skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard Drive and SSD Shortages Are Imminent If New Cryptocurrency Blooms
Show HN: Compare news from the political left and right
I think they could always save/make money the traditional way:

- reduce engineering costs by adding telemetry to make all your customers debug for you.

- conveniently save all telemetry forever, just in case you can sell it for money.

- pop-up advertising. I think those videos that play at the gas station would look good on the bootup screen. If the bootup is too short, then lock the desktop until it is finished.

- take away features, then sell them back as upgrades. adjustable volume? $5
It's https://www.photopea.com/ and yes, it's awesome
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Drawing | Realistic Strawberry

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The device GP is talking about is a cryptocurrency 'hardware wallet', so no.

You may have thought (as I did at first) they meant a Yubikey; there is after all also a model called 'Nano', but not, I think, 'Nano S'.
Bigger companies have lower price through high volume and often buying ready made designs from other companies - e.g. many laptops are essentially the same except they have slightly different shell, screen and other peripherals.

The cost of creating a new design from scratch is enormous. It is understandable that small company would like to recover it, but also apply a margin high enough to have funds to work on future models.

Don't forget that the cheap laptops also have factored in your data in their price (e.g. they come with malware and other software that assumes you will sign up and give up your privacy) - the GDPR largely applies only to websites and native applications don't seem to have the same T&C regarding privacy.
School is also an adverse learning environment. Your definition of succeeding at school is too narrow - digesting information isn’t enough to be a success at school. For example, you need to balance social/peer success with academic success which can be tricky. Teachers’ behaviors and expectations differ greatly so you need to quickly develop models of their motivations. You also need to optimize/direct your efforts - there is only a finite number of hours in the day and attempting to “win” at school by simply digesting facts can only work for a tiny minority. In fact, when I think of my peers in school who I would considered to have “succeeded” the most in that environment, none did do solely by being able to digest facts - most were only slightly better than average academically but succeeded in other ways.
Hi all,

I have the feeling that in the last few years all political discussions have become more extreme. People from the left think that all the people from the right are evil and vice versa. Our filter bubbles don't help with this issue. That's why I built "Their news".
With "Their News" you discover news from the entire political spectrum without any filter bubbles.
My recommendation is that you try out different hot political topics and compare the most extreme political positions. It's super interesting to see how news from the left and news from the right report the same events differently.

I thought about if I could somehow monetize the website, but I read somewhere (I think it was in the book "Range" by David Epstein) that it is probably impossible to do so. In the book, the author spoke about a study where researchers offered to give the participants a small cash amount if they read some articles that is in direct opposition to their beliefs. The participants declined. This means that even though I think "Their News" was a super interesting project to work on, I probably could not get people to use it even if I paid them to .

Behind the scenes:
It uses the media bias rankings from adfontesmedia as well as a news API by newscatcher (they were awesome and helped me a lot. Go check them out!). You are presented with a slider with a few dots. Each dot represents a news outlet (e.g. Reuters, Forbes etc). The news articles are shown below the slider always come from news outlets close to the slider. The entire project is 100% open-source (but contains a lot of spaghetti code ) on my github page (https://github.com/Hadjimina/perspectiveNews).

I am more than happy to answer any questions you might have.
Cheers
Philipp
> But events like Dogecoin hitting a $50B market cap are very unsettling to me.

It's the sign of the peak of the bull market. There is going to be hangover.
I had a friend who was a lawyer in South Africa before their political upheaval. Once his career of choice ceased to exist, he ended up becoming a software tester, then an IT guy at a bank.
Writes load of crap with out even reading the part that fan boys got lol
About ten years ago when widescreen was catching on I argued that it's the wrong shape for a computer monitor. I have no idea what the best shape is, but I argued that 4:3 was better. I had a single 5:4 panel myself. When it came time to upgrade it I was forced to go 16:9 as there were simply no affordable options out there. It looks like I was right, though. Hopefully we get some good 3:2, 4:3 or 5:4 panels soon, and ones designed as monitors too, not TVs.
But inflammation is just the body's natural respond to disease. Claiming inflammation hurts you is like saying wet streets cause rain.
Ultimatum Launch: Server Issues and Streamer Priority
Me too, that's why I have vim setup with language-servers. I get inline type info, code completion and so on.

