skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yet as far as I'm aware, all appropriate processes and procedures were followed by our elected representatives in the course of levying sanctions against foreign nationals. Please point out where any process that was so due was circumvented. What exactly is the due process being violated?

You realize that sanctions =/= expropriation, and we were talking about expropriation?

>I'm sorry, but as a point of fact it's government force that is used to preserve and enforce property rights. How do you think private property remains private if not for the government's monopoly to arrest and imprison? Peace and goodwill toward men is not keeping the property of Russian oligarchs private -- it's the threat of imprisonment for violating them.

I'm not against "force" here, I'm against invoking authoritarian policies to fight authoritarianism. If there are some anti-due process terrorists running around, and the government decides respond by sending them to gulags/gitmo without trial, they shouldn't get to claim the moral high ground. At the very least, the irony shouldn't be lost on them.

>My advice to you is if you're really worried about the issue of civil asset forfeiture, this is not the right context to argue against it. Billionaire Russian oligarchs are not a sympathetic group to champion, and it's really in poor taste in the moment. Your effort is better spent fighting concrete injustices faced by ordinary Americans, rather than making dozens of posts on HN defending... Russian oligarchs engaged in a war of aggression.

Yeah, but the whole point of due process is to protect the unsympathetic. If they're sympathetic they can at least try to win in the court of public opinion. For the unsympathetic, due process is literally all they have.
Sorry Ukraine, Germany needs Russian energy
Surely some technologies show early promise but turn out to be evolutionary dead ends though, and we just don't know/think about them because they didn't end up relevant to modern life.

Maybe one example is space travel. My parents generation was apparently convinced that we'd have hotels on the moon by 1990. Probably most 20 year olds don't think we'll have hotels on the moon in their lifetime now.
Bitcoin will outlive you and me. Lots of others too probably.
That's a great point. I think as a software engineer working at small companies I'm used to just brute forcing the answers to these kinds of questions through google/reading code/trial and error but for the sake of creating relationships it's beneficial to ask these kinds of questions as well.
And another 30% in Texas, and 32% in California. So 8% spread across the rest of the nation... It would seem we drastically oberestimate the number of Jewish asian Texans.
Ethereum has been ‘close’ to going PoS for years now, but I will certainly celebrate the day it happens.

Bitcoin… do they even have any plans to move to PoS?

In short, I’ll believe it when I see it. I certainly hope you’re right, though.
Why not just synchronize to GPS time? It is pretty straightforward to get hardware timestamp on the 1PPS from the GPS. And then your time is as precise as the GPS clock, which can have a rubidium standard.
The Multipolar World Dies in Ukraine
Susan Rigetti on Cover Story and the Allure of Scammers
Dumb question: how is serverless postgres different from cloud sql postgres?
> I used to think so highly of Amazon.

Amazon never changed. You did.
I am so relieved that it made it without hitting some debris, and that the hydraulics didn't fail for the unfurling. The unfurling was one insane piece of orchestration, which just means many more opportunities to see a piece of space dust or something messing it all up.

This image is fantastic, even though we can easily see that more work needs to be done with the alignment. It hopefully proves that alignment is all that's left.
Anyone who has worked in municipal systems has probably dealt with the horrific web of systems that is Tyler technologies. Most others have never heard of them. But they have massive inroads in municipalities. Many, many USA cities use them to drive things such as court records, water billing, hr, payroll, etc. They’re a silent behemoth.
That final line comes after the aforementioned explanation, not in place of it as OP suggests.

The point, as many others have offered in this thread but those set on hating W3Schools at all costs are determined to ignore, is that they provide a succinct explanation of web technologies for the relative layman. Its existence doesn't detract from MDN or any other resource, meanwhile it provides a demonstrable service. That seems like an odd crime to warrant strawmen attacks.
Nice ideas, thanks! I've done this before with all the people on my team but it felt weird to do that to others outside my team for some reason.
I made an earnest effort to switch to Brave, but I'm back with Google for almost all searches because 1100ms+ result page loads are simply unworkable here.
> any use of blockchain technology in which the ledger is not self-contained [is unusable because] there can be no trust-free link between the ledger and the physical world.

Sure, data would need to be verified by a trusted party when it's first entered. A blockchain still protects against forgery after this though.
> The U.S. and China are unified markets that together comprised 42% of global GDP and 52% of global defense spending in 2021. Their ability to leverage hard military power and economic coercion is an insurmountable obstacle to the emergence of the other powers that would make a multipolar world order. With the potential long-term exception of India, no country has the size and strategic resources to compete individually, and current multinational institutions like the UN and the EU are built on soft foundations which cannot be transformed into hard power.

