skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's really strange to me that leftist anarchists and capitalist anarchists are such bitter enemies

Not enemies; I don't have bitter enemies. I just see opposition to capitalism as a pretty fundamental aspect of anarchism. I'm not gatekeeping "anarchist". I see you as hijacking the term; a capitalist anarchist is not an anarchist, it's a libertarian, or an individualist. I think you know this.

I think your persistent claims that small traders are capitalists is disingenuous. There's nothing against trade in anarchism or in socialism. Trade is not the same as capitalism.

I'm afraid I don't like being referred to by you as a "leftist" - nobody calls themselves a leftist. That's a term used by people who dislike socialism and want to portray socialists as "bad". So I think I will not respond to this thread again.

[Edited for grammar, mainly]
There's some more to consider with the latest buildkit frontend for docker, check it out here: https://hub.docker.com/r/docker/dockerfile

In particular cache mounts (RUN --mount-type=cache) can help the package manager cache size issue, and heredocs are a game-changer for inline scripts. Forget doing all that && nonsense, write clean multiline run commands:

RUN <<EOF
apt-get update
apt-get install -y foo bar baz
etc...
EOF

All of this works right now in plain old desktop docker you have installed right now, you just need to use the buildx command (buildkit engine) and reference the docker labs buildkit frontend image above. Unfortunately it's barely mentioned in docs or anywhere else other than their blog right now.
The source for this article is a "study" from Chainanlysis which only tracks a handful of the possible illicit activities crypto can be used for. They are tracking scams and rugpulls, adding them together, and using that as the "illicit transactions" metric, then dividing that by a ballooned marked cap to get 0.15%.

Considering 40% of all of Bitpay's transactions are for "Gift Cards" [0] (a la money laundering), it seems to be that this blog is being as charitable as possible to CC to get their numbers.

[0]: https://bitpay.com/stats/
OK, in that case "illicit" is defined as related to fraud in the crypto exchange itself. It does not refer to activities like e.g. buying banned substances, oligarchs circumventing sanctions, etc.

If this is really the message of the article, then it is misleading, perhaps even deliberately so, to make crypto look good.
Yeah, re-reading I should have used "persons" rather than "citizens"; was playing a fast and loose with the meaning of "citizen" and didn't actually mean a "citizen of".
Interestingly, according to the article, it was the decision to limit it that led to its popularity.
> They were once advertised to help your granny use the website but I haven't met a chatbot that could help me do something.

Duh, of course you haven't: You're not my granny.
But you're missing the bigger picture: the rich who issues mortgages (or more likely, has stake in a real estate company) is having their wealth transferred to the lender. Most wealthy people loan more than they owe. If you owe more than to loan out then by definitely you're not wealthy, your net worth is negative. Similarly, a poor person who owes $20,000 on an auto loan, whose car is now worth $25,000 just saw a significant gain.

Inflation helps people who owe more than they lend out (most poor and middle class people). People who lend out more than they owe, directly or indirectly through stake in companies that do lending, are the ones experiencing less profit because of inflation.
provide an option? send spam to some other bucket that the customer can view? label it so customer can filter it? warn them / block outbound spam (if it's not high qps I dont see a reason for the zero tolerance here, some kind of restricted mode is more reasonable). Communicate with the customer, especially when they contact you..

So many other options here
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illicit "In any case, illicit may be used of behavior that is either unlawful or immoral."

Putting carbon into the atmosphere (to the detriment of unborn people) in order to circumvent the laws of society and intentionally create a speculative bubble meant to pray on the unsophisticated investors and rob them of wealth is the definition of immoral behavior. Cryptocurrency was designed to disrupt laws (and has been used, see selling drugs on crypto, ransomware), so it must also be considered unlawful.
Your username is incorrect.
I really don't get this. If you give me the money I can just buy the stock if I want to and then it is identical. But the option to do something else with that money has value. So it is always more valuable (to me) to just receive the money.

