skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GDS have arguably started to encroach on local government services with their voter registration service.

However don't underestimate the inclination of people to protect their silos. Even if offered a free service by central government, you'd almost certainly find a lot of local governments choosing to implement their own.
Barring the racist part, I can imagine some of the situations that might have led to such conversations. My wife was working for the Covid vaccine deployment programme for one of the Australian states as a consultant from a respected company. The two guys employed by the state's government dept were utter clueless about almost everything. One was in charge of project management and the other was an architect. The architect didn't even know how to use a filter on an Excel spreadsheet! The level of incompetence was just unfathomable. Don't want to name the state as it might might lead to the two individuals!

But at the same time my wife and her team mates (A diverse team consisting of Caucasians, Indians and Filipinos (all Australians)) did deliver the project and helped the government at every step. So, I would argue that there are a lot of intelligent people that came out of the Indian education system, but the education system itself did fuck all for their success in life. There are also a lot of people with degrees, boasting very high GPAs, but with no analytical skills whatsoever! It's not only limited to Indian people in general. But the education system is indeed quite bad.
> and then never come in again because… you got less napkins?

No, they didn’t come back again because they got fewer napkins.
(D'oh, I meant OpenSSH, but it's too late to edit.)
I don't know either way..you are the one that made the claim:

> Sure, but it's also not monitored or tested.

It would surprise me if that's true but feel free to correct me if you know otherwise.
They push “ads” to get you to pay for more storage.
Aprilia’s Fuel-Injected Two-Stroke Concept
Lead poisoning lowers your IQ; blacks are more likely to be exposed to it. (https://www.dw.com/en/lead-poisoning-reveals-environmental-r...)
What Apple Silicon before M1? The Ax Processors?
These only need to be charged a few times a year
Storage engines are far from elementary. It is one of the most complex and subtle parts of a database implementation, especially if you care about reliability, scalability, or performance. The term "from scratch" usually does not denote outsourcing all of the hard parts of a database implementation to an external library.

I think people were just disappointed that the article was more about writing a database-like API than an actual database.
Huge scrollbar..?
> that she was in Rome at some point and was impregnated by the emperor's father.

I guess it depends on the age difference between the man and the emperor but I assumed the emperor was referring to himself and the joke was about the emperor's wife or partner.
True, but I think the claim is also that said intiuition does not manifest in a general way when dealing with the subject matter; only on the tests. In which case it would not correlate to performance on real world outcomes.
Does the UN actually have the power to ban anything?
It could, if there was an ACME server doling out SSH certificates.

And Caddy can get certificates via more than just ACME, it's completely extensible, so it will work with... anything I guess.
How did you find a part time gig though?

As far as I know it’s impossible through normal hiring pipelines.

On the flip side establishing yourself as a contractor has a large upfront cost in terms of learning the ins and outs of 1099 work and finding clients. So doing all this just to work less seems like a terrible investment.

Seems very much like a catch-22 unless you’re already a contractor.
So, give an OS on a SOC PCIe access? Is it possible to flash or image the router OS with custom libre firmware/OS at least?
“Yeah okay that’s great but nobody cares about this math crap. You need doctors.”

Well the good news is if you ever want to go be an epidemiologist, you've already heard this bit!
True, but the Klamath River is in the grand scheme of things a fairly minor watershed in California. Some room for growth, but effectively tapped out as far as the major watersheds in the State go. We have just a lot of dams and we’re still importing more and more of our energy from other States as we make it harder to build plants here.
Especially since it would truly be an "RSS" feed.
Not many? Describe the trade steps necessary to insider trade with high leverage that isn’t trivial for a data analytics program to flag with high confidence?
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The company takes its values seriously.

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If you can find space for it then I recommend it. It let me restructure my relationship with work internally, and it doesn't necessarily matter what my job is now, I have a healthier outlook on how I should approach it.

That's particularly helpful in the times where you don't like your job, but want to be happy anyway. Unfortunately I think that's a personal journey, so I can't really offer any advice on how that could work for you except to say, you need the time to figure it out.
Look, if Ukraine decides to end the war (on whatever terms), that's their choice to make. It's sure not our place to tell them that they ought to surrender, though. If they decide that being under Russia is worse than all the suffering, that's their choice. (And they may have more data than you and I do...)

There's a line from the Bible: "those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives". This isn't exactly the way the Bible meant that phrase, but... If your position is that preserving life is the most important thing, and I can credibly threaten to kill you, then you become my slave. You'll do whatever I tell you, to try to save your life. That's a horrible way to live. It's even more horrible when the one doing the threatening is a sociopath.

