skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that meet the standard for being an unverified conspiracy theory? It seems that the story came from a source they were keeping anonymous (fairly conventional in journalism, especially when reporting things in real time) and was promptly updated as more news came in.

It's worth noting that there is fairly extensive video of an unhelmeted officer getting hit in the head with a fire extinguisher thrown during a brawl. I don't know if that officer has been identified as Sicknick or not, but that particular event (an officer getting hit in the head with a fire extinguisher) did happen. Separately, we know Sicknick did physically engage with the rioters, as the official US Capitol Police statement cited in the article you linked said "Officer Brian D. Sicknick passed away due to injuries sustained while on-duty."

So, _a_ fire extinguisher attack did happen (among many other attacks on officers during the riot). An officer did die as a result of injuries sustained during the riot. An anonymous source linked those two events, a link which now appears to have been incorrect. News sites which covered the events in question have effectively released retractions and calls to wait for more evidence.

What more would you want them to do? They can only report on the facts as known at the time, and release updates if those later change. Both of those things were done.

This is an entirely different situation from Fox and OANN alleging massive conspiracies and voter fraud and continuing to hold that position for political reasons despite a lack of evidence.
Nonsense, it's a perfectly valid headline. The lawyers get first dibs on that $26.5M, players mostly get in-game currency.

> Each Settlement Class Member who timely submits a valid Claim Form will be entitled to receive their choice of either a cash award (up to $50 ...

The claim form isn't posted yet on the website. It has to be physically mailed in to the lawyers, with all your personal info. Of 10 million Rocket League and Fortnite players, how many do you think will actually mail that in? They're betting it's less than 1 in 20. I'd wager it's going to be more like 1 in 2000, which costs Epic just $0.25M, leaving $26.25M for the lawyers.

> Upon receipt of a Claim Form, the Settlement Administrator will determine your eligibility to receive an award. Depending on the number of Approved Claims, it is possible that each Settlement Class Member’s award will be reduced on a pro-rata basis after payment of settlement administration costs, attorney’s fees and expenses, and Incentive Awards to the Plaintiffs.

Even if the number of approved claims is not already small, the cash is for the lawyers first, Epic is paying the players primarily with in-game currency.

https://www.epiclootboxsettlement.com/Home/Faq
As long as the bugfix is at least in a commit of its own so it can be cherry-picked into another branch if needed, that should work too...
That is a good point... I overstated the case, although I would say the GCC and Clang examples in particular are true. I guess the stronger argument is that compilers are more of a special case low in the dependency stack, as opposed to apps (and especially GUI apps). Also, I really hope none of those dependencies start long-lived threads without the app's knowledge, though there's nothing stopping them from doing so.
This isn't directly related, but you may find these interesting.

Fake volume related to a recent Tether piece in the WSJ: https://medium.com/@nic__carter/assessing-bitcoins-liquidity...

Bitwise presentation to the SEC regarding fake volume among exchanges: https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2019-01/srnysearca2...
Have you heard about DaVinci Resolve?
JavaScript performance beyond bundle size
Ten years ago I was told to never use Git submodules.

Five years ago I inherited a project that had four repos sharing a Git submodule.

Now I tell people to never use Git submodules.
This statement, minus the political content, sounds very, very, very similar to what I was hearing about tech stocks a bit over 20 years ago, and houses about 15 years ago.

Maybe that means something, maybe it doesn't. If I had some way of knowing, I'd have a lot more money than I am now. It's worth remembering, though, that prices are just that: prices. Nothing more, nothing less.
Facebook admits to overestimating its potential reach metric for advertisers
The "every commit must be independent" ideology sounds nice when you write it down, but often you'll have such large changes that in order to make them independent you'd have to basically finish an entire feature. In those cases I tend to just indicate WIP (work in progress) in my commit messages with a brief snippet about what progress was made.

This way, if you skip all the WIP commits you'll have mostly runnable code, and if you want to review a PR commit-by-commit it's easier to see what was being attempted in each commit than to only look at the feature as a whole.
>How is this allowed?

