skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "crimes" mentioned in the article are as minor as it gets:

> Ciavarella ordered children as young as 8 to detention, many of them first-time offenders deemed delinquent for petty theft, jaywalking, truancy, smoking on school grounds and other minor infractions.
The two examples I gave were real: https://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/23/pennsylvania.corrup...

I don't know what the most serious conviction/sentencing was.

I'm not trying to construct a hypothetical alternate history; I just mean that these guys were reported to the authorities multiple times regarding their harsh sentences and poorly-operated courtrooms - and nothing happened. Nothing was done until the feds got involved due to the money laundering / tax evasion / racketeering.
The point is the rules already exist and crypto was just deluding themselves into thinking it didn't apply. There is no reason for proposals or other formal rule-making because that step already happened.
I'm really sorry but these kind of "I mocked a simple program in 45 mins when my TDD practicing counterpart took longer" comments mean nothing. The code is never written once and done. If you were maintaining that code for the next 6 years and there was no rush to ship it, it absolutely doesn't matter how fast it was written in the first place. I would much rather take code that was written better in 6 hours, than bad code written in 45 mins. I'm not saying you wrote bad code, but time to ship, in general, rarely matters in this context.
My understanding is that linux-libre strips CPU microcode as well, which is often used to patch hardware vulnerabilities - what's the recourse for such issues on servers like these, on GuixSD?
Maybe when throughput is a high concern you take a Bluetooth keyboard in a bag. Though at that point maybe also a light laptop would work...
Same effect mentioned here:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/janet-jacksons-rhyth...

and here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=10...
But didn't you intellectually know that this would be the implication of Moore's law if it could actually hold over such a long period? Maybe it's more a manifestation of how counterintuitive exponential growth is to human sensibilities.
> People will never stop coming to the US for opportunity.

Is true _as long as the US continues to understand this_ and doesn't change its stance on immigration and business and open markets. The US will win as long as it's the country where the best of this world are invited and able to come and do their best work.

On the other hand, I don't see China having any chance at beating the US on that front anytime soon. Mandarin is too hard to learn for immigrants, and the racism and lack of freedom is entirely unpalatable to most immigrants. Aside from finance types moving to Shanghai, I'm not sure who would want to move to China if they have the opportunity to move to the US instead. (well, I know many do, but let's just say the quantities are incomparable)
Did you get a sense for how long the battery was lasting while you were using it?
Yeah I noticed this phenomenon already, every times I'm shouting at my collaborators they start crying and procrastinating, classic.
Free elections != democracy. Also respect for institutions and equality before the law. Any part of that weakened, it can go off the rails.
I wouldn't expect much in terms of value or growth from a platform owned by those clowns.
How would you distinguish? How would you know they didn’t send the tornado amount to themselves?
Google raters are the judge.
Global warming is so 2010... It's climate change
Getting quite off-topic, but Vienna is the capital of Austria; while Bratislava and Košice are the only two Slovakian cities with a population greater than 100000, so presumably it's one of those.
Maybe we should make a bigger effort to keep them clean. But that's a separate issue that seems completely separate from whether or not they're covered in solar panels.
Correct, I was, though I think it's fair to split GuixSD into server and desktop usecases and consider them separately. If it works for one and not the other, cool, maybe doing what Alpine did and billing Guix System for specifically server cases could work? (I still have outstanding questions in that realm in parent thread)
You can DIY one with choc switches:

https://boardsource.xyz/store/5ecb822386879c9a0c22db84

https://www.littlekeyboards.com/products/naked60bmp-keyboard...
So according to this premise I could dismantle the whole system:

1) I reach out to all possible sanctioned entities and offer to host dummy content.

2) At some point in the future they become sanctioned.

3) Under threat of sanction I then remove the content.

4) Sanctioned entity files a First Amendment claim to have the sanction invalidated.
The homeless probably have struggles getting a card.
I think effective altruism and the kind of altruism that can give someone deeper meaning and connection (and thus avert things like midlife crises) are not the same, sometimes maybe mutually exclusive.

Going out to a remote country and helping people directly yourself, while you live with them and are integrated with their lives, might give you a sense of connection and meaning[0], but EA would likely dictate that this is a pretty ineffective use of your time, since you're probably much better at things like $YOUR_CAREER than you are at directly helping people in remote countries with their problems. So you should instead do $YOUR_CAREER, make money and donate it to people who can help others more directly, with perhaps a less personal touch (more "mass distributing mosquito nets", less "helping individual families with issues").

