skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It _is_ hypocritical of him, of course, but despite the hypocrisy he does have lessons for us and his hypocrisy does not negate the substance of the lessons.

He's also between a rock and a hard pace. So I don't blame him too much. What I will say, is that if you choose to be a whistleblower, as honorable and moral that can be, you should be aware of and assume the consequences. That's the deal. It's not nice and the world should be a better place, but it isn't and that's the way it works.

That said, he, and Truman are right in that bureaucracy transforms and metastasizes and becomes something other than its original intent and inertia takes over and becomes what some deride as "the deep state" which has been a concern at least since Jefferson.

Maybe we should have hard sunsets on most ACTs of congress and if the function is important enough they can raise a new organization, but not one simply taking over, but one growing anew with new management, personnel and regulation.
Political apathy comes from the political party that would most benefit from low turnout.

If you are disappointed with politics that is a reason to vote. If you don't care, that's a valid reason not to vote
Related: I think it's surprising how many services leak whether or not a password is correct. E.g. bad password => error, good password => 2FA prompt.

You should verify a user's second factor before password.
> else you wouldn't be paying taxes anyway

That's how they get you.

NC sells "unauthorized substance" tax stamps, which you can buy (in theory) anonymously with cash, to pay your taxes on income from illegal distribution.

Mostly it's an excuse to extract money from people who (obviously) didn't pay their drug taxes [1].

[1] https://ncpolicywatch.com/2021/06/28/the-nc-drug-tax-is-desi...
Harvey Friedman, one of the most renowned contemporary logicians, has a research program devoted to finding such examples as those you seem to be looking for.
This article presents his views: https://nautil.us/this-man-is-about-to-blow-up-mathematics-2...
After seeing the ringer that Assange has been put through in spite of not being an American citizen at all, I can only imagine what they would put Snowden through. He would not get a fair trial. Everything that was brought to light would have been buried and forgotten.

None of the Epstein co-conspirators have gone to jail, many of which we know are powerful billionaires, royalty, and celebrities. We have actual evidence of the current president taking bribes while VP (vis-a-vis the Hunter Biden laptop), but there is not even a trace of controversy in the "news" about it.

But we know Snowden would go to jail and his life made a living hell were he not in one of the few countries with true independence from the claws of the American empire. I know why Russia gave him shelter, because the revelations make the U.S. look bad. But I'll be damned if we don't deserve to look bad for this insane, egregious, abuse of human rights that is completely averse to our legal and foundational principles.
And where would he move ?
Exactly.

Pursuing a graduate degree is optional (outside of select professionals - lawyers, doctors, prof engineers). You can attend graduate school outside the scope of employment (on your own dime). The market for graduate programs is competitive. And the degree retains its value beyond the immediate job placement.

PetSmart should be required to prove that its training program provides actual, long-term value to the employee if they want to claw back the money spent on training. In my mind, the program would need to result in a legitimate industry certification for that to be true...

As is the case for some skilled trades, where you complete an apprenticeship or other training and earn membership in the trade union. Or trucking, railway engineering, or commercial pilots.
I've had google music -> youtube red -> youtube music over the years which I still think is a fantastic deal in this day and age. No ads on youtube videos and an extensive collection of songs.

Life pro tip: Sign up for the family subscription at 15$ a month and create a family of 6 which I share with my friends. Less than 3$ a piece.
Based on a quick test here on a 417MB .tar.gz file I had lying around, best of 5 times for various coreutils (8.32) implementations:

- md5sum: 0.570s

- sha1sum: 0.667s

- sha256sum: 1.662s

- sha512sum: 1.011s

- b2sum: 0.486s

- cksum: 0.982s

In conclusion: b2sum is both the fastest and AFAIU considered secure.
Regrettably, none of my answers work in a modern western-style economy. However, if I am forced to keep everything else the same--taxes, healthcare, student loans, etc.--here are a few things that could help:

- slow start like you mentioned (also was done in famously education-forward Soviet Russia)

- allow schools to expel children

- increase availability and desirability of night school or other free public school for adults

- mandate school and district administrators to have experience teaching

- ban homework and introduce periods of time during school when work is expected

- remove all art and sports from school and reform them as independent free clubs to be participated in after or before school (unfortunately impossible in poorer districts)

- increase teacher salary

- more separation of students by skill level (tons of research showing that kids learn better when they're placed in small groups at a similar skill level, also easily observed anecdotally.) This should also be accomplished by mixing ages.

