skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chromium is more in bed with Microsoft and Google than Mozilla is. That is the point. You can't claim Firefox is bad for using google resources then claim that Chromium is not likewise bad for using Google and Microsoft resources.

Just to be absolutely clear. I think Firefox is just fine and I don't consider it poisoned by Google at all. The only issue I do see is that Firefox really needs a more diverse funding stream for it's own safety.

If people want to say that Google is bad because "reasons" and therefore Firefox is bad because it gets resources from Google. Then they must also conclude that Chromium and everything downstream of it is likewise bad or "badder" given the overwhelming support of Chromium by Google and now Microsoft.

So if Google bad means Firefox bad by proxy then all contemporary general purpose browsers (including Tor as it is based on Firefox) are bad. What you are left with is basically Lynx. In the end, condemning Firefox is foolish as aside from funding support it is the only modern alternative left without direct ties to Google. (Safari aside)
Atari 800 XL Service Manual
"Service Manual for the Atari 800XL Computer by Electronic Dimensions 818"
Where did I suggest a SMR would explode or leak?
It' not impossible because of some feelings, it's impossible because there is no way to effectively protect the aged, immune-suppressed, and those with pre-existing risk factors.

They live in a society. If that society is letting the virus run rampant, they will be exposed. This has been demonstrated many times and we don't need any more naive assertions about 'just stay at home if you are scared'.
Perfectly as in the exact paint compounds, the effect of that order of brush strokes and timing, and then aging. Such that no art expert or chemical/forensic analysis can tell them apart other than the label saying which is which?

That doesn’t not sound at all feasible. But if it were, then sure the prices would have to be close for the original and new one. It sounds impossible to do, and extremely easy expensive to make a copy like that of a real painting. It’s stupidly easy and simple to do with a digital work.
Yes. I've bought several Zojirushi products over the years and I've found them to be super reliable. Buy a ceramic tea kettle and this water boiler. Much better than an electric tea kettle. The insulation is superb and that makes it energy efficient. You don't have to wait because it's always ready.

Also, their thermos are insanely good.
It's only a threat to savings, pensions and those that have no inflation adjusting assets.
> It's highly liquid, and its presence can be verified easily on the public blockchain without resorting to experts, such as auditors.

This is a simplistic idea of what auditors do.

Auditors do more than verify "they have $50M in their bank account". They're also there to verify more complicated things like "they haven't promised that $50M to someone else already".

This was a major issue with Tether, for example.

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...

> In the face of persistent questions about whether the company actually held sufficient funds, Tether published a self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserves, in 2017, that it characterized as “a good faith effort on our behalf to provide an interim analysis of our cash position.” In reality, however, the cash ostensibly backing tethers had only been placed in Tether’s account as of the very morning of the company’s ‘verification.’

> On November 1, 2018, Tether publicized another self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserve; this time at Deltec Bank & Trust Ltd. of the Bahamas. The announcement linked to a letter dated November 1, 2018, which stated that tethers were fully backed by cash, at one dollar for every one tether. However, the very next day, on November 2, 2018, Tether began to transfer funds out of its account, ultimately moving hundreds of millions of dollars from Tether’s bank accounts to Bitfinex’s accounts. And so, as of November 2, 2018 — one day after their latest ‘verification’ — tethers were again no longer backed one-to-one by U.S. dollars in a Tether bank account.
The opening pretty much sums up that this isn't a research piece, it's a political opinion piece:
"Current debate about inflation isn’t really about whether it’s likely: it isn’t. Instead it’s about whose vision of the future is going to win. Is it going to be the right-wing demand for small government that the inflation fetishists promote, or the one we need"

I think inflation concerns are not the realm of "right-wing inflation fetishists", it's in fact the standard theory about what will happen when large amounts of money is printed. You can make reasonable arguments about why this time is different, but this strategy will make me tune out real fast.
Why are you so offended?
The trouble with Bitcoin: Why the crypto craze can’t last
> Signal is very likely compromised given their server repo is abandoned

Signal has client-side E2E encryption.
Thanks, I definitely appreciate the kudos.

