skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the world of commercial black ops, I can no longer trust that Amazon is actually doing this, what if someone is making it look like Amazon is terrible at this. I mean even I know who Dude Perfect are ...

Please stop now and just write letters to the NYT. It's easier to follow.
'bother' me? No, not at all, the sounds are close enough I get the meaning, mostly from context.

I am not sure why there should be an emotional factor here, as expecting everybody to conform to some pronunciation ideal they have no experience with is arrogant, to say the least.
They need to be refrigerated. Vials take up a lot less space in a fridge.
>What they did was absolutely reprehensible,

Okay, this is a bit much. I know you came to realize all the car companies were doing it, so relatively speaking, it evens out when it comes to image. But this concept of hating a company over false marketing, it's a "and cows moo" moment. All big companies lie about their performances and benefits. Every. Single. One. Who would have guessed people would lie to make money... what a revelation. It's extremely naïve to feel hurt by a company trying to gain the edge over another by lying. That's some weird identity tying consumerism right there.

It was already an old joke when George Carlin did his stand up bit on marketing terms bs and that was some 20 years ago. It's time to grow up. No company is immune from this attitude either. Tech is fraught with it too. WeWork, Theranos are the nice examples. But remember, before it became publicly okay to rag on them, there were folks pointing out the bullshit. Folks who weren't believed because they were so negative about "wanting to change the world". Any time a company tries to play the, "We're making the world a better place" card, whether environmental, social, whatever, it's safe to assume bullshit is afoot. Plays out all the time.
The Interplanetary File System is a decentralized solution.

https://docs.ipfs.io/how-to/mint-nfts-with-ipfs/#mint-an-nft...
SolarWinds hack got emails of top DHS officials
According to https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/overview.php?v=booklet2018&ds...

1.83 tons of CO2 per capita for India
15.74 tons of CO2 per capita for the USA
Save? Plenty. It means less parking spots, less HR, less toilets, and so on. They don't get ill, don't have good days and bad, they are fully trained the second they start, and so on.

The most difficult part of business is the human element. For better or worse these mitigate that. The resources freed up from addressing the human element can focus on other opportunities.
Visibility through the fog was significantly lower than the radius of the exclusion zone.
I wonder if the ACLU or EFF would like to get involved.
Greece is a EU member state. The whole EU would react to such a thing - which is why Turkey would never do something that dumb.

Russia, ever the villain (and oft deserved) is also not dumb.

The most likely flashpoints for major conflict in my eyes are Pakistan - India, India - China, and China - Taiwan. It's a stretch to picture the French getting involved in any of those.

Major conflict in Europe just doesn't seem likely to me.
Tesla and Toyota Considering a SUV Partnership
Ah yes, because Apple is so short on money it can't afford to hire more engineers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...

Perhaps there is something in this about internet communications coming/going full circle with more episodes like this Amazon fiasco.
What is the literal connotation?
Well that's part of the point, China is obsessed with territorial unity, not expansionist policies, where the overlap is limited specifically to where we already know: other places that China already calls China. The American perspective is that everyone is secretly trying to expand - like America did. Chinese hegemony could happen in other areas, like how it already has resulted in movies being changed to accommodate Chinese audiences, or having leverage over many private sectors who want access to their market, and with a currency based hegemony that could increase. But the other person's point about books being too "US good/China scary & evil" is exactly about the very limiting false dichotomies that you latched directly on to.
This is a problem the Voice.com social platform is attempting to tackle, read more about it here: https://about.voice.com/learn-more/. I'm not affiliated with Voice in anyway, just someone who is eagerly awaiting open registration.
> There is no other sector in finance that saw a 40X (!!!) gain in the past year. See for yourself: https://defipulse.com/

I didn't ask how much DeFi has grown, you said 1 to 40B I can divide 40 by 1. Im curious why you think no other sector has grown by $39B.

