skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this. I have missed a lot of great newsletters because of a false positive spam detection.

As a content creator, I also would love to see the comeback of RSS VS email, as services like mailchimp can get expensive really fast for projects that not seek profit like a personal blog.

A simple wordpress, ghost or even blogspot scales more cheaply than all the requirements for massive email.
entire blogs have been written about this, but the easiest way is to never, ever cross someone (to include embarrassing, etc) with power. that includes compromising social/team situations as well.

that means that even if the scrum lord is a complete fool, the staffing choices made by your boss are horrible, your team is the worst, and you hate node.js but have to use it, just do your tickets and keep moving. do not suggest big "improvements" or things to "think about" as they will flag you as a class of person that is a potential rival or insubordinate, which may bode horribly for you. keep engaged but lightly so: no heroism.

and trust me, if you're asking this question, you have shown you are not prepared to go toe to toe with "them" on their turf, so don't even try. you will get annihilated. as an engineer you probably aren't sensitive to how power dynamics manifest in day to day interactions - that's why you /must/ lay low and see what's up, despite any drive to do otherwise.
Recently discussed here, conventional ISPs moaning about Starlink.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26085577
None of this surprises me. I've worked for a federal contractor for the last year and I am not impressed with management at all. It has to be one of the worst run projects I've ever seen. It's so bad that if other federal contracts look this way that I question what chance this government actual has. Some days I sit back and wonder how much Uncle Sam (and me and you) is paying for this ineptitude. On a personal level, it makes me wonder what I am doing wrong where I am clearly more capable than this individual, yet I am stuck under them trying to clean up their messes. It would be better if this person did zero work instead of the little work they do. I hope this project is an outlier.
> This is not true in any way.

It is somewhat true in one important way: someone is paying for all that Big Pharma R&D, and it ain't developing nations or Western Europe's public healthcare system
It’s only possible in california to cancel via web form
No news is a sign of a stagnating Internet
Right, so the people who voluntarily chose to take this risk would be exposed to the risk. Of testing false positive for HIV.

How does this not beat 2 million deaths?
If you think tether will crash don't you think the whole crypto space will crash too? Or can you short it with fiat money on kraken?
you own a bunch of tether, you decide to "rush" to other assets.

Except your existing assets are dropping to 0, so you don't actually have that much buying power anymore. So you'll only see a fraction of a rise. Meanwhile whoever sold you the tether probably cashed out a while back.
They claim to have controlled for age.

I wonder if balding could be indicative of “biological” age better than “calendar” age?
I just got an email from this service: https://developers.turing.com/ They hire specifically remote only. Check them out, since I am not looking for a job now.
I don't think they are deliberately undermining anyone.

The Australian government introduced a policy to prop up a specific powerful media organization that is loosing readers and money.

Facebook for all their faults are not the bad guys here.

They have to abide by the law of Australia, they had a short period of time to make changes to remain legal, they have likely done the minimal amount of work to abide by the new Australian law. It's likely far easier to flag stuff as news than not news with the amount of edgecases.

What we see here is a consequence and collateral damage of Australian government policy put in place to keep rich donors rich.

It's likely over the coming weeks things caught by the sweeping ban will slowly start getting allowed back as tweaks are made.

If you need to be mad at anyone, it's the government who introduced a policy resulting in a company saying, na, it's not worth it financially we'll move out of that market.
hate to break the party but this model only loads a small part of itself in RAM when inferencing
This is not the first time, see the Flagellum Motor (which is far more complex) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellum
(often used in ontological arguments)
Yeah, putting myself in their shoes, I don't get the calculus in supporting the code.
Surely tech companies can do more damage to your political brand than old media.

Also, I don't think it is a liberal/labor thing, as Labor also supported the media code. Greens probably have a clue but lack the influence.

>> they don't know how to roll out a national broadband network (NBN)

Sure to begin with, but how much day-to-day meddling would the coms minister do these days?

