skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to sound evil, cause I'm an egalitarian.... but I think humanity's only hope would be Thanos at this point...

Except the only people included in the snap are: authoritarian regimes, militias, leaders as well as all politicians, diplomats, judges, lawyers, corporate boards, oligarchs, anyone worth more than a billion, hummer / gas guzzler drivers etc...also I'd cause a world-wide emt that would disable electric grids for awhile...

Every country would basically run elections to decide if they want to keep their current constitution, start from scratch, or join a bigger union globally or regionally or split into smaller city-states... then they draft new legal frameworks/constitutions etc... if nothing changes Thanos threatens to return every decade and rinse/repeat.

Kind of like Sodom and Gomorrah, I guess...though i'm agnostic.

I think finding non-existing infinity stones though might cost > $100 billion lol.

Alternately as someone else said...buy politicians lol.. <-- that is probably the most effective way to push an agenda/make change -sadly.
Here's a more recent Vice article a couple of links in:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpxvq/this-transparency-pro...
> I want a single language to teach to on-devs for front end and backend work

if that's what you want then you should support things like kotlin multiplatform, react-native or SwiftUI, dart is a very meh language comparing to those above with established back-end ecosystems.
Television shows are nothing like streaming though..
There's a few reasons, one is financial - USA wants those installation contracts. Another is that USA wants covert access to those networks (instead of the Chinese).

For me as a private citizen of the UK the Chinese having access seems less likely to impact me than USA having that access.
Taleb dumped bitcoin because he couldn't stand seeing its community almost unanimously oppose the COVID lockdowns, while he was taking his precautionary principle to the extreme. You could see the divergence playing out on Twitter for months before Taleb actually came out against bitcoin. The only fact that changed about bitcoin during that time period was new all time highs and institutional adoption.
To the down-voters - rather than just down voting my comment, why not also explain why you're down voting - makes for a much better debate, no?
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I think you mean Thunderbolt not USB-C. Thunderbolt ties into the GPU, but USB-C doesn't.
Exactly. The biases are per news source and actually constant: https://github.com/Hadjimina/perspectiveNews/blob/0c4c6a932a...

I'm sure they are eventually updated, but making a general judgment per news source to show individual articles means it will occasionally be wrong and misleading for the reader. The name alone, "their news", suggests an us vs. them mentality that we could use less of these days.

For once I think machine learning would be suitable for this. Have something like GPT-3 process individual articles and produce a bias number. I think this is how https://www.improvethenews.org/ works, and at a quick glance, does a much better job at classifying.

But honestly? We shouldn't bother. Consume every new information with a critical mind, and don't expect editorials to do the thinking for you. There are no bias sliders for social media posts, where most information comes from these days, and we need to teach critical thinking instead of picking what we want to agree with or not.
This is my main issue with Rspec documentation.
Direct link to corp news release:

https://tae.com/wp-content/uploads/TAE-Milestone-Press-Relea...

Checking out their (slow) website, their Fusion Research Digital Library is also terrific weekend reading (for those that enjoy high energy physics) ;)

https://tae.com/research-library/
Thanks Tom, nothing better than hearing directly from you regarding this.
Bitcoin may be a speculative ponzi scheme and Nassim Taleb may be a fraud too.
> What is the backing of the US dollar at this point asides from threat of violence against challengers ?

That is part of the backing of any government issued currency and it's not a bad one. Usually currencies don't collapse or hyperinflate. If society breaks down locally the question is whether some crypto asset or the thing backed by guns will prevail in the mid term.

In war time: I'm betting on the people with the tanks.
Cynical me certainly can believe all this. But on the other hand, I’m wary of just reinforcing what I believe anyway.

How trustworthy is this? There seems to be a lot of inside information, where did they get it from? Does anyone have corroborating links? All article links are either general, or US specific.
Same thing also happened to flank/skirt steak wrt to it becoming popular. I don't even buy it anymore.
a lot of marketing and no substance. is it just like a jwt?
You can get really awesome pork ribs by just baking them in a plastic baking bag in the oven at 250F for a few hours then finishing them on a charcoal grill with hickory chips on the coals and brushing on sauce. I’ve been eating bbq my entire life and all these people smoking for hours and hours generally end up with nasty tasting jerky. Its not hard to get incredible ribs, the meat itself is delicious.
If you carry your bitcoin wallet with you do you need to declare that?
Yes. After nearly 20 years the year for "Linux on Desktop", all Linux OS / Distro design still screams Linux right from the start.
> The routine update, it turns out, is no longer so routine

Is there the rare case that we shouldn't update because the update could contain a malicious payload? If the update gets served over plaintext HTTP I would treat it as suspicious and may even block it from connecting at all. I run the risk of having outdated software, but that can be addressed by storing the software in a machine that's not connected to The Internet in any way, so it can't really do anything/talk to a C2 server (if someone does decide to execute an 0day with the software or inject malicious code via a rogue update).
Peer review only is the initial smell test, and don’t mean it’s actually true. Fraud for example can often pass peer review just fine. That said, it does catch errors and rejects a lot of junk which is why it’s considered important.
So they should have an export function to export all the supporting Squarespace code? Yes, that seems like an unreasonable expectation.