For instance the S&P 500 is $33.4T in market cap and it's up 75% year over year, or an increase of 20T. That's a substantially larger sector growth. Or are you measuring it by percentages? It's really easy to grow peanuts into 40 peanuts, and I'm sure I can find you another sector. Point is you haven't provided any explanation or citations for your claim.

USDC isn't the definition of DeFi, it's a stablecoin. It's a literal pile of tokenized money. That's a centralized system. It's not like Visa is allowing settlement via DAI.

> With USDC being the fastest growing dollar digital currency in the world, connecting its use to existing global networks will accelerate its adoption as both a store of value and medium of exchange. Crypto dollars FTW!

Paolo would obviously disagree with that lol.

> What does this really mean? A customer who has USDC in a wallet, and a card attached to their wallet (there are now dozens of these) can spend at any Visa accepting merchant, and the USDC is used to settle the transaction with Visa instead of the legacy banking system.

I didn't see that in the article. Given that it's on Ethereum, and gas prices are staggering, it's very unlikely that's what's happening, so exactly what is? And why? Merchant's don't want USDC they want dollars, who's on the other end of the settlements? Ok they'll accept digital currency to net up once a month but then what? Will they be the ones to liquidate it?

> For Visa, this means they get the money as fast as a blockchain moves funds, without reversal risk, without the time delays and costs of SWIFT, ACH, etc. Huge!

Uh... buddy?

The blockchain is slow, you know that right? Visa can move money way, way faster through a network known as Visa. And they can do it far less expensively. And yeah, they're the ones who get to dictate reversal risk because they're Visa. If people didn't want reversal risk Visa wouldn't have it. But they do want it. And for them ACHs cost about 1/10th of a penny each, and wires are roughly free, too. RTP is going to be free and instant - rollout is going well in the US.

Visa is also way cheaper, they take a few basis points on Visanet transfers.

> This is "Over-the-Top" (OTT) money, and a major step in our mission to build a new global economic system on a more open, global, safe and inclusive foundation built on crypto and blockchain tech.

Why does one centralized organization moving a centralized representation of a centralized currency (the USD dollar in a big ol' bank account at Circle HQ) -- roughly speaking company scrip -- fit that definition at all?

> Huge congrats to @cuysheffield and the team at @Visa for really putting your money where your mouth is and embracing the future, we welcome you with open arms in the movement towards an open internet of value!"

At this point I'm actually not sure if you're a bot. Say potato!
Yes, and if you are somewhat tech savvy OR "grew up" on the internet (say 40 and younger) you understand this. The problem is previous generations who don't really understand this.

Perhaps one angle to tackle the problem is to educate the group(s) of people who continue to believe whatever they read on Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Concurred. Absolutely.
Got a Subaru Outback 10 days ago. After I saw this, I told my wife that will probably be the last vehicle we buy that is not at least a plug-in hybrid.

We had also test-driven a Toyota Avalon Hybrid, but the Subaru was a much better value and had more vertical trunk space, AWD, and every safety/convenience feature we could imagine getting (and some we weren't even aware of) without buying a $70k+ Lexus/BMW/Mercedes.

I really wish Subaru made plug-in hybrids, hopefully they will by the time our minivan is 8-9 years old.
Instead of posting uninformed speculation, you can just Google it…

> In 2017, the U.S.-based VW executive Oliver Schmidt, who oversaw emissions issues, was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $400,000, the maximum possible under a plea deal the German national made with prosecutors after admitting to charges of conspiring to mislead U.S regulators and violate clean-air laws.

The US has charged nine people, and Germany at least five, though they aren't moving quickly with the prosecutions.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions/u-s-...
Low interest rates definitely helped in the last few decades. Recently, yields have been rising though, which created some choppiness in the market. I think one of the main reasons the market hasn't responded in a big way yet is money supply:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

The money being printed has got to go somewhere and a 1% return in the stock market (with high PE) is still worth more than a negative real rate accounting for inflation.
The efficient market hypothesis is pretty hilarious. In theory, the market caps of companies should accurately reflect their value. So what exactly happens when the DOW drops 20% in a day and then recovers the next? When Tesla jumps 5x in a year due to investor sentiment, is their company 5x more valuable? It's incredibly divorced from reality. Nevermind that the efficient market hypothesis, when applied to business, completely discounts the ability to start a profitable company. The efficient market hypothesis is a never-reached universe end-state, and getting there requires arbitragers in the present, and this profession can be quite profitable.

