skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 I really like the interoperability of the USB-C charging on my 2019 Mac. With the same charger I can charge my phone, laptop, headphones and bluetooth speaker. Having to carry only one cable (and one brick) around is great.
Perhaps its about the DnD kid? I vaguely remember hearing about that, in the early days of DnD there was a college kid in Michigan who disappeared, and it was thought he had been in the steam tunnels under the campus as part of a DnD campaign or something. I don't remember all of the details, or if it ended up being true, but I think it kind of became a trope surrounding DnD for a while, and there was a Tom Hanks movie about it.
I should have added an implicit step: sell for USD, convert to USDC. It’s a lot easier to launder and move illicit USDC funds than it is USD.
I think the answer to a) depends on whether Twitter wants to continue to have a private monopoly on public discourse.

If Twitter wants to maintain that monopoly and their walled garden, then no, they should not be able to arbitrarily ban users. I would like to see online public discourse declared to be part of the social infrastructure and be treated like a utility.

Alternately, if Twitter is willing to move to a federated-type model where Twitter users can follow Parler users and vice-versa, I think they should be able to continue to ban people.

That neatly resolves this conundrum to me. Twitter loses its absolutely staggering inertia from the size of their userbase. The data becomes open, and social media companies become focused on providing value via exposing you to this data, rather than just by building a moat with it to keep out competitors.
Signal Technology Foundation is the right one
Apple Plans First iMac Desktop Redesign in Nearly a Decade
Yes it very well could be.
what do we think the 2T dollars will do in 2021? can thank uncle sam for this bubble. and then theyll blame capitalism when it pops.
In the U.S. I’ve never had anyone suggest messaging other than SMS, FB, or (long ago) Twitter.
This doesn't apply to all personality disorders. Schizotypal and paranoid personality disorders do not have this behavior at all.
Thank goodness for Reader Mode and Outline. I hate such websites with a passion.
Oh yeah I forgot about altervista, altervista as fucking awesome. I think I downloaded sub7 from it.
I hope this comes to pass. I have a late 2011 Macbook Pro that finally died a few months back and I want to get a new machine. Because of Covid I haven't needed or been able to travel so my desktop has sufficed. Once things open up again I'll need a mobile option.

The touchbar is neat but almost entirely useless for my workflow. It just takes up space and is honestly the main reason I haven't bought another machine.
I love magsafe and would like to see it come back but if it just had USB-C that would be fine.

No touchbar, new apple silicon, more ports (ethernet please!) - i'll be getting one.
Trader Joe’s Becomes First Grocery Chain to Pay Workers to Get Vaccine; Other Ch
It works as is usually on Chinese ISPs though I noticed occasional interruptions. Using a VPN got rid of those disruptions.
Simple, they are not resilient as Telegram is. They are not Russian.
They have $100 mn in donation from Acton
The server code was published. Even if we don't know what services they use, you should be able to find quite easily what language the stuff is written in.
Depends on who the “we” is there. Certain agencies don’t care that new money is flowing into capital assets but probably should care.
Per my experience..I agree about Bumble and I'll add Match as the only dating apps worth using! Apps where if both like each other there's a 80 to 90 percent chance you will actually start conversing, getting to know each other, talking offline and going on a date or dates.

In my experience...Facebook Dating is just a like factory in which people aren't seriously looking rather boosting their ego or have a huge list to filter through even if they liked you the conversations doesn't go far(I only continue a conversation if she asks about me too). It's definitely not a dating app to find women who are serious about dating.

Overall during Covid I've had more dates then usual. Women are out there looking and dating at least here in the suburbs/rurual areas of MD and PA; restaurants are open for outside and inside dining.
This is, as far as I can tell, residential plumbers. They go into people's houses. And usually, that involves direct contact with people, at least at the beginning and end of the process.

Maybe it's different in the UK, but that's how it was in the US when I had my water heater replaced a few months ago. They wore masks when talking with me, but did the chin-sling bit while working. I kept away (and my high-risk roommates further away), but I'd have been a lot more comfortable had they been vaccinated. I'd preferentially hire the company who could provide that.

So to me, residential plumbers fit in the same category as others who work with the public, like wait staff and grocery store clerks. I'd be all for getting judges, lawyers, and politicians vaccinated mandatorily just to show confidence, but their work can be done remotely or at least at a distance. That's harder with somebody who comes into your house.
To modernize your legacy apps, first stop being ashamed of them
Iran, last year. Internet was out for like two weeks.
Why does Bumble need to go public?

Yet another promising company prostituting itself to public shareholders for those precious tendies. Le sigh.

