skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This claim is false. If you can empirically support a result which shows that something most other economists believe is likely false and can do so convincingly

It's almost impossible to do that though isn't it? Economics isn't a hard science, it's not like you can run RCTs or experiments. And all actually-existing economic systems are situated within an actually-existing political, social and historical context, meaning we only ever observe a tiny fraction of the possible universe of economic systems. There is no possibility to explore counterfactuals.

> This demonstrates a misunderstanding of how economics departments are funded. Grant funding is a very small part of the departmental budget everywhere

I never mentioned grants, departments still have to be funded somehow, whatever that process is, it will introduce selection biases.
Whoa. Surprised to see they haven’t responded to this. Had signed up for a consultation and this will be one of my first questions.
I was also outside Ottawa(West) at the time. I remember hearing the trees collapsing as they failed under the weight, it was like mini explosions. We were out for about 48 hours but our neighbours' line to the road down their long driveway failed and so they were out almost 2 weeks.
I have the same doubts you do about Tether's legitimacy, but there's a few conclusions I believe you're jumping to which I think don't quite hold:

- Tether's volumes being greater than other crypto-currencies don't have much impact on the legitimacy of other crypto-currencies. The volume is so high because USDT is the other side of most crypto-currency trading pair. Given the liquidity of the market, you can trade almost anything (BTC, ETH, all alts, etc) against USDT without being exposed to any underlying USDT risk.

- The market value of crypto-currencies minus any deposit-backed USD coins far exceeds those coins. Tether "printing" coins out of nothing cannot alone explain the market capitalization of cryptocurrencies.

- Even if everything alleged were true, it really wouldn't be a drop in the bucket compared to the kind of shenanigans central banks have been pulling for centuries. If the crypto-currency market is illegitimate due to money printing by Tether, then so is the conventional financial system due to quantitive easing by the Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world.
The story is that Tether has been printing tethers and buying Bitcoins. However, they haven't released any concrete holdings or submitted to an audit AFAIK, so there's a lot of speculation on how big of a problem this actually is.
This is an extremely trivial assertion to debunk.

Just look at total deaths - all causes. The "they're just reclassifying normal deaths" conspiracy theory falls flat when you scroll to the "Weekly number of deaths (from all causes)" chart.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

(If you can't find it, here's the screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/6bk0PtF)
I expected a Mona Lisa as json by the end of this article
Tiny cars... or electric bikes? Two years ago I electrified a normal MTB with a Bafang motor and the total cost was under €1000; many changes of brakes and tires later, it now has 7200 km and is almost as good as new (the battery is not in great shape though and may need to be replaced soon).

This has completely changed my life. I used to ride around in a big motorbike but now use it very rarely if ever.

An electric bike is simpler, infinitely quieter, and almost as fast in congested cities such as Paris.
The Bitcoin blockchain is helping keep a botnet from being taken down
Oh to be young again
This isn't a "ruling" at all. The parties just reached a settlement agreement and Bitfinex/Tether did not admit any wrongdoing.
There is even a company which had specialized on heating homes using server heat. https://www.cloudandheat.com/
If they're backed then they can prove it with an audit. Considering their last auditor told them to kick rocks, I'm highly skeptical.
Ebay works on and off for me. I often have to resort to Safari
> Please. Yes, NN are still in their infancy but they are clearly foundational to general intelligence.

This calls for a big fat "citation needed". What we call neural networks have very little to do with actual neurons, so I fail to see how this is supposed to be "clear". And it's in its infancy since the sixties, really?
saml also has a relaystate parameter
Deligtful: Have you actually read the article?
I run a small niche regional subreddit and I can tell you it is greatly more popular and active today than it was for the past 5+ years of its life. Through no action of my own, reddit is simply doing a better job of driving people who would be interested in it to the sub.

HN always moans about reddit, they've moaned about it for near a decade at this point, it still just grows bigger.
usdt/usd market at kraken holding at ~$1 https://cryptowat.ch/charts/KRAKEN:USDT-USD
I've tried, six months on they are still stringing me along saying we'll get back to you.

As far as I know tether only allowed a few crypto "king makers" to redeem tether, and even then, only at a very small scale.
Scott Forstall's phone number? We don't have it, says Apple
This is pretty cool. I'm currently teaching myself compiler theory so I can write a toy compiler for a C-like language targeting x86-64 and I've also started at the bottom: re-acquiring my assembly skills so I can then map common idioms back to some sort of IR. The disadvantage is you can't perform high level optimizations that you could do when transforming from SSA to the IR but that is a long way away for now.
There's a whole set of problems that people can work on. There's solutions for most of them. Some of those solutions aren't very good, but they're the best we have.

Fabrice Bellard has worked on a subset of the problems we have. He's created good solutions for them. But if he hadn't, we would have some other, lesser, solution for those problems. Like we do for the problems he hasn't worked on.

