skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can test whereever you want, the point is "not a single western social network is permitted to operate in China" is factually false. Social networks are available if you aren't making "trouble" for the authorities. I am not trying to defend this or anything, the current state of affair is totally messed up, but still there are some global social networks exist in China.

btw, even 4chan is accessible in China. Imagine that.
I've had a password on an SSH key I used like every day for years until it was entirely in muscle memory. Then one day I just... stopped being able to type it, couldn't remember anything about it all
Australia has a few “major events” laws aimed at preventing the worse of scalping. They mostly require that any reselling not be more than a fixed percentage of the original resale price (I think it’s 20% from memory). While not perfect, it does prevent the insane ticket prices.

This is all managed through an offical resale partner with ticket tek and ticket master. You can only transfer tickets officially though the site, with options to do it for no (or low) charge if you’re sending it to a mate.

I’ve used the service quite a bit, picking up tickets on the day of an event. I’ve had some wins buying tickets for ~30% of the original price, but also plenty of times paying slightly over the original price or I’ve missed one event as there were no available tickets. It’s just something I’ve come to expect for the flexibility it provides.

I think the majority of people use this service rather than trying a third party as it’s official, easy for the seller and no one wants to support insane scalpers.

The only problem I’ve seen with the system is events can elect to not allow reselling on the platform till the event is sold out. This can prevent people recouping their losses if they can’t attend the event, and stops me from potentially getting a small deal.
> I'm not sure how US News is wrong. They have a methodology. People can put whatever stock they want into it.

The point would be that ranking produced by the methodology is rarely interpreted in light of the methodology. Method follows aim and purpose, and so aim and purpose are that by which we measure the quality of a methodology. If the methodology doesn't produce a ranking of the expected value, then that's a problem, especially when it is passed off as having that value.
who "raises a lamb in a cage so small that it cannot turn around, forcing it to drink it's own urine?"

I can find no legitimate evidence that this is even a thing. It seems a mixture of peta propaganda about various other animals but not lambs. I can't find a single example of "forced to drink it's own urine ... [for iron]".

raising an animal for meat isn't pretty but it's never in fact what this comment alleges.
This appears to mainly apply to season tickets and subscription-based tickets, at least at first glance.
The social graph is extremely valuable, but the amount of debt it’s in is extremely not-valuable, so I’m not sure how much these two cancel out.

You might be able to acquire the company from Elon for cheap in a bit Tumblr-style though.
Failing to deliver is not a crime. Otherwise half of SV would be in the slammer.
No, you're missing the point. We are making a normative claim of what SHOULD be illegal or legal.

The definition of a hard drug has nothing to do with whether it is legal or not. Alcohol is a hard drug by the definition of addictiveness and propensity for harm. When it was made illegal, it didn't reduce use and only increased harms. We learned our lesson and made that hard drug legal in order mitigate the harms of organized crime benefiting from selling it.

Similarly all other illegal drugs should be made legal to reduce the harms of them being illegal and facilitating organized crime that increases violence in communities.

In that regard, the silk road was actually a net good. It reduced gang violence by preventing gangs from competing for physical territory. The US postal service delivering the darknet drugs prevented the gangs from being able to enshrine their Monopoly through violence. This was unequivocally good. Similarly reviews by customers increased quality and purity and reduced tainted drugs, reducing harm to the users. Thus, the silk road was a net social good when measured from a social welfare costs and benefits.
If it's a small amount why not just sell it and buy it back in the future
RGB is a bit older than 162 years, those are the three colors the human eye percieves (excluding mutations).
In the linked comment section, Raymond Chen replied somewhat abrasively to a comment similar to this (the comment was "wouldn't this be easy to spoof?").

A bit harsh I thought!
I think to me it depends very much on who is losing the money. If you defraud Musk of 1B of his money, that represents less than 1/100th of his wealth and is completely irrelevant.

If you defraud 500K people of all their $2K in savings, then you deserve everything that’s coming to you.

Oddly enough I think the justice system is set up to function the other way around.
The solution there is to play at more venues, or play at more crappier venues.
Peterson is still well within the Overton window, isn't he? He's still very popular (and not banned) on youtube, and would have broadly been considered a social liberal 25 years ago.

Or is this me taking "far right" more literally than you meant it? Are you talking merely from your perspective, and not human history and all obscure corners of political thought?
I'm sure some people would like this but from a technical point of view it's of course a redundant technology in an EV.

The reason manufacturers might like this is because it perpetuates a business model of servicing and repairing these vehicles for them. More moving parts means more maintenance.

