skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is silly. Wind and solar are cheaper than coal and in many circumstances cheaper than natural gas. Storage tech is also getting cheaper. The capital costs of decentralized renewables are also favorable to a lot of rural parts of the world VS building out transmission lines of hundreds of miles.

Africa never really built out an extensive land line telephone system, but most Africans have cell phones now. They do not need to move through an obsolete technology in order to adopt a new one.
Destroy the contract. https://solidity-by-example.org/hacks/self-destruct

If you had mailed CDs of pictures and all your data to everyone in town, you mostly gave up your privacy already. And then you want a magic delete-all-CDs button?
In many jurisdictions, including the United States, an employer does not pay income tax on the money they pay out in payroll.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax
Gave 100$ to movember :)
Some call it the LG Humbug for a reason. :)
Plenty of people have a problem with this and do not enforce the law as a result. They just don't advertise it because it would 'look bad'.

It isn't like it is hard to obtain alcohol or just about any other illicit substance.
Not sure I understand your comment as presumably people were staying home with their kid throughout that period?

And the entry of women in the workforce happened in the 1970’s. The start date of 1980 might be arbitrary, but you seem to ignore the trend being pointed out.
I mean, this whole discussion is moot since nobody will enforce things like this, especially against themselves.
Email admin@epstein.flights and I'll give you the CSV I built the database from.
The Clarence Ray Allen argument.
epstein.flights says their data is from:
"The original PDF source for the data comes from documents revealed during two court cases:
Epstein v. Edwards
Giuffre v. Maxwell
"

if you search for "Forester" in Epstein.flights (for Lynn Forester de Rothschild)
https://epstein.flights/search/Forester
you get 2 hits

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFe3fFyVUAABDEE?format=png&name=...

Business Insider recently claimed they got more flight data
https://www.businessinsider.com/faa-accidentally-released-je...
"The FAA accidentally disclosed more than 2,000 flight records associated with Jeffrey Epstein's private jets"
If you search for Forester in this allegedly more complete dump, you get 4 more hits:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFe2ig4VUAEqzad?format=jpg&name=...
Since the abstraction is NFS for access, I wonder what the advantage over EFS is. Or more, why not just leverage this under EFS if it was a straight improvement. Compression and snapshots seem like some of the biggest wins over current EFS.
It still removes Giphy as a "competitor". Let's say that Facebook bought all competing messenger programs, but then disabled them in the UK because it was anti-competitive. Well, then the only option left is to use Facebook Messenger.

Giphy isn't necessarily a direct competitor (and we might disagree with the UK regulators on their assessment of the merger), but just shutting off Giphy in the UK probably wouldn't do what they want. They might want Giphy willing to sell their data to other parties that are competitors to Facebook. If that's the business value of Giphy, merely disabling it in the UK still gives Facebook the worldwide power of Giphy and it would be hard for a NewGiphy to compete with the only advantage being "we have UK data."

It's also up to the UK to determine if such a remedy would satisfy them. Facebook can't disable Giphy and then say "you don't have jurisdiction anymore." That's not how it works. Facebook could pull out of the UK by closing its offices there, but pulling out might involve also not selling ads to UK-based businesses (before Brexit, there's the possibility that Facebook could lean on the common market to continue selling ads).

Basically, disabling Giphy in the UK (or even worldwide) doesn't really solve the issue.
Many of the jobs allow remote anywhere in the world. I'd applied at a couple of places and got a positive response, though I couldn't follow through all the way for various reasons.
What the hell is event sourcing? I read the first half of the article and gave up. Sounded like one of those distributed log things like kafka or maybe a message broker like rabbit?

Yes, could google, but now am discouraged. If you're going to write one of these, at least link to the wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design#Event_sou...
> Shoot me an email at the address on the site if you'd like me to confirm I'm the admin

Why not cut out the email step and just add to the "contact" section on the about page a note that you are also on HN as 'epsteinflights'?

People who want to take you up on your verification offer are going to have to go to the "contact" section on the about page anyway to get the email address, so might as well take care of the verification right there.
Seems like misaligned incentives. Perhaps the prisons should be charged a fee for each case of recidivism
Companies also sell data to law enforcement.
Was part of a church group that helped out at prisons. Many of them were illiterate.... Not sure how many of them can read
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02990-w

A LOT of scientists believe that we're on track for a cataclysmic amount of warming. 3C of warming is nothing to fuck around with.
Some prisons do do this where the inmates suspected of being active gang members are just put in the SHU arbitrarily.
it sounds plausible, but I couldn't find any good evidence of this being widespread. I also can't see how this justifies subject- or genre-based bans on new books.
The single most important task for a CEO at a large company is to publicize their daily schedule, describing how they rise at either 5am or 6am (Holmes goes a step further), and then work out and take care of a large amount of business before the rest of the common people even wake up. Bonus points for preparing and having breakfast with your small children after your workout and morning email/decision-making routine. Additional bonus points for family time every evening, as well as prolific reading across a multitude of subjects.

