skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Billionaires are running the show, why to they have to keep showing up to congressional subpoenas and kowtowing to government bureaucrats of various types and stripes?

Power and money are frequent bedfellows, but power trumps money every single time.
Not according to NASA https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/2953/there-is-no-i...
No driver: Fully autonomous cars now navigate some roads in Austin, Texas
SF Homelessness – 2022 Point-in-Time Count: Preliminary Results
I really don't care what it would be like to go to a social event with one of those people, nor do I care to deeply plumb the depths of the distinction between a lie and untruth.
What is the easiest way to find out who voted against this bill so I can put them in my "don't vote for these people" list?
There was a World Day fair at UC Davis a few years back. One tent had Hari Krishnas in it. I asked one of the Hari Krishnas, "Do you visualize?", and he replied with a beam, "Oh, yes. I do visualize and I love it! I see all sorts of wonderful things." He then pushed a colorful copy of the Rig Veda in my hands and ran off smiling.

A bit later I went over to the Zen booth and talked to a young monk. They had no materials in the booth, only a piece of paper with the swooshed circle symbol. After talking to him briefly I asked, "Do you visualize?". He looked at me calmly for just a moment and then replied, "I practice Zen." I then repeated myself, asking " Yes, but do you visualize?". Immediately he replied, "I practice Zen."

Later I would joke it was at the moment I became enlightened, but understanding this from a fundamental standpoint is both a choice of faith and a logical conclusion done by the mind.

People do visualize, but some people don't. Practicing Zen is about not adding to things, but living in the moment and being aware of your surroundings. The monk may have been able to visualize, but he knew that doing so would pull him out of the moment so he didn't.

Conversely, the Hari Krishna visualized at will, by his own admission when I was asking about it, and allowed it to be a thing he was aware of in the few moments we spoke.
A lot less features. If you don't care about the missing features, then it might be a completely reasonable replacement.
Curiously arbitrary to then not require that the definition include the ability to pay out whatever you got from the loot boxes in real money.

To phrase this in the most cautious way: The potential to win more money than you started with needs to be considered as a factor in the potential addictiveness or more importantly destructiveness of the entire process.
Two things:

Where's the benchmark compared to memcached?

Several years ago there was memcachedb, which could flush stuff to disk. While this operation was expensive, it was also useful, because you could restart instances without being overwhelmed by missing keys (data).

For the latter: your application quickly grinds to a halt if you need to build your cache from ground up after some kind of crash. This is a deal-breaker for many.
There's a white collar crime investigator who has a sign in his interrogation room: "If you're here, you're not as smart as you thought you were."
The content is free on YouTube. It's only 10USD though.
I'm using Mageia with great success. KDE, frequent security and package updates, big repository, non-Ubuntu. Former Mandriva and Mandrake for those who remember Linux in the early 2000s.
For this to work we would need a specialized, simplified, "just works" distribution with a well defined set of hardware support and software packages. Slow moving, standardized, minimal configuration capabilities and with laser focus on security, "non-technical" and educational UX and documentation.

Companies and institutions could build on that foundation to provide support and integration. It could enable a kind of specialized market for IT in education that can be relied on.

Sounds like a monumental effort. But doable. Are there any attempts at this?
empathy means realizing that these conditions they live in under the status quo is harmful and does not come from a place of care. I'm sure the people living in the camp think its an eyesore too and would prefer better circumstances than a nylon tent that anyone with bad intentions and a buck knife can break into.
You survive off food banks and soup kitchens, and beg for drug and booze money.
https://alonetone.com
Interesting project. Very similar to KeyDB [1] which also developed a multi-threaded scale-up approach to Redis. It's since been acquired by Snapchat. There's also Aerospike [2] which has developed a lot around low-latency performance.

1. https://docs.keydb.dev/

2. https://aerospike.com/
Every kid I know that caught COVID brought it back and gave it to the entire family. Mom, Dad, Grandma, etc....

