skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government spending isn’t about efficiency per se. First, there is the question about efficiency for whom exactly. Are these taxes less efficient for Microsoft shareholders (and large shareholders in general)? Almost certainly. But long-term investments in the populace, such as funding schools, can be more efficient on the whole in the long term if the investments pay off in the form of a more productive population. Second, efficiency is generally uncorrelated with equality at best and anti-correlated at worst. I’m not saying we need a totally equal society, but surely some work needs to be done to promote equality if we’re to have a meritocracy.
Not saying you are wrong, but I’ve never referred to it like that. If my linux desktop is running an application that I’m seeing through an X client on my laptop, then my laptop is the client, and the desktop is the server.
In most cases you are going to want to separately passphrase your messaging stuff so it is locked up when you are not using it. That makes every thing else a lot easier. For example, there is a Signal fork that supports such operation:

* https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android
yes they do, in the very first few paragraphs.

>When evaluating a SaaS, I often just skip the landing page and all of its marketing fancy words and go straight to Pricing page.

>Usually, I will find what I need there: what features does the SaaS has, and how much do I have to pay to get what features.

>For that reason, I added GIFs to every single feature of my SaaS pricing page:

They just didn't spell out the connection between the two premises, that because they tend to ignore the demo/about/landingpages, and jump straight to the pricing page, other people likely do so as well, and you should turn said pricing page into your demo page/landing page to target such people with that info since they won't get it from the normal page thats dedicated to conveying that info.
Thankfully, Curve25519 is much easier to implement, with much fewer death traps than short Weierstraß curves. For X25519, just follow DJB’s advice from ECC Hacks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEt-D8xZmgE and make sure your arithmetic is up to snuff (constant time arithmetic is actually the hard part, by default I strongly suggest you steal it from the ref10 implementation).

For EdDSA, just follow the relevant explicit formulas, avoid clever (but dangerous) tricks such as converting to Montgomery form and back, and test with Wycheproof’s Ed25519 test vectors. https://github.com/google/wycheproof/blob/master/testvectors...
May I ask what made you choose lazygit instead of fugitive? I'm using the latter and am quite happy with it, but I'm keen to learn what I'm missing out on.
Not necessarily Parler, just saying they showed it's easy enough to create a twitter clone and gain popularity.
Some of these flights are pretty out there.

There are several with Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, Epstein, Maxwell, and a bunch of other people literally jumping from continent to continent, dropping people off and then picking them back up on subsequent flights.

https://epstein.flights/flight/124
It was not. It was a state case.
> Related: Is there some option I can pass to make it clear that the data on the server will never change and thus no possible write-to-read or close-to-open consistency issues can arise?

As far as I know the NFS client does not support such a mount option today. I should have mentioned this, but there /is/ a way to eliminate the 'close to open' cache check for repeated open() operations, which is to use NFS delegations. NFS read delegations are supported by both nfsd and the NFS client. They are not perfect, as they are best effort, but can typically keep the core data set of your workload fully local. This would not work for your first build but would work for the second.

> Interesting! I've never seen the per-flow limit mentioned before. Is that documented somewhere?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-inst...
I think the issue here is you're conflating a whole bunch of other genres as "electronic dance music" but which are not. Film and computer game music, early goa, etc. None of that is part of the underground clubbing scene. So yeah, the points you're making are correct but you're arguing a different point to the one I was.

Take Posford for example. Discords says he is a composer and record producer. This suggests that Simon has released other creative works outside of dance music; and given Goa's roots I'd say that was more likely than your argument that they're both listed as synonyms. The fact that Discogs also describes him as a sound engineer further illustrates that it's a list of his achievements rather than a thesaurus of related terms.

> 5. You're ignoring the most fundamental fact: if we take the sum total of modern music, the amount of it which is composed of definitely copyrightable samples is extremely small relative to the amount of synthesis and traditional composition.

I agree but I also never once said "the sum total of modern music". I was talking specifically about the evolution of electronic dance music. I said:

"Electronic music wouldn't exist if it wasn't for ignoring copyright laws. The entire scene is built off the back of sampling and mix tapes."

Quite why you decided to bring film scores into the equation and then blame me for moving the goal posts I don't know.

Lastly I'm not denying fair use exists. I'm saying selling records doesn't fall under fair use. There are a thousand other ways to use samples outside of that and some of those will constitute as fair use.
> Was the Rittenhouse circus _not_ a federal case though?

It literally wasn't. It was tried under Wisconsin jurisdiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_unrest_shooting#Ritten...
It was not, it was a state case.
> Twitter's problem is that it makes the low-scoring players feel bad. To use Twitter without a Blue Check is just not that valuable to most people. Just like the Twitter elites derive a sense of self-importance from their internet followers, the Twitter masses feel a sense of illegitimacy, an angst against the platform for driving the public discourse into a dumpster fire.