The more Warren Buffet I read, the more I want to become a value investor due to the above premise.
This is our first step in providing the hologram machine itself to make your own holograms, rather than sending off to a service to make one for you. We think having this as a new tool, rather than just a service, will completely change access to hologram technology in the future, similar to what happened with 3D printing.

I appreciate your input as a holographer, and we are hoping to help create a lot more holographers in the future who will have access to their own 3D Hologram Printer.
Besos got wealthy because he built a successful business which provides a ton of value to customers. Besos is the wealthiest person on earth because the benefits from a financial system designed to grow the wealth of already wealthy people exponentially.

You can make the argument that bezos and other "self made" entrepreneurs deserve their astronomical wealth, but many people in the top wealth tiers just had the privilege of being born wealthy, and of living in a system their class has the power to bias in their favour.
Some books I recently enjoyed, mostly focused on the infosec aspect but still somewhat on topic:

The Kill Chain, by Christian Brose

Active Measures, by Thomas Rid

Sandworm, by Andy Greenberg

Fatal System Error, by Joseph Mann
Parts of an insulation blanket have been found a couple of kilometers away [0], it probably broke off close to apogee. Not toxic though.

[0] https://twitter.com/spacepadreisle/status/137689832067794124...
Are they ? Amazon warehouse workers ? People working in slaughterhouses ? Starbucks "baristas" working 3 jobs at once while they're execs use every trick in the book to avoid taxes and make literal billions in profit ? Min wage people working insane hours to barely afford life ?

I'm the condescending condescending one ? They're being shat on by capitalism.

I wish only one thing, for their lives to get better. I'm not going to lie and pretend people working 8+ hours a day, doing back breaking repetitive tasks, with no real possibilities of evolving their career are living the dream... all of that to get paid wages that barely let them afford a decent life and never let them escape living pay-check to pay-check

They've been tricked into being proud slaves, that all the pride there is in there. We could do so much better
The biggest barrier is Bitcoin Core's deliberately high fees.

Who is going to pay a $10 fee to buy a cup of coffee.

Of course Satoshi had the fee problem and scaling solved from day one but when Blockstream hijacked the GitHub repo they diverted BTC to have high fees in an attempt to push users to their second layer products like Liquid and LN.
2.5m doesn't even buy you a house.
> un-bisect-able fixup commits in the final merged master/main branch

If you require PRs to create merge commits you get the nice world where git bisect --first-parent bisects at the PR level, you don't have to worry about the individual commits inside the PR/below the PR level when bisecting, but you still have that commit history "as-is" for deep archeological dives when you need it.

(And you can use --first-parent to cleanup git log and git praise too.)
Agreed. It's the difference between deflationary assets and inflationary currency. Bitcoin's core, fundamental problem is that it's deflationary. Therefore it will never be useful for economic transactions, because any society which fully commits to bitcoin as their currency will have their economy grind to a halt. Why would I buy a new car today when it's going to be cheaper tomorrow?

There's a reason why the Fed targets a ~2% inflation rate for the USD.
Here’s a guy who saved his money and invested it and made a huge fortune from an inherited fortune, all so he could give it away.

The response - “ugh what an a-hole, who inherited his wealth”.

I’m so sick of hacker news. I mean if you were defending someone who squandered their opportunities but the bias was in the system, I applaud that defense. We should be very aware that some people are screwed and oppressed.

But it’s like you can do no good, unless you’ve overcome some huge gross injustice, or had zero privilege.

