skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A dollar is not backed by the government, gold, army, or anything else. It is simply backed by public trust.

Trust in what, exactly? That people will accept it? What if they don't? Like someone that has a stick up their ass such that they want money from you, but won't accept your dollars? Ever read the part of bills that says "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private."? That's because money is ultimately backed by government force. You can take your debtor to court and they will force him to accept your dollars. Bitcoin doesn't have that luxury.
Climate change likely drove early human species to extinction
I think it's more that he puts in the work (doing and promoting the podcast) and he manages to get great guests.
Anything that’s under $20 is probably going to be disposable and not structurally sound. I completely agree, and think that’s by design. At that price point they know y’all are both considering the piece disposable.

If you buy one of their $50-$200 coffee tables though, they’ll be just as solid as most other furniture — assuming proper assembly — and are still a fraction of the price.
The site is presented to me in Polish, which I don't understand. Is there a link to an English version of the site?
Can't believe people still buy this shit. It's obvious they could release one game per console, then update it yearly. Maybe the yearly update could cost a fraction of full price or you subscribe for player and stat tracking updates. Anything other than the garbage fire coming out here. "AAA" Games have gotten so bad with this shit.
Why? The New York Times is a publisher with a Classifieds page. There's no obvious reason a publisher and a platform can't be the same entity.
Something I don't understand:

Surfaces have a magnetic charging port that doubles as a dock and it... just works?
I think that because there is very little competition in search in particular that they are able to rest on that -- I think if you saw real competition in the space for users that it would at least get better.
Hi, Developer Evangelist at GitLab here.

"Relatively weak issue tracker and wiki" got me interested - mind elaborating in more detail what brings you to this conclusion? :)

Thanks!
Your bias is showing. Good article overall, but you repeatedly state the Hunter Biden laptop story is false. Yet some of those in the email chain have verified authenticity of the emails. And how do you “fake” a whole Mac hard drive contents? I don’t believe it is possible.

Plus:
* The hard drive wasn’t “stolen” - it was forfeited when the customer didn’t pick it up and pay the bill. That’s called a mechanic’s lien. Try taking your car into the shop and then never pick it up - same thing happens.
* So at that point the laptop belongs to the shop.
* How is it “stolen”, then?
* If I had a laptop like that in my possession, I would be afraid too, and want to hand it off!

You’re being disingenuous :-/
If you’ve seen how athletes are raised up nowadays, you’ll see why people say that.

There’s an assortment of performance enhancers that are legal in most competitions, and are extensively use by amateurs (think gels in running for example). This things only become doping once a competition bans them, and athletes fight for every advantage. Since competitions are slow to move, stands to reason that all athletes are doping, at least by the standards of tomorrow.
Which is why, the conspiracy theory goes, it’s only second tier athletic disciplines that have a doping problem. In sports where the real money is, such as football and tennis, it pays to sweep results under the rug. Cyclists and distance skiers, on the other hand, seem to go from one scandal to the next.

Unless an athlete shows up that does manage to bring in serious amounts of money. In that case the lid goes on for a few years.
Really a shame to read. If you’re smart enough to build prototypes in a week, don’t be dumb enough to let yourself get taken advantage of like this.

I’m not talking about selling the unfinished game, I’m talking about everything described here. The insane hours, the culture, all of it. Just walk away. Heroics in this context are stupid, not impressive.
The puzzle of the strange galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter is solved
I hope Lex stays this way. The only interview podcast I know of where most of the focus is on the guest. The way he talks, listens and follow up on what the guest says lets me fully engage in the thoughts of the interviewee.
I think they generally do a lot more plywood than MDF. But ultimately depends on the price points - they do sell pieces of fairly large furniture for <£10, and indeed they're not going to be super high end.
In fact, they already do https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.wireguard.android/ in this case, including a donation link on the app listing page
I've got one specific example, where I know the quality has changed. I've bought the same modelf of sofa about 10 years apart. Ikea has done some serious value engineering. Both sofas look very similar from outside, but they are in fact very different. The newer frame appears to be somehwhat lighter, yet sturdier at the same time. The cushions however are now lighter and far less comfortable. They obviously spend a lot of effort into making everything more efficient and cost effective - some of it at a slight cost in perceived quality.
I know people who work at IKEA and while I can't speak for the whole company there are a lot of people where who really care, and in structure it's a Swedish family-owned company that doesn't have to follow the whims of shareholders, and they don't pay competitively enough to attract the really ruthless career-climbing MBA-types.
ROOM77 Is Closing for Good
Corded drills seem hard to find these days. The only one I have is a couple of decades old, and I don't run fasteners with it, not least because it lacks both torque limiting and speed control. I'd expect a modern corded drill to live in the high-power contractor tool niche, like how a rotary hammer compares with a handheld hammer drill.

