the team lead/manager/etc and hit them up on social media. Obviously be prepared to sell yourself but getting hold of a human usually fares much better than applying through whatever portal.
I could tell something was off, but couldn't put my finger on it. Very cool
Did you do a stint in big tech companies prior to going freelance? Is it just you or did you form a team of devs?
Not exactly strategy, but it'd be a disservice not to mention Zachtronics (EXAPUNKS, SHENZHEN I/O and TIS-100 are my personal favorites.)
The guidelines are easy on paper. Eat healthy, sleep a lot, work out multiple times a week and you’ll magically have a lot of energy.
Absolutely. Next’s router kind of kneecapped a feature we were building out recently and we had to adjust our implementation accordingly.

The router is so deeply entwined with getServerSideProps - we couldn’t find a way, including using shallow transitions, to push to the same path without triggering rebuilding the page due to a request to next/_data which returned the corresponding server side props.

Amongst other things. It’s a wonderful framework, there’s no question. The router is definitely not its strength though.
As a motorcycle rider (every day commuter) I often think that if motorcycles didn't already exist, they wouldn't be allowed to.

As per sibling comment, maybe the only reason they are tolerated is that the risk is statistically largely to the rider themselves.

IE the person taking the risk is largely the target of the consequences.

If motorcycles somehow magically penetrated into peoples cars in a crash I think people would rule them out pretty quick.
Not exactly what you want but a second trie with the key on the starting letters and the value the complete word might work for you. Your ABD example would work but something like
ABrD would not.
1830 as many other 18xx series games. They are boardgames, but there exist an ancient msDos version of 1830, playable with dosbox. Really deep brain burner!
I feel like this is one of those things where they'll either gravitate towards it or not. Most of my early introductions to computing devices were just playing video games which wasn't exactly educational.
> At a big company, everyone is spending someone else's money and the people at the top realize they can't (and shouldn't!) change course every 3 mo.

tell that to the google messaging teams :-D
I think you have a marketing problem, not a technical one.

People are cross-shopping Clickhouse/TimescaleDB rightly or wrongly, and it's not clear to community when they should use which. What overlaps on the Venn-diagram and what doesn't, and when they do why would I go one way or the other.

You have to do a better job of showing how you're solving customer problems. Benchmarks are next to useless, an unsolvable problem, I wouldn't waste time on it. If customers are succeeding on your platform, you'll succeed.
>I would let the professionals handle this...

If this site doesn't contain "the professionals" then the phrase has zero meaning.
There used to be a variant called Ilaksh but I believe it got merged back in.
You could flip a California King (7' long 6' wide) sideways and call it that lol. It would be shorter than a Twin or a Full Sized mattress by a few inches.
OK, let's try.

First of all, if you don't think that a broad stock market average, for any country at any time, tells us something really important about the country's prospects and overall confidence, then we can probably stop right there. I think it's axiomatically true, but there's certainly no way I can prove it to you

As for money supply and the stock market: that too is the subject of many volumes of economics. I happen to think that Milton Friedman was basically right, and he came into his own during the 70s debacle. But if you don't believe that, it's, again, way beyond the scope of a HN thread.

Now, as to the "Carter set it all in motion" argument, it reminds me of the movie scene where the guy can't open a window, his son-in-law elbows him aside and opens it, and the first guy yells "I loosened it!"

Let's concede, purely for the sake of argument, that Carter had the right ideas. Did he have the political ability to carry them out? Did he have a party behind him?

The question answers itself -- he had no ability to persuade anyone of anything, and that's why he lost in a landslide and his VP lost in an even bigger 49-state landslide 4 years later. In politics, being right is not enough -- you have to sell it and you have to finish the job.
Either a power play or utter incompetence. I’m really not sure.
Did I miss something newer from 2018+? I did an update recently thanks to some suggestions from HN:

https://vadosware.io/post/paxosmon-2-the-journey-continues/

I haven't read any papers recently but if you know of some that are worth giving a read, please let me know!
Not sure what certbot is but: is caddy an option? I am impressed with it so far.
It's more about me not thinking before saying things.

I have learnt my lesson in all these cases but I often feel anxious, paranoid, that people don't know that, and assume I am the way I was before when I said those things.

In a way I have come to terms because I have learnt my lesson but it the thought of me doing that almost torments me still.
This is not much of the context, I still have no idea what started this.

