skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Auto sensing only became mandatory with 1GbE - before that, you still needed a crossover patch cable. :)
That just doesn't happen. We know that elements are stable. It doesn't normally happen that e.g. gold spontaneously explodes into iron, you'd need the extreme conditions inside a supernova to make that happen.
Deaths have crossed 1700 per day, also a record high.
The jargon for this is a "comeback mechanic" - game designers have to be cautious with them though, as if the final round can flip the results too easily what was the point of all the other rounds?

In "Power Grid" (a power plant building game) the turn order is recalculated every round based on how well the player is doing, with the players doing worst getting more chances to bid in power plant auctions and being first to buy on the fuel market.

In "Flamme Rouge" (a cycling-themed game) a 'drafting' mechanic means the leading player has to add 'exhaustion' cards to their hand, much like riders in real races try to slipstream behind the race leaders.

In "Suburbia" (a city building game) victory points are 'population' but as you move up the population tracker, you cross red lines that reduce your income and reputation.

In 'Trans-America' (a railroad-building game) points are scored by connecting cities, and it's easy for a naive player to connect 4 cities before a lucky expert player connects 5 and ends the round. This creates the impression of a close game as the best and worst players will be within 20% of each other.

And of course, the other option is: A scoring system so baffling and opaque, nobody can work out who's in the lead until the calculators come out at the end.
Short Firebird Migration Guide to Firebird 4.0
I'm not so sure that the whole point of monopoly is to be banker and cheat.
if you built an operating system that only does X it’s called an embedded system or you know, a video game
I am not too familiar with MongoDB, but how does the API compare to an ancient key-value store library of Berkeley DB (db.get/put/delete/...)?

(Asking in the context of Mongita, or rather, a file-based key-value store)
The SSD can be replaced. I loved my 2015 MBP to death, but the CPU has not aged well for heavyweight languages like C++ and Swift. Switched to an M1 Air with the same 1 TB of storage and 16 GB of RAM.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Retina+Disp...
I have been study a bit of Mandarin and the tones are hard, but when you get rid of them it's not so hard. The main difficult for me in spoken Chinese is to learn the huge number of homophones and some idiomatic phrases. On the counterpart, there is almost no grammar.
Reading is hard (a normal educated person know around 10/12k ideograms, people with high level education are over 20k), writing is even harder because you need to know the exact order of the traits. I know that also overseas chineses frequently forgot how to write in ideograms.
Go on, ping the developer and let them know.

Earlier is better to expand something like this to $everything, like what happened to youtube-dl, precisely because the codebase is less mature and it's easier to rip things to bits earlier than later.
The money behind big tech has mastered manipulating demand and that is exactly what you are seeing in the Ethereum/NFT ecosystem.

It is one giant fraud bankrolled by unlimited capital that can artificially increase prices at which point there becomes demand from people in fear of missing out, once the early capital has the suckers locked in the prices plateau at first as the capital stops buying and driving the price up, and then begins a steep crash as they cash out and lock in the gains, this only causes fear and panic among the late entries that made investments at the peak which they couldn't afford to lose...rinse and repeat.

The NFTs may be even more blatant and egregious than the ERC20 coins in terms of fake sales driving up interest, media and demand for shit no regular investor will ever flip. A lot of it is just transparent fraud and money laundering, with the people involved not even shying away from it but openly justifying it on the basis they feel the stock market and art collectors have always engaged in the same misconduct.

Take Elon Musk, openly pumping Doge...I'm not judging, I get the humor in it, but a lot of people have been crushed over the years in the crypto bubbles, yesterday was a prime example where Elon was likely the sole cause of Doge exploding in value (maybe 5x in a few days and 100x over a month) and as the big money way slowly cashing out these massive media campaigns were behind a marketing scam of "DogeDay" essentially making their killing on the backs of the poor uneducated late investors. One would hope his Tweets shined a bright light on the dystopia of it all, but it seems everyone is either so greedy or in such bad positions financially they would rather take part.

My guess is now that they have reaped their profits at the expense of the little guy, they will buy back in with the profits and we should see another pump following the -25% DogeDay scam.
#> Cambridge Analytica has entered the chat

It still baffles me when anyone would want to continue to dump personally-identifiable info into these services. Tying together all of this stuff into one dream is just a tsunami-sized data breach waiting to happen at best, and an open marketplace to lure unsuspecting rubes into divulging all of their info.

There is definitely a problem for dating profile services / apps, especially for men (although I can't imagine emotionally healthy women enjoy getting barraged by a wall of "hey gurl. sup?"). I don't think the solution to the problems involve more apps, but fewer.

