skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lost a lot of respect for Kenji after this incident:

López-Alt wrote that “it hasn’t happened yet, but if you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served, same as if you come in wearing a swastika, white hood, or any other symbol of intolerance and hate.” He added, “MAGA hats are like white hoods except stupider because you can see exactly who is wearing them.” Both tweets have since been deleted. [1]

[1] https://www.grubstreet.com/2019/02/j-kenji-lopez-alt-maga-ha...
> wallet keys get lost making stored bitcoins unavailable

This does not remove Bitcoin from the network, just because it is never spent.

> The developers/community may very well decide to change the total amount of bitcoins available in the future

Actually it's not possible. You can fork the network if you get some level of consensus from developers, miners and node runners (not to mention a community that is willing to accept their value be debased) and increase the supply, but then by definition your coin is not on the Bitcoin chain, it is on your new forked chain.
Railways, Bell.

Source: I use the Internet today and can see the effects firsthand, I'm part of an industry that exists pretty much because of that breakup. This stuff is pretty well documented.
I'm aware. I'm making fun of the fact he says it literally every time he peels ginger, which is like every video. I've heard him say the same line like 30 times.
I don't know for certain, but I bet the number of universities has decreased. There were thousands of small colleges in every small town. Many have gone out of business. The state colleges have really increased in size but many small colleges have disappeared.
> It hasn't because its patently false. Both the gold confiscation in 1931 and cutting the cord of gold-backing in 1971 were both done as desparately rushed moves to reneg on the governments promise to uphold the value of the dollar. These weren't thoughtful reasoned well discussed actions. It had nothing to do with technology or best practices. It was a purely a politically expedient way to prevent collapse of an insolvent dollar.

I take it you haven't read any mainstream macroeconomic analysis written over the course of the past century, the theory, analytical techniques and predictions which informs modern central banking practices. I have. It is certainly not patently false to suggest that there has been plenty of discussion and implementation of newer ideas, an enormous amount of focus on the dynamic of inflation, and the result is very few economists seeing any sense in the notion that the optimum quantity of money to support the growth of the United States happens to coincide with fluctuations in world gold output.

But even aside from the actual theory and techniques, part of the knowledge base is simply concluding that if it was necessary break a system to prevent the collapse of an insolvent dollar, it is probably best not to attempt to recreate that state of economic affairs.

> You don't run experiments in macroeconomics. Controls are impossible. And studies have so many confounding variables that any conclusions we come to are many orders of magnitude less certain than anything in the hard sciences.

We agree it's not a hard science, and that natural experiments are very difficult (they are especially difficult when a proposal like "maybe we should try to ensure a particular USD aggregate stays at a certain level, and raise interest rates as high as necessary to keep it at that level" results in mass unemployment. When "maybe we should fix the interest rates instead" turns out to result in inflation remaining within predictable ranges for the next three decades, it is even harder to recommend the former policy). Similarly, if the Gold Standard fails to deliver the stability it promises, and then its vociferous minority of advocates promise hyperinflation is around the corner every year for decades without ever being right, new theories which accurately predict inflation take over.

> I never said any such thing.

I may have misunderstood you. If we agree that the Great Depression and Long Depression were examples of significant economic crises in addition to periodic smaller financial panics and forced devaluations, we agree. I see that as a pretty good indication our current financial crises are less worse, especially given our current policy framework gives us tools other than "wait it out" to ameliorate the suffering.
> you should still be able to do it, and still be able to fix the car yourself and get replacement parts.

So should manufacturers be responsible for providing replacement parts? For all of their products components?

For how long? For ever? If say for only 10 years, on what basis would it be 10 years and not 5 or 15?
The average women has a degree, it doesn't say much about her at all.
I #edlp at Walmart on the ecommerce product and this makes total sense to me. We're completely stuck in a morass of jousting middle managers split along architectural tiers (think backend team, front end team, analytics team, etc).

RCAs quickly devolve into passive aggressive finger pointing as people twist and turn to avoid blame. My manager just the other day chided me for digging into a latency issue that reached into the backend because "it isn't our team's problem."
For stuff like sight things are very rigid. You will have a Jennifer Anderson neuron, that will fire everytime you see her picture.
Stock is good too, any asset to escape fiat; but it’s the currency properties of bitcoin that have advantages over it - like 24/7 market. Not to mention portability. Transferability. Self-custody.