That said, apparently chirayudesi is a part of CalyxOS? Their work is in the GrapheneOS repo so they can demand GrapheneOS drop the repo as well: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/android-prepare-vendor/commits...

That’s the perils of not having a license published.
> You're likely conflating the fact that to achieve fault tolerant distributed computation, hadoop and hadoop like systems use a database like filesystem.

Yes, I specifically mentioned non-Google users adopting Hadoop, since it encompassed both a MapReduce implementation and supporting infrastructure.

Once on the bandwagon inspired by the MapReduce paper, many orgs didn't just use MapReduce itself for parallelized batch analytic purposes, but also HBase and Hive and other stuff with actual longer term state atop HDFS, YARN, etc.

> However, no one is looking at Map Reduce type jobs as a replacement for a database and vice versa.

The marketing and sales teams of HortonWorks, Cloudera, etc certainly sold Hadoop platforms, related Apache projects, and "MapReduce" (as a broad brand name for all this, not the specific technical concept) as replacements for databases, broadly speaking. It's that culture that was a bit shocked when Spanner was unveiled.
> Unsurprisingly this gets more challenging the higher you get with only a 2% chance of moving from O6 to O7.

This sounds very stark, but it doesn’t tell the whole story.

1. O6 to O7 is colonel to general (or captain to admiral in the navy). Yes, 2% is a heavy cull. Then again, I think everyone involved sort of wants that cull for the top of the military. O7+ are essentially the equivalent of corporate executives. (Edit: just checked the numbers… I believe 2% is the number of generals expected out of a given class of 2lt. Promotion from colonel to general is a much higher percentage).

2. It’s fairly easy, if motivated and not socially, physically, or intellectually limited, to make it 20 years as an officer. Folks typically end up as majors (career-path bound or lower competence) or lieutenant colonels. Colonels tend to be solid all around, even if some of them have a tragic flaw. Folks capped at major usually retire at 20. Folks capped at lt col usually retire at 24-26 years.

3. Promotion from 2lt to 1lt is pretty much automatic around 2-3 years. Ditto 1lt to captain at around 4-6 years total. The first cull is from captain to major, but a big part of that cull is simply folks who don’t want to re-enlist. Most people who stay in plan on staying for 20 to get retirement. Some folks who want to stay in can’t, but this is relativity rare and is typically due to (lack of) need of the military of their skill, general lack of competence, medical issues, or legal issues (dui, etc.). I wouldn’t feel sorry for most of these people except the medical ones.

To get back to the original point, officers don’t quite look like the “welfare” that was being referred to.

That said, some of the jobs that veterans are able to get are absolutely middle class welfare.

Most vets in federal jobs are awesome and are good at what they do. That said, there is a small percentage of vets in federal jobs who are hellbent on being deadweight.
That’s a lot of living creatures.
One is cesium? Whats the other stuff, way out in space?
> Only if you've been not looking through e.g. the entire history of the NHTSA. Comparing horseless carriages under modern safety regulations to horse-drawn carriages not subject to those is a huge confounder.

Modifiers like that don't really matter because the comment was acting like the alternative was zero deaths.

And modern safety regulations can only have so much influence on pedestrians especially.

> (And 1997-2000 sounds like a cherry-picked period; motor vehicles have been redesigned to kill significantly more pedestrians since then).

Well I'll assume if we were using carriages en masse they'd also be going through design changes to kill more people since that seems simplest and still supports my point that there would be many deaths.
> A lean Montrealer, with a gentle yet poised intensity that one might classify as medium-energy, Picard came at the question of vim and vigor from a near-cosmic vantage. His office, high above the Heights, had a commanding view down the Hudson, a receding sun-blanched shorescape of skyscrapers and tidal swirl that lent his pronouncements an oracular air.

Did this assignment have a minimum word count? I know it's the New Yorker, but gah I couldn't handle it
As a rider, I too dislike people labelling me as having a deathwish. Clearly, I do not.

