skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pardon my babbling - maybe I'm naive but thats why I'm way more on board with ETH over BTC because it can at least facilitate new sorts of.. financial instruments and products (call it what you will, but the fact that NFTs are currently popping off for some artists is pretty cool to see, even if it feels contrived), whereas the value of BTC is basically resting entirely on its first mover advantage. And this is to say nothing of the energy requirements and ecological costs of proof of work..

It's hard for me to just accept the fact that hype drives demand, and demand sets the price. The hype can be a meme or be seemingly ignorant of better alternatives, but it doesn't matter the speculative feedback loop can apparently irrationally sustain itself for a long time.

I really wonder what the next major recession is going to look like.
This is an ad, Hacker News:

> [More sophisticated tools] can understand these aspects' in-depth impact on your productivity, catching the unseen blockers and pain points that remote work has brought. Then, based on that data, you can implement changes and measure the results.

… which links to their product. The submitter/author is the co-founder.

> Not only have office interruptions increased; for many engineers, home life poses an entirely new set of challenges.

It's a different set of interruptions. In the office, I have all the din and chaos of all of my coworkers around me, since private offices and cubicles have fallen out of fashion in favor of stuffing in as many people in as few square feet as possible.

At home, well, I don't have an office there either, since when the average cost of a home is north of $1M in many metros¹, home ownership is fairly out of reach, even for a SWE. No home, and no apartment big enough, means I also don't have a home office. I also didn't have a desk or chair, either; I started this pandemic at a couch and coffee table, and found out the rest of the world was too when I started shopping for desks and chairs and they were well out of stock.

> If an engineer in an office needed a mouse or monitor, the company would buy them the relevant tools.

Most companies will buy tooling for, but the company; that is, whatever is purchased is owned by the company. I don't partake in this, as it's an incredible amount of e-waste.

¹and in most of the data I've seen, rent:wage is high in any geo. "SWEs are paid more" is true, but it doesn't change the cost of a house. Put them in terms of salary years to control for changes over time, and it's 3-10× (depending on location) more expensive for me than it was for my father, who held a similar "highly paid" service industry job.
I suppose you don’t read anything about population demographics in Canada. If you did you’d realize we have a very low birth rate. Without immigration Ontario and Canada will fail, like Italy and Japan we’ll be stuck in economic stagnation and ever increasing debt load, until we can’t pay for basic social services or people are forced to work 80 hour weeks to get by.

When did your family come to Canada? Why do you think you should be the abetter of when it’s full? It’s been growing for 200 years and and at any point people could point to a Canadian city and say it’s full because that’s completely subjective in a country that could easily fit the world’s population.

You’re also completely missing the mark on what I’m saying a increasing density. I’m not talking about shoving people in tiny condos, I’m saying the housing that’s zoned for single detached houses should be zoned to be five story walk ups with beautiful courtyards like London, Paris, or the city I live in now, Amsterdam. These aren’t small condos, they’re large flats that families can live in, it’s not uncommon for families to have multiple floors. You know what people and kids do that don’t have back yards, they walk to a local park and interact with their community, and it make a much healthier and social community. Compared to most European capitals Toronto is a bland shithole, keep your ugly McMansion, keep your ugly car depended suburbs, keep your obesity, and bad food, keep your lame two weeks of vacation where you come to visit European cities you refuse to learn lessons from. Honestly get fucked, I’m over it, people like you are so ignorant it makes me never want to come back to Canada. There, are you happy, Toronto minus one person.
The ultimate smuggling boat that we know about.
It’s alright. I balanced it out with a Diet Coke.
Why would big tech voluntarily surrender the unprecedented power to shape worldwide discourse?

"Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them." — James F. Byrnes
Germany uses a combination of demand shifting, overproduction, imported power and dispatchable power.

>A good winter storm and tidal, wind and solar are out for hours - what do you do then?

Design for the storm. In Texas everything except solar could in theory have worked fine (wind often overproduces in storms) and yet every power source failed.
Oh yeah! been there done that. Somehow typing those damn things in was usually more fun than the actual game. At least, that's how I remember it.
> My biggest issue with DIY boards is drilling the holes and in particular getting the bit in the center of the pad.

Trick 1: If you align all your holes on a 2.54mm pitch grid (which will be easy enough if you're doing a through-hole design) you can tape or clamp some spare protoboard on top before drilling. That will then act as a jig, getting all your holes nicely lined up with one another.

Trick 2: Drill the holes before you mask the board. This is particularly easy if you're drawing out the board by hand, with etch-resist pen.
Talking of cultural limitations and extending them to other examples, what if I am able to work 6 days? Can I do 7 hours on 5 days and 5 hours on the 6th to make up the 40? Or how about I work just 35 hours a week?

Why would I do that? ... just saying. Maybe my family needs allow me to spend only 7 dedicated hours (plus commute) for work.

