skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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SCOTUS said you can't regulate campaign funding basically at all, because money spent to effect speech is speech, and thus money spent on a political campaign is political speech.

If you actually were to say "I will pass this bill for $X", then that would be a bribe, and you could get kicked out of office or go to jail for that. But spending 30 minutes with a lobbyist behind closed doors and them just handing your campaign a check later on? Perfectly legal. The hush-hush nature of the operation means the only way you can squeeze a business for money is by getting everyone else angry at them too so that the business starts throwing campaign contributions around.

From the congressperson's side it's less "I sold my vote to this person" and more "If I vote for this, then I won't get all these contributions anymore."

The difference between a bribe and a tip is solely in the order of operations.
I really must check what and how I write before clicking comment button...
*richcession

WSJ is saying this is different from a recession which usually lands hardest on the poor. This downturn is hitting the upper middle class the hardest.
Yeah, though the actual pay isn't always enough to easily afford a home in your home state and a place in DC for those who aren't already rich.
> Not the GP, but I think that the interests of the general public are actually much more closely aligned with those of "the elite" far more than people would like to believe. If for 90% of the issues the elite are just as likely to disagree amongst themselves than with the general public, it would be absurd to conclude that "democracy is a sham."

Sure, that may or may not be true, but we're discussing a study that claims that when the two groups disagree, the smaller one wins.

> When Roe v. Wade got overturned, a lot of people on the internet were proclaiming this was an act by "the elite" who want cheap workers. In reality, virtually every billionaire who has a vocal opinion on abortion is pro-choice, and several have donated hundreds of millions towards the cause.

RvW was overturned by the supreme court, but I think the effect we're discussing applies to laws enacted by the legislature. This article references the paper: https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2015/05/disturbing-d...
Pump it into old oil wells
I must say it looks pretty good, wish I had tried it when I renovated my apartment.

But all the other similar software I tried ultimately were a big disappointment. In my experience, once the design is complicated enough they tend to fail: some objects start to glitch if you move them by a certain amount, I could never get the right angle between walls, etc. It seems to be difficult to implement a way to put robust set of constraints on geometry yet keep the software easy to use by everyone.
Perhaps it works well with more rectangular designs where the walls all have the same thickness though, my place has some weird shapes.

Ultimately I gave up on specialized software and ended up re-drawing everything at scale in Affinity Designer. Of course, it's only 2D and it's basically free-form vector drawing but at least you control everything and it's not too complicated to create your own library of object like windows, doors etc et re-use that. I was very happy with the result.
Objectively, it really isn't.
Agreed. Strangely discussions of bloat sometimes trigger snarky replies:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34732782
Buying senators is surprisingly cheap. This is why I think there's a huge untapped market for democratized/crowdfunded lobbying. I also think that democratization would expedite its demise, which is the end game that would benefit society the most.
Panics support stack traces, unwind the stack, releases the memory, and can either be recovered in some situations, or prints an error message. Sounds like Python exceptions.
At least that one is honest: you're being a hazard.
>bet dollars to donuts

Donuts are now over $14/dozen each where I live. Another casualty of inflation I guess.
"Do you have deductions? Click here for wizard or form."
> I don't think that's true. If you poll the vast majority of people in intro to CS class, most people never coded before. I recall it being a small minority at least back when I was in school (> 10 years ago).

I remember my time in college. From my experience, many of my peers there also didn't know how to code after taking classes. The ones that learned were the ones that invested the time to learn. The classes were there to speed it up things only.
There's also a pervasive idea solid-state means works forever. Ask anyone who collects old computers and you'll find that ain't true.

Solid state devices fail with age too, via electromigration, temperature cycling fatigue, hot carrier injection, NBTI/PBTI and a host of other causes. And it gets worse the smaller the geometries we are working with. It's huge topic of concern in the industry.

We won't be around to know, but I'd be confident enough to bet you a beer that Apple TV will be dead as a doornail in years or decades, not centuries.
I assume it was his inheritors who made the decision, not him.
For the UI part cockpit [1] lets you manage containers (amongst many other things). I use it with fedora for my home server and rarely feel the need to drop into the command line in my day to day.

[1] https://cockpit-project.org/
That the US is a divided country?
The web pages are the full version. It's a condensed book.
High wage didn't stop pharma from getting to doctors
I’ve modelled my entire home with this in the past when planning major renovations etc.

As others have said it’s not slick but it has a good set of features and does the job well.

