skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is it about being backed by a nation which makes a currency more valid?
Totally agree with you here!

I use forums like these as a way to pressure-test crazy ideas, or ways I tell a story. My post history is probably full of crazy shit as a result. In no way will I ever link this account to my real name; in fact I’ll probably abandon it in a few months and start another.

As a result, I also tend to take online argumentation to be more of an academic exercise than one capable of changing opinions. You can also argue the opposing side of an issue to understand the nuance there.

But the net takeaway is that the online world does not represent reality; it represents all the possibilities of reality — which can sometimes be horrifying.
This is why housing affordability should be tied to income, rather than willingness to go into debt. As with education, once the banks can get a guarantee that they will be bailed out in case of trouble (explicit with education, implicit with housing) the race to the bottom commences. Prices go to the moon, everyone ends up in debt slavery

There is a reason the church was so hard on usury. I hope it rediscovers the issue: it is the most pressing social justice issue of our time, cutting across all non-elite identity classes.
"Perfect competition" would also require all consumers to be perfectly rational and to have full knowledge about the market. Where apart from fully automated algorithmic trading is this the case? (And even there you have market failures)
I've always wondered: why isn't it possible to make tiny, safe, low-cost reactors? Do reactors really always have to be so big and expensive?
Wow, the idea that the Tidyverse is somehow burdened with an overabundance of computer science or functional programming is just hilarious to this programmer who has had to maintain, debug and optimise other people's R code.
Microsoft Data Breach and Endpoint Security
Hacker News and Reddit comments have made me sure that comments are never a good thing.
Should it have been published in Nurture instead?
With seawater uranium extraction getting cheaper by the year and reprocessing still looking like it has all the high costs of remote operation plus perceptions of proliferation risk, and with nuclear not ramping up very quickly due to cheap fracked natural gas that's starting to get exported from the US in bulk, I don't think there's a great reason to reprocess at the moment.

Deep geological waste repositories are fine. Lets get those operating safely so we can answer the "what do you do with the waste" problem definitively and then move on. Reprocessing may make sense again sometime in the future but for now we need the prereq of deep storage. I agree with Frank von Hippel in this case [1].

[1] http://npolicy.org/userfiles/image/The%20Costs%20and%20Benef...
>Why is it seen as an obvious truth that we should allow every single person onto the Internet, without ever being able to remove them?

For the same reason it's seen as an obvious truth that everyone should be allowed to use a telephone, or send a letter in the mail. The internet is a communications platform, by definition it belongs to anyone who wants to use it.

The internet being used by everyone no more makes the development or differentiation between cultures impossible than the planet Earth being used by everyone does.

Also, because the anarchist hacker ethos that led to the internet was about liberating humanity from the constraints of gatekeepers - the systems of governance and proprietary control over access to information and freedom of expression that divided the world between the elite and the serf.

What we're seeing now is not that model breaking down, but only beginning to come into its true potential.

Yes, there may be negative effects to the ability of the internet to remove the barriers between cultures and communities, even states, but the world would be a lot worse still if it had never left the confines of a few universities simply to keep the normies out. The value of the transformative nature of the internet on civilization itself is greater than the value of the internet monoculture whose relevance it no longer recognizes.
The Apple Support page says

> If you believe your Mac notebook was affected by this issue, and you paid to have your keyboard repaired, you can contact Apple about a refund.

I'd say you have a good chance to get your money back.
When you pay upfront, the dev is not incentivized to try and keep you. So the product gets worse and worse until it dies.

This is not true.

When you pay up front, the developer has an incentive to make the product right the first time; instead of releasing a buggy product because it can always be patched later.

In the pay up front model, if the initial product is crap, then nobody buys the next version. That is the incentive to release a quality program the first time around.

Then the developer has an incentive to make the next version so much better that people who like the first product will buy the new version.

If you pay overtime, the whole game is “how can we make this person love the shit out of this thing for as long as possible.”

No, if you pay over time, the whole game is "how can we keep this sucker on the hook and milk him for monthly payments for bug fixes and things we should have done the first time."

For example, millions of people pay repeatedly for WordPerfect from version to version for decades because it just kept getting better. That's how it was done until very recently, even with operating systems.
The article is talking about new fuel rods that would work in existing reactors. So, your suggestion change to the title would be wrong.
A risk-based approach to threat and vulnerability management
From personal experience: this is absolutely true. There is this csgo gambling scene on the internet. It's basically betting with real money but masked as a value of weapon skins. I have made some idiotic decisions in the past regarding these websites and I still regret it a ton.
The problem really is that these websites also allow people of any age to gamble with their weapon skins (aka money), and it's fairly easy to buy new skins with actual money.

