skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's directly relevant. It's an example of a large company forcing its users to learn how to implement a somewhat complicated bypass to an app store to avoid having to follow its rules, something that no one tries on Apple because of how tightly Apple controls its ecosystem.
This author is prolific. I wish I had so much time. I really don't understand how people can do so much.
APY on stacking won't be as good as today. I am not sure everyone will stake once ETH2 rewards will be around 1-2%.

ETH2 won't be deflationary because such things is nearly impossible in a PoS network. You need issuance to rewards validators. It can't be network fees because if network fees are high, the network is doom to fail.
I'm sorry for your father. It's sad to see Musk fan the cultism in his followers :-(
Or when you need anything more than to run a few very basic services ( like a PHP app with apache and mysql).

AWS have managed services for a lot of different things, which save a lot of time on maintenance. Object storage? Message queue? Any type of database? ML? etc. etc. etc.

And of course, there's the scalability. With on-prem it's a careful balancing act of buying enough capacity to have space to expand but not too much to waste it, and you have to regularly keep an eye out lest you hit a limit with multi-week lead times ( e.g. you're out of storage, and buying a new shelf can take weeks to be usable).
From my rudimentary understanding (i.e., what I've just read on the homepage) I don't know how "blockchain" fits into this, but I could make a guess that api signatures are "blockchain verified"?

From that same rudimentary understanding, I would also expect performance to be comparable to Tor.
You lost me at "blockchain".
It really does make life miserable in a low key way. Of course it depends a lot on the organisation and the personalities that you work with, particularly management but I would say for every 1 great manager who notices and appreciates your contributions there are 9 who don't.

I have a very cynical perspective of workplace dynamics because I've been (and seen others) burnt too many times for taking the initiative or being (in my opinion) too naive in their relationship with management and HR.

edit: I think i was a bit too harsh my original comment. I think it is good to make yourself disposable (to yourself) but not to the company. If that makes sense. I have lots of documentation and cmd scripts for basic automation but I avoid sharing them on internal wikis or repos. I only share them with devs on request informally.
I own my home, it's an economic logical choice.
Just like you I also have my music and movies as "real files" and not in the cloud.

But renting a car that would show up at my door and can drive it self back? Man, that would be cool.
Would just need it a few time per year.
> often with many spelling errors that led many commenters to be pretty sure that it was working just fine

"i'm not high, i can do perfecly things functionally" pretty much sums that up - https://www.reddit.com/r/researchchemicals/comments/67g4a7/e... ("my memory is semi crystal clear" is also a great claim)
Man, this shit is depressing to read as someone who just joined LE and sees mostly people who really want to help victims.
Bill Gates says people shouldn't own land, should always rent. That another company from US (forgot name) that buys houses for 50% higher asking price, now this. These days we rent books, games, flats, soon we'll rent homes and cars. No need to own anything when you can pay more money to rent it.
iOS does not have anything to do with NeXTStep beyond sharing a programming language.
As an owner of a Volvo V90 that has pilot assist or whatever they call it - it's great for highway driving!

It has it's quirks but they are easy to get used to and after a few years, I know pretty much exactly where it is extremely reliable and where it will get it wrong.

The behaviour is extremely boringly reliable - which is exactly what it should be and doing a few hundrer km on a good highway is now much much more relaxing than before.
If I understand it correctly, that would be the fee for the self-driving feature, not the entire car. I suppose $8.50 per hour would be a reasonable rate for a car rental, although daily rates should be less.
Important to note that there always also was a more pragmatical side of "free" software in the 90's, it just wasn't called that way, but "Public Domain" (and the more commercial stuff "Shareware"). At least on the Amiga (where I spent most of the early 90's), public domain and shareware was massive.
> Plain old black pepper (in large doses) inactivates a different enzyme IIRC.

It's actually surprisingly effective as long as you don't mind just eating peppercorns. It definitely reduces the high from THC in edibles (and it's the only thing I know of that does besides CBD), and it promotes the health effects of turmeric.
I was curious about their claims regarding confidential computing so I checked out their Github organization (https://github.com/edge), but it seems there's very little activity there and there's not a single reference to Intel SGX (the enclave they claim to use). So I'm a bit skeptical about their claims. SGX is also not a general-purpose technology and can only run highly specialized code, to my knowledge there's currently no way to run general-purpose code that e.g. uses syscalls (there are some projects that try to fix this though).
What about using a blockchain internally within the country to manage the high throughput and still avoid centralization by relying on a single "trusted" third party?

For e.g., mining operations can be distributed within the country itself to ensure decentralization within the country. Then this internal blockchain network interfaces with the slower and more expensive bitcoin blockchain to do final settlements?

