skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to put on my tinfoil hat for a moment and say that you might be underplaying the power of TikTok.

It's not just that China has peoples' dance videos.

The app has complete adoption by the teenage generation. When many high-profile hacks begin with simple social engineering, all it takes is blackmail attempts on the sons and daughters of diplomats and CEOs threatening to reveal/promote to friends either private or falsified(deep fake?) data/videos to get at least some percentage of compliance.

Of course we should protect encryption and be smart and diligent when protecting our liberties, but I'm scared of TikTok, and I don't think that fear is unjustified.
it's in the title. "a NEW form of currency"
Businesses almost certainly won't be holding cash in quantities any larger than necessary to meet their short-term obligations.

The entire purpose of QE and similar schemes is to reduce the value of the fiat currency relative to other things, in order to encourage people to swap their dollars for things (increasing consumption) or financial assets (increasing investment, at least indirectly).

The problem is that the investment doesn't seem to be happening, partly because of expectations of a future crash. By this point I suspect this has more to do with real-world factors (climate change is a serious obstacle to long-term economic growth) than government policy.
I think you may have just re-discovered Disruptive Innovation (sometimes also called Disruption Theory): incumbents over-serve their customers by adding lots of features, complexity, and cost. Upstarts can attack them by focusing on only a few core features and/or low price. The incumbents can't respond without annoying their existing customers who have grown accustomed to all the features the incumbent provides.

https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation
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This elephant was addressed long ago by Jon Wiegly's use-package.
Thanks for the correction - I never really heard any followup on this at the time and definitely missed this explanation. Obviously the tracking is bad but it's definitely a different thing to the way it was presented as them actually crawling a competitor.
This is pretty good though
> pleerock commented 25 days ago
I would like to ask not to spam here. Thank you. If somebody prefer some alternative - try it, maybe it can better fit your needs. Nothing is perfect and there are always set cons and pros from every project you will use. Open source always lack of accountability, and if you are using some tool, try to support it if you can, because any author can end up switching to something else. It's just matter of time, or your support. So, try to support your favorite tools, no matter if thats TypeORM or MicroORM.

Thank you for all your suggestions and support.
I find many really good suggestions here, but the reason I don't implement them is because right now I'm able to implement only some of them, others would take too much time and efforts to do. But I think it wouldn't take a good effect to only implement some of them. That's why I'm waiting for a right time.

I just want to tell you that I already do have enough money to maintain this library for around 6 months without working on something else. So, I still plan to return back to it and put all my efforts to move it forward and apply all suggestions you have provided. I just need some time, because I took a big project under my responsibility and I can't leave until it's finished. Thanks for understanding. Right now I do my best (considering my business and health) to release new TypeORM versions very month or two to keep it updated with the most critical fixe
Even more likely a custodian like Coinbase or Gemini already has the funds in cold storage, and a sale occurred OTC which simply modified who owned how much of the BTC.
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Part of what makes the PDF experience so abysmal is the Adobe reader most people use. Apple Preview (and Quicklook!) is so much faster and more stable that I can forget how miserable the experience is for Windows users.
It depends over what time period those 21K bitcoins were bought. If they would have been bought within a day, there would absolutely be market impact (bitcoin price would increase by double digit percentages).

The daily trade volume is mostly people passing bitcoin to each other. If a whale like MicroStrategy is actually taking them out of an exchange, things will dry up quickly.

My guess the bitcoins were bought over a period of at least couple weeks, and probably using OTC trades as well.
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Big mistake. The position of the USG is National security. The discovery process is going to be ruthless.
In a globalized world, it’s a mistake to assume that China (or any foreign power, for that matter) has no agency over or interest in you. Especially if you are, for example, someone with even a mediocrum of power or access that they want (for example, if you’re a system administrator for a company whose secrets they want).

If they have enough leverage over you (or access through you to your secure systems), they will use it.
>> - extract method

>I don't know what this is, sorry

In emacs, try M-x tide-refactor. It's the "extract to function in module scope" option.
That’s a very good point. I have experienced this myself, but I don’t see another way to stop abuse except tweaking the requirements. It sounds like too many hoops in your example. On our site if the user makes just one relevant comment I instantly promote them. It’s that easy to tell. I wish this deterrent wasn’t justified by walls of spam as the alternative.
My guess is that the full story is this:

Most Uber/Lyft drivers say they don't want to be considered employees because, for most of them, this isn't actually their job. It's just a side gig. I can't really speak to larger urban areas because I tend to prefer public transit when it's a viable option, but, in the smaller cities where I take most my rideshare rides, a pretty large percentage of the drivers I chat with end up mentioning their day job somewhere in the course of the conversation. I agree that these folks, by virtue of lacking any viable way to independently contract work, cannot reasonably be described as independent contractors. But they don't quite fit the mold of "employee", either.

