skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As soon as the crystals were removed, a vaguely humanoid cloud rose from a nearby mound and vanished, followed by a marked drop in temperature. Several witnesses reported hearing the sound of laughter and developing a sudden urge to collect rings.
Counting cards is a better analogy then I originally anticipated. You can only expect a positive outcome by counting cards if you have a high starting capital. This means that counting cards is a different game for rich folks then for poor folks. For poor folks to have a positive expected outcome they need to take out a big loan before they start. For most people this is options trading. Only for the already rich can you expect a positive return of investment. The poorer folks would need to take out a loan (often this is a second mortgage) to have a positive expected value.

If you tell people your uncle just took out a huge loan to go to Vegas to count cards, they will have a different reaction still.
Don't be puzzled. They have finite time. They have finite information. You're placing them on too high a pedestal, higher than they deserve. They aren't God; they're just people with some fame.

And even God doesn't usually just fix things. He uses people to do the fixing. Even the biggest fix - salvation - was wrapped in flesh.
Good point about VC industry. Would there even be a distinction among various types of funds if not for regulation?

Ie. pool money and invest? No matter if it is VC fund, hedge fund, pension fund, mutual fund, they all just pool money and invest in something. Which used to be called.. just a 'bank' before all those regulations.
Better link: https://old.reddit.com/r/ISO8601/comments/mikuj1/i_bought_is...
> Congratulations to the entire coinbase team!

Yeah congratulations to the Coinbase founders, employees, VCs, investors and institutions who have a stake in Coinbase. They are the real winners in this IPO.

The losers will be the foolish late retail investor who buys on IPO day. (Since it will dump due to the institutions selling off) and the past employees who walked out due to Coinbase's stance during the woke revolt of 2020.

Surely they will now tell you that it was all worth it. /s For them, they can now buy it again for >$200 a share on IPO day with a smile on their face like the rest of us. :)

Downvoters: So you want to buy Coinbase stock at over $200 a share on IPO day and be holding the bag when it drops when the founders, investors and employees start selling 10% of their shares? Sounds like a FOMO investor mindset to have.
> On my websites my visitors trust me with their data.

Really? most customers don't really care.

I highly tune my Google Analytics to be as fast as possible and we get great insights from it, works great for me and also GDPR compliant to as I ask for the users permission.
Monday is considered the first day of the week in many countries[1].

Week years are based on the year in which most of the week occurs / whichever year contains the Thursday.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week#...
Right? They're night and day different in France. What exactly causes this? General store American ones often may as well be thin red latex bags of water.
Coinbase is just a money grab to extract money from people who don't know about Coinbase Pro. Really shady if you ask me and I'm surprised it doesn't seem to have damaged their brand name. The fees on "regular" Coinbase are outrageous and no one should ever buy through there.
Brute forcing coupon and gift card codes and selling them is a big business.
What does that have to do with the major socioecomic hardships that were created and exacerbated for millions of poor people around the world which are largely ignored by politicians and many other people as evidenced in this thread?

Members of the WHO covid team have estimated that lockdowns may well end up doubling world poverty.

Until you acknowledge these negative side effects, rather than narrow mindedly defaulting to american partisan politics, your response again further helps illustrate OPs point.
> So yeah, undefined behavior isn't "implementation defined" nor "unportable" but rather "illegal not allowed wrong code".

There are edge-cases even there. Calling a function generated by a JIT compiler is undefined behaviour, but there's a gentleman's agreement that the compiler won't screw it up for you.

Almost all C/C++ compilers promise that floating-point division-by-zero results in NaN (the IEEE 754 behaviour), but according to the C/C++ standards themselves, it's undefined behaviour.

You're right though that in general, one should not be complacent about UB.
I had assumed commercial flight operators would have MacGyvered passenger aircraft to handle things like this by now, to get some kind of revenue stream. I guess the economics didn't work out.

Edit: This is also nicely illustrated by Fedex stock almost tripling in value since the beginning of the pandemic.
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How did the man counts them all did he miss anything :))
> Beautifully said.

Thanks.

> What is to be done? (What then must we do?)

Change the policy. Labor is a commodity because we as a society have decided to make it so. If we want to change it, there are lots of options available: More stringent labor laws. Higher minimum wage. Stronger unions. UBI.