If being able to easily lift and shift is important to you, no one is keeping you from hand-coding your site and/or using some sort of static site generator and hosting it on a generic platform.

If you write an application using AWS-specific services, you're not going to be able to trivially migrate that either. It's a tradeoff.
There's actually a really interesting field of (serious) academic and scientific endeavour into the study of "pseudo profound bullshit" - a search for that will find you some of the papers available freely online.

It seems that these text generation bots are pretty good, as you say, at generating some basic level chatter about a topic in a manner that can sound convincing. Somewhat like a "talk-show style TV news pundit" can - I'm reminded of the various times they're tricked into giving their commentary on things that haven't happened yet, and they happily (blindly) oblige, because they're more interested in being seen to be an expert than in actually having something to say.

I think the more confident and critical you are in reading, the raider it is to detect the nonsense through internal inconsistencies - many of these text generation systems really struggle to produce an internally consistent argument.
Except that Java Applets were an absolute security nightmares in and of themselves.

They also looked very ugly and were extraordinarily slow, especially to startup.

But the biggest difference between them and these frameworks are that writing Java Applets were aimed at real developers, while many of these frameworks are designed to be used by less technically experienced people, like data scientists or analysts learning to code.

Therefore it's often easy to get started and create a simple dashboard, but the limits of the frameworks become evident after a while.
I've been saying that for years
"Complaining about literary trends is like complaining about too many people eating an ice cream flavor you don't like: pointless because there's no scarcity. If you don't like it don't read it."

Well, not really... trends are contagious. Awards are often given in alignment with the most current trends. Therefore young writers try to emulate them, and you'll witness a "talent drain", drawing authors away from writing literature of your preference.
The Flip Side does this: https://www.theflipside.io/
This isn't true because with DeFi yields averaging in double digits, many people are holding all forms of stable coins to accrue this massive yield. Some people are entering the stable coin market with fiat simply to get this yield and have no interest in buying Bitcoin with it.

It is also irrelevant to frame the situation from what "most people" do when the question is what are the people holding all the minted tether doing with it? It does not disappear; if it is not cashed in for fiat then it is still being held by someone.
Wait, what? Are you suggesting this post is GPT-3 or something? Did we read the same article?

Edit: ok, I think you meant to reply to another comment which is currently flagged/dead. It looked like you were referring to the linked article itself.
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> Just because something is expensive to produce doesn’t mean that it’s worth that much.

Well ... it kinda does? If a commodity cannot be produced for less than $X, then the price of that commodity is not going to be that far below $X. The price can vary away to anywhere you like to signal for producers to open and close in the short term, but the equilibrium price point is ~= cost of production and the market will trend in that direction.

I'm going off one article [0] but there is enough gold to make a 28m x 28m x 28m cube. That isn't a lot of gold when compared to the 8 billion humans in the world and the amount of metal we go through (of iron, aluminium, copper, etc). Unless something really novel happens in the mining space, the price is never going to be low enough that an ordinary person can have a big block of gold. It will stabilise on the cost to mine pretty quickly.

There are other metals that are just as good as gold (like platinum) that get less press but are similarly priced.

[0] https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-much-gold-has-been-found-world
Insist? While it is easy to find programmers to contribute to a community project for free, designers expect to be paid. Not everyone has enough spare cash to pay a professional designer. So they do the design themselves to the best of their ability.
>What is the backing of the US dollar at this point asides from threat of violence against challengers ?

That's pretty much as strong as it gets. I joke all the time that at some point someone will found a Bitcoin nation with its own military.
I've been playing with compose and it looks really good. Note that it's still on beta(api should be considered stable) with a release this year. Previews are kinda wonky for now. Sometimes it wouldn't refresh. How hard is it to implement hot reload?

And like I mentioned before, with my low-end laptop its hard to run full Android Studio. Tho Dart's not that pleasant compared to Kotlin, the tooling outside a single IDE was enticing for me.
No hate, just different. I cook my butts in a nat gas powered grill I have. Low heat on one side, butt on the other, with bread pans full of soaked wood chips directly on the burner. BBQ purists would hate me, but it taste great, works with what I have and is relatively easy to do.

I was inspired to figure out a good way to smoke/cook BBQ on equipment I had from an Alton Brown Good Eats episode.
So it's Project Euler but also CodeWars.

