skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the fact that Saudi Arabia is an US' puppet regime, they(the US) could do everything they want with it.

If you go to Saudi Arabia you will see that Arabia is made of hundreds of different loosely integrated ethnic groups, Saudis are just one of them that took the power in the country.

Removing the Saudis from power is extremely simple, they can just support other ethnic groups. The problem is that you never know if what is created is much worse than what it is there today, just like what happened in Egypt choosing the Muslim Brotherhood or in Libya, unstabilizing all the north of Africa.

China is a totally different thing. China is a gigantic country, almost a continent with more than 1200 million people, a big army,powerful industry, natural defenses and ethnically dominated by Han people.
I recommend 'nb' (https://github.com/xwmx/nb)

CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more in a single portable script.
Critical feedback: This seems like a product with an exceptionally shallow moat. What is stopping Cloudflare and Fastly from cloning and burying?
I guess it’s related to the IPO?
A good time to scratch off low hanging fruits from your product roadmap to beef up your offering.
Interesting how this supports both mobile and desktop non-chrome browsers, but a lot of websites with menus and tables don't play well on firefox
You could say the same thing about cash.

Also, gold's value seems to fluctuate quite a bit and it was / is the basis for some currencies
Fascinating Wikipedia rabbit-hole, although I laughed out loud at the oddity of this sentence [0]:

>Feilding learned about the ancient practice of trepanation from Bart Huges, whom she met in 1966, and who published a scroll on the topic.

Curious as to the details of scrolls as a modern publishing medium. The source link is broken, so I guess I'll never know.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Feilding#Trepanation
Biden tells Putin certain cyberattacks should be 'off-limits'
I think there is a meaningful difference between the predicates "is about racial diversity" and "mentions racial diversity in one paragraph near the bottom".
The need to have an extension of consciousness is a weird phenomenon to recognize. I can't talk about religion in general because all religions are merely interpretations but the idea of a supernatural all-powerful being whom, for starters, we can delegate responsibilities and explanations to is very comforting. All roads go to our inability as humans to deal with death, the end, and the idea of nothingness. Life is easier when we believe.
Besides the two you mentioned, do you have any examples of said strategies?
That's still a 50 hr workweek over there :-)
There was no "..wink, wink" to the da vinci code.

The author specifically claimed that certain parts of the book - he listed exactly which parts - were documented historical truth. Isn't that "purporting to communicate factual reality"?
A Clever Robot Spies on Creatures in the Ocean's ‘Twilight Zone’
Maybe it's because Bitcoin is pretty shallow topic on the technical side?

At this stage all the interesting aspects of Bitcoin are economic, political or philosophical rather than technical, especially since most of the latter has been discussed to death.
> FWIW Ghaddafi predicted the mass-immigration problems that Europe now faces. Libya, for all it's faults, was the place to go for anyone born in Africa looking to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Not that I want to disregard Gadaffis warning here, but the UN itself predicted that this will happen and asked the countries to please provide more money to help the people in the camps or they will move on to Europe. No one listened, people moved on. This was not some kind of secret knowledge, more a type of "it's not yet a problem, ignore it"
> Europe & elsewhere use the term freely without any negative connotations.

You are wrong, some do, some don't. I would debate that its reduction is usage is because of the negative connotations, but let's leave it at that.

Edward Said has been hugely influential also in Europe's academia and intellectual discourse. I would also be astonished if there had been no influence in "the orient".
All games impart feelings even Overwatch! A really common game design lens is essentially “how do we want this to make the player feel?”

There’s definitely a very common set of feelings you might miss or not see as intrinsic because most games are imparting them but that doesn’t remove them from existence.
This wiki about concatenative programming language probably has all the answers: https://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Concatenative%20language
The Lindy Way of Living
Maybe I am naive but what is wrong with this idea?
To answer your specific comparison, I would say the values associated with capitalism.
My situation is far worse. The instructor assigns video that is on YouTube, but the kid would rather watch a different video. The assigned video is boring. It's more fun to watch a normal popular video.

