skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crypto is a great utility in this respect, when physical commodities and fiats are severely regulated or vulnerable to seizure in times of strife.

But when using crypto, you are fundamentally trading high utility in exchange for high risk. The extremely volatility of crypto makes the stock market look like a playground. There’s nothing in the way of your life savings being reduced to zero when you need to make a life-changing transaction.

Nationalized paper fiats such as the US dollar are at least protected from extreme volatility by the Federal Reserve, but to obtain such protections, you must trade the high utility for encumbrances like heavy regulation.
It would also give non-spammers a better understanding of why they were banned and teach them to be better humans. It’s this lack of empathy that’s leading to more and more anger online.
The Snapdragon 888 vs. the Exynos 2100: Cortex-X1 and 5nm – Who Does It Better?
What Jeff Bezos Hath Wrought
Is the amount of work your heart has to do at issue here? Can you point to some articles talking about this?
Sad QAnon Followers Are at a Precarious Pivot Point
As an aside - what benefit is there to having a game such as Terraria on Stadia in the first place? It has fairly low system requirements, and given how much energy is eaten up by server-side rendering and streaming, it seems wasteful in this context.
Being an alt-right/neo-nazi content host is a systematic risk. Nothing particularly shocking about that. Doesn't have much to do with AWS, tbh.
I think of it this way.

If I was buying some software for work that costs (say) $500 the process involves many steps, including convincing myself I want it and concincing my boss to pay for it (usually.)

It could take days to give a product a fair evaluation but I have to consider the probability is (say) 30% that I get it in the end, so that the invested time might be "wasted". Say I spend 2 days on eval and I get paid $50 an hour, that is $800 worth of time which I could spend on project work, or 'sharpening the saw' in some other way. If I have to look at four products to buy one I am spending $2400 of time to buy a $500 product.

So I think of free trials as 'free as in puppy'.
If that's our standard of evidence then I've resolved bugs by getting a coffee and doing nothing else. :)

Bug resolved. Reason: not enough coffee.

Seriously these systems are complicated and it's easy to confuse correlation for causality.
I wouldn't depend on F-Droid or FOSS as a measure of security. Of course, I get that F-Droid is run by volunteers, but I hope no one is spreading the notion that the F-Droid apps are magically uber secure and private or anything.
I've used online diff checkers in the past for their convenience, but in the end I went out of my way to find a convenient way to quickly diff two texts locally. It's not that I believe that online diff checkers upload the contents to some third parties - in fact this one explicitly says everything is performed locally - but the fact that they _could_ made me feel uneasy.
While not in Schengen zone, UK had minimal check at the boarders when coming from EU. It was a fairly free flow approach.
There is a paid option: for $6/month you can use gmail with your own domain name. It's targeted at businesses but you can use it as an individual.

https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html

It includes support, but I'm not sure if that helps in cases where google thinks you have abused the service. I just use it because I like having my own domain, and so that I don't lose access to my email if google locks me out. The idea is that I can update my domain's MTX records and use another email service.
The last part on government bonds seems like a traders mentality. If you buy a bond and hold it to maturity you should be fine. You'll get your money back with interest. If you were looking to sell bonds then it may have been at a loss as indicated. This is why US treasuries are so popular in times of crisis. They are immune to everything but inflation and total government collapse.
> What if he accuses them without justification? Which

He's already doing that. Even if it turns out that he happens to be right, it's coincidence.
It was created by Guido, no idea how successful his projects are but he does list them on his page: https://guido.io/
If it is a valid threat model I don't know, but there are people streaming Bitcoin blocks over satellite for this very reason. So it is likely two islands of the network would be reconnected, provided that any one node is relaying blocks in this way.
> being unable to take responsibility for them, from a human perspective, is the biggest separator between human and animal behaviour.

That is true, but also not related to what your GP was talking about IMHO.

I understood their comment as coming from a perspective of either "you should fear what you can't understand/explain - and you can't really understand animals" or "it's their nature to be violent, it doesn't matter whether you understand them", either of which I think is flawed.

You made a much better point.

I just have a habit of picking at reasoning even if I agree with the conclusion. Sometimes you end up with a more concise and to the point argument at the end of that, and in this case it came from you!
Sorry but this is just an example of word mush. It's not complicated. The men are blind. They are not reliable witnesses. The probability of them being correct about any observation they make is very low.

It just sounds cool. Blind men, elephants etc. Mystical woo.

