skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a kid I worked in a comic book shop in the SF Bay Area.

Before eBay there was a type of collector-hustler, really a junker, who does a circuit around to comic book shops when they have something new.

They buy at auction abandoned storage unit contents. They’re thrift store spelunkers, garage sale hunters.

One of these fellows would visit our shop. He was also an autograph fiend.

He collected all sorts of autographs—-sports, entertainment, politics—-and would give account of if his latest exploits. Share the tips for how to get signatures.

Seeing in the story the quilt, I now understand the (non-illegal) value of having a collection of autographs. What a curious history.

The only autograph I ever endeavored to obtain was Jack Nicholson’s signature on a Batman movie poster. Another friend from the shop (Dave. There’s always a _Dave_. Though this guy delivered pizzas for Domino’s in his electric blue VW beetle—with atomic bomb artwork etched into the glass of the rear window. Haha) So we got our hands on these glossy teaser posters 50$, and he had the address to send the posters for a signature. Well, months later the posters were returned but not on the $50 poster we sent but a cheaper reprint. Haha. Obviously actors of his caliber receive many requests, and had stacks of the posters to send—just not the one they received. Whatevers.
Is there currently any real world use-case where 5G is being used by end-users for solutions that were not possible with 4G? As far as I know, for the average consumer that gets targeted by 5G ads, the benefits are marginal or non-existent.
Title seems accurate to me: "Scientist Support an Idea...". Doesn't mention implementation.
As long as you limit depth of your analysis to math taught in the 4th grade. :-)
Using a Pi Pico as a Hid Device
I like to chalk it up to just a bit of lost in translation, but I know it is probably more complex than that. Think about going from early Aramaic/Hebrew, to Latin, Greek and Turkish, to medieval Italian, German and Slavic, to Old English and French, to Modern English. You are bound to lose the real meaning of the original texts after several millennia in the game of lingual telephone.
You need to have a triadic understanding of bitcoin, this is what allows it to be a flat currency, a store of value, and a battery at both one and the same time, through the act of transubstantiation of the coin a quantum state is triggered that allows the individual coin to choose which form it will manifest itself as.
This is only "true" if you want to pursue a classical repertoire. For anything else you don't need to know music theory to make music or read it for that matter. A good ear and instinctive knowledge is far more valuable. Just look outside of classical music, plenty of examples where the musician has no idea of the theoretical part, but has a great grasp of it practically.
Sounds like by design.
"Remained exceedingly vague" isn't exactly fair. How much do you expect from a comment on a discussion board? If you want more specifics, ask for them! You're in attack mode here right out the gate.

He has admitted to "mak[ing] trouble" rather than believing everything he writes.[0] He acknowledges that his books are not "ends in themselves."[1] He cherry-picks supporting studies and leaves out their failure to replicate.[2] He throws around scientific terms but uses them incorrectly. [3] He offers ill-considered off-the-cuff "solutions."[3]

One reason HN comments might be "exceedingly vague" is because the specific criticisms have been laid out extensively over the past decade.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/29/malcolm-gladwe...

[1] https://www.thecrimson.com/column/behavioral-economist/artic...

[2] https://archives.cjr.org/the_observatory/the_gladwellian_deb...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.htm...
'Pure waste' is very much a point of view. If you dislike porn, the entire energy to create and distribute that, is 'pure waste' in your view (last time I looked, streaming porn consumes about the same amount of energy as Bitcoin. This probably changed by now). If, like me, you dislike billboards, all those giant flaring screens, burning neon, or LCD pixels, screaming to make you buy Pepsi, is 'pure waste'.

If you dislike Bitcoin, obviously any kilowatt used by it is 'pure waste'.
if one brought it back in secret, it could be rationed and slowly brought to market for generations and bring in great wealth before disrupting the rarity.
>irregardless

FYI it's either "regardless" or "irrespective".

And I don't think there needs to be an inherent difference in ability. A difference in interest would also explain things.
But for all they know perhaps you want to purchase one for your daughter now or a second one for a dual-monitor setup. Ads in general have a very low success rate, so it can be worth doing even if the guess is wrong a very large percent of the time
By depth, do you mean cross bracing? Any discussion about lumber strength is beside the point, the fasteners will pull out as soon as it goes sideways.
Ada was standard in aerospace and defence projects in the UK when I started in s/w back in the 80's, although personally never worked in those areas. It may be that its perceived lack of popularity is tied to its association with those rather more secretive lines of work, although that doesn't in and of itself explain why it didn't become more broadly used - other commenters have mentioned cost, and that consideration was enough to kill another technically excellent language (Smalltalk).

