skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't get the animus against private schools. Surely a one size fits all public school can't possibly best serve the interests of every possible student. Furthermore in a pluralistic society, shouldn't we tolerate people's different preferences in education, especially those who opt for more religious education?
This is more misinformation than the OP - there's more criminal money flowing into republicans by far, the below is just two examples (edit: two examples) from 10 seconds of searching for an article:

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/20/gop-operatives-char...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-gop-donors-charged-in-in...

Even if talking just about people who are later found to have acted improperly, look at the CEO of FTX Ryan D. Salame, one of the largest Republican donors.
Tether appears to have been doing this for years. At some point they’re going to have a real audit and that’s likely to be very interesting.
Okay, but how does it relate to the original question? According to the website for the OP, I could easily find feedlots/industrial sites with co2 emissions that are orders of magnitude higher, so I'm going to conclude that no celebrity's emissions gets anywhere near "fractional percent of industry".
Completely agree with this.

What is really terrible is the waste in the system. We have supply chains set up where a big chunk of what we produce gets thrown away just so people can have a large choice of "products". The objective is to keep the profit margin high why disposing of stuff. That is in no way sustainable or ethical, merely currently socially acceptable.
Speech is cheap. Call us again when he actually does something.
BD-R discs using inorganic dyes are durable enough that the M-Disc branding is likely moot. The OP suggests that these newer Verbatim discs might be using far less durable organic dye, but that's not exactly clear.

(Other users even claim that organic-dye-based BD-R are quite uncommon, limited to 25GB capacity and generally not something that could be mistaken for a "normal", higher quality BD-R.)
.. what a crock. yet another scoundrel ploy to skirt paying relevant taxes, etc. just like gates. just like peter thiel. just like Yvon Chouinard [patagonia ceo]. just like warren buffet. blah, blah, blah ...

can't wait for adam conover [adam ruins everything] to jump on this one.
Samsung DEX.
The Problem with Harari’s Homo Deus
There is a plug-in for title skips. Not sure ab variable speed playback
"The Way of Zen" by Alan Watts.

In its first chapter there's the best and only compelling argument I've ever read in favour of spirituality and why people believe in God. Even an ultra-atheist like me finally got why people have faith. There are obvious blind spots in science and logic that can't be explained away with more theorems.

If logic is pointed thought, it's good to recognize there's some things that can only be seen by unfocusing your mind. Some shadows only appear in your peripheral vision.
I don't see anything wrong there. He got paid to make an ad, and it's clear that's what it is.

If he was promoting FTX on his own personal account like so many "influencers" do, then I would be ok criticizing him.
Because you can use $10B to give $500M/yr for a limitless period of time.

Gates can give substantially more money if he leverages it to grow over time. I would wager that it is going to take decades if ever that the Gates fund will hit $0. Yeah it's not as flashy as "Died with $0 of his fortune left", but under the hood the net good done is orders of magnitude greater.
If you're a journalist and you're scared of being sued unless you write glowing articles about shady billionaires, then quit your job and find another. Work as a gas station clerk or something. How many gas station clerks get sued by billionaires for the offense of not being a journalist at all?
Dunno if all this banning & suppression of folks by private entities & governments is the push towards RSS again &/or some melding with IPFS
I'll bet you use the word "fiat" a lot.
Ok, so roughly speaking, 1 BTC != USD 15k, 1 BTC = USDT 15k, and people broadly agree 1 USDT = 1USD (for now)?
Yeah, good times and now we would be happy if they offered at least smaller rectangle instead of those huge bricks or remote controls.
He, it’s not a group of people.
There are two major ways in which you would not identify this flow of money:

1) You do a bad job at the due diligence and do not review anything beyond the income statement and top-level balance sheet accounts.