- ban grades, introduce final exams in specific subjects at the end of school that can be retaken indefinitely (perhaps once per year). If you want to go to college, perform on these tests

If we're looking at societal changes that would allow us to really move away from the school model, we also need:

- more public transportation to enable kids to go to schools other than the ones they live next to

- widespread reforms in prison and sentencing that makes it safer and less life-ending

- industry must return to western countries to allow low- and medium-skilled people important labor jobs

- healthcare reform so it's not tied to employment

- better cultural stewardship, small business startup loans, and continental rail so young talented people aren't as incentivized to leave their smaller cities and towns

Ultimately, a strong society that could move safely away from the school model needs an economy with many opportunities for short-duration (6-24 months) employment, lots of vacation time, and the ability for one parent to stay at home a large fraction of the year.
More like a shortage of leadership and management is holding up $50k cars.

They got themselves into this mess, where a cheap and efficient global supply chain is necessary to get a steady supply of 50-cent chips, when they could have had a much more resilient and reliable system for 51-cent chips.
I think the same way. Online and offline are just different mediums of communication, of experience. Each has their own advantages, and their own UX, and thus there is a place for both of them. Well at least until we get true matrix-style simulation, after which the offline world becomes a subset of what's possible in the online world.
If you can't change deadline as you learn, you have to control scope with an iron fist from the outset.

I've worked on projects where deadlines were revised each month based on new info, and effort/improvement was focused in gathering better info to inform an (ideally) increasingly accurate deadline confidence.

For fixed deadlines; scope, scope, scope. Cut the scope and take an honest look at why it is late ... start fixing those things with a smaller scope.

I'd never as a team to work overtime, and I work hard to ensure that situation never risks my teams jobs. If it comes to a crunch, the business failed their staff terribly.
Not tax advice, but I'm pretty sure you can just file it under a Schedule C as business income, and then you definitely can deduct the expenses from the business income with no 2% minimum.
As someone who has watched a lot of movies, yet (from a quick glance at Wikipedia) none by Godard (so far), which of his movies should I start with that "embodies" most what Godard did?
Chamath Palihapitiya’s Substack about this: https://chamathreads.substack.com/p/ipo-20-update
The actions of intelligence agencies have long ago stopped surprising me. It's hard to be more alarmed than I already am and still live my life.
> Don't destroy your mental/physical health for a shitty managed company

Yes. Don't be me. I pushed myself too hard and got shingles* in my mid 30s, and activated my celiac disease (I've always had the celiac gene, but I find it quite the coincident that symptoms first showed up during this time) all within a 2 month timespan. A very stressful time, and it feels like those 2 months ruined my life, and it all happened so fast. Beware.

* Shingles was weird. Started with a weird feeling in deep deep tissue, then later a surface level rash with itchiness and numbness that comes and goes. There was one evening where the rash had flashes of extreme pain, just two or three times, and I came to realize why people with severe cases describe it as the most painful thing they've experienced. Fortunately, my case was mild and cleared on its own without much pain.
Kind of, but it also exacerbates one of the problems with C++ build systems which is there are so many and none of them are the build system. On one hand this is desirable from the perspective that it avoids monoculture. But it's a bad thing from the perspective of a new programmer in that it causes a lot of confusion and a form of "choice paralysis", where programmers become overwhelmed by options and choose nothing out of a fear of making the wrong choice.
There are always people who are out of touch with the current market (and I don't mean that condescendingly. There's not much value in knowing these things for many people in the space). That doesn't mean things they aren't aware of aren't well known. Of course not everyone knows, but a critical mass certainly does such that it's not really necessary to introduce the company every time it's discussed.
The point is MSRP used to be a relatively safe assumption of selling price (AFAIK it also has been for quite a while), and now it's way lower than what we actually end up paying.
If his hobby turns into a passion, he'll be itching to move beyond Redstone. Don't fret. :)
Or the login process should just go ahead and ask the 2FA either way - and just fail you in the end without explaining why. And then notify only behind the scenes via mail that the password was correct but the 2fa wrong. That would be the way to handle it. I'd receive such notifications from time to time - I mix up the 2FA accounts sometimes, other times I'm slow typing and it expires - but I can live with that little extra email.
If you're working a fulltime job, you're very likely to already be well over the standard deduction. It still sounds like the commenter doesn't fully understand the tax situation and might have paid more than they truly owed, but I can't imagine they'd owe $0 on the profits if they're in the US unless they had minimal other income that year.
Well into the second day of Cloudflare’s blockade of my home internet connection, Google Search also began blocking requests. It required me to resolve a CAPTCHA challenge for every other search. This luckily only lasted a day.

Cloudflare shares IP reputation data with partners like Google, coordinated through a program called the Bandwidth Alliance. So, my original offense might not even have been against Cloudflare. It might have received the reputation data from a partner, and it just propagated through the Bandwidth Alliance network.

That's not what Bandwidth Alliance is at all. It's about reducing or eliminating egress fees between a cloud provider and Cloudflare. Not sure where the idea that it's about sharing IP reputation data comes from.

https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/

So, if Google Search started showing a CAPTCHA that's not Cloudflare.
Because it's interesting to think about. It's hacking - doing something with technology that was not intended, and sometimes ill-advised, to see what kind of interesting results we can get.
> 8-year-old girls shouldn't be assassinated, but

I don't think that sentence needed a "but" part
I assume something like jpeg (used in the DICOM standard today) has more eyes on the code than proprietary Xerox stuff? hopefully at least...