[0]: Of course if you're completely ineffective, you might not feel good about it. But I think the level of effectiveness required to make you feel good is much, much lower than the optimal levels of effectiveness that EA is shooting for.
> A series of surveys suggests that people who identify as conservative are more likely to want to do this by buying products marketed as “better,” while liberals are more drawn to messaging that emphasizes that the product is “different.””

this is interesting. I would be more drawn to messaging on "different", but mostly because I wouldn't trust a company to be an impartial judge on what is "better" - I would look to reviews rather than marketing for that. I guess it also represents a difference in notions of black and white thinking as well. I'd be curious to hear which one appeals more to people and why.
I like this quote:

In this sense, Setiya believes, “Midlife” is about middle age, but middle age just represents a more acute stage of existential insecurity that is always present.

Makes me wonder, what does existential security look like, because the quote rings true.
You can do this indefinitely with commercial real estate including multi-family dwellings. Lenders are comfortable with 50% loan-to-value. You do need to have some cash flow from the properties to service the debt. It does require the properties to either appreciate over time or for you to build up more equity in them by paying down your loan.
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More specific about...?
What songs were popular when I was in high school?
I think private prisons could be a good thing if the right people had the right incentives.

Imagine if there were something like recidivism bonds or cooperatively owned prisons, with healthy start-up culture behind it.
But TDD (the main topic being discussed here) has nothing to do with that, right? I mean, how on earth is TDD going to help you decide between a) using a simple data structure like a collection and b) a more sophisticated data structure like the adjacency list, if you have no idea what an adjacency list is?
Since PFAS is so prevalent I think we will not only need to find a way to break it down but also to somehow break it down within our bodies. Some sort of procedure or treatment.

Scientists keep finding all kinds of negative effects from having PFAS in a human body. For example, they found risks reducing male fertility (poorer sperm quality) and testosterone. [1]

Life is plastic, it's -not- fantastic.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8038605/
Check the case status of I-485 applications for fiscal year 2022
The difference being that those people couldn't do shit about it, while the elites can (and they are working hard on it!)
> Why can't I report & deny in one click?

Because then PayPal would have a massive number of reports to follow up on.
You're making distinction without difference. Both GOP and Dems value "Law and Order" equally. The Rule of Law bit is far more squishily applied by both parties, however.

The whole private prisons settling as cost of doing business, however, is one reason the LLC and the legal fiction of corporations as completely seperate from the people operating them was controversial in the first place, as it served as what could be used as a layer of protection from the Courts/Justice System.
There's no such thing as a good news source. They are all biased. The best option is using multiple news sources, ideally ones that are fairly balanced (NPR, AP) as well as biased ones, as well as foreign news sources about America. For example I really like reading BBC news about the US and Al Jazeera.
When you say "artificial digital scarcity" are you referring to bitcoin's supply limit, or are you making a general statement about cryptocurrencies?
For me the recruiter went on holiday and by the time they came back I had a new job lol
HE specifically cited his own Executive Order, which is why this actually got done. He only took credit for his own actions!

If he had cited what Obama did and took credit for that, or what Warren did and took credit for that, you'd have a point.
Correct, but in that case there is no impact to your taxes.
But you can be bothered enough to comment. Interesting.
With Apple Pay the store does not se your card number and can't store it/steal it. For me this is a big bonus.
New anti-party technology in US and Canada
> All that can attest to is that in my darkest moments, painting has given me a shelter and hope. When I paint, I completely lose sense of time.

That's me with programming.

I would of course love to links to your art if you're up to it
I mean, some people are really drawn to value statements rather than utility.

This is a great read, fun to look back at a young MJ's business strategy.
The only thing that really makes it more compact is that flo-control used a big box and a lamp to produce an ideal and consistent input image which took a picture of the cat's head in silhouette.

Honestly, the image acquisition method that the original system used combined with a modern ml based image classifier would probably work better than just hoping your camera can see it from the front.
they can pick a different name, i don't really understand what solution you are advocating. that no one can be vitalik because there are more than one?
I think almost all issues with any controversy seem to have identity at the crux. This is why there is virtually no principled consistency. That's why you have Defund the Police and then Defund the FBI. Or "athletes get paid too much" and "it's a free market". Or "go back where you came from" and "go back where you came from". Or "my body my choice" and "my body my choice".

If I woke up tomorrow I think the supporters of each of these could just about flip and they'd be no worse off from a principled perspective. They just need to make sure those others in their identity group are on the same page.
My first thought here was "tools like this could be a really cool to help improve the quality of my student's papers." My immediate second thought was "this trend in tooling is going to lead to tons of AI churned summary copypasta in all of the future paper's I read."
Not until you have a US passport and that takes a really long time for Indians.
I was under the impression that all audio Spotify serves is heavily DRM-ed and can only play with special hardware decoders which respect the DRM?

