skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not know this exists. Can't wait to look it up and read it, thanks.
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Having only cursory knowledge of this space I'll take a stab at an answer: every consumer of a company that uses crypto internally. AWS doesn't provide any real utility for people outside of the AWS space except for consumers of companies that use AWS. Feel free to point out I'm wrong as again I don't follow this space in-depth.
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>"Means that we might come out of a war with china with only a few cities lost. Might actually be worth it."

How generous of you. Hopefully you'll be in one of those cities at the moment.
There was an article published not long ago that said there has been a huge increase in the number of reported mental health cases for school-aged children due to the lack of socialization from lockdowns.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-c...
Do you have a link to an introduction?
This seems a lost battle. Every EM Drive discussion I have seen has been dominated by non-scientists pontificating about how we don't know anything, and our theories might be wrong, and we should keep an open mind ...
Taiwan has been Dutch, Han, Qing, Japanese, and ROC. Any appeal to history is nine^H^H^H^Hten dashes of propaganda.

> it’s official government policy on both sides of the straight that there’s “one China”

That's an oversimplification. The KMT / Pan-Blue believe there's "one China" in the sense that they believe the PRC is an illegitimate government, currently occupying mainland Chinese territory that belongs to the ROC.

The DPP / Pan-Green believe there are two Chinas, with Taiwan as an independent entity from the mainland PRC. Their current official position is that this state of affairs already exists, and therefore there is no need to make any declarations or changes from the status quo.

So in summary, about one half of Taiwanese political power considers the communist government as illegitimate, and the other half considers Taiwan independent. Which I would guess is fairly different from what the PRC defines "one China" as.
Art is less "better than I can do" and more "something taken from a VERY specific perspective, but still somehow resonates with the person experiencing it." Skill in an artform certainly makes the depth of that resonance more powerful, but often people can surprise themselves if they put in the effort.

Not to say just anyone will be Shakespeare, but much of what makes art great is the fact you can't see the process that lead them to the end. I've had things that people loved but felt "normal" to me because I remember the map of the route I took to get there. All they saw was the end result.
keep schools open (the kids need to go to school/helps on a number of levels), that should be a chosen priority and that's it. drop everything else.

Problem is everyone wants it all, shopping and dining and schools. Can't have it all. Society needs to priortize the one thing and lockdown rest
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> That makes no sense. If all money was USD would literally everyone be in the banking industry with no market for corn?

It indeed makes no sense if you completely ignore half of the argument (and probably misunderstand it on top of that).

The argument was that it makes sense to spend currency for security equal to the amount of currency you are securing, meaning if you do that for all currency, (pretty much) the sole economic activity will be securing it.

Suppose for the moment that what is mining power to bitcoin is the US military to the USD. It makes no sense to spend all USD on just the military, so that it can secure the currency, does it?
I am not sure that it's a good explanation. Just the opposite.

J&J's excuse for 66% effectiveness is that they were tested when there was more Covid going around? That's exactly when the vaccine is supposed to protect you. Not when there isn't an opportunity to catch the disease.

And if we then take this claim on its face, then Pfizer and Moderna vaccine stated effectiveness is pointless, since it wasn't tested during the worst times.

Finally, the claim that no one in the study group that did catch the virus ended up in the hospital is also based on self-selective bias. I am assuming people in the study were younger people who needed the money and not older folks who are at a higher risk. I am not saying that it's not true - just that the biases need to be taken into account in any study.
I think there is an argument to be made that as stock growth has outpaced GDP growth for many years now that the connection between the markets and the real world has become tenuous. The fundamentals become less important over time as crazy speculation continues to win out.

GME is a symptom of a broken system.
This isn't about next year though, this is about planning capacity for the next decade at least.
I think you came across as friendly and helpful. To me "why not" is a gentle suggestion, and not a literal question. Maybe that changes in different parts of the world?
> live stream is currently being hugged to death

Perhaps someone should ring the doorbell so it flows again…
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This is a great idea! Maybe we can encourage it by upvoting posts that include salary info.
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Really cool use of data. I wonder how you want to make an app out of it though without immediately getting legal trouble (Abmahnung) since you scraped the house listings. A friend of mine did something similar for research purposes and there it was a huge grey zone.
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Yes and - ism one up manship is never going to go away sadly
> it will be fought tooth and nail by liberals and conservatives.

