jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So far the explanation I’ve come across goes as follows: someone creates tether. They use this tether to buy bitcoin, which drives up the prices of bitcoin. The more they buy, the more value their purchased bitcoin has. The trick seems to be that generating this tether should decrease the value of tether, however since everyone thinks its a stablecoin that is backed by usd 1:1, its value remains the same. The worst is that the purchased bitcoin increases in value, so technically they could sell that bitcoin for usd, then use that usd to temporarily back their printed tether...

(This is my understanding of the situation and from the reading the explanations of other people, but please take this with a grain of salt, im not sure if everything is true)
Well, for one, God isn't Apple Inc..[citation needed]
Look at recent Rstudio videos on youtube, they explained why they moved away from packrat.
Did you copy/paste this from 2017? :D
I have problems with CO2 already. I need to ventilate my room every 0.5 hours to keep CO2 level below 1000ppm.
SymPy's problem is that it is based on an object-oriented language. This results in SymPy (and friends) demanding that users abandon hundreds of years of math notation, to conform to the whims of a programming language.

In SymPy you do M.diagonalize(), which makes no sense. The matrix M does not have a property diagonalize. Rather, you should apply a choosen diagonalization algorithm like Diagonalize(M) to produce a new matrix.

Mathematica wins, and will continue to win, because the language is functional and conforms to how Mathematicians think, rather than how (EDIT: certain) programmers like to code.
Maybe FB should have let WhatsApp be a messenger then and made the Marketplace its own app. But this way, the tracking functions can be pushed to everyone under the guise of the Marketplace functions, even if they only use the Messenger.
We know that dieting is a terrible method for losing weight. It's untrue to say thT most people who diet lose weight - they only do so in the short term while they maintain that diet. As soon as they stop they regain weight, often settling at a higher weight.

Unless by "dieting" you mean "permanent lifestyle change" which is fair enough.
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Every decent hotel I’ve been to requires identifying information to stay. Once they already have that , what’s the difference in participating in loyalty programs or not, other than one gets a little bit back with rewards?
A solution would be to have some kind of protocol revolving around ssh, that would open one ssh session, and use other socket connections to do other stuff, like ftp, scp, wget, etc...

Would be pretty hairy though. Maybe another solution would be to have some new socket standard that can achieve what both UDP and TCP do, at some kind of variable window size...
3 meals a day and a guaranteed hotel room for 6 months, and the city would make a best effort attempt to house everyone in a more permanent situation by September.

However the hotel rooms have really strict rules. For example there's a curfew for a dumb reason[1], and people who get back to the hotel too late have to wait until the next day to return to their rooms. There's also limitations on how much stuff they can bring with them into the hotels (no more than 2 suitcases or shopping carts full of stuff) which if you've seen many encampments you know will be a dealbreaker for some.

[1]: The city has designated COVID screeners during the day, but when they go home it's just security guards at the hotels. However the COVID screening is just a thermometer check so they could totally just teach the security guards how to use thermometers.
As someone who worked as a freelance color corrector for film: Although you should always value accessability and consider those who are not blessed with perfect eye sight, the part where it says that this isn't subjective bothers me.

I can assure you from many talks I had with customers: There is nearly nothing more subjective than color perception. Some people will be bothered by a low contrast, others by a high contrast. They are not bothered because they are wrong, they are bothered because what feels good to them is different.

Additionally the whole thing depends more than we would like on the screens used.

That high contrast example on a low contrast screen might physically have the same brightness difference as the low contrast example on a expensive high contrast screen. Screen contrast certainly increased during the last two/three decades. Do we adjust our guidelines to this?

Is there such a thing as too high contrast? Ask yourself, watch out of the window and try to focus on the part where dark and light meet, depending on the weather and light direction this contrast can be high enough to be uncomfortable to your eyes.

Of course the opposite is true as well, too low contrast can be extremely exhausting either. But both differ with individuals: Some will find a high contrast to be perfectly easy on their eyes and far more readable, while for others it might be too much and exhaust them over longer periods. People who work with colors commercially have to strike a good balance here and take their own (often more sensitive) perception out of the equation.
From one fellow whiteboard junky to another: please give ShareTheBoard.com a try. It's no replacement for the real thing but it's a quick fix (ha!) and, I dare say, solves a problem or too.