I think the corporations will go crazy coordinating such things. Retail where this happens is quite different and continuity of 1-person to another may not be important there, but in many corporate roles, continuity is important.
> They should be an option to limit your feed only to the people you follow

You can functionally get the same thing by using the "list" feature instead of following people.
Tax is a bitch.
Fun fact: I presented Stripe an opportunity to meet or beat a proposal by Braintree. They countered with a microscopic fee decrease and wanted to lock us into a 2 year deal.

Not only was the offer from Braintree way better, they gave us a better deal on PayPal fees as well.

Stripe’s focus on their supplementary offerings, like Billing (which used to be effectively free) and Checkout show that they’re trying to eat more of the transaction percentage. Try mentioning PayPal button on a Stripe Checkout page and you will be muted from talking in their YouTube broadcast.

Overall, I’m bearish on Stripe and look forward to shorting them on the public market, whenever that day comes.
I think it was Mika McKinnon who once noted that the idea of us terraforming Mars was a bit rich considering we're actively de-terraforming Earth
It's not had time to stabilise. Many of the multi-platform features are still developing and there's some stuff in there that can trip you up if you're just reading the documentation.

A big problem I ran into recently is that the documentation for some methods indicate they can throw a "PlatformNotSupported" exception but don't link to anything that lists which platforms/versions actually support the method.

Some new features like single file executables will break existing code in subtle ways, a common method of getting the application directory was to use Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location, when running as a single file executable that returns an empty string.

I still think it's a big improvement over the older .NET Framework stuff that I'm mostly using, but I can see why it isn't so appealing to the Java crowd.
Imagine if instead of a piece of art, it were your orange juice pint that came with a token. You could check it to see where that batch of oranges came from, if there are any FDA recalls on it, or whether your religious certification was reversed due to a hilarious but tragic cheese danish accident.

Other people can also see this information, but it isn't as useful to them.
I feel similar with using adblockers. There's lots of ads and I hate them, but because I'm technically inclined I can block them. But if lots of people do this, and they do, the cat and mouse game escalates to a point where I cannot do it anymore.
I will fully admit that I don't know this for sure, but wasn't tenure specifically invented to deal with this problem?

Is there no professors with tenure anymore?
I think you've confused smuggling with trafficking.
It's good to see the comments bike-shedding on the ethics don't even understand the technology.

I think that sums up ethics well, 'Those who can, do; those who can't, ethic.'

Although Google has shown people employed in the field are also genuinely awful people. How have we got to a stage where the worst humans of society are employed doing ethics?

Here's a loitering munitions meme if you don't know why the Harop is different to missiles - https://twitter.com/MENA_Conflict/status/1371106931109167105...

At least one of the 'autonomous'robo-snipers photos linked is photo-shopped, but here's a very dystopian real photo that at first I thought was a Bansky https://akhbaar24.argaam.com/article/detail/171579 (last photo)
Add this ip to the deny list.
Not just that Turbo Pascal had modules, but that it had enough of the market that it would have been hard for Modula-x to get a foothold, even if Wirth was a salesman, which he was not.
Baltimore Sun deal sets up major test for nonprofit news model
>Buying art with an NFT is just a way to give artists and/or art auctioneers money for their art. That's it.

But we could already do that. It's a solution to a problem no one had. A NFT would only be useful for proving ownership if it will hold up in court, which I doubt it would without accompanying proof of purchase.
Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com
I wonder if these properties are used in analog devices... I recently learned that ovens had thermal switches based on wax (and expansion under heat).
Until the day that it messes up and thinks that a certain area outside the fence is within the fence.
The 800XL is probably one of my favorite 8-bit computers aesthetically, and definitly my favorite amongst ones that I own(C64, CoCo2, Ti-99/4a), thought the Ti-99/4a is close second with that black and metal design, it's just missing some sleekness.
FWIW as a casual observer, “this software exists and can do these things” is way more useful than “software I know nothing about got a new feature that I don’t understand because I don’t have the context of knowing what the software is or what it does” :)
Funny, everyone was happy about how Texas scrapped so many coal plants and built so many windmills until it reached a cascade failure point and then the narrative shifted to "OMG, look at all the deregulation!"
> NEET stands for “Not in Employment, Education or Training.”
Right. I wasn't recommending Bitcoin. I was talking about things more along the lines of Ethereum.

Ethereum is what happens when you keep evolving the idea of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is what happens when you freeze the idea.

But I will say that despite the wastefulness and other flaws of Bitcoin, at least it uses math to verify the ledger, rather than relying on authority and private entities to distribute points without any real verification.

