skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strange thing is that with that many people with experiences the James Randy Challenge never had to pay anything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_...
Cool stuff. Wish I found this a few years ago when I dug into this topic for a thesis. Back then I analyzed this incredible resource (warning: clicking this link will load looots of images): http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarm...
and came up with my own provisional taxonomy where major categories were "Line-connected block-based", "Snap-together block-based", "List-based", "Enhanced text", and a few others.

Looking back I still think that the most promising direction when it comes to real-world applications of visual programming is the hybrid approach: make a language which has "real-time" interchangeable text and visual representations -- you get the best of both worlds this way (that was basically the topic of my thesis[1]).

I thought it was an original idea when I started out with my research, but sure enough there were attempts in the past. And towards the end (4+ years ago) I discovered a fresh one which seems to be still going strong, albeit rebranded: https://github.com/enso-org
Last time I checked they were making what I consider a bad design choice by leaving the structuring of the visual representation entirely up to the user, but maybe that's fixed now.

Anyway I think it's a cool topic and worth keeping an eye on.

[1] If anyone is interested it's available here: https://djedr.github.io/masters_thesis.pdf
That is, assuming there isn't a nation state keeping one of these whale wallets that never was touched after initial mining.
I only stay on Facebook due to one important group using Messenger exclusively. They’ve built their (small) business community and communications around it. It’s disappointing.
It only assumes that demand is not 100% price elastic, which is almost guaranteed to be true.
Disabling/deactivating your FB account is a good way. Your automatically off FB but can come back if you want.

Been off for about 3 years and its great. Log in once a year or so.

Seriously what is the point of Facebook? Chasing likes? Getting into angry political discourse. Watching cat videos? no thanks.

You can use what's app or meet up for groups /family stuff. FB is so pointless.
For me, the idea of scheme is the idea of a few well-chosen primitives that compose into higher abstractions. Guile does this really well, in my opinion. You can get a decent superficial overview of the implementation in a week, and the IRC channel are really helpful with the parts that are not standard scheme.
We lost control of our faces
Bluetooth and wifi mac spoofing is pretty common, both when scanning and connecting. Both iOS and android do it to certain degrees.

It does indeed boost privacy as wireless networks in public places have been trying to track phones this way for a while now.
I basically have something similar to your use-case. While I'm on the free tier for all my domains, the supplemental agreement, at least in the US version, removes the specific limitation to serve primarily html/text content if you enable Cloudflare Workers, which also has a free tier, applies on an account and not domain level, and has no requirement for you to serve your content through their KV system. I ended up paying for my CF Workers subscription for a different project on my account but the system worked fine prior to that. I served 111GB of a combination of m4a and png files in data from my B2 bucket via CF in the past month.
It doesn't exist? What were your feature requirements?

You wrote a wrapper around ZXing, which already has an official app as well as simple variations of that app from the ZXing team. That app is open source and ad-free.

There are already many similar wrappers around ZXing on the Play Store.

So what does your app do (or not) that makes it special?
We are the same guys want every app to be free. Do you expect bread to be free or coffee to be free?
Why we expect apps to be free even from google?

How do you think small app developers earn money by displaying ads?
But we want ads to be blocked and don’t want to pay money
otoh it might be quite attractive way to indirectly invest in bitcoin: profit when it's rising, go all minority shareholder on them when the bubble pops, because nominally the company in question did all its business in an entirely unrelated field.

(I know nothing about minority shareholder stuff and certainly don't expect this calculation to actually work out financially, but on an emotional level, some people will just love being able to point fingers when their bet fails)
There are very few nations that don't have their own currency. That's because part of being a stable government is being able to have monetary control. Without that, it's only a matter of time before some expensive event (pandemic, war, drought, recession), people lose faith in government bonds, the government runs out of money, can't pay its workers, and a civil war ensues.

Sure, some small island nations manage it. But in general, no big country can manage without monetary control.
I don't think the "but you can" rounding error alternate Android app stores and side-loading constitute a viable developer alternative. *

* Except in China, in which case it's only true for their domestic Android market
Institutions invest in all sorts of things without a fixed total supply. Equities, gold, and national currencies, for example.
Sounds like business as usual, other than it being bitcoin.
>Terminals have no reason to continue to be used in my opinion. Note that this does not mean we shouldn’t use “textual” interfaces, quite the opposite: textual data is a bliss to manipulate. But we can very well manipulate text, along with other types of data, in something other than a terminal, that is faster, prettier, more powerful. (Graphical Emacs is one such example.)