Ikea, perhaps unsurprisingly, sells a cheap cordless driver ($20 US) with a torque limiter.
> the DNI is saying

While some early Senate-confirmed Trump appointees, including his first DNI Dan Coats, were not transparent bootlicking shills in all their public comments, that's certainly not the case for any appointed as recently as this spring, like Ratcliffe.
I’d love someone more knowledgeable to weigh in, but destroyed seems like an overstatement. There is land in Canada that’s been farmed for coming on 150 years. The last 60-80 being “modern” farming methods. It’s still highly productive land.

In terms of your link, it looks like it’s not counted as farmland if it’s abandoned (no intention to farm it in the future). Some of that land may no longer be able to be cultivated, but I’d assume that’s not the only driver of the decrease.
"Come now, do you really expect me to do derivatives that are covariant under diffeomorphisms and u(1) transformations in my head while strapped to a centrifuge?"

"No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die."

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/123/
Mods: 2017, please.

I think about this video all the time. This is the future of warfare, and it's coming. Like it or not, this is where the world is going to go.

Recently, I listened to a podcast about the second civil war in America (It Could Happen Here), and it was chilling. It showed the warfare is asymmetric now, and a 2B bomber is useless against a motivated attacker with 20k worth of drones. The future of warfare is through 3D printing and ML tech; and, the future is here.
Rooting phones or installing strange ROMs from XDA-Developers isn't something normal users are capable of.

If I buy a LG phone, can I install the Samsung or Huawei store and use the features that the Play Store has without rooting my phone or using a weird ROM?

Why is it that if I want to use an app store that works on every Android device like F-Droid, I need to root my phone to have some feature parity with the Play Store?
I think they're referring to the fact that as a user you cannot install a third-party app store with the same capabilities as Google Play, F-Droid can't install apps in the background on a non-rooted device.

Device manufacturers are of course allowed to ship with alternative app stores, though Google is also trying to interfere with those decisions by holding access to Google Play Services as ransom, even if the practice was previously deemed illegal by the European Union.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368395/fortnite-epic-ga...

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_...
Old, player-who-used-to-be-serious here and my first thought was "Wow, Petrosian is still playing?" Turns out it is someone else...
1 year back to 'normal'? Unlikely. Soil that has been under intense management will almost always need more than 1 year to 'return to normal' which is hard to define.
Tagless final.
Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding [video]
This video explains a legendary paper, BERT. It leverages the Transformer encoder and comes up with an innovative way to pre-training language models (masked language modeling). BERT has a significant influence on how people approach NLP problems and inspires a lot of following studies and BERT variants.

Code
https://github.com/google-research/bert (TensorFlow)
https://github.com/huggingface/transformers (PyTorch)
Are you referring to their respective vendor stores? If so that's not really relevant to the point. A phone vendor can of course get all those capabilities into their own phones. But can I as a consumer install a third-party store on whatever phone I have with those capabilities?
At that point i would not speak of a "conspiracy theory" anymore, more of like a unspoken truth.

EDIT:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6327574/

>In football players, doping has recently become an important matter

>>Androgen abuse has not only a direct effect on myocardial hypertrophy and fibrosis, but can also result in myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, hypertension and dyslipidemia

>>>Herbal supplements, anti-histamines and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/08/more-young-f...

But no probable connection to Doping...when the guardian sleeps...
> Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Monday said that Hunter Biden’s laptop “is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign,” amid claims from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff suggesting otherwise.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ratcliffe-hunter-biden-lapt...
Warning Signs of a Business That Is Destined to Fail
Why tech marketing doesn't work, and what to do about it
Of course it is, it is a collection of instructions that can be executed by a computer to perform a specific task. In this case the task is to display some data on a screen in a specific way. We need to stop arguing that HTML is not a programming language, it's silly and serves no purpose.
There's an on-going origin trial of the web serial API - https://web.dev/serial/ - if you can get a token you could probably run the code in a browser (specifically Chrome at the moment).
It's fantastic that the demoscene just keeps on going. It's been decades!
women are not as good as men [generally]

is hardly an argument where it is easy to assume good faith!
There are no details in the article, but isn't this too little money? Not even talking about maintaining it.
By a stale board I mean a board state where there are no sensible moves in order to create an advantage. i.e. there are no good pawn moves, no good knight or bishop re-positions, castles mostly stuck and the engine pretty much shows no point difference.
What about sending a repeater station once in a while to follow them? Or would it be inefficient compared to constantly updating radio tech here on Earth?
>I am not outlier, I do not know a single woman with baby in real life who would need that level or control in order to have peaceful mind. All these "realistic examples" make me wonder whether people did not normalized huge amount anxiety for themselves. Or they are made up.