Then there is another portion of drivers who really are doing this full time. I am guessing that they are a small minority of individual drivers, but that, in larger cities, they may account for a majority of rideshare capacity.

Anyway, if this is how it shakes out, then, regardless of the ratios, it doesn't really make sense to speak about "ridehsare drivers" as if they're a homogeneous unit whose needs can reasonably be met with a one-size-fits-all classification. Perhaps there needs to be a tiered designation, comparable to the various employee sub-designations such as "full time", "part time", "exempt", "non-exempt", etc., that states codify.
> Scanners are often an extreme example

I have yet to find an Android scanner that doesn't make pdfs that weight less than 350K per page. I have tried MS Lens, CamScanner, and a few others I cannot recall at this time.

Has anyone had success in this arena?
Hah, good point. The authors of our simulation really put a damper on things, huh?
I for one think that turning Tower into a British Colonialism's Crimes Museum and making the UK repent (and repay! All your City banks are belong to us) for the crimes of their distant ancestors for the next century or so is a fascinating idea, but that'd require, ah, quite a vigorous persuasion, so to speak.

i propose we start by drafting a "Comprehensive International Plan of Action" ("Comintern" for short) and invite the UNSC to join it.

P.S. There's a grain of joke in every joke.
You have a valid point. One's own government is almost always more of a threat that another country's government.

But I think it's possible you aren't thinking of all the contingencies that are created by a foreign government having info about people in this country.
What was their primary treasury reserve asset before the switch to Bitcoin? Unless I'm missing something, I don't see that mentioned anywhere in the article. I find it hard to believe a company would go from something ultra-stable like T-Bills to Bitcoin... so I have to imagine they already had something on the more volatile side...
Yeah I just ran through the checkout and configure process and found: configure: "error: Installed libgccjit has failed passing the smoke test."

FWIW this is libgccjit-10-dev, the most recently available package I could find in my install (debian based Google gLinux).

Not sure if I have the motivation to go build it, but who knows! Beats writing design docs, which is the other thing I could be doing ;-)
In the their linked previous article, they also considered Electron. So the motivation is probably not efficiency. There are many other possible requirements that get you making native apps.
Yes, somehow captchas gets solved... But yes, I think it helps.
+1 for SQL.

I never understood the need to rebuild a SQL-like solution bc SQL seems like the right answer already?

Between inner joins and SPs, what else could you possibly need for data?
See also Clojure's threading macros: https://clojure.org/guides/threading_macros
It'd be awesome if it were possible to host (La)TeX files directly over the web.

Altough, for most people a non wysiwyg editor is too cumbersome.
True, this is even more likely than the scenario I spelled out.
I have looked at inverter generators. But they seem harder to find in larger wattages/capacities. I dont know that i trust Champion engines for long runtimes (days)

I currently have a 7kw (8750 surge) and a 6kw unit. they are dewalt gennys with Honda engines. I really only would trust a B&S, Honda or Kohler engine i feel like.

I think my next purchase will either be a bigger inverter or just a 14-17kw contractor genny and switch to double conversion Battery Backups.

Not quite sure. But what i have does work too. Just that my current generator is approaching a decent number of hours (400-500).
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Can the merchants claim it as a donation on their taxes?

At least in Germany, you can't "pre-donate", i.e. work to a charity and claim it as a donation. You'll have to agree on a price and the charity has to be able to compensate you and after everything is done, you can choose to not take their money. I'm not sure whether the third party in the transaction changes anything.
I bookmarked this HN thread back when the crypto bubble popped:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18640755

Interesting to re-read this (and other) threads now that BTC is one of the best performing asset classes in 2020...
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Depends on what is normal for you. See e.g. https://mastodon.social/public or https://floss.social/public.
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Speaking of SQL alternatives, Datalog seems to be another language that leverages relational model. I love how straightforward and expressive Datalog is.