Who wants to take bets on how much Bumble is going to suck in a year or two?
How to fix: https://signal.org/donate/
Wow, thanks for the info. That stinks!
You should considered Telegram instead.
> it’s only a selfish minority that have not.

It's rather entitled and judgey to imply that people who still have some human contact are bad. Assuming the worst of people basically.
It seems weird to be criticizing a group for identifying a problem that actually exists (welfare traps / phase out cliffs / perverse incentives) while proposing a solution to it that would actually work better (NIT/UBI). There are proponents of a negative income tax on both sides, e.g. conservative economist Milton Friedman.
Good news, then! They have a monthly recurring donation option.
Signal themselves posted that screenshot, Snowden retweeted.
From experience, I would explain it by an inability to accept others, which could be traced to perfectionism and low self-esteem.

With long term acquaintances, you start to notice imperfections. If you have a low self-esteem, you could develop this peronality where you are constantly judging others, and trying to control and make them perfect, because they are part of your life.

This could have been caused by constant criticism received during childhood, or abusive parents who were themselves perfectionist in treating you, and didn't show enough acceptance, pride and love.
the acquisition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23102430
My Regrets Studying Mathematics
My intent was to say it's difficult without incurring major side-effects to the economy. I've updated my comment to clarify.

Of course, if you don't have a significant economy to begin with or something else has already disrupted it (riots, uprising, etc - which could also be what prompts you to shut down the internet) then it's not a problem.
More importantly it means that a blind person isn't constantly bothering the same few people all the time. If every blind person needs help once a day, every volunteer only needs to help once a week. This means you can be helpful without being annoyed by how often a stranger is bothering you.
My Regrets Studying Physics
I think the most infuriating thing to me about this article is that the author doesn't understand the existing tools well enough to have any idea why we need new ones, and instead decided to complain on his blog about how programming is too hard.

ANYTHING is hard when you first start out. Try making a table out of wood, or doing origami, or playing an instrument for the first time, and unless you're some bizarre savant you're going to effing SUCK at it. Learn why things are the way they are, or in this case learn the way things are in the first place, and your results will improve.
It’s hard to be too hard on them though: they never had proper mentorship as junior engineers and their practices are reinforced by modern practices.

There is a worse toxicity in my opinion: when engineers at all levels religiously adhere to fads or practices just because others do (see: OO, TDD, etc.)
Thank you for your feedback. Yes, Russian and Chinese are definitely coming back as typical answers every time I have this conversation with cybersecurity folks. Important to notice that they are quite a challenge and probably not within the first choices if the person can just pick any language. At the same time, I assume that learning these can be rewarding for exactly the same reasons.
This is indicative only of specific personality disorders. There are several other personality disorders that don't behave this way and are defined by other actions entirely, eg. schizotypal personality disorder is mostly being defined by distorted perceptions and belief systems.
Wait, can you not play SDR 4K on Netflix?

What happens if you play the first season of Stranger Things, which was produced in 4K but not in HDR?
> The centralized-infrastructure-Tower-of-Babel is about to collapse.

Is there any decentralized protocol that's in widespread use? Email is the only one, and if hackers take out Gmail and 2-3 other major email providers 99% of the world's personal email is gone.
Ah, I figured that would help with this issue as well but I can see it’s a different thing now, thank you.
Forget Signal. Use Telegram, I use since 2013 without any regrets. WhatsApp it was always inferior anyway.
> Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica on the piano. “I could be quiet around him,” she wrote, “and it never felt awkward.”

Listen to a piano cover while you read the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmL12NRE4hQ

And if you liked this story, you will probably also like "The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans" https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...
> I believe that it is time to stop making free products. Developers should unite in this and finally start to value their hard work.

You can't stop someone trying to make a free to use product
This is a positive sign - it means there've been so many more signups lately! I did just convert a whole bunch of close friends over to Signal this past week, so I hope they can ride out this temporary outage and not leave the service :'( It took too much 'social effort' to move them all over
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US equities are the one last great bubble. But crypto are a symptom of the same disease.
I was the one who needed help, not the one who helped, but my issue was some handwriting ion a piece of paper that OCR couldn't deal with. The handwriting wasn't in english, and Be My Eyes is the only service of this kind that lets you select a different language. I received help, and the process went pretty smoothly.
Fair enough, didn't connect the edit to your comment.
I'm confused. Which is the official Libgen project now and which is the fork?
You really don't want to get it.

> I guess I have a feeling you like to lord it over other people with the help of victims of diseases. (Similar things tend to happen when somebody dies - there are always people who then order other people around on the basis of "the deceased would want us to do x").

WTF man. "TBQH I have a real dislike for the relativistic thinking that people apply to this." So lordly!