This seems really committed to pigeonholing the motivation for this functionally. All I can say is my partner and I use it all the time. We have irregular schedules and are not always checking our phones to respond to the other's "hey where are you text." We use Apple's version of this which is VERY clear that someone else can see your location, and requires explicit opt-in. The use case is convenience, not anxiety.
Second that. He's great. His new book is also highly recommended. I listened to it via audible
I was being cheeky, but it's hardly a valid equivalent. It's only equivalent in the sense that she's the head of the executive power, but in reality by design the system gives a chancellor way less power than a president has.
invasive species?
Hedy Lamarr developed frequency-hopping, the forerunner of spread-spectrum communications used in WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth, to control torpedoes in a way that avoided jamming by the Nazis, from her understanding of George Antheil's symphonic use of pianola rolls to synchronise multiple player pianos.

https://www.wired.com/2011/08/0811hedy-lamar-george-antheil-...
The issue is that the bug was technically in a 3rd-party dependency:

> even though the main fault that lead to RCE was due to a bug in Electron (CVE-2020-15174)

This may seem like an irrelevant detail if you’ve never operated a bug bounty program before, but you have to consider the incentives.

Paying researchers for bugs in 3rd-party open source software creates misaligned incentives. If you’re a security researcher and you discover a security bug in Electron, you have two choices:

1) Follow proper protocol to create a CVE, coordinate a fix, and properly disclose the issue through appropriate channels.

2) Keep the vulnerability secret and unfixed while you shop it around bug bounty programs looking for kind companies who will pay out for 3rd-party issues. To maximize profits, it’s important that you keep the security issue unfixed and secret as long as possible while you work your way across bug bounty programs.

The second option is a little publicized negative externality of bug bounty programs that don’t draw the line at 3rd-party dependencies. I’ve even had bug bounty participants beg us to not fix upstream code yet because they were still trying to collect bounties from other companies.

This is also why it’s important to have your security team read every CVE immediately and check against your software. It’s also why bug bounty programs don’t pay out as much, or even at all, for security issues that come from popular 3rd-party dependencies used across the industry.
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To me, this seems like a much more fragile and convoluted process than just having the buttons be on the machine itself. For one thing, the machine becomes unusable if there's any disruption to the network (wifi outage, dns issues, server maintenance, etc).
Great--let's outlaw ICE cars first, and regulate airlines too. We can't let those industries skirt by.

Food Production is a greater societal need than travel most people would agree.
I'm a patent attorney. I don't know anyone who's filing and prosecuting patent applications for 6k all in.

Maybe somebody who farms them out to offshore patent agents or something? But otherwise... no.
I'm so so pissed when I read about corruption like this. Or whenever I have to use Healthcare.

Both are horrible because of government. Your taxes go to waste. Your government enforces Regulatory capture.

Why is healthcare unaffordable? Regulatory capture has made healthcare unnaturally expensive and half your income is sent away in taxes (payroll tax, federal income tax, state income tax, social security tax, medicare tax, Medicaid tax, property tax, sales tax)

Why is no political party addressing this? How has there been no counterbalance to corruption?
The DE-10 is only about $140 in the US I believe and the 128MB SDRAM module is around $60, so they work out to pretty similar prices, although there are still no decent Mister cases. Do consider for that outlay though, Mister supports a ton of other systems (pretty much any 16-bit or earlier console/computer).

Mister doesn't have any support for any type of cartridge readers for any of the systems supported and I don't believe there is any plan to ever support this, it is all SD card based loading.

Mister works with pretty much any controller you can throw at it - original controllers through SNAC, bluetooth & USB.

Also, something missing from the Analogue console is analog output - RGB scart, VGA, etc. You can fairly easily do this with Mister now without any of the analog video add on boards.
Even if we take this accusation at face value, that still doesn’t explain the congresspersons assertion attributed to the intelligence community.
It really depends on the person. I was once working in a an almost exclusively female envirinment and it wasn't rare to receive these "Hey, Ladies" e-mails, especially when the person replying didn't bother to check the guge Cc: list for the existence of the only male employee.

What did I feel then? Amusement. I'd sometimes reply in jest something about "just our girly things" and the author usually apologized "oh I'm sorry, I didn't notice you on Cc:" which was even more amusing since I didn't really feel there's anything to apologize for.
I'm not sure your question is correct given your premise.