It reminds me of the Baptist’s who tell people they have no faith because you haven’t first went off and totally screwed yourself up and riddled yourself with addiction before “coming to Jesus”. If you respond well “I’ve just tried helping the poor, trusting and worshipping what I know of God, and being compassionate towards my fellow man” they’ll ask “but have you been first an awful human being then prayed the Jesus prayer?”

Likewise on HN - “I gave all my money to charity to help the less fortunate” response - “yeah but did you inherit that wealth?”
Disagreed. Authenticity is incompatible with Anonymity. All the surveillance companies would love to tell you you can authenticate your identity with them and be anonymous elsewhere, but they, and Governments, are the exact entities we should be hiding out identities from.

People need to be trained to be skeptical of voices online.
> Does it bother you when Germans say "zis"?

Nope.
why is that not possible - warren buffet didnt inherit money and became a billionaire. it's possible to get very rich on compound interest.
I have this somewhat in linux.

I use Guix System, which lets me use scheme as my configuration, services, and package management language.

I use stumpwm as my window manager

Emacs as my "shell", text editor, word processor, email client, and news reader.

Nyxt as my web browser about 70% of the time.

Its very much a frankenstein, considering I'm using three separate lisps to configure and play with it, but it makes me happy.
Is it possible this is some galaxy brain plan by those promoting amazon unions to undermine amazon's credibility?
ok. Stick to comparing it to canada: a physically bigger country with higher immigration, slightly lower per-capita earning, more diversity, a similar rate of gun ownership, and a murder rate less than half that of the US.

Canada murders per 100,000: 1.8

US: 5.0
Why do you think it would be fewer steps, or less waste? The syringes would need to be shipped first from the syringe manufacturer to the vaccine manufacturer, unpackaged, integrated into the manufacturing process there, then repackaged and reshipped to the vaccinators. Meanwhile the vaccinators already purchase syringes for their ordinary medical practice.

Furthermore, vaccines need to be refrigerated while syringes do not. If you combine them too early in the process, then the whole syringe ends up needing to be refrigerated. This increases the mass and volume that needs to be refrigerated, complicating the entire logistical network for distributing the vaccine.
That isn't true. It was done so they didn't have to install NOx cleaning technologies. Modern US based diesels have SCR, and EGR systems that help remove NOx and particulates from the exhaust (or prevent it from forming). However, they add thousands to the cost and complexity.
True, but my comment that the image isn't on the blockchain is still accurate. IPFS is not a blockchain and content can be changed.
Exploring the Linux File System
Just one little old scandal, huh.
The reason that France is concerned about conflicts in North Africa states is not because those countries have amphibious military capability and can strike metropolitan France. It is (besides the cynical suspicion that France likes maintaining some economic hegemony over its former colonies) because every North African conflict sends another wave of refugees and economic migrants north towards Europe.
Surprising there is no mention of Frank Ramsey, who was around at the same time, and was the only one considered equal to Wittgenstein.
Quotes are not the appropriate tool to denote uncertainty.
I don't see the comment as thinking it's better, but more that it's a very likely possibility of a shifting balance of power.
Could you wrap the crate mentioned into wasm like watt does for proc macros?

Obviously not ideal...
Not $188 million rich, but certainly $2-5 million rich.
The reason for posting this is that I actually got this robocall - and it did shake me - yes it was "obviously" a scam, it was a robocall, it was my national ID number has been used in multiple crimes ... but I had to think three times ... I mean they upfront said "it's the national crime agency".

(For reference this is some pseudo-FBI in the UK that's barely a decade old and no-one really knows or trusts)

This is why impersonating a police officer carries really heavy penalties.
What, with one ageing aircraft carrier?
I am not totally sure but I read it in a way they are preparing for a major war, not necessarily an invasion of France.

