skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ended going back to 2.4 on my mouse as I'd have all sorts of problems with a Bluetooth keyboard, mouse, and headset connected simultaneously (on a Macbook Pro).

I had a similar problem, and it turned out, I think, to be Bluetooth congestion.

I was in an office that was partially a call center, so lots of people on Bluetooth headsets. Plus all their mice and trackpads. Plus their keyboards. Plus regular headphones. Plus plus plus.

My desk faced out the window onto a public street. Very often, when a group of people would walk by my window, presumably each with his own Bluetooth devices my trackpad would disconnect from the MacBook.

The solution was to keep the trackpad plugged into the machine, since I never took either anywhere anyway.
>Look at NFTs: there's no way those prices would hold if someone were actually paying USD. Those prices are only possible because people are exchanging one funny-money cryptocurrency for another.

Not really - because you could exchange you crypto for USD easily & reliably enough. The second that's true it stops being "funny-money" as you put it.

Contrast that with monopoly money where nobody will give you USD for it.

NFTs - either people are doing it for the giggles or they're betting on greater fool theory
Bitcoin = Father of all coins.
Ignoring the title, the author presents a reasoned case that lockdowns don't have an effect on COVID transmission.

Author does not make the case that lockdowns have an effect on COVID mortality.
They also seized the top few online poker sites. That probably had a bigger effect.
Not really - you can have a cold wallet that contains your private keys. Unless every single computer lost a copy of the blockchain blocks dir simultaneously, this seems pretty much of a non-issue
I find the idea that faith can't eat you alive to be strange given that we have so many examples of that happening in real life. Faith is no different than money, power, allure, etc... in that regard.

That's one reason people turn to atheism in the first place, to avoid getting gobbled up by religion.
It generally does not. Most human urine is fairly sterile. And even if you've got a bladder or kidney infection, it's the same bacteria that you have on your own skin already -- it infects the urinary tract when forced inside (most often by sex).

Human feces, on the other hand, is quite dangerous. Generally you have to touch it or ingest it to get sick from it, but there are lots of ways for the bacteria to spread.

So the urine isn't dangerous, but if people are urinating in public, there's a risk that they're also defecating in public. And that's more serious.
In practice it is bit of hack and not suitable to use as routine. For example many people need to spent a lot of time in meetings, and then pomodoro can't be used. Same with work that involves multiple people, like for example a complex system test involving multiple tests with people monitoring and performing actions in various stations.
Sure, but only so long as most holders of bitcoin don't actually do it.
Also using Bose QC 35’s, and only _today_ (oddly enough) I was getting incredibly annoyed at them for connecting to my phone and laptop (MacBook, in sleep mode, fwiw) and _not_ the Linux machine I had in front of me which was the “first profile” (the one that the device speaks about when powering on, “connecting to... <device name>“)

It seems mine can only be connected to two devices, and gets a bit weird when the secondary device wants to make sound but the primary device is already making sounds.

I have missed calls because of that.
I think rashkov is talking about trading Bitcoin directly for goods and services, as originally intended.

If you did that, you'd have to report every purchase on your taxes as a separate asset sale.
I think the dislike of cancel culture is stronger in Russia and Eastern Europe because it reminds people so much about Communism.
He uses the gold ban as precedent. The US didn't outlaw private gold ownership because gold was competing with the dollar.

It outlawed gold ownership because the dollar was backed by gold, the Fed wanted to print more dollars to stimulate the economy, and at the time it could only do that if it had enough gold to back those dollars. They were running out of gold so they confiscated it from regular people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102#Rationale
It’s reasonable to have short articles in a newspaper, where you want to fit in a bunch of short factual stories, or on a newswire where you just want to quickly send out some facts before competitors. In the former case you just put lots of stories on one page. In the latter case, it’s often expected to be short.
Looks like you stepped in to say it!
Funny to think that there's a land border between Brazil and the EU.
Energy-harvesting card can turn 5G networks into wireless power grids
The Languages That Defy Auto-Translate
Catalina 10.15.7
The ever given was towed north to bitter lake and is anchored there with two other vessels attending it. The ever globe is the third vessel in the first convoy south from bitter lake to Suez. The first two vessels have passed the location of the accident. The ever globe is the same size as ever given and is right now very slowly passing the place where ever given was stuck.
You know, I agree that shipping the same damm Unicode table over and over is stupid.

