skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) MicroStrategy is taking a substantial position in BTC before disclosing publicly. Subsequently he is on a PR tour de force telling everyone and their mother that they need to invest in BTC. That seems pretty similar to what McAfee was doing.

2) On 2-12-21, MicroStrategy transferred 50,000 shares of Class A company stock to Alcantara LLC, of which Saylor is the sole owner. Until that date Alcantara hadn’t received any MicroStrategy stock, or any other securities, since March 2012. These 50,000 shares have been transferred by the LLC "as a gift" to a charitable foundation for no consideration.

What evidence do you have that he isn't "dumping" it?
It's usually a good hint that it really isn't a legitimate intrest case if they allow you to turn it off.

A legitimate intrest does not require an opt in (or an opt out). Consent does. If the page mixes those two up they're either clueless or trying to walk in the gray area and don't really understand(or don't want to understand) what either of those terms mean.
So what is your great idea that will succeed where the others have failed?
>Legalize insider trading, legalize pump and dumps, let the chips fall where they may. It's happening either way, so lets just be honest about it.

Fuck that. That kind of thing will give us another Great Depression faster than we can blink.
As the paper states, the GDPR is comically unenforced. I doubt these 'legitimate interest' cookies are compliant with the law. In practical terms, they don't need to be. Nothing happens to websites that break the rules.

> The processing must be necessary.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
What mystery?
If you want to add this as a search bar option in Firefox, you have to visit one of these pages first and then a green plus will appear in the search bar menu to (for example) add DuckDuckGo Lite. Then in settings you can also make it your new default.

[When did Firefox remove the option to just type in a URL for this?]
> I dunno... The Mandalorian has achieved everything that the prequels and episodes 7-9 were unable to; it did exactly the things folks said were impossible.

That's a good way to put it. Entirely agree.
I am incredibly grateful for proton -- it mostly just works. However, configuring it without steam itself is a bit of a pain.

Is there a good UI to get it to work with gog.com games? I don't really want to buy on Steam because of DRM worries, but I do throw them a bone periodically entirely because of proton.
Having kids with a cousin is about the same genetic risk as a woman over 35 having a child.
I probably wouldn't switch to MS Edge for this feature, but I do hope that this move spurs other browsers that I do use to support vertical tabs natively. I love TST and am glad they popularized the concept! (FWIW, it looks like the Edge implementation isn't true TST — it's just a vertical row of tabs, with no indentation.)
Nah, it was a 60s-70s 96.
I did enjoy the anecdote. If the original commenter is comfortable sharing the story I would also enjoy reading that as well.
The annual salary in the calculator goes up to $140,000 for the US. This needs to be way higher if we're talking Bay Area.
I'd like to add three tips to the comments here.

1. Some people (me, for instance) completely lose their creativity when working with a tablet. If that's your case, start with pen and paper and use the computer only for inking and cleaning up.

2. If you are interested in figure drawing, plenty of artists have learned with Andrew Loomis books, which are available in the Internet Archive [1].

3. Draw a lot. Practice makes perfect. Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what you draw as long as you do it a lot. Plenty of artists I talked to started copying art they liked, which made their lines firmer and gave them the extra impulse to try their own stuff later.

And finally, a word of warning: there are plenty of bad tutorials out there, but you'll only realise they are bad once you get lost and frustrated. You will recognize them because they expect you to go from A to C without even mentioning B. Remember: it's not you, it's them.

[1] https://archive.org/details/loomis_FIGURE_draw
"produce more energy than is needed to run the reaction" is a great milestone, but "economically competitive method to produce electricity" is the real goal and requires a good bit of work beyond that
If the price for not getting that crap installed on my system is a few triple A multiplayer games, then so be it.
That’s a good question. Combining bootstrap with create react app is probably the quickest way I would think about doing it, so I’d like to see what other people think too.