What is important about any model is it's ability to predict the future. The blind men are evidently unable to do this and thus are independently worthless as oracles.

Of course the men could pool their experiences and admit they were wrong about individual predictions and using prior knowledge about objects known in the world would be able to come to the conclusion about the elephant.

However as an allegory about the divine this fails because there is no prior evidence to conclude that there are any such divine objects exist. We don't know what a divine object is.

You then will end up falling back to some variation of Pascal's wager where an infinite value multiplied by zero evidence somehow produces something you sell shares in.

Good luck with that on WSB.
My pleasure. I'm glad you were able to get something from it :)
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/

But in this case, there is only one standard, and lots of imitators:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxi...

But fallout from the bad app, or possibly deliberate actions by the malware maker have caused hundreds of bad reviews. It might be that removing the malware app from the store means people search for Barcode Scanner, find ZXing instead of the bad one, then post their bad review there. Or maybe the bad app is deliberately telling people "Click here to review the app", and pointing to the wrong app.

There's also reports of some sort of malware doing fishy things with intents to make it look like the ZXing software is bad https://github.com/zxing/zxing/issues/1345#issuecomment-7590....

I'd like to see a proper investigation by someone at Google Play. The original Barcode scanner is not needed for QR codes any more - almost any camera app will recognise those, as will Google's lens application, but it is still useful for scanning other barcode formats and for generating barcodes by sharing data with it from other apps, without needing to upload to a server or anything.
When someone is in court on charges of child abuse, maybe we don't want them to know in case they (After serving their sentence) or their friends go for reprisals. Maybe the next child abuser might know their likely avenue of getting caught. Yet still we tell them the charges and evidence and give them a chance to defend themselves. Often in my country, given the damage such allegations could cause to both the victim and alleged (but not yet proven) perpetrator, we don't even reveal the identities of culprits until there's a guilty verdict.

If we can extend that courtesy to people accused of child abuse, surely we should extend it to people accused of internet spam?
He didn't say cheap though. You had to rephrase what he said so you had something to attack.
Podcast link: https://www.twoscomplement.org/, I think it was the latest episode.
You can email your congressman/woman if you’re in the US

Otherwise, we can try to see the evidence for ourselves, via articles and satellite imagery and try to make more sense of the situation.
I’m kind of over this topic. He’s got a point and I agree with it in the main. I wish we had satellites we could pivot around circling all of our planets and major asteroids, for that matter. I think this situation highlights how little we’re doing to be aware of our solar system.

But this topic has come up enough on HN.
I would happily buy such a drive (if it was new and factory made).
Also it gets very hard for developers to keep track of past versions and apply new fixes to them, when they also have to apply fixes to the new versions.

Then maybe they release too often?

I have been developing software professionally for a long time, much of it code that needed to be high quality. I have never worked on such a team that couldn't keep track of its own software, often over a period of years or even decades, and backport fixes when necessary.

Yes, it's less convenient for the developers than just having a single version that users are forced to update constantly if they want fixes. But it is achievable if you drop the pretence that every minor change in functionality or appearance must be pushed into production instantly through some CD system, which is of course a luxury that only those running hosted software have anyway.
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> During WWII, a number of stock markets had “permanent breaks” with the market closing and never restarting again. That happened in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland and Finland when they were taken over by the Soviet Union. Communism is clearly the greatest enemy of wealth preservation.

The author forgets about the Baltic republics. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were also occupied by the USSR, incorporated into it even.

> A working farm often protected both wealth and your life, providing safety and food. There are number of anecdotes of affluent French families that shuttered their Paris houses in 1940 and retreated with their most precious possessions to family farms in the deep countryside, living in relative comfort through the war.

My significant other and I have consciously invested in a remote countryside property with adjacent agricultural land. Great holiday house. Decent returns as a holiday rental. Comfortable to live in if everything goes poof.

With some research, this is surprisingly affordable in many EU regions. I'm not just speaking of eastern Europe. Even western Europe has super affordable pockets. Check out northern Spain, remote regions of France, and most of Portugal.
You can always start from the generated image (which contains the steps used to build it) and extend it in your custom Dockerfile if your project gets so big, right?
I thought about responding to some comments here but I feel like this point deserves a comment on its own: not to defend Cloudflare, but charging at least $19 / month, having 100 customers (as he said on the post) and not using a proper fully featured WAF to protect an enterprise product is... amateurish?