I think RSUs are more valuable to companies, which is why they do things this way. And that's fine. But it doesn't mean they are more valuable to me.
QT (C++) is very popular for desktop apps, and they feel much faster than anything on NET or Java
I don't see Jan 5 data on that site yet. What am I missing?
> Then pwn2own decided not to include Firefox in another year hacks because Firefox made no improvements at all in previous 2 years.

Uh, [citation needed]?

Firefox was a valid target in Pwn2Own 2021: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2021/1/25/announcing-...

Nobody attacked Firefox successfully, but that's hardly a point against it. I don't know what "made no improvements at all in previous 2 years is supposed to mean", either, since we had just released a major overhaul of the optimizing compiler a few months before Pwn2Own: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/11/warp-improved-js-performan....
Horseshoe theory in action:

Nazi Germany (fascist far right) -> totalitarian dictatorship that invades its neighbors and executes dissidents

Soviet Union (communist far left) -> totalitarian dictatorship that invades its neighbors and executes dissidents
I haven't heard of any solid reasons not to support a Land Value Tax beyond the fact that it would upset tons of current land owners if done incorrectly.

Does anyone have any reasons why a Land Value Tax would be worse form of taxation than a Property Tax? Everything I read seems to be in favor of Land Value Taxes, but I just want to make sure I'm not only reading things in an echo chamber.

Edit: After some reading, it seems like the negatives I can find are that if people make improvements on their land, nearby land also increases in value, thus raising taxes for people who don't have the means to make improvements. But this doesn't seem like a great counter-point, because then those land owners who have increased taxes are more likely to sell (likely at a profit) to someone willing to redevelop the land and make further improvements.
All opinion-based, take with a grain of salt:

The numeric status code itself (404) is mostly for machine understanding purposes; the fact that many websites still render the number itself on the page is a strange quirk of the way that the web (and web servers, and online culture) developed.

It's fine for a PWA to use an HTTP 404 code locally -- for example for a service worker to return that status code when a URL is known not to exist either online or offline. You probably wouldn't want an HTTP 404 'locally' for something that 'could' exist if the user was online, because you don't want to cache the apparent non-existence of that content.

And then to the human/user side of the HTTP 404: it makes sense to display a relevant message to indicate to the person that the content was not found. That could be a generic "oh, we couldn't find what you were looking for" (localized), or it could be more context-sensitive -- "that conversation thread couldn't be found", for example.
If you define “next door” by time to reach, then NYC had that contrast ever since the street car/subway was available. Extreme wealth, spend a nickel (or walk a block) and then see wretched poverty. So nothing really new…it was/is the reality of Manhattan since the late 1800s.

And the future of “the US” is actually your projected future for a fairly tiny geographic region of densely urban US, something the other 95+% of Americans look at with a combination of bemusement and amazement. It’s been a few decades since those dense urban areas have been considered any sort of default desired social or cultural target for most Americans or American culture as a whole. It was different 70 years ago…
Indeed, I was thinking where are these rational managers where you can discuss things openly. It seems the world of management is full of petty narcissistic control freaks.
Yeah, I understand that feeling. I guess I sort of viewed it as a nerd just way too excited about something they think is cool...
The calculation of licit activity is a bit dubious, too. For example, the foreign exchange market has an overall volume of $6 trillion or so. It does not follow that the US GDP is only about 1% of total currency transactions and is therefore immaterial (or alternatively that currency in general is useless because 99% of global transactions are unproductive).

