skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blender3D for video editing is really cool.

iMovie crashed bad on me and I never got it working again. Almost paid 300 bucks for Final Cut Pro.

Then remembered that Blender had this built in. And its really good. No need to import videos into a bin or nonsense like that. Just drag them into the timeline, add filters, drag to reorder, render to mp4/aac and its done.

Best discovery of the year sofar
So don’t collect data on disinformation?
2 parts of this are interesting to me.

The first is "House Democrats demand" - the government should not be regulating speech, even if it's false/dangerous/moronic. The letter is dumb and dangerous.

The second is "Cable providers to censor misinformation" - infrastructure providers regulating speech sounds very similar to the whole Parler deplatforming. I wonder what my own reaction would be if cable companies independently kicked off (say) OANN after the Jan 6 riot. Is the private-to-private speech regulation ok?
>"The MMT claim, as far as any normal economist understands it, is that the government can print money indefinitely to pay for whatever it wants, because of a somewhat counterintuitive claim about the government being able to insist that people pay taxes in the currency it designates."

MMT doesn't claim anything like that. MMT says that a government that have its own floating currency its not financially constrained (the key word here is financially). They also claim that the size of the public debt (but not the deficit!) of such a government it's irrelevant.

Governments (that spend its own floating currency) can't spend indefinitely in a period of time because they are constrained by the real capacity of economy of the country. If they spend beyond that capacity inflation happens. This is cannon in MMT, it's not a complicated idea, it's even in the most superficial introduction to MMT and it's beyond me why somebody, acting in good faith, would keep changing, what the MMT economists are saying.

Your hyperinflation comments have been answered elsewhere in this thread.
I'm also a solo developer and use git in a much less sophisticated fashion. I tend to use it as, "freeze my code here, so in case I f something up, I can get back to a moderately clean state." It's kind like a snapshot-based local history. And, quite frankly, I rarely revert one, but it makes me feel safer. I don't care if I have a lot of commit messages that say, "interim". The good ones are clear.

Is this a terrible coding practice? I don't have enough non-me experience to know what an anti-pattern this probably is. I probably won't change my process, but I'm curious.
Rewriting history needs to be expensive, not just difficult. If you decrease the cost of writing history, you decrease the penalty of participating in a minority chain.
Personally, no. You can easily look up actual crime statistics for example and become informed, watching the news doesn’t make you actually informed about anything particularly relevant.

Put another way, the news cycle is a thin slice of time and news organizations filter things based on what’s important to them in the moment. A mass shooting for example might only make the news because it happened to follow some other even larger mass shooting.
I thought I was the only one using guy like this.
ya that is wrong. not sure where coinbase is getting their data from.

keep in mind the total crypto market cap is 1.5 triilion. so tether alone doing 200b is an absurd statement. Total daily volume across all exchanges is only just getting to 50b these days
That’s not quite true; you have far more neurons going to the retina than you have coming from it. The retina supplies a surprisingly small amount of bits per second to the brain. Neuroscientists believe that at least half of our conscious experience of reality is effectively “hallucinated” by the brain based on internal models it has built from past experiences. So it’s highly plausible that that same perception-generating system which creates your conscious perception of reality could also function while asleep.
Tether is using Deltec Bank and Trust in the Bahamas. Deltec's CEO actually did an interview where he responded to the Tether fraud claims: https://unchainedpodcast.com/is-tether-a-fraud-its-bank-says...

When Tether started, most financial institutions weren't open to working with cryptocurrency companies, but the fact that it's still the top stablecoin by value is troubling since there are plenty of better options now.
I just assumed because most people don't be able to block ads. Is the app anything more than a webview that doesn't get sent the 'make it crappy' parts from the server?
If something could be very harmful you should avoid it out of precaution. And many of these chemicals are known endocrine disrupters, so just because there is no slam dunk evidence there is a lot of circumstantial and anecdotal evidence that indicates a problem with these substances.