It doesn't matter that the kids are ok. It matters that they spread it
It's referring to a bill (a proposed law) in California "which would have significantly expanded Californians’ access to the parts, tools, and service information needed to fix consumer electronics and appliances."

So California state law remains the same as it has been. No changes (other than less hope for improvement via California state law in the near future).
> A great deal of push-back comes from stubborn IT professionals[0] determined to keep things running on Windows - since this is mostly what they are familiar with.

No. The push back comes from management. In a university in Eastern europe (20 years ago) people were using what was available: unix on servers (sun, linux, BSD) and DOS and some windows 3.1 then 95 and NT on PCs. Windows was pirated like the majority of windows software. Then the law made SW piracy a felony. And as the law began to be enforced, MS came and made agreements with the university to distribute the MS software for free to students and to teach classes with Microsoft products. This was during the times when Linux was a "cancer" and "communism".
The IT professionals must dance as the management sings.
I've heard this is why schools are switching to Chromebooks now - massively reduced support costs.
I actually agree with that example. If I make a purchase etc. on a voice device, I expect an ACK by voice as well.
You've made a bit of a jump here by implying that all of that revenue is from children. It's definitely not scientific but a strawpoll [0] of FIFA's playerbase a few years ago shows its primary demographic is 16-25. It's reasonable to assume they're the majority of spenders in the game too.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/2y5k8l/strawpoll_how_...
If the machine could invent it (whatever "it" is being claimed) without human intervention, then I would argue that "it" does not pass the non-obviousness test, since anybody who could operate the machine ("having ordinary skill in the art") would have invented it.

If the machine doing the inventing is unique in some way (such as having been programmed or trained uniquely by skilled practisioners) such that nobody else could operate the machine to produce the same result, then the result was invented by the humans who built or operated the machine -- depending on whether the claimed invention is the result of a unique machine or unique operation.

Regardless, however, most nations now have a first-to-file patent system whereby the patent for a claimed invention is granted to the first person who files a valid claim describing the invention, rather than by the first inventor -- so the point is almost entirely moot.
Firstly, this is a white paper way before formulation of actual law.

Secondly, that's kind of how UK law works, read up on the knife crime regulation:

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/offensive-weapons-kniv...

It's formulated as, "Carrying an article with a blade or point or an offensive weapon in a public place".

Which of course covers everything from legitimate things to non-legitimate. Which is why the law also allows for a "reasonable excuse" to be carrying such an article.

By the time any regulation is made into legislation it'll iron out the difference or define things in such a way that a reasonable person can tell the difference between an actual game mechanic and a problematic "loot box".
Yes, but this bill wouldn't have affected any of that. Manufacturers could have continued making their devices difficult or even impossible to repair, they just would have had to make their own parts and repair manuals available to third parties.
It's interesting the see the number of open issues of popular python projects:

Pytorch, 8400

Pandas, 3400

Tensorflow, 2100

jupyter notebook, 2000

scikit-learn, 1500

pytest, 720

requests, 170

The outlier seem to be Flask.
I tried to explain the fact that covid risk comes in many levels to someone I'm living with by referencing the risk we take on by driving, and she just immediately jumped to drunk driving. I guess people find it uncomfortable to live with the fact that there's a small but nonzero chance of dying.
Redis and memcache are in memory key value storage. Writing to disk is not a primary function of those systems, it’s only used for taking snapshots or backup of the data. io_uring isn’t used as the core functionality and thus that alone wouldn’t make DF “modern”.
That Tether's assets are being questioned in so many places means it's time to get out of USDT. After all, there is zero upside and a huge downside.
If the video doesn't load, try this https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1531017163284393987
I used to think that, but I think that even ones you can't redeem back (such as FIFA?) can still be extremely problematic with people still spending thousands to get the item they want from the loot box.
There’s a reason there’s significant overlap between those two groups… ;)
9, not 11. But that is still significant.
Humans Approaching Intelligence Level Required for Interplanetary Life
For the non-mathematicians here (like myself) there was an article in the most recent New Yorker on Grothendieck that was quite interesting:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/16/the-mysterious...
These seem cherry picked and it smells of propaganda.