The valuation of companies should reflect production, however any sensible extrapolations of thus in recent times are no different than speculation in cryptocurrencies. It’s all perception. That’s all money is — a shared delusion that something stores value.
Low acceptance rates are a key metric to marketing, and schools try very hard to drive the denominator up.

I have a highschooler and I see how students fixate on this number.

So while acceptance rates don't say anything about the quality of the school they are very meaningful to the school's marketing machine.
Enlightening commentary. Thanks for sharing it.
Years ago I had an exchange with him on twitter where he argued that some pre-made taco sauce kit (possibly from Frontera?) made a kind of taco (possibly al-pastor or something like that) that was superior and more authentic tasting than any corresponding kind of taco he could get at taquerias in NYC. It was an absolutely insane and inane twitter argument to engage in but also there was no way that it made any sense to take that stand. He just kind of dug in on things and had hot takes back in the day -- he's mellowed since those days but I will always remember that weird interaction.

Now that he's more into videos and his presence is about instruction and eduction through example as opposed to making a splash with authoritative longform pieces and deriving the perfect recipes and guides through Serious Eats he comes across as more welcoming to all approaches but there were times in the past when he pounded the foodie gavel.
All those words derive from the same Proto-Indo-European root, *kwel- : https://www.etymonline.com/word/*kwel-
That's exactly my point. It's very difficult to scale wealth. Still Germany is very wealthy for it's size.
Usually with esoteric distros you run into problems with binary packages and packages based on uncommonly used languages.

It'll probably work as a daily driver if you mainly live in a web browser and don't do GPGPU/games/new languages/etc. If you don't mind building from source you can even do most of those.

For what it's worth the project seems very well structured and the contributors very competent and motivated. I am tracking the project.
Pretty much. The economists created this mess using their magic number science, then look down at the broken scramble and are confused? Assuming rational actors...
A fun example of the opposite – a pair of very similar words that have totally different etymologies – are "carouse" and "carousel". The former comes via French from German "gar aus", an exclamation with the same meaning as "drink up" in English (literally, "quite out"). The latter, on the other hand, also comes via French but from Italian, and originally means a type of military drill or display executed by horsemen.
Not to mention, a lot of older housing which ends up being cheaper, has just a myriad of problems with it. They become massive money pits or take well beyond 10+ years to even make a dent beyond the interest paid. Plus you need to fix them constantly or put up with a subpar experience. Over time, I guarantee you save more time renting than you ever will buying a home. People forget to factor that moving the law, blowing snow, paying property taxes and insurance all factor in as additional costs to maintaining property. That amounts to time lost. Unlike money, you can never get that back.
Real humans don't make relationship decisions based on data analysis.
Platform owner gives its own content preferential treatment?? Incredible
right now, I can reasonably afford a $1.3 million mortgage. i could do more if i was willing to lose the ability to save/invest, and also rent out multiple rooms to strangers

there is nothing at that price point (or below) that i would consider worth the current cost, in any of the cities that I actually want to live in. and even if I found something, it's so unfair that my property tax rate would be so much higher compared to others (california)

i'm just going to save money, invest in things that arent real estate, and emigrate at some point. i think the only exception is if I married someone who was given a house by their family. not too unlikely in the bay area or in southern california, but it's still not something i can bank on. i wouldn't even want to if it was.
Yes she is
Spotted a bug. Using Firefox on Windows.

1. Add UFO example block.

2. Add Filter

3. Set filter options to Year, Equals, 1945

4. No results, and the Equals dropdown changes to Please Select.
I've gotten more educational value out of his cooking videos, where he straps on a GoPro and cooks a dish, than from most recipe posts. There are nuances about the cooking process that textual recipes simply lack the bandwidth to capture.
I've worked a bunch of jobs over the years where i've ended up being in the homes of a lot of middle class - upper class people, not that it doesn't happen with working class people too, but anyway a common thing i would see was young men my own age or older living at home with their parents, not employed.

I remember one lady in particular tried desperately to see if we could get her son a job. He'd taken a crane operator course but was scared of heights. He wouldn't even come in the room or speak with us.

The thing is, this guy didn't even seem to help at home. His mom had went out and mowed the entire very large, very sloped front yard before she came in to ask us about a job for her son. He sat in the basement the whole time.

Or the time on a weekday afternoon, dude comes out in his jimjams yelling at his mom to make breakfast while she's trying to deal with us in her kitchen which was mostly not usable.