Then don't replace SSN, augment it. Once you opt-in, your government-issued FIDO2 will be required alongside your SSN.
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Such a shame, Enviroment variables are indeed difficult to work with sometimes, who sets them? in which file? Who can/will override them? typo's are also not being caught because editors dont have lists of possible variable and/or what value they are allowed to contain. you might also lose them on different containers.

Enviroment variables should be part of cgroups in some way. I dont like that any program can modify the PATH variable as example. seems like a recipe for disaster in privilege escalation.
Paris is also in a 4-week lockdown: https://thehill.com/policy/international/europe/543993-paris...
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the 30 million line problem;

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I don't think we need much more data then what is already available, there are transmissions in children and they are happening at schools. In my local news there have already been several stories about outbreaks happening in schools and having to shut them down for periods of time. Even if kids are at lower risk they are still at risk so sending them to school is foolish if avoidable. I say if avoidable because not working for months on end and starving to death is also not good.
Do you know what is causing the vaccine delays in your state? I'm in Ohio and anyone can get a vaccine now by scheduling an appointment online. So much optimism now when there was none. Even if it is a little slower in your state don't give up hope, its coming soon
...or just be content with a slower chip.
I spent $25 sending a $300 wire transfer from my bank to a different bank. It was easy. But that is not at all cheap.

The only service around that allowed a Canadian friend to send me money was PayPal. His bank and mine didn't feel like talking to each other.
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It's not gonna happen. There's experts, and people who listen to the experts, and then a bunch of crackpots and MAGA chuds. Can't admit the experts were wrong, or even just slow to acknowledge the truth -- that would suggest that maybe the chuds have a point, and that's just not acceptable.

I mean just look at the other post in this thread- it's discrediting science to point out when scientists are wrong. That's where we're at, discursively: listen to the experts because they're right. And when they're not right, well, Facebook is worse, so why say anything?
"Velocities add" is also mechanics 101, and turned out to be incorrect at sufficiently large speeds. I think we have to go to Noether's theorem to show why we should be so sure the EM drive doesn't work: EM drive proponents must either tell us where the momentum goes, or explain why space isn't symmetric under translation.

(Actually, fun side note, in a gravitational field, space isn't symmetric under translation. IIRC, this was the original problem that caused Noether to prove her famous theorem. She found that while there was still a conserved quantity of a sort due to "translations" in space and time, it wasn't just the energy-momentum tensor, but also depended on the gravitational field. In any case, the EM drive is supposed to work in flat space, so that shouldn't become an issue.)
trocker chrome extension is built for those who want to keep images and avoid pixel tracking.
Finding a cure for cancers originating in a particular organ is at least somewhat narrower than finding a "cure for cancer", and as such probably not quite as unrealistic.

You're still right, of course, since there are still (probably, haven't checked) multiple different kinds of breast cancer, and also because no cancer is curable if it has spread wide enough.

Testicular cancer nowadays has cure rates of 90 to 95 percent or so (close to 100% for certain types, above 80% for others), thanks to chemotherapy that happens to be very effective against those kinds of tumours. So it's not an entirely unrealistic idea that you could find a cure that works in a large majority of cases if you limit yourself to something narrower than "cancer".

Of course how easy or difficult or realistic it is to find that kind of a cure even for a more limited range of cancers still depends on the type of cancer and whatever other factors there are, because, well, it is a bunch of rather different disease.
Fiat means it's backed by a state. The definition and etymology of the word makes it clear [1][2].

I wouldn't go so far as to say that fiat must have "actual utility" though. Being forced to use a currency in order to avoid prison time is more like extortion, rather than utility.

Crypto isn't fiat, though, in any case.

1. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiat
2. https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=fiat
Just looked at his twitter and interestingly his tweet ~4 hours ago [0] says "I was wrong about #Bitcoin.".
Though it is likely an April Fools joke.

[0] https://twitter.com/PeterSchiff/status/1377626254619328524
There is new data showing the efficacy for Pfizer is better for children age 12 and up.

