skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What it means is pundits have spared no opportunity to ridicule anyone who has invested their money in BTC, pontificated that BTC has no value, that it is a fad, that it is a bubble, etc. For 10 years. At some point don't they have to capitulate from that provenly wrong position and at least admit there's something there?

What is driving the price is price discovery. More people are becoming comfortable with it as an asset as the FUD described above has continued to be debunked. As more people become comfortable that drives demand which increases the value.

As a hedge against inflation it works for a number of reasons. People generally price it in dollars, like stocks or real estate. As the dollar inflates one would assume the value of BTC would increase as investors have more dollars to invest into it, driving demand.

But the "something other" is more and more people agreeing it has value and therefore creating more demand for it and therefore creating higher prices. This is how any asset works.
60 Years After Eisenhower's Warning, Signs of a 'Digital-Intelligence Complex'
I imagine for many subjects, great benefit comes from the probably millions of dollars worth of equipment you get access to.

EDIT: didn’t see GPs caveat.
>In addition to the virtual currency, Epic will also be providing "up to $26.5 million in cash and other benefits to U.S.-based Fortnite and Rocket League players" to settle the claims.

How much did the lawyers get paid?
Go lookup a graph of the sp500 from 2000 to 2010. There are no guarantees that it will always trend up.
High Velocity Kernel File Systems with Bento
I agree wholeheartedly.

I was a solo developer. We "transitioned" rather abruptly to the kind of workflow you would expect from an organization with hundreds of developers once we hired a couple more programmers, despite it being a poor idea, because we were still spread out among so many different projects. In retrospect, all of this turned out to be resume-polishing and practice runs for one of the developers and my manager; they blasted off to large organizations rather promptly.

All of it left a bad taste in my mouth and some rather negative feelings associated with git, which certainly are not helped by git's porcelain. There's an element of cargo culting against the practices of big SV organizations, but there's a very long tail of solo developers out there, and figuring out where you sit and what tradeoffs are required can be tough against the constant din of The Way Things Are Done.
Agreed, and if you want to write tools that are conformant with both specs, you really don't have a choice. The RFC pretty much spells out this point: "JSON parsing libraries have been observed to differ as to whether or
not they make the ordering of object members visible to calling
software. Implementations whose behavior does not depend on member
ordering will be interoperable in the sense that they will not be
affected by these differences."

(This kind of text is why I prefer the ECMA document -- it's clearly written to be a normative standard, rather than as a field-report and Request for Comments.)
Harleys stock are actually under the legal noise limit (80 decibels i think?) and are generally that loud due to straight exhaust and a specific cam shaft they use to squeeze more performance out of them. My understanding is folks prefer them to be loud so that they can be better noticed by cars and get hit less often.

Dirt bikes are around 100 decibels, perform like trash and shouldn't be on the freeway near cars in the first place.

Here in Puerto Rico we have herds (20-200) of two stroke bikes that ride together at night for fun. I would gladly trade them for 1000 Harley-Davidsons.
Site A can’t access 3rd party cookies. Cookies only can be accessed by the domain they are created on. Otherwise any site could toss a 1x1 image pointing to any website and steal the cookies.
The snap does upgrade major versions, although from my experience it tends to be on a delay to ensure stability.
But all it does is say "this is how a banking system can create n dollars from x dollars". It's also historically correct: banks created leverage from a fixed currency supply exactly as described before the endogenous money era, and the whole reason endogenous money exists is because the government decided that facilitating this money creation with their own was better than bank runs and wildly fluctuating lending rates.

The week after, students learn about money markets, credit and money demand as liquidity preference.

And MMTers aren't saying "the second week of undergrad teaching could be improved by refining this model", they're saying "mainstream economics is built on this foundation that only we are clever enough to know isn't true".

Props for the Pratchett quote though. Sounds like something Detritus would have said. :)
Shocking to think that our society would discount the future for the present...

On a serious note however, babies and a growing population is an enormous advantage to a nation. I would think it would be massively popular to increase benefits to those who are having children. Full disclosure, I found out my wife is pregnant yesterday, but still.
And it does help compilation times quite a bit.
I just checked out their website, it's really annoying. Zero information on pricing, you need to create an account to "try for free" to access that information.
> However Google does not offer any point of contact for this kind of business.

Unfortunately, Google does not offer any point of human contact for most types of business, even critical issues. The only way around this seems to be social media outrage that they cannot ignore.
How does Facebook have a monopoly over news discussion? Isn't that what we're doing here? And reddit, and twitter?
Damaging the heart sounds right.