Then there was all the people in that age range i worked with who would last less than a week. People who'd show on their first day and immediately ask when break time was or people who'd just walk out half way through the day or people who'd just straight up say they don't care and they'd rather be at home smoking weed.

Anyway, this got a bit ranty, i've got plenty more stories from over the years. Suffice to say, this is a trend i've seen a lot over the years first hand.
if that is the case you should have enough manpower to make use of basebackups+wal-e/wal-g and than once your up, flipping it over to logical.

of course it is not as easy as having vitess, but vitess was not built in a day.
Of course non-pure Lisps and JavaScript pretty much only differ in syntax, so there is no "new interaction possible".

They are more powerful than the basic formula languages in most spreadsheet software, which is why spreadsheet software usually offers the ability to write custom functions using traditional programming languages.
> Fiat money is simply money that is asserted to be valuable.

No. This is absolutely not the historical or academic definition of this term.

From investopedia:

> Fiat money gives central banks greater control over the economy because they can control how much money is printed. [0]

To (in the passive voice, no less) that any money which "is asserted to be valuable" is fiat money makes every object ever valued by any human into fiat money.

Moreover, it manufactures consent because it takes away the crucial ability to talk about money which can be capriciously inflated vs. money which cannot. And being in the latter category is, according to Bitcoin proponents (heck, according to me), among Bitcoin's strengths.

0: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp
>but it's inaccurate and I wish we'd stop using it.

You’re not making sense.

Is your beef with being referred to by a color?
Or, is it being referred to with an inaccurate color?

The video — and your post — seems to ask people to open their eyes and realize people come in all kinds of colors.

We’re supposed to say, “Wow. That’s so profound! How enlightening!”

Whatever. It’s an obvious fact.

What, then, is the point of the video?

What purpose is served by focusing on skin color?

Nobody thinks Blacks are literally black. Nobody thinks Whites are literally white.
> D) Force businesses to buy ads to survive

> Text: The bill would make it unlawful to do anything that "conditions access to the covered platform or preferred status on the platform on the purchase or use of other products or services offered by the covered platform operator."

> Analysis: This is very clearly aimed at advertising on Amazon, potentially Google as well, where merchants often must pay to gain visibility in the search results.

Doesn't this basically outlaw ads? Aren't all ads "preferred status on the platform"? If I offer a product on amazon, and there are already hundreds of other people offering the same thing, who already have a lot of sales and reviews, how else should I be able to gain visibility other then by buying an ad?
I do. See also #guix and #nonguix on libera
Of course I don't mean Edtech platforms that simply try to transfer universities online. There's something overcooked there that doesn't work imo.
This seems like a strange question. All computing today uses binary code. We often write things in other bases for convenience, but at the hardware level, it is nothing but ones and zeroes.

But maybe you are asking about uses of independent bits. A maximally efficient representation for a set with a fixed universe of members uses each bit position in a large-enough integer type to represent presence or absence of a possible member. Then, AND and OR operations correspond to set intersection and union operations. C++ provides std::bitset for this use. Useful such sets include days in the week or month, and letters in the alphabet.

The article mentions chess, where you might have a 64-bit word to represent the positions of (say) all the pawns on the board. Fairly simple bitwise operations identify all the positions those pawns threaten.

Modern symmetric cryptographic primitives often use principally bitwise operations, including shifts.
Hey, it’s Jorge the CTO of Slingshow here. The security claims refer to all the video/audio in the product and were passed on from our video infrastructure providers[0][1]. Unless you are recording on the Stage, the video/audio doesn’t touch our servers. The WebRTC protocol actually mandates connections and signaling are encrypted with the Secure Real Time Protocol (SRTP).

But, I’ve spent the last hour reviewing the details and Daily mentions end to end encryption for P2P calls only and it seems Agora doesn’t mention it at all! It seems the WebRTC SFU servers (middlemen needed for calls greater than 4ish) require encryption and decryption server side breaking end to end encryption. This was all really concerning to me, and I think Agora used to claim they were end to end encrypted[2] and then their marketing became part of our marketing early on :(. I have removed all security claims from our website as we reevaluate how we approach security. Sorry about this HN.

[0] https://docs.agora.io/en/Agora%20Platform/security?platform=...

[1] https://www.daily.co/security

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23026101
People are unable to accurately judge quality before they make a purchase, and often well after the purchase the quality is uncertain too. Who knows how long it'll take before you find out that your cheap USB charger was made of shoddy materials and will catch on fire when it fails?

But you can know the exact price before the purchase.