It's not a flex, simply a matter of preference: I find using the mouse too irritating, others prefer it because it's simpler.

But that's not my gripe, my gripe is that setting up IntelliJ, the one defacto standard IDE to actually work is some voodoo ritual of a dozen steps and restarts and so on.
Nassim Taleb is a bit short in his arguments
Now seems to be a good point to mention the lack of double-blind testing that has been performed on parachutes.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14684649/
People similarly denigrate and dismiss Edison.
EPA, linolenic, linoleic acids inhibit ACE2 SARS-CoV-2 binding, cellular entry
For podcasting yes, but it seems like an insignificant cost relative to the rent, talent, and transmission equipment in an analog radio station. Are $3000 mics actually rare in radio studios?
It might also be the body's natural response to a poor diet, or carrying too much weight.
Trying to give feedback (heavy user of evernote, notion)

Hate:
- huge lack of basic hotkeys: CMD+N for new notes
- no styling / formatting at all in the free version, which is a huge bummer.
- CMD+, doesn't show the "preferences window" I expected
- Markdown styling

Love
- extremely fast (evernote and notion became exremely slow to the point I'm close to dropping both)
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the point is that the child of a billionaire starts off with a 100% chance of being a millionaire. the rest of us can try for 50x or 100x longer than avg but the odds of getting to that level are still miniscule. and if that's the case it makes the whole endeavor seem rather arbitrary
Can this be bypassed by running virtualised operating system - e.g. having a bootloader that loads an encrypted virtual machine?

I guess it could still have access to keyboard and could read the password or if you used the usb key with authenticator.
> There are no wifi cards supporting free firmware except this one.

I think this one doesn't have free firmware either, it's just that the firmware stays on the card and thus is not loaded from the OS.

IMO the driver is free, but the firmware isn't.
Damn that's trippy
Finally someone has written a really excellent article about this.

Many scientists already know that ‘grit’ is over-hyped and over-sold. Now there’s a really well-articulated piece explaining it.

Stay away from one size-fits all ‘solutions’ to very complex problems. Same goes for ‘growth’ vs. ‘fixed mindset’ btw.
But this happened to me every time I had to use any java project over the years. Maybe I'm just unlucky.
On my 5:4 screen I would regularly split it into 4: 2 up, 2 down. This was perfect. A lot of inferior window managers seem to restrict splitting to only in one axis, and even two only two windows. It's lame.
Yes, you're more vulnerable to disease when you are living an unhealthy lifestyle. Shocker.
Turns Out, Spock Is Kinda Bad at Logic
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I can read between the lines in many of those type of articles, that simply put, authors feel salty that they didn't buy in early.
> "Being born rich, is the only guarantee to succes. Everything else is pure luck."

Well, luck is an important part.

But some people managed to inherit fantastic wealth and be unsuccessful (even in keeping wealth!) anyway.

And to become rich you need luck, but it is not a pure luck!

You need both.
I remember thinking thoroughly about stuff like this in 2009 as I was very interested in political and economical philosophy back then - and back then the core idea of Bitcoin - a token that can be sent to anyone, semi-anonymously, completely out of governmental control - would be laughed out of the room, a silly theory pondered by Austrian school economists. That is a fundamental societal concept it introduced and tested at large, and fundamental development of the society.
This graph is smoothed out first by the logarithmic nature, and second by the fact that "estimates for the 1st century suggest uncertainty of the order of 50%" (and that's only 2000 years ago).

The graph does not show us that anybody thinks the human population was flat before a certain point.
Both, grit and success are illdefined.
Bitcoin security depends on an everlasting backlog of high-fee paying transactions to fund miners and keep the cost of rewriting history exorbitant.

