skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to go one layer deeper.

Is it fair to judge a historical figure for owning slaves in the 1600s? No. The ethical quandries of racism and the Abolitionist movement didn't start in earnest until the late 18th century.

Is it fair to judge American historical figures for owning slaves at a time when half of the country had already made it illegal? YES. You're now judging that person by the standards of their time. See also, Christopher Columbus.

Let's fast forward 200 years.

Is it fair to judge someone for being racist if they've grown up in the deep south, and are a product of the Jim Crow era, and were surrounded by propaganda about how the Civil War was not fought over slavery, and so forth? No.

Is it fair to judge the same person who goes to university, reads about the decades of systemic discrimination that endured even after ostensibly the Civil Rights Act passed, and whose reaction to "Black Lives Matter" is "No, All Lives Matter" based on an uncharitable superficial reading of the message? Yes.

The question isn't about whether you hold some opinions today that are considered "not woke". The question is whether you are holding the line for progress too low: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiSiHRNQlQo
As another reply indicated, the Fed doesn't actually set interest rates. That's a common misconception. Instead they purchase and sell treasuries to member banks, such that those banks' balance sheets change in such a way as to make money more or less expensive to trade amongst themselves, which has knock-on effects for consumers.

On the other hand, since there's no longer a reserve requirement since the start of covid, the mechanism that causes banks to have to borrow from each other (to meet the nightly reserve requirement, historically) is much less clear to me. Hopefully an economist can chime in.
If you're in all stocks (growth particularly) and retired, you're living pretty foolishly.
I build container images using Nix (actually OCI containers; I don't use Docker at all, although I think it can run OCI containers). Going through these points one at a time:

> Use a smaller base image or libc

By default, Nix will build container images from scratch. No base image (although I guess you can add one as a layer to your manifest JSON, if you like).

> Make the image context smaller

Nix tracks dependencies very precisely. Our container images will only contain the things we asked for, and their dependencies (transitively).

> Fully minimize and tidy up image layers

This only seems relevant for imperative images, built "from the inside" (e.g. the talk about contents being "overwritten"?)

> Splitting up processes and services for breaking up images

The helper-functions in Nixpkgs contain tricks to automatically figure out which content is better kept in separate layers, based on how many times they're referenced (as a proxy for how often they'll be shared across containers). Docker only supports 128 layers, so the remaining content gets combined into the final layer; e.g. see https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images
Sometimes it can be better return on investment to try a new approach than to thoroughly optimize every detail of the existing approach.

Edit: but, of course, complete failure is now possible when trying a new concept: it may not work at all. On the other hand, when making 1000 small optimisations the 100 unsuccessful ones can be left out.
Not in and of itself. Article 13 says that they must be protected against "public curiosity". Article 14 says they are "entitled in all circumstances to respect for their persons and their honour".

That's generally interpreted to mean that if they're voluntarily and sincerely making these statements, then it's OK. But since we can't be 100% certain of that, it's always going to raise red flags.
> Given the huge benefits of a Dyson Swarm and the fact that it seems to require no exotic materials and no more physics it looks increasingly likely that we are very alone in the Milky Way

There’s still a huge engineering gap between our current tech and the theoretical possibility of a Dyson Swarm. I don’t find it at all implausible that such a thing would need too much energy, effort, collective will, or some other resource, to make it practical. There could still be plenty of stealthy sub-Dyson civilizations, or even supra-Dyson civilizations that have found it in their interest not to be detectable.
I don't think this is a fair characterization of the article. It's really not too much to ask to ask a user to go through official channels like a bug tracker or a mailing list instead of messaging the author directly. And I don't think it's right to accuse someone of hating their users for creating those channels. The only reason an author would make those channels is if they believe it would increase the chances of everyone receiving the best help.

It's usually harder to find an authors direct contact information than the official channels. If the user has a legitimate bug report or issue, being told they accidentally found the wrong contact information wouldn't bother many. However if the user is going through backdoor channels specifically to get special treatment then that isn't fair to others.
> Jesus Christ, work til you die eh?

That is the normal human experience.

But also not what I'm suggesting.
I may have sounded as a whiny person at first, but in fact I'm not whining about the issue. It's unproductive, and make the focus drift, but I was a bit tired I presume and was unable to form a better argument.

I'm actually pretty dysfunctional if I wake up before the sun shows its light. I'm slow, clumsy, my brain literally doesn't work, etc. The moment it's past dawn and twilight, everything changes in 5 minutes or so. Also waking before dawn really makes my mood bitter, and my productivity during the day really takes a hit. I follow my tasks with personal planning software, and my daily throughput changes measurably. However, let's return to the main argument I want to make.