You can see a lot of the blog posts on https://qbix.com/blog

But if you’re interested in democratizing access to capital and increasing collaboration, I have two links for you:

https://qbix.com/token

https://worldaftercapital.com (written by VC and acquaintance of mine, Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures).
My bad, I wasn't familiar with this working arrangement and the vocabulary around it. What I'm describing is simply known as being salaried in my country (not hourly paid as OT is compensated with PTO rather than financial compensation), the vast majority of white collars have such contracts here.
From pages 42-43 we can find a visual representation http://www.dynamicsofpolygons.org/LargeImages/N11DKH0Sxxpt2.... .
Zetabase – access DB from client with user-aware ACL
You sound like a surfer who is watching big waves at the shore and is waiting for "the right moment", but at any moment it's either too shallow for the surf board, or there's a big scary wave that's about to collapse.
Unless I missed it in the article what exactly is the simulated attack? Are they flying real planes over US targets? Wouldn’t that in and of itself be considered an act of aggression?
My linked post is timestamped and proved to be quite correct. I actually think it's quite helpful, especially to people that are actually capable of learning from others.
We are very very far from that happening. Even with most satellites being in the same torus around earth, if every single one in orbit right now were to instantly shatter, each piece would have something like a 1000sqkm volume to roam in.
thanks for the precisions!

i fear however no one wants to rule on that, at least for now.
And is why https://rr-project.org/ works very well on Intel but barely on AMD.
printfriendly works for the PW.
Canada probably has higher gun ownership per capita than the US and gun crime is very low.
> it can’t be easily extended with security-specific info

Just put a public key into the address field, for example. More abuse of field names is good because it will keep trip up the bots that use e.g. the address field as a spam mail address or pass it to data brokers.

I'd love to see a data broker say "John Doe lives at === BEGIN PGP KEY === 0xA3243ABC3F... Do you want to dox them? Yes/No" and more spam mailers waste their money attempting to send ad mailers to "=== BEGIN PGP KEY === ..."
Now the question is what is 'work', and what is the company paying for? Knowledge work is tricky because it straddles the line between hours worked and knowledge applied.

A junior employee might work 10h/day to figure out a problem/get something working/etc... whereas a senior person may solve the same thing in 1h. This isn't the mythical 10x programmer, it's just experience and knowledge coming out when needed. The one with more knowledge also tends to accelerate their acquisition. One, because they can get the work done so quickly, they have time to keep expanding their knowledge. Two, they have all this groundwork knowledge which makes it easier to expand on.

So while it may look like your friend only 'works' for 1h/day, you could be missing all the time spent so that your friend could finish the work in only 1h.
In a 1000 years there will be PhDs specializing in just the analysis of Twitter during 2016.
Or that number could be total bs like the majority of economic data coming out of China. Where did you get that number and how do you know that number doesn’t include knock offs?

That documentary showed real knowledge on the ground. It literally filmed someone buying a knockoff from a mall that sold only knockoffs. Like come on, that’s as close to on the ground knowledge you can get. All I need you to do is explain where that knockoff in that video came from and why I see these knockoffs all over the place every time I go to Shenzhen.

The topic of this conversation is not about your disagreement with counterfeiting or not. I don’t care about whether you blame anyone or not.

The topic is about whether or not such an industry of cheaters exists in China. Your initial claim is that they don’t. My claim is that not only do they exist but they’re everywhere in China. The entire Chinese culture is all about scams and the people buying and selling pirated goods play a huge part in this culture.
Current all-in battery costs are about $200/kWh. Daily global energy use is about 400 TWh. That would be an 80 trillion dollar battery for just one day of backup.

That just isn't feasible to build near term and it isn't even enough to prevent blackouts. Plus the current methods probably don't scale that far, so the cost is even higher.
Yes there is.

