skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another question arises: what is it good for? It certainly isn't empancipating or empowering ordinary people.

I'm part of the bitcoin community on Clubhouse of just regular people who've benefited greatly from bitcoin.

I'm personally investing in bitcoin due to the uncertain future of USD. It's simple: the dollar is loosing buying its buying power and bitcoin is gaining buying power. USD, gold, bonds, etc. are trending towards zero when graphed against bitcoin.

I'm old enough to remember when a person could save in USD and get a return higher than the inflation rate and be able to retire comfortably.

I remember seeing people who thought they could retire comfortably in 2008 until the economy blewup and we had senior citizens competing with high school kids for jobs bagging groceries.

You can read about how financialized our economy has become and how bitcoin solves this problem: "Bitcoin is the Great Definancialization" — https://unchained-capital.com/blog/bitcoin-is-the-great-defi...

Bitcoin has averaged over 200% a year for the past 10 years--and that was before billions of institutional money began flowing in.
I am not even sure if Clubhouse has network effect in that stickiness of app isn't the number of people using it but the quality of the content. In this case, the audio rooms. As far as I can tell, 90% of rooms I see just aren't that good. I wouldn't go back to use an app just because Lebron James uses it if I don't get any value from it.
Yeah, it's very easy to pick and gain metrics to support whatever view point you want to espouse. We see this in politics all the time, sometimes even multiple politicians using the same data set to push wildly different proposals. Why would Google be any different?

Kinda seems odd too because the only metric that you would think matters (stock price) would have heavy consideration (~90% growth since March 2020).
You’re right, it’s the end user that gets screwed either way, not the website.

Could happen to anyone on http, there’s just no way to know if you’ll be routed through a hacker router.

Even with https there’s no way to know ahead of time that the site isn’t adding the malicious js, though probably will happen less often than on http.

In a future AR/VR world this is the sort of problem that could get quite horrible.

You really would not want a cryptojacked-sites-all-the-way-down situation to develop.
I am both unsurprised and disappointed. This is one of those things where it'd be _really cool_ if it worked, but also hugely unexpected.
I talked to some non-real esate people about We.

They couldn't separate the fact that WeWork offices seemed like a good idea overall from also being a financial dud.
Plugging here what I wrote recently, my experience of clubhouse within my first week.

Personally clubhouse is good at the moment, no brands, no trolls but not sure how long it will last this way

https://ruky.me/2021/03/30/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-sid...
Need a plug n play open source design for 18650 cells kinda like Jackery.

Minimal integration pain & maximum expansion or swapping out bad cells without dismantling the battery pack.
And it's J+J's name that goes in the headline. It wasn't even their fault. At least they didn't somehow cram the AZ connection in there too, though I'm sure other outlets are working on it.
To the dustbin!

I had hope for the promise of the drive, but such as it is.science proceeded and now we know more.
Wouldn't business partners be a trivial subset of their pet causes? It's not just a political set.
Nobody was selling emdrives (to my knowledge). It was more of a "Hey, this is a weird effect" and an effort to explain it. That's less snake oil and more science. Most of the time there is some explanation that doesn't break your framework. Sometimes there's a breakthrough as you figure out the new thing. Sometimes you can't figure it out.
Rad, I was looking at ST3 last time I was doing it.
> So, if the Uyghurs are buying and wearing H&M clothes, instead of traditional Uyghur clothes, then they are in effect genociding themselves.

"She accused him of rape, but then the next day had sex with someone she met at a bar. So which is it?"

That is the logical equivalent of your post.

I simply cannot believe that you would not be able to tell the difference being an issue of CONSENT and AGENCY.

H&M is not FORCING anyone to adopt western cultural standards or abandon their heritage.

The CPC is.
>school anyways really isn't much of a roadblock or time waster.

