skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1969-2004 was the golden age ;-)

When Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series (super fun to read) was being written.
One of the most interesting Bitcoin meetups I've ever been to was in Nairobi, Kenya, where I met a bunch of farmers who had modern, large scale, industrial operations in Kenya and other african countries. They were using Bitcoin to buy supplies like fertilizer and farm equipment, as well as sell their crops, evading border controls in the process. It was a lot safer and less prone to confiscation than carrying around a bunch of USD cash.

Another example is how many porn sites and filesharing sites are also accepting Bitcoin. Eg ManyVids allows you to pay with Bitcoin via Lighting, which transfers the BTC almost instantly for quite low fees. There's obvious privacy advantages to that over credit card payments.

A non-monetary use-case is my OpenTimestamps protocol, which I was able to recently use to prove a specific DKIM key was used in the past: https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1322270551898030082

Though that use-case really just piggy-backs on the financial use-cases - if not for them OpenTimestamps in its current form would not be secure.
This sounds like a great example for why domain name writing order should be hierarchical. Consider:

com.google.accounts/612361/signin/v2/identifier?hl=en&...
com.tinyurl.amp.com.google.accounts/612361/signin/v2/identifier?hl=en&...

(And these days, since google have the .google TLD, they don't even need that "com.")
Slapping women around is a bit more than "outdated". That's never been acceptable.
Majority of time that humanity existed that wasn't a problem. Maybe this was influenced by industrialisation and 9-5 culture. It would be great if we also left behind these rigid rules when people should work (certainly the new work from home adoption could help with that). I'd rather go to sleep earlier so that the 4am feels like 5am instead of force almost entire world to change their clocks.
Google AppEngine is scary accurate.
It is pretty normal at least in the congested areas I know. (That left is called by a lot of different city names.) But it's not strictly legal because you don't have the right of way to make a turn. But it's one of the zillion things that people do (including jaywalking when it's hopefully safe) that people do in order to get places and, so long as they're not obnoxious or dangerous about it, no one gets either hurt or ticketed.
I guess it allows you to implement a JVM that runs on bare metal, or a host without timezone support.
To be clear: you're saying that we don't see any benefit with rigorous science. We only see the benefit when we drop our standards of evidence.
Anything that in any way reduces the flow of virus particles by definition reduces the spreading of the virus.

If a single globule of liquid leaving an infected person's mouth, whether due to a cough, a sneeze, or just a spitty staccato spoken statement, is a transmission opportunity. If a mask catches only one such drop, then it has lowered the risk of transmission.

Hell, having all conversations with a pair of underwear on your head (covering your mouth and nose) would help.

People saying otherwise are either truly ignorant or intentionally lying.

Now maybe masks ultimately provide such a modest benefit relative to their cost and discomfort as to not be worth it, but we just don't know and probably never will definitively know.
Which cotton mask study did you read? This one found cotton masks were ok https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-study-finds-many-homem...
Suicide in Islam, is it permissible? Read here
Seconded. It’s silly to learn threads “from the outside in” — thinking of them as an opaque abstraction and trying to understand the API they present. There’s no coherent abstraction there; you’ll only learn to cargo-cult the API, without gaining an intuition for what threads “are” or when and where you’d want to use those APIs.

The key thing to know, is that threads aren’t a first-class kernel object. In OS kernels, there are only OS processes and memory regions.

To learn about threads, you should just learn about OS processes; and then learn that distinct OS processes can share memory regions between them, often via subprocess-spawn-time inheritance. Learn what fork(2) does on POSIX, and how it manages to be fast.