So blocking YouTube won't work, yet most of YouTube needs to be blocked.
> Moreover, the loss of a kid feels far worse if you don't have more.

Let me tell you you’re very wrong here. Loosing a kid is the worst thing ever and is independent on the number of kids you have. I have 5 kids and I can’t imagine losing one.

The biggest reason IMO for kids having more freedom is not that we have less time for them but that they play more together instead of with us. This emulation leads to more risk taken.
The point is Bitcoin in an imaginary ideal scenario is at best neutral, not positive.

Bootstrapping energy production in remote places could have a few nice side effects sure, it just doesn't help its environmental impact.
Visa has a product where businesses accept contactless payments on Any NFC-enabled Android phone[1]. I thought that might be something stripe go after instead of it's own hardware. Interested to know why.

[1]https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases.rele...
> How much oil does the US buy from Iran? I think actual embargoes make a difference.

Iran is still a brutal repressive regime. Sanctions make it more difficult for Iran to gain and project power but don’t stop them from committing horrific crimes against minorities and generally innocent Iranians.
Developers can build things, this is what we all do. The question is not can we do it, but rather should we do it.

Developer time and focus is a scarce resource, and you want to invest it in moving the needle for you business, not reinventing the wheel. Especially when the wheel is actually harder than it first seems.

I can't attest to the YC investment strategy or the whole "product vs feature" trend you are witnessing. Though I think what you are seeing is more of a trend in the industry towards not reinventing the wheel and using external services for many things (e.g. Auth0) rather than a trend led by YC/VCs.
Where do you find solutions for a problem?
Hei,

There are a lot of solutions that may solve problems, but are they easy to find?! Yes, Google knows everything, but if there are no results for my problem, where should I go?

In the last period, I saw more platforms that share ideas for the next billion startups like needgap.com, kern.al, and some platforms like producthunt.com.

Is there any platform that is built for people with a problem who meet other people with solutions?
I think the fact that the topic of note taking comes up so frequently may suggest that it's still a problem to which there is not a very satisfactory solution.
Yeah, there are very few countries so far/further from core western values than Saudi Arabia. Which isn't outlandish considering how diverse world is, but the very strong and friendly relationships and military support from US is frikkin' crazy and amoral.

The country is run by psychopath cutting journalists to pieces at foreign embassies. I mean we're talking about the same level of primitive evil as some African dictators that ended with pretty harsh sentences at International Court of Justice.

And Trump basically pardoned the guy in the media from what I recall. I am curious if Biden's administration will change the US approach to him/SA or they keep quiet for enjoying their military bases there.
Arguably the JFK assassination was a coup.
> The disappointing efficacy of the shot known as CVnCoV emerged from an interim analysis based on 134 COVID-19 cases in the study with about 40,000 volunteers in Europe and Latin America.

The number of people who had Covid-19 cases seem surprisingly low and there were at least 13 variants amongst 124 cases. The real challenge though lies in the interpretation : is the efficacy due to variants or due to vaccine's inability?

https://www.curevac.com/en/2021/06/16/curevac-provides-updat...
What tricks and tips do you find help you with that? I've yet to find a silver bullet. I found forcing myself not to sit on a task for hours on end and physically moving when fatigue sets in (something incredibly difficult to notice when one is fatigued).
$4400 EV with 23 horsepower that can seat 4 is outselling Tesla Model 3 in China
That was a really cool experience!

What were the 'item slot' looking things in the bottom left of the screen? I couldn't figure that out.
At one point, I had one filled, but I don't know how or what it meant.
We support subscriptions, meaning we pass through "Upgrade" requests to your origin and they will keep working as they were before!

