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Explorer isn't exactly good compared to other file managers of this era, but honestly if Microsoft would rewrite Explorer in this time - you could be assured it would be utter garbage.
Saw a really good YT video[1] on Tether yesterday. Breaks down all the sketchiness. But the problem he mentions in the video is a problem with pretty much all stablecoins, in order to function you must have the proper reserves before generating a token, but inevatably greed kicks in and you start thinking what if you minted coins without the backing. USD pegged stablecoins are basically money printing machines in the hands of whoever runs the project.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-whuXHSL1Pg
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POTUS himself may be absent from Africa but not from physical reality, and the physically real resources under their command certainly aren’t absent from the various corners of the world.
There seems like a huge number of people who, at least in online discussions are skeptical of Tether's stability. And they may very possibly be correct? However, my question is why do virtually none of these people actually out money behind these views and short USDT?

It's pretty cheap and easy to take a short position in Tether. You can borrow USDT on Compound for 3.37%, convert it to USDC at Curve for 0.06%, then collect 2.32% on USDC at AAVE. If/when Tether collapses, you'll only have to cover your short at the collapsed value.

Many in comment sections like these will argue that Tether is less than 50% backed by hard assets. If you genuinely believed that to be the case, why would you not be happy to pay less than 1.5% per year to earn a 50% profit when the house of cards collapses?
I would argue that "the easy parts" of cp account for a very significant fraction of its usage (i.e. copy some files/directories without any other options). The idea with fcp is to make that common use case very fast, not to replace cp and all the options it handles.

I definitely can understand the fatigue with "rewrite it in Rust" though, as there is a lot of that.

Something you might be interested in is that people have actually gone through the effort of rewriting the actual coreutils to spec in Rust (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils).
> Finally. Is this the state of cutting-edge research on SETI? This wishful-thinking make-believe "look what I made Mum!" stuff? If this was a bootcamp dev showing off their WebGL modelling demo, I'd be impressed. 'nuff said. Sorry to be harsh, but... really? this is it?

I mean, when all you have to work is literally nothing all you can do is speculate. It is disappointing but what can they do but throw everything at the wall and see if it sticks.
I love this paper, I always had an issue of visualizing transformers from reading ML papers, with this I can just play with it. These are simple higher-order functions that can be implemented in any language though, so porting to Python and playing with it in a Jupyter notebook is trivial.
I guess I'm surprised that this was shocking. Turkey is basically where the Byzantine empire was, and Istanbul itself was Constantinople (as the old song goes). Who did they think were their ancestors?
> You obviously live in a bubble.

Partij voor de Dieren is a Dutch party. That's the 'bubble' I live in.

> There's countless homeless folks

In France, there are 140,000 homeless people. Also 0.2% of the population.

> extractivism

Your condescension is very visible behind your neologisms.

> Hence the degrowth movement

Saying "consumerism" is bad for the environment is rather a different statement from "economic growth is the problem".

> > stop trying to measure what cannot be measure > That'll work out just fine, I'm sure.

> ?

Well, for starters, you can't measure happiness, well-being of humans, animals or plants, air quality, etc. And when there are countless homeless folks, you can't even measure that.

IMO, some approximate measure of your goals, with a sensible flexibility and understanding of its biases, is good enough to steer away from the worst consequences of your policy. But go ahead, base your policies on gut feelings. We all know where that ends.
When supply dries up, prices go up. So what's cheaper in the short term may cost them in the longer term. Building ill will, too, can be very expensive over time.
The Decline of the Physical Exam in Modern Medicine (2014)
(DID NOT READ THE ENTIRE PAPER, only the abstract, the definition of the language and some of the experiments)

Note sure how useful this is in the larger context of transformers. Transformers (and deep networks in general) are often used when the logic to be used in solving a problem is largely unknown. Example -- How do you write a RASP program that identifies names in a document?

They do have some simple RASP examples in the paper of things that a transformer model can accomplish (Symbolic Reasoning in Transformers) but, again, this is usually something that the model can do as a result of the task it was originally trained for, not a task in and of itself.
Alternatively you could buy Apples homepod, I can't imagine they want to torpedo their brand so completely that your homepod won't be broken by then anyway.
One possible advantage is that it can be easier to learn the fundamentals when they aren't as obscured by as many later layers of smoothing over and/or complexity. For instance, it's very common for schools to teach assembler based on older tech, because it's simpler to deal with. Older tech will more directly expose you to the underlying issues with the foundations of the technology.