You are pretty much assuming they are liable for the allegations in the complaint against them.

Settlements for low value are a sign that plaintiffs view their chances of success (including being awarded substantial damages) as being low.

So one way of looking at this is, Epic did nothing wrong, and they are giving away essentially nothing to make the plaintiff go away.

If plaintiffs thought they had a good case, they wouldn't take monopoly money.
Nice resource, I submitted a PR with our free-tier offerings!
Baroque Dance Notation
That is the preferred solution if you're using cookies across a company.
So, could you tell me for example, what this relatively often cited paper solves or where it's actually applied to solve a real world problem? https://openreview.net/forum?id=Sy2fzU9gl
> I like Epic's challenge of the mandatory app store and what it means for making mobile phones closer to real general purpose computing.

Ironically I dislike Epic’s challenge because I think it will take us further away from a healthy general purpose computing platform.
You've got mail, overflowing U.S. post office tells Canadian customers
The one thing that makes me even angrier is gas-powered leaf blowers that make multiple passes past my apartment, and seemingly deliberately linger for longer if I'm in the middle of a conference call.

Seriously, go electric and ban those abominations.
Don't we? We can reduce the amount of info that the browser provides. Done.
Thanks for pointing out that I was off in my original estimate (a hasty web search showed the wrong cryptocurrency; almost nobody mines bitcoin on CPUs anymore :).

From what I can see, a more realistic estimate for a single core on a desktop is in the 2^26 range. Keep in mind that the PBKDF2 defender is single-threaded by design, whereas the attacker is not.

This still represents ~a half million x advantage for the attacker/$2k they spend. For $1m, they can guess passwords ~200 million times faster than you.

If we assume memory is the limiting factor for argon2, then even if a specialized attacker can use it at scale for 1/20th the cost, a 20x advantage is much better for the defender than a 500,000x advantage.
I live near a highway in Colorado which is very quiet except for summer weekends when the noisy motorbikes turn up and it becomes borderline intolerable (I’m not against motorbikes, I ride, I just hate the lack of consideration for others piece and quiet).

On a thread about air pollution a few days ago [1] I mentioned sensor.community [2]. They are promoting crowdsourced environmental data, including noise and I’m currently building their DNMS so I can contribute [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25915103
[2] https://sensor.community/en/
[3] https://sensor.community/en/sensors/dnms/
Flagged. Lol. Because the letters didn't use the exact words "demand", "censor". Haha.
Hopefully this isn't drowned out by all the crypto discussion.

How can NY require mandatory reporting on core business, if both entities are forbidden now to transact with New Yorkers? How would this even be enforceable? "Sorry, we don't do business in your state."
I've used this for a while to track ideas and tasks, but just recently started using it to track recipes as well. (My sous vide cheesecake recipe for example: https://workflowy.com/s/sous-vide-cheesecake/edLz9ugNA3IPrF8...)
Recently I started day dreaming about a day when, say, I need to see a part of the EM spectrum outside what my natural eyesight allows and I just switch a mode beside my skull which boosts my eye implant.

The more I read how close we are getting to communicating with the brain a bit more directly, the more I feel we are entering a stunning and scary world.
> The solution to a puzzle is meaningless if the same solution can be shown as the result of two different inputs.

This isn't true. There are an infinite number of inputs that result in the same solution for bitcoin (or any hash)
We’re talking of home heating where the ground source heat pumps are rare. Here’s an article explaining how they work. Efficiency is 200-300%

https://www.finehomebuilding.com/2020/04/08/how-efficient-ar...
I'm a bit annoyed by the terminology here. CICO is as true as ever from a physics/physiology standpoint and I think it's good to acknowledge that.

