skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who's place was it to do it then? Seriously? You already work in government - so tell me, what mechanism should have been employed? Seems like no one else in the ranks had the balls to do it except him.
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The region is Seattle, I don't think there was a lack of other options if he really wanted to leave.
Any european passport is a golden ticket. I was born in Europe and only as an adult with friends from around the world did I realise that.

I feel so blessed.
Will Tesla robots be leased rather than sold?
I guess we could ask Dr. Susan Calvin :-)

(see Asimov's I Robot and/or Eight Stories from the Rest Of The Robots)
Robotic Barista at Taoyuan Airport
This is like saying that somebody who devoted half their life doing charity work should be shamed for not doing the same with the other half. Not even taking into account what we know about the situation he has put himself in by becoming an exile, and much more importantly, what we don't know.

I am appalled and disgusted by this thoughtless post.
The caution about attributing "human concepts" to other animals, like emotions, empathy, language and self-awareness, comes from the religious idea that humans are "above" all the other creatures. If God created humans as some special case, then it makes sense.

Not long ago, it was believed that animals (and human babies) couldn't feel pain. Nowadays it's a ridiculous notion, but it was born of the idea that a certain animal was "exceptional" among all those others and has all these special properties, granted by God, that no other animals possess. That's not a belief that should be the "scientific" default anymore.
Its far superior, like light years superior. PowerShell will exist, entire MS ecosystem is now based on it. That fear has passed years ago, especially when it got cross-platform. I expect actually to see more pwsh on linux and even OTB pwsh linux distribution (heck, I will make it myself if needed when I get retired).
Bee Movie came out in 2007.
Downvotes and upvotes are just imaginary internet points and you should not become attached to them.
16 point IQ difference between identical twins raised apart
Ask HN: What is your personal retirement strategy?
After reading the recent HN article about why buying the dip may not work [0], I started reviewing my personal retirement strategy and began wondering how other HN readers approach the subject. As for me, I plan on using a modified bucket strategy [1] using 2 buckets instead of three (since the savings rates are too low). My plan is to keep 2-3 years of living expenses in a high-interest savings account with the the second bucket in various S&P500 index funds (VOO, VOOG, etc). Every few years, I plan on pulling out some cash to refill the bucket (assuming market conditions are positive). Even with the recent market dip, I am confident this is still the best strategy for me.

Curious as to what other HN readers are using for their retirement strategy...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31287464
[1] https://smartasset.com/retirement/retirement-bucket-strategy#:~:text=The%20retirement%20bucket%20strategy%20is%20an%20investment%20approach%20that%20segregates,%2C%20intermediate%20and%20long-term.
Benefits fraud and means testing are two separate concerns. Whether verification is performed is independent of whether the aid is restricted based on one's means. Verification needs to be performed, you're certainly correct about that, that much is clear; but that's a separate issue from means testing.
One of the reasons for speed limits is to prevent death. Deciding to pay a fine isn't an acceptable reason to speed.
That's a rough commute indeed. I do wish American cities (for instance, idk where you are) made it simpler to live close to with without sacrificing too much in other areas of life. It's one reason I now live in Tokyo.

Other than the commute, I think those are all things that a cohesive team should be able to resolve. It's definitely important to set boundaries in a shared space. I don't agree that the answer is to entirely retreat from the office though, as much as I do understand that inclination.

Also, just a thought: your colleagues might find the discussions they have with you to be really valuable to their own productivity / job satisfaction.
Screwdriver (cryptos) and drill driver (fiat schema) both can be used to screw. The proponents of screwdrivers are constantly complaining how drill drivers are clumsy, how you can't safely run around with them, etc. But do you really want back the society where you build houses with screwdrivers? Current fiat schema is just so much more than what you think. I assume you didn't study finance or economics, so it might be hard to understand just how many things have been possible because of fiat currencies. Yes, many crisis too, but it put the rate of innovation and growth into steroids. Thanks to it, we now have time to argue in internet about this kind of worthless matters.
this is an awful interpretation and of course it does not cover the entire situation, however, based on decades of real life interaction, I believe this is partly true.
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So adding or removing a maintainer is an event that causes everyone’s package installs to break? In a large enough project that would mean nearly every dependency change would trigger this condition.

> Generally I wouldn’t be too happy using a dependency where there are lots of users with access to create official releases.

I’m curious, do you use any open source software? Most larger projects have a number of maintainers with release rights.