Gigabit NBN via HFC, is now available in major metro, Starlink will be soon available for the sticks.

Seems like we're slowly getting there.
This is dumb. I never said "any" money, you're just trying to justify your own opinion.

Yes people spend more on the App Store and if the dev wants to use it to market their app they should go ahead and pay that 30%.

However if the devs dont want to access that, and/or consumers want to pay lesser, they should have the option to download from elsewhere.
> That’s a blatant lie.

I can't read your link, so I don't know what you mean by "intervene to stabilize," but that actually sounds like a good thing, since the German grid has the least amount of downtime of any of its neighbors and is far better than the US. Here's an IEEE article:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid...

> Germany’s energy sector causes 350 million tons of CO2 annually, 50 France’s just 50 million tons CO2 annually.

What is the relevance here? Germany has always burned lots of coal. Adding renewables, just like adding nuclear, reduces that.

> The kWh in France costs 17 Euro Cents, while it costs over 31 Euro Cents in Germany.

Again, what is the relevance here? Germany bought a ton of solar when it was super expensive, driving the industry forward and permanently lowering costs for everyone. It also charges residential consumers a lot more in order to subsidize industry.

>I have no idea why some people on HN keep spreading such lies about nuclear and the so-called Energiewende in Germany.

>You should get your facts straight!

I would insist that you do the same. Misrepresentations and cherry picked bad numbers are not helpful or informative.
Maybe not patent trolling exactly, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143779
It will definitely end badly. I guess it’s driven by desperation for returns. Diversification is a risk reduction strategy as old as the Bible; stock picking is not about preserving wealth or growing wealth, it’s about bootstrapping it.
This is a cool project. It looks really easy to use. I do have a question, though: One thing that this blog does to keep everything in a single file is that it base64-encodes all images. This encoding method will expand the data to take up roughly 133% of their original size. Is this worth it for the sake of having everything in a single file? Logos in particular are typically the same image that are included on every page of a site/blog, so there also wouldn't be a way to cache them apart from the rest of the page.
Its called the exploit-explore tradeoff.

MOST work involves exploit, as in once your scout finds a gold mine on the map what do you do with him?

Do you send him off to go look for new ones or do you make him mine manager and task him with hiring people who spend the whole day digging.

The more experience a person gains doing one thing (explore) or the other (exploit), the harder it is for them to switch when conditions change.

A good explorer has a itch to constantly explore. A good mine manager knows how to sit in one place and keep the spice flowing. You can find people who have a mix but they will always be outclassed by specialists in both camps.

Its always hard when the time come to manage transitions from one mode to another. Once in a while the weather is good and resources exist to keep people of both camps on payroll. But thats rare cause weather conditions are always changing.
Most of them are duplicate entries but with different levels of accuracy. So the same tower may have 10+ cell sites on it. So its represented 10 times. Multiple carriers in multiple technologies. Whenever they were mapped, possibly over years, the granularity level of GPS coordinates were different, so a lot of them are just in the general area.
> well built, engineered and maintained

Fortunately for Starlink, there's not much worry about Comcast having any of those things.
Tether isn't a fraud perse... In the worst case it's a severely overleveraged bank that operates outside of traditional regulatory regimes akin to many eurodollar banks. My bet is they hold something around 5% in reserves.

Reserve requirements in the US have dropped from 10% to 0% thanks to the fed, so our fractional reserve system has turned into an inverted ponzi scheme of sorts.

The biggest risk for tether is a liquidity event. If everyone cashes in for dollars at once, tether is probably dead. But honestly, I might consider buying the dip.
Yeah, but that's still 100 kids!
Can we use it as a WAN device? Can we initiate PPPoE or whatever on our own routers?
I mean sure, you’re getting really deep and philosophical on economics here. I’m happy to have that conversation too, but I think it’s a different conversation, and one we should have over some beers :)

I’m not sure how you took it as far as me arguing against free markets, but I was just trying to speak of my perception of this very specific example.