It is imperative that people understand the CEO's total superiority over the common person. They do not sleep like everyone else. They don't waste or lose time like everyone else. They do not neglect their family. Their body is toned and strong. Their mind is focused and cultured, with an insatiable appetite for information.

Behold, I bring you: the CEO!
I was racking my brain trying to figure out what the parent comment had to do with Georgia. Seems like a dead brain day for me...
Your chart shows that workforce participation by women was already high.

And this chart is skewed by the underlying baby boomer generation which made up a bigger percent of the population (which is why you see the downward trend recently - they retired).
Well for example imagine you have a 64-bit adder - and you add two numbers together - let's assume that on e of the in puts is '1' - how long does it take until the output is stable? it depends on the second value an d more importantly how long it takes for all the carries to propagate to the MSB - for a naive circuit and input of 0 the output will stabilise very quickly, for an input of 0xffff_ffff_ffff_ffff it will take 64 adder delays - an async circuit can have simple additions run faster than the worst case ones (which will still work). While a synchronous circuit would have a clock that could only go as fast as the slowest case (or pipeline things so that the output appears multiple clocks later)
Holmes recounts sexual, emotional abuse by Theranos exec Balwani
Business Insider also made searchable versions of both the black book[1] and the flight logs[2] - they're done to a much more professional standard than my buggy little side project is, but they're both unfortunately behind a paywall.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/search-jeffrey-epsteins-litt...
[2]: https://www.businessinsider.com/every-flight-made-by-jeffrey...
It's also possible that something which causes the liver to synthesize amyloids is the causative agent in alzheimers. In which case the amyloids may be a by-product.
> Always rinse the nuts to make them more palatable.

OK, I have to ask...what is this about? "More palatable" in what way?
You were making 5x the minimum wage working in food service? Back in 1995?
> Wind and solar are cheaper than coal and in many circumstances cheaper than natural gas.

Now do the reliability part.

Edit: Worth reading this [1] and this [2].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01020-z

[2] https://archive.md/4D5R6
We've had people try to take photos of our children without consent while we are at the beach. The people were thinking the kids were doing something cute or that it was funny they were throwing a huge fit.

There does seem to be some difference between being the subject in a photo and happening to be in a being in a photo of a beach sunset.
Meh, it's a night owl schedule from a different time zone.
Wow, I feel like an idiot. All this time I had no idea the Navy built it, when a simple Wiki search would have pointed that out. Thanks!
> from the government while fulfilling missions with extraordinary humanitarian benefits

Ahh yes, the famed operation Condor, operation Gladio, operation iceberg and so many other famed "humanitarian" projects

At the end of the day all that you mentioned goes back to a post-facto "it is good because *we* do it", I would go to say that most people here in HN are well aware of the start of Google when it was funded by us Intel as a way to parse Vietnam era datasets, or how US Intel uses Radio Free Asia to destabilize enemy countries abroad, but again, it is only good/not bad when "*we"* do it

Apologies for a rather low quality comment, but these types of persons handwaving the actual structure behind all of this really get on my nerves, specially when I have had family members be tortured as a consequence of these US activities
Your last sentence just made me freak out thinking that I've previously done such stupidity in front of a "law officer".
I never for one second thought it could be a trap; I was overly willing to cooperate and truthfully respond to a "theoretical" inquiry. Damn, it hurts in retrospective.
No, it's pretty well established. He's run a registered investment bank and was a prolific philanthropist.
You also might want to write it down for them, so there'd be no confusion between you.
I thought that "self defense" was something you had to prove yourself, where you've admitted to committing a crime (killing someone) but that you had a specific circumstance that mitigated the charge.

I assumed it was similar to a "not guilty by reason of insanity" plea, where you admit you committed a crime but there are special circumstances (that you have to prove) that mitigate it. You can't just stay silent the entire time and force the prosecutor to prove you were insane - you have to actually provide some evidence you were insane.

Is this not true?
Twitter doesn't need to make money, its a technological arm of the Democrat party and other Globalists.

There is a Twitter Executive who is literally an active officer in the British Army psyops brigade:

https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-executive-revealed-psyops-s...

Founders like Dorsey can be bribed [correction] 'have their NFTs bought' for millions to control/silence them:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/22/jack-dorsey-sells-his-first-...
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> Not saying we can't use alternative solutions, but your comment doesn't really support further discussion

Sure it does. We can only discuss solutions if we’re willing to accurately describe ALL of the causes of the problem.

