skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about the governer Whitmer kidnapping plot?

>Another informant, an Iraq War veteran, was so deeply involved in the militant group that he rose in the ranks to become the second in command. He also encouraged members to work with other suspects and even offered to foot the bill to get people to and from meetings. He is also accused of urging the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping plot to carry it out before laying the trap for him to be arrested. [0]

>There were at least 12 FBI informants involved in the investigation to thwart the alleged scheme by a militia group known as the “Wolverine Watchmen” — but the agents actually took an active part in it right from its inception, according to court filings, evidence and dozens of interviews reviewed by BuzzFeed News — and now some members of the group are accusing the feds of entrapment. [1]

Bear in mind that given the nature of the subject, the frequency of "involvement" by three letter agencies is probably a lot higher than what is reported publicly.

0. https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-informants-had-bigger-role-213400...

1. https://nypost.com/2021/07/21/men-accused-in-plot-to-kidnap-...
That solves nothing, it only lines politician’s pockets. The cost of electricity is the deterrent currently, which is why you don’t see everyone mining. If you want to make electricity cost more, it’ll “solve” more than crypto mining, it’ll just make mostly poor people have a lower standard of life.
I accept that it's entirely possible that 30 years down the line we'll discover some horrific thing we've all done to ourselves by taking the vaccines. What I can say however is that we don't have any evidence that suggests that we will see major problems in the future caused by the vaccines.

What we do have evidence for are future problems caused by these coronavirus infections along with a long list of immediate problems like deaths, severe (sometimes life altering) symptoms which can at times persist for weeks, months, and years, healthcare systems being overwhelmed preventing or delaying access to care and making accessing health services more risky, etc.

If you have to choose between getting a vaccine which appears to be perfectly safe but maybe could cause harm at some point in the future, and not getting it which we know does cause harm now and is very likely to cause harm in the future the choice is pretty clear. We can only deal with the evidence we have today and our best understanding of our current situation.

Especially when the vaccines benefit us not only by keeping us healthier and helping to eliminate the strain on our healthcare systems, but they are also our best bet to help reduce the need for social restrictions and disruptions in education and the economy.

There's still always that chance that the vaccines will have some negative impact on us later, but anyone in the future looking back and seeing our current situation won't have to wonder "What were they thinking taking their chances with this new vaccine!" It should be very clear to them that because we had no indication that there would be problems with the vaccine and because the vaccines were our best option to keep ourselves and each other healthy in the face of current problems and known future problems caused by the virus it was perfectly reasonable to take the chance on the vaccines and that doing so saved many lives and prevented many problems.

And I hope that should we have to deal with any future consequences from these vaccines that we can once again turn to medical science to find the best available option to treat those problems using the best understanding of them we have at the time. A huge percentage of the global population will be impacted after all so once again we'll be in a position where the entire world has an incentive to work together to find a solution which will hopefully go even smoother next time following the lessons learned here and now.

With more research and time things could change, but until there are indications that the vaccines could cause more harm than the known harms of the virus the vaccines will remain the smartest option we have today, no matter how tragic things turn out decades later.
Imposing global technological bans so willy-nilly seems like a nice idea only on the surface. Things like machine drying your clothes at home in the US (uncommon in Europe so seems frivolous) uses as much if not more energy. Others might consider gaming or self-hosted servers or who knows what else equally inefficient. Do you really want to put things so easily on the potential chopping block even if this one thing you hear a lot about might be a waste?

Now if PoW was using 10% of the world power maybe it'd worth it but I just don't see how you can justify such a ban but only apply it to this one thing.
Part of Being a Domestic Goddess in 17th-Century Europe Was Making Medicines
All a carbon tax does is punish consumers, while making crypto miners make less profit. The amount of tax it would take to make crypto mining less profitable basically is an imposition of austerity.
Great example! I'd tried playing this but got nervous about making the wrong deductions; my background in reverse engineering (but not linguistics) wanted to keep all options open until I had more data. Definitely need to give it a retry, there probably isn't another game that does as much to involve the player in a story about decipherment.
I don't think you can reasonably say I'm being glib about this, given that I've posted actual data about the specific parking usage in the area I'm talking about, and you're just spitballing based on "a map of Chicago".
This writing style is very off-putting. How many times is the author going to throw in references to their destroyed home and "hate mail" before getting to the point?

I actually vividly remember the first article, as it was riddled with assumptions about things that were easily verified or looked up. I have no interest in reading the follow-up.
Classic LAMP stack with P as in PHP, preferably with Server Side Rendering.