I’m curious if flutter2 has good support for building responsive designs. Anyone reading this know?
Oh, that's really important. It's the only important comparison - I don't believe 72% means anything on its own. The study either needs to try the exact same methodology on humans, or to find a metastudy that consistently shows humans perform well below that on these tests.

To be fair to the authors, the information isn't hidden. It's prominent in the introduction, just not in the abstract.
There were tons of national polls done for Trump's approval that included all adults (instead of likely or registered voters). Trump fared noticeably worse in the polls of all adults throughout his presidency.
Exactly. It’s amazing that this is not widely known. The deceptive GDPR pop-ups we all hate are not GDPR compliant!
I don't necessarily agree with this advice but I have a question that's related.

How do you get really good at telling stories?

I've done a lot of cool stuff in my life but usually don't do into much detail because when I tell them it usually falls flat.
One could argue Win32 is still the de-facto GUI toolkit in Win10. Things like .NET Windows Forms and (non-WinUI3) UWP are actually rendered with Win32 common controls.
That would take a different sort of breakthrough. Fission, unlike fusion, does not produce actinides or fission products. But it does produce neutrons, and neutrons produce activation products, and I don’t want neutrons or activation products in my house in any quantity. And reactor designs using lovely materials like FLiBe involve having those materials around. I also don’t want them in my house.

To be clear, I would be okay with a neighborhood fusion plant so long as the safety measures were well designed. There would be no risk of massive catastrophe along the lines of a fission plant, but I would want the risks of an activation product release or a release of non-radioactive but still nasty substances to be appropriately mitigated.
And enriching lithium is necessary. A single ARC reactor would use a good fraction of all the 6Li produced for the US thermonuclear weapons program.

The tritium produced in a fusion reactor program would make it much easier to engineer high yield fission bombs, via boosting.
> FTL enables a kind of time travel that isn't going back in time to shake your own hand.

That is exactly what it is. You should read the links above to understand what's being claimed.
Tell HN: Never Search for Domains on Namecheap
Similar to what happened in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506303

Searched for digital.army on 2021-03-03 and put it on my namecheap cart. It was $260.

I was going to pay for it a day after but the domain was gone.

WHOIS lookup says the domain was registered on 2021-03-03 by Google Inc. https://whois.domaintools.com/digital.army

If you have a special name do not use namecheap to check if its available.
The figure of most interest to someone playing an electronic instrument is "tap-to-touch latency". The article indicates a minimum of 43 ms for that (28 round trip latency - 5 audio input latency + 20 touch latency). That's like ten times what you'd hope for.
> It's very likely that failing / skipping class is the only way to fit in, that students who put in too much effort or do too well get beaten up or worse for it.

Bingo. Not the only thing of course (as you mention some issues with schools government funding structures) but a critical one.

Although I've learned talking about culture is often taboo in academia and polite serious conversation. You have to be extremely careful so many don't breach the subject at all, so it gets ignored like many important obvious things. Like "The Wire" it's easier to show it in it's raw form than to analyze it in discussion or in papers.

But still it's a giant elephant in the room which I experienced heavily as a poor performing student early on in my life. Before I (fortunately out of circumstance with my single mother) moved to a better environment and set of friends.
> really just mean "ALUs with additional multiply/add units"?

Well, that's true in general :-)

When CPU companies these days say "machine learning" instructions, they *REALLY* mean 8-bit or 16-bit matrix-multiplication acceleration of some kind. Its very vague, but that's what the machine-learning guys care about.

* NVidia implements Half-float FP16 4x4 matrix multiplication instructions.

* AMD implements INT8, BFloat16, FP16 dot-product instructions.