The article we’re discussing is entirely about how the “contraband” claim appears to be a flimsy excuse that both doesn’t impact the primary source of contraband (the guards), and obviously has nothing whatsoever to do with issues like:

> With e-books, the situation is even worse, as companies like Global Tel Link supply supposedly “free” tablets which actually charge their users by the minute to read. Even public-domain classics, available on Project Gutenberg, are only available at a price under these systems—and prisons, in turn, receive a 5% commission on every charge.

“Books can smuggle contraband” has no explanatory power wrt marked up access to free ebooks. Profit motive does.

It’s you, rather than the person you’re responding to, who seems to be shutting down discussion of solutions by trying to rule discussion of private for-profit prisons making profit-optimal decisions that may be net-worse for society somehow out-of-bounds.
Those millions of Americans followed rules set by the government. That the game.

Make the rules do useful things. If you want business with social conscience, legislate it; don't whine for the uncaring hand of the free market to deign to suddenly show empathy.
Either it’s fixed, or it was never a problem to me.

The dotted lines indicate ‘click here to see more’ to me. And I can go directly from one to the next item by just tapping the next one.
> Is there something unique about capital gains tax in particular?

The reason why we are seeing pushes to adopt capital gains tax right now is because Bernie Sanders, AOC, et. al. want to "Tax the Billionaires." This is obviously a popular slogan because people think "who the hell needs 1 billion dollars?" But it's not like billionaires literally have 1 billion dollars just sitting in their bank accounts not doing anything. In reality, billionaires are billionaires because they make their money work for them through various investments. Capital gains tax is not "taking some poor billionaire's leftover yacht money," it's a tax on _the businesses they own_. Although capital gains tax disincentives the growth of business (which is a bad thing because we want businesses to grow,) it's marketed as a "tax on fat-cat bastard billionaires."
from the article:

"If the executive branch is allowed to usurp the power of the legislative branch to make laws, two of the three powers conferred by our Constitution would be in the same hands," he wrote. "If human nature and history teach anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency."
Does anybody know if the concepts behind elliptic curve cryptography be applied to analog data?
Why Do We Need Ops
The goalposts of ‘modern hardware’ and ‘modern web browser’ will be moved forever with HaikuOS on HN, even when it can apparently run on real RISC-V hardware with a GUI, has a Chromium-derived Web-browser and now is about to get 3D HW acceleration via amdgpu.

When compared with other certain unified hobby OSes out there written in C++ or Rust, they don’t even come anywhere close to being useable. Not even a complex browser or office app running. They are still stuck in a VM and yet celebrated here even when this OS is able to run all of that on real hardware after installation.

If RISC-V is not modern hardware, then I don’t know what is.
> Why not just do the cloud server instead?

Having explored this previously in the context of this (which was mostly vapourware when I looked at it a couple of years back) and the Azure equivalent:

1. Regulatory requirements.
2. There are no network - and hence egress - charges to the rest of your infra.
3. Limited ability to operate disconnected.

On the last point, the Azure offering is vastly, vastly superior, since the AWS one used to phone home and stop after a few hours, which undercuts the value on the third point. There are quite a few places with no local cloud presence, and unreliable connectivity to the nearest one; for example, last time I was in New Caledonia, there were multi-day outages and degradation to their sole fibre to the world. They do significant research workloads (thanks to the SPC) and something that could endure that while allowing you to keep using cloud APIs would be very convenient.
He was also in the military for 21 years, so waking up early is probably a long-ingrained habit by now.
Err… what? Is any database now a centralized blockchain? I don‘t even get from the sentence that this is using any kind of cryptographic verification (though it might).

I think we can probably think more along the lines of the postgres wal (write ahead log) and _journaling_ file systems here.
Facebook deleted photo albums uploaded with Adobe Lightroom
Go through the hoops to put a preprint on Arxiv. Put in the effort to properly format the document, etc. They’ll probably want you to get an endorser before you can submit, but they also explain how to find people to endorse you.

https://arxiv.org/help/submit
> Postgraphile, et al. all seem to suggest that you should stand up a separate service for this.

PostGraphile maintainer here; with the exception of recommending job queues for work that can/should be completed asynchronously (which is a good idea no matter what server you use) I do not recommended setting up a separate service for this kind of thing. PostGraphile is highly extensible, you can implement most things in JS (or TypeScript) natively in Node.
Chinese dad make medicine to treat his dying child
As a non-native english speaker this post confuses me a lot, did the HoL highlight their own favourite bits? Was it a group of friends that checked out the proceedings?
That is the approach that is used, though it gets tricky. The items that an inmate can own have to be clear (so they can't be used to store contraband) and tamper proof... and if they're electric, run on regular batteries or wall current.