My gut perception of Ada is unfortunately mediated through the murky lens of its bastard offspring PL/SQL, which is by a good distance the least favourite of any language I have ever used, although I'd be willing to entertain the argument that this is in large part due to all the ugly and ill-considered bits nailed onto it by Larry's mob rather than inherent defects in the parent language itself.
While I liked and used FileZilla just several months ago, I discovered that most Linux distributions come with ftp and sftp programs, and it's very easy to use them, easy as navigating your system through command line.

With sftp you connect with "sftp -P [port] [ip address]", and navigation is very intuitive.

cd changes directory on server, lcd changes directory on local machine

Same with ls/lls (first lists directory on server, latter on local machine).

get downloads files, put uploads them, add -r option for folders, and that's pretty much it. exit for exit of course lol
Canada is widely known (internally and among allies) to be an easy place to launder money (relative to other similar countries).

> The U.S. Department of State has designated Canada a “major money laundering country” where foreign drug-trafficking gangs are exploiting weak law enforcement and soft laws.

via https://globalnews.ca/news/5102137/us-canada-major-money-lau...

> Tim Hudak, president of the Ontario Real Estate Association, said he was “very nervous” that Toronto’s housing market could see an influx of dirty cash as B.C. regulators crack down. “I’m very nervous that the Greater Toronto area will become the epicentre for dirty money in Western democracies,” Hudak told Global News. “For some reason, Canada still seems to be in a bit of the dark ages when it allows drug dealers to hide behind numbered companies and snap up real estate.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/6608644/canadian-real-estate-abys...
Our brains are complex things, with many independent actors.

There are pragmatic parts that determine what actions would best serve your interest. These parts mostly make the decisions.

There are other "press secretary" parts that come up with good sounding motivations for these decisions. You will believe those reasons, and state them with conviction.

You may then be lying, if the press secretary lied to "you", but you don't consciously know that. Apparently evolution has favored that model, and here we are.

I learned this reading "The Elephant in the Brain" (https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Brain-Hidden-Motives-Everyda...)
The Ada mandate was from 1991-1997. It is still used on some newer systems developed after that, but largely the embedded real-time systems Ada was (particularly) meant to target have been developed in C, C++, and Fortran for DoD. These days, Ada is probably as common as Fortran and largely present more for historical reasons than deliberate ones with C and C++ being the dominant languages for DoD systems.

For non-real-time systems, for example IT system, the DoD has a preference for buying COTS (commercial off the shelf) software which will be whatever industry was using when that particular system was developed (so a variety of languages).

That said, the 787 (which I worked on briefly now over a decade ago) software was decidedly non-military and developers for the software were given a choice between C and Ada for their subsystems. It's out there in a variety of critical applications still, though it seems more popular in Europe than the US.
I was told the existing financial system uses more power than Bitcoin, so doesn't that make it even better for the environment because they want even more clean power than Bitcoin?
A secular humanist probably defers to the physicists on that question and is fine with the answer "we don't know".
The way McMurtry articulates this "turnabout" is great (you can find it on his wikipedia page). I get his point—the characters suffer immensely, and you would hope the reader could recognize that it wouldn't be the best world to live in—and yet he portrays the characters with such heart that I don't know why it would be surprising that people fall in love with them. I won't post any spoilers, but there's a moment where one of the characters is leaving the group, and he says something to the effect of, "Most of the cowboys were rude and incompetent, but they were still his compañeros." Those family dynamics, the mixture of love and annoyance we feel with the people around us when we're part of a tribe, is such a hard thing to portray, and McMurtry does it beautifully. So not only do you have these incredibly complex characters, but circumstances bring them together as a family (something I think is often deeply missing in the modern world, and people pine for).
Maybe the expectations of a "cloud city" should also be lowered. I guess it would be more like the ISS and less like Lando's station.

The general idea of colonization of other planets is in general much farther away than your average tech billionaire wants us to think :)
A simple google search on the actual report is extremely reveiling. https://www.google.com/search?q=rwanda+report+Duclert+france

We see headlines of three kinds. First the US and UK media with the headline "France cleared of complicity". Other press overwhelmingly report France "guilty" or "complicit". China and some others play it tactful: Partially complicit, but not really. All without reading the actual report!

The paragraph which caused these opposing headlines was "France bears "heavy and overwhelming responsibilities" over the 1994 Rwanda genocide, a report by French historians says, but they found no evidence of French complicity." (AP, international whitewashing services)

Thanksfully there exist actual reports, plus all the war crime tribunals. With the hate media tribunal the best. For background, France was believed to be the supporter of the racist, extremist Hutu's against the pro-western "Uganda Tutsi" elite. Tutsi being called Watussi (the "tall ones", the "warriors") in earlier decades.

https://www.vie-publique.fr/sites/default/files/rapport/pdf/...

(Conclusions in english at the end)
I would say: more than you think. Someone else responded to you about European churches and honestly that sounds quite appealing to me.