Going out and being effective in the world is the best way to find a partner (for men or women, but especially for men). I have found all of my past / current partners this way, as honing some craft in a group setting or taking part in some group activity you actually care about (i.e. not showing up to salsa dancing because you're lonely even though you are quite sure you hate dancing) is not only enjoyable, but it gives you a chance to actually connect with people who don't have their guard up in a realm where sexual tension is a given. Best of all dates are usually just doing the same activity you were interested in in the first place; I have gone on about a dozen dates with women I've found at climbing gyms to go climbing only to realize we weren't right for each other, and we just became climbing buddies. Much better than worrying about posturing for some persona one is trying to present to the world online.
>All those things will never break among the common folk.
The common folk wants ease of use above anything else

In my experience the common folk want number go up above anything else.
In Belarus, there are quite a lot of high-tech companies, many of them very successful. At the same time, there aren't a lot of big private enterprises (non-government-owned nor -affiliated) in other areas.

The reason is simple: the regime cannot appropriate intellectual property. If the thugs come and put a hi-tech company under arrest, all they can "collect" is .. desktops and monitors. The real value — be that in code or in employees' heads — cannot be arrested, and the company can continue what they did under a different cover (or from a neighboring country).

The regime understands that too, so they took a somewhat laissez-faire attitude to hi-tech.
If I’m going to stick my savings in a cryptocurrency, I want the network to be stable for the foreseeable future (and be private, but that’s another story).
So what you’re saying is that this random pdf website is the ultimate say on what Ethereum is? Not maybe what the EF has to say?

https://ethereum.org/en/what-is-ethereum/
They will if the practice becomes common place. Advertisers will know what percentage are just skipping automatically and reprice the spots value accordingly.
this is very cool good luck
Here is Gruber's take (from Daring Fireball):

> Conspicuously absent from the list [of third-party products using the Find My network], of course, is Tile. Given their membership in Epic’s Coalition for App Fairness, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for Apple to promote Tile’s products. And it’s unclear to me whether Tile even wants to be in the Find My app — their spat with Apple is more about their own app competing with Find My, and their accusations that Apple unfairly advantages Find My by not holding it to the same rules as third-party apps that ask for always-on location access. Apple’s solution is this third-party accessory program; Tile’s preferred solution would be Apple allowing Tile’s own app to do everything Find My can do.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/07/find-my-third-p...
Is there any material that explains NFT what it is for? I have a general idea, but to me it makes no sense e.g. what is the advantage over an invoice for something you bought.
Since it is a desktop computer it makes total sense to move Ethernet to the power brick. That way, you can have a single cable up from under your desk to the computer. I'm collecting all my cables in a rack under the desk anyway, and the less cables I have to route over the desk the better.

Wish there was a USB hub on the brick as well!
Why have you told me this, I now have an urge to go test this by licking a cartridge.
Yes but they could have had that with the old Edge.. I just don't understand how the browser engine was a barrier to adoption. It didn't perform badly at all every time I tested, it worked just fine.

I think it was just the marketing effort that got Edge Chromium more adopted, not the move to chromium itself. Every time we had a call with a MS consultant (about any unrelated topic) they had to bring it up again, it was crazy.
I really don't understand what are these protesters trying to achieve. I like Belarus and spent years there. Hard to guess why would anyone want to shake the boat and risk the country getting annexed by Russia.
If you were willing to speak truth to power like that, you would not be in her team in the first place.
That's not true. Many get money based on how many clicks an affiliate link gets or how much an offer code is used. At the minimum this data is used to determine if the company decides to continue buying ads from the creator.
Given that nearly every miner and large exchange/business tried and failed to force changes to BTC, I'd argue that influence of plutocrats on the fundamental properties of Bitcoin is significantly lower.

Failure of the New York Agreement is certainly more reassuring than never-ending hard forks.
>Monogamy is, more or less, a female fantasy.

This is such a grotesque oversimplification that it's basically wrong. Both men and women have each evolved optimal mating strategies involving a calculated balance between gene-seeking and mate-seeking. It's in a man's interest to find a partner with good/compatible genes and invest his energies into high-success-ratio children. It's also in his interest to "spread his wild oats" as far and wide as possible, since it costs him basically nothing. On the woman's side, children always come with heavy biological strings attached, which shifts the balance - men she sleeps with need to offset that cost with either exceptionally good genes or by committing to help, if not with raising the children then at least during the pregnancy (I imagine hunting for food is no picnic when you're 8 months in).

So men and women both engage in "casual sex", at different rates. Men and women both seek committed long-term relationships, at approximately similar rates. Men and women also cheat situationally within those relationships - men with whoever they can get, women with the exceptionally attractive. Men and women aren't the same, but they're fundamentally playing a similar game.
-non local, look at me uploading my private photos to someone elses computer where they will never get deleted

-you think freckles are "unwanted elements"
The CFR in Mumbai, so far, is less than half of the first wave. But due to the rapid rise in cases (elsewhere; Mumbai appears to have peaked on 7 Apr), there's a crunch in beds and especially oxygen.
> The one they're using is deferring their decision making to a source that, even if they're a bit flawed, is WAY WAY WAY better than themselves when figuring out what is worth keeping online.