* Intel implements AVX512 INT8 instructions. I don't know the details however

What will the Rasp. Pi implement? 4 to 8 MAC instructions/clock. MAC will certainly accelerate matrix-multiplications, but not as much as a proper 4x4 matrix multiplication instruction.
28kb? You're only seeing the tip of the iceberg. I just built Qt Hello World myself. It's about sixty megabytes in size.

jart@debian:~/scratch/qtproject$ qmake -project
jart@debian:~/scratch/qtproject$ make
jart@debian:~/scratch/qtproject$ ldd ./qtproject | grep -Po '(?<==> )[^ ]*' | xargs ls -alH | awk '{x += $5} END {print x / (1024 * 1024.)}'
59.5916

That's bigger than I expected to be honest.
On a personal level I agree but it's not a moving forward solution to withdraw and stay quiet. I'm talking about the general sense of progress, the one where people are more in balance with other people and that involves understanding eachother and eventually it comes down to talking or some form of communication. Yes, clearly what we're doing at the moment (social media and it's ills) is not only not right but very divisive but that does not meat it's going to be like that forever.
Zoom Deleter
>"I haven't seen any professional producers use anything except macs" as its main argument.

Yeah that is both totally irrelevant to the topic at hand and also a bit strange. I have only seen PCs in the pro studios I have used but that doesn't make me believe nothing else is used.
I think there's no single answer. I usually experiment with different methods and stick for a bit longer with the one showing the best results. But I often get "saturated" and, when I feel I reached a plateau, I start to try new methods (even methods I've already tried and disliked at the first contact).

Memorization-based methods like spaced repetition flash cards never worked with me, but I know some people who got wonderful results out of it.

I use sporadically the paid version of lingq.com. It has some annoying bugs and the usability isn't great, but I enjoy the method.

I try to talk to native speakers whenever I can. That helps to build emotions related to the new language and I feel that those emotional connections usually help to "burn" the new vocabulary into your brain, it doesn't matter whether the emotion is positive or not (that's my experience at least).
It’s unfortunate but the component library situation is really Svelte’s weak point currently.

At Monitoro[0] we bit the bullet and implemented the vast majority of our components from scratch. Apart from the obvious time to develop and test, and the trailing bugs that are hard to solve for small closed source projects, the experience wasn’t that bad.

Ultimately what helped us the most is writing our components using a state machine-like pattern, mixed with TailwindCSS to make styling easier.

In our case, the effort was worth it as we anyway needed several super specific components, and now that we’re over the hill we have complete control on our UX.

(Also having built component libraries/design systems before in different UI frameworks, doing it in Svelte was one of the best experiences so far)

There are some efforts in the Svelte ecosystem but they’re small and do not have much firepower behind, thus limited or of relatively low quality.

[0]: https://www.monitoro.xyz
You can make a very decent Electron app with roughly (roughly = ~2x or less) that amount of RAM too if written well, for that you get pretty much a codebase that you can use everywhere, which on it's own is _massive_.
Look inside the world of defi, where finance, art, and blockchain collide
I didn't know about the Debian team. Thank you very much for informing me! I'm not sure how much I can do, but I would be happy to discuss with them the obstacles they are facing and see what I can help with. I'm better positioned to help with software issues than hardware matters, but I would love to hear about ROCm from their perspective. What's the best way to contact the team?
I remember issuing query commands to bots on IRC and shared FTP sites where you were expected to collect interesting things on other sites and upload them painfully over dial up in order to achieve the proper ratio to not get kicked off.
I don’t think that’s a problem. The tactics aren’t all zero sum. For example just talking to the other party to find out what they want other than the main thing they’re asking for.
This article is total startup mumbo jumbo navel gazing. The start-up cultural thing about making the leaders tell their story and make that a whole part of the package has become tedious.

The best story? Oh please, many people work in things were they acquire incredible stories and for various reasons (security, privacy, humbleness etc.) will never be able to tell anyone.

But you know what, that's fine, once they are happy with what they have done themselves. Do what makes you happy.
It is in the nature of the right wing crank to portray themselves as the victim despite usually being the perpetrator.
According to what? A social contract? The written law? Some ethical/moral foundation?

The answer depends on what standard you're using.