…

> For now, the Ukraine war is hastening the birth of a new world order, but it isn’t a multilateral one. The U.S. and China are establishing themselves as the two separate suns that all other nations orbit.
Home Depot successfully installs Tomcat 9 in production
Have iPhone Cameras Become Too Smart?
For inference, we extended KServe (previously KFServing from Kubeflow) to fit our on-prem cluster needs. Highly recommended!
You can, but is there any practical effect?
Me too. There's https://neeva.com/, but their selling point is slightly different (I don't really care about ads per se, or privacy, I just want to get good search results (without paid promoted results or weird interstitial results modals, looking at you "people also clicked on" Google box!) and maybe be able to do advanced queries (search by file type, date, booleans, etc. I would also like to be able to ban sites from my results, for example, all of the spammy websites that scrape stackoverflow and mirror the pages, which Google somehow hasn't blocked themselves yet...
It's been 13 years. How long would we wait before we declare it unproductive?
If you're on an Intel CPU try vTune, it's like perf on crack. Everything perf does vTune does better and in a pretty GUI that draws diagrams and pipelines for you.
On a tangent, google seems to turn up lot more obnoxious Quora results rather than reddit ones. Anyone find that to be the case?
I literally use it to pay for education.

That's about as productive of a thing as I can imagine. I suppose physically producing a thing might be a step above that depending on whether it's a useful thing.

Satoshi's words come to mind on this. If you don't get it (or it's not useful for you), that's fine.

Really it's just amusing 14 years in that you don't realise you're the old man ranting in the pub.
The internet predates the pc.
What's the system requirents like ? I could not find on a cursory look
Yeah - agree... also anyone throwing out a quick "Let's just say..." immediately makes me question the legitimacy of their claims. It's a handwave at best, but most often I've seen folks use it to cover up a bs claim by being incredibly vague, all while attempting to come off as cheeky and intelligent.
But isn't telegram a Russian messenger?
> If someone steals my credit card, I have my credit card company to give me some level of protection. They can block transactions if they think it's stolen, and if I report it as stolen I can claw back money from fraudulent purchases.

Can we, just for a moment, think critically about whether or not this is a good* thing?

As a consumer / client of the credit card company it seems great at first glance. I get scammed? No problem, I'll get my money back. But where does that money come from? Certainly not from the thief. My hypothesis (I'm not an expert in this field) is that it actually comes from you, the consumer, albeit very indirectly and in two main ways:

1) Credit cards companies charge businesses that allow consumers to use them a fee. Business often pass this fee on to the consumer, sometimes even explicitly. For example gas stations usually publish separate prices for gas w/ or w/o credit card. That fee is the main revenue source for the credit card company, and fraud reimbursement is one of their expenses. Expenses go up? Fees go up. In this way businesses (and less directly you) are paying an insurance premium on top of the credit card company's operating costs and profit margin.

2) Credit card companies most likely write fraud reimbursement off when filing taxes. So taxes that they would otherwise pay vanish. If the taxing entity wants a minimum tax revenue, that means increased rates elsewhere (and quite possibly for individuals).

So what's an alternative? Putting more effort in to the prevention of theft/fraud in the first place.

* "Good thing" meaning net benefit to society.
I'll also take unpaid 3-4 month time off but keep insurance
DEC's StrongARM processor was almost this:

> According to Allen Baum, the StrongARM traces its history to attempts to make a low-power version of the DEC Alpha, which DEC's engineers quickly concluded was not possible. They then became interested in designs dedicated to low-power applications which led them to the ARM family. One of the only major users of the ARM for performance-related products at that time was Apple, whose Newton device was based on the ARM platform. DEC approached Apple wondering if they might be interested in a high-performance ARM, to which the Apple engineers replied "Phhht, yeah. You can't do it, but, yeah, if you could we'd use it." -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM

And while the IP didn't directly influence Apple Silicon, the experience did:

> P. A. Semi (originally Palo Alto Semiconductor[1]) was an American fabless semiconductor company founded in Santa Clara, California in 2003 by Daniel W. Dobberpuhl,[2][3] who was previously the lead designer for the DEC Alpha 21064 and StrongARM processors. The company employed a 150-person engineering team which included people who had previously worked on processors like Itanium, Opteron and UltraSPARC. Apple Inc acquired P.A. Semi for $278 million in April 2008. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi
in the US the IRS is pretty known for working with you - if you call theyll set up a payment plan or whatever.

ive known a number of people that got mildly burned by taxes, nothing crazy just unexpected, but with bigger numbers it could have been bad. When you have ISO(incentivized stock options), one of the incentives is you dont pay tax until you sell, which sounds great. There's this other way of calculating taxes, AMT(alternative minimum tax) which does not respect ISO, and you pay whichever is bigger. normally people dont get near AMT amounts, so most people dont know it exists. So when you exercise you think theres no tax, but then you do your taxes and realize actually you owe tax on money you never received.
Takes a real piece of work to

1. destroy other people's computers because of their nationality. pure xenophobically motivated viciousness.