I wonder, why Datalog is not very popular for databases as a query language? Is it because of performance optimization? Could anyone provide some insights?
I see shareholder lawsuits on the horizon if this does not work out.
Julia supports it, too:

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/base/#Base.:|%3E
Slasdot's moderation system is brilliant in this regard.
I understand that this is expressly forbidden in the US.
What makes you think there are fewer xenophobes and ethno-nationalists in the Bay Area than in other parts of the country?
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Cloud Run is a more flexible lambda, but with a slightly worse cold starts, but much better concurrency story. See https://futurice.com/blog/openresty-a-swiss-army-proxy-for-s... where I shoved a scale to zero nginx proxy in a lambda-like container.
I can totally believe how Bitcoin, Ethereum and the rest of the cryptocurrency space could go through another bubble (the last one was quite small if you compare it to the DotCom bubble and consider how much money is floating around nowadays).

So I can imagine that this will turn into a big profit for them but the arguments are hilariously weak.

Granted they will get a lot of PR out of it.
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As long as you are not using company resources, including company time, or producing something that competes with the company (effectively using inside knowledge, another company resource), in most legal jurisdictions they can't stop you and any contract clause that tries is not legally enforceable.

Of course that doesn't mean many don't try block such things…
What would you say are some recent advances on the research side?
> Note that in The Expanse universe, water isn't usually used as propellant, but simply as reaction mass. All we know about the actual propellant is that it's used in fusion reactors and is surprisingly efficient.

It's actually ambiguous if Ceres was spun up before the Epstein drive was invented or not. If the H2O was consumed in an Epstein drive (fueled by D-He3 fusion) then only Hydrogen was consumed to produce thrust. What's not ambiguous is that the H2O on Ceres was consumed

We know that mars was colonized 200 years before the Epstein drive was invented. We know that the OPA was founded about 100 years after the Epstein drive was invented, and that 130 years after the Epstein drive is when the main story starts. We know Earth was the first owner of Ceres. We don't know how old Tycho is, other than Fred Johnson was not the first leader of Tycho.

It's an open question on to what extend the belt had humans in it during the 200 years humans were on Mars before the invention of the Epstein drive. It's safe to say that answer is somewhere between more than none, and less than what is shown during the opening of the series. It's highly plausible Ceres was spun up during that time.
This would be a horrible nightmare. LaTeX is an atrocious mess that deserves to die. Source: personal experience trying to build a decent programmatic table creator for LaTeX.
I'm an American in Canada and this is bunk. "I learned about" translates to "I've never spent any time below the border".

It's literally 99% American culture here. There isn't any "love and tolerance" that you couldn't find in any Blue State, and most of hard left types take their cues from what they see in the US; e.g. the prevalence of BLM wankery despite the fact they're in a different country with wildly different histories regarding slaves. The only things you can't find in the US are Nanaimo bars and banknotes with the Queen's face on them.
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Not the point. OP is talking about playing field between companies not countries.

He's saying "TikTok should not gather invasive data ... neither should US-based company".

If you oppose that, then you're basically saying "the US wants to have cake and eat it too". I guess every country for itself "works"... for a certain definition of "works".

Let's avoid regression to Chinese standard please.
You think Mars is boring?? I think it's exciting. The more evidence we find that life may have existed there, the less valid our mythical creation stories of earth as the special only recipient of God's hand. Mythology is fun but it's given too much power in certain societies, while science and truth are devalued in turn.
I got so annoyed when someone that I shared JIRA admin credentials with changed the front page to a Kanban board. All I wanted was bloody issue tracking! KISS.
The process that drives stars is fusion, which turns light elements into heavier (strictly greater atomic number) elements, up to iron. Elements heavier than iron are created in supernovas, neutron star collisions etc.

Many heavier elements are unstable and will radioactively decay into light elements.

So it is a continual process both ways.
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If you're ever inclined, lead acid batteries can be easy to repair and diagnose lifetime for - depending on the type. Sealed ones are harder but not impossible. Open ones take a little more maintenance but have long lifetimes and practically indestructible if you service them often.

The most common cause of death is sulfate build-up, which can be prevented (and often reversed) with a homebrew circuit[1].

1. https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/sulfation_and_ho....
> I assume these folks have actual intel to take this big decision.

Unfortunately, my experience working with MSTR has been that the expectation of competence isn't really born out in actual competence at a technical level.

I suppose you can only hope that at a management level it's a different story. They certainly seem to sell their product very well.
Those are not hand drawn diagrams. I used https://excalidraw.com
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Awesome tips there!
Have you met the American legislative process? This is the same country that when, for example, faced with stiff competition in the motorcycle market from Japanese manufacturers in the 1980s didn't start producing better and cheaper bikes, but instead just added a huge tariff on imported bikes over 700cc in order to boost Harley up. Why would this be any different?

