skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was younger lights didn't fill my vision like they do now. Blue LED's in the dark become impossible to ignore. If the RGB LED's are really low then it's not bad, but it is still distracting on something like a mouse.

I have a red led mechanical keyboard and that one doesn't bug me at all. But the white ones do.
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I suggested RocketChat when the outage was announced and HN community downvoted it quite heavily. I'm not sure why. [0]

We ended making the switch and committed to Discord. We're now looking at Rocket.chat as a backup in case Discord goes down. But Slack is now completely out of the picture for our team.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25633047
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The founders were indeed wise in requiring 2/3 to amend the constitution as well as establishing the electoral college in lieu of popular vote. What they failed at in my opinion is not having any criminal penalties for anyone including politicians and judges for violating the constitution.
Well that would be called the ideal arrangement. Its business, not a moral issue. Everybody wants what works for them.
At least for this specific case Microsoft and Google are fixing it by always initializing the variables.
Now is a good time to recommend to your engineering org that they should have multiple alerting methods, e.g. Slack plus Pagerduty, or Slack plus email.

Hopefully email won't be your backup. I've seen that done. Alerts get filtered and ignored, often by accident.
Even if Facebook were shut down tomorrow (legally or not), I can't imagine any possible scenario where Zuck would be disappeared by the feds.
Algorithms don’t close 57 Million dollar advertising accounts without some oversight.
> Furthermore, the people you listed above have been found to have conflicts of interest regarding this declaration

There are also conflicts with Fauci has his strong connections to the Gavi health alliance and many big pharma companies. Some of them might have conflicts, but all of them? And even if they do, what about the arguments themselves? Science is not a consensus.

> There is no censorship in the media regarding medical research of COVID-19. There is fact checking

You have got to be fucking kidding me?! The Hunter Biden story, published by one of the largest newspapers in the United States (the NY Post) was censored on every major platform (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and was it was later found that he was under active investigation by the FBI. We are in one of the absolutely worst eras of censorship of our times. It has grown ti 1984 levels of insanity by Big Tech and Big Media.

You cannot possible be saying there is no big media censorship and it's all "Fact Checking". That's total fucking bullshit. We have cases where the news media contradicts their own headlines within their own articles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmgMu5sefzA) and literally fact checks opinions and hyperbolas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPruYq320MM)

> The platform is an indirect indication: if the scientific community rejects your hypothesis, it's most likely because your hypothesis is bullshit.

You are essentially saying "The Media is the Message." It's a massive logical error. Remember at one time, the major scientific publications said black people were inferior to whites due to their skull size. It was provable science at that time. Science is not about majority rule, it's about examination and facts that can be reproduced by others.

> it's most likely because your hypothesis is bullshit

That's assuming the result based on the medium. You realize a bunch of researches got totally baseless papers published in respected grievance study journals, right?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2018/10/10/gri...

furthermore, there have been many cases where the medium has been banned throughout history, by the academic and scientific communities, for things that are commonly accepted as fact today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtWrljX9HRA

I feel like your arguments are very similar to those that advocate creationism. It's religion in the guise of science.
Congress can't issue USD directly.
Alexis De Tocqueville in his book "Democracy in America" identified one of the foundations of American democracy is our social mores. A lot of the reasons why the judiciaries appointed by him didn't go along with his blatant attempts to undermine the election has to do with their values and believes.

I'm not trying to say Americans are somehow better people than others but want to point out the important role unwritten rules and social norms have in our governance. Quite a few countries have tried to establish their government along the same lines as the US, UK, etc. but failed even though their structure is similar to ours and I think a lot of it has to do with what sorts of values people have and hold onto. In fact, the UK has even more unwritten rules than the US -- they lack a constitution but still functions well as a democracy. Pre-WWII Japan copied their government from the UK and it ended up more or less a military state.
Nice. A conceptually simple program made into a nice app. Well, I assume it's a nice app ;-)

Does it make money? There a couple other simple apps I've considered writing to see if I can make a few side bucks.
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It would be amazing to see. But I hope we never have to.
Please don't cross into personal attack and name calling. It only makes things considerably worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can someone explain this to me?

The year is 2150 or whatever -- bitcoin is fully mined. There is a metric asston of mining hardware out there that needs to be running to secure the chain -- presumably all coming from transaction fees.

Not only to transaction fees have to scale to cover the entirety of block rewards but they must continue to grow over time to compete with increased hardware efficiency in hashing.

Does it not follow that:

a) transaction fees rise to recoup not only current cost of mining hardware, but R&D and deployment of new hardware over time to keep the chain secure. As people realize this they convert their bitcoin to something else to avoid bag holding.

OR

b) transaction fees cannot support the mining hardware as is, miners sell of their hardware to recoup their costs and the chain becomes vulnerable.

I confess I might be missing something but I don't see how a fully mined coin is stable.
If we are assembling a city builder wishlist, then the biggest item for me would be richer concept of time. In SimCity and its ilk, time handling is really simplistic. Even huge infrastructure projects finish pretty much instantly so making dramatic changes is not that disruptive, and there is nothing to simulate the changing of eras so your cities end up having fairly monotonous texture.