The thing which upsets me most is that these changes are made amid the growing body of research underlining the importance of sleep, circadian rhythm, and their effect on human development and long term health. Also there is research exploring the impact of these changes on the productivity, morale and health of the general population.

So, while the governments want to increase economic activity and whatnot, they're possibly undermining the overall health of their populations in the medium/long term. Also, I think that sensitive people are much more common and are not a minority, but they're not aware of their situation. Our lives are busy and we can't always have time to tend ourselves properly. I sometimes forget that winter affects me badly, and re-remember when we arrive to the middle of the March with considerable more sunlight and my mood and productivity jumps in a two day envelope. Meditation, being aware of myself and self care reduced the effects, but they're not nullified completely.

So, what I'm trying to say is, from my experience, the mean is not that well defined as you suggest, and governments make these changes without considering the overall advantages/disadvantages of such decisions. If the change is fitting to their agenda with some vague benefits, they do it. The effects of these changes on general population doesn't mean anything for them, unless it reflects to some important statistics badly.

This is why I don't support permanent time, but a DST system of some sort. All the humans have the right to at least wake in a decent mood, and despite all the work we do voluntarily or involuntarily, we deserve to be as healthy as we can be. Policies which undermine the happiness and health of people in the long term are especially bad in my book, because leaving people no choice and forcing them at the same time is a kind of cruelty which makes me very angry.
Good thing then how the US has over 300 million voluntary "counter spies" [0]

[0] https://www.dhs.gov/see-something-say-something
That's not hostile at all. If someone decides it's best to use your code then you have already helped them out. Expecting you to do work for free for them because you already did something useful for them is just stupid.
Estate taxes don't exist for 99.7% of people. A married couple can exempt the first $24M of their estate from any Federal taxes.

https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/601639/estate-tax-exemption-...

Mind you, this also avoids a ton of tax that would otherwise be due had they not died via the step-up in basis... it's a massive giveaway to the rich.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stepupinbasis.asp
It certainly did. Although, it seems like the opposition to it is in full swing.

Wokeness (as portrayed in popular culture) hit its peak during the George Floyd protests and subsequent publishing of the Harpers letter. Since then, an entire ecosystem has risen in opposition to ideas of wokeness.

Alas, the reaction to this opposition has not been to find a new consensus. Rather, communities have sharded and further polarized. Now, fervent ingroup loyalty is mandatory while the difference between each ingroup keeps expanding.

This is especially noticeable in the most radical communities on the left and the right. From draconian Trans-bans to radical no-questions asked trans-acceptance, these communities have started dealing in absolutes. The more nuanced anti-woke have coalesced around Substack and honestly make good money. But, they rely on word of mouth to reach their readers. The other side of the anti-woke use viral video and aggressive youtube algorithms to reach their viewer base. However, the nature of these algorithms means that strong emotion is promoted over nuance and reason. Finally, there are celebrity faces like Rowling, Chapelle and Rogan, who can't really be deplatformed and serve as lightning rods for criticism, while smaller voices get the necessary protection to build out their platform.

The sad part of this, is that you can't be apolitical anymore. There are only 3 acceptable positions. 1. Strong support and be embraced, 2. strong opposition and lose your friends but gain new anti-woke friends and lastly 3.stay silent while nodding to those in strong support.

Now, if your profession is one is wholly in-group for the woke, then you will be in a difficult situation. Academia, print journalism and legacy media practically force you to be #1 or #3. If you are in a more technical field like tech, it doesn't really affect your life. But, if you choose to interface with social-sciencey aspects of big-tech such as ResponsibleAI, DEI or hiring, then you will also be forced into #1 or #3.
> Americans have a gigantic amount saved up

The median household savings is about $5k. Sure, the mean is a lot higher, but that gets thrown off by a few really rich people with enormous savings.
So these boomers have “almost nothing” yet have a 401(k) that’s set up in the riskiest way possible, when they’re near retirement age?
An XKCD that's right on target: https://xkcd.com/2347/
> You can't say what you can't say

And you can’t find out what you can’t say until you’re already being punished for having said it.
NSA, CISA Release Kubernetes Hardening Guidance
//On the one hand, retirees bring nothing of real value to the economy

Not true. If retirees have money, that's money they got paid for doing actual contribution. If you devalue that money that's devaluing their life's work and contributions.

Not an advocate for crypto etc, but it feels wrong that a bunch of folks like Powell etc get to decide the fate of whole generation's peaceful retirement.
What is the nuanced thing you want to discuss?

Maybe just talk about something specific instead of just some broad “woke has gone to far”.
You need to have consumers to make production worth something. Retirees are consumers. It's basically all they do.
Take a look at TikTok and YouTube. There are so many people creating content for others.

I've no doubt that people will do exactly what you claim and become more absorbed in themselves, but I think the positive use and upside are vastly going to outweigh the gloomy narrative you've laid out.

