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vorpus.org 6d ago

Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful

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omny.fm 1mo ago

Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

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static1.squarespace.com 1mo ago

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report [pdf]

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www.freerange.city 1mo ago

Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)

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sainthelenaisland.info 2mo ago

About St Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean

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www.bitsaboutmoney.com 2mo ago

Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud

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calpaterson.com 3mo ago

Bank Python

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www.bitsaboutmoney.com 5mo ago

The Business of Check Cashing

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github.com 5mo ago

Astrological CPU Scheduler

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sainthelenaisland.info 6mo ago

About St Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean

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discuss.python.org 8mo ago

Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports"

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podcasts.apple.com 8mo ago

Odd Lots Podcast: How Hudson River Trading Uses AI [audio]

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valkey.io 9mo ago

Numbered Databases in Valkey 9.0

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github.com 10mo ago

We adopt an approach I'll call "Thanks I Hate It (TIHI)"

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www.nytimes.com 10mo ago

Texts from Suspect in Charlie Kirk Shooting Offer Insight into a Motive

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www.hudsonrivertrading.com 11mo ago

Building a Distributed Filesystem for Scalable Research

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redis.io 11mo ago

Redis 8.2 is GA and brings more performance, efficiency, and new commands

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www.bloomberg.com 1y ago

US Job Growth Picks Up

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www.businessinsider.com 1y ago

Hudson River Trading has built a $8B global powerhouse

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www.phoronix.com 1y ago

Redis 8.0-M3 Brings Async I/O Threading, 12x Speed-Up with New AVX2 Code Path

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redis.io 1y ago

Redis 8.0-M03 Even more performance

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sainthelenaisland.info 1y ago

About St Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean

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twitter.com 1y ago

PSF: Kicking off this year's Python Developers Survey

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prestigehunt.com 1y ago

What are the most prestigious companies?

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valkey.io 1y ago

Generally Available: Valkey 8.0.0

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What Git review tool would you use for work

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www.theverge.com 2y ago

Slack's Catch Up feature is like Tinder for your work messages

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ncase.me 2y ago

Parable of the Polygons (2014)

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experience.afrotech.com 2y ago

Afrotech Conference 2023

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slatestarcodex.com 3y ago

Book Review: Red Plenty

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Ok, but me and my buddies think you use tenuous judgement to characterize words as violence, and enable people to use physical violence in “retaliation”.

That’s a bright line violence against innocents, so we’re closing all your checking accounts and preventing you from paying for anything without cash. And if people try to help you, we’ll say loudly in polite society that they traffic in blood money.

I hope you understand.

In short, despite the article's somewhat negative tone overall, I don't think anything described is actually a negative thing

I think the main thing to criticize, is that

1. Banks are deputized as ersatz law enforcement, and will cooperate in ways you would otherwise expect to warrant a warrant, or do damage to people you would otherwise expect a court to gate.

2. Government has set up laws that on their face sound reasonable, but are extremely easy to run afoul of, and extremely easy to prosecute.

3. Banks have delegated decision making to private entities, which confounds oversight and is probably extremely under regulated vs anyone’s expectations

4. A lot of this power is wielded at the discretion of political actors at both ends

5. The main lesson of American politics since Nov 2016 is that we need more guardrails than “discretion”

I guess this case is especially interesting and novel because of how the government has deputized banks as ersatz law enforcement, and banks have delegated decision making to SPLC as ersatz compliance officers.

I’m not sure what the law could and should be in this case, but I suspect it’s woefully underspeced to the chagrin of most parties.

Hence, bank/wire fraud.

EFF is leaving X 3 months ago

They're still on youtube with low hundreds of views. Surely video content requires more effort to boot.

EFF is leaving X 3 months ago

Nate Silver, [...] made a post about this recently

Yeah and he put together an insane chart + data that's not tethered to reality.

- The stdlib (Foundation) is not identical on all platforms even today. This has been a major thorn as releases constantly have discrepancies and subtle bugs that are hard to diagnose and track down. Even Swift 6.1 broke non UTF-8 string encodings by just returning "nil" on Linux and took until Swift 6.2 to be fixed (nearly a year).

sad, I was doing server side around v4/5 and this was the biggest issue at the time for me (lots of stuff was not implemented and you only found out at runtime). that this is still a problem is very disappointing...

A fully functional sched_ext scheduler that makes real CPU scheduling decisions based on real-time planetary positions, zodiac signs, and astrological principles. This actually loads into the Linux kernel and schedules your system tasks. Because if the universe can influence our lives, why not our CPU scheduling too?