I have recently switched to Jupyter's qtconsole for my REPL needs - for me, it hits the sweet spot of supporting rich media and interaction without the overhead of running a full web browser stack. I could see it becoming the basis for a next-gen terminal.
The CEA is not a think tank. It is indeed a public research institute specializing in nuclear energy but with zero contribution from private individuals or investors, nor does it fit any other part of the definition of think tank or is included in any think tank ranking. The CEA's annual budget is € 5 billion, whereas the IFRI (Institut Français des Relations Internationales, definitely a think tank) is only € 7 million.

Furthermore, the CEA is leading the project for very good reasons and the help of companies manufacturing airport metal detectors makes perfect sense:
"3) Enhanced relocatable unit for non-intrusive detection of wide number of threats including explosives, illicit drugs, chemical warfare agents, nuclear and radioactive materials (NR) and special nuclear materials (SNM) such as enriched uranium and plutonium, 4) Trans-European RPM network for passive detection of illicit nuclear and radioactive (NR) materials combining detection facilities of different types and technologies" (simply quoting your sources)
She absolutely could! She’d just rent some brick and mortar space and call it a university, and sell people on the social aspects of meeting like minded people.

Millions of people in the US pay $30,000 or more to do basically that same thing (per year!) ie. they take a series of outdated 101 basics classes for an “associates” degree.

Look at what Ramit Sethi does, he charges thousands of dollars for what can be summed up in one sentence; “live below your means and buy index funds.” And people find that a good value because it’s convenient and structured!

Anything is possible if it’s positioned correctly.
What a disappointment. Tesla should have taken GameStop over!
Clever. The title suggests something special about it being morse code.
The key is that they use javascript to decode the message. In that case they could have used any substitution cypher between characters and puctuation. Or even ASCII art representing a funny picture.
Huh? How do you get the electricity back out of the aluminium?

Oh, OK, I get it.

Region A consumes a lot of electricity smelting aluminium. Region B has cheap electricity so a smelting company moves there and ships the aluminium to region A. Region A now has one smelting company's worth of extra electricity available.
I like the other alternative Packer + ansible instead of Dockerfiles as explained here https://alex.dzyoba.com/blog/packer-for-docker/
Government has moral reasoning - it's for public good.
Narcotics are harming other people. Marijuana was first banned in XIII century.
Always remember: if you aren't paying a company to use their services, you aren't a customer- you're the product.

Google does not care about non-paying customers individually. They have literally billions of them. They're easily replaceable and provide roughly the same amount of value each- not much, but worth lots in aggregate. If Google were to have a human review all the complaints from the non-paying customers, then they would become a small cost each rather than a small profit each.

Google's only option is to start assessing which people are dangerous to offend and then provide just those people additional customer support. I'm sure there won't be any social consequences of that though.
Is Butler’s criticism that there were almost no non-white characters in science-fiction really so acute after the 1960s? Larry Niven and Poul Anderson, for example, made it clear that some of their protagonists were of non-white races, and Anderson's cast of characters often aimed to be a veritable United Nations representing every region on Earth.
I think that's his point. when he deals with an exchange, they deal with all the accounting, i.e. reporting how much he made or lost on the transaction. if he pays for it at Tesla, he has to handle all that accounting himself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25492855 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25263876
Highly irresponsible and foolish move but what else can you expect from him these days.
> a nation might realistically buy $100 B + of bitcoin and declare it a national currency

We have polar opposite impression of what the world "realistically" means here.
Suicide is good for the environment. Money monopolies aren’t good for people.
You can also use messenger and have your account still be disabled. I do that.
There are now proof of stake alternatives, that offer what bitcoin does and a whole lot more
Scientific papers aren't for money, but they are for faculty positions and tenure. They suffer from much of the same grandstanding and outright fabrication as books do.

We're living in a post-truth era, and it's a problem we need to solve.

Where I'd like to land isn't: "Harvard astronomer gets bullied by peers" or "Harvard astronomer makes millions of dollars from half-baked theory" but "Harvard astronomer presents half-baked theory, we have a serious conversation about it, and we treat it as a potential hypothesis."

I like quirky hypotheses, and I've found I've learned a lot investigating them.
What query do you use to get Google to list all documents in its index?
And that absolutely works on GCP too. In similar way, even.

You just add "support contract" on that credit card (without it, AWS is just as likely to ignore you too)
I don’t know if it’s related but Binance is completely down.

