skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leftist politics in the US is completely dominated at the moment by a certain brand of zealous progressive agenda that has done very little practically for wealth inequality and is solely focused on specific social issues. It still appears that neoliberal politics still drive most of the meaningful economic agenda on the left. I agree this is not really what people usually consider to be the "hard left", but when you're essentially left with two choices and one of them is leaning so heavily into a particular brand of politics it distorts your view of what "hard left" means compared to typical political ideologies.

I think your understanding is generally correct, it's American politics that is tipped a little bit sideways at the moment.
Thanks for the article, it was an interesting read, since I was mostly going of the WSJ stuff before.
I nonetheless feel that with social research in the private sector absolute certainty or even studies that would pass peer review are a bit too high of a bar to meet before we can talk about the organisation knowing something. But I guess thats more of a semantic argument.

After reading the NYT article it still seems to me that a more ethical company would have done more to address the probable issues. Meta did very little and seemed to cherrypick the most favourable public studies.
Anyyway, all this doesn't seem suprising or even unusual to me. I generally don't think that we should expect companies to act very ethical. Rather, incentive structures should be created/amended in a way so that purely self interested companies act as if they were ethical.
They can especially help against somebody finding a laptop with code somewhere.
> (is it just waning antibody concentration?)

Two notable mechanisms:

* The booster shot does increase antibody concentrations and recruits more memory B cells to make antibodies.

* Each booster also significantly increases the diversity of the immune response. You get more antibodies against the antigen, and you also get many more antibodies against things kind of like the antigen.

> but what is the long term strategy here? Is there going to be annual boosters

That's a really good question.

I personally believe (based on little evidence at this time) that each dose provides some small permanent increase in protection against infection, and a somewhat larger permanent increase in protection against severe illness.

So as we go through this whole exercise, a greater proportion of the population is protected and people are less likely to be carriers. In turn, it becomes easier to leave things up to individual choice, as the overall baseline risk reduces and people's choice mostly affects their own health.

> and I think it is time now that things are under relative control to start having adult discussions and public policy debates once more.

Yes. Look, I don't want to wear masks forever indoors. I think it'd be great to normalize it for when we're feeling under the weather or it's flu season, but I also want to be able to see other peoples' faces and carry on normal conversations.
>None of these features require a blockchain and can be done trivially by a central authority issuing append-only cryptographically signed ledger entries.

Why would you want to depend on a central authority when you can have a network of trusted blockchain users all signing and broadcasting their transactions to each-other in real time, without an intermediary?

Why hamstring yourself with a database and the upgradability woes therein, when you can use a blockchain?

>What's the benefit of this when the bank has to accept a cleared record for a party to withdraw funds anyway?

With a permissioned blockchain, the funds can be cleared much faster (instantly?) than in the current system.

I left another comment about this. These technologies are very powerful and not thoroughly explored in a permissioned context for use by traditional finance.
I actually figured out the format for Scott Adams adventures and created a Scott Adams port of the “Cloak of Darkness” mini adventure, as well as my own small adventure game, Desert adventure, which can be played online at https://samiam.org/software/parchment/desert.html

Downloads follow.

Cloak of Darkness: https://samiam.org/software/parchment/Cloak-Scott.zip

Desert adventure: https://samiam.org/software/parchment/desert-scott.zip
Japan is still very cash based.
The endless printing is more necessary than the strict stock control fot a currency. You cannot avoid people starving unless you do it, and you cannot live in peace unless you avoid people starving and getting desperate.

You do know there was no printing in the middle age. Good old days these all were.
There's definitely an anchoring effect going on. I remember when dart came out and people were like "lol 100kb hello world, wtf" and now people say "4mb app is reasonable" and nobody bats an eyelid.
It might be using A* then :P
https://archive.md/rpjjG
Blue States, You're the Problem
Assuming that people will still want to emigrate to the west
Buying low and selling high is not a ponzi scheme.
Alt title on YouTube: "Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How."
1. first call to `RegQueryValueExW` returns a value length of 10

2. length is set to 12

3. external change causes the value to now be 12

4. second call to ``RegQueryValueExW` succeeds, as 12 <= 12, no ERROR_MORE_DATA here; length stays 12

5. length + 1 and length + 2 are now OOB
Morris Chang has been exceptionally clear on this issues when he was still CEO of TSMC, even before the whole politics and TSMC becoming leading edge.