A lot of the business with ICE vehicles is in parts and maintenance. With EVs, the maintenance is mostly limited to changing the tires and topping up various fluids once in a while. So, the life time value of the vehicle is actually lower for them. You sell it once and then the owner is really happy with a vehicle that just keeps on going and generally has not a lot of need for regular servicing. Manual gears would be a way of artificially building in some contingencies for that and creating a need for more frequent opportunities for selling and servicing expensive parts.
You’re right, the crimes she was convicted of in the court of law allow for a tougher sentence.
> Even reverse is done electrically but rotating the engine the other ways.

One of the fun things about most EVs is that they could accelerate just as fast in reverse, and hit the same top speed, as they could if they were driving forward. The only thing that prevents it is software.

For example, if it was not limited by software, a Model S Plaid could do 0-60 in reverse faster than any car in the world has ever done 0-60 going forward.
This isn't meaningfully true, it's just a rhetoric used by big tech companies to protect their willfully harmful behavior.

Section 230 provides blanket immunity, but it's important to consider what actually happens without it: People doing their actual best to operate a site aren't going to be arbitrarily lined up and shot, judges and juries will side with them and establish clear precedent. But bad actors like Google and Facebook truly depend on 230, because if taken to court, they would be found guilty of willful actions based on profitability.

Good case law literally doesn't exist for Internet content in the US because 230 broke it in 1996, but the law isn't software, it's a human process with core concepts like intent and reasonableness which are circumvented by corporate immunity laws like 230.
I fear if Bad Guys want money and you tell them something like, "you can't get it, it's on multisig wallets with geographically distributed individuals in control", that's still a You problem and you've only bought yourself a little time before they come back to collect, and/or break your legs if they can't collect.

I may have to file this one under, "everyone wants to be a gangster until it's time to do gangster things"
I read it and followed it quite closely when it happened.
That would never fly with a real audit. You’d perform a triple tie out and the incoming cash transaction would have to be recorded. And you never do a single day.
I hate to break it to you, but PUBG throws you in with bots for 10 sessions until you can play on live servers. You can get out of this earlier by completing the 4 challenges listed [0]. Once you play on live servers, it gets really difficult. I tried for a while, got pretty decent, dropped the game for a few months, tried again when I got back and it felt like starting from bottom again. It's a fairly fun game with friends, especially if they are regular players and you get carried around by them, you just listen and do what they tell you, try to aim straight, and it works out.

[0] https://steamcommunity.com/app/578080/discussions/1/31801111...
Because you can't stop thinking how great are they, right? Same
> As a mildly autistic person who grew up in the Midwest, my understanding is that it is not at all direct haha.

Have you heard americans talking about their digestion? You go to the bathroom? What are you doing there?
You’re not alone. I’ve been doing better in the last few years but when I was just starting out as a web developer set on building a successful SAAS, a lot of them were marketing/advertising related. One of them is a pop-up builder… Sorry!

It still brings in some revenue but I have been intentionally neglecting it for years now, as I personally hate those things with a vengeance. But still, I don’t pull the plug on it.
> rainbow palette for use in my data visualisations.

Indeed for her kind of data the rainbow palette works okay. But if you have to visualize more complex / denser data, beware of the pitfalls of the rainbow color palette. It is not always the best choice.

IBM did research back in the 90s on perceptually-based colormaps and how to best represent various types of data within the color dimensions of luminescence, saturation and hue [1]. For example, they found that,

(1) Hue was not a good dimension for encoding magnitude information, i.e. rainbow color maps are bad.

(2) The mechanisms in human vision responsible for high spatial frequency information processing are luminance channels. If the data to be represented have high spatial frequency, use a color map which has a strong luminance variation across the data range.

(3) For interval and ratio data, both luminance- and saturation-varying color maps should produce the effect of having equal steps in data value correspond to equal perceptual steps, but the first will be most effective for high spatial frequency data variations and the second will be most effective for low spatial frequency variations.

===

[1] the original link got removed from IBMs website. Back in the day it was under

https://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/color/color.HTM

A pdf copy is here:

https://github.com/frankMilde/interesting-reads/blob/master/...
A good reason to think it might not be true.
Do the families of patients who died have any recourse? It’s an affront to justice that she seems to have gotten away with what’s effectively murder or manslaughter.
Can't wait to see the whole crypto house of cards eventually collapse on itself. Hopefully then we can move on to more productive things. The only cryptos I can see surviving are those with actual utility. Monero for example. Possibly ETH since the smart contracts may have other uses in future. But all these second order tokens are just vaporware that need to die.
If I'm not mistaken, this[0] seems to be a commentary on the law. As I understand it after having read that article, the law seems to be in an effort to encourage reselling by the regular person in case of travel/event plans changing, while introducing fines to prohibit egregious scalpers. However, it seems it's just some fines for these activities, and I can't find any case where scalpers were convicted and fined under this statute (but maybe my Google-fu is weak).

