skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Compile it, run it with the same inputs the prosecution claims was provided, and see if you get the same result. That's sorta the point of computers, right? Same inputs on the same program, same output?

One difficulty here is that the input is a real world effect. That means the answers are rarely exactly the same. The last time I looked, breathalyzers have a ~50% margin of error. So if you blow a 0.06, your BAC is really somewhere between 0.03 and 0.09. You could mod your breathalyzer to always assume that the reading was 25% higher than the reality without being noticed, as long as your breathalyzer doesn't return a result that's already 25+% higher during testing. Even if it does, your other results will be in range.

They need to just stop using breathalyzers. They're inaccurate pieces of machinery, operated by people without any medical knowledge to speak of, who have a vested interest in the readings being high. The whole thing, from top to bottom, is just a long chain of poorly aligned incentives. Field sobriety tests are even worse. The fact that your license can be revoked for refusing the test under the above grounds is nothing short of an end-run around the 4th amendment by declaring driving a "privilege, not a right" despite the fact that it is extremely hard to live in most of the US and not be able to drive. How the fuck do I survive in rural Oklahoma/Georgia/Kentucky/Texas/etc, 40 miles from the nearest bus stop, without a car? And all without any due process. It's never impacted me, but it bothers me nonetheless.

They need to force people to go in for a blood draw to establish BAC. It is an accurate test, administered by competent medical professionals, who have no vested interest in the outcome either way. Yes it does take longer. Yes, some people who were at 0.08 will be down to 0.07 by the time the test is administered. I still find that more comforting than the fact that some people at 0.06 will read at 0.09, and some people at 0.14 are going to read at 0.07.

There's also the fact that a cop who doesn't calibrate their breathalyzer is merely going to get a slap on the wrist, and a medical professional who does the same is probably going to end up with a huge malpractice suit and possibly lose their license if it was egregious in some way.
Oh yeah, far more easy than the government taking regulatory action is coordinating a massive consumer choice boycott.

Sometimes, it is so abundantly clear to me that this site is full of former teenage libertarians who grew up and still haven't shed all of those ideals.
A monolith does not necessarily mean a single binary.
You can pick and choose, but the state employs men with guns for these occasions.
I would guess that if you actually dig into it, the reason why each company who does it does them differently is legal.
Because vaccines are in short supply. The choice isn't AZ+Moderna+JJ+PB vs Moderna+JJ+PB. the real choice today is AZ+Moderna+JJ+PB+NOTHING vs Moderna+JJ+PB+NOTHING, with the size of nothing being larger in the second case.

So really it is c: you vaccinate everyone with whatever you can get your hands on. Once everyone has had some vaccine you look at data of what is working and give everyone with a less effective vaccine an additional dose of whatever works - which will probably be a new vaccine that doesn't exist yet!

Don't forget that mutations are continuous. We might be looking at another mutation in 3 months as supply catches up that evades vaccines in a completely new way.
I’d never heard of Canva before and, taking a quick look, based on its feature set I don’t see it as a competitor to Photoshop or Illustrator really.

Canva seems all about taking an existing template and swapping in some new photos and text. Of course, this is very useful and I’m sure there’s a huge market for such functionality when creating Instagram posts, etc.

But it’s very different from full-featured image editing (photoshop) or authoring complex vector graphics (illustrator).
As a) is likely to reduce the serious cases faster, that seems like a point in its favor.

One complication might be if people getting mild cases end up spreading the variant faster, because they are not incapacitated by it - but it is not as if it is having much difficulty spreading now, despite the serious cases it creates, as it seems to spread before it incapacitates. I don't think this possibility demands that we stop using this vaccine until this issue is unequivocally settled.
I thought Cloudron was open source. Has this changed over time, and what exactly is the status?
Not tried it myself, but there is this script: https://github.com/mobeigi/fb2cal

I'm certain it was possible to create a link on Facebook that could be used to import birthdays to your regular calendar application, but I can't find this feature anymore.

edit: First sentence of their actual description clarifies it:

> Around 20 June 2019, Facebook removed their Facebook Birthday ICS export option.
> significantly more efficient, which is why cities get dense.

But it's not.

Look at most cities in the world besides a few which are well know to have a broken/unhealthy local economic...

Do most of them have sky scrapers all over the place?

Or do they mostly have 5-10 Story buildings with a view ~80m buildings, even less 80-150m buildings, and hardly any building larger then that?

Then look at all the large 200+m sky scrapers, how many of them do have unused space? How many are all office space and only profitable due to broken tax regulations? And how many stopped being profitable when they became older? Also look at the cost of tearing down (replacing) or reconstructing a sky scraper compared to a regular building and look into how often the company which build the sky scraper did carry the cost?