Ok, fair enough. However, in your original post (which appears to be no longer visible) you stated that Youtube made this particular decision to censor accurate information in order to spread lies (with a "common good" purpose). I don't like that.
Rates are lower on margin loan, and they’re easier to get compared to a proper mortgage (assuming, you know, you have value assets to borrow against)
I think you’re getting the essential facts but drawing a conclusion that is still wrong, at least for some people/companies.

“What can I do with Grafana in my business under GPL?” is much more clearly defined than the same question changing only the last word to AGPL. Alternatives available under Apache v2 or other non-copyleft licenses are also clear. For GPL, all I need to be careful to avoid doing is distributing the software and I’m in a well-understood situation.

It’s this closing off of futures unknown but possible that is markedly worse under AGPL. Anything that you’re doing today that could apply externally as well seems to be an area where a decision to continue to follow Grafana tip could bite you. And not updating could also bite you. Grafana will lose contributors and users over this. All of that I’m sure Grafana considered and made the best choice for Grafana.
What about freedom for developers?

It seems to me that, to defend users against corporations, the FSF as a side effect is attempting to take a whole lot of freedom away from developers who share the ideals of the FSF.

(That is, any developers who publish under MIT / BSD like licenses)
All these are classics:

Quirks mode. Unicode normalization. Scrollbar resize infinite loop. Accidental misparse. And of course another IE bug.

Each one has manifested a zillion times on as much different web sites. And yet they keep biting us.

Is there an effective way to restructure programming to make these disappear, without locking ourselves up in a turing tar pit. Linters, fault injectors, ... Or some rust safety equivalent for the front end?
They want to have a say in their country's future.
Using inclusive language in global companies
A.I. scans your brain, then generates faces you’ll find attractive
Came here to say this, it's a nice demo but feels like removing the black from a face to make it white (which would also be removing melanin) or the other way around. Maybe remove a big pimple as a demo ;)

This would be nice for a quick fix of a non personal picture, but for personal stuff, local is preffered.

Anyway, nice work, the fence removal is impressive :)
(1) YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award (2) Sponsored by YouTube

More people will hear about the first part of that sentence so I guess it's still somewhat advantageous to them?
This is something I've certainly thought about, as another proponent of as-high-as-possible inheritance taxes.

What about taking inheritance and gifts as ordinary income to the recipient? Ideally this would be coupled with a reform on capital gains tax, but even as is, should target high taxes only on large amounts or amounts given to people that are already rich.

There would certainly need to be some tweaks, but it should diminish the inherent injustice of inheritance.
No, he fills it with hot water, C02 is just for the pressure :)
I could see it escalate into an arms race: if the new norm for watching videos will be to automatically skip sponsored segments by some popular software, the sponsorship offers will either dry up, or the resulting sponsorships will be designed to be more difficult to skip (eg. by making content creators incorporate them throughout the video in many small chunks, or as overlaid audio/video, ...).

Similar to what happened to web ads in communities that tend to run adblockers: more and more obnoxious advertising (intersitial ads, animated ads, etc.), advertising incorporated into content (ads-as-content like on Reddit), cross-site tracking and retargeting.

I tend to manually skip sponsored segments (especially for snake oil like VPN services!), but I'm not sure if writing automated software for this is the right thing to do in the long term.
totally agree. I would not respond well to this kind of treatment. You pay me. You don’t own me.
Fair elections.
And you'll find these failed governments bonds were paying a considerable risk premium, i.e. a spread over the risk-free rate.
I'm getting into F# and I couldn't agree more.

I'm still a little lost on how asp.net runs in a Linux container.
Do we even know how many deaths it's leading to? From the article: "A Financial Times analysis also points to under-reporting of deaths. Local news reports for seven districts across the states of Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar show that while at least 1,833 people are known to have died of Covid-19 in recent days, based mainly on cremations, only 228 have been officially reported. In the Jamnagar district in Gujarat, 100 people died of Covid-19 but only one Covid death was reported."
They should really make an effort to support tracking-less ads instead. Context is often enough. Many websites want this, advertisers are fine with it. Users definitely want it.

They have some trackingless ad options but they don't support any kind of HTML5 as far as I've heard.
I guess the whole .net core mess made sense in the beginning, it just got out of hand.