I think some things are worse than death. "Live free or die" isn't just a propaganda slogan. A free life is far better than a life as someone's slave.
Highly creative people's brains take road less traveled to their destination
Correct. Their license currently prohibits it.
> I watched first-hand as the media industry not-so-slowly starved, my startup failed, and my friends lost jobs and businesses. Google took all the revenue as media turned to trash, and ad tech, clickbait and content marketing took over the Internet, and made using the web awful.

This paragraph made me believe you might actually have the interests of publishers in mind. Instead, I find that you're re-publishing articles from publishers, in order to keep people on your website. Not cool. How are publishers supposed to make any money at all, if search engines copy just their content, and republish it on their websites, without permission? You did that with our content -- making it virtually impossible for us to build our email list, sell any products, or gain any subscriptions, much less make any money from advertising at all. Please think carefully about the consequences of this choice, especially if your product achieves widespread success.
1950s:

>Grantham convinced London to scrap all plans for political reform on the basis that it did not "interest the British electorate". Later, when confronted by the Hong Kong public, he blamed London.

1980s:

>British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe further promised the democratic process would start "in the years immediately ahead", but they stalled due to opposition from Beijing, local business interests as represented by Executive Council, and the British Foreign Office under the pretext that it would bring chaos to Hong Kong.

Not nearly as simple as you are portraying it either..
The Diabetes Code is a great book about reversing diabetes through dietary intervention. The author discusses exactly what you're saying here: surprisingly few doctors know how effective a low-carb diet is at treating and curing type 2 diabetes.
Scientific collaboration with Russia begins to unravel
I don’t think SNAP/WIC recipients should have any less right to privacy around their grocery purchases than you or I do. I trust that the SNAP/WIC administration can/do monitor purchases for fraud, but beyond that internal use, I do not believe that data should be released in any form that could possibly be linked to an individual purchaser (which would include links to their employer).

If you and I have that privacy, benefits recipients should as well.
That would be 30 per category, so 60 points. Which can definitely be the difference between a top university considerign an applicant or throwing the app away.

Back in my day when SAT's were 2400, I heard the swing being a difference of 100 points. Since reverting back to 1600 a 60 point swings sounds proportionately similar to 13 years ago.

Anyways, I think when people mean "gaming the system", they mean test prep classes literally geared towards the SAT and little else. Not practicing calculus to overprepare for the SAT math portion (maybe even using it to validate answers on a lower level), but being told that X is on the test and using older copies of the SAT to practive with. That does start to feel a bit game-y in my eyes. You're not better understanding combinatorial or algebra, you're understanding the pattern that a test has and playing based on that knowledge.
The banks they sold them to. And yes, the hedge funds.

They misrepresented these products. The learnt that the ratings agencies had made a mess of the rating too late, they were on the books. So they sold them as fast as they could, lying to the customers.

It does not matter if the customer was a hedge fund, a bank, or you. Lying about financial products is a crime.
Volkswagen should be well versed in de-globalizing it's operations. They used to assemble (not manufacture) vehicles all over the world (Australia, Mexico, Brazil etc) using a mix of locally sourced replacement parts and imported German parts. This strategy was effective when governments had trade barriers, import tarriffs and industry policies that wanted to ensure that factory capacity in your local country was increased. Companies like GM used to use it like attaching a teat to your country, they would build some variant of their product in your country as long as you paid what amounted to protection money.

Factory capacity, in that post-war era, being used as a proxy for military capability in an era where it wasn't entirely clear whether you might need to switch your country to making munitions, arms or military vehicles.

It all got dismantled with neo-liberalism. Seems like the pendulum is swinging back towards rebuilding that capacity with heightened security tensions in the modern era. I would expect those protection rackets to ramp back up again so expect fewer choices in the automotive sector along with higher prices.
Russian Scientists Grapple with an Uncertain Future
Can you find any sources to support this claim? It is easy to find sources claiming the opposite.

And no, it’s really difficult for SEC to detect any but the most basic forms of insider trading.

Try to apply some adversarial thinking and envision a situation where you want to insider trade, but don’t want to get caught.
> Poor kids are getting 'well rounded' by spending summer break at work, saving enough money to survive the school year.

This is an interesting point: why shouldn't work count towards being well-rounded? If anything, work is much more grounded in reality, and a lot of kids who never had to work in high school and college would come off as out of touch (at least to me, as someone who did work thru high school and college). It would be nice if work experience (even if unrelated to a field) was valued as much as being part of a silly club.
Finally I can own land with the confidence only a team of cryptopreneurs can provide, instead of some enforceable boomer legal framework.
I wonder if there's a way to structure exec level employee incentives through accruing bonuses over longer periods of time, so that you get two impacts:

1. Bad managers who get "found out" in the longer term don't apply for the role, as they won't be getting their bonus for stripping assets into a sell-and-lease-back, as their bonus will eat itself when the company starts to spiral downwards in a year or two.

