skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to write something that would be "spreadsheet" like that would work as a normal desktop app, as a component in a server application and on the command line as well.

Combine that with all of the other grandiose plans (writing extension in WASM) then it's no wonder that I wasn't making too much progress... interesting though!
It depends... I think cryptocurrencies might be luring clueless people away from the stock market and into the crypto market, which is probably a good thing for the stock market even if it means lower returns in the short term.
The FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organization agency of the United Nations) doesn't quite agree with you on http://www.fao.org/edible-insects/en/:

"Edible insects contain high quality protein, vitamins and amino acids for humans. Insects have a high food conversion rate, e.g. crickets need six times less feed than cattle, four times less than sheep, and twice less than pigs and broiler chickens to produce the same amount of protein. Besides, they emit less greenhouse gases and ammonia than conventional livestock."
Faraday cages do not stop Xrays, the wavelength can be smaller than the atomic spacing of metals.
> Nor are large insect farms producing meat for human consumption.

Isn't this just a matter of adaption? The "insects->chickens->humans" problem seems like a temporary one and not the ultimate fallacy. I would love to eat insects. The few I've tried in Southeast Asia were very tasty.
Uhm, are you aware of

Ultra™ 1 Creator SeriesService Manual at

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19127-01/ultra1.ws/802-4148-11/8... ?

edit: or rather https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19127-01/ultra1.ws/
Yeah I can see the association with the coat of arms - not like I had a great understanding of the currency naming or anything but went to check since I knew "escudo" had to have been in use after the implementation of the republic (which dethroned the royal house) - and in fact they substituted the "real" by the "escudo". It's a fun take having it named directly as "shield", since the ability to control the money production can be seen as a weapon/defence.
All of those are interesting properties, but they are all unproven at scale and it's unclear whether they are "better" for humans than the things they claim to replace.

- Smart contracts can only effectively secure digital assets and entitlements that can be transferred electronically. Ultimately anything physical requires legal and physical entities to enforce. As an example: it's fine to put property contracts on a blockchain, but proving who owns what property is rarely a real world problem. We have land registries for this, and it's in everyone's interest to keep copies of sales contracts and sign them under witness. You still need bailiffs and lawyers to get squatters or bad tenants out of your property.

- I don't think 'centralized' exchanges are really a problem. There are hundreds of stock exchanges throughout the globe, tens of thousands of brokers and huge off-book markets. We live in a highly decentralized system already. There's an argument that Average Joe can't access these markets, but this is changing with traditional solutions already (see: Robinhood etc).

- decentralized finance (lending, investing, etc). Again, this doesn't work for lending secured against hard assets like property (i.e. mortgages). You need courts to deal with grievances over ownership, and this is where the costs lie. Solving the paperwork problem is not interesting.

- instant borderless value transfer. Well, Transferwise and many more obscure, specialized companies offer this already, and waiting a 24 hours for a big, global transfer in the worst case isn't really a big deal.

The bottom line is the needs of most people are already well served by traditional blockchainless services, and where they're not it's not obvious that they can't be.
It was only after the first year. And there were ways to bypass it if I remember correctly.
Are you daft? I'm not offering what I think of other people's opinions as an argument about vaccination. I'm responding to your assertion that there is actually valuable debate to be had with rubes whose only argument is "I don't like being told what to do".
I think a common issue with cargo-cult technologies/languages/frameworks is that although the ultimate benefit might be great, there is often a significant cost to get there that makes it not worth it for some people/companies.

For example, is Go a great language? No doubt. Is it worth ditching a load of code we already have and take the time to learn how to do it well? Not necessarily. Are microservices cool? Absolutely. Should everyone use them? Definitely not.

People who see "Go is great" and immediately start down that path do not understand that context is everything.
Unlike the broadcast OLED displays, those Bravias use normal LCD panels. They're closer to consumer TVs, but lack the TV tuner for legal reasons.

If you're just using it over HDMI, it would work fine as a main TV. The added brightness would may be appreciated.

The gotcha is that it already runs an outdated version of Android(9.0). Sony consumer TVs that released back then didn't have ads. It was only a later Google update that added ads to the UI.[1] No guarantees these signage displays will be safe if you updated them over the internet.

[1] https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/ads-in-smart-tv#remove-sony-...
Here's our token-based (JWT) user management server using Deno - if you want to see an example.

https://github.com/pmprosociety/authcompanion
It probably is true but as with all cost/currency comparisons you can't really look at the raw pre-tax figures in isolation to know if someone has more buying power doing the same job in one country or another.

