skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yes, servlets were such a breath of fresh air.

However that was more of an afterthought- I remember that when it came out I initially bought into the write-once-run-anywhere hype and the idea that Java was for writing applets.

The UIs were too clunky (AWT) or foreign (Swing, the second attempt) and the Java SDKs buggy so in the end HTML just improved faster and took over the presentation layer together with Futuresplash (later renamed to Flash).
Both things are well understood by the bitcoin community, at least. Bitcoin's utility doesn't depend solely on inflation or replacing the dollar as the global reserve currency, though that's a popular topic, since the collapse of the dollar would prove Bitcoin's place. For the second point, HODLing seems like it's forever, but it's only for the next decade or two; the expected growth comes from getting in early - just like if you bought an Warhol painting while he was still active.

So I agree, but the author of the article is using these arguments to strawman the crypto community, which is full of really smart people as well as idiots.
For the lower class it isn't just psychological jealousy. We look forward at a future where we have to constantly work and never really have a life. I have to pay a landowner for the ability to sleep. It isn't fun.
Amazon also charges for the disposal itself[1]. Although they're likely not going to receive payment from delinquent accounts, it's something sellers in good standing have to account for.

Amazon charges a monthly storage fee[2]. If your inventory hasn't moved within a year, you'll start getting charged a supplemental long-term storage fee[3] on top of that.

If you want Amazon to ship the inventory back to you, there's a removal fee[4] for that. Or Amazon can get rid of it for you, but there's a disposal fee[1] for that. And the fees for both options are actually the same, the deciding factor is really just whether you want to keep control over it (and have the capacity to receive/store it somewhere) or you want to pay Amazon to take it off your hands entirely (at which point they can do what they want with it).

... thinking about it, I wonder if this is how counterfeits end up working their way into the official "Sold by Amazon" supply chain.

[1] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G5FKTA8LXU...

[2] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?...

[3] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?...
I want to see the section on Sodom and Gomorrah. How long before the app gets hijacked by ultra-conservative, hateful, televangelists? Charisma is so much more dangerous, and potent, than any degree of religious study. For every MLK there's ten cult leaders and Trump-wannabes.

Something something Bible direct connection to personal God something something interpreted by fallible men something.

I just can't see this turning out well for society.
It is still nonsense in the sense that nothing anyone observed, wrote a book about, or whatever was caused by aliens. Sure, there are unexplained things, but they are not caused by aliens.
It is, after all bitcoins are eventually mined, because some private keys get irretrievably lost and those coins can therefore never be recovered.
Sure, you can find the specification for the QR code format in https://smarthealth.cards/. The data payload is defined in http://build.fhir.org/ig/dvci/vaccine-credential-ig/branches...
You're ignoring the cost of running the code, latency, and the many overheads and potholes of horizontal scaling. There's a reason large codebases are being rewritten from python, ruby, php to java, go, rust.
Wow, a great idea and an even better implementation!
> we'll again have lockdowns

Enforced by an out of control government.

This is such a funny argument. In my ears it rings as "We need to comply with our abusers so they'll stop abusing us."
The unfortunate price we have to pay for privacy. But I'll take it over ever-increasing tracking.
As you can see in other videos, it's not usually that terrible. Apparently it's a screen showing the laptop's view (electronic flight bag), so it depends on the laptop and application.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyctm0as-Eg&t=118
I wonder if it would be substantially more effective to prevent burnout by having shorter work days or work weeks.
Amazon does this - in the UK there's companies like John Pye who do 'remaindered goods auctions'. There's a John Pye warehouse less than half an hour from this specific Amazon warehouse.

But they've not been able to do their normal auctions during the pandemic, and I expect remainder auction places have full warehouses and staffing issues. So if they're not able to take the excess stock from Amazon, Amazon's next easiest option is to dump it in the landfill.

(Source: I've bought a lot of stuff from that John Pye warehouse, including Amazon returns, and live locally to the Amazon warehouse in question.)
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Twitter allows for full time remote. They were one of the first companies to announce it with COVID [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/01/twitter...
Apparently iPhone were not included this time: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/22/uk-emergency-alerts-tes...
What is the business model here? It's a registered LLC that collects tracking data etc... so like, what are your plans for this app?
Whyever not.
Well, they do not really want a stable unit. From the very founders all the way down, everyone wants a limited supply, deflationary and as much as possible of it in their own wallet.
And they want to cash out in the inflationary fiat currencies.
One thing I like about crypto is you can simulate economics experiments with funny money online. Ponzi Scheme? There are plenty of these going on. Want to investigate Harberger's triangle/deadweight tax loss? Create a small game. Prediction markets? See auger.

As long as you approach it from the perspective of 'this money is probably worthless' it's all just a fun learning experience about economic theory.