_However_ some calories keep you hungry so it's probably _much_ easier to limit your calories on low-sugar than a high-sugar diet.
This would be like the big tobacco settlement being: big tobacco will pay smokers 100 billion tobacco bucks redeemable for cigarettes at an exchange rate of 100 tobacco bucks per cigarette.
Using the simple drag polar approach,

D = A*v^2 + B/v^2 (D is total drag, first term is parasitic drag, second term is lift-induced drag)

dD/dv = 0 where v = (B/A)^(1/4)

Plug in v = (B/A)^(1/4)

D = sqrt(AB) + sqrt(AB), aka dD/dv = 0 exactly when parasitic drag is equal to the lift-induced drag
Primates also eat fermented fruits which have enzymes that convert to something more digestible. By going for the cleanest best looking fruits/foods we have decreased the diversity of our gut bacteria which increasing the things people are allergic to.
> Who do we really help by pretending that we're more organized, coherent, and linear than we actually were?

We're helping the future reader who's reading the history because they want to understand why a change was made - and "because the author of the branch initially had the wrong idea" is almost never the answer they're looking for.

I sometimes enjoy reading stream-of-consciousness writing, but most of the time (especially when reading code) I'm more interested in the point itself. The same applies to version history. It can be used to tell the raw story, but there's usually a more useful and interesting story to be told.
Boot straps are still a thing! You'll find them on just about any pair of more than ankle-high workboots, including my 9-hole loggers.

They're surprisingly handy, especially when you want to just slip the boots on without lacing them to run out and check the mail or whatever. Stick your toes in, pick your foot up, tug the strap, and done - you don't even need to sit down.
sounds like exactly the kind of work cops should be doing
I used to live in a flat with a window onto the main road and I would violently wake up 4-6x every night and my heart rate would be through the roof. It's not easy to go back to sleep after that. I can get used to consistent noise and filter it out, but I can never get used to an extremely loud noise coming rapidly out of dead silence. Those were mostly custom exhausts, motorcycles and sirens.

If I really needed sleep I would get myself drunk for a week straight, that was the only time I slept through the night. But the chronic lack of sleep and sleep disturbance made me generally angry and quick to explode at every little thing. I was really miserable for years. Luckily I saved enough money to move to a quiet cul de sac.

I honestly can't wait for electric cars to come en mass, even if it costs the environment the same or more than ICE, because you can't complain about noise pollution in a way that someone would take you seriously. Everyone just waves their hand "it's just a loud car passing by", but they don't see the negative consequences that has for both mental and physical health.
Once again, xkcd did it first.

https://xkcd.com/269/
Buffett FAQ: A compendium of Q&A sessions with Warren Buffett
> Why can't you just use a "live" development environment in Firebase?

I have a live (as in online) dev environment with its own DB, which is good for most database reading/writing.

However, for Firebase Functions (FaaS), I really don't like the dev experience of using an online environment. You have increased latency for everything, but above all, logging is terrible.

So you have to set up the local emulators, which is not nearly as easy as doing `python manage.py runserver` or `nodemon` or what have you. I had problems with the setup this morning, and I've had to modify the code to write to the emulators instead of live functions depending on the environment (there is no way to do it purely through env variables, you have to do it though code).

I'll grant that it's improved massively over the last year or so - when I started the project I couldn't get the emulators to work at all, and SO and Github were riddled with issues on the topic.

On the topic of databases, I say it's good for most reading and writing, but last time I checked the data from emulated databases is not persisted so it's only good for fleeting tests, but not for playing around with data locally. I'm sure I'm not alone in that I often like to play around with bulk operations (such as big initializations or fetching) and manually explore the data (the "live" data explorer in the form of Firebase console web app is atrocious, there are infinitely better local solutions like pgAdmin, or the JetBrains' database explorers)

All in all the DX is just about acceptable, but I'm not impressed given that the product is almost a decade old, massively adopted, and led by Google. My original point is I believe web frameworks give me "tighter" DX, and I don't see a reason to pick Firebase over other options as a complete stack most of the time.
Apple users targeted by 'mysterious' malware
I used to say "a house will always have the price of a house" (it has issues of course cough 2008 cough) to illustrate what you're saying here as I never managed to explain it properly like you did.
> they could just devalue the in-game currency