What's interesting though is that it's easy to observe a ton of gamblers for a long time. And since there is usually also a chat, interacting is also possible. These sites usually have 14 numbers for roulette where 1-7 is red and 8-14 is black, 0 is green which gives 14x your bet. Red and black give you 2x.

If you observe enough gamblers long enough (which I did), you see the same pattern over and over and over again.
It goes like this:
1. Gambler starts out with a random amount of money (could be high or low).
2. Gambler wins big (usually like 1-3 times on green)
3. Gambler feels lucky and gives out money to 'passive' beggars* in the chat.
( Sometimes I would feel bad for the gamblers and hint them in the chat that they should cash out, no one ever listened )
4. Gambler continues and might win some more, or lose some but not all.
5. Gambler has been betting for such a long time that he/she is back at where he/she started.
( Beggars keep begging but gambler says he is down so doesn't give out money right now )
6. Gambler suddenly wins big on green again (or went all in) and feels like a king again.
7. Now Gambler cashes out (by buying a skin) the money with which they started and continues with what his/her leftovers.
8. Gambler loses the leftover money on the website.
9. Gambler deposits the skin that was previously withdrawn again.
10. Gambler loses everything now and the beggars focus on a different big gambler.
11. Gambler usually comes back within a week or month and loses more money.
12. The cycle continues.

* People, usually kids, that lost their (usually small amount of) money earlier and our now cheering for some big gamblers so these gamblers might send them money on the website.

I personally also lost a (for me) quite big amount of money on these sites over a decent period of time. Later, I was able to sort of stop my addiction and I made a bot which predicted random results (red/black/green) in the chat. It got me like 30 dollars of tips from people that had probably used the bot but the website changed some things so my bot stopped working and I have been too lazy to fix it.

Last thing: I also kept some stats of the roulette because I had to know the timing of the roulette so my bot wouldn't predict if it was already rolling. I added an extra feature for myself so I could see how many times red/black and green were rolled and how many times my bot got the predictions right. Obviously this always ended up in a big loss for my bot (in terms of predictions, I did not bet money with my bot) in the long term.
Amazon Liable for 3rd Party Merch
On a related note, has anyone else had issues with the iPad Smart Keyboard after 15+ months?

Bought mine for the 10.5 iPad Pro and at some point I started getting Accessory Not Recognized messages, then it would stop working unless I removed and reattached it, then it finally died entirely.

There are reports of similar experiences in the Apple Support Communities and on Reddit, and Apple reportedly created a program to replace some of the keyboards [1]. But when I contacted Apple I was told my keyboard was out of warranty — effectively $180 of electronic waste after just over one year of use.

[1] https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/17/05/08/apple-offe...
Those 'dumb' things were, in fact, the things that the domain experts specified it should do in response to the data that the software received.
> Has anyone simply wondered if the problem with the internet is fundamentally that everyone's on it?

Yes it is, but maybe its an example of the effect of the economical system we are in. Most of the negative stuff that pop up are driven by money making. Even filter bubbles could be classified as a vector for making money.

Personally I try to avoid all the shitty parts that come with modern internet and reap the benefits of it.
Seems like you can "Permanently Disable" ME using their BIOS on Thinkpads.
I blocked telemetry through hosts file blocking as detailed here, might be helpful to some. https://www.thurrott.com/forums/microsoft/windows/thread/dis...
Is this Banksy? ITV uncovers lost footage of the graffiti artist
Why are they the only ones operating this type of reactor?
Capture2Text – Quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut
After thinking about this for a bit I think I need to think some more, particularly about how to articulate this idea to you in a way that is persuasive. In the meantime, I am going to try to avoid (or at least minimize) further experimentation.
Harvard researchers have developed a 2cm polarization camera
Doesn't most of the money supporting both Mozilla and Wikimedia come from search engine companies?
Secure Secrets in Docker Builds
I'm building a simple blog/project site just using Hugo. It's quite easy to get started, and is a single binary you can use to test and deploy the site with no dependencies.

I like that I'm able to design everything from the ground-up the way I want it. Also a decent selection of themes if you wanted to focus on content.
File-storage app 4shared making purchases without consent
>simplified our view of the world around us.

How is this bad?
>There does seem to be darker political overtones that are exacerbated by commenters

Are we reading the same comments section? Which specific comments are you talking about? The comments section I read seemed quite apolitical, except for this particular sub-thread.

>Low-IF journals are easier to publish to by definition.