I think it is both. It also discourages to think. I had to re-learn most of the things becasue I was told BS in the school. The current school system is outdated because it was designed too long ago.
I'm another one with 20 years WFH... Its amazing how much controversy it engenders. I think a good part of it, might be having consciously made the decision vs. having to 'fall into' it during the pandemic.
Like a big party where only uninteresting people are allowed to speak. Like listening to your neighbors argue, except you can’t yell “shut up.”

I wrote dozens of these
> That, my friend is the very definition of Snake Oil.

Is it? How does a bicycle work?

https://www.nature.com/news/the-bicycle-problem-that-nearly-...
Why aren't their map screenshots cluttered with business markers? Can I turn this off?
You should never assume businesses, corporations, and people are rational actors. Corporations make irrational decisions all the time, often to their demise. Why do we think Google is exempt?
Umlauts? How come one needs ligatures for umlauts as they are independent characters with own Unicode or even old ASCII set codes[0].

[0] https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/schreiben/unicode/
> In the Western countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe, they all force their immigrants to culturally assimilate. They do this by socially shaming the immigrants to adopt local names, and to not speak their own native language.This is very prevalent in the white countries, where white people scream out: “Why don’t you speak English, and learn our culture!”

This happens by a sub group of Conservative regressive minority of the population. It is not government sanctioned and in most of the countries you mentioned not supported by the majority of the public opinion. These are exceptions not the rule.

> And in grade schools, the immigrants are mocked for being foreign.

You're comparing the behavior of petulant children against government policy of the CPC? Apt, I suppose, if that's the standard you hold them to.
I was more thinking for critical advice such as the example in the original article. Not every little thing.
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There are plenty of rvs that get similar fuel efficiency to cars. Anything on the sprinter chassis gets over 20 mpg typically.

The laundry footprint is a large factor when considering hotel stays. If we add up both the carbon costs of the hotel stay and airfare added together it seems like it adds up to more than the RV option. That's all I was trying to highlight, I haven't done a research paper on it, just my perception.
The great irony is that the main interest in cryptocurrency is increasing fiat currency.

I have no interest in acquiring more fiat, above and beyond what's needed to pay living expenses.

Using Strike, I can pay someone in USD (or any other fiat) using bitcoin with no capital gains taxes: https://jimmymow.medium.com/announcing-strike-by-zap-4f578c7...
This also proves that the climate change initiative is a wash. They can't take co2 emissions seriously and at the same time demand 100k employees to spend 1 hour a day driving to offices. That's like what, 100 millions gallons of gas per year, or 1 gigaton of co2, burned needlessly, only to improve some corporate metrics.
Spotify Samsung app is still audio only
Local police are still civilians. Anyone who is allowed to quit whenever they want is a civilian. Soldiers don't have that choice.
there are no first world countries among former third world countries, only first world cities
The article is ambiguous about that. One interpretation is "max 14 days of remote work per year where you can't be in the office 3 days a week" (which is separately mentioned later in the article).
It isn't sticky. Sample size of one: I logged into to Clubhouse for a week, and haven't been back since.
4hrs? Why/how do you survive. I don't think I could live like that.
I'd be curious to know how much bandwidth it utilises when that much is available.
I disagree. Something new that challenges areas of physics where our understanding is vague, like neutrino mass or dark matter - sure: feel free to explore new theories

Something that challenges something as solidly established as conservation of momentum: Snake oil.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/he

2nd definition.
Some amount of hiding state makes APIs easier to use though. Keeping data structures coherent, for example, means you need to only interact with them through the provided interfaces. This also means that you could internally change the data structures (eg. from deque to ring buffer) and not expose the implementation details to the outside world, causing downstream breakages.

What you describe makes sense for small components built by a small, tightly knit and highly skilled team. The issue is that at some point the software grows enough that you can't hold the whole thing in your head at once, or you need to make it reusable to external developers.
It’s all done just by image processing. Once premium you can see the screenshots of the items on market used to provide the price estimate. They must have a couple accounts running continually going through the market checking prices. That’s why some items are 2-3 hours delayed.
It is not trolling, and you can verify that fact.

