skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't realize a synonym for a muskox was an inappropriate name lol. Just wait till you hear what other animals are named! For your reference I've attached a photo of the eponymous magnificent beast in question [0].

There are ~14 billion USDT minted, and BTC alone is going for a market cap of 500bi.

$14B my dude, that information is stale as all heck. They're printing $700 million dollars worth per day right now. Their market cap just reached $24B. Remember just days ago when microstrat announced a blockbuster $400M investment? Tether prints that every 12 hours.

See the way market cap works is you only have to control the most recent trade to set the market cap. That means literally nothing. The old trope goes if you print 1 trillion of your own crypto and sell it to a buddy for $1, that's a $1T market cap.

$24B of cash, with $700M new printed every single day buying up Bitcoin is absolutely enough to control the price. That's simple economics, and you can find an explanation anywhere. I can of course provide you with an article if you find yourself unable to obtain one.

> Also, it's interesting how you downplay the fact that the Fed printed 22% of the dollars in circulation in 2020 alone with the majority of it destined to bail out banks and surely to end up under control of Wall Street.

This is utterly irrelevant. The inflation rate is trending around 2% per annum. If that goes up, they'll print less or claw back more. Supply is not the only factor in the determination of inflation, velocity of money is critical. I suggest you learn more about the money supply before trying to reinvent it.

In fact if we pretend for a moment that bitcoin is a currency, you can see that while the supply is flat-ish, the price is skyrocketing. This is massively deflationary for a currency, and this is in fact, in part, due to a reduction in velocity of money (aka HODL BRUH).

> Perhaps if the crypto projects start saying that the funds are going to gender studies your worries will be eased?

I have no idea where you're going with that and I won't be following you. This has nothing to do with social policy and everything to do with the North Korean government collecting hundreds of millions of dollars to fund their nuclear weapons program.

[0] https://www.alaskaphotographics.com/alaska-photo-articles/mu...
It uses SDFs as well, in both the voxel representation and in the stored operations that generate it.
https://www.thingybase.com/

It’s a home inventory app!

I’ve been working on this and using it for almost two years now in tiny little scraps of time I have between my day job and raising 2 kids.

I’ve embraced the “half-baked” aspect of shipping a project like this by drawing silly stick figures for all the illustrations. It’s just been so much fun building and using it.

If you use it, don’t worry about me abandoning it. It’s improved my life so much that I’m going to be constantly improving it and keeping it around. Working in an iOS turbo app for it next, and I’d like to build lending and expirations into it too. It’s going to be awesome.

Share your feedback with me if you use it!
You mean the violent attackers of democracy who stayed inside the velvet ropes and took selfies? https://youtu.be/y9WPuA6EUaw
Seems like there is a comically biased double standard when describing protests and riots.

You keep pouring gasoline on a fire and then keep complaining that it won’t go out. You think impeaching him again and banning him on multiple platforms is going to de-escalate the situation? You know it will do the exact opposite. The Democrats and media companies want to poke and poke and poke until they provoke a reaction. You're delusional if you think you can keep insulting the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump without destabilizing the country. But your brains are so broken by Trump that you can't help yourselves and you're destroying the country because of it. I didn't vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020, but I understand the rage Trump supporters are probably feeling. And I know who is primarily responsible: it's the same contemptuous out of touch elites that gave us Trump in the first place.
Someone actually linked me a Kickstarter of this very concept the other day:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mybirdbuddy/bird-buddy-...
I'm the UK when I was young there were more newspapers, so people would buy a morning and evening paper. People would also take time to complete crosswords
The people doing the dissappearing were from Ireland though.
I get that it was said by protesters, and that it started trending because of that.

At the end of the day the phrase “Hang Mike Pence” ended up on the trending section of Twitter. Millions of people look at this. It was removed by Twitter, and it was the right call.

Justifying calls to violence due to “missing context” is a poor argument, and now is just not the time to toy with being lax on this.
Toilet Mindfulness
"What makes you think there wouldn't in practice be the same centralization that we see today -- one or two paid services that handle moderation for the entire Internet because only they have the lawyers necessary to do so."

One important difference is that the networking effect is not as big as in case of FB et al.

But yes, the general trend in maturing markets is toward some kind of oligopoly. It is, I believe, time to reactivate antitrust laws, we are well beyond the point where they should have been used.
Hello from summer in Australia right now
I have started a blog about gardening! It is something I was writing for myself.

https://watchingplantsgrow.com/

I never get to code at work any more so I decided to write a static site generator in Python using Jinja2 templates and markdown. Front end is Bootstrap. Hosted on Netlify. It really fits in this thread since I have probably spent a day on it and have not even rendered all of the blogs I have written, or added images yet.
Windows is not the only non-UNIX OS around.
There very likely is zero correlation. But potentially, people who take cold showers represent a biased subset of the population, which is statistically more inclined to look young.