I don't really agree with this. In my experience as a daily Twitter user, most of the posts I see that aren't from specific sub-communnities I participate in are from low-follower accounts that had one of their tweets go viral. I think generally as long as you have some followers, you're only one timely/clever joke away from hundreds of thousands of people seeing your tweet.
The devil is usually in the details, are you sure you're not missing a 'k' factor in your O() complexity?

In your shoes I'd try to set up some benchmarks and other algorithms and compare, just for the learning experience. Try and fiddle with large V/E/k factors and compare. Check out some profiling tools, etc.

If all goes well you could just publish a library, that should count as prior work, nobody can come and steal your glory if you do wish to make it public..
>Perhaps as some technicality but in reality who is (much) more culpable?

The person who both knew that the computer was dangerous and directly caused someone to perform that dangerous act. Without them, it's possible no one gets injured.

>I don't think it's fine for a company to just make products that are super dangerous if some slight edge case is met.

As I keep telling you, neither do I.

I really don't understand your point of view. Of course companies shouldn't make unsafe products, but just because an unsafe product exists doesn't justify someone using that product to hurt someone. Just because the danger sounds implausible doesn't forgive the situation. It sounds implausible that touching a bit of metal would kill someone but if I made you touch a live wire I'd be at fault.
How does it get the YT data if it doesn't use its API?
> The argument could be made that we should all be rational beings of pure logic, incapable of taking personal offense or being emotionally slighted or discouraged by such judgements. But we're not.

Which is exactly why it is fine to call an idea stupid. Everyone knows that people are fallible, so they know that your idea can be stupid without you being stupid. You taking that personally is stupid though, as it implies you think it is possible to be infallible.
The first major client using this service is Boost Mobile, which was acquired by Dish Network from Sprint as a condition of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger:

https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/dishs-rouanne-says-aws-5g-...
But isn't the bottom-line effect that your model becomes pay-for-clout? That sounds bad on its face
I hadn't heard of that one before, but that's actually really nice. I really like how they're trying something new with the presentation and organizing the search hits by the source like that!
This sounds extremely familiar, so familiar in fact that if this post were written two years ago I'd be looking over my shoulder to see which of my colleagues was logged into HN.

Personally I can't offer too much advice, after a year or so of stalling I learned to polish my resume and move elsewhere.

There were endless top-down driven discussions, initially about how to merge to the favoured child, then about a "new platform" to encompass everything (but with an unrealistic scope and timetable).

It was clear that either this thing would never be built or would not achieve the level of integration desired. It was also clear it was only the board level who actually wanted this to happen, everyone on the workshop floor so to speak knew it wasn't what customers wanted or really a good fit.

So I got out.
Thanks for the reference -- that's helpful. KSOS is not a widely known system, but I can certainly see some similarities in approach with Hubris.

That said, there are far more differences than there are similarities, and it's a gross oversimplification to say -- or even imply -- that the work in Hubris somehow replicates (or is even anticipated by) KSOS. More generally, I find this disposition -- that a new technology is uninteresting because it was "done" decades ago -- to be generally incurious, dour, discouraging, and (as in this case) broadly wrong on the facts. We as a team have as much reverence for history as any you will ever find; it is not unreasonable to ask those who have lived that history to return the favor by opening their minds to new ideas and implementations -- even if they remind them of old ones.
> I'm just not interested in Twitter as a source of information

Good for you, but there are millions of people who don't share this view, including the whole point of this discussion is for those people.
Raises are nice, profit sharing is better.
There is definitely coverage but the fervor from the media, the usual suspects and subsequently the general public is not even remotely to the fever pitch we've seen recently. It also doesn't help that this case involves a literal conspiracy with wealthy people in power of all domains and so people defaulting to deep distrust of how it's being handled seems perfectly sound.
This isn't good UX and it's not accessible or web-friendly either.
the well-educated circles
I could always tell when a BBS was running under DesqView, because it was often soooo slooow. The cool kids ran OS/2! And the really, really cool kids had Amigas (I was never clear if these were multitasking or not, but many Amiga BBS's had multi node so I assume so)
I did not get a blimp. The dude i was with snaffled that; he'd got the tickets through some friend of his, so fair enough.
> I was just asking my wife the other day, "I don't mind high gas taxes per se, but for having some of the highest fuel taxes in the country, why is this highly-trafficked road such a piece of shit? They haven't paved it since we moved here."

Suburbs in the US have too much roads per capita (thanks to SFH obsession), you'll end up with this issue almost no matter how much taxes you raise.
Other commenters are pointing out the logic issues with your question, but I would like to provide a direct answer.