My neighbor has a unique obsession with his leaf-blower. It's like his daily 30-120 minutes of exercise at random times of the day. Even with all the noise-cancelling technology in the world, it ruins me for at least 2-3 hours and makes both video-conferencing and deep work basically impossible.

Here's the thing: Nobody cares. The neighbor can say no to polite requests to figure out a compromise, and your local officials will tell you that you have the right to make as much noise as you want, and nobody else can do anything about it.

Noise ordinances restrict decibels, not the tones or revving patterns or high-pitch "safety" beeping or other things that cut right through the heart despite them not technically being over a decibel level for a sustained period of time.

With more people doing deeper work from home, I hope there are some pioneering cities that can establish protocols that protect work environments and locals' sanity - while still allowing noisy work to get done at predictable times of the day and with reasonable limits on meaningful impact to those living within earshot.

Like TFA, we have to paint noise more like the health problem it actually is.
>The real money is in capturing subreddit moderators.

Right. This also leads to some of the clearest evidence that Reddit (the corporation) isn't interested in actually being a discussion board, but has completely given itself over to leveraging its user base for money.

Despite years of issues with subreddit mods selling out, taking over, censoring users, in general behaving badly and a complete lack of transparency, Reddit has changed nothing about how that system works.
It does, but most cops have spouses and children to go home to. Given options, they will lean towards writing tickets to people less likely to be violent. This is easy to fix and has been fixed in some cities, but then the blowback usually goes the other way. Citizens will complain that the department has been over militarized and will demand the department lose funding until all the military gear has been removed.
I don't know if you've ever been to the mountains[1], but if you do you'll find out most of the people living there are and look super healthy, even (especially) at an advanced age.

The main difference I can see between my experience and the one of the youtube girl is that people in the mountain don't necessarily eat what would be considered healthy, but a lot of meat and animal products.

It definitely deserves more actual research, but a mountain lifestyle does seem to push towards regular exercise, which in turn provides overall good health.

As a singular data point, you can see from BMI comparisons that countries with mountains (Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy) fare pretty good in comparison to others: https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/09/which-country-has-the-hi...

[1] At least the Alps
Exactly that was found to be responsible for mass killings of salmon in the Puget Sound, and the consequent deaths of orcas and other wildlife.

A rubberizer additive put in tires was getting atomized and then washed off into the streams. It makes salmon swim in circles until they die.

Does it do anything to people? We don't know.
The first think that occurred to me is that the app could list the transactions this would cause and present that list for confirmation, along with a total and how much of the whole it was.

It would make the error much easier to spot.

OTOH, the people approving may not have the right to see values, just the process part they are involved in.

This and the aerospace mention reminded me of John Glenn: "two million parts, all built by the lowest bidder".
Do you have any actual data showing that federal loans have lead to tuition increases?

I've not been able to find much historical tuition data online, but what little I did find (Stanford going back about 100 years and one state university whose name I've forgotten) showed no clear change in the rate of tuition increases pre-federal loans compared to post-federal loans.
They are narrowly interpreted as it relates to individuals, but I'm not sure that same interpretation would be applied to media outlets.

In terms of liability, as a property owner I have a much lower standards for care, custody, and control of an empty piece of property I have with a no trespassing sign than a corporation has for a sports stadium they run. I'm not certain that the standards for free speech by an individual in a single instance would be the same as the standards for a large media corporation across multiple instances.

How narrowly the court interprets "incitement" and "imminent lawless action" may be a function of the entity making them. An individual who is making political speech could say something that is considered protected, while a large corporation saying the same thing repeatedly, in a different context, may not be protected in the same way.
The advantage if that you get a more usable and understandable list of historical changes. "You wouldn't publish the first draft of a book" [1]

A squashed merge or rebased and cleaned set of commits gives a very clean overview of which changes where made, at what point, why they were made, and what together. That picture tends to get utterly lost in the "set up X", "make test Y", "fix typo", "wip" and "change error handling" commits a feature branch typically has.

Additionally I'm not really interested in that my colleague started change X yesterday before lunch, I'm interested in when it went live and became visible for the all developers when it was merged into the main branch.

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Rebasing#_rebas...
> While Reddit does provide a lot of unique utility, as a business its is still questionable.

With paid-off moderators, astrosurfing and propaganda I'd say it's unethical at best.
That’s wonderful!

Now, if Mozilla would allow Firefox to be configured such that it doesn’t call home or update itself in any way, that would be nice also, as I don’t see why Mozilla needs to know about me either.
Also https://gitlab.cs.washington.edu/sm237/bento
Tell that to people who design rockets.
How is this different from Google Drive Spreadsheets?
Agreed. I also don’t like it when locking a car via remote causes the horn to go off and in order to make sure people hit it multiple times.
GeForce Now.

