skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone not using Firefox/Ublock; you can use NoScript to block the banners, and a lot of other adtech (including some paywalls such as Bloomberg) as they are all JS-powered.

It's quite surprising to see how many JS plugins are in operation on a typical consumer site, and satisfying to know they were all blocked unless expressly permitted :)
This article seems to focus solely on trains. Surely the legislation has an impact on more than just trains. If the point was that the problem that affects trains (the US doesn't have modern, efficient train manufacturers) also affects other industries, the article didn't mention any other industries.

If trains are the only problem, it sounds like the Buy America legislation isn't bad and we should deal with buying trains separately?
That’s odd as I posted it using Firefox on iOS (version 34) as well). Clicking it works for me.

I don’t develop for iOS, so I’m speculating here, but could it be a URL handler for YouTube URLs exists and you don’t have the app it’s set to? (As in, iOS says YouTube urls get opened in the app, but you don’t have the app?)
Amazon - 35 high severity tickets in one week. Most of them were some kind of fire that I needed to deal with. Didn't have much sleep that week.
> Of course, but the copy is also you

Not in any way that's meaningful to me! But I guess we should leave it there, I'm not really adding to the debate.
Instead of going to Google, if you are looking for local businesses in a particular category and their opening hours or contact information, then one recommendation that would preserve privacy is using OSMAnd on your phone for looking all that info up without requiring any network connection. Of course, that assumes that your community is well mapped on OSM.
It's not pessimistic, just a fact of the R&D process. Public takes the risk, reward is privatized. Otherwise the VC model wouldn't work since most research doesn't fall within the horizon of a VC fund's lifetime.
It's not even created by financial people. If you watch the coffeezilla video that some other people in this thread linked to, you'll see that the people behind Tether have backgrounds in various types of fraud.

Also, this affects the entire cryptocurrency market. If you own any cryptocurrency, you're exposed to risk from Tether's collapse even if you hold no Tether yourself.
I think this is an important point, ultimately good science will produce, verifiable, testable, actionable results. Until you have that no matter how much math you use, how many lab coats you've got, no matter how many journals you publish in you're just sitting there playing with strings.
Wikileaks more or less went down the road of being a tool for indoctrination. The notion that wikileaks is useful for an informed public is long dead. They made fools of everyone who thought they were champions of unbiased free information.
I believe there was a US based company doing it at one point but they went out of business.
As if the goodness or badness of the law matters. With something like this with such an obvious political angle, the importance of the quality of the law is approximately zero.
Even if the narrative is nonsense, would a short not have got ruined by that spike regardless of cause?
Is it possible that American competitive interests are not aligned with countries or individuals that know too much?

For example could allowing other countries to develop vaccines seriously damage American or European IP?

https://www.openglobalrights.org/vaccine-apartheid-global-in...
Especially this year, I've dealt with this a lot. I often find myself saying "take our SaaS as-is" because the overhead of enterprise customers that want the service changed, or want to host it on-premise, or in a different cloud, or with its own isolated database, makes my work not as enjoyable and I started my own business so that I could enjoy my work again.
I'm no expert but if your values don't stop you from buying things from countries that don't share them, maybe your values don't matter, right?
The collapse would come from a loss of trust from USDT holders who would then try to dump their positions (basically a bank run) for less than their pegged values.

SEC action could be a cause for such a loss of trust, but you can imagine many others, such as leaks (of damning information) from insiders, other exchanges unlisting USDT, and so on.
"People" sciences like sociology, psychology and economics can make incredibly misleading claims because one experiment over a small sample of people at a certain moment in time might seem to support a claim, while the actual reason for the observed results is a factor which is never taken in consideration. On the other hand, conducting those experiments over wider demographics and in different points in time means that the study wants to build "universal" models of how each single person in the whole world acts, which is utterly dismissive of the specific local environment around people.

Sociology in particular should always be approached highly critically, because applying those theories and reasoning in its terms often means mass control over people's free will.
Did he have any republican emails? If so that's news to me and I would not mind seeing them.
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If you're looking for someone with Mr Assange's good qualities, but without the bad ones, have a look at Ms Reality Winner.
Even if it were true, the index may well be larger than the data you're indexing.
I'm not sure explicitly racist anime girls is the same as "internet pop culture". Certainly a sub-culture on the internet, but not pop culture.

And yes, the "14 words" allusion on the last link is racist.
Remember the monkey chow guy?
https://web.archive.org/web/20060820062510/http://www.angrym...
Investigating spooky claims:

"Facebook is always listening to you!": I assume that many researchers have attempted to figure this out by snooping traffic from the app. It takes a bit of technical skill to do this. If there was any strong sign of this, I assume it would have come out by now. Maybe there's a super secret
bit of code that bypasses Android's microphone controls, does speech-to-text and intent processing so efficiently it doesn't cause much battery drain, then holds the data and transmits it back to Facebook using steganographic techniques?