Could this work?
A lot of comments here saying that this will increase the cost of oil so make oil extraction more profitable. But I wonder, this won't increase demand, because it's increasing cost. So it's a net-win, right? Tar-Sand oil is so environmentally unfriendly that the alternative is better, afaik. But this ignores falling costs for renewables. Since the price of renewables is falling drastically, this should bolster energy creation via renewables (since it becomes more competitive) and therefore also driving the cost further down. So this could also accelerate the progress of switching to renewables.

I think the better way would be to build the pipeline without subsidies at all and increase taxes on it. So we won't see a cheaper price and have a better mode of transport, but that's probably not politically feasible, so this is the next best option.

I think the comments declaring "oil will find a way" are completely wrong. This is not about eliminating oil and I think most supporters of the scrap will know this.
People may have arrived in North America much earlier than we thought
(1935)

Actual title: The Teaching of Arithmetic I: The Story of an experiment
Would love that too.
Rent a car the few times per year I need one. And it waits for you in front of your house.
So regarding objective function, one idea I just had is this: Teach them warfare.

To quote a cliche: "we live in a society". As humans we are embedded in a social environment which has a few important features: We cooperate, we compete and we die. These three pillars are the basis of our culture (a concept we should apply to AI btw). Because of competition we are forced to learn everything there is to learn (general intelligence), to get a leg up. Because of cooperation and death we need to continuously transmit and share knowledge with our friends and the next generations. Ever changing alliances means we need to get good at both deception and detecting it.

For this reason I think warfare is ideal for reaching general AI.
> But we mostly have one memory model today - one big flat memory space, because C.

Not really. C (or C++) memory model isn’t really well-defined yet, there’s still fights going on regarding e.g. values out of thin air (or maybe they’ve been resolved recently, I haven’t checked).

In contrast, Java has a well-defined memory model without any undefined behaviour, that can get quite tricky at times (e.g. what happens if you write to a final field (!!) (you first need to make it non-final using runtime reflection operations or use the Unsafe module)).
Tesla charges $10k for not really self driving, with the promise that it will improve, and you should buy it now, because the price will increase in the future. I.e. they make you pay for something you don't have, with no guarantee that you will have it later. If it isn't a money grab, I don't know what is. And of course you can take a loan on that, so it isn't an upfront cost either.

At least, with VW system, you pay when you use it. Doesn't work in your area, you don't pay. And if you realize that you can't pay, you can simply drive, your car won't turn into a brick.

And of course it is to extract more money from consumers, that's the goal of every company. But personally I find VW approach more honest than Tesla's. The best would be to offer working self driving out of the box, with no promises and no recurring fees, but the reality is that we don't have the tech yet.

Note that I don't have anything against the $10k package from Tesla except for the way it is advertised. If they just sold you an advanced supercruise, there would be no problem. But they also sell you the idea that your car will fully drive itself in the future and that you are making an investment. Kind of like a Kickstarter, except it is a trillion dollar company, not a bunch of people in a basement.
Exactly, I don't want to be at the mercy of a tech corporation to decide what's "healthy" for me or what exact degree of privacy I deserve.

Allow real browser extensions, I just want to be able to use uBlock origin. Not some overengineered "system extension" that can only check the network.
To disable auto playing videos

In the Facebook app. Click the hamburger menu > Settings & Privacy > Mobile data usage > Tick 'Never Autoplay videos'

Yes, that applies to wifi too.
Ownership is overrated. It's not a universally good thing. In many cases it's a huge liability. The things you own end up owning you.

Would you want to own the stretch of road outside your house? What benefit would you get from it? You'd now be responsible for maintaining it and presumably you'd take out an insurance policy in case of freak events damaging it. You'd pray for a mild winter and hope your neighbours don't buy heavy vehicles that will start tearing it up. Much better to let the government own it, I think.

What benefit do you get from car ownership? Do you modify your car? Do you enjoy doing your own maintenance? For many people, the answer to both is a resounding no. For almost everyone, doing maintenance and repairs is totally impractical even if they were inclined to do so. Do you really own something if you are forced to take to the dealers regularly for maintenance and when things go wrong?

So what does the ownership get you? The sole responsibility if something goes wrong. The sole responsibility of keeping it maintained and roadworthy or disposing of it if you decide to write it off. And remember you can't really just write it off because you need it to get to work every day, plus it's a huge asset that you can't afford to replace outright.

For a very large number of people, "car ownership" really means the car owns them.

