skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is right. They tend to have alternate ways to circumvent the systems they put in place --such as "donor" privileges in university admissions.
https://archive.ph/gQvwd
I remember when the elites did a Jedi mind trick on the Occupy Wall Street folks and made them change their focus to race and what bathroom people get to use. It was remarkable.
Sure, Google Maps could do that, but then the Selfish Maps app (or the Google Maps Express Lane Premium monthly subscription) would be very appealing to the people that can afford it.
Yes, that is true, however line cook is not the only opportunity in the military - even though it is the subject of this thread (broadly). The point I was hoping to illustrate is that only 23% of the overall population being eligible for the military is not exactly dire given that we need less than 1% to maintain the status quo of what is - even if "most powerful" is debatable - the biggest military in the world.

And of course, I certainly wish that people were/had more opportunities to be healthier and more literate in the US in general.
Although I find the strictness of Rust quiet heavy from what I have seen on person and heard I can say without a doubt that it produces an environment where the amount of bugs are simply lesser.

So for that reason I really do believe it has a spot on low level programming in critical system components.
I think it's easy to hand write a parser that can get into a weird state. Some formats are also easier to write a parser for safely vs others.

For example, if you have a Tag Length Value data format that says "5ABCDE" maybe that means "the next 5 bytes are a string, then there's something else afterwards or it's the end", you don't want to allocate a buffer of 5 values and just keep writing into it without checking that you're reading valid values.

Doing this sort of thing efficiently may also mean that you're tempted to remove something like a bounds check. After all, if you already know that the value is 5 bytes, why check on every access? People really want parsers to be fast. Ideally in the above example I wouldn't even need to copy those bytes out, I could just reference those values, which now leads to potential lifetime issues.

Further, in C, buffers don't have lengths attached to them. In every other language you typically don't work with null terminated strings. So now you have to manage sizes of things throughout your parser.

One way to view this is that the programmer's mental model of the parsing machine can easily drift from the implementation of the parsing machine, leading to vulnerabilities.

Basically it ends up being very easy to accidentally end up with out of bounds reads/writes + there's pressure to be fast + formats can be very complex.

That's my view on it at least.
The amount of income their family is unable to hide?
When you say “these journalists”, do you mean the economist?
Introducing Digital Collectibles on Instagram
More info:

https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/how-messed-up-was-german...

> Reading the press or comments these days in French or English, the tone about Germany’s energy policies is a mix of the gleeful (of the “schadenfreude” kind) and the contemptuous. Germany was naive (to trust Putin), mercantilist / corrupt (its elite selling their soul or themselves for the “cheap gas” that its industry craves), or in thrall to the perverse ideology of the “commie greens” (who pushed to close nuclear and promote useless renewables).

> While it is clear that the current situation, with Russia wilfully reducing gas volumes to Europe, hits Germany quite hard, and will impose harsh choices on its industry and population this year, how much of the above criticism makes sense?
I’m pretty sure The Economist never attributes an author in their articles. The author is supposed to be “The Economist”
There's a hilarious book by Paul Fussell titled Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

He closes by positing that university intellectuals are above the whole mess ...
I'm similarly on RedPocket and can recommend it. Good customer support over chat and good plans if you rarely use your phone or data. Their Tmobile MVNO plan goes as low as $30 per year and you can buy it from their store on eBay - 200mins, 100SMS, 500MB if I remember right.
Yeah, I agree that it is important to take into account disadvantages that people may have unfairly experienced due to no fault of their own.

But, why do we need to use race as a proxy? Presuming something about someone based on their skin color is prejudice regardless of your intentions.

If people are disadvantaged, let's measure those disadvantages directly and adjust for those factors.
Average annual income in the zip code that they spent the most time in high school in.
and gaining rapidly.
>This is because Prop 13 prevents cities from collecting RISING taxes from residential properties (but they can collect rising taxes from commercial properties)

The parenthetical here is incorrect - all property taxes, regardless if they are for residential, commercial, or industrial properties, have capped yearly increases under Prop 13. In 2020, there was a ballot initiative, Prop 15, which proposed a "split roll" to remove the Prop 13 rate caps from certain types of businesses, but it did not pass. You can read more about Prop 15 here: https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_15,_Tax_on_Co...
furthermore they focused on race specifically because dividing Americans on class never failed repeatedly.
Race is very easy to focus on without making any structural changes in society. A black man was president. So long as it's the right black man, it doesn't change much.
> Wealthy black people are worse off than poor white people.