Is there a reliable broker out there?
Building a social media platform without going bankrupt
This seems the statement of someone who doesn’t know that much about SA.
"Tesla is not a car company, it's a tech company".
Now it wants to be a speculative hedge fund.
Marketing in the 2020s
Nuture over nature in my opinion.

Dogs are like people in that childhood trauma never really goes away. If a dog was mistreated at any point in their life. Even before you owned the dog years ago, it could manifest in aggression.

We had a dog growing up, medium sized poodle mix, that we had adopted at one year and were told had been abused by the husband. Not typically an aggressive dog. However certain unfamiliar men, not all men, but some skinny, white men it seemed were liable to be met with aggression and family guarding behavior.

Every dog I have raised since puppyhood, including a 115 pound mixed breed and a 100 pound husky have had zero aggression issues. That is not to say one can be careless. There is always the chance, and you have to have the space and be able to handle any dog you own.
Same here. The first one is also installable from Google Play with a different package name however :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.barcodesca...

It also uses the ZXing library. It does not contain any tracking or ad SDK's per the exodus report :

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/org.barcode...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Myths You Need to Stop Believing
Yeah truly WTF moment.
The Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index gives a much higher estimate (78 TWh vs. 117 TWh), which makes it about the same as the annual electricity usage of United Arab Emirates (pop. 9.9 million).

https://www.cbeci.org/
2020 has completely changed my perception of Tesla and Musk. I had this image of a benevolent genius who is sometimes misunderstood ("funding secured", "pedo guy", "Autopilot").

Came across Teslacharts' podcast [1] (now the Chartcast) and oh boy was I wrong.

This is only the latest in a long series of red flags around Tesla/Musk and however it ends, it will not end well.

[1] https://thechartcast.com/
> The only thing the government should do is fund PSA's ...

Should governments allow caller ID spoofing, spam bordering on harassment, or lazy oligopolies to be negligent?

Governments should do whatever we agree they should. Both governments and companies serve the humans.
In a way, buying Bitcoin is a bet on the timing of quantum computing.
It's difficult to know because I never meet the guy so I have to speculate with the available information[1]. I think he is doing this for the fame, not for the money, but I don't think he is lying on purpose to get fame or money.

<speculation> After year and year of hard work improving details of solar sails in papers that only a bunch of specialist read, he made a paper about 'Oumuamua because it was a hot subject at the time and that is good to get your paper published and citations. His specialty was solar sails, so he added the solar sail hypothesis and some calculations. It got more traction than he expected, so he become famous. Not as famous as Madonna, but much more famous than most astronomers [2]. Fame is a hell of a drug. He is probably convinced that the alien possibility is worth exploring, but it's very easy to self deceive. The paper got in the news for some time, but it was fading away, and a book is a good reason to get coverage again.</speculation>

[1] Perhaps he knows because he is an alien?

[2] Can you name an astronomer that is alive?
We've used Google Jib for Docker for the same reasons.

It also means we don't have to think about the layout of our images.
I know that if we went with Dockerfiles each team would put application code in different directories. There would be no consistency. Jib hides that away from us.
> on a whim: because of a sudden decision

How was them banning Terraria's accounts not a sudden decision? How about any of the other stories posted in this thread? They literally ban accounts on a whim, usually with no warnings issued.
Protecting against proprietary re-licensing with a community contract
There is ongoing work with Buildpacks (specifically `pack`, the project CLI), to integrate better with podman, and enable a daemon-less workflow.

We most often build it with the local docker daemon (though you can with a remote docker daemon), test it, and then publish the image.
To be fair, even as a paying customer, you don't get much more "customer service".

The same also applies for Google Play Store where without a doubt you paid at least once and continue for every in-app purchase.
Why Bitcoin? It's a contributor to climate change, slow and outdated. There are better alternatives.
The weird thing here is that Bitcoin doesn't care about whether it's mined with clean electricity or other, and the realities of the market are pretty opaque. When people correctly point out that Bitcoin mining consumes a lot of energy, a bunch of people immediately make the claim that most of this energy must come from excess renewable sources. But there's actually no reason at all to believe this, very little evidence in favor of it, and nothing in the Bitcoin system design that ensures it. It's basically an article of faith -- because the alternative would be objectively horrifying.

We could design cryptocurrency systems that deliberately focus on using excess renewables, or just plain use less energy for mining. But the problem is that "Bitcoin" has come to stand in for "a cryptocurrency using the specific design choices that its inventor made more than a decade ago" and so privileging Bitcoin itself makes these choices impossible. The very best possible outcome is that (small-b) bitcoin tokens will eventually migrate to more efficient consensus networks, and the big-B Bitcoin network itself will be spun down to consume less power.
Assigning Attributes to Python Functions
Exactly. The US system is entirely designed around this. Two legislative bodies and a head of the executive all have to agree. If they can’t, it doesn’t get passed.