Two sorts of grid storage batteries: Elon Must has made Lithium batteries work on grid scale. Flow batteries or fuel cells, are probably more economic. And then there is pumped hydro
It's a big hodge-podge and that's what makes it great.

Ultimately society/the market decides which version is worth more.
Well it was very common to have 5+ kids even 100 years ago. Some sources say 5-6 was an average number of pregnancies.
> In helping to elect their preferred candidate

If they were actually trying, then we don't have much to fear from them.
I agree with you. Its a problem that journalists are acting like advocates, or political activists. TV stations don't have section 230 protection. So at least there is some redress for defamation. The Covington kid, Nick Sandman, won a multimillion dollar settlement recently from CNN.
However, its not looking like the suit against twitter for being called a "Hacker", by the Store owner, that turned over Hunter Biden's laptop to the FBI will succeed.
Twitter called the contents of laptop hacked material, and even banned legitimate newspaper account for a week.

The implication of the "hacked material" was that the store owner was a "hacker". The store owner claims the laptop was left behind in his repair store, and he legally gained possession of it. He sued twitter for defamation.

Because of section 230 protection, the Judge will likely dismiss this case, on section 230 protection grounds. Something that would not happen if this was done by a newspaper.

I think we want conflict of interest laws, that force disclose if you are paid to post, or materially manipulate on behalf of a candidate.

In ideal world, I think Journalists should have an ethics body, similar to Engineers. So that at least in the most egregious circumstances, If you are found to be a paid
and not disclose it, than you should not get to call yourself a journalist.

I watched this American travel Youtuber that lives in China, and does travel promotional content for them sometimes. He come out in favour of a candidate before the election. If he received money for doing that, I think there should be a law, that it should be disclosed by him.
The whole point of this is that it isn't a non-profit, though. I'd love to live in a world where we can snap our fingers and motivate people to build $1/month internet, but that's not even a remote possibility. Starlink's big boon was that someone with money saw a problem and invested a ton of money into fixing it, hoping to turn a profit in the long-term. I'd love for someone to run fiber out to my house, but even getting it to my neighborhood would start at $30,000. Enter Starlink: cut out the landline companies and offer good internet, forcing the big players to offer better services in order to compete.

Also, if you think $100/month is expensive, you don't go shopping for rural internet very often. There isn't an ISP on the planet that offers the speeds or latency that Starlink has right now, and believe me, I've tried to find one. $500 for installation and $100/month is reasonably appropriate for the services they're providing, especially if they're taking a $1000-2000 loss on each dish they ship to customers.
FWIW, by all accounts (I have family there), COVID is endemic in Viet Nam but simply isn't reported. Lots of elderly people were seriously ill with unusual "pneumonia" but the government doesn't test them. The sick people with likely COVID were being turned away from the hospitals, so many traveled to their family homes in the countryside. COVID doesn't exist because they refuse to measure it.

Which is about what you'd expect there.
You are describing an important and functional element of social networks going back thousands of years. Substantially new and different ideas most of which are bad and stupid face a trial by fire and over time society adopts the survivors.
I personally don't believe that the problem is with the currency. The problems lie deeper. If fiat mismanagement is all it took to ruin an economy the USA would be suffering from hyperinflation by now.

The truth is that these countries suffer from structural problems like food imports and petroleum exports that have dropped in value. If they were able to produce their necessities on their own they wouldn't be such problematic countries.
Seems like a great way to start a flame war.