I have seen weird artifacts on MRI scans, specifically the FLAIR image enhancement algorithm used on T2 images, i.e. white spots, which could in theory be interpreted by a radiology as small strokes or MS...so I always take what I see with a grain of salt..
"background typing test"
"in-browser browser typing test"
"real-time typing test"

The SEO is pretty strong with "typing test" so that may be my problem.
people doubted we were heading there in 2007, too

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I own no crystal ball
???

Killing is one of the CIA's sanctioned duties, so it's a bit different to compare the CIA killing a child to the EPA killing a child.

But nonetheless, no, we wouldn't shut down the whole EPA, fire everybody, delete all the databases, and cancel worrying about pollution if the EPA killed a child.

I know this is an emotional topic, but imo overreacting proposals actually make less progress toward a concrete improvement than practical ideas.
Panic, blame, add lots of new people, sorry "developer resources". I believe Fred Brooks and something to say about this.
I don't know about wrong 2fa codes but bitwarden notifies you if you have an "unfinished" 2fa login. If you type username and password correctly and then don't type in your totp token it will notify you.
Florisboard: https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard
Dude, if I trusted myself I’d be so fucked.
Okay, my $0.02 cents: this is mostly a periodic trend. Large companies had static codebases and switched many codebases to dynamic types circa 2000-2010.

And we've even been to the same circle before: a lot of programming the 60s and 70s was untyped, then they switched to typed C++, Delphi and then Java.
Yeah they've finally beaten me. I started paying for premium this year. The level of effort to scrub ads from my "smart TV" is just so much higher than $10/month at this point, and it is completely unwatchable otherwise.
It's not the watch, it's your house... and the roads, sewer, power etc. It's the $$$s!

Furthermore, don't forget your investments! Those are earning money BECAUSE they are consuming power. The workers build more houses, drive more cars, and consume more power to go on vacation to Tahiti. Profit is reinvested to consume more power. You own/rent it, you're responsible.
Snowden is bad because he's... in a bad country? Drivel!

That the US is better than the USSR is hardly a laurel worth resting on. The US has, from before it even existed, always been about the pursuit of better government--of a more perfect union.

There can be no improvement without criticism.
I can't tell if the people responsible were clueless or it was purposeful. With the way information is spread and manipulated optics should be as important as any words. It's very odd...
That is just modern SQL with horrible LINQ memories ;)
> you can write off the expenses of the video card.

As a random person who buys a graphic card to mine coin you can deduct the card price ?
True. But the approach we're talking about here is more akin to fundraising. The sum is fairly nominal, and there are alternative free ways of getting the software.
Are you thinking I could use the data from the keylogger to script my own typing test? That would work, although a bit more effort than I was hoping for atm.
> You can race cx with a gravel bike and race gravel with a cx bike.

Sortof. The key defining difference is that a cyclocross bike meets the UCI rules for cyclocross, while a gravel bike doesn't. In a sense, the gravel bike trend is the result of consumers rejecting the UCI's definition of what an off-road-capable drop-bar bike should be.
Haha. I bought a brand new 1050 for one of the kid's builds (For a system that would happily run Minecraft) from eBay. Pretty much a year to the day it suddenly wouldn't be recognised by the Nvidia drivers on booting.

Turned out it had a hacked firmware.

I now only buy my graphics cards from reputable sources..
Show HN: I made an AI for drones to land safely
I'm trying to figure out whether there is a real business in building AI systems for UAV. I'm developing a few different products that all work together, and the most basic one is maybe this AI component that simply detects ground obstacles outputting a single class for safe areas. If you use it I'd love to hear any feedback!
Given the recent evga split, this is actually not the case. Nvidia has contracts to provide them with a great deal of control over end user pricing.
Your example isn't the same. The manufacturers wouldn't be able to do enough volume to bring down card prices for AI without gamers. The gamers are actually bringing your price down.

This is a bubble created mostly by crypto that is driving prices up because their demand greatly exceeds supply.
"There's no way to send a message to someone else over an untrusted channel with a very good assurance that it hasn't been tampered with, without a trusted channel. You need some way to convey trustable information. "

This is kind of what real p2p, open, permissionless, decentralized blockchains are good for...
Soon we'll be unloading the trucks to earn a token to get into the store
I'm using Heroku for my personal website and I have to say I was somewhat disappointed by them a few months ago and was waiting for enough free time to search and move to an alternative.

