skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two options, either you live in a country that wasn't impacted by communist regime and avoid history lessons or you benefited from such regime.

Capitalism isn't perfect but it is not a regime and people are not killed because they disagree with capitalism. There's hardly anything to compare.

And your argument about indigenous Americans is invalid. You think there was capitalism in medieval Europe?
So the crazy cat ladies are really hardcore compute nerds that are just letting their cores rest?
It was generic in the sense that we use that term here. I say that because: (1) it included nothing directly related to the specific details of the article topic, and (2) it made a grand and sweeping claim. Those are shallow, because while they come with a lot of activation energy (e.g. high indignation levels), they include very little information. Shallow statements on divisive topics are automatically flamebait.

The reason we call these ideological flames is because of the effect they have on threads. The probability is high that they will turn discussion away from any specific topic and into the generic theme. Like flames, those have the habit of consuming everything they touch and destroying what was there before. It's therefore a good metaphor.

Here's another metaphor. The grand generic topics are like the black holes of internet threads. If you fly too close to them, the thread gets completely sucked in (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

This is a shame, because those discussions are so repetitive, and curiosity withers under repetition (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). What we want instead are discussions that are different from what's been discussed before. Curiosity thrives on diffs because diffs are what's interesting (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

Note that all of this would be just the same if you were battling from the opposite ideological position. Actually the two poles of these battles resemble each other far more than they resemble the audience between them, which consists of readers who are here for curious, thoughtful discussion—not to defeat enemies.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
... why would they collect data at the IDE level when they have full access to the code repo?

You can just take a look at the pull requests and commits.
You don't get it do you? There is no point in giving arguments to people who don't understand.

All this HN discussions have proven that already, no? Do you really think at this point you or me are going to change someones opinion with arguments?
IMO it's a stupid rule, but it's not for us, it's for people who don't even have this.

I think there's an element that is as important as keeping a backup safe against a state-wide wildfire and that's AUTOMATION. If it isn't automated then chances are that your backup is very old once you finally need it.
The Linux kernel has realtime and lowlatency versions that help a lot here.
Because that's worked out so well until now. So may as well make a little cash on the side of it, eh?

Do you think the path to end tyranny was so smooth in developed countries? Think back through Western revolutionary history and now immediately forget the name of every leader the moment you think of them - because that's what's happening, right now, in these countries at this exact stage of their political development. The technology now exists to make effective popular resistance impossible. Every possible rebellion strangled at birth. Every potential leader, every sympathetic journalist, religious or opposition figure, immediately identified, located and silenced.

And apparently that's worth a comfortable 6 figure salary to a lot of engineers and managers in comfortable, developed countries.

Do you really think you'd be in the position you're in if your ancestors never had the chance to remove their despotic king/emperor/dear leader? If you don't think it would be another North Korea, maybe it's because of some ahistorical belief that your culture is inherently more civilised. So you probably don't see the racism that's implicit in your statement.

From my experience in the Middle East, seeing people march for an end to corruption, for justice, for a chance for their kids, I realise I hardly know anyone back home as brave, as prepared to risk everything for their political and civil rights. They aren't marching for another ruler. They deserve a chance.

So fuck NSO and its deplorable staff.
> I am going to refer to it as fraud, because that is the usual way the word is used in the context of the legal consequences one opens themselves up to making intentionally false claims about your residence in order to evade taxes.

> The law does not require anyone to pay taxes on unrealized gains of stocks, so no, it is not fraud if Buffett does not pay tax on unrealized gains of stocks.

You're not violating the technical aspect of the law anymore than Buffet would be. Can you tell me the proper amount of time someone must live somewhere in order for them to truly live there? Pass a law? Those won't work. Already people are doing this - what do you think people who are living in vans do? They claim residence somewhere, maybe their parent's house and then they just live in the van or maybe they have some other place they stay. People do this with Florida to evade New York City taxes, etc.

> I never wrote this, so I am not sure who you are responding to.

Just pre-empting a response. Long story short the first answer many have is legislation but it is too burdensome to address any actual issues.

> It is not hard if they are evading taxes by committing clear fraud with no plausible deniability, such as claiming they were physically in one place when in reality they were in another place. The news articles you see are for cases where there is a lot of gray area in the law.

I think you're operating in the current model but not thinking about what can and is likely to happen in the future. The U.S. already can't go after many people who are outright breaking the law. Once this reaches a critical mass it's basically like trying to stop people from pirating songs. It's just not going to work. The lion and ant thing is really great here to help visualize.