Money is just a points system used to distribute control over resources. The main advantage of cryptocurrency is that it uses math to verify that people are not cheating in their points distribution.
Primary / Replica.
Good look getting to Mars or exploring space without nuclear power of some sort. It's the safest and cleanest energy source we have have.
Even if X could be "anything on the face of the universe“ (which I did not contend) it does not follow that philosophy is concerned with „the set of all things that can be x“ (which you seem to imply). I rather clearly stated that philosophy is instead concerned with the answers to questions of the form „What do we mean when we talk about X?“

Your „religionology“ argument surely has a point. The critic of religionology would have to specifically criticize the worshipping of the cat rather than religionology as a whole. So you as a critic of philosophy would likewise have to target those aspects of philosophy you don’t practice yourself in the very moment you are arguing against it. That is indeed my point when claiming that you contradict yourself. I believe your criticism would benefit from nuance.

> studying what I mean when I talk about that rock is not actually a philosophy.

I agree. I think the misunderstanding lies in your belief that X can be anything on the face of the universe. Not everything is equally worth asking the question what we mean when we talk about it. By popular convention, religion, science, aesthetics and logic are worth it. Philosophy therefore turns to them rather than rocks.

EDIT: Rephrased first sentence.
Why would HK rebels take all those positions they can’t hold?
My service is going to accept your crypto, purchases the property from the local owner for local currency, and then transfers the property rights for your name.
> If so, why not be completely fair and give back the balkans to the turks or spain to the Greeks or the whole mediterranean coast to the Italians?, the last two in particular were a true homeland for their conquerors for at least a millennia. What's the difference ?

If so, all the Jews that were chased from their homes in all the neighboring countries should also be given their homes back too, right?

Because this is a lot more complex than the media typically give it credit for.

Media conveniently forget that Jews were also driven from their homes and into Israel - only Israel integrated their refugees instead of putting them in refugee camps for use as a political pawn.
Article links several times to this[0], but it's a confusing switch in text between "text and images" and "video".

> fake photos and videos

> The affidavit says Spone last year created the doctored images

> were also sent photos that appeared to depict

> victims were sent photos of themselves

And of course, most confusing:

> After analyzing the videos, detectives determined they were “deepfakes” — digitally altered but realistic looking images — created by mapping the girls’ social media photos onto other images.

Is the word "images" interchangeable with "videos"?

Another article[1] clarifies:

> In the videos, the victim's bikini is digitally removed and overlaid with skin-toned bars creating what Weintraub described as Barbie doll-like effect.

[0] https://www.inquirer.com/news/bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cy...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/13/cheer-mom-d...
The world's trying to tell you that being an honest person in a dishonest field isn't a good idea. I hope you're at least getting rich.
Conventional autonomous weapons will not be enough to be a replacement for nukes - a peer nation can fight them off with their own autonomous weapons, so there's no MAD at play.

What makes nukes unique, and MAD work, is the simple observation known to every nation: if one country decides to nuke another, there's nothing anyone can do about this - once the decision is made and the button is pressed, the other country turns into glass. But since nukes fly longer than the time it takes to detect and launch a retaliation strike, no one dares to launch first because they'll get glassed too, and there's also nothing anyone can do about it.

Conventional weapons, autonomous or not, can't unleash destruction at necessary scale and certainty.
"...Workers may have to file more than one state tax return, and in certain situations they could end up owing taxes in both states. The details depend on your home state and what state you worked in during 2020..."
The Valley's position on who of the two needs to disappear from the social media landscape has crystallized already.
> This certainly makes Stripe the most valuable private startup in the world.

Stripe has not been a startup for a while, they've been in public operations for about 10 years now and probably power a large portion of online purchases.
As it says in the fine article, China wants to encourage its own luxury and performance car making segment by restricting foreign imports.
The classic study of how distance affects communication was done by Thomas Allen in the 70s and results in the Allen Curve [0] which shows that people are four times as likely to communicate regularly with someone sitting six feet away as with someone 60 feet away, and that they almost never communicate with colleagues on separate floors or in separate buildings.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_curve
> progressive jpeg

That's a thing? I didn't know you could do that on purpose thought it was a side effect of slow internet.

I've used CSS blurring before/loading different sized images but I think this is different when reading up on it.
Political beliefs are caused by brain structure and personality traits, in an interaction with environment/identity/self-interest.

You saying people can just change their political beliefs when there are scientifically known biological causes of said beliefs is akin to proponents of gay-conversion therapy.

If you think personality and brain structure aren't part of the picture, then you're not aligned with current scientific knowledge - your faux outrage and strawmanning notwithstanding.
Have you tried an LTE or 5G access point? They cover roughly 97% of the U.S. population. And you don't have to pay for Internet and also pay for mobile service.
I see. Might as well just make sure everything is in a VPC.
TL:DR; The article is not actually concerned about what we're supposed to do about NEETs. It's concerned with what we're supposed to do about the fact that NEETs are not concerned with gender issues.