For an example of something that smooths a lot of things over, using a nice, high-level USB library is abstracting away a huge amount of the issues involved with that sort of signaling. If you want to deeply understand how computers communicate with each other over wires, you're probably better off studying RS-232 first.
Their Wiki page[0] is quite damning:

Tether is a controversial[1] cryptocurrency with tokens issued by Tether Limited, which in turn is controlled by the owners of Bitfinex.[2][3] Tether Limited formerly falsely[4] claimed that each token was backed by one United States dollar, but on 14 March 2019 changed the backing to include loans to affiliate companies.[5][6] The Bitfinex exchange was the subject of a lawsuit by the New York Attorney General of using Tether's funds to cover up $850 million in funds missing since mid-2018.[7][8] The investigation found that iFinex — the operator of Bitfinex and Tether — made false statements about the backing of the Tether and about the movement of hundreds of millions of dollars between the two companies to cover up the truth about massive losses by Bitfinex. According to the New York Attorney General, "Tether’s claims that its virtual currency was fully backed by U.S. dollars at all times was a lie".[4]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(cryptocurrency)
Let's see what Norway does when Brevik gets out after his 21 year sentence, which... is only 10 years away, YAY! (sarcasm)

For those that don't remember he killed 77 people (mostly kids) and was sentenced to 21 years in jail.
it wouldn't come back around to you. you're moving at over 17000 mph. if you threw the ball backwards it would be in a slightly different orbit that wouldn't meet back up with you. The two orbits would look like a spirograph
If you want to make the systems homogeneous, then you need homogeneous teams, too. Maybe some team members prefer fish, others prefer zsh, still others prefer bash. Your suggestion means that everyone has to use the same shell for their command line.

I find that it is better to allow each team member to have their own working environment: different (command line) shell, different editors/IDEs, different keyboard shortcuts. But everyone uses the same programming languages (counting shell as a programming language for scripts here) and the same build tools and the same linters.
> The hosts lived there with her pets and I'm allergic to cats and dogs. I reached out to Airbnb and the host and we were basically sent packing.

What else could have happened? If you have special needs you should send a small message to the host prior to booking to confirm it's compatible.
Funny to see the user kordless's comment auto killed by the fake, woke HN company culture towing the line with hollywood trying to revise history to make it seem as if homosexuality, and the "robust and complex" science of transgenderism is something that has existed since the dawn of time, is a problem for more than 2% of the population, just like TV would have you believing that every couple is some interracial woke fever dream that adopts a kid for every color of the rainbow. Venture capital idiots, woke idiots, and the MBA idiots have ruined modern culture
The Deck was such a thing. It was sort of invite only because once you go first party you have no way to validate the user base so you need to trust the partner. For ads that result in direct sales this can be easy to do though.
> We didn't survive as a species thanks to life guiding philosophy or in general thanks to a conscious thinking process in which we tried to predict the future

You couldn't be more wrong. Consciousness, inferential thinking, symbolic processing, they are all selected because they give a tremendous adaptive advantage. To claim otherwise would be at best to claim they are mere spandrels.

> I can make a case for believing we can though. It is a most powerful motivator for action and association.

Believing we have agency where we don't is actually the most powerful reason for burnout and depression. Stoicism gives a corrective suggestion; engage in a questioning process in order not to overestimate your agency, but also not to underestimate it; don't forgo the predictive power you do have. It calls you to reframe your life's problems in a way where you salience the information about the degree of agency you might or might not have. Notice how there is no ready made answers for you to consume.

> So maybe the lesson is don't have a philosophy for yourself but have one for your would be followers?

I think you're conflating philosophy with indoctrination or dogma. Philosophy literally means love of wisdom. Wisdom is not a collection of propositions or assertions, it is roughly a hyper-parameter tuning process of our heuristics. One does not become wise, because it is not a terminal position. One aspires to cultivate wisdom, i.e. to work on their hyper-parameters. Philosophy is the dedication to this process.
Only for now. When it rolls out widely, Apple's sheer scale will most likely force the issue.
I should probably clarify that I meant "splurge" as in "spending where they normally don't", not as in "spend beyond a reasonable amount"
I became a Data Scientist because in 3rd year, I found the OKCupid data blog and realized their research had methodological soundness these "20 undergraduate lab students forced to be there" research never would.

You trade 'shot-in-the-dark lab experiments' for 'a clear and obvious agenda'. The trick is to just make sure the agenda isn't morally reprehensible.
Imagine if all the dark matter is repurposed for mega-civilization habitation and energy needs, and the matter we see is poorly suitable rejects

There's your Fermi paradox, we live in a dumpster pile.
Um, if I click "Continue" am I agreeing to their cookie policy?

Is this popup a GDPR notice?

For anyone who doesn't see it: There's a giant blue box on the left that just says continue to lego.com, and then a giant yellow box on the right for going to their "Play Zone" for kids I guess.

Then in microscopic text underneath they only describe their cookie policy but say nothing about what you're agreeing to.

