skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except there was never any evidence that Trump got involved, even after multiple independent reviews.

That doesn't matter. We're not talking about criminal proceedings, where anyone has to be proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. This is, at most, a civil law process. And it's the DoD canceling its own contract, which they are probably allowed to do for whatever reason.
Firefox/Linux here and it works fine for me? It scrolls horizontally which I assume is the expected behaviour.
I press the button most likely to get rid of the thing in my way as fast as possible
Some Maps and statistics about San Francisco criminality:

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime

https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...

https://www.crimemapping.com/map/ca/sanfrancisco
I see three things going on here:

1. The practical: It’s not that regulation is bad but that many existing regulations are bad. They make obviously useful things illegal or impractical, are often worded in such a way they are basically impossible to apply to, for example, peer-to-peer systems. It’s possible to imagine (and indeed we should, and some countries are!) good regulation that is less stifling. (Note also that no regulation of specific financial products is required to make fraud and mis-selling illegal.)

2. The political: Financial regulations as they stand enable a huge surveillance and censorship/control apparatus. Purportedly this helps prevent terrorism etc. but many people do not agree that this is the right trade off. Financial regulations currently also give a handful of countries (and one in particular) a lot of power over the global financial system. Many believe they have too much power. These are political arguments but it is not a completely inexplicable political position for someone to be against financial surveillance and censorship, particularly when it comes to the US and other countries using them to exert power outside their borders. In which case, the financial regulatory environment we currently have is “bad” in that it delivers those things.

3. The countercultural: Cryptography and cryptocurrency are intertwined with countercultural groups and thinking (most obviously, but not exclusively the “cypherpunks”) because they are tools that allow activists, anarchists, subversives, marginalised or oppressed groups, organised crime (which, yes, is a form of counterculture), and others to communicate and operate more effectively and with lower risk. This means those groups are more highly represented in crypto. Obviously they’re likely to think rules that make their lives harder are bad. (This may seem like the “bad group” and maybe you like them being shut out and suppressed, but much social and political progress started as persecuted countercultural movements and subversive ideas.)

So yeah… is financial regulation bad? No. Not always and not necessarily.

Are current financial regulations bad? Yes if you value innovation, have certain political beliefs, or are part of a group that is (intentionally or otherwise) shut out of the system by them.

Let’s try and have better rules!
>The Möbius Sync iOS app is not open source at this time.
That looks very short. Is that really the full implementation? Is there any annotated version of it?
I did, and it doesn't.

The mechanism behind Maker DAO simply doesn't work. That's why it lost the peg so badly, and for so long. There simply wasn't any working mechanism to deal with the situation where the price rises above one dollar.

When people create ETH-collateralized DAI and sell them they are basically doing so in order to go leveraged-long on the ETH/USD pair. So when you use ETH to buy DAI from one of these people, you're basically making a (collateralized) margin loan to somebody who wants to increase their leverage. In return you get something sort of like the ability to short the ETH/USD pair (not exactly due to liquidations, but it's pretty close). All of this actually works as advertised: Maker pairs up people who want to go long with people who want to short. But what if there aren't equal demands for both sides of that trade?

If there aren't enough people who want to make margin loans (i.e. go quasi-short) Maker can raise the margin loan interest rate (i.e. stability fee) to make lending more attractive.

The big problem is if there aren't enough people who want to increase their long leverage. There will be too few DAI-sellers and the DAI price (in ETH) will go up above the USD price (in ETH). That's what happened. And kept happening.

The solution was to capitalize Maker DAO with centralized stablecoins -- Coinbase's USDC and Tether.

As a result, Maker DAO is effectively no more than an "index fund" of centralized stablecoins. It absolutely is not trustless.

It is trust laundering.
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This is critical. You cant/shouldn't just go out on a whim and take shrooms. Either find someone who knows what they're doing and can walk you through it or do your own research and take it slow. Know how much your taking (as best you can) and don't over do it first time. Bad trips _suck_ and aren't going to help anyone.
Immigration is not so straight-forward if you're Indian or Chinese national.
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms actually enumerates the "fundamental" freedoms separately: freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of thought, freedom of belief, freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association.

Contrast these with the rights enumerated e.g., democratic rights (the right to vote), legal rights (freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, right to counsel), mobility rights (right to live in any province and enter and leave Canada).