Also look at all the super high sky scrapers and consider how many where purely build to show power?

I don't have anything against sky scrapers, but there is a point at which they stop making sense and as far as I can tell it should be somewhat but not much above 150m, or maybe even lower.

And yes without question there are cities in which huge sky scrapers are always economical the best choice, but I believe most of such cities have a broken/unhealthy.

Sure, even for this there are exceptions. Like in countries where (flat, accessible) land is generally a sparse resource, like Singapore.
> technically a good product.

Do you mean with technology or something like "technically it could have worked in the market"? Because if its the latter then I disagree. Its a service on which my entire library can disappear, I have to pay full price + subscription price and maybe buy new hardware (to play on TVs). I have no idea who this is for.
Bitcoin's main purpose is as a store of value. You have to compare it to other stores of value. Bitcoin is not the "best" store of value just like javascript is not the "best" programming language. But both are the defacto in their category. This is what I'm trying to explain.
You can definitely price things in a volatile currency but that doesn't mean the situation will be ideal. One just has to look at the research on the economic impact of currency volatility on emerging markets to see how this plays out.
This is all good and well, except that scheduling a meeting also has to take other people's availabilities into account. The more people are supposed to participate, the harder the constraints.
Wolfram gets (perhaps rightly) mocked a lot for his claims, but I think he actually does really good work, and has original ideas.
>You don’t spend $30k...

Yes you do. You’ll almost never get the retail value out of a piece of jewelry if you try to resell it.
People are fed up with broken vaccine appointment tools, so they’re building own
> be quiet

No
China Battles West for Control of Vital Technology Standards
I think there's a bias towards judging things to be "clever" if they're hard to understand

It's a cliche to have a "what idiot wrote this" outburst, then realise it's your own code, because most of us have written our fair share of "clever" code

My boss explicitly stated that he doesn't want to see any "clever" or "smart" code in our product - write code based on simple fundamentals, benchmark before deciding to optimise, and be respectful in your reviews

I like my boss a lot
Luckily this is the year where we can stop arguing with the haters. If you haven't figured it out yet, I can't help you. The price speaks for itself
I'm not claiming that a low-latency, no-borders, truly international digital currency is a bad thing. The main issue with Bitcoin is a complete lack of oversight.

As a currency it's dreadful, suffering from tens of thousands of percent in deflation (= value increased relative to the cost of goods).

As a trade product it's terrible, suffering from a lack of oversight from e.g. the SEC, opening it up to price manipulation (see MtGox creating artificial demand, the Tether money printer, the smaller crypto's being fucked around with by traders who have enough money to throw around to influence the price, and the meme coins being influenced by Elon Musk making a tweet about it (although afaik he can't be accused of manipulation directly, this time).
Half the people in jails in the USA haven't hurt anyone physically. We seem to lock people up just fine without any display of harm. We are a strange animal indeed.
Yeap. There then ought to be a whole cottage industry of gaming AI applications and AI hiring.

So, we're basically voluntarily letting the machines take over and replace human jobs, nuance, and critical thinking?

Oh and then the next logical progressions are AI performance reviews and AI management. Within a decade, your AI boss will slinging around a coffee cup and saying "yeah, I'm gonna need you to come in on Sunday too."

You are a true believer, blessings of the State, blessings of the masses. Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents and be happy.
If it was sold to a resident in some state online currently that resident can sue in the local courts. The business is considered to operate in all states.

The alternative is all suits under ~$75k(?) don't get heard because they don't meet the requirements for federal court, which obviously can't be right.
Sackings? On what ground? Proving there's any kind of malice or bias in rejected applications is nearly impossible as the main job of HR is to protect the company from any hiring bias leaking out. That's why your rejection email is usually some generic copy-paste message and they usually refuse to give you any feedback upon request
While in principle I agree, the reality is that spam is a real problem.

At least we have a decent amount of competition and choice in the email provider space.
Completely unrelated to what the parent was saying.
At 100 GHz signals can only propagate 3 cm per clock.

So to run at those speeds, you need extremely compact circuits, and you need to bring memory closer too.

Maybe move to 3D, another way to increase reach.

What is the current thinking regarding this problem?
Terraria creator cancels Stadia port after being locked out of Google account
> I'm not saying that companies shouldn't be able to suspend accounts temporarily. I'm simply saying that there needs to be a way to get your account unsuspended if you're innocent. The way it "works" now is that innocent consumers are without any recourse whatsoever.

This is absolutely spot on, with the caveat that you do need to disaggregate from accounts to people, which is the hard problem. Having people call a phone number is definitely not going to work as a way of achieving this disaggregation. I'm pretty sure I could create a system to bring that call center to a halt with fairly minimal cost in less than a week of coding.