You can even register for it!
You can still connect to a local network via ethernet
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I use the HN frontpage link which only updates stories about once a day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/front
the problem is not the tech, flutter is perfectly fine

it's the developer that uses the tech, or rather misuses the computer

you jump to conclusion rather quickly, that's fishy
It's the reverse. Someone prints counterfeit USD and convinces everyone that they are just as good as the real thing.
When you say the address and the title one after the other it kind of sounds better when there's a small difference.
But Tether is not a traditional cryptocurrency and has nothing to do with Bitcoin besides the fact that they buy Bitcoins with Tethers... the creators can issue as much of it as they want, just like the governments.
I wish they had spent more time showing those software and how they work, but it was quite good nevertheless.
Its an active field of research. Optical flow algorithms are typically used to create vector fields and have shown promise in fluid flows (https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/4/690/htm). However a deep learning version of this on real life data has yet to be accomplished. If anyone reading this knows otherwise plz link :D
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15 years ago, I was extremely concerned about CO2. Now? CO2 is the single major environmental issue that I think is now certain to work out fine.

Why? Because PV and wind are now the cheapest forms of energy, because even when you add the cost of batteries those are still cheaper than coal and oil, and because the factories to make them are being made as quickly as possible because the eco-friendly solution is so much cheaper than fossil fuels.

The current trend line for PV is an exponential that started in 1992, going up by a factor of ~9000 in 29 years. Keep it up just until the end of this decade and all power — electric, heating, transport; domestic, industrial — is PV by around 2030, and the only reason to expect reality to fall short is that transitioning the final few bits is going to be harder than the first few bits.

I’m still worried about biodiversity losses, phosphorus, antibiotic resistance, etc., but not about CO2.
> Design is still massively under-appreciated.

Is it? With everyone talking about it here how important it is, I get the feeling it is over hyped. There is also not a lot or maybe actually no proof at all these sites became popular because of design. They threw massive amounts of VC money into marketing and networking and ads etc. And next to that they went viral (probably because of the massive amounts of vc money and people in influencer circles egging eachother on, for which you can find traces on HN and reddit easily): would be great to see some actual references how you came to say with such certainty this is 'because of design'.
>sell for FIAT

It's interesting to think about how in the short term at least, people would sell USDT for anything, particularly BTC, ETH and other stable coins like USDT or DAI in this scenario, so I would expect a price spike in BTC if there was some critical event where USDT collapsed.

I guess it would reflect a false value of real liquidity in the whole crypto market so would have to depress BTC price for a time after the dust settles.
USB-C is simply the connector format -- which can then be used as either USB 4 or Thunderbolt 3. The highest speed USB 4 devices are effectively the same as Thunderbolt 3 from what I understand.

I really do sympathize with any consumer who has to try to make sense of what a given port is actually capable of these days.
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S. Korean researchers develop microbial treatment to rid farms of odors [video]
Worked well with the "Pale Blue Dot" by Voyager regardless of which sub-region containing the dot I uploaded.

Then, when uploading the Solar System, it managed to capture each planet and its label without distorting them while only removing the space in-between... except for Saturn's rings which became wobbly :)

Architecture pictures tends to perform horrible because they contain so many straight lines and perspective cues. Faces are too stretched regardless of aspect ratio.
And a helluva lot cheaper!
> Standard Notes is a phenomenal note taking app and one of the first to bring encryption in note taking. They take security very seriously and have multiple third party audits.

> They don't allow any form of account recovery. Which sounds really epic on paper but once you forget your password, you lose all your data.

You can't have both. If the service has account recovery after you lose your password or encryption keys, it can only mean that there is no any meaningful encryption. Just don't lose your passwords, it's quite simple these days with passwords managers.
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> White Page without content for me.

Same here. I'm using Firefox.
Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists Jailed for Resisting Communist Takeover
The problem is that you cannot spend TUSD directly, if paypal accepted it or your local grocery store accepted it nobody would question its authenticity. However, since TUSD has to be converted to USD this assumption is just wishful thinking.
Thanks for sharing i wasn't aware of this Operation yet, the big example you usually hear is the NSA was recording Merkel's her phone as allies spying on each other.
Much of this is fairly widely known in the telecoms sector, and is "open secrets".

The sector is a pretty "closed shop" though, full of trade secrets and "proprietary" things. Underneath it all though, actually it's fairly simple once you get your head around it.

If you work closely with an operator, even as a client, you'll see examples of this - the number of people brought to meetings from the vendor, versus from the operator. Who answers the questions.

For a public example, see the Telefonica O2 outage in the UK (and Japan, I believe) due to an Ericsson certificate outage, and how much of a role Ericsson played in this. (https://www.theregister.com/2018/12/06/ericsson_o2_telefonic...)