I want to clarify that I’m not against package signing. For example, I think this proposal is well-thought-out and would be a positive change. The key reason this is better IMO is that it introduces a centralized trust mechanism and a certificate transparency log: https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/pull/37
> At this point I am practically begging for anything to not starve and pay the bills

maybe we need a society where you would not need a job to not starve?

what happens to people who cannot get a job, do we just let them starve?

what are your thoughts?
How do you mount this on a transaxle? It seems to be a drop in replacement for a stock engine, which would then still require transmission, drive shaft, differential, etc.
Yes, let's let evolution take its natural course and rid society of such drivers.
For potential whistleblowers: there are legal avenues to expose wrongdoing.

http://whistlebloweraid.org offers free representation to those navigating the process, founded by a (legal) NSA whistleblower.
At least according to Snowden he raised concerns through official channels. Clapper perjuring himself in front of Congress in response proves that the NSA values its unconstitutional dragnets more than the people's freedom from unreasonable search.
Heh, you're falling into the same trap: "speculation" is just a five-dollar word for "gambling".
Folk are getting hung up on the keyboard layout and poor buttons, which are bad but only the start of the problems with these machines.

It has two separate asynchronous screens, two sets of printed instructions (plus t&cs), more instructions on both screens, then two keypads (but with the same symbols although they're not interoperable). There is no consistent self-explanatory language for talking about the various buttons, knobs, slots and problems, and how the user's attention should flow between them. If use of this machine wasn't mandated, nobody would ever, ever touch it.
You’re saying when the government pays, there can’t be fraud? I’m not sure that’s correct, historically speaking.
The yews at Kingley Vale are well worth a visit if you're in the Chichester area. They're fantastically twisted and gnarled, like giant limbs reaching out to grab you as you pass.

Most are believed to have been planted by the Saxons to celebrate a victory over the Vikings, but apparently some may go back to Roman times.

Unbelievably, it was used as a bombing practice range by the RAF in WW2!
I think this is a cool idea, but I wonder if it might be more effective to learn which parenthesis you can remove. I wasn't entirely clear on how many I should be adding and had to look at the console to figure out why it wasn't accepted.
What makes you think he didn't try to change jobs? It's not like tech interviews are designed to detect this kind of talent.
if the Rs take the house/senate in the midterms, a national ban is on the table

https://thehill.com/news/senate/3480725-mcconnell-says-natio...
It’s pretty rich for someone to talk of a freeloading problem while advocating for bike lanes that are utilized by only very few, while paid for by everyone else, whether they will ever set foot on the bike path or not.

And I say that as a cyclist, but one that can see past the self-serving rationalization and manipulative nature of the freeloader argument.

And that doesn’t even address the deeply authoritarian and evil core of the argument of “well, I determine what’s best for you so I will force it on you against your will for your own good, because what I want/enjoy conveniently coincides with what is best for you”. It’s tyranny and a purely evil mindset.
It's easy to ask for Snowden to be more vocal against the Russian government when you are not a) in Russia, b) treated as a terrorist by your country and c) in the constant fear of Russia dropping their support for you.
The man just became a father, cut him some slack, he lost everything once.

For us this means taking what Snowden has to say about the Russian government with a bucket of salt.
You're on a right track - the most useful application of concurrency nowdays is I/O, because of the order-of-magnitude larger latency than CPU.

However, concurrency is much more than IO. Concurrency can be best defined as a lack of ordering of computation. For example, you want to compute A, B, C and their values are independent of each other, the order you compute them does not matter - that is concurrency. If your language has means of expressing "compute these things, i dont care about the order", then your language supports concurrency.

I suggest reading Communicating Sequential Processes by Tony Hoare. It is a very influential work on concurrency - and the proof of its influence is the design of the Go programming language.
In my anecdotal experience, it is not just ultra wealthy Americans trying to get second passports.

We can't afford these investment visas, but because of our fear that gay marriage rights may be repealed [0], my husband and I are exploring the possibility of Spanish citizenship via descent. It's unclear if we can even apply before my dad gets it or become citizens without at least a year of residency, but when my dad emailed a major consulate recently, they had an automated message saying there's a 5 day wait for return emails. Their listed phone number also had no response and went to voicemail with no automated message. My in laws are also looking into Mexican citizenship by descent.

I am curious how many folks are fleeing states or looking into it, also. We've checked with our workplaces about relocating out of state (Texas). That seems a lot easier than figuring out visas, but we are really dreading about how far things are going to go.

We're hoping for the best, preparing for the worst. I am sure it is not just UHNW individuals who are preparing.