So never.
as a non-native english speaker I'll humbly admit that fleshlight was indeed the first word that popped into my mind when reading the title, because I never say flashlight but lampe-torche (while a "fleshlight" is an occasional fun present / recurrent meme for friends birthday or stuff like that)
Great initiative! Thank you for doing this, it's definitely nice from your side to spend time on community, especially if you have strong opinions on README look.

I wonder only, how to scale it (: Is there a way for anyone to help with this effort, while not spending O(n) time. Automation?
Let's colonize the sahara first and leave the moon to the robots
Show HN: User feedback portal with optional Crowd-funding
> I realised a while ago that nothing predicts success ... never guarantee a forward path into it

Guarantee, no. Anyone could be hit by a bus tomorrow. But it is clear that one can greatly increase their odds of success. For example, learning a job skill. Learning how to manage money. Living below your means. Associate with successful people instead of losers. Ditching the victim mentality.

One can also greatly decrease odds of success by, say, dropping out, playing video games all day, hittin' the crack pipe, etc., and adopting the victim mentality.
10GB or 10Gb? You mean gigabyte? Then 65Mbps would take ~20 minutes to transfer, which is pretty slow.
Basically cryptocurrencies' value are completely related to their network effect.

WhatsApp on another comment was a good parallel/analogy, still it sounds a bit flimsy that value is tied to an amorphous network of people trying to earn money by mining, not sure how comfortable I feel with that as the only incentive for a whole network keeping my "store of value" afloat. Even more when this network can collapse at any time due to artifical technical limitations (in BTC's case the block size and low transactions per second count).
There is nothing wrong with hair loss, it is perfectly natural, even when young and it doesn't mean you are getting old, not even a little bit, it even can look good, OK?
"...returned to attack Bitcoin on Twitter".

Ah so he sat on the toilet shitting and wrote some 160 chars into a social media app. Well then.
Working smart trumps working hard at the wrong things.
Original title: "Polyunsaturated ω-3 fatty acids inhibit ACE2-controlled SARS-CoV-2 binding and cellular entry" (March 04, 2021).

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A new drug target in the fight against COVID-19, University of Bristol (September 21, 2020):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMaKFcpV5wg

Discovery of a druggable pocket in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24567458

Expert reaction to study on ‘druggable pocket’ in structure of SARS-CoV-2 virus spike:

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-...

The linoleic acid-binding pocket in SARS-COV-2 will make an attractive target for possible designer drugs..

.

Oils Rich in Linoleic Acid (Safflower, Grapeseed 73%, Poppyseed, Sunflower, Hemp, Corn, Wheatgerm,
Cottonseed, Soybean, Walnut, Sesame 45%) :

https://www.news-medical.net/health/Oils-Rich-in-Linoleic-Ac...

??

( BTW some comment from discussion about "Ultraprocessed Foods – A New Theory of Obesity":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21073302 )
No, he is in need of writing production quality software together with his medium to big sized dev team and he doesn't want to introduce maintenance burden into his project 10 years from now. Software will get improved during it's lifetime and not overwritten from scratch every 2 years.
Not a decade but the best part of it, Dogecoin is alive since 2013, no reason whatsoever for the rally in 2021, 7-8 years after with no innovation.
Great summary.
What’s your take on 4th generation reactors?
Many READMEs would be greatly improved with a one paragraph introduction to the topic, defining all the terms used and outlining the problem that the project is trying to solve.
It is not minuscule. For middle class people, the route to millionaire status is very doable. Live below your means, and regularly invest the difference.