Press releases also give bits and pieces away:

https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2019/11/orange-op...

https://www.mobileeurope.co.uk/press-wire/9588-three-uk-join...

Although they might not give the level of detail you're looking for, it should hopefully corroborate things.
MS Teams runs beautifully on my M1. Cisco Anyconnect now installs a bunch of network filters instead of a single kext, but it works. The only programs that run poorly are Apple's own Mail app (often hangs on quit) and Safari (has crashed the whole Mac a few times).
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Interesting insights on who operates these networks. However author equates US eavesdropping to Chinese eavesdropping. That is simply not serious. The "ship has left the harbor" view of existing infrastructure is not sensible, ownership matters.
Of course Java project are not immune to failure, that is not what "low risk" means! In this context it means the risk is lower for certain specific problems - e.g. unable to hire developers, show-stopping bugs in the platform which never get fixes, lack of documentation, abandonware.

Choosing a less popular platform (like say Clojure or CoffeeScript or whatever) might very well increase productivity compared to the conservative choice. But slightly increased productivity will not save a project, while the additional risks involved could very well sink the whole project. Which is why most businesses seek to reduce risk rather than maximize productivity when it comes to development platforms.
Yup, down.
Fun fact: all the gold ever mined on earth could be contained in about three Olympic-sized swimming pools (https://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2010/11/19/how-ma...)
It doesn't answer any real questions but for someone new coming to linux who has read zorin is a good starter for windows users... front page has a large blue download zorin os button it. click it, default to ultimate version and a blue download/buy zorin ultimate.

feels like the website was created by marketing department or a used car salesman.
It’s too far gone now to matter. Initially we cried scam but there’s too much liquidity and too many clones to stop at this point.

25 billion is a drop in the bucket. USDC pays higher interest than <insert bank name>
This must be a configuration update that went wrong. I am sure of this because thats always the PR angle. Does anyone know what is really going on here?
Very interested in this. I’ve written this in multiple projects. Have always thought it’d be cool to extract out but never got too.

I’ve used auth0 before. It was way easier to understand than Okta.

Why do you think your site would be too complex?
There is a very popular photoshop like application written entirely in JavaScript (not WASM) for the browser and performs well: Photopea.

I have an app with a full Windows/OSX like GUI and presents full file system controls in the browser like Explorer or Finder. This app also saves state on each interaction and allows state sharing across different browsers in real time of the same device. The fastest I have gotten this to load with full state restoration and content rendering and page paint is 0.32 seconds as measured using the Firefox performance tab from the developer tools. The largest part of that load time is rendering a 3mb background image.

People really want to believe JavaScript is slow. I have been writing JavaScript long enough to reason this down to two major concerns:

1. Developers do really ridiculously slow things in JavaScript either for convenience or insecurity and more than half the time will fight you to the death to qualify bad practices.

2. Developers are too reliant upon dependencies. It’s like going camping but taking everything plus the kitchen sink with you. Remember that scene at the beginning of Saving Private Ryan when Private Upham wants to bring his typewriter on an infantry mission deep into the front lines?
Some of these arguments once could've applied to Angular. That doesn't inspire confidence.
>"seeing its community almost unanimously oppose the COVID lockdowns"

Say what?!? Is there some coverage of this, or do I need to read millions to tweets?
Hi all,

we - developers - need to use multiple tools at work to get the job done. For example, GitHub/Gitlab/Bitbucket for version control, CircleCI for build/deploy, Jira/Asana for project management.

Using multiple tools simultaneously sometimes leads to a bit overwhelming. Switching from your IDE (or main working app) to other apps or services on browsers comes with the cost of losing focus and reducing productivity.

I myself experience the same problem, that's why I created Sunday Virtual Assistant (www.josunday.com) to hopefully makes our life easier by:

- Connect to your apps/services (Jira, CircleCI, GitHub...)
- Automate task by saving default values of your repetitive actions
- Assign your task to predefined speech command
- Summon your task at will via the speech command without the trade-off of losing your focus on the current work

The app is available to download and all feedback, suggestions, and comments are welcome!
The README.md isn't part of the rust code, so it's not checked by this unless you use tools to generate your README from doc comments like https://github.com/livioribeiro/cargo-readme.
If it was actually perceived as risky, wouldn't it be trading at a discount to USDC? However if you look, you can currently convert a billion dollars of tether into USDC with _positive_ slippage: https://1inch.exchange/#/USDT/USDC?network=1 For DAI, as of posting, you can covert 10 million.

So to answer your question, yes, I would be happy to take you tether for USDC or DAI
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I suppose that's a good pizza-analogy, perhaps with an addition: ... values making more, and bigger pizzas, even if it means a lot of people get no pizza at all.
Where did your comment go ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26843586&goto=item%3Fi...
Who pays those yields on crypto currencies and why?