How did was this person able to play the encrypted audio? Does this not let them effectively rip music from Spotify?
We can't really judge it without evidence, which is likely what authorities are trying to gather.
Also as an dependency canary: when your low level object tests start demanding access to databases and config files and networking, it's time for a think.

Also a passing unit test always provides up-to-date implicit documentation on how to use the tested code.
I guess, which in your mind would be a statement on utility and which would be values? They both seem like they could be.
What is supposed to be "fun" about MAGA racism?
I wouldn't want to spend too much time in there without ear protection! Is it common for data centers to be this loud?
Good find.

[EDIT]: I just listened to the entire episode. Although the presentation was a little too… busy for my tastes, there were quite a few details related that I hadn't heard before. (Busy isn't the right term but close).
Snap may be a camera company, but only its software sells
FOSS is not the same thing as "everything digital should be free". They are not the same people/movements, though I will admit that there is some overlap.

It's absolutely true that a vast majority of crypto projects revolve around the idea of artificial scarcity, leading to a disgusting commodification of absolutely everything. However, and ironically enough, code is the one thing that crypto cannot commodify, which is what FOSS cares about.
For some examples of people porting existing C++ Fortran libraries to julia, you should check out https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/Octavian.jl, https://github.com/dgleich/GenericArpack.jl, https://github.com/apache/arrow-julia (just off the top of my head). These are all ports of C++ or Fortran libraries that match (or exceed) performance of the original, and in the case of Arrow.jl is faster, more general, and 10x less code.
Chances are he simply meant a 3-bedroom in a good Bay Area zip code. And I would agree with him in a heartbeat.
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It's a nice little device, but did experience fair share of problems too...

- Hinge snapping -- a little screw in the front that holds the screen in angle pretty much broke out from the chassis, breaking the part of front panel in process, too. Now I can't hold the panel in angles. Either I have to open it all the way or close.

- Battery stopped charging -- ended up removing it.

Now I just have it plugged in to do trivial things once in a while...
So Google making up the information they present to users is not Misinformation and clickbait, but this youtube video is.
I wish everyone knew about Edward Bernays, nephew of Freud, and father of modern propaganda, aka public relations, aka marketing.¹²

It's a real eye opener to be able to notice when you're being manipulated (often emotionally) by the others, including family and friends. The media and ad industries have been playing us for years. It lets you reevaluate where you stand as opposed to where you think you stand. I went through a period of outrage, violation & hate while learning this, but came out with a lot more calm & acceptance as a result. I haven't had a TV in 10 years & find it really irritating to watch bc of the way you're unnaturally enticed to resonate for or against whatever is being presented (note, I still do watch some movies). I think it's in everyone's best interests to learn to be in control ones own mind, free of manipulation.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

² https://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american...
That's why Apple markets its products as better and different. Must get them all.
> First amendment has always applied to government actors not also to companies who are enforcing sanctions.

So if goverment can outsource enforcement of sanctions to private actors then first amendment does not protect anything at all?
...despite the confusing/misleading title "mid-air diversions to Hawaii".
I built backend for my typing app using supabase with row level security(RLS) and OAuth providers to track.

https://typingkit.com

Supabase + SvelteKit + Cloudflare
Remains to be seen whether periods like this post-Floyd were a one-off, or devolve into a regular occurrence. I am pessimistic. Ethnic and sectarian divides getting worse not better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovtLTPrB2MA
There's been a lot of hand wringing about "how can the SEC sanction an open source software?" The fact of the matter is, information is not value neutral. Information may be protected under free speech, but that doesn't make it legal to actually route that data.

Just because it's on the internet, doesn't mean ISPs aren't ultimately responsible. People chose to route internet packets, they chose to build and manage data centers, and they chose to run the service. And now everyone involved in the internet has to deal with this sanctioned information flowing with everything in that space.

Clearly, we need to require all IP packets to be transmitted only from people and entities who are registered with the government so we can censor any bad data from being transmitted. Otherwise, illegal information might flow.
There are rumors that only the Pro models will get A16, and that they will have specs that justify a base price increase like more flash memory by default.

So it isn't outside the realm of possibility that the A16 design is 3nm, and they will delay its launch and/or otherwise make it less desirable to deal with lower initial production yield.
the bottleneck was a global ecosystem level of selection.

dinosaurs pressured the mammals to stay small, hide in burrows, and roam at night.

dinosaurs, and a lot of other things came to an abrupt end, the basal mammals survived in thier bunkers with hoards of seed, and were relieved of selective pressure, thus diversified in thier traits this is when mammalian diurnalism made a big comeback so they could now compete among fellow mammals radiate and expand niche into the estate of the late dinosaurs
Yes, whilst he has given so many other valuable talks around systems profiling, etc..