"Automatic subscriptions" is definitely something we've considered offering, but isn't on the immediate roadmap for now as we want to focus on the "peace of mind" first before expanding from there.
It's a commercial product owned by Microsoft designed to profit - financially - directly off a piece of software Linus Torvalds himself wrote specifically to manage the development of Linux. Not supporting Linux - when they trivially could - is an outright statement.
Change is hard, one has to appreciate that. Productivity is not everything. I did my share of changes over a long time, and bit by bit, and this helped me to separate my resistance to change, and the actual pros and cons of the systems.
Exactly. As the article itself mentions:

> Granted it’s not very readable and log / pow probably makes it less efficient

So, the "improved" solution is both less readable and probably less efficient... where is the improvement then?
Best of luck enforcing that. Just like cash, most people are not going to care if someone pays them with laundered BTC, and will ignore the law. Even if they do manage to get enforcement in place years down the road, that kind of activity will not happen with BTC. People who value privacy in their transactions already use Monero, which is superior to BTC in that respect
Thank you very much for the kind words. We do everything you mentioned except for adding headers (because we handle the signing for you too), and callbacks which we maybe do, I'm just not sure I fully understand what you mean in particular.
Many attribute the change in attitude to media scare. And while this undoubtedly has a large part, I think there's something different at play: the trend to have only one child.

When you have three, four, five kids it's not as much a problem if one or two get seriously, long-term damaged hurt as a result of some childhood accident, somewhere on the LGBT spectrum, infertile, in physically exhausting manual labor jobs or in war as there are still other children to keep the family line alive.

With only one child, the pressure on that one child to turn out "perfect" is much, much more immense - and parents will naturally helicopter around to ensure that their one and only offspring achieves the best they can, whatever the cost.
I don´t work in this market segment, nor on this level (being "Head of IT" for a < 100 employee company)... but i always disliked this style of authoritarian leadership. Would my boss act like this my answer would probably be (and was on previous jobs) "Well then... f** you".

Maybe bad for career, but really good for inner peace.
Some physical Bitcoin products solve that too - but I agree completely with you here. That’s why I made it clear that it’s only -technically- possible, but not remotely practical.
I think it's more the trauma of someone scraping at your head than anything. But, there's many ways of knocking someone out or making someone not feel or care about feeling it.
Oli has a high value, one could say it's the core of western civilization.
Thank you very much! By short circuiting you mean stopping sending to obviously failing endpoints?
"Whereas Japan had no solar industry to speak of in 1980, it was producing nearly half the world’s solar panels by 2005."

How does Japan manage to manufacture price competitive products while also maintaining a relatively high standard/cost of living?
On the first sight, the moat indeed is shallow.
We have a great contact with Cloudflare and Fastly and exchanged our thoughts about exactly this already.

One of them actually recently looked into building their own solution.
However, they realized, that in order to create something really valuable, you need at least a couple of months of dedicated engineering efforts of people who really understand GraphQL.

Our automatic and powerful cache invalidation - currently only possible with Fastly, a whole GraphQL-specific Analytics solution and a Security suite is nothing you can quickly clone.

Anyone of course can, but you need a highly GraphQL-specific product with many workflows like CLI workflows to upload your GraphQL Schema etc - it requires quite a bit of thinking and engineering to make that work.
Do we have another baseline that was conducted in a variant rich environment? In this trial, out of the 134 cases - 124 were due to variants from at least 13 types.
And then there are those curly quotes. shakes fist
this heartening. thanks!

did you ever get any mentorship? i’ve started to feel that i would really benefit from a mentor, probably someone with experience of executive function disorders etc.
I was disappointed that it's actually 4.8.1 in the setup.py
On the other hand, many people complain that stores don't open on Sundays. Mostly hear that from students that could go shopping anytime they want...
This is so common... and a few kind words in the beginning would avoid any negative effect once and for all. Yet its so hard for so many folks
You don't seem to understand bitcoin. You're talking about cashing out. Why would anyone cash out from bitcoin? Ok, you get some dollars. What do you do with them? They lose >10% yearly, whereas BTC has gained >200% yearly over the past 10 years.

