skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First paragraph of the article says something interesting that can be useful at parties :)
> It's created an obsession of quick wealth among a lot of otherwise normal people

It's showing a demand for an asset that isn't linked to the central planning of government where they continually and arbitrarily inject as much extra currency as they want whenever they catastrophically mess up sovereign budgets.

That's not greed. It's an interest in safety from a drug-addict-like government that opens the floodgates on a whim.
unlike facebook, wechat does not algorithmically decide which content i should see. i get all posts from all my connections in linear order. they are not pushed on me either (i can easily ignore them)

unlike whatsapp, wechat also does not require me to share my phone number. (at least, for the brief time that i tried whatsapp, i could not find a way to hide my number)

wechat also doesn't announce to everyone who happens to have my phonenumber, that i am now on wechat.

wechat lets me control how people can contact me. the default is that people need to ask for my permission before they can add me as contacts and talk to me.

miniapps are just fancy websites designed to display inside wechat, with easy access to my wechat id. but they actually have to ask permissions if they want to use that id for anything.

a vender being only on wechat is no different than a vendor being only on facebook. or on telegram. it's simply a result of market dominance. not good, but not evil either.

there is only one dark pattern that i noticed, that is it is no easy way to export all the content stored inside wechat.
I assumed you also knew COBOL Object standard and the difference between the first and second ADA proposals.
Interestingly, this is slightly contradictory to the finding that children of former radar workers have more DNMs[0]. Maybe explained by different type of radiation.

[0] https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uob-tmi10051...
> Is US dollar moral? Is it not also "smoke-and-mirrors"

US Dollar and other "real" currencies are and can be used for payments and transactions (money in exchange for goods, services etc.). Cryptocurrencies are only converted to/from other currencies to make profits based on speculation.
Who knows to be honest.

There's enough narcos, mafia and other random citizens with enough distain for the law to fight over the remaining (5% Who knows) of remaining bitcoin on the black market after a worldwide ban that maybe it will still have some sort of demand.

Also, what classifys a crypto currency? This is one of the biggest problems with a blanket ban. If it is a POA chain run by a centralized entity for use within a video-game, but also has real world value for 'Items' a crypto? What happens if no one uses that currency for items, but instead trades it on an open exchange for USD and other FIAT. Is that banned too? It's too obscure a concept at this point for a real ban to every really work.
Even if you ‘record’ something to your YouTube TV DVR, if there is an on-demand (with ads) version available from the network, your DVR recorded version will be replaced and you will be forced to watch the on-demand (with unskippable ads) version
They actually have rules against "sexual promiscuity"? What do those rules look like and how are they enforced? Is it just a dress code, or do they actually discipline students for being "promiscuous".
That doesn't matter, because it's generally the CEO who puts together the team, motivates it, keeps it accountable, etc.

Obviously the board has input on the rest of the C-suite, but it's still most fundamentally the CEO who is responsible for the team.
The UK's contract was better written, just not in the way the EU tried to spin it where the UK were supposedly ahead of them in the queue and were stealing their doses (though there was a clause stopping UK-produced doses being diverted elsewhere). It had a legally-binding clause with teeth and penalties attached requiring AstraZeneca to give the UK government accurate advance notice of how much vaccine they could actually deliver, and the entire UK vaccination program was based on those actual yields rather than the original amounts in the contract. As far as I can tell, there was no requirement that they made any more than "best efforts" to fulfil the original contractual delivery time, and they're apparently fairly behind schedule here too - it's just you wouldn't realize that because all the vaccine planning was based on AZ's actual capacity once they had full-scale production up and running.
I expect it's better to contact your member of Congress to request a budget increase for the LoC. According to Wikipedia, the LoC has only a $6-$8 million/year budget for digitization.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26942227

(But this article seems to have a lot more details)
Hey, let’s make an autonomous robot, give it a high powered laser, and program it to seek out and destroy organic life. What could possibly go wrong?
That's not at all how voice assists are meant to work. Voice icon in cars/remotes are all meant to provide answers or take commands irrespective of what's happening on that device or other devices they control.
What broke my spirit as a young kid getting into animation was the discovery that nobody at the Oscars basically gives a shit about animation. Flat out. 'Judges' willingly admit they don't see cartoons as anything but for kids and will regularly not even watch all of the nominees...aside from the Disney cartoons with their kids in theaters. Hence why Disney always wins animation awards. So imagine my disillusion when discovering the great stuff that came out from Japan or France, to lose to the crap by-the-numbers musical cartoons churned out by Disney for the last ~30 years.