But if Turkey hypothetically starts occupying Greece islands or Russia one of the Baltics AND at the same time, the USA is unwilling or incapable of intervention, it probably would be France and the UK to fight at the front lines.
Yup, and you can use --first-parent to git bisect, git log, git praise to interact at the "macro-level" of those merge commits by default, and dive in to the fuller graph only as necessary.
Possibly at some point their response to the Mediterranean refugee crisis will be to invade Libya rather than just bomb it.
Why is Supabase as costly as Firebase? Why would I go for a service that's in beta and charges as much as a stable competitor?
Just remember that it's not really orchestrated. All of the molecules involve are kind of randomly blundering about and it's one-in-a-million collisions that are responsible for getting shit done (on membranes it's more like one in a thousand and on ropelike structures like dna or actin it's one in a hundred).
Huh, why does the name change have to be announced 2-3 days before in your world? They would need to send new stationery and signage to dealers, so the chatter would start in the coming week or 2 anyway... Why not pre-empt that with a press release.
Me too, only owned a used old Toyota (pre ABS and OBDII) since and right now nothing. The VW I leased was a 2014 so I just managed to miss out on the era of rearview cameras though
The survivor will be the NFT that pictures are actually on chain
EU has mutual defense clause just like NATO. France is strong proponent of the clause and the only country to ever invoke it.

France is also NATO member like Turkey. But if Turkey and Greece go into war with each other, sides are taken. Greece is EU member, Turkey is not.
Presumably we'll see (or not see, but it will happen) improvements in all steps of the process of packing, sending, and delivering goods. This is a... good thing.

And perhaps with more automation and logistics improvements, reusable last-mile containers can become common. We already receive our one of our grocery deliveries in foldable crates which get re-used (one set always sitting empty at home, and traded to the delivery driver for crates with new groceries).

There's a lot of room for improvement here.
just typical prosumer use cases. Nothing fancy
Not at all. Anyone with a passing interest would be aware. As I stated, as the gist of the early posts mentioned Russell being a man of principles, it is always worth reminding ourselves no one is perfect.

NB I now see the wording of my post could be read as 'here is a post concerning race'. But I should have separated the first line from the rest of the post; the 'gem' I was referring to was the original post.
Based on the artwork, they'll definitely be announcing their mixed-reality "iGlasses".
I always found it odd that Americans have no problem with child labor at home, so long as it’s confined to movies and entertainment. We even have special laws just to make it legal when every other form of child labor is outlawed.

It’s absolutely not the same as a sweatshop, but hollywood has a long track record of ruining children’s lives for profit.
MuseScore 3.6 and GitHub Actions to Release Your Scores Automatically
When you are in an environment where all your other competitors are cheating, I used to think you had only two options - join in or quit. Now, it occurs to me that there is a third - blow the whistle. If VW, or any other manufacturer, had made a quick call to the authorities and told them exactly what to look for, they would have dealt a huge blow to their competitors and maybe even done a victory lap along the way.
I think a lot of NATO and EU states would do something, which is why it is almost certainly not going to happen.
faultswagen.com is unregistered; anyone?

https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma...
>In industry, yes, time to value is important, but it seems clear that in some part of the market competition will require squeezing out those remaining % points of performance -- a company scaling up with poorer accuracy would have more problems...right?

But I wasn't talking about a poor model vs a good model. Like I said, going from 93-96% accuracy is generally not going to have a lot of value add.

>Do you have experience in industry? I would like to hear more from your perspective?

Yes and in my experience if your model has lift over random and has a positive roi vs doing nothing it's usually going to be worth building and implementing it. In the fields I've worked in the models are not in direct competition with models from other companies so if Co. A's model for some task is getting 95% accuracy and Co. B's is getting 91% there's not much cause for concern. If Co. B's model is still generating lift over a random guesser it's worth having in production.

For most consumers I doubt they could even tell the difference between service like that. If Walmart's product recommendation is 2% better than Amazon's I find it extremely unlikely most consumers could even tell and Amazon's primary concern is whether the model is driving increased sales and not whether it's stealing customers from Walmart(the model, not generally).
Doesn't IPFS use content-addressing? In other words, the url of a file is the hash, so the contents can't be changed.