[0] See:

https://nitter.net/NoLieWithBTC/status/1521912691824148482

https://nitter.net/BrynnTannehill/status/1521481078376181760

and Google around for some op-eds. There's a lot of debate around this and whether stare decisis will outweigh the court's extreme views, but ultimately there's a lot of uncertainty.
Do they have a track record of successful predictions?
There is some genuine insight here, but it is needlessly bundled with defending the kids. Blind conformity is bad, and falls under the umbrella of having a weak will.
Just for some context, I was nomadic for well over a decade and consider that time an extravagant extension of youth, and a needless stunting of my growth into adulthood in absolute terms. By my late 30s I see no reason to encourage nomadism, or to celebrate or encourage others in the belief that it is a healthy way to live, it essentially amounts to the epitome of the dark side of individualism. When my children are of age, I would strongly discourage it for all the reasons in the original reply. Floaters don't grow - in the worst case they turn into "professional expats", and those (according to anecdotal experience) tend to develop into some of most fragmented and purposeless personalities on the planet by the time they reach middle age.
The amount disbursed fraudulently and the percentage that represents of the total would be a lot more interesting than the number of fake accounts someone observed.

I clicked through to the LA Times article and it mentions at least hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Wrong. He never defected to China. He travelled to Hong Kong to share the info with journalists and went from there to Russia.

And it was absolutely his place to do that, just as it's everyone's place to protect democracy and do what is right. Can you suggest how the system itself would have otherwise disclosed those abuses?

He doesn't need your forgiveness, but he deserves your appreciation.
Not just Google, anytime I have had to rely on a printed back-up code it hasn't worked. Anyone who thinks they are safe because they have back-up codes for any account, think again.
In America we call this a credit score: a black box system that nobody, not even the credit agencies, can describe or understand. Obligatory dhh/Apple Card Twitter thread on this subject - https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1192540900393705474
They're making the motor anyway for the Mustang Mach-E GT. Might as well sell some extra.
Energy and commodities
The military is the most popular entity in any country, (except when they are actively and publicly engaging in internal indiscriminate genocide). If you speak against it you'll be a very lone voice and you'll very soon find yourself socially isolated and without allies, which is exactly what happened to Snowden.

Even at the very extremes such as Abu Grahib the population attacked George W. not the military.

Snowden overestimated the potency of the material that he leaked, if the public didn't turn against the military for Abu Grahib then his material wouldn't have cut it either.

In order for whistleblowing to work and for the whistleblower to be safe and continue living a normal social life, it has to be political in nature, it has to be a hit to the reputation of a political or social leader who is already dancing around 50% or less approval rating and always in danger of falling off the cliff (like Nixon, Trump, Bill Clinton or given the current partisanship any future POTUS).

If you blew the whistle on Nixon then you had the whole left embrace you and protect you, if you blew the whistle on Bill Clinton affair, all of the sudden the right would love you.

Snowden managed to piss off both the left and the right so he had to escape to Russia, of course he won't repeat the same mistake again
use nitter.net instead.
OneBlade type razors are kind of a nice compromise for me. They have a single replaceable blade but also a pivoting style head. The shave if pretty amazing compared to any cartridge razor I've tried and the blade just snaps in and out of place so isn't any more difficult to change out than a cartridge.
Typically you get a small amount, somewhere in the order of $500 per term, refunded directly to you for personal expenses, textbooks, etc. I think certain students may qualify for more.
Unrelated, there is a trend here. Estonia has been marketing and operating itself like a startup. Many are following it with lithuania introducing e-residency and government services to non-citizens.

It's even more common with island countries where you can buy passports or government services otherwise not available to non-residents in elsewhere without even visiting.

It's 21st century and governments are startups attracting capital and skilled workers (employees).
I'm not sure that's completely true. Some certainly had strict limits on the numbers that could enter (Australia, New Zealand, etc.) as everyone had to go through he government run quarantine systems.
>No country refused entry to its own citizens during the pandemic.

"Japan suspends new reservations on all incoming flights"
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-japan...

This was a short lived measure but did have the effect of preventing some citizens from returning. It could be argued that they could travel by boat, but I believe most ocean travel was also restricted at the time.
System design is the blind leading the blind. An interviewer whose never written and wouldn't recognize a "scalable architecture" before asks a candidate to design one in front of them. The candidate pretends to write a scalable architecture, and the interviewer pretends to know when it's correct.

System interview skills are best taught with a class on how to use "Microsoft Visio".
haha

imho, that’s not what makes a startup.

in your analogy: who are the investors? the US not only burns the money, it has the ability to print more money. between the petrodollar and the military supremacy the only thing that can topple the US are internal factors.
Mitch McConnell is doing press hits saying the republicans are going to enact a federal law against abortion when they retake Congress. Hard to imagine this Supreme Court having a problem with that, given what we’ve all read in the leaked opinion.

It sure doesn’t seem like opponents of abortion have any issues talking about it at the federal level.
I would really appreciate if you tell me how to get back to China from US. I can't even book a flight as all flights are cancelled. https://www.ikkyinchina.com/
I started increasing animal fat in my diet and my thoughts of suicide subsided and come back after a few weeks of no animal fat.