It is impossible with respect to current cost structure, without substantial government money, while getting the same margin. Of course it is entirely possible to throw money at the problem and succeed. Which is what Intel is trying to do right now with the help of US government.
You could actually do a lot to adapt existing property tax regimes into something like a very close approximation of an LVT. Step 1 would just be improving the quality of assessments to take advantage of the state of the art of the latest mass appraisal methods (which requires no change in law, just requires you to influence the training and/or appointment/election of local assessors) from the last 15 years. Step 2 would be lowering the tax rate on improvements and shifting the burden off of buildings and onto land; this is barred in certain states but is perfectly legal in others.
A variety of errors in C# code by the example of CMS DotNetNuke: 40 questions
The scenario you describe gives me nasty flashbacks of fighting with broken Ansible configs. I wouldn’t wish that upon anyone who’s just trying to dim the lights.
Neither do I.

At my first job, I worked for a company that built (among other things) X-10 powerline-control interfaces that would let your PC do the same thing: switch on lights/fans, etc.

As far as I could tell, the only people buying that stuff were hobbyists with a lot of disposable income. Part of my duties was customer support and I can't recall a single instance of anyone doing it for any reason that didn't boil down to "it's cool."

Not making judgements, but I really don't see what the big deal is with getting up to turn on a light, and I live in a pretty big house.
The solution is to not use AWS. Is is not a sacrifice to not engage with shady companies.
Happened to me years ago. Fortunately that server had a power saving bug that most times rebooted it instead of powering it down.
I would take the opposite view: After nearly 2 years I would have expected government not to be so indecisive and to go for boosters for everyone earlier (like in the UK).

Now, once again, they've only wasted time and probably made the new wave worse, which in turn may force them into more stringent measures.
Yes particularly on Linux, any non jetbrains jdk running intellij looks awful. I don't know if the consider it as some kind of competitive advantage to not submit fixes upstream.
> I do not see death rates climbing

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
There are vaccines for which after a couple boosters we consider the lifetime immunity to be acceptable; there are others for which we do not. Many variables at play (including actual infection rates, mutation rates, etc), so hard to predict.
The "this" in your second paragraph has an unclear referent. Are you saying that copy-pasted code definitions per-environment are necessary unless those environments are exact mirror-images? If so, that is untrue - CDK (and, I assume, any other IaC framework, with the appropriate terminology change) allows Constructs to be instantiated with different variables. For instance, you could have a Construct for your environment that accepts a `numServers` variable, and instantiate that Construct multiple times with different variables for beta, gamma, etc. Only one instance of the definitional code, but multiple instantiations.
That's not what this is about. The US is sanctioning SMIC. It forced TSMC to release customer data of mainland Chinese customers, presumably with the goal of checking which more Chinese companies to sanction. The US's goal is to prevent China from building a self-sufficient semiconductor industry. Or conversely: to keep China dependent on the US so that the US can sanction China at any time.
Barclays is largely US after the LEH acquisition, and is run terribly (and largely by Americans). Lloyds isn't an investment bank. Rothschild is a mid-market (and is actually a combination of British and French). Natwest Markets is part of RBS now, and RBS investment banking was shut down after the govt acquired most of the company in 2008.
Much love for processing!

Back when I was starting school and learning programming I also picked up an Arduino Duemilanove and learned Wiring and Processing which went together like peanut butter and jam. What an amazing time. I recall getting some of my processing apps to run on my Sony Erricson phone as they once had a way to convert the Processing sketches to a Java Mobile Edition apps (back before Andriod was widespread)
Yes, NFTs are like other images in that respect, which makes them even more pointless. And also worse, in that the ownership is less reliable and subject to far more terms and conditions than regular ownership.

But regardless, you make my point for me. It's just as illegal to copy somebody's NFT'd JPEG as it is any other privately owned JPEG. NFTs do not "share the values of open source software", which is about making it legal for people to freely use IP, more or less the opposite of the sort of free-market fundamentalist "who believes in intellectual property".
...but you are a review site... The data quality is your MVP.
>Printing fiat makes stablecoins denominated in the currency lose real value, not gain in it.

What's the case for this statement? In general, I don't expect to commodities to change value just because some currency was redistributed.
If I understand correctly, the reason why public photography is considered protected speech is because we want citizens to be able to capture public events of interest. That is, protests, riots, cops using excessive force, or more happy events like celebrations, etc. When it comes to someone taking photos in those situations I have no problem with it.