The challenge is not in figuring out what to do. That part is clear. The hard part is execution because, at least in the U.S., buyers of labor have much more political clout than sellers.
Predictive dialing refers to a system capable of placing calls that are likely to be answered by the called party at a time when the calling party is available. Under this ruling, such a system may or may not be an ATDS; the predictive capability is irrelevant.

The key distinction is not whether the system can dial numbers from a list randomly or sequentially, but whether it can generate numbers randomly or sequentially (as opposed to being provided by another party).
If a start-up stage company is just getting started on their AI/ML journey has budget for 3 FTE people. The company already has traditional ETL/BI expertise and a "DWH". Who would you hire (data scientist, ML engineer, Dat Engineer) and how would you allocate the division of responsibilities?
Coinbase would still be around if current cryptos devalued significantly but maintained high trade volumes.
The northern US receives a lot of sunlight (similar to southern, mediterranean France) but has been less profitable in growing certain crops due to its shorter growing season and frost risk.

But these are changing:

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

https://www.globalchange.gov/browse/indicators/frost-free-se...

logically one would expect agricultural output to increase in these areas as their solar potential is unlocked but there are other areas where the opposite will occur
> it’s hard to do it and still be a viable business

It's not that hard actually, but you must limit growth. You can easily be profitable and make an amazing product if your goal is not $1B in revenue, but just to be profitable at a small scale, which allows you to run things at your own pace.
> You're not addressing the point.

I feel like I've addressed it pretty thoroughly. Let's try again:

> Is mRNA genetic material?

As far as eukaryotes (like all animals, plants, etc. - including humans) and most prokaryotes are concerned: no, it is not. mRNA - per above - is a temporary copy of genetic material, not genetic material itself.

> If yes, then is adding mRNA manipulating the organisms genetic material?

No, because the organism's actual genetic material - i.e. the DNA in the cell nuclei - remains untouched.

> Is a process that puts foreign mRNA into people's cells deliberate modification of an organism?

Not in and of itself, no, because merely providing some arbitrary mRNA doesn't necessarily modify the organism itself - and especially not permanently - because (again) the underlying DNA is not modified.
Not an archaeologist, but if you're digging in a 105k year old sediment layer and none of the layers above it were disturbed, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet the stuff in it is also 105k years old.
It isn't just about "price increasing faster". That isn't how you look at investing.
The hyperactive, glossy aesthetic is definitely similar, although I'd place Iglooghost closer to hip-hop/grime (e.g. "White Gum"). Sophie sounds more like a mutated version of chart pop music.
The crazy thing there is that it uses Vim visual mode for selecting text `v` or `V`.
It might be covered in one of the resources, but when people talk about NFTs, they just mean some token on Ethereum that the issuer of said coin say is "the" product. For instance, the NFT for "the first tweet" that sold is just someone created an Ethereum token and said "this one is the first tweet", presumably w/ some text in the token that states the tweet.

In that regard, its kind of centralized. There can be multiple NFTs that claim to be tweets. There's no naturally definitive "twitter" token, unless it's managed by Twitter itself. But you're relying on the issuer of the coin to say "I am the NFT coin" and everyone to agree.

Real world NFTs (e.g. art and collectibles) are unique in that there is no dispute about what the original is. The art was created by the artist or its a forgery. In that regard NFTs rely on some issuing entity that bestows upon itself an arbitrary form of ownership. I can make my own Twitter token and if I get someone to buy a coin for an absurd amount (insider dealing?), and convince reports to write about it, I can be "the twitter nft"

Or am I thinking of this incorrectly?
> Are you suggesting that eliminating all possible risk to ourselves and others is somehow better?

That's not at all what I said. What I said was "people will put themselves and others at risk as part of tribal signaling".

There's risk everywhere, but adding risk as a way to signal that you're in this group and not in that group is - at least in the case of masks - contrary to scientific progress.
> "...but rather to note that it's the system of checks and balances that encourages that partisanship."

i'd argue 'encourage' too strongly leans into intent here, and that 'permit' seems closer to what's going on. any multi-party, adversarial system is prone to partisanship. 'checks and balances' may be more explicitly adversarial, but making that explicit isn't necessary for people to line up against each other in a political context and create gridlock. plus, 4 factions aren't really better than 2 at creating gridlock (because they often devolve into 2 opposing factions anyway).
Value-added investors effectively act as "free" management consultants, and also make introductions to potential customers and partners. Those services are valuable, at least to founders who lack experience and industry connections. Small investors can't provide those services.