Instead you hold it. And if you need money you borrow against it.

Likely the poorer people won't be able to save & hold much bitcoin at least in the beginning. But the government can keep their reserves (and pension funds for example) in BTC and thus benefit everybody.
> Lispers sometimes lament that current processors are 'C machines ill-suited to Lisp like the Symbolics Lisp processors of yore'

Interestingly, SPARC was designed to run C code well. The register window idea allows cheaper function calls than other architectures where you need to push state to a stack prior to the jump.
"This is like the 21st century version of confusing a zero with a capital letter O, yet worse."

I like the analogy, but why is it worse?
Same.

However, while meetings were sometimes explicitly scheduled for a quarter past, if your thesis supervisor schedules a meeting at, e.g., 9 AM, then be sure not to show up at 9:15. :)
You already have your answer. The outrage is deafening.
Well, you're right. Dogs are emotional, and get attached to people and happy, but it's only because they don't realize how miserable they actually are and simply don't know any better. I personally like dog breeds closest to wolves like the German Shepherd. And I pity some of the breeds resulting from ages of selective breeding, which don't even resemble dogs.
I also noticed that DDG (and Bing I guess) return results that are obviously SEO-gamed websited. Throws be right back into the early 2000s, when the big G was full of nonsense like this. Local results are another part where google works clearly better. I add "site:.mytld" of course but it's clunky and the results are not always satisfactory.
In the US I frequently see this:

Guy hired as CEO

Guy gets such absurd compensation he becomes a near billionaire and major stockholder after ~5 years.

Guy is elected to the board for his amazing credentials (billionaire major stockholder)

Retires at 40 to being a "full time" board member, and chills around company the rest of his life swimming in money and free shit
> The idea that there was this cohesive concept of "The Orient" as a Mysterious Other, waiting to be settled or tamed by the righteous West

That's an interpretation I never heard. Here in France (and in Europe as far as I know), Orientalism is an artistic current from the 18th to the early 20th focused on taking inspiration from the faraway, exotic, attractive Eastern cultures. To make a crude comparison, it would be much closer to “weeaboos” (albeit larger in scope, ranging from Maghreb to Afghanistan) than to the White Man Burden.

Although there were a lot of cliches born there (the Turkish harems, the Arabian cheikhs, the wild and free Bedouins, the proud and fierce Afghan warrior, etc.), there was definitely no feeling of need of settling or taming, as the whole point was the fascination for these cultures that hadn't really seeped through Europe until then.
> Thankfully it is big enough as the efficacy numbers have proven very accurate in real world measurements.

But are you considering the fact that breakthrough infections are counted using comparitively low CT values in RT-PCR tests?

Do we know how it will affect the positive rates of the test?
This is a great comment. Great examples of gatekeeping. I think you're right on the breakdown of "trust me" models. I also see a problem with fundamental value in the crypto space.

And I switched from a mild crypto believer to a metal stacker a couple of years ago.

I think one of the next big avalanches will be some more issues with crypto exchanges. There's a lot of people in the crypto space without the technical knowledge to properly secure their assets. I was one of the people who got burned by Mt. Gox. It wasn't everything, I had multiple wallets under my own control, but it was enough to hurt. And that wasn't a one time event.
The author of the linked piece, Lenore Skenazy, is famous for becaming known as the worst mother in America when she wrote about letting her 9 year old ride the subway alone in her column for the New York Sun. I’ve never seen that in NY, though old Sesame Street cartoons made it seem pretty common prior to the nineties.
For me it's this: https://scaphism.bandcamp.com/track/trepenate-the-undesired

With bonus spelling mistake and a Ghostbusters reference.
Facebook is tied to Facebook and is possibly the most viewed website/app in the world.
Why would you work that long though? I would leave that corporation immediately.
One reason: a central bank like the FED can't fuck it up. That is enough of a reason to give it value. Even if it was banned by Fincen, it wouldn't stop all countries from using it. That one reason is just too strong. Think about it, if you are some other country that isn't the USA, would you trust the USA not to inflate away the value of your foreign reserves? Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies solve this game theory type problem
Veritasium recently released a very good video that explains Gödels incompletenes theorem such that even I could understand it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo
My idea was simply to include an approved wellknown vaccine in the blind trial. So the subject would get either: The new vaccine, the old vaccine, or a placebo.