2. Those who become bad managers get seen for what they are, and can't as easily "job hop" to escape the crisis they've caused. This tarnishes their reputation, warning others, and any exec jumping early will be viewed with suspicion.

In theory you could argue for stock options or similar, but those seem to deliver the short term behaviours that cause the issues in the first place (selling tangible things to raise dividends, to raise the share price, then discover you need to borrow money as you spent it all on renting the things you used to own).
Standardized test largely reflect reality, and reality has racial inequities.

They don't measure human potential at Birth and don't try to.
In the U.S. public schools offer students all kinds of extracurricular activities that cost the families either very little or nothing at all. I attended a low- to middle-income public elementary and middle school where I was able to practice violin for several years, and it didn't cost my family anything.
Do you have another customer in mind or are you asking the exporters to deal with it?
> Taking entire days off is also possible unless it's expected to do something in a timely fashion such as meet with someone or produce results by XYZ day. I found in practice it wasn't possible to really drop off the grid for continuous 4 day weekends.

I've tried to hire part-time employees or 4-day workweek employees in the past. You described essentially the #1 roadblock.

It actually works okay as long as you have a steady stream of non-urgent, totally isolated, async-okay work for them to do. Most companies run out of that type of work fairly quickly and prefer full-time employees who can work together with their teammates. It actually becomes a constant annoyance for the rest of the team if the 1 person working part-time is only sporadically available, so they now have to shape their workweeks around that person's availability.

> For example, if you only worked 3 days a week but had millions of dollars then this would be super interesting because you could go and do fun things all the time. Having $5,000 a month to spend guilt free to do whatever would be amazing if it didn't cut into any type of retirement fund because you're already set.

Without going into too many details, I can actually speak to this. It's another scenario that's amazing at first, but (I really hate to say this) gets old over time.

The problem for me was that few other people were available to do things during the week. I grew close to some friends with similarly erratic schedules (professional nurses often work 3x12 schedules, for example), but it's a small population. I enjoy doing a lot of things alone, but being able to do them with friends would be more fun.

I also started feeling like I was missing out on interesting engineering problems that my friends were working on. Once you have the means to be selective about the jobs you take and money can be a secondary concern (to a degree) you have the option of joining a lot of very interesting companies and working with very interesting people.
I'm not sure what point _you're_ trying to make, but you realize scientology involves actual academic programs and skillsets?

If you're trying to say that the material one studies in a scientology program isn't rigorous or relevant then say that.

No matter the difficulties you may be facing in life, Scientology offers answers.
It provides an exact technology with step-by-step procedures you can use to handle problems and better your life and the lives of those around you.

Whiffenpoof voice: including classes on hu-mor
You are definitely correct. However, in the 90s:

... in 1992, Chris Patten the new governor of Hong Kong, began moves to unilaterally democratise the territory by allowing for the election of half the Legislative Council by universal suffrage, and in the process incurring the wrath of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Patten had judged that: "People in Hong Kong are perfectly capable of taking a greater share in managing their own affairs in a way that is responsible, mature, restrained, sensible"

[edit] If I had to speculate I'd say the 50s were primarily due to the aftermath of WWII and reconstruction in Europe and that PRC influence was basically all of the subsequent reluctance. After all, the UK was already taking steps to divest itself of the colonies at that point and had little interest in maintaining Hong Kong one way or the other.

Was Hong Kong not to be a halo territory for democracy in the region?

Given the state of freedom in Hong Kong vs the PRC one could take the position that substantially all the 'western' freedoms enjoyed in Hong Kong are in fact enjoyed thanks to the British.
Anyway, my original point (which I didn't actually get to) was that SAT/ACT scores are quite important as they kind of give the person an idea whether they'll be able to handle the homework and academic rigour at an institution like MIT. But as the original blog posts says, it's not the end of the world if someone can't crack it. At that age I don't think anyone is mature enough to even understand the meaning or depth of scientific knowledge they'd receive at MIT. So one can always pursue it later with the prevalence of online education these days, if one were so inclined. :)
> How has getting your MBA helped you with your career growth (not getting leadership jobs, but actually thriving in them)?