As for the need for structure: I can understand this quite well. Both as a PdM and as a lifelong fan of my son.
Then again, it is not all strictly rational. If you are primed to look for internal ennemy then loners easily look like ones. Plus, maybe more importantly, they don't have stronger friends to protect them, to retaliate, to subtly help them. They are also less likely to be fully "in", so more likely to do misstep.

I also remember reading that people who saved Jews during WWII were more likely to be "outsiders" to social. (Some Israel researcher claimed that.) Being outside facilitates such actions - either because you underestimate risk or because you did not absorbed the bad values.
I actually haven't had a problem with this, though perhaps it's because I understand what's happening at a deeper level. You're generally referencing commits which exist somewhere in this family of commits you can view with `git log --graph`. You can easily think of checkout as the path of diffs to get there. Files at commits are still whole objects, mentally, but the thing we care about as programmers working with multiple versions are the diffs.

I have had it break down a bit more when working with stash though, because now the object you're referencing can exist outside of that graph-like commit family.
OAuth(2) are for access delegation. They are not for authentication or identity. For this reason, OIDC was built on top.
With Windows 10 shutdown means hibernate so if it’s flakey you’ll crash every time.

Also if you don’t implement it or you implement it poorly and you’re not the size of Nvidia your drivers will not pass the checks and will not be signed, so your customers won’t be able to load them.
A considerable amount of music is distributed by a small subset of providers. So in that regard it's not that different to the TV / film situation and you could theoretically still interleave different artists.

There's also a common use case where people will just play a specific artist for an hour. Or even an album.

Frankly, I hope services like Spotify don't disappear. It's a great loss to consumers just how fragmented video streaming services have become. I'd hate to see the same happen to music as well.
What are the tools for making such comics? :)
Unmotivated, I need a break T____T
listenbrainz has gotten pretty good in the last while for keeping track of your music stats. Its got a nice weekly stats page etc. Its also not ad laden like last.fm
Cars are becoming like phones so the model that dominates phones might be the best for cars. Tesla probably knows tbis but putting engineering excellence first can sometimes compress margins.
Yeah some info: (from https://www.irishmirror.ie/tv/extraordinary-stonehenge-disco...)

Professor Mike says he had long held the theory that the smaller bluestones which surrounded Stonehenge in a wide circle during its earliest phase, had started life as a monument in Wales.

But finding the site of a stone circle which no longer exists, 5,000 years after it was moved, is no mean feat.

The research started in 2010, with excavations beginning in 2012 but as they years went by they experienced many set-backs involving bronze and iron age circles which weren’t what they were looking for.

Mike, 63, did a deal with a TV company to film their progress in 2015.

Two years later, it was a despondent group led by Dave Shaw, who decided to excavate Waun Mawn, an “unpromising” marshy site described as “small and unremarkable” which had turned up nothing in the geophysics surveys.

... [goes on to describe finding it]
Also, another update has been noticed for V-day celebrations: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-ranking-algorithm...
Oh, Bit.ly's gonna _Love_ you guys.

Seriousy, though - awesome hack.
The nice thing about them is that they are very short and so you can try a lot of different strategies, but there were also long scripts like Mule DNA. I think this is a great way to teach kids the basics of addressing and low level programming. I remember writing these bots for a friends computer science class, good times.
"What you've done there is called taking a comment out of context."

It's not out of context at all. I'm not misleading anyone with my comment, or putting words into the OP's mouth. My comment fairly represents what the OP said about the competitiveness of the SAT prep market.

My intent was to indicate that the online storage market is also highly competitive. It wasn't to present a point by point analysis of the full post.
Php is still a ghetto. The author brings up some interesting points but the other web languages have jumped pretty far ahead of php. Python is laughable compared to php anymore.
In a small consultancy model, having two or more people work on the exact same parts of a configuration or build tree for a customer is very improbable.

And for actual software development, as I said, we do use Git. :)
http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-clinch-240m-ipad-display-co...

I don't know the details of if the deal broke last minute, but that's what I'd read.

UPDATE: More here -- http://www.slashgear.com/lg-and-samsung-ipad-screen-shipment...
Can you expound on the tech. Here is an idea:

what if you can turn it into a tool for government elected officials to engage with their constituencies - make it a tool that senators/their aides/whomever can ask questions of their supporters and collect feedback. You make it effectively a 'facebook for government' engagement?
Thanks for this helpful and encouraging answer. Forgive my ignorance, but what's the best way to find and connect with these 'estabilshed design firms'?
My wife printed half-size boarding passes to try and save some paper and we go SO much crap at every juncture.
> why should we accept Twitter banning people for the "wrong" reasons

I think this confuses "you" with "we".