That would give a hint on what is going.
quora.com?
I am not sure, may be it might show the Moderna vaccines are just as ineffective (against the variants circulating now). I am not sure anyone would want that, particularly things like these are cropping up

https://austingwalters.com/covid19-vaccine-risks/
Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community
What SLA are Ubuntu mirrors held to? This doesn't seem great, but won't a quick run of mirrorselect remove the offending repos and let you get on with life?
I am at least not aware I got it anywhere, so maybe it is my own. And it is a bit hyperbolic, but I feel it resembles the attitude I often encounter.
In this case it would be the US courts. In Britain it would be the ICO who despite claims from companies like hiQ to be GDPR "compliant" they clearly aren't.
It's perfectly reasonable to bring up the fact that Gaddaffi, Saddam and all sorts of other characters suggest moving on form the petro dollar.

It's not covered by mainstream news, because it's not really a news item.

It's also reasonable to suggest that this will catch the ire of the US and their diplomatic corps, but it's really not an important thing.

It's 'conspiratorial' to suggest that this was in any way a primary reason for killing Gaddafi.

Gaddafi was already getting increased investment from many Western firms, and the US was literally looking to pass his public image to the extent that he provided reparations for Lockerbee and stopped acting crazy. Everyone was keen on 'being normal and making money'.

But the Arab Spring happened, and he made public statements that went to far, people feared the worst and that was the straw that broke the camels back.

The decision to intervene was barely a consensus, nobody really wanted to do it, Obama was super reluctant.

If Gaddafi were to have made a different public statement about his intentions, and were to have signalled in some way that he was unwilling to commit to blood or something ... he would have suppressed the insurrection and probably be still ruler today.

Qatari special forces that ended up killing him were only able to act because of the various forms of American cover and intel. support and of course the chaos of the war with him on the run.

The petrodollar is an important part of American foreign policy and they will get 'really mad' if people try to move away from it, but that's a far cry from the conspiracy stories.

Also, BTC is a giant distraction from reality, it serves to fuel hype and headlines as much as anything.
A.k.a

- "I'm going to make a repo because we I have a neat idea"
- .... 3 hours later ...
- "I'm not sure this is even possible"

And then it died.
> Older Chinese are still consumers, they'll bog down younger Chinese no more than US consumers will.

On average people consume less and save more as they age. After retirement saving dries up and consumption takes a dive. After people turn 80 their activity falls off a cliff and they hardly spend anything. Their major costs are healthcare related but that’s a financial burden not a consumption boost for most societies including China.
I wouldn't discount it so fast. One country attempting this doesn't mean much but one success story? If they can make it work other countries will follow. Then game theory takes over
It's kinda fascinating how something as simple as notetaking is still one of the big unsolved challanges in IT. We are constantly reimplementing the same decade-old concepts again and again, in slight variations and combinations, but yet hardly moving into a higher level of conquering this domain.

One reason is for sure is the wide number of requirements that everyone has. But another one seems to be the lack of big money flowing into that area and the low effort in researching it as a result. It's basically all just personal preference and randomness spreading.
When will Season 3 of ‘Manifest’ arrive on Netflix?
A Docker Image for Sass
They are a little late for that. The genie is out of the bottle
Angular Interviews in 2021
And that is to say nothing about all the dictatorships the US sponsored in South America. The US was more than happy to train torturers in modern torture techniques.
Turkish Healthcare Startup Uses Nanotech to Selectively Destroy Tumors