The only problem is some people "invest" more than they are comfortable losing. And that causes some tragedy.
I'm male but hear such remarks ~1--3 times any given workweek.
Gold is very inert, yes, but it still gets beaten by copper when it comes to conductivity [0] which is why conductors are rarely ever made out of gold instead of merely gold-plated.

Gold's industry use remains negligible in the great scheme of things and only a very small fraction of its value is derived from its industrial uses. It's valuable but not that valuable.

[0] https://www.bluesea.com/resources/108/Electrical_Conductivit...
It's beside the point but

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihe%E2%80%93Tengchong_Line
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I live alone and it's great. I use it every two days. If you have something to dry you let it there so your kitchen is clean without things in the sink.

Would recommend.
> Would you agree that "Animals will catch what they eat, and catch no more than necessary" is a generally true statement then?

See: "Nope".

> The OP was referring to hunting for sport (and other similar excesses)[0].

You are putting way too much interpretation on what the OP actually wrote: "Animals will catch what they eat, and catch no more than necessary".

That's not true: many animals will "catch" (really, savagely kill) more than necessary, much much more. In case you consider food stored for later "necessary", that also doesn't work: animals will kill much more than they can ever eat in an entire lifetime, much more than can be expected to stay in the ground without rotting away. Not to mention, many animals will just kill, without any attempt at storing or returning to the kill.

The OP also said nothing at all about hunting. They talked about over-fishing:

> Humans will over-fish and dump shit all over the place killing marine life and filling oceans with oil.

And also about ripping "mother cows from its children to mass produce milk and beef" and other things like that. Nothing to do with hunting, for sport or not.

> "Saving things for later" is a weird thing to be hung up on and has nothing to do with the article or this thread.

I don't understand what you mean. Can you explain?
I don't know where to even look for this, but it would be interesting to see if the DARPA investment bought them a perpetual, irrevocable license to technologies they funded.
Thanks for the feedback! Added to the todo list ;-)
The rest of the image captions follow through on the rhyme!
It says updated Apr 2021. I certainly recall reading that COVID transmission via surfaces was minimal sometime in 2020, earlier rather than later.
No, this is an allergy.
I wouldn’t go as far as you, but I agree. Life got stripped of its tedious socially required games.
Assets like housing and land have certain intrinsic value to them. The intrinsic value doesn't change because the amount of money circulating doubles, but the price of the asset in the inflated currency rises.

Since wealthy people hold more of their wealth in assets, this insulates them from inflation more than those who hold their wealth in savings or who live paycheck to paycheck and see their cost of living increase.

On paper it does reduce the burden of certain debts, but people on the lower socioeconomic end of the spectrum are often already paying debts at much higher or variable interest rates.
Haiku OS, maybe? It is under active development. https://www.haiku-os.org/

But a key problem with alternative OSes is that if you want to use them as daily drivers, your software choices may be limited or nonexistent. Haiku, for instance, has a WebKit-based browser, but no Firefox, Chrome/Chromium, or Safari.
Exen extensive research doesn't help, the manufacturers will lie and cheat to present their practices as 'proper' and many bulk commodities are untraceable - you wont know where the materials came from
nah. local GST is only 18% but import duties are added on top which are not passed down.
30.7 million sold just in 2020. 40 million has been forecasted for 2021. Various stats for the number of software developers on the planet cite numbers between 24 and 26 million.

MS doesn't, to my knowledge, post stats on WSL installations, but it's not 30 million+
people have been playing with it since the 80s, but it has yet to become more than alpha/research stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display
Did this get flagged? It went from front page on HN to completely disappearing for me.
At a glance it looks like that's materially the same mechanism that was used by IRON [0], which blew up last week after they had to mint too many of the stabilizing tokens to try to retain the USD peg. Am I missing something?

[0] https://docs.iron.finance
How is this not a privacy nightmare? It has name and date of birth in it.

The California version will certainly be used to generate databases that will be fed to marketers.
While it's true that a lot of ETFs available in Europe are swap-based, I think it's not "most". According to [1], there are 798 ETFs using full replication, 510 using sampling and 327 are swap-based.

[1] https://www.justetf.com/de-en/find-etf.html?groupField=none&...
Just to note, you can regularly ask your employees how they feel, and with enough employees get a significant measurement. So maybe they can measure the “woolly” morale impact of this. Tools like Lattice make it easy to do a “pulse” survey for this purpose.

Also the great thing about doing this twice a year is you get two experiments so you can start to be confident it’s not just “Christmas makes employees 10% happier” if you also measured a similar bump in the summer break. (Obviously numbers made up for the sake of example.)
The inflationary consensus is a practical issue and common sense.

If an asset is deflationary, I have an incentive to hold onto it as long as possible. Spending it is costly.

If an asset is inflationary, it's costly to hold it.