If a number of people told me that there was a 50% chance I had cancer, then I would first check their qualifications to make sure their predictions were worth my time. Then, if I found them credible, I would be really worried about getting cancer and go through all the screenings and tests necessary to figure out which side of the 50% I was on. Would you not do the same?
> Well if the idea is genuinely stupid then it will never work? I am operating on the assumption that someone has actually said something stupid.

Stupid things still works from time to time. Why are you so dismissive here? Can't you try to be a bit more understanding of people and ideas and your own ability to sometimes fail to recognize potential things? Sometimes you are stupid in the moment like that. Sometimes the whole world is stupid and failed to recognize a great idea.
> That to me is poor quality content.

Yet many people pay for the twitter API data stream already.
I said “I’ve been worried…” not that the worry is necessarily rational. The worry is based in what I view as weaknesses in human organizations. But it is also based in scenarios outlined by IPCC, so I’m not sure why you’re going on about “trusting the experts”.
No, it was not.
And, if you are on the left, shouldn't you kind-of want the "bad guys" to start borrowing your ideas? That should make things less-bad when they win, right? As far as I can tell, the problem, apart from Trump winning, was that he didn't do enough of this Bannonesque stuff, and instead remained too-much a (typical, apart from the incompetence) Big Business Republican.
Ask HN: Writing fiction – what topic or genre would you pick?
If you were to write a novel, what topic or genre would you pick? Or, put another, are there particular subjects or genres that appeal to you?

All the following genres would appeal to me if I was writing a novel:

- Sci-fi set in a future earth (Yes, I know, the sci-fi genre is such a clichéd stereotype about the type of fiction that developers read! )

- Horror

- Some aspect of technology e.g. a dsytopian future involving A.I.

There are types of fiction I enjoy reading but wouldn't attempt to write: thrillers, historical novels, fantasy.

If you were to write a novel, what subject would you pick? And for anyone who has written a novel (or is writing one currently) tell us about what you chose to write about.
Real privacy is too burdensome for most users, so they feel just fine if the service owner promises in a stern voice that their chats are really secure.

It is not necessary to provide real security, do fingerprint verification, etc if the users are already happy with the level of security they are promised.
On Windows there's also μGiffer - https://iobureau.com/ugiffer
Did Milo lose his verified status because someone didn't like him or was it because he broke some rule in the T&Cs? IIRC he was a big part of "gamergate", a movement that acted hostile to a subset of Twitter's user base.
Rittenhouse was tried in a Wisconsin state court.
You can that say about any tax. The most economically efficient tax system is one where workers are taxed the least, and the profiting companies the most. Individual taxes are what stifle business, because we cannot afford to even take the risk to start small. Therefore we cannot dedicate full time to a business venture and we lose.

These massive companies use the most public resources and hardly contribute back. An entity has to exist to enforce they do, which are taxes. Massive companies like Microsoft are not stifled, they do that themselves through significant mismanagement and bullying of the market.
Well... there's computer science, and then there's computer science.

All (most of?) the stuff done on P vs NP is good science that will stand up.

Studies on which language features make it better for developers are social science, because they involve those pesky humans. That stuff is likely to suffer from a reproducibility crisis.
I just wish DigiKey let you filter by price, or even sort by price on mobile.
I would tend to disagree because MicroPython is so abstracted that it resembles writing regular Python on a server more than it does anything embedded.

Just as an example, the WiFi setup resembles a server far more than an ESP32 with esp-idf. All you do is give it the connection details, and MicroPython seems to handle the details like trying to reconnect in the background. It's not far off from what systemd-networkd or similar provides. esp-idf forces you to handle that yourself, and to think about what you want to happen in that situation.

MicroPython also doesn't support threads afaict, so you don't even have to handle scheduling threads.

I like MicroPython as a way to run Raspberry Pi like stuff on the cheap, and it's a great learning tool in that sense, but you're still too far from the hardware to really be learning about embedded systems.
What's purple and commutes?

An Abelian grape.
Microsoft still fields about 4 or 5 different ERP products from various acquisitions under the Microsoft Dynamics label with no attempts to merge them. If the two products are so architecturally different, the most likely case is they will both coexist, or one of them will die with appropriate feature enhancements and a migration path to the other.
I don’t think you can consider the infrastructure bill to be a primarily environmentalist driven piece of legislation. The deciding vote is Joe Manchin, who gets most of his money from coal. And there are plenty of quotes from him on how he would never allow things like a C02 tax into law.
How do they provide near-instant full text search on server side if the chats are "encrypted at rest"?
> This study provides, for the first time, direct evidence that hepatic expression of genes leading to the synthesis of human-Aβ is causally associated with corruption of the NVU, with cell death and brain atrophy realised. [...] Consistent with the hypothesis of increased neurovascular insult as a consequence of hepatic synthesis of TRL-Aβ, PET findings clearly demonstrated an age-associated increase in [Pittsburgh compound] uptake. We suggest that this was indicative of the marked abundance of amyloid-rich lipofuscin aggregates distributed within brain parenchyma and within vessel lumen.