[EDIT] Okay, it seems there is a cookie-control thing underneath after you click. Only discovered it by meddling with the Inspector. But that whole first thing just really looks like a dark pattern.
I would hope (but definitely not expect) HN commenters to see past this and realize the problem isn't computer vision or firepower. It's tying those two together, writing some code and cutting it loose on humanity. Put it this way: if you wrote the code for an autonomous machine gun platform, would you park it in your house? I'm twenty years into this and I wouldn't trust my code that well.
1M Views on a Garbage Video – Garbage Day Revisited
First 60 second impression - this looks like powershell with not-insane syntax. Looks quite revolutionary, it breaks the traditional paradigm for UNIX shells and appears to artfully refine the good concepts in Powershell (which seem to be let down severely - in my opinion - by UX issues.)
Who defines what "privacy" means? You? Why? Can you point me to the place where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights talks about cookies and FLoC? The UCHR is not a blank check for banning anything you want in the name of "privacy".

There are a lot of angry people in this thread stating what they want, but none have offered an argument for why we should structure society around their whims. Sorry, but "you shouldn't be able to collect information" isn't an argument. It's a wish. Nobody is under any obligation to indulge the wishes of random strangers.
Here's why you should Use Kubernetes!
Appeal to authority is a big reason. The academic leaders in the field were incentivized to find breakthroughs, or to treat any experiment they ran as a breakthrough, because that’s where their influence and reputation came from. People are so used to trusting experts that they didn’t realize that finding the truth wasn’t the primary motivator for some people.
May I ask why you need google account information ?
Story titles often are more than meets the eye. - Lord Dang (Decepticon)
Neeva's model is great but execution is suboptimal.

Two examples:

- While Neeva has no ads, they prioritize sites with tons of ads in their results (search for 'best laptop'). If your main premise is that ads are bad, why not penalize/remove second order sites that are heavy in ads?

- They claim they respect user privacy, yet make technical choices like using raw Google maps in their product as Maps module, which sends requests from the client directly to Google
The history of human civilizations is a blink in the eye compared to the history of the human race. And compared to the time scales of the simulations they run. So I wonder if maybe those filters end up as noise when we’re talking about filling the galaxy. History is less of a detailed story and more of a fundamental force.
Why exactly are you worrying about this case? Start with a simple server-side rendered forms-based web app.
While it isn't impossible in principle to make an aerial stabilized firing platform, I think you underestimate the difficulty. You definitely can't do it with a quadcopter, which doesn't have anywhere near the precision reaction capability to counteract rifle recoil. Even the most advanced fighter jets in existence right now can't do this. They need to use guide missiles for precision targeting.

In practice, a drone swarm is an area weapon. It's why it's kamikaze and relies on explosives right now. It can say it has the ability to find a specific person using computer vision and maybe it can, but it definitely can't make sure it only kills that one person and it can't kill from a distance.

No flying platform will be replacing snipers any time soon.
What kind of model are you working with?

Suppose you're orbiting at 10,000 units per second.

You throw a ball backwards at -20 units per second, giving it a velocity of +9,980 units per second.

Later, you throw another ball at the first ball with the same velocity. Traveling at +9,980 units per second, it will... obviously never be able to hit the first ball. But if the two balls did somehow collide, how could they end up falling to earth as a result?

If your idea is that you sneak up on the first ball from behind (after all, you are going faster) and throw the second ball at it from behind, now you have a ball traveling at v = +10,020 colliding with another ball traveling at v = +9,980. Here at least the collision is possible, but how does falling become a possibility?
That’s a brilliant idea! Is there something like this in the US? How has your experience been using it?
It is somehow of a side comment, but I always wondered why there is no CAM - Computer Assisted Medicine. The kind of program where you would input everything you checked (either physical exams, or quantitative information such as blood tests results, heart rate etc.)

In winter, a typical result from this program when someone comes with a sore throat, pain in the joints and headache is "flu" - at 98%.

But there is 1% left for parasitical infection of pythonus golangus, which can be extra tested by doing this and that.

And then the next 10 possible illnesses, extremely low probability.

What this could avoid is that an MD who is human and has zillions of patients with the same symptoms is helped to target something else either when there is something uncommon, or the typical treatment si not as effective as it would be.

I am a physicist by education, and IT by work. All what we do is more or less reproducible and it is extraordinarily uncommon that a bug is due to a cosmic particle hitting the CPU rather than a forgotten semicolon.

I believe however that biology is much more unpredictable, with a ton more parameters and an MD may have not heard about an illness (or have forgotten) so reminding them about the possibility could be enlightening (and direct the gut feeling they may have otherwise).
more than one third of the entire world population believes that OKCupid is "morally reprehensible" (!)
Because the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Just look at the state of Meme stocks now.
This [1] is a good read about design decisions and potential problems you face with a service like this at scale.