This does create a problem though, because while nobody gives a shit about industry awards, they do generate hype and interest (and sales). And these sales generate future projects. Nobody is going to basically attempt an animation project aimed at adults when they know they can't get it marketed as anything but for kids, and even then, always play second fiddle to Disney.

And hence, animation is effectively all but dead in America. You have your Rick and Mortys and Frozens and not much else.
Maybe ideally yes, but that's assuming you only had the option to message them through the platform.

You could always message people for free outside the platform, considering any profile worthy of messaging probably lists enough information to find them on, say, LinkedIn or Facebook, and users likely often drop their personal websites or Instagram/Twitter IDs on their dating profiles.
>Yes, there are scams. But even in 2017 ICO days these were easy to spot - wailing and teeth nashing over ICO scams was dumb then and still is now.

https://signal.org/blog/help-us-test-payments-in-signal/
I prefer that my propoganda have no whitewashing, and star real American men such as John Wayne:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Berets_(film)
> In Erlang/Elixir, every function from another module is async by design, and the await is implicit.

This statement confuses me. What if I never spawn a process? What if the process I spawn makes function calls into other purely functional modules?
One thing I liked about the older days was that when I watched something interesting many of my friends and coworkers were also watching, and we could have interesting discussions about it the next day.

Nowadays, especially with places like Netflix releasing a whole season of a show at once, it is often the case that all your friends and coworkers are all at different points in the series.
Corporate charitable giving is also a means to stay in the public's good graces. It is a long-term play for profit. (I'm not arguing that it is a bad thing).
4 styluses... Why not a laser reader[0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable
The use of "colored" to describe the hue of an object predates its use to describe certain skin pigmentations by several hundred years.[1] After the second use was invented the former still stayed common, eg in "colored pencils", "colored clothing", "colored contact lenses", etc.

If you allow any term which has ever been used in a racist manner to be considered offensive you give enormous power to racists. They get to DoS attack your language by using whatever they want as slurs. I don't like empowering racists.

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/colored
Creating these vaccines is hard as we see from Merck failing to make any at all and J&J still not having gotten significant deliveries out. Let’s recognise that AstraZeneca are in a minority succeeding at all. When this is all over they may have contributed billions of doses. We need more companies like that, not fewer.
This misses the actual mechanism by which political corruption works. Lobbying is merely any person going in to press their interests with their representatives. Where large, monied interests rig the game is because they run election campaigns and implant narratives in the media.

In other words, the mechanism by which lobbyists get their way is by weaponizing regular citizens into voting in their interests. It's marketing and mass manipulation rather than the "quid pro quo" corruption people imagine it is.
Hmmm... idk about Snapchat, it doesn’t seem all that big around here, but Instagram use main focus seems still to be celebrities, just not distant Hollywood celebrities, but local, more ephemeral, themed, niched celebrities that we call _”influencers”_.
Architecture and Data flow diagrams. Usually I sketch it out on paper and transcribe it to Lucidchart.
Recently, I had to troubleshoot connectivity issues in Amazon RDS in a private subnet with AWS Data Migration Service. This was a regulated environment with heightened isolation. I was only able to figure out the problem once it was on paper and could see it visually with the various Security Groups described.
Posted it in an other thread [0] but do we really want to go back to the medallion system? Pre-Uber, either the driver rented the car to a middleman who rented the medallion from a rich owner, or said owner was selling and financing (most banks won't touch these medallions!) a medallion at a ridiculous interest rate to a driver that planned to use it as his retirement savings (an extremely volatile asset and not very liquid).

The more I spoke to cab drivers the more it seemed their industry was a pyramid scheme aimed at helping established rent-seeker take advantage of often poor new immigrants. Uber brought a breeze of fresh air: Someone could simply buy a car, calculate the depreciation and it's value on the market (since unlike medallions cars are relatively liquid assets!) do rideshare and calculate their profits or loss. They can get out of the game at anytime, and they know exactly how much they are going to get for the car they have should they sell it.

And I'm not even touching the usual pain points and often discriminatory practices of medallion drivers (refusing card payments, refusing rides to non-white passengers and to non-white neighborhoods...).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24225648
>The USA and China are powerful trading partners. If one of them says, "ban crypto," the smaller country is likely to comply.

Ah because they've agreed on so many things in the past.
I believe so. At least, they accept donations of wax cylinders.

https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360017876312-How-...
Part of the problem for the Oscars is there really aren't that many good movies now. The best writers and actors are mostly working in TV. If you're not into Alejandro González Iñárritu, Christopher Nolan, or Quentin Tarantino there really aren't a ton of options for you.

When it comes to stars, here are the top 20 up and comers: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/next-gen-talent-2020... almost all of them come from the small screen. I don't see any Cary Grants, Brad Pitts, or Reese Witherspoons in this group. People who could carry a film with just their charisma.