Still to this day nothing beats it even if you go barebones because everything you need is included out of the box.
There are plenty of subsets of the software industry that are grown-up.

Anybody who wants to learn more should read the RISKS mailing list and its archives. It's remarkably hard to produce reliable software but a number of groups around the world can do it.

Examples I can think of: the teams that built the series of ESS for AT&T. The folks who built Erlang (telecom reliability is a common theme here, being one of the other technical areas where software and hardware engineering excellence greatly exceeds that which we see from typical groups today). Even Qt, although the quality of their code and its adherence to the principles that make Qt great is variable, I'd say is a good example of a system built by grown-ups.

BTW, when i say "grown-up", I don't really mean anything directly related to age, although age and experience are the best proxies for grown-up. Grown up is really a way of saying: working with more weight on wisdom as raw intelligence (Ghemawat's law), respecting experience even if it's not obvious why you should, (Chesterton's Fence), using statistical testing techniques effectively for quality control (Shewhart), practicing discipline to ensure long-term compatibility and not burning your dependents (jwz's law of CADT). I don't think there's a general term for acting with these principles, I just mentally associate them with being a grownup who has learned from experience.
Do you have a more reliable source than a random Reddit image assemblage?
For another incredible look into the creative process, check out this transcript of tapes from the brainstorming sessions for "Raiders of the Lost Ark." George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Larry Kasdan sat down for four or five days to develop George's idea:

http://maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/raidersstoryconferenc...
Sharp corners are uncomfortable to hold.
I think Eric Weinstein raises some good questions here:
https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/148078022827213619...

No accusations, just asking DARPA for an explanation
Stand ups are just peer pressures on productivity with management oversight. I better have something to say at the standup or say X was completed or it'll look bad at me, not the effort.

In theory standups are great because the team works together to solve blocking problems and doesn't worry about productivity. In practice it's just another mechanism to push productivity.
I'd be surprised if any of this mattered for them, since their workload (at least the "copy movie files from disk to network" part of it) is embarrassingly parallel.

Unless they're really squeezed on power or rack space budget, I would imagine they'd do just fine being a generation back from the bleeding edge.
I guess it comes down to definitions.

To me a home would mean no shared walls/floors/ceilings with other tenants.
I've got a first gen iPad pro, running 15.1 currently. (Incidentally: thanks for letting me know 15.2 was out, I'm updating now).
I've used 1PW since it's inception, happily moving whichever way they went. However, the latest iteration (electron?) is an absolute mess. I blinkin hate it! Shortcuts work, then they don't. Search rarely works. Multiple overlapping modals appear. Modals position themselves over the input boxes. It's really awful after the change. Sadly I didn't find this out until I had already paid for the monthly subscription or I would have dropped it like a hot potato. I'll stick it out for a few months more, but if things don't improve I'll be in the market for something (anything) better.
Yea, I like reading him but his suggestions are myopic. He's an idealist and has clearly never faced the full-time profit driven work world that the majority of us inhabit.
This is why we can't have nice malware.
> Does this imply that productivity and the money supply grew at exactly the rate

Yes, and that rate of growth was probably 0.

England wasn't yet a massive trading empire. And being a small island pretty far removed from the rest of Europe, it probably didn't have a lot of wealth flowing in or out of it. And there was a functional limit to the amount of land a contingent of people could work by hand. Being a small island, all of the workable land was already being worked, so there isn't going to be a long term growth in crop yield without mechanization.

It seems the economy reached an equilibrium and remained there for a century.
> The fact this is turned into a paper like this shows the disconnect between reality and economics research.

I am not even sure if this is even an economic paper. After all, Donkor is an assistant professor of marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and not in the economics department.
That list includes IE 11, which doesn't support (basically any) ES6+. So Chrome 76 would have worked because it would be being served JavaScript that IE 11 could understand.
Well is it cheaper than a 5 year old rx480?
My mom taught programming at a community college in the 80s, and I graduated from high school in '82. Based on the experiences of her students after taking her course, I would have qualified for a programming job, having learned BASIC and Pascal fairly thoroughly. I don't know if the same level of proficiency (assuming a more modern language choice) would get me a job today.

Thankfully the Shadow IT Department has lower standards. ;-)
I don't think it's just Linus (though he certainly helps).

The kernel, unlike many other understaffed open source projects, has lots of developers working on it (the majority paid these days).
At the same time, unlike software built by corporations, there are no non techinical PHBs to say "ship it now and clean it up later".

