skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And HikVision cameras seem to have no end of security issues.

Sharing this most recent one cos HN loves cited sources but there's a ton of independent issues

https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2021/09/22/widely-us...
Sounds like an opportunity for those living in friendlier jurisdictions. Lab-as-a-service in a warm country with a relaxed legal regime for biomedical studies?
This calculator is from 2016. I’m curious what results this would give after adjusting for inflation and current salary jumps.
Can one client do the work and post back the final version to the server so the server sends that version to all the other clients?
tl;dr Employees are mad that they couldn't crash the stock price themselves, as the stock price crashed. Early days of trading will be irrelevant in a few weeks.
As a non American I see the US as a country with significant structural problems. On that basis, the narratives are justified.

Especially after Jan 6 riots and the absence of a bipartisan response to this event. It is hard to discount the notion that the US is about 1 or 2 election cycles away from a society changing political crisis. Peaceful transfer of power no longer seems like a given.

1 data based point and 1 anecdote news/item.

1) America is considered a flawed democracy [1].

2) A recent tweet [2] from Gavin Newsom highlights pervasive political fragmentation across the US. Using same legal mechanisms applied by Texas and considered by other red states to curtail abortion access, in this case to curtail access to assault rifles.

Your comment you say "we need more unity". As an outsider I cannot foresee an easy / pragmatic way for the US to move closer to such a goal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

[2] https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1469865185493983234
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I used to browse around Medium when it was free. Now I find myself gravitating towards tech oriented sites like HackerNews. I miss reading broader content, like self improvement, professional development, history, culture, etc. Any suggestions for a place where I can casually read stuff like that?
I would be interested in seeing more numbers about where the optimism in American citizens starts to deviate based on what privileged statuses the person holds. If I had to make an educated guess I would posit that white Americans and those who are from older generations are going to be more optimistic about upwards economic and therefore social mobility.
Safe driving, driving is the leading cause of death for those under 55 I believe. Furthermore, I think a severe injury would be worse then death.
The most impressive thing is the scale of the city and amount of traffic. In other games you feel that buildings are way too small and every object is placed by hand for convenience to a player. This tech demo nailed the feeling of a livable metropolis.
>what does a low 6 figures really get you?

A house 50min (but not in a nice neighborhood, thank fucking god, I don't want to live among "nice people") from Boston and not generally having to worry about money (i.e. I'm not house poor in the slightest).

Though I did buy a couple years before 'rona and the inflation so I probably would be renting today.
We're already starting to see evidence for the beginnings of global population collapse: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/birthrates-declining-...
That is sort of the opposite of what I've been told about high school and college formal debate, from people here who did it --- i.e., that there's little actual discussion involved. I'm trying to track down something Patrick McKenzie wrote about it; it made me stop regretting missing out on debate (one of only a few aspects of school I used to think I would have enjoyed).
> meanwhile authoritarian regimes are rising to power.

like what an authoritarian tried to do on Jan 6?

> We need more unity.

yes but how do you unite a deeply divided nation?
Now updated with a picture of the sample print in progress. Incredible piece of machinery.
Why wouldn't Intel be scared if it's really 40% more perf for the same price. Once companies test the waters in AWS they may all wonder "why not for our on prem workloads too"?
(Assuming we’re talking about US law) Since the previous comment was talking about commercial use, there’s no entitlement to use someone else’s code for commercial purposes at all absent some sort of license agreement (or waiver, or fair use, or some other exception). If the license granting the right to use the code in the first place requires sharing changes, then someone using the code with modifications has to either share the changes or infringe copyright.
This gets a pass because:

- It looks awesome

- It doesn't hijack scrolling, it reacts to it, but scrolling down scrolls down, without pausing or going left and right or any kind of weirdness

- It is a large page, but not that large. In fact the two screenshots are the biggest thing on the page, the entire animation (more like a demo) on top is only 168 kB (+ the streaming music if you press play).

- If you don't care about all the fluff, you just have a blog post, you actually need to do something (scroll up) of you want to see it.

- The page is usable with and without an ad blocker. No annoyances like popups.
California is ~1 point below the national average in marriages and divorces. By comparison, Maine is 4 points over the marriage average and 3 points under the divorce average.

I should have remembered my audience and not made a joke about California's differences from the rest of the country.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/12/united-states...
"t's not hugely difficult to earn six figures in the US if you're committed, work hard, and pick a good field."