2. assume any mass retribution against ordinary Russians is unlikely to affect ordinary Ukrainians, and vice versa. As opposed to, you know, their close relationship over the years suggesting the exact opposite - they are not mutually exclusive categories, but rather, the chance of targeting one, makes it even more likely you also attack the other by mistake!

Time and time again war and blowback go hand in hand. Hopefully the dev is held accountable.

edit: turns out this is fake..
It’s not immunity, it is irrelevancy.
> But what TDD buys you is that, when the design changes (and it should, if it's a bad design), and you have to modify your component/class/module/whatever, you can run the tests and see if you broke anything.

That's not exclusive to TDD, it is true for any automated testing, and not only that. Any formalizing of additional assumptions into the code (as I write elsewhere, things like type checks, assertions, property tests) will also manifest potential issues when code changes.

My point is, there are other techniques to solve this problem, more straightforward than TDD.
let's just keep it simple.

crypto is good for the following:

1. when you're living in armageddon and/or under an authoritative regime and/or need an exit from fiat for wte reason. not saying it's easy to exit into it, but it's there

2. to create a recursive never-ending loop of collateralized lending. to trade tokens in order to create tokens that can then be traded for other tokens used to collateralize lending for a different set of tokens

for anything else, there are better and more efficient solutions.
Crypto people love to say “it’s the early days.”

But it’s not. Bitcoin is 13 years old. At that age, Windows was on >90% of the world’s computers. Java at age 13 had taken over enterprise software and was about to conquer mobile via Android. Cryptos are used by maybe 0.1% of computer users (if we’re very generous about what exactly constitutes usage). Considering the amount of investment they are an expensive failure by any normal metrics like monthly active users.

It’s not the early days. Rather these are the last days for VCs to sell you this tired old thing before the novelty wears off, and that’s why they are so frantic about pushing it via Hollywood celebrities and whoever else they can muster with money.
To prove I'm an optimist, I'll say that most levels of government in the US must have transparency regulations that would prevent them from being bound by any kind of NDA. Otherwise the potential for corruption is pretty significant. Like I said, I'm an optimist.

If you trust google search, my 2 minute research suggests the federal government explicitly disallows NDAs from binding them, and that in government overall NDAs are really rare. But that information is worth roughly how much it cost me to search for it.
> Who are these "war critics" you speak of?

>> apologists for the aggressor who is imposing the war

> I presume you're talking about the people who oppose russia's invasion,

No, the opposite.
The baseline take on what happened with Webb is that too many low-readiness technologies were included when the mission was approved and went into “Phase A” which means that development starts.

The entire astrophysics community suffered as a result of the ensuing suckout of resources. Lessons have been learned because a lot of careers were impacted.

There’s several successors to Webb on the horizon, and current thinking is to mature the technologies needed before such missions enter Phase A and is in effect committed to.

For a concrete reference on this, see the (very large) National Academies survey, which charts the course for NASA astrophysics over the next 10 years:

https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/decadal-survey-on...

A decent gloss on the above report is:

https://www.aip.org/fyi/2021/astro2020-decadal-survey-arrive...

which lays out the tech maturation plan under the “ Flagship mission maturation program” heading.
A former colleague now owns a website development shop in my city, they are as busy as can be updating school websites because a local woman went around every school website and found ADA violations. She’s making a ton, and has no disability.

She got her lawyer involved, frilessless or not all of the school settled with agreements that they would fix the “issues”.

What’s the answer to the technicality and legality of lawsuits? I’m not a lawyer, but at the very minimum the threat is enough.
I'm about a third of the way through "All The Kremlin's Men", and it's been really good so far. Some really interesting stories from Putin's early days.
I think normal people have just changed how they use it without much fanfare. If people want to quickly find a specific site they are looking for they know it's the place. But if they want to explore the world of cat memes they know it's not the place for something like that any more (it'll only show you 143 results, many with weak relevancy).
You're thinking about it from the wrong perspective. Yes, publishing software can be thought of as expression, and that's protected by the constitution. But publishing malware as benign software, without disclosing it is fraud/deception, and that shouldn't be allowed. The legal system protects freedom of expression, but still allows you to get punished for deceptive speech that's harmful (ie. fraud/libel).
People won't transact on chain. Paypal et. al. will allow people to make bitcoin denominated transactions and will settle with other payment processors on chain. That gives the average consumer access to the kinds of protections they are used to.
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Nope, about 1/3 of Americans have Medicaid or Medicare. At least 6% of all gdp is government dollars in healthcare, probably more.
There have been licenses that do this same kind of stuff before. There have been dozens of variations of FOSS licenses over the years that prohibit things like use for nuclear facilities, use in weapon systems, use in genocide, etc.