However, if they were part of the OS sooner rather than later, certain OS vendors would have found a way to make them incompatible or distribute them separately and make the user explicitly install them. (if you play in Windows, how many times and how many versions of VC++ redistributable you had to install?)

I remember there were projects where I opted-in into writing my own parser (with Pest or nom) just to avoid depending on regex crate. Which is usually the biggest dependency in my projects.
macOS is just a joy to develop with, unix like environment, beautiful desktop, easy to use frameworks

the environment is clean and enables people to do what they want, even if XCode is a piece of garbage shit, it gets the job done

the overall quality of Apple apps encourages devs to apply the same principles, easy to use and beautifully designed apps

in comparison, when you see official Windows metro/fluent apps looking so boring, it doesn't encourage people to develop natively

then you have the details that kills it, lack of proper windows store, lack of people native way of distributing apps (exe? msi? vsx? appbundle? zip my 100's dotnet dlls?) it makes you not want to even start

even Microsoft is ditching all that crap and rewriting their native apps with electron, wich says a lot about the windows ecosystem (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/4/22213300/microsoft-one-out...)
forgive me if im not moved by the edict of an alcoholic misogynist trying to assuage his own fears of moral impropriety and existential castaway after failing twice to join the Catholic church. Wallace enrobes the exhausted and derisive narrative of evangelicals confronted with an alternative to the almighty they themselves find personally intolerable in an almost comically dismissive tone. At least Thomas Aquinas had the decency to avoid Reducto ad Absurdum when he published his metaphysical treatise.

Had we only outlawed the semiconductor im sure Gallup would enjoy a more sterling report of gods children, however i myself may be amiss. Christian Evangelism on the whole has seen a marked decline since its apex during the second Bush administration.
I know that you're not "supposed" to comment on voting here, but I feel the need to call out the fundamentally broken culture here around voting. I said something mildly nice about some else's writing, and I've gotten 3 downvotes? Really?

I think the people running the site really needs to consider consequences for excessive downvoting. Having a discussion here is really unpleasant, because of the random drive-by voting. It's easier to have a discussion on Reddit, and Reddit is terrible.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210329185630/https://www.nytim...
I'm sure VISA owns a buttload of ETH and they will just use their own system to settle everything themselves internally. Then they actually buy/sell ethereum when it fits their needs.
I mean, the alternative proposal was a canal through the ~3rd most violent region on the planet.
It's very nice to see Eleuther fulfill the Open promise of OpenAI.

I'm scared that more and more big model advancements are being denied access from the general public, which will just make the inequality between big corporations and startups even greater.
Every time you fetch a package from NPM you are accessing that code from a URL (at npmjs.com) and then caching that locally. Deno is just eliminating the middleman. If you still trust npmjs.com for source code delivery you could continue to do that.

What it isn't eliminating is the ability to define "local" caches. Just because you are importing everything from URLs doesn't mean that they can't all be URLs that you directly control. You don't have to use CDN-like URLs in Production, you can entirely copy and paste all the modules you need onto a server you control and URL scheme that you maintain.

There will still possibly be good uses of caching automation in Deno (once people get bored with xcopy/robocopy/cp -r/rsync scripts), but it will likely seem a return to more bower-like tools rather than necessarily full blown packager npm-like tools. (ETA: Or proxy services like GitHub Artifacts that pull an upstream source for you and rehost it on controlled URLs with some additional security checks.)
You go out and fix all the library code that uses window then.