You shouldn't accept it if you feel it is unfair, and you should express that if you feel the need to, subject to the rules of whatever platform you use to express it.

But "we" (as in the people of the United States), via the powers of government, have no right under the Constitution to compel (or if you prefer, to "not accept") Twitter to allow him to tweet on their platform.
I reject the idea of an “other side” here. It’s very popular to bucket these things into black and white binaries but I don’t buy it. There are people who are on the fringes, both left and right, and then there are a lot of people who fit somewhere in the middle. Even “left” and “right” is a vast oversimplification at times.

When you start to think about it that way the perspective you’ve outlined doesn’t make a lot of sense. Should these people have legally nonsensical court cases heard simply because they’re a minority group and we need to ensure diversity in plaintiffs or something?

Overall, the argument only makes sense if there is some innate “right to be heard” that these people are being deprived of. There isn’t. There have been fringe movements that weren’t indulged by society at large for thousands of years, I’m not sure why any obligation would have changed.
>So you think hundreds of thousands of ballots were out of view and somehow swapped with fake ballots

I think probably several different kinds of election fraud took place because observers were too far away. If election observers are 6 feet away, they can't read the letters written on a piece of paper, so can't tell if an election worker is, for instance, allowing someone to vote multiple times and crossing off some other name instead, or accepting a ballot with a signature that doesn't match the voter's records. If election observers are 20 feet away, they can't even tell if there's any writing on a piece of paper, so election workers can let through blank mail in envelopes, or switch papers around, or put papers in the wrong box, or pull papers from a box into the wrong stack.

>coordinated fraud

Do you think it's implausible that a group of people that have all been selected at some level by democrat politicians, who have a deep seated hatred of Trump, would have some difficulty coordinating to engage in illegal activity?

>because an election official was watching from too far away

No, election observers were too far away. I do not trust election officials in these controversial areas, because they are, at some level, there because democrat politicians want them to be.

>And no hard evidence of this conspiracy anywhere exists, but it totally happened.

I don't know if it exists at this point. Some forms of election fraud would be very easy to get away with carrying out without any evidence remaining. How would you ever know if an election worker got two mail in envelopes, one obviously fake and the other real but from a part of town that goes heavily republican, took the inner contents of the fake one and put it in the good pile, and took the inner contents of the real one and put it in the bad pile? If an observer couldn't tell it was happening, how could anyone find out after the fact? How hard would it be for a box of invalid election materials to never be found again? Do you think the FBI is rummaging through the garbage of all of these facilities?

>Is this your position?

Allow me to turn it around on you. Is it your position that it would be unjustified for the democrat election officials and workers to cheat to make sure Trump lost, given the list of things they (I assume sincerely) believe about him that I posted above? (Owned by Putin, elected due to russian interference, climate change, women's rights, racial hatred, border separations, voter suppression, undermining democracy, etc etc)
Severe enough "symptoms" can turn into comorbidities and are diseases unto themselves. Sometimes worse that the initial disease. If you get a rash from poison ivy, itching is a symptom. If you scratch all your flesh off because it itches and you're a stubborn idiot that won't go get treatment from a doctor, and then that exposed flesh gets a nasty infection that eats your limb, well then the symptom has now advanced into a disease worse than the initial cause.

Let's say in this metaphor the doctor stands for maybe seeking therapy for paranoia and oppositional defiant disorder, or something like that. These people are not without agency in their own radicalization, though we could argue that society really doesn't help matters when it comes to mental health or pernicious algorithms that send people down conspiracy holes.
Not weighing in on this thread, but just for those who haven't heard of the Gish gallop before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
Real creators could pay, what, a dollar or five to fund the moderation of their youtube videos. Same for facebook etc.