If everyone receives an inflationary asset by default for goods/services and everyone wants to trade it for something else, we have an extremely liquid asset that can be exchanged for other things -- currency.
regardless of being "religious" or not, the bible is fascinating!
> we live in society

Insert quote from Margaret Thatcher from 1987?[0]

More seriously, there is no [longer] one approved way to live, thank goodness.

We rightly demand that larger / mainstream groups respect minorities.

At what point is it OK to stop listening or respecting minority views, and who gets to decide that?

[0] "you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/08/margaret-th...
... that they are the least invasive and insidious.

Yes, that undoubtedly explains how they earn $200 billion a year.
If it's Christian and made in the US it's very likely already hijacked by hateful ultra-conservatives with a lot of money by the get-go.
"Visiting Earth" in my mind means entering Earths atmosphere, but yeah I cant comment on if aliens could be walking among us, but if they had made it to our atmosphere, why wouldn't they go the extra couple of km's?
Because they are involved in the conspiracy themselves...
Development of the plane type had started by, at latest, 2004, so, er, yeah.

It probably also reuses quite a lot from older planes; in that industry "if it ain't broke" is particularly relevant.
You can't give counterfeits away, you'll be sued. You can't give unlicensed or embargoed products away, you'll be fined. Give away damaged or defective goods and you'll see even worse PR than this story.

You can only give away the stuff you "could" sell but can't find a buyer for, which (1) pretty much means no one wants it and (2) will poison your relationship with the people who sell you the stuff you *can* resell!
People always bring up tomatoes. Where's the love for cucumbers, squash, eggplants and peppers?!
> do Zoom / Excel / Jira all day have MacBook Pros, which is insanity.

Agreed. A base MacBook Pro isn't nearly powerful enough for all 3 of those at once.
Well a lot of venues ask to see your ID to verify your age for entry. How is this any different? It's not like it contains any contact information.
> ... climb the ramp for the uniformly measured 1.1-inch pieces of squid that all of the other trained eels received.

Why 1.1 inches? I assumed that this was a whole number in centimetres, but its 2.794 cm. My guess is that its 3 cm, which works out to 1.1811 inches - and the NYTimes rounded down to 1.1.
Yeah, successful trolling more than anything is about being in the right place at the right time. A good troll casts a spark on a pile of dry leaves, a bad troll takes a blowtorch to a pile of damp logs.
Sam Harris is definitely a fool.
Five year olds 'having panic attacks over socializing with their friends'
Did you just ask for someones opinions on the syntax just so you could call them silly?
I think people are missing the point of this comment. The US invested heavily in BD, and now BD is being incorporated into a South Korean company rather than a US company.

I presume this is mostly because US manufacturing industry is relatively dead so capex for potential automation gains don't make sense for US firms.
Either the universe or Amazon wants you to have a side hustle in Raspberry Pis.
You are saying that Ukraine has zero reason to do this and not so subtly alluding to that it's Russia who did it. But what benefit does Russia derive from this then?
Absolutely, and that sounds like a great plan there. But in the example given in the article, that 100% sounds like a recipe to get the clerk killed. The robber forces the clerk behind the counter, and then a voice says "police have been called" - surely they are going to assume the clerk did something, right? Lucky that in this case they ran away, but what if they didn't?

Like the article said - there is a reason why a silent alarm at banks is silent - it makes it safer for the employees.
Early on in the pandemic not a lot was known, so many of us took every precaution we could.
> We've entered Inverse Moore's Law

AKA Less's law
Each state can create (and have created) additional restriction.

For example here in Italy I need the green pass to go to a wedding next week
I was, but the deeper point really is the tradeoff between code complexity and operational complexity. And I'll choose code complexity every time since it occurs early in the process and is less likely to blow up in my customer's faces.
Name one that actually has verifiable records.
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I don't buy that. The scrubbing you do when hand washing must make up for the hotter water.
Mine has an option to pre wash that I use a couple of hours before washing when things have been in the washer for a couple of days.
Thank you! Yes, that's correct. The limit for a batch migrator must be 500 because it uses Firestore write batches internally.

I'm currently writing another migrator that won't be using Firestore batches, it'll just use the good old Promise.all(). I'm planning to add more capabilities soon like error-resilient traversers using different traversal strategies, the ability to re-traverse the docs that couldn't be migrated the first time etc.
probably because its very heavily skewed towards tech dudes
The general consensus about the forthcoming "On or before June 29" report is that the most likely natural explanationt may be some incredibly improbable, but still remotely possible, simultaneous combination of sensor error and eye witness mis-identification that somehow corroborates each other.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-weigh-in-...
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That's a good question that I'm still exploring. I'm still debating the non-profit vs for-profit route. At the moment this is bootstrapped and self-funded, but if I can gain enough traction I may attempt a freemium business model where people can pay for more advanced study tools (e.g., original languages) and potentially for in-house produced video content.
Probably because it seems like personal experience. I can say most of the bars I go to check everyone’s ID, regardless of age. And there are a couple near me that scan IDs in to some system (allegedly so they can ban unruly customers.)
If they're _too_ lax, wouldn't their premiums eventually go up?
Why am I being downvote? I asked about the caveats of a research paper to someone who read it, a task that takes considerable time. Since I got not informative reply, I did read it and apparently this is a controversial topic with papers going both ways although for the areas studied it does look like it’s a true effect, but I have questions about how universal it is across different areas.