No, you can't expect comparable results. But you can expect some results.
Tell your manager you can't get work done up to industry standards. The high-level problem here is one of resource allocation and policy: you will have a similar technical problem in the future and you need to be confident that it's solvable, which requires management to be willing to resource solving it. You need either some other team's management to decide that this pace of development is something they will prioritize solving or your management to "go rogue" and get you set up on public cloud.

But if you want a solution to this specific problem, the first suggestion I'd have is to install a non-root-requiring package manager like Linuxbrew or Nix (which is better if you can get a directory /nix writable by you, but workable even if not). Then you can install software without contacting the sysadmins and waiting.

Alternatively, do you have unprivileged user namespaces, i.e., does "unshare -Urm" work and get you an apparent-root shell? If so, you can install rootless Docker in your homedir, or use https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap . (A few years back I wrote https://github.com/twosigma/debootwrap which ties together bubblewrap and debootstrap to get you an unprivileged Debian chroot.)
Thanks! We really appreciate the positive words. We've both faced this problem before and set out to build what we always wanted.

Yes self-service is a challenge. It really depends on how complicated the model and different data sources a customer uses are. We have a 7 star FP&A Ops team to help customers get started and show them what they can manage on their own. That area is growing day by day!
I can't tell if the rest of the website is a parody or not. Or perhaps that is an essential element of a successful parody of the modern economy?
It's a shame reddit has become an echo chamber for the far left.

For example try posting anything right of extreme left on the wrongly named subreddit /r/politics. You will get banned instantly and if you don't get banned you'll be met with hundreds of downvotes in a matter of minutes. The sub /r/pics might as well be /r/liberalpropaganda, /r/news should be /r/leftnews. These are just a few examples.

Let's not forget the part where the CEO changes users comments.

Reddit should be avoided.
No it does not. I've had 3rd party cookies disabled for as long as I can remember. I've found less than five sites that had issues.
Except that the sites expand to fit the devices in use by those that make them, unless someone goes to deliberate and extensive efforts to prevent it.
Nintendo also offered the Wide Boy 64 [0] to devs and journalists to capture GB/GBC/GBA footage.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64_accessories#Wide-B...
I have a conspiracy theory that the established car manufacturers wouldn't make normal looking EVs as they couldn't justify spending so much on R&D that would yield something that would cannibalize sales of their other models. So they'd try hard to come up with a new niche for EVs. So it literally took an outsider to come in and start eating their lunch to hit them out of the cozy equilibrium they found themselves in.

Looks like Citroen didn't get the memo though.
There’s this funny thing where all these 19th century explorers claim the first ever crossings on foot of this or that area of Australia, a continent that has been inhabited for 70,000 years at least.
NLP-Driven Contract Platform Evisort Bags $35m, Microsoft Fund Joins Again
I never heard Len say anything positive about Bitcoin. He devoted his life to guaranteeing people privacy; Bitcoin makes all transactions permanently public. If he'd managed to design a Bitcoin it would be something like Mimblewimble.

> The Unix vs Windows argument is pretty silly.

That doesn't amount to a counterargument. POSIX C++ and Win32 C++ have very distinctly different styles, and Satoshi's Bitcoin codebase is a lot more similar to the latter.
I use Containers to make sites have no stored memories of me. Most sites I open, a new, temporary container (extension required) for that visit, and swiftly deleted afterwards.

All my YouTube views are firmly disassociated from my account, so recommendations will only be impacted based on geographic data. News sites can't remember if I've been there before, other than using IP addresses.
> I have a restic backup running on that plan instead of rsync, which means I get true backups.

yeah, yeah, absolutely. rsync is the first thing that came to my mind, but any tool that does a similar/equivalent job is fine here :)
Then the intelligent people who should be having kids are not. We need smart people to fix problems, especially related to the environment. If all the low IQ people keep pumping out babies you can kiss the precious environment goodbye.
It is safe because the child process calls munmap before telling its parent process to exit. munmap is guaranteed to act as a commit operation. Alternatively, you can call msync (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/msync.2.html) if you want to keep it mmapped.
They also ferment a great deal of the soy they consume.
> Most of them were on their ass in bed for a week

It's really interesting to me how accounts of the virus differ so greatly from person to person. In my personal experience, I know of about a dozen people who have tested positive - all of whom showed few or no symptoms (usually exhaustion and a cough) and felt fine within a couple days and having no long term effects.