It might be true that Low-IF journals in general are easier to publish to, but that's not true "by definition". By definition, Low-IF journals are journals whose papers are less-cited (this is an oversimplification, of course). For example, IF tends to vary a lot by field, so in your comment where you casually dismissed anything with IF<4 as a joke, you inadvertently dismissed whole entire fields. For example, one of the absolute top math journals, the "Annals of Mathematics", has an IF of 3.027. I can assure you, it's much harder to publish in the Annals of Mathematics than in a typical genetics journal with an IF of >=4.
I needed this for so long. Looks
I think it just disables the management feature, the ME itself is always active to an extent. BTW, don't forget to also disable Computrace.
In these gaming use cases the bots can be appropriately disclosed without getting in the way of the game. A couple decades ago there was an ARG about government conspiracies which called your house to give you clues from in-game characters and it started with a 4th wall breaking preamble so that if someone not playing answered the phone they wouldn't get worried. The game was still fun. IIRC you could go into the settings and disable the preamble, which would be a fine place in the UX to disclose the bots and capture the user's agreement.

Unfortunately for the game (and the world), 9/11 happened a few months after launch and due to the theme of the game it was shut down. Now it's just an interesting bit of gaming history!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_(video_game)
> fast breeders

How many would actually be needed to burn up the unused fuel of "regular" reactors? Is there some ration of regular:breeder that would be needed (5:1, 8:1, 13:1)?

> to a first approximation longer lived isotopes are less dangerous.

But isn't the shielding required for the longer lived stuff simpler? Presumably the short-lived stuff is hotter gamma radiation, which needs more shielding.
It’s nice but only supports static content, so personally I would not count that as “running my own website”. Web hosting even container based VPS is super cheap - I would just go for that and have the extra freedom to do interesting things.
I can see why the gov't would have something to say about DoH, but even though the article specifically asks "why do ISPs hate it?", it doesn't actually answer why ISPs themselves would have a hat in the ring. Surely they cannot be blamed if DoH prevents them from sniffing users' traffic?
Test for eSNI here: https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/
Apple's repair service, and the Apple Store in general, have gotten much better in the last six months or so.

Two weeks ago I brought my Apple Watch in for an out-of-warranty repair on a Thursday night. I was told it would take 10 business days. It was ready the following Tuesday.
> not having to install and setup additional tools is good, especially when you are using lots of different machines

the person you initially responded to was likely referring to ssh connections to servers
Is it?

They're Romany Gypsies? Sure this usage may be offensive, but certain usages of Jew are probably offensive.

Further, I assume pink gypsy potatoes and gypsy moth planes aren't racial slurs?
That's not really what anyone is talking about here. We're talking about if a USB cable itself could be an issue. For that to happen the cable would have to be shorted in a way that still coerced a USB upstream port to still deliver 2A. Even long and bad cables are going to have incredibly small resistances compared to any piece of electronics they're attached to that can make the USB port think that's okay. Which means that the majority of the energy dissipated in a USB short will likely be in the downstream electronics. You could probably use something besides copper and still have it be the minority of the resistance in a circuit that could get 2A.

If a USB device gets more current than it's supposed to get, it difficult not to blame the upstream power port for providing so much under the conditions of a short or the downstream port for not being designed correctly. Furthermore, when people see USB cables with "only 2 strands of wire" these are power cables where the data pins are shorted with a resistor, which locks a USB port to a more modest 500mA. That's definitely fine.
There is a surplus of houses around Chicago. Go there instead of complain that CA rents are too high. If you hate snow so much that you'll pay $500,000 to avoid it, YOU have a problem.
LogDNA (YC W15) – Hiring Software Engineers in San Francisco Bay Area
The linked article shows how it's due to a design flaw and explains why shitty cheap chargers/cables work but ok
False: France has [1].

Double digits of France's electricity comes from reprocessed nuclear fuel.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site
"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned."

Paul Newman - The Color of Money
Sounds a bit like a Pythagorean cup, just with the liquid overflowing the “lip” due to heat rather than volume.
> The design of clinical trials still belongs to R&D and not Marketing/Sales departments.

This is FALSE. It's literally come out in court documents. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/09/dan-markings...

> In 1997, when Dr. Andrew Goudie, a psychopharmacologist at the University of Liverpool, asked AstraZeneca to fund a research study he was planning, a company official replied that “R&D is no longer responsible for Seroquel research—it is now the responsibility of Sales and Marketing.” The official also noted that funding decisions would depend on whether the study was likely to show a “competitive advantage for Seroquel.”
Why Programmers Need Creativity
> And in India you need to work 5x as hard if not less to make same wages as your American counterpart, even then if you manage to make the same wage as someone I America, you'll find your money can only buy 1/3rd of the benefits an American can buy.

There are other "luxuries" that middle-class Indians can afford if they're earning at least the lower-end of American-level salaries. Early retirement, reasonably affordable healthcare and education, properties far away from cities and affordable labor to work them, more affordable house-help (cooks, house-maids, nannies).