Plus, the people who avoid them are almost invariably healthier, so taking steps to avoid them seems to have positive effects anyways.
This is super cool!

I've only recently discovered that Markdown has footnotes, and I've gone to down adding footnotes everywhere.

I use Jekyll + markdown on my website, and I now have lots of fun adding footnotes to my writing.

I added a "footnote tutorial" for readers on https://josh.works/turing-backend-prep-01-intro#why-this-rub..., to help them learn how to navigate the footnotes.

I _love_ your library, and I love the problem that you're solving with it.

Along the way, I've looked at Gwern's sidenotes[0] and Nate Berkapec's "footnotes"/sidenotes [1].

I eventually want to do something more "in-line", like what you've down with Expounder, but I've been satiated with markdown footnotes for now.

[0]: https://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes#
[1]: https://www.nateberkopec.com/blog/2017/03/10/how-i-made-self...
Given the excessive hand-wringing around e-bikes that can go over 28 mph in NYC, someone would definitely notice
Would you be able to give specific examples of left-focused misinformation on the capitol riots, that is specific news articles from "trusted partisan" sources (CNN, etc) containing unsupported conspiracy theories?
Scott Tilley, VE7TIL, Finds Resurrected NASA Satellite (2018)
throwaway due to personal health details:

Similar anecdote from a UK-based late-30s guy with a BMI in the 30ish range:

- no background health/illness issues. Non-smoker, occasional drinker (2-3 glasses a week).

- trouble with getting pregnant - checks on female were all A-ok.

- sperm analysis on me done.

- count & motability fine.

- morphology was low at 1% good-forms (minimum is IIRC 3% or above).

Several months later and re-tested: morphology was then at 4% - count & motability largely unchanged. DNA fragmentation was "normal" but not amazing (not tested initially)

What I did:

- significantly upped my standing desk usage - from sporadic use a few times a week, to perhaps 25-50% of every working day at a standing desk.

- changed underwear from tight-fitting "trunks" to looser "jersey" (not boxers - personally I hate boxers)

- slept naked instead of wearing trunks.

- almost entirely eliminated alcohol and caffeine, apart from the odd glass/cup maybe once or twice a month.

- anti-oxidant tablets ("condensyl") taken daily

Notable:

- exercise & weight largely unchanged (I ran a few KMs maybe once or twice a week - this remained unchanged)

- diet (apart from caffeine and alcohol) largely unchanged - perhaps some small mild "improvements" in cutting back on sugar & fat and having more veg but nothing drastic or wildly different really.

I now have a naturally conceived 1 year old boy. Pregnancy + birth + delivery totally normal, baby all A-ok. It can happen - don't loose faith if the results are "bad". Good luck.
A social network is a natural monopoly. You are kept at Facebook because all your friends are on Facebook, and they are kept there because you are.
Hey Guys,

Thank you for the feedback and this all totally makes sense.

Sorry we took a few minutes to get back to this! Unfortunately for HIPAA reason's we cannot use identifying data of patients. This is why we didn't use last names, or patient photos (faces are identifying- and we thought it'd be creepy to do the medical journal thing of putting a black box over the eyes).

We are certainly working on finding patient champions who might feel comfortable being totally public, but there are some legal issues around that.

That said- these are real stories. Also, feel free to google me, Manan Shah MD ENT in Colorado and you can see people's google reviews. Like all review sites, I'm sure you'll find that I didn't click with some people, but in general I'm pleased that most of my patients really had a great experience!

Does this make sense? But I definitely agree, having pretty stock images is something we'll talk to our design team about to avoid the 'marketing scam' feel!