"Smart speakers are playing messages while I'm asleep": Anyone could buy a $30 audio recorder and just let it run all night. Also, anyone might be a light sleeper or wake up at the wrong time and discover this. How would this even be possible to hide?
Same!! I watched his TED talk on David and Goliath story and I thought he was interesting. Then I picked up Blink. 25 pages in, I realized he was full of shit.
Policy is trying to do too much. Clearly, if you limit the suppliers you can buy from, you’re going to be overpaying. And if you’re overpaying, you limit how much you can buy. Investing in infrastructure helps other industries thrive—it shouldn’t be done for its own sake.

Politicians have over fetishized manufacturing. They need to stop promoting and protecting jobs that don’t need an education.
If your threat model includes state level actors, there is no commercially available solution that will make you 100% safe. This is about privacy from private corporations and making it more difficult and more costly for governments to get your data. But the latter is always possible when you use the web.
On top of the nice approach to structured output with pipelines, the "cross-OS first" approach is amazing! Very cool to use a modern shell that can fit both Windows and Unix by design (and not through WSL), hell I'm going to try to introduce it to my small company as a standard tool.
Hope it's not in a too immature stage, however it looks very shining and promising considering the enthusiast contributors community. I'm in
I mean, who says people aren't doing that? I know one fund that is short tether.

The downside is that you have to trust USDC at the same time and if tether breaks, there is n o guarentee taht USDC holds its peg

so you can lose the following ways

1) be wrong and tether is fully backed

2) be right but way too early

3) be right but the peg only breaks by a couple of pennies so you really make peanuts for the risk you put on

4) be right but USDC also breaks and you end up losing

5) be right but6 tether falling sinks crypto so there is not real crypto position you can hold in this case that makes you money.

6) Counterpary/exchange risk, you have to close out your tether position or remove it from the exchange, in the case that new broker that Tether is worthless, every exchange would suddenly lock out withdrawals and go down like they do each time there is a crash, which means you may end up losing even if you were right.

I mean there are so many ways to be right and lose on this trade:) Its not something too many hedge funds would dare put on.

The upside to being right just isn't anywhere near enough to be in this trade in a fully leveraged way and this is crypto and everyone accepts its manipulated in some way so its hard to rationalize leveraging this trade up to make any meaningful return
The gist:

Left-wing parties in Europe have a term for imports in this circumstance: parallel imports. According to this view, protectionism is justified on labor or ecological grounds, but imports from countries with strong unions and environmental regulations trigger neither justification.
I’d love to be able to see it and again, at risk of spreading false conspiracy theories, I can’t figure out why they haven’t declassified it yet. I mean, the DoD has practically admitted they don’t control the skies. How much worse could the MK Ultra documents be??

I suspect that the answer is “much worse.” This makes Get Smart seem like a documentary about the best case intelligence scenario…
It looks like it was a very brief spike and immediately went back to its peg, but I have no idea how it happened. https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed/status/1405037796172222466?s=...
IIRC, manufacturing output reached an all-time high in 2018. We're doing that in higher-margin industries with fewer workers. So, I'm not sure "capacity has been destroyed" is even remotely accurate in any general sense.
I was simply saying that C++ using a certain terminology was a sufficient condition for C++-derived languages to use the same terminology, you wouldn't need a CS-wide definition for this and your small set of language wouldn't allow you to make the inference that such a common definition existed.

BTW the page you've linked seems to contradict some of your statements:

> so they are typically described as call by value even though implementations frequently use call by reference internally for the efficiency benefits

As you seem to be arguing that this is not call by reference you should probably correct the page.

EDIT: It also seems that there IS some amount of language specificity anyway, since in another place of the page it says:

> "In particular it is not call by value because mutations of arguments performed by the called routine will be visible to the caller. And it is not call by reference because access is not given to the variables of the caller, but merely to certain objects"

I'm reasonably sure that the first part would be called "call by value" in C++ even if in context of CLU it wasn't if the usual way of doing the same in C++, namely passing a pointer to an object, were to be used.
Wouldn't that also imply that we don't understand it well enough to say that we can't?

All these complicated biological processes could be extraneous or very round-about ways of accomplishing with carbon what could be accomplished much more simply in silicon.
Globalization destroyed America’s manufacturing base. At some point politicians decided we had plenty of manufacturing to spare, so we should give it to other countries who need it more. Now, we are paying for it.
Another fun one that is the Jones Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920

My TLDR is that you have to use american-made ships when transporting product from 1 US port to another.

The US government regularly suspends the act, like it did during the recent oil issue on the east coast: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-13/biden-lif...