I think that's true for White and Asian folks.

But the thing about America is that it has two, giant categories of people in a 'different lane' - notably those in poor Black urban neighbourhoods, and new Latino migrants particularly in Texas/Cali where they are highly segregated from the rest of society.

'Technically' you might argue they have that opportunity, but it's not really the case if they live in a situation wherein that reality has never dawned upon them, and their entire life context is skewed towards something else.

My distant cousin married a Latino man, their daughter was 17 and was making 'big money' helping her mother at the cleaning service. And by 'big money' I mean 'some money' for a kind of poor family, a 17 year old with any cash at all was living large. She had absolutely zero concept or aspiration of going to college, nobody she knew did that and was really keen on working, because it made her money and wasn't even keen on finishing high school.

The 'cultural gaps' between these communities are gigantic, it's like being in a different country.

America probably is 'technically the most open' but pragmatically, it's not the case.
Millenials, I mean "people without printers" (to be inclusive), can all go to Fedex or a public library and print it out and scan it there. You can also take a picture with your smartphone, I've seen lawyers be more anal about the signature than about the scanning part.
The story is not so much about the US's (low) social mobility, but about how Americans perceive it. The effect of "Americans are much more optimistic about social mobility" seems to be the same if you look at other measures, like "Probability of remaining in the bottom quintile".
(Except Q2 -> Q1 mobility, which Americans seem more pessimistic about for some reason.)
> It's not hugely difficult to earn six figures in the US if you're committed, work hard, and pick a good field.

That's if you also had a healthy learning environment at school and home, can afford college, and have a healthy early development to be able to grow up into an sufficiently smart child. A lot of people in the bottom 20% don't have those initial conditions.
That's a very interesting theory! I hadn't thought about that. It could also be that society gets bored with current design patterns and designers go back to previous designs.
Any suggestions for #11? I loathe receiving gifts for this reason despite giving them out often.
Lua is nothing but sharp edges and gotchas. I hate Lua more than I hate JavaScript.
Read the actual study. The people who did the study are knowledgeable about the topic. If a non expert can think of a problem with the paper after a few moments of thinking about it then it is highly likely that person’s objections are not valid and are accounted for in the study.

A person should not read the study or the article and think, “The reason this is nonsense is X.” Rather the thought should be, “I wonder how the study accounts for X.”
Do you understand that popping up like Beetlejuice every time someone mentions rsync pricing and being snarky about an unpublished discount is not a good look?

Particularly given you never address the commenter's point, which is that your pricing is pretty expensive?

"Price high, low volume" is certainly a valid pricing strategy, but you have no right to be snarky when people say you're priced high.

The fact that people are consistently describing you as overpried means your marketing really isn't showing the corresponding value to them.
To paraphrase Brahms when he first heard the Dvořák cello concerto: if I had known that it was possible to write a package like this, I would have tried it as well!

I love this. It would be interesting to pair it with a decent climate model, though.
I paste this every time the subject is raised:

https://liberamanifesto.com/
Nice article.

Not a lisp developer, but typeclasses have become a bread&butter feature of programming languages to me: if there is a new language and it doesn't support typeclasses, it's almost guaranteed that I'm not very interested in this language.
Because employees couldn't crash the price themselves as they panic sell to get out of this dog-shit deal?

Good luck with that one.
> Absolute is what matters.

Only from a purely acquisitive standpoint, but not with respect to social mobility which is the subject here. Also, study after study has shown that life satisfaction is more highly correlated with relative income or wealth than absolute. If we want to use science instead of personal preference to determine what matters, you're flatly wrong.

> If 80% of your society is earning between $60k and $90K

Why choose such an unrealistic example when a real one is right there? Seems suspect TBH. The real distribution is nowhere near as tightly clustered around the median, and is quite asymmetric with a much longer tail at the high end. Also, why only consider changes in the middle? A small percentile difference at either end can have a much larger effect on quality of life.

> Relative mobility doesn’t buy you a vacation home.