Starting with that intuition, it’s simple to then absorb what “threads” actually are: a usage pattern for spawning and managing OS processes that share memory; and a set of convenience APIs (that may be in-kernel, as in Windows; or purely in userland, as in Linux) for setting up this usage pattern. Everything these “threading” APIs can do, you can do yourself directly using the process-management and memory-mapping APIs. And those same calls are all that e.g. libpthread is doing.
See also Haldane's review, which is IMO more interesting. It's longer, contains plot spoilers, and Haldane has more fundamental disagreements with Lewis than Orwell does:

http://lewisiana.nl/haldane/

I find all of Lewis's works somewhat frustrating to read because I think such an obviously skilled writer should have been able to do better. Both Orwell's complaint (willingness to compromise the story for ideological ends) and Haldane's (attacks on a straw-man version of science as a result of ignorance of the real thing) are IMO correct. That said, Lewis's prose is top-notch and many of the individual scenes are great. That Hideous Strength is the best of the Space Trilogy because by that point Lewis has mostly dropped the pretense that he's writing scifi. The first two feel derivative of better scifi writers (Lewis acknowledges H. G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon, and I suspect David Lindsay is also an influence), whereas the last is closer to his Narnia series (although aimed at an older audience).
You can buy Cabergoline in bulk from Alibaba (China).
Edit: Purity can be a problem. Testing is necessary.
This may or may not be a legal option where you live.

Ignore the listed price and quantities. Use common sense to find serious sellers.
You communicate with the seller to learn the actual price and shipping cost for the quantity that you want to buy.
If the Minimum Order Quantities (MOQ) are much more than you need, then negotiate down in size and throw more money at the problem.

Another option is a pharmacy in Vanuatu:
https://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/p-1991-dostinex-tablets.aspx
What's the problem to go an hour earlier to work during the summer? It's not like working hours are regulated by law.
I was going to say drugs, ransom, money laundering and other illegal activities are the main use cases for crypto
My point is that they were attacking representatives of the state that has committed genocide against them (and hasn't undergone meaningful reformation since + denies it to this day), not random people that are ethnically Turks. That's a gigantic difference, one is targeting a state, the other is targeting an ethnic group.
> XLR is a decent design, but it’s rare in home audio

XLR connectors are huge. One can get DVD players that are too slim to accomodate XLR plugs.
Neanderthal DNA highlights complexity of Covid risk factors
> We present the dataset, model architecture and performance of a zero-cost, rapid and instantly distributable COVID-19 forced-cough recording AI pre-screening tool achieving 98.5% accuracy, including 100% asymptomatic detection rate.

“...forced-cough...”

https://digitalreality.ieee.org/images/files/pdf/COVID-AI-Di...
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I find it more perplexing that we pre-occupy ourselves with splitting the people of the world into those who are good and those who are bad. And then making sure the bad group can't ever make its way back into the good one.

Rarely, if ever, is it so clear cut. And if anything, it's quite a juvenile (and pervasively Western) value system.

I find it particularly exhausting and the world is as it is because there isn't enough compassion going around to even consider how we might approach our problems with kinder, less vengeful, hearts.
The fuck?

No agreement gets implemented in a day and I find it perfectly reasonable for priorities to switch in an emergency (like a global pandemic).

I despise DST as much as 80% of the EU citizens who said it should be abolished in a survey in 2018, but I'd much rather have my legislators focus on the pandemic at the moment.
> As someone that used both, I think you are under the psychology spell.

One could say the same for you, but that won't get us anywhere.

> It's not like you could leave Apple, you are locked in.

I have lived most of my life without Apple and I know how to do it again.

Tell me, how do you avoid Google or Microsoft?

I was happily using GitHub before Microsoft bought it.

I was happily using YouTube before Google bought it and made it worse.

I can't avoid feeding my data to Google even if I don't use any of their services, through their Ads, Analytics etc. and who knows what kind of shadow profiles they build from just my proximity to their other users.

Now, every time I sign into YouTube I have to delete all Google cookies to avoid being automatically signed into Search.

> As mentioned opening the iphone box and giving Apple my personal information felt fantastic. The actual performance and quality was extremely dissapointing.