This technology is going to bring about an artistic Renaissance and people will have more ways to express themselves and employ themselves and do the things that they want with their lives.
Registration is not required to sue, but definitely makes it easier.
I don't think this is hostile in the slightest. Nobody should expect free work
Make an AI which can automate accounting.
Yes. This happened multiple times. There was an incident where the tree-blade bokeh of a NVD was mistaken for a UFO once, for example.
Our universe may have a twin that runs backward in time
Not just "humans," corporations are legal persons too for copyright purposes:

https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/copyright-ownership-content...
There is no reason the US federal government would have to nominally end federal social security benefits. The federal government has the power to simply create new money.

However, it would be prudent to assume that the social security benefits will have less and less purchasing power (since each USD will have less and less purchasing power), and the government will not increase the amount of the benefits sufficiently to offset the decrease in purchasing power.
Have you tried a sleep mask?
Once you lift it off the room will be light again.

I found that to help quite a bit and as a bonus they are portable and much more economical than motorized blinds or blackout curtains.

That being said motorized shades do seem pretty neat and may have a privacy advantage depending on where you live.
"Newton was afraid to even tell anyone about calculus because he was worried about being mocked."

He was more worried about being scooped. And he was the president of the Royal Society when that argument broke out.

Would Einstein still be more famous than Edsger Dijkstra if he hadn't become the media's face of science?
Dealing with users/contributors in open source indeed has its issues due to the low barrier and global nature, meaning you can receive both high and low quality comments/patches/etc, and sometimes the language barrier makes a good quality interaction look bad. In order not to drain your energy dealing with them, you have learn how to deal with them efficiently. What works for me is:

- Always respond to the initial question/comment/PR. Not necessarily immediately. But it lets people know you have seen it and they are not being ignored. If they DM but you rather have them use another way of communicating, just point that out.

- Give people the benefit of the doubt. Some people just don't know how to ask a good question or how to report an issue in a constructive way, so just respond with a remark that nudges them in the right direction, possibly have some document ready describing how people should ask questions (for example, like https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask).

- Don't continue fruitless discussions. I don't repeat things I said earlier, unless there is something to clarify. If someone disagrees with me and I don't see the merit in their points, then so be it. At some point you just have to ignore messages, and don't feel bad about doing that. If someone DMs and you said to create a ticket instead, and they DM again saying things like "but it's just this small thing" or "but I just told you", I'll just ignore that, and if they really care about the issue they'll eventually figure it out.

- When it comes to low quality pull requests, tell the author how to improve them. Ideally, I should be able to merge PRs without any changes necessary on my part. This will both lower the amount of work I have to do, as well as educate the author so they will be more productive in the future.

- I try not to be too fussy about how people want to contribute. I'll just as happy to accept a patch sent via email as a PR. And sometimes it's just less work to copy&paste a DM into a ticket instead of educating the user.
I don't see how tax policy matters in this case. That money still sloshes around. The only difference is who's nominally in control of it.
> Do you think that is the way that a professional should act towards others in their profession?

No, that is rude. Calling it violence remains ridiculous hyperbole.
Yeah but that's an overall lowering of debt servicing as a percent of disposable income. The only part that hasn't dropped much is consumer debt.

Plus while reverse amortization might be less common, ARMs generally are still very popular and you'll see a hike in overall debt service associated with rising interest rates.

I don't know what's gonna happen with the housing market and I don't think it'll crash either but I think part of the reason is because private equity has bought a huge amount of housing - BlackRock bought what, 10-15% of the houses sold in 2020?
An interesting aspect of this is that the endless printing of money in the last few years was a sort of stress test of modern monetary theory, which has been seeing lots of discussion in those same years. I never quite understood how this theory would work while avoiding inflation, and what's happening now seems to at least be related - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/business/economy/modern-m...

Conceptually the answer in the theory is to suck up the excess money with taxes, which of course is not going to fly in the US. But maybe this inflation will make that more viable in the future:
"Ms. Kelton and her colleagues make clear that the pandemic relief packages did not follow one of M.M.T.’s key tenets — they did not try to account for resource constraints ahead of time. In an M.M.T. world, the Congressional Budget Office would have carefully analyzed possible inflation ahead of time, and lawmakers would have tried to offset any strain on available workers and widgets with stabilizing measures and tax increases."
I never said Azure has no competition? I said when paired with their other products they have no competitor. As far as your VM, it is probably not configured properly. The GCP dashboard to me is incredibly confusing, but most power users use CLI anyhow. I've used AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean and Azure. I prefer Azure myself, though I understand different providers do better at different needs. The only Azure product I've had problems with are their Webapps, which compared to things like Beanstalk and Elastic Compute are just terrible.
here begins the process of the fed sllowwwwly raising rates, well behind the rate of inflation. Either buy stocks or lose $ due to inflation. NO way out
Oh I'm sure they're labor intensive. And a number of the companies that make them out there seem to cut a lot of corners.
> Estate taxes don't exist for 99.9% of people.