2) You turn a blind eye to it because it is favourable to you. Favourable can also be just the outcome of assessing the risk of 'cost of reversing fund diversion practices' vs. 'letting it slide because those diversions yield returns'.
> ? It was public that FTX money came from running a crypto exchange, but that FTX's CEO (SBF) secretly diverted customer funds to his hedge fund (Alameda) doesn't seem like something people would have discovered in due diligence.

I'm guessing algebra is difficult for journalists.

> Major investors, with lots of money on the line, also didn't catch this.

Major investors had all the incentives to keep the scam going as they stood to make big money from the scam.

Journalists should have the incentives to expose the scams, except they were not in this ( and probably some other ) case because they were either getting money from the scam or were trying to be the best cheerleaders possible in hope of getting money from the scam.
Just out of curiosity, how would you configure that in a systemd configuration file?
Why I Switched from Rust to Go on the Back End
> They have obscenely low limits which adversely affects your credit score as relatively small purchases can end up using a substantial portion of the available credit. Balance vs total credit (available credit) is a very important factor in calculating scores and credit worthiness.

I mean yes but if you have other credit cards that aren't maxed out, it should not make a huge overall difference compared to if you put that same amount on another card; while one card having a high balance load has an impact, the overall load on your credit is the bigger store factor.

> The interest rates are extremely high even when compared to most other major CCs from the usual suspects. All of these merchants don't push these things because they're doing you a favor - they likely have agreements in place with the issuing bank to get kickbacks on interest.

They get kickbacks, and the high interest rates help cover some of the cost of store CC customers that use promotional financing but consistently pay the item off before interest gets added.
> They literally designed this entire thing for dads that couldn't get the hang of T9

I had a phone like this, although not that model. It was great, T9 sucked. In fact, it was much more pleasant to type on than a touch screen.
Exchanges are the primary reason crypto value is as high as it is though. Without the easy way to get money in (and usually out) of $COINs there's less speculation, less money flowing in, less market to drive prices. If we were back in the days of Local Bitcoin being the best way to buy coins there'd be even less of the meager adoption we've seen in business too.
Building a business that provides useful products and services isn't "extraction minded." Most of the people I've know over the years who start businesses do so because they want to be the one making decisions and having the ultimate responsibility. A lot of them are very community minded.
You may have missed my point then.

If you want a "stablecoin", its called VMFXX. https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-fun...

1 VMFXX has been $1 for decades, never budging, never moving. The regulations and infrastructure to support such a thing already exists and have always existed to anyone who has any clue about banks / finances at all.

So why haven't stablecoins been designed to act like MMFs (like VMFXX) ?? Answer: because the cryptocoin community does not want a MMF. Its the only explanation. The cryptocoin community wants 6%, 10%, 18%+ returns on their "stablecoins". And its impossible to do that with MMFs.
$50 ???

If you're slightly technical that should be $1/year for hosting + $10 for domain name registration.

I don't know what the best way is now, but a few years ago I set up an s3 bucket that where I basically got charged nothing because the site was < 10mb, and I had that behind cloudflare's cdn which doesn't charge for bandwith. S3 lets you serve static files if the bucket name is the same as the domain name - so no webserver or anything needed.

I am pretty sure for a very small static site there's probably a handful of options that are basically free. One of gitpages, cloudflare pages, I think have free bandwith, not sure about vercel, or netlify.
I had so much trouble with English grammar until I took Latin, then it all clicked and made sense.

I say this as a native English speaker.
Satoshi wouldn't be encouraging people to put their coins on a trusted third party like that.

I find this sentiment of "not your coins, not your crypto" unsettling. The average person doesn't even back up the pictures on their computer or phone and they are one storage device failure away from losing all of their wedding pictures, baby pictures, etc.

The big push now is for people to use hardware wallets. I guarantee that 50% of people over the span of a decade will lose access to 100% of their funds.