I've known about these "cloud gaming" utilities for some time, but have always just owned my own hardware. I typically don't bother asking my friends to play games with me, because the only ones with a gaming PC are already the few I play games with. The rest I figure would never spend the time or the money to get one.

Recently, I wanted my girlfriend to play a game with me, but it didn't run on Mac. I was about to set up dual boot for her, but then remembered that this existed, so I figured I'd give it a try. Extremely easy to get up and running, and you can even run it from a browser. Given that your internet connection is good enough, latency is low and quality is high.

I'm now recommending it to all of my friends.
Have you considered Kotlin and Graal? It's obviously not Python, but Kotlin feels syntactically like Python meets Java, and since it compiles to byte code, you can do AoT compilation in Graal.

Edit: apparently GraalPython is a thing.
I'm just saying that I don't think it's right people to tell other what to do unless it has some direct and well demonstrated impact to the rights of another. As long as the manufacturers are correctly controlling the waste, then I don't see why banning it would make sense. Sort if like some people choose to smoke cigarettes- that's their choice.
I was told that most fruits have a comparable amount of fructose and glucose and that eating excess fructose is what causes diseases and autoimmune reactions.
Exactly. I want to "tell a story" with my commits, and that story is really more of an idealized retelling of what I actually did.

Five years from now, no one needs to know that I forgot to add that one line to a prior commit and had to add it separately, or that my first attempt didn't quite pan out as expected.

What that future person _will_ care about is:

- What final changes actually got made?

- What task was I working on?

- What was the reason for any of these changes in the first place?

- Why did I make some of these changes specifically to implement that task?

- What additional side info is important context for understanding the diffs?
Its not the sweets that I break down for, its cured meats and cheeses, and occasionally I want grains really badly.
Most decent CI tools will just clone the one branch needed for deploying and build/deploy from there. Cloning it fresh each time can rule out artifacts from past builds having an impact on the current deploy.
Bitcoin supply is fixed. In-game currency gets created with a database query.

And they're not giving everybody billions. They're forgoing some fraction of $.07B that represents the revenue they would have otherwise captured. My guess is the fraction of people who spend less on these games because they got a little free in-game currency is near-zero and they might actually see a bump in revenue because they can now send out a marketing blast telling inactive users they have a reason to come back.
Tangram Heightmapper – an elevation data browser
Can someone explain to a non-gamer what this is all about?
Specifically, what's the legal issue here? The article doesn't really say.

Was Epic lying about the probabilities of getting rare items in these loot boxes? Or is it because "gambling" was marketed to children, in general? If the latter, why is this any different from similar non-online activities, like sweepstakes and raffles for children's toys?
there's been a bipartisan consensus on foreign policy for most of the past 20 years; but saying the same thing for Healthcare, immigration, tax policy, or whatever is not true
Completely agree. I used to run a highly lucrative software b2b that solved a very important problem but could have been coded by an intern. Joining the "open startup" movement would have only caused me problems. I solute the people doing this but it only makes sense for businesses that sell to other indie hackers.
I think the spirit of the article is: you should be able to "download real data from yesterday until now", and be able to run the system locally (or in a stage server wherever). Sure, with some mocks or not, but that's super convenient for testing, debugging, etc. without having to risk nasty "write tests" in production
Tinfoil hats are just adding a large antenna to your head.
I feel like a wealthier and wealthier population, slowly shrinking, might be the sustainable future we need. Yes there will be challenges, but geometric, or even linear, population growth of the human species is not sustainable.
They are obviously better since at least they give you some explanation of some of what they have done.

I sometimes read them and I might find a good tactic here and there. The problem is that you need strategy, not tactic. There are so many, so which one should you pick? And more importantly, why do they work in their case?

Case in point. I can create a new product now and make $100K-$200K in a single launch. It's simple math based on my list subscribers, my average conversion rate and my average price.

I can show you those numbers. I can explain you what I do. You would still not be able to benefit. Why? Because it took me six years to reach those numbers, to understand what my specific audience wants, how to address their problems and how to write copy that resonates. I could hand you my entire list and you would not be able to make the same numbers.
Now that makes a lot of sense. Unlike side thrusters, you'd be able to use all engines to provide forward movement for max speed while also using the same engines for low speed maneuvering.
Fair enough. I still find it interesting but not as a motivator, but rather as a warning. I see quite a few professionally built web sites that have been around for years (3-5, at least based on the domain creation date in whois) and still have very little revenue which suggests that they are far from being profitable.
> If the misinformation on certain media outlets is considered by the courts to have incited the insurrection , then it may not be considered free speech.