Now, don't get me wrong, it looks awful and I don't want unnecessary suffering. And most of all I bet a lot of those people could slot into housed productive lives if there was a smart and well funded platform for them. That's what I'd love...

But I want to see a survey of :

Criminal status. Health issues. Drug use. Mental Health. Education. Age. Sex. Gender. Marital Status. And then aptitude tests in English and Math. Maybe even an IQ test. But most of all a Big 5 personality test.

Many of those answers could lead towards to matching a person with substitutes or hopefully even a job.

My fear is that a majority can never be self sufficient. Who would that be? Low intelligence and low agreeableness. With or without attendant health issues those two dimensions make for a life of pure misery without a rich support network.
> How do you do drugs when you don’t have money to buy drugs?

I think the top comment up the chain has already mentioned one approach, which is "chop up stolen bikes". There are plenty of other options, but that one would be a solid start. Given the typical price of the kind of bikes that get stolen and chopped, that's a pretty solid income for drugs.

Seattle's local news station had an interesting coverage last year on the topic of stolen bikes specifically[0]. Take a look at the following quote:

> “So we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 bikes all reported stolen in the Seattle area,” says Hance. “Not all of them have prices. This one does. It’s $5,000 bucks. This one’s $1,500. This one’s $5,000. This one’s $900.”

Obviously the stolen ones will be selling for cheaper than the prices you see above. But even if we say that the stolen price is only 25% of the real cost (totally guessing, as i have no idea for the price conversion of stolen to clean), that's still quite plenty for drug money.

0. https://www.kiro7.com/news/jesse-jones/stolen-bikes-can-be-a...
Thanks for taking the time to reply - yes in fact seastar does not use io_uring but it's rust equivalent glommio does use it (IIRC it is based on io_uring). Any reasons for using c++ instead of Rust (are u more familiar with it? or just the learning curve hinders the time to market? or is it the Rc/Arc fatigue with rust async? I guess Rust should be a fairly easy language to pick up for good c++ programmers like you)
Some kind of legislative protection would be nice too. eg any mechanism that collects or transmits telemetry must be able to operate totally separate from any other feature of the device and have a hardware kill switch.
It's a haphazard, inconsistent, bureaucratic, unkind, demeaning patchwork that isn't funded enough to meet the needs of people left-out in the actual cold. It's not meant to help people improve their situation because it treats people consistently like lazy criminals who don't want help and can't be helped.

- Section 8 housing takes forever.

- Work programs are for menial jobs that don't pay anywhere close to livable wages.

- Cash assistance amounts to $5 per day.

- Food assistance amounts to $7 per day (without a means of refrigeration).

- Medic-aid is barely accepted by any doctors except random ones. Medicare with SSDI takes years to get.

- Make just enough to try to get ahead, then you can't afford medications. Working severely penalizes the destitute into even more impossible situations.

- Everything takes longer and is more difficult and more expensive: laundry, showering, and transportation.