Anyway: If you’ve worked with the crypto space much, you know there’s a strong undercurrent of some libertarian-esq thinking. Crypto currencies represent decentralized trust, of some kind. I mean, Bitcoin was created in large part because Satoshi didn’t trust the central authorities in charge of the money supply. In some areas you’ll hear the phrase “governance without government” (I.e. fiat). What gives this place any spirit is the drive to overcome problems of distributed trust. Take that away by forcing KYC and now you’ve lost any ideological motivation to push the space forward. It just becomes a digitization of existing societal structures. Let it grow naturally and yeah, you’ll see plenty of scams, but you leave the door open for real innovations (like zero knowledge proofs) that could be worth massively more than any mistakes along the way.
As far as I can tell, she is a postmodernist who started out as a Marxist, but has later abandoned it. At the very least, it doesn't seem to have had any prominence in her works, which are focused on personal psychology and feminist theory.

I do admit that I may be completely off base, I know very little of her beyond what I could find on Wikipedia (which does list her as Marxist, but provides no further insight on why) and a handful of scholarly articles.

Note: a much better example you could have given was Slavoj Žižek, to which I have no answer..
Probably about half a suburban town’s worth of iPhones.
Based on that argument, I'm not sure why it's incorrect to characterize Bitcoin as having intrinsic value that is backed by the guarantee that you can provably transfer them directly to another party by a mere exchange of information.

(Yes, there is a lot of BS that is currently involved in Bitcoin's market prices, but I don't think it's correct to characterize it as having zero intrinsic value.)
"This Ubuntu installation doesn’t come with any bloatware"

Actually sorry, this is not accurate. Canonical shipped Ubuntu with an Amazon search app, does plenty of telemetry, and forces updates. Unless you are very technically proficient it is very hard to disable all of it. (I remove or neutralize motd, appport, snapd, ubuntu-report, unattended-upgrades, ubuntu-advantage, whoopsie and more)
Implicit from blaming the market is the presumption that socialism does better.
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> i understand the enthusiasm but shouldn't these decisions let to the people, countries, for instance a intergouvernemental agency.

The people elected the leadership which oversees the government agency which approved this project, so ultimately the people allowed this project to happen. This isn't a case of one person doing something alone.
Sure, Hezbollah has a right to fire at civilians (which include other Muslims BTW). They're the "good guys":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
Can link be changed to the referenced source which has much more information: https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/were-going-to-lose-fast-...
Is this written by GPT-3? The text is incongruent.
A couple of things about serverless development (not a rant)
> FFS. Which do you want?

> You want the $ figure and job security of the salaried employee
Yes. I don't see why I should have to live without job security because I am paid hourly.

> but not the duties.
Nope. I want a healthy work-life balance and I don't think that has to mean not meating my duties.

> You don't want to be classified like a contract worker, subject to termination at any time
Again, yes. I want to be respected and live without the looming terror of joblessness.

> you want the flexibility to work when and as you please. You want the freedom to not have your hours monitored, your steps and productivity measured
Yes. I think I aught to be respected enough to not need micro-managing at every turn.

> but not the responsibilities that come with such autonomy.
Again, nope.

> Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could create some parallel lalaland universe...
It's not so far fetched. There are plenty of places the world over that already treat their employees like valuable, respected, worthy people.
The irony is that the Nazis are famous as sadistic torturers and deniers of human liberty and these days it is Israel which is famous in the world as one of these along with some other shameful nations (i.e. North Korea)
How can you tell Starlink from the other 6000 satellites in space right now? That’s an amazing skill.

If you saw a tight line of satellites, those have just been launched and are not in their final (higher) orbit.
so does gold. but gold supply grows annually, causing devaluation in any investments while Bitcoin's is fixed. typical FUD article.
You guys are thinking too hard.

It is a scam.
I mean, picking a process to kill at random is obviously a crap solution. Windows has done better than that for decades.
Durable goods even. Example of people in Venezuelan making bags. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f3tpehKSJwA
Agreed, putting all your eggs in one basket like this is just gambling. This person got lucky, but make no mistake anyone else reading this: IT IS STUPID AND YOU WILL PROBABLY LOSE. MOST DO.