I don’t think it’s fair for them to take 3/10ths of every business on their app stores. That simple. I don’t think the markets think it’s fair either, but they don’t have much choice. At least not on Apple’s platform.

I don’t think the government should ever set the prices by default, but if the market and the government decide it’s not fair then they can step in. That’s the whole point of anti-trust laws.

Of course businesses have the right to make a profit. I did mention the system I proposed could cover their costs and make some profit.

Sorry if I wasn’t clear on that. They should make profit on the app stores. But the current model is particularly offensive to me. I don’t think there is a magic number. I think the idea that all monetary transactions have to go through them and they get a percentage at all is dumb. At it’s heart app stores are just a means of distributing software. Why should they get a cut of the businesses?

Maybe we could compare it to credit card transactions. The card reader networks take a 3% cut and we’re all ok with that. They provide the infrastructure to allow the transactions to happen, sure I guess they earned it. If you forced me to pick a ‘magic’ number then I would say it should be similar to that.

If Google and Apple took 3-5% none of this would even be a discussion. We probably wouldn’t even care enough to fight it, and they’d still be making money hand over fist on their app stores.

Which to be fair aren’t even the main part of their business. It’s just a side huddle for them. But 30% is the kind of cut title loans and pawn brokers take. No way in hell that’s reasonable for a service to distribute software.

I’ve got a lot more thoughts on this, especially about the differences between Google and Apple in this regard, but I’ll stop there. I’ve ranted enough tonight:)
> But the reality is that the significant part of BTCs trading volume is in tether.

I believe that is not even remotely true.

Most Bitcoin users I know have never touched tether in any form.

Rather, what you're seeing is that there are a multitude of casinos operating under the guise of "exchanges" which have absolutely no access to fiat -- usually because they're fly by night shady operations if not outright scams. All these things use tether due to having no fiat access. All of these also pump out enormous amounts of fake "volume" that is ignored by most people with a clue.

Checkout the bitwise presentation to the SEC: https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2019-01/srnysearca2...

And their paper on it: https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2019-01/srnysearca2...
I've used "I'm moving out of the country" with great success.
Like, after a weekend it existed.

Very much ‘created in a weekend.’

It’s a choice whether you do a year long three phase trial. Or not. The vaccine (recipe) still exists.
It's pretty kind of you to take such effort to write this fellow a detailed reply. Especially considering the crappy situation you've had to deal with. Hope 2021 is a better year for you.
This is (mostly) correct as any country with a significant Gatso camera presence will attest. In the UK people more or less drive exactly at the speed limit at all times because of the profusion of speed cameras and heavy penalties for speeding. (Up to and including a lifetime ban from driving)
This is the point where Starlink will be interesting to me. As a stationary service it just isn't interesting for any use case I have personally.
I heard that its because Texas is one of the few (perhaps only) states that can't just get power from other grids. That, and many other reasons, but if they are set up in such a way that prevents them from leveraging other grids....woof.
Even so, memorisation implies word by word information retrieval and interpolation, it's not a hash table.
That is a whole different type of shady :(.
You will always be able to pay taxes in the US with US dollars, that is the promise of the US government, and there is no reason to believe this will change.

The promise of USD tether is that you will be able to get back 1 USD for 1 token, and there are reasons to believe this may not happen.
As someone mentioned in another comment, this is the result of yet another monopolistic practice, this time by Steam who requires your game to be priced the same in all stores else it will be removed from Steam.

https://www.pcgamer.com/lawsuit-claims-valve-is-abusing-its-...
Botching their public relations, sure. Bodega NGS was killed by scaring people about the fault, but they failed to convince people that a generating station being subject to "significant shaking" doesn't automatically equate to a dangerous situation. After all, a reactor can be brought sub-critical within 3 seconds: https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2012/12/28/what-is-a-rea...