I’m also suspicious that Chainalysis doesn’t understand the UTXO model. If you have $1bn of Bitcoin in a single “account” (UTXO) and you spend $1, you just “transacted $1bn”. I don’t know if there are good stats on what fraction of “total volume” consists of cryptocurrency holders simply making change for themselves. It’s not immediately obvious from the blockchain which transactions outputs are actually intended for parties other than the originator of the transaction.
In Europe they both go by the hand. It just doesn’t cringe loud as they usually cooperate peacefully.
Hamming, Intro to the Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
my impression is that 'engineered wood' is a slightly different aggregation than 'mass timber', with engineered wood including things like plywood, while mass timber is focused on the 'timber' aspect (more structurally focused, usually larger).
Here's a sad anecdote:

This is from a courthouse, they have a web application to register and edit formal requests from lawyers. Decent computers, ok network and printers.

From:

- listening to the lawyer,

- (potentially reloging due to session timeouts),

- accessing the right case through a long ID,

- re asking the lawyer about the case ID because half the time they confuse with another ID system,

- retrying to fetch the case,

- selecting a bunch of options (most are direct mapping from ID to value, ID is actually concatenation of these values)

- clicking a few more times,

- reinputing some the already redundant values and waiting for the system to generate the .odt.

- If that does not fail, you get an activex embed view of the document,

- which is 10-15% of the time incorrect in a few places, so manual edit here we go.

- You can now print it x2

You spent 5 full minutes on this.

One day, network failed so no more web app. Girls told me they have a stash of old printed templates to fill manually. So I took the piece of paper, and while talking to the lawyer I could write things on the fly. It took 30 seconds, no wait, no uncertainty, no redundancy, no last minute error correction.

Middle age monks > 2000s technology (when implemented in absurdia)
NovelAI is literally built by disgruntled AI Dungeon fans after the censorship scandal who wanted a better, more privacy-focused AI Dungeon for story generation. If you think AI dungeon has some cool features, you ain't seen nothing yet. There's a prompt tuning system called "modules" which basically primes the AI to write in a certain style, like a certain author or genre, etc (there are dozens of default modules, plus an included API to train your own, and you can share them and import other people's modules freely. Want a module trained on all of Harry Potter, or trained specifically on a particular genre of erotica? Someone's probably already made one). That's only one of the cool features it has, there are plenty others.

General upsides: There's a billion different settings and dials and output customization. The context limit is 2048 tokens is almost 3 times larger than AI Dungeon's. Everything is extremely transparent as far as inputs and outputs go, and the UI is really clean and functional, it's more like a word processor than anything. There's no crappy energy system like AI Dungeon either. Everything is run on private servers and encrypted so the devs couldn't snoop on your stories even if they wanted to (which was the main reason it was created, after it came out the AI Dungeon devs were reading and censoring private stories) and there's no risk of Google or Microsoft butting in and forcing them to change their business model like AI Dungeon. It's even got a legacy DO/SAY/STORY choose-your-own-adventure mode/module for people nostalgic about the AI Dungeon aesthetic. The base AI is finetuned on a large, curated collection of novels, rather than on a bunch of garbage CYOA stories written by 10-year-olds like AI Dungeon.

General downsides: It's paid subscription only, though I think there's actually a free trial nowadays. It uses eleutherAI's GPT-J-6B, which is about 1/40th the size of GPT-3's largest model which is 275B. It definitely punches above its weight class though and subjectively has comparable or higher output quality to AI Dungeon's "Griffin" which used a smaller GPT-3. And they're coming out with a 20B model too in like...a week or two.
That's crypto's weak point. Blockchains are effective as long as gun toting folks let the miners mine.

I'd be surprised if Uncle Sam decided to drop the dollar and lose the influence it provides.
The climate change thing is overspoken, most of these people are fine with someone using 10 graphics cards to do AI training or whatever other task that is resource intensive. It's just that climate change is a big political and cultural point for a certain segment of US and Europe so those against crypto have found a convenient propaganda point by making people feel guilty for using computation cycles in an unapproved manner.
Salt-die/nurses_2: A widget and async-centric terminal graphics library
Ok, so then why not just use USD? After all, breaking the law is a requirement for survival, so why concern yourself about breaking one more law (using USD)?
I'm not the one you responded to, but I just wanted to add that it's still not steno. CharaChorder just has chording, but no theories, or whatever you call them for steno. You basically have to memorize every single chord on the CharaChorder afaik.
You can’t make API calls to instantiate nurses and doctors, nor can you order them from Amazon. These are pipelines that take years to get folks through.