The web has been paving the cow paths for good reason.

There are hills worth dying on, what the common namespace is called isn't one of them.
Well said. I may refer back to your excellent point when this argument comes up again......and again.........and again.
Maybe "the compiler generates better assembly code per second than a human could"?
I don't think this interpretation is supported by any caselaw or jurisprudence but I'm open to reading it if you have it.
Can you please not snitch on people like that and instead talk to them? There are dogs that piss on the street and nothing bad happens. If this becomes regular then yes, talk to them and if they don't stop report them. But seeing 1 indiscretion and pulling the trigger on the guy is not ok.
Don't forget Visa is in the data mining business too.
Good... bitcon is just a massive ponzi/M&L scheme, being held by few whales with the rest holding crumbs and just hoping for the moon... My biggest issue with it is that is extremely inefficient and just pollutes needlessly.

Has anyone tried to buy something with it lately? I tried in 2016, and it was almost impossible unless you go through 3rd party exchange, and the rates were insane.
Deno's response here seems to confirm that https://github.com/denoland/deploy_examples/issues/15
It would be a very interesting result if it were a controlled test in any way. Tell me, how do you test two cars in real-world driving conditions when one care goes 100 miles further than the other? The longer range car must go through more 'real world' than the other, right? Is Edmunds going on a 10 mile identical loop in identical weather again and again, or did they extend their existing circuit? I guess we'll never know.

Also, they "re-ran" the test? The went from real-world, to a test track, and then _only_ released the results of the 'buffer' range. Then they "re-ran" again but with just two of the cars. Then, they only shared the results for one of the cars they tested (noticeably missing is the data from the other car) calling it "validation" of their results.

You have to at least agree that not releasing the full data on their results is suspicious, no? It seems like they got caught with bad data and a hyperbolic headline ("Every Tesla we've tested has failed to hit its EPA range estimate") and then rushed to find any data that would help confirm their results. That's confirmation bias if I've ever seen it.
Just because Texas isn't locked down, doesn't mean everyone acts like normal. as well just because CA is locked down, doesn't mean everyone complies to the lockdown....

This is why the politicization ruined any useful correlation analysis.
Of course, it's the loudest voices that always get heard and are oft repeated, but I'd say most of us in the industry realize that cryptocurrency will never be a 1:1 replacement of traditional fiat currency--barring some significant breakdown of society and government. It's more of a complementary thing. Something more like internet and radio (i.e. both are still used today, one did not completely replace the other). Not the best example but you get the picture. And then there is 3rd and 2nd world countries where crypto can be used as a sort of stop gap solution until a viable form of government and banking can be situated.
The amounts tied to NFTs should be easily exchangeable without having an impact on the price.
The math in this article makes it sound trivial for any major government to destroy bitcoin.
https://joekelly100.medium.com/how-to-kill-bitcoin-part-2-no...
It points out that "But we can spend more on hardware then they could." is false. Once it was outlawed, they can just seize the mining hardware.

So PoS may actually be more resistant. Instead of acquiring physical hardware governments would have to start acquiring the currency. If they have to purchase it, it will drive the price up. While they maybe able to seize it in this scenario as well, it would seem the virtual crypto world would have better protection than the physical world.
> this kind of AI research is seriously out of vogue

I would think this is a consequence of it being a very hard problem. ML gets all the industry funding and publicity because you get results that are immediately useful.

You can work on General AI for decades and come up empty handed since there doesn't seem to be an incremental approach where intermediate results are useful. So it's closer to esoteric mathematics or philosophy in terms of "being en vogue".

