skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a fact that the sky is blue due to Rayleigh scattering of light.

That is a fact. I don’t “believe” the sky is blue due to light scattering ... I know it. And it doesn’t require “a line to the mind of God”. It’s called science, knowledge... education.

It is a fact that cryptocurrencies have value as a store of wealth and are not ponzi schemes.

Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t make it a belief on my end. Just like if you don’t understand why the sky is blue from how light interacts with nitrogen molecules, doesn’t make it a belief on my end.

We could debate the current price of Bitcoin. We could debate whether it’s in a bubble (which happens all the time in legitimate asset classes like real estate or the stock market). We could debate if the fact that only certain sectors of the population have access is detrimental. We could even discuss if Tether is pumping up Bitcoin through manipulation. (My opinion, since I and everyone currently have very limited data on it, is that it is, but ultimately to a very small degree). And tether in the way you brought it up, is a red herring here because one lone bad player doesn’t negate everything.

But dismissing cryptocurrencies as Ponzi schemes, tulips or beanie babies is simply ignorant and without fact. If there were facts that could support that conclusion, that would be worthy to discuss, but “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”

Here are facts:
COVID is a pandemic.
Bitcoin is a store of value.

Here are opinions based on fact:
The COVID pandemic has caused enormous suffering.
Bitcoin is a good store of value.

Here are beliefs:
COVID is humanity’s punishment.
Bitcoin is going to ruin the world.

Here are prejudices:
COVID is a caused by 5G or Chinese conspiracy.
Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme.

More reading on fact, belief, opinions etc:

https://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/co300man/pop12...

https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.ht...
This is what I'd bet on. We have a ton of good information generated over many decades about the maintenance procedures that must be followed for commercial aircraft that are in daily use. We really haven't had a time in history when this many planes were parked for a significant period of time.
Yup. And then the individual services will offer endless exclusives of some kind, churning accounts on a smallish time window.

Honestly, I find it all super noisy and more or less abandoned TV. I am happy to watch a movie, or binge something good.

But I am not gonna chase it all.

My family is happy to, so it is their department now. And I get a nice benefit:

When I do want something, I need only ask. They will set it right up and I am good to go. Perfect.
Aren’t consumption of alcohol and cigarettes (and advertising for them) much higher among the poor? Is there a reason why other drugs would be any different?
I'm not aware of any full fledged solution. I built my own in the same stack, DM for more, email is in profile
Immutable Systems Infrastructure, or How to Mashup Kubernetes and Nix
I have integrated today on my website, it has more customer interaction than my contact form
But can’t you just move to Ontario and apply there? Canada has freedom of movement.
Wait a minute, so you're telling me when I was laughing with my husband about how we should fart in front of the new air purifier and see if the sensor went off and he dismissed me, rolled his eyes and called me juvenile THAT I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG?!?!?
Uspirg report on farmers' right to repair that counters lobbyist [pdf]
Happy to! hope you find this helps!
> But most customers want fixed-rate electricity. So in a free market, that's what they buy.

Not necessarily.

In order to have fixed-rate electricity and not have rolling blackouts, the seller would effectively have to carry insurance (or some equivalent) against unexpected price increases and then use that money to bid at a loss on energy to supply it to customers during a shortage. The price of the insurance would have to be passed on to the customer. The more people who buy fixed-price contracts, the higher the insurance premiums would be, because the higher the variable prices would get when demand outstrips supply and customers on fixed-price contracts don't reduce consumption.

The customer could end up having to pay significantly more, hundreds or thousands of dollars a year, in order to have that insurance instead of the variable rate plan. There is a limit to how much people are willing to pay for a fixed rate.

And it's easy to see how someone could come out ahead by e.g. using that money to buy a backup generator and then disconnecting from the grid whenever variable prices are high.
In theory, salaried positions pay you for adding value, not for your time. In practice, people on salary often work more hours, not fewer hours. (When I had a corporate job, one manager once joked to me "I make less than minimum wage for the hours I put in.")

We tend to pay better for positions of trust. This may or may not involve more skill and such positions are often primarily given to people with certain traits, like upper class white males.

Certainly, some people have gotten the memo on how to line their pockets for less time and effort. But I think we generally do a somewhat poor job of elucidating how to get paid for the value you provide rather than for who you know, what you are, how many hours you clock, etc.