In my opinion, yes they do have that responsibility. Once you attain a level of social and economic power on par with eBay, you have the responsibility to ensure that your actions do not limit free access to information.

If we were talking about a company that does 10k in sales a year -- they do not have that responsibility. But since we're talking about a company that does 4B in sales a year -- yes, according to my moral foundation, they do have that responsibility.

I value free speech and the freedom of expression pretty high on my list of important things though, while it seems like you value the ability of a billion dollar corporation to profit and maintain their brand image much higher than that.

Like I said, different moral foundations.
I'd agree that it's not fully solvable by the school alone. But zooming out, I'd be inclined to say the "society that forced a mother to work 3 jobs to get by" failed. I imagine it's hard to give each child individual attention/care when you're spread that thin, hence being essentially forced to offload chunks of that parenting-responsibility onto institutions.

Which is a much larger and harder issue than a failure of individual responsibility. But it seems like that's the more foundational issue as far as I can tell.
This is actually a thing of beauty.
I agree with your point. But Paypal was notorious for poor controls early on. I have to wonder how much VC money that officially went to Paypal actually ended up being seed money for online criminals of many stripes.
Yeah I can't help but wonder. She had no idea about his GPA, no idea about any of his class grades, seemingly never went to a parent teacher conference where she could learn this, and is shocked to learn he flunked out and has to go back to the 9th grade? For 4 years she had no idea what he was even doing, just assumed because he wasn't kicked out that everything was fine. The school should have done a better job of contacting and informing her, but she's the one who dropped the ball.
I can't remember the precise mechanism, but IIRC the base NodeGUI pkg downloads and builds a minimal QT, and then links into it using NodeGUI/qode which hooks up the Node and Qt event loops.
What are who doing and not being called out for?
> An original artwork by iconic British street artist Banksy, named “Morons,” has been physically burned and transformed into a digital representation — known as an NFT — by a group of collectors and investors.

> The 2006 work ridicules collectors who pay vast sums of money for art.
Coursera S-1 IPO
That only explains why he graduated as a senior with such a low GPA. I think without No Child Left Behind he would have repeated 9th grade multiple times until he dropped out -- though I could be wrong. I'd say a part of the problem is that the school doesn't have enough funding in general, that class sizes are too big for a teacher to even manage a class or get to know their students well enough to understand them, and tailor how they teach to what the student knows.

edit: I do agree No Child Left Behind creates a perverse incentive, just claiming that it's not what caused the problems at this school
>Is it? It's comforting to think so, but I'm not convinced there's a meaningful dichotomy that can be drawn. I rework my store's checkout workflow, making it simpler so users only have to click a couple buttons to buy a product: am I making their lives easier, or am I manipulating them by reducing the psychological barrier of a sale?

"making their lives easier" implies that the purchase is the default outcome that the user needs to improve their lives, when the purchase could simply not be made at all. As long as the intention is to make more money, and that the effort expended does not improve the nature of what is purchased in some way, I'd say it technically qualifies even if the consequences are the lightest of grays.

That said, your example is thoughtful, and you are probably right overall. We could look at the broader context of all these systems encouraging consumption, but that would be moving the goalposts on my part.

edit: just to clarify an edit took place while I was replying
People want fusion because of mental inertia. Fusion was long sold as the future, so the idea that's it's desirable has become a social default. But it's a fossil belief, perhaps true decades ago, but with little to justify it now.
From the beginning of your passage:

> Today, some scholars

Okay. Some scholars also think we should get rid of any and all market restrictions. The wide consensus as understood by literally everyone except those few very special scholars is still different.
They very much didn't. Downvoted the GP for taking the snarky tone about "an avalanche of people commenting on this who didn't bother to check the article before raising their methodological objections", but then mis-characterizing the methodology himself.
I remember reading. That equation and it never made sense interms of where it actually fit in bitcoins code.

Thanks for elaborating
I've been contemplating converting some legacy WP to static, but have not had the time to review available options.