They definitely seem to lean into the neurovascular damage angle. I.e. liver produces amyloid-beta complexes, high levels of which result in neurovascular damage, resulting in lipids making it through and accreting in the brain.

Which makes sense, as if your capillaries are less functional, how would you body clear plaques from a difficult to reach organ (the brain)?
Here's a set of predictions worth what you are paying for them:

1. One of these products/services is going to die. The people who were making the dead product/service will know it pretty soon, and while a few of them will find niches in the new organization, many of them are going to hang around precisely as long as it takes financial incentives to mature.

2. Some of the customers who chose the loser will come over. All of them looked at the market and decided that there were good reasons for making that decision. If there's a third strong contender in the market, this is good news for them.

3. If you can craft a painless migration from the loser to the winner, many many many more customers will stay.

4. If you can identify the features in the loser that were attractive, and promise a realistic timeline to get those features in the winner, many more customers will stay.

5. In a few months to years, someone is going to push to re-do the whole enchilada with an architecture which is both trendy and can be sold as "best of both worlds". Unless they have an amazingly solid track record of leading projects on that scale, this will fail.
Well, when you think about it - it makes total sense. I imagine it felt like true freedom for them being 30000ft in the air with no one to barge in or stop them from doing what they wanted. The flight destinations were just pretense.
Marché des tablettes en recul – Mais il y a une exception, et ça s'appelle Apple
What was the name of your BBS? What was your handle? I know of you as the security guy from Enteract, but didn't know you were in the BBS scene!
Are you very familiar with teacher's unions?

Here's an example of the great value they're delivering in the U.S.:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/31/the-rubber-roo...
people will also be leaving due to lord inslee's neverending "emergency powers"
> vaccine passport system that turns businesses into government agents

Businesses are government agents in the US, they enforce drinking laws that require you to show id, and somehow no-one in the US seems to have an issue with this.
Nu Holdings Ltd F-1
There are stories on all of those sites about this trial, no doubt, though the article is not prominent (with the exception of CNN).

That said, it is hardly a conspiracy theory to point out that the media has a disincentive to give this story the attention it deserves because of the amount of prominent figures implicated. Amy Robach of ABC even claimed that they squashed the story initially because they were worried that covering it would impact their ability to air the Harry/Markle wedding.

Edit: Not sure why I am being downvoted for pointing this out, but if anyone thinks this is baseless or conspiratorial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Robach#Jeffrey_Epstein_sto...
The article's about air pollution, and the author wants to do something about that. That's what he cares about right now. Those other things? Very bad. But: this article's about this specific thing.

Read the list of "other things" carefully. They all contribute to poor air quality / air pollution!
Maybe those users simply aren't interested enough in your product? I think adding a simple note "click on the labels to see a demo" should be enough discoverability.
Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule
I don't think it's the media that's lacking fervor in this case. It's your social media feed.
John Baez has been blogging since 1993 or so.

This week's finds (older): https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/twf.html

Azimuth project (newer): https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/about/
Yes. Extremely, much, worse. The same goes for YouTube.

Does anyone have a solution though? Even DuckDuckGo is bad.
There is also the common practice of not including discounts in revenue. There is a reason companies talk about revenue instead of net sales or net income.

I've never seen AWS give discounts comparable to what Azure provided. Especially to larger companies they want the brand recognition from.
Here is the research:

Small-molecule inhibitors that disrupt the MTDH–SND1 complex suppress breast cancer progression and metastasis
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-021-00279-5

Pharmacological disruption of the MTDH–SND1 complex enhances tumor antigen presentation and synergizes with anti-PD-1 therapy in metastatic breast cancer
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-021-00280-y
WhatsApp. -> FBI

Telegram. -> KGB

Signal. -> The rest of us?
The End of Super Imperialism
We really should up our game on encryption, perhaps some kind of time-based crypto rotation that inherently self-destructs rendering the data unusable if you don't authenticate with it every so often. If you are physically unable to unlock a device you can't be compelled to do so.
The Clinton flights in the logs were part of some Clinton Foundation trip to Africa to raise funds for AIDS support. Tucker/Spacey were along to raise awareness.. all reported contemporaneously, eg;

https://khn.org/morning-breakout/dr00013711/
>> This is a fundamental principle of justice, dating back centuries.

> And this is a forum moderation team, not a court of law.

Principles of justice apply everywhere. Suggesting they can't be criticized for being unjust, solely because they aren't a court of law... is quite bizarre.
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/Actor-Comic-Pr...

That flight lines up with a tour of several African countries by that group.

(first article I found searching for "chris tucker ghana 2002")