People are optimizing based on the information they have.
U.S. UFO Report Doesn’t Explain Mystery Sightings but Finds No Sign of Aliens
I would tend to agree were it not for the decreasing participation in the labor force - that's not doing anything to increase the size of your rocket.
He's also said that those were intended to be examples of all out recipes. The accompanying article will then describe what each component makes. At that point the reader/cook is expected to determine what subset of the often over engineered recipe fits their tastes/desired level of effort.

"The best" and "Perfect" sounds a heckuva lot better than "way over the top" :)
Have you tried using MetaMask or WalletConnect as a sign in tool? It's great. The extension pops up with a message indicating the app is requesting access to account. You click yay or nay. MetaMask already has millions of users and growing rapidly.

Average people didn't know how to use email 30 years ago. Didn't know how to use GPS 20 years ago. Didn't know how to use social media 15 years ago. Didn't know how to hail an Uber 10 years ago (and still thought riding in cars with strangers was dangerous).

I think they can be educated.
A silly argument. Electricity isn’t finite and we can essentially generate as much as is demanded.
Highly recommend the game Pathologic then. A Russian subversion of video games as a medium (the vast majority of players don't finish it despite it being very short)
What exactly is diy electrical work? Many states let you file a homestead permit to do your own non-trivial electrical work.
The proportion of women with degrees differs from country to country, and often isn’t “the average woman” at all. And sure, having a degree is certainly no guarantee of erudition, but in most countries, women without a degree are even less likely to possess the kind of erudition I was talking about. To the point where a degree does function as a basic prerequisite.
My favorite tip from Kenji is for the grilled cheese sandwich. I don't follow his recipe for 99% of it, but slicing a garlic clove and rubbing it on lightly toasted bread before making the grilled cheese completely enhances the sandwich without really adding an ingredient. Thats why its my favorite tip.
Hey, stop doxxing me! Just kidding, but this post accurately describes my 20s and early 30s.

I’ve been ‘born again’ twice, once after opiate addiction and once after alcohol. I had an adult parent enabling me throughout as well. Two rock bottom moments, after the first I decided to disregard the advice I was given, and it didn’t take. The second time, I was humbled and did the work by heeding the advice I was given again. Sober house and outpatient after the inpatient stay, getting a job after outpatient, going to meetings for a year, and staying sober.

Almost 6 years later, I went from making $10/hr part time to a salaried position making low six figures in total compensation. I have a much healthier relationship with my adult enabler parent and have paid back a substantial amount of the money I guilted them out of over the years. My relationships with family have never been better, I have a great partner, and a job I enjoy. It is possible to escape, but sometimes does require a rock bottom moment.

I also spent a considerable amount of time escaping into games and TV shows, there’s a lot of overlap there with drug addiction, escapism, gambling/day trading, etc.
Not sure to understand the point made between European Spanish cuisine and the Colombian one ?
It’s because for cultural reasons US people ascribe elite status to precisely those ten colleges. Or T14 in some cases.

If the US ascribed sainted elite status to the top 100 colleges to the top 100 colleges, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. By contrast in Canada if you went to UBC, McGill or UBC people assume you are smart.
I can't believe I didn't know about Spanish tortilla before. Easily the best egg dish and also maybe the best way I currently know to prepare potatoes at home now. And they get better when they're cold! I've wasted my life!

I've made dozens since last summer, and Kenji's technique in the video has been pretty much bulletproof for me.

His extra-creamy scrambled egg is also a mainstay now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX-Y513ohbc --- I love how little patience he has with macho restaurant culture, and that he won't even link to Gordon Ramsay, who popularized the dish.
Would you mind sharing how much you pay for S3? I assume you’ve considered options like Backblaze B2 and Wasabi?
Except none of those things is actually happening. Its like saying playing Monopoly is the same as being a real estate magnate. It just isn't, and emotionally the people using the video game as a crutch know it.
> My view is that if the only reason you are doing something is because of the insurance implications, then you've surely made the wrong decision.

In this situation, I am paying someone else to assume risk for me. That is, I suppose, a type of insurance, in a very broad sense.

However, I am not in any way relying on my interests and the other person's to be aligned, except in the sense of performing the work they are legally contracted to perform. All I am doing is asking this person to assume some risk for me, in exchange for which I provide them a fee.

Short of "take on all the risk yourself", which, even if perhaps desirable (I'm not sure …), is often not feasible, what is a better approach here?