Manan
I prefer Nushell[1] for data processing, it's a full fledged shell but I rarely use it as a interactive shell, mostly as a scripting language and some one-offs oneliners. It supports CSV, JSON and other languages by default and provide the data a much nicer common interface

Something like:

open file.json | select colors | each { ^echo $it.hex }

is much nicer than jq

[1]: https://www.nushell.sh/
Anecdata: As quarantine drags on, I've stopped eating fast-food/restaurants and only eat things that I 'make'. I'm not going to say that it's healthy food, because I like cookies and beer and burgers. But just not eating fast food resulted in ~20lbs lost. I sleep better, I'm not as exhausted in the early afternoon, and I just 'feel' better. We'll see how post-pandemic life goes, but I'm going to try to stay on this diet at least.
Thanks for the well-wishes. We've been established a long time (about to celebrate 11 years) and I am very financially conservative, so the business had enough capital to go multiple years if we were closed down (no payroll, minimal utilities) and still re-open.

We've sporadically been able to open normal hours, reduced hours, reduced capacity, and all kinds of other restricted levels of activity, which has resulted in terrible sales, but smaller losses than we would normally have.

It truly is a very small business (9 employees) so its operational cost is pretty low.

I pointed out the strip clubs, but of course the casinos are allowed to continue operation as well. They avoided literally all of the regulations we had to obey: capacity, forced social distancing, reduced hours, etc. And of course they don't have the taboo aspect that some people feel with strip clubs, so they've been nice and busy. I have to imagine they're lining the governor's pockets to enjoy such a privileged status.
What prevents them from adapting and using the SSO cookie as a tracking vector? Why are we assuming they aren't doing this already?
.ly is the country code domain for Libya. 2015 was a rough year there, and things haven't improved much since.
Democrats were proponents of free speech when Republicans controlled the media, culture, and institutions. Increasingly, the media, culture, and institutions are controlled by progressive Democrats (and I think there is a growing schism between liberals and progressives on this front), and traditional liberal ideas of the free exchange of information have no more value.
Critical Security Update on Node.js
Diesel trains and jet engines are actually quite efficient and are already subject to regulations and thus don't pollute that much.
No, it's not - but you can buy funny dances with it!
The Cname of the Game: Large-Scale Analysis of DNS-Based Tracking Evasion
Ex-vivo studies should not be a reason for lifestyle change.
I follow Robert Lustig's lectures; he talked about this stuff since 2009 and it's public - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM . The way I interpret the advice is as follows: Eat as much whole fruit as you want (but you'll get tired of it quickly). Limit refined sugars to about 30 grams per day (soda, candy, yogurt, jam, cake, etc.; this means reading labels carefully). In theory you can go out and eat as much glucose (a.k.a. dextrose) as you want, but this sounds dumb so don't do it. Embrace eating fat; it is not the enemy. Eat fiber like vegetables. Let your body tell you when you're full (which fructose disrupts).
So, one thing that is interesting to me here is that cable companies do choose which companies to allow as channels. Like, they aren't merely a dumb pipe to access the world of television, hopefully having a disregard for what customers watch, but instead take an active role in curating their catalog to choose channels and content that will be accessible to their customer base.

Due to this, while I personally find the premise of this demand chilling, it more argues to me that cable companies almost deserve their fate here: I think it would be entirely fair to try to hold cable companies at least somewhat liable for all of the content broadcast on all of their channels.

Like, arguably, to me, this feels the same as the Section 230 controversy, but since a cable company isn't an "interactive computer service" I guess they are left out in the cold. If you really believe in Section 230, maybe you feel like it should be expanded to cover this scenario. And, if not, maybe you feel like cable companies it's catalogs of channels should either 1) do tons of fine-grained limitations and/or filtering or 2) simply not exist so that people can get their information from an actual platform (which cable companies actually already provide anyway: the Internet).
It sounds to me like fruit itself is implicated, so honey certainly would be. My rule is, anything that tastes sweet is probably bad for me, but I have some digestive issues. I would like to do nothing but greens, oily fish and some roots to round out the calories, but I am weak willed.
I think wikipedia is wrong or confusing here. A heat pump requires a thermal resevoir (something that doesn't change temperature much when you move heat to or from it) of some sort, usually the atmosphere, or in ground source heat pumps pipes running through the ground, but it can move heat in either direction.