If you want to do something with your $100K, use it as a house down-payment or consider mutual funds. Or just yeet it into GME, I'm not a financial advisor.
> "I am satisfied with my salary because I finish my responsibilities in 2 to 4 hours, then spend the rest of the "work day" maintaining a green dot on Slack"

This is precisely why when I started my company I committed to only hiring contract devs for 10-20 hours per week. No meetings. No bullshit. I pay you a high hourly wage, you do as much (often more) work than if you were a salaried 40 hour FTE, and you likely make more money in the process.

The model of work and the 40 hour work week is so fundamentally broken I feel like I'm in a perpetual twilight zone state when I talk to people. They think it's normal and okay to have 3+ hours of meetings per day and barely get any work done. I will never understand it.

My first 7 years of work life outside of college consisted of THOUSANDS of pointless meetings and months of pretending to be busy. I've promised myself I will never do that shit again, and I will not let my business succumb to that style of work.
Expires was optional until draft 10 (August 2020)
The US Air Force ran a war game. While the war game was in progress the Chinese Military ran a war game of their own, simulating a series of attacks on Taiwan. The timing appears to be unrelated, I suppose the article mentions them to draw attention to the escalating tensions in the area.
It doesn't need to end. I could point out organizations that have retained substantial elements of their nature over hundreds and thousands of years even while undergoing substantial evolution in many ways.
Crypto IFF: It's a scam unless there's compelling evidence to the contrary.
This is interesting, but durability and cost will be a huge factor in investment or adoltion. Reading about the illumination control electronics also sounds like describing it as a "display" in the common usage is not accurate. Without a lot of new electronics it's just an illuminated pattern controlled by the loom.

That's still potentially valuable, but you won't see arbitrary moving images any time soon. It might be possible to use many of the passive matrix methods to allow changes at low resolutions, like segmented displays.
There is no such thing as "intrinsic value" all value is subjective.

A glass of water would be priced differently in the middle of the desert as opposed to next to the ocean.
I love how all the “rational” “analytical” “science-trusting” commenters in her choose to ignore data and “science” when it doesn’t fit their beliefs.

The article clearly states “ With our results, we were not able to explain if COVID-19 mortality is reduced by staying at home in ~ 98% of the comparisons after epidemiological weeks 9 to 34.”

And everyone’s conclusion in Hacker News is that the study must be flawed.
The problem with laying fiber in the continental US (and I suspect also in Canada) is not typically cost. It's death by a thousand cuts with problems acquiring land rights, fighting incumbent ISPs and the local politicians and congressmen in their pockets, and simple will on the part of ISPs.

Google tried to make fiber cheap and ubiquitous with Google Fiber and failed. If an organization with the power, resources, and clout of Google can't get it done, I don't know who can short of the federal government getting involved (which, thanks to lobbyists, is unlikely).

LEO constellations bypass these issues almost entirely and ironically enough may motivate incumbent ISPs to try to compete and stop being so obstructive.
The entire reasoning behind inflation is that thanks to productivity increases there is always a slice left behind. If nobody eats the slice then the cake shop will make smaller cakes with less slices. If we give someone money to buy the last slice then the cake shop is incentivized to make another left over slice until it is so busy making cake that it cannot make more.
The documentary is well worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmN91K4R0_U
Would there be potential AWS synergies that make any sense?

Besides having the money to basically give it away for free, that could be a big value add if so.

idk maybe enabling the blanketing of the earth in ever expanding ring/echo surveillance. or a cdn though uploading huge video files to a satellite hard drive might not make any sense or actually save any MS given the inherent satellite -> earth delay.
> "The future confrontation would continue for more than a decade"?

[Edit: I should say this sentence is in the originally posted article, not the longer one from Yahoo]

Pretty sure one or both sides would launch nuclear weapons long before then, resulting in a swift (albeit very unhappy) end to the war.
Yeah that seems wrong. The solvency of the borrowers, and by extension the lending smart contract would be my biggest worry, especially while crypto price is crashing.
I second this. The current article linked on HN has very little information, and this one provided by didibus is much better.