The difference between second and fourth quintile actually does mean something like that, and does so regardless of prices or inflation. Absolute values are the ones that become meaningless without the context of prices in a particular time and place. The house I'm sitting in right now as I write this (vs. the dumps I grew up in) is a pretty good testament to the difference between first and fifth quintile, but the price of the house doesn't matter a damn bit.
Afaik newer Java versions prevent the RCE exploit, too (you have to re-enable the LDAP/RMI functionality since it's off by default)
Maybe she goes by "sir" also, like Peppermint Patty.
How is it a zero sum game? I see this said a lot here without any proof? It this just taken as true and no proof is needed?
I mean... that doesn't detract from the problem at all. That just says there's a massive wealth divide and that moving up to the mere top 20% (the group 1 out of 5 people belong to) should be considered a ridiculous proposition unless you're born into it.

Why should 1 out of 5 people belong to a group so wealthy that saying mobility is difficult should be considered problematic?
Unfortunately, real world data since the 1970s matches up well with this "elementary model". See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29535554

Do you have a more specific or substantive criticism of this work? Otherwise, I'd say it's essentially proven itself.
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> it's a zero sum game

I’m not an economist, but I don’t think it’s a zero sum game considering the total productivity / economic output of a society can go up (or down). Your success doesn’t need to be at the expense of someone else’s success.

> you should be thanking the people who's life circumstances prevent them from learning to succeed

What?
According to the 2020 census data linked below the percentage increases to around 24% for individuals who worked full time all year. I don’t think there is any easy way to find the more specific groups you mentioned. That’s not a large enough increase to consider making six figures as easy as “prioritizing” it or whatever you’re proposing.

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/tables/pinc-01/...

In any case what you’re proposing is selection bias. No one should be surprised that people who work full time are more likely to make six figures than those who don’t. And yes, if you cherry pick a group of “professionals” who receive larger salaries of course the percentage will increase. And it’s back to survivorship bias for the “prioritization” examples you mentioned. Unless you happen to have a random sample of people who don’t make six figures but would prefer to.
I almost accepted this and went on my way, but it only tells like 7% of the story. The first thing is that your eligibility stops as soon as you start making more money (i.e. single earner > $17,000). But that increase in money does not cover the new costs for healthcare.

Aha! But at such a low income you get the ACA subsidy! But the insurance plans you can get have really high deductibles. If you're making $20,000 a year and have a $17,000 deductible... that's life ruining if you actually get sick. That's not to mention all the other oddities that go with having these higher-deductible lower premium plans like having to work around non-formulary medications, getting referrals to covered providers (you will be really lucky to have a PCP that does the homework to make sure you are referred in-network), and general insurance fuckery.

I think it's just a little bit more complex than filling out a few forms.
The author is onto something but I’m afraid it’s not explained very well. I think he’s mostly right though.

While reading it I was reminded of a design/implementation style I’ve run across several times over the years which is to find an existing class that does something similar to what you want. Then, subclass it and override methods until you get the behavior you want. And you’re done!

This leads directly to the Fragile Base Class problem. I think it also violates the Open/Closed principle. When subclassing occurs across components that are released independently (e.g., a library and an application), it either leads to continual breakage at each release, or ossification of the library. The latter happened to Java’s Swing. It got to the point where it was difficult to fix any bugs, because any “fix” would end up breaking some subclass that relied on the old behavior.

(See also Hyrum’s Law, which is more general than subclassing & inheritance.)
I think the first step is to admit we have a problem. People don’t like the United States being labeled as anything less than exceptional. If you look at the Amazon workers, Uber drivers, door dashers, etc in this country it’s amazing how hard people can work and not get ahead. 2nd and 3rd jobs can be necessary to just make ends meet. The story that hard work is all it takes in America does need to be questioned.
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This is rather impressive and it looks appealing given what Windows looks like now. I came in with low expectations but its full of screenshots that actually show me why I should care and quite frankly it isn't done for a bunch of projects (even with people that have experience in it).
Well said. Drama is a time and attention suck - away from not only productivity, but time spent where you could be doing things that make you actually happy, which in turn, generally, makes you a more productive person with a desire to 'do things' rather than sit and fucking mope.

Gossip, drama, lifestyle comparison, it's a recipe for failure (which is what social media supposedly encourages). I'm not any kind of benchmark for career-ambitious productivity, but there are things I like to do and personal goals I have in mind that allow me to surf on top of the "everywhere, all the time" human emotional whirlpool that would be very easy to get sucked into, thus saying goodbye to the 'who' and the 'where' I'm aiming at. Happy to listen to people who come to me for a sympathetic ear, but I'm not taking on your shit, mainly because I'd never ask you to take on mine.