Which supports the claim that they are low, and, consequently that young people (who often stand to inherit from their elderly relatives) have a stake in the investments of old people not getting wiped out.
> c) the outsize influence of random anonymous people and mobs on Twitter

Ding ding ding! This is the fundamental problem. We collectively seem to care entirely too much about the fringe people who bother to vent their minds on Twitter.
A big bag of flour, big bag of onions, keep your yeast growing, 4 or 5 cheeses, big pot of sambal, a salami sausage, ham, bacon, some fish, mushrooms, a variety of frozen vegitable mixes, tomato ketchup, big bottle of olive oil. Oregano, thyme, pepper.

mix the dough close to batter. Put flour on a baking tray and spread the dough onto it. Grill on highest settings for 4-6 minutes while you chop the ingredients. Remove the dough from the oven and flip it upside down. Spread a spoon of ketchup over it. Spread out 1-3 spoons of vegetable mix, move them around so that you get zones of flavours, put a tiny slice of salami on one area, make areas of ham and other meat or fish. Add some shrooms, some onion, garlic, poor some oil over it, add garlic, herbs and make zones of cheese. Have the zones overlap or stand alone. It takes a while to perfect the ratios. It should take 6 minutes to prepare the ingredients while the dough is under the grill. Keep the ingredients together in a bowl or box in the fridge to save time.

put the art work in a hot air oven but keep the grill on for speed. 6-8 min should be enough. Also enough time to clean everything up for the next pizza.

Do this ritual 2-4 times per day so that you have a structured routine that doesn't require thinking about it.

It will start out as a soggy mess because you keep putting to much of the ingredients on it. 1/2 cm of salami is enough for a zone. 1 slice of ham, 1 slice of bacon. More and the different combination of flavors each bite should have blends into one unidentifiable mess.

The spoon of vegitable mix will produce a bite with a slice of carrot on it. You are eating flour and carrots. But since it is just a single bit it adds to the adventure.

Most ingredients last a reasonable while and you use so little of them that the eventual cost is just the cheese.

I've done this for a good while on my own but you get to make 3-5 of them at a time.

Keep adjusting the ingredients and ratios for each mouth and do different versions for each.

For $150 per month you will eat like a king and get fat.
I don’t think I am obligated to care.

Retirees who are fortunate enough to have substantial retirement assets should take precautions against risk. If they haven’t then that’s their problem. I’m retiring in 30 years, my retirement accounts are all stocks. If I was 65 I’d have my 401(k) heavily in bonds and fixed income.

Anything else is just greed.
#3 is the correct option, I think, except you update the firmware but don't start using it. The OS should handle powercycling the drive at a convenient moment, at which point it'll load the new firmware.

Netapp filers do this; they update disk firmware online by installing it and then just rebooting the drive. The RAID controller/software handles the momentary interruption with zero issues, but even without redundancy an OS can handle a drive disappearing for a few moments.
> This is simply not true - not all open source software is copyleft. You can have restrictive licensing regarding use and/or distribution and still be open source.

Well, of course you can adopt any definition of "open source" you want, but I'm using the OSI definition, which states:

"The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software."

You are referring to "source available", for which they offer the clarification:

"Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code."
Among the poverty-striken, sure.

But nearly every society has some form of elder care.
COINTELPRO: FBI targeted domestic political organizations
Indeed, I put the pasta into the boiling water but then I lower the heat by a notch so that it does not boil too intensely.
The current thought has been that civilian use and proliferation of fusion reactors is a positive thing for the US's security posture, since it opens up nuclear power generation options without nuclear weapons proliferation concerns. Ie. it removes 'this fission reactor is just for power generation, totes not breeding plutonium, or using the centrifuges to develop a weapon' shtick you see from states wishing to become nuclear powers.
Everyone is sure acting like it'll be 6-12mo and if everyone expects a recession in 6-12mo then...
Hate speech: I have encountered that at times, have you? Anger is pointless, because that is what they want. Allegation of a crime: probably not going to anger me if I did not commit it, but may make me afraid if it is made by law enforcement.

Fear is natural if hate has the potential to spill into action, but anger is a signature behavior of a cornered creature—it will not lend credence to any of your counter statements and is useful in a very, very limited range of scenarios. Keep your cool.
> Every person in the US who has had their purchasing power destroyed over the past ~18 months.

The vast majority of people in the US have no idea what the fed is. Why would you trust their judgement?