As an attacker, you can also hire people in call centers to make phone calls at scale for you.
Tipping is an anachronism with roots in slavery. It’s unfair to the worker, unfair to the customer, and it’s time to stop leaning on tips to make up pay.
Can I get paid in dollars for spare storage?
Kong Secures $1.4B Valuation to Build Connection for Apps
Yes. this is exactly what's happening to us/our customers. We are not using DO for any emails. But because the domain itself is blacklisted on UCEPROTECTL3, some of our customer's users are blocking an email from their domain completely. Everyone is confused WTF is going on.
The shitty American bank system doesn't make something that works slightly better a 'paradigm shift'.

https://transferwise.com/gb/send-money/instant-money-transfe...
Your sentimentality is not enough for a good justice system.
That's a fair thing to worry about with cryptos in general but it has nothing to do with either my comment or its parent.
I've encountered some enthusiastic users. These were people who had never done a lick of graphic design in their life but are now using it for things like birthday party invites, event announcements etc.
> That has very little to do with currency and everything to do with you not wanting to pay taxes.

Debasing a currency is not a normal tax. Currency debasement is extremely regressive.

- The poorer someone is, the more of their assets are likely to just be some cash in the bank.

- it is a permanent loss of quality of life for people on fixed incomes.

- it doesn’t exempt people a normal tax code does (low income, blind, high dependent count, etc)

> it's deliberate action to improve everyone's situation in the long term.

This is the justification for nearly every government action.
>I suppose if you spend all of your day in front of a computer, you'll have difficulty understanding what the human body is capable of on its own with enough time and discipline and you'll just assume everyone is taking shortcuts.

You're assuming an awful lot. I am sure there are more than a handful of people here who know when there is reason to be suspicious of someone's gains.

>Members of the military routinely do 12+ hours a day of physical exercise, including hours of cardio, and yet none of them have problems disappearing (and only about 2.5% of military personnel use steroids). Triathletes, similarly, can spend 6 hours a day or more on exercise.

Members of the military get very fit. But the body transformations we're seeing in Hollywood are emphasizing physique. Practical fitness is less of a consideration. And many bodybuilders do very little real cardio. Even when getting lean for competition, some do little more than fast walking.

Triathletes competing in the Ironman will obviously do more than 6+ hours on event day. I don't personally know of any who train like that. Three hours per day would be more like it, and not necessarily every day. There must be room for recovery.

I can speak more personally about road cycling. Six hour training blocks simply don't happen. Even six hour races are not that common even at the top pro levels.

>Cardio doesn't consume muscle unless you combine it with starvation. Muscles are the last-ditch choice of fuel. On a proper diet, cardio burns glycogen and fat.

Obviously the diet is key here. And my original point wasn't specific enough about this, but here goes: a lot of these Hollywood "transformations" aren't being honest about the diet versus the claimed exercise regimen. I don't want to take anything away from them in terms of their accomplishments - it is tough to nail all of this to achieve the body they're getting. And steroids help.
As someone who has been following the development closely and run nodes for years; you are very, very wrong.

Adoption has been extremely slow and the two main implementations (lnd and lightningd) are far from complete and feature-compatible, even if development velocity is actually very high in both.

There are serious efforts in development to improve on all the current problems, and relatively seamless interoperability and liquidity bridges with L2 networks on other chains like Ethereum is IMO the coming key to make it happen for real.

In practice it should not be necessary for a retail user to run or maintain their own always-on node(s) in order to get the benefits in a secure way - but much of the required plumbing is still in heavy development.

It's OK that it takes time. Maybe it's another 5-10 years until you will be able to appreciate it - I think it's shorter than that but time will tell.

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TLDR lightning hasn't fully arrived yet and it will continue to happen gradually
IMO that should be illegal, assuming there aren't any competitor ISPs available.
To be fair, the current average Bitcoin transaction fee is around $13 right now, so it would cost a similar amount, or even double if there’s two transactions involved (you -> recipient -> withdrawal exchange).
Well, if the government is truly repressive evading capital controls can be considered a good thing.

I am still convinced that most people willingly holding Tether are trying to avoid paying taxes and skirt KYC.

That is the only sane explanation for this insanity.
Conceptualizing the Mandate for the Bureau of Cyber Statistics
> I reject that they ban "literally on a whim".

They reject based on complex statistical models of behavior with so many variables that no individual understands how the whole thing fits together.

And as a developer, you're constantly doing all sorts of unusual things that might be perfectly reasonable but still trigger a warning.