I firmly believe that this [1] still should be hanging in every system administrators bedroom around.

https://www.brendangregg.com/Perf/linux_observability_tools....
I think it's a genetic trait diversity bottleneck? Mammals almost all went in the direction of nocturnal adaption and a lot of adaptions useful during the day were lost over time.
If you look at the couple of semiotics related pages that ncatlab had, they all moved offsite, so it's just that ncatlab doesn't address semiotics, not that they don't address the algebraic interpretation of it.

https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation#Semiotic_equivalence_rel...

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/search?query=SEMIOTIC
Ah yes, I forgot about those :)

Indeed I would complete the analogy as follows: if only you could produce toilets in the entire world, you could (and probably should) charge a lot of it, since it would be so scarce -- it would be the stuff of world leaders and celebrities; or you could charge for 'how to make a toilet' (which makes sense since your production capacity is limited). That's when your product/service justifies something close to value pricing.
The "social and religious ways" usually made the problem worse; that's why got rid of them. And it's not just about raping children in industrial quantities and an occasional murder; even in this case "Ciavarella was also active in several civic and Catholic organizations", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ciavarella.
Your product seems nice. I have nothing to take away from it.

However, consider what codingdave have told you about the Socratic questions. The ones in the video are no doubt helpful for someone trying to find their way on a text. But they are not Socratic questions.

Good luck for your project.
I just found some of my C and C++ code from around 2001. I just needed to add one missing prototype I'd let be implicit in my sloppiness, and it all built and ran just fine.

Just runs a lot faster. :-)
When you say TDD doesn't work do you mean it doesn't work if it's religiously practiced? I've worked for many companies who do TDD and I personally enjoy it very much and we ship code, we make money. So clearly something is not not working. I think the trick with TDD is making sure you don't use it religiously and understand in what cases it'll help you.
> When build times are short, spinning up a debugger is overkill compared to adding a couple of debug statements.

I often find it a lot faster to set up breakpoints and fire up the debugger than to write debug statements. At least in some IDEs, breakpoints are a single click each, and if you have to restart the application/module/whatever anyway, doing that in a debugger instead of a non-debug run is also just a click. I can then inspect any variable values at the breakpoint instead of having to explicitly include all potentially interesting ones in the debug output.

When I'm trying to figure out a problem in code I'm writing rather than one in production, the debugger is often my first resort.

I'm mostly writing plain old backend code without asynchronicity, though.

Debug output (at a reasonable level) is still useful even outside of asynchronous program flow, of course, because it might give immediate clues for problems encountered in testing or production. If you don't have a good idea of where to look, debug output from several places might also be nicer than having the program stop at lots of breakpoints that turn out to not be useful.
Let's not forget a hefty investment was made by the West to rebuild those cities that were bombed to rubble that Beirut is not getting. So Beirut may need more than a stable political situation.
Disagree.

I'm old enough to have experienced a largely cash-based society that was also virtually without any tracking. The government would know you exist, your school/work, and pretty much nothing else.

The default was freedom, and it being up to the government to prove you're malicious, not the other way around.

What I do in my private life and whom I transact with is my business, and not that of the government or 5,000 companies. If you think I'm cheating, come with a well documented warrant based on evidence.

That was the mentality. Now we're cheering as we're accelerating into a digitized, centralized super authority that can wipe you out, or even an entire category of people, with the push of a button.

You can't do that with cash. You'd have to actually visit thousands of people, do research on all, obtain a warrant, arrest them, process them, etc.

All of this is absolutely about fundamental rights. I have no need for any mixers, but the attitude "guilty until proven innocent" isn't very pro-freedom.
The first time I encounter TDD, I was a bit surprised because it encourages you to write tests (client code) first. Well, I started my professional career without knowing about TDD, but I did know that usually it's best to start writing the client code first. E.g., you write your main.c/Main.java/main.go first, referencing classes/code that do not exist yet, and wiring everything together. Then you move on to the next layer, write code that should exist but still relying on future code that doesn't exist yet. Eventually you end up writing the whole thing. Sometimes the other approach works equally well (e.g., starting from the small blocks and going up).
I'm going to use a big notice here: None of this is inherently safe to use as a client. This is similar security profile as a database driver. This API has no row level auth or anything like that. Unless this is explicitly what your product is doing, like within PlanetScale, this is what powers our Console, don't use this in a browser.

With that said, I personally have no real opinions on this topic. It's pretty far out of my wheelhouse. I think that's more something like Firebase and gang, but that's not something we're gunning for at the moment and aren't trying to replace that.