The point being; it's way too early to know which is better and why, and to base a decision on that data.
To the anti-BTC crowd:

Yes, the current price of crypto is based on speculation, not in their current utility.

But there also was a dotcom bubble 20 years ago. Does that mean that the World Wide Web is useless?

Cryptocurrencies will be highly useful as stores of value and maybe as currency. We're just not there yet.

This is just the Gartner hype cycle, with the addition that for the first time we have a global market completely parallel to the traditional one with much less regulation. No wonder people are going to speculate with it. It's our new toy.
This exactly matches my own experience.

I work in University IT as a developer in the central IT department, but I started off in one of those "shadow IT" groups. There are little islands of technologists embedded with grad students who continue to make many things run on shoestring budgets and with minimal oversight from IT professionals.

I've seen things change in recent years, though. The central IT department is gradually gaining traction in some of these places.

That isn't a panacea, of course, because we have our own issues. But I do think overall the availability of senior IT staff and programmers is a huge boon for these small teams who are starting from little to no experience in the field.
What is there to reply about? Schiff has been calling bitcoin a scam for years. The linked tweet says that no one will be making a profit, which ignores a lot of people who have already made a lot of money. So it's disingenuous, also he has been wrong for a decade.
Schools are indeed quite safe. The younger the safer, but generally children get sick less and are vanishingly unlikely to end up in the hospital or die. There's also evidence that schools haven't been a big transmission sites for covid probably because while teacher to teacher transmission is as big a problem as anywhere teacher <-> student and student <-> student transmission isn't that likely. The other side is that closing schools has had big negative impacts on children especially poor children.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
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Awesome. Just submitted Sunnyvale Community Center location, which has a pond with a lot of ducks.
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Anecdata but, I have not witnessed this happening or even heard of this ever happening. Once people accept a kernel of bullshit into their knowledge map, they’ve lost the ability to separate fact from fiction from uncomfortable truths, and then they start adding more and more bs to their knowledge base at an accelerating pace. It's quite a lot like cancer, really, and there are doctors that can help with this, but of course these people don't typically trust doctors. So don’t feel bad if you don’t have it in you, chances are it would make no difference except potentially destroying your relationship with them.
The “store of wealth” is a rationalization of the fact that greedy miners have taken over and fossilized the B development.
> What I will say though is that the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be an argument for using both `px` and `em` units based on the context of the individual component you are styling. It doesn't seem to be an argument for abandoning relative/point units entirely, as the original article advocates. From the perspective that scaling text alongside containers and scaling text inside containers are both valid ways to scale content, there are going to be some parts of your interface where it makes sense to respond to text size increasing, and some parts that don't.

Yeah I'd agree with this as well after all of the thought on it - if you want to really get to the full 100% mixing the units per part of the design as you describe is going to enable a more optimized outcome than any "pure" approach could get to.

The way to make px behave like em in pure CSS is to set dimensions based on a --custom-property so you can do things like width: calc(var(--parents-font-size * 2.5)) or what have you. Bit messier if all you literally want to do is font sized based scaling but also way more flexible to inject other logic into if you want to do more than that. Of course JS can give you even more freedom to change these kinds of things (no restrictions that types have to match and such) but that comes with it's own swath of problems not needed for most anything that isn't a true app-in-a-page.
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And now I'm craving tater tots. I haven't tried to read much dutch yet, apparently. I'm guessing "tot" is an extremely common word, though.
I’d take it one step further and say that following these tips makes what I consider to be the worst headlines. I’m surprised they left out the obnoxious “one weird trick” phrase ;)
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I had a problem with my browser earlier and please ignore this post, sorry - making sure it works now.

Time to go play some SWG - looks like it works...or should I go binwalk the firmware on this thing...
Also, a lot of verbosity in Java came from people going off the rails with design patterns to hide crap multiple levels deep in a file with 5+ words in the class name.

If you have a hammer everything’s a nail.
Sure, but if you get in a car you put other people at risk. And CO2 emissions mean that if you breathe you put other people at risk. The question then becomes how much risk is intolerable and it isn't clear that a single person vaccinating and free-riding is actually providing some appreciable level of risk.

Besides, there are ways of mitigating that risk. He could just prep at home and wait out the two weeks. It won't be the end of the world.