I love movies but TV is the new king.
I see your point and generally agree.

But in the end of the day - its up to a parent to make some critical decisions while kid is just a kid.
People use Ponzi schemes, would you consider them useful?
> You allocate a memory arena when the HTTP request comes. From that point on, every "allocation" is equivalent to bumping a pointer in that arena. If the arena gets full, we allocate another and chain it to the previous one, as a linked list.

Didn't you just describe the regular memory management as applied by OS in a process scope? At the completion of the process, all memory allocated by the process is reclaimed.

On some systems this approach is combined with granular quotas to allow multi-process coexistence.

Shifting this sort of memory management over to application scope may yield benefits now, but ultimately it's an OS-level concern.
Most countries have laws that strictly limit who can entry. What good is the theoretical freedom to leave, if there is no where to go?
Judging from the people I know who've had COVID, it's different symptoms and not at all as severe. Also I'm not that young (mid 40s)

The adverse reaction to the vaccine was 24-36 hours of my life and now I'm fine. My friend who had COVID spent two weeks miserable up and down like a see-saw and then had long term foggy brain issues. Her husband had to go to the hospital to get oxygen.
Nope. Certain professions that serve the public require professionalism on and off the record. Policing is one of those. A police officer who vents racist speech in a private chat should reconsider their calling.

Cheerleaders? They are welcome to go to the Klan BBQ and liven up the proceedings within the limits of the law; like the rest of us.
Strongly disagreeing. Which of us has not privately cursed their job at some point in frustration? The consequences for letting fly some profanity privately as an expression of human emotion cannot be so high in any reasonable civilization.
Why not store "loved_dogs_at"? A potential use case could be to send some coupons to "new dog lover" within the last 2 weeks.
>You're asking people to document their own bias, so I think it is only fair to point out yours.

I think I have been pretty open with my own perspective in TFA.

>Do you believe that cryptocurrency as a whole is an abject disaster?

Yes. I just published an article titled "Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster".

>Do you support efforts to reform consensus with alternatives to Proof-of-Work [...] or do you think cryptocurrency is a lost cause

I addressed both of these in TFA, too.
> "Incidentally, i think the solution to web search is peer review: websites ranking other websites, and having themselves punished when they mis-rank (which is what pagerank was originally)"

This is interesting because I had a class were we all had to write a paper. I received a grade for the paper but it was never graded by the professor. We all had to rank 5 papers from best to worst, and our grade was determined by our paper ranking and how well our ranking matched others. It was pretty reliable
Is this voluntary association supported with public funds? Managed by public employees?
I'm saying 30 year half lifes are still considered short. We still need to worry for a few generations, but that is enough to remain in memory. If we forget about the problem in 300 years - that is 10 half lives and so it isn't a big deal. If something has a 1000 year half life it will be dangerous far longer than we can remember to watch out.
What if it's not phrased as discipline? What if they said "This speech is an example of your character and we'd rather not have you on our squad." The assumption is (as someone pointed out up thread) that there's no right to be on the squad; that you can (as the joke goes) be fired or not hired at anytime for no reason but not any reason.
Should a police officer be fired, if they express views prejudicial to people that belong to minorities they are meant to serve, even if they express these views while off-duty?
Central Florida.

I believe the issue is two-fold. The Hospitals have contracts etc with GPOs that often require the hospital to make most if not all of their purchases (PPE and Drugs, there is some discussion about GPOs being partially to blame for drugs shortages). If those organizations are unable to source, or unwilling to source PPE (speculation - due to market value being over contract value?) then the hospitals receive a restricted supply e.g. a shortage.

The second axis is that this is not a situation that is generally known and hospital staff are generally underrepresented politically. To whom is the Nurse Assistant or LPN to complain to about their company practices? If you complain, you risk termination etc. Given that most took the vaccine the issue is partially mooted but still remains.
I thought it would be related to the Archimedean oath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean_Oath

> The Archimedean Oath is an ethical code of practice for engineers and technicians, similar to the Hippocratic Oath used in the medical world
So excited to finally hear an application of AI that has potential to improve human life quality. I was starting to worry that all that AI engineers will train is lawyers-turned-cats models.
Just an FYI - I'm not sure what word you were reaching for, but it wasn't 'platitude' in this context.

Perhaps 'plethora' or 'multitude'.
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Just wanted to apologize for my below post, it should have read Coca Cola, not Diet Coke.
I'm not quite ready to take out the pitchforks...

> Roku says Google has threatened to require Roku to use certain chip sets or memory cards that would force Roku to increase the price of its hardware product, which competes directly with Google's Chromecast.