For poor people, the route is to learn a valuable skill, move into the middle class, then apply the above.
Reminded me of this https://youtu.be/4fTkA3dvpPM
He was very early and ‘In 2021, specifically on February 12, Nassim Nicholas Taleb decided to tell the public that he was selling some of his bitcoin. Moreover, Taleb criticized a number of people within the crypto community toward the latter end of his tweet.’
What’s the experience of searching and editing your org-mode notes on your (presumably Android, since Syncthing doesn’t exist on iOS) phone like? I’ve been interested in org-mode for a while, but most advocates seem to spend all their time in front of a keyboard.
A template of a README with an example of outstanding README may help on wider scale.
Scene Builder 16 Release
It would then be weirdly important that a mis-authenticated CONNECT-IP then look the same as if CONNECT-IP were not implemented, as opposed to returning an authorization error of some kind (which seems weirder than hiding the method via the path).
I've happily paid for legal things in BTC in the past. Actually the biggest thing that blocks me from doing so now is the fear that the tax man might come to haunt me later for some bogus reason. So it's mostly about its legal status of "something that's not legal tender" that makes it unusable.

And also that established payment services have kept improving their services enough that BTC's superior agility isn't that pronounced anymore.
Titanium dioxide and barium sulfate is not plastic. They are anorganic compounds.
The Signal desktop client is a poster child for “lousy Electron app” and a sucky user experience. I don’t use Signal a lot and get maybe three or four messages a day in total. Every time I launch the desktop client it counts the messages one by one like a small child would.
Mino Image Compressor: An experimental image format
how can you say that this is perfectly fine : https://streamable.com/lzhvjf

takes ages to open, takes ages to resize, etc etc. my hands shake whenever I have to interact with that mess (thankfully ripcord exists)

my computer is an intel 6900k (16-core) with 64 gb of ram and a gtx 1080 so processing power is not an issue.
Just wait until people realize the stable coins are not stable either.

There's 1000 or so entities that control 50% of circulating btc. These insiders run the game, they have more information than you and they control the very few exits out there so you cannot really win without being extremely lucky.

Everyone thinks they are smart enough to get out before the next idiot, there's no universe where this ends well for anyone outside the exchanges, miners, and market makers.
You are describing speculation, not investment, and yes there is a difference, though people often lose sight of that during bubbles when the price is all that matters.
Mars is for martians! Neptunians - go home!
You were told the hardware just isn't available. It's as simple as that. You are surely aware of the concept of tradeoffs. This is one of them. For some, using free/open source software that respects their freedom is more important than convenience.
I tried them all:
- Joplin
- Standard Notes
- Simplenote
- Onenote, Evernote, Keep

I ended up using the iOS/macOS built-in notes app. It just works. Hear me out why:

+ it is free, incl. tables, dark mode, basic formatting, pictures inline
+ sync works great (Joplin was the worst of them all)
+ the UI is simple, clean and intuitive. Apps feel polished and smooth
+ I can rely on apple that the app will not suddenly be discontinued from one day to the other
+ all apps have identical features

What I really wished apple notes would offer:

- encryption
- AAA webapp
- better tables (if you need tables, you will suffer with the current implementation)

I will not go back to the alternatives as they provide an overall worse package for my daily use.
I loved my Windows Phone. What MS lacked was _persistence_. They should have waited another 2-3 years and folks fed up of Apple/Google would have moved to them.
So if something legitimate is being promoted by a "cult leader", it makes it illegitimate?
Either you are wrong, or lots of people here are wrong. Which do you think it is?
Well that's why we've built these unbelievably incredible computing machines.
Also it does not need to be the same tanker to do the resupply. The plan is to make 2 starships per week. There should be plenty available to continue refuelling missions if one is not available.
Pandemic made 2020 ‘the year of the quiet ocean’, say scientists
"Undoubtedly the most groundbreaking and revolutionary feature we’ve ever included, Jelly Mode".

I seriously thought this was a joke. But after seeing the animation I was completely blown away! This is going to change how we interact with computers without a doubt. Wow.
The first thing to determine, as with any challenge, is goal definition and scope. What do we mean by "fixing the Earth", and for what stakeholders.

A few potential goal definitions which can be wildly contradictory:
- maximise the probability for Earth to remain habitable until cosmic conditions (the Sun's decline) dictate otherwise, for humans,
- ibid, but for for as many species as possible,
- identify and implement the most optimal way to coexist as a species toaximised learning and knowledge advancement,
- etc.