Ownership is great for many things, but each thing needs to be considered on its own merits. For most people, car ownership really doesn't make much sense.
Tbh i think tax records should be public. It is in Sweden for example and that works pretty well.
It seems to me that this phenomenon of "representational drift" fits well with the results that show that every time a memory is remembered, it is essentially deleted, and re-recorded. Given what we know about how memory and experience make use of large swaths of the same neural pathways, it would make sense that this is the case with re-experiencing sensations too, not just re-remembering them. And if that is the case, then it would make sense that it's possible for these representations to be re-recorded in a different place or in a different way. For example mixed together with other neural wiring that is correlated but wasn't there when the original representation was made (basically de-duplicating the file system). It would also suggest that either pathways are mutating, or different neural pathways are "competing" for the right to be the ones to process a given input (and if it's the latter, then it also implies that there must be some kind of fitness function "how well did this pathway process this input" that allows a new pathway to win out over a previous one).
The death rate for certain demographics (especially say over 70s) is far higher than 2-in-100. While some countries have high levels of vaccination - especially in those demographics - most don't.

The UK is enterring a third wave, and has a high number of elderly people having been fully (2 shot, mainly AZ) vaccinated. Early indications are that those enterring hospitals now on the whole have not been fully vaccinated.
If we could have true autonomous local driving, cities would change forever. All cars would live outside the city, and cover (pooled!) demand with incredible efficiency.

Cars in cities today are incredibly stupid compared to public transit. Full autonomy could change that.
Can these instruments be used without Kontakt? Free to use is great, but Kontakt seems expensive.

Edit: Answering my own question. It seems there's a free Kontakt Player: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samp...
Please give me web-components without Javascript and I'll start using them heavily.
The Complete Guide to Time Tracking
They are all, to some extent, a retelling of Pandora's Box
Or, you accept there is nothing wrong with a few cars in the city and have taxis/car sharing/autonomous cars inside the city for when you need them.
I've never heard of this symptom! Maybe you were allergic? It does sound like SJS, in which case you should definitely quit it, but I thought that could only happen with modafinil.
Then people arguing this should stop being disingenuous that this is somehow about enabling user freedoms, and outright say "your phone should take away your choice because you can't be trusted with it" .
> Even though this article is sarcastic(?)

I don’t think it is
Almost the reverse is true. Inflation increases the opportunity cost of choosing not to use one's claim on future resources productively, and incentivises investment in production.

Saving is healthy for the economy when the savings are invested in production. It is not healthy for the economy when savings are hoarded for risk-free gains at the expense of investment-starved productive entities.
> Anyone with a laptop, mobile or any connected device can earn $EDGE tokens by providing spare computational and storage capacity to the network. $EDGE tokens can be traded for Edge services, or converted into dollars, pounds or euros.

Seems like the product is mostly an excuse to push yet another cryptocoin scheme
Because I think they service me better this way. I don’t want to have an ecosystem that allows malware to be an option.

I explicitly bought my iOS device so that all software that is possible to be installed will always be vetted. I don’t have to worry about my parents being tricked by either maliciously crafted websites or false promises like cheaper price but they get all your data. Companies are not going to be upfront about their store’s policies.

So my argument is not the profit motive. Sure apple should probably charge 10%. 30% might be greedy BUT my issue with that is that any number is arbitrary.

Apple created the platform, the device. Fine the developers played a huge part in making iOS a success BUT nobody forced them to build for the platform. If Apple increased the % then yeah - sure I’d be behind lowering them and be angry with Apple but as of now: users want an apple device and developers have a choice to Cather to them or not. There are a lot of Android only apps that work fine so I think it’s fine if you don’t support ios
Well sure but that's not an argument in favor of libertarianism as an answer to the dangerous working conditions for ship crew either. A government that is focused on property rights, just like the flags of convenience under which most maritime shipping takes place, doesn't care much about labor regulations or immigration in the first place. In a way, international waters are already the "libertarian state".
Well, I don't believe God exists, so I can't really answer the question.
Dear authors: Just post your papers (before they have been formatted by the journal, but after they have been refereed at the latest) on the arXiv (maths, cs, physics) and similar repositories. Including the old ones you still have. Once a critical mass does this, the problem will be solved, whatever the Indian courts decide.
Android 12 Beta 2 is introducing new features for Privacy
There is no indication that 31 minutes is per day, so I'd assume it's one way.
We're talking about a new type of car feature, one that needs constant work and updates. It's not unreasonable to have to pay-per-use for it.
It is in parallel to solar investments in station and on top of trains and along the tracks as well. My understanding is that they plan to go fully green.

Given the variations in solar generation and no mention of storage I am assuming it is equivalent green power to offset rather than actual used.
Same here, I hadn't tried HTTP. I wonder if this is Plusnet conforming to the letter of the law in quiet defiance? Of course, it could just be an error on their part...
Pee Safe gets Rs 25 Crore
Uber is a great example of how this model ends up awful for both drivers (who get awful working conditions and usually end up making a lot less net than promised) and customers (who get an awful experience, end up paying a lot more than they would otherwise, and still aren't making progress towards getting rid of that extra expense).
LG automates vacuum cleaner dust removal
It's quite amusing that there was such a push at the start of the pandemic to not call it Chinese Flu or Wuhan Flu, but the British, South Africa, India and Brazil strains all caught on quickly in the media.
How JavaScript works: cross-browser testing and tips for prerelease browsers
Interesting point, I guess it is just be a marketing gimmick so as to show the customer that "security" is our priority.
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Ah yes, I see now that it literally says "to work". Thanks!
So IPFS with incentives to run a node?

One big issue I see with IPFS is that you or someone has to pin the content or it is gone for ever. This builds centralized services that offer pinning of your content.
> If all of the hardware & software is already in the car, which you bought, then they are renting your car back to you.

The hardware will be, buy the software will probably need constant improvements and updates. It's more like having purchased an iPhone and having to pay a subscription to have access to real time map data.
Adderall is not meth. It does promote jaw clenching some, but it's not nearly as bad for you (as the article says, mostly because prescribed doses are smaller) and in fact is neuroprotective.

I don't think housewives would enjoy abusing it, unless they're studying for the GRE.
(2013)

One of my favourite articles on the internet
Downsize Storage – All About Storage in a Small Place
You're right, but think about the consequences.

Taxes are mandatory. Both borrowing and selling is optional. That creates two large differences.

I'll work through two scenarios:

1. When there's a price increase on something you own, you pay income tax that you can claim back if the price decreases later. In that case, owing something valuable (like your family farm, now on the outskirts of a city) lands you with a sizable tax bill as the city grows nearer and land prices grow. You have to sell the family farm, because you're taxed you on the income you would get from selling even if you never sell. (Strictly spealing you pay an advance and never get it back.)

2. Instead of paying with legal tender you could give a part of the saleable item as collateral. Great for people who are rich enough for financial acrobatics, because now they have more options for paying their tax with different assets at different past valuations.
Replace www with old:
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A similar story from a few years ago:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/macewan-university-p...

It looks like they were able to recover much of the money, but at a cost of $250,000 in legal and banking fees:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/macewan-university-r...
Show HN: How to make a blog using GitHub
The market for a $20k+ new car with pay-to-play autonomous seems small when you can pay $24k for the same vehicle and have it drive autonomously as much as you like...
You could have a threshold. Sweden has a fully transparent system which is pretty nice imo. Being able to look up politicians is great to deal with corruption.
At least, they didn't mention ML.
I have written a few parallel, non-trivial Rust programs (actually one of them, fclones seems to be one of the best in class performance-wise, despite many competitors), yet I've never had to use Refcell and runtime-checked borrowing.

Yes there were a few Arc here and there, but 99% of time the simpliest move / clone / compile-time-borrow are enough. Definitely very far from the place I'd be if I coded that in C++.
This is one of the reasons why NeuraLink wouldn't work.
WWDC, the Apple Logo and Overuse
I'm sure enough people will read this that it will be good advice for someone of them.
I absolutely agree that the "theoretical explanation" in the video is bogus. Pitching up a sample is when high frequency information above Nyquist is lost (or aliased back down, if your sampler is garbage).

When a sample is pitched down, the overall timbre obviously becomes darker, and there's an empty gap left to the top. The sample's highest frequencies might also become more perceptible and pronounced because of imperfections in human hearing and playback systems.

That particular argument in the video is flawed, but the point was this incredible shift in mentality that it's perfectly fine to be very crude in the process of sampling. This also helps with the purpose of inviting more people to try out sampling. Pianobook is filled with great instruments made by first-timers.
Wavelight technology has opened up new possibilities in athletics (2020)
Counterpoint: I read this article and the 2019 BBC piece, this one reports the result of a large scale study which has very positive results. Vs the 2019 article which describes a promising technique with relatively smaller trials.

Even lay people who know Wolbachia is promising will find the result interesting.

Also the “miraculous” in the headline comes from a a researcher who described Wolbachia as naturally miraculous. I’d say that makes it fair game for a headline writer.

The newer article should have mentioned that this technique has been trialled before and provided some context about why this trial is important, eg it was a 3 year RCT, and the evidence it presents is of a higher standard, etc. But that doesn’t detract from the fact that this result is useful and worth a new report — and in fact the “explore further” link on the page on the topic of Mosquitoes links to previous stories on the topic, including the story the previous commenter mentioned.

Science and health journalism (other than COVID) isn’t always as sexy as other areas of journalism, I think we should be a little wary of crying “clickbait” for everything. A victory over dengue is worth shouting about — it’s a nasty disease that causes a lot of suffering.