2023 will be about everyone learning how much of a joke cryptocurrency is.
I go to Walmart Vision. They do all the measurements and write down everything without complaining at all for (I think) about $70. Then order a few pair from Zenni and restock every 5-7 years.
FTX Collapse Sets Back Crypto Agenda in Washington
I heavily disagree with the very premise that OS package managers are solving the same problems as language-specific, development targeted dependency management solutions.
Is systemd having an OOM killer really needed given that the kernel already does this? And if you have systemd doing OOM killing, would that also be competing with the kernel doing the same thing?

https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand...

The kernel's OOM killer can be annoying and complicated sometimes, but I do like it since I can easily change /proc/${PID}/oom_score_adj to prevent it from killing something important.

EDIT: Per the docs:

systemd-oomd is a system service that uses cgroups-v2 and pressure stall information (PSI) to monitor and take corrective action before an OOM occurs in the kernel space.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-oom...

I'd be really interested in a more thorough explanation about the justification for it. This makes it seem like a bad thing that this is happening in the kernel, but memory management is the kernel's job and there would be less overhead than in userspace. Personally I think OOMScoreAdjust that systemd I think has provided a long time is the best approach for this, since it's not duplicating functionality and gives you a more user-friendly way to maintain the oom score without messing around with /proc.

Another fun fact, it also seems to kill based on what it determines to be excessive swap usage.

https://askubuntu.com/a/1423840

Facebook also wrote its own oom daemon, that systemd's was forked from:

https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-22.04-Systemd-OOMD
Zelensky visits Kherson after accusing Russia of committing hundreds war crimes
Maybe the name 'Satoshi Nakamoto' is an anagram that I'm too stupid to decipher.
I can't believe it's been 5 minutes and no one has said 'lightning network' yet.
Everything ends up being an Excel sheet, I guess.
I, anecdotally, can report the same. Anecdotally, it seems doctors are drowning in too much paperwork already to be bothered filing reports, as well as suffering from denial that this could be an issue (also preventing filing a report).
Pathetic, isn't it? Comepletely toothless and in no way will make anyone else think twice about it.
A biomimetic interfacial solar evaporator for heavy metal soil remediation
> But hey, that’s pragmatism for you

If you'll permit me to be a cynic: this is VC funding for you. Deno took on a ton of funding and they need results. The barrier of NPM incompatibility simply can't be allowed to get in the way of them getting marketshare.
They collapsed because the outflows became higher than the inflow. Every Ponzi collapses this exact way.
The post doesn't resonate with me either but it's not pseudo-scientific, it's philosophical. It might not be exactly Socrates but I was not aware that there was a bar for a blog post, nor do I think even Socrates produced great ideas only. It might be just a small step in creation of the model a man holds for free will, and he might even wake up tomorrow thinking he was completely wrong today. It's still valid to philosophize and put it in a personal blog.
Did you read it? I would not call it glowing at all, it seems pretty matter of fact and actually somewhat negative if you read between the lines. Opening with an anecdote about some scripted banter with Anthony Scaramucci (not a name that NYT readers have any good associations with), and then:

> The laughter has faded. Over the last few days, the collapse of a so-called stablecoin called TerraUSD has sent the crypto market into meltdown, accelerating a dramatic sell-off that tanked the price of Bitcoin and Ether, the two most valuable cryptocurrencies. At Baha Mar, Mr. Bankman-Fried was throwing a giant party for the industry; this past week, he was attempting to restore calm, tweeting long threads about the state of the market.

Then discussing how his awkward, unkempt appearance is actually calculated and intentional. And look at the final paragraph:

> Outside, the convention center was emptying, as hundreds of crypto enthusiasts headed for the airport. It was the calm before the coming meltdown. To leave the resort, guests had to walk through the Baha Mar casino, the largest in the Caribbean, a brightly lit hall of flashing slot machines.

