skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, the greatest joy of LEGO sets is seeing brilliant engineering up close. There's brilliant engineering inside an iPhone, but I can't see it. It's all locked inside a boring looking little 1cmx1cm gray chip.

When you assemble something like a working pneumatic articulated motorized digger, 99% made out of the same basic 200 interchangeable parts, it's incredible.
Kids need freedom, too
I was sort of in your boat, but is google really working out for you? It sure isn’t working out for me. I still use it out of familiarity and because DDG isn’t working either, but almost all the time that I want to find something that isn’t on Wikipedia or related to me buying something, I end up needing to do multiple search typically ending up doing something like site:these-are-all-the-bees-in-the-world.com because I was trying to identify the huge bee my cat almost ate, not trying to buy honey, or bee coloured dresses, or plush bees or bee branded diapers or whatever else.

Some of it isn’t Google’s fault or course, all the hobby stuff that happens in the blood bowl community group on Facebook never ends up in a search engine, but some of it is certainly Google’s fault. I’m just not sure how much privacy helps though, sure DDG might not try to sell me diapers because their advertisers might not know I have a two year old, but it still tries to sell me honey.
I encounter often the opposite problem where I'm regularly telling people who are flailing around on Google to deal with some unexpected problem, "I don't know, but you know you will? An Oncologist/IP-attorney/electrician/etc. Instead of using Google to find a pile of amateurs' competing anecdotes, perhaps you can use it to find an actual expert who can help you?"
Edible Packaging
Thank you for asking this.
You clearly out yourself as a disinformation agent by attempting to steer the conversation into character assassination, knowing full well this not about Assange the man but the legality of investigative journalism as a check-and-balance on power.
LEGO is vastly more popular in Europe than in the US.
Maybe they invented their holdings of commercial paper as well.

Pretending to be fully backed by USD didn't work out, so now they pretend to hold equivalent assets.
Way to come up with reasons you're less "self-centered" than others because you have special insight into extraterrestrials.
The media appears to miss that fact that something that happens in physical reality can become corrupted by the time it gets rendered to a computer screen. The complicated military systems are hallucinating now. Or am I missing something? Did multiple pilots see this thing with their own eyes from different angles without any technology in between?
They're not "backed". It's simply not there. They're backed by the law that if you arrange a "run on the bank", YOU will go to jail.
The Lego Pop-up book does pop up though.
Zoll Defibrillator Dashboard would execute random Excel files users import
If the alternative to neoliberalism is fascism, I'll take neoliberalism.

To dislodge an incumbent orthodoxy you have to actually offer something better, not something profoundly worse.
Chiropractors are a pseudoscience that managed to blur the line enough in legal and popular perception that the general public thinks they are doctors.

Imagine if a psychic was considered equivalent to a financial planner.

The fact that they might be right from time to time is inevitable, and is definitely somewhat of an indictment on the mainstream providers that they need to.
I've only skimmed the white paper, but this appears to be a "stablecoin" backed by crypto assets. Is that correct?

The white paper is complex, and the Emergency Shutdown price stability mechanism appears exposed to ETH price risk such that if ETH moves rapidly around the Emergency Shutdown, there's no guarantee that Dai holders could recoup on a 1:1 basis. Is that correct?

This seems to be not a dependable peg.
The racist legacy many birds carry
Facebook started with US universities, you had to have a .edu email address if I recall correctly. Early 2005 it added UK universities. So it's not like the whole world was even able to signup.
I think Occam's razor leads me to the same conclusion. The only part that still has me questioning are the large number of reported visual sightings by the very same pilots reporting radar contact.
Technically it runs afoul of their rules. Practically, I started https://www.lastweekinaws.com four and a half years ago, with an alternate "cloud" based domain instead; my thinking was "give me grief, I'll migrate and then start talking about your competition."

I can say that they've never had an issue with my use of it to date, despite my extreme levels of sarcasm.
If you believe Tether is engaged in essentially a criminal conspiracy, you might well have some concerns about engaging in financial transactions which intend to profit from that criminal conspiracy.

If Tether does collapse, and you manage to engineer a solution so that at the end of that event you are holding some of the resulting money... whose money is that you've got hold of? The victims of the crime?
My comment says that.
This entire thread is full of “But it’s not declining”.

You need to look deeper into what US is producing. Most of which is Oil, Petroleum Products, Cars, Aeroplanes and Defense equipment based on the article you’ve linked.

There has been a massive decline in many other sectors, would be interesting to find a source of industry breakdown. I’ll look for it.
>Instead of responding to your API requests we’ll call you back.