The legal standard for "inciting or producing imminent lawless action" is given by Brandenburg v. Ohio. In that case, which upheld speech openly advocating for violence against specific groups to be protected speech. It overturned an Ohio law that had been directed against communists who "advocated the duty, necessity, or propriety of crime, sabotage, violence, or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political reform." Brandenburg was a 9-0 Warren court decision.

Courts will not uphold anything that has been said about the election as outside the boundaries of free speech, under Brandenburg.
A guy that lived on the street down from mine used to ride his about at night, made my house shake. Was so happy when he seemed to move away.
> For all its failings, the military has tons of good management practices

Military needs consistency, predictability, and uniformity. It needs a lot of good management practices to achieve that with people and parts that are not consistent, predictable, or uniform.
Ultralight gyros are pretty popular. They are like motorcycles in the sky. Stupid dangerous and crazy fun. Also if you have an engine out you are already auto rotating so no big deal. From what I hear, the thing that kills pilots in those things is that people like to fly low and they are prone to pilot induced oscillation. Pilots panic, try to overcontrol, and then die.
For around a year I lived next to a highway, which was one of the worst rental decisions I've made in my life.

There was a constant stream of noise, but with the cars it wasn't a big problem, because it was the same volume all the time, so I quickly got used to it. Motorcycles though were a huge issue! Every 10-15 minutes there was some motorcycle passing that just distracted me from whatever I was doing. I left that apartment as soon as I could.
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4. What steps did you take prior to, on, and following the November 3, 2020 elections and
the January 6, 2021 attacks to monitor, respond to, and reduce the spread of
disinformation, including encouragement or incitement of violence by channels your
company disseminates to millions of Americans? Please describe each step that you took
and when it was taken.

5. Have you taken any adverse actions against a channel, including Fox News, Newsmax,
and OANN, for using your platform to disseminate disinformation related directly or
indirectly to the November 3, 2020 elections, the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection, or
COVID-19 misinformation? If yes, please describe each action, when it was taken, and
the parties involved.

6. Have you ever taken any actions against a channel for using your platform to disseminate
any disinformation? If yes, please describe each action and when it was taken.

7. Are you planning to continue carrying Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN on U-verse,
DirecTV, and AT&T TV both now and beyond any contract renewal date? If so, why?
"

Not seeing it? Really?
Big tech got big on premise, that the information on the Internet is for free. How come the platforms want to use other people's intellectual property and not pay for it, in the same way, we all have to pay for theirs?
Breaking RSA Encryption Using Shor’s Algorithm
Raymond Chen has an amusing story about this[1]:

> Since the missile will explode when it hits its target or at the end of its flight, the ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention.

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98...
From someone that has chronic lucid dreams, I heard they were not over time.
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I’m wondering how high volume would need to be for the first step (from USDT to USDC) before something breaks?

Why don’t more people use USDC anyway?
No, journalists are parasites. Nothing different than a Chatty Cathy in high-school.
If I ever get unwanted press attention (not likely, they would be _really_ dredging the barrel if anything in my life was deemed interesting enough!) and that "peoples right to know" argument is used as a defence, I'm immediately hiring PIs to investigate the "journalist"'s life in detail and publishing the results. The people have a right to know about the lives of the people defending their right to know about people's lives…
Whats the use for the coin? Its an incentive obviously but its only so because it has a price tag. Who should buy the coin from me if I "mined" one and what would he do with it?
I have strict tracking enabled in Firefox as well as uBlock Origin and I've yet to see a site broken. The only "broken" ones I've seen are badly coded ones that also fail to work in Chrome. Reputable sites tend to be just fine. YMMV.
Is there any effect on the game industry as a whole here? As far as I can tell, Overwatch has exactly the same loot box model. Is anyone suing Blizzard over this? Or is there some particular miniscule detail that made Epic's actions illegal, but selling randomized loot boxes in general is still OK?
Non-sequitur. I invite you to disabuse me of any of my exact statements.
> r/coronavirus and r/COVID19 have been pivotal in making sense of the situation in early March (though r/coronavirus turned into a parody of the former self once Covid started spreading in the US).

I watched this happen first hand. It went from being a solid scientific discussion and sharing of information to being another part of Reddit's control system for public opinion. It just underwent that transformation faster than most subs do because of the impetus of the pandemic.
I agree, they seem to be a scam that once again benefits the rich (lawyers) over the poor (class/clients). More often than not I see the US courts as an extension of elitism and crony capitalism than a system of serving justice. Maybe that's vastly oversimplifying things, but I'd like to see a reasonable justification for this seemingly despicable process of lawyers getting rich off the backs of victims they represent.