And then - no recourse. I'm backed up pretty recently with Google but what about this week's email? What about all the people who have that address?
It is somewhat ironic that "work time", for which one gets paid, typically ends up perceived by individuals as "less valuable" than free time. It's one of many ways in which our societies are effectively broken.
I just tried the camera app with a QR code (on a Pixel 5) and nothing happened.
Very nice initiative, but for first time users you still need to download 300GB+ of blockchain
1. I see a securities fraud class action lawsuit coming up if (when?) that tanks.

2. Accepting Bitcoin as payment is not a big deal, really. It would be remarkable when they denominate things in BTC. Say, you can buy a Model 3 for 1.1 BTC (and, just to be clear, when BTC-USD changes, it still sells at 1.1 BTC, and whatever the then new USD price is). That would be something. That's not going to happen, of course.
Yes but once they are used for tax evasion and underground economy they can become worthless in hands of people that deal with it as a legal asset. Governments can regulate any asset class.
OK, you can lead your "resistance" to big tech your way.

Meanwhile, I'll be pushing my representative for regulatory action.
I agree. I roll my eyes at some grandiose claims WRT physics fundamentals (not that it’s wrong per se, just not a kind of “Theory of Everything”), BUT he does original, brilliant work.
Ah, that uncensored dark web existed IRL: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/27/314961287/ho...
This has a strong Kurt Vonnegut smell to it.
This is a long tail regulatory force, but unfortunately, does nothing to stop bad actors from jumping in and making a quick profit for as long as they can until it goes noticed.

Society also no longer has tolerance for processes that are not fully auditable and transparent, especially when it comes to our already marred justice system.
He never said BTC. Bitcoin was not designed to be a stable currency. If you want a stable currency look at stable coins such as DAI, USDT, USDC, etc.
> They even have pagekite integration

Nice, I was wondering if/how they handle tunneling.
Okay, but like, every logic has a corresponding category, right? Please focus on the maths and stop struggling; you're only making things harder for yourself.
His name is An.

https://twitter.com/AnTheMaker
30? Life lessons?

Give me a break.
Bitcoin is basically the bond market replacement now.
LibreOffice & OpenOffice are so bad that converting Markdown to .docx via Pandoc is a better option even for non-technical users.
Apple's iOS is way more secure than Android in several aspects. The best example is their 5 years of guaranteed security (and features!) updates, versus 2-3 tops in Android (even <1 with Chinese cheap brands than are very common in Europe, such as Xiaomi).
I still don't understand: who said that "vegetarian weaning is itself a problem or a scam"?
Many groups with deep pockets don't want simplification. From tax preparers to tax reformers who want frustrated taxpayers to hate the government.

This is from around 2017, but covers what another tax reformer faced:

https://priceonomics.com/the-stanford-professor-who-fought-t...
This is about https://netblocks.org that are frequently quoted here and in the media when it comes to censorship and internet connectivity issues.

It seems like they are doing so without user consent and making up their data?
I just looked up the cost of doing a regular money transfer, and that adds up to that amount as well - plus extra for collection. International money transfer is expensive.

I just looked it up, for BTC you currently pay a transfer fee equivalent to $11, with spikes to $17 in the past month.
Justice Dept investigating Musk’s SpaceX after hiring discrimination complaint
Point of Sale maybe ...
If they do that, they’ll need to follow the same regulations any other bank does.
There have been serious side effects documented for these vaccines. Bruising, soreness, "covid mouth", miscarriages, deaths, anaphylactic shock, etc. The vaccine has also not been out long enough to know of any long term health issues.

The data is not in whether they are effective against death. They didn't test the super vulnerable in the studies. If you look at the places that have high vaccination numbers, you don't actually see any significant drop in covid cases or deaths. If anything, those places are staying high while the rest of the world is dropping. They were released under emergency authorization which means that they haven't fully testing and verified them to the level that would normally be done.

If they are as effective as the hype, we should be seeing significant positive results by now.
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There's an elephant in the room: hiring is by nature biased.

I have yet to witness an hiring process that isn't biased. As an anecdote, in a past small business job, a colleage (that accumulated the hiring manager hat) used to choose people (always opposite sex) by photo and had even the literal approval of the company owner to do so. To corroborate this, I remember two persons "hired by photo" commenting that they never had any trouble getting job interviews. It may indicate that "hiring by photo" is rather common.

We like to forget that most jobs don't allow 10X'ers. Choosing "the best" is normally just a form of "early optimization". My take on this (but I might be biased) is trial most and only hire who adds enough value.
10 lines per hour? doesn't that seem painfully slow?
> Because it's fast ?

Not that fast: for most purposes you have to wait about an hour. Not as fast as centralised fast systems.
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