What if as your city evolves it would change from old-town narrow cobbled streets and weirdly shaped buildings to early modern brickwork, then brutalist concrete monsters, and finally modern sky scrapers and suburbs, or whatever, so different neighborhoods end up feeling different based on the era they were built. And if/when you need to remodel/improve the area, you'd have to take the existing stuff more into account and plan for the potentially multi-year construction project with the construction traffic and potential street blockage etc.
> This story is very sustainable when Bitcoin's 1% ("decentralized")

I don't think you understand what decentralized means.

It has nothing to do with how concentrated Bitcoin ownership is.

Decentralized means there is no central authority. For example, should the SEC go after Bitcoin, there is no one to sue.

Or, if I decide to send 10M USD to someone on the other side of the planet, no one can prevent that from happening.

In both scenarios, how much BTC is owned by "whales" is irrelevant.
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You're replying to obvious sarcasm.
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A lot of posters here say they just set it to a single color and leave it. Why the hell do they chose components with RGB LEDs integrated and software to control them [0] instead of just buying some stand alone LED lights in the color they want?

> Have you ever painted or reorganized a room and spent time picking out the colours & details?

Not really. I spent all of 5 minutes picking out paint colors for my house when I moved in, painted once, and haven't thought about it since.

> Is your wardrobe 20 copies of the same shirt?

Sadly no, but clothing to me is pretty much purely a functional consideration anyway. I pretty much never buy clothing unless I require it for some utilitarian purpose and wear clothes until they become too worn or damaged to wear anymore. If I had to throw out everything I owned and pick a whole new wardrobe, it would have 7 of the same shirt.

> Did you ever toss up the choice between different vehicles/bikes based on the looks?

It's never come up because every vehicle I've ever bought, bikes included, was bought used. If it fits the price range and has what I'm looking for I don't really care what color it is.

I get that other people aren't like that and put what to me is far too much significance on such things, but what I don't get is the added frustration and complexity for such paltry benefit that computer controlled RGB components gets you. It's like people who buy IoT devices and go through all the setup and troubleshooting and just kind of accept that sometimes they don't work because of an issue with the cloud.

[0] Which works so well that these same people are really happy someone made an open source alternative.
At least in Canada I’ve seen two different unions at the same place. One Union for managers and one union for the other non-manager employees. I don’t think there is anything stopping managers from forming their own different union.
https://pybenchmarks.org/
It’s silly to compare tech unions to sports teams. There is usually only one major league in a country, and the team that signs you owns you like property. You do what the coach says or you sit on the bench until your contract expires and then don’t get re-signed. It’s not like tech, where if your Google manager so much as gives you a dirty look you can just walk over to facebook and have a new job by Monday. This alone is far more powerful than anything a union can provide.
As someone who has to use Zoom Chat every day, this a thousand times. (We still run an XMPP server on the side just to avoid the horror that is Zoom chat.)
For skipping bail
You bring up a good point, however, which is that we _could_ use open source, non-centralized alternatives for many of the online products we consume, but we choose not to, and so we increasingly become slaves to corporations that actively seek to narrow our choices. Another example of this is the push from big sites like Reddit to use their apps rather than just use a browser - it’s not about functionality, it’s about destroying the free and open web.
Even among unions, the tone and political messaging from the AWU is particularly left. It's obvious if you contrast the AWU's stated principles and values with a more traditional union.
fwiw, Wilmington is a really nice and low cost city on the coast that seems to fly under the radar. The Battleship is a must visit!
Yes. We prosecuted him for jumping bail by going to the embassy, but he's served his sentence for that. He's only being held for possible extradition.
Here's the abstract from their paper:

We introduce a new approach for implementing cryptographic
arithmetic in short high-level code with machine checked proofs
of functional correctness. We further demonstrate that simple
partial evaluation is sufficient to transform such initial code
into the fastest-known C code, breaking the decades old pattern
that the only fast implementations are those whose
instruction-level steps were written out by hand. These
techniques were used to build an elliptic-curve library that
achieves competitive performance for 80 prime fields and
multiple CPU architectures, showing that implementation and
proof effort scales with the number and complexity of
conceptually different algorithms, not their use cases. As one
outcome, we present the first verified high-performance
implementation of P-256, the most widely used elliptic curve.
Implementations from our library were included in BoringSSL to
replace existing specialized code, for inclusion in several
large deployments for Chrome, Android, and CloudFlare.
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Can you please stop posting flamewar-style comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly lately, and it's what we're trying to avoid here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when commenting, we'd be grateful.
Not to mention, if you look at inflation rates by decade, the Fed has historically done a terrible job of keeping inflation rates at the 2% target level since Bretton Woods [0]. That isn't even considering that most government inflation figures don't include investment vehicles, which certainly can absorb inflation. Take the 2020 stock market for example, after the Fed injected trillions directly. Eventually some of that will trickle out into more expensive food, materials, etc. (and it already is to some extent) but for now their policy is still assuming there has only been a small amount of inflation this year. And because of the fascinating link between the mortgage market and the Fed Funds rate, commercial interest rates are shockingly low, resulting in a tremendous increase in borrowing which will further increase inflation over the next couple years.

