skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Personally I'd welcome some sort of intervention by one of the three-letter agencies - this time it could be actually for a good cause.

Have you ever read a book by Hannah Arendt called Eichmann in Jerusalem? The whole point of the book is the sheer banality of evil -- that the bulk of evil is not the sensationalist stuff that makes up movies, but its boring, bureaucratic machinations and tacit complicity of civilians under the regime.

So all I can say about your idea is it is at best naive and at worst cynical. First of all, it's naive because it supposes that military intervention ever works when that flies in the face of history showing that nation-building (especially of the American sort) never works unless it's the kind that comes about indigenously -- if it was so easy to fix problems, why has American military intervention post WWII been an almost complete failure?

Second of all, it's cynical because it's easy to support such ideas when you're not the citizen who has to suffer through the consequences if things get worse. What would be your response if your idea simply doesn't work? "Better luck next time?"

This isn't a game.
Check out Gerbil Scheme. It has a lot of great features included in its standard library[0], and is currently the fastest Scheme around[1]. The only downside is no Windows support at the moment.

[0] https://cons.io/

[1] https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/
Thanks for the link, but is that the only place Tether "lives"?

Last I read up on it, it was implemented on top of Omni [1]

[1] https://hackernoon.com/a-closer-look-at-tethers-blockchain-5...

Are there multiple Blockchains where Tether was issued?
Canadian living in USA. My brain is regularly fried by healthcare here, it ends up being a simple high level equation.

My out of pocket max per year is around $6000 USD, and my salary is double what I was (under)paid in Toronto, and taxes are a bit lower here (CA).

So the take home pay is mid-5-figures more, and worst-case scenario healthcare is mid-4-figures, so it balances out very favourably for my situation (anyone in tech with a full-time job, basically).

(Of course, those who aren't well-paid in tech have a much worse situation and I can't imagine how difficult that must be.)
This ad is a bold face lie. Advertising doesn't work.

There's a different between small businesses running a facebook and small businesses actively using fb ads.
You are making a couple of assumptions here:

1. that someone with what would be considered a morally/ethically negative skill would inevitably damage an organisation, or that an organisation would not want someone with that particular skill.

2. that the cancer analogy is at all useful. A company or org is not a body (it is a legal entity with a specific purpose), and a person with what I've called morally negative skills is not a cancer cell (they are a thinking person with actual goals that may align and actual skills that may be required).

I can pull out innumerable examples from politics or business here. Take the current US incumbent. Or, as I'm from the UK, the current prime minister, or his home secretary. Of course, to an observer who feels they are a cancer (I do!) they are what you describe. And they will always force other people out who would seem to have [call them] positive skills that would make them better suited [from my viewpoint], sure. But none of that means they aren't skilled, or that they do not have (fairly obvious, as I think about it) "worth"
That doesn't solve the absolutely fundamental unsolvable problem that digital has marginal cost so you make 0.01x revenue if you have .01x the audience.
It’s too unstable and there was too much hype.

I believe they proposed the essentials of 2.0 years ago, and there were a lot of tutorials and workshops related to dapps that made it sound like a scalable, global compute network was just on the horizon.

Between that and the fork after the DAO got hacked, I’ve personally been staying away from it until 2.0 proves itself (phase 0 just came out this month).

I agree it’s very technically interesting, and think they’re responsible for the bulk of the innovation in the crypto space (them and monero for advances in privacy), but I don’t follow crypto super close/there might be others pushing the same ideas or better ideas in better ways.
one word - torrents.
For people who have no other options of making money to those who (less charitably) have an addiction to satiate there is no calculation of the investment. It's also a crime that has fairly small likelihood of meaningful prosecution. Most of us here think about ROI. People who are stealing pallets are either doing the calculation of "some money is more than no money" or as part of a more organized crime undertaking

It falls into a similar bucket as stealing copper from the wiring of abandoned/in construction buildings
By optional I meant that you can use the service with or without paying. (Example: donating to Patreon or subbing on Twitch is optional; paying for Netflix isn't optional since you have to pay in order to watch anything on Netflix). Obviously using any of them in the first place is optional too.
You tax the rich and they increase the prices of their products

So why didn't they do that before? If there is one thing I know about the rich it's that they won't pass up an oportunity to earn more. The reality is prices are driven by supply and demand, someone can't expect to magically increase prices just because their tax burden is higher. The market won't support that.
> I boot straight into the console and then have a setup where I either run startx or start_sway

Interesting, I do the same thing but just use startx. I find it hard to find convincing reasons to move from X apart from it 'being dead,' which isn't very convincing to me. What benefits to you get from sway in your setup? Is it compatible with things like ssh X forwarding?
Buying a used CD/DVD is usually less work, safer and costs next to nothing. Discogs is great for music CDs in particular.
Don't most stock brokers support options these days? I know Schwab does - you just have to apply first. (unless you meant crypto options >.>)
Open Prioritization
The awful chocolate! Oh the humanity. Its like a brown candle - mostly wax, flavorless. Done that way so it won't melt on the way to the store in an un-refrigerated truck.