Everything from the price of broadband, pint of milk, loaf of bread, healthcare, car costs, etc etc contributes to someones buying power vs their salary
I'm not arguing that it's not widely used. Just that you can't do XX million downloads equals X million users.
This can also be applied to the stock market as it is used today, the majority of people don’t care about dividends or voting rights, only the price, with company earnings serving the sole purpose of predicting the future price at the expected time of selling to another person. Crypto is just the end game of that behavior where it’s not hidden.

Edit: also apart from making us question theses behaviors in other markets if that speculating behavior is bound to exist then at least it’s relatively harmless compared to doing that with real estate or commodities like food or water. Better that bank exec making that with dogecoin than other real stuff.
I'm slightly put out (personally) to see Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin in some kind of parity. Surely only one is making music to listen to and thus the genuine article, the other only making music to actively ignore whilst on. Takes allsorts, I guess.
Nice! Pet peeve of mine:

>"A side note: The screen looks amazing, I was blow away with the crispness of the 1280x1024 resolution on this monitor. I really wish it was just a bit smaller."

1280x1024 is the wrong resolution for a CRT, someone is sure to correct me but I have never seen a 5:4 aspect ratio CRT of that size. It is likely 4:3, so the resolution would be 1280x960. Or the next step 1600x1200.

Yet 1280x1024 was a really popular resolution on CRTs for some reason. 17" and 19" LCDs were the only real displays that had a 5:4 aspect ratio, at least in "modern" times.
My favourite example of a word that has entered English is "loot", which derives from the Hindi word "lūṭ", and was bought back by members of the British East India Company during the early years of them doing exactly that to India.

It just so perfectly encapsulates the empire.
If you're in the EU, that DVD player won't have a EULA attached. If you're in the US, it will.
Good programmers are slow programmers. We are not in a sprint (no pun intended) but a marathon.
SI units are now defined directly in terms of physical laws (no prototypes needed).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...
I have been tutoring here and I have found the platform really well developed for largescale tutoring that avoids any discrimination bias or other ways of ruining young students development and perspective on learning!
The way it one of the ways it work is that Vlad the blackmailer buys a bunch of digital artwork from Irina the artist using bitcoin, who then convert the bitcoin to cash in order to purchase something for her husband Vlad the legitimate businessman.

And because none of the wallets aren't accurately linked to real persons all tree actors in the above transaction could be the same entity with 3 distinct fictional personas.

Add to that that the former soviet block is littered with regions where nobody really agrees on who the legitimate government is and where the entire economy happens using foreign currency, there is plenty of ways to deliberately block investigations from simply following the money trail.
Sure, although the rust v8 bindings don’t appear to support FreeBSD as i just found out when i tried to install deno on FreeBSD 13:

> cargo install --locked deno

Compiling rusty_v8 v0.22.2
error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> /home/craig/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/rusty_v8-0.22.2/build.rs:157:18
|
157 | fn platform() -> &'static str {
| -------- ^^^^^^^^^^^^ expected `&str`, found `()`
| |
| implicitly returns `()` as its body has no tail or `return` expression

error: aborting due to previous error

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0308`.
error: could not compile `rusty_v8`

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: failed to compile `deno v1.10.1`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `/tmp/cargo-installwrTFWi`

Caused by:
build failed
Here https://archive.is/7m7fI
I'd say that Germans are repeatedly goated into hating or fearing one thing or another because media randomly pick up talking points from activists and then try to outdo each other by running that story to death while stirring up a public outcry. Google Street View was just unlucky enough to fall victim to one of these public bashing cycles.
The addition of sandboxed storage (i.e. access to localStorage and sessionStorage APIs without requiring disk permission) is really interesting.

It seems very in line with the model of deno as an edge compute runtime - esentially ephemeral cache on the edge - I wonder what usecases will emerge for this?
I did this some 12 years, clearly this predates covid. I didn't think they'd be that interested in despite my job clearly being doable remotely. I ended up working out how much my commute cost me in £ and then offered that they can reduce my salary by that much AND i'll just work from home.
Then threw in some "I'll always be available over video chat" and if something is VERY important (not just team meetings) then you'll offer to come in.
The odd time i do need to go in, i tend to travel in my lunch break. Takes about 90 minutes, but ...i can make up that 30 minutes.

I've worked from home ever since, rejecting numerous jobs of twice my salary ....as quite simply i don't want 4 extra hours of travel each day.
There are gps trackers for dogs (I mention these because they are extremely available) that use cellular data. They track much better, faster, more accurate.

If I wanted to track someone to the point that I’d disable an AirTag speaker, I’d not bother with an AirTag.
I don't know what there is to keep up. email realizes a basic concept of open, federated, async, text based communication. it has its flaws but it's as useful as it was.
Writing code is 10 times harder than debugging code if you write the code to be easy to debug. Partly because writing such code is harder and partly thanks to reducing the debug burden.
Just follow their path: choose the framework you know best.
Lots of people here recommending that they should have just built an VSCode plugin. That is the wrong take IMHO. Arduino is a platform, they need to be in control of their platform. If they'd just became a VSCode plugin, they'd be at the hands of Microsoft and quite vulnerable to radical changes in VSCode.
ITJobsWatch [0] suggests the median salary for a Senior Dev role in London is around 75k currently.