[0] https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation/DecadeInflatio...
It would be more like with Assange, you say? 2 years of isolation in a prison and more?
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We actually want that people use n8n as a backend and want to improve that further in the future and write more about it.
We do not have to make money with literally everybody that uses our code. But if a good way to describe the service (or module, ...) is "automate X" then a license would be required. That we think is fair and makes sure that n8n is long term sustainable. And after all, is that also in the interest of the people/companies building on top of us.
Probably he outlived his usefulness.
Your post is an actual example of being patronizing. Before I was just trying to explain what the person I replied to probably already knew intuitively.

> how Weta actually worked in Kong which is very typical

It is not typical to have 10,000 4k maps on a creature. What has been typical when rendering at 2k is a set of 2k maps for face, torso, arms and legs. Maybe a single arm and leg can be painted and the UVs can be mirrored, though mostly texture painters will layout the UVs separately and duplicate the texture themselves to leave room for variations.

> it is not feasible to have a TD in the delivery deadlines of the shots for a show.

Actually most of the people working on shots are considered TDs. Specific asset work for some sequence with a hero asset is actually very common, which makes sense if you think about it from a story point of view of needing a visual change to communicate a change of circumstances.

4k rendering (was the 2017 king kong rendered in 4k?) and all the closeups of king kong mean that higher resolution maps and more granular sections are understandable, but it doesn't add up to going from 16 2k maps to 10,000 4k maps. Maps like diffuse, specular and subsurface albedo are also just multiplicative, so there is no reason to have multiple maps unless they need to be rebalanced against each other per shot (such as for variations).

You still never actually explained a problem or inconsistency with anything I've said.
You are assuming CCP thinks like you do, what if sending a message is extremely important to them?
> the ability to independently verify the money supply and being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship is probably the most important intrinsic value one could hope for in a MoE/SoV.

This is opinion, not a fact.

The problem with bitcoin as a currency (and arguably all currencies) is that its value isn't stable, and can never be, because value is arbitrary and subject to opinion.

But if you don't agree, just look at how it's deflationary. Most don't realize it, but deflationary currencies are equally problematic to inflationary currencies in that both deflation and inflation are natural drivers of inequality.

Generally speaking, with inflationary currencies, the rich who get richer are those who own assets, and/or those who control the money printer. Those who are at a disadvantage, are people without a money printer who hold onto the devalued currency, and those who have fewer or no assets.

With deflationary currencies it's the opposite. The rich who get richer are the hoarders and earlier adopters of the currency. Those at a disadvantage are those who own other things, and those with fewer or no amounts of the currency.

As so, if the world mass adopted bitcoin, society would be no better off in terms of the problems people behold to inflationary fiat... (problems regarding inequality). But that's not to say, it wouldn't solve some problems as your statement suggests, but it also introduces new problems. As an example, your very argument above could be changed to "the inability to exchange money without a computer is probably amongst the worst intrinsic value one could hope for". Is it worse/better - again, that's subject to opinion.

In short, the only reason to grab bitcoin, is so you can trade it to someone else later who thinks it has value, which means it only has or holds value because people thinks it does or will - same as anything else.
Thanks for sharing, for some reason I think about this story a lot. It must have been such an emotionally difficult time for everyone involved in piecing back together their processes.
You also have to be on the ‘Plus’ plan, otherwise it is a roach motel.
The fed generally uses PCE to measure inflation which does not include equities.

Suppose that for every dollar the fed prints, 95 cents ends up in equities and 5 cents ends up in PCE. We can argue about what to call it but that doesn't change the outcome.
I KNOW Bitcoin is really bad/evil/ponzi/fake, but can't you guys just leave the people to do mistakes on their own?

/sarcasm off

Funny how people tend to disregard this comment and keep doing just fine. For over a decade.
Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.
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They disappeared the head of Interpol a while back and that didn't cause much blowback.
https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
Seems like Notion, Slack, Zoom was affected by that
arbitration. Spend less on FB ads than what you earn shoving ads into the users browser. That's the real thing here, FB knows they can get crap content and earn more than 54 million lost in advertising it to 3rd party.
If anyone is interested in this topic, I'd highly recommend reading the Book of Woe [0]. Mental health diagnoses have been based on the DSM for nearly 75 years, however it's an extremely flawed book to say the least. The creation of each version has also been a very contentious and political process, leading to major influence from pharmaceutical companies and others with financial motives.

The problem with mental health diagnostics though is that there really is no good alternative yet, so for the foreseeable future we will be making huge, life altering decisions for people based on what is essentially a subjective judgement call.

[0]https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310517/the-book-of-...