I come back to my original anecdote, helmets is not something that consciously effects my driving. Not only that, unless a road biker biking for exercise is going super chill, it’s hard to notice the a helmet or not. And second, the prevalence of helmets, the prevalence of bikers and the regional road layout all probably effect general driving behaviors around hikers. I’m skeptical this effect is universal, but sure it apparently happened in the area of Europe under conditions studied.

This isn’t even the original paper, but one responding to another paper saying the original paper was wrong. I can’t read that original paper because it’s paywalled.

From skimming the article it looks like the effect is not even at p of 0.05. But i was a bit unclear on what exactly that p value was referring to and whether they had also tested many other hypothesis after the fact, a p-hacking issue.

There’s many questions I have about the road and locations and regional factors.
> Ikea is a streamlined and well thought out experience.

It's so fascinating how diverse people's viewpoints are! My first experience of IKEA was that it was a confusing, frustrating, poorly laid out and inefficient labyrinth designed to get you lost, and also funnel you to the "hot dog" items that make them the majority of their profit. I've taken many of my parents and observed similarly people's parents and grandparents of friends get just as frustrated and confused at the layout. For god sakes, I just want to be able to walk in, go to the "kitchen decor" get what I need, and walk out. I don't want an "experience", but I digress.
Having a monopoly on the production of them would have. Example: Intel HEDT pricing before and after AMD Ryzen Threadripper release.
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The moment I start seeing the Greek symbols my brain turns off. But I’m super interested in game theory and this concept. Than someone dumb this paper down for people like me?
But I think this lack of optimism is just another facet of negativity bias. I know a lot of people who say they're not optimistic, certainly - but all of them can point to massive social improvements made recently, and most of them have a clear vision of other things they hope to accomplish within a couple decades. They just prefer to express this vision in terms of how much things suck now or how terrible it would be if they don't improve. You can say "let's create a greener world together", or you can say "we've gotta stop greedy fossil fuel corporations from ruining the planet", and nowadays people seem to consistently choose the latter.
China has no social safety nets, no freedom of movement (trying to move to a big city from a rural province to get a job, and you are effectively an illegal immigrant).

Its last 40 years has been one of decreasing centralized economic control, and increasingly capitalistic engagement. The wealth gap between the few richest and the many poorest is far greater than the UK's- Britain looks practically egalitarian in comparison.
I think in the past it was more likely they would have you keep an item. It seems to me (also anecdotally) now they don't want to take back just food items.

I think there's a correspondence between the COVID-19 reduction of their real-human chat line and having us return everything except food now.
Too busy to write a longer msg, but thank you for this.
The videos that have been released all have simple and boring explanations that fit perfectly, and are things like "camera artefacts" and "a bird".
2 things:

- bitcoin tends towards 21 million mined bitcoin, but just like mathematical limits that means that it will continue mining some bitcoin essentially forever (progressively smaller and smaller amounts).

- people forgetting or losing their keys doesn't make bitcoin deflationary anymore than it makes the USD deflationary. Furthermore that is not something inherent to bitcoin, but simply a practical result.
You have to compare to the current situation where we are overreliant on fever as a marker. If after an operation, your CRP levels shoot high unexpectedly, wouldn't you want to know and start investigating what's going on?
I think it would be but I also would like forced time off as well. As well as forced socializing with team mates. And a sabbatical every 5 years or so.

But if I can find a job with full health benefits that lets me work three days a week, I'm going for it. Heck, that is the best argument in favor of universal healthcare. It would help unemployment, because way more people would be working part time.
Yes, I'm a huge fan! A lot of their stuff is integrated into Spark Bible.
Yup... it's just that inspecting the item also has a cost, which may lead to the item not being profitable to resell anymore, in which case it is destroyed without inspection. Or it's the individual employees who choose to play it safe and prefer to destroy an item rather than risk customer complaints if it get resold in less-than-mint condition.
I think you misread, but maybe I should've worded it more clearly: the silly people are those hypothetical people who say that "syntax doesn't matter" and "fewer characters means better syntax".
Firefox nightly, chromium for the rare sites that need it. I really couldn’t live without containers and afaik only Firefox has them.
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