I'm sure part of it is influenced by the demographics of who you know (everyone I know was under 40). Confirmation bias might play a part (severe cases stand out more and may seem more representative than they really are), but I'm probably only suspecting that because my personal experience has been so different from yours. Could it have something to do with different regional strains with varying severity of symptoms?
Moreover, I've heard loud voices before that controlling 3rd party cookies will break login providers - guess what, it turned out if there is a will, there is a way.
Right, I fully agree with that, but that's not what the comment I was replying to said: the parent said that society (in a nation) was stupid for not recognising [what is to parent] the self-evident importance of the scientific specialisation of taxonomy. And sure, that is important, but equally so are thousands of other academic specialisations. The point is that a specialisation has to communicate their importance to wider society, has to educate. That isn't a new thing, or capitalism, or a creeping anti-elitism, or productisation of universities, or whatever. It's just something that has to be done. Calling people idiots because they don't pay attention to a specific specialisation among thousands -- what is gained from that? It feels good to do that, but it doesn't help, it doesn't change people's bearing. It may be that people are just really, really thick! We'll just say that instead of communicating the importance of something!

And I get that ignorance may be societally self destructive. That there are cultural/economic/societal systems that actively suppress communication
Can you summarize the dynamics/phenomena that those smartcontracts in DAI exploit to maintain stable value? What stops it from gaining -- or, more importantly, losing -- value?

I couldn't tell from the link.
I would be a little nervous sorting the keys. I thought it was not too uncommon for parsers to treat them as an alist where order matters. I guess so long as it is a stable sort, no big deal?
Microsoft Teams is Chrome only. A good reason not to use it.
> Would be great to have some more details about it: in particular, how do I turn it off if I prefer to add any exceptions manually.

(on mac) Firefox > Preferences > Privacy & Security > Custom
Interesting idea. Solves the issue of trying to find data in JSON fairly well. I'm a bit biased but I like using the oj with a JSONPath extraction (-x option) to do something similar but with the power of JSONPath.
Very easy to setup and maintain with a dedicated unraid box. Grab an old dell enterprise server like the r210 II and put some WD reds in raid + zfs, install unraid, and it’s good to go.

I actually virtualize unraid within esxi so that one small 1U box can be my router / firewall and an unraid machine serving home services. Best setup I’ve ever had and learned so much along the way!
I think guys you are all wrong.

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

The first sentence:

"A heat pump is a device that transfers heat energy from a source of heat to what is called a thermal reservoir."

So yes, it involves energy storage.

The way this works is you store heat in the summer (warm up a lot of rock or ground underneath your house) and recover that energy in the winter by pumping a liquid through warm rock back to your house and use it as a heat source.
The problems they identified have been known for years and there are lots of papers exploring how to mitigate.

The whole paper was a nothing burger wrapped in social justice language with asides about how global warming is Actually Racism because of disparate impact (interesting, not an ML topic).

If the problems aren't novel and you're proposing zero solutions, it shouldn't be a paper.
This is complete nonsense right on the top of the page:
"Those Vegan Cowboys strive for healthy products with less saturated fats, which are suitable for people with lactose intolerance. " Lactose is a sugar and has nothing to do with saturated fat. If they don't understand one of the most fundamental qualities of milk how can they ever hope to recreate it?
Ask HN: Thoughts on serverless for solo devs or small teams
Serverless isn't for everyone. However, for solo devs and small teams without the expertise to self-manage a server, serverless may be attractive even if it is more expensive.

As an aside, here is a twitter thread by a SaaS founder running an analytics service. He chose serverless:

https://twitter.com/JackEllis/status/1337425333423755264

What are your thoughts on serverless vs self-managed servers? Which one did you pick and why? Opinions and advice welcome :-)
When was the last time CryptoTwitter didn’t try to spin something as good for Bitcoin?
Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game currency
Now that would be cool! :-)
I originally read this as question of whether any startups are hiring that are "solving for software engineering" and was very confused.
Haven’t used droplets, do you have to manage backups yourself or is it part of the service?
I used a different source than the one you link. 500F is not difficult for a frying pan to reach either.

The same Wikipedia page also reads:

>Pyrolysis of PTFE is detectable at 200 °C (392 °F), and it evolves several fluorocarbon gases and a sublimate.

My completely unscientific, unsubstantiated guess, based purely on obsessively researching food safety for years, is that it begins to leach at a much lower temperature.
“ Electric (specifically grid-connected) trains also suddenly make a bit more sense.”

On a first glance it would appear so, but it a terrible idea in practice. At least for freight. Commuter trains are often electric (15 Hz? I forget), mostly for local air quality problems.

Train engines are incredibly efficient. Only the largest marine engines are better. These engines are large enough that they approach the thermal efficiency of the thermal plant producing electricity.

So no real gains for CO2 emissions. (Wind and solar don’t count at a first approx. since we’re talking about marginal E use. The train not connected on to the grid frees up production at a thermal plant to lower its production)

But you also loose a lot of resiliency. In extremis, a diesel Trains don’t need anything to run. In case of an ice storm you have to rebuild big infrastructure. Train can help you transport that if they’re independent.
This tool is really great for analyzing portfolio optimizations. I was able to easily navigate the site as well. Few thoughts:

- I noticed in a few places the nav bar links or images were slightly cut-off. Not a big deal at the moment, but might want to check screen-size responsiveness. Also, it would be nice if the nav link was highlighted for the current page you're on.

