skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a tough one, I feel like Moxie has broadly acted in a way that should illicit a reaction that assumes good intent from most people. And if nothing else, they’re not forcing upon users who don’t explicitly want to use it - choice is okay, even if you don’t agree with the choices of others...

It was an interesting move to adopt a coin like MobileCoin, but honestly it seems well reasoned, and at least as valid as most of the suitable alternatives from a technical standpoint.

My only hope is that the added overheard of interacting more with the financial world doesn’t detract to much time from keeping the core messaging functions great - time will tell but I suspect they’ll work it out.
What time do they start work in the US?
So let's look at one random tech Billionaire:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson

-creates a product using open, well known technology in highly competitive, easy to enter video game industry

-people love the game

-he becomes a billionaire

Can you point out what kind of regulation could have stopped this criminal by definition from completing his evil plan?
$20/hr in NZ is nowhere near poverty. It's 80% of what STEM grads typically earn, for bottom of the barrel work.
Thanks for that, I'm very glad I asked. Your hypothesis around the restriction site is rather eye opening. The scientists involved in this study have faced intense online campaigns against them.

https://twitter.com/Rossana38510044/status/13806444823669841...

> the scientists among us should be trying to properly falsify it to the best of our ability.

This is precisely why I am bothered this has been placed into "conspiracy theory" land, due to a lot of political reasons and a whole lot of online pressure with those "hand-wavy" arguments. The same type of arguments you originally did not accept. I get them constantly when I post facts, and the are meant specifically to try to steer the discussion away from anything I was pointing out, to get that last word in.

Did SARS-CoV-2, with its affinity for human ACE2, leak from a lab in Wuhan that was doing known gain of function experiments dealing with CoV and human ACE2?

Or did it somehow show up in a market right next to the lab, with "hand-wavy" explanations as to how that happened?

The science seems to strongly point to one of those. Since access to the lab has been completely shut down, and historical information on the web has been systematically being removed, finding a smoking gun is difficult. But I feel an extremely strong case can be made with circumstantial evidence.
I observed many people around me use ineffective mask or don't wear it properly.

Basic health hygiene requires discipline that may take years to develop if not mandated and enforced/practiced.

Too many variables to be a mask skeptic given Cali situation...
PHP is great, self-contained solution
I used to, but my requirements evolved out of Qubes and I ended up replicating most of the Qubes environment over KVM.
Police allegedly cracks crypto app used by Colombia’s cartels in Belgium
If you only look at the financial side, I'd agree. If you added that a good portion of that should be in cash, and to have a few weeks of fresh water and long shelf-live food stored at your house, I'm pretty sure the majority in Germany would call that person a prepper, even though having two weeks of everything required is in the government's guidelines. It's just that we've gone so long without a major interruption that it seems silly to most people.
> There are a lot of people bothered by this, so this data discovery could prove very expensive for Google.

Apparently none of the right people are sufficiently bothered, because it’s been this way for a decade and we’ve seen no real resolution to date.
As a devops engineer who also writes a lot of code, I started using Deno (https://deno.land) since I can write my code in JavaScript and TypeScript. I can also natively use wasm, and have an internal repo for hosting commonly used functions since Deno loads files using url imports.

Can recommend!
"It's a necessary condition that businesses cover their expenses and maybe make a little profit." aka make money.

I think your analogy is right on. If I don't eat then I don't live. If I don't make money, my business dies. It's not easy to keep a business alive, hence why most of the businesses from 60+ years ago are dead.

I need a sustainable way to keep "food" coming in the door so I make exclusive things and provide value to people who use my product.

I don't see why every single business should be a charity.
Hiring a candidate who already knows what you need often takes a lot longer than hiring someone who can learn what you need even if you account for the on-boarding time, especially if it's a slightly esoteric thing.

Difficulty in hiring people who know your stack is also a good reason to choose the simplest and most common tech to run on rather than something niche you feel is technically better.
> The ancients probably did not use precise clocks to detect Solstice.

This is most definitely false; tracking the solstices with pinpoint accuracy was a goal of ancient cultures since before the beginning of recorded history.
One other thing to add: the announcement article also explicitly lists MobileCoin as the first type of crypto they've added. I have no idea if there are others that satisfy the requirements of speed and untraceability, but I guess that's relevant to those asking 'why not x'.

Which is to add to the article's conclusion: it might be too early to judge.
I think the sign-up is fine, but the password requirements should be done away with. They don't even seem to work. Neither periods or colons count as special symbols. Generally, there shouldn't be any requirements. I use a diceware password, which is very safe, but doesn't fit the requirements.
I was thinking exactly the same. And if you “add to Home Screen” on iOS you even just get a tile.