> I never once said that the spoon women doesn't have it hard, btw. That is your interpretation.

I never interpreted it that way. The author of the report probably also does not want you to feel pity for her. She just told you a story about how life is for her and she came up with a analogy to make it more understandable.

Buddha also says: “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/africa/east-africa/uganda

In case anyone else is interested in the actual data for that.
Larry Sanger is a weirdo whose entire persona over the last nearly two decades has been as a contrarian to Wikipedia. (I say this as someone who initially joined him in his Citizendium venture, only to bail as I learned more about the man and his vision for an online encyclopedia, which seems inferior to Wikipedia, in spite of Wikipedia’s warts and all.)

Sanger remains of those standard figures that the media goes to if they want criticism of the most popular option, but his criticisms of Wikipedia are often inaccurate, disingenuous, and he himself has lost too much everyday contact with the running of an online encyclopedia to be up to date with things.
OP Wow - nicely done. Amazing persistence that needs to be shared more.

The founder's story is not uncommon of most actual successful startups I personally have observed.

To those who have cush jobs, dream of startups - this is the real world life. In startups, it is not all funding and glory moments; it is your world imploding on you in numerous directions, and you have to pull yourself through sheer will; or fail.
America, like most countries, has slightly more women than men (51.1%). The "incel" phenomenon seems more about men that don't know how to have a healthy relationship with a women.

Ironically, the term "incel" was created by a women before it was coopted https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45284455
"Free" isn't a model you should pick if you're going to care you aren't guaranteed to get compensated it's a model you should pick when you want to give a cool idea a chance to take off for the good of everyone without risk of being turned into something else if it is successful.
I just donated: https://media.20-things.com/BbhxZmPSyygP29ZtfCM46q.png

The problem is, this is not a sustainable model (Wikipedia is a whole other universe and can not be compared) and it bugs me so much to see developers pour their souls into projects which end up dying.
I'd choose an annual recurring donation if the platform offered it.
TikTok to tackle grooming with safeguards for young users
A lot of it is probably caused by demographics - torrents are pretty popular in countries where 4k is not the norm and may not be accessible.

FWIW I have 20/10 vision (twice as sharp as "perfect normal") and have never seen the appeal of retina screens or 4k.

edit: Also the file sizes are vastly larger for 4k for an incremental benefit.
Browsers are slower and heavier than they ever were. V8… you could argue it's faster, if you neglect warm-up time, but even it is heavier.
This is exactly my point. If anything, the effects of chlorine dioxide seem minimal or barely noticeable compared to chemo, and of course, much better than dying of cancer. I'm not saying that cancer patients should skip chemo, though!
I understand Naomi's point here, but I'm unclear how it relates to Signal. Isn't this an issue with 3rd party keyboards in any app?
Revenge is probably reason enough.

But even a full Russian strike probably wouldn't 100% destroy the United States (and a full Chinese strike probably wouldn't even kill half of us unless society totally collapsed afterwards).
I don't know of any apps, but 20 years ago at least there were state run services for this. You call a number and someone will translate between your voice call and the ttd that the deaf use. (20 years ago a friend of mine worked for such a service, we have both moved on but I assume the service still exists)
> Adding more safeguards could slow down the response in case of an actual attack and could do more harm than good.

Retaliating doesn't actually do any good. It increases the body count on the other side, but does nothing to help those in the US about to be atomized. It's not like the missiles will collide in mid-air.

What matters is the believed threat of retaliation because that may prevent an attack in the first place. The optimal system in terms of human life and safety is:

1. All foreign governments 100% believe that the US has complete capability to retaliate with devastating force at a moment's notice and will do so with zero hesitation.

2. But the US actually has no such capability so that an accidental first strike on a false alarm is impossible.

The tension between those two is the hard part. :)
I remember my first introduction to the hacking scene was installing custom firmware on the PSP. It allowed over clocking the processor to 333mhz which made god of war run smoothly
Much of this has to do with well understood welfare cliffs.
Sure, some people won't work if they have the option for a menial existence on welfare.
Many more would like to increase their income, but would suffer loss of healthcare, housing, or other necessities if they do.
"...As of June 2020, Signal had more than 32.4 million total downloads, and the app had approximately 20 million monthly active users as of December 2020...." [0]

"...The initial $50M in funding was a loan, not a donation, from Brian Acton to the new nonprofit Signal Technology Foundation. By the end of 2018, the loan had increased to $105,000,400, which is due to be repaid on February 28, 2068. The loan is unsecured and at 0% interest..." [1]

What happens when they add 50M or 100M more users?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_%28software%29
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation
The more a user match with compatible people the more likely they will settle in an exclusive relationship, and thus quit Tinder, and thus quit being a paying customer.