I made the site in question (81m .org). My inspiration was the work of Zoe Phin (whose name is phzoe on HN), who noticed that YouTube was deleting dislikes and decided to write some scripts and build some charts.

I replicated her approach and automated it further. The result is 81m .org.

If you want to validate my data, it is easy to do:

- Trivial way: For some video, check the official YouTube likes/dislikes/views numbers from time to time, and compare them to the numbers I display. You will see that they line up.

- Harder way: Get a YouTube API key, query `http s:// youtube.googleapis .com/youtube/v3/videos?part=statistics&id=<VIDEO_ID_HERE>&key=<API_KEY_HERE>`, and log the likes/dislikes/views for one or more videos. Compare to my data, and you will see that the two datasets line up.

You can find more info at 81m .org/about

(Sorry for the " .org" and " .com" and other whitespace insertions above. I am worried HN will shadowban me if I post links.)
Some people take life far too seriously, I thought it was a great marketing ploy myself.
My qualm with this is thinking is that it supposes the gender role binary is created then reinforced, rather than emergent and reinforced. The key difference being the conclusion: is the gender role binary reinforced by oppressing individuals or is it reinforced by indulging individuals?

My opinion and probably the most popular side across all cultures and all time: human gender role binaries are emergent behavior, and we indulge that emergent behavior. If humanity restarted from day 0, on day 1 girls would be playing with dolls far more frequently than boys, and boys would be playing with trucks far more than girls. On day 2, parents would buy their girl a new doll she wants and buy their boy a new truck he wants. The gendered behavior emerged without social construction of any kind, but because parents love their kids they indulge that behavior, thus reinforcing it.

In your view, if humans began at day 0, what would happen on day 1? Would boys and girls play with trucks and dolls evenly? Is it only on day 2 that parents start reinforcing gendered behavior?

Now obviously there’s a discontinuity here because there was never a day 0 for humans, but the fact that practically every culture across space and time no matter how separated, including all the way back to chimps, shows girls playing with dolls and boys playing with objects suggests that this isn’t some societal cram down, it’s an emergent phenomenon from biology, or group behavior (one sex is larger, one is smaller) that causes this to appear almost always.
> If I want to go skiing 7-times a week then I'm SOL because work hours are work hours and they overlap with the hours that resorts are open

Start work at 6:00 and head out at 15:00. Hardly doable when in office, but if you work remotely close to lifts.. ;)
very reminiscent of the Fake Restaurant that made it to #1 on Tripadvisor (which prompted people to seek out the fake restaurant)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-to...
This is the best short description I've found for bitcoin:

Bitcoin is a non-sovereign, hard-capped supply, global,
immutable, decentralized digital store of value. It’s an
insurance policy against monetary and fiscal policy
irresponsibility from central banks and governments
globally.

— @Travis_Kling
> For Americans, for better or worse, its very large stick (the military) affords its citizens all sorts of benefits while traveling/living abroad

This is mostly a myth.

There are lots of examples of cases where people from less RAWR MILITARY countries (like... Sweden) got pulled out of risky situations before the Americans did. In some cases Americans simply have not gotten rescued at all and left to fend for themselves! And the US doesn't perform that service for free... if you get rescued they charge you tens of thousands.

Being able to be negotiated out of detainment has more to do with politics and trade, and the US has a lot of political enemies. The countries where the US military is a factor are countries you're not likely to want to move to and make a living in anyway.

Being able to travel to countries is also weaker as a US citizen, since many countries apply reciprocity, and the US often has stricter immigration controls.

Being American living abroad is mostly a demerit. You can't open bank accounts due to FATCA, you have to pay expensive specialized accountants due to foreign taxation, and in many cases people just don't like you due to your government. I can't think of any situations where being American is a pro over being an EU citizen.
>>>For example, what if climate science videos were being significantly brigaded by bots controlled by oil companies?