But calling names the other way won't help and I can see why the donorcycle term has stuck. There is enough of an element of truth to make it stick.
The current leader of consul cluster can be found with with a GET call to `/status/leader`, but that should be lower level than you need to do manually. Consul should be tracking this and updating the cluster. You should not be hardcoding IP addresses at all. Instead you can use Consul's inbuilt DNS load-balancing, or more advanced techniques. Have a look at https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/load-balancing-strategies-for... for more details.
If you haven't watched this yet, it's definitely worth your time. Rather than being a super opinionated think-piece, it instead does a fantastic job walking the viewer through:

- high level nuclear fusion engineering performance curves / the engineering design contraint space

- the current state of nuclear fusion research (as of 5 years ago) and

- breaks down why some new smaller reactors will likely begin construction soon and counter-intuitively, the most recently started ones may be completed before ITER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
>The problem with this is it attempt to fix too many problems at once.

Its the same problem.

>The US does not have robust drug rehab programs, and if you make this a stipulation for housing, then those people will end up on the streets again and tax payers will eviscerate you for building housing and still having homeless.

Creating robust drug rehab and mental counseling programs alongside building housing for the homeless must all be considered 3 legs of the same stool or each will fail.

>The christians will come in and say no weed and alcohol, and now no one wants to live there, and you've effectively replicated 70% of the problems that cause the homeless to not live in homeless shelters.

Shelters are a non starter. The biggest problem with shelters here in NY is the rampant violence that takes place. People are not going to stay where they don't feel (and aren't) safe. There are numerous other problems with shelters, but even if all of these were solved, most people just aren't interested in forced communal living.

>I think a better question to ask is why you want to impose this drug law. Are you letting your morals get in the way of public policy or do you actually believe that the people who live on the street today will just unilaterally decide to stop living on the street and give up heroin?

I don't want to pass a drug law, I want to offer housing to drug addicts who want to clean up their lives and get off the streets. Nobody should be forced to take up this offer, but if they refuse it, and continue to break the law by stealing and creating a public menace, then they should be locked up. If someone chooses to be homeless and live in their car and boot heroin all day, that's fine as far as I'm concerned - but they can't be camping on the sidewalks, or robbing stores, or harassing people just trying to walk down the street.

>prisons, in the US today, do not rehabilitate people and are more expensive than just housing them.

Our prisons are medieval dungeons that are desperately in need of a complete overhaul, just like our "system" of dealing with homelessness and the crime that results from it. The fact is that our society is very broken on many levels, and the rising drug-addicted homeless population just happens to be one of the most visible signs of it. To be honest, I don't think we have the competence or the capacity to solve any of these problems. Our government, on every level, is inefficient, corrupt and incompetent - and only getting worse. We can sit here and jawbone about potential solutions to our many problems, but my honest opinion is that none of these problems are going to be solved. They are all going to continue to get worse until we reach some sort of breaking point. It's impossible to know how this will manifest itself exactly but it won't be pretty.
Venezuela: ICC Investigation Opens
OT: I was instantly reminded of this old, short-lived search engine from way back in the day - Cuil. (In my small mind, Ithkuil ~ It's Cuil)

Anyway, it was funny while it lasted.

Here is a blast from the past for anyone that might have missed it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7da5i/police_rai...

I should read the Ithkuil wiki page instead of dragging up old reddit memes.
If you want an open Metaverse, get Firefox and the Oculus Browser to put back in the links/portals immersive feature that allows you to navigate between spaces in VR without getting kicked out to 2d mode.

Web browsers support VR by the way. A-frame VR is a convenient option for that.

I just added a VR mode to our NFT auction website for galleries. https://gifeconomy.com
sponsorblock has helped immensely in that regard. i just do not see those snake oil peddling "sponsored by" segments.
>> The most surprising insight was that they still ship harddrives around.

Your surprise is interesting to me, because I would have predicted it, and would have found the reverse surprising.

To me, hard drives in this context make sense. Slow, unreliable scaled, very expensive Internet, abundant space and power for the hard drives, demand for entertainment media (as distinct from news and sports) all lead to "cache content locally".

I expect limited real-time media (sports) can then be added using the limited external bandwidth available.
The MA part of MDMA is methamphetamine. They are pretty close structurally.
Just activate them via NFC at point of sale.
its to provoke introspection where the folly of the perspective is not worth mentioning yet, which it has
Amazon time sync likely also requires extremely accurate clocks on the system board as well to prevent there from being too much drift.
That talk is a long pitch for getting a certain reactor design funded. Since the release of the video, a startup has been formed to build such a reactor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC_(tokamak)