The only thing I haven’t figured out yet is that sometimes opening sites which are added to Home Screen yields a dedicated browser and sometimes it just opens a new tab in safari. This happens to hacker news as well resulting in having many open tabs at the end of the day.
Really interesting going through your code, thanks for sharing.
Why did you opt for running the parallelization code in a separate python process (s3op)?

You might want to update section ‚Caution: Overwriting data in S3‘ in the docs since S3 offers strong read after write consistency since dec 2020.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-update-strong-rea...
I don't know the CDC's definition, but I know the definition of Pfizer itself. Is written on their website and says 3 weeks.
Because iPhones are general-purpose computers, not video game consoles. And they are the property of their owners, not of Apple. Independent developers have not just a right but a God-given right to write code for general-purpose user-owned computers without interference from Apple, and the fact that they cannot do so means Apple is violating that right and they (Apple) should receive the pointy end of a stick until they change their ways or be legislated out of existence.
Personality tests are useful for one thing: Filtering out potential employers that I don't want to work for.
Do you really not see how the blanket banning of cryptocurrency and the blanket banning of signal itself isn't a tad bit of an indication that signal will get more blanket bans when combining the two? They're fundamentally saying that no inductive evidence exists despite clear inductive evidence existing. Seriously, what more do you want?
NZ pay in general is very poor compared to other developed countries in my opinion.

When you compare SF tech salaries to NZ tech salaries it's just ridiculous though. I would say SF TC is 4x or more than NZ salaries (Stock grants are not common) for similar positions.
>>Had they done what your are suggesting, the markets wouldn’t have reacted the way they did, the companies would have gone bankrupt under government mismanagement, the economy would have continued to crater, and not $1 of the money would have been recovered.

Nah. Keep the management, they run the business not owners. In fact give them raises and bonuses. It's not like managers had other employment options.

But either way, they did get a lifesaving bailout, regardless of the merits or whether US got their money back
During its heyday I was an active supporter of UML.

Nowadays, I hardly ever hear of it. Does anybody use it any more?
Yep. It just wouldn't work offline because offline PWAs are a PITA.
Because the App Store is a requirement to get software to run on their family's bought and owned hardware, in this case?
Why do you think so? The whole GME thing could potentially bring infinite losses
Probably over the HN Title character limit.
From my own experience: go get therapy, meditation classes and Ritalin! It wasn’t until I turned 26 and got access to all three that I could finally _learn_ what concentration really was. I went through Highschool without having to study a single day, getting very good grades nevertheless - while being on very little sleep with a total lack of a regular rhythm. College didn’t go so well, but other interests and pursuits were fulfilling. Meanwhile, the rise of social media trained my attention span to be shorter and shorter and shorter - until I had finally realized I couldn’t reed a single page of a book without drifting away.
The above mentioned three-part intervention worked because A) in therapy, I could get i) help how to navigate the day-to-day problems and ii) help understanding why and how I got to that point, e.g. learned behavior, but also genetic predisposition, B) thanks to the medication, I could experience a state of high focus I hadn’t had in years - maybe ever - and enjoy a kind of focused flow, where I was completely in charge of what I do (compared to a state of flow where you just follow external and internal impulses ) and C), meditation (especially in the time I took ritalin) helped me learn how to focus on something, let go of that focus, and re-focus again (I used headspace for that).

I cannot tell you if a change in my sleeping habits was the result of all that, if it has been a coincidence or if it preceded any improvements - but it certainly didn’t hurt the process.

Today, I don’t need therapy or medication anymore, can focus good enough on my work and in the stories my significant other tells me. I don’t get nervous anymore anytime I have to wait in a line, I do fewer mistakes, I can read a book and feel less bored, more happy. It’s something I had to learn, but I needed some help with that. It’s worth a try!

Today, I also realize a significant decrease in performance and happiness if I get a single night of bad sleep. Before I knew how my days could really feel, I didn’t care about that - but I’m sure I had been impacted badly, nevertheless.
User friendly? Can’t be bought in the US, and for the remainder it will only cause headaches for anyone who just wants to be paid but have now received some unusable nonsense instead.
Counter point to this also on the front-page today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26763336 - Things I was asked to do while job hunting

The punchline being, after filling in a bunch of such personality tests "I accepted a position with a company that had a sane, speedy hiring process."

Asking candidates to fill in data in a format to fit your funnel will just scare away top talent.
All of the things sister comment listed and more.

* Compartmentalization

* Layered defense

* Windows is not allowed to touch my bare metal

* Having development images for work, play, etc.

* Easy migration

* Configuring multiple separate environments from one control node

* Accessing my virtual machines over the wire using QEMU on my laptops

* Being able to take a system crash without losing other running contexts.

* Maintaining host-level logical volume management and snapshots while guests retain a simplified partioning layout, with separate images for easy migration of `/home` and `/usr/local`

* Advanced firewall configurations

etc.
I think the word “science” itself has lost meaning. Many people I know have yard signs that say “science is real” but in practice these same people can be easily manipulated by bad studies that are cycled through news media and social media. They also often listen to science only when it agrees with their views. I think like what came before, popular science is turning into an act of blind faith.