I've been using the iPhone since the 5S and honestly, every time I have to handle someone's Android (e.g. to show them how to do something quicker than telling them), I want to hand it back as soon as possible.
English postwar fiction maybe not so good. What do we now read from the 40s or 50s? Hard to think of anything. Kingsley Amis? Late Evelyn Waugh?
Wouldn't it make more sense to pass a law that said no company could participate in the destruction of privacy, rather than just stopping one big company?
Used to work in Portland. Have opinions.

What made Oregon "liberal" is they had to figure stuff out on their own. Typical Pacific Northwest DIY mentality (see Olympia, Bellingham).

After the resource extraction industries died, Oregon really struggled to transition to mfg, education, tech. Think Spokane and other inland empire metros.

Oregon has the largest hunger problem. Basically a rolling crisis. They've had to take extreme steps to try to mitigate it. Pretty much on their own. So their safety net efforts are driven by necessity. Ditto health insurance.

In the 90s and 2000s, Portland city proper tried some proper good governance reforms. Public financing of campaigns. Some kind of runoff voting. Mass public transportation. I was very proud of them and hope they continued.

Portland's reputation as "liberal" is what attracts the whackadoodles. Proud Boys and the other hard right lunatics explicitly target Portland. Journalist David Neiwert's has covered these movements since the 90s and some excellent (depressing) books on same. In case anyone's interested.

It cracks me up that Seattle and Portland are considered "liberal" by outsiders.

The term "Skid Row" comes from Seattle. Think about it. A place to stuff all the undesirables.

How could any economies based on resource extraction be "liberal". Fortunes were made the Klondike Gold Rush and other grifts. Those grifters are local saints.

People have confused our independent minded conservatives, socially liberal, with left leaning. Nope. Prior to the Bible thumpers, we Nordics mostly merely tolerated other groups. But the core of PNW identity is manifest destiny and capitalism. Think Alaska with less suicide.

Business leaders in Seattle and Spokane smashed the labor unions. The trogs jailed the Japanese immigrants and stole their land. While early white settlers had mostly good relations with natives, the trajectory was what you'd expect.

The neocons were birthed in the PNW.

We're home to the Discovery Institute.

The National Prayer Breakfast was birthed in Seattle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Prayer_Breakfast

"Liberal" Seattle and Portland is only in contrast to other cities.

The only truly "liberal" thing Oregon has done, IMHO, was proactively protect their rural, farm, and wild places. HUGE controversy when WA State tried to do the same (Growth Management Act). Driving around Oregon feels qualitatively different. And the mostly protected coast is a gem.
Here in Brazil we had DST until last year. DST here was called "Summer Time" and it was a complete cargo cult copy of what is done on the north hemisphere. The whole situation was so complicated that only half of the states on the same timezone (we have 4 TZs) had DST because of their distance from the equator line.
Converting from 44.1k to 48k is lossless, and has always been. Converting from 48k to 44.1k is practically lossless: You lose frequencies above 28KHz, but that's about the range at which human hearing drops off anyway.

> Recall that we couldn’t just throw it on a computer and resample it back then.

Of course you could. How else do you think CDs were mastered and produced? The CD was developed with the idea of using it on computers, and for computer storage. And if, in practice, someone wanted to copy it, they'd just record the CD to tape using analog out (not quite lossless, but nobody cared back then), or copy CD/CD with no resampling required.

The 44.1k is a mostly historical accident, and it goes back to the Red Book CD audio spec being reused from an earlier project for digital audio that Sony was working on, the U-matic, where 44.1k was basically how much audio would fit evenly into some number of lines in the tape's storage.
Anything you can do with fiat currencies, you can do with crypto. It's going to be huge.
Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Yeah I think one makes sense if you're testing suspect cases, but it won't work for screening from a random population. This is an important aspect.
> the heat of the day is gone

Or it's actually warm enough to go out and enjoy ourselves, for us folks in the northern part of Europe for like half a year.
There's objective data that more people die after the change. What's the argument for keeping it, since it's actually more work to maintain?
The anonymous whale sent from one wallet to another just to rotate their address? Or have they actually sent this money to someone else? Was this money acquired legally? Is it being used for illegal activity? A Bank would have to audit it at the very least, so there's value for the people at having banks manage that transfer rather than let them do it anonymously.