- Social workers don't go outdoors in most of America. They sit at desks, fill out paperwork, and randomly stop benefits based on errors, assumptions, and their lack of communication.
Put at least a tiny amount of thought into this. You can't get a job without a shower, without clothes, without an address, without a phone number and for many, without health care.
There's shame in not cheating. Makes you a loser tbh. Why would you not use every resource available?
Ask HN: What do you find cathartic?
Sometimes, cleaning something or doing dishes or just writing in the last page of a notebook feels cathartic to me.
Exactly. I want the support system to be good enough that there are few to no "unluckies" in these encampments. If we make it possible for virtually everyone who wants to get back on their feet to do so, then we can bring on the regulations to keep the streets clear. I'd gladly pay more in taxes if it meant I could eat lunch in my car in peace or go shopping in the bad part of town without getting accosted by some asshole who "just needs gas money to get home" like it's not the third time this week.
Or, if you were a drug user, you'd maybe end up homeless. It doesn't help to confuse cause and effect.
Although an interesting idea I would use it only if it supported templates and variables. For example appending a link or a certain hashtag. It would be nice if the rest of the tweet was ai generated.
Sell drugs for your dealer, prostitution, etc.
I don't think it is - when you introduce a real money cash out you are firmly over the line into gambling territory. Something doesn't need to have _monetary_ value to be considered desirable by a wider group.
> The novelty wore off when i would inevitably have to repeat myself in the normal format.

Same with a custom domain I had for emails. People just expect you to say "@gmail.com".
Congressional subpoenas are pure kayfabe. To win their districts, congress members need money. And the more of it they get the happier they are. So money is power.
So, Taiwan sees reason to be concerned about a Chinese invasion, and China really doesn't want that story going out. (And China thinks it can threaten Israel to move the Jerusalem Post, and is willing to do so.)

History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. Unfortunately, what I think it's rhyming with is Russia's "no, we're not on the brink of invading Ukraine; these are just military exercises".
We read 'of mice and men' 3 times along my school career. Of which the N word is used excessively. Obviously this one as well which wasn't named this when we read it I believe? Also wtf with with Ontario schools teaching our kids about racism and being confused when they create racism?

Do we ban these 2 books and censor it completely like New Zealand's national censors do? That's outrageous to even think of banning any book. I would never live in such a backwards country that would ban any books let alone literally have a government official named 'chief censor' ridiculous.

Should we ban this book from being taught in schools? Absolutely we should. There's thousands of books which are objectively better. We don't even need to ban it over the N word, we should just ban them for being terrible books. No controversy over certain words being used but lets just move on. What is the list of books taught in school and which ones are terrible and need to be replaced?
Free Physics Textbook on the Science of Motion
FTFY: Silicon
Personally, I'm not against the planet or humanity, I'm against disingenously poor quality arguments designed as a chaff countermeasure to befog public discourse and facilitate a worlwide distration theft via technocratic policies and economic centralization.
I don't even understand what the purpose of USDT is. Why use it over a stablecoin that is backed by your crypto exchange?
> I find the idea of having a file system full of links in it a bit odd...

Why?
If Twitch were routinely encouraging alcohol drinking to it's largely underage audience it'll be taken to the coals over it. Excessive alcohol consumption on stream is also against twitch TOS.
You steal. What do you think "I get bike parts from various places" means?
There's a special hell for bike thieves. I have empathy for the person and their situation, but not for their actions.
Bitcoin duck ;)
Blogchain
"Revisiting Pediatric COVID-19 Cases in Counties With and Without School Mask Requirements"

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4118566

> We failed to establish a relationship between school masking and pediatric cases using the same methods but a larger, more nationally diverse population over a longer interval. Our study demonstrates that observational studies of interventions with small to moderate effect sizes are prone to bias caused by selection and omitted variables.

If you look at the plot - there were more cases when masks were required!
"...a happy chime", would piss me off equally as much.
Actually, everything is a routing problem.
Burglary and robbery.
The Physicality of Girls’ Last Tour
This is the PG version that Disney would use. The reality is a lot more scary and dangerous.
you should just try it. It’s not as bad as it looks. You’re reading an article in 5 minutes that contains probably a week’s worth of work or something.
I find the Redis benchmark suspect. Did you disable write to disk and live snapshotting? In production Redis shouldn’t be configured with write to disk.
I don't think there's any way to bring money into twitch channel points though. You can't buy them, you can't redeem them for anything.
Yes, they're almost all getting kickbacks, which I think is even worse. These people are effectively getting paid to advertise gambling to children.