How...? Why?
Because "on a machine level" and "to a machine" are two different things (the former referring to human understanding).
You've show a syntactic difference, not a functional difference. What does the 'ref' keyword change about how C# passes the argument to the function? I'd imagine (having zero C# experience) that it passes either a pointer, or an index, or an offset, to the function by value. It may also just copy the argument, pass it to the function, and then copy the copy back to the original argument (which would be daft).
Advanced Chinese or Russian sensor spoofing tech seems much more plausible than advanced propulsion tech.
Try out immudb with SQL and time travel in your own temporary environment
My use of old computing technology is really in support of old music synthesizer technology. For instance my Yamaha VL1, one of the first and greatest waveguide physical modeling synthesizers, does not allow full editing of the model parameters from the keyboard itself. Yamaha made a few editors for it that use MIDI SYSEX to edit the models. Unfortunatley those only run on MacOS System 7. So I have to keep an ancient mac for that.

Many of my synths use 3.5" floppies. The ones that use FAT formatting can easily be used with a USB floppy on a modern computer, but the ones that have their own proprietary disk formats (most of them) require software with direct access to the floppy that can't be got through a USB connection. So, for those, I have an old Windows laptop with built-in floppy and software like Omniflop to manage those disks.

Probably one of the greatest things to make old tech more manageable (for me) is the SCSI2SD project, which makes an SD card into a SCAI device. Since SCSI was hugely popular with classic samplers (synths that can record audio and use the recorded audio as the sound source in the synth sound) I have a half dozen SCSI2SD drives so I don't have to keep ancient parallel SCSI dive alive.
in context:

> https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_purported_HIV_medical_...

> Due to the contradictory dates, possible evidence of forgery, strong motivations for fabrication, and few motivations for a legitimate revelation, the images should not be taken at face value.

I would encourage anybody to read the source document above to see the whole analysis, but it's pretty impartial and paints a sceptical picture.
Since when is there only one alternative?
No offense or anything but what’s the point of making this comment outside of showing that you were right? Good prediction.
I preordered the remarkable 2 and have been using mine for a long time now.

I would not recommend reMarkable 2 to everyone.

It’s a fantastic product, and it’s good enough to replace a notebook when you are writing for yourself, drawing/sketching etc.

But it’s high UI latency and poor touch screen accuracy makes it effectively unusable for “real-time” note taking such as in a meeting or a classroom. Once you hit the end of a page, moving over to the next page takes long enough that you will derail your train of thought and focus on doing a swipe and waiting for the next pave to load. It gets annoying very quickly.

The second problem is that random access to a page in the middle of your notebook will take so long that going back and reviewing notes from last week is v2 basically never going to happen. The UI experience is really really slow

If you don’t care about quickly accessing a page in the middle of your notes or writing quickly in class or a meeting, reMarkable 2 is awesome.
This has always been my reservation. If you have all the knowledge in the world, but only expose the transgressions of people and institutions you have a vendetta against, how does that improve anything?

This is why we have crackpots like Trump, chants of "lock her up", skepticism of established institutions, and skepticism of science moving to the forefront. Assange isn't the only one doing this, but he was a big part of it.
Thanks for the context, it makes sense. The way I see it, a Tether collapse would simply remove some volatility and volume from other crypto markets, but it's possible that if this is putting huge sell pressure with shorting today, that crypto has a nice rebound after the dust settles.

Thoughts?
But how would anyone find us? If we accept that the max speed in space is lightspeed, then we're basically hidden.

Why?

Most of our communication relies on radiowaves... even communication to/from space. Now looking at history, we've known and used radiowaves for maybe a 100 years, and considering the current enviromental trends, we might be using it for eg. 500 more, before we die out. Or maybe 10.000. Mathematically it doesn't really matter a lot.

Now look at the waves we've been sending out... a if we assume "the world ends" in 500 years, in a million years, there will be a 600 light-year "thin" shell of a 1mio light years sphere travelling away from earth, attenuated by the square law (twice the distance, 1/4 of the power).

What are the chances, that the thin shell of radiowaves hits some other culture, on some other world, in their "600 years of power", that are able to detect those waves, and actually come visit us (if we're still alive, which we're probably not).

Our world might be everything to us, but in a universal scale, our world compared to the universe is like an atom to our body... utterly insignificant.
Facebook reverse-engineers deepfakes to detect the AI models used to create them
Since you will only be able to hit a tiny fraction of the ships, the enforcement has to be deadly, or the incentive will still be to violate.
Besides what others have already said, there's also the risk that if Tether collapses and becomes so worthless that it's not being traded anymore, you cannot exit the short position, as Matt Levine once mentioned on his newsletter (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-11/-go-to...).
> ...and comparative advantage is a very real(and good) thing.

Comparative advantage is a fine model in a one-shot static analysis. But when modeling in reflexivity, and adjacency, from my perspective as a business operator is comparative advantage is a terrible analytical model.