Not sure if this captures it properly, but: The more you macro, the less you micro.

(I've had one semi-significant medical issue, but Australian private healthcare saved me from any severe recalculation of life priorities. I'm very thankful that I'm a generally healthy person).
"be yourself"

The most useless advise in history, closely followed by "just stop being depressed"
That's assuming a lot of people aren't currently working bullshit jobs or things that we can't automate though. I suspect that if we have a real worker shortage we'll find there's a lot we can do without or do more efficiently.
The economist has been pushing a certain political agenda for a while now, I cancelled my subscription a while ago because of this reason
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By the definition of 'social mobility'. That's how quantiles work.
I think you've just proved yourself that making 100k is extremely achievable in the US (1/4) for someone who even just bothers to turn up full-time.
> Why should 1 out of 5 people belong to a group so wealthy that saying mobility is difficult should be considered problematic?

Why is it a bad thing that so many people are so wealthy? The more people who belong to the so-wealthy-it's-hard-to-achieve group, the better.
I want to like Duplicati so much, but it breaks if you even think about looking at it. It's like the P&R Jail meme.

"Interrupt the initial backup? We corrupt the backups."

"Relocate the backup files and update the backup destination? We corrupt your backups."

"Update to a new version? Believe it or not, we corrupt your backups."

The eight hundred open github issues is also pretty frightening for a now many-years-old piece of backup software. They really, really need to spend 6 months or more just nailing as many issues as possible, starting first and foremost with bugs relating to restores.
This seems more like a perspectivism, egoism, or absurdism than nihilism. Ultimately, nihilism is the position that even any meaning you create is likewise inherently meaningless. To create your own meaning, and maintain that it is meaningful, is a refutation of nihilism, not its embrace.
Yes. Slow collapse is a thing.

https://www.letstalkthis.com/collapse/
>>>Saddam's selling in Euro's had nothing to do with anything

So rather than comprehend the second and third order effects of a major oil exporter not adhering to the US's strategic imperative in the oil markets, your debate position is to stick your fingers in your ears and say "Not listening"?

>>>Your comments about Libya are not relevant and add nothing to the argument.

Nice attempt to move the goalposts. You stated: "Libya and Syria were plunged into civil war long before any kind of intervention". We intervened less than 30 days after the commencement of hostilities. So your statement is false. If you are going to step into the conversation calling another's post "total nonsense" in your first sentence, you should probably have the details dialed in, lest ye embarrass yourself.

>>>1) The US did not 'occupy' any part of Syria.

How do you debate with someone who can't even agree on the meaning of words? What else do you call it when SOF and Marines maintain bases IN SYRIA in vicinity of high-value terrain for years? Our presence there is denying the sovereign government usage of those economic assets.

https://taskandpurpose.com/analysis/military-us-troops-syria...

>>>2) Your claims about Assad's inability to sell Oil in other denominations due to his lack of control of Oil Fields is clearly disproven by the fact that he controls those areas right now, at this time.

Why do you persist in making such blatantly-false statements? The "Syrian Democratic Forces", aka "Kurds with the backing of embedded US SOF", control the territory east of the Euphrates. https://kurdpress.com/en/news/1863/US-troops,-SDF-hold-joint... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/world/middleeast/syria-as... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Syrian_Civil_War_deta...

At any rate, that wasn't the original argument I was trying to make but I can see the source of confusion: @datenarsch mentioned 3 countries (Iraq, Syria, Libya). I commented on the Petrodollar with respect to two of them: (Iraq, Libya), without articulating that Syria's strategic considerations had centered around other problems (Qatari natgas pipelines, Shia crescent, etc...).

>>>Despite the obvious flaw in your premise in that the French do not have a currency , your claim is not remotely substantiated by the link you provided.

I'll admit I completely garbled my point on that one. Qadafi originally stockpiled gold for his African dinar project. The email leak shows that Libyan threats to influence over Francophone Africa were sufficient for French leadership to take military action. So it stands to reason that the world's pre-eminent military power (America), would factor economic incentives into its Use of Force calculus. But don't take my word for it; I'm sure Alan Greenspan is better informed than either of us on the subject: https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=7QUoBM3p87MC&lpg=PA119&o...
Has docker performance improved on MacOS recently?
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