In some cases the odds for streamers have been rigged by the site owners so that it makes it look like winning big amounts is more likely than the reality.
says 10/mo on the homepage
My mom's Samsung fridge tells me whenever it opens and closes. I had to disable notifications. It implies collection of analytics from inside peoples' homes when attached to WiFi.
An Infinitely Large Napkin v1.5
How would you "ethically" design a vaccine study?

There is your answer.
> they are inconvenienced by the sight of poverty

Or, you know, wake up to find shit on their driveways, smashed windows on their cars, needles thrown on the street, etc.
This one is simple.

The first person to pay a lawyer like $10,000 and file the patent and get it approved.
That's not "intelligence". That's science level and technology level.
I choose to believe EBITDA exists because of Bangladesh, which also came into existence in 1971. In fact if you track the prominence of EBITDA and the GDP of Bangladesh, the correlation is crystal clear

In any case crypto is far more manipulated than any normal currency thanks to BitfinexTether.
So is it architecturally different or does DF just have a much better UX?
It's possible, however sad, that there are societal stages where China is in a stage we saw in early Americana when farmers were often the "techies" that kept engines and equipment functioning. They had tools and learned from doing, repairing, making.

But as we went from farm to factory and our wages got us a higher standard of living, we preferred to buy new things rather than keep old things working.

If China follows the path of the U.S., Japan, Korea, they too will grow a middle class that no longer want to work for low wages in factories and will look for cheaper labor elsewhere in the world to meet the needs of their growing consumption.

Just my armchair observations.
Seriously. Outdoors is free.
Dumb TVs are sold as digital signage. They are the state of the art for durability/reliability but they typically have a screen from the "previous" generation, so for example they might not have HDR.
From the project description:

The Napkin project is a personal exposition project of mine aimed at making higher math accessible to high school students. The philosophy is stated in the preamble:

I’ll be eating a quick lunch with some friends of mine who are still in high school. They’ll ask me what I’ve been up to the last few weeks, and I’ll tell them that I’ve been learning category theory. They’ll ask me what category theory is about. I tell them it’s about abstracting things by looking at just the structure-preserving morphisms between them, rather than the objects themselves. I’ll try to give them the standard example Gp, but then I’ll realize that they don’t know what a homomorphism is. So then I’ll start trying to explain what a homomorphism is, but then I’ll remember that they haven’t learned what a group is. So then I’ll start trying to explain what a group is, but by the time I finish writing the group axioms on my napkin, they’ve already forgotten why I was talking about groups in the first place. And then it’s 1PM, people need to go places, and I can’t help but think:

Man, if I had forty hours instead of forty minutes, I bet I could actually have explained this all.

This book is my attempt at those forty hours.

This project has evolved to more than just forty hours.

PDF Link: https://venhance.github.io/napkin/Napkin.pdf
Irrelevant when the parents are doing what they can to reduce the risk for their kid. As soon as you are willing to let them go to school, you have increased the risk to them more than getting them vaccinated will reduce it.
Was your client selling cars? That third car seat won’t fit in their customer’s current vehicle.
You're aware that 16-25 inclues a lot of children, right?
> The trouble with "Modern C++" is that nothing gets deleted from "Classic C++".

This is not exactly true. For example, with the introduction of smart pointers, manual memory management is kicked out of C++'s happy path. This makes code far simpler to reason about and safer. Sure, you can still use new and delete, but since C++11 you better have a very good reason to use those.

Nevertheless, it doesn't make sense to complain about not deleting stuff from C++ when a) until recently C++ was repeatedly criticized for having an extremely spartan standard library, b) since C++98 basic features were added to C++ such as support for parallel and concurrent programming, c) there is no feature that gathers anything resembling a consensus on beig worth taking out of the standard.

I'd add that pseudo-standard libraries for C++, such as Boost and POCO, have been popping up and growing in both scope and adoption. This reflects a clear need felt by the C++ community to increase the scope of it's standard components.