The CATO institute (right leaning group) pushed to drop it 2.5 years ago: https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/jones-act-...
See for yourself:

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1393598159008505856
You could ask them on twitter lol - https://twitter.com/STMDefence

Surreal.
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Yup, one can even argue that he was one of the progenitors of podcasts with his Internet show in the late 2000s. It's where Joe Rogan got his inspiration.
For anyone looking for the original comment about Jay-Z's wealth: https://reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/2r8xoj/request_...

It probably costs even less now given how much his wealth has grown
Which is basically the same thing as /std=language, when applied to different translation units.
Massive counterparty risk. Tether is likely backed mostly by loans to exchanges like Binance and FTX (and of course Bitfinex.) When and if Tether collapses the exchanges will very possibly be rendered insolvent and you’ll be in line with all the other creditors trying to make a recovery.

I don’t know enough about fully decentralized protocols to know what the risks are there.
It is not possible to give specific examples without crossing paths with readers who happen to have that particular epistemic monkey on their back. I want to avoid political arguments, so I think this tack fits the HN ethos best despite being, admittedly, an imperfect solution to a sticky problem. Although I think anyone can come up with their own examples.
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There isn't much else to say. Malcom Gladwell is an utter hack. The mainstream media refuses to acknowledge that and glorifies everything he says.

Meanwhile, pretty much anybody whose field has been touched by Gladwell reports that his account of their field is utterly uninformed, lacking nuance, and shaped to reach a foregone conclusion.

What more is there?
BritBox is a neflix-like service that has UK shows from the BBC and ITV. Decent catalog.
the man who proved how little imperialists care about the truth
The logs only show when someone (down)loads the page. The link will be accessed everytime someone views it.
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Wikileaks might. Assange flogging the Seth Rich theory is a pretty strong signal that he doesn't.
Inefficient over what timeline? Medium term inefficiencies are nothing in the face of supply chain imbalances that leave a democratic country at the mercy of the CCP's now belligerent & long oppressive regime.
This is both ignorant of reality & basic economic principles. The US is still the second largest manufacturer in the world(unless you consider the EU as a single entity in that regard), and comparative advantage is a very real(and good) thing.
Reagan "Star Wars" 2.0 energy weapons will be the ultimate anti-ICBM, anti-air, anti-tank, and anti-personnel defenses. I can't see crewed bombers or fighters surviving much longer when lasers and UAVs make them moot.
Possibly not, Russia most likely decided not to feed those to WikiLeaks.
In its heyday Wikileaks was lauded by the left mainly because it provided evidence that the US did “bad things”. It didn’t matter that there was nothing bad coming from China or Russia or Nigeria. All that mattered back then is that he had dirt on the US.

But... then there was a falling out between the left and Assange when he found out Hillary wished out loud that he was dead and he then cherry picked the bad stuff even more... though he never had inauthentic releases. They just didn’t like what they saw (in the mirror).

So, it’s clear his motives shifted (given the circumstances it was reasonable), but the left suddenly didn’t want more dirt from him cuz he was making them look bad (and forced the question, are WE the baddies?)...

So here we are, he was the useful idiot they now can throw under the bus accusing him of being in cahoots with the Russians (a charge dismissed when people on the right claimed the same back in the good old days way back when Wikileaks and the left were aligned)
Yes you can write your own cmdlets in either C# or powershell that you can install via modules [0]

You can also just write a function in your profile.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/develo...
Real dollars yes. You deposit money at FTX and then you short the tether quarterly futures: https://ftx.com/trade/USDT-0924

I think most people would be more worried about counterparty risk with FTX than with Circle though.
That seems very contrived Which crash logs would contain the SSID? You reporting a bug with wpa_supplicant? What's the risk of that compared to crash logs containing other pieces of sensitive information?
Who the hell even holds Tether? Don't people get it and then convert into a different crypto pretty quickly? If all remaining Tether got "burned" after they got shut down, wouldn't it's impact on crypto markets be rather trivial?

I don't see why there is so much focus on it. Either they have funds to back up the printing or they don't (yes, they didn't for a period of time in 2018, but settled that lawsuit). If they still don't, and Tether goes away, I would think it would only lower Bitcoin/crypto volume and volatility as there is one less funding source. But, anyone that bought Tether to buy Bitcoin has already done so, and that Tether is sitting with someone else like an exchange, lender, or liquidity pool.

If they truly are a fraudulent weak-link in the ecosystem, than I am all for figuring this out so we can move on.
Related, Raymond Chen is doing a series of articles on the ARM instruction set this month: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/2021/06/
Manufacturing is not some magical thing we should be exclusively trying to court.
If you disable it from the control center thingie overlay it even states that is only for this day ...

