skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me rephrase things a little bit. Consider two realities, Reality A (RA) and Reality B (RB). In RA there are no aliens operating craft in our atmosphere and the report was motivated by your 3 explanations or similar. In RB there are aliens operating in our atmosphere. In which reality, RA, or RB, is the DNI report more likely to be published? I think the answer is clearly RB. For one thing, RB has all the same reasons for a fake report as RA and it has the reason of alien craft being observed.

The DNI report should update your beliefs about aliens in proportion to the extent which you think the report is more likely to be authored in RB relative to RA.

Of the three explanations you offer 1 and 3 have serious problems. The events in question are reported by multiple witnesses and sensors. It's not reasonable to suspect that sensors, in multiple modalities, malfunction in the same way that coincidentally coincides with the reports of human witnesses.

It's similarly not reasonable to think that human witnesses are lying for attention. They are faking the sensor reports? So they can get the attention of reporting something that might discredit or embarrass them? They collude with other human witnesses to do this? It just doesn't seem very reasonable.

Explanation 2 is more coherent. I don't think it is a good explanation because we have no reason to think that significantly more advanced flying technology is in the hands of our competitors. If it were, they would likely not both keep it secret from us, and repeatedly fly it in front of our airmen and sensors in broad daylight.
The GDPR isn't enforced at all for anyone but the biggest players.
That's self regulation at its best. We had those scams from beginning, the difference this year was the mainstream joining.

When tor was full of bitcoin doubler websites I tracked multiple hundred thousand dollars getting burned daily for months until it cooled down. This is like 6 years ago. I guess many back then learned their lesson, so do many others today. Or remember Mt gox? When like half of the active bitcoin market was suddenly lost?
Yeah the NSA would be a better. But CIA works too
I'm a teacher (in Denmark, of 7th to 9th grade). I have been against lockdowns from the beginning. Personally, it was easy for me. I got paid and had more control over my work life under the lockdowns.

Online teaching is bullshit and everyone who has the slightest knowledge of kids knows it. I have no doubt whatsoever that the lost months are going to cost my pupils in their further education.

My own children are at university and are both now seeing therapists, despite being robust, smart, high achievers.

I know lots of people who have tested positive for Coronavirus: my son, numerous colleagues, lots of my pupils. Nobody was hospitalised. Most of them had no or very few symptoms.

Lockdowns were a mistake, a very serious, media-fuelled mistake that is going to continue fucking us for many years to come.
Ask HN: How to Handle Marijuana
I've been a daily smoker for past 7 years and had plans to quit for past 5 years or so but I can't do it for more than a month.

Since the pandemic started and I was able to work from home Ive been smoking from morning untill I fall asleep.
I just can't get the willpower to say no.
Generally I have my life in place.
I make good money working as a developer, I also have programming as my hobby and do it in my free time. I live in my own apartment with girlfriend who is not a smoker.

The thing is that I feel completely unmotivated and depressed in the morning. After smoking i feel fine and can start the day.

Because I smoke so much I don't feel like socializing much. So I feel kinda trapped in this circle where I feel like shit if I don't smoke and after I smoke I feel fine but I'm just very lazy to go outside and be active

I know this isn't the place to ask these questions but I feel like I might find someone who went through phase like this.
I like using paper for notes, TODOs, drafts, doodling, etc.
Especially I like that tactile feeling when I roll a (mechanical) pencil in my fingers. As of paper: I prefer notebooks with tear-off pages, and love to crumple and throw them out when completed ))
Someone rich borrowing against their own assets would never come close to 8%. Prime is 3.25% and AFR is even lower if they're able to borrow from "themselves" in some way (from an LLC, etc).
The new windows does not even run on hardware which doesn't have TMP. You really don't see signs that computers are getting more closed?
Green tech startup alliance pushes for 500-euro ‘energy transition bonus’
So first off please check in with a Doctor, particularly if you’re feeling desperate enough to kill yourself. You can get help for depression.

If things are really bleak please reach out to people like:
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

You can also try to find a therapist, talking through these feelings with someone who can talk back and get a fuller context could be very helpful.

I’m 39. Six weeks ago I had a freak heart attack caused by a blood clot that spontaneously appeared in one of the main arteries of my heart with seemingly no underlying cause. You’d think nearly dying would give you some special insight into life and what to do about it. But it doesn’t. It’s scary, it’s really depressing and it gives you a taste of what your death might eventually be like.

I can’t presume to give you life advice but I wanted you to know that other people are out here suffering too. Be kind to yourself, don’t let the experience make you bitter and good luck.
Yes it's weird to be triggered by the physical fitness of an illustration. Maybe time to hit the gym?
I liked this bit:

> The technology could be used in the agricultural industry to help monitor and maintain food quality control, and in remote sensing techniques such as LIDAR – a technology that is helping to map natural and manmade environments.