Tell me if I misinterpreted that...
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> Cargill valued at 40bn when wikipedia says they own 60bn in assets and profiting

This is true, but it's unclear how much debt they are carrying, and a quick Google couldn't find out.
> and in most of the data I've seen, rent:wage is high in any geo. "SWEs are paid more" is true, but it doesn't change the cost of a house.

In other words, worker compensation has not kept up with increases in the cost of living, and even engineers are not exempt from this trend.
That, but also Swiss are rich and are an exception in the entire World.

But looking at the numbers to add more context: Switzerland is very different from USA.

First of all gun ownership in Switzerland is around 25%, it's over 40% in USA.

Secondly, 25% of Swiss own a firearm, not a gun, in USA gun ownership (meaning a gun) is at 22℅

In Italy gun ownership is at 12% and gun deaths are almost zero, as in Switzerland most of the legally owned firearms are rifles for hunting purpose, kept locked in a cabinet.

Nobody in Switzerland sleeps with their gun under the pillow and nobody thinks it's a solution to crime, that's the biggest difference.
This seems like a clear example of a case where the culprit did not intend for the other person to die. Rather, they wanted to neutralize the threat by the means at their disposal, and the person's death was a side-effect.
> I don’t have the context of knowing what the software is or what it does

If someone don't know something Google always may explain it.

If you go to GitHub release page and don't know what it is, just jump to project main page on GitHub.[0]

[0] https://github.com/leozide/leocad
Look at YouTube and the multiple adpocalypses as an example. They have a massive bank roll and engineering staff but still fall foul of journos writing a story about "look at this content next to X's advert. We reached out to X for their take."

which leads to a tanking of CPM, creators getting demonitised over news reporting, content creators self censoring to the determent of those with visiabilty issues (or simply being on mobile with a small screen) as instead of reading out a statement they will display it on screen in fear of YT's bots flagging because of their spoken content.

No content moderation system will be 100% perfect, esp when you take it as a worldwide problem. And (atleast in the western world) facing demands for more and more content moderation.

In an ideal world we should be able to leave it up to the user. But Twitter has self filters for years and centeral filtering on the platform has only increased not decreased.
People here dislike HackerOne, but afaiu it solves this exact problem. It's the first line of ‘support’ for security reporters.

The fact that the industry currently needs this kind of solution is absurdly comedic. Basically, it would make actual sense to require people to pay ten bucks when posting a report—if they think the report is reasonable and that they would get paid for it.
The combination of aging populations and automation slowly reducing the pool of careers even skilled workers have available is a vicious feedback loop.

- You can import skilled labor, which if done in sufficient quantities drives down wages for the natives
- You can import unskilled labor, for which there is less work, apart from perhaps taking care of old people.

And once there's a Mars colony, I think there's a legit chance that a bunch of young skilled people will yeet themselves off this planet.
>Assets that have a real income stream behind them at least have a price floor. [...] Bitcoin has precisely 0 equity or income stream attached to it.

Is this a relevant factor considering that many assets are trading several times above this price floor? In other words, if you bought $5000 worth of shares in a highly overvalued company (eg. GME or TSLA), and the bubble pops, is it really much consolation to you that there's a price floor of $100 rather than $0?

>That is why the term "Bitcoin market cap" is BS. There is nothing to capitalise.

This is technically correct in the sense that "market cap" is only defined for companies (according to wikipedia at least), so you could say that it's wrong to quote the "market cap" for anything other than companies (cryptocurrency, precious metals, commodities, houses).
This isn't really specific to tar.
For example if you save data to parquet, sorting the data before persisting it can make a huge difference in the size of the file AND the predicate pushdown performance (as you can skip more pages especially if you sort by the column you filter on)
Yes, luxury imported vehicles are taxed anywhere in between 200% to 300%
There is more manufacturing capability in China!

But both the submarine and the ASB are marvelous creations of the human mind to resist the state overreach.

It makes me wonder which technical marvels we are not seeing, and how much bigger China economy could be if only we let innovators freely innovate: selling better submarines to Columbian cartels maybe could lead to better autonomous boats?
> Ketchup is famous for being hard to get out of the bottle

Whatever happened to that LiquiGlide stuff that was touted 10 years ago? Why isn't it everywhere?
This came up way back in the 1980s with the "Star Wars" project. What is the purpose of an anti-ballistic missile defense system? Is it intended to protect our citizens from enemy aggression, or to protect our citizens from the results of our aggression?

Why would the Israeli government want to do anything to resolve the Palestinian situation when they gain so much from allowing it to continue at a low level?
Oh, so this isn't about Twitter censoring disgruntled FedEx customers? ;)
Yeah if it's Teams/integrated in Outlook calendar it's pretty good... sometimes people just set it to always busy ha.
We use Stripe...