I used to have automatic deploys from GitHub connection, when one day, without notice, I saw that the deploys fail. Furthermore, no error message apart from a generic 500.
After some research to no avail, I reached out to their support only to discover that they disabled their GitHub integration. I wasn't notified personally by email, as I would have expected from a service for which I'm paying a substantial monthly subscription (7$!) to keep the site up constantly.

Which brings me to the second point of disappointment - the pricing. It's a rather expensive service, just for the site not to 'fall asleep'. I mean, I know of MineCraft server hosts that offer an awake server for way cheaper...

Thanks for saving me time on alternatives research - and Heroku, I like your platform, I just don't love the pricing and the handling of the aforementioned situation.
this is a great idea. activists could then use the ideal standard & pressure departments into achieving "NPDRS Transparency" or something
I’ve been shocked by how long the 1080 has remained a top performing chip, and watched the price increase year after year.

Strange times indeed.
If you haven't done anything, someone else might have. Check your router logs for strange devices and activity in your network, also check your machine/s for malware.
Could district heating (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating) help? I'm from the US so I'm not familiar with the idea in practice.
There is no “legal distribution” of marijuana in federal law, and it’s the federal law that’s most of the tax burden. The federal law simply does not allow you to deduct expenses on marijuana business.
> I meant counted references that were mentioned as an alternative in the GP comment.

The main problem with reference counted pointers is detecting cycles. Rust doesn't have a cycle detector, but only a concept of "weak" pointers that don't prevent the object they're pointing at from being destroyed, just detect if it has been. This works fine if you have a tree with parent pointers, you make the parent pointers weak and everything works. It doesn't work so well if you don't have a clear tree structure though, because then you can't really tell which pointers should be strong and which should be weak.

> but may have a high false negative ratio if many/most objects have same generation. But a glance at slotmap docs didn't yield any hits for a generation I'd being used, do you have a specific link?

Apart from wrapping around after 2^32 frees of a specific slot, I don't believe any false positives are possible. The trade off is that there's more overhead than I think you're imagining.

https://docs.rs/slotmap/1.0.6/slotmap/#performance-character...
Nvidia literally mandates the pricing their "partners" can sell each card ( it's an interval )

It's widely known Nvidia is a bitch to work with. It has been "fine" because Nvidia was pretty much the only game in town and because of Bitcoin/Covid/floods/locusts/etc the prices have been ridiculous for years and everybody made their sweet money, now things are starting to become sane and the usual crocodiles are starting to cry..

I don't feel pity for anyone, everybody other the the final real consumer made a lot of money.
It's Pinterest meets Fark.
Worth noting: I also reported a few thousand in trading profits, which were part of the same forms. So I couldn't just ignore crypto entirely on my taxes, and I used TaxBit to autogenerate the forms; it required everything in my transaction history to be accounted for, including all of the mining transactions.
Tampering? That's harder. But to protect against corruption, since the hashes are shorter, you would be able to chisel them in different types of stone and glass and make 3+ copies of them. I suppose if you really want to protect against tampering, you could distribute so many copies that the ability to tamper with a majority of them would be very unlikely.

But I think what was meant by "publishing" was that the hashes would be available to parties who would be willing and able to preserve them indefinitely.
Intentional:

- all US feeds of the speech were the angry red, except CNN who digitally altered it to pink

- international feeds had a wider angle that included blue
I mean, what could I possibly say that would convince you that neither is the case? Probably nothing. I saw what I saw.
Lima
https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
Years back, every web browser's built-in password manager locked up the page when submitting a login form, waiting for the user to answer "do you want to save this password?" before proceeding.

I thought that was silly: how do I know if I want to save the password before I've seen whether it's correct? Which I can't see until the form is submitted.

At the time I was using Opera, so I wrote in to their customer support suggesting that the prompt appear after the new page loaded. I never heard back, but a couple months later their next major release implemented exactly that behavior. A few months after that, every other browser followed suit.

I can't have been the only one bothered by the existing behavior, but given how long browsers had worked that way before I wrote in, I like to tell myself that the timing wasn't a coincidence, and that my little suggestion rippled out into a change that made a small thing better for the whole world :)
I really like the idea. It's easy to tell people what they're supposed to do, but people need help to stick to the plan. Automated guiderails are a great way to smoothly enforce a process.

Some things I'd suggest based on the demo:

- A splash page right before the stand-up begins to remind people to resist the urge to explain in detail what they did; two sentences per item is more than enough. If a question can't be answered in two sentences, it should immediately become a Team Topic.

- A big countdown timer that gets more red and shakes as time goes on, both for each individual person, and for how long the whole standup is taking.

- Some buttons to create a Jira item, Zoom meeting, etc from a Team Topic, and share the link to it.

- A help screen with the most important takeaways about stand-ups, like the fact that it should not be run by a product owner or manager, that it is to serve the sprint goal, etc.
Depends how long until you throw them away.

A bathtub curve needs to come back up, right?
Can software simplify the supply chain?