My experience in Canada is that there are a lot of people who would most closely align with Liberal Christianity[0] but then spend their time in churches which are more "traditional". I think there is a bit of disconnect and tension in the current state of the churches here, though I think as this subgroup of Christians grows it will have to be addressed.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Christianity
Bitcoin is not a Battery – it is a Sink
Ok, I glanced at the article and as another engineer, yes it looks sketchy and probably isn’t safe (applying the rule from rigging of: if something doesn’t look right it probably isn’t). I felt the need to address the other issues you brought up about being impossible to calculate because it’s wood. Wood is the original composite material and has been used to safety build bridges, buildings, ships etc. For the most part your calculations won’t be as exact as with metal or other engineered material but there has been lots of research into this. The US Department of Agriculture/ US Forest Service even publish a free book about it. [1] The lumber looks like it was bought from a home center and so likely has minimum strength expectations [6-3 of afore mentioned book].

I just felt the need to dispel this rumor that is quite dangerous that I see all the time at work where people use 1/4 wire rope slings with unrated hardware as part of rigging instead of 1/2 inch Manila rope because “That rope doesn’t have any rating, it’s natural”. (It does, about 1/2 the wire rope, but needs knots or splices to attach it to thing being lifted, not the unrated hardware that comes with the wire-rope.) Like someone posting further down, I’m more immediately concerned that there is no brace to prevent racking or the use of ratchet straps as a lifting device.

[1] https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fplgtr113/fplgtr11...
Not really because the Dollar bills battery keeps discharging at the inflation rate.
definitely, it is high on feature list but requires more work to refactor than I anticipated. Would a GitHub integration work for you or are social logins in general not your thing?
A waste by most societal measures. Purely imaginary point backed by nothing that is easily defrauded and highly volatile. With no societal or personal value. And we've chosen to burn gigawatts of energy on this foolish game. Its easy to see it as enormous waste.
I don't have problems with rural areas, but I do take with people not owning up to the extent their lives are subsidized.

If you want to be rural give up:

- good postal service to every nook and cranny

- more federal dollars per person than the average for roads, firefighting in the west, etc.

- cheap gas

By all means, go ahead and be masters of your own existence. Otherwise, accept that we will figure this out together and stop relying on crutches like the electoral college and senate.
The author is just having fun:

> This whole article is a largely pointless exercise in figuring out how strong some random dude’s wood crane is, even though I have no clue what the load case is.
To quickly capture, I use sticky note in windows and a similar lightweight note app in android. Some while later, I move all to Evernote.
I’m using Brave Browser (which may not support WebMidi), but I get sent to the /Firefox page which tells me about Firefox. Should all chromium derivatives support webmidi?
Is a gold titanium alloy any good? Few materials become more useful when alloyed with gold...
That and would be intresting to sort of theorize beyond that "If this isn't rare anymore... where might it be used that it wasn't before?"
Why worry about an unknown group who MIGHT obtain your location when the location data is for sale by the carriers right now, along with browsing history, ad IDs etc etc. It's billions on the table, while their pet agency will fine them a tiny fraction of that, for a giant net profit. There's zero reasons for them to stop selling.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/technology/fcc-cellphones...
The trouble with waiting to see is that once you've discovered that it is being abused, the system is already in place and hard to remove. Additionally, it's a kind of frog boiling situation where the more such systems you have the more acceptable further such systems and abuses are both in the comment and socially.
These are all my own thoughts, I grew up in a Christian household, but I've spent a lot of time building my own worldview. I was taught that you are not a Christian just because your parents were. You have to choose Christ for yourself. I don't just parrot what I hear, I examine it, look at what the Bible says, and then figure out what to believe and say.

Christianity is based on the concept that every individual can choose to follow Christ, or not to follow Christ. If you choose not to follow Christ, you take responsibility for your actions, even the ones that lead to hell. If you choose to follow Christ, Christ takes responsibility for your actions (via the cross), even the ones that lead to hell, and enables you to learn how to act righteously.

Leftism, as far as I can see, is mainly about putting all decisions in the hands of the "elite", that makes individuals not responsible for their actions. If there is no individual responsibility, then there is no such thing as sin, and then there is no point to Christianity.

Conservatism, as I know it, is very much about the individual's freedom to make their own choices.

I see no room for Christ in Leftism. Where Conservatism does have room for Him.

So, ideologically, I see Conservatism as more in line with what Jesus taught, than Leftism. Conservatism allows for freedom, especially of thought, Leftism does not.

Politically, Christians have more freedom under Republican's than they do under Democrats. Hence why we vote Republican. It's not that we fully support everything Republican, it's that we want the freedom to practice our beliefs without government interference.