If we want a better world where good things happen, this is a problem. It actively creates social injustice and also maximizes for teaching people to get over rather than add value per se.
Poisson Distribution theory.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26209286
I'm assuming you're talking amateur radio here, doing VHF/UHF on repeaters. Especially assuming you're on an HT, find the closest repeaters to you. Periodically just throw out your call sign on the repeater and listen. Throwing out a call on the repeater is the normal way to just let people know you're there and listening.

Experiences vary a good bit based on location and ability to transmit. You'll be able to hit far more repeaters if you have a mobile setup or the ability to operate a decent bit of power from your home safely. I live in a pretty metropolitan area and can easily hit or at least listen to a dozen or so repeaters in the area on 25W on a mobile with a j-pole in my attic. When I had access to a multi-story parking garage I had somewhat similar access with just a handheld and a decent whip antenna. Getting altitude can make a good bit of difference in making waves.
I experienced a lot of bullying in middle school (junior high I guess in the US), almost everyone in the school called me the fag (le pédé in French). This was in the 90s so at that time homosexuality was much less accepted than it is today. It was verbal, I didn't fight back and had a hell of a year.

When I went to highschool, someone in the class came up with a new nickname for me, despite much smaller than that person I fought back, I punched him as hard as I could, got badly punched back too. But after that, no one ever called me by that nickname.

When my son goes to school, I will tell him to fight back in case of bullying. It's the way the world works and if I had known that in middle school, I would have had a much better time and wouldn't have had thoughts of suicide.
I maintain a batterie of libraries for my company. Managing dependencies is one of the hardest part even with internal only libraries. Our major pain-point is the dependency towards 3rd party software and dealing with semver. Semver is not really hard to understand it’s just hard to execute as the developer is executing the rules. So for instance if I create a library/plugin etc which wraps around a tool, would it be a breaking change when the software stops supporting a specific version of the wrapped tool even though the internal API stayed the same (this happens a lot for me with gradle plugins which suddenly decide to not being compatible with the version of gradle I use). I would say yes but for larger dependency trees this becomes a nightmare. For our internal unity3d libraries we decided to not count the supported Unity versions as part of the semver version. The other option would be to have special library packages for each version of unity similar to how the Spock testing framework[1] deals with groovy. For this option we don’t have enough engineers at my company.

[1] https://github.com/spockframework/spock

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...aaaaaaand that's why i refuse to fly.
If you are smart, driven, seek opportunity and wish to be on the cutting edge of innovation and access to capital: live in the US. You will be free to make choices optimal for yourself (retirement, health insurance, etc).

If you don't care about the cutting edge and want to feel safe at the cost of losing some freedom of choice: live abroad. I personally recommend Australia.

This is my experience. Neither is 'good' or 'bad'. It comes down to what you seek...
Are you asking if Google accounts for the bangs? You probably won't get a straight answer, but it's certainly possible. I believe Google keeps track of the order of your searches, so they might take that into account if you remove the bang and click through to what you were looking for.
Bill of Rights was 1791. That's like judging Obama era policies based on Trump changing them.
I'm not experiencing this icon loading behavior on any of my android devices.
I am however aware of at least two people who are annoyed with xiaomi's android customization and bugginess.

Maybe grab another device to see if it's an android or xiaomi problem.

I say that as sort of a fan of xiaomi, just their android isn't something I'll be getting anytime soon.
It's part of a larger project that's not finished yet. First I made up a CPU architecture and wrote an assembler for it. Then I made an emulator for the machine. Then I wrote a Forth compiler targeting that assembly. Now I'm working on interactive dev tools, web-based emulator, polishing everything, etc, so other people will be able to use it.

Later on, a way to run it on hardware, probably some kind of FPGA / fast-microcontroller hybrid board.
bad ass.
Canadians don’t make enough children because nobody can afford it. Who wants to live in a studio or 1bd box with a kid?
Spain offers an easier pathway to citizenship for citizens of Ibero-American countries (basically Latin America) and that includes Puerto Rico.

The idea is that, if you're an American, you could get PR citizenship status with one year and then Spain would give you citizenship with only two years. You might consider the PR citizenship to not actually be a "citizenship" but merely a residency status (like how you might live in California or Washington).

Though technically, US citizens are also citizens of the state in which they reside. So, it's not really that different than what states do when considering things like in-state tuition at schools. So, yes PR has citizenship just as California and every other state has citizenship. I guess the difference is that PR considers that you don't lose the status of PR citizen when you cease to be a resident (at least if you were born there or a parent was).