Citation desperately needed.
> For more than 40 years the court had allowed some positive discrimination

I’m not a fan of the term “positive discrimination” at all. It tries to hide the fact that the “positive” effect to one group is necessarily at the expense of another. Whether it’s positive or negative just depends on which group we’re talking about.
I'd strongly recommend checking this paper out:

Out of the Tar Pit - http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf

I agree that functional programming is part of the future. I believe that the relational model is the other part. In this space, imperative programming exists primarily to bootstrap a given FRP domain.

We've built a functional-relational programming approach on top of SQLite using this paper as inspiration. Been using this kind of stuff in production for ~3 years now.

Remember - Your user/application defined functions in SQL do not need to be pure. You can expose your entire domain to SQL and build complete applications there, with the domain data & relational model serving as first-class citizens. With special SQL functions like "exec_sql()" and storing your business rule scripts in the very same database, you can build elegant systems that can be 100% encapsulated within a single .db file.
And it didn't really work in practice. Every callback or thread hop is a security vulnerability by default.
Covid-19 primary series and booster vaccination and immune imprinting
I would like to see something like this done with a raspberry pi and voice enabled Briar type system for networking. (https://briarproject.org/)
It's about 3 weeks right now. Mostly limited by me trying to make sure each person onboarded gets a high touch experience from me since the product is still rough around the edges. If you need access to solve an urgent problem, email me at founder@usedouble.com and I can get you in right away if you don't mind the early unpolished nature of the product.
parsers and serializers have one thing they often do: read (and write) to a (usually manually allocated) byte array. And the content of that byte array is often under attacker control.

C has terrible support for things dealing with byte arrays. They must be manually allocated, and accesses must be checked to be in-bound manually.

Lots of critical software have parsers written in C. This combination leads to CVEs like this one.

FWIW, a bug such as this one (which ends up with an invalid array access) could happen in any language, and would end up with a panic in Rust, or a NullPointerException in Java, etc... The thing that makes this especially dangerous is that, because C is low-level and unchecked, this can also lead to Remote Code Execution instead of a simple Denial Of Service/crash.
I wish it has worked similarly for me. When I tried them first, it did feel like I was having a profound experience. But that lasted only for a week or so.

After 2-3 months and giving it another try did not replicate that experience. In addition to it, if anything it lasted for that trip only.

Maybe I should have done something during the trip. I was just watching a movie being cozy at home.
You are of course correct. This also ties into my sibling comment - the cleverness in clever low-level parsing code is based on assumptions that may be wrong for some part of the huge input space.
>Surveys show that majorities of African-Americans, Californians, Democrats and Hispanics all oppose the use of race in college admissions (and in other areas).

This was surprising to me.
Laws around cars are exceptionally strict to prevent manufacturers and car thieves from pulling fast ones, and if they are excessively applied you get insane results.

Rivets indicated the VIN might be faked I guess.
USB-C docks allow a single, thin, unobtrusive cable to provide power, speakers, microphone, ethernet and storage, to tablets, phones, mini PCs and desktops.
There's a number of factors that could be used, but skin color is probably not as good as several others.
The Economist, FT and Bloomberg are obsessed with both race and class. Not content with the meager profits of economic reporting on a budget, they have become peddlers of social ressentment for a long while.
Class is not supposed to be much of anything in America. Success is everything.
Two that I highly recommend

1. Subversive Sabbath by A.J. Swoboda

2. Garden City by John Mark Comer

* caveat they are both frameworked in Christian principles but the practical steps to get rest are still very good.
In the words of Immortal Technique - Philosophy of Poverty:

"As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.
Many of us are in the same boat and it's sinking, while these bougie motherfuckers ride on a luxury liner, and as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat we're all in, we're gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole".
> their discovery of a stone sarcophagus which they unsealed, only to find that it enclosed a further sarcophagus. This too they unsealed, and discovered a coffin inside. On opening it, they found it contained an “albino lizard”—that is, a gecko—very carefully cocooned in cloth wrappings.

Imagine the suspense!
Converge by OpenAI will invest $1M in AI startup founders
Legally, you stop owning a device after you sell it, unless you convince your customers to sign contracts agreeing otherwise.
What's the benefit of white vs narrowband leds?
What does health mean in this context? What does worse off mean?