"A reactor trip causes all the control rods to insert into the reactor core, and shut down the plant in a very short time (about three seconds)."
I'm not a huge fan of him. However, I enjoyed a lot Amarcord (which I probably watched 10 times or more) since I spent 3 years in Fano, quite close to where Amarcord is supposed to happen and I could really see this small society mechanisms still in place.
It's also trivially funny.
And yet Texas has built massive amounts of windmills with government subsidies. That’s a fun narrative for people on one side of the cultural divide, but not true.
Capitalism at its finest.
I was a member of a well-known gym for more than ten years straight. Once, my card expired, and when I went to work out they said the membership had lapsed.

No problem, right? I'll pay up on the account, re-activate, and work out. Nope, they wanted to charge me a reactivation fee. I said "no" and left. Never paid them another dime.

What a stupid business.
Deribit is bitcoin-settled and heavily leveraged-- IMO it's probably not the best way to short Bitcoin, esp for someone who is long term bitcoin-skeptical.
Are they condemning sukuk? I thought sukuk was an attempt to reconcile the desirable qualities of a loan with Islamic jurisprudence surrounding finance?

So unless the commenter thought sukuk was illegitimate (I haven't seen them state this, maybe they have), wouldn't it be reasonable assume they consider sukuk acceptable?

Perhaps obviously, I'm only vaguely aware of Islamic finance, so I may be missing something basic.

*EDIT*:

I've just seen the comments where they appear to be condemning sukuk, or at least common implementations.

But it seems like their point is that they think it's simply slapping a different label on lending, which I'm inclined to agree with (especially if there are repurchase agreements and guaranteed returns).
> Of all the missing children, less than 1% is non-family abductions.

This can be interpreted to mean that the ensemble probability of an abduction -- the expected number of abductions from a single walk around the neighbourhood -- is low.

However, the practise of letting your children walk results in many walks over time, and it takes just one abduction to make the situation really bad. In other words, over time, the probability of an abduction will (albeit slowly) go towards 1.

Have you made any attempt at calculating this "lifetime probability" of abduction, instead of looking just at the probabilities of one-off walks?

Not lecturing; genuinely curious because I will soon have to make this decision for my oldest and I want to base it on data, but with a representative model.

(My instinct is, of course, to raise my children the way I was raised and that aligns with my feelings on the subject, i.e. "Let them have walks!" but I'm looking for a nuanced perspective on both sides before submitting to my biases.)
If they have a policy to respond to GDPR requests, and maybe if they use a bloom filter to avoid repeating the training data, then it should be ok?
Ipv6 is working you get a routable /56
There is a good article by Lyn Alden on this, but basically, the difference is how the QE is targeted. In 2008, the QE was done in order to get rid of toxic assets and recapitalize the banks - most of that money stayed locked up in the financial system and never made it out (banks had reserve requirements changed and tightened credit, which shrank the money supply - the QE was done to counteract that).

This time around, the banks are well capitalized and the QE is targeted at monetizing the federal deficit (federal government issuing treasuries in order to finance relief packages and the like and FED buying them), so the money is actually going to make it into the broad money supply, which might lead to inflation (though hyper-inflation is probably an overstatement at this point).

Basically Lyn compares what happened in 2008-2009 to 1929 - which was a banking crisis; whereas what happened in 2020 is closer to 1940-1945 / late 1960's in terms of the FED monetizing the debt. We had inflation in the late 1940's and in the 1970s, so it's possible we'll see something similar.

https://www.lynalden.com/quantitative-easing-mmt-inflation/
> b. no ipv6 yet.
> c. all IPs are in cgnat IP space

Interesting, this is more like an internet proxy than connecting devices to the internet. Hope they fix it soon. Does the TOS forbid running eg ssh or remote desktop services? Or VPNs?
SPOILER ALERT! People who understood what Stanheng represented.
Go on... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
The vast majority of nuclear power plants are built next to oceans and large lakes. The one that my sibling commenters mentioned in Arizona is the only exception to that rule in the US.
He’s right. If the answer in your head isn’t “potentially get their wife out of a job for crossing you” you’re not ready for this.
I’ve had an empty Ally bank account open for at least a decade. Still get statements for it each month. Every time I’ve tried to close it, it’s accumulated $0.01 interest, which I have to transfer out before closing. That transfer takes a few days, so by the time I can close it, I’ve totally forgotten about it, or don’t have the will to go log in.
I loathe Facebook. I fail to see them as the bad guy in this.