However I really dislike the commercial street photographers as a concept. Basically instead of paying models to work for you, you go out to use random people as models and then sell your photos as art. That to me is exploitation. I understand that legally speaking it would be incredibly hard to separate the two types of street photography so it must all remain legal, but at the same time I strongly dislike the latter category, especially for the photogs who act like entitled assholes about it.
As a conservative, I found this fascinating. For what it's worth, this isn't intended to start a flame war or act as a "gotcha"; I'm genuinely interested in hearing discussions about different perspectives on the topic.
The cryptocurrency world is full of endless, technical publications. Yet what gets posted on Hackernews and upvoted are low quality political panderings from a cryptocurrency competitor.

Compare this post with something from Ethereum: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/06/18/verkle.html
Pheonix is also in the middle of the desert:

> Phoenix is officially America’s fastest-growing major city.

https://news.yahoo.com/phoenix-nation-fastest-growing-big-17...
It's a very good point. This whole debate is semi-consciously influenced by an semi-conscious quirk of our human brains: watching for apparent agency in the world and ascribing more weight to things that seem to have it.
coronaviruses do not mutate as quickly as influenza so it’s a bit of a different situation. The 3 dose mRNA + booster is all the same exact vaccine. That being said, maybe we will need annual boosters which we get with a combined flu shot.
Please stop using HN primarily for ideological battle. When you do that, you're contributing to destroying this site for its intended purpose. That's the line at which we start penalizing and banning accounts.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: since we've already had to ask you this more than once and you haven't fixed it, I've removed submission privileges from your account. If you want to change that, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29285858

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27469001
Author is making an argument against any blockchain or distributed ledger. To quote from article. "Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime."

I'd like to see people look past the noise of cryptocurrencies to see how important digital trust and new applications of cryptography will be as we try to scale the ability of humans to work together effectively at scale.
Pascalian Medicine
They have terrible sign up experience, I'm far from only one who hasn't been able to sign up there because of some cryptic error. When I've tried to google that, there were reports of them requiring using email with full name in it. But changing to that didn't help, using different credit/debit cards didn't help. But prices are quite nice as far as I can tell from the outside.
Because those institutions have changed a whole lot.

The Birth of a New American Aristocracy: https://outline.com/4BXcWS
Jewelry Box
Hundreds of million of doses have been administered and "we don't know, we'll see". Seems foolhardy.
Jewelry Box
This felt-lined jewelry box makes a great place to keep your watches and other jewelry. Perfect for beginning woodworkers, this project will give you practice in making miter cuts, doing biscuit joinery and applying the felt liner.

Download Project Plans (PDF; 494k)
I am VC. I invest in hard tech. That said, opinions are my own.

Unless you come in with a strong background reputation or intro from the top 1% of our network, I would probably not read a document that takes 30min. I cannot imagine many people would without enough incentive.

Think about it this way, if you're going to commit to watching a movie, do you do research beforehand to choose? The common joke is you spend more time searching for recommendations than just watching. The psychology is we want to de-risk committing our energy/attention. This similarly applies to founders sending technical tracts. We do eventually read a tremendous amount of technical details (lit reviews, white papers, etc...) but only after we have understood that the opportunity is worth the effort.

Okay, all that said, there is a deeper code smell here. I think you are likely mixing product implementation with market opportunity. Description of the implementation of your product takes lots of time and explanation as you state above. BUT, you should not be doing that in your first pitch. The first meeting should be explanation of the market opportunity. You aren't selling your product. You are selling your market. If I'm sold on the market, I want to hear why your product captures it afterwards, not before.
It's becuase people will assume a different intent, it sounds like a scam that way.
https://free-for.dev/
> Go do a quick search for levels of diabetes and obesity among nations which rely on plant based diets

And none of them rely on just rice and beans. They use spices and herb to make things taste better. You keep reading "rice and beans are soulcrushing" as "vegan food bad". When it's really a) repetitive and b) requires a lot of labor to make tasty. Most Asian saucy dishes are around making rice tastier.
https://archive.md/wlYhN
For me, it comes down to one's affinity with the command line. I've known developers who use an IDE but who are still very fluent in the command line, and in fact could probably do just fine if you took the IDE away and made them work in Vim for a while instead.

The problem is when a developer can't make that jump when necessary. A big part of our ability to build systems for computers relies on our ability to traverse those computers at a low level, and that means command line instructions. It means being able to work with the filesystem, and streams of input/output. I don't use Vim because I think it's a superior text editor, I use it because of the fluidity it offers me in terms of getting streams of text from the console in and out of an editor. I can just pipe things to it, or execute arbitrary commands and capture the output, and so on.