Honestly, the value of my MBA curriculum didn't really kick in until I had a P&L and a 100+ org. And even there, it's less a specific set of skills, and more how the case study method gives you indirect experience and context which would be prohibitively painful to learn the hard way.

When your team or scope grows to very large (1000+ person) sizes, the investment of two years of my time to avoid a single major blunder or focus a bit more efficiently becomes worth every minute invested. There's just so much leverage to fuck up so badly and impact so many people.
Atom-smashing CERN lab ratchets up measures against Russia
Unfortunately the vast vast majority of people won't commit to a big lifestyle change like that in the first place, and a big majority of the people that due end up not following through. So most doctors won't bother suggesting it as a legitimate option because for most people it kind of isn't.
Not sure what you mean with systemd. All big parts of it run as separate, locked down processes.

But yeah, just for the time when you're hammered with traffic that you want to investigate, you don't want your web server and SSH session to go through the same loop.
Perhaps true, but not closely related. The vast amount of water being used goes to agriculture and industry and not supporting the population.
> yeast extract (vegemite)

That's not how you spell Marmite.
Well, those who sign the treaty are choosing not to use it themselves. Those who don't sign the treaty... no the UN doesn't have any such power. They can kind of catalyze global pressure, though.
Jason Fried: Getting Together Again
> I think that you can be "anti-war" to the extent of saying that NATO should not directly be at war with Russia (if possible). I think you can get away with that position without being cancelled.

This is pretty much the official position of NATO and the Western governments. It might be a controversial position in the sense of "we're not doing enough", but I don't see who would cancel anyone for that.

> And if you're "anti-war" in the sense of "this is all NATO's fault; Russia was right to invade", you get cancelled very quickly, because you have become indistinguishable from a Russian propagandist, and we know that there are plenty of Russian propagandists trying to influence the west's cultural mindset.

I hope there'll eventually be room for a position along "We should investigate whether the West's methods actually match their values - but Russia still lost all legitimacy the moment they attacked a sovereign nation".

I do believe there is a lot of hypocrisy in the current rethoric and in the rebuttals of russian claims. Of course the USA has a sphere of influence - it's commonly called "the West". And we (as in "the West") seem to have our fair share of propaganda outlets as well, such as Radio Free Europe or the National Endowment for Democracy. I'd like if this stuff was discussed more openly. (For my own sanity as well. My knowledge here is also not more than some bits and pieces and discussions with relatives. I'd absolutely be interested in arguments from both sides)

What also worries me is that the term "misinformation" and "propaganda" now seems to be assigned solely based on where a claim comes from, without needing to present any arguments that actually contradict the claim. I can't see how that squares with the values of free speech and press freedom. I wonder if the Snowden leaks would also be labelled "misinformation" if they were released in today's climate.

(To be clear - we're still better than Russia in that regard. At least, you only get cancelled for that stuff here and not jailed for 15 years. But I still think it's a worrying development)
Lord, what a bad take.

The ends does not justify the means, ever.
>"If you work in tech, and live in the UK / USA / Canada / Aus, then you literally owe everything to the Empire."

This is true. And the rest of the world can enjoy the consequences of having been raped.
Open AI seems increasingly not open.

I am hoping that for their next big model we get full unrestricted public access and can host our own node for private queries.

What was the reason GPT-3 was not fully opened for download at launch?
Agree. If you have diabetes I highly recommend making Jason Fung your doctor by reading his books, watching his videos, and taking his advice.
Although the word "Certificate" is in the name of this feature and the expansion of ACME, they don't really have much in common.

ACME is similar to, and different from the Internet's other certificate protocols, both in ways that are not helpful for a SSH server.

Firstly ACME is similar in that it's about X.509 certificates roughly PKIX flavoured, whereas certificates in SSH don't use X.509 and thus don't use PKIX

Then it's different in that ACME solves the proof-of-control problem for the Web PKI, it was actually built in parallel with what became the "10 Blessed Methods" for the Web PKI (but today there are not ten of them). But almost nobody wants public SSH servers for random people from the Internet to access, so the Web PKI is largely irrelevant to certificates for SSH servers.

[ The Web PKI is the name for the PKI that makes your web browser work, unlike SSH you actually do use web browsers to connect to random public stuff - lots of other things rely on the Web PKI, not just the Web but there are good reasons it is called the Web PKI anyway ]
> "...because tens of millions of people worldwide take metformin, chiefly for type 2 diabetes."

In nearly all cases, T2 is preventable. That is, unlike T1, there are things an individual can do to not reach T2.
Why you would single out CA's exports to .cn is beyond me, it's more an issue of CA agriculture in general. CA feeds a lot more out of state mouths than just the Chinese.