That’s a feature, not a bug.
You don't. You use the aluminium instead of aluminium from a less clean source you'd usr otherwise.
Tesla is not about being good for the env. It's about making money.

Same thing with SpaceX not being about going to Mars. It's about making money too!

The going to Mars/ good for env stories are to get some public goodwill behind them from a certain crowd.
techcrunch.com does transparent redirect to a tracking domain. Clicking the link redirects to
https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_...

which then redirects you back to a URL you wanted to visit.
Only if you assume that demand cannot go down.
I wrote an essay about big tech's aim for a monopoly on moderation.

https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....
Who says I do not? There's always room for diversification.
I feel like I'm missing some key piece of physics here. This seems like an ion engine but with magnets propelling the exhaust rather than electric fields.

Is that it?
How did we get to this point where the entire global economy has become a speculative carnival rodeo. This clearly can’t end well. Is there any precedence in history how this will turn out?
That’s true, but Metcalfe’s Law works both ways: a small reduction in the size of the network significantly decreases the value of the network.
What approaches do you have in mind? War? Government enforced famine? Selling me cheap cigarettes? Something else? And how much will bodybuilding help me avoid getting killed by these?
“Journalism” is not a single entity or even a unified bloc.

Journalism exists in the market economy, so other market forces counterbalance - consumers, other corporations.

Journalism also exists under government regulation, despite strong legal protections.
Aluminium plant moves to location with cheap electricity.

The electricity becomes available at its former location.
The article is talking about this from a unilateral perspective. Yes, multi-laterally the optimal strategy is to invest together in the war. This looks like a classic prisoner's dilemma to me.
I think the tell that it was definitely happening was when he went to visit Larry Ellison in person in Hawaii right after Christmas. What could have possibly needed the approval or advice of a member of the board and was too important or sensitive to discuss over the phone.
Ideally you should have something like an open list (where you vote the party, but also the order of preference within said party)

As an example how this is implemented in NL: in elections, all individual candidates are on the ballot, organized by party (yes, the papar ballot is massive -- one of the main criticisms of this system). The candidates are ordered by preference as determined by the party itself, and in general, if a party wins 8 seats during election, that means the top 8 candidates on the ballot take their seat.

The lead candidate (also the face of the party campaign) is ranked #1, and people usually vote for #1 if they only care about voting for a party, not an individual. But people can vote for a non-#1 position (called a preferential vote), and if a specific candidate receives more votes than a pre-determined threshold, they're bumped on the candidate list. This allows voters to influence the resulting body composition not just by party, but by individual member.

Some stats from the last national election are on the Dutch Wikipedia page (but not included in the english translation) [0]:

- 150 seats in total

- 46 candidates have met the preferential vote threshold in total

- 3 candidates could not take seat because their party won 0 seats

- 4 candidates took seat at the expense of a (initially higher-ranked) candidate from the same party

- the remaining 39 candidates would have taken seat anyway because of their original party rank

[0] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samenstelling_Tweede_Kamer_201...
This is such an arrogant take. Clearly you know what is in people’s best interests and you can’t possibly leave such an important decision to the people themselves.
It blows my mind that technically literate people still use gmail after countless horror stories of people losing their accounts.
Python/cryptography – Dependency on rust removes support for number of platforms
I don't understand all the Crypto hate on this site. Since when have hackers become the luddites to new ways of finance?
Then I don't understand how "Aluminium is pretty much electricity in a form that can be put on a truck".
By fixed total supply, I meant as a hedge against inflation similar to Gold.
You and your boss should have the common goal of you being productive.

"I need a big chunk of time to do my job well" sounds very different from "attached is my list of demands".
That doesn't matter. Any person that isn't vaccinated is a potential source of a mutation. It doesn't matter where that person is.

Once a country reaches herd immunity, then by all means get vaccines to other countries, but until then non-vaccinated people are fungible.
Both sides of this arguments are oversimplifications to the point of being meaningless.

Specifically: L2 like lightning, settlements on sidechains, and other things I won't go into here.

The long and short of it is that it's incredibly hard to quantify and compare and I am yet to see an attempt that gives any meaningful insight.

If Bitcoins proof-of-work and the consequences it has becomes a net loss or net win in terms of climate is a very open question. I would love to see more analysis of it but it's really not obvious either way.