Spain is also free to make the laws it wants to access their nationality. They could decide that those born in Florida should have easier access given Florida's historical connection to Spain. France was at least considering allowing anyone born in a place that used to be French territory to get citizenship. I believe Bill Clinton joked that he could move to France and run for President there since Arkansas was part of the Louisiana Purchase from France.

Anyway, it seems that PR citizenship needs US citizenship, but US citizens can gain PR citizenship with one year of residency.
Decision Making Statements in C
> it has support for individual windows

uh, where? From the documentation at https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/portal-docs.htm...

the supported options are whether it should be interactive, and whether the dialog should be modal. There is no option to indicate what kind of screenshot you want (window, monitor, full screen, rectangle). You can hope that the compositor's implementation lets the user select what they want, but the compositor is free to take the screenshot however it wants, the wlroots xdg-desktop implementation for example, currently just always takes a screenshot of the whole screen. The API is oriented more toward's Gnomes approach of considering the screenshot dialog to be the responsibility of the compositor, and doesn't work well for sway's approach of considering the screenshot dialog to be the application's responsibility.

The Screencast protocol at least allows you to specify if you want to capture a monitor or a window, although not all compositors support both (for example xdg-desktop-wlroots only supports the monitor type). Now hopefully in the not-too distant future most compositors will support it, atm, at least in my compositor of choice, it doesn't work yet.

And in both cases the the xdg-desktop-portal API doesn't really work well with apps like Flameshot or Peek, where you determine what to capture by resizing the window of the app.
As well as being unique they're chosen to avoid similar sounding ones being near each other. So KITES and SITES might both exist but they'd never be anywhere that you could confuse one for the other.
Infinitely, really, since on iOS it’s zero and on macOS it is nonzero ;) Of course, on macOS it’s still not a lot, but you can see why everyone is excited about what Apple is offering right now.
It's never stuck out to me as being overrepresented in posts here, but I've never thought about it either. Full disclosure: it's one of the main news sources I follow.
Wow. I hope other states who have a similar setup learn from this and take adequate measures to avoid situations like this in the future.
Optimized bubble sort in JavaScript. Cocktail sort
To me this might be money laundering if it’s not really collectible or in demand. I’m not sure I understand the demand for VHS when both DVD and Blu-ray are superior media formats that are more user friendly than VHS
It sounds terrifying, but even so it landed safely. Statistically, flying is safer than car travel...
You have at least two more options than that:

- don't have the dependency in the first place

- supply your own dependencies instead of relying on the environment to provide them for you in ways you can't control

The ideal format for distributing software is a single, self-contained executable program far more often than parts of the developer community would like to admit. So many of these potentially serious problems just don't exist if you use a compiled language and you statically link a controlled set of dependencies at build time.

Obviously you still need to monitor your dependencies for essential updates and then issue updates of your own software to incorporate them when necessary, for example in the event of a security vulnerability being identified and fixed.

And obviously you may still depend on services provided by your host environment that you're communicating with but not incorporating directly.

But at least you always know exactly what your user will be running within your own program, you can test it properly before you ship it, and it won't then mysteriously change because of something they or some other software on their system did that you have no knowledge about or control over.
APRS works decently well for things like messaging and bullitens and has some interesting web connectivity possible. In my area the normal 1200 baud 144.390MHz is quite crowded but a number of digipeaters and I-Gates operate on a 9600 baud 70cm frequency as well.

Also there's some metro area WiFi mesh networks which operate in amateur spectrum. That's a good bit of fun.
Chromebooks outsold Macs in 2020 and schools all over the US are pushing Chromebooks on students because they're affordable and accessible to most people.

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/chromebooks-outsold-macs-world...
It is in some aspects, so I am not surprised that there are people willing to claim that the walls are too high for them. Personally, they could be a bit lower but I can still see over them I’m not up in arms quite yet.
Assumptions are the mother of all screw ups - I'd recommend changing your attitude, as that path of assuming negatives will not lead you to anything positive
I am pretty sure everyone reading HN understands the basic idea of insurance. The issue is your specific claim that "Walmart took out life insurance on its employees because they were betting that their horrible working conditions made people more likely to die than the insurance companies thought. And then were incentivized to make those conditions worse."

>...Therefore the only logical reason for Walmart to buy all of those policies is that Walmart believes that it has more information than the insurers on the likelihood that its workers will die.