Most ICOs are simply scams and in no way comparable to legitimate investments.
So? Apple made such a thing into a product years ago. It was called iPod Touch.

Pinephone may have a phone in name, but it's basically a neat little SBC with an integrated touchscreen and battery, and bunch of other peripherals, and can be used for anything you like.
Keeping heat out is of somewhat limited use unless you have air conditioning, because there are a whole bunch of sources of heat (people, appliances, solar gain through the windows, etc) that are enough to make the inside of a well-insulated and well-sealed building warmer than the outside. Also, a lot of non-US countries strongly discourage aircon on residential buildings for environmental reasons; I know the UK certainly does and Canada is probably similar.
iOS 14, Big Sur and DNS over HTTPS / TLS
Crisis of Faith (2008)
yes, I have had this happen with a biotech stock. The puts can be very risky. I usually sell calls since it is easier to stomach psychologically when it goes wrong.... "I missed out on some gains. But I would've sold anyway..."
At which point the regulatory burden imposed with the righteous purpose of catching those damn nimble "tax evaders" actually causes more tax loss by affecting and discouraging initiative, entrepreneurship and business agility?
How does this compare to Age of Empires? It looks like AOE3.
>How does the COVID response have anything to do with the climate response?

I can't speak for the parent poster, but the US COVID response made me pretty pessimistic about our country's ability to deal with complicated near-future threats that (a) are not immediately tangible, (b) require even modest personal sacrifices (see e.g., wearing masks.) Back in the earlier phases of the pandemic it was a near-term threat with an unknown IFR and a pretty high immediate body count, not some future concern where the worst effects are decades away.

I guess the good news here is that some countries were much more successful in organizing a coordinated COVID response. Unfortunately, slowing down climate change is a global effort: you can't just seal your borders to prevent it. TL;DR as a practice run for how we'll deal with the much bigger climate crisis, our global grade in this one was barely passing. Thank god we had a quick technical fix in the form of vaccination.
fMRI is used to plan procedures that put eloquent cortex at risk. For example, tumor resections. Typically, fMRI is used for initial planning (whether the tumor is in the dominant hemisphere, how to approach the tumor). Then, in the actual surgery, function is confirmed using awake cortical mapping (e.g. stimulating different cortical areas with a bipolar electrode while the patient performs language tasks).

See more: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4966674/
whatthesmack confirmed the man was Keith Eldridge

It's unlikely that 'someone at the station' could confirm that clip was real, getting archive footage from that time would be difficult. I worked on various shows in the 00s, there's no way I'd remember any packages we broadcast, and there's no easy access to archives before 2008. We've been digitising decades of cut news packages in foreign bureaus for years, but I don't believe actual as-broadcast stuff on tape has been systematically kept, and we didn't have it digitised - at least long term - until about 10 years later.
Here's a really terrible webserver as a "one-long-liner" in gawk. I was initially surprised to find that gawk could listen on a socket, so I made this monstrosity.
https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255#gistcomment-3143007
I'm not sure I agree with that reasoning generally, but specifically this is IMO not quite true:

> The whole Github/MIT licence scene simply did not exist back in the days, it was either closed source or GPL.

BSD-licensed software, and probably also MIT-licensed and whatever non-copyleft licenses there are, has been a thing for a long time. I distinctly remember seeing discussions and opinions regarding copyleft vs non-copyleft open source in the early 2000's. Aside from BSDs themselves, there have been all kinds of non-copyleft licensed software all along.

It might be that more liberal (i.e. non-copyleft) licenses have been gaining more popularity and that the emphasis has moved from GPL to non-copyleft licensing. It might also be that's partially driven by the dominance Google et al. have on tech culture. But as a whole I'm not sure that hate (if it exists) towards GPL-oriented culture follows from that.

As a stab in the dark, it could also be that there's a new generation of people for whom the older days of the GNU project and the free software movement sound somehow archaic or "not modern" now, or there could be some other kind of a cultural shift. People don't always embrace newer trends because of some kind of a clear economical or other direct motive.

Economic interests of the current powers that be might of course be one of those things that affect cultural changes, but I wouldn't necessarily buy it that it's the only reason.
No, I didn't write it to solve use cases at all, but rather because I thought it would be awesome to write a web server in assembly. As the readme says, we all have moments where we do things we regret. Youthful† lapses in judgment.