Linux has found the sweet spot of getting companies on board to provide paid developers (it's much easier to do good work when you can allocate large blocks of time to it because your're paid to do it) whilst at the same time preventing them having too much say over the technical directions and timelines. Typically a company employing kernel developers will have a say in what they do (drivers, core kernel, ...) but not on how they do it.

But it's not really a model that can work for all open source software.

For related reasons I think that companies that build lots of software but whose product isn't actually software (like Google that is really an advertising company) often produce better quality software than pure software companies (like Microsoft) because the technical staff are left more alone by management who prefer to concentrate on the "real business"
That's not how this works. Even if you pay your supplier to buy only renewable energy on the open market, if your house is supplied by a coal power plant then your mining rig is powered by coal, regardless who you're paying for your electricity. Yes it feels good to pay for renewable electricity but ultimately that's not how it works.

And crypto needs to be banned because it's all a gigantic scam that has a gigantic environmental cost attached to it.
EU climate monitor reports last seven years were world’s hottest on record
How soon we have forgotten the lessons of the browser wars..
This would invite all sorts of workarounds. If accounting tricks and passing money between subsidiaries isn’t enough, then the last resort would be to buy the closest thing to liquid assets they could get away with.

I guess this kind of law would be good for accountants and lawyers but I don’t think it would have much impact beyond that.
You don't need a specific ban. Just even the playing field for traditional finance. Either make cryptocurrencies follow normal banking/financial laws or make laws for traditional finance more liberal. Cryptocurrencies and especially PoW based ones are a terrible, slow, inefficient and vulnerable technology which wouldn't survive a day of fair competition.
Are you the type of person that takes a clearly juicy/humorous/exaggerated post and dissects and fact-checks every single part of it? To take it all literally?

It was a light stab at coffee snobs.
There should be a law for message passing systems, which says that everyone will eventually want ordered delivery, multiplexing (with priorities), exactly-once semantics, acknowledgements and backpressure. (Maybe more?)

I'm pretty convinced all these popular features could be layered in a reasonable way that could be implemented in most messaging systems, and have standardized semantics and conventions. It seems like every time, we're reinventing the wheel, and half the time people talk over one-another because we're using inexact language.

Basically, what I want is a "message passing a la carte" paper.
Well written. I hope it remains fiction, though
> As an engineer you can subversively affect graphic design and you often have massive control over aesthetics.

For most of my career I was a hybrid designer/developer. There's definitely a dialog between them, and engineering enables and constrains some elements of the esthetics, but in general I would say it works the other direction more often than not.

That's why when I read about von Tiesenhausen’s Law of Engineering Design, it really rang true for me: "If you want to have a maximum effect on the design of a new engineering system, learn to draw. Engineers always wind up designing the vehicle to look like the initial artist’s concept."

We're just talking about esthetics, rather than functionality or purpose or process, which are much more of a give-and-take.

This is why I eventually just moved straight over to design: so much of product development is path-dependent, and designers exert a ton of leverage just by creating documents upstream of engineers.
50% of the total? The US military currently accounts costs less than 9% of all taxes collected annually.
You were the sole person who understood my poorly worded question. How did you come to the correct interpretation of my question, given information was missing from my question?

Did you assume that I realized the content of Skyking messages is encrypted, and then deduce that my question must relate to the other unencrypted parts?
Also Viber that used to be the main contender of WhatsApp in Western Europe up until a couple of years ago. I believe it's still beating WhatsApp on market share in a couple of markets like Israel iirc.
It think it's telling that most customers picked 20%, the lowest on the menu. I would conclude that the menu presents a nudge towards establishing 20% as the lowest socially acceptable tip. Selecting a custom tip lower than 20% runs the risk of upsetting the driver, possibly leading to a verbal or physical altercation.
PoW cryptocurrencies are still way more energy- and carbon-efficient than armored vans/trucks carrying valuables around, which is the other accepted method of decentralized, trustless value transfer. We shouldn't call for stuff to be "banned" that we can't even be bothered to understand properly.
Is this some sort of fallacy I don't understand? If you are travelling internationally your are identified no matter what and even before covid you had to show proof of vaccination for different parts of the world.
You posted data about parking tickets. This is not evidence that street parking provides sufficient capacity.
> that energy could instead replace traditional energy sources which could be turned off.

This is not true. Often, renewables aren't available to some locations but abundantly available in others. Other times, some people buy electricity from renewable providers and others don't.