"Please give us some of your advertising money Google."

I hope they get the money they're asking for. It sounds like a really interesting experiment.
Um...okay. Meanwhile the entire 3D world moves forward and uses Blender on a daily basis in professional and non-professional areas.

Blender when it first came out was pretty bad, interface wise. Now it's one of the best out there...bar none. But hey, you're a hobbyist. Use what you want.
Scrape Bing Related Searches with Python
Israel is an apartheid state. Stealing land and declaring a "jewish state" is no less criminal or insane than what isis / islamic state tried to do.

Anti-zionism is not equal to anti-semitism.
Just like I can criticize the USA without hating Americans, or criticize Iran without discriminating against muslims.
Ads are one part of the problem. And they are a major problem. And they are one of the easier problems to tackle.
I think it's probably important to point out that while Google may purchase 100% of their energy usage from renewable sources, this does not actually mean the datacenters run on renewable sources: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/renewable/

I bring this up as renewables are currently supplemental and don't replace base load. Hydro storage isn't available/practical for all regions, nuclear has been deemed too expensive, so it's usually natural gas that slots in.
That place looks amazing, thanks for the link.
Exactly, and Google claims to have made those bounds so small they can be assumed to be zero for all practical applications. They mention the bound size somewhere, and if you have enough leading zeroes for your use case you can just round it down.
Wash sale rule applies to identical or "Substantially Identical" securities [1]. IRS is a bit vague in its definition, and you may have to argue that the new security is not Substantially Identical. Your example are two different indexes and two different companies, so it might be fine.

1: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/substantiallyidenticals...
The jacked toaster locks all your smart doors and windows and demands ransom to open them and let you out. Your update-less hacked smart TV is on it as well.
This article is very light on details. I'm also not sure what the difference between "traditional data centres"and "cloud data centres" is.

It also completely ignores (as does everyone else) the 700lb gorilla in the room - the embedded energy content of all of the computing equipment, from the video camera used to film content, to the networking equipment and data centre servers, to the final device used to consume that content. Manufacturing semiconductors is an incredibly energy-intensive (as well as very resource-intensive) process, and product lifecycles are ever-shortening.
"We know how heavier-than-air flight works, but I want to be pedantic and nerd about some physics"

That title doesn't get quite as many clicks unfortunately.
why someone would compare python wih c++?
The clay soil usually has a low organic matter content. So bringing mulch, grass clippings etc. does improve several key factors for the plants to thrive. The problem with putting a layer of rotting grass/weeds on the top is that at least in some locations it will make a perfect slug/snail farm. So I prefer to burry it in shallow pits/trenches.
Also probably any preferably dense plant cover protects the top layer from being backed by the sun and becoming brick-like.
>perhaps giving everyone a different coronavirus may have been an effective vaccine

Or allowing them to catch colds, which are coronaviruses 20% of the time.
In terms of exercise, the I would strongly argue that the best advice is to test and explore new hobbies until something is enjoyable enough that they want to continue with it just for the fun of it. Going to the gym if you have every minute of it is not going to improve your health, but doing something physically that one enjoy brings many benefits.

A big upside about hobbies, especially if one focus a lot on it, is that one is likely to meet others who is enthusiastic in the same thing.
Eh, I guess that's not super accurate, no bank will loan at AFR, you're correct.

But an LLC with cash in the bank that you control or owes you a favor can and will, and that's completely on the level as long as you pay AFR rates.
Knowing Newtonian physics doesn't mean we understand all things that move.

The point about "not understanding" flight is that, if we truly understood it, we could design the optimal aircraft from first principles before it ever entered a wind tunnel. Instead, we work based on incrementally improving tribal knowledge of what has worked in the past and try to make something similar to fit our desired flight envelope.

Compared to something like rocket science where the entire craft can be built on a computer and we'll know exactly how much cargo we can get to the moon without even turning a single screw, we don't understand flight.
Why compare yourself to others? You are living your life not theirs. You dont like your life? Change it. Investigate how much of your reality is a construct of your own mind.

Why is being better than everyone else at math and programming so important for you? Why is it so important that you earn more than others? Why does it upset you that others are having the time of their lives?
Could someone edit the URL? It's linking to the full TiddlyWiki. Here's the permalink for the post: https://elevis.io/#A%20Bear%20Case%20for%20Social%20Audio
Seriously though, I love my smart lights so far. I tell Google to turn them on /off, and it does almost without a hitch.
Before you outsource, I suggest you figure out the following:

- Value proposition. What's your unique advantage?

- Target market. Is it a new segment of an existing market? An existing segment? Mass market? Don't worry about age groups, but know who is best for the problem and solution.

- Revenue model. Freemium? Microtransactions? Licensing? Ads?