If you git clone http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/.git you will see that I wrote most of it one weekend in 02013, removed the dependency on libc and added forking the next weekend, and tweaked it slightly over the next month and a half. Then in 02019 I added CSS and PDF to the mime-types list. So it's not, like, an ongoing project. It's just a program I wrote once, like most things in that directory.

I did just fix the documentation, though, because it was still claiming it was under 2000 bytes.

______

† Technically 37 is not actually that youthful.
I definitely wish people thought more locally -- really locally, like their towns. I don't think it's a coincidence that the time frame I outlined above is the same as the emergence of 24 hour news, which rapidly became 24 hour infotainment -- the news as a big Manichean football match. I believe that pushed people into thinking about Big Issues and lost any focus on things that actually matter in their daily lives.

If there was a "golden age" of national collegiality, it was the postwar era -- exactly the time we were busily building infrastructure that made interstate commerce and travel much easier. That ended when genuinely national and world issues came to the fore -- a push to end minority abuse in some states, and a war that forced young men to participate. I believe that the lines were set then and we continue to re-fight that same fight.

The issue in TFA is exactly the kind of thing that needs a national-level response: the only thing more distasteful than a national rule about robocalls is going to be 50 state rules about robocalls that would require federal court litigation anyway. Past interstates and airplanes, the Internet has replaced ordinary telecommunications, and blurred state lines almost to invisibility.
This sounds bad, I agree. But let's take a look at the program's website, a primary source, instead of relying on reporting alone. [1]

Tl;dr It's funded by private donations, run by local organizations, and is a pilot to conduct research. It's not taxpayer money being handed out preferentially, and it's not UBI.

"Oakland Resilient Families is 100% funded by philanthropic donations. To date we have raised $6.75 million, at least 80% of which will be distributed directly to families over the next 18 months."

"Is this the same thing as a Universal Basic Income (UBI)?

No. UBI is meant to go to everyone and provide enough of a payment to cover all basic needs, whereas a guaranteed income is meant to provide an income floor but not meant to be a replacement for wages and can also be targeted to those who most need it. UBI would provide everyone - regardless of income - with equal cash support (often instead of existing social benefits). Oakland Resilient Families is intended for low-income BIPOC families and therefore is by definition not “universal.” Additionally, a central research focus for this project is to determine how a guaranteed income can enhance and expand the existing social safety net rather than replace it."

"The 600 randomly selected families will fall into two groups. Both groups will receive the same amount of money, participate in optional research surveys and interviews, and measure a similar set of outcomes related to economic and household wellbeing. The primary differences between the two groups lie in how they are structured in terms of location, income level, and research design."

The headline is carefully crafted to generate maximum outrage. I don't agree about aid being based on anything other than need. But at the same time, it's not for me to say how other people spend their money.

[1] https://oaklandresilientfamilies.org/about
> How does the COVID response have anything to do with the climate response? The governments of the world have all responded differently -- some quite stringently -- and the speed with which we produced an mRNA vaccine (itself a technological marvel) is truly nuts.

I read the point as that now we've seen what governments around the world are willing to do when they perceive a real emergency: Shut down entire industries, print money to subsidize everybody, and enforce exceptions for rent/debt payments for people affected. There has as yet been no willingness to take anything of the sort in response to climate change.
Creativity on Demand Helped Me Build Several Profitable Businesses
NTSC has a nominal resolution of 720x480i (240 lines per field, 60 fields per second). VHS on its best days could get about half the horizontal resolution for luma, and even less for color, but often ended up a bit worse, so 320x480i is probably a good approximation for the resolution (ignoring the fact that color is even lower resolution).

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On a slightly different note, the HiFi audio track (supported for playback by pretty much all VCRs by the late 80s; not sure if/when HiFi recording became normal) of VHS was undoubtably the highest quality consumer analog audio product to get wide usage, with an SNR and dynamic range slightly better than the very best cassette decks.
In simple terms a good space program. More sensors, more tracking objects, and the ability to get mass anywhere in the solar system to give an object a small nudge well ahead of impact.

Neil deGrasse Tyson has made many similar comments, one quote “Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.”
I'm sure there's an AfterEffects plugin that does that! ;)