This could simply mean Google is requiring chips with hardware VP9 support

> Roku alleges Google has asked it to favor YouTube music results from voice commands made on the Roku remote while the YouTube app is open, even if the user's music preference is set to default to another music app, like Pandora.

This is both what many users would expect (if I have an app open, voice search works within that app), and a pretty reasonable ask for any business (don't show competitor's offering when searching within my app).
With India’s population size, it’s possible more people support the government than exist people in the entirety of the United States.

Why are they wrong and Americans right?
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>but I don't see what's so unproductive about using your phone on the bus instead of just staring off into space like we used to

Personally, staring off into space allows the mind to wander into all sorts of thoughts and ideas. I personally feel that using a phone in this time is less productive than simply not doing anything, primarily because, the phone draws our mind into the contents of the phone. Sure, one can always argue that one can read or learn productive stuff on the phone, but it is more probable that the average joe spends time on FB or YT, more likely on useless entertainment.
I wonder why targeting with machine learning is more efficient that zapping every square centimeter (besides the planted region)? Downside, more electricity. Upside, much faster probably?
This doesn't seem in agreement with the parent comment, and is a much better analogy than a mere 'government as something that will eventually die'.

Sure, governments are organizations that will eventually 'die' in some form, but how is that a useful observation? The British government has a lot of 'legacy code' going back to the deep middle ages, and yet (in its current 'state of the codebase', which can improve or worsen over time) it is much further away from 'death' than many newcomers in the third world who had no codebase to speak of 60 years ago. Theirs are badly maintained forks and occasionally the whole thing blows up and needs to be monkey-patched to keep creaking on in some fashion.

Age is thus no impediment at all to having a well-functioning, efficient government, and 'startups' are often in the most disadvantageous position of all. So even the software analogy fails us at some point, and cannot be taken any further.
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Japan scraps mascot 'Little Mister Tritium' promoting Fukushima wastewater dump
cool article but

> I've stopped writing unit tests

i think this is generally bad and might only be more productive for uncommon workflows (if at all)
But entry-point Xiaomi and Huawei phones are much cheaper than 10 years ago. How do you explain that? That feels like deflation. Using the Apple iPhone as a proxy of inflation felt by middle class (and below) is dubious. That product is essentially a Veblen good (Wiki says: "a type of luxury good for which the demand for a good increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand"). Look at the price of desktop computers, laptops, Raspberry Pi-equivalents, and flat-screen TVs: It is shocking how much prices have fallen (vis-a-vis price/performance) over the last 10 years.

"The price of eggs." What next: Will you talk about low interest rates "punishes savers"? What portion of wages do highly developed countries spend on food? (Exclude [South] Korea and Japan, which are extreme outliers.) The answer: Vanishingly small amounts. And, it continues to fall each decade.

"[P]rices of housing, healthcare, education, retirement" -- is this true in socialist market economies in Continental Europe, like Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Denmark? No, it is not. I will admit: Life for middle class (and below) in the UK is surely worse in the last decade for all of the above that you mention.
Higher likelihood of preventing serious illness, including from variants. Fewer reports of serious side effects, especially side effects that preclude vaccination from an ethics perspective in certain age cohorts and regions.
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>You haven't been hearing it twenty years either.

Back in the year 2000, someone created the Deadmalls.com website:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadmalls.com

...just a few random items from DDG:

From 2000: "Retail Darwinism Puts Old Malls in Jeopardy"

"The fully enclosed shopping mall, that island of boxy chain stores and lost apostrophes in a sea of asphalt, was not born in California. But this seems to be the place where people are digging its grave, at least in its present form."

https://web.archive.org/web/20150527125625/https://www.nytim...

From 2001: "Dying shopping malls reborn as old-fashioned downtowns"

https://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2001-12-12/article...

From 2003: "Malls: Death of an American icon"

https://web.archive.org/web/20030707142032/https://money.cnn...

Cory Doctorow was talking about dead malls in 2003:

https://boingboing.net/2003/04/19/dead-mall-contest-re.html

From 1998: "Enclosed malls losing luster as well as tenants"

"Mintz thinks the vacancies signal a deeper problem -- that malls are outdated and out of touch with the needs of today's shoppers."

https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/1998/02/09/st...

And it turns out there was a book published in 2002:

"Greyfields into Goldfields: Dead Malls become Living Neighborhoods"

https://www.amazon.com/Greyfields-into-Goldfields-become-Nei...
A tornado with a particular placement could be a precursor to all of these things. Missouri has had some of the deadliest tornado's on record. Supporting thousands of people requires a lot of food, and if a sizeable portion of your crop is destroyed by a major weather event, people have to leave town.