Also for someone with $166M cost of a large transfer seem negligible even if it was in the 100s of thousands. Unless they need to move it all the time continuously, in which case I'd ask, why do they need that?
I did not dismiss any deaths. What are you referring to, the morning commute? Daylight Savings time was invented before the mass morning commute via car even existed. If there are reasons to get rid of DST now for public safety, I’m for it.

But if avoiding fatal car crashes is the goal... maybe getting rid of cars is the solution, rather than obsessing over the very marginal effects of DST?

Do you drive a car?
Of course, dictionaries also recognize the value-judgement meaning of the word, as you would expect, because people do use this word to cast value judgements in everyday language.
(1) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/normal
(2) https://www.lexico.com/definition/normal
The timespan is from purchase to date. The devices are all still in working condition. I can't predict how long they will last. You are of course right but I don't think giving up generic computing is the answer though.
Bond issuances seem to be a good fit for the tech. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/08/23/w...
> how is it best to scope out something on the scale of capnp/kj in the context of a bigger company? Do you just give a team a year and let them run?

No, frankly, I think that would be a recipe for disaster.

The team needs to instead be tasked with a specific use case, and they need to build the platform to solve the specific problems they face while working on that use case. If you tell people to develop a platform without a specific use case, they will almost certainly build something that solves the wrong problems. Programmers (like humans in general) are mostly really bad at guessing which features are truly needed, vs. what sounds neat but really won't ever be used.

So, sadly, I think that businesses should not directly engage in such projects. But, they should be on the lookout for useful tools that their developers have built in the service of other projects, and be willing to factor those out into a separate project later.

Unfortunately, this all makes it very hard to effect revolutionary change in infrastructure. When the infrastructure isn't your main project, you probably aren't going to make risky bets on new ideas there -- you're going to mostly stick to what is known to work.

So how do we get revolutionary changes? That's tough. I suppose that does require letting a team run wild, but you have to acknowledge that 90% of the time they will fail and produce something that is worthless. If the business is big enough that they can make such bets (Google), then great. But for most tech companies I don't think it's justifiable.
Pretty much. I can't even recall the last time I've had to touch a low level threading class in Java since the executors cover so many of the common use cases.
I've used what I learned in this course more than any learning I've done. IMHO This should be a required course before a student graduates high school (or sooner).
There's tons of uses: you can fractionally hold real estate, Estonia uses a blockchain to ensure only citizens can grant access to their data siloes to government entities and that that data remains untampered, you can track lineage of art pieces (who owned when), there are healthcare applications, and encrypted messengers like Jami and Status leveraging.

You're a few years late on the let's-hate-blockchain trend. Time to update your optics.
Sounds like a good reason. Thanks and good luck!!!
I used to care a lot about DST because I live far east in a timezone (Boston area) and had fairly fixed working hours. These days I'm remote and besides a few relatively early meetings, I'm pretty flexible so I don't really care at this point what effective timezone I'm in (within reason) over the course of a year. I might even feel at this point that the very minor annoyance of changing clocks and syncing with worldwide DST changes doesn't really have offsetting benefits for me.
I think this article does a good job properly presenting what evidence we have: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8
Assuming you had $166m in one account at your bank, a wire transfer would be $20-35 depending.
I like FP's other "timeless" feature, you can think of the operations without respect to time, there isn't a sequence of operations, it's just a relation between the input and output. It may be described sequentially in parts but there is no mixing of output with input so can be thought of happening instantaneously.