- In the optimization and projection tools, some defaults in the weights or a "show example" section might be useful. It wasn't exactly intuitive at first and I had to read how to use the tool on the bottom, at first.

Altogether, a great tool that will definitely help independent RIAs working on their own!
I'd rather be lucky than good.

-- Lefty Gomez
On the flip side, I'm impressed that they were able to extend a Wiimote knockoff into the next generation and whole new mode of playing.
I strongly disagree as I personally flat out avoid the news. It’s simply not relevant that some school shooting happened somewhere yesterday or some pundits got upset over latest issue.

As far as the general public is concerned newspapers etc where and are simply another form of entertainment. As such, cat videos are just as much competition as whatever a famous person did yesterday. Becoming informed the week before an election is one thing, getting sucked in a year+ from an election is a waste.

Now direct sources like the National Weather Service and CDC are useful. However, channel X news isn’t funding that, tax payers are.

PS: I suspect many will have a strong options that I am wrong, but please post an objective justification for your viewpoint.
If you have an Amiga game, and you hack support into it for an FPU, does that make it a port?
I like to apply the things i learn and enjoy how they change the way i work or do tasks!
"I’m in awe of something like Debian where entire mirrors have been served on ancient computers with reasonable performance."

Static file serving is easy. If you don't even need SSL because it's all signed content, it's really easy. Linux has a syscall [1] where you can tell the kernel "ok, now, send this file through this socket without bothering userspace anymore", meaning you get full kernel-mode file transfer without even context switching. I've got static file servers serving similar types of content shipping out dozens to hundreds of megabytes per second that barely hit 3% of one CPU usage.

[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sendfile.2.html
No, where did this come from?
> Yucca Mountain hasn't accepted waste and there is no plan for it to begin accepting it.

Replace Yucca Mountain with any out of the way mountain, and there are many around the world globally. (We wouldn't want to be shipping every nation's nuclear waste to one spot).

The point is that nuclear waste has been well understood for 75 years. The mechanism for how it's shielded, by natural means, is so well understood that the political destruction of these sites is a crime against science.

The fissile, radioactive isotopes came from mountains in the first place, and we're not telling people to not live by mountains.
For one the USD is only the largest reserve currency used internationally: GBP, EUR and JPY are also used as reserve currencies. For another the US has been trying to reduce the role of the dollar as a reserve currency because it actually has significant downsides and fewer benefits than is popularly portrayed - this even has it's own term, "exorbitant privilege". Here's Ben Bernanke talking about it:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-bernanke/2016/01/07/the-d...

TL;DR: the USD's reserve currency status is very much exaggerated.
Hackerrank has been focused on this (beyond competitive programming)- across various technical roles and verticals. (disclosure: ex-employee).
Quit.

Developers need full access to their machines or they are stifled.

This organisation is not interested in you doing quality work.

Your options are therefore to either resign yourself to not doing quality work, or leave that organisation, ideally making sure that management knows exactly why you're going.

(Of course, the chance of management actually caring is about one in thirty seven trillion - if they cared about quality of work or employee satisfaction, your machine wouldn't be locked down. So not bothering to tell them is fine too. Tell them if you're feeling charitable)
This settlement shows they operated as if Tether was fully backed and claimed Tether was fully backed when they knew it was not.

How it that extremely favorable?

If someone sells something they don’t have under false pretenses, that’s fraud. It’s not a simple liquidity issue.
Lots of interesting thoughts here.

I wonder if news is not that different from education:

Privileged people always had access to it, sometimes on a 1-1 basis (informants/tutors).

Then came technology [writing|printing], but real scale still required capital to pay for platform [campuses|printer] and content [educators|journalists].

But inevitably the profitability of businesses decline over time until all the profits are gone. Due to competition they start giving away content for free and start selling eyeballs, quality declines and the incumbents need ways to make money other than their primary revenue source.

In both cases the most successful of the businesses can use their size to their advantage: Academia partners with industry to fund "scientific research". It also "helps prepare students for the job market". Newspapers decide to double down on advertisement.

Basically both sell their soul, only a little at first, but things only get worse over time. The internet accelerates all this. Stupid fights like the above breaks out about who should get what share of the pie.

But at the end of the day the core value still comes from the individuals (journalists/educators) who rightfully feel that they have been reduced to mere numbers and they could provide more value to less people and make more money going independent. So a lot of them do.

We now have platforms for independent education (self published books, online courses, patreon, etc) but we don't really have them for (verifiable) journalism yet. I don't even know how that would look like. The best I could find was comedy and news-commentary podcasts where the reporters can really be themselves.

edit: typo + minor edit