The rights granted are those that build _a_ society that supports those fundamental freedoms. The fundamental freedoms themselves are not something that exist in support of anything, but are simply accepted as something that stand alone as something we demand of our government.
I have given up coffee for the last month or so and can honestly say that I feel much better, though the first week or two can be tough
It’s not about semantics - it’s about demonstrating that Sony using someone’s sources doesn’t hurt that someone, and trying force them to give away their changes with license doesn’t work.
> The team showed that as the catalyst brought the hydrogen and oxygen together to form hydrogen peroxide, it simultaneously produced a number of highly reactive compounds, known as reactive oxygen species (ROS), which the team demonstrated were responsible for the antibacterial and antiviral effect, and not the hydrogen peroxide itself.

Interesting. I hope those aren't harmful to humans (or plants, or other animals). Also, from the high reactivity I suppose they might not stick around very long, which could be a good thing or a bad thing depending. It might be useful to be able to treat a large amount of water without leaving any long-lasting impurities, but on the other hand you might have to treat the water again if you want to store it any length of time... On the other hand, if a reactive thing doesn't have anything to react with, maybe it does persist for a long while?
>But there's evidence that it emerged 600 miles south of Wuh..

I see you repeat this all around this thread. Can you show me where it says evidence is for emergence?
Which makes you wonder why they even bother with suggestions in the first place, instead of doing the obvious thing: giving you a searchable list of all movies they have for your region.

Given that the former is a major engineering project, while the latter is a junior-level interview question, one has to assume they're trying to confuse their users on purpose.
From what I've seen of various parliaments, listening to the actual speeches and so on *is* correctly a waste of time.

All the important stuff happens on paper.

Debates are also a useless means of forming policy.
I personally think that the meditation app space is under explored. Or rather the dominant players have their business model (a hefty monthly subscription) dictating their app design.

So rather than a coaching model, think of a simple tool like a gong or a timer.

Much like the original "Sleep Cycle" app, only for mediation (combing a timer with the feedback you can collect via the sensors of a phone).
The poster did not mention ideology or nationalism. Please don't pretend to misinterpret.
Show HN: A simple C++ asynchronous MySQL client
Growing Urban Bicycle Networks
Covid-dormant cars with dead batteries spark lead price hike
I was momentarily confused when I parsed that sentence as referring to the Toyota Mirai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai
I think that if I can make an animal who's trying to eat me hallucinate aliens on another plane, the animal kinda... totally forgets that it's trying to eat me.

Psychedelics in that sense may be distracting poisons rather than harmful poisons
"institutions are usually strongly incentivized to act honorably". I am providing a counter example.
Rural person here from Wales where sonic booms from military aircraft were moderately common.

Animals panic when they hear the boom: they tend to stampede, fall off cliffs, break legs, trample each other, lambs get separated, break through hedges and into traffic.

The booms were severe enough to occassionally shatter the Royal Doulton in the house, much to my mother's disgust.
Are you Dutch?!

Because we, the Dutch, haven't been really progressive for like at least two decades.

There's limits on the age you're allowed to buy alcohol in The Netherlands just like in other countries.
bangs head on table

Energy efficiency/load redirection is not the same as energy storage.

Heat pumps water heaters, with good insulation is about 3-3.8 times more efficient than straight electric heating. However keeping hot water hanging around isn't all that efficient.
Your comment is inflammatory. Don't post this sort of thing.
Well if we're counting every quantum interaction that would take a long time to solve on a classical computer as 'computational advantage' then arguably any nontrivial quantum interaction would do the trick. And as far as I can tell it's not calculating something that anyone would consider useful, so it's a bit debatable in what respect this result is any different.

So well, it depends on your perspective I guess.
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FWIW, Mongolian is normally written using Cyrillic alphabet these days, which you can see in practice if you remove /mng/ from that URL: https://president.mn/

The old script is a very interesting test case, though. Since it's an alphabet, and it has varying letter shapes for different positions, as well as ligatures, it has all the same complexities as Western scripts - but then it's vertical on top of that. Few software can handle that well.
All the AI you need for this is an input box:

Wait [ ] months before recommending again a show
I already watched.

Alas, giving users control is anathema to this industry.
A neat trick: there is almost always enough AC on the neutral, even when the line is off to run some very low power MCU, or even do some LED blinks.
"ROI" is probably the wrong frame for this question. "Worth it" is better. "Better than X" might be better still, since it frames the question such that "X" needs to be defined and quantified.