[1] https://segment.com/blog/introducing-centrifuge/
You can disable the captcha by paying the site a 30 % cut of the purchase price of the Apple device and the subscription./s
"Science"
> Then how'd you get into space in the first place in this hypothetical?

Outside ISS mission going bonkers - a tank rupturing leading to an unfortunate astronaut getting catapulted off, for example.
Definitely valid points, as I mentioned in a comment below I'll be updating the README to mention this is geared towards systems with SSDs.

As for lacking most of cp(1)'s options, that's a deliberate choice. My goal with fcp is to make the most common use case of cp(1) (i.e. copy some files/directories with no options) fast, not to replace cp(1) completely.
Tangent, but the Stanford Prison Experiment is an awful example of science. It was a researcher who wanted to prove a point and created the conditions to collect the data to prove that point. I hate that it's often the only psychological experiment many people are familiar with.
I have no basis to argue against the article, but I would think there is more incentive to game it now so I wouldn't take it as a given that things have improved.
That’s sounds exactly like what the NYT article describes.
No. Because I run ublock origin.

And SponsorBlock. Because I don't care who is disrupting the genital shaving wallet repair toolkit.
There are never enough bombs to go around, especially smarter versions. Classic every problem is a nail and I have a hammer situation for commanders and strike planners once they have access to such munitions.

This bit NATO forces in Libya[1], for example.

Building drones may well be more scalable and economically viable than smart bombs. Consider a multiuse drone that could be utilized for battlefield recon with its camera, or the user snaps something akin to a BLU-108[2] smart munition onto the bottom of the chassis and now they have a remote controlled smart anti-tank weapon. The drone being multi use could increase the use cases, increasing the order size, decreasing the unit cost.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nato-runs-short-on-some...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-108
Esssh. How many times does Malcolm Gladwell need to be exposed as a fraud before he looses his pulpit?

(So much for post-truth being a mere problem for the rabble...)
"While there is no privacy audit that I'm aware of, the theory is that there is no motivation to sell my searching habits to anyone."

They could sell your data for even more of a profit. Why couldn't that motivate them?

Or they could do it to comply with some jurisdiction's laws.

Or they could do it accidentally or as a leak from within.

The best protection is that no data is collected in the first place, but we need auditing to make the claim of no collection credible.
>I was under the impression that what isn’t forbidden by law was legal by default.

Even beyond that, personal privacy from the government is enshrined in the 4th amendment. Just because there was some executive actions and illegal laws made does not mean the 4th amendment suddenly disappears. No person or entity has the right to dragnet all communications.
Fishing fleet support vessels and factory/processing ships tend to stay in international waters, outside the reach of any particular nation's coast guard or naval forces. Many such vessels rarely, if ever, visit a port to avoid actions like boarding and seizure. And when they do, they try to dock at a port in a jurisdiction that's unlikely (or expressly made it clear) they aren't going to take any sort of police action against the vessel and its crew.

While these vessels are out in international waters, one can't simply board/seize/sink such vessels without causing a major diplomatic incident with economic consequences at best. At worst, it would be perceived as an act of war and invite military response.
I guess nobody has that kind of money to risk it.
Yeah - just pointing out that in general LEGO has been printing prices that would have been stickers 20 years ago.

Part of is also that they did a study and realized that stickers piss kids off because they’re hard to apply correctly.
So basically https://hexxagon.com/.
I love the idea that any history/philosophy can be divorced from politics. Like, I only enjoy hearing this human beings thoughts and opinions, but only if they exist in this narrow band of what I deem acceptable.

His ideas on satire are extremely valuable IMO, explicitly because of the political nature of his arguments. It critiques the inability of modern social systems inability critique those in power, and skillfully intermixes the politics of the time to enhance his point (that part about A Wonderful Country is beautiful, how an extremely political point can be made through satire, leagues beyond SNL)
It’s all a matter of scope. Who is a combatant?

Any failure of the technology will be scoped away. If the drone blows up a city block targeting a kid with an ice cream cone, the cone will be classified as a potential weapon, therefore tragically the child was a militant.
Do we want personalized ads, though? I don't, but I suspect I'm in a small minority. If I want to purchase something, I'll go do some research. I specifically don't want ads that are designed to try to get me to purchase something I don't need based on some manipulative psychological model based on my browsing behavior.

A quick search makes it apparent to me that most people do want personalized ads, or at least think they do, while at the same time most people don't want the behind-the-scenes tech that makes it possible.
Yeah, I kinda dipped when I felt like there were more opinions than history. Like, I understand that all history is colored by the person telling it, and that was kinda the whole idea behind Revisionist History in the first place, but I felt like he moved from highlighting less known aspects of history to highlighting basically where he thought history had gone wrong.