Interesting aside: it’s able to export to a fully interactive 3D model that you can embed in a browser! We used this feature to build an interactive trade stand during Covid at my company.
Indeed, but this can be seen as a signal for the wider population for further investigation - certainly we'd now like to prove the negative.
Yes, sacrifice your lifestyle, raise no family, give up your desires and get back to offices. Hopefully people considering tech as a job understand why these companies pay well - it’s not because they value people’s talent it’s because they want total ownership of them. Sit at your desk, work and be contempt. Burn out and shut up. Either avoid such corporations or simply avoid tech if you wish for a better standard of living. This is not the 80s and an office job is not the only good paying career.
I think the real reason that ChatGPT can replace journalists so easily is that the kind of articles they write for the last few years are mostly are very centered around the headlines, don't add much beyond that except 2 or 3 more facts, and use a very standard style. Give ChatGPT those 2 or 3 facts and it should be easy to replicate.

Add to that the fact that journalists are mostly glorified bloggers nowadays, maybe if they convert to reporters and go where the news are they will be harder to replace.

Maybe it's not their fault, maybe it's the market, SEO, or the public being too dumb, but it is what it is.
Thanks that's kind of you !
The app is made in Swift, I've only used SwiftUI for the homescreen and lockscreen widgets :)
Backend code is simpler because is has two limited well defined surfaces (API for the frontend on one side and database on the other side). Frontend is harder because it has to interface with those impolite hairy meat creatures ...
How are you supposed to enjoy things if you're constantly ridiculing yourself?

Does that mean the person who enjoys the things they do suck at what they do?
I think nethack is OK, but I'm with you about rogue being the best.
I worked on a little web service in a much larger system, that was deployed to the company's on-prem datacentres.

To deploy the entire system, maybe it'd take a few hours: there'd be 1-2 dozen services, a few databases, probably 20+ external integrations. Usually we'd only deploy the services or components that were changing. Deploying a single service would only take a few minutes, even with human in loop manually triggering the deploy scripts.

Deploying changes was decoupled from activating changes, to avoid outages due to deployments. There were two instances of the system running in production at all times, deployed to two datacentres. It was one giant monolithic blue-green deployment sitting behind a customer-facing load balancer. Suppose the "blue" prod system is currently the live instance of the system and "green" is the dark instance. You'd deploy your new release of your component to green, then once deployment was complete and seemed stable, someone would pull the big lever on the load balancer to start forwarding customer traffic to the green instance. For a while both prod instances would receive customer traffic, until all the timeouts for customer sessions being served by the blue instance kicked in, and they established new sessions with green. Then green would be live and blue would be fully dark. It'd usually take around 5 minutes or so to completely drain traffic from an instance.

If you saw error rates spike on some component and wanted to abort, then you'd need to jam the big metaphorical lever on the load balancer the other way to direct all the traffic back again. Might take 5 minutes or so, again governed by the client session timeouts designed into the system. Usually the technical speed wasn't the bottleneck -- it's more like it'd take 15 to 60 minutes to get the business stakeholders into a room to make a decision on if they were willing to live with the errors or wanted to roll back to the old version.

In this context the real bottleneck wasn't deployment or activation time, they were both fine. The bottleneck was on the pre-release test process in staging. There was a single staging environment for dozens of services owned and maintained by different teams, which would all be tested manually in lockstep. Changes had to be planned and coordinated weeks or months in advance, to get a test window. Releases happened every four weeks or so, if your change wasn't stable in time to enter the big heavy testing phase in the integrated staging environment, you missed the boat and you had to wait 4 weeks for another try.
I definitely didn't use the correct language in my post above. But I think we've got the misunderstanding cleared up now.

I'll try to use the word "Load/store Unit" when talking about that part of the CPU from now on.
Isn’t minix shipped with every x86_64 cpu these days? I thought it was one of the most deployed operating systems ever
Yes precisely, it seems you are implying the yellow lights aren't primarily for allowing me to double park as I please?

Why else would BMW spend time and effort adding yellow lights to each corner of the vehicle?
> Driving is not like being at home because it requires active focus and continuous observation of an evolving social situation where other people’s decisions could cost lives.

You're unreasonably expecting the analogy to be a perfect map between the two situations, when no analogy ever is.

My car is more home-like than a bus, because the car is my space.
They didn't brag about anything. They said they didn't reply to an e-mail. If this sounds boastful to you, it's baggage you brought.

Between the article and the comment, there's more than enough context to infer that the reason they didn't reply is they predicted the heel turn on remote work.