So I see this mostly as a reflection of the academic landscape in general. Funding is more focused on application and less on theoretical / fundamental research.
That doesn't seem unreasonable. If I traded you a share of TSLA for a laptop, the IRS would treat it similarly, no? Bartering transactions are taxable.
I think that areligious is not a state in itself but a void to be filled. There are secular truths or causes that people adopt and follow with the same passion as those that follow religion.
Them main problem is that to get high bitrates over anything longer than 2m you probably need a glass fibre. And that increase the cost a lot, and makes the cables more fragile. Corning offers an optical USB3 cable where the optical converter fits in a slight-larger plug, it's not impossible. But most people wouldn't pay for it it when they don't need 50ft cables.
No, but I like making/saving money, doing analysis, writing code and talking about how to do all of those things better.

Especially the making money part, as that's ultimately why my employer/clients pay me.
What a great post, the dev can write as well as they can code.
He had come up with a set of principles that defined the Free Software, and created a worldwide movement that consists of dosens of thousands of developers,most of the time being vilified and ridiculed and FUDed by some of the biggest corporations on the planet. (And all this time strictly following his own moral code and never trading freedom for convenience)

I'd say he has the very set of traits that allowed him to achieve the impossible and change the world for the better, immensely. But now some random people not known for anything but their activism also want him to be niiiiiiice, or else they'll cancel him. To hell with that!!
Greece implemented capital controls in June 2015. The United Kingdom struggled to keep them implemented in October 1979. I'd look at these episodes and the Asian Financial Crisis from 1997 as examples of the kind of thing Dalio is probably thinking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_controls_in_Greece

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_Controls_in_the_Unite...
Where are you seeing the short version of the article? Each link takes me to the original.
I Am a Strange Loop is for sure the least technical of the three but it's best if you read it last since it's a very emotional and touching denouement to the other two books.

You can read GEB or MT in any order, perhaps MT might be more approachable to start with since while it is quite technical, it's a series of articles that can be read independently of one another and each article has a bit of an aha moment, as opposed to GEB which is one loooong marathon where the aha moment is absolutely enormous, but requires a great deal of preparation.
The real question is which cryptocurrencies can survive a net outflow. That's how bubbles suddenly collapse. Someone sold US$2.1 billion in Bitcoin on March 15th, and the price of Bitcoin dropped 10%.[1] Which is not too bad.

The SEC made most of the Initial Coin Offering industry go away by prosecuting some of the blatant frauds. The ICO backed by nonexistent diamonds and real estate was the first to go down. After a few of those, the SEC sent out letters asking ICO issuers why they thought they weren't issuing an unregulated security. A few registered. Most gave up.

The SEC has essentially grandfathered Bitcoin as pre-dating any SEC guidance on the subject, and as lacking an "issuer". Newer make-money-fast schemes get full scrutiny.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2021/03/15/22-bi...
I find it easier to identify humans that flood forums though. Especially non-native speakers usually are somewhat easy to spot, I assume that's true in any language. That's different for ML-generated texts. On the other hand, human texts are more "on message", but if all you want to do is create noise, I guess you don't need to have targeted communications.
As much as I like Ethereum, it is not as "sticky" of a brand name as Bitcoin is.

A lot of us that are deep into this space already see all the nuances, but there's a fat tail of people out there who are only just warming up to the idea that Bitcoin is not a scam. They're not quite ready to make the jump to Ethereum and smart contracts. Admittedly, most of these folks are the older generation that are not "digitally native" (i.e. millennials and younger).

"Bitcoin" conjures a physical, visual image. That golden coin image with the "B" logo. Ethereum has chosen, for better or worse, a more ethereal representation for itself that I think is tougher for people to grasp.

Remember when the internet was such a new concept that no one knew how to describe it? What did they call it? An information superhighway. Bitcoin achieves this in its brand name. At any rate, that's my theory for why it sticks so much better than Ethereum, and it's harder for people to remember ETH the first time they hear it than Bitcoin.
>These are contractors and if they don't make money today they can courier for another company tomorrow.