> While air conditioners and freezers are familiar examples of heat pumps, the term "heat pump" is more general and applies to many heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) devices used for space heating or space cooling.

Basically what I would understand from the term heat pump in ordinary conversation would be an air conditioner intended for use in a heating dominated climate rather than a cooling dominated one, but there might be some regional differences in usage.
Physicist thrashes simulation theory, says it's basically a religion
Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion – broad web data leaks
Musk: Starlink will hit 300Mbps and expand to “most of Earth” this year
> Pioneering chefs and restaurants create amazing experiences from flavors and textures

We already have vegetarian/vegan restaurants that are beyond "beef burger but not beef". There's not really much to pinoeer here except just "bring them to near you"?
> If Firefox (or Safari of Opera or etc) changes to something that breaks Google but Chrome doesn't, they'll just get more of the market.

Not on iOS
> What regulators, though?

Online gambling regulators.
Let me introduce you Astrid Vargas, the Spanish biologist expert in breeding black-footed ferrets (and Iberian lynx):

https://valleyofthepossible.com/people/astrid-vargas

Nobody expected the Spanish inquisitive.
There was nothing about race in this entire document.
It was always public information that this was coming out today or tomorrow.
Cython is also mentioned downthread.

typed_python is new to me. I'll check it out. I'm too am keeping an eye on this space. I think that compiling or transpiling python may be the solution to both the major problems I have with python: performance and distribution. Exciting times.
Formal education predates the industrial revolution.
If I could buy tulips on cryptoexchanges with freshly printed Tether, I could bid the price of tulips up. If the majority of tulip trades took place on crypto exchanges and much of that was bidding the price up with newly printed Tether, tulips would be exactly as useful as before, but cost a lot more. As such, if Tether were to collapse, people's bulbs would be worth a lot less. Tulips would still be tulips, but they'd be part of a Tether bubble.
High school standards in the US have reached a point where I would not trust someone with only a high school diploma to be able to do data entry. Bachelor's degrees aren't a perfect credential but they're a passable filter, in lieu of building a much more extensive hiring process for low-level jobs.
It’s pretty easy.
Instead of looking at a watch a few times a day you carry around a controller and a few times a day you hit: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A and Start, and then ask yourself if you’re dreaming.
Then when you do it while dreaming: bam! Superpowers.
:)
I hope the lawyers are also paid with in-game currency.
It causes inflation of job requirements, delays entry into careers, produces vast amounts of unnecessary debt and spending, promotes substandard graduate programs so people can be differentiated from the other history majors, and all because a high school diploma is considered worthless by most companies for their non-technical entry level positions.
In the physical world there are visible numbers, like "2/15" for instance. And experts that try to make sure each number is in fact unique.

I don't see that here, although it would presumably be easier to implement / verify.

But maybe it exists and I simply didn't find the info.
IMHO it makes little sense to compile complete Python programs vs just compiling the slow parts. Some of the best reasons to choose Python are precisely the ones that preclude compilation, including:

- "batteries included" including a massive set of libraries (any one of which won't be supported by the compiler)

- dynamism which makes it easy to wrangle syntax to your needs (including the creation of domain-specific languages), but which destroys the performance improvement of compilation, even if the compiler can handle all the crazy introspection.
> I've never heard of anyone working to produce a vegan wool sweater with plant derived components to recreate a fair isle sweater, or a vegan cordovan leather shoe that lasts decades

I mean, it's a while ago now, but nylon, rayon etc were very much sold as synthetic silk back in the day. And synthetic wood flooring and furniture products are extremely common (in the flooring case in particular, great effort is gone to to gloss over the fact that they even _are_ synthetic). People largely want things that are similar to things they're used to.

And it's possibly relevant that both of the things you mention are luxury products that most consumers would not have experience of anyway. Milk is not. If everyone wore extremely expensive shoes that lasted decades, there might be more of a demand for synthetic ones, but in practice that's not even a product where many people wanted the original.