I think we need to separate the bot problem from the organic humans. BOTS should be the issue that is countered, regardless of whether they are upvoting or downvoting content. Humans expressing themselves is just grass-roots organizing.
I havet not had any issues with Bluetooth on standard android or Samsung devices.

What I _do_ have problems with is the stupid accompanying apps on Samsung phones (Wear and Buds) that are reinstalled automatically every time I reconnect.

Dear Samsung, how many times do I have to refuse the ToS and delete the app before you get my point?

(I don't use the apps because I don't want any of the "smart" functionality and I don't like Samsung sharing my data with unspecified third parties)
Sometimes I feel like the advertising dollars I give Google get put into a nameless machine. Sometimes I feel like they come out, converted to magic that the world benefits from, such as Google maps. It's been one of the biggest use cases of tech for me in my life. In awe that never again I might stand frustrated in the middle of an airport looking for my gate when I've only a few minutes left to get there.
Keyboard.io Model 01. Split, layers, thumb clusters, and standard tripod mounts to which I attached Gorilla Pods to get the perfect angles.

I was massively over using my pinkies with laptop modifier/arrow keys, and it's now all thumbs and home row. Took a while to come up with and learn my mappings in a Vim friendly way, but super worth it.

I had significant ulnar nerve pain. Tried PT, weightlifting, sleep braces, a (rather painful) nerve conduction study, stretches...nothing helped much, until the Keyboard.io.
No knock on people who spend their time working on Free Software, but I genuinely don't understand why discussion threads turn sour so quickly when it comes to terminal emulators and ligatures. Both in the linked thread and in the case of libvte [1] (a terminal emulator widget used in tons of popular emulators) the maintainers seem to be aggressively against ligatures. It's a shame because I can't find a single terminal emulator on Linux that is as usable as iTerm2, and not having ligatures is the biggest knock against most of them IMO.

1: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584160
I don't get why you are fixated on that term. They're literally not selling anything.

The whole point of the term "snake oil salesman" is that someone is getting defrauded, and a dishonest person is making a quick buck.
any twitch streams you recommend?
My recommendation to find yourself a respected sports massage therapist. Most of these things have their root back in the shoulder blade and the whole arm needs a careful (and painful) massage to set things right. Ibuprofen helps too.
oooh, scientists doing science!
From an ISP perspective it's an unfortunate side effect of a race to the bottom in pricing and network equipment in the developing world. And cargo cult network engineering where people know just enough to be dangerous, copying and pasting templates of bgp configurations into $800 mikrotiks and calling themselves an ISP.
Mine wasn't severe, but it was there well enough to annoy me and make me concerned. I had it for about one or two years.

Then I bought a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro and an ergonomic mouse and it went away so quickly (like, nearly instant), that I now believe, that what I once read may be true: That the reason for RSI may be psychosomatic.

The interesting thing to note is, that I did not use an ergonomic keyboard/mouse in the last ten years and the RSI did not come back.
I'm fascinated to see:

1) if these BTC integrations by Visa and PayPal and others will be the real deal

2) how they respond when BTC has a hyper volatile event.
Googler, but opinions are my own. A lot of employees like me would like to go back to the office, but would also like to have a few days at home for personal reasons (exercise time, kids school events, etc), fewer hours of exhausting commuting, and even just to have lunch at the restaurants in my own neighborhood. This would reduce the exhaustion one can feel at the end of a 5 day office week and leave you feeling fresher next time you come in to the office.

The 3-in-office/2-at-home week referenced would work well in this regard.
I would expect a very different type of video content from a website that is phonetically similar to "Titty Tube"...
+1 for MagicCL; it's very good. When I get around to adding BLAS-like functionality to data-frames, this is the lib we're going to use.
Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall for Amazon VPC
Thank you for the resources. I would be interested in your take on this guide: http://123.physics.ucdavis.edu/week_5_files/low%20level%20si...

We have generally had good experiences when sticking to these patterns, but are always looking for possible improvements.
Transforming AWS eventbridge events to cloudevents
They're already here.