With root access to the server / just good old wget, are there benefits to using the plugins/services? Which would you suggest? Would be grateful if you shared your experience.
> You may call that idiocy. I call that freedom.

No, I call it selfishness. You're free to be a narcissist if you want, of course!
disclaimer: Markdown Notes App Author

At least for simpler text documents, where formatting isn't a big concern, markdown seems to be wining as the standard. Sure, each of these have added a few features on top of the markdown standard, but even those features are slowly getting quite standardized. [0][1][2][3][4][5][6]

[0] https://obsidian.md

[1] https://zettlr.com/

[3] https://dendron.so/

[4] https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

[5] https://logseq.com/

[6] https://gitjournal.io

I wish using Git as the VCS would also become more standardized, but we're still lacking good clients which hide the complexity [6] (my project, fails at hiding all of the complexity, but hopefully it'll get there)
Even with bootstrap my understanding is that the entire task lies ahead of me.

I wish I could make a form and it have a fighting chance of working on most displays, without me manually having to do the task of making it all responsive for every device - as task that I don't even really know exactly how to do anyway.
This is a fascinating result. On the other hand it is also telling .. and maybe dangerous? If we can predict political orientation, can we predict if someone is gay? If he is jewish? What comes next?

Would't this legitimate all these voices who ever said I can tell you by just looking?
> Electron does not provide that much more desired features than apps from 25 years ago.

That's true, but advanced GUI features aren't Electron's selling point. It's used because it offers easy portability and the ability to leverage web-dev skills.
Building a Second Heart
Really? That's amazing.
They're not my tutorials, they're tutorials I'm following that seem better than the usual. Sorry for the misunderstanding - I see now I probably should have been more specific.
From Qt's page https://www.qt.io/licensing/open-source-lgpl-obligations:

"In case of dynamic linking, it is possible, but not mandatory, to keep application source code proprietary as long as it is “work that uses the library” – typically achieved via dynamic linking of the library."
Sand varies a lot - it depends on the rock it weathered from originally. As detailed here, sand dunes create rounded grains that do not interlock in the cement hydrate matrix = weak concrete.
Lots more about it here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand

And a curious side note, sand collectors...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arenophile
> Any game with a large mod community, mostly single player games like KSP or minecraft, generally stays far away from any form of DRM.

Many major first person shooters stand as counterpoints to your claim. Most Valve games for example are incredibly mod friendly, at the same time Steam was a pioneer in online DRM and Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) is generally reasonably effective.

Even games where the anti-cheat isn't as mod-friendly as Valve's often offer modes where the game can be launched with anti-cheat disabled but you lose access to public matchmaking and ranked play, only being able to play on private games and/or servers that have turned off anti-cheat themselves. The PC port of Halo does this well.

> The entire concept of "cheating" doesn't really exist in such games.

For the record Minecraft does in fact have anti-cheat, but it's mostly just about illegal movements versus anything else, flight without creative privileges in particular. Anything beyond that is up to the server operator and their chosen plugins. Cheating is still definitely a thing, at least when playing survival with other people, but what defines cheating is up to each group to decide for themselves.

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DRM and anti-cheat do have the same big picture goal in the end, prevent the user from tampering with the application, but I do agree with the above poster that it is very different ethically. We all want our ranked play to be free of cheaters.
Has the Raspberry Pi Foundation ever conducted a survey to find out what people are actually using their Pi devices for?
GDPR is a textbook example of how government intetvention in our business never ends in the way the technocrats desire/promise. It simply makes things more convoluted and difficult for everyone including those they claim to be protecting.
Compare to Charlie Hebdo. Suppose, after the massacre, retailers "chose" not offer it in stores (because if they didn't there may be fatal consequences). Should that really be celebrated as "freedom to"?

Isn't Ebay acting here similarly over a preemptive concern of blowback from a small group of determined activists?

Freedom to cower.
Software Pioneer John McAfee Indicted in Crypto Case