I’ve cycled through many antidepressants and people to talk to, but my doctors and therapists don’t seem to know or be interested that diet may impact mental health.

PS: Duck fat is delicious to fry potatoes with.
I always assumed spam filtering is a solved problem, imnevernhad any issues with eg protonmail once I've trained it on a significant body (eg all my current spam). Im curious, how many positive/negative samples have you used/how much time have you given the system to adapt?
Save as much as you can, and (somehow) manage to at least keep up with inflation. Ideally, do a little better. Guess where you'd like to end up and start paying off a living space. Starting at, say, 50-55, make a real effort to pay off all debts so as to have full freedom of action. Savings accounts, anymore, seem to be high-interest if they actually pay interest. I never had the time or interest to day trade, time the market or bet against trends - YMMV. I was doing real well maintaining a bet against the USD until the last 4 months. It's remained strong and tech has collapsed rather than the reverse.

The other option, of course, is to be an owner of a unicorn that hits and buy Twitter.
Why not a law that prohibits companies making people jump through any of these arbitrary hoops in the name of "security" to begin with? Authentication requirements should be straightforwardly understandable, future-predictable, and fully changeable by the user. Not opaque, always changing, and top-down set by the company for their version of "security". This goes doubly when there is no customer service to sort things out with.

PS stop validating their top-down model by referring to SMS nags as "2FA". It's snake oil for the corporate motive of demanding identifying information.
Yes, I was just poking fun at the ambiguity.
Chances are they don't have children.
Yeah the whole app thing can go die. There is 0 good reason why it can't just be a web site. And as somebody who doesn't pay for a lot of data because I don't use it much your shitty 100MB app just ate a very significant chunk of what I had for the month. Oh and now it's taking up space on my phone, unless I want to burn data to download it again next time.
I believe the reason Snowden isn't saying much is not because he can't find a VPN, but because the Russians can read his Twitter account and Substack and they know where he lives. Also, he has a family.

I mean, come on, how do you think it works? As long as he lives there, he's not free to criticize Russia. And what's the benefit? Many other people are doing that already.
A small dataset is not statistically insignificant. It changes the calculations, but it is possible to make significant conclusions from small data. Whether this situation is significant or not depends on the underlying data you first asked about. Without it we cannot say.
>> Managing to prevent a suicidal person from committing suicide is a pretty weak target metric imo.

But that is 100% of the job of an emergency room. They aren't there to save a life. They are there to stabilize a situation, to keep people alive for a few hours/days until they can be triaged and moved on to other facilities. So I would not expect anything more from an ER beyond the simple metric of the person remaining alive through the night. Long term solutions are not their department.
Also if you look at interactive shells, which have the lower bar to people trying them out (as seen by fish, nushell, etc. picking up users in recent years), powershell is actually quite clunky as an interactive shell. It doesn't appear to have completions matching those shells, the command names are quite tedious for those that don't have built in unix-y aliases, it doesn't provide a facility for common shell shortcuts like "run this one command with a modified environment", etc.
This is such an easy problem to solve. There are simple technical tools to prevent bots from enrolling. More advanced detection methods will catch basically all of the rest. And then you can and should be contacting prospective students via phone or otherwise to verify enrollment. And require physical presence and ID (as my university did) before distributing aid.

Just an example of truly inept leadership in multiple departments and at the top.
> While the programs he identified may have been bad for democracy and America

The fact that you even use such qualified language to describe mass surveillance of the entire civilian population shows just how far your Stockholm Syndrome has led you to identify with our predatory government and ruling institutions.

You know who else was shady and criminal? All the planners, bureaucrats, functionaries, and even code monkeys who built the NSA's dragnet in the first place. But I'm sure we'll never hear a peep about them from you.
If even Congress cannot compel the head of the NSA--under threat of perjury--to publicly admit to an illegal dragnet then what chance does this organization have?
"The system works" when it benefits globalists and harms populists. When the system benefits populists and harms globalists, it is dangerously outdated and needs to be completely overhauled or abolished.

Social media was a tool to usher in a new era of freedom during the Arab Spring, which produced Egyptian students eager for a communist government. Right about the time Donald Trump's candidacy became serious, social media became a dangerous weapon of radicalization that needed to be strictly regulated by the government.
The example lambda isn't "golfing". It's just plain more readable than naming the function.

Introducing side-effects in the middle of expressions with the walrus operator is weird semantics, though admittedly sometimes very convenient.
I've done the same, but apparently no one ever sells my email. Did your effort ever pay off?
India refused entry to Indian citizens during the first year of the pandemic.
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Then it’s probably not worth to renounce the US citizenship, and you’d be shooting yourself in the foot if you did.