Pardon my ignorance but you seem to know more about this topic.
Agreed. A better article title would be:

"American Media is Focused On Everything But What They Should Be (And Are Paid Well For It)"

This is yet another example of how many of the elites live in a bubble. Well educated, yet oh so ignorant.
Apple and Amazon are adding real values to the economy and making positive contribution to society. Google and Meta are parasites that invade our privacy and show us ads. These ad companies should disappear from the earth.
Wealthy black people are worse off than poor white people? Do you have any references for that? I can't imagine anyone would rather be starving and white than rich and black.
In what way is a black family of millionaires "worst off" than a family of white people?

that sounds ignorant to me.
Poor string primitives is the answer, I think. Or more generally, C’s tendency to require a buffer of sufficient size to be passed for output, and the complexity involved with:

- What size to pick for the buffer
- Making sure the buffer is of the size you think it is
- What to do when the buffer isn’t big enough
- How to know for sure that the buffer is big enough

A parser runs right into these problems quickly: An input string may have some formatting specifiers (%d, etc), may involve control characters that cause the output buffer to expand, etc etc… Any function that deals with this kind of thing has to do be able to correctly tell the caller that their buffer wasn’t big enough, and by how much, and has to make sure it didn’t accidentally write past the end of the buffer before doing this.

Callers also have to make sure the buffer size they’re passing to the parser is actually accurate… you don’t want to malloc 100 bytes and tell the parser the buffer is 200. They also have to make sure that if they say the buffer is 100 bytes, that the string actually terminates with a \0 by the end of it, or it gets even more confusing.

It’s overall a complicated problem, and arises specifically because of the tendency of C library functions to avoid allocations… because the ownership model of idiomatic C is that callers should be the ones that allocate (because they probably know best how to allocate and when to free, etc.)
Agreed, if you have a finite amount of resources and "positively" favor one group over another, this automatically disfavors another group. When skin color is used for this "positive" favor, we have a term for the impact on the other group: racism. Have we not learned that racism is ALWAYS bad?
Why? Nobody wants to think their success was the result of an unfair arbitrary advantage.
The story doesn't really give enough information as to the risk profile of the dive of the person in question.

Recreational dives are fairly safe since you can do a emergency fast ascent, and PROBABLY be OK though its still discouraged. It all depends on how long and deep you are and for most recreational dives, its not usually a huge issue. There is no info on what the dive plan for this dude was, so can't know the risks.

Normally you should have a dive buddy who will help bail you out if something goes wrong, and the article doesn't mention if a dive buddy was there.

Really the big problem is that Scuba gear is super reliable if you maintain and inspect them properly, which is something many recreational divers dont do, since they tend to be reliable. And without practice, gear failure leads to panic which leads to death.

Many people panic badly because they don't keep their training up to date
As Warren Buffet once said, "There is a class war in America, and we won." The race wars and culture wars the upper class have fomented with their corporate media were designed to keep the working class fighting with each other while they changed the tax rules and absconded with everything they could.
Alas, nixos does not support homed:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/91243
How do you determine the race of a student? "Class" can be designated by objective measures like family income, whether or not parents are university graduates, etc.

By comparison, how do you determine if an applicant is Black or Latin? Do you have them prove ancestry all the way back to Africa? Brazil is experiencing this issue [1]:

> And that's when this story gets even more complicated. Because in order to "prove" that he was Afro-Brazilian, his lawyers needed to find some criteria. He went to seven dermatologists who used something called the Fitzpatrick scale that grades skin tone from one to seven, or whitest to darkest. The last doctor even had a special machine.

> A few weeks ago, these race tribunals were made mandatory for all government jobs. In one state, they even issued guidelines about how to measure lip size, hair texture and nose width, something that for some has uncomfortable echoes of racist philosophies in the 19th century.

1. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/09/29/495665329/...
The two studies you reference have significant limitations (same author, different time periods) which are stated in the papers.

"We estimated a VET of 71% among household contacts of fully vaccinated index cases. Harris et al. found a VET of 40–50% for unvaccinated households contacts". They estimated it, and if using the 40-50% figure, their study found higher transmission rats among vaccinated.

It was also self-reported data they explicitly state was not collected for research purposes, "As our study used data not primarily collected for research purposes, it has some important limitations. Our data do not contain information on negative tests among contacts, therefore we do not know if contacts did not get infected or did not seek testing."

I would be careful in making any sweeping conclusions from an observational study using self-reported income.

In reality, Pfizer and Moderna worked with the FDA to design the phase 3 trials and they all decided to focus on protection against serious outcomes, but that doesn’t mean that they didn’t look for signals in the data or that other studies weren’t in progress.

I agree - Pfizer and Moderna never claimed they reduced infection rates because they never tested it. Generally it was politicians who were saying "get vaccinated to protect others" based on some theoretical benefit.