There are all sorts of industrial activities that supply soft power projection into an adjacent industry. As long as I'm not bleeding money on them, I don't care they don't fit some economists' vision of "highest, best use of capital". That approach to capital-efficiency-über-alles has for a long time now struck me like working physics problems with zero friction.

An example I give is IBM selling its x86 laptop and server division to Lenovo. They weren't consistently hemorrhaging red ink. And given hardware refresh cycles and new projects, those affiliated IBM sales teams were invited in behind the curtains to talk new orders at least once every other quarter with the customers. You cannot buy that kind of access for blood or money these days, and my personal take is as long as it doesn't net you a negative balance sheet at the end of the day, I've seen way worse use of capital on "marketing expenses".

For example, IBM definitely has the sophisticated financing/leasing/etc. structures to have set up sales incentives that enabled customers to start on their x86 hardware, and then seamlessly p2v into their cloud as the initial onboarding of customers' cloud initiatives, and helping them re-design and re-factor for the cloud.

This pattern plays out over and over in many businesses. When leveraged, it constructs a moat out of an ecosystem of inter-related economic activities.
After following up on your sources, I surrender my position. It appears that the quest for truth has largely been abandoned in academia, and that integrity is a fools dream.

We truly are as T.S Elot said the hollow men.
Gotta say never heard of an api like this before that serves everything once. Forever.
iirc the "slaughterbot" concept is about tiny kamikaze drones. Enough explosive to crack open a skull in a drone about the size of a coin, and not much more expensive than that coin. Release hundreds of thousands of them for less than the cost of a single missile, and each of them will independently target and execute a single human.

I don't think any kind of conventional gun is going to do anything against this.
Drake equation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
No air defence system is considered efficient against supersonic, sea skimming missiles, let alone manoeuvering ones.
With select exceptions(defense, mainly), disruptions of the kind you're describing are best handled with multilateralism.
And it's critical to note that Tether has, in fact, refused to process any redemptions for any US client since 2018.
PIA is owned in a weird structure I don't understand in a jurisdiction where any legal agreements with my home country are, most likely, non-existant or untested. They also seem to have enormous amounts on money to spend on marketing or paying off torrent review sites.

Everybody recommends them, but all of these things make me uneasy.
But then how will I attempt to gain feelings of control, and thus perceived power, during my life in the salient face of my inevitable mortal demise?

/s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory
The classified version of the UAPTF (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force) report on government knowledge of real UFO events is being given to select members of the Senate ahead of the unclassified version likely to come next week. The narrative seems to be “soft disclosure” with descriptions of the public report by officials confirming that there are numerous real UFO events, that defy conventional explanations (and sometimes known physics), and do not represent secret US black projects, or even technological leaps from US adversaries. Basically, the ET hypothesis and US involvement with the phenomenon going back decades is being put on the table in a serious manner. The next step after more public pressure and interest will be a potential deeper disclosure and the government justifying its need for secrecy regarding UFOS and ET’s with national security claims in order to win back trust and faith in government and the military. Credible military witnesses, pilots, civil servants, researchers and finally whistleblowers deserve the public’s praise for these new developments.
So, I'm really unsure how to have these sorts of discussions with crypto proponents. The US government's securities (UST), as well as the US capital markets, are some of the most trusted financial assets and mechanisms in the world. Treasuries, in particular, are considered one of the safest asset classes to hold. As a crypto proponent, you might not believe that, but collectively $22 trillion of capital (and those responsible for its management, sovereign and institutional alike) believes that's the case. If the US government fails, crypto is likely to be of lesser value than say, ammo, food, and fuel.

This is in stark contrast to offshore crypto operations who refuse transparent auditing of their reserves.
> With time, though, it became clear that the show was operating at the intersection of a number of ancient American traditions.

Proceeds to quote examples from a little over sixty years earlier.
It may be hard to see but all those senior engineers you see likely struggled and did stupid shit as juniors. I put out crappy code and broke stuff. And I was one of the top juniors there.

At lot of this depends where you work. Any sort of tech company at scale is ridiculously complicated. Two months is not enough time for senior people to really be fully functional. Certainly not a Junior. You're going to be mostly lost for a year.

First off, stop comparing yourself with others. Don't worry about what the other juniors are doing. Focus on yourself.

Second, work less. You're burning out and the only cure is to not work as much.

Third, focus on one ticket. Take the feedback (and there's always feedback) and do the needful.

About standup, nobody wants you to talk for very long. A simple "I'm working on X, stuck on Y, and doing Z to get unstuck.". If it helps make notes during the day for stuff to talk about in the following standup
Apple considered launching its own primary healthcare service
> Document navigation is absolutely a core part of reading.