- Customer relationship. Do you need to build trust? Do they need an explanation/demo? Community? Will they buy In my previous startup, they won't buy directly from advertisers, but will buy from a third party blog talking about the app. If you're making a database, they might need to see it used in production by a big company, and test it with a hackathon.

You'll have to figure this out first, then scale. If you outsource too early, they will drag your business to pivot to their marketing expertise and it might not even work. For example, selling a database or analytics tools through FB ads wouldn't be ideal even if they reach the right customers.
I fail to see the problem.

If USDT is worth $1 because everyone agrees it is, everything works fine. It's been that way for a long time and will likely continue.

If there's a run on the bank because people believe it's not worth $1, everyone tries to sell their USDT, then it is no longer worth a dollar. That's the risk of holding USDT. Everyone who takes 5 minutes to research it understands that USDT is kind of shady but has a long record of maintaining peg anyway.

This is true of every partially-backed stablecoin, of which there are many.

We have a recent example of one failing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27539368

In that case, IRON was only 75% backed, and now the price is $0.75.

There are other products, like DAI, which keeps reserves of ETH equal to 150% of the value of DAI. Occasionally liquidity becomes thin and DAI loses peg by a few cents, but it quickly returns as liquidations happen and the ETH is sold off to return DAI to peg. Synthetix does something similar with sUSD.

Gemini has GUSD, Coinbase has USDC, Binance has BUSD, all of which claim to be fully backed by USD and have audits to bolster that claim.

Here's a whole list of them, each offering various models of trust, decentralization, audits, etc: https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/usd-stablecoin

If USDT implodes, it could cause a liquidity crisis, but it will lead to investors demanding more proof of funds before using a stablecoin, and long-term strengthen the crypto economy. If USDT fails and creates a liquidity crisis that tanks the rest of the crypto market, I'll be shopping for bargains.
> Consider two realities

We should not consider merely those two options, if you're speculating then there are a vast number of "possible" options that "cannot be ruled out". You're cherry picking, exhibiting confirmation bias etc. This is why there is a burden of proof on the hypothesis being proposed.

Disagree strongly with your "not reasonable" about sensors and people. A mish-mash of vague noisy readings cannot really be said to "coincide" much.
Regarding moving loads and stores into acq/rel critical sections, this is possible, well studied and documented; it is known roach motel reordering since the Java MM standardisation, and generally considered safe.

I never thought whether it could lead to deadlocks or not and it is an interesting question. I assume there musy ve some formal proof against it but I would have to think about it (my first hunch is that if the reordering could cause a deadlock, then the cose wasn't safe in any case, like not acquiring locks in a consistent order).
Or just have an independent regulatory body analyze the product ONCE and ban the thing before the manufacturer cooks up a million batches and puts them all out to market. I'm lazy and I'm also not qualified to evaluate the danger of random substances I find in the store.
> I think that some of the quotes are pretty toxic, regardless of who they are by.

They are indeed, aren't they?

I mean, they straight up sound like bullying those who happen to not think alike or share the same opinion.

Those who are in the right are able to form rational arguments, raise concerns about specific problems, and offer solutions. But no, not in this case. The only reason for anyone to not be a diehard supporters of the author's point of view is that they have mutilated minds and are coding bums.
I think they are partially backed, and kicking themselves back billions of dollars. It's trivial to do this for them, and their whole board is filled with crooks, ponzi schemers and "Criminal" lawyers. They hide behind anonymity and shady shell corporations. Their ceo hasn't been seen for years. Etc etc etc.
> Same for Microsoft,

> still there's people in the Netherlands complaining that datacentres use up too much of the green energy available in the Netherlands. Truly backwards way of thinking

Analyzing and critiquing the moves a massive monopoly -capitalist entity is ‘backwards‘? This sounds quite un-nuanced. Could you elaborate more what you mean? As it stands it sounds like a naive accelerationist perspective.
Some laptops still ship with 256GB storage for the base model.
If you want a good case study in repositories that build quickly then check out cosmopolitan libc. Typing `make -j16` it compiles 15,383 .o objects, 69 .a static libraries, and 548 executables, 297 of which are test executables, which are also run by the make command, and all that takes just 40 sec.
Is there a high contrast light theme, like pen on paper? I can’t use dark themes.
Focus vs Coordination
The only thing that's important is getting thoughts out of your head.
This sounds like one of Cory Doctorow’s short stories in his Radicalized book.
Sounds like you enjoy legislating us into police states, to be honest.
FaunaDB is incredibly charming. It ticks all the boxes - faster, cheaper, better. The last time I had a good feeling like that was with Kotlin and MongoDB.
> And when you say "imperative pseudo-code", you've already conjured an implicit monad involving state, I/O, etc. Functional programming just teaches us that it's not the only one—and there are simpler ones that may be more appropriate for the given situation.