[0] https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/london/senior%20developer...
> That's easy.

For code that is not yours, or code that you open a year later, I think it's easier to specify the type. Exactly as when you see something like "var x = some_function();" and you need to know the type.
> Hard to say whether cryptos behaves as gold, as some crypto does have uses beyond being sold to someone else for a higher price.

Well, gold has numerous uses in the real world. https://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml
> But plants also suffer, right?

As far as we know they neither feel pain nor are they sentinent.
Chip and PIN was rolled-out in the UK in late 2003
The last set of images has some really scary generated humans via the GAN they were comparing against in the male w/ fish examples.
But the bad ecosystem in npm is one of the main reason he made deno, that's what deno/std is for.

While not stable yet, they are working to address this very issue

Zig is looking great but also, solving a different problem
Companies are in general productive goods. An investor may not care about decades of dividends ahead, but they are there. They are paid (in the long term) from value created, not just a FIFO bubble.
I see that attitude as a symptom of professional boredom. Some people like shipping products, some people like solving problems. Sometimes people who like problems build complex products to solve imaginary problems.
Not in emails, you got that right.
As long as we can have quarantine of cities, then we will have quarantine of countries => deadlock, each country, like now will restrict movement from other countries, thus making the freedom of movement almost impractical for everybody.

So I think in this case (we are in a global pandemic) it makes sense to see freedom of movement not in a binary way (yes/no) but more in shades: allow more movement of more people as we get better at containing the pandemic.

Also please note EU is not a federal state, nor many of the founding members want that to be. So countries have a lot of power to decide how to handle pandemic. Still I think EU as a block did a good job negotiating vaccines in the context of not having a unity or a fast decision process.

So while I don't agree with restricting rights, I also don't agree with restricting rights of people who can move (like the ones vaccinated or immunised naturally) just because everybody cannot do it (cannot get vaccinated for personal or medical reasons).
Uninformed take: this looks to me like an example of ‘style transfer’. If so, it doesn’t seem as compelling as other examples I’ve seen before, eg making a photo look like a Van Gogh using a single painting as input, which has been around for a few years. Can someone with better knowledge in this area explain if I’m missing something?
Your claim is undermined by migration from more-equal-but-poorer countries to less-equal-but-richer ones.
> I have zero interest in participating even if returns were guaranteed - that's not how I want to make money

This is my thinking too. But I can't fully get rid of the FOMO. What if I could turn my thousands into millions? It would change my life forever.
If only Elastic Common Schema would emerge as a common log format. It's flexible but still structured.
Even without TEMPEST considerations, once you got up to about 19" or so, CRT monitors got to be downright heavy. Then there was my folks' old TV set, a 36" flat-screen CRT monster that was difficult even for two to lift. That thick slab of glass on the front must have been half its mass. Moving it required planning.
To me that version is much more reflective of the actual potential of this method than "GTA Düsseldorf dash cam". When watching the images produced with that one I get the sense that the sense of realism is enhanced by the dashcam-style image degradations and could be largely emulated in-engine (green LUT, blur + glow filters to emulate lens issues).
Yes, but I'm sure most employment contracts say something to the effect of "you will not grant unauthorized access to company property or systems."

And the fact that the employee was paid, shows that the interest was in the employee's favor, not the businesses. (conflict of interest)

It's the same as if a salesperson said "I'll give you $500 to help me get into your office building, and navigate me to the payroll department's desk. I just wanna understand the layout for a meeting I want to have in a few weeks."
It all boils down to where you draw the border of "self". It's relatively easy to draw a gaussian shell around your brain, but do you also draw it around your physical body?

Do you draw your shell around your children?

What about your group identity such as your neighborhood, town, sports team, or country.

Can you draw this shell around abstract ideas that you consider core to your being?

Where you draw that shell might change your level of empathy for other people.
Yeah the communication with V8 and all the API are in rust, V8 is still in c++
> Not to mention that email absolutely sucks. The confusing threads,

I mean, the threads are only confusing if people keep insisting on using shit email clients.

> the forwarding, the constant CC'ing,

Think of it as defining a chatroom. Most of the time it can be handled just fine automatically by your email client, but you can also have more finegrained control if you wish.

> someone making it or not making it into a list,

?

> the spam.

This I will agree with.

> Will the author's next big revelation be "How to use a hammer for everything?"