There's also a market for novel stuff, of course, but it's generally a smaller market. And, like, vegan food that is not emulating animal-based food certainly _exists_; it's just a harder sell for the average person (at least in the west; your milage may vary elsewhere). Though it's rarely entirely novel; just adaptations of existing food that isn't meat-based and can have any animal ingredients swapped out easily (a lot of Indian food works well here; often contains dairy products in its traditional form, but they can be swapped out quite easily).
No it would not, plenty of stablecoins to take it's place, or just crypto/crypto ratios.
I have tried regular as well as the developer version of Firefox, but no matter what I use, YouTube videos always skip frames after every 10-15 seconds or so. So I use Brave for YouTube and other WebGL heavy stuff and Firefox developer version for daily browsing.
In the less-scammy world of regulated finance, there are rules about disclosure and the SEC will come after you for running a pump-and-dump scheme.
This is correct. There is no per-se demand, but there is a strong suggestion of expectation that these networks should be exerting some kind of pressure against the misinformation in shows they carry.

Frankly it still seems pretty ridiculous to me.
This title should be changed, it doesn't reflect the content of these letters. They do point in a concerning direction, but this is not a demand for censorship.
Thankyou, I'll have a look.
The same four countries get brought up by BTC proponents all the time. Yes, evading authoritarian regimes can be useful. But like 1/3 of the planet lives in just India/China. Going from "a use case is sending cash from the US to your family in Iran" to "2/3 of the world population wants this" is a big leap.
Taking a Risk Based Approach to Your Information Security Budget
"For 25- to 34-year-olds who worked full time, year round in 2018, higher educational attainment was associated with higher median earnings. This pattern was consistent from 2000 through 2018. For example, in 2018 the median earnings of those with a master’s or higher degree ($65,000) were 19 percent higher than the earnings of those with a bachelor’s degree ($54,700), and the median earnings of those with a bachelor’s degree were 57 percent higher than the earnings of high school completers ($34,900)."[1]

None of those median salaries put you in the 'wealthy' category.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cba.pdf
Is there a reason why uBlock Origin is still not included in the browser? In this day and age, you can't have privacy online without it, and claiming otherwise is misleading at best and maliciously deceptive at worst.
Does the resulting code run as fast as native C?
I think it goes deeper than that. They practically defined the 2010s electro genre, with heavy use of aggressive synthesizers, drum machines, and vocoders for nearly all the vocals. RAM was cleaner, more understated, and very, very slick. You could be forgiven for thinking it was a completely different band. Of course all interpretation of musical genre is subjective. :)
Nuitka only removes interpreter overhead. (just 30%) It's still quite slow. To get real performance improvements, we'd need memory optimizations such as a modern JIT's hidden classes and shapes, which store data directly on the object, instead of inside a dictionary. https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/shapes-ics
The old blog post on this: https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-19-why-not-run-docker-apps
Just squash the junk commits with rebase when you are done. It keeps the history clean and you have many points to revert to.
Yes, the blocking of AskHistorians unless you install the app borders on copyright infringement IMO.

If I were that subreddit I'd have my own website with blackjack[] and ... the whole share of the ad revenue. And use the money to promote History rather than just to make Conde, or whoever's, shareholders more wealthy.

* but not actually blackjack, gambling advertising is awful.
Yes, but then my second point is how that never seemed to stop them in the past.
For local heating, ground source heat pumps are often a good idea.

Also, solar thermal energy storage is an idea, as well as the potential of solar PV hot working fluid cogen.

Stanford's SESI is interesting, but it would be awesome if solar, wind, or fusion could take the places of fission and methane in cogen applications.
That probably has more to do with 'greatness' as a product of the publishing system. (Meaning: it's great because it's published in a prestigious medium, not because the content is inherently superior) The next plato will likely be completely uncelebrated in these mediums, and will publish on an uncelebrated website or publisher.
I'm a bit surprised you had either a laptop or broadband Internet (as opposed to dial-up) in 1998. I may have had (barely) a work laptop by then but I didn't get home broadband until maybe a couple years later.