No, I have not. The fact that you can recreate state and I/O using monads does not mean that anyone using state is implictitly using a monad - monads have very specific properties that imperative code often doesn't have.

It's only Haskell's laziness that makes it require monads for i/o, by the way. Other pure functional languages don't use them. For example, in Idris, IO and state are not monads, they are effects - tracked at the type system level, but without all of the commodity of monads. For example, you can have a single do-block in Idris that does IO and state operations without needing any monad transformers or lifting.
'We're looking at Billions of People not being able to Survive', IPCC Reviewer
If you look back at the LTCM collapse it should be obvious that it is impossible to make anything risk free, no matter how clever you are.

Your other question is a good one. Nobody knew that the collapse of LTCM would cause a market wide collapse at the time, so the question is how big are the hedging risks that financial firms dabbling in Bitcoin will be multiplied by the collapse of tether.

That is, if it is being used as a hedge, what kinds of financial instruments have the quants cooked up based on tether, then how much worst case exposure are we talking about? It might be nothing, but who knows until the tide goes out.
When I was a teen I asked my dad who was an aerospace engineer. He said there is just more than one way to calculate the result.

Though I think it's more valid to think of the wing as imparting a downward momentum on the air flowing over it. Meaning it's really a reaction engine.
How then does it compare to M-Pesa?
It could be angels or alternate reality Earths or whatever. Your prior belief in those things matters and the extent to which you think the observations reported in the DNI report match what you would expect to see were any of those the source of the phenomenon.

I think there is good reason to believe that aliens exist (size of the universe, number of planets) and traveling between star systems is consistent with what we know of physics. I also think observing advanced technology in the form of objects flying in our atmosphere is consistent with the "alien craft operating in our atmosphere" explanation. A surprising observation that is consistent with a theory should add confidence to that theory.

"Burden of proof" is not a useful concept here. I am not saying "It was aliens." I am saying "There is no reason to think the report rules out aliens which the headline suggests, and, actually, the report is consistent with aliens and that's surprising."
If by "cancel culture" you mean, as is often the case, "bad actions having consequences", then yes.
Maybe it’s a better idea to start or subscribe to an ethical scraping initiative with some user agent header that references some kind of policy and verifiable membership id
The OP is complaining about needing root to satisfy som third-party library dependency (libicu) when installing the .NET SDK outside the system package-manager, with the tarball only.

I think that’s a pretty far fetched complaint. There are tons of software out there on Linux which will break if you don’t satisfy their dependencies.

I’m sure the OpenJDK-tarball has some system-wide dependencies too (libssl?), but you can’t tell that because you probably installed it as root, using a package-manager instead.

If you do the same with the .NET SDK (use root, install via package-manager) you will find everything working equally smooth.
I wish it had actual proper examples. I've no idea how to use that.
The issue is if Tether continues to grow, as it has been, it may become too big to fail.

That is, Tether loses its peg, $X dollars go missing, and firms start to fail like dominos, even outside the crypto sphere.

Tether is far from that level but theres nothing stopping its growth.

The solution isnt to ban tether, but rather launch central bank stablecoins. Put the official USD as a ERC20 token.
I'm moving all my tanks to the border waiting to buy the dip
> It also completely ignores (as does everyone else) the 700lb gorilla in the room - the embedded energy content of all of the computing equipment

Yes, I’d love to read more about that. i wonder if anyone here has a link to some research that looks at the full-er picture.
Perhaps it should be backed by equivalent reserves of Gold ..
like the actual USD was, once upon a time ?
How does libsdl help if your players are complaining their monitors are flickering when your game is in full-screen mode?
curious to check it out. Plugging cronyo[0] a CLI for AWS cron jobs :) would love your feedback.

[0] https://github.com/cronyo/cronyo
This still sounds like validation but with extra steps. (or less?)
Do you have a source for this? From my understanding these bounds are actively being used during the commit protocol: The leader will wait (i.e. just run sleep()) for a period of time. This period is determined from the bounds and ensures that the commit is definitely in the past [across all replicas].
Flow: Making the Impossible Possible
Is not a fancy thermos made with glass layers?
Tether does its best to live outside of US regulation. It has no US bank accounts, nor do any directors live in extradictable countries.
The Alpha died, not NT.

Maybe: The Death of Alpha below NT
I'm pretty sure ancient humans didn't live in caves.

It's just that caves preserve their contents pretty well, while the rest of the outside is impermanent.
Like when someone says "Lisp is homoiconic," and that automagically creates a thread of people tripping over themselves to make the same points they do every time "Lisp" and "homoiconic" appear in the same sentence.

There should be a list of these language snowball avalanches somewhere. They work every time.