The idea that every social network deserves to exist on terms that are economically preferable to their owners is not some golden rule. These networks didn't even exist 20 years ago.
The article mentions, nature versus nurture debate and that's complete nonsense. Any scientist should know by now, all forces factor into an equation for whatever outcome. So the phrase "nature versus nurture debate" is annoying to read and I assume it generally confuses the public. Similar to how doctors used to say someone has a chemical imbalance in their brain for the cause of whatever illness the person is suffering from. I feel like until people understand "cause & effect" an ignorance is going to continue existing and that really misleads the general populace towards incorrect assumptions or even magical thinking.
Nice project! How is the expirance of reading books online on the device? How long does the battery in the T480 last?
I tend to default to believing bad faith from the ISPs given their monopolistic power in many many places around the US. However, I disagree with this argument in a broad sense because:

1. Law enforcement itself has costs.

2. The US has so many random laws and the power given to the president and AG to selectively enforce said laws that it translates to "Whoever is in power at the executive level gets to attack whoever they want at their convenience".

3. I see a very clear line between this argument and "If you don't have anything to hide, why do you need privacy?" argument.
The bigger the better, so get a 10/12/14" dobsonian. They're cheap, dumb, easy to set up, you'll be able to see a lot, and it will last forever.

Refractor telescopes are extremely expensive to get a good one, otherwise the image quality is awful, and either way they are so limited in aperture and weight that you'll be able to see very little through them.

Don't buy anything off Facebook saying they've used some computer technology to make an amazing telescope. Yes computer technology helps some scientific applications but consumer wise it's all BS.

Reflector telescopes can be okay in theory and can be a good middle ground between the price/aperture of dobsonians and pricier options (my first scope was a reflector so I have a special place in my heart for the image they provide!) But you may as well save your money and get the dobsonian instead, because if you wanted to use a reflector for computer tracking and astrophotography you'll spend so much money on the mount and cameras and add ons that you may as well have bought the pricier option in the first place.

Don't get a fork mounted Celestron CPC. It's the same issue; more expensive, not as good as a dobsonian, you get computer tracking but can't use it for astrophotography.

That just leaves schmidt–cassegrain telescopes. If you want to do imaging you may as well jump here and try to buy a package that has it all including a really really good mount. The only downsides are that you'll be spending $10k-$20k. If you weren't interested in those things... may as well get a dobsonian.

One thing I wanted to mention that everything bar the dobsonian is going to be extremely heavy. For the reflector and Schmidt's you'll be carting a 25kg mount, 25kg of weights, then trying to hoist a 25kg scope onto the mount with one hand and slot it into a tiny rail in the dark while your other hand fumbles for a tiny screw clamp that holds it in place. There's a reason people get into the hobby and then give up.

A dobsonian you basically lift the tube and plop it anywhere onto the base and you're good to go. So unless you're fit, don't bother even getting started with anything except the dobsonian.

As dobsonians are cheap, they're easy to buy and sell, and so if you don't hang around in the hobby then you'll be able to exit quietly and not feel much of a loss. If you do become an enthusiast and jump to the top end there's no loss either, because it'll be such a nightmare to set up, you'll still be using the much larger and better dobsonian for all of your normal viewing.
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Its a trap thinking you have to store all the config info in Chef(recipes, data bags, etc). Its easy to call out to other services for config info to render templates with.

Mreinsch's s3 reco is a good example. I use this method for storing extra role secrets for AWS.

It's good to keep in mind the words Morpheus when dealing with Chef(and all this stuff really). Free your mind.
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I wish I had read this before Christmas as I was stuck for gifts for younger people.
Clearing your environment variables after reading them, and only passing the ENVs required to perform the new task are pretty basic security measures. This was pretty common practice in the 90's, and then I was hoping that would be one of the lessons out of ShellShock.
Right, but none of the other ones were marketed to the super elite startup coders who are crushing it so hard that they literally don't have time to eat.
Useful advice, but the MacBook Air and Retina MacBook Pro don't have an eject key (⏏).

Edit: Ah, I see now. Eject or Power depending on the model. Thanks.
> Know Paxos? Stealth-mode big data startup is hiring founding engineer

lol
I was going to suggest this as well. I found it was too difficult for me to apply it totally successfully to my playing, but studying it has been great for just everyday life and computer stuff where I tend to have a lot of unnecessary tension.
I don't think so.

For example, I once had a mini cab ride where the driver was very poor indeed (a new immigrant from somewhere not so nice).

He was teaching his very young daughter to play blindfold chess.

I have not met him since, but would be surprised if he didn't do a great job in educating his daughter with very little in the way of money or time.
What are the opposing viewpoints?
architecture is a similar move in terms of day-to-day, but there's a larger likelihood of success for an engineer to transition.
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