That's not to say I think any of this is a good idea. I think it's insanely naive to try to contractually block a dictator from using your software in the first place. Do these people think they're going to sue the dictator in the dictator's court? The Russian government is already considering legalizing piracy of proprietary software to evade sanctions; they DGAF about these licenses.

I mostly just think that the OSI and FSF's "all or nothing" stance on some topics is a bit extremist. A hypothetical license that said "You can do anything with this software except launching missiles at kittens" is pretty damn in line with the spirit of FOSS, even though the OSI or FSF would never approve it. I understand they take that ideological angle because they are thought leaders and need a clear message, not a slippery slope, but this is where I think it's reasonable to be reasonable.

I think it's better to criticize these types of "weaponized" FOSS licenses by pointing out that they're entirely ineffective wastes of time. There are plenty of real merits to undermine these licenses, which is why they haven't caught on previously. Saying "that's not open source" is just like a chocolate snob telling their friend that their Hershey's bar is "totally not real chocolate"

That being said, we're beyond the realm of software licenses in this conflict anyway. Sanctions have already started cutting people off from FOSS projects, regardless of license.
This is an obvious troll by the way. Given the username on GitHub of who raised this issue.
"Unsubstantiated allegations" and "hasn't yet resulted in a criminal conviction" are substantially different things. Investigative journalism plays an important role in our (American) society and justice system, and I think we're much better off for it.

To make it concrete: it seems perfectly reasonable for a journalist to publish a first-person story about an event, potentially a crime, that they witnessed. The fact that Britain's legal system threatens journalists who would do that isn't great.
That's a sad state of affairs, thank you for doing the right thing and speaking up for those who have been chilled into silence.
The only way you could sell it as an overall less expensive option would be with really elaborate studies that could convincingly tie the transportation effects to the design of the school system.

But, when it comes to schools, fewer buildings means lower costs. We've been suffering this for years, there aren't anywhere near as many schools in my district as there were 30 or 40 years ago, even as the number of students go up. It's less expensive to consolidate the schools into a fewer number of locations and increase the capacity of the remaining locations.

Ergo, going the other direction and creating more, smaller schools (each with their own infrastructure, custodians, some level of administration, etc) is going to require taxpayers to foot the bill. And not like a levy that only lasts for X years, but on an ongoing basis. Where I live (Oregon) there is massive resistance to new taxes. I do not think we are unique in that regard.
I'm sure lots of people want WFH exclusively, and that's valid, but for me a flexible hybrid setup where the office is there if you want it, and my team plans in-the-office meeting days is really ideal for me. I feel like I miss a lot not seeing people in person. I've felt extremely isolated these last 2 years and I'll be very happy to be getting some face-to-face time this year and in the future
Daylight Saving Time Is Bad for Teenagers
Yeah the second looks like what I got. (BwZX9FQ)
I use Firefox. It's not "meh". It does it's job. It's a browser, I don't need bells and whistles.
Rwanda didn't have nuclear weapons that it repeatedly threatened to use.
So the average consumer is back to trusting a central authority (PayPal)? Then what’s the point, for the end user, of the blockchain in the first place?
Yes, it categorically is a good thing.

People make mistakes. Our society should not be an unforgiving one that heavily punishes mistakes or can’t handle basic situations like fraudulent transactions. Prevention of fraud is a cat and mouse game.
Fuel prices, traffic congestion, cheaper rents, healthier air, are all advantages that cannot be taken away. Taking the commute out of my job gave me an additional 4 hours everyday not counting lower stress levels. Doing away with random cafeteria talk gave me 90 minutes back. As to creativity, I think the management view that everyone sitting in a room is more creative is not really true. I'd rather meet up people outside a stuffy office.

The clamor to come back to office is only from upper management whose primary concerns seems to stem from the fact that having control over physical bodies in an office is a sense of power. They also have nice offices, views, facilities, space and desks. The rent extracting industry is also going through a crisis of sorts and the political class is deeply invested in rent extraction.

COVID hasn't gone away. Long term effects (cognitive, cardiac) of a COVID infection are not being accounted for either. COVID highlighted the fact that you can get digital work delivered from anywhere.
This is a major problem. Without redesign, this falls on "q-day".

https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/rou...

"Formal complaint regarding 8 June 2021 incident - 2021.06.15, Daniel J. Bernstein

"Executive summary. A week ago Dr. Daniel Apon from NIST publicly accused me of professional misconduct. Specifically, he accused me of initiating private contact with NIST so as to provide false information to NIST regarding the timing of an upcoming announcement relevant to NIST’s ongoing decisions..."
"Putin's Oligarchs" ... as if a man from a working class family rose to power without the consent of Russia's oligarchy. Why does western media always obsessively focus on the front man?
> People trade, legally, on inside information all the time.

Example?