The whole thing is framed around this guy hanging out with celebrities and lobbying government officials while his market crashes. Reading it for the first time 6 months after it was written, I think it holds up as an accurate profile with a bit of foreshadowing of what was to come.
Nvidia bundles enterprise AI software with incoming H100 systems
I really doubt they hit different servers externally
Obviously there is a huge downturn, so lots of startups are slowing or freezing hiring. The article needs to address this before it can attempt to make a more nuanced point about a reduction in remote roles. E.g. what if remote roles are actually less affected by the recession?
There was some discussion of using rayon for CPU heavy ops... I'm not sure what makes excel generation CPU-intensive and blocking? (I wonder if it can stream.)
Unless it is explicitly pointed out to them before help is given to them that it is help, they usually refuse to recognize it after the fact. I'm not saying that you shouldn't help. But I've seen a lot of people get helped and then immediately deny anyone ever did.

Feel free after to make the point that normally such help should be given cheerfully, or different types of help they can pay forward.
Yep, seconded.

Some more anecdata: The lenses' coating from my cheap unbranded glasses (plastic lenses) have begun to disintegrate/separate from the glass. My other glasses' Zeiss lenses are fine still (both being 8 and 6 years old).

Other than that, to the OP: get what you like, if you need the super thin lenses (depends on your level of myopia), go with the expensive stuff, else the cheaper lenses will also work. The more expensive coatings will filter more reflections, do you need a polarizing screen (doesn't work well with LCDs though)?. Then there's the lens material: glass (more scratch resistant) vs plastic (safer, because shatterproof). If you need two zoned lenses thats also different, and way more expensive.

Edit: oh and make sure that the eye distance is properly measured (i.e. at all), that is to make sure that the optical center is ligning up with your eye
> What am I missing?

That most of them, not all of them but, by very far, most of them are downright scams, planned as scams from day one, just like in the FTX case. Evidence is mounting quickly that both Alameda Research and FTX were mounted as scams (despite the narrative that's going to be sold that it was bad luck / bad trades that sent them in a death spiral).

There are people who warned about the very scam Alameda and FTX were putting the very day FTX launched.
The first statistic you link is a newsroom statistic. This cut makes sense, because newspaper now get their news from big agencies.

Newsrooms are completely different from investigative digging into stuff.
Supporting TypeScript OOTB in any capacity was itself "appealing to the masses". Being able to use TS without the burden of setting it up was a big selling point that resulted in people giving Deno a try, particularly in the early days.

Search this transcript for "any mistakes so far": https://changelog.com/podcast/443
Transactions on the exchange don't take place on the blockchain. The data they're "proofreading" is probably in a traditional db.
Is there any evidence at all that any of these reporters were taking money vs. just writing up company press releases as news? And more generally, how do you square this stance with the near universal HN view that tech coverage is too biased against tech companies?
What is your strategy when it comes to updates? Say you hop into your Tesla, see a pending software update and are prompted with a EULA type document. Do spend the next hour reviewing it before accepting? Assuming you are an engineer and not a legal expert, do you consult with a lawyer about ambiguous wording or clauses? How do you repeat this x100 for all of the software embedded in your life?

This has to be a joke, right?
I suspect this has always been the case, but we apparently had enough journalists on various teams that someone would smell a scoop and dive in.

But I think that was mostly just a myth even in the "bad old days" of yellow journalism and newspapers making it big by exposing scandals. Maybe the increase of advertising revenues compared to subscriptions is involved, but deep down people are people and people are manipulatable.
That's what cloud providers want you to believe. :)

I have had both VPS and collocated servers chugging along for over 5 years without any interruption.
In the worst case scenario where I would lose one of them, given proper backups, it would take me less than a day to restore.

Few of the deployments I've seen in cloud providers, kubernetes, etc, could do 5 years without downtime.

Sure, there are other costs, like scaling, finding people who can work on them, or when the dreaded time for an update comes... But still, a single VPS can get you very far for a very small cost.
So,

Action:
Act(Environment|Character)

Reflection:
Act(Character|Environment)

An agent has free will iff it engages in action<->reflection cycles.