Item prices are fixed by the developer, aren't they? edit I suppose that just kicks the stone down the road. There would still be devaluation in the sense that scarce and expensive items become commonplace.
They probably saw their chances of winning against EPIC’s legal team being very low. That legal team is stacked atm.
I don't know where you get these ridiculous ideas about imposter syndrome. Take one look at her career. She's written signal processing algorithms at Apple, won awards at conferences, got a PhD and worked for Microsoft in their AI ethics lab. She was more than qualified for her position and the research paper she was publishing passed peer review.

You're right, this wouldn't have happened if she were a straight white male - if she were a straight white male, there wouldn't be comments like yours making asinine assumptions about how good she was at her job.
Indie Hackers used to be good at the beginning. Then it got bought out and they flooded the site with projects the majority of which are crap.
Yes that's were I originally saw the reference
Until the world sees an Android device get a kernel upgrade, imo, Android is a cruel cruel cruel joke, ecocide-al insanity.

The world can not afford to let high tech devices rot away like they do.

I too am excited to see something done. Abstracting over the entire kernel is a helluva Extend-Embrace-Extinguish policy, but at least some updates will come. I remain doubtful that we'll see kernel upgrades though. Even though the whole device driver architecture is now abstracted from the kernel, now offered by Treble, I still expect there'll be a lot of compliance cold-feet & general-low-ambitions to support less-than-current devices.

The whole idea of kicking out a pervasively connected communications device that has a hard wall for how supported it will be, that no one else can help maintain, is just corrupt & vile. It's sad to see such mal-use of Linux.

Post script: I don't blame Google per-se for this all. Trying to applicationize a computing device, turn it from a general purpose system where thing can go wrong into a product that works reliably & can be let onto cellular networks is a difficult challenge, and against the grain of the highly hierarchical systems of power that have flowed in the world. None the less, it is sad to see an un-upgradeable Linux where owners can't get root, their apps will lock them out if they do (Android SafetyNet), where bootloaders are usually locked, and where driver support is only for OEMs. It rather makes me think of the other dominating factor in computing, the de-generalization/specialization of computing as it effervesces into the cloud, an unfortunate juggernaut of a trend I wrote about earlier today[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26238376
Aleksander Doba Has Died
The Shipping Industry Is Betting Big on Ammonia
Use pure Glucose?
Git is designed to make it easy to restructure commits (rebasing, resetting, selective adding ) . Don’t be so obsessive with it . Track your work and at the end of the day , restructure your work so that you can manage it well (for posterity or collaboration )
Is there support for an expound-all button on a page? I definitely have days where I just want to also read the details and don’t want to click a dozen times while I’m reading.
This looks great! very polished look, and certainly useful. What does your pricing look like?
When I'm working solo, the only reason I use git is to sync my code between my desktop and laptop, and to "back it up" to my remote server for peace of mind.

I have never in all of my years working solo on projects needed to revert my history to debug a problem (excluding CTRL+Z of course!). If I am experimenting with something that I don't think will work, then I use a branch.

The amount of work to maintain a clean history and disciplined git practices is not worth it. For non-solo projects with even just 1 extra developer, then totally. Otherwise, you're just wasting your time...IMO.

But honestly, the nice thing about solo work is that you can do whatever you want, and confidently ignore people who think they know how you should work better than you do. If this helps you be more productive or organized, then go for it. And worst case scenario, you're less productive with your project, but you become a git wizard.
Paper towels never lose value and pretty pegged to inflation.

But seriously, look at the past 20 years and your takeaway should be that USD is indestructible and that the Fed can do no wrong. They ran the printing press day and night for years and struggled to hit 2% inflation. "Full Faith and Credit of the US Government" is evidently the best inflation hedge in the world.
> There is an easy way. Swap USDT to USDC on Curve. Deposit USDC on Coinbase. Convert USDC to USD on Coinbase. Withdraw USD.