Is the breadth of knowledge related to cross domain discoveries?

I would say bringing narrow skills like management or IT or marketing to a company is what you want to aim for.

I'm not convinced cross domain issues exist at rates higher than internal domain issues. I think they are orders of magnitude lower.
Soil erosion? Why is erosion unique to fertilized crops?

Seems like erosion has more to do with farming technique, independent of fertilizer use or not.

The soil erosion of the Dust Bowl area was addressed through improved technique. Fertilizers were not a key component of that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryland_farming
Im expecting some absurd woke virtue signalling and was not disappointed
Your link is not very convincing.

During the primaries this whole Burisma thing came out. Bernie Bros pushed the narrative, Biden would just blow up and not answer the question like he should do reasonably. The democrat base said it's not enough to go Bernie and they elected Biden. What was the story? The possible bias of a company who likes democrats and other left-leaning figures gave his son a job in perhaps hopes of some influence? Not exactly a huge story. Biden had denied any involvement during the primaries.

NYPost investigated and found further information and sat on it until just the right time before the election. Smart play by them to be sure.

Even with what the NYPost reported on. Hunter Biden is a scumbag to be sure and it does confirm Biden met his employer but it doesnt prove any influence was sold. Hunter Biden was probably taking advantage of his rich/famous father. Not unlike Donald Jr.

To assert that this is misinformation is quite unlikely.

Facebook and Twitter didnt block it because it was misinformation, they blocked it because of personal identifying information or 'hacking sources'.
You can block 99% of ads using just the hosts file as well. Also
reader mode blocks out everything other than static images and
text, and static images as ads are almost non-existant
nowadays(unfortunately).
What I mean is that they didn't include enough information to provide support for the claims that eventually issued in the patent. And yes, that will cause the attempted priority claim to fail for the issued claims.
Nice I just recently started using wireguard with my pivpn ... its ALOT faster
It's almost the inverse of websites being too powerful to compete with. The people scraping data are too small to bother with. It might be a problem if it becomes too widespread because of the legislation. The music industry survived Napster and file sharing because it had other revenue paths. But I guess if Facebook fell to an alternative way to interact which Facebook couldn't afford to stop, then that'd just be the free market at work.
Barbary Wars
Yeah obviously, and for sure there's someone new to Docker or containers
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Unveil Undiscovered Planets
> uniqueness of pointers...

What I mean is for example: you get a pointer by allocating memory, then free that memory, then you allocate again and get a pointer to the same memory location. Without a tag those two pointers would be equal, even though they come from separate memory allocations. This can be a source of bugs if the pointer is also used as some sort of object id, and I know that at least I stumbled over this embarrassing problem more than once in C++ until I switched to tagged handles :)
Amen. Should NOT be flagged.
Be professional. Be respectful. Be thoughtful. Be flexible. Be kind.
It is NOT asking too much. This is a pretty low bar – especially for "smart" people.
I used to buy a lot of Ikea furniture (and take a lot of free Ikea furniture that ends up on curbs in big cities around moving season).

Then I learned how much cheaper, modular, and more robust your furniture can be if you invest in some hand tools and built it yourself. You have a higher initial outlay, but the results last longer, can be repaired much easier, as well as broken down and repurposed. Most furniture can be assembled with a cheap hand saw and chisels, or if you're lazy, skilsaw, drill, drill bit set, and screws.

I don't know that i'll ever buy a piece of furniture again unless it's second-hand and deeply discounted. There's so much good shit out there already.
Why would anybody do this?

It's not even like cheating in athletics where you can plausibly claim to be doing it yourself (just using illegal enhancements).

Here it is something else doing it for you. Bizarre that anybody would take pride from doing it, especially considering the risk of being found out.
They have 72 experimental plots. Thats not 72 experiments.

They have 3 x 2 = 6 different approaches being evaluated

It is divided into 3 overarching systems: organic manure, organic legume, and conventional.

Each system is further divided into two: tillage and no-till, for a total of 6 systems. There are a total of 72 experimental plots.

It is likely that the 6 main approaches have been divided into smaller plots to act as a control for natural soil variations within the area, or, e.g. one side of the field being nearer to a river than the other. This is normal for agricultural experiment design I believe.
They could. "Should they" is a very reasonable question.

I, for one, appreciate the current status quo where I generally don't have to deal with neo-Nazis spouting nonsense uncontested on my Facebook wall (and if that arrangement bothers me, I could go to some other site).
Indeed, but with various levels of "works", depending on the Chromebook model and apps that were never meant to support tablets, let alone laptops.
Is there a variant that shows just 1 thumbnail and gif of thumbnails when mouse is hovered?