This is a stretch. "Reading" means reading. You open a book and read it cover-to-cover. "Document navigation" is extra stuff beyond reading - it is not core. When you read a novel, you are not expected to jump back and forth between different chapters or sections, and the vast majority of people don't.

When you teach your child to "read", you don't teach them to click on PDF links (that's "web searching" or "computer literacy" or whatever) or to flip to arbitrary pages as fast as possible, or to search through a file - you literally teach them the English alphabet, how to parse words and sentences, and that's it - they know how to read. One knows how to "read" even if they've never seen a computer in their life, and if they don't know how to cross-reference books and articles, and if they don't know how to use an index.

> When I read a book, I page around it because that's how books work.

That's irrelevant. You can write on the margins of a book "because that's how books work", yet that's totally unrelated to "reading". I can clip out fragments of a book and put them on my refrigerator - that doesn't mean that a core part of reading is the extraction of inspirational quotes.

> When I reference a book I've already read, I want to look in the index or the table of contents and go there.

And yet, that's not a "core part of reading", and doesn't need to be optimized as such. The core parts of reading are reading words and flipping pages. Indices and tables of contents, while important, are not a core part of reading - they're important, sure, but if you remove them, you can still read things. That's what "core" means - "core" means "without this element, you cannot do the activity".

Let me repeat that again - if you remove the ability to flip to arbitrary pages (but keep the spot you were last reading in - which the reMarkable does), remove the table of contents, and remove the index, you can still read a book.

Will you be able to perform research effectively? No. But that's not what the reMarkable is for. I'll be the second to admit that the reMarkable 2 is terrible at research - but it's not meant to be used for research, it's meant to be used for simple reading, and note-taking while you do research on another device.

> [...] searching are core scenarios.

False. Their homepage literally never mentions "search" or "index". It's simply not there. Would search be useful? Heck yes. Is it necessary for reading? Absolutely not, see above.

As feature-limited as the reMarkable is, it is upfront about those limited features, and it executes on the features that it does promise at least better than most other pieces of technology.
More like “if the dollar goes tits up, Uncle Sam has enough assets in the real world to maintain infrastructure and law and order.”
The stab wound was in the back of the bears head. Normally when a bear is fighting it will turn its head towards the attacker and it is not possible for this attacker to stab it in the back of its head.

So this was probably either a lucky hunter who discovered a hibernating bear or a member of a larger group of hunters that was able to sneak behind the bear while other members kept it occupied.
It is typical human self-centeredness to assume we are the only sentient beings with the ability to move ourselves around a plane or beyond.

I don't get the feeling that most educated people believe that "we are the only sentient beings with the ability to move ourselves around a plane or beyond". In fact, I'd wager that a significant portion, if not a majority, of such people believe that there likely is (or was, or will be) other such intelligent / sentient life in the universe.

But... what I think many (maybe most) educated people hold is that it is very unlikely that Earth is being routinely visited by alien intelligences. And I think the basis for that belief structure is rooted in the underlying physical reality of the universe, regarding distances between other worlds, and the speeds that can be attained to travel between worlds.

Simply put, it appears, based on what we know today, that even at light speed, (or a very, very large fraction of light speed), it would take around hundreds of years to travel back and forth to Earth from nearby planets that are suspected of being habitable. So even in the best case, where the aliens can travel at like 0.95 of c, and happen to be located on the very nearest habitable planet, it seems likely that they would have to be both very long-lived, and very tolerant of boredom, to travel back and forth between Earth and their world.

Impossible? No. Likely? Hmm...

OTOH, it seems like we do keep discovering more and more new "possibly habitable worlds" and the "best case" range to such a world keeps shrinking. And there's no particular reason I know of to think that "aliens" might not live dramatically longer lives than us, and maybe they are in fact fine with multiple hundred year jaunts around the universe. Or maybe they've invented the sci-fi trope "suspended animation". So never say never, I guess.
Given that people (and governments/military) have believed in many phenomena that were later found to have a mundane explanation I'd expect reports like this in a world where there aren't aliens flying around.

That, and it making no sense for us to only see evidence for them on earth but not when looking at space, and that there's very few objectives they can be achieving with big ships flying around here for decades (observation can be achieved with tiny machines, communication can be more direct etc.) the mundane explanations are many times more likely from where I sit.
Who is “we”?

This has been criticized since 1999 and far longer back. How long ago is the Rosenhan Experiment again?

Dare I say that a majority have always held a dismissive, critical view of such matters. But of course, those that hold dismissive views of it are not the ones who work in such fields, and certainly not at the top ready to implement changes, so it can continue to persist and go on despite of being highly criticized.

At least when I studied physics at a university around what must have been 2005, most of the students and professors there were highly critical of softer science and it often came up that some of these papers popped up and were viciously criticized for clear and obvious systematic errors in the methodology.