Also, who is to say where you really live? Ok maybe you do live with 14 other people in bunkbeds in San Francisco. Is (insert company) going to fly/drive/walk someone out there and show up and check on you? It's impossible to enforce. So you can definitely draw a Bay Area salary and effectively live somewhere else. You can even do it in other countries. Plenty of digital nomads. Have you ever heard of one being prosecuted?

> It is called freezing bank accounts. It is where much of the power of the US comes from, and many times why opposing entities who do not trust each other choose to do business in the US.

The dysfunction and instability of the stability of the U.S. democracy is eroding power like this, for better or worse. You can't freeze a Bitcoin address, etc.
It’s not easy.

> Unlike traditional cybercriminals, state-sponsored attackers apply exceptional resources to target a very small number of specific individuals and their devices, which makes these attacks much harder to detect and prevent.

> State-sponsored attackers are very well-funded and sophisticated, and their attacks evolve over time. Detecting such attacks relies on threat intelligence signals that are often imperfect and incomplete. It’s possible that some Apple threat notifications may be false alarms, or that some attacks are not detected.

Identifying the source of these attacks is often done by analyzing the tools and techniques, in comparison to other known tools and methods, and/or by information gathered in meat space.
Excepting that it’s not linked to cancer. Grant you that the majority of German “kieferen” mix with tobacco, as is the fashion. Tobacco is unhealthy, all medical evidence suggests completely different results from long term pure cannabis consumption and either alcohol or tobacco consumption.
Hopefully regulators will consider evidence when determining appropriate regulations
Tips on how to take care of your nails in your daily routine?
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> Secondly, I wonder (not trying to cast doubt, genuinely wonder) how surveymakers level-set these questions to be linguistically neutral. How do they account for "material well-being" translating perfectly across most European and some Asian languages? Or even the expression "meaningful"? Just something I think about when it comes to large surveys.

We're talking about survey professionals here. Experts. To suggest that they did not take care in aligning translations in an international survey is borderline insulting.

On the other hand, the article says:

> But in these four European countries many provide more than one answer to the question on what makes life meaningful so material well-being is pushed down to the position of the second- or third-most common answer.

> (Interestingly, in Asian countries respondents were far more likely to mention only one source of meaning in life, with Koreans most likely to do so at 62 percent.)

Which to me sounds like most Koreans might have not realized that they were expected to provide multiple answers. I can easily see that happening, given that European languages tend to have grammatical plural ("Please list the most important things that give meaning to your life"), while Korean doesn't, AFAIK.

So yes, I guess it's entirely possible that they fucked up the basics of their international survey.
Yup embed enough metadata so you can actually nicely automate/integrate doing the right thing with tooling.
Ask your European colleagues how their decision to move somewhere with draconian social policies went.
I don't know about SV status but I think it's getting there. Other tech hubs still extract graduates out of the state at an alarming rate and last I checked compensation wasn't close to SV (even with normalization for cost of living). It'll take a good bit of time to undo SV but the ball is rolling.
> So... what exactly become the merit of taxing land over property? If you tax property, the value of the land is included in that tax.

If land--but specifically not improvements to that land--is taxed then there's relatively more incentive to make productive use of the land. $1 of investment to improve the productivity of land by building housing or whatever is tax advantaged over $1 of investment to try to hold onto appreciating land in hopes it goes up.
...and flagged. It shouldn't just be a panel/plug, there should be a ginormous length of red webbing attached with a "you can't miss it" "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT" text in white (on both sides of the webbing) as well. It's not like we haven't been doing that for fifty-plus years or anything. That was old news when I was in the service [mumble] decades ago and our quaint training films on type were nearly twenty years old at that point (which should be a clue right there that I'm Canadian).
Distribution of binaries of obsolete games is a solved problem. It costs money to leave dedicated servers running for legacy titles, but costs nothing to leave the Steam page online. Plenty of commercial games are also free to download, but cost money to register and actually play.
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What is the 'correct' way to process it? Who determines what is 'correct'? When do they learn this correct way? How do they learn? Considering you seem confident in this knowledge, I eagerly await the list of citations.
I'm officially applying to my boss to change my title to "Senior Promethian".
Only if a sandbox is available for that routine
> one of the best ways to avoid misuses of a feature is to perform these misuses once, in my opinion

I love this, because I'm convinced this is how we all learn.