It feels like long-term, multi-national, consequential fundamental research could be undertaken on an interesting scale with such a budget. This in turn could highlight scenarii of different ways forward to inform and influence policy-making. It may be one of the best ways to spend it.
people on this thread seem really aggressive. so go easy on me. But I've started to wonder about economic value. to an individual like myself the only real value(outside eating every day) is new experiences/skills or learning new things(out of a theoretical matrix of total available things). I feel like that is probably true for everyone. It would seem to be the source of the jealousy that relative wealth engenders. It causes mid life crises, the realisation that your cumulative choices have pruned your world of possible experiences and learnings. To me, it seems much more fundamental than price or a currency. Could that be modelled on a computer with individual agents? I wonder if it would prove interesting.
> The odds of something happening that rendered Earth worse to live on than Mars but didn't also toast mars is incredibly small

Over a long enough time frame, the chance is nearly 100%.

A planetary extinction-level event has already happened where every land animal larger than 25kg died. Maybe it won't happen for another 65 million years. Maybe it will happen tomorrow. Maybe there will be a massive gamma ray burst that will sterilize the entire solar system. Who knows?

But just because we will eventually die out doesn't mean that we can't try to do what we can to survive. And anyway, say what you will about Elon's whole "thing", but a life where we're exploring the solar system is more exciting than one where we aren't.
Yeah, you're right, he hasn't. Thanks for the reiteration. Not everyone uses a laptop for the same things you do. For the stuff you're talking about I wouldn't dream of doing it away from a desktop computer plugged in to GigE. For me, and many others, the sole purpose of a laptop is portability. I couldn't care less if it can't do what my desktop computer can do.
I recommend to think of economics in terms of meteorology, instead of math/physics. Economical systems are way too complex to contain within a simulation, can't be simplified like e.g. gravitation force formulas. There are analysts trying to interpret the history, explain current events and predict the future, researchers trying to find generalizations and politicians altering the economical policy arbitrarily - and everyone wants their content to reach everyone.
Could you please explain more in detail what you mean to say ? Is it impossible ? Currencies shouldn't be deflationary ?
Not only a hindsight measure, but also a very individual measure. Society usually defines success as some combination of wealth and fame, but everyone can choose another definition of success for themselves.

Say someone defines success for themselves as "becoming the number 1 basketball player in the world", then gets into the top 10 and becomes rich and famous because of it. They might internally consider themselves a failure, even though they are very successful in the eyes of everyone else.
This list made me laugh and made me worried I missed a sarcasm somewhere. I’ll give you best movies because of Hollywood, but everything else, really?

Have you travelled much outside the US? It’s seems so weird to hear “USA the best because breakfast, coffee, and McDonald’s”, it sounds like a cliche.

What do you mean by jacked?
Does anyone in this field of "flow" based segmentation know how would the performance be if there were multiple moving objects in the same scene? The examples in this paper seem limted to one moving object (cluster of moving pixels) apposed to a relatively static background?
> My gripe with all schools of economics i

Then you don't know much about mainstream economics. Don't learn economics from news, pundits or other shallow sources.

(1) Mainstream Economists strongly agree with you with large consensus. Yes there is consensus among mainstream economists about land/property.

(2) They have a solution and they agree even on that. Property tax is considered the least harmful tax because it taxes rentier. Adam Smith would also strongly agree. He made this tax proposal to solve the issue already in 1776.

(3) Urban economics has even more nuanced view.

When mainstream economists agree on something, there is little talk about it.

The real issue is the people. Either they own property and don't accept tax, or they can't understand simple reasoning with 2 or 3 steps. If the first step is to increase property/land tax they stop thinking and react with statements like: "It would increase rents" or "Price of food would increase."
Yes, that's why the garden shed or some other non-house location is good (leaving it with relatives in another city would be good too, and at work would be an option for some).