0: https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
Except people not lying and deceiving about their businesses to investors, or in other words trust, is the cornerstone of civilisation.

A corollary is romance scammers who get $100k has no impact, as long as the victim has more money saved up.
I assume you’ve at least tried one of the other two popular operating systems? I would be desperate to not put up with that kinda thing anymore.
"Yellow is given the highest luminance, as it only looks yellow when bright. After choosing two other colours — a red and a blue in this case — the luminance can then be calculated for the other hues."
Assuming that is true, why would affirmative action be viewed as so important that schools abandon participation in the premier ranking system in order to pursue it through a backdoor?

Advocating for diversity admittance makes the individual advocates look good and it quiets the rabble. Stanford has a 36 billion dollar endowment so money is basically irrelevant to them. What they care about is prestige. Having a high rank gives you more prestige. Seeming to not care about social justice gives you less prestige. They're trying to ladder-jump from a reality where prestige is based on accomplishment to one where prestige is based on PR. It might work or it might not.
Not really reverse, since the US didn't participate in the first one.
After school I did an IT support role for a further education college.

They used to spend most of the summer formatting the machines, reinstalling Windows, office, anti-virus etc, doing them manually a classroom at a time.

We replaced it with a system of hidden partitions and a disk image, then the ability to trigger a refresh remotely if pre-requisites were met.

This is common practice nowadays, but it was quite innovative at the time, and we had to write a lot of the code ourselves for remote admin and to make the disk refresh reliably.

We could then click a button and refresh ~500 machines in the space of an hour as opposed to 6 weeks of manual labour.

I've worked on more prestigious stuff, but that was the most satisfying and the most obvious avoidance of manual efforts.
Ask HN: How do you decide which bugs to ship?
That's on the level of this story,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33536676
> I can see intermittent fasting as something you eventually build as a habit.

I've been doing intermittent fasting for a decade, through my 20's, I also stay pretty fit, but am not as consistent at keeping an exercise routine as I'd like. I've been extremely consistent about the diet for the last 5 years. Like I only have cheat days if there is a super important reason, usually being sick or when I'm backpacking. I don't think about it at this point, I have one meal, dinner, and that's it. If I'm weightlifting I might eat an early dinner and 2-3 hours later a second dinner, but I've needed this less since I started having whey protein isolate shakes on days I lift. I've even done some extended water fasts up to days; my experience is that doing these(I had to work up to it, the first time I tried fasting 3 days I quit after 2) on top of consistent IF makes the shorter fasts completely fade away.

I'd highly suggest that if anyone really wants to give IF a fair chance, kick sugars out of your diet--not just added sugars, but anything sweet (e.g. eat sour fruits)--before you go for it. Sugar is insanely addicting. I also suggest starting every day with the game plan being "I'm only going to eat one meal", but if the meal doesn't satiate you, you can fall back to a looser fasting regime, like 20/4 or 18/6.

I first became interested in fasting as a kid, when I saw a documentary on PBS about the evidence that calorie restriction extended life spans. I waited until I was convinced I was done growing, as I didn't want to stunt my growth, but have been at it since around 20. I've been veg since 15, I wish I enjoyed the gym as much as I enjoy dieting, I guess the grass is always greener.
And to my parents that will mean nothing
I think being a "Cowboy Coder" is problematic in a professional environment.

Being on the both sides, I know how hard is to work with the cowboy coders / lone wolfs, especially if they're introverted.

Inheriting a project written by a cowboy coder might be a nightmare.

Obviously I don't know your background and skillset, so the stuff written below may not apply to you.

You need to learn how to communicate clearly and collaborate with the management and the team members.

You need to learn modern SDLC methods and techniques (basic project management such as Kanban, documenation, clear commit messages, Pull Requests, TDD, CI/CD, IaC[1]/DevOps, etc.)

Coding assignments should be the easy part.

--

1. Infrastructure as Code
Ah thanks, I realize I misread it. It's "smoothly increasing and decreasing", meaning it drops off on either side.
Every time I get an email from my health insurance, or sign in, I see so many domains that look like abject phishing domains. It's insane.
Probably why very few of these organizations do real audits.
Disclose to a government agency or to the public. Those are very different beasts.

Like, can I look up the statements of a particularly profitable McDonalds?
> Has necrophilia been reported in NY post touting its discovery or its relationship to current WH occupant?

Not yet, but there's a long way to go until 2024.

Yes, I get that you believe in Hunter Biden's magic laptop. I think it's nonsense and that you've been duped, and you need to respect my beliefs, because trying to ban them will only make them more credible. Really, you're the one being unreasonable here.
He just had to say that this is for convenience, not security.
Definitely got edited.

I searched for the phrase which had caught my eye ("a new darling of the alt right") and found these:

1. https://archive.ph/Z404W original at https://vblgoldfix.substack.com/p/queen-caroline-the-risk-lo... - seems to be a copy/paste of the original Forbes article.