Once you try proper chocolate (I recommend Winans', http://www.winanscoralville.com/), a grocery-store candy bar becomes inedible. I don't want them in my mouth. Its that different.
Xavier Niel is an... interesting businessman. He's kinda our national Jeff Bezos.

His video on 5g (in French) is amazing: https://twitter.com/free/status/1338754060434944002

"There's a Weber effect and the Weber effect stops the 5g from working because of the sandals."
You can do a lot of things with norms and regulations but, in the end, why not let the market organize itself? Also, timing (as per your example) is very very very difficult to keep exactly.

On the other hand, I think a kind of relation between prize of an operation and its energetic cost would be beneficial (like ---as an example--- forcing an operation to compute a hash of proportional difficulty, or whatever). But this is a different problem.
Vercel basically makes frontend dev super easy. You can literally type in "vc" in your terminal (after installing their cli) and it'll build and deploy everything you have locally in seconds (think React or Nextjs, a React framework).

You can also use their serverless functions; which add "backend" functionality to your existing frontends. You can deploy these serverless functions in a bunch of languages (see docs) but personally I've used them in Nextjs's baked-in functionality of api routes to basically add an endpoint for mutating/querying to/from my DB for example.
Of course it's marketing, but that's what Christmas is all about, right?
There are relatively inexpensive Z-Wave thermostats on Amazon, if you'd like to avoid the internet-connected requirement in the future. I have a couple of GoControl's.
I'm not familiar with U.K. retailers, but these are common at grocers in the U.S. The collected data makes stock purchasing more efficient. Is there any evidence that personal data is monetized in any other way?
probably using this FB tool -https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/28/all-users-can-now-access-f...
How are the two related?
I'm curious, how is the quality of such a setup vs dedicated scanner?
Simpson's paradox: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
There's also yabai
Not a stretch to assume the data on one who pays for Youtube Premium is more desired than one who does not. 'Whales' to use a term in the mobile gaming market.
They use shredded tires in children’s playgrounds as artificial turf. A few years ago a soccer coach made the connection between that turf and children getting weird cancers and has been campaigning against them ever since.

It looks like tires are much more toxic than we thought and we should reconsider their composition quickly.
REST vs. GraphQL: A Controlled Experiment
Facebook may only be popular among the older generation but platforms like Instagram and Whatsapp are the main social media and chat services used even among the younger generation at least in western europe.
So I would say Facebook as a company is important in europe and by no means a small player.
Couldn't you just legislate against this similar to maximum visa transaction fees in Europe?
Woah, that guy seems dead set on providing Google with everyone's metadata for some reason. As if we didn't have enough to worry about on the internet.
I used to love tiling, but now I use lots of applications that are heavy-weight and graphical, and it seems more fitting to arrange the windows in such a way that strategic corners "peek out" behind the front-most application.

For example, I run my IDE in full screen and the console/log is in the bottom part of the window. My browser partially covers the IDE by occupying the right 75% of the screen. Then I can follow the console/log of the IDE. Even though only the beginning of each line is visible, that's enough to tell me when it is time to switch back to the IDE.

If I were to make the IDE window smaller, the console/log portion of it would be too tiny to see anything.

If the text editor has no side bars (such as a directory tree), then it makes sense to have a full-height text editor on the left and maybe to half-height terminals on the right.

But then I think that maybe some IDEs allow to pop out the console/log piece into a separate window, and perhaps that could work nicely with a tiling arrangement. I haven't tried.

Thoughts?
The perfect symmetries of snowflakes always struck me as being strange: how do the molecules at one edge of the flake know what their symmetrical partner at other edge is doing? It is interesting to see that the symmetries are not perfect, making it (somewhat) easier to accept.
> If I must be shown ads, I prefer ads that are relevant to my interests.

Excellent, feel free to Opt-In when given the prompt next time you use Facebook on an iOS device. That's a solution that satisfies everyone's interests.
Bitcoin has enough dev power to implement any feature, the gatekeepers are the people running the node and to a smaller extent the developers and miners. There is a reason Bitcoin just is.
Wait a moment, so Facebook is allegedly "exposing" Apple for the changes to make it harder to track its users? Who's the villain here? The interests and privacy of the users take priority over interests of Facebook's customers!
I setup my personal blog recently. Tried Gatsby and decided I didn't want to spend the time tweaking it so just used Hugo. Ended up deploying it on Vercel and its been so easy. I have less excuses for not writing blog posts now :)
That is standard procedure in the US for every trained medical professional, all the way down to the MA who measures your height and weight at a routine physical.
>This are signs of a company that thinks that is above the law.