How my cats learn too, by the way. Good thing they have nine lives, because the amount of pans, doors, cupboards, firewood that has fallen on top of them just for the sake of "I want to know if I can misuse this new pile" is staggering.
Don't you mean the CPU can only full-duplex with a few GPU's at a time?

And are you sure that GPU's are actually talking with each other?

Forgive me if I'm woefully out of date/having a massive brainfart, but last I heard, GPU's got CPU-less DMA a few years ago allowing access to system memory, but programming/setting up the pipelines/cleanup/repriming/output consolidation was still solely a CPU-centric work stream.

So like, yeah, your GPU does it's thing and dumps the result in a buffer in it's memory space, and might even be smart enough to shlup a buffer back to system RAM to get the result forwarded somewhere else when the CPU gets around to telling the storage controller to do it...

But did I completely sleep through something absolutely amazing? Are GPU's passing messages/shared memory space aware now? Like,

"Oh, my jobs done, shlup this buffer off to pcie device->compute_card_2 for the next stage of processing."

Because if they're that smart now, holy crap, I have reading to do.
except in china, i pray that the people of the free world unite from within all countries and say enough is enough to their oppressors. it is wild to
think that we still have ill actors in high ranks that are from
bloodlines upon bloodlines of “ownership” of nations. there really still is a ruling class that has existed forever, sounds like a conspiracy until you look at who is buddies with who
If you are connected to the internet, then your setup is not 100% rock solid and reliable.
Now we need a rain cover detection sensor.
> liblz4 probably benefits from decades of tweaking & tuning to get there

Decade, singular. LZ4 was proper around 2011. But the real reason it's faster is because its not doing nearly as much work as QOI. LZ4 is just about as asymmetric as you can get.
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or, it means that 80% are left behind with no real opportunity for advancement whatsoever. I'm not saying this is true - but largest number of millionaires isn't maybe the best metric for the overall happiness of the population?
> energy to maintain the record of ownership.

That is entirely incorrect.

Energy is expended to allow transfer of ownership, not to maintain the record.

If all miners save one dude with a laptop stopped to mine transactions tomorrow, you still wouldn't be able to spend Bitcoins for which you don't own the private key.
I just built a vacation home from the ground up and specced the "smart" features myself and did so very carefully. I've learned the hard way because I was already "orphaned" when I bought my current primary residence which had a high-end 'state-of-the-art' home automation system that was designed into the walls by the original owner. Unfortunately, it was cutting-edge tech for 2001. The original manufacturer of the system as well as the local dealer/installer both changed owners and product lines multiple times and were out of business over a decade ago.

Fortunately, the hardware was pretty well-designed industrial grade gear consisting of cards mounted to back plane slots inside wall-mounted racks in the basement and I like working on 8-bit era arcade and pinball machines which shares many similarities. The saving grace is that the system is just old enough to predate being internet-connected, so the firmware is in EEPROM and was designed to stand alone forever if necessary.

In my new place I was determined to avoid the same issues 25 years down the road so I've selected devices that run open source firmware on widely available, multi-source commodity hardware using long-lived open protocols. For example, the 62 in-wall dimmer switches have ESP8266 boards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266) and I installed the mature Tasmota open-source firmware (https://tasmota.github.io/docs/) in them so they don't require cloud connection or try to phone home. They function normally as light switches with no connection of any kind but can be optionally controlled via wifi by a Raspberry Pi 4 running Home Assistant open-source software which hosts modular integrations with hundreds of different devices, protocols and standards.
It is their plan to become a true L2 and not a centralized sidechain.

If they are centralized, then a ban from India wipes out polygon is my thought.
Finger Symbolism of Men's Ring
1. The thumb: Wearing rings on the thumb is a reflection of men’s confidence, also a symbol of their social status. This way of ring-wearing is not very common. Mostly, some middle-aged and older men will take this method of wearing.

2. The index finger: Wearing a ring on the index finger, mostly seen in some young men. It represents that the person is single, not married. At the same time, the design of some personality rings worn on the index finger also represents a unique temperament and open personality of that person.

3. The middle finger: Men who are in the middle of a passionate love affair, or men who are already engaged, will wear the ring on the middle finger. On the other hand, it is to convey their personal emotional state to the outside world, but also a sincere commitment to their lovers.