Speaking personally as someone who has lived in a first-world country and who's now living in India, I find that free time is more valuable to me than drones or Lamborghinis or iphones. Not saying that things are ideal in India - far from it, in fact. But living in India does have its positive side as well.
Not quite sure what your point is here but worth pointing out Corbyn's politics which are left of center. I don't think your 'Fox News' ideas apply here, but agree it's an extremely low budget website with zero design sensibility as befits a shoestring operation.
His position is that powerful oligarchs and oil companies are behind 'human created climate change' taxation politics, and that his lifetime in academia studying the sun's influence on earth climate makes him a sceptic of the cabal of scientists pushing the 'climate change' agenda. I don't necessarily agree with him but thought I'd point that out...
https://youtu.be/LlK2_t66wQI?t=1586 <Corbyn's ideas about who is behind climate change political pressure
Apple is usually very good with this sort of stuff.

My wife bought a MacBook two months before OS X came out, so she had OS 9. When OS X came out, Apple sent free copies to everyone who bought a computer in the last 90 days.
less lawyers on retainer to establish a precedent?

you are talking about dirty politicians, who are standing against something initially designed to twart oppressive regimes such as China's great firewall... any dirty trick in book is fair game to them.
One of the saving graces of IRC is that the technical barriers to using it (compared to discord, etc) are high enough to keep out the riff raff.
Common misconception: USB Power Delivery is not what the RPi4 is doing. The base Type-C spec provides the schematic for analog signaling of either a 5V/1.5A or 5V/3A state. USB-PD uses a much more complex digital signaling method across the CC lines, and is its own separate spec.
The port and cable can do all that, i think the problem here is more about the electronics on either side of the ports and cables
Expecting programmers to problem solve for 8 hours is stupid
I recently started a day job where I'm expected to work a normal 8 hour workday. No one is holding me accountable that I stick to that so it seems the requirement is more of a formality, but that's besides the point.

As I've experienced trying to keep up this 8 hour work, I've come to realize that sticking to this old assembly line convention makes absolutely no sense for our field of work. On a good day I can work even 12h+, but usually my limit is somewhere around 4 and ½ hours. And after six hours I'm just burning myself out trying to force myself to focus. At 8 hours I can feel physical pain and it will take me whole evening to recover when I get off the clock.

It's silly how many companies are still sticking to this old rule. Nobody wins when employees are wasting their time being inefficient. If the 8 hours workday is actually enforced, employees will just come up with coping mechanisms against the stress the overly stretched workday is causing them and they will end up loosing motivation.

Conservative improvement would be working 6h * 5 + 4h on Saturday (remotely), which would make employees more efficient, mentally healthy and that's 6 hours less work time per week.
Furthermore, we demonstrate that an unsupervised method can recommend materials for functional applications several years before their discovery. This suggests that latent knowledge regarding future discoveries is to a large extent embedded in past publications.
That’s what I’ve been doing too! I’m an Emacs user, and this setup has been glorious. I actually use an external keyboard, and I still use this setup.

I’ve been using Karabiner to remap: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/index.html
Relevant website with most of the under constructions GIFs.
http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/
Nah, just use nearlyfreespeech.net

You get a bsd host with shell access for cheap.
Scheduler Soft Affinity
XR Talks: Building an Audio AR Platform
There’s a ton of public space in Tokyo. To me this reads as:
- people pay for car sharing (generally it requires a monthly fee plus a small usage fee per hour)
- occasionally people that already pay the monthly fee take advantage of a nearby available car to sit in or nap in.

This isn’t a widespread trend where public space is so limited one needs to rent a car to sit in.

The napping explanation is probably the most common. It’s normal to see people napping in vehicles at midday, especially delivery drivers and construction workers. I can see the appeal of hopping in a nearby car-share car to nap as it would be more comfortable than the seating one can normally find.
It may not be officially recommended, but I know people who have gone surfing with recent model iPhones and Apple watches. They seem to do fine, but maybe that's just luck?
This type of post makes it to the front page pretty frequently, but I think the audience on hacker News vastly underestimates the difficulty of setting up a personal site for the general public. There is always the refrain of "but just use static HTML!", as if anyone even knows what that is, as if it's so easy to set up a domain and hosting, as if no one even wants a nicely designed site with images and JavaScript that's easy to maintain. Even as a technologically literate person, I find the hassle of maintaining my own static personal website far more onerous than it has to be. Platforms are not great, but they are the only way that most people will ever interact with the web.
Isolation as a problem is a big deal and worth addressing.

However, the most lonely people I've met are those who have no problem finding other people to be around.
Sounds like the trouble with old NES cartridges: corroded contacts. (They sometimes started working when you reseated them enough times, because moving them in and out of the connector was scraping off a little bit of the corrosion.)

If that’s the problem, the real solution should be the same: cleaning the keyboard’s contact pads (and maybe the iPad’s contact pads as well) with a q-tip and a bit of isopropyl alcohol.