If your question is, “Is the US healthcare system capacity not elastic?”, the answer is, unequivocally, no, no it is not. So get your vaccine(s) and don’t be an unnecessary burden on your fellow human, whether that’s someone who needs healthcare or someone who provides it.
I love how all the objections to this are freaking out because people won't be able to get job offers above the salary range (which isn't even true anyway), as if the biggest problem facing workers in this country is being offered too much money and this law would stop that.
One thing I find more odd is how American audiences treat the DPRK while also supporting the continued military puppet state that is the ROK. There were also a "lot of sources" supporting WMDs in Iraq. When what you're saying is the state department narrative it's not going to receive pushback.

The US killed 20% of Koreans on the peninsula and reduced it all to rubble. Forgive my skepticism at the "humanitarian intentions". Especially when there are financial incentives to become a defector [0]

There are also documentaries produced locally [1] and you can very well go on Weibo yourself and speak to North Koreans.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39170614
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktE_3PrJZO0
Sounds like demonstrating a working solution to a problem doesn't convince some people :( .
I don't know if I agree with parent comment's concern. The what we do/what we fund pages are full of where the actual money goes. At worst, there's no disclaimer warning off people that arrived with a misconception.

But if we were to buy the premise, whether Mozilla can't or chooses not to use the money for browser development doesn't matter in the slightest.

And I think there's a pretty big citation needed on "they can't". Sure, they can't divert non profit funds in to the for profit corporation. But they could use it to build open source software with strategic alignment - like funding Rust.
You don't have to do this anymore, the buildkit frontend for docker has a new feature that supports multiline heredoc strings for commands: https://www.docker.com/blog/introduction-to-heredocs-in-dock... It's a game changer but unfortunately barely mentioned anywhere.
Not just that. Imagine I do a replication study and the results are at odds with these findings - it wouldn't be easy to publish them. But I bet this study will be quoted/referenced liberally.
"I have started assuming that most of the people here have some kind of side project that makes them money"

I would assume the former - that they have a side project, but not the latter part of that statement - that it makes them money.

I have about 3-4 serious side projects along with a lot of smaller stuff on github. Only 2 of them make money, with one of them taking the lion's share.

This side project operates in a niche space - it's basically a SaaS for an area that works in pretty antiquated ways. I manage it by recieving emails from the users and copy pasting them to github repo in the form of issues, and I respond to the email.

For the self discipline part, honestly, I feel this strange sense of craftsmanship/ownership mindset when it comes to these projects, and there's a natural "pull". When I slack off, there's usually some underlying issue at play. Most people just reprimand themselves, but I dig deeper and find the thing that's bothering me. For example, maybe I'm not getting enough exercise/sleep or something is deeply disturbing at work/school. I don't feel guilty about not working (maybe that's just me).

I don't really see the project as "work" because it's what I want to do, so there is no balance to be established.
> Snap’s new complaint posits that there’s been enough media coverage of Spectacles, bolstered by some industry awards and its own marketing including social media, to support its claim that consumers associate the word “spectacles” with the Snap brand. Snap first filed a trademark application for Spectacles in September 2016, “for use in connection with wearable computer hardware” and other related uses “among consumer electronics devices and displays.”

I'll admit I'm no keen user of social media, but this is the first time I've heard of this product. The article suggests the last iteration was a massive flop so I'm probably not in the minority here.

Also, I find these types glasses-mounted camera products incredibly creepy. It's already bad enough that everyone has a video camera in their pocket, but at least with a smartphone it's somewhat difficult to be covert about recording. With smart glasses anyone on the street could be recording you and you'd be none the wiser.
I deny that there is any meaningful or worthwhile theoretical thought behind communism. It was all just made up with zero connection to objective reality.
No idea how they can type that fast with those long finger nails!
I think the idea is good but if its auto-completing and readjusting as you go I dont think your even typing properly.