Now, granted, seasoned developers can often get that same degree of command-line fluidity while still working in an IDE. But I think that requires them knowing the importance of that fluidity in the first place, which is something that you aren't necessarily going to learn as long as the IDE is holding your hand and doing a lot of it for you.
I appreciate the authors sentiments but I missed perhaps the most important one to me. Crypto has really re-invigorated interest in DIY/Tinkerer/random projects with no real purpose. These may appear pointless externally, but internally to the ones working on them they are incredibly fun, educational, and sure, potentially profitable. When industry / tech is in this chaotic phase, often the major benefit is figuring out what doesn't work, what fails, etc. If things were easy, everyone would do it, but when it's hard to get right, amazing innovation can happen along the way. Don't discount the random meandering towards solutions.
Do some newspapers want to die? (2014)
In quest for ‘people’s vaccine’, South African scientists try to crack the code
Article doesn't say? I sure hope they do, if not in place, at least relatively locally, as that would point towards a bigger, more interesting commitment.
This stops being street photography then.
> "If this device ever, even once, shows an error message or misbehaves, then we'll give you a full refund, plus $100".

Your device stopped working because the server it syncs with is gone because the company that owned the server is gone.

Who gives you your money now?
Have you seen the price of bitcoin evolve? We recently had 2 all time highs again. You must be really stupid to lose money on that.
Thinking in OODA Loops [slides]
A fine argument for you clinging to your too-simple model and your ignorance. And a good sign that I wasted my time giving you citations you were never going to read.
You cant compare two companies providing service to millions of people worldwide with a completely dead transaction !! Yes there are winner and losers in useful business, but when someone times the btc market better than someone else, what has the universe naturally selected ?

A better degenerate gambler ?
The Texas State Board of Education routinely tries to push young earth Creationism into science classrooms which is a bit hostile to those who want their kids to learn actual science.
http://shouldiuseablockchain.com/ is my go-to reference personally.
> Why do you consider it a safe haven for your money when the volatility is so high?

Because I believe in the long term Bitcoin will always go up, as it has done in the past. Especially if central banks keep printing money at high volume, which -at this point- seems unavoidable for the Fed & ECB.

I don't care too much for short term volatility. And as Bitcoin adoption grows, volatility should reduce anyways.
I read it as total. But that's still a good sized increase. Especially if most of your traffic comes out of 1 or 2 regions.
Note that these are not instantaneous. You can still incur charges before the budget action kicks in and terminates your resources.
Marking out territory and willing the fight.
Reminds me of this:

https://granolashotgun.wordpress.com/2020/07/23/not-for-came...
From dictionary.com, progress is:

> 1. a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.

> 2. developmental activity in science, technology, etc., especially with reference to the commercial opportunities created thereby or to the promotion of the material well-being of the public through the goods, techniques, or facilities created.

> 3. advancement in general.

> 4. growth or development; continuous improvement: He shows progress in his muscular coordination.

It's not just change. It's beneficial change. That's the mantle that progressives are claiming by choosing the label "progressive". That's what they're saying they're offering.

> Better for who, or to what aim?

I agree that those are essential questions. Those who claim to be progressive should have to answer them. "Change for the sake of change" isn't good enough; we want change that makes things better, not just variety. And we want change that actually will make things better, not just that some wild-eyed zealot claims will make things better.

Under your definition, those calling for a Christian state, or a pure white state, or a monarchy, are progressives. That's... well, it's not the definition anyone else is using, and it's not a very useful definition.
I think AWS drastically needs to create some type of "sandbox account" flag that severely locks down the services you can use and the amount you can scale up, exactly for reasons like you said.

However, I also think a big problem is that many people on the internet and especially people who try to sell AWS tutorials or learning courses push AWS as some toy that every developer should sign up for on a whim without understanding what they are doing. An AWS account is an industrial-grade tool, it's not a toy, and it should be treated as such. It's like renting a backhoe when you don't even know how to use a shovel yet, and then being surprised when you completely screw up your yard.

Sites like acloudguru that offer ephemeral sandbox AWS accounts are becoming more popular, and people new to AWS should really be steered towards those.
Just curious. What Emacs features or 3rd party packages do you use for .NET development?
Would you be willing to share what brings people there? Is it a retirement community?
It doesnt take much searching to find that is an actual proposed use case.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cbdc+expire

It doesnt take much knowledge of history to know that giving government full control over individual's money is a very bad idea.
Did you read the article? It pretty clearly states that the internal comms team raised a concern.
I am just curious why are there functions/code in a .h file?
I am not asleep, but I'm definitely tired.
Should We Use Microservices?
I see the world transitioning to a USD central bank digital coin for currency and Bitcoin as the store of value in the future
KYC laws aimed at anti-money laundering; any large movement of money has to be between trusted parties. Which means a verification process that is more thorough the more money you move around.