We certainly see this with blind belief in “scientific authorities” who can get things very wrong (like the WHO). We also see it with fact checkers - as an example, I remember reading a (factually correct) article on Facebook yesterday about COVID lockdowns, which mentioned the infection fatality rate. This post had a fact check content warning, from a fact checker who incorrectly quoted the case fatality rate for COVID-19 as evidence that the article was misinformation.

I’m not sure what the fix is. It feels like there is too much information out there for the public to handle and process properly. Or maybe we need a new word that is not “science”, that captures more of the critical thought that is needed, and moves us away from blind faith.
The Economic Value Creation of Covid-19 Vaccines
> Few thinkers have done more than Marx to define and describe capitalism.

The emphasis on material determinism which was the poor child of history and philosophy was genius but the near fanatical fixation on dialectical materialism just tainted the rest of his work to the point of irrelevance. While most historians and economist agree that the contributions of Marx made their field more down to earth by extending their studies with the human condition and material limitations, none would say that they based their research on Marxist dogma.

While the problems he raised were not invalid, the vast majority of Marx's core predictions never came to be and the solutions to the problems he exposed were based more on messianic prophecies than on meticulous reasoning. Conditions gradually improved as opposed to a "liberating" revolts. Economies didn't collapse enough often to make it impossible to recover, the proletariat never shared any kind of unifying will based on their misery and in fact revolutions were always led by well fed and well educated petits bourgeois including Engels and Marx.

> People should worry less about market structure and incentives. We have serious issues to repair in the financial markets

What else would you propose and that would act both as a motivation and as a limitation without resorting to micromanagement?
It's not, but on the other hand; not sure if Cardano fans are like eth/btc people; the 'non investor' fans of the latter that I know (some with millions $ in them, some with a more modest amounts) or read about online have no 'feeling' for the relation with the $. For them spending $100 in eth/btc is not the same as spending actual $100. I helped some friends add crypto payments for their services/products (because of covid) and they all say that crypto people/fans are far easier to deal with; they don't care about fees/rate, they round up and they don't ask for refunds under $100.
This advice seems to cycle. With our first born we also had to alternate positions. Now with the second we got the strict instructions to let sleep on the back only. According to the help it was because every once in a while the number of babies that die in the crib surges and then everyone has to sleep on their back again. But they don’t really know what is going on.
There is a mathematically based definition of a perfect market. It’s only an approximation of real life, but it’s heavily used: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/perfectcompetition.asp
For now it uses the thinning algorithm from the article "Efficient Binary Image Thinning using Neighborhood Maps".
https://github.com/autotrace/autotrace/blob/master/src/thin-...
Exactly this. I was working low wage jobs 6 days a week. That made me realize I couldn't support a family living like that. I went and got an engineering degree.

I'm not sure I would have done that now.
My daughter's school starts at 7am, so she has to be up by 5:45am. It's stupid.
So which particular billionaire-funded business adventures would you like to see abandoned or especially, never begun?
> What kind of technology enabled wealth gap in feudal society?

In short: Weapons.

On the pre-gunpowder battlefield, the mounted, armored knight was roughly equivalent to the modern light tank.

It is incredibly hard to take out an armored knight with the kind of weapons or tools which would have been available to peasants or serfs, so it doesn't take that many knights to keep enough peasants in-line to build a very wealthy kingdom.

Religion during this era functioned much more like the modern civil service than what you or I would recognize as a church, and this also included both education and state security functions.

When firearms became commonplace, this game totally changed. Previously, weapons, even the longbow, took years to master well enough to be combat effective. With muskets, you can turn a group of ignorant peasants into a fighting force capable of taking on armored cavalry in a few months, possibly even weeks.

The Enlightenment, as well as our ideas about "equal treatment under the law", were the direct result of this force parity.
is there a github link? or won't you publish the code?
> As a whole, financial institutions are more risk-adverse than ever.

And this includes Hedgefunds, like Melvin Capital, Citadel and the like? Doesn't the Robinhood and GME thing DIRECTLY contradict what you're saying?

Furthermore, they are over leveraged on real estate in teh US and BlackRock accounts for every greater RE holdings than post 2008 housing crisis.

I'm not sure what you are talking about, Dodd-Frank is like Glass-Steagall, they'll just make up rules when the bailouts are required (Goldman Sachs 2008), just like airliners laid off a large majority of their staff despite the bailouts in the first Trump bailout being issued to ENSURE they wouldn't and they took the money either way.
It’s even slightly more subtle than that.

Python multiprocessing doesn’t use fork on Windows. It starts a new process and so shouldn’t be affected by this.