This applies to pretty much EVERYTHING that is not done via high quality double-blind studies published in reputable, peer-reviewed journals.

Point being: Repeating single actions of successful people statistically does not make you successful.
It's certainly easier in tropical countries because you can just use the cold knob, but it's doable in colder places as well. Even using both hot and cold sources to get a comparable temperature, it isn't as easy to get into the shower when the weather is colder. I've noticed that the coldness of the water only bothers me for the first 20 seconds of the shower, so I'll use a bit more heat then turn it colder.
Are there any tools out there that will posts your content to multiple platforms simultaneously? The current fringe sites are worthless to me since currently they are mostly created and used by people who were kicked off the top sites.

However, as an example, if there was a tool that would post my video to youtube, dailymotion, and however other many video sites are out there I'd gladly do it. You could still maintain a preferred network to help consolidate likes and subscribers, but you are less beholden to any one company if your content has existed many places for years.

It could be difficult in mediums like twitter where there is a real two way interaction, perhaps a comment consolidator within the tool?

If it doesn't exist I think government should atleast build the tool for themselves. There's no reason for communication from the government to exist first on a private platform. It should be put out on a .gov platform that then goes to whatever popular platforms of the day exist.
Well we've built the tech but need a lot more work pushing it out. Also to make it easier for people to build their own custom versions. It mentioned in the piece about looking for help and we always are! :)
Maybe they could've called it "Don't Hang Mike Pence" to clearly differentiate between the ones who supported and the ones who don't? but then again, I'm not up to date with Twitter etiquette :)
That is really shocking. A great guy, legendary classic tetris player and by far the most entertaining to watch. Can't even imagine how tough it must be for Heather.
https://knot8.io

Alternative approach to yaml templating for k8s manifests.

It includes a structural 3-way merge algorithm that allows you to temporarily "fork" the manifests by just exiting some fields in-place, knowing that synchronizing upstream is way more predictable than what you could achieve with a general purpose textual merge like git.
What is the two sides exactly? There is a group that has produced no evidence for their claims and is threatening and acting out violence - is that one of the sides?

There is a point in which a particular group is no longer acting in good faith, and is taking advantage of the tolerance and ability to have discourse.

https://kottke.org/17/08/the-paradox-of-tolerance
I think most of speculation in this thread is mostly unsubstantiated, as we know nearly nothing. I think it’s fine that the parent points this out, at the very least should not be berated like this.
That appears (there is no date) to be a brief paper from February or March. I’m interested in what you think that paper says?

Read what the title says and read the short paper. It has zero references to results of use in patients other than referring to a news release. There is link that it is being used in clinical trials, but no results.

We know HCQ does not do anything for Covid after hundreds of studies. It is time to move on. Focus on other potential treatments.
> We've got these two sides. Regardless of the merits, each side believes they know the truth, and that the other side is delusional.

You're partially right. We have at least two sides. One side is CLEARLY delusional. Fueled by conspiracy theories and lies. We also have other sides, but the two sides that get the most attention are the only sides that matter. We have one side that is most definitely delusional, other sides maybe have members who might be, but one side is DOMINATED by delusion.
Almost everyone (including really terrible people) don't want people killed. That is why it is often necessary to de-humanize the enemy. We give them labels, make them not worthy of the protections of civil society, and then it is justified if they die. Because they are not people anymore.
For the last twenty years I thought things would eventually just come back to center. I’m not sure anymore. It’s possible it’s as follows: One side will win. History will be written by those winners. Pick your side and fight for it?
This is still false equivalence.

BLM Didn't use violence to achieve their goals. Quite the opposite they were consistently attacked by police dressed up like the army, heaving people off the streets.

Where were the police in DC?

This wasn’t a protest it was a violent attempt to overthrow.

Call it what it is indeed.
There are most certainly more than two sides.
Agreed.

I'd buy one on day 1 if it at minimum: had the range for my relatively short commute (30 miles each way), matched my current vehicle's safety tech (lane keep assist/automatic emergency breaking/traffic aware cruise control), and had a standard wiper stork on the steering wheel (so I don't get tickets for using my wipers!).

A sedan at $37K+ is a tough sell for me personally. But at $25K~? Heck yeah, if just to enjoy the software updates/fun features/mechanical simplicity of electric/etc.
What else would they be chanting, Hang my pants?
Looking backwards, I dug pretty deeply into Clojure for a while.

When Streams came to Java, I felt like I was already an expert in that paradigm, and was able to adopt it immediately in ways that made my Java code clearer and more concise, and maybe even more performant in some cases. (Streams can allow you to transform a very long sequence of data, without needing to realize the whole sequence in memory first, as one example.)

I also use immutable data structures by default wherever possible, unless I know I really need to mutate the data.

I try to make the output of a method dependent only on the inputs, wherever possible.