Also:

An agent A "could have taken" action X vs Y: ActX(Env|CharA) vs ActY(Env|CharB) in the sense that there is a graph "of some sort" linking their CharA to the CharB which could realise ActY.

Eg., Bob can either steal the money or return it. Bob chooses to steal it. Bob is morally responsible for this act because there is a realisable "action<->reflection" path from bob's actual character to the one he should have had. If bob had had this character, he would not have stolen.
Nutrition Facts Labels for ToS agreements would be nice.
This has become noticeably more true as newsrooms are cut to the bone. Content volume over content quality, because volume is what gets the ad dollars.
I don't know exactly, but of what use is prison in this case besides inflicting unnecessary suffering? There probably is no hand-wavy answer to this, but surely it is possible to come up with sufficient civic restrictions on him to prevent him from committing similar types of crimes. For instance, there is a precedent for restricting a person's access to digital technology. Even house arrest is way more humane (and probably also an overkill).
I'm saying that the people who advocate for or cheer on others advocating for "keep nonviolent criminals out of prison" in one context and then advocate for the opposite or don't let out a peep when others do in the case of a crime they don't like are exhibiting noteworthy amounts of cognitive dissonance. And IMO such cognitive dissonance is fundamentally incompatible with equality under the law.

I'm also saying that "advocating for keeping nonviolent criminals out of prison in one context" and "advocating for the opposite in other contexts" happen to consistently to be explained by selection bias alone.
One widely-used example is Angular. (It may have changed, I’m not entirely up-to-date.) The Angular Compatibility Compiler (ngcc) creates optimized code of Angular component libraries right next to the original files inside node_modules. It does this automatically as part of the Angular build process.

That’s also how I would share any patches: Just apply them when needed during the build process. NPM doesn’t care about what changes inside packages, so you can hack them all you want.
If the new js module ecosystem really is better, then js developers would publish new modules there instead of npm, and eventually legacy modules on npm would be migrated over. I don't think that is the issue. You don't have to use NPM to use deno, it's just an option. But yes, NPM is scary.
With how much asset sizes have also grown... this isn't that unlikely, is it? A 4k screen that is refreshing at 60hz is pushing close to that in pixels than you'd think. Granted, you probably aren't changing every pixel every refresh, but the point is that there is a lot of data that goes into your screen.

Even just considering data, this is probably more true than you'd realize. Probably have thumbnails for the covers/titles. Then there is the sheer volume of media. And heaven help you it your computer is still trying to index a TB or so drive.

Just check how much ram your email program is using someday. Especially if you are hoping to keep an index of all email ever locally so that you can get rapid searches. The tricks that work for smaller mail boxes start to struggle with folks that insist on keeping every email over decades.

Could it be better? Almost certainly yes. Unfortunately, without taking deliberate effort to do less, I don't see it happening.
> Many people don't care about web culture; they only care about consuming.

Strong disagree. People want to participate, they want to be part of a conversation. When you "consume" content on Facebook or Twitter, you can produce content and reasonably expect to get an audience - because you know there's other people there.

If you have your own personal website, you have no natural audience. If you're lucky, Google might like it and return it. But chances are, it won't thanks to SEO. And even if you do, you don't have any replies. A voice shouting into a void, signifying nothing. At that point, you need a blogging engine that allows for replies, and now you're in the world of off-the-shelf solutions. Not so far from Facebook or MySpace, which gets you your audience.
How do you actually report spammers in 2022? There used to be an email you could forward them to but that is apparently unmanned. FTC has a report service but surprisingly there is no way to report common email spam, only fraud etc.
Yeah this one has pissed me off generally. I'm slowly working out how the hell I get out of the ecosystem but I realise I'm heavily locked in and it's difficult so I'm going to have to do it very slowly and methodically.

Edit: just bought a desktop PC off ebay which I will install Ubuntu on and see how I get on.
Wouldn't the effect be basically the same, except the ownership changes? I can't imagine he'd have no involvement in such a foundation.