Then what is your explanation for why it is not possible to directly exchange USDT for USD, there must be a reason that no exchange wants to do that.

> that most of the market doesn't perceive a risk.

That is absolutely no indicator for safety.
What I meant was, you are cloud-hosting (assuming not CE) the part where the non-anonymised PII is sent to [as opposed to sanitised coming out of] and processing it; and in addition the only provider supported is one subject to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
these are problems easily solved by immigration. immigration results in vibrant cities look at NY, london & Paris. Immigration would counter low birth rates. Also because of different ideas that come in with immigrants, the native population will find other people to connect with. you're no longer relegated to video games etc as your hobbies.
Definitely--when working solo I tend to only write tests for things I actually want to run in isolation (and usually just to save time running the full codebase) or to establish some concrete expectations that I need to be aware of changes to (e.g. specific user scenarios that are critical to the thing working). These tend to overlap a lot.
To add to your posts. Around 50 most popular sub-reddits are moderated by the same people.
> acted

I have a very hard time believing a 12 year old can pass as a 19 year old in maturity. What knowledge or experience can a 12 year old offer to a mid 20s individual to appear intelligent, as you claim?

> You would've been fooled too

Zero chance. In my mid 20s, I already considered 19 year olds to be far too removed in life stages to consider seriously and the maturity gap between a 12 year old and an 19 year old is astronomical.
> I also took some supplements

Which ones? Our specialist recommended CoQ10
Interesting article, and I always find the history of early computer games fascinating (also see: Halcyon Days, freely available online: https://dadgum.com/halcyon/)

However, what strikes me the most of this article is actually in the comments section...

... people don't know who Roberta Williams is, or what Sierra Online was!? In a videogame website?

Wow. How quick we videogame fans are to forget our own history. This reminds me of the multiple times I've seen people here on HN ask who Carmack was and why it mattered what he had to say about tech.
I assume you must be talking about the mobile app, rather than the "mobile experience" of the Reddit website. And it's just occurred to me that the author may have been referring to the same.

I've never used the app but I presume it is a lot better than the mobile website.
Future Vaccines Depend on Test Subjects in Short Supply: Monkeys
Food that subtly messes you up is notoriously hard to pinpoint.

I'm not fear mongering. I live with a genetic disorder. I've paid lots of attention to food chemistry over the past nearly two decades since getting a proper diagnosis.

I'm done with this discussion. This is the second comment accusing me of spreading fear. It's a ridiculous accusation and long experience tells me it will make zero difference how I reply. It only gets uglier from here.
posix_spawn is just a wrapper that takes care of setting common parameters for newly forked instances (eg pgrp) and prevents you from doing things that might be overly unsafe or could break vfork from being used in its optimized form. It’s implanted at the libc level, so it’s not a magic syscall that moves the burden of process spawning to the kernel.
Hmm... I hadn't thought about it that way before. When you put it that way it makes more sense.
Growth hacking, probably.
> no one is writing $40k+ loans each year for students with no cosigner.

This is in fact exactly what's happening. It's impossible to bankrupt out of student loans, so in theory it's a no risk loan from the loan providers perspective.

Schools almost never totally phase out financial help, but they do reduce it to negligible portions e.g. $500 work study on a 50k bill. This helps keep their financial aid stats healthy while still getting paid.

This type of affect will only show up when viewing the percentiles of debt students are taking on. Adding a bunch of folks who only take on $1k in debt is a great way to draw down the average.
Heh. On my teams, I _am_ "that one guy who knows more about Git" :)

I recently wrote an extended post that aims to help devs understand how Git works, available Git commands, and techniques for using Git effectively:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/01/coding-career-git-...
This seems like a nicer solution than Safari, which is blocking even session cookies in third party iframes. Makes it hard to have a multi-page browser game embedded in gaming sites.
But there is an obvious way to contact all the people who are being sent letters - they are in the white pages. What part of sending someone a letter to a publicly-listed address constitutes stalking or harassment?