You shouldn't take it to extremes, but incorporating paradigms from one language into another can pay big dividends.
The people should not be afraid of their government.

Government employees/representatives should not be afraid of their people either.

Breakdowns in trust are a vicious cycle. Just ask the Catholics in Britain and Ireland after Guy Fawkes tried to blow up parliament.
A commonality is they're both in South East Asia.
Do you think Twitter's algorithm is smart enough to only signal boost the documentation? Or will it mix the two together?
My dad is a 55 year old mechanical engineer. He have called me 3 times today with various questions regarding C++. He’s learning it by writing a program to draw Bezier curves.

Maybe at 55 I’ll pick up mechanical engineering as a hobby.
This doesn’t seem like an obvious parallel, it seems like projection. Why do you think it’s obvious to you but not to someone else? Why are you certain that you are uniquely capable of seeing it?
Much of Pakistan Loses Power in Blackout
And many others would prefer right-wing biased factual reporting over left-wing biased lies.

See the problem here?
Lambda Containers with Rails; a Perfect Match
I agree with this 100%, and I think the people providing this leadership should be in management. Software engineers need to be managed by someone who can understand and evaluate their work, because of what you said and also because other aspects of management benefit from the ability to cast a critical eye over the work being done as well.

EDIT: Going further, I think the people trying to hire me as an engineer to fix their problems should have replaced their front-line management with managers who understood code, so they had some clue what their engineers were doing wrong and how to fix it. The idea that engineers should be able self-manage is a rare best case scenario, not a best practice that can be replicated across the industry.
Try to steer people to the media outlets that are still mostly balanced? NPR comes to mind. Or encourage people to read a leftish and a rightish source? And encourage people to think for themselves?

It would also be nice, albeit maybe very hard, to encourage even the less balanced media to try to speak to everyone and to write critically and honestly. For example, I personally lean left, but I find the New York Times to be increasingly vapid and unthinking.

In general, if you’re reading news (or Twitter!) just to find people who agree with you, you’re doing it wrong. This is true regardless of political party.
And I do have a very strong opinion on all that.

I just wanted to note that the "other side" that I'm not on, also believes basically the same thing with regards to my side.
Also, the media was running election security fearmongering stories since the day Trump won in 2016.

Liberals didn't denounce "Hamilton Electors" very strongly in 2016--though, admittedly, Clinton and most democratic leadership didn't support those efforts, and a larger share of congressional republicans supported Trumps attempt at the same thing.

The number of democrats who thought the 2016 election result was fraudulent was pretty high.

Democratic intelligence committee members outright lied about their evidence for years re Russiagate because it hurt trump.

And Democrats were laying groundwork for contested election this time around too. Hillary Clinton essentially suggested Biden never concede if he lost--implying that a loss would equal fraud.

None of this is as nearly as bad as Trump is doing. But it certainly helps Trump destroy any norms prohibiting bad behavior.
Why is Pinephone the most promising ecosystem? In fact more than half of its users run Phosh written by Purism for Librem 5. There are no paid developers for Pinephone.
I think it was Curiosity's wheel treads which spelled out "JPL" in Morse. Such a gloriously geeky Easter egg!
Most stayed in velvet ropes and took selfies:
https://youtu.be/y9WPuA6EUaw
Your comment shines an insightful light on Orwell's observations and commentary on the human condition, but it's getting some downvotes, presumably for the 2nd half of the 2nd para, which is worth considering in more detail.

> In general, the fact that Orwell is remembered in the public consciousness as the 1984 guy is a shame (and is particularly jarring when right wing populists invoke his name to decry people who try and get them to stop lying).

What do "right wing populists" mean when they call critics "Orwellian"?
That isn’t what my comment was actually about. It was a comment about GitHub, not Huawei or the US.
Some governments can force *Store to ban whatever they want. Some can't, so they have to resort to banning stores.
Colombia has a huge range of climates. His city, Medellin, is a bit chillier than what you would expect.
I have been working in crypto / blockchain for years. Crypto projects simply cannot find engineers, it is impossible to hire people with these skills. You will make more money as a software engineer in crypto than you will anywhere else other than FAANG. And one major benefit is crypto companies are decentralized and almost always remote - as a developer in a foreign country you can make multiples what you could in a standard software firm.

Don’t listen to the HN haters and nocoiners who have been telling lies for years. This is one of the most exciting and interesting industries you can work in. Keep an open mind and see what positions are available at the top coins on coingecko.com.
> I love how this is 100% a liability issue and everyone jumps to the First Amendment like automatons.

Liability is government action, and is limited by the First Amendment. That’s why the US has much less defamation liability than many other countries with closely related legal systems; the Constitutional protection free speech and press prevents the government from imposing liability where other governments have.
> When really, that’s simple not possible, and they would have to abandon the practice all together.