The Australian government made a policy to prop up a specific powerful media organization with wealthy donors who have falling readers and revenue.

Facebook likely took the easiest way out to remain legal and abide by Australian law.

Any distress with content not showing should be put towards the AU government after all it's a consequence and collateral damage of their policy.

I imagine over the coming weeks certain things will get restored as algorithms etc get tweaked for the edgecases.
Low earth orbit, 1000 sats up now, 20k+ planned.
Six months after I bought a home, I started receiving the weekend NYT. I called them to inquire about it and they said unless I could verify the name on the account, they couldn’t talk to me. I guessed the name of the previous owner, and that was correct. I explained I was the new owner, that I read the NYT online (usually the night before the print edition comes out, since I’m in California), and that I would just end up recycling all the papers.

The rep understood but said she couldn’t cancel the account without verifying my identity. I reiterated that I was not the account holder but I literally own the home where it was being delivered. The rep wouldn’t cancel the account. Eventually he suggested putting it on a vacation hold (maximum 6 months) and then repeating the process every time it started coming again.
The cases in the BBC story we're commenting on were same-sex.
None of these blew my mind.

If you like terminal productivity I recommend: fzf, Facebook path picker (aka fpp), fd, ripgrep, lf, tig.

Some honorable mentions: tokei, hyperfine, lazydocker, ctop, ncspot.
Humans aren't the only creatures who might be given medicines.
I guarantee one could put together a similar list of (soon to be) classics from 2017-2020 that rivals those movies from 1957-1960.

I'd be interested to see your list.
Did k1ss Linux fade away?
Their site is now down.
https://www.k1ss.org/
Anybody know what happened?
They got some real good buzz here last year.
tl;dr

3 pages of pointless chat over 17 wasted minutes to cancel a sub that could be a single click and losing a customers business forever.

About what you’d expect.
Last couple days have only one story from NYT with ore than 100 upvotes. I didn't bother with checking further than second page of results, but though there are lots of submissions, rarely they get more than a couple of upvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nytimes.com
I would recommend LedgerX -- A US based CFTC regulated derivatives clearing house and brokerage. They're available to US persons and organizations including retail. I believe non-US persons need to form a US company to use the platform currently.

The swaps and options on LedgerX are fully collateralized and physically delivered.

You can short Bitcoin there by depositing USD via wire transfer and buying puts.

You can see the current list of contracts: https://trade.ledgerx.com/live

The contract size is 0.01 BTC and prices are quoted per Bitcoin (similar to how equity options are usually 100 share contracts and quoted per share).

I've been a customer since 2017 and have been pretty happy with them. If you have questions, I'd be glad to answer them: I'm a seller of puts and would always welcome more people taking the opposite side on the platform. :)
Tether is not an exchange. It is a centralized cryptocurrency where the centralized authority has the ability to freeze assets (they did this recently after a DeFi hack). While I dont necessarily think it will happen, theres no reason the US government or some other authority cant seize and suspend operation of Tether's blockchain. At that point zero Tether transactions can occur, on any exchange, any DeFi contract, or any number of other associated activities.
> 5. `qalc` from libqalculate: https://github.com/Qalculate/libqalculate

Or, you know, any REPL available.
Facebook's botched Australia news ban hits health departments and charities
It costs like a penny per year to short Tether quarterly futures at one venue.
For such a historically red state, that doesn't appear very laissez-faire.
Don't short the spot.
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