4. The ring finger: Wearing a ring on the ring finger means that he is married, and is a way to reject other people. At the same time, the ring finger is the closest finger to the heart. Wearing a ring on this finger means that he loves his significant other very much and also respects his marriage.

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I like it, but the price is simply too much for most personal uses. Post a news entry again when it is around €500-600, if ever.
Its not right -- there are about 4.6M primary school publicly funded students in the UK.

Source : https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

The UK did not spend 173 pounds per student for a year of education -- the 30B cost leads to per student spending of about $6500, which is starting to approach a reasonable figure.
Yes I realize that could be an issue, but it's way easier to address than keeping a server alive. See: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash_games
I am pro public photography but it is never boolean. Everyone has a limit. Maybe your bend over to pick something up and they photograph your breasts or they continually follow you with a camera in your face for blocks. At some point a line can be crossed for even the most open minded.
> I'd wager that for most people, backing up > 2 TB on anything but spinning rust will be impractical/prohibitively expensive.

You'd lose that bet. 2 TB on LTO Ultrium tape costs under $10 (sometimes under $5 depending on volume of tapes ordered).
Use it for IPv6 subnet prefix :)
S3 is region based, not AZ based. So it should be able to tolerate an entire AZ (=DC) being lost.

They offer an amazing number of 9s for durability, it is very unlikely that a single fire will cause harm to your data.
> people don't give millions without any expectation of return

Perhaps you're not aware but Signal is developed by the Signal Technology Foundation, which is an American non-profit organization. So yes, people do "give millions without any expectation of return".

If the $50M USD you're referring to is the money donated by WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, it was definitely not given with the expectation of returns, as donations rarely are.

Elon Musk has also confirmed publically that he has donated to Signal:

https://bird.trom.tf/elonmusk/status/1348506592518438914 (mirror)

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/elonmusk/status/13485065925184389... (mirror)
No one is disallowing kids from having access to advanced math.
That only works if someone does not race and modify the content of that registry key between the two function calls. And that, my friend, is how buffer overflow exploits are born.

Don't poke beyond your end. Don't poke using a value that was returned by a function you don't control. The code shown does both. Such quality, it Jonathan Blow.
I think this is fake news.
And the red in my left eye isn't the same as the red in my right eye. Yes, when the lighting conditions are just right, I see different hues out of each eye [1]. I have to wonder how one would (or should?) correct for that in an image file format.

[1] I think from a stupid thing I did as a kid.
Oh oh, I forget to add that I would _never_ trust flash memory (eg. SSDs) to keep data for more than ~ a year without being powered on. It's absolutely a terrible archival format. (Powered on with scrubbing you'd at least know when it's starting to degrade).
I’ve smoked daily since I was 14. I don’t get intoxicated, it’s my psychiatric meds, and I don’t take kindly to meddlesome youngsters who think they know how to run my life better than I do, lol… /s ironic sarcastic reference to the notion that someone could ever be more sober or miserable than I am. I only work and have basically no fun and I’ve not had a day off in years, so I wish to be clear that people who character cannabis users as either lazy or intoxicated are tiresome and ignorant.
Not a full "cloud provider" per se, but you might want to check out NearlyFreeSpeech.net[0]. It's fully pay as you go--"If your balance runs out, your web site hosting suspends automatically."

(I should note that I haven't used them myself, I'm just impressed by their website/business model.)

[0]: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/pricing
Covid spilling into animals andback again to humans in new variants–story of ‘22
Show HN: Why Detailed Planning Isn't Always the Best Plan
You say, "They don't use silica sand to make semiconductors, they use quartzite." Even if this were true, quartzite is just silica sand that has been sintered together (naturally, underground). Moreover, Vince Beiser's Wired article (linked above) claims that in fact both high-purity silica sand and lump quartz (probably, as you say, quartzite) are used as sources of silicon.
To what end? How many houses do we need before we’re just making houses to enrich people rather than create shelter?

States like Oregon and Washington that greatly limit supply are widely praised for their natural beauty and conservation precisely because they don’t chop down forestry to build cheap homes to sell to the CCP.

Fools have created an acronym - NIMBY - to denigrate those who don’t want to waste land just for personal financial gain. However, there remain very real benefits to conserving forests and very real consequences to turning every square mile of land into an AirBNB. The landlord won’t live in that area and the renter won’t stay in the area long enough to care about the area but the long-term residents will pay the price regardless.