A while back I looked into what it would take to make my own clubhouse app to compete.

I found there were already dozens, all with tens of thousands (or more) downloads on the Play store and App store.
Many states let you take it at 16.
TSMC to spend US$100B on capacity expansion in 3 years
ETL = Extract - Transform - Load
ELT = Extract - Load - Transform (so data normalization happens mostly at the destination).

Here's an article that explains the differences and why it's important: https://airbyte.io/articles/data-engineering-thoughts/why-th...
America Has a Ruling Class
This should make some people sleep badly.

Assuming somewhat efficient allocation, a 30 day delay delivering 15 * 10^6 one-shot vaccines equals ~1100 deaths[0], plus many long term health issues for survivors.

Fingers crossed this f*ckup won't delay the lifting of the US vaccine export restrictions. Many people objectively need the vaccine much more urgently than the healthy young adults currently starting to be vaccinated in the US.

[0] rough extrapolation based upon current covid-19 mortality rates in Belgium, available at https://epistat.wiv-isp.be/covid/covid-19.html
When will introverts realise that their working conditions are being dictated to them by extroverts? The pandemic-driven remote working is hell for some people, and unfortunately they call the shots.

I don’t mind coming into your office now and again (there’s a special dimension to IRL connections), but the reason I don’t want to work there full time is that it’s crap for knowledge work. I outspend you by 10x per head in my home office, and everything there is to my exact specification. The whole field of modern office design should be a discredited pseudoscience; management is addicted to it because of the real estate crisis though.

This is also kind of terrible, because a lot of people use FAANG as their North star for every policy decision.

“Well Google use primary colours in their logo, Brian”
and yet, SSRIs
Hmmm… those oscillations in your brain, did they feel perpetual? We need some more data to see if we can harvest their energy for motion.
Any particular gloves you recommend?
On the other hand, while there are a lot of "influencer" rooms, there have been a lot of rooms where discussions I don't see going on anywhere else are happening.

I'm specifically talking about politics, things like CRT (critical race theory) and it's march through schools, business, and politics. As well as other controversial subjects.

At times they get heated but for the most part people are generally civil and the discussions can be enlightening.
Why do R*st people are dishonest?
This is my 5th throwaway account. Every account got down voted to death for saying Truth.

My 4th account got downvoted today leaving me unable to post anything viable.

A user claimed that you have to manage memory in C++ not in Rust and that Rust is great because of this.

I replied that his claim is false because C++ has RAII just like Rust.

I've seen far worse absurd claims like these and I have even received death threats from Rust supports.

This has to be stopped.

Why do HN doesn't employ fact checkers?
According to science, a bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. /s

A bicycle isn't some unknown mystery of the universe, the very article you linked lays it out pretty clearly. A bicycle's stability is a function of its mass distribution, geometry and the gyroscopic effect. Their exact relation depends on the bicycle and since there is no one standard SI unit of a bicycle in the Bureau international des poids et mesures, there is no apparent equation. The "nearly broke mathematics" in the title is just pure clickbait.
It's not snake oil if you have a weird unexplained effect, and:

A) you're not trying to sell anything to anyone

B) you fully open source the design, specifications, schematics and your notes, and invite any interested third party to try to duplicate or debunk the effect.

C) you intentionally refrain from making hyperbolic claims about how revolutionary your thing is, before it's been duplicated. Maybe some clueless third parties engaged in hyperbole but not the original creators of the concept.

Science is working as intended.
Mumble's been available on Android and iOS for years. These upstarts don't all have network effects going for them. Traditionally, conference calls were something we all avoided.

Despite these things, and contrary to my expectations, these voice chats are popular. Recording quality beats a POTS line, but that's the only upside. Maybe it makes everybody feel like they're in their own podcast (their own "pod" as the kids say).

I guess this is the 21st century's version of IRC for casual, low-overhead chat. Nothing simple is ever good enough for non-enthusiasts.