If comments relying on reader inference instead of fully specifying context is an issue, you don't have time to chat with me, there's TONS of other comments you need to address.
Throwaway for obvious reason. But…

1-2 days. Multiple senior engineers cherry picking commits into a release branch with even more seniors doing atteststion. It’s a company-wide effort that happens every sprint. We have “staff” SREs who can’t figure out automated releases.
This happens a lot. Godaddy comes up in the news, someone accuses them of front-running, someone else investigates the accusation and finds that the allegation in question was definitely not the result of front-running.

https://domaininvesting.com/godaddy-still-not-frontrunning-d...

I have no information on whether they are or aren't front-running, but every time I've seen a specific allegation, it's been disproven. That doesn't make it factual either way, but I like Godaddy for enough other reasons to not use them, so I don't particularly care if they are or aren't, but I've yet to see a specific allegation be found credible.
> I am forced to use GoDaddy because I have profitable blogs and e-commerce stores

Ever more reason to migrate them, imo.
> I would love to "have to" buy a bunch of apple stock at much less than the current trading price! Most companies would also love that.

…Sure but they also have to buy the other assets.

> I'm not assuming that, I'm just wondering why they wouldn't buy more if they think it's worth much more.

I’m not sure why you are insistent about ignoring factors such as portfolio risk, price targets, time horizons, and Berkshire’s own internal financial modeling.

I’m even more confused about your comment that

> But that leads back to me being confused on why they bought more in this indirect way, because if they got a big discount I don't understand why.

Is it because you’re forgetting that they acquired these assets by purchasing another company?
Without defending stalking: I want you to follow sound legal principles rather than throw money at courts to cause people trouble This is a repulsive and disingenuous tactic, you appear to be willfully ignoring the spirit of the law and using your power to manipulate the system instead.

This response makes me lose confidence in your company's ethics.
From the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade's blog post[1]:

>As has been widely reported, no part of the object shot down by the US Air Force jet over the Yukon territory has been recovered. Until that happens and that object is confirmed to be an identifiable pico balloon, any assertions or claims that our ballon was involved in that incident are not supported by facts.

It's good to see them being reluctant to throw out accusations while nothing can be said for sure.

[1] https://nibbb.org/2023/02/17/a-statement-from-the-nibbb-on-c...
wtf? what does that look like?
Exactly. I drive a 25-year-old Range Rover. I get a lot of "Oh but what if it breaks down?" Well, I have tools in the boot. Also, a couple of times a week I look underneath to see if anything is hanging down that shouldn't, and look under the bonnet to see if anything is visibly out of place or pishing out fluids, and I check that there's enough of something that looks more-or-less like oil on the dipstick and enough of something that looks more-or-less like coolant in the radiator.

I'd jump in that thing and drive it anywhere, at any time, in any weather conditions, for any distance.
Yes, every Berkshire annual report has a chart comparing Berkshire's stock performance to the S&P 500's performance, year by year. See the table near the start of https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2021ar/2021ar.pdf . From 1965-2021, looks like the S&P 500 gained 30000% and Berkshire gained 3,600,000%. Of course, they don't beat the index every year.
In a lot of countries yes. At the very least the IRS could let you login and see the information they have about your earnings.
>> It seems to be difficult to implement a way to put robust set of constraints on geometry yet keep the software easy to use by everyone

Maybe they could integrate the Solvespace constraint solver. It seems to be gaining popularity outside its original CAD program.
These are two totally different things.

This story is about the priorities of the party shifting from

1. corporate corruption

2. giving lip service to issues that matter to people

3. implementing fringe conspiracies

to

1. implementing fringe conspiracies

2. corporate corruption

3. giving lip service to issues that matter to people

your point is about business as usual for the parties.
Much more recent:

TOO MUCH DARK MONEY IN ALMONDS
(2019)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...
Someone with a little training and practice can get lots of information out of these kind of "blurry" images. You can make educated guesses based on understanding of the real world.

Imagine you are looking for swimming pools to find water to fight a wild fire. All you have is a "blurry" image. That blue shape on the image could be a weirdly shaped tent or patio. And that would be very obvious on high resolution drone imagery. But 99% of the time it will be a pool and that is good enough.