Like I said, look at the Phase 3 clinical trial designs, they are public documents. Risk of infection/transmission was not captured.
KDE for Creators
Out of curiosity I logged in to my old Tumblr and seems that this are the new Community labels settings https://imgur.com/a/LI1zrsn (all where turned off).
> American defense officials and industry executives have long acknowledged that U.S.-made equipment — and the years-long supply chain guarantees that come along with contracts — is more expensive and takes take longer to arrive, but it remains superior in most cases to weaponry produced overseas. -Article

"[...] you go to war with the Army you have. They’re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time [...]" -(former) U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

Ah, for the Good Old Days - when the U.S. maintained a whole network of arsenals, armories, and other "ready reserve" capacity, so it could ~immediately produce serious quantities of (then) state-of-the-art weapons & ammunition in time of need. Whether or not the private businesses which dabbled in such manufacturer currently had any capacity for, or interested in, such activities.
Google and Facebook are not really in the same businesses as Amazon and Apple.

That Amazon isn't worth more is puzzling. I know I've stopped buying from them unless I absolutely have to because I can't trust that the product I get is non-counterfeit and previously unused -- seriously, who sells used shavers as new, totally f'in gross -- but has everyone else stopped buying too?

update: grammar
Just to clarify:

> This is reasonably fast, but if it's uncached, it is an API call to Stripe

It will be cached after the first request you make with the sidecar/SDK, and unless you have a truly impressive number of users, it'll be able to fit your entire data set in local cache and update only when needed, even on a pretty tiny VM.

I just tend to be probably over-cautious when relying on caches to be fast. Fast 99% of the time is slow 1% of the time. Still good to do it, of course, but always a good idea to at least consider what your worst-case will be.
This was a pretty core topic of conversation around Bernie's run for president, and Marxist lefties have been saying this quite consistently. Would be fascinating to see the Economist actually engage with some of that directly.
Candace Owens is Verified, Trump was Verified, Ben Shapiro is verified, Ron Desantis is verified, Trump Jr is verified, Tom Cotton is verified. These are the people who's political ideology matches up with the blue check mark committee?

Then again so is Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi. Who is the other half of the US population being held hostage by that group. Do you really think Communists make up 50% of the US population?
This is literally intentional.
There wasn't a comparable 1:1 mapping/surveillance of device to human, but phones and public payphones were widely available in Western countries.
No atmosphere, no land to purchase, and most importantly, no night.

I don't think it will be cost-competitive against alternatives, but it's sci-fi so I like it on that front.
There isn't one, and this thread is going to be absolutely full of similar unsourced claims and leaning into stereotypes, either intentionally or not, so just keep that in mind.
Not entirely correct, their "by invitation" columns are named, e.g: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/10/28/frances-f...

But for the bulk of their articles, yes, the Economist is famous for its anonymous bylines.
Respectfully, a lot of advertisers seem to disagree.
Elon Musk Aims to Start Charging for Twitter Verification Next Week
It’s nice to read a reference from Immortal Technique in here.
Good luck finding 32 places that accept Yubikey.
The Economist deliberately does not put bylines on the vast majority of content - it’s not sinister.

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/09/04/...
>Doing this sort of thing efficiently may also mean that you're tempted to remove something like a bounds check. After all, if you already know that the value is 5 bytes, why check on every access? People really want parsers to be fast.

In what kind of software bounds check have this significant perf. penalty?

The only people I've heard talking about such a stuff were firmware devs.

>Further, in C, buffers don't have lengths attached to them. In every other language you typically don't work with null terminated strings. So now you have to manage sizes of things throughout your parser.

Cannot C have some wrapper over those poor strings

that leads to better safety? dev's experience, etc, etc?
"Tabs vs spaces" is often misunderstood (and falsely reported) as a problem of preference.

The real problem is that using spaces for indentation is an accessibility issue.

The solution is to use tabs for indentation, and spaces for alignment.
Class can be a big part of racism--often what appears to be racism is really more about class. There are many people who look down on anyone they perceive to be "low class", regardless of race, and who will accept people of other races if they perceive them to be "high class". In areas where the lower classes are over-represented by racial minorities, this can look like racism, when classism is much more the culprit.
I think FP suffers from what I call the "ideological gruel" problem. A lot of niche ideology-oriented communities with very strong opinions tend to ignore usability issues not necessarily because it's a theory/practice dichotomy, but that the highly ideologically excited community ignores the problems because they're so positively motivated by the ideology. So even if you're eating gruel, if the gruel is produced by an ideology you identify strongly with, the identification alone is enough to make the gruel taste better than mere gruel. A lot of folks that use FP are willing to overlook the myriad of rough edges around tooling because they're so excited to work with FP that they often get used to the tooling. Rust made tooling UX an explicit focus of the project which is why it was able to escape the "ideological gruel" curse.

Additionally most prominent FP projects are old. Both Haskell and Ocaml date from a time when UX expectations around language tooling were much lower (think C++.) The inertia around the projects never cared much for UX anyway so now in 2022 when languages like Rust and Go have raised the floor of expectation for PL tooling, Haskell and Ocaml struggle to keep up.