So to trigger this you need to have num_processes != 0 on your DataLoader and be running on a non-Windows platform.
Ted Chiang: Fears of Technology Are Fears of Capitalism
Only progressive web apps are added to the homescreen as a dedicated tile: https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/
Many commenters are rightfully pointing out that my Zune timeline is wildly off. My apologies, I deserve the downvotes on that one - I misremembered and should have checked before posting.
Guns germs steel! Read the book.
Check out the Shabaka stone. While almost 600 years after Akhenaten, it was erected by a black Nubian pharaoh who was trying to return Egypt to its original religion. The stone claims to reproduce text from the first dynasty of Egypt! It focuses on the god Ptah, who is the god of design, craft and creativity — and the creator of the universe. It has some pretty esoteric sections and perhaps even foreshadows the rise of Hermetic philosophy in late antiquity Egypt.
they did get a lifesaving bailout, regardless of the merits or whether US got their money back

They did, and given the systemic importance of the companies that received this money, that was a gift not only to the companies, but to the entire economy. We wouldn’t have an economy today had they not done this. Today we are capable of giving away trillions with no hope of recovery in part because of what was done in 2008 - and it was done at no cost to taxpayers.
> Joe is rich because Bob is poor. And vice versa. Grasp that and you've got the whole thing.

Well, why should I grasp that? Just prove it's true and I'll be convinced. But I bet you can't prove it, and you just feel it must be like that.

Edit: happy to be proved wrong. Make an effort.
> Fact 3: No, it's not a myth, systemd is truly a huge monolith

> In his blog post "The Biggest Myths", from January 2013, Lennart Poettering says: “A package involving 69 individual binaries can hardly be called monolithic.”

> The fact is however, that many of these so-called individual binaries has functionality that simply will not work without other systemd components.

Hmm I don’t agree that services relying on each other’s functionality means they’re a “monolith”. That sounds like a very different definition of monolith/microservice than I’m familiar with.
Iphones try very hard to look like general purpose computers; that's why everyone was so pissed when they pushed that U2 album, it pierced the veil.
When it's been done lots more than that happens!

Currency collapses, bank defaults, asset freeze-ups, international trade stoppage because of debt/credit changes, strikes and work stoppages, demand collapses.

Sometimes do nothing is fine, like the video game crash of 1983. But when it's systemic and big, that strategy has collapsed entire countries
That assumes infinite number of competent, driven and well funded market participants that jump on every opportunity or inefficiency .

The real world is anything but that. There is very small number of competent driven people and vast ocean of opportunity and value waiting to be created. If you deliver the value people will be more than happy to pay. Maybe someone competes with you if the field is ripe enough or maybe not if they choose another one. There is a lot of fruit out there and we are far far away from the point where people need to compete for the same one.
This was started 11 days ago. I would also start out with all domains in beta. If you add the list to pi-hole you will eventually get the domains once they are "stable" either way.
AOSP is open source but all of Google's apps and Google Play Services is proprietary.
Sorry, we don't buy snake oil here. Try this bs on LinkedIn they absolutely love a lot of words justifying hiring inferior talent.
> Let’s be honest, the majority of the apps charge in-app for every fart.

Apple/Google take 30 % of that fart, so you guess what they get at end.

> At the dawn of the app stores you could find a ton of free apps and games from hobbyists, it’s all about squeezing money.

Well apple charge you $100 per year to upload app, are you kidding ? Plus they don't let you have another store. Everything should must go thr' their wall, so no chance to avoid charge.

> And the guy in the article didn’t have to publish the app in the first place, could have uploaded the app to the phone directly through the dev tools.

How many phones he can upload it honestly ?

Anyway, the point I am tring to say is, Apple/Google are not valuing dev community as they used to and devs are taken granted for. They should care devs as they care for consumers PR as it is mutual platform
Solar-to-Hydrogen Tech Sees “Remarkable” Efficiency Jump
What are they replacing it with? Back to prestigious university?
As a Canadian, I have a similar stance: the US stock market provides enough intl diversification.

Canada has a lot of resource companies which largely follow the global economy.

Most big corps have less than half of their sales in US.

Developed markets still pay with a visa/MasterCard and have iphones. Or the US owns a stake in their local equivalent. Or Amazon is expanding there.

Truly emerging markets barely have a stock market, but their citizens probably eye a Coca Cola, have an intel PC and an android phone doing searches on Google.
I like the idea. However I think there is a reason why it typically works like this app does.

Now what happens if you switch phones or use multiple devices? The behaviour would be inconsistent. What if I build up a large amount of likes/dislikes? Would they be suddenly gone without way to export them?

Additionally, I actually would like it not to store data. Maybe I want to get the recommendation for a movie next time because I’m just not in the mood to watch that Horror movie right now.
Edit: this last bit is actually exactly what elliekelly write more eloquently.