No, as I stated before, all the evidence indicates this was mostly done due to perceived favorable tax treatment:

>…Under a typical arrangement, buyers of the insurance pay a fraction of the premium up front and borrow the rest from the insurer. The insurer profits because the interest rate on the loan is higher than the rate of return credited to the buyer on the policy’s cash value. The buying company profits by deducting the interest payments from its taxable income (if eligible to do so under the 2006 law) and because life insurance proceeds are not taxable. Left holding the bag for those profits is Uncle Sam.

https://www.cfo.com/tax/2014/01/dead-peasant-insurance-still...

Of course this could be profitable for a corporation with a large number of workers if it was allowed. Little up-front money, deduct the interest costs and no tax on the death benefit at a time when corporate tax rates were about 35%. The IRS went after these insurance policies and congress also changed the law.

The cases against Walmart have been tried about this use of insurance in many jurisdictions and you haven't shown any evidence of Walmart making a business decision based on a calculation that "...their horrible working conditions made people more likely to die than the insurance companies thought".
That actually wouldn't destroy the earth. There's plenty of heat near the bottom of the ocean; life would survive down there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rltpH6ck2Kc&ab_channel=Vsauc...
one problem for me is opening links from the outside, like from emails, into the right container. there is no UI to choose the container before the link is opened.

this is also a problem with using multiple profiles in different windows
If you enjoyed this, you might like the tb show DEVS. As I read this story I had a sense of seja vu.
> A piece of extraplanetary mass being brought to Earth only changes the planet's orbit insofar as its orbit on entry to Earth mismatches that of rest of the planet.

No, the Earth’s orbit would also be affected over time by the altered gravitational relationship with other bodies as a result of its increased mass.
Here's a handful of Kenwood radios that support DES/AES: https://comms.kenwood.com/en/solutions/functions/list.php?fu...
What’s the price of a hotel for 30 days while you’re waiting for a plumber? The waitlist in Austin for an inspection is 2 weeks. Then they schedule repairs.
> A grand total of none of my international friends have anywhere near the wealth, nor earning potential I do, and they never will. It’s an exceedingly large, compounding edge.

That's because most of us are not obsessed with wealth. We tend to be satisfied with some level of comfort and security and focus on other things in life. I guess that's a cultural thing.

> Everyone knows our healthcare system is asinine. It doesn’t require more money to fix.

It's not only about health care, but other aspects such as how the society is structured, poverty, incarceration rates, access to education, homelessness, etc.
Again, probably a cultural thing but Europeans seem to care more about these matters than Americans and so we structure and drive our politics and legislature towards addressing these issues.
Look into Mistfall. It would infect other executables by splitting them into basic blocks that end with some branching instruction and inserting metamorphic portions of itself in between blocks and fixing up all of the modified addresses. There literally isn't any "static" portion. Here's a mirror of the author's site, he is Russian but there's a ton of English translations and articles that are a great read.

http://z0mbie.daemonlab.org/
The premise of the article is to highlight benefits of second citizenship but what stands out in the examples are mostly situations of failings in governance and policy within the US.
I’ve found some use in having a “vision document”, which is essentially a written explanation of the person I want to be / goal I want to accomplish. If it’s possible to add images, those help too. The more complete the vision, the better.

By reading this every day with my morning coffee, I help re-orient myself and remember the path I was on. Without it, I tend to drift.
Google’s treatment of AI ethics researchers continues to stir up controversy
All solid analog observations. People will express similar sentiments for cassette, vinyl, books.
Literature Giant – Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. In his "War & Peace" he dived into man's soul through the time of WW1. How such a man would analyse our world this days - in our era of enormous advancement on the one hand but enormous gaps on the other? Is "Man's condition" the same?
It is already vulnerable list and if stopped being illegal it would be endangered in months. Synthetic mescaline is already a thing.
>I don’t know what it is about Europeans on American websites telling us how great it is to have 1/3 less PPP and higher taxes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...

I don't mean to be rude but please look at that above link and understand how poor you as a citizen of USA are. It's frustrating to come from a country thats ~3X as wealthy as the USA in terms of median wealth (i'm Australian) and see the idea that higher taxes are an issue. The higher taxes are on the very wealthy. Median wealth captures this. The USA fucked up somewhere along the way and taxed the poor (those <1million a year) and this is why you are posting what you are posting. More taxes are ok if they are on the rich.
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