If you disable it from settings, it stays off.
No, Legos don't and can't exactly replicate all the real world details of the things they model. It's no surprise that different hobbies have different pleasures. But surely you see that you have a niche hobby that to many (most?) people would superficially appear to not "bring much value"?

The joy of Lego is taking generic bricks and figuring out how to represent the thing you want to build out of them. With pre-designed kits like this, many people find pleasure in seeing how the designer figured out how to use piece X to represent object Y, or used a particular building technique to create a particular effect. e.g. the Lego Empire State Building uses the generic grille to great effect to render the windows of the building, and generic yellow tiles to make convincing little taxis, and some neat building tricks to create the setbacks in the tower without making it look 'lego-like' (with abrupt, brick-size shifts).
> America's manufacturing capacity has been largely destroyed

We are at record high real output levels in manufacturing [1]. China and the EU are bigger, and employment in the sector is down, but it’s false to say our industrial capacity has been decimated.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_...
If it is not a hard science, then it is likely a variant of philosophy.
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You're right in general; Gladwell is often wrong, but that's actually a pretty good take on the Boston Tea Party.
Ha! You're correct. My apologies.
The issue isn't necessarily that their reports are false, it's that they choose what to release and when and they do so with political bias.
Frankly if anyone actually cared about climate change we would be desperately seeking to shorten supply chains and buy/produce locally. Bringing in everything from Asia when it could be done locally is absolutely terrible for ghg levels and pollution.

Still waiting but not holding my breath for ESG to include "short supply chain".
No problem, thanks for the heads up.
From my limited contacts with the Czech Amazon, people do return to work there. Mostly because Amazon is almost certain to take them back, unless bridges were thoroughly burnt. (I.e. stealing.)
The entire premise of the article is that Assange is good because he might have saved us from the Iraq war, while completely ignoring his alliance with Trump and disinformation like Seth Rich conspiracy. We can't prove the counterfactual but we can see what he actually did.
Most of which (in my admittedly limited experience) are next to useless on a small screen device or don't work properly with a touch interface.
I didn’t switch from zsh, but from bash, to fish, primarily because bash was occasionally a bit clunky to use, and there were a lot of things that could be optimized in a modern environment. I settled on fish because it suited what I was looking for: an ergonomic shell that worked well out-of-the-box. Paired with strong community support, clean scripting syntax, and a wide ecosystem, it makes for a really enjoyable shell experience. I haven’t tried zsh, so I can’t compare the two.

I’m happy with fish, and I don’t see much benefit to switching to nu. nu is exceptionally good at one thing: working with data, but lacks features in other areas (auto-completion, scripting, etc.). With time, I can see these features being implemented, but I think they’ll be re-inventing the wheel in a lot of areas that other shells are already good at.
Or maybe supply chains are so globalised and intertwined that you, as an individual, simply has no other choice in a number of categories of consumer goods. Good luck applying your morals against a global economic system.
I wouldn’t blame politicians. It was very in vogue for businesses to outsource in the last 20 years, and if you didn’t do it, your competition would. It was a race to the bottom that the stock market reacted to, adding to the pressures. That’s the real driver.
Maybe this will play out like nuclear technologies. Incredible potential for good also means incredible potential for bad. For nuclear, the good was roughly limitless energy at very low environmental cost and low human labor. The bad was nuclear weapons material and nuclear accidents. After the accidents, the nuclear industry in advanced countries basically goes into sleep mode, maintaining existing assets, but unable to expand or grow. Perhaps the lab-leak will have the same result for biomed sciences. Accident leads to millions or tens of millions of deaths and industry must go into stasis. You might say the gain-of-function research is sufficiently differentiated from normal biomedical research that they don't get grouped together. But I doubt it. You can probably do gain-of-function in any old bio lab. The only thing stopping it is the good intentions of the users.

The effort to cause massive societal disruption and destruction is so much easier for bio based weapons than for nuclear. In nuclear, you need so many things to line up if you're building a weapon from obtaining the requisite materials, enrichment, weapon design and electronics, delivery vehicles; and so many things to go wrong if you are going to have a consequential nuclear accident. In contrast, bio weapons can be developed in a dinky lab, deployed, and then self-propagate worldwide.
A 680x0-based workstation could be really interesting for someone into that kind of thing, but an Amiga would probably be the most fun.
I still think an amendment to suspend the act for Hawaii and Alaska would be a good first step.

[edit] and cruise ships
Wealthy private manufacturers lobbied politicians to make their widget in the cheapest country.

I just wanted to make it clear it was greedy wealthy manufacturers whom abandoned their country in order to make a bigger wad.
One thing I think is interesting is what if tether fraudulently printed notes to push up the price of BTC, and now they either have made enough money to back what they printed or the price of BTC is now anchored to these inflated prices so their actions no longer matter as much