Spoken like someone who has lived a full and blessed life.
so you're saying a black swan event might affect the price? gee well Im glad that doesn't currently happen with USD, CNY, JPY....

you can also use bitcoin like a physical bearer asset (gold bullion) by using things like https://opendime.com/ so even if the network was 100% down transactions could still happen IRL. You'd just be exchanging a hidden private key that can move UTXO's on the blockchain.

considering that I'd say bitcoin is much more anti-fragile than a bank statement, in most of the natural disasters you're talking about im not so sure banks will be letting you withdraw any significant amount of $
Is this the case? I believe lottery tickets are often purchased the most by people who desperately need the money to survive.
Yeah I thought it was relatively well known. I have my Logitech wireless dongle on a USB extension cable just to get it away from the hub.
I love Alfred, also for this reason.

These days, DuckDuckGo is my go to calculator. I can type math and conversions and get the answer. And if I don’t, I do the !wa bang and let Wolfram Alpha handle it.
> probably commits way fewer immoral actions

Wow. This seems loaded, unmeasurable, and very unrelated to anyones job.
Modern browsers seem to be somewhat over their technological skis, so to speak. Next gen browser requires next gen runtime requires next gen library requires next gen compiler requires next gen system, etc.
Jesus teach importance of forgivenes but also realise there exist bad people. Luke 22:36 "Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."

On tax, Jesus was giving that response to an entraping question from Pharisees they asked because He had in past criticised of harsh tax policy. Force tithing is not a thing of New Testament but old.
Related AMA from the driver in question:

https://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mfrbty/hi_im_vic_a_former...

Notable q & a:

> Have you gotten in trouble via the camera?

> I haven't personally, because I didn't really drive with them for long enough. However, some other drivers did and I was there while it happened. They are shown their camera feed (in front of other drivers), called out, yelled at, and told to fix whatever issues the camera's AI recognizes under threat of losing their jobs.
1 (usually dealings) a business relation or transaction: they had dealings with an insurance company.
• a personal connection or association with someone: my dealings with David consisted of giving him his late-night formula.
• the particular way in which someone behaves toward others: fair dealing came naturally to him.
My point is that the Church is not the churchmen and that those who cover up others crimes, like those who commit them are all in the beds. You do not see the Divine Physician and so conflate those under judgment with the One Who judges the living and the dead.

Moral outrage is not a sickness - moral outrage is thinking God's thoughts after Him and so is to be commended!
This is a great news!

Ryan and the team should be capturing some of the value produced by their creation. And because of Deno's a developer tool, it's actually capturing the far minor part of the whole value and enable a much bigger value creation!
Good. Hopefully Amazon got hacked.
Well my guess is you haven’t been to many non evangelicals churches nor looked at how they act or behave.
The church reveres a woman above all other humans save him who was both God and man.
Orphanages were setup by churches. Hospitals, schools, homeless shelters. They do that explicitly because of their beliefs.
I took Latin in high school. I barely remember any of it, but what it helped me with the most was understanding English grammar. I learned more about English grammar in my Latin class than I ever did in my English classes.
It's way past time for USB over TRRS.
>the raison d'etre for people who like BTC

Until they lose their money in a scam.
Mixing in-code documentation (i.e. Doxygen) and more general docs is often unelegant (e.g. referencing one from the other). The build chains etc for the in-code tools often are clumsy, making it harder than necessary to e.g. review doc changes between arbitrary versions.
It's a stable coin (it's pegged to the dollar) which runs on Ethereum

https://www.circle.com/en/usdc
Thanks for your feedback! I will look into it :)
Wow, is this why i have lag on my MX Master mouse connected to thunderbolt dock whether im on my mac or work PC? It is frustratingly laggy at times.
Human senses and feelings are easily fooled and influenced.

Scientific method have been established to overcome our personal selection, information and unconscious biases.

We need education to teach us how to learn, apply our knowledge and, most importantly, be aware of what we don't know when making decisions or forming opinions.

EDIT: I don't understand why one would have to choose between sports and education.