The benefits of such a competition are pretty nebulous, and there's no way to convince an ardent skeptic. OTOH, many business decisions are like this and skepticism isn't a viable frame in many cases.

Netflix got visibility with investors and potential employees. Netflix's recommendation engine became famous, even though it doesn't seem impressive as a user. The exercise created a structured way of thinking about their recommendation algorithm. They cemented its importance. Even though they didn't implement the winning solution, they did get a useful benchmark. This was potentially very useful in further decisions in R&Ding the recommendation engine in-house.

All that for $1m?
I installed an IoT IR blaster, since our air conditioners and ceiling lights all have IR remotes. Works fine, and if it stops working it doesn't matter since we didn't actually replace anything and lose any existing functionality.
Yeah, I've come to a similar conclusion. I actually made my own meditation timer app for iOS[0] before, but nowadays I don't like to use it anymore. However, I do like to track my meditation time, so I've been using the Insight Timer[1] Apple Watch app for this and keep my phone out of reach.

[0]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nodoka-meditation-timer/id13...

[1]: https://insighttimer.com
Are you under the impression that it isn't primarily a recreational substance?
It's not like if hyperinflation could be avoided everything else should be fine. No, hyperinflation is a sign that the economy is grossly mismanaged, and that in turn is likely the result of desperate, incompetent government facing all sorts of economic, social and political problems. Switching to a different currency isn't going to fix a failed state, sorry.
I don't understand how noise from worthless losers on "social" media translates into a threat to life.

I just shrug and keep doing what I'm doing.

Their hell is their lives. I don't need to get involved.
I used the same dataset for a small project in my CS master. It was a really fun challenge, and it taught me a lot.

Most notably, it taught me that it was incredibly hard to make significant progress past the most simplest and naive approach. That approach was "Take average rating a user gives, take the average rating a movie gets, multiply". (Ratings normalized to be between 0 and 1).

Just using this method would give us 95% of the accuracy of our final method. I think I calculated, and compared to the prize winning result, our method got ~90% as accurate a result.
Look up Heart Rate Variability.
I can’t comment on the internals of drivers etc as it’s not a domain I know much about, but I dabble with music production and can tell you that all my audio gear which requires drivers has been updated for Big Sur, which AFAIK is the new model. I’ve not noticed any change in performance at all, so I assume Apple have ensured the API covers the ground required for real time audio - it is one of their specialities as an OS/platform after all.

This does mean that some older gear which requires bespoke drivers and is no longer maintained will never work with new MacOS - one example that comes to mind is Allen and Heath’s Xone DB2 DJ mixer. Quite a lot of newer gear is USB class compliant, which means it doesn’t need specific drivers and so should be future proof.
The list is completely consistent with my experience. Engineers who are responsible for millions lines of code are not that stupid that they need a guidance of some non-technical wannabe manager to organise their daily routine. And is is difficult to find a job in which the scrum rot has not yet set in.
Seems like a lot of blockchain critiques involve some variant of "you can already do that if you jump through all the hoops," without recognizing that it's worthwhile to remove the hoops.
I believe he is talking about tethering via USB, which should be a more stable connection than Wifi.
> We've benchmarked this framework on very heavy interactive video and content creation webapps with minimal overhead.

On the dev machine? Or also on a smartphone, a several years old pc, etc etc?
> its substantially more efficient than burning said gas (or coal) to generate electricity, then using the electricity to heat water.

While this is true for basic resistive electric water heaters it's not for modern heat pump water heater which have energy factors of 3.5x which more then makes up for the 34% efficiency of a simple gas power plant (more modern combined cycle plants are 50-60% efficient) and the 95% efficiency of the grid.

Still works out much cheaper to use gas than electricity for heating in California with gas at $0.06/kWh vs $0.26/kWh for electricity.
Ask HN: What languages should the Linux kernel accept next?
I's like to see Zig and Koka.
A new wave of developers benefiting from the power of location
Fermat's Library is an annotation platform, so there are annotations on the linked version - click on the circles (or rectangles, depending on whether the side panel is open) on either side of the document to see the annotations.
Yes but (for instance) some people who are 100% on board with reducing CO2 emissions to prevent global warming have different views about using fertilizer or plastics.
https://github.com/google/ios-webkit-debug-proxy
I think that there is always a survivorship bias with such anecdotes. We mostly hear about stories of people who have had good experiences with it - they share the recommendation to others too. On the other hand people who have had bad trips are less likely to talk about it.
If you trying to build a business there is a lot more to it than simply building a prototype. The problem with the MVP/prototype idea is that it cheats people into thinking that there is some sort of straight line between idea, prototype and success.