With 50-75% of Bitcoin mining being renewable, one thing is clear - it's helped the adoption of renewables and made them cheaper.
The large delay between 3.0 to 4.0 was a gap between specifications (2010 to 2017) not a gap between specification to implementations (2017 to 2019).
Apple promises third-party payment options in iOS for South Korean users
If it takes you 30 seconds to calculate the tip that $1 is at a $120/hour rate.

Most people don't take home that amount ($250k/year). Would hope most people could do the math in under 15 seconds as well, doubling that rate. A far more reasonable "value" would be 10 cents.
> I have no problem with multi-generational living.

> groups of multiple unrelated working adults moving into a single-family home together as roommates

From the number of cars perspective, it doesn't make any difference if the multiple adults in the house are family or not, it's still one car per adult.
Previous commenter should have said "freemium" instead
With the rise of GPU-compute, a lot of the supercomputers are playing around with faster I/O systems. IBM pushed OpenCAPI / NVLink with Nvidia, and I think that inspired the PCIe ecosystem to innovate.

PCIe standards are including more and more coherent-memory options. It seems like PCIe is trying to become more like Infinity Fabric (AMD) / UltraPath Interconnect (Intel).
I might be missing something but what happens when you do it with the already supported HSL (for well over a decade)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value...

I'm in mobile. sorry for not investigating this myself
Yet to materialize? You should pay closer attention. A straight line is drawn between inflammatory rhetoric and radicalization of individuals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_Unit...

There's been a huge uptick in white supremacist terrorism in the US since 2015.

Charleston church shooting (2015)

Charlottesville car attack (2017)

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting (2018)

Escondido mosque fire and Poway synagogue shooting (2019)

El Paso Walmart shooting (2019)
We often use "middle class" as an analogue to a "normal" experience. But in earlier periods it was clearly the exception.
> Just a few years ago

> “My laptop can do 200,000.”

Only now (PCIe 4 and very recent controllers etc) are the very latest top-end NVME drives hitting around 150k IOPS (which isn't stopping manufacturers from claiming ten times that; WD's NVME drive tests at around 150-200k IOPS and yet they claim 1M) and only in ideal circumstances...reads and writes coming out of the SLC cache, which typically under 30GB, often a lot smaller except in the highest-end drives.

Many drives that claim to reach that sort of performance are actually using Host Backed Cache, ie stealing RAM.

IOPS on SSDs drops precipitously once you exhaust any HBC, controller ram, SLC cache, mid-level MLC cache...and start having to hit the actual QLC/TLC. In the case of a very large database, a lot of IO would be outside cache (though certainly any index, transaction, logging, etc IO would likely be in cache.)
It's the same MSRP.
thanks, I changed it
> there's no plausible way the people there would have seized power.

Sure, there is. Make Pence incapable of presiding, convince (this may not be necessary if the person is already a sympathizer), by inducements or threats, the person acting as President of the Senate to act in the manner Trump and various political allies had encouraged Pence to and which Pence had refused and simply decline to present certain state electoral votes, denying an immediate majority and either requesting friendly state legislatures to send alternate ballots, or preceding to vote by states in each house in the absence of a majority.

The “they couldn't have seized power” argument only works when you consider the people physically inside the Capitol as a separate force completely unrelated to the people that set out the goals in writing, the people that—publicly and unambiguously—told the people to go to the Capitol to get Congress to follow the goals set out in writing, and the people in State legislatures and in Congress who had publicly backed the goals set out in writing.

Which is a bizarre level of willful blindness.
Every state has laws making it illegal to be a member of a private armed militia
I guess that business were never built upon chats, while email (and conventional mail) is really the backbone of the enterprise world
If you have actual data about parking usage in this area, I'm all ears. I'm much less interested in your axiomatic derivation of how parking here works.

At any rate: I answered your question about "where all this on-street parking comes from". You can do the math on the carrying capacity of an Oak Park street for parking; you've got the maps, after all.
I can recommend The Non-Designer's Design Book, by Robin Williams, as a great way to dip a toe into the world of design. It won't make you a designer, but it will help you fake it a bit when you don't have one. I found the suggestions surprisingly effective in my own work.
I love how Mark Cerny managed to spin Sony having to raise the clock frequency of the PS5 GPU to compete with a the XSX's TFlop specs as an advantage. GPUs tend to be memory-bandwidth bound - if you play around with raising the clock frequency by 10% from stock on most GPUs, you won't get 10% more fps, likewise if you drop the frequency by 10%, you won't lose 10% fps.

But with the power consumption scaling with the square of the frequency, the difference in power draw can be absolutely significant. That's the reason many people (me among them) chose to underclock their 5700XTs