This leads to things like a clear typewriter - http://www.swintec.com/clear-typewriters/10-2410cc.html

The tablet that meets that requirement is made by JPay - https://www.vice.com/en/article/pgav3m/a-clear-plastic-table... and it does have ebooks - https://www.jpay.com/education.aspx . I will point to their wikipedia page as something to read about them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPay

One of the considerations for this is that no-one is going to give wifi and unrestricted (and unmonitored) access to the internet at large. All of the "this is stuff that you can download" needs to be accessible via another set of servers hosted somewhere with all of the associated infrastructure.
I suppose if one has the issues mentioned in the article, a few hundred dollars isn’t much
Michigan solved their shitty road problem: they created a state insurance fund that you could file claims against if a pot hole tore up your car. Some of their pot holes were (and I assume still are) more like craters.

I moved back home to Indiana in 2005 and don't miss the shitty weather or roads.
Yes, but that's survivor bias. "I put it all on 27 and spun the wheel! That's clearly the only way to go."
> Proof of stake entrenches a group of rent seekers in perpetuity,

Ahhhh, that's a light bulb for me.

PoS is a step backwards in security, but perhaps not a meaningful one. Bitcoin has proved itself to a rock, or possibly a mountain range when only a rock is needed.

But yes, Bitcoin's mining fees are very carefully structured to be a near perfect market. Not so great for the miners - but perfect for the currency and it's users. Now you mention it, or Ethereum PoS looks like an excellent mechanism for the dominant Ethereum holders (which includes the founders - a point I'm sure hasn't escaped them), to entrench their position. I think we can safely predict things will take their natural course over time - and they will start charging what they think the market can bear.
> That's all he said to the interviewer

And then the next day, he clarified:

Reporter: "Should there be a database or system that tracks Muslims in this country?"

Trump: "There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases. I mean, we should have a lot of systems."

And then he tried to backpedal. Decided it was a watch list, not a database, etc. Basically the usual shtick of his where he tries to say everything and nothing at the same time.
A former NYT tech reporter is calling it the `Andy Ngo law`.

https://twitter.com/NellieBowles/status/1465724183044841473

It does seem crafted to gatekeep citizen journalists who are a major thorn in the corporate media's official narrative.
If you use windows, I recommend jumping on ZTree Win.

https://www.ztw3.com/

It's a port of xtree gold that works on modern windows. I've been using it daily for probably a decade.
Don't forget all the corrections officers jobs and the money that flows into the system.

It's not just private industry. The .gov is very much in on the racket.
Your link doesn’t explain how deletion is possible
Also the birthplace of the Singapore sling cocktail. It's famous.
When it comes to prisons, the people employed at them are clearly not the best from society. I’m not sure if we can really expect more from them. In particular asking them to do more work vs just banning books… it’s an easy decision for them.
Prosecutors are supposed to bring charges based on “the interests of justice.” I can’t say that they actually meet that standard. They famously bring harsh charges and try to negotiate plea deals. They also famously get creative with how to interpret different laws.

There is the concept of malicious prosecution ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_prosecution ), but that only applies when the prosecutor pursues a case without proof of even the basic elements of the crime. If they filed charges that they were incredibly unlikely to prove (which is what I heard from all the commenters on this case: “the prosecution has a hard case to make” or something similar), then they spent a lot of time and money, caused somebody to spend a lot of money for the defendant, etc., but they didn’t cross the line into malicious prosecution.
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While I agree with you that allowing different states to try different approaches to dealing with covid is part of the strength of the US system (and gives some excellent data for how different policies can affect the outcomes for the populations subject to them), I think that downplaying the danger of a populist strongman is the wrong example to pick, given that the US implementation of federalism also lead to a situation where such a leader's supporters came within seconds of destroying the certifications of the vote that kept him from staying in power unlawfully:

https://19thnews.org/2021/01/the-women-who-saved-the-boxes-o...
If you're on MacOS: I used to use LICEcap but then I found myself wanting more (still basic) features, like the ability to trim recordings, export to video formats etc. Now I use Kap, it's the perfect balance of simplicity and features (for me): https://getkap.co/
Ulbricht was caught because an FBI agent, who would read things slowly and twice, recognized these 4 letters : heyy.

That's how Ulbricht sometimes spelled hey, and the agent had seen that particular spelling before in his investigation, in an email from Ulbrict’s student email address.

Nick Bilton's book “American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road” is a great read, highly recommended.
Very true. There's a meme I see every so often. "Work out for an hour a day. It's 4% of your day. What's your excuse?"

Uhh, well, other than the fact that it's closer to 25% of my _available_ day (8h sleep, 8h work, 1h commute, 1h preparation, 1h meals), you mean?