2. https://archive.ph/2022.11.19-062026/https://nitter.net/forb... original at https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1593615727512227840

Also they left this text further down in the article:

"Some of her defenders, who call her “Queen Caroline,” are followers of Curtis Yarvin, a neoreactionary political theorist and far right darling."

Curiouser and curiouser.
Thank you for sharing this.

I was struggling with this just today: Realizing I keep putting off writing tests for some modules because mocking a certain mega interface is a pain.

Your post gives me some great hints for things to try.
Looking forward to experimenting with it.
If you don't hold enough that getting a hardware wallet is justified, get one of the more popular offline wallets for your coin, create a wallet (with addresses) and withdraw from exchange to the address. Keep your seed phrase safe, eg. written down and locked in a safe, password manager or encrypted file on USB/cloud storage. Again this is for amounts low enough it's not worth hardware wallet but imo it's safe enough
John Oliver had an expose of all the things I already knew about how corrupt Ticketmaster is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Y7uqqEFnY
This is why classic cars are going up in value, even cars from the 90s.

People know cars like those will never be made again, and quite a few people who grew up with 90s cars are now old enough to have the disposable income to buy them.

Ultimately new gas cars will be banned. Many governments have already expressed the desire to ban them. That is one of the major differences from the mechanical watch market -- but even in that market, values of vintage watches are going absolutely nuts. In the car market, vintage cars will be the only ICE cars one day.

If you have spare garage space, one of the best things you can do is buy an older unmodified sportscar that had a good reputation in the 1980s or 1990s, hold onto it for 10 years, and sell it for a massive profit. Something like a 911, or Supra, or MR2, or maybe even a Miata.
How come monero? Because of its secrecy properties?
It's very interesting to me how a company is able to prove a negative. We are just taking their word for it.

What kind of document proves that they never discussed a thing
I think NPM compatibility would not be a 100% since this runs on JVM and not node.js.
It’s written specifically to host the Linux kernel, and doesn’t use a bios or a boot loader. If you backported that into another hypervisor, it would probably have to be something like “are we loading a compatible Linux? If so switch to Firecracker mode”. But of course you can do that yourself, with a small shell script that either starts the traditional VM or Firecracker.

Or they could do what QEMU has done and put out a separate product/mode: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/a082fab9d25/docs/system/i3...
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zero knowledge proof
Super-interesting interview with Zsolt Varga, the lead engineer and manager at Prerender.io. He shares how Prerender saved $800k by removing their reliance on AWS and building in-house infrastructure to handle traffic and cached data.

The goal was to reduce costs while maintaining the same speed of rendering and quality of service. Migrations like this need to be carefully planned and executed, as incorrect configuration or poor execution, would cause downtime for customer web pages and social media clicks and make their search rankings suffer and potentially increase our churn rate.
I am literally a member of this crowd. Let’s see how this plays out.
Everyone with a home router is behind NAT.
For my small amounts of crypto I just use MetaMask. My keys are written on a laminated piece of paper and put in a safe.
I'd have to agree that may be a good model for some endeavors and the military is a very good example. I have doubts about it being good for Twitter, but maybe aspects of SpaceX would work well with it.
IDK it's cool to be able to write these nice colors with 3 hex characters :)
Didn't know that. Still, that's a bit on the nose, suggests that's she still intends to 'help' people. A cynical part of me even thinks it's yet another way for her to make things about herself, given her own claims of rape. If I was judging I would consider it as a thinly veiled ploy and a continuation of a pattern of deception, as opposed to if she was driving an Uber, then I'd be thinking 'she really did hit rock bottom'
Ares is 100 Square metres. Not to be confused with acres, which is around 4047 Square metres.

2471 acres per hectare.
I could imagine the Dutch auction would only change the strategy of scalpers, besides being a massive money grab for artists, venues and ticket master.

The strategy for scalpers now appears to be get in as fast as possible and buy as many tickets as they can. But if we can assume the event will sellout completely and there is sufficient demand (e.g. Taylor Swift which I think I read would need to do 900 concerts to meet the initial demand) then scalpers could still win. Scalpers would just need to set a desired amount of tickets to buy and attempt to buy them at the last possible moment. They will get the tickets for the cheapest price for the event and could then sell them for a markup.

I think people would buy the scalpers tickets since they may have been waiting to see how low the prices can get, or they are able to obsess over remaining ticket numbers like a bot could and just missed out.

The only benefit I could see to the Dutch auction is it increases risk to scalpers by making them pay larger prices and get the last pick of seats, but only for events with allocated seats. So maybe instead of half the tickets for an event being scalped, they may only have the risk appetite for 10% of the tickets.