Can't do that, it'll hurt the bottomline. Most users aren't keen on using platforms filled with spam, porn, trolls, and hate speech. And if you don't believe this, ask yourself why a lot of these sites don't allow porn, spam, trolls, or hate speech right now. It's partly moral, but mostly because it's bad for business.

Stricter moderation will be the more likely outcome, and we'll have even less free speech than we have now.
I actually really love the illustrations!
Remember that british company called Cambridge Analytica
> and those insights are transferable to your daily work

Some people say this, others say that it makes your daily work worse because going back to a language that isn't on the cult-approved list is so difficult.
NPR does a good job of presenting the basic facts in their news segments, but their commentary, editorial, and human interest programming is 100% progressive.
If I ran was in charge of a government after watching them all ban Trump's ability to communicate at the same time, I too would think about banning them to protect myself.
Thank you for the encouragement! Did you find any areas to improve?

The seed standards reference data is mainly from publicly available race data in CSV form and common running formulas used in the industry (e.g. Effective VO2 Max / VDOT). There are plenty of online calculators and literature (mostly based on Jack Daniels' Formula). However this is just a baseline and it'll be based on its own data set in the future (e.g. survey input).

Some links:
Brian Mac - https://www.brianmac.co.uk/vo2max.htm
Age grade tables - https://github.com/AlanLyttonJones/Age-Grade-Tables
Jack Daniels' Running Formula - https://runsmartproject.com/calculator/ (and related book)
Because at some point if there is only one server implementation and one server, they can get away if they change the protocol.
I’d like to add one thing that is often overlooked and that is simply walking. It can help sort out a lot of problems by moving all joints in rhythmic manner.
Yes, and you'll note that in every case, an installation defect was at issue: for the F150s, defective rear defrosters created unnatural stresses on the rear windows, causing them to shatter; for the sunroofs, improper installation was identified as the cause in the lawsuits.

Importantly, across more than 100 million cars and 20 years, fewer than 1000 combined cases of shattered rear windows or sun roofs were recorded.

Tesla has had more than a dozen reported cases of shattered rear windows in the last 2 years alone. That's industry leading, and not in a good way.
She said it?

https://parler.com/post/6e474ef190344fdbab8557b3ebf85ade
Is that not also what I just said?
Exactly this. I have a long list of examples, with a one-to-one correspondence to large capital losses I have incurred. This is not a coincidence.
Linear types make performance more predictable (2017)
Of course it is, don’t trade the headlines. But it’s important to know your experience in the US will vary dramatically based on economic status.

If you’re high income/above-average educated (which you pretty much have to be to immigrate to the US due to the overly strict/broken immigration system), there’s no better place to be. You will be able to reach the absolute peak of your potential here. 10/10, would immigrate again.

If you’re middle of the road on income/education, you’d be better off in other developed countries that have robust socialized services (healthcare, pension, free education, etc) like the Nordics. Most developed countries have a better lifestyle for the average person.

If you’re below average on income/education, the US is the worst of the developed countries to live in. I’d stay far away.
Always works until it doesn't. Madoff's scheme lasted 20 years and collected $50B, including many multi hundred million dollar checks from institutional investors.

Asset-backed commercial paper is another great example. [1]

Head's up, btw, nobody's seen their CEO or CFO in about a year now haha.

I'm going to screenshot this comment by the way for r/agedlikemilk :)

[1] http://www.tr0lly.com/uncategorized/tether-heads-i-win-tails...
I guess I agree with you in general, but you're simplifying the issue so badly that you still deserve my downvote.
While you may believe that NPR is mostly balanced, I assure you that one side does not. They view it with derision, and believe it is the epitome of bias. And they will view just about any media source not aligning with their view similarly.
A new 25,000$ 250 mile range EV would be extremely compelling. However, I don’t think they want to dilute their brand in US with a Subcompact car, which would make hitting those numbers extremely difficult outside of China.
You really would also want to have some sort of loss function, or at the very least a general idea of whether you most need to avoid false positives or false negatives. If it was most important to avoid incorrectly saying it's NOT a P&D, then this is not good performance. If you need it to nearly always avoid saying something which is not a P&D (and thus might be a great investment opportunity), but given that you want to avoid as many as you can, 50% might be good.
I made a simple number puzzle game with React - https://alexanderstewart.github.io/circles-web/

I released it under the MIT licence. Here’s the code - https://github.com/AlexanderStewart/circles-web

Feel free to build off it and release your own version!
Is it certain that having a functioning youtube app is under Roku's control? For all I know, Youtube doesn't want Roku devices to have a functioning youtube app.
edit: someone else posted the same thing as I was typing this.

Not necessarily. Belarusian protesters are working on methods to unmask anonymous police officers [1].

[1] https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/10/01/you-have-no-masks
> NPR comes to mind.

Haha, you realize that the right considers NPR Marxist propaganda?