Also, if the infrastructure is in AWS, CloudFront would cost cents if he really does have "4 requests per minute" with full integration and logs.

I have the feeling that with the advent of cloud solutions, very big companies depend on these really small and very useful tools that disregard almost entirely a number of best practices and standards. The Solarwinds incident is going to happen a lot more, that's for sure.

Regarding Cloudflare: I'm fine with the free product not being great, but hiding the logs is not understandable. I bet a lot more people would upgrade if they knew.
Avi Loeb has been making the podcast rounds pushing this idea in different forms. For example, he claims (with what feels is a very high level of certainty) that Oumuamua was an alien probe because it has a bunch of anomalous properties. He follows the Sherlock Holmes motto of: "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" ... except he doesn't know what he doesn't know, so he can't be certain about what is and isn't impossible.
Except most good developers aren't into exhibitionism.
Apparently they killed the Stadia Game studio after a year.

As if you could create a big impact game from (or near) scratch in a year xD
Thanks for the link! Cool to think about how the evolution of smell has optimized for "a maximum entropy code."

I totally agree, it's a feature not a bug. A wide spectrum is absolutely an essential feature for an animal to sense thousands (to millions) of different chemicals without thousands (to millions) of different receptors. So, calling olfactory receptors "just plain horrible proteins" was a bit rude to them, haha!

However, in my opinion, digital sensors based on olfactory receptors have and will continue to suffer from such wide spectra and poor sensitivities.
As I understand it, template interpreters work by generating machine code corresponding to the virtual machine instructions and jumping to that machine code. As opposed to sort of a big switch statement that you'd get in a normal bytecode interpreter.

A good intro to it here:
https://programmersought.com/article/5521858566/
I've been making the switch (slowly) over the past year. Had a gmail from the early days, when it was invite only. Now moving to a combo of protonmail + custom domain, and I couldn't be happier.
I know the usual explanation is that they're too big to respond, but at this point I've become of the mind that if you can't handle the most basic explanation as to why lock out a user from your service, and at least one way to appeal and get a response from someone able to make a decision, then you shouldn't be allowed to scale at all. Even if it would become a bottleneck, this can't keep happening.
It absolutely can be debunked, in just about the same way as a scientific paper. That is, people can write other papers and books tearing it to shreds. What people don’t like is that books tend to reach a broader audience and so that audience may not read the subsequent follow-up work debunking it. I’m torn on this because bringing science to a broader audience is generally a praiseworthy thing. (I would not have entered a scientific career but for some great science books.)
Immune to everything but inflation and total government collapse does not buy you a lot in times of hyperinflation and total government collapse though.

The article mostly looks at WWII. It would have been interesting to also include other spectacular breakdowns like the Congo after the oil crisis, the fall of the USSR, Venezuela and more.
https://fallacyinlogic.com/the-appeal-to-emotion-fallacy-wit...
Feature suggestion: password protection (possibly optional?)

Currently it's possible to brute force your way onto other people's pages.
So is it just me or are Jazz apples just the mealiest of apples? We get them at our office, and I've tried them multiple times figuring maybe the previous time we just got a bad batch, but every single time it's like taking a bite out of a bag of flour.
What does the WAF get you that Cloudflare's free plan doesn't? I'm not doubting you, I genuinely want to know.
I think this is a convenient narrative for an abusive pattern of behavior by Google. The company is infamous for having non-existent customer service. It's not a matter of their AI having too many false positives, it's that when there is a false positive you have literally no recourse even if you're a well known business partner.

Are we really going to believe that Google, one of the highest grossing companies in the world, doesn't have the money to provide even basic level customer service? If it were really a matter of not being able to afford it, certainly they could offer it for a fee. No, they're stubbornly refusing to address the issues, relying on this lie, and using their market dominance to avoid having to answer for it.
Well, when the users already give the government access to their location 24/7 with that app, at least they include a barcode/QR scanner.

But privacy is clearly one of the victims of this pandemic. At least some countries are now opening up the source-code of the front and back-end of their apps. They had to do that here in Norway (they had to replace the whole app actually) when the original closed source version was demonstrated to contain harmful features...
If you ask me : because I can "scan" in 10 seconds a page of different replies, something which would be impossible to do visually or aurally.

This is why 10-minute videos of "how to" in programming always enrage me. Though of course it makes a lot of sense for visual tasks such as 3D animation.
We have emitted the Voyager gold plate and a Tesla car more recently.