I don't think this is the case at all. These regulations aren't exactly law that has been around for a while. It's actively being created and lobbied for right now. Obviously Facebook is going to respond to it.
Bitcoin is an almost perfect exploitation of humanities fatal flaws (greed, unwillingness to acknowledge externalities - i.e. selfishness). For that reason I think demand will continue to increase for Bitcoin / it will continue to increase in value.
BTC is already split: one BTC = 1e8 Satoshis

Just change your measuring stick.
If there was a way to get a user's custom keybindings on all operating systems for a large majority of applications, I would surely do it. Writing configuration parser's for each application+OS pair is not feasible, and would not work for all applications.

However, I think, in practice, you will find that the custom collections are a nice solution to this problem. I use a lot of custom bindings myself. Having the lookup show both my custom binding and the default binding is actually very nice to understand your custom bindings and find combinations where you might be better of with the default.
If you want to learn C at the same time I can suggest "Build your own Lisp"

http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
the SE 2 is also a pretty good price, it's only a generation behind in the processor department (7nm A13), has touch ID (no mask moving for face ID) and is $400 (449 for 128gb). Apple's margins for this device can't be large given the iP8 it's modeled after costed $700 at launch.
According to ABC news the CIA and other intelligence agencies sponsor these social media apps so what makes you think they are in competition with anyone?
Torrents are great for previewing content but remember to financially support those that you enjoy.
Presumably they already paid California taxes for when they worked there. The people governing California have decided they want to take more. There's no debt there. "California" isn't owed. There's nothing to "pay back."

Having a hostile tax environment makes people and businesses go elsewhere, if they can.
New Java ORM framework is coming
It's in Facebook interests to show you ads that you like seeing, or feel are relevant.

Facebook gives you a lot of control to manage your 'interests'. You can do so here: https://www.facebook.com/ads/settings

If you're scrolling your feed and see an ad you don't like, you can click the three dots, and select "Hide this Ad". Facebook learns from this.
Blob Opera (Google Arts and Culture)
Glad to see this because we just started using Vercel for StatusGator.

Their API is great: we were able to automate deployments of branded status dashboards very quickly. There are some rough edges around domain name management but overall the experience is very developer-friendly, analogous to Heroku but for a different architecture.
FWIW iOS allows apps to to permanently have access to a file or folder in another app's sandbox, they just have to get permission for it.
The problem there is that it will energize its power cable with 40KV, preventing the hero from even unplugging it.
It's even done at Red Cross donation centers when I donate blood.
> it will be replaced by something better at its primary function

What is its primary function? I used to think it was supposed to be a currency, but it's failing quite badly at that. But it keeps growing so what's the actual primary function?
Userscripts?
There's a very strong "cops can be dicks" theme in literally the first opening scene. There's a very strong theme of cops being a tool of corporate interests.

On what to means to have a modifiable body, there too from the beginning the game puts it right in front of you where it causes a sort of body dysmorphic disorder that can drive people crazy. There's even a series of side quests that deal directly with this.
Yeah this always gets overlooked for some reason. Other distros I periodically hit issues with something out-of-date; on Arch, I almost never do. And on the rare occasion that I do, installing the `-git` package from the AUR fixes it.
How does it feel to have mostly broken websites and no interactivity?
>acknowledging that this is an amoral human being

Morality play, much? People are nuanced, not just "moral vs amoral"...

Intellectual Ventures exploits the market for inventions and patents, buying patents from companies and inventors under the assumption the patents will be more valuable in the future. (...) Startup companies spun out of IV, including Kymeta, Echodyne, and TerraPower, have developed commercial products from IV's inventions. Through its Global Good unit, which Myhrvold founded in collaboration with Bill Gates, IV has also invented and produced commercial products, such as improved vaccine coolers and milking cans, aimed at low-income markets in Africa and Asia.

The company's business practices have caused controversy, however, with some deprecating the firm as a patent troll. Myhrvold has publicly defended his firm's practices, arguing that they foster innovation by serving as a marketplace for intellectual property. He has noted that many of the largest companies in Silicon Valley, including Google, Apple, and Facebook, have also bought large patent portfolios and used litigation to protect them, but he has criticized them as focusing too much on creating "tools or toys for rich people."

Myhrvold is vice chairman of TerraPower, a spin-out of Intellectual Ventures that is developing a new kind of nuclear reactor, known as a traveling-wave reactor, that is designed to be safer, cheaper, and cleaner than current nuclear power plants.
I think I've tried almost all the "tiling windows manager" tools for Windows there is. The best I've found, for me anyway, is PyleWm:

https://github.com/GGLucas/PyleWM

I use sway on Linux.
As a general tech enthusiast I jump back and forth between both ecosystems fairly often, but I have to wonder what's the point? If I'm not running any social media applications what do I have to fear from google not yet having this level of privacy toggling.
Yeah, debt seems to be really cheap right now and people are making the most of it, lots of acquisitons have been announced recently that I feel wouldn't have without this low interest rate.
Michael Nielsen (one of the creators of quantum.country, often cited as a feedback-giver on PG's essays) has a short blog post introducing and exploring Lisp here:

https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equation...