This is also the same reason why I like SQL, it describes properties of the result set--if your thinking of it as procedural steps it's more difficult. When it comes down to performance tuning however, you do have to consider what really happens in terms of index choices, loop nesting, etc. I never got into FP problems large/complex enough to hit this point where I have to understand how FP sausages are made.
I’m not shaming him, but the idea that Wolf Hall and The Nickel Boys are “trash” is bizarre and, as I said, ridiculously dismissive. They both won multiple national-level awards for best novel of the year. This is also ridiculously dismissive:

> It helps no one to know that you are one additional person who likes a successful commercial product (unless someone is trying to buy you a birthday present, but we don't know you)

First of all, the rank condescension is really not ok. Second of all, it wasn’t that they were “commercially successful” (another argument dripping with condescension), it’s that they had unanimous critical approval, and that Wolf Hall in particular is widely regarded as among the best English-language novels since World War II. Many critics consider it the best historical novel ever written.

It would be like if I said “Citizen Kane is trash, only ignorant philistines like that movie” - it’s a very strong argument with no explanation, and whose dismissiveness and ignorance is self-evident. I don’t have to explain why the movie is good to criticize that comment.
I think the golden age of historical fiction is long past, of works like:

-Walter Scott's Ivanhoe

-George Eliot's Romola

-Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis

-Bulwer Lytton's Last days of Pompeii

-Evelyn Waugh's Helena

-Anatole France's God's are athirst.

-Tolstoy's War and Peace

-Gore Vidal's Burr and also some of the others.
From the article:

>Beyond Kubernetes, web browsers clearly fall into this category. Distributors have generally given up on trying to backport patches to older browser releases; they just move their users forward to new releases when they happen. The resources to do things any other way just do not exist.

Exceptions are already made for browsers, but they're browsers. They're practically essential to 99% of graphical debian installs and don't expose the really nasty unstable bits (like V8's api surface) to the world. I doubt the debian TC will make that exception for devops software with much less mindshare and a public API surface that is the software, at least not on the stable channel.
The fact that every time a blockchain/crypto thread hits HN and many of the responses are talking about time stamps is in itself a bit of a meme. Seems very reminisce of people in ages gone by talking about what was the point for any advances from trains to telegram to the internet. The answer for what to use it for is to make things trust less and decentralized if you can’t see the advantage or limitless possibilities there I don’t know what to say. Smart contracts will change the world without the world even knowing.
No one is arguing that they should be forced to continue to host offensive material. What we're talking about, is giving people standing to take Facebook to court if their account is suspended for posting something that is true and substantive.

There are many examples of this in the recent past, but perhaps the most surprising is those Facebook accounts who posted material indicating that Kamala Harris's record on gun rights in California is not encouraging for gun owners (not difficult material to fact check -- she activated the handgun roster) and found themselves suspended because, according to Facebook fact checkers, "Kamala Harris is pro 2nd Amendment".

More controversially, it is now being argued that Twitter's recent suspension of the New York Post was entirely baseless: that there was no reason for the social network to conclude that the news agency was reporting the products of disinformation.

The way property rights usually work, you aren't able to force people to treat you fairly in a particular situation, but you can take them to court over it and be made whole. The system certainly functions as an aggregate encouragement to treat other people fairly but only in rare situations are you going to see people forced to perform in a particular way. People would still lose their accounts but expanded rights would give them a way to pursue a remedy.
If I buy a Tesla (Car A) with FSD, then sell it and buy a new Tesla (Car B, without FSD), do TSLA enable FSD on Car B?

Do they view it as a property of the account, and any Tesla for the account has FSD?

Or do they view it as a property of the specific vehicle that somehow vanishes in a transaction?
Across the country, employers are re-evaluating whether they will ever reopen their downtown offices at full capacity, and some have told their staffs that they can accomplish their tasks via videoconference forever. Suddenly, the Culdesac pitch — a Sun Belt development that caters to people who work remotely and middle-class refugees from the expensive and crowded coasts — started looking eerily prescient.