To be clear, I'm not a fan of any of the political parties. I'm registered as independent. But I'll vote for freedom over tyranny any day. Even when the party I'm voting for has warts.

Oh, and for Christians, traditional moral values are still very very important. Many votes for Trump were made due to the outsized effect the US Supreme Court has on those values. The Left does it's best to shove their ideology down our throats via Judicial fiat, rather than working through the process set forth in the US Constitution, so we have to keep the Supreme Court in a state where it won't join in with those overreaches of power. Hence why we often vote for very imperfect men.

One final thought, there is a difference between Leftism and Liberalism. I haven't solidified my thoughts on that enough to say, but right now the Democrat party is not liberal. It is leftist. I've even heard on former leftist call modern conservatism more liberal than what the left stands for now.
Bitcoin enthusiast here. Pretty surprising how antagonistic the HN crowd is to bitcoin.
ELI5: if someone downloads photos that I have uploaded to a) Reddit b) Facebook c)Instagram can they access the Exif info?

What if I have cropped and re-saved using GIMP or Mac's Preview?
As far as I know, pension fund board members were investing in stocks and REITs and hedge funds also. What is the difference between an individual owning a broad market index fund ETF like VTI and a pension fund?

Both are going to get bailed out by governments the same way, by inflating asset values. At least with the individual investing in the index fund directly, they get to save money by not having to pay the pension fund board members and actuaries and lawyers and all that overhead.
Hmm.. Maybe. I'm thinking more like Japan right up to their collision with stagnation.
> But it's also surprisingly difficult to purge once you extract that fingerprint.

Can you explain why? Is it not just a simple subtraction?

E.g. is it not a pattern of predictably varying intensity per-pixel, but a spatial pattern of nondeterministic noise? So each individual pixel has a likelihood of contributing to the "fingerprint" in any given photo, but you don't know if it contributed in this one?

Or does it totally predictable on the sensor, but the on-camera RAW processing followed by JPEG compression transform it in non-predictable ways, so that you'd need to extricate it on RAW data directly before any processing?

Or is it something extremely non-linear that changes depending on pixel brightness per color channel, or is drastically different depending on exposure time?

I'm super curious if you or anyone has actual knowledge here.
Hypothetical Jesus would be laughed off the stage? This is a preposterous strawman. Christianity skews toward conservative politics due to lessons of humility and understanding that man should not "play God" in the form of ever-centralized (oppressive) power structures. This is not to say that religious institutions aren't without their own corrupt tendencies or that Christians should oppose state-sponsored welfare. But the underlying theme is that progressive politics tend to preach idolatry of false prophets.
This is one of the differences between UK and US English. In Britain, the term "eye doctor" just isn't used.

It's of a type with legislator vs law-maker; it's only really in the past few years that politicians in the UK have occasionally been referred to as law-makers.
Does box86 have a jit?
Cost savings for carriers and more precise tracking of users for marketing and other purposes.
You missed racist homophobic and misogynist.
That’s fascinating!

At first glance, it appears that agnosticism is more rooted in science and evidence than atheism.

What is atheism’s general view of BioLogos and evolutionary creation as supported by the former head of the Human Gene Project and NIH, Francis Collins?

https://biologos.org/about-us/what-we-believe/
Ask HN: History |sort |uniq |Awk '{print $1;}' |uniq -C |sort -n |tail -10 ?
> I think payment of road tax according to road usage is eminently sensible

That's what fuel taxes were for
In what way is getting 32 bytes from /dev/urandom rolling your own crypto?
I made an eInk newspaper
> instinctive knowledge

There’s no such thing!
You can't just shoehorn words like 'obviously' and 'despotic' into your opening sentence then move onto attacking a platform for interference. I would suggest reading into the history of who installed and backed Juan Guido and for what reason. Facebooks 'narrative management' of this issue is just another aspect of that.
Is the field law?
This is the case for me. I basically just realized I had never actually hard anything speaking back to me and had never observed anything super natural. I was basically fully deconverted by about age 16 or 17, mostly just through self examination of my subjective experiences.

I find some of these other explanations strange and quite at odds with the experience of me and the rest of my deconverted family.
> it's not driven by an aim to reduce harm or protect drivers

Yeah, this is false. Australians like living in a place that has safe roads, and support governments that keep things that way. It makes for well-functioning health system and a harmonious society.

I agree that Australia can be too nanny-statist; that's a separate matter. But it's not true that authorities don't care about reducing harm to people. Governments/authority figures who aren't serious and sincere about this topic don't stay in office very long.
>He's never adequately explained from what I can tell why he made those statements in the first place. If he could provide that additional insight, I think it would help others evaluate the sincerity of his apology.

I don't think it's relevant to his work.

And if anything I said caused such a reaction from the public, I wouldn't say anything else about it either. It just is not likely to help anything.