Just my 2 cents.
Oil and gas contribute 50% of Kazakhstan's electricity generation
This study is 1.3million patients treated by 3000 surgeons, and reaches statistical p=0.004. Not small or weak!
> The hospital strain point gets made a lot but I have one problem with this. Its been two years: have hospitals or the healthcare industry as a whole made an honest effort at upping the capacity in their facilities?

It takes 10 years to train a doctor and 6 years to train a nurse.

Exactly what exactly is your plan to get more doctors / more nurses?

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In my state, we've declared an emergency. The national guard has been deployed to hospitals to run non-medical jobs. Student nurses are now allowed to work in hospitals / clinics, and we've even signed cross-state agreements to share our excess nurses in a pool with other states (so that as we get hit with COVID19 emergenies, we can help pass nurses around and better distribute the load as needed).

If you got any better ideas, we're all ears. Immigrant visa applications are __heavily__ slanted towards doctors / nurses as well. Its an open secret that if you want USA-citizenship, just train to be a nurse then move here. Our systems are firing 100% on hiring more nurses and we still don't have enough of them.

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Port-cities (we have a few of them) can make requests to the US Navy for hospital ships. This doesn't work for land-locked states but its an option for us.
How well does plex work on a raspberry pi? I assume you could never encode anything.
The IPC is in SystemV flavor but I think these days we normally should adopt Posix IPC instead especially for Linux/BSD, am I missing something?

"On Linux and FreeBSD there is big advantage of posix queues, as handler given by mq_open are basically file descriptor which can be polled/epolled/selected/kqueued"
"all POSIX IPC is thread-safe, while most SysV IPC is NOT"
> It's not uncommon for the flu to knock someone out for a good week.

This is why it has a vaccine. That prevents it, prevent seriousness of symptoms, and deaths. (yet a large percent of the population doesn't get it, and so 50k us citizens die each year)
I can't speak to outpatient services, but hospitals report this data, and make the call. The government doesn't do it -- which is what you'd expect. It's hard and slow to make case-by-case judgment calls when you're far from the source data. Hospitals, in turn, don't spend any more time than is absolutely required making these kinds of classifications, unless someone makes them do it.

It would not surprise me at all to find that other cities/states have the same thing happening.
FuzixOS
Can't wait for my car to shut down when I'm trying to get home during a surprise blizzard. Once my car is covered in snow, the snowplow will clean up all the evidence of wrongdoing! Who'll be able to tell if I was drunk when I'm shattered into thousands of pieces by a speeding plow?
I don't mean to be rude, but did you even watch it? He explains the firmware deletes a word when it detects a chord which skews the accuracy.
Eh... kind of? Like, I don't disagree that there are reasonable points here, but:

> Quitting should never be a surprise for your boss

> What’s the worst that can happen?

Not a total surprise, but in many environments even hinting that you're looking to leave will... greatly increase the urgency of your search. They might not terminate you outright (or they may), but it's gonna make the rest of your time there a lot less fun. The worst that can happen is that you admit you're thinking about leaving and get escorted out by security. Obviously it depends exactly what we mean by not being a surprise; problems should generally be communicated... perhaps it would be better to say "Your boss should be able to say why you left"?

> Match your notice period to the handover period

I personally think the handover part is a symptom; at least for the kind of work I do, if there was truly that much to hand over something already failed. Process goes in wiki, tasks go in Jira, code goes in version control... sure, there will always be a few things that only you really understood and some in-flight work that's not fully written down in a ticket, but IMO if it takes you even 2 full weeks to exit gracefully then either you messed up or the company messed up (ex. there was no other person to hand off to and they couldn't hire that fast).