Besides, this move isn't coming from the actual concern for citizens' and residents' privacy. It comes from the idea that economy and pandemic and terrible polling numbers for Trump mean he needs a distraction, as per his usual pattern. It was TikTok but it could have been catalytic converters or grandmothers or anything, just to get people talking about something else.
It's a port. Everything is stored there.
I think what you're missing is that Emacs might be a good fit for things other than "the main idea of Emacs" (whatever that is)
For monster queries (thousands of lines of SQL) I find that temporary tables are also great. You can index them and, depending on your DB and its settings, they're usually held in RAM so they're super fast.
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That's the a key difference for me to consider it a contractor/client relationship rather than a employer/employee relationship. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know what the law says in each country Uber operates.
Thank you. We use the io domain for our stating platform so I always get them mixed up :)
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Not all of that market cap is liquid. I think it is safe to assume that a least 4 million bitcoins [1] or $50 billion of value is completely lost and over time that will grow as more and more coins are lost.

[1] https://coinsutra.com/how-many-bitcoins/
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This is also my take, bad capital allocation.
They seemed to catch the twitter hackers pretty quickly. shrug.
The interesting thing is that stocks and real estate were traditionally considered difficult things to protect. For example, without the US military, many global businesses wouldn't exist. It's basically like the US citizens paying taxes so that stocks are safe investments for the richest of the world.
The problem isn't digital privacy; it's a fair bit more complex than that. Tech lenses aren't a great way to view geopolitics.

The US' international economic dominance is predicated on a (1) pronounced lead in certain industries and (2) a simply massive economy, which combine to (3) let the US set the rules of international "fair play." The US is where you find the thing you want to buy, and the people you want to sell to. You want access? Play by our rules - everywhere.

Tik Tok does not just threaten US data. It threatens our lead in a critical industry (1), and comes from a country that minimizes the impact of US economic might (2), meaning that China can set their own rules of "fair play" (3). Banning Tik Tok isn't to protect US data; that's totally missing the point. It's to protect the American ability to set international norms.

From that lens, this is certainly hamfisted, and I certainly don't believe views it like this, but you can damn well bet the policy nerd drafting this EO is thinking this way.
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Fascinating! How expensive was it to use Rekognition in your application? Was it a significant expense?
Heavy moderation and a $10 registration barrier is what has kept the SomethingAwful forums around for so long.
These are your "must haves"?
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Yup, that’s it. I’m sure any scientist or mathematician here knows exactly what you’re talking about. What do you use to highlight and add comments to PDFs?
Heh, good point. I suspect that one of the features of these currencies is that they're not taxed in practice, even if the letter of the law says that they should be(?)
PMs, what skill are you currently trying to improve?
What device did you view it on?
The problem I see with this is that the "What's wrong with SQL" is an excellent argument against SQL the language, but not SQL the engine. The optimal solution to that problem seem to be a syntactic skin over an existing SQL engine.
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That's the last call for anybody who thinks "it's good that Mozilla exists, and its mission is important, but I'm still using Chrome and derivatives". Mozilla can't exist solely because people think it has a good mission: it needs products that can pay the bills, or at least a large population of active users.
> It certainly makes sense: you need more complex machinery to form more complex elements.

Probably time as much as machinery: in the hyper-energetic early universe, it would have been harder for matter to get close together long enough to form large atoms. (I just push back slightly because I think complex elements aren't really complex, just big, requiring a stable environment for 'assembly'—but I am a mathematician, not a physicist or chemist, so I wouldn't be surprised to be wildly wrong.)
From TFA:

> Black Lives Matter Chicago organized the rally after overnight unrest throughout the city, with police saying that more than 100 individuals were taken into custody for a variety of offenses, including looting.

> “That is reparations,” Atkins said. “Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.”

The lowest estimate of the annual cost of crime in the United States is $690 billion. Blacks account for 37.6 percent of all robberies and burglaries. If Atkins and BLM are to be taken seriously, then reparations to US blacks are being paid at an annual rate of $259.4 billion.

How much does the USA owe Blacks in reparations again? It looks to me like we've paid it and more.
That is extremely simplistic thinking.

For a moment think: your data goes to China. China learns over the years about you, including something that can be used against you. At some point in future you are in a position at a company or have a government position where China has an interest in you, at that time it can use the data collected over the years to compromise you.

If you think that will never be the case, let’s go further, what about your spouse or even further your kids when they grow up.

Governments play the long game.
There is a solution to the medallion problem: make the taxi licences non-transferable and require taxicabs to be owned by drivers themselves.
Is it? Nobody is stopping Tenino (the city in the article)... nor did they stop them back in 1931.
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