Its on the more academic side and focuses on the Scheme dialect, but is well-written
> has more capable leadership

Have you considered the possibility that this is a bug, not a feature?
The two are not exclusionary. For me it is like having a higher abstraction API that provides for 80% of client developer needs, and a 'closer to the metal' API that provides for the remaining 20%. REST gives the popular/frequent queries optimized and canned, while GraphQL gives the power to create completely custom adhoc queries as needed.

If you are creating a data service then I think you really need to have both. Which you do, and how much of it, is more likely to be dictated by time and budget. Many will need to figure out who their 80% audience is and prioritize based on that.

Still a few REST services can be done, then GraphQL added with not mutators, then add mutators and more queryable data, etc. Start with the bare bones, just like you would a startup MVP and grow organically from there.
If it's helpful think of it as "less servers".
Less work? It is trivial to do, trivial to do untraceably, and costs literally nothing.
>'m surprised the rise in ETH has been so muted comparatively.

Well, there's the fact that Ethereum supply isn't finite.

As a matter of fact, from a practical point of view, it's pretty much anyone's guess what the issuance's rate is (there is an algorithm buried somewhere in the code, but whenever you ask an ETH acolyte how many more ETH there will be in existence in X months, I've never gotten a straight answer).
How to Show Your Competitor Landscape in a Pitch Deck
I can only echo the sentiment wrt Coinbase. They're failing address verification for me, in spite of sending them multiple different types of documents that are clearly showing needed data. And not a peep from direct help via tickets for weeks now.
This particular 3D blew me away. It's as good or better than any alien spaceship model I've ever seen. And it really shows the complexity of the depth dimension of snowflakes.

https://sgil.ba.ars.usda.gov/snowsite/stereo/images/10134_35...
That's a remarkably off-base take. You're attributing qualities that linux has to things that linux exclusively has. Your entire rant about emulating the functionality of Hazel with scripts is something you can do with either operating system. The fact that hazel exists is because it lets people that have neither the time nor the disposition towards writing their own program for their own use case and still get a lot of the benefits of such. In fact, even those that do have a proclivity towards scripting their own maybe would rather do something else with their time.

> On Linux, you dream up the code in the language of your choice and it will work forever.

...I'm sorry, how is this exclusive to linux, exactly? You can do the exact same thing in MacOS, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. Also, maybe some people just don't want to fucking program every function and application they run on their operating system?

> Your learned skills will transfer one-to-one to programming you do for your job or hobby

While I understand that there exists a much higher population of programmers on HN than on other websites, please stop assuming that 1) everyone here is one and 2) that everyone wants to spend their time writing software in their spare time and 3) even if they do like programming in their spare time, that they want to spend it writing automation scripts.

> instead of being weirdly specific and locked down to this one, overpriced app's clickity click interface.

What is overpriced to you is potentially someone else's pennies. I don't really think the jab at GUI interfaces is appropriate, either.

> Of course scripting is not exclusive to Linux, but it is the only OS that was and is built with it in mind.

Again, this is just plain ignorance.
Could you talk more about your experience mentioned in [1]? That’s super material in terms of improvement.
They seem to have fallen out of favor with the general public.
You can always write 'correction meter reading should have been ...' on the chain.
Ethereum operates on "Minimum viable issuance" so unlike Bitcoin there is no hard cap. Eth wont be deflationary until EIP-1559, maybe never.
This is a conspiracy theory supported by Bolsonaro and his supporters.

In reality NGOs active in the Amazon are more likely to live under death threats and barely have any funding at all for even basic activities.
Technically speaking it's possible to soft bounce upon 5xx errors, but in practice, retrying even when the destination tells you not to is the quickest way to get reputation ruined.

Google SMTP servers should have returned a soft bounce here (not hard bounce), so then retry can work.
About 15 years ago at night I crashed my car into a bunch of pallets that had fallen off a trailer driving in front of me with no lights on it. The driver kept going but the police tracked him down to a pallet recycling company just a few miles down the road. Turns out he was an employee at a local warehouse and he was stealing their extra pallets for some extra money. His trailer had a couple dozen pallets before they fell off.
Of course. However Russia shows what a single country of 150 millions inhabitants can do. There is enough money and potential users in German-speaking countries, or French-speaking countries, Spanish-speaking countries, etc to achieve similar outcomes easily.
some exchanges had started displaying the price for a milli-bitcoin mBTC back in the days. I wonder if we'll see it again this time around
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