It could be a message, a test or alien waste, but all the one's dismissing the professor have not explained the acceleration and cha ge of trajectory in a satisfying or convincing manner.
People really think the guy is financially desperate to cash in with a kookie book?
I'll bite. I actually became disinterested partway through reading and closed to read some comments, so judge for yourself if you're at all interested in my pov :)

I'm also not a blogger myself, so my feelings won't be backed by
writer experience, I'm just replying to try and articulate my own
(subconscious) thought process when deciding that I don't want to read something anymore, in the hope that it can be somewhat helpful. I mean no disrespect.

I have to say I struggled through the analogy of
the coral reef. In
the end, once I understood what the analogy was visualizing, I came
away with the impression that it only detracted, instead of adding to, my understanding: I had the idea that I understood the situation with the reef because of my understanding of social networks, instead of the other way around. This gives, of course, a disjointed feeling.

I checked out when I started reading the section on Access and
Availability. The section started with another setting: that of a 4th
grader, and then moved to another setting, the gravity of
molecules. We've had a lot of settings now: casinos, insurance
companies, social networks, coral reefs, and now these two. That's a
lot to keep in mind. I just now saw that there is also the mention of
pizza dough as well!

That may be why commenters are relating this to gpt3: the narrative
jumps all over the place, never resting anywhere- just like the neural netwerk does!

I'm not saying you cant use all these settings in the text. But
sticking to a single analogy, at least in the opening segments, would
have brought a lot of clarity to this text. That way I as reader would also feel that you stay closer to your stated topic, which would make for more interest in reading your post.

There are other points to be made here, but I'll leave that to others.
And also because pitbulls were created to fight other dogs, and descend from bulldogs, which were created to fight to the death against bulls.
Several epidemiologist are trying to warn the developed nations that the current battle for covid vaccines provisioning is doing the world a disservice since it allows the virus to mutate in parts of the world that can't compete economically for vaccine shots (Manaus, South Africa, etc.)

But Nash equilibrium is still more powerful than everything else ...
Clearly they need a wise dictator like you that can tell them where their best interests lie. Obviously the proletariat is too unintelligent to manage that on their own.
> we've never observed an interstellar object before this, haven't after this, it's reasonable to think that the 99.99%+ of it's life it spent outside of the solar system means it starts with surface conditions unlike what we're used to from comets

In the Lex Friedman Podcast Loeb said that another interstellar object, named Borisov, had been observed since Oumuamua and it had a typical comet shape.
Maybe someday acoup.blog will write a few kB on it and settle this ;)
The web site touts that they combat climate change with a nice concept. But it's a bit ironic that the target product the ship will transport are cars, one major consumer of fossil fuels and a big source of CO2.
Although I agree in principle, and I do book blocks of time for my own work, it is a fine line between settings boundaries in your work vs. presenting an attitude that your time is more important than anything else going on in the entire company. It can make you appear not only unhelpful, but arrogant.

What I instead moved to is scheduling daily reminders that appear at the top of my calendar when people look at it, explaining when I prefer meetings to be scheduled. I've found that people are willing to accept such guidance, and follow my requests better than when I had large chunks of time blocked off.
Buildpacks are an absolute god send. Using the pack CLI and pointing to Google’s builder image I don’t care if I’m writing Go, Python or JavaScript and get a plain old Docker image in my reg.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes...
But wouldn't a deep investigation of reality and the world, of which we and our feelings are a part, more conclusively check and balance our thinking?
For women, the Strong Curves is a popular program/book:

* https://www.bretcontreras.store/products/strong-curves

* https://old.reddit.com/r/StrongCurves/

I still think that SS is a good starter for the first 3-6 months, but once you can no longer jump by 2-5 pounds (1-2 kg) per workout, you've basically used up your beginner gains. (True also for men.)

SS isn't meant to be a long-term program, but mostly (a) getting people to actually do strength training with (b) proper form and (c) concentrating on the Big 5 movements that probably give the best bang-for-buck/time.
A Historic Union Vote Gets Underway at Amazon
Not yet, but easier to contact support once you get the subscription.

So that's another reason to subscribe since it's 20$ month. (AWS and other SaaS cost us an order of magnitude more)

Any case, what I meant to say, is that free plan works fairly well even at higher volumes.

If you expect more reliability, should definitely subscribe.
I thought that every carrier group had at least one SSN, using the Jimmy Carter for this kind of thing seems strange.
Yes, refundable if the company ban proved in the wrong. Sounds like a great solution IMO