All data has limitations and this is no different.
There’s a type of seaweed you can feed to cows that eliminate their methane emissions, right? Something like 30% of water in the Western US goes to farming cattle feed. If you managed to replace that cattle feed with efficiently grown seaweed, couldn’t you kill two birds with one stone? Three if you replace that farmland with solar farms.
Sure, but the point remains the same and it does not really change the validity of the argument itself. Weapons manufacturers have one goal and that one goal is satisfied by creating a better weapon. Even viruses have found somewhat unexpected uses ( stuxnet comes to mind ).
I mostly jest but the best jokes have an element of truth. You and I might consider it fraud or at least unethical. Some might call it doing business. Consider Theranos - billions invested, board of famous old men with zero domain knowledge - due diligence not so much.

BTW: Bing is stalking me - I told Sydney it was over but it keeps heart facing me. Anybody know how to make it stop.
You understand that you don't actually have to live in Manhattan if your career goal is to work in a fast food joint, right?

Contrived hypotheticals don't actually address the issue under discussion.
I think the point is that Paul Allen could have endowed his favorite causes when he was alive with an endowment large enough that the interest earned would fund continued operation indefinitely.
Have you looked at Node + TypeScript? I'm just starting to dig into TS, but its type system is one of the better ones I've seen. And Node is nice and mature with good async capabilities.
You think I've never encountered anyone like this in the wild? I live in Texas and I hang out here all the time. What I and most people understand about them and their beliefs comes directly from their own lips and keyboard fingers.

Classic attempt at deflection, though. You can't discredit the message, so attack the messenger.
I'll give you an example from the LCM. They had a PLATO terminal with its original plasma flat panel display. I'd been reading about PLATO for years and had even run it in emulation but I'd never seen actual hardware before visiting the LCM.

The experience on the original terminal was way different than emulation. The way the screen worked and the tactile feel of the keyboard was the core of the experience of it. Sitting at an actual terminal really changed my understanding the system because it gave me a physical context that software emulation could not provide. You'd be hard pressed to emulate the eye melting nature of the original plasma display or the stiffness of the keyboard.
Could you educate me about the difference?

As far as I know, commonly lobbying means funding the whole party instead of an individual person. Also, lobbyists are usually required to register somewhere, which seems to be mainly a ceremonial thing. Until now, having looked up on that quite a few times, I haven't spotted a to-the-point summary of what's really the separating line other than these two points.
Unfortunately this isn't currently possible but this is on the app's TODO list. Do you have any idea of how you would like to export them ? How it would look like ?
Check sibling reply. Sadly I never wrote those down. :(

I'll definitely do so going forward.

The problem is with that is the impostor syndrome: I legitimately can't tell if I am an idiot and skipped some basic Rust training, or the error messages are truly confusing and unproductive.

But your messages help. I'll just write those down and send them to GitHub's issue list.
in 2003 you hoofed your servers to a colocation center and plugged them into the internet yourself. Deploying was something you did over `scp`. Buy a big server and you're good to go. That can still be the case these days (see stackoverflow which at least until recently was not using cloud deployment). But for the most part people use cloud platforms that charge by fractions of a second of cpu time. It's never been more cost effective to use a compiled language than it is today. And that would also apply to bare metal bring-your-own-server deployments. Want to host a monster site on just a pair of beefy servers? The less resource intensive your backend, the more requests you can serve per second.
This all makes sense if you ignore that politics are suppose to be representing the people who vote for them. I don’t think I have talked to anyone on any side of the fence that think you should have to pay for filing basic taxes.
So you read the article?
It's the ability to pretty much hover for a while that makes it different. Considering how fast recon satellites fly past overhead (literally a single blink to cross your entire field of view), according to those green laser videos that have been showing up lately), they can capture a lot more targeted info with a balloon, and quite cheaply for that matter.
Maybe should be an honor, but it certainly isn't treated as such by near anyone.

And it's not about why should they get rich. It's about aligning incentives. Relying on good will does not work long term.
Did they change their mind? I can't find it in the addons site (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?promoted=re...), and it is not listed in the linked blog post (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/these-3-new-firefox-andr...)

The "Add to Firefox" button on this page is disabled for me: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/

I am on 110.0.1 from Google Play.
They are out of the mainstream, but only because "systems people who have exchanged any hope of losing their virginity for the exciting opportunity to think about hex numbers and their relationships with the operating system, the hardware, and ancient blood rituals that Bjarne Stroustrup performed at Stonehenge" "SOLVE THE BEAR MENACE" [0].

[0]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
Portugal proposes to end Golden Visas, curtail Airbnb rentals - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34832045 - Feb 2023 (171 comments)