Yeah, I don't agree with the author that email should be used for everything. But for non-instant, asynchronousm, flexible, decentralized, cross-platform communication it's pretty damn near perfect.
Sure, but the thing being traded for these are US Dollars which are, by explicit design, worse than pretty much any other asset over the long term. Not only do they go down in value, but they go down in value in a difficult to predict pattern and more rapidly in crisises.

Holding almost literally anything nonperishable is better than dollars. We can argue what it is, but if anyone has any optimism at all about the future of Dogecoin then there is a price point where it makes a lot of sense to buy Dogecoin rather than dollars.
Alive pills Review, work or a scam?
We need to understand is that, while many cryptocurrencies are completely worthless, some cryptocurrencies have solid reasons to exist.

Your characterization of all cryptocurrencies as a ponzi scheme purely based on the fact that people buy it because they believe others will buy it later at a higher price is weak because that is how all monetary assets like gold operates. We take it because we believe others will also take in the future.

I personally buy bitcoin not to sell for a higher price but rather, I believe strongly that a monetary system that's provably scarce, programmable, completely decentralized, permission-less, trustless, higly divisible, borderless and very easy to transfer has the potential to revolutionize how we store value.

This does not mean that everyone buys bitcoin because of this, some (perhaps majority) buy it because they believe it's going to go up but I see that as an initial incentive to get people into the industry.

At the end of the day, only time will tell if cryptocurrencies can actually live up to their promises of revolutionizing the financial system.
> Two. Releasing work is generally beneficial for the world. I can't think of a single model release that has ever harmed the world. Let's wait until one actually does before we freak out about whether it might.

I like a lot of the idealism in this comment, and learned a few things too, so thanks for that. I'm not an ML researcher, which may cloud my views a bit, but I think you would be hardpressed to think that the release of ML models hasn't harmed the world. Perhaps we haven't reached AGI, but we don't need to for the release of ML models to harm the world.

I'll give two examples:
1) image detection - Now that image detection is good enough, surveillance in dictatorships can be run more efficiently and scalably in a way KGB couldn't have dreamt of. Even if the release of a model like YOLO saves an hour's worth of time of an ML researcher working for the dictatorship on their surveillance project, this can cause a lot of harm to the oppressed ppl living in those countries.

2) troll bots based on GPT-2. You gave an example of high-quality, human-quality propaganda, but what troll bots lack in quality can be made up by quantity. If you run a lot of troll bots and can sway the dominant viewpoint on all the forums you want to target (which you can since these bots are infinitely scalable), you've achieved your purpose. I also think you are overestimating the quality needed to influence the average person's worldview. For example, we saw from the Cambridge Analytica news that all they had to do to affect a few swing voters' behavior was target them with a few ads. I personally read through some of the example output from GPT-3 and if I were browsing a forum, I wouldn't be all that confident whether they were a bot or not.
If you wonder why authorities tolerate current climate of Ponzi schemes, it's probably because of the expectations this crypto tech will become stable and reliable enough to begin transition to crypto-based currencies with emission controlled by central banks. Some countries already started research and development.
Running virt-manager and libvirt on macOS
I think it's more common in europe because the first industrial producer of chip card was created in France (Gemplus, now Gemalto). In France, payment cards are "dual network" : any card is either Visa OR Mastercard AND also "CB". "CB" is a payment network managed by the "GIE Carte Bancaire" owned by all french banks.

CB dealt with Gemplus to add chip to all new cards emitted since 1992 so we had them for a long time. I don't know how it spread over europe, but as we had the industrial capacity to provide chip cards to everyone and a free market, I think it was easy to sell that to lots of european banks. CHIP+PIN is a really great deal for banks : it's cheap and the responsibility of all payments made with the PIN is on the card owner and are really hard (or impossible) to dispute.
The key similarity in all those situations was a loss of productive capacity.

The Confederate currency wasn't backed by any assets, so it lost value as their defeat became more likely. Apparently, it lost 20% of it's value after the battle of Gettysburg.

Zimbabwe's government seized the land of white farmers and gave them to people who lacked farming knowledge and experience. Predictably, their output cratered, sparking the hyperinflationary spiral.

Germany lost a huge amount of it's productive capabilities due to the Treaty of Versailles. Keynes wrote a fantastic book (The Economic Consequences of Peace) that lays the economic case for why the Treaty would be a disaster. Germany basically had much of its land, equipment, and other assets seized while also being saddled with significant war debts. They were effectively forced into hyperinflation by the structure of the treaty.
> Yes but there is no existing way to poison illegitimately gained bitcoins as not eligible for use with legitimate purchases

I am curious about this. If Uncle Sam serves Coinbase notice that it considers the contents of XYZ wallet to be stolen goods, then haven't they created lower-value coloured coins, and won't other exchanges start creating lists of those pretty quickly?