As I understand it, core was conceived as an experimental alternative runtime which made it possible to run asp.net on non-windows platforms. It was not initially planned to be the replacement for full .net framework, so it didn't need to be fully backwards-compatible with the regular framework, which saved them some effort in the beginning. When the strategy changed to make core the next version of .net, the incompatibilites was so entrenched it was too late to solve, so we ended up with this enormous mess.
Do you have any actual counterpoints w.r.t previous numerous failures of POS?
Yep, but guess who will win corporate argument inside the company. You may advocate as much as you like, but no legal person will approve the general use of the software in the company. I guess some companies, like Amazon will find their way around the license and still be able to offer it as a service under commercial terms, but not the average Joe in the corporate world.
What they're trying to say is threefold:

1. State/progress information provides more trust as more progress information becomes available, and therefore less trust is needed from financial instruments such as escrow. Much of the new information is provided via 5G and the internet.

2. The US has derived enormous benefit from these financial instruments, since they often provided the US with an interest-free loan as a side effect. As these instruments are less needed, less money will be lent to the US on these terms, so the US needs to either borrow less or pay for interest-bearing loans like the rest of us.

3. The US federal government doesn't understand what's coming.

(I disagree with one of the points. The above is a summary, not my opinion.)
Wow, I immediately downloaded the extension and went to a Linus Tech Tips video because they are notorious to have this kind of ads and wow it worked perfectly from the get go.

Very impressive extension I have to say!
> just doing the same activity you were interested in in the first place

Some women don't like to be hit on social settings. For example, in tech conference, some women complained that men flirted with them.

So I'm thinking a way to separate women who are open to dating and not with SwanLove. Say, you are a yoga instructor. You create a group with SwanLove. Women who are open to dating can set the status to be available in this group. This way, men don't bother women who want to only focus on Yoga in your yoga class. Of course, to some extent, this can kill spontaneity.

> Privacy issue / Cambridge Analytica

I'm thinking of adding some encryption technology like zero-proof knowledge so even I as the owner of the website couldn't see the data. So I put some decentralized aspect onto it.

But fair enough. If this idea is proved to be so stupid, I guess I'll write a boring DeFi app. :)
Correcting for you, into one resource hungry piece of software.
If you ask me requiring at least one blink in each step is a bit awkward as it is a global requirement as opposed to a local one.

But you can add the requirement Next(World) <> World if you really want to. Then you just get two sets:

- Next(World) <> World

- Next(World).x in (World.x, !World.x)

and

- Next(World) <> World

- Next(World).y in (World.y, !World.y)

and if you combine them you get

- Next(World) <> World

- Next(World).x in (World.x, !World.x)

- Next(World).y in (World.y, !World.y)

which seems to do what you want.

Adding global constraints seems like an easy way to shoot yourself in the foot though.
It must also be unsustainable without new entrants.
I’m absolutely loving that this comment is three threads deep.
The choice is simple: Lukashenka or Putin. I'd pick Lukashenka, at least some form of quasi-independent Belarus is better than none at all. It is so patently obvious that no non-manipulated Belarus will be allowed to exist... Just because all country is Russian speaking - even to a bigger degree than Crimea and is wholly owned by the Russian propaganda reality tunnel.
I am curious if direct revenue shares are a sustainable model.

E.g., I pay some money -- $10/month. I can choose to pay more. A fraction of that is divided evenly amongst all the videos I've watched. Creators get a check at the end of the month.

This wouldn't rake in billions of advertiser money. But I think it would sustain a very decent business, and be better for society in general.

This does need to be voluntary: I need to be able to choose to not pay and not watch (or watch with ads, as an alternative). And you need to be very transparent about the rules from the get-go, as well as about how those rules get changed, and apply those rules equally, lest you sacrifice the trust of both your viewers and creators.
What scares me from Ethereum is the very vibrant ecosystem of developers and builders around it.

Look back at Ethereum's history and the vast vast majority of historical projects are dead. People who invested time or money into them have lost out.

What makes it different now?
> Now I'm hardly an astute investor but I thought the usual rule is that if your cabbie starts talking about it, it's time to get out of the market.

My stripper friends first started asking me if they should buy cryptocurrencies in 2017. Had you bought btc at the $17k it was priced then, you'd have more than tripled your money in the following four years.
> An AGPL license comes with more obligations for the one publishing the code, and for others re-using that code.

Right, but if you buy/get a book, you can't even re-publish or re-use the content in the first place.

I'm not comparing the AGPL and the GPL. I'm only talking here about the insinuation that the AGPL is somewhat like a book author requiring readers to let them crash their couches. It's not.
Successful Belarusian high-tech companies are not in Belarus (mostly in Cyprus, some in Lithuania or Poland - founders and their families and some key people simply emigrated from Belarus once they become successful). And Belarusian legal entities just outsource for them. This is why they are usually not raided: owners don't come over to Belarus much or at all anymore, IP is owned offshore, and what is the benefit of harassing workers?
I have wanted something like this for podcasts built into AntennaPod. Thanks for letting me know about this.