So if you want more recurring paying customers, prevent them to meet with compatible people ;)

What they do ? Show you attractive girls but don't show your profile to them. Keep a 90/10 ratio of men to women on the app. Make you feel like there is an endless list of people to meet and all better than others. Tell you you have 99+ waiting likes (when in fact thats only the girls who liked you but you didnt like). Dont limit the number of guys that a girls can match. Dont delete matches that are inactive (push you to collect matches). Almost force you to choose a long term membership instead of a month, ...
A big part of why BASIC took off with "non-programmers" (for a while) is that it was bundled on every DOS/Windows install. The same is true of Excel: people already have it and are using it, so they just organically start learning the more advanced things you can do with it, and before long they're basically programming.

We aren't talking about people who make a concerted decision to "go find and install a tool for programming", and who just don't want to put in the effort to learn the "real tools". We're talking about people who would never think of themselves as programmers in the first place. I think you underestimate the significance of the small barriers, even ones as small as a search-and-install step.

I do think it would be silly to drop Node into Chrome wholesale, since the bulk of Node is V8, which is the JS engine Chrome already includes. But what about a version of the JS console that's designed to be exposed to everyday users, for interaction with the sites they use every day? What about a button on the New Tab screen for opening an interactive web dev space similar to CodePen, which can trivially save the resulting files to the local file system (and load projects from there)? They could re-use most of the GUI components from the existing Sources tab in the dev tools. What if it included a preconfigured (simplified) reactive front-end framework so people could get started making custom GUIs? Something like this: https://mavo.io/
The opposing crowd and lack of familiarity with the stadium come to mind.

It’s pretty common to hear athletes comment on these aspects of away games.

That’s not to say circadian rhythms don’t have an affect, I’m sure they do.

The study’s methods however are related only to travel vs non-travel. The authors’ attribution/specific call-out to circadian rhythms is a bit odd to me, since it doesn’t seem like they tested/measured those specifically.

Edit: case in point: “ We also did not have data at the individual level regarding each player’s internal circadian timing, and therefore individual differences in circadian disruption could have differed between players and affected team outcomes.”

I don’t think circadian rhythms should have been mentioned in the title of the article at all. It should be about travel which is more broad and accurate to what they were measuring.
Hmm maybe you didn't mean that slippery slope is not a fallacy, but rather not always? because it can be a fallacy. Question is if it is here: does it appeal to emotion without arguments (or as you mentioned with precedents) to back up that if event A will happen, then event Z will?
Also can the function keys be grouped in groups of 4, with extra space between groups? I am forced to use an external keyboard already because of the touchbar and the 2017 keyboard, and it solves all of my problems except that the function keys are hard to hit especially during debugging. It's the little things!
> "personal marketing spend" of around 300-400$/mo

huh?
I found two in your comment history. One is downvoted and the other no. I don't think we can conclude too much from this.
WTH! They are not going to stop until the have shut up anyone that don't agree with them!
Here's a popular, commercial Japanese IME: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATOK
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E.g. OVH, Hetzner, TransIP... idk whatever kinda server you like. Or repurpose an old laptop at home, for a few Watts you get something that's usually more powerful per ¤ than a VPSes (or "cloud instances" in newspeak). Then install a Matrix server, add your domain, and you've got your own Signal alternative.

Or just use the standard matrix.org home server if you're just trying it out / don't mind a not-super-fast home server. Or one of a dozen public Matrix servers: https://www.hello-matrix.net/public_servers.php
Mainly because of his track record - he has done very well over a very long period of time.

> over the last 20 years, Berkshire Hathaway had a 7% annualized ROI while a simple Nasdaq fund had 8%.

> He talks so much about (...) investing in things you know something about

This kind of answers your question. The most successful companies over the past 20 years have been in tech. Buffet admits that he doesn't understand tech and that's why he isn't willing to invest. He doesn't mind missing out on opportunities and he also isn't interesting in learning.
What is the value of such weak claims, other than possibly stimulating a research entity to execute a rigorous experiment? Or as marketing fluff for companies that would benefit from making such claims? Or confirmation bias for those of us who suspect we drink too much coffee?

Words like 'may be' (the information is not conclusive)

and 'linked' (we don't know if it's causal)

make this (in my view) un-newsworthy.
You would likely see crypto on unbanked exchanges skyrocket as the USDT denominator to most pairs goes to zero. This crypto would presumably be moved off exchange and sold elsewhere. So on legit exchanges, crypto crashes and on sham exchanges it moons.
You would still have to rely on one person still having access to the internet.
Worst case, Uganda could just jam the satellites.
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