There isn't. There is maybe a hundred iterations between idea, prototype, marketing before something catches traction. And that is where persistance, focus and dedication (including quitting your day job) comes in.
What is really amazing is that all current approved vaccines seem to reduce the risk of serious consequences (like dying) from COVID-19. The fact that some vaccines cannot protect against re-infections is worrying, but so far most reports seem to indicate that most of them have far less serious consequences than infections of non-vaccinated persons.
All the evidence shows that a rate of inflation around 2% averaged over the business cycle is beneficial and necessary for the economy. Trying to adopt a deflationary currency is akin to refusing to drink water because people drown in lakes.
Try to switch off the "telemetry" in Windows 10.
In the beginning yes, and a little while ago they switched to Lumberyard, maybe they'll switch to O3DE next, who knows :)
Note, not just the original listing has been taking down, but also the data used in the challenge.
I believe because a few people in that set actually got de-anonimized. But certainly because of privacy concerns.

I think the data is still kicking around somewhere in torrent land. I also still have my own copy somewhere, I think.
When months go by and you feel you have not learned anything new, or when you no longer feel the work you are doing is ethical.
I've found the metric reduces the brain-relaxation benefit of going for a walk. Over lockdown, I adopted the habit of physically wandering randomly around neighbourhoods and parks. I used to do this in the woods behind my house as a kid, so I figured it might help with my mental health. Lo and behold: my tendency to wander on wikipedia or TVtropes decreased dramatically.

A key to this is for me to be unconcerned with path, duration, or outcome. So I don't think about the 10k.
Not always. There are synthetic ETFs backed by nothing but swap contracts.

For example, commodities ETFs typically work by throwing cash in to treasuries and purchasing the total return swap contracts between those treasuries and some benchmark of commodity future contracts.

The major difference with these blockchain tokens is that the collateral (the stablecoin) held against the stock benchmark is itself completely synthetic.
Recommandation algorithms are massive sales driver if you depend on long tail. This was true for back in the days and long term subscriber retention would almost entirely depend on great recommandations. Unfortuately, Netflix figured out that they need not depend on long tail to retain their market value. Instead the new idea is same as HBO model. Now the recommandations are basically garbedge.
> Is it possible for such a mind to exist that can stoically shrug off everything for thousands of years?

That's the Human-centric way of thinking as described in the essay, where you care about the outcome of the solution - "having a house as shelter".

If you care about the understanding, then seeing how natural processes reclaim everything will increase the knowledge on the mechanisms of nature, so it feeds the "elvish" side of solutions/magic.
If you follow the link to github, there is much more.
> Or just fixing the cards and/or paying Fry (a professional host and actor) and/or editing the video.

Fry does not need that money and he really, really does not strike me as the type who would wittingly go for that kind of shenanigans.

I am however certainly not convinced that Brown does what he claims he does.
Yes, I got annoyed, too, by the suggestions on Netflix.

However, what they do might actually work for them, i.e.

(1) The HN is probably not representative of their audience as a whole
(2) What they do now might be RoE accretive for them, but not so great even for a wider section of their customers

Could still be suboptimal and probably is...
No, it's not hypocrisy but a tradeoff.

What does society lose if enlisting before 21 is banned? Most of its recruits. The military would be in ruins, the strength of the country on the battlefield in jeopardy.

What does society lose if drinking before 21 is banned? Some revenue for brewing companies and associated tax income, which are easily compensated by having saved significant amounts of brain cells in young adults to have an impact on the economy for generations.

Everything government is a tradeoff. And in politics. And in life.
He actually talks about his removal from Wikipedia in the interview I quoted (I'm pretty sure).

I definitely saw him talk about it recently on one of the podcasts he has been on.
A quick google search seems to confirm that fasting can indeed help with depression:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12603-013-